US08186554B2
A guide bushing for a reciprocating nailer includes a body having a cylindrical portion and a tapered portion. An aperture extends through the body for receiving a driving rod. The tapered portion of the guide bushing extends from the nailer and is configured to fit into tight spaces, such as corners and along the tongues or grooves of, for instance, tongue and groove flooring, to fully support a nail as it is driven into the tight space. The guide bushing can be a multiple part or multiple stage bushing for more flexibility and utility. The aperture through the center of the bushing can also be stepped to cooperate with a stepped driving rod for closer holding of narrower nails. A boot can be placed at the tip of the guide bushing to provide a cushion and further retention of a nail held by the nailer.
US08186550B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a bathing unit that sits in a bathtub and helps the elderly, handicapped and/or persons with problems that need assistance getting in and out of a bathtub. The bathing unit is a lightweight frame system that comprises four stair-stepped seated levels.
US08186542B2
An object is to provide a medicine supply apparatus capable of reducing a time required for charging medicines without causing any trouble during counting of the medicines, the apparatus comprises: a discharge drum which discharges the medicines from a tablet case; a medicine detecting sensor which detects the medicines discharged from the tablet case, and a control device, and this control device controls a rotating motor for rotating the discharge drum to discharge the medicines from the tablet case, counts the discharged medicines based on a detecting operation of the medicine detecting sensor, and changes a discharge speed of the medicine by the discharge drum depending on a type of medicine in the tablet case.
US08186539B2
A cover device for a trash bin includes a base member, which has a first end and a second end. A compartment is formed at the first end and an opening is defined between the first and second ends of the base member through which trash can be thrown into the trash bin. A cover member includes a cover portion and a connected element. At least one elastic device includes an elastic element having a first end provided at the compartment and a second end coupled to the connected element. The cover member can be rotated between a first position and a second position. While in the second position of the cover member, the elastic element is released to lift the cover member upward, with the cover portion being completely exposed from the base member outward.
US08186535B2
A storage device for retaining fluids is provided. The storage device includes a first container for retaining a first fluid, wherein the first container has a first end and a second end. The storage device further includes a first end container for retaining a second fluid, wherein the first end container is generally annular in shape and is at least partially received within a portion of the first end of the first container.
US08186534B2
A tray includes a base, a pair of opposed side walls extending along side edges of the base and a pair of opposed end walls extending along end edges of the base. A central lateral divider extends between the side walls. The central lateral divider has a width approximately twice a width of the side walls to permit cross stacking. The central lateral divider includes a pair of spaced-apart divider walls and at least one center rib between the divider walls.
US08186528B2
An improved blow molded plastic container having generally rounded sidewalls that are adapted for hot-fill applications has two adjacent sides and two pairs of controlled deflection panels, each pair reacting to vacuum pressure at differing rates of movement, whereby one pair inverts under vacuum pressure and the other pair remains available for increased squeezability or extreme vacuum extraction. The opposing sidewalls are symmetric relative to vacuum panel and rib shape and placement. The ribs and controlled deflection panels cooperate to retain container shape upon filling and cooling and also improves bumper denting resistance, decreases vacuum pressure within the container, and increases light weight capability.
US08186521B2
A wall rack includes two parallel sliding rails each having a plurality of protrusions spaced along the length, a frame having two pairs of first hooks at the front side, two stop members respectively connected to the first hooks and two pairs of second hooks hooked on and movable along the sliding rails, a storage basket having two mounting rods respectively secured to the first hooks, and a positioning device formed of an axle that is pivotally coupled to the frame, a retaining rod and a bearing member and biasable relative the frame to lock the frame to the sliding rails where the retaining rod is stopped at the top side of one protrusion of each of the two sliding rails and the bearing member is stopped against one stop member of the frame.
US08186518B2
A water purification unit to purify potentially contaminated water is provided. The water purification unit is in fluid communication with a water source and has a pump to draw water from the water source. The water is passed through at least a main filter to purify the water and dispensed through an outlet. Power is provided to the water purification unit by a battery bank and a non-grid power source.
US08186515B2
Magnetic Particle Imaging (MPI) requires high-performing tracer materials that are highly magnetic monodispersed particles with fast remagnetization behavior. Known separation techniques only allow for fractionation of magnetic particles based on differences in magnetic volume. Proposed is a separation method, which allows for separation of magnetic particles with respect to their dynamic response onto an oscillating high gradient magnetic field.
US08186514B2
A protective case for a portable electronic device combines a first side panel, a second, transparent side panel opposite the first side panel, and a peripheral side panel that is connected to both the first and second side panels. The second, transparent side panel is formed of first and second transparent layers that are bonded together to form a panel having a plurality of uniform, trapped-gas cells, each one fully sealed from all other cells. The transparent side panel enables full visibility of the contents of the case while providing cushioning for the contents. The first side panel also provides cushioning.
US08186484B2
An elevator system in which a controller monitors whether or not a speed of an ascending/descending body reaches a preset overspeed. At a time of maintenance work, a stopper is interposed between a buffer and the ascending/descending body to limit a lowered position of the ascending/descending body. A stopper detector detects installation of the stopper onto at least one of the buffer and the ascending/descending body. When the stopper is detected by the stopper detector, the controller lowers a set value of the overspeed.
US08186481B2
Ladders, ladder components and related methods are provided. In some embodiments, adjustable stepladders are provided which include locking mechanisms that enable height adjustment of the ladder through application of a force towards the rails of the ladder. In other embodiments, spreader mechanisms are provided with cross bracing located and configured to provide additional stability to the ladder while also incorporating a handle that enables efficient collapsing of the ladder while reducing the potential of pinching ones hands or fingers. In another embodiment, a device is provided for selective coupling with the ladder that includes a support or safety rail and an adjustable tray. The device may be coupled with the ladder in a number of different positions including a stowed position. In another embodiment, a hinge assembly is provided having a magnetic component configured to be magnetically coupled with and temporarily store an object on the ladder.
US08186480B1
A multifunctional ladder for assisting a user to travel along a substantially vertical plane as well as a substantially horizontal plane respectively may include a telescopically adjustable walkway with a planar surface. Additionally, the ladder may include telescopically adjustable and independently detachable support legs connected to the walkway and extending downwardly therefrom. U-shaped brackets may also be affixed to ends of the walkway and a plurality of ladders may be pivotally coupled thereto. The ladders and support legs may maintain the walkway at a substantially stable position and the ladders may freely articulate about fulcrum pivot axes while the support legs and walkway remain at fixed and stationary positions. The walkway preferably has a male and a female member slidably engaged therewith for permitting adjustment of a longitudinal length of the walkway, and U-shaped rails directly coupled thereto for shielding a user from falling off of the walkway.
US08186476B2
A snowmobile includes an engine, a handle, an operation portion, an operation input detector, an operation amount detector, and a control portion. The handle includes a grip grasped by the rider. The operation portion is provided near the grip to control driving of the engine. The operation input detector is provided near the grip to detect whether operation of the operation portion has been carried out by the rider. The operation amount detector electrically detects the operation amount of the operation portion. The control portion controls driving of the engine based on the operation amount detected by the operation amount detector when operation of the operation portion by the rider is detected at the operation input detector.
US08186472B2
A pedestrian protection airbag device is provided in which an airbag (34) having a closed cross section is formed by inflating and deploying a front outer panel (16) and a front inner panel (18) of a front pillar (15) by means of high pressure gas generated by an inflator (26). This enables the head of a pedestrian to be protected from an impact due to collision with the front pillar (15). Furthermore, since impact absorption performance is exhibited by plastic deformation of the deployed airbag (34), as long as deployment of the airbag (34) is completed before restraining the pedestrian, it is unnecessary to subsequently control the internal pressure of the airbag (34), and it becomes possible for an effective impact absorption performance to always be exhibited regardless of the vehicle speed at the time of collision or the physique of the pedestrian while simplifying the specification of the inflator (26) and reducing the cost.
US08186471B2
A control apparatus comprises an SMR for switching supply of power on and off from a high voltage battery to an inverter, a switching command section for commanding the SMR to switch supply of power from the high voltage battery, a collision detection section for detecting a collision from outside the inverter, and a collision determination section for determining a collision with the inverter on the basis of at least detection by the collision detection section. The collision detection section includes a load detection sensor for detecting a load from outside the inverter and the switching command section commands the SMR to stop supply of power from the high voltage battery on the basis of collision determination by the collision determination section.
US08186469B2
The present invention relates to a mobile robot having jump function. An exemplary mobile robot according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a robot body, a pair of wheels, a driving motor, a leaf spring, and a leaf spring control unit. The pair of wheels are rotatably connected to the robot body. The driving motor drives the pair of wheels so as to move the robot body. The leaf spring has a fixed end fixedly connected to the robot body and a free end disposed to face the fixed end in a state of being apart from the robot body. The leaf spring control unit applies force for bending the leaf spring such that the free end of the leaf spring is pulled toward the robot body and then removes the force applied to the leaf spring such that the leaf spring returns to an original state.
US08186465B2
When an ignition key is turned ON, a control apparatus predicts the arrival time to a chargeable location (such as home). When the control apparatus determines that the expected arrival time is in the nighttime, it sets SOC control upper and lower limit values for an EV traveling-importance mode that are lower than SOC control upper and lower limit values for an HV traveling-importance mode, and controls an SOC of a battery based on the upper and lower limit values.
US08186450B2
A zone tillage tool comprises a tool frame connected by a parallel lift linkage to a tool bar. A fall tillage coulter or dual spring tillage coulters can be carried on the tool frame in advance of a pair of containment coulters. The fall tillage coulter tills soil in a zone that is approximately 7 to 9 inches deep while the spring tillage coulters till 2 to 3 inches deep. The fall tillage coulter includes a plurality of shovel bits located around the circumference thereof at a forward rake angle. The tip of each shovel bit has a generally vertical entry position into the ground due to the forward rake angle. As the fall tillage coulter rotates, the shovel bits rotate around and exit the soil in a generally horizontal position, thereby lifting and loosening the soil without compacting the soil through a series of rearwardly and upwardly directed soil scooping actions.
US08186448B2
An early suppression fast response pendent-type fire protection sprinkler is suitable for use in accordance with one or more of NFPA 13, NFPA 231 and NFPA 231C to protect single row rack storage, double row rack storage and multiple row rack storage, the sprinkler having a K-factor of about 25 and flowing pressure of about 15 pounds per square inch. Preferably, the sprinkler has a body defining an orifice and an outlet for delivering a flow of fluid from a source, and a deflector mounted with a first surface opposed to flow of fluid from the outlet. The deflector defines at least one pair of generally opposed reentrant slots extending from the first surface through the deflector, the reentrant slots extending from slot openings at an outer peripheral edge of the deflector inwardly from the peripheral edge toward a deflector axis.
US08186439B2
A hydraulic control system can be used on a downhole choke and has the feature of moving a travel stop for a sliding sleeve using discrete j-slot mechanisms for selectively moving the stop in either one of two opposed directions. The valve can be incrementally opened further with pressure cycling on an opening chamber. The valve can be immediately put to the closed position with pressure on a closing chamber. After closing, the valve can assume its former open position or other selected less open positions by reconfiguring the travel stop while the valve stays in the closed position In order to achieve a higher open percent after closing, one or more pressure cycles must be applied to the open chamber after the valve is reopened to the position it was in before it was closed.
US08186435B2
The present invention relates to apparatus and methods to stimulate subterranean production and injection wells, such as oil and gas wells, utilizing rocket propellants. Rapid production of high-pressure gas from controlled combustion of a propellant, during initial ignition and subsequent combustion, together with proper positioning of the energy source in relation to geologic formations, can be used to establish and maintain increased formation porosity and flow conditions with respect to the pay zone.
US08186434B2
Non-spherical particulates are useful in the stimulation of subterranean formations. A proppant pack composed of the non-spherical particulates exhibits greater porosity than a corresponding proppant pack composed of spherical particulates. Non-spherical particulates which are hollow and non-porous may further be at least partially filled with a chemical treatment agent including water-soluble or oil-soluble chemical treatment agents.
US08186420B2
A mould for casting metal which allows solid impurities to be removed from the molten metal.The mould (50) has a cavity therein, said cavity having a casting portion and contiguous therewith a running system upstream of the casting portion, said running system comprising an upstream inlet portion (58), a downstream outlet portion (60) and a swirl chamber (54) disposed between the inlet and outlet portions (58,60), wherein a filter (62) is provided at an interface between the swirl chamber (54) and the outlet portion (60).The application also relates to a method for preparing the mould, a pattern for preparing the mould, a housing for use in the mould and a method for casting employing the mould.
US08186416B2
Equipment and a method, therefore, for molding a mold with a molding flask, having a device for introducing molding sand that introduces molding sand into a molding flask and a filling frame, using compressed air, the molding flask and the filling frame being mounted on a model plate in a superimposed state; a shielding device having a plurality of feet that can enter the filling frame and can be temporarily held at positions that are spaced apart at predetermined distances from a model part of the model plate, which model part faces the plurality of feet. The equipment further includes a squeezing device provided adjacent to the device for introducing molding sand, which squeezing device squeezes the molding sand in the molding flask and the filling frame, and a transfer device for carrying the model plate, the molding flask and the filling frame into and out of both the device for introducing molding sand and the squeezing device.
US08186415B2
A method for manufacturing a mold, including steps of (a) expanding a powder mixture containing a water-soluble inorganic salt powder and a water-soluble organic polymer powder in a plane on a table and then selectively spraying a spray liquid containing at least one selected from a water-miscible organic solvent and water through a nozzle on this powder mixture layer to make a bonding strength among particles of the powder mixture in a sprayed region higher than that among particles of the powder mixture in an unsprayed region, (b) further expanding the powder mixture on the powder mixture layer after spraying and then selectively spraying the spray liquid through the nozzle on this powder mixture layer, (c) repeatedly conducting the step (b) over several times to form a mold shaped by the sprayed regions, and (d) taking out the mold.
US08186409B2
The present invention provides a tag ablation mechanism and a tag-and-tape combination apparatus using the same, wherein a driving gear is actuated to rotate by a rotating device by way of a lever to drive a driven gear to rotate so as to ablate a tag from a bottom paper extended from a tag roll on the driven gear. In the present invention, an ablated tag is capable of being combined with a tape so that the tag attached to the tape can be adhered to a packaged object. The mechanism and apparatus of the present invention are capable of adjusting a rotating arc length so as to handle various tags with different sizes and lengths and to complete tag ablation and tag-and-tape combination in each driving operation.
US08186407B2
A labeling machine includes a device for adjusting the position of a tape holding labels, which enables moving the tape progressively on an abutment surface in order to vary the position of the print on the label. The labeling machine further presents a self-regulating arresting element of a tape bearing labels. The arresting element presses the tape against an abutment surface when a label must be applied on a destination surface and releases the tape when, on the action of a control device, the tape is actuated to advance. The machine further includes a printing member whose ink roller is associated to a device that enables it to engage easily and smoothly on a corresponding support arm. The support arm is connected to a door providing access to interior areas of the labeling machine, whose opening causes the support arm to exit and the exposes the ink roller.
US08186403B2
The present invention is directed to a wheel end assembly having a high temperature warning system for giving a warning in the event that the temperature in the assembly reaches a predetermined value such as caused by hub bearing failure or a brake related failure. In one embodiment the system may be a stand-alone system for installation on any vehicle such as a trailer. In another embodiment the system may be combined with an automatic tire inflation system.
US08186399B2
An automated floor board texturing cell includes a programmable robot that stores, or has access to, a plurality of patterns. The robot automatically selects a stored pattern for at least one of the floor boards introduced into the cell. The robot textures the floor boards to exhibit the selected pattern. The robot may select a pattern for a batch of floor boards or for each individual floor board. Pattern selection can be random or based on stored information such as a production schedule.
US08186382B2
A rotary valve adapted for injection of a fluid sample into a flow path. According to the invention one and the same valve can be used to input flow from a system pump, a sample pump and a syringe. A loop could be filled from both the sample pump and the syringe and the loop can be emptied by the system pump whereby for example a column is filled. Furthermore the sample pump can be used to pump directly to the column.
US08186380B2
A decompression apparatus has an exhaust mechanism for decompressing a vacuum chamber. The exhaust mechanism has a main exhaust passage one end of which is connected to the vacuum chamber and the other end of which is connected to a vacuum pump, a first valve disposed in the main exhaust passage; a slow exhaust passage one end of which is connected to the vacuum chamber directly or via part of the main exhaust passage and the other end of which is connected to the vacuum pump directly or via part of the main exhaust passage, a cylindrical inorganic porous body disposed in the slow exhaust passage so that a gap is formed between the inorganic porous body and the inner surface of the slow exhaust passage, and a second valve disposed in the slow exhaust passage.
US08186376B2
A liquid purge valve comprising a housing for sealingly fitting at an uppermost end of a substantially vertical pipe, an outlet tube extending from the housing and projecting into the pipe, an outlet port fitted with a sealing boundary and sealable by a sealing member pivotally secured within the housing so as to pivotally displace between a closed and an open position, a biasing member biasing the sealing member into its open position, and a mass articulated to the sealing member and extending downwards into the pipe. The mass applies a force at an opposite direction of the biasing member such that the resultant force acting on the sealing member determines its position such that when water level rises within the pipe the sealing member displaces into the open position.
US08186370B2
A solenoid valve may include a housing, a solenoid coil, and a plunger. The solenoid coil may be disposed about an external portion of the housing and the plunger may be slidably disposed within the housing. The plunger may include a recess in a first end thereof having a seal assembly located therein and including a pin member inserted into the recess and an elastomeric sealing element molded around the pin member while inserted into the recess of the plunger.
US08186362B1
A concave finger nail file includes a retention base and an abrasive surface. The retention base may have any suitable shape, such as a cube, a cylinder or a D-shaped tube. The retention base may be solid or hollowed-out. A concave cavity is formed in a top of the retention base. The abrasive surface is applied to the concave cavity. The abrasive surface may also be applied to a bottom or to a side wall of the retention base. The retention base is held between a forefinger and thumb of one hand; a finger or thumb of the other hand is inserted into the concave cavity; and the retention base is pivoted about the finger or thumb of the other hand to file the end of a nail. A second embodiment of the concave finger nail file includes a removable peel and stick abrasive surface.
US08186354B2
The present invention is a simple, adaptable orthotic device that can correct and/or prevent deformational posterior plagiocephaly, especially if used before the infant is 4 months of age. The manufactured article provides an anatomically correcting, adjustable, concave-shaped resting surface for an infant's head in a manner that effectively eliminates uneven pressure on the infant's occiput. The orthotic device has a modular design which permits easy adjustments of the devices' head cavity to accommodate differences in individual infant head size and shape, thereby providing the infant's head with a custom fit. Also, as the infant continues to grow in size, the adjustable head cavity and torso recess features of the orthotic device allow the contoured spatial volume and dimensions of the molded supporting surfaces to expand as the infant's calvaria grow; and thereby facilitate a progressive, normalization and rounding of the infant's occiput.
US08186352B2
A nasal assembly for delivering breathable gas to a patient includes a frame having an integrally formed first connector portion. A nozzle assembly includes a gusset or base portion and a pair of nozzles. At least one inlet conduit is structured to deliver breathable gas into the frame and nozzle assembly for breathing by the patient. A pair of second connector portions are removably and rotatably connected to respective first connector portions of the frame and are in communication with respective inlet conduits, e.g., directly or via angle connectors. A headgear assembly is removably connected to the pair of second connector portions and/or the angle connectors so as to maintain the frame and the nozzle assembly in a desired adjusted position on the patient's face.
US08186343B2
A dose indicator for indicating the number of doses that have been dispensed or that remain to be dispensed from a fluid dispenser device, the indicator being characterized in that it comprises an indicator body, a drive element, a rotary transmission element, a first rotary counter element, and a second rotary counter element, said first and second rotary counter elements being disposed side by side in a common plane and turning about parallel axes of rotation, said first and second counter elements co-operating to provide a common indication on each occasion the indicator is driven, said first rotary counter element being a disk having a top surface and a bottom surface, said top surface including first indicator means located close to the outer peripheral edge of said top surface, and said bottom surface including a first gear co-operating with a drive gear provided on said rotary transmission element, said first rotary counter element including a drive tooth adapted to co-operate on each complete revolution of said first rotary counter element with a second gear provided on said second rotary counter element.
US08186342B2
A solar energy transfer system including a spherical dish measuring 0-100 meters in diameter, with stem measuring 0-100 meters in length (its length depends on the dish dimensions), perpendicular to the base of the dish. At the top of the stem is a spheroid where power concentration and transfer occurs by reflecting quantum and electromagnetic solar energy by means of reflecting material with the same curvature as the spherical dish.
US08186336B2
An engine control system includes a proportional correction module and a variable proportional gain determination module. The proportional correction module generates a proportional correction for a fuel command to an engine based on a variable proportional gain and a difference between expected and measured amounts of oxygen in exhaust gas produced by the engine. The variable proportional gain determination module determines the variable proportional gain based on a nominal gain and an amount of time since a polarity of the difference has changed, wherein the nominal gain is based on engine operating parameters.
US08186335B2
To avoid the generation of a pumping loss, a communication passage is formed as a bypass passage between an exhaust port and a combustion chamber in an internal combustion engine. The communication passage is provided with a one-way valve as an exhaust gas return amount adjustment means. The one-way valve includes a spring member having a spring constant set to the value such that a valve body does not displace toward the combustion chamber under the pressure of the exhaust gas in the exhaust port. An opening degree of the one-way valve is autonomously adjusted depending on the amount of air introduced from an intake manifold when the pressure within the combustion chamber becomes negative in the intake stroke. Then inside of the combustion chamber is kept at substantially the atmospheric pressure with the exhaust gas returned to the combustion chamber via the communication passage and the aforementioned air.
US08186333B2
A vehicle having an internal combustion engine with a supercharger is provided for reducing the number of parts and for reducing the size of the engine in the transverse direction of the vehicle by effectively utilizing an outer space around the engine. A supercharger is fixed to a rear end of a crank shaft, the crank shaft extends to the rear from a crank case, and is disposed on one side-face side of a cylinder head with an intake port formed therein. An air cleaner for the supply of air to the supercharger is disposed on an upstream side of the supercharger at a position above the supercharger and behind an engine E.
US08186331B2
A method for operating a four-stroke internal combustion engine including a crankshaft coupled to a piston, which includes moving the piston in accordance with a sequence of four different strokes; mechanically driving an electric power generator with the crankshaft during the operating of the engine; generating a first sensor signal indicative of each revolution of the crankshaft with the crankshaft rotating twice during the sequence of four different strokes; providing a second sensor signal corresponding to a working fluid characteristic of the engine, the working fluid characteristic changing during the sequence of four different strokes of the piston; and timing ignition of the engine as a function of the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal.
US08186327B2
A lubricating oil supply system for internal combustion engine includes an oil reservoir and oil pump connected with a lubrication distribution network including a piloted pressure relief valve which selectively controls the pressure within the distribution network to at least one pressure value that is less than the maximum pressure produced by a primary pressure relief valve associated with the oil pump, while also protecting the lubrication distribution network from an unwanted overpressure condition.
US08186323B2
An intake air noise adjuster includes: a communicating conduit including: a first end communicating to an intake air passage to an engine, and a second end communicating to an external air; an elastic body configured to block the communicating conduit; and a flow channel area changer configured to change a flow channel area of the communicating conduit based on a change of an intake air negative pressure caused in the intake air passage.
US08186320B2
The invention relates to a device for camshaft adjustment in an internal combustion engine, having a lifting profile element which is provided in a rotationally fixed manner on an axially movable mounted camshaft and which provides a control groove, and having a control unit for generating a predetermined axial movement of the camshaft, wherein the control unit has a tappet unit which is preferably movable radially with respect to the camshaft and which is designed to controllably engage into the lifting profile element, wherein the lifting profile element forms a first control groove which is designed to interact with the tappet unit at a first penetration depth in order to describe a first axial movement of the camshaft, and the lifting profile element forms a second control groove which is designed to interact with the tappet unit at a second penetration depth, which differs from the first penetration depth, in order to describe a second axial movement, which differs from the first axial movement, of the camshaft.
US08186319B2
A camshaft assembly for an internal combustion engine has a hollow outer shaft with slots along its length and an inner shaft with holes along its length. The holes on the inner shaft are aligned with the slots on the outer shaft. A first set of cam lobes are fixed to the outer shaft and a second set of cam lobes are placed on the slots of outer shaft with a clearance fit. A means fixes the second set of cam lobes to the inner shaft, while simultaneously allowing the second set of cam lobes to be a clearance fit to the outer shaft. The means fixing the second set of cam lobes to the inner shaft may be a hollow pin which is hydroformed or a rivet insert which is expanded by insertion, pulling, and removal of a threaded rod.
US08186309B2
A pet toy may include an outer covering and a bladder assembly. The bladder assembly may include a bladder and a squeaker assembly. The squeaker assembly may include one or more ribs. The bladder may include a body and a neck. The neck may have one or more grooves. A rib may engage a groove. The engagement of the rib with the groove may prevent the squeaker assembly from exiting the opening of the bladder when the bladder is compressed. The body of the bladder may have a shape which allows the body to return to the uncompressed state after the body has been compressed. The body may be made of a material which allows the body to return to the uncompressed state after the body has been compressed.
US08186304B2
A liquid dispensing device includes a container removably mounted to a tray such that an orifice in the base of the container is below a fill line of the tray. A flat-shaped cap that includes an opening is removably attached to the orifice. A cap adjustment member forces the cap into a concave shape when the container is removably mounted to the tray. If the cap is in the flat shape, surface tension of the liquid in the container prevents the container from dispensing liquid. However, forcing the cap into the concave shape disrupts the surface tension of the liquid and allows the container to dispense the liquid if the liquid is not already above a fill line. These features allow the orifice to be wide enough for cleaning while the cap is narrow enough for operation without the cap causing surface tension that hinders operation.
US08186302B1
The present invention discloses an apparatus and system that applies powder-based food additives for feeder insects that are used to feed reptiles. The apparatus takes the form of a cube-shaped box with a side dimension of approximately six (6) inches. A screen-shaped barrier is provided about two-thirds (⅔) from the top which has a hinged opening side. Directly below the screen is a sliding barrier that is removed and replaced from the side of the box. Insects, such as crickets, are coated and released into the container holding the reptile for feeding purposes. The use of this system allows one (1) to easily ensure that their pet reptile is provided with adequate levels of proteins, vitamins and minerals without the necessity of handling or touching feeder insects in an efficient manner.
US08186298B2
A coating film forming apparatus that holds a substrate upon a spin chuck and forms a coating film by supplying a chemical liquid upon a top surface of said substrate comprises: an outer cup provided detachably to surround the spin chuck; an inner cup provided detachably to surround a region underneath the substrate held upon the chuck; a cleaning nozzle configured to supply a cleaning liquid for cleaning a peripheral edge part of the substrate, such that the cleaning liquid is supplied to a peripheral part of a bottom surface of the substrate; a cutout part for nozzle mounting, the cutout part being provided to the inner cup to engage with the cleaning nozzle; and a cleaning liquid supply tube connected to the cleaning nozzle, the cleaning nozzle being detachable to the cutout part in a state in which the cleaning liquid supply tube is connected.
US08186291B1
A pontoon boat having enhanced handling characteristics includes a deck, a central pontoon mounted to said deck, two outer pontoons mounted to said deck on respective opposite sides of said central pontoon, and a motor, wherein the central pontoon extends below the outer pontoons to create a V-shaped hull, and the motor is capable of causing said center and outer pontoons to plane during normal operation.
US08186271B2
A method for manufacturing a printing plate includes forming first trenches having a first depth into an insulative substrate, forming an organic film over the insulative substrate including the first trenches, and forming second trenches having a width smaller than that of the first trenches into the organic film, the second trenches formed at positions corresponding to the first trenches by selectively removing the organic film.
US08186264B2
A disposable cartridge (1) for use in a beverage maker comprises a container (10) for containing at least one beverage ingredient and a connector (20) for establishing a connection between the cartridge (1) and a beverage maker. The connector (20) comprises a hollow needle member (22) having a blunt end (23) for piercing a portion (11) of a wall (12) of the container (10), wherein the needle member (22) extends inside a dome-shaped portion (13) of the container wall (12). Furthermore, the connector (20) is movably arranged with respect to the container (10). During operation, an impacting force is exerted on the needle member (22), as a result of which the connector (20) is moved with respect to the container (10), in a direction towards the container (10), and the pierceable portion (11) of the container wall (12) is pierced by the end (23) of the needle member (22). After the piercing process has taken place, the content of the container (10) is retrievable through the needle member (22).
US08186263B2
Apparatus and method for securing a cylinder liner to a pumping module. A first part of an assembly housing pistons is fastened to a pumping module and a second part of the assembly is brought against the first so that the pistons act on tensioning plates which each have a stud rod extending therefrom through the assembly at an end distal to the pumping module. Each rod has a first portion substantially surrounded in an elastomeric member and a second portion threaded to receive a nut. The rods are passed through a clamping ring on the cylinder liner and the nut is attached to the rod. Actuating the pistons causes initial compression of the elastomeric member by the tension plate and allows tightening of the nut toward the pumping module. Release of the pistons then causes expansion of the elastomeric member to urge the cylinder liner towards the pumping module.
US08186237B2
A transmission, in particular a dual clutch transmission, has a plurality of transmission shafts and a fastening apparatus for at least one fixed gear on one of the transmission shafts. The fixed gear is held axially on the transmission shaft by way of a fastening nut. The fixed gear is formed with a recess around the transmission shaft in a region that lies radially below the gear toothing system. A fastening sleeve is positioned in the recess between the fixed gear and the transmission shaft in a section which adjoins a fastening nut. During the clamping of the fastening nut, the latter bears against the fastening sleeve. As a result, the transmission of micromovements to the fastening nut is minimized or prevented, with the result that loosening of the fastening nut does not take place during the operation of the transmission.
US08186229B2
An ultrasonic flow meter for measuring the flow of a fluid through a pipeline. In some embodiments, the ultrasonic flow meter includes a spool piece, a transducer assembly, and a port cover assembly. The spool piece has a throughbore and a transducer port extending between the throughbore and an outer surface of the spool piece. The transducer assembly is disposed within the transducer port and includes a transformer, a piezoelectric element, and an electrical coupling therebetween. The port cover assembly is coupled to the transducer assembly. The port cover assembly receives a cable coupled to the transducer assembly and is spring-loaded to bias the port cover assembly toward the transducer assembly to resist the cable from being electrically uncoupled from the transducer assembly.
US08186228B2
A strain measuring device includes a bridge circuit comprising a p-type impurity diffused resistor as a strain detecting portion and a bridge circuit comprising an n-type impurity diffused resistor as a strain detecting portion in a semiconductor single crystalline substrate, Sheet resistance of the p-type impurity diffused resistor is 1.67 to 5 times higher than that of the n-type impurity diffused resistor. Furthermore, the impurity diffused resistor is configured to be a meander shape including strip lines and connecting portions.
US08186216B2
Provided are a device, a system, and a method for determining a fitting condition of a connector, which are capable of improving the accuracy for determining the coupling condition of the connector. A connector fitting condition determination device (10) includes an input section (11) that is attached to an operator and receives detection results including sound information and acceleration information that are measured at a time of fitting a connector; a sound information determination section (13) that determines whether the sound information satisfies predetermined conditions based on the detection results input to the input section (11); and an acceleration information determination section (15) that determines whether the acceleration information satisfies predetermined conditions, on detection results satisfying the conditions in the sound information determination section 13. The determination device (10) determines that the connector is fitted, only when both the sound information and the acceleration information satisfy the predetermined conditions.
US08186215B2
A method and system for a wheel assembly service system are provided. The system includes a rotatable spindle configured to receive a wheel assembly wherein the wheel assembly includes at least a rim and a tire. The system further includes a load device configured to apply a load to the tire during a rotation of the wheel assembly on the spindle, and a controller configured to determine a first force variation vector of the wheel assembly, initiating rotation of the tire with respect to the rim, determine a second force variation vector of the wheel assembly with the tire rotated with respect to the rim, and determine a force variation of at least one of the tire and the wheel using the first and second force variation vectors. The system also outputs at least one of the determined force variation vector values.
US08186213B2
The present invention provides a highly-sensitive thermal-type flow-rate sensor with enhanced reliability. Provided is a thermal-type flow-rate sensor including: a passage into which a measurement-target fluid is introduced; and a sensor element which is provided in the passage and which measures the flow rate of the measurement-target fluid. The sensor element 1 includes: a semiconductor substrate; a hollow portion formed in the semiconductor substrate; and a heating resistor formed on an electric insulating film above the hollow portion. The sensor element measures the flow rate of the measurement-target fluid by radiating heat from the heating resistor to the measurement-target fluid. When Lh is the length of the heating resistor in a direction perpendicular to a flowing direction of the measurement-target fluid and Wd is the shortest distance to an upstream-side edge of the heating resistor from an edge of the hollow portion (an outer peripheral edge of a diaphragm) in the flowing direction of the measurement-target fluid, Wd≧0.4×Lh is satisfied in a relation between Lh and Wd.
US08186206B2
A powertrain test installation is disclosed that includes a polymer base, which is supported on a concrete slab, for example. A dynamometer is mounted on the polymer base. A frame is mounted to the polymer base and is configured to support a powertrain component to be coupled to the dynamometer. The powertrain test system is installed, for example, by providing a floor, which is a concrete slab, for example. The floor is cut to provide a gap between a support floor and an adjacent floor that is arranged about the support floor. A polymer base is arranged on the support floor interiorly of the gap so that the polymer base is isolated from the adjacent floor. A dynamometer is secured to the polymer base. A frame is secured to the polymer base and is configured to support a powertrain test component, such as an electric motor.
US08186200B1
Systems and methods establish a way by which a retail store customer can verify the accuracy of a timekeeping product. A reference timekeeping product can be displayed in a retail store display along with a timekeeping product that has been synchronized at a known time-of-day with the reference timekeeping product. The retail store customer can then visually identify a discrepancy or lack thereof between a displayed product time-of-day of the timekeeping product, and a displayed standard time-of-day of the reference clock.
US08186183B2
A latching and locking mechanism for a door includes a locating pin passing through a portion of a door frame and a handle. A tapered portion formed at an end of the locating pin mates with a tapered opening formed in a casing of the machine to position the door frame relative to the casing. A cam surface defined on the casing engages a latching pin connected to the locating pin and extending radially therefrom adjacent to the tapered portion such that the latching pin pulls the door frame toward the closed position when the handle is rotated.
US08186176B2
Disclosed is an ice bank for a refrigerator including: an inner case and an outer case forming one storage space having an opened top by being coupled to each other; and a coupling unit coupling the inner and outer cases to each other so that either one is relatively movable with respect to the other one so as for the capacity of the storage space to be variable. The ice bank for a refrigerator includes the inner and outer cases coupled to each other so that either one is relatively movable with respect to the other one, whereby accordingly the capacity of the ice bank is variable depending on the amount of ice that a customer needs, thereby enhancing the customer's product satisfaction. Further, when the customer needs a small amount of ice, the capacity of the ice bank can be reduced, accordingly enabling to effectively utilize the storage space of the refrigerator. Further, the ice bank stores as much ice as the customer needs, accordingly preventing deterioration of the ice resulting from long-time storage in the ice bank.
US08186174B2
An electronic device cabinet includes a first temperature control system positioned to direct a conditioned airflow into a first electronic device storage zone of the cabinet and a second temperature control system positioned to direct a conditioned airflow into a second electronic device storage zone of the cabinet. The first temperature control system includes a first plurality of vortex tubes having a compressed air inlet and a first cooling air outlet that guides cooling air into the first device storage zone. The second temperature control system includes a second plurality of vortex tubes having a compressed air inlet and a second cooling air outlet that guides cooling air into the second device storage zone. A controller selectively delivers compressed air to respective ones of the first and second temperature control systems upon sensing a demand for cooling in corresponding ones of the first and second electronic device storage zones.
US08186171B2
A method is provided for controlling an intermittently supercritically operating refrigeration circuit. A control valve (12) is controlled: (a) in the subcritical mode, so that a predetermined “subcritical pressure” ensuring a predetermined sub-cooling of the liquid refrigerant at the outlet (14) of a heat-rejecting heat exchanger (10) is maintained; (b) in the supercritical mode, so that a predetermined “supercritical pressure”, which is optimized for optimum efficiency, of the supercritical refrigerant at the outlet (14) of the heat-rejecting heat exchanger (10) is maintained; and (c) in a border mode in a border region next to the critical point, dependent on a “continuity pressure” which is determined on the basis of the predetermined “subcritical pressure” and the predetermined “supercritical pressure” of steps (a) and (b).
US08186168B2
A method of at least partially balancing axial thrust loads and an engine in which the method is carried out is disclosed herein. The engine includes a combustion chamber and a fuel system operable to direct pressurized fuel to the combustion chamber. The engine also includes a rotor operable to rotate about a centerline axis and subjected to axial thrust loads during operation. The engine also includes a balance piston engaged with the rotor. The balance piston includes a pressure face positioned in a thrust cavity. The engine also includes a fluid passageway extending between the fuel system and the thrust cavity. Pressurized fuel is delivered to the pressure face to counteract axial thrust loads on the rotor.
US08186160B2
A thermal engine includes a cylinder and piston and an insulated thermal battery including at least a thermal mass such as the engine block itself for storing and retaining heat to enhance or cause fluid expansion within the cylinder and drive the piston, the thermal battery optionally including an electrolyte chamber containing a thermal electrolyte for functioning as an electric thermal battery. Heat is stored in the thermal battery such as by activating electric resistance heating elements in the thermal mass. The stored heat either causes expansion of a non-combustible expansion fluid such as water or enhances the expansion of a combustible expansion fluid such as gasoline. Where the thermal battery is an electric thermal battery containing an electrolyte, the storage of heat also stores electricity which can be used to power an electric motor.
US08186146B2
An after-treatment component detection system may include an exhaust system configured to include an after-treatment component configured to remove one or more constituents of the exhaust gases. The detection system may include an upstream temperature sensor configured to measure temperature upstream from the after-treatment component, a downstream temperature sensor configured to measure temperature downstream from the after-treatment component, and a controller. The controller may be configured to receive signals indicative of upstream temperature measurements from the upstream sensor and signals indicative of downstream temperature measurements from the downstream sensor and determine an upstream rate of temperature change and a downstream rate of temperature change. The controller may also be configured to compare the upstream rate of temperature change to the downstream rate of temperature change and generate a fault if the upstream rate of temperature change and the downstream rate of temperature change differ by less than a predetermined amount.
US08186145B2
Improved rocket nozzle designs for vehicles with nozzles embedded in or protruding from surfaces remote from the desired thrust axis. The nozzle configurations are for rocket vehicles where the nozzles are not located at the optimal thrust axis of the vehicle. Two examples include nozzles located on the forward end of the vehicle (also called tractor nozzles) and attitude control nozzles located on the periphery of the vehicle. More particularly, the disclosed nozzle shapes enhance the axial thrusts and/or maneuver torques on the vehicle. These unconventional nozzle shapes improve vehicle performance.
US08186143B2
A method of controlling mixing of a flow exiting a nozzle associated with a jet engine. The method may involve pivotally supporting a mixing structure forming a hinge device at a downstream edge of the nozzle. A shape memory alloy (SMA) element may be used to couple to the mixing structure. Heat may be generated by a flow exiting the nozzle to induce a phase change in the SMA element. The phase change may cause an axial length of the SMA element to constrict, to cause a pivoting movement of the mixing structure into a path of the flow exiting the nozzle.
US08186131B2
The present invention provides a door panel that comprises an outer panel and an inner panel joined together at adhering portions and, regardless of whether rib portions are formed on the adhering portions in order to prevent deformation of the adhering portions or for other purpose, can be modified to withstand severe heat by means of formation of large ventilation openings in the adhering portions without significantly impairing the shape or the strength of the door panel.
US08186127B1
A method of draining water entering a building having a foundation wall with no footing by removing a portion of the slab floor adjacent to the foundation wall and digging a trench and a divot trench, placing a cove base against felt and against the foundation wall with the cove base extending from above the slab floor and down into the trench divot. The trench divot is lined with felt, and a drain conduit is placed into the trench having apertures aligned with apertures formed in the cove base to direct water coming from the foundation wall behind the cove base, through the aligned apertures to be directed into the conduit to a remote location, such conduit being covered by fill and a vapor barrier and with concrete poured thereover and leveled to the height of the slab floor.
US08186124B2
Connection device having at least one receiving building component, in particular a wooden body (1), which comprises at least a retention recess (2), in particular a continuous retention recess, and having a composite body (3) which is inserted into the retention recess (2) in the wooden body (1), wherein a composite mass (4) is curably inserted in an interstice (7) in the retention recess (2) between the wooden body (1) and the inserted composite body (3) such that the composite body is substantially frictionally secured in said retention recess (2), wherein an intermediate layer (5), in particular as a formation of the surface of the composite body and/or the composite mass, is at least partially provided between the composite body and the composite mass, providing at least partial decoupling of the composite mass from the composite body.
US08186119B1
An improved wall structure for HVAC enclosures utilizing thermoplastic standoffs to form an air space and to separate the exterior wall structure of the enclosure from the interior wall structure. The position of the thermoplastic standoffs and the selection of the design for the standoffs insure that metallic fasteners would secure the exterior walls of the enclosure to the enclosure do not transmit thermal energy from the external wall to the internal wall.
US08186115B2
A perimeter foundation wall is constructed from a plurality of modular wall panels. The wall panels include a generally planar exterior wall surface, a side flange on both vertically extending sides of the panel, a top cap, and a base pan. The wall may also include vertical reinforcing studs and brackets on an inner surface of the wall panels. The wall may also have leveling assemblies including threaded rods passing through the base pan.
US08186110B2
A transportable, modular, self-contained shipping container building which has an optional means to collect, store, and distribute power from natural resources and a means to collect store, distribute and/or purify potable and/or non-potable water.
US08186101B2
Planter apparatus for supporting live goods has an upwardly open container with a sidewall, a wire planter cage frame supported on the sidewall, and clips releasably securing the planter cage frame to the container. The planter cage frame has downwardly extending legs with distal ends that are received on an inner peripheral ledge of the container. The distal ends may engage the container without clips, or may rest on the rim of the container. The clips are deformable C-shaped clips with end hooks that engage the container rim and a transverse rib of the planter cage frame.
US08186092B2
A firearm cleaning kit is disclosed that includes a case having first and second compartments joined along a fold line, and a fastener, such as a zipper, joining together the first and second compartments of the case. At least one of the compartments includes a pocket. A flexible cleaning rod having a first end and a second end is removably stored in the pocket. A tool compartment is secured to the fold line. The tool compartment includes a plurality of tool-holding cavities, and a firearm barrel cleaning device is secured within one of the tool-holding cavities. The barrel cleaning device includes a body portion, a swab, and a brush. The swab is fixed to a first end of the body portion, and has an outer diameter greater than an inner diameter of the firearm barrel so as to contact the barrel at all points around its circumference. A brush is also affixed to the body portion proximate to the swab, and has a plurality of filaments arranged and sized to a diameter greater than the inner diameter of the firearm barrel and less than the diameter of the swab. Also disclosed is a method for cleaning residue from an inner diameter of a firearm barrel using the barrel cleaning device.
US08186091B2
Exchangeable choke for a fire arm with a smooth gun barrel, whereby said choke is provided with mechanical coupling means to mount and dismount the choke, characterized in that the choke is equipped with additional sealing means so as to seal the choke, at least in one place, in relation to the gun barrel, as well as to prevent the choke from being unscrewed during the shooting.
US08186089B2
An exchangeable adapter assembly for a handgun includes a handle frame having a trigger and a handle, into which a magazine can be inserted. A quick changeover is ensured by the assembly in that in the rear and front regions of the handle frame at least one adapter element is provided which cooperates with a rear and front adapter piece of a grip enhancer for attachment of the grip enhancer 100 to the handle frame. In the rear part of the handle frame there is also provided an eyelet device which, when the grip enhancer is attached to the handle frame, positively engages a bore in the grip enhancer. A securing pin can be releasably inserted into the eyelet device in order to releasably connect the grip enhancer to the handle frame.
US08186087B2
A trigger blocking device comprised of a frame removably affixed around a trigger guard of a rifle. The trigger blocking device holds a blocking shaft behind the trigger, the shaft being capable of sliding longitudinally or axially into two separate positions, one position where the shaft blocks the operation of the trigger and the other position where a recessed area in the shaft forms a trigger channel, when moved into position, allows the operation of the trigger. The blocking shaft extends across the frame and is positioned behind the trigger. When the blocking shaft is behind the trigger in a first position with the trigger channel not aligned with the trigger, the blocking shaft prevents rearward movement of the trigger, preventing the firearm from firing. When the blocking shaft is moved to a second position wherein the trigger channel is aligned with the trigger, the trigger when pulled can move rearward into the trigger channel to allow the firing mechanism of the firearm to be activated, that is, to fire.
US08186059B2
An internal gear and cap assembly includes a gear having a base that extends about an axis between a first and second end. The first end defines a groove that extends to a floor and the groove surrounds the axis. Teeth extend from the base. A lip extends from the first end and also surrounds the axis. A cap has a flange that is inserted into the groove. The lip is deformed toward the groove such that material from the lip flows to trap the flange between the lip and the floor of the groove to retain the cap to the gear in the axial direction. Slots may be defined in the flange such that the material from the lip flows into the slots to provide a key-lock between the cap and the gear to prevent rotation of the cap relative to the gear about the axis.
US08186058B2
An exhaust system component (18, 10) for use in an exhaust system of a motor vehicle. The exhaust system component comprises a double wall surrounding a space (9, 11; 21) through which exhaust gas may flow when the exhaust system component is in use in an exhaust system. The double wall is comprised of a first and second metal wall (12, 14; 26, 28) that define between them a gap. The gap comprises an insulation material (16) made of chopped aluminium or magnesium aluminium silicate glass fibers. The insulation material can be in the form of, for example, an end cone perform. The exhaust system component can be an exhaust pipe (18).
US08186055B2
Various methods are disclosed for manufacturing pump-heads having a housing enclosing at least one rotary member. In an exemplary method first and second housing portions are provided that collectively, when assembled, define a pump-cavity that accommodates the rotary member(s). The rotary member(s) is assembled into the pump-cavity, along with at least one soluble spacer of a defined thickness that corresponds to a desired clearance of the rotary member relative to the pump-cavity. The spacer contacts a surface of the rotary member facing a corresponding surface of the housing portion. The first and second housing portions are attached together to form the pump-cavity containing the rotary member(s). The soluble spacer is dissolved to provide the desired clearance of the rotary member in the pump-cavity. As the housing portions are attached together, e.g., by adhesive bonding, the spacer establishes the desired clearance of the rotary member(s) in the pump-cavity.
US08186050B2
A method for recognizing alignment marks includes preparing a substrate having multiple alignment marks including alignment marks positioned adjacent to each other, and recognizing the alignment marks on the substrate by capturing images of the alignment marks using a recognition camera. The recognizing of the alignment marks includes adjusting the position of the recognition camera when capturing images of the alignment marks positioned adjacent to each other such that each of the alignment marks positioned adjacent to each other is positioned equidistant from the center of an image-capturing region of the recognition camera.
US08186046B2
A multilayer printed wiring board and method for manufacturing a multilayer printed wiring board. One method include a method for manufacturing a multilayer printed wiring board having an electronic component housed therein. The method includes forming a conduction circuit on a core substrate and forming an alignment mark on the core substrate separate from the conduction circuit. Also included is forming a concavity in the core substrate, the concavity being formed in an area of the core substrate not including the conductor circuit and alignment mark, and inserting the electronic component into the concavity in the core substrate by using the alignment mark on the core substrate to align the electronic component with the concavity.
US08186045B2
A method of manufacturing a multilayer printed circuit board, including providing a substrate, embedding an electronic component having a die pad on a surface of the component into the substrate such that the component has the surface and pad exposed from a surface of the substrate, forming a metallic layer including metallic film layers such that the surface of the substrate and the pad and surface of the component are covered with the metallic layer, providing a resist on the metallic layer such that a portion of the metallic layer on the pad is exposed from the resist, forming a thickening metallic layer on the portion of the metallic layer exposed, removing the resist from the substrate and surface of the component, and etching to remove the metallic layer such that a mediate layer including the portion of the metallic layer is formed between the pad and the thickening layer.
US08186043B2
A circuit board and a method of manufacturing the circuit board are provided. The method includes forming at least one protruded bump on a first side of a conductive board, forming a dielectric layer on the first side of the conductive board where the at least one bump is formed so as to cover the at least one bump; and etching a second side of the conductive board so as to partially remove the board to form a pattern.
US08186041B1
A soldering fixture is disclosed having a unitary base member configured to maintain a printed circuit board and an electrical connector in a particular orientation during soldering. The unitary base member includes a lateral channel dimensioned to maintain a plurality of wire leads associated with the electrical connector in a spaced relationship with the printed circuit board. The unitary base member further includes a wire alignment tool configured to align the plurality of wire leads in the particular orientation such that the plurality of wire leads are in juxtaposition with a plurality of solder pads affixed to one or more surfaces of the printed circuit board.
US08186040B2
A method in one embodiment includes forming a resist structure above an upper surface of a substrate, wherein a portion of the upper surface of the substrate is a shaping layer, wherein the resist structure has an undercut; depositing a layer of magnetic material above exposed regions of the substrate, wherein a portion of the layer of magnetic material tapers towards the substrate as it approaches the undercut; removing the resist structure; and forming a write pole above the layer of magnetic material. Additional methods are disclosed.
US08186038B2
A method for building a component for an electrical rotating machine is provided. The method includes providing a powdered magnetic material and an electrically conductive material, positioning these materials within a mold selected to produce the required dimensions in the materials after the application of a hot isostatic pressing (HIP) procedure, and applying at least one HIP procedure to the materials in the mold. Temperatures and pressures of the process are chosen to ensure that the electrically conducting and magnetic portions of the component are bonded without the materials seeping into each other. The method may be employed to build small compact motor systems using motor components formed as described to produce uniform grain structure and consistent magnetic and structural properties in the motor components that are useful in vehicle drive wheels.
US08186033B1
A hand-held tool has a leading edge which is inserted into a price channel and which has a tag exit port defined therein to be located in the price channel when in use and a trailing edge having a tag entrance port defined therein and into which a flexible tag is inserted. A bore connects the entrance port to the exit port and a flexible tag is forced through the entrance port, through the bore and out of the exit port to be positioned in the price channel.
US08186025B2
A brassiere back closure has an inelastic textile patch attached to the end of one of the brassiere wings and carries a plurality of transversely extending and longitudinally spaced rows each having at least two transversely spaced eyes on the back face. A flat body has an inner end attached to the end of the other of the wings, an opposite outer end, a front face at least partially overlapping at the outer end the back face of the patch, and a back face opposite the body front face. Respective plastic hooks generally complementary to and matable with the eyes are fixed to the body front face at the outer end so as to align with and interfit with the eyes. A transversely rigid bar on or forming part of the body prevents transverse relative movement of the hooks and bending of the body at the hooks.
US08186010B2
A catcher (2) provided in a door frame H′ for capturing a striker body 1 moved from a near front side F when a door D′ is rotated toward a reference position; a braking device (5); and a linkage device (3) for both are provided. The catcher (2) is provided to be reciprocatingly rotatable between a standby position and a rotated position, captures the striker body (1) at the standby position, and rotates forward to the rotated position. Braking of the braking device (5) is applied to a rotation toward the rotated position of the catcher (2) through the linkage gear member (30).
US08186008B2
An agitator includes an agitator body rotatably accommodated within a suction nozzle having a suction port, and comprising a plurality of bristles planted in an outer circumference, and an air moving device formed on the outer circumference of the agitator body to cause air to move in a space defined between the agitator body and an inner wall of the suction nozzle, if the agitator body is rotated.
US08186005B2
The invention relates to a vacuum cleaning device comprising a dirt collection container which has a suction inlet and is in flow connection with at least one suction unit via at least one filter and at least one suction line, and comprising at least one external air inlet which opens into the suction line downstream of the at least one filter and is adapted to be closed by means of at least one closing valve, the closing valve having a movable valve body which, in a closed position, bears against at least one valve seat so as to form one or more sealing lines, the at least one sealing line delimiting an area which, in the closed position of the closing valve, is acted upon by a differential pressure. In order to develop the vacuum cleaning device in such a way that the at least one closing valve is of structurally simple design and the at least one filter can be completely cleaned within a short period of time, the invention proposes that the square of the total length of all sealing lines is at least 25 times the total size of all areas which are delimited by the sealing lines and acted upon by a differential pressure.
US08186001B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide effective technique for a higher cleaning effect and higher operability of a cleaning element. According to a representative cleaning tool, bonding thickness of the fusion bonded part 117 in a thickness direction of the cleaning element 111 of the cleaning tool 110 is smaller than the bonding thickness of the fusion bonded part 114.
US08185984B2
A faucet spout mounting assembly includes a mounting hub, a spout supported for rotation relative to the mounting hub, a retaining member configured to restrain axial movement of the spout relative to the mounting hub, and a biasing member configured to provide an axial load between the spout and the mounting hub.
US08185982B1
A bathing chair which has a water-spraying function for simultaneously effecting a shower discharge from each of a plurality of shower discharge ends and thus assist a person with severe disabilities while cleansing him or herself or while being assisted by a third person. The bathing chair including strategically located nozzles to wash critical body parts, a main control system with manual and electro-mechanical operated valves, two main flow paths with independent control systems, means for combining a soap product and water, a water temperature sensor, and a pump/reservoir system for water pressure adjustment.
US08185977B2
A system for flushing a vacuum toilet, includes a drain that is connected to a drain conduit, which vacuum toilet is connectable to a vacuum system by way of a suction valve. With the use of a combined valve including, for example, a flow-optimised intermediate storage device, inflow nozzle, bypass conduit with silencer and hose odor seal, the flow noises at the urinal bowl drain, urinal bowl overflow and upper end of the bypass conduit can be effectively suppressed. With the combination disc valve or the shut-off valve and suction valve, during the suction process the air stream is only drawn through the bypass conduit with a special odor seal and silencer.
US08185976B2
A flush valve is provided for flushing a toilet bowl. The flush valve includes a center tube having a lug, a flush activation device configured to initially raise the center tube, at least one latching mechanism configured to control movement of the center tube, and at least one rack configured to have movement controlled by the at least one latching mechanism. The at least one latching mechanism controls volume of fluid used during a flush.
US08185972B2
A head scarf with a crown portion and a tail portion is made by stitching together overlying front margin areas of body and lining pieces. This stitching is done along oppositely convex lines on both pieces, and these lines are brought into registry for sewing. One of the pieces is then folded to provide a convex edge of the stitched-together assembly, to place the pieces in face-to-face relation, and to give the assembly a three dimensional forehead-receiving shape in the vicinity of the front margin areas. A semicircular drawstring channel is formed, and the upper regions of the tail portion are drawn together while drawing the crown portion into a shape conforming to a wearer's head.
US08191162B1
A method, system and computer program product for securing and tracking restricted files stored in a data processing system is provided. The data processing system is connected to a server for sharing information. An entity requesting to access a restricted file is authenticated, based on certain policies defined by a system administrator. Further, the system maintains a log of operations executed on the restricted file, and sends a record of the log to the server.
US08191157B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for secure transaction management and electronic rights protection. Electronic appliances such as computers equipped in accordance with the present invention help to ensure that information is accessed and used only in authorized ways, and maintain the integrity, availability, and/or confidentiality of the information. Such electronic appliances provide a distributed virtual distribution environment (VDE) that may enforce a secure chain of handling and control, for example, to control and/or meter or otherwise monitor use of electronically stored or disseminated information. Such a virtual distribution environment may be used to protect rights of various participants in electronic commerce and other electronic or electronic-facilitated transactions. Distributed and other operating systems, environments and architectures, such as, for example, those using tamper-resistant hardware-based processors, may establish security at each node. These techniques may be used to support an all-electronic information distribution, for example, utilizing the “electronic highway.”
US08191154B2
Acquiring a license in a hub network, including: sending a license request from a client to a server through an intermediary device; sending a connection confirmation from the client to the server through the intermediary device; and receiving license data at the client from the server through the intermediary device in response to the license request, wherein the client and the server are not connected in a hub network, wherein the license request identifies a sub-copy version stored on the client, wherein the sub-copy version includes sub-copy locked content data, and wherein the license data is bound to the hub network.
US08191150B2
The present invention relates to a novel method for handling applications in a device by associating an application signed by a domain certificate to a pre-defined entity in a device, said device comprising: a module reader for reading subscriber identity, a virtual machine for running at least one application, a memory containing a root certificate, the method comprising: using a data set for aggregating a sub set of data, modifying portion of said data set such that said portion includes reference to said entity. The invention also relates to a device for implementing the method.
US08191146B2
Methods for using integrity checking techniques to identify and locate computer viruses are provided. A method for virus localization for each of three types of virus infections is provided, including the steps of computing a sequence of file blocks, calculating hashes for the sequences of file blocks from a host file and calculating hashes for the same or related sequences of file blocks from an infected file, and comparing the hashes from host file to the hashes from the infected file from the same or related sequences of file blocks such that when some of said first hashes and said second hashes do not match, a location of a virus is output. Methods are provided for computing the sequence of file blocks depending on the type of virus infection, and for calculating the hashes using a collision resistant hash function, a digital signature scheme, a message authentication code, or a pseudo-random function.
US08191140B2
Embodiments include a system, an apparatus, a device, and a method. An embodiment provides an apparatus that includes a marker circuit for saving a tripwire file in a protected set of files that includes at least one normal file. The apparatus also includes a monitor circuit for detecting an indicium of an activity related to the tripwire file. The apparatus further includes a notification circuit for generating a signal indicating an occurrence of an unauthorized activity related to the protected set of files in response to the detected indicium of an activity related to the tripwire file.
US08191138B1
In some embodiments, techniques for filtering electronic messages may include receiving an email message, determining a non-recipient email addressee associated with the email message, wherein the non-recipient email addressee has an address that is unaffiliated with a recipient for which the email message has been received, determining whether the non-recipient email addressee is associated with a whitelist; and processing the email message preferentially, when it is determined that the non-recipient email addressee is associated with the whitelist.
US08191136B2
A system for detecting network intrusions and other conditions in a network is described. The system includes a plurality of collector devices that are disposed to collect data and statistical information on packets that are sent between nodes on a network. An aggregator device is disposed to receive data and statistical information from the plurality of collector devices. The aggregator device produces a connection table that maps each node on the network to a record that stores information about traffic to or from the node. The aggregator runs processes that determine network events from aggregating of anomalies into network events.
US08191131B2
A system and method in which authentication data, such as a password, which is sent to a server/firewall as part of an authentication request, for example a logon request, is received at the server/firewall in a plurality of messages at a plurality of logical ports from the user, thus improving protection against replay attacks. In one embodiment, a plurality of user authentication data parts is obtained from a remote user device as part of an authentication request, the plurality of user authentication data parts is assembled into user authentication data; the authenticity of the authentication request is checked using the user authentication data; and communication with the remote user device is enabled if the authentication request data is determined to be authentic.
US08191129B2
An apparatus and a method that transmit and receive a converted format of a digital rights object between a device and a portable storage device. The apparatus for processing a digital rights object includes a transmitting/receiving module for receiving the rights object expressed in a Markup language from a rights issuer, a rights object converting module for converting the rights object into a frame having a format for communicating with a portable storage device, an interface for connecting with the portable storage device, and a control module for providing the frame to the portable storage device through the interface and receiving the converted format of the rights object from the portable storage device through the interface.
US08191126B2
Methods, devices, and systems are presented that facilitate pattern-based user authentication. In a first embodiment, a user may request registration from an authentication server. The authentication server may provide at least one image to the user, wherein the image may comprise a matrix of cells. The user may choose a sequence of cells in the matrix as his or her secret, and may provide a userid and this secret to the authentication server. The authentication server may then validate and store the userid and/or secret. After this registration step, the user may request authentication from the authentication server. The authentication server may provide another image of a matrix of cells to the user. The user may then enter a sequence of symbols associated the sequence of cells that comprise his or her secret. The authentication server may compare the entered sequence of cells to the sequence of cells represented by the stored secret. If the two sequences match, then the user may be authenticated.
US08191125B2
An embodiment comprises a semiconductor integrated circuit for restricting the rate at which data may be accessed from an external memory by a device coupled to the circuit. The rate of data access is restricted if the data access satisfies one or more conditions. For example, one of the conditions is that the device which is requesting the data is insecure. Another condition is that the requested data is privileged. A data access monitor is provided to monitor data accesses and to is arranged to generate an access signal to indicate whether the conditions are satisfied or not. A bandwidth comparator determines whether data access exceeds a threshold and, if so, the semiconductor integrated circuit is impaired to prevent further data access.
US08191124B2
Exemplary methods and systems for acquiring network credentials for network access are described. The exemplary method includes receiving network configuration information from a network device on a communication network, generating a credential request, transmitting the credential request to a credential server over a standard protocol of the network device, receiving the credential request response, and providing a network credential from the credential request response to the network device to access the communication network.
US08191123B2
A method and system for generating identity certificates. The method may include receiving a user login at a network appliance, determining that the network appliance is not initialized, and generating a provisionally unique identifier from the network appliance for identifying the network appliance. The method may include generating a certificate signing request (CSR) and sending the CSR, the provisionally unique identifier, and information about the user login to a service provider. Upon receiving a signed certificate from the service provider at the network appliance, the network appliance is initialized using the received signed certificate.
US08191113B2
A trusted network connect (TNC) system based on tri-element peer authentication (TePA) is provided. An network access requestor (NAR) of an access requestor (AR) is connected to a TNC client (TNCC), and the TNCC is connected to and integrity measurement collector (IMC1) through a integrity measurement collector interface (IF-IMC). An network access controller (NAC) of an access controller (AC) is connected to a TNC server (TNCS) in a data bearer manner. The TNCS is connected to an IMC2 through the IF-IMC. A user authentication service unit (UASU) of a policy manager (PM) is connected to a platform evaluation service unit (PESU) through an integrity measurement verifier interface (IF-IMV). Thus, the technical problems in the prior art of poor extensibility, complex key agreement process, and low security are solved. TePA is adopted in both the network access layer and the integrity evaluation layer to implement mutual user authentication and platform integrity evaluation, so that the security of the entire TNC architecture is improved.
US08191094B2
A channel-selection filter. The channel-selection filter helps a user navigate to a desired channel. In particular, the channel-selection filter presents a filtered channel list to the user when the user issues one or more channel-filtering commands. The filtered channel list narrows a list of all available channels to those channels that correspond to the channel-filtering commands issued by the user. When presented with a filtered channel list, the user can select a channel from the filtered channel list. The user can also issue additional channel-filtering commands to further narrow the list of channels presented in the filtered channel list.
US08191089B2
The invention provides a system and method for inserting advertising in a video program, wherein appropriate advertisements are displayed at scheduled times in the process of a video program, characterized by matching image frames of a video program with object information and providing matching scores when an object information corresponding to an image frame; and inserting an advertisement corresponding to the object information having the matching score into the corresponding image frame in the video program.
US08191072B2
A system and associated method for shifting workloads across platform in a hybrid system. A first kernel governing a first platform of the hybrid system starts a process that is executable in a second platform of the hybrid system. The first kernel requests a second kernel governing the second platform to create a duplicate process of the process such that the process is executed in the second platform. The process represents the duplicate process in the first platform without consuming clock cycles of the first platform. During an execution of the duplicate process in the second platform, the first kernel services an I/O request of the duplicate process that is transferred from the second kernel to the first kernel. When the duplicate process is terminated, the process in the first platform is removed first before the duplicate process releases resources.
US08191063B2
A logical container may be created to facilitate the quick and efficient migration of one or more virtual machines from a source server to a destination server. The logical container may contain all of the files and state information related to the one or more virtual machines. The one or more virtual machines may be migrated by dismounting the logical container from a source server and mounting the logical container to a destination server. A management service may be include to facilitate batch migration of multiple virtual machines from a source server to a destination server.
US08191062B2
A method, apparatus and system enable processor frequency governors to comprehend virtualized platforms. Specifically, in one embodiment, the processor frequency governor in a virtual host may be para-virtualized. As a result, the processor frequency governor may run in a partition on the virtualized platform and nonetheless collect and process central processing utility (“CPU”) information on the virtualized platform based on the activity of a plurality of virtual machines on the virtual host.
US08191058B2
A computer processing system for implementing data upgrade includes a communication interface device, at least two application servers and a database server for storing data, wherein the communication interface device detects in real-time a connection state of the communication interface device and each of the application servers, and sends data received from external to an application server connected with itself for processing; all the application servers are connected with the database server to process data and store the processed data in the database server, the data upgrade is implemented in batch for the application servers requiring the data upgrade by disconnecting the application servers from the communication interface device and reestablishing the connection of the application servers with the communication interface device after the data upgrade is completed. During the data upgrade, upgrade may be implemented without shut-down of the system. Most importantly, all the servers available in the system always work at the same time and share the burden in switching, thus improving the working efficiency of the whole system.
US08191056B2
A target operation in a normalized target loop, susceptible of vectorization and which may, after compilation into a vectorized form, seek to operate on data in nonconsecutive physical memory, is identified in source code. Hardware instructions are inserted into executable code generated from the source code, directing a system that will run the executable code to create a representation of the data in consecutive physical memory. A vector loop containing the target operation is replaced, in the executable code, with a function call to a vector library to call a vector function that will operate on the representation to generate a result identical to output expected from executing the vector loop containing the target operation. On execution, a representation of data residing in nonconsecutive physical memory is created in consecutive physical memory, and the vectorized target operation is applied to the representation to process the data.
US08191049B2
A method and apparatus in a data processing system for measuring events associated with the execution of instructions are provided. Instructions are received at a processor in the data processing system. If a selected indicator is associated with the instruction, counting of each event associated with the execution of the instruction is enabled. In some embodiments, the performance indicators, counters, thresholds, and other performance monitoring structures may be stored in a page table that is used to translate virtual addresses into physical storage addresses. A standard page table is augmented with additional fields for storing the performance monitoring structures. These structures may be set by the performance monitoring application and may be queried and modified as events occur that require access to physical storage.
US08191047B2
A method for certifying whether a software solution is compatible with an operating environment that includes one or more backend systems associated with a software product. Provide an advanced certification routine including a plurality of tests associated with determining a compatibility between the software solution and the software product and including access to the one or more backend systems. Provide a basic certification routine associated with determining a compatibility between the software solution and the software product without access to the one or more backend systems, wherein the basic certification includes a subset of the plurality of tests associated with the advanced certification routine. Receive a request associated with certifying the software solution based on the advanced certification routine or the basic certification routine. Certify whether the software solution is compatible with the operating environment based on a performance of the advanced certification routine or basic certification routine as determined from the request.
US08191044B1
A front end client-server application configured to synchronize requirements between a requirements repository and a testing repository. The front end client-server application validates a requirement, processes at least one filter associated with the requirement, determines a requirement type of the requirement, and processes the requirement. In addition, the method comprises updating a testing application in accordance with the processed requirement. In addition, it can be determined whether a plurality of requirements received by the front end client-server application that need to be synchronized contain traceability relationships. If so, the front end client-server application replicates the traceability relationship between the requirements to be synchronized and any relevant, existing requirements at the testing repository. Furthermore, the front end client-server application allows a user to customize the requirements synchronization process.
US08191036B2
Mechanisms to support orphaned and partially configured objects are provided. A project includes a variety of objects. At least one object is designated as an orphaned object. The orphaned object lacks complete configuration details. Other objects of the project depend on the orphaned object and yet the other objects can load and process within the project as if the orphaned object was fully configured and available.
US08191029B2
A timing error sampling generator, a path monitor, an IC, a method of performing timing tests and a library of cells. In one embodiment, the timing error sampling generator includes: (1) a hold delay element having an input and an output and configured to provide a hold violation delayed signal at said output by providing a first predetermined delay to a clock signal received at said input, said first predetermined delay corresponding to a hold violation time for a path to be monitored and (2) a hold logic element having a first input coupled to said input of said hold delay element, a second input coupled to said output of said hold delay element and an output at which said hold logic element is configured to respond to said first and second inputs to provide a clock hold signal when logic levels at said first and second inputs are at a same level.
US08191027B2
An aspect of the present invention validates ESD compliance by examining netlist data generated from a schematic level design of an integrated circuit. Routing and placement may be performed only after confirming that whether each protected circuit (having exposure to ESD current, without the protection circuit) is protected by an appropriate protection circuit. As a result, the design cycle time may be reduced. According to another aspect of the present invention, layout guidelines for each protection circuit is also considered in performing the routing and placement. As a result, the number of iterations in a design cycle may be reduced.
US08191025B1
An embodiment of the present invention provides a programmable logic device (“PLD”) including a redundancy architecture adapted to selective route signals via first or second staggered vertical lines. Other embodiments provide configuration logic and programs for determining routing selections. Other embodiments provide proximate grouping of vertical lines driven from a same row. Other embodiments provide definition of spare row locations once defective row locations are known.
US08191016B2
According to various embodiments of the invention, systems and methods for system and methods for compressed post-OPC data created during the design and manufacturing of integrated circuits. In one embodiment of the invention, the method begins by generating a post-OPC layout from a circuit layout during the design phase of a circuit. This post-OPC layout is generated by way of an OPC process. Next, a set of differences between the post-OPC layout and the circuit layout are calculated and a dataset containing these differences are generated In some embodiments the dataset is generated during the OPC process.
US08191006B2
An information processing apparatus that receives data from a plurality of external devices connected via a network and displays an operation window based on a content of the data includes a reception unit that receives a plurality of pieces of data transmitted from the plurality of external devices, an analysis unit that analyzes the received data and identifies a first constituent portion common to the respective data and a second constituent portion not included in the first constituent portion, and a display unit that displays information included in the first constituent portion in a common display area of an operation window, and displays information included in the second constituent portion in an individual display area of the operation window.
US08191001B2
Improved systems and methods for navigating and interacting in virtual communication environments are described. At least some of these systems and methods provide a framework that includes one or more virtual areas and supports realtime communications between the communicants. At least some of these systems and methods provide an interface that includes navigation controls that enable a user to navigate virtual areas and interaction controls that enable the user to interact with other communicants in the one or more virtual areas.
US08191000B2
Methods and systems can manage the multiple identities used by a user. The user's existing contact lists, website accounts, buddy lists, and the like are analyzed to determine the identities used by the user. A graph is then constructed in order to track and integrate the multiple identities of the user in a social network. The social network graph may then be used by a social network overlay so that the user can share information across their different identities with different users that only know some of the user's multiple identities.
US08190990B2
Among other things, a computer-implemented method for annotating webpage content includes accessing a webpage in a browser, the webpage under control of a third party. A collection of annotations stored at a storage location is retrieved, the annotations collection associated with the webpage and an annotations author. The webpage is displayed with the retrieved annotations collection overlaid on the accessed webpage.
US08190989B1
Methods and apparatus are described for sending completions to a client for aiding a user in completing electronic forms. The invention may identify a plurality of completions corresponding to a user; form a plurality of selected completions from the plurality of completions based, at least in part, on a use pattern of the user; and transmit the plurality of selected completions to a client associated with the user.
US08190986B2
The claimed subject matter relates to various architectures that can, inter alia, facilitate creation of a synch file as well as facilitate interpretation of the synch file. Both creation and interpretation can be accomplished in conjunction with an original media asset. The synch file can include transformation commands that can operate on a presentation of the asset rather than upon the asset itself. Accordingly, what is actually perceived by a content consumer during a presentation of the asset need not be exactly what the asset creator fixed in a tangible medium. Rather, the content consumer can observe a derivative media presentation based upon interpretation of the synch file.
US08190984B2
A method for checking reading errors of a memory includes the following steps. A first data fragment is received. A first count index according to the first data fragment is generated, wherein the first count index is corresponding to a quantity of one kind of binary value in the first data fragment. The first data fragment is written into the memory. The first data fragment is read from the memory as a second data fragment. A second count index is generated according to the second data fragment. The first count index is compared with the second count index.
US08190983B2
Apparatus and methods for Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) error injection between storage controllers and storage devices in a storage system. A plurality of bridge devices are configured in a storage system each coupled persistently coupled to a corresponding one of the plurality of storage devices. Each bridge device may couple to one or more Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) initiators for transferring exchanges between one or more SAS initiators and the attached target storage device. Each bridge device receives parameters from a SAS initiator or an administrative client directing the bridge regarding injection of CRC errors. A log memory in each bridge may log information regarding the injected CRC errors.
US08190979B2
A digital broadcasting system and a method of processing data are disclosed, which are robust to error when mobile service data are transmitted. To this end, additional encoding is performed for the mobile service data, whereby it is possible to strongly cope with fast channel change while giving robustness to the mobile service data.
US08190969B2
A plasma process power delivery system includes one or more event-ascertaining devices within the plasma process power delivery system, a controller in communication with the one or more event ascertaining devices, a first memory, a second memory, a data transmission connection, and a plasma process monitoring system. The data transmission connection is between the first memory and the second memory and is configured to transmit data relating to the plasma process power delivery system between the first memory and the second memory in response to an occurrence of a predefined event ascertained by one or more event-ascertaining devices. The plasma process monitoring system is in communication with the second memory and analyzes circumstances associated with the event that triggers the storage in the second memory using the data stored in the second memory.
US08190954B2
A scan test architecture facilitates low power testing of semiconductor circuits by selectively dividing the serial scan paths into shorter sections. Multiplexers between the sections control connecting the sections into longer or shorted paths. Select and enable signals control the operation of the scan path sections. The output of each scan path passes through a multiplexer to compare circuits on the semiconductor substrate. The compare circuits also receive expected data and mask data. The compare circuits provide a fail flag output from the semiconductor substrate.
US08190953B2
A method and system for test vector selection in statistical volume diagnosis using failed test data is disclosed. A computer-implemented method receives failures representing defects detected by an integrated circuit testing apparatus from a plurality of integrated circuits. Each of the plurality of integrated circuits is tested with a set of test vectors generated by the integrated circuit testing apparatus, and each of the plurality of failures is associated with a failed test vector. Using a first ranking scheme, each of the failures is given a rank and the corresponding failed test vector in each of the plurality of integrated circuits is annotated with the rank. The annotated failed test vectors are grouped using a grouping scheme, and each of the groups is given a group rank. A first group of failed test vectors is selected based on the group rank and diagnostics is run on the first group of failed test vectors.
US08190947B1
Embodiments of the present invention provide a technique for automatically constructing a replica catalog providing information otherwise unavailable due to a loss of or failure with the registry file for maintaining protection relationship information of primary and secondary storage objects by extracting storage object settings from an encoded attribute of the secondary storage object. An administrator provides protection relationship information for the primary and secondary storage objects at a remote computer system (e.g., protection manager), which may be automatically encoded in an attribute of the secondary storage object and stored in a replica catalog at the protection manager. A secondary storage server constructs the secondary storage object using the encoded attribute and stores data replicated from the primary storage object. If the replica catalog is lost, the replica catalog may be automatically reconstructed by retrieving the encoded attribute and extracting the protection relationship information from the encoded attribute.
US08190945B2
Techniques for detection of impending data errors in a mass storage system, such as a track squeeze problem in an electromagnetic disk drive, and then repairing the impending problem, such as by rewriting the affected tracks. In many cases the problem is detected and repair is effected when the original data can still be read. In other cases, when the data is no longer readable on the disk in question, but when the disk is part of a Redundant Array of Independent Disks (RAID) system, or other system in which higher layer fault tolerance mechanisms are implemented, the missing data can be recovered via these mechanisms. The recovered data is then used to repair the track squeeze problem. The invention can be implemented as firmware in a storage system, as a component of a general purpose operating system, or inside individual disk drives, or it can use a combination of these implementations.
US08190933B2
A system comprises a computer and an external power adapter configured to be connected to the computer to provide power to the computer. The computer comprises a computer control circuit that generates a computer control signal that is provided to the external power adapter and causes a change in an output voltage of the external power adapter. The external power adapter comprises an adapter control circuit that generates an adapter control signal that is provided to the computer and causes the computer to change its power draw. The computer and adapter control circuits generate the control signals on a common conductor interconnecting the computer and the external power adapter.
US08190932B2
A power supply converting circuit includes a multi-phase pulse-width modulation (PWM) controller, a single-phase PWM controller, some first voltage converting circuits, a second voltage converting circuit, and an electrical switch unit. The multi-phase PWM controller provides some first PWM signals and a second PWM signal. The single-phase PWM controller provides a third PWM signal. The first voltage converting circuits receive the first PWM signals to output a first power supply to a central processing unit (CPU) chipset. The electrical switch unit receives the second and third PWM signals to selectively output the second or third PWM signal to the second voltage converting circuit to output one of the first and second power supplies, such that the second voltage converting circuit selectively outputs one of the first and second power supplies to the CPU chipset.
US08190930B2
An apparatus comprises a plurality of cores and a controller coupled to the cores. The controller is to lower an operating point of a first core if a first number based on processor clock cycles per instruction (CPI) associated with a second core is higher than a first threshold. The controller is operable to increase the operating point of the first core if the first number is lower than a second threshold.
US08190929B2
A computer system including a power supply and N main boards is provided, herein N is an integer greater than 1. The power supply generates a main power and a standby power. The N main boards respectively correspond to one standby voltage. The 1st to the (N−1)th main boards respectively generate the corresponding standby voltage by the main power in a power-on state, and respectively generate the corresponding standby voltage by the standby power in a power-off state. The Nth main board generates the corresponding standby voltage by the main power in the power-on and power-off state.
US08190927B2
A disclosed image processing apparatus has a normal power mode and a power saving mode and includes a serial bus; a serial bus PHY configured to control a physical layer of the serial bus, the serial bus PHY being turned off in the power saving mode; a voltage detection unit configured to detect a voltage output from an external device connected to the serial bus; and a physical layer control unit configured to turn on the serial bus PHY when the voltage is detected by the voltage detection unit.
US08190922B2
A method and system for tracking electronic information includes the steps of: encrypting an electronic file stored on a hardware storage device; attaching or incorporating with the file a standalone executable program that implements a request for a decryption key accompanied by tracking information when an attempt is made to access the file; verifying the tracking information by a central processing unit; if the tracking information is verified as acceptable, providing the decryption key; and if the tracking information is not verified as acceptable, modifying the file to include a record of the failed attempt to access the file and the tracking information, and storing the modified file on the hardware storage device.
US08190918B2
In one aspect, there is provided a storage medium, the storage medium having a media content portion; and a plurality of digital rights management (DRM) envelopes, wherein each of the plurality of DRM envelopes corresponds to a different DRM format; wherein each of the plurality of DRM envelopes enables access to the media content portion according to its corresponding the DRM format. In another aspect, a method includes decrypting a second portion of the media content according to the secondary content access key to impart a marking in the decrypted first portion of the media content identifying the DRM format. In an additional aspect, a method includes presenting a product serial number to obtain an encryption key associated with the DRM format.
US08190914B2
Methods and systems for designating and handling confidential memory allocations of virtual memory are provided in which the operating system provides a memory allocation flag that applications may use to indicate any arbitrary area of physical memory marked with this flag may contain confidential data and should be handled accordingly. The operating system also ensures that memory allocated with this flag can be placed in physical memory. When freeing up memory, the operating system protects any data in the memory allocated with this flag. For example, the operating system may prevent the confidential memory from being swapped out to storage or from being accessible to other applications, such as a debuggers. Alternatively, the operating system may encrypt any data in the confidential memory before it is swapped out to storage.
US08190910B2
A configuration is provided for enabling a process in which appropriate content code corresponding to apparatuses and applications of various model types and versions is selected to be performed. In a configuration in which content code recorded on an information recording medium is obtained, and processing, such as a security check in accordance with the content code, conversion of the content data, and embedding of player information into the content, is performed, at least a portion of the content code is set as encrypted data, and as an encryption key therefore, a node key set so as to correspond to a node of a key tree having a hierarchical structure is used. With this configuration, it is possible to specify in advance a player capable of decrypting the encryption part of the content code by using the node key, and only appropriate content code compliant with each player is processed, thereby making it possible to prevent a process of using invalid content code.
US08190909B2
A method for controlling the execution of at least one program in an electronic circuit and a processor for executing a program, in which at least one volatile memory area of the circuit is, prior to the execution of the program to be controlled, filled with first instructions resulting in an exception processing; the program contains instructions for replacing all or part of the first instructions with second valid instructions; and the area is called for execution of all or part of the instruction that it contains at the end of the execution of the instruction program.
US08190901B2
A media object authentication system uses layers of security features based on digital watermarks embedded in media objects. The system generates a first digital watermark with a message payload carrying data about the object, such as a hash of text data printed on the object. The first digital watermark is combined with a content signature derived from features of the media object, such as frequency domain attributes, edge attributes, or other filtered version of the media signal (e.g., image photo on a secure document) on the media object. This combination forms a new digital watermark signal that is embedded in the host media object. Biometric information may also be embedded in a machine readable code in the object or indexed via the machine readable code. This biometric information is used to generate biometric templates, and facilitate or enhance biometric comparison for one to one or one to many verification.
US08190900B2
A communications protocol is used to provide data privacy, message integrity, message freshness, and user authentication to telemetric traffic, such as to and from implantable medical devices in a body area network. In certain embodiments, encryption, message integrity, and message freshness are provided through use of token-like nonces and ephemeral session-keys derived from device identification numbers and pseudorandom numbers.
US08190898B2
The pocket portable electronic entity (400) with connection element (420) for removable connection to a host station (300), having first members (460, 470, 471) for secure communication with a remote server (100) via the connection element and the host station, second members (450, 455) for communication between the secure first communication element and a second portable electronic entity (500), and elements (440, 445) for communicating to the remote server via the secure first communication means data received from the second portable electronic entity via the second communication members.
US08190896B2
A method for decrypting digital multimedia broadcasting data in a mobile communication terminal. The method includes receiving encrypted digital multimedia broadcasting data though a broadcasting network, receiving at least one key for decrypting the encrypted digital multimedia broadcasting data through a wireless communication network, decrypting the received encrypted digital multimedia broadcasting data using the received at least one key, and displaying broadcast content that corresponds to the decrypted digital multimedia broadcasting data.
US08190894B2
A method and system for generating ciphertext and message authentication codes utilizing shared hardware are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method is provided of generating ciphertext message data and message authentication codes utilizing shared authenticated encryption unit hardware. In the described embodiment, plaintext message data is received at an authenticated encryption unit which comprises first and second authenticated encryption hardware modules. Thereafter, a first message authentication code (MAC) associated with a first authenticated encryption mode and a second MAC associated with a second authenticated encryption mode are generated. More specifically, the first MAC is generated utilizing the plaintext message data and first authenticated encryption hardware module and ciphertext message data and the second MAC are generated utilizing the plaintext message data and second authenticated encryption hardware module.
US08190891B2
A transmitter has a network interface unit connected to a wireless network capable of transmitting contents for which copyright protection is necessary, an encryption processing unit configured to encrypt contents for which copyright protection is necessary, an RTT measuring unit configured to measure a round trip time after a predetermined packet is transmitted to a receiver, until a response corresponding to the transmitted packet is received, a communication permission determination unit configured to permit transmission of the contents for which copyright protection is necessary when the round trip time measured by the RTT measuring unit is within a predetermined time, and a parameter modification unit configured to change parameters of the wireless network before and/or after the RTT measuring unit performs the measurement of the round trip time.
US08190887B2
A security control method in a cable network dynamic multicast session, and more particularly, a method of controlling forward secrecy and backward secrecy in a Data Over Cable Service Interface Specifications (DOCSIS) 3.0 network dynamic multicast session is provided. A security control method in a cable network dynamic multicast session, includes: maintaining a multicast group that is allocated with a first Downstream Service Identifier (DSID) and a first Security Association Identifier (SAID) and that is joined by a first cable modem and a second cable modem; receiving a LeaveMulticastSession message from the second cable modem; exchanging, corresponding to the LeaveMulticastSession message, a Dynamic Bonding Change (DBC) message for changing a multicast parameter with the second cable modem; and updating a first Traffic Encryption Key (TEK) corresponding to the first DSID with a second TEK.
US08190885B2
An architecture is presented that facilitates maintaining a log of near field transactions in a memory module that includes security functionalities and near field communication (NFC) capabilities. The memory module comprises non-volatile memory that stores security software and a security processor that accesses the security software from the nonvolatile memory and performs security functions based on the security software stored. The non-volatile memory is divided into partitions by the security processor. NFC radio frequency (RF) communication capabilities are integrated into the memory module such that the memory module directly interfaces to an external NFC antenna. This facilitates NFC communications within the secure environment of the memory module. Further, the memory module stores data related to near field transactions so that this data can be subsequently reviewed and exported in an appropriate format.
US08190882B2
An information processing system is disclosed which configured to: distribute publicly a first key by a change in a ray of light emitted from a light source; extract the first key from the ray of light emitted from the light source; encrypt a second key with the extracted first key to transmit the encrypted second key in short-distance communication; receive the encrypted second key and decrypting the received second key; and transfer information by use of the second key as a common key.
US08190881B2
Web-based authentication includes receiving a packet in a network switch having at least one associative store configured to forward packet traffic to a first one or more processors of the switch that are dedicated to cryptographic processing if a destination port of the packet indicates a secure transport protocol, and to a second one or more processors of the switch that are not dedicated to cryptographic processing if the destination port does not indicate a secure transport protocol. If a source of the packet is an authenticated user, the packet is forwarded via an output port of the switch, based on the associative store. If the source is an unauthenticated user, the packet is forwarded to the first one or more processors if the destination port indicates a secure transport protocol, and to the second one or more processors if the destination port does not indicate a secure transport protocol.
US08190878B2
A method is disclosed for sending messages such as emails where the sender and receiver in the exchange remain anonymous to each other. The method uses a service, which may for example be an Internet service provider, which acts as an intermediary between a first party and second party to a message. All exchanges between the first and second parties pass through the service, which masks all true identities while ensuring that the message is routed to the proper recipient(s).
US08190874B2
A data transmission system includes a server and a terminal which communicates with the server. The server includes a key storage unit, data encryption unit, key transmission unit, and server encrypted-data transmission unit. The key storage unit stores a plurality of keys to encrypt data. The data encryption unit generates a plurality of encrypted data by encrypting data with the plurality of keys stored in the key storage unit. The key transmission unit transmits in advance, to the terminal, one key to decrypt one of the encrypted data generated by the data encryption unit. The server encrypted-data transmission unit transmits, to the terminal, the encrypted data generated by the data encryption unit. The terminal includes a decryption unit which decrypts the encrypted data transmitted from the server with a key transmitted in advance from the server. A data transmission method, data transmission server, data reception terminal, and recording medium are also disclosed.
US08190869B2
Methods for authenticating firmware in a computing device include partitioning functions critical to the intended role of the computing device so that, upon successful authentication of the firmware, all functions of the device are made operational. Otherwise, the computing device behaves in a diagnostic mode of operation to assist users in troubleshooting to eventually authenticate firmware. At least first and second sets of firmware are loaded at various times into a controller of the computing device with the first set occurring without verification of trustworthiness, while the second set occurs upon authentication of the first. The second is used to authenticate a remainder set of firmware. Particular computing devices contemplate laser printers, mobile phones, PDA's, gaming consoles, etc. Firmware downloads, error messaging, hash comparisons, signature table construction, page-in techniques, computer program products, and particular computing arrangements are other noteworthy features, to name a few.
US08190867B2
A processor comprising a register file, and a decoder to decode an instruction to specify a first source register having a first packed signed 16-bit integers, and to specify a second source register having a second packed signed 16-bit integers. A functional unit to generate a result to be stored in a specified destination. The result including a third packed 8-bit integers including an integer for each integer in the first packed integers, and an integer for each integer in the second packed integers. The integers corresponding to the first packed integers next to one another in the result. The integers corresponding to the second packed integers next to one another. A highest order integer of the result corresponding to a highest order integer of the first packed integers. A lowest order integer of the result corresponding to a lowest order integer of the second packed integers.
US08190864B1
Advanced programmable interrupt control for a multithreaded multicore processor that supports software compatible with x86 processors. Embodiments provide interrupt control for increased threads with minimal additional hardware by including in each processor core, a core advanced interrupt controller (core APIC) configured to determine a lowest priority thread of its corresponding processor core. Each core APIC reports its lowest priority thread level as a core priority to an input/output APIC. The I/O APIC routes interrupt requests to the core APIC with the lowest core priority. The selected core APIC then routes the interrupt request to the corresponding lowest priority thread. Each core APIC detects changes in priority levels of its corresponding processor core threads, and notifies the I/O APIC of any change to the corresponding core priority. Each core APIC may notify the I/O APIC as the core priority changes, or when the I/O APIC requests status from each core APIC.
US08190863B2
A method and apparatus for heterogeneous chip multiprocessors (CMP) via resource restriction. In one embodiment, the method includes the accessing of a resource utilization register to identify a resource utilization policy. Once accessed, a processor controller ensures that the processor core utilizes a shared resource in a manner specified by the resource utilization policy. In one embodiment, each processor core within a CMP includes an instruction issue throttle resource utilization register, an instruction fetch throttle resource utilization register and other like ways of restricting its utilization of shared resources within a minimum and maximum utilization level. In one embodiment, resource restriction provides a flexible manner for allocating current and power resources to processor cores of a CMP that can be controlled by hardware or software. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08190860B2
A method includes providing a data processor having an instruction pipeline, where the instruction pipeline has a plurality of instruction pipeline stages, and where the plurality of instruction pipeline stages includes a first instruction pipeline stage and a second instruction pipeline stage. The method further includes providing a data processor instruction that causes the data processor to perform a first set of computational operations during execution of the data processor instruction, performing the first set of computational operations in the first instruction pipeline stage if the data processor instruction is being executed and a first mode has been selected, and performing the first set of computational operations in the second instruction pipeline stage if the data processor instruction is being executed and a second mode has been selected.
US08190852B2
System for controlling data transfer between a host system and storage devices. A virtualization controller implements the data transfer and includes first ports for connection with the storage devices, a second port for connection with the host system, a processor, and a memory configured to store volume mapping information which correlates first identification information used by the host system to access a first storage area in one of the storage devices, with second identification information for identifying the first storage area, the correlation being used by the processor to access the first storage area. When data stored in the first storage area is transferred to a second storage area, the processor correlates the first identification information with a third identification information for identifying the second storage area and registers the first identification information and the third identification information in the volume mapping information.
US08190851B2
A resistance variable memory device includes a resistance variable memory cell array, a data register that prefetches read data of the resistance variable memory cell array, a data output unit that receives the prefetched read data from the data register and outputs the received data, and a page mode setting unit that sets one of a first page mode and a second page mode as a page mode. In the first page mode, the data output unit sequentially reads the read data prefetched in the data register as page addresses are sequentially received, and in the second page mode, the data output unit sequentially reads the read data prefetched in the data register after a start page address among a plurality of page addresses has been received.
US08190840B2
A memory device comprises a memory array, a status register, a status-register write-protect bit and a security register. The memory array contains a number of memory blocks. The status register includes at least one protection bit indicative of a protection status of at least one corresponding block of the memory blocks. The status-register write-protect bit is coupled with the status register for preventing a state change of the at least one protection bit. The security register includes at least one register-protection bit for preventing the state change in one of the at least one protection bit of the status register and the status-register write-protect bit.
US08190838B1
A data replication system is implemented to replicate data among a plurality of replication nodes. Each node may be configured with durable storage (e.g., disk sub-system). The data replication system may receive write requests from one or more clients and send a replicate data write to the durable storage of each node. Once the data has been written to durable storage on a set of nodes, (regardless of whether the replicate data write has been completed to durable storage in each of the nodes not included in the set) the data replication system may send a write completion acknowledgement to the respective client for each write request. In some instances, the nodes within the set are configured to write data synchronously and the nodes not in the set are configured to write asynchronously. Performing both synchronous writes and asynchronous writes results in high performance and data durability.
US08190832B2
A sequence of fixed-size blocks defines a page (e.g., in a server system, storage subsystem, DASD, etc.). Each fixed-size block includes a data block and a footer. A high performance block storage metadata unit associated with the page is created from a confluence of the footers. The confluence of footers has space available for application metadata. In an embodiment, the metadata space is utilized to record a “write activity level” metric, and a timestamp. The metric indicates the write frequency or “hotness” of the page, and its value changes over time as the activity level changes. Frequently accessed pages may be mapped to higher performance physical disks and infrequently accessed pages may be mapped to lower power physical disks.
US08190828B1
Methods and apparatus for programmable logic devices including embedded processors having a dual-port SRAMs. A programmable logic integrated circuit includes a programmable logic portion having a plurality of logic elements, programmably configurable to implement user-defined combinatorial or registered logic functions, and an embedded processor portion coupled to the programmable logic portion. The embedded processor portion includes a processor, and a memory block coupled to the processor. The memory block includes a first plurality of memory cells for storing data, a second plurality of memory cells for storing data, a first port coupled to the first and second pluralities of memory cells, a second port coupled to the first and second pluralities of memory cells, and an arbiter coupled to the first port and the second port. When the second port is accessing the first plurality of memory cells, the arbiter prevents the first port from accessing the first plurality of memory cells, and when the second port is accessing the first plurality of memory cells, the arbiter allows the first port to access the second plurality of memory cells.
US08190824B2
Systems and methods for cache replacement monitoring (CRM) are provided. The system includes a monitored cache comprising a monitored cache line set, the monitored cache line set comprising at least one cache line capable of holding data of a monitored address; and a CRM mechanism operatively associated with the monitored cache. The CRM mechanism collects CRM information for the monitored address. The method includes the steps of collecting CRM information for a monitored address in a monitored cache; and recording the CRM information for the monitored address, when at least one of (1) the monitored address is cached in the monitored cache, (2) the monitored address is replaced in the monitored cache, (3) any cache line in a cache line set corresponding to the monitored address is cached in the monitored cache, and (4) any cache line in a cache line set corresponding to the monitored address is replaced in the monitored cache.
US08190810B2
A non-volatile memory apparatus and a method for accessing the non-volatile memory apparatus are provided. The non-volatile memory apparatus comprises a management unit, a look-up table and a controller. The management unit comprises a plurality of data blocks and a plurality of spare blocks. The look-up table is adapted to record the read status of the management unit. The controller is configured to read the management unit and then generate the read status denoting the times that the management unit has been read to the look-up table, and to replace one of the data blocks by one of the spare blocks in response to the read status when the times that the management unit has been read exceeds a reference value.
US08190797B2
The concentrator couples a plurality of digital and analog sources to an audio/video reader system suitable for reading one of the sources. Each available source is associated with a source identifier and an activated or deactivated state flag, as a result of the user taking action on a source. A register (42) contains an identifier of the current source being read, and a multiple-level LIFO stack (44) stores an ordered list of identifiers of other sources on standby waiting to be read. When a new source is activated, automatic means replace the content of the register with the identifier of the new source so as to substitute the new source for the current source in order to enable it to be read by the system, and concurrently said automatic means add the identifier of the current source to the stack. The inverse operation is performed when the current source is deactivated, with the most recent source contained in the stack being substituted for the current source so as to enable it to be read by the system.
US08190795B2
A memory buffer allocation device for allocating a memory buffer in a virtual computer system in which a plurality of virtual operating systems operate in time-sharing on one CPU having the memory buffer, includes a memory buffer division unit which divides the memory buffer into a number (n) of areas and reserves a division unit number (m) of areas out of the n areas as a dedicated memory buffer and the other areas except for the number n of the areas as a shared memory buffer. The device also includes a memory buffer allocation unit which allocates each area of the dedicated memory buffer to a number m of domains and each area of the shared memory buffer to other n-m domains except for the number m of domains, wherein the domains are of the virtual operating systems that are operating in the virtual computer system.
US08190794B2
Instantiating a plurality of buffers in a random access memory by storing in the random access memory (RAM) a plurality of descriptors each containing a base address, at least one address pointer and a size to define a corresponding one of the plurality of buffers. Transferring data in any one of the plurality of buffers by using a control function within an accessing module to generate a buffer address by accessing and updating the address pointer in the corresponding descriptor. In a processor that accesses the circular buffers, the control function is one or more complex instructions tailored for computing read and write addresses to access the circular buffer using fields within the corresponding descriptor. In a DMA module that accesses the circular buffers, the control function is a hardware controller that computes read and write addresses using the fields within the corresponding descriptor to access the circular buffer.
US08190788B2
A memory controller that controls data transfer between a volatile memory and a non-volatile memory, wherein data being held in a plurality of volatile memories each having a refresh operation mode and a self-refresh operation mode is transferred to the non-volatile memory. When readout of data from at least one volatile memory has been finished, the volatile memory is shifted from the refresh operation mode to the self-refresh operation mode. Then, control is performed so as to return the volatile memory from the self-refresh operation mode depending on the progress of writing of data to the non-volatile memory.
US08190778B2
A management virtual machine on a virtualization technology enabled platform includes a means for providing a firewall and deep packet inspection. An isolated secure partition is provided to host the management application and network packet filtering and firewall functions to provide a secure and trusted platform for manageability applications. A protected component in the operating system in a user partition moves network traffic to the secure partition for inspection and filtering.
US08190777B2
An integrated system concurrently connects voice and data communications devices used by small and medium sized businesses to a network T1 data line terminating at the customer premises. A system chassis includes multiple slots and backplane connectors for removably receiving a bank controller unit (BCU), power service unit (PSU), and one or more different types of smart and dumb voice and data access modules that provide the functional interface to the customer premises equipment. The BCU controls the operation of the system, which can be configured by the customer through an external terminal interface.
US08190758B2
An information distribution method includes: gathering all-hazards information into an information exchange from a first information source; gathering all-hazards information into the information exchange from a second information source; distributing the all-hazards information from the information exchange to a first independently-controlled alert network; distributing the all-hazards information from the information exchange to a second independently-controlled alert network.
US08190755B1
Method and apparatus for host authentication in a network implementing network access control is described. In an example, a network access control (NAC) server receives network address requests from hosts on a network. If a host is compliant with an established security policy, the NAC server determines a unique indicium for the host and records the unique indicium along with a network address leased to the host by a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server. When a host requests access to a resource on the network, the host is authenticated by determining whether its asserted network address is valid. If valid, a pre-computed unique indicium for that address is obtained and compared with a unique indicium for the host. If the indicia match, the host is allowed access to the resource. Otherwise, the host is blocked from access to the resource.
US08190750B2
In a method for dynamically setting a content rate of a multimedia session for a client in a network, a proxy server receives a channel condition feedback message from a network controller and determines whether a receiver report message has been received from the client since a most recent previous channel condition feedback message. The channel condition feedback message includes current channel condition information for the network. The proxy server sends one of an extended feedback report message and a short feedback report message to a media server based on the determining step. The short feedback report message includes at least a maximum transmission rate parameter for the multimedia session. The extended feedback report message includes at least information contained in the receiver report message. The extended feedback report message may, in addition, include the maximum transmission rate parameter for the multimedia session.
US08190737B2
Some embodiments of the invention relate to a method and a system for detecting unwanted conversational media session data. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method of detecting unwanted conversation media session data according to some embodiments of the invention may include calculating two or more progressive similarity scores each with respect to a different instant during a progress of a real-time conversational media session, wherein each of said scores is associated with a similarity between the conversational media session's media data that was available at the associated instant and a reference data item corresponding to media data of a previous conversational media session, and evaluating progressive similarity between the real-time conversational media session and the reference data item based upon the two or more progressive similarity scores.
US08190732B1
A method and apparatus for providing information associated with service providers using a social network is described. In one embodiment, a method of providing indicia of familiarity with the service providers comprises identifying one or more relationships between one or more service providers and a user using a social network associated with the user and generating information regarding the one or more relationships, wherein the information comprises a social distance between the user and each service provider of the one or more service providers where the social distance represents an indicia of familiarity between the user and each service provider of the one or more service providers.
US08190726B2
Provided is a communication method of a universal plug and play (UPnP) remote access server (RAS), the communication method including: accepting a plurality of remote access connections from UPnP devices of a plurality of remote networks; collecting device list information about devices discovered in the plurality of remote networks and a home network of the RAS; generating synchronization information to synchronize the collected device list information between the plurality of remote networks; and transmitting the synchronization information to the UPnP devices of the plurality of remote networks.
US08190722B2
Protocol analyzer systems enable synchronization of timestamps and the capture of data across serially chained boxes that are used together to monitor and capture network data. Through experiment, it can be determined how long it takes to propagate a signal to each box in the chain. These values are then recorded in each box in a delay register so that each box has a recorded delay value corresponding to the time required to propagate a signal to or receive a signal from every other box. Each box applies a control signal, such as a run signal or a trigger signal, to the ports in the box only after the expiration of the delay value indicated in the delay register. The box initiating the signal has the largest delay since the other boxes need to get the signal before the boxes can begin to operate with a common counter, with successive boxes having smaller delays.
US08190721B2
An equipment set generation support apparatus (a) acquires, from a plurality of equipments connected to a network, state change event information notifying a state change of each equipment and an occurrence time and date of the state change, (b) sets a detection condition including a start time and an end time of a detection period, (c) selects state change event information whose occurrence time and date of the state change falling within the detection period from the state change event information acquired, and (d) detects, from the plurality of equipments, a set of equipments whose states change in the detection period and a set of state values after the state change of each equipment based on the state change event information selected.
US08190714B2
A method for computer cluster virtualization includes selecting a distributed application. A policy associated with the distributed application is retrieved. One of a plurality of nodes is dynamically selected. Then, a boot image of the selected node is reset based, at least in part, on the retrieved policy, with the boot image being compatible with the distributed application. Then, a virtual disk image is associated with the node. At least a portion of the distributed application is then executed on the reset node using the associated virtual disk image.
US08190707B2
Systems and methods for transferring data among computing environments include a method for transferring data items among a portion of a remote computing environment and a portion of a local computing environment using a presentation layer protocol. Data items are transferred during transfer cycles and upon the release of data objects into a destination computing environment. Transfer cycles may transfer data among local and remote computing environments, among more than one remote computing environment, and may further transfer in parallel with other transfer cycles. A first transfer cycle transferring a first data item continues to transfer the first data item when a second transfer cycle initializes and transfers a second data item during a portion of the first transfer cycle. Data operations may be performed on data items during the transfer of a data item, and data items may be compressed or segmented prior to transfer.
US08190704B2
A customer computer accesses, through a network, a media content file, as follows. A session is opened between a customer computer and either an application server or a media content server. A request to view a media content file is received from the computer. A temporary metafile having a temporary metafile name is created. The metafile contains a network address where the media content file can be obtained, an encrypted name of the media content file and an unencrypted file path leading to the media content file. The temporary metafile name is sent to the customer computer. The customer computer requests the temporary metafile to learn the encrypted media content file name, unencrypted media content file path and the network address. The customer computer subsequently sends the encrypted media content file name and the unencrypted media content file path to the network address to obtain the media content file. The metafile is cancelled or deleted before or at the end of the session with the customer computer, for security reasons.
US08190701B2
Systems and methods for cache defeat detection are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, of resource management in a wireless network by caching content on a mobile device. The method can include detecting a data request to a content source for which content received is stored as cache elements in a local cache on the mobile device, determining, from an identifier of the data request, that a cache defeating mechanism is used by the content source, and/or retrieving content from the cache elements in the local cache to respond to the data request.
US08190699B2
In a particular embodiment, a multi-path bridge circuit includes a backplane input/output (I/O) interface to couple to a local backplane having at least one communication path to a processing node and includes at least one host interface adapted to couple to a corresponding at least one processor. The multi-path bridge circuit further includes logic adapted to identify two or more communication paths through the backplane interface to a destination memory, to divide a data block stored at a source memory into data block portions, and to transfer the data block portions in parallel from the source memory to the destination node via the identified two or more communication paths.
US08190695B2
A portable information terminal is placed in proximity with an ID recognition unit of a notebook PC. By reading ID from the portable information terminal, the notebook PC is able to identify a network address of the portable information terminal so as to establish a network connection with the portable information terminal. The notebook PC then sends suitable operation information to the portable information terminal via a network. For example, if presentation is running on the notebook PC, screen information for operating the presentation is transferred to the portable information terminal. Accordingly, by using one device connected to the other device by a wired or wireless network, the operation of the other device can be controlled.
US08190688B2
A method of emailing photographs from a set top box is disclosed and includes presenting a menu of photographs at a television coupled to the set top box. The photographs within the menu can be highlighted using a remote control device. The method further includes presenting an email button at the television and presenting an address book. The address book contains at least one recipient email address. Further, the method includes sending an email addressed to the at least one recipient email address. In particular, the email includes a return email address that causes a response to the email to be sent to a location other than the set top box.
US08190686B2
A spam filtering system and method are disclosed for filtering spam destined for a mobile communication device. In the spam filtering system, a processing system receives a message destined for a mobile communication device through an interface. The processing system processes the message based on first filtering criteria to make an initial determination whether the message is suspected of comprising spam. If the processing system determines that the message is not suspected of comprising spam, then the processing system transmits the message to a message center. If the processing system determines that the message is suspected of comprising spam, then the processing system processes the message based on second filtering criteria to make a final determination whether the message comprises spam. If the processing system determines that the message does comprise spam, then the processing system blocks the message.
US08190676B2
A mechanism for detecting events generated from a device in communication with a client system and the re-direction of those events to a server system over a network using a presentation-level protocol is disclosed. Plug and play events are detected at the client system, bound to a virtual connection for a user session, and re-directed for handling to a server-based system using the presentation-level protocol. The server-based system maps the device to the user session. Applications which have registered a callback with the session are informed and generate an appropriate message which is transmitted to the device in communication with the client system via a specified virtual communication connection in the user session.
US08190672B2
A system for posting web logging (blog) messages, retrieving blog messages, and being notified of the posting of blog messages by way of dispatch communications. The system includes a wireless communication system capable of setting up dispatch communications links between subscriber units and a dispatch server. The dispatch server interfaces with a blog server. Using dispatch communications, subscriber units may send messages to the blog server for posting by way of the dispatch server, may receive notification of the posting of messages from the blog server by way of the dispatch server, and may retrieve messages from the blog server by way of the dispatch server.
US08190660B2
In a first general aspect, a computer program product tangibly embodied in an information carrier is described. The computer program product includes instructions that, when executed, perform operations for identifying a source or destination for stock. The operations include receiving an electronic request to determine a source or destination for stock, identifying, using a primary rule, a logistic area database object that represents a storage location at one of multiple levels of a hierarchy of storage locations. The logistic area database object is associated with a value that indicates an amount of stock that is associated with the storage location. The operations also include transmitting an identifier specifying the logistic area database object if the value indicates that associated storage location is available as a source or destination. The identifier is used to assign the storage location as the source or destination for the stock.
US08190653B2
A conversion tool that is automatically launched enables file formats not understood by a given application to be opened by that application. The converter registers for file types that are not already associated with an application used by the system. When a file that is not supported by another application is opened, the converter automatically converts the file to the target format and then opens the file causing the application that is registered for the target format to be launched.
US08190648B1
A database design modeling system for managing data facets for design scenarios as a collection of hierarchical unitized data alternatives is provided. The database design model allows for easy access to data while providing a single persistant location for any one specific data record, thereby reducing any problems associated with conventional data duplication. Further, all data stored within the database is unitized thus eliminating the need for the user to do the unit mapping. According to one aspect of the present invention, a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) modeling system can be constructed that allows for exercising multiple “What if?” scenarios with minimal user intervention and errors by 1) storing data using a normalized hierarchical storage structure, 2) providing data address indirection means to access data available from a multitude of data sources, 3) providing an object model to leverage programmable support to the orthogonal data views, and 4) providing a GIS client user interface allowing the user to construct a scenario and to view scenario results.
US08190647B1
A decision tree for classifying computer files is constructed. Computational complexities of a set of candidate attributes are determined. A set of attribute vectors are created for a set of training files with known classification. A node is created to represent the set. A weighted impurity reduction score is calculated for each candidate attribute based on the computational complexity of the attribute. If a stopping criterion is satisfied then the node is set as a leaf node. Otherwise the node is set as a branch node and the attribute with the highest weighted impurity reduction score is selected as the splitting attribute for the branch node. The set of attribute vectors are split into subsets based on their attribute values of the splitting attribute. The above process is repeated for each subset. The tree is then pruned based on the computational complexities of the splitting attributes.
US08190636B2
An apparatus for providing object privilege modification may include a processor. The processor may be configured to receive an indication to modify at least one privilege associated with an object. The processor may be further configured to modify the at least one privilege associated with the object based at least in part on the indication and update a policy file based at least in part on the modified privilege associated with the object. The processor may be additionally configured to provide for an output of the object based at least in part on the modified privilege associated with the object. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided.
US08190630B2
A range search of data is implemented, being a data search method to achieve a constant degree and a logarithmic hop count. A data search device that is located on a network and searches for data shared with another device, includes a dividing unit that divides a logical identifier range based on a logical identifier between own logical identifier and a logical identifier of a successor if a division condition of the logical identifier range requested to search for is met; and a search request transferring unit that transfers a search request including the logical identifier range acquired by the dividing means to a same or different device that meets a forwarding destination condition of the search request.
US08190627B2
Architecture for completing search queries by using artificial intelligence based schemes to infer search intentions of users. Partial queries are completed dynamically in real time. Additionally, search aliasing can also be employed. Custom tuning can be performed based on at least query inputs in the form of text, graffiti, images, handwriting, voice, audio, and video signals. Natural language processing occurs, along with handwriting recognition and slang recognition. The system includes a classifier that receives a partial query as input, accesses a query database based on contents of the query input, and infers an intended search goal from query information stored on the query database. A query formulation engine receives search information associated with the intended search goal and generates a completed formal query for execution.
US08190626B2
Systems, methods and computer program products for the comparison of anonymized data entries are described. In one embodiment the present invention is a computer-implemented method for comparing anonymized data entries, including separately processing data entries in a query list and a search database by: normalizing, generating variants, scoring, and anonyminizing. The expanded and anonymized data entries in the query list and the search database are then compared to find an exact match. In another embodiment, the present invention is a system for comparing anonymized data entries, having a list expansion module, an anonymizer module, and a matching module.
US08190625B1
A method includes analyzing a plurality of electronic documents available via a network service, selecting content of the documents encountered during the analysis to generate signatures for the documents based on the content of the documents, generating an index comprising the signatures, and updating the index by performing additional analyses. The index is updated to include documents having the same signatures.
US08190624B2
A parallel execution of a query is performed with a plurality of producers using a partitioned data source, thereby producing output data. The output data is consumed with at least one consumer. The at least one consumer is monitored. A determination is made whether to stop producing output data by at least one of the producers prior to completion of the execution of the query based on the monitoring.
US08190621B2
The present invention relates to a method and a system for filtering the harmful content (s) which includes a filter group for providing an optimized filter for each category; a matching engine for monitoring harmfulness of the content by matching it with existing lewd contents recorded in a pornographic content database and/or advertising contents recorded in an advertising content database; an interface part which provides a user with information on a degree of similarity between the inputted content and the harmful contents recorded in the above-mentioned database which is calculated through the matching process in order to increase the filtering accuracy; and information on a degree of harmfulness of the content calculated in the filter group; and information on a user who created or distributed the content. Accordingly, it is possible to filter adult contents or advertising contents with much higher accuracy by three harmful content blocking steps.
US08190620B2
A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to provide a decomposition graph visualization with a set of nodes. A selection of two or more measures is received. A measure visualization is generated for each node to illustrate a relationship between the two or more measures.
US08190619B2
In one general aspect, the application discloses a data visualization method in which at least two retrieved data tables are associated based on a selection of at least one common field. A visualization is displayed for data from a first of the tables and input for query devices is received to filter data for a second of the tables. The displayed visualization for the first table can then be updated in response to the received query device input for the second table based on the created association.
US08190605B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises identifying, by a device, an addressable video stream selected for viewing by a user of the device; obtaining, by the device, geographic metadata for the addressable video stream in response to the device identifying the addressable video stream, the geographic metadata including a location metadata element identifying a geographic location that describes a corresponding identifiable event within the addressable video stream; retrieving, by the device, location information about the geographic location based on the corresponding location metadata element; and displaying by the device the location information to the user, for presentation to the user of the location information that provides a geographic context for the identifiable event.
US08190596B2
A plurality of sources are registered. A plurality of schemas are constructed, based on the plurality of sources. A desired output is obtained as a conjunctive query. A list of potential connections between at least selected ones of the sources is provided. A plurality of join plans are developed, based on the connections.
US08190591B2
To provide a method that minimizes efficiency reductions in processing coupled node trees even if the size of the coupled node tree grows large. In basic searching or maximum or minimum value searching, the search history, not only the address information of the storage area wherein a node is stored but also the discrimination bit position of branch nodes traversed in the search path, is stored in the search path stack.
US08190589B2
A first updating unit updates the state of access control of the data to be edited set up in the memory to an exclusive state in response to an exclusion request to the data to be edited. A second updating unit updates the state of access control of the data to be edited set up in the memory to an exclusion removal standby state in response to an exclusion removal request to the data to be edited in which the state of access control is in the exclusive state. A third updating unit updates the state of access control to all data to be edited from the exclusion removal standby state to an exclusion removal state when the data to be edited in which the state of access control is updated.
US08190570B2
A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for preserving a virtual file system. Data for a virtual file system is received. The data include file handle information, vnode information, and gnode information. The data is saved to a storage device. The saved data can be used to reconstruct the virtual file system upon changeover between a primary data processing system and a backup data processing system.
US08190567B2
A management application to synchronize e-mails sent or received from one application with e-mail logs of another application. If the groupware application receives an e-mail from a business partner, the e-mail may be stored in communication records maintained by the CRM application. Similarly, if an operator composed and sends an e-mail via the CRM application, the e-mail may be copied to the e-mail records of the groupware application. In managing this synchronization, it is sufficient for the management application to copy an e-mail from one application to the other. No further oversight is required.
US08190566B2
Methods and apparatuses of a trusted index structure in a network environment. In one embodiment, a data processing system includes a master device and at least one slave device to communicate with each other through a network; and a master lock status of a shared storage device to determine the master device.
US08190565B2
The present invention relates to a method for performing an image level copy of an information store. The present invention comprises performing a snapshot of an information store that indexes the contents of the information store, retrieving data associated with the contents of the information store from a file allocation table, copying the contents of the information store to a storage device based on the snapshot, and associating the retrieved data with the copied contents to provide file system information for the copied contents.
US08190557B2
A system and method for processing data between a source cell and a target cell in a OLAP database. The system comprises a component configured for selecting a source cell based on dimensions in the OLAP database and having a value derived from the OLAP database, and a component for selecting a target cell based on dimensions in the OLAP database. The system includes a component configured for receiving a modification amount and applying the modification amount to the source cell and a component configured for applying the modification amount to the target cell and generating a modified target cell value. The system further comprises a component configured for storing the modified source cell and/or the modified target cell in the OLAP database. According to an embodiment, the modification amount is applied to the target cell as a credit amount or as a debit amount.
US08190549B2
An online sparse matrix Gaussian process (OSMGP) uses online updates to provide an accurate and efficient regression for applications such as pose estimation and object tracking. A regression calculation module calculates a regression on a sequence of input images to generate output predictions based on a learned regression model. The regression model is efficiently updated by representing a covariance matrix of the regression model using a sparse matrix factor (e.g., a Cholesky factor). The sparse matrix factor is maintained and updated in real-time based on the output predictions. Hyperparameter optimization, variable reordering, and matrix downdating techniques can also be applied to further improve the accuracy and/or efficiency of the regression process.
US08190545B2
A system thinker application receives a first issue, a first resolution to the first issue, and a first plurality of skills. The system thinker application searches a system environment electronic profile for a second issue, a second resolution to the second issue, and a second plurality of skills, wherein the system environment electronic profile contains a plurality of component profiles, and wherein the plurality of component profiles contain a second issue, a second resolution to the second issue, and a second plurality of skills. The system thinker application determines if the first issue, the first resolution to the first issue, and any one of the first plurality of skills are similar to any one of the second issue, the second resolution to the second issue, and any one of the second plurality of skills. The system thinker application adds skills to the system environment electronic profile and the component profile.
US08190543B2
An autonomous biologically based learning tool system and a method that the tool system employs for learning and analysis are provided. The autonomous biologically based learning tool system includes (a) one or more tool systems that perform a set of specific tasks or processes and generate assets and data related to the assets that characterize the various processes and associated tool performance; (b) an interaction manager that receives and formats the data, and (c) an autonomous learning system based on biological principles of learning. The autonomous learning system comprises a memory platform and a processing platform that communicate through a network. Both the memory platform and the processing platform include functional components and memories that can be defined recursively. Knowledge generated and accumulated in the autonomous learning system(s) can be cast into semantic networks that can be employed for learning and driving tool goals based on context.
US08190540B2
The present invention includes a method of deciding whether a data set is acceptable for making a decision. A first probability partition array and a second probability partition array may be provided. One or both of the probability partition arrays may be a Copula model. A no-match zone may be established and used to calculate a false-acceptance-rate (“FAR”) and/or a false-rejection-rate (“FRR”) for the data set. The FAR and/or the FAR may be compared to desired rates. Based on the comparison, the data set may be either accepted or rejected. The invention may also be embodied as a computer readable memory device for executing the methods.
US08190536B2
The method of performing parallel search optimization includes the steps of: providing a master computer and N slave computers; randomly generating L possible solutions to a computerized process on the master computer; transmitting L/N possible solutions to each slave computer; and simulating the computerized process on each of the slave computers for each respective set of L/N possible solutions. The results of each simulation are transmitted to the master computer, and a set of solutions within a threshold are selected. The master computer determines if a single solution is an optimal solution to the process, and if a single optimal solution is found, the single optimal solution is utilized by the master computer as an input to the process, but if a single optimal solution is not found, the selected set of solutions is divided and transmitted to the slave computers to repeat the method from the step of simulation.
US08190529B2
An information processing system, information communication terminal and method, information processing apparatus and method, recording medium, and program capable of enabling safer electronic commercial transactions. A point-of-purchase server generates purchasing information using a card Identification number allotted to a non-contact IC-card of a mobile telephone. A point-of-receipt server acquires this purchasing information and confirms the card identification number allotted to the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone and a purchasing card identification number. The authentication server calculates user trustworthiness and store trustworthiness based on temporary commercial transaction information stored in the non-contact IC card of the mobile telephone. The calculated user trustworthiness and store trustworthiness is then reference by the mobile telephone and point-of-purchase server in the next commercial transaction.
US08190508B1
A computing device receives, from a module that manages bids to bid engines, data relating to a bid rule, the data including at least two metrics concerning performance of the bid rule. Two of the metrics are selected for defining a goal for the bid rule, wherein a first one of the selected metrics is a primary metric and a second one of the metrics is a secondary metric, the primary metric being a value that is subject to an optimization, and the secondary metric being used to establish one or more constraints. The goal is defined by performing the optimization subject to the one or more constraints.
US08190504B1
A corporate payment, liquidity, and cash management optimization service platform helps meet the need in corporate banking to leverage more of the value of the bank relationship with the corporation. The platform integrates into the supply chain processes of the corporate customer and may provide liquidity forecasting and optimization services. The platform provides a one-to-many model in which the bank serves many corporates with one system to save operating costs and gain economies of scale. In addition, the platform leverages existing bank services, while at the same time providing modular, configurable services in a secure, integrated solution.
US08190498B1
Disclosed are various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs that facilitate verification of activity in an environment of predefined activity orchestration. Activity is captured on image capture devices in the environment of predefined activity orchestration. The activity is verified to be consistent with the predefined activity orchestration. An event is generated based upon whether the activity is consistent with the predefined activity orchestration.
US08190495B1
A computer-based online system having a memory, for managing a plurality of registries of baby care product selections, wherein each of the plurality of registries is uniquely associated with a respective one of a plurality of users, and wherein each baby care product selection corresponds to a baby care product selected at the online system or one of a plurality of retailers.
US08190490B2
In a combinatorial exchange, a set of rules can be input for processing of bids received in connection with the exchange. At least one bid can be received from each of a plurality of exchange participants and a desired exchange objective can be defined. A determination can be made as a function of a subset of the rules if an allocation of the bids exists that is optimal for the type of exchange being conducted. If the desired exchange objective is not satisfied, the step of determining an allocation is repeated utilizing a different subset of rules each time until the desired exchange objective is satisfied. It can be determined if the exchange is overconstrained and, if so, rules can be relaxed. Also or alternatively, the demand for a quantity of an item can be increased or decreased based on the average cost of the item.
US08190489B2
In a combinatorial exchange, rules can be input for processing bids and a desired exchange objective can be defined. A subset of the rules can be used to determine if an allocation of the bids exists that is optimal for the type of exchange being conducted. If the desired exchange objective is not satisfied, new allocations can be determined using different subsets of rules each time until the desired exchange objective is satisfied. Trigger bid groups and/or rules associated with trigger values can be used to determine whether to apply modification or discounts to bids. Item and bid groups can be partitioned into groups for the purpose of smoothing requirements. Trigger bid groups, rules associated with trigger values, item groups, and bid groups can be used for adjusting or constraining bids based on triggers, logical connectives, and adjustments.
US08190487B2
A part location system is described that utilizes computer-based techniques for bringing together repair facilities and suppliers to increase the efficiency of locating recycled, used or aftermarket parts using a computer network, such as the Internet. The part location system receives an estimate from a first user over a communication network. The part location system then parses the estimate to extract information that identifies a list of parts needed by the first user and automatically generates a request for quote (RFQ) using the information extracted from the estimate. The part location system then sends the RFQ to suppliers via the communication network. Subsequently, the part location system receives quotations from at least one of the suppliers via the communication network in response to the RFQ and presents the quotations received in response to the RFQ to a repair facility via the communication network.
US08190481B2
In an illustrative implementation, an anonymous pharmacy order processing system includes means for protecting downstream systems from exposure to confidential identity information, thereby protecting a customer's privacy. In a preferred embodiment, a pharmacy system can generate a generic identifier corresponding to a prescription. The pharmacy system optionally sends the generic identifier to a point of sale system. The point of sale system receives the generic identifier and sends a sale confirmation to the pharmacy system. Furthermore, the point of sale system sends transaction information, including the generic identifier to a transaction system. The pharmacy system receives the sale confirmation and sends a correction transaction with an actual item identifier to the transaction system. The transaction system propagates sales including the generic item identifier to an audit system. Furthermore, the transaction system sends an inventory correction including the actual item identifier to an inventory system.
US08190473B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for determining similarity measures between vertical categories based on users' online activities. The similarity measures are symmetric similarity measures based on both a similarity measure of a first vertical category relative to a second vertical category and a similarity measure of the second vertical category relative to the first vertical category.
US08190471B2
A method and system for using a rebate card are disclosed. The method may comprise initiating a purchase transaction for one or more products at a point of sale, determining whether the purchase transaction qualifies for a rebate, determining a rebate value based on the purchase transaction and the rebate, activating a rebate value in a rebate card account associated with a rebate card based on the determining action, and delivering the rebate card to a customer of the one or more products during the purchase transaction.
US08190462B2
A system for internet-based procurement of non-cataloged goods and services based upon qualified resumes includes a human resources procurement server, an associate vendor terminal, and a hiring manager terminal. The associate vendor terminal is connected to the human resources procurement server. The hiring manager terminal is connected to the human resources procurement server. The human resources procurement server receives at least one job request from the hiring manager terminal. The human resources procurement server also receives at least one qualified resume from the associate vendor terminal and forwards the qualified resume to the hiring manager terminal for review.
US08190459B1
A workflow management system is provided. The workflow management system comprises a workflow manager that coordinates the activities of business systems to accomplish jobs, the workflow manager associating a state with each job and updating the state of each job as the job progresses, a tracking data store, and a reporting data store. The tracking data store receives the state of the jobs from the workflow manager. The reporting data store receives the state of the jobs from the tracking data store. The reporting data store maintains milestones which correspond to one or more states, and scenarios, which are defined as a group of milestones. The system also includes a processing component that analyzes the plurality of milestones and scenarios to provide a summary of job progress. The system also includes a user interface operable to select and to display a report of job progress.
US08190453B2
Systems and methods verify the content of an electronically transmitted claim, such as a healthcare claim by intercepting the claim, reviewing the claim's contents, and comparing the claim to pre-established claim criteria established by a payer or both a healthcare service provider and payer. If the claim contains the appropriate content the claim is forwarded to its intended recipient, typically a payer such as an insurance company or government healthcare payer; otherwise the claim may be returned to the sender, e.g., a pharmacy, with an indication that it does not contain the correct content. Additionally, the claim may be edited by the system and forwarded in correct form to its intended recipient.
US08190451B2
An accurate predictive model that identifies the patient/members within the healthcare system at high risk of hospital admission for a wide range of morbidities, or co-morbidities, and that allows subsequent intervention to manage those patients identified as high risk to an acceptable level. There is a further need for such a predictive model that focuses on specific groupings of conditions, e.g., behavioral health predictive modeling. There is also a need for a method that provides for intervention to manage the risk to the identified patients/members. One embodiment of the present invention discloses and claims a method of high-risk patient identification and management. In one aspect, the inventive method may comprise compiling a listing including all individuals with any primary behavioral health diagnosis over a specified time period; merging the listing with at least one data source to extract at least one behavioral health-related predictive factor; generating, based on at least one predictive model, a predictive output comprising the probability that the individuals listed will require a future behavioral health-related hospital admission; identifying the high-risk individuals from the predictive model output; and intervening with the high risk members to identify and modify, to the extent possible, the risk factors that place the member at high risk.
US08190449B2
A method for managing a returns process in response to product alerts is provided. The method includes receiving an alert related to a product. The method also includes processing the alert into an alert repository. The method further includes retrieving product data based on the alert. The method further includes associating the product data with the alert. The method further includes facilitating a return of the product to a vendor using the product data. The method further includes receiving data in response to the return of the product. The method further includes providing an actionable display including the product data, the data in response to the return, and data related to a return action.
US08190448B2
Methods and apparatus for determining a minimum recommended healthcare product supply to maintain a healthcare facility through a supply chain disruption, patient surge or a combination of both are described. Embodiments of the invention include the ability to make a combined list of healthcare products, minimizing the number of different healthcare products which are required to maintain a minimum inventory.
US08190447B2
Methods for use in, e.g., in-patient care computing environment, for user-centric (e.g., in-patient-centric) selection of at least one menu item are provided. A method in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention may include receiving a plurality of menu item identifiers, each menu item identifier being associated with a different menu item, associating the menu item identifiers with an electronic record associated with an in-patient, displaying the menu item identifiers on at least one patient-viewable display device, and receiving a user selection of at least one of the menu item identifiers. If desired, the method may additionally include filtering the menu item identifiers based on at least one criterion derived from the electronic record to create a set of filtered menu item identifiers and displaying the set of filtered menu item identifiers on the patient-viewable display device rather than the plurality of menu item identifier.
US08190442B2
The present invention relates to a method and an apparatus for recommending content and updating user proprofile. The method adds a step of content alarm processing before recommending to user on a basis of the current content recommending method, so that the recommendation, which can be offered directly to a user in a previous time must be processed correspondingly in a manner of the content alarm before being sent to the user. Alternatively, after receiving an user's feedback information, the method and the system processes the feedback information correspondingly in a manner of the content alarm and updates the user profile according to the feedback information processed in the manner of the content alarm. The invention can recommend contents more carefully and accurately, making the recommendation conforming further to the user's requirement so as to avoid as far as possible the recommendation of unwished program to users.
US08190433B2
A speech recognition engine is provided with an acoustic model and a layered grammar and dictionary library. The layered grammar and dictionary library includes a language and non-grammar layer that supplies types of rules a grammar definition layer can use and defines non-grammar the speech recognition engine should ignore. The layered grammar and dictionary library also includes a dictionary layer that defines phonetic transcriptions for word groups the speech recognition engine is meant to recognize when voice input is received. The layered grammar and dictionary library further includes a grammar definition layer that applies rules from the language and non-grammar layer to define combinations of word groups the speech recognition system is meant to recognize. Voice input is received at a speech recognition engine and is processed using the acoustic model and the layered grammar and dictionary library.
US08190432B2
To automatically detect and automatically correct in a reproduced speech, defective portions related to plosives such as existence or absence of plosive portions, phoneme lengths of aspirated portions that continue after the plosive portions or defective portions related to amplitude variations of fricatives. Speech wherein consonants and unvoiced vowels are unclear and discordant is input into a speech enhancement apparatus according to the present invention. In the speech enhancement apparatus, the speech is split into phonemes and each phoneme is classified into any one of an unvoiced plosive, a voiced plosive, an unvoiced fricative, a voiced fricative, an affricate, and an unvoiced vowel. Each phoneme is corrected according to a determination of necessity of correction of each phoneme to obtain an output of the speech wherein the consonants and the unvoiced vowels are clear and not discordant.
US08190428B2
A high quality speech is reproduced with a small data amount in speech coding and decoding for performing compression coding and decoding of a speech signal to a digital signal. In speech coding method according to a code-excited linear prediction (CELP) speech coding, a noise level of a speech in a concerning coding period is evaluated by using a code or coding result of at least one of spectrum information, power information, and pitch information, and various excitation codebooks are used based on an evaluation result.
US08190418B1
Methods, systems and computer programs for producing integrated circuits (IC) that contain an electronic component with time-dependent impedance are provided. According to one method, time-dependent impedance values for the electronic component are obtained. These time-dependent impedance values are time-dependent because they can change over time, such as when an input/output buffer starts switching, and are used to create a model of the electronic component. The model includes a variable impedance and a variable voltage source. The model is created by calculating a current through the variable impedance and then assigning the obtained impedance values to the impedance. Additionally, values are assigned to the variable voltage source such that the current through the variable impedance with the new assigned values is equal to the current thorough the variable impedance before the assignment of the time-dependent impedance values. Results from multiple simulations of the IC are compared to select the IC layout that generates the lowest noise profile and the IC is produced with the selected layout.
US08190412B2
A method of stimulating a deformable object comprises modeling deformable elasticity for the object by defining an actual shape and a goal shape and pulling points in the goal shape towards corresponding points in the goal shape.
US08190398B2
At a worksite of a client, progeny nuclides of radon and thoron are collected into a filter, then making the gross measurement on α-ray amount within an hour from the collection. Next, the filter is sent to an analysis center with information added thereto, such as collection-condition information, gross-measurement information, and sampling-worksite information. At the analysis center, the gross measurement on the filter sent thereto is made again. Also, the radioactive-nuclide analysis is made to perform evaluation of the radioactivity intensity. Moreover, radon amount and thoron amount at the measurement-specimen sampling points-in-time at the worksite are calculated, then reporting the analysis result of the radon and thoron amounts to the client.
US08190392B2
A method and apparatus for determining a trigger in a test and measurement apparatus are provided. The method comprises the steps of loading a first trigger configuration to a first trigger element of the test and measurement apparatus and loading a second trigger configuration to a second trigger element of the test and measurement apparatus so that these trigger elements operate substantially simultaneously. It is then determined whether the input signal generates a trigger in accordance with the one or more trigger configurations.
US08190390B2
A blood flow calibration system 500 including a computer 400 operable to determine and store calibration data for a flow meter 124, a test system 530 operable to simulate blood flow for the flow meter 124, thereby allowing the computer 400 to determine the calibration data, and a programmer 300 operable to transfer the calibration data from the computer 400 to the flow meter 124. The flow meter 124 preferably includes a power management circuit 348a,b operable to detect whether the flow meter 124 is powered. In the event that the flow meter 124 is unpowered, the power management circuit 348a,b is preferably able to supply power to a portion of the flow meter 124 in order to transfer the calibration data thereto.
US08190385B2
A system and method for testing a solar panel. The system comprises an apparatus to be coupled electrically to two solar panels. The apparatus includes a processor and a memory having stored thereon instructions for calculating a ratio of respective operating parameters of the two solar panels. The apparatus further can include an output device, such as to display the ratio of the respective operating parameters of the solar panels. The apparatus may further comprise two loads coupled to the processor to be electrically coupled to the respective solar panels.
US08190383B2
A method of determining at least one material property of at least one component of an electrochemical system (fully or partially completed) using a process to reduce a difference of a performance characteristic between a numerical simulation result of a physical model and an empirical result. The method includes providing an electrochemical cell using a thin film process and performing a plurality of tests on the electrochemical cell to identify one or more target performance characteristics of the electrochemical cell. The method includes performing a surrogate based analysis process and determining a plurality of outputs of the surrogate based analysis function and determines a value of the unknown material property.
US08190382B2
A tool to analyze the performance of a power-beam photovoltaic (PV) receiver is disclosed that includes a system and method for determining the output of a PV array under non-uniform, inconstant illumination. The system and method includes providing PV cells in a user-defined physical layout with various user-defined electrical connections among the PV cells and optional devices forming the PV array. The disclosure provides an analysis tool for designing optical power-beaming systems.
US08190381B2
Intelligent electronic device with enhanced power quality monitoring and communications capabilities
An intelligent electronic device IED has enhanced power quality and communications capabilities. The IED can perform energy analysis by waveform capture, detect transient on the front-end voltage input channels and provide revenue measurements. The IED splits and distributes the front-end input channels into separate circuits for scaling and processing by dedicated processors for specific applications by the IED. Front-end voltage input channels are split and distributed into separate circuits for transient detection, waveform capture analysis and revenue measurement, respectively. Front-end current channels are split and distributed into separate circuits for waveform capture analysis and revenue measurement, respectively.
US08190380B2
A metrology system monitors radio frequency (RF) power at a plurality of locations in a circuit. The system includes a plurality of RF sensors that generate respective analog signals based on electrical properties of the RF power, a multiplexing module that generates an output signal based on the analog signals, and an analysis module that generates messages based on the output signal. The messages contain information regarding the electrical properties that are sensed by the plurality of RF sensors.
US08190368B2
A method for simulating a conductivity measured by a resistivity tool disposed in a borehole penetrating a formation, the method including: constructing a main grid extending from the borehole into the formation; constructing an auxiliary grid that is local to the main grid and fitted to a boundary between a first region having a first conductivity and a second region having a second conductivity; discretizing a problem operator on the auxiliary grid applying Maxwell's Equations to a volume represented by the auxiliary local grid, the Maxwell's Equations including a term representing the conductivity of a material in the volume; calculating one-dimensional functions for points on the auxiliary grid; constructing basic functions from the calculated functions; discretizing by the basic functions for points on the main grid; solving the resulting set of equations to obtain the simulated measured conductivity for the resistivity tool; and providing the simulated measured conductivity as output.
US08190365B2
Systems and methods for processing navigational solutions are provided. In this regard, a representative system includes a navigational computing device comprising a processor and memory that stores a navigational solution manager that is executed by the processor to provide a receiver position. The navigational solution manager is configured to collect navigational data from at least one satellite vehicle, compute initialization navigational measurements based on the collected navigational data, and compute the receiver position using the initialization navigation measurements.
US08190363B2
When a vehicle enters a facility off a road on which the vehicle is traveling, information pertaining to an entry direction into the facility is sent to a probe center as probe information, and a current driving level of the host vehicle is identified. Meanwhile, the probe center that received the probe information calculates a right-turn entry percentage for facilities based upon the received probe information, and sets an entry difficulty level of the facilities based upon the calculated right-turn entry percentage. A vehicle to which information pertaining to the entry difficulty level of a set facility was distributed from the probe center is structured so as to perform driving support based upon the information pertaining to the entry difficulty level of the facility.
US08190360B2
A method and apparatus for imprinting high resolution images onto fields, such as sports fields and landscapes is disclosed. In one embodiment, precise and consistent lawn and field patterning is accomplished by use in combination of a global positioning system; a processor for generating a desired pattern which is translated into patterning instructions; and a patterning implement which is used for generating detailed patterns and for imprinting said patterns on any of natural or artificial lawns and fields, covered areas, and landscapes. The patterning implement comprises a plurality of independent printing mechanisms incorporated within said patterning implement, each of the independent printing mechanisms coupled to receive patterning instructions from the processor and operate selectively in response thereto. The invention also comprises means for guiding the patterning implement to position it along a desired path at least in part with information from said global positioning system; and means for individually controlling each of said independent printing mechanisms incorporated within said patterning implement responsive to said patterning instructions and in coordination with positioning of said patterning implement along said desired path.
US08190350B2
A micro-hybrid motor vehicle 2 having an engine 5 started by an electrical starter 6 is disclosed having a starter system that adaptively responds to ageing of an electrical power source such as a capacitor 12 used to power the starter motor 6 so as to maintain engine starting performance. The starter system includes a controller 20 which is programmed to increase the voltage used to charge the capacitor 12 when it is determined that the state of health of the capacitor 12 has degraded.
US08190339B2
A shift controller controls a downshift to a low shift speed, spaced apart from a high shift speed by two or more steps, through an intermediate shift speed, by first releasing first and second shift release elements, then engaging a first shift engagement element, and finally engaging a second shift engagement element, while controlling the torque capacity of the second shift release element by feedback control. As a result of releasing the first and second shift release elements before engaging the first shift engagement element, it is possible to rev up an input rotation at maximum performance of an engine to reduce the time for shifting. As a result of the feedback control of the torque capacity of the second shift release element after engaging the first shift engagement element, a torque fluctuation at the intermediate shift speed can be reduced to avoid occurrence of an uncomfortable shift shock.
US08190338B2
A method of compacting a roadway section includes entering initial input parameters into a compaction analyzer. A plurality of passes is made with a roller over a portion of the roadway section and vibratory energy is applied thereto. Responsive vibration signals are gathered and the compaction analyzer generates estimated density signals. Actual density measurements are taken and the estimated densities are compared thereto. Selected ones of the initial input parameters are adjusted so that an adjusted density output signal which represents the actual density of a roadway section is generated.
US08190330B2
A system and method for providing steering control for lane changing and lane centering purposes in an autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicle system. A vehicle vision system calculates roadway lane marking information, such as lateral offset, yaw angle and roadway curvature with respect to the vehicle's centered coordinate system. The roadway is then modeled as a second order polynomial equation. The method then predicts roadway lateral position and yaw angle over a pre-defined lane change completion time using a vehicle dynamic model. The method then compares a predicted vehicle path with a desired vehicle path to generate an error value, and calculates a steering angle command to minimize the error value, where the steering angle command is calculated as a function of vehicle lateral position, vehicle lateral speed, vehicle yaw rate and vehicle yaw angle. The steering angle command is then sent to the vehicle steering system.
US08190329B2
This steering wheel retention state judging device includes: a torque application unit that applies a torque on a steering wheel of a vehicle, the steering wheel operated by a driver; an angle sensor that detects a steering angle of the steering wheel; and a steering wheel retention state judging unit that judges a retention state of the steering wheel by the driver based on the steering angle of the steering wheel when the torque is applied by the torque application unit.
US08190327B2
The invention relates to a device for controlling the suspension of the body shell of a motor vehicle. The inventive device comprises a calculator (CSS) which can calculate a control value (ER) for an actuator (M) of a shock absorber (AM) of the suspension (S) as a function of at least one modal body shell speed calculated from a modal body shell acceleration. The invention is characterized by a sensor (CAP-DEB) for sensing wheel (A,B, C, D) travel in relation to the body shell, which is connected to a first means (CAL) for calculating the modal body shell acceleration from the travel measurement (DEB) provided by the sensor (CAP-DEB).
US08190325B2
An information display system and method are provided for displaying an energy efficiency of a vehicle. The vehicle may include an engine and an electric machine that operates to provide torque to propel the vehicle. The vehicle may also include an energy source that provides energy to the electric machine. The information display system may comprise an information display configured to display an efficiency indicator, the efficiency indicator being configured to indicate an efficiency of the vehicle. The information display system may further comprise a controller configured to receive information related to the braking system of the vehicle. The controller further being configured to determine an energy efficiency value based upon the braking system information. The controller may also be configured to transmit the energy efficiency value so that the information display displays the efficiency indicator based upon the energy efficiency value.
US08190324B2
A portable information terminal stores first function list information indicating the contents of functions installed on a first vehicle. When a user carrying the terminal gets in a second vehicle before driving, the second vehicle acquires the first function list information from the terminal. The second vehicle compares the acquired first function list information with second function list information indicating the contents of functions installed on the second vehicle. The second vehicle acquires a functional difference between itself and the first vehicle and notifies the user of the difference.
US08190322B2
A system and method for providing autonomous and remote vehicle maintenance and repair. The system employs an on-board diagnosis and prognosis module that monitors one or more vehicle buses to identify trouble codes and other information indicating a vehicle problem. The on-board module causes a telematic device on the vehicle to broadcast a message including a problem code that identifies the problem the vehicle is having. A remote repair center may receive the message and may identify a software upgrade patch associated with the problem that can be transmitted to the vehicle to upgrade its software to correct the problem. Also, the message may be received by another vehicle that is part of a broadcast network that has previously received the software upgrade patch to fix a problem on that vehicle, where the receiving vehicle may transmit the software upgrade patch to the vehicle having the problem.
US08190320B2
A method of optimizing the operation of the power source of an electric vehicle is provided, where the power source is comprised of a first battery pack (e.g., a non-metal-air battery pack) and a second battery pack (e.g., a metal-air battery pack). The power source is optimized to minimize use of the least efficient battery pack (e.g., the second battery pack) while ensuring that the electric vehicle has sufficient power to traverse the expected travel distance before the next battery charging cycle. Further optimization is achieved by setting at least one maximum speed limit based on vehicle efficiency and the state-of-charge (SOC) of the first and second battery packs.
US08190312B2
A system is provided for determining a quality of a location estimation of a powered system at a location. The system includes a first sensor configured to measure a first parameter of the powered system at the location. The system further includes a second sensor configured to measure a second parameter of the powered system at the location. The system further includes a second controller configured to determine the location estimation of the powered system and the quality of the location estimation, based upon a first location of the powered system based on the first parameter, and a second location of the powered system based on the second parameter of the powered system. A method is also provided for determining a quality of a location estimation of a powered system at a location.
US08190311B2
An adaptive brake system for a distributed power train responsive to an interruption in a communication system for the train and a brake application initiated at the lead locomotive, reduces the brake pipe fluid pressure at a lead locomotive and a remote locomotive to a predetermined pressure level to reduce in-train forces that may occur as a result of the pressure differentials in the brake pipe line of the lead and remote locomotives.
US08190310B2
The present invention relates to the field of methods and systems for optimizing the locating of an aircraft in airports and, more particularly, in the take-off and landing phases, and notably in the air-ground and ground-air transition phases. The method of optimizing the locating of an aircraft during the take-off or landing phase comprising a transition step (21), the latter being defined between two events (A0, AS), the first event being a condition of contact between the aircraft and the runway and the second event being a threshold condition defining a stabilized flight phase, is wherein the transition step (21) comprises the determination of at least one “transition position” of the aircraft by a weighting between the “ground position” (LOC_SOL) determined by the ground locating system and the “flight position” (LOV_VOL) determined by the in-flight locating system.
US08190304B2
An automatic configuration-tracking apparatus for tracking the configuration of a vehicle having a multitude of components for which it is desired to consult and record various items of data specific thereto, and their identification/authentication parameters, history, and operating state includes transponders. The transponders are coupled respectively to components of the vehicle. The transponders communicate this specific data via a meshed wireless network in order to enable the data to be transmitted by secure wireless transmission to an external installation. A secrecy perimeter coincides substantially with an outline of the vehicle.
US08190270B2
Medical electrical lead systems and related methods are described. The medical electrical lead systems may be configured to be at least partially implanted in a body of a subject. Some variations of the medical electrical lead systems may comprise a lead body comprising a proximal end and a distal end and a lumen extending at least partially therebetween, at least one electrode in the proximity of the distal end of the lead body, and a reservoir in fluid communication with the lumen, where the reservoir is located at a position removed from the distal end of the lead body. Certain variations of the medical electrical lead systems may comprise a lead body comprising a proximal end and a distal end and first and second lumens extending at least partially therebetween, and at least one electrode in the proximity of the distal end of the lead body.
US08190265B2
A tissue stimulation system and computer software and method of operating the system is provided. An array of electrodes is placed contact with tissue of a patient (e.g., neural tissue), and electrical current is conveyed within the electrode array, thereby creating a stimulation region in the tissue. Electrical current is shifted between cathodes of the electrode array in incremental steps over a range, thereby causing displacement of the stimulation region at substantially uniform distances over the incremental steps. The electrical current may be shifted between the cathodes in accordance with a sigmoid-like function of a position of the stimulation region. A navigation table containing a series of states and corresponding gradually and non-uniformly changing electrical current values can be accessed, in which case, the electrical current may be shifted between the cathodes by incrementing through the states of the navigation table.
US08190259B1
In one embodiment, an implantable pulse generator for electrically stimulating a patient comprises: a metallic housing enclosing pulse generating circuitry; a header mechanically coupled to the metallic housing, the header adapted to seal terminals of one or more stimulation leads within the header and to provide electrical connections for the terminals; the header comprising an inner compliant component for holding a plurality of electrical connectors, the plurality of electrical connectors electrically coupled to the pulse generating circuitry through feedthrough wires, wherein the plurality of electrical connectors are held in place in recesses within the compliant inner component, the header further comprising an outer shield component adapted to resist punctures, the outer shield component fitting over at least a portion of the inner compliant component.
US08190256B2
Methods and systems are directed to delivering cardiac pacing therapy to a patient. A pacing therapy associated with one or more pacing parameters is delivered. Alternate cardiac pacing therapies associated with one or more alternate pacing parameters are transitioned to, based on a sleep/wake cycle of the patient. Interactions between the pacing parameters of the pacing therapy and the alternate pacing parameters are resolved. Resolving pacing parameters may be based on analysis of lower rate limits and/or lower rate hysteresis, for example.
US08190255B2
Electrocardiogram wave data in which a component of cardiac massage is removed from the electrocardiogram wave data is generated, so that the electrocardiogram wave at the time of cardiopulmonary resuscitation is identified. An electrocardiogram wave processing system of obtaining and processing the electrocardiogram wave data includes a wave identification unit that identifies an electrocardiogram wave from the obtained electrocardiogram wave data, a feature selection unit that selects a feature pattern including a feature when a cardiac massage has been performed with respect to the electrocardiogram wave data identified by the wave identification unit, a generation unit that generates a component of the cardiac massage using the feature pattern selected by the feature selection unit, and a removal unit that removes, from the obtained electrocardiogram wave data, the component of the cardiac massage generated by the generation unit.
US08190250B2
A system for a neurostimulation device comprises at least one processor configured for estimating at a plurality of spatial points a respective plurality of electrical field vectors resulting from a stimulation lead operating in accordance with a set of stimulation parameters, determining an amplitude of each electrical field vector and an angle between each electrical field vector and a vector aligned with an axis of the stimulation lead, and estimating a tissue of volume activation about the stimulation lead based on the determined amplitude and angle of each electrical field vector.
US08190243B2
An apparatus is disclosed for monitoring a thermal surgical procedure including a thermal camera for monitoring temperature at a plurality of locations within at least a portion of a surgical field undergoing thermal surgical treatment and generating a series of thermal images based on said monitoring, a processor for processing the thermal images, and a display for displaying, in real time, a series of display images indicative of temperature at the plurality of positions.
US08190227B2
A method and an apparatus to analyze two measured signals that are modeled as containing desired and undesired portions such as noise, FM and AM modulation. Coefficients relate the two signals according to a model defined in accordance with the present invention. In one embodiment, a transformation is used to evaluate a ratio of the two measured signals in order to find appropriate coefficients. The measured signals are then fed into a signal scrubber which uses the coefficients to remove the unwanted portions. The signal scrubbing is performed in either the time domain or in the frequency domain. The method and apparatus are particularly advantageous to blood oximetry and pulserate measurements. In another embodiment, an estimate of the pulserate is obtained by applying a set of rules to a spectral transform of the scrubbed signal. In another embodiment, an estimate of the pulserate is obtained by transforming the scrubbed signal from a first spectral domain into a second spectral domain. The pulserate is found by identifying the largest spectral peak in the second spectral domain.
US08190225B2
A sensor may be adapted to reduce motion artifacts by mitigating the effects of the tissue moving within the sensor. A sensor is provided with an elastic sensor body adapted to accommodate patient motion. Further, a sensor is provided in which the sensor cable is arranged to mitigate its pressure on a patient's tissue.
US08190215B2
A power supply includes a switching voltage regulator, and a linear voltage regulator coupled electrically in series with the switching voltage regulator. The switching voltage regulator includes a first input for receiving a DC input signal, a semiconductor switching stage coupled to the first input and configured to provide a first DC voltage signal from the received DC input signal. The magnitude of the first DC voltage signal is less than the received DC input signal. The linear voltage regulator includes a semiconductor current pass stage coupled to the output of the semiconductor switching stage and configured to provide a constant second DC output voltage signal from the first DC voltage signal. The voltage regulators are implemented together within a common integrated circuit housing.
US08190211B2
The present invention provides a plurality of embodiments for beamforming in an asymmetrical system wireless communication system (400) of NT (102i) transmit antennae and NR (104j) receive antennae where NT>NR that ensure the transmit power on each antenna is the same, without appreciable loss in performance. Additionally, a technique is provided for choosing fewer beamforming vectors than frequency bins in an OFDM system.
US08190202B2
When a user gets interested in some music he/she listens to somewhere, for example, in a coffee shop, the user records that music in a memory provided in a portable terminal. A processor reads the information stored in the memory and performs a predetermined process on it. The resultant information is stored on a storage device. The information stored on the storage device is then transferred to a server via a communication device. The server searches the database for the title of the music corresponding to the received information, and returns the result to the terminal. Thus, the user can easily get information about the title of the music.
US08190200B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for automatically powering on and off one or more radios in a mobile device according to a schedule generated automatically for each of the one or more radios. To generate the schedules, each of the one or more radios are powered on for a designated period of time. During the designated period of time, information is recorded specifying the availability of network coverage for each of the radios. A schedule for each of the radios is then generated according to this information. Each radio is subsequently automatically powered on and off according its schedule.
US08190199B2
The present invention is directed to an MB-MM mobile communication terminal. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an MB-MM mobile communication terminal comprising a first modem and a second modem, further comprises an activation control unit determining whether the second modem is activated if the activation control unit receives an activation order from the first modem for activating the second modem. The activation control unit authorizes the power to the second modem only if the second modem is not activated. The present invention can provide an MB-MM mobile communication terminal that is able to prevent an equipped modem from being read as activated although the equipped modem is actually not activated and a method for controlling the modem power of the MB-MM mobile communication terminal.
US08190196B2
A wireless service network includes logic to receive one or more requests for temporary dialable numbers from wireless devices, and logic to determine temporary wireless numbers and to provide the temporary wireless numbers to the wireless devices in response to the requests.
US08190194B2
System(s) and method(s) are provided for collection and communication of data on handset attachment procedure, or visitation, to one or more femto cells to provide location information. A mobility component receives actual subscriber and femto access point (AP) attachment signaling and extracts visitation data that facilitates generation of real-time or historical visitation reports. Location information is conveyed through visitation reports which can include mobile device identifier(s), femto AP location, and a timestamp. Visitation reports also can include processed visitation data such as mobility matrices, historical mobility patterns or profiles, and predicted mobility events. Provision of location information occurs without the need for dedicated handset functionality, and associated hardware, or additional battery draw.
US08190190B2
A system and a method of controlling transmitter power in a wireless communication system in which user data is processed as a multirate signal in which the user data signal having a first rate is converted into a transmission data signal having a faster second rate for transmission. The transmission power is adjusted on a relatively slow basis based on quality of data received by a receiver of the transmitted data. The transmitter power is determined as a function of the first and second rates such that a change in the data rate in the multiple channels or the rate of the transmission data signal is compensated in advance of a quality of data based adjustment associated with such data rate change. Preferably, the user data signal having the first rate is converted into the transmission data signal having the second faster rate by repeating selected data bits whereby the energy per bit to noise spectrum density ratio is increased in the transmission data signal.
US08190187B2
A communication apparatus includes a judgment section which judges the state of receiving a downlink control channel from a base station, and a power control section which does not assign transmission power to at least the top one time block in a frame transmitted to be by an uplink control channel, if it is judged by the judgment section that the downlink control channel has not been received.
US08190186B2
In a communication system environment, access points which transmit/receive information by wireless communication, a mobile terminal which moves in a utilization environment and transmits/receives information by wireless communication, and a wireless tag of a weak radio wave which transmits/receives information by wireless communication of weak transmission power smaller than the transmission power of the access points and the mobile terminal are disposed. The mobile terminal transmits a special CTS frame including a MAC address, which cannot exist in the utilization environment, and transmission planned time upon communication with the wireless tag. The access points which have received the special CTS frame prohibit transmission operation for the transmission planned time in the frame, and, during that period, the wireless tag transmits position information or the like to the mobile terminal without being interrupted.
US08190170B2
A geographical web browser allows a user to navigate a network application such as the Word Wide Web by physically navigating in geographical coordinates and roaming through coverage areas of cellular base stations, wireless LANs, microcells, and other such broadcast domains. A mobile unit communicates with a network server via an air interface that supports wireless packet data. Information is transmitted from the network server to the mobile unit based upon the mobile unit's current location. In some embodiments, the information is used to notify the user that further information is available for download.
US08190163B2
Efficient coding and communication is accomplished by transmitting first and second sets of information using a relatively large transmission block including a plurality of minimum transmission units (MTUs), each MTU corresponding to a unique combination of resources. A first set of MTUs is used in conveying the first set of information, the first set including at least a majority of the MTUs in the transmission block. A second set of the MTUs is defined, e.g., selected, for use in conveying the second set of information, the second set of MTUs including less MTUs than the first set and at least some MTUs included in the first set. The first and second sets of information are communicated by transmitting at least some MTUs included in the first and the second sets of MTUs with the corresponding information modulated thereon.
US08190162B2
A single chip radio transceiver includes circuitry that enables detection of radar signals to enable the radio transceiver to halt communications in overlapping communication bands to avoid interference with the radar transmitting the radar pulses. The radio transceiver is operable to evaluate a number of most and second most common pulse interval values to determine whether a traditional radar signal is present. The radio transceiver also is operable to FM demodulate and incoming signal to determine whether a non-traditional radar signal such as a bin-5 radar signal is present. After FM demodulation, the signal is averaged wherein a substantially large value is produced for non-traditional radar signals and a value approximately equal to zero is produced for a communication signal that is not FM modulated with a continuously increasing frequency signal. Gain control is used to limit incoming signal magnitude to a specified range of magnitudes.
US08190157B2
A method for determining whether to perform handover of a UE apparatus to a candidate cell and carrier frequency of a TD-CDMA telecommunications network (such as a TD-SCDMA network) based separately on coverage and capacity, using one decision metric for coverage (e.g. based on received signal code power for the candidate cell and carrier frequency) and a different decision metric for capacity (e.g. based on a quantity proportional to the received signal code power for the candidate cell and carrier frequency and inversely proportional to a measure of total interference in the candidate cell on the carrier frequency. Corresponding equipment and a computer program product are also provided. In deciding whether handover is needed based on capacity, a threshold for received signal code power may be used in addition to the metric for capacity.
US08190154B2
A communication system includes: a subscriber information storage device configured to store subscriber information; a registration unit configured to register, in addition to first subscriber information, second subscriber information in the subscriber information storage device, as sub-registrant subscriber information of a first terminal unit, the first subscriber information being the subscriber information associated with a first terminal unit, and the second subscriber information being the subscriber information associated with a second terminal unit; and a reception processor configured to acquire the sub-registrant subscriber information associated with the first subscriber information by referring to the subscriber information storage device, when transmission is made to the first terminal unit, and subsequently to perform processing of reception at the second terminal unit with use of the sub-registrant subscriber information.
US08190150B1
A technique for synchronization of mobile device information in a wireless communication network includes associating 300 a mobile device (MD) to a first access point (AP). A next step includes transmitting 302 a roam notification message from the first AP to all APs in network. A next step includes associating 304 the MD to a second AP. A next step includes establishing 306 that the first and second APs are roaming neighbors. A next step includes building 308 a roaming neighbor list in the associated first and second APs for the MD, wherein the list includes those neighboring APs where the MD has been associated. A next step includes determining 310 that the MD is currently associated with an AP. A next step includes preemptively pushing 312 information about the MD to those APs in the list of the determined AP for synchronization.
US08190146B2
A method is provided for connecting a wireless local network (WLAN) to a UMTS terminal station (ME) having USIM/USAT functionality, including the following method steps: monitoring the activity of the local network via the terminal station; transmitting the type and/or identity number of the local network to the terminal station once the activity of the local network has been successfully detected; initiating a logical link between the local network and the terminal station, and; querying the specific subscriber data of the local network. In an embodiment of the present invention, the temporary status of the local network and/or specific subscriber data of the local network are/is queried at periodic intervals.
US08190142B2
A method and system for disabling a wireless communication device, including: capturing a signal stream from the wireless communication device by satisfying a signal control protocol using a mobile broadcast antenna; and routing signals to and from the wireless communication device according to a non-standard protocol, thereby disabling normal operation of the wireless communication device. The mobile broadcast antenna includes a signal capturing module configured to receive information relevant to satisfaction of the signal control protocol and to alter a signal of the mobile broadcast antenna. The signal capturing module detects signal strengths from other broadcast antenna and alters a broadcast strength of the mobile broadcast antenna to be higher than the detected signal strengths. The signal capturing module calculates a desired signal strength difference according to a desired protection characteristic and alters the broadcast strength of the mobile broadcast antenna to satisfy the desired signal strength difference.
US08190133B2
A method is devoted to adapting communication within a communication network with a service core network (CR). This method consists of adding to user profiles (who are subscribers to the network's services) an information field describing at least one physical limitation, and if a signaling message is received regarding communication involving a user whose user profile describes a given physical limitation, of adding to that signaling message a header representative of that physical limitation. Thus, whenever a communication device (T1) involved in the communication with said user receives the signaling message, it adapts, if he or she is affected and so desires, the type and/or at least one parameter of the communication with the user based on the physical limitation.
US08190130B2
The present invention provides a system and method for notifying a subscriber of events. A subscriber event request is received at a call center. An event activation table is created based on the received subscriber event request. The event activation table is sent to an event table storage system. A subscriber notification is sent from the event table storage system in accordance with the event activation table. A computer usable medium with suitable computer program code is employed for notifying a subscriber of events.
US08190126B1
A communication device having a secret mode enters the secret mode in response to receiving a secret mode access key. In the secret mode, the communication device receives a first instruction to handle a covert communication source in the secret mode. The communication device receives a second instruction to exit the secret mode. After exiting the secret mode, and in response to the first instruction, the communication device provides a covert communication alert for an incoming communication from the covert communication source. The communication device provides overt communication alerts for incoming communications from overt communication sources.
US08190120B1
A method for providing location information for a wireless device in a communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving a usage data record for the wireless device at an access node, and providing the usage data record to an authentication node. The method further comprises creating a location record from the usage data record when the authentication node determines that the communication system does not require the usage data record, populating the location record with one or more location attributes associated with the wireless device, and providing the location record to the authentication node.
US08190118B2
A subscriber of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) receiving an EAS alert message can obtain additional multimedia information in based upon the location of the subscriber. The additional multimedia information can include information pertaining to available shelter, medical facilities, the location of emergency supplies, a plume map, evacuation routes, or the like. In an example embodiment, the Global Positioning System or other device location systems is utilized to determine the location of the subscriber. The location information along with EAS alert information is used to query a database to obtain the additional information.
US08190117B2
A mixer circuit includes a voltage-to-current converter which converts a positive phase input voltage signal and a reversed phase input voltage signal input to a first input terminal and a second input terminal into a positive phase current signal and a reversed phase current signal, a switching circuit switches over the positive phase current signal and the reversed phase current signal according to a positive phase local signal and a reversed phase local signal, and generates a positive phase output current signal and a reversed phase output current signal, and an impedance element connected between the first common terminal and the second common terminal, having a relatively high impedance to a differential-mode signal between the positive phase current signal and the reversed phase current signal, and having a relatively low impedance to a common-mode signal between the positive phase current signal and the reversed phase current signal.
US08190109B2
Real-time calibration of a tunable matching network that matches the dynamic impedance of an antenna in a radio frequency transmitter system. The radio frequency transmitter system includes two non-linear equations that may be solved to determine the reflection coefficient of the antenna. The tunable matching network is repeatedly perturbed and the power reflected by the antenna is measured after each perturbation at the same node within the tunable matching network. The power values are used by an optimizer in converging to a solution that provides input impedance of the antenna. The elements of the matching circuit are adjusted to match the input impedance of the antenna.
US08190104B2
A controller of a MIMO antenna apparatus calculates a current transmission capacity based on signal levels detected by a signal level detector circuit. The controller calculates an estimated transmission capacity assuming that at least one of antenna elements currently connected to a MIMO modulator and demodulator circuit is changed to a further antenna element not connected to the MIMO modulator and demodulator circuit, based on the detected signal levels and degrees of electromagnetic coupling stored in a degree-of-coupling memory. The controller controls a switch circuit to connect the further antenna element to the MIMO modulator and demodulator circuit when the current transmission capacity becomes lower than the estimated transmission capacity.
US08190095B1
A wireless communication access point is provided with an infrared beacon transmitter to signal a connection request to a portable wireless device, such as a microphone, using an IR room code. In response to this IR room code, the portable wireless device broadcasts a RF inquiry message that is responded to by the wireless communication access point in order to establish a RF communication link. After the RF communication link is established, the wireless communication access point periodically transmits the IR room code to verify that it is still collocated in the local vicinity of the portable wireless device, such as being in the same room.
US08190084B1
Systems and methods of supporting a communication session are provided. A first endpoint is authenticated with a terrestrial wireless communication network, wherein the first endpoint is in wireless communication with a satellite communication network. A quality of service is determined for communications exchanged between the first endpoint and a second endpoint supported by the terrestrial communication network. Communications are exchanged between the first and second endpoints in accordance with the determined quality of service.
US08190083B2
Methods and apparatus relating to communicating in a system including relay stations are described. Various described methods and apparatus are directed to improved performance and/or mitigating interference in relay station boundary areas. Relay station transmission power is controlled based on at least one of time or frequency such that a transmission power level for a frequency is varied in a predetermined manner with time or such that different transmission power levels are used for different carrier frequencies. Different adjacent relay stations are intentionally configured to use different transmission power levels for the same carrier and/or have different time varying transmission power level profiles for the same carrier. A relay station performs access terminal scheduling based on access terminal location with respect to relay station boundary regions and transmission power level information.
US08190076B2
A transparent toner image forming device forms a transparent toner image on a sheet on which a color toner image is fixed. Image information that is designated by a user for forming the transparent toner image on part of the sheet is obtained. Application of the transparent toner is controlled such that, when the color toner is fixed in an amount not less than a predetermined first amount per unit area in a first region designated so as not to form the transparent toner image on the basis of image information, the transparent toner image is formed in a predetermined second amount per unit area in the first region. The transparent toner image is formed in an amount not less than the predetermined second amount per unit area in a second region designated so as to form the transparent toner image on the basis of the image information.
US08190075B2
An electrophotographic endless metallic belt is provided with improved crack resistance to repeated bending and rubbing against a control member coming into contact therewith, thereby improving its durability. Each edge face of the metallic belt is so shaped as to have a ridge between an outer-surface edge and an inner-surface edge of the metallic belt. As a result, internal stress in the part of the belt that contacts the control member, as a result of contact therewith, is reduced.
US08190072B2
A developing device includes a container storing a two-component developer including a toner and a carrier, a toner carrying body carrying the toner in the container and supplying the toner to a predetermined image carrying body by rotation, a restricting member held in press contact with the toner carrying body, and a restricting nip section formed between the toner carrying body and the restricting member. The restricting nip section selects only the toner in the two-component developer to form a uniform toner layer on the toner carrying body.
US08190058B2
A drum cartridge detachably mountable to an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, which apparatus including a main assembly, and a supporting member, swingably mounted to the main assembly, for supporting a plurality of developing devices and for bringing the developing devices sequentially to a developing position by rotation thereof, the apparatus including an electrophotographic photosensitive member drum; and a detachable spacer member for moving the supporting member away from the electrophotographic photosensitive member drum by contacting to the supporting member when the drum cartridge is mounted to the main assembly.
US08190054B2
In an image forming apparatus, a fixing unit is supported by a unit holder attached to a structure frame. The structure frame includes a first upright panel and a second upright panel. A protrusion is provided on the first upright panel and a guide groove that receives the protrusion is provided on the unit holder. An eccentric cam engages with the unit holder at an engaging position and that is to be operated to move the first unit holder in the first direction relative to the structure frame for position adjustment. The engaging position is located on a vertical line extending through a center of mass of the fixing unit.
US08190052B2
An intermediate transfer body is provided. An intermediate transfer body includes an intermediate transfer belt and a belt cleaning section including a cleaning blade. A plurality of projecting portions extending so as to have a predetermined angle with respect to a width direction of the intermediate transfer belt are provided on a surface of an elastic layer of the intermediate transfer belt. The cleaning blade is formed such that a width W1 of one end in a lateral direction thereof is longer than a width W2 of the elastic layer in a width direction of the intermediate transfer belt.
US08190042B1
A system for manufacturing a 3-D display device is disclosed. The system includes a lenticular image former capable of generating a color lenticular image from a plurality of two dimensional color images, and an electrophotographic printing apparatus configured to receive the color lenticular image from the lenticular image former and to print a CMYK half tone color lenticular image on a surface of a polymeric lenticular lens medium using a powder type toner such that each color when it is printed on the surface of the lenticular lens medium has a printing density of at least 1.0.
US08190032B2
An O/E conversion element converts an input NRZ optical signal into an electric signal. A clock recovery circuit recovers a clock signal from the electric signal obtained by the O/E conversion element. A phase modulator applies phase modulation to the NRZ optical signal, using the recovered clock signal. An intensity modulator applies intensity modulation to the NRZ optical signal, using the recovered clock signal. A dispersion medium compensates for a frequency chirp of an optical signal output from the intensity modulator.
US08190031B2
In an optical network design apparatus, a constraint setter sets a first constraint that one of alternative values given beforehand is selected as the dispersion compensation amount of each node, sets a first margin value that assumes a nonnegative value, sets a second constraint that the first margin value is equal to or greater than the difference between the residual dispersion and the lower bound of an allowable range, sets a second margin value that assumes a nonnegative value, and sets a third constraint that the second margin value is equal to or greater than the difference between the upper bound of the allowable range and the residual dispersion. A calculation controller generates an objective function including the first, second and third constraints and including a summation of the first and second margin values for all paths, and derives a solution that minimizes the objective function.
US08190029B2
An object of the present invention is to increase the bandwidth use efficiency without requiring costly and fast integrated circuits or CPUs in the control unit even in a large-scale system with a large number of ONUs. An optical network unit includes an allocating unit that determines bandwidth allocation based on a predetermined allocation condition and a bandwidth transmitting unit that transmits bandwidth allocation information determined by the allocating unit to an optical line terminator. The optical line terminator is connected to a plurality of optical network units and includes a pipeline transmitting unit that transmits bandwidth allocation information transmitted from the optical network units to all optical network units to be allocated with bandwidth.
US08190010B2
A device and method for retrofitting a camera system is disclosed. The method may include detecting a first signal while it is being sent by a source device of the camera system to a remote device of the camera system, and wirelessly transmitting a data stream, which may include control instructions and trigger instructions, detected in the first signal using a transmitter unit. The method may also include wirelessly receiving the data stream using a receiver unit, converting the data stream into a second signal that is substantially the same as the first signal which may include configuring the second signal as light pulses. The method may also include directing the second signal toward the remote device which may be responsive to the light pulses.
US08190003B2
A storage medium storing: video data; and graphics data for displaying a menu. The graphics data includes first graphics data displayed on the screen when an activation command is generated by a user and may also include second graphics data displayed on the screen at a designated time.
US08190002B2
An image supplying method includes the steps of: transmitting encoded video data including a key frame that is encoded by an inter-frame encoding process; receiving a seek operation and acquires a first play point in a desired seek position of the encoded video data; determining a search range including the acquired first play point; searching for key frames from the determined search range; determining a position of a key frame having a shortest distance from the first play point as a second play point in a case where the key frame is detected from the search range by the key frame searching unit; and transmitting the encoded video data from the key frame corresponding to the determined second play point.
US08190001B2
The present invention is directed to a method of exhibiting a multi-dimensional production consisting of two or more interrelated stories, storylines and/or story parts. The interrelated stories, storylines and story parts are multiplexed onto a single track of a plurality of tracks. The viewer can choose to switch between various stories, storylines or story parts at any time during the viewing of the production. A de-multiplexer would be provided for de-multiplexing the production based upon the selection by the viewer. The de-multiplexer can be provided proximate to the viewer or at a remote location from the viewer.
US08189999B2
In one embodiment, the method includes writing, in a data area of the recording medium, a stream including at least one still picture and at least one presentation information. The presentation information includes presentation timing information for the still picture. The embodiment further includes writing, in a navigation area of the recording medium, management information used to reproduce the still picture.
US08189974B2
An optical fiber cable 1 includes: a cable core 9 formed by stranding a plurality of loose tubes 7, each housing at least one optical fiber 5, on the periphery of a centered tension member 3; and a sheath 11 disposed on the outer periphery of the cable core 9. The sheath 11 includes: a first sheath portion 13 in which the sheath is embedded in between each of the loose tubes 7; and a second sheath portion 15, in which the sheath 11 is circumscribed around the cable core 9, to be thereby formed in a pipe shape. The first sheath portion 13 and the second sheath portion 15 are alternately positioned over the entire length of the cable core 9.
US08189971B1
Systems and methods for producing ultra-short optical pulses are provided. According to various embodiments, optical pulses are generated, stretched, amplified, and compressed to ultra-short lengths. In order to achieve the ultra-short lengths, dispersion compensation is provided prior to amplification and optionally before compression. Dispersion compensation prior to amplification can be performed by passing the optical pulses through a polarization-maintaining fiber that includes a nonlinear Bragg grating. In some embodiments, the optical pulses are repeatedly circulated through the polarization-maintaining fiber that includes the nonlinear Bragg grating. Dispersion compensation before compression can be achieved by passing the amplified optical pulse through another length of polarization-maintaining fiber.
US08189964B2
Aspects of the invention pertain to matching a selected image/photograph against a database of reference images having location information. The image of interest may include some location information itself, such as latitude/longitude coordinates and orientation. However, the location information provided by a user's device may be inaccurate or incomplete. The image of interest is provided to a front end server, which selects one or more cells to match the image against. Each cell may have multiple images and an index. One or more cell match servers compare the image against specific cells based on information provided by the front end server. An index storage server maintains index data for the cells and provides them to the cell match servers. If a match is found, the front end server identifies the correct location and orientation of the received image, and may correct errors in an estimated location of the user device.
US08189963B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for matching a visual media object to an advertisement are provided. Embodiments of the present invention include receiving un-categorized visual media objects, automatically categorizing received visual media objects into subject-matter categories using image recognition technology, and retrieving advertisements assigned to the same subject-matter category for presentation in association therewith.
US08189958B2
The present invention provides a method of fast image construction. The wavelength information is extracted in advance based on characteristics of a Fourier domain Optical Coherent Tomography (OCT) system, to obtain a vector of wavelengths which are in a uniform distribution in a wave number space, and thus to obtain a virtual position coefficient of this wavelength vector at a CCD, from which a weight matrix is calculated based on a transfer function for a discrete Fourier transform with zero-padding interpolation. In operation of the system, the interpolation is carried out based on the weight matrix and collected data, or is carried out based on the weight matrix which has been truncated by being subject to windowing and the collected data, to obtain interpolated data satisfying requirements. The method according to the present invention is simple and easy to implement, by which, it is possible to improve the precision and speed of the Fourier domain OCT data process, and thus to improve the capacity of real-time image reconstruction of the Fourier domain OCT system.
US08189947B2
Provided is an image edge correction apparatus and method. The image edge correction apparatus includes an edge information extraction unit extracting edge information of an input image based on luminance change directivity information of the input image and an edge enhancement unit enhancing an edge of the input image by applying different luminance weights to a pixel of interest included in the input image based on the edge information of the input image. Thus, by appropriately enhancing a contour portion of an image while minimizing noise in a plane portion of the image, the sharpness of the image can be improved.
US08189946B2
The intensities of horizontal and vertical edges of each block of luminance signals of an image are measured, and horizontal and vertical edge intensity data of respective blocks are stored for one frame in an edge intensity mapping memory. A noise removal flag used to specify a filtering block is calculated based on the edge intensity data, and is stored in a noise removal flag mapping memory. A filter controller controls whether or not to apply filtering processing to each block, specified by this noise removal flag, of the current frame of the image based on the horizontal and vertical edge intensity data of that block of the current frame and those of the corresponding block of the immediately preceding frame.
US08189942B2
A focus-quality judging method includes the following steps. Firstly, a comparing object including a target area is provided. A reference image pickup device is provided to shoot the comparing object to obtain a standard image including a standard target area image. Then, a first pixel number contained in the standard target area image is counted. The comparing object is shot by a test image pickup device to obtain a test image including a test target area image, wherein the test image has the same resolution as the standard image. Then, a second pixel number contained in the test target area image is counted. The first pixel number contained in the standard target area image is compared with the second pixel number contained in the test target area image. According to the comparing results, it is discriminated whether the test image pickup device performs an accurate focusing operation.
US08189930B2
A calibrated categorizer comprises: a multi-class categorizer configured to output class probabilities for an input object corresponding to a set of classes; a class probabilities rescaler configured to rescale class probabilities to generate rescaled class probabilities; and a resealing model learner configured to learn calibration parameters for the class probabilities rescaler based on (i) class probabilities output by the multi-class categorizer for a calibration set of class-labeled objects, (ii) confidence measures output by the multi-class categorizer for the calibration set of class-labeled objects, and (iii) class labels of the calibration set of class-labeled objects, the class probabilities rescaler calibrated by the learned calibration parameters defining a calibrated class probabilities rescaler. In a method embodiment, class probabilities are generated for an input object corresponding to a set of classes using a classifier trained on a first set of objects, and are rescaled to form rescaled class probabilities using a resealing algorithm calibrated using a second set of objects different from the first set of objects. The method may further entail thresholding the rescaled class probabilities using thresholds calibrated using the second set of objects or a third set of objects.
US08189927B2
A method of face categorization and annotation of a face image library includes automatically cropping a face within an acquired digital image or removing one or more non-facial items from the digital image, or both, and thereby generating a full-size face image. The full-size face image is stored with other indicia identifying a person corresponding to the face in a face image library of an embedded device such as a mobile camera phone or other handheld camera device.
US08189925B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods and computer storage media for associating a known geographic location with a known identity. Feature matching, of at least two images, is performed in at least two iterations. The iterations are based on an orientation of feature vectors associated with points of interest in each image. A geometric model is applied to the matched points of interest to improve the matched pairs. Two images are identified as being related. As a result, the known geographic location is associated with the known identity. Additional embodiments include augmenting feature vectors with a coordinate location of a related point of interest based on a geometric model. Further, an exemplary embodiment includes an additional matching iteration based on the augmented feature vectors. In an exemplary embodiment, the feature matching utilizes a Scale-Invariant Feature Transform (SIFT).
US08189919B2
A method and system for container identification are disclosed. The method comprises obtaining a plurality of digital images of a character sequence on the container, extracting the character sequences from the images, combining the character sequences into at least one identification code candidate, and selecting one of the candidates as the identification code. The system comprises at least one camera and a computer system that is electrically coupled to the camera, whereby when the computer system receives a trigger signal, said computer system takes a plurality of digital images from the camera, produces character sequences as partial recognition results for the plurality of digital images, and combines the partial recognition results together to produce the identification code.
US08189918B2
An information storage medium including graphic data and presentation information, and an apparatus and method of processing the graphic data are provided. The information storage medium includes the graphic data, page composition information which defines page composition of the graphic data, and the presentation information indicating when graphic screen data, which is composed with reference to the page composition information of the graphic data, is output to a display screen. Therefore, a graphic object is reusable in graphic data processing, and accordingly, a time taken to process the graphic data is reducible and memory area may be saved.
US08189903B2
According to an aspect of the invention, there is provided a photomask evaluation method including, acquiring a pattern image of a photomask, generating sidewall angle data on the sidewall angle of a pattern from the pattern image, extracting a pattern outline from the pattern image to generate outline data, and running a lithographic simulation on the basis of the outline data and the sidewall angle data to calculate an exposure margin.
US08189897B2
The object in a program-controlled microscope and method for the external control of microscopes is to ensure the availability of externally generated data independent from the external control device generating the data. The microscope has an interface by which data which are generated externally by the control device and which are not provided in the control program internal to the microscope are stored in and/or read out from a storage internal to the microscope.
US08189894B2
A method for processing anatomic images acquired in volume by a medical imaging system. Also, a medical imaging system and a computer program, each configurable to perform this method.
US08189888B2
A medical reporting system includes a display panel for displaying plural CT images. A ROI setting unit designates a region of interest in the CT images. A group setting unit sets a group of specific CT images having the region of interest among the CT images, to generate group information of the group. A report editor displays a note area for inputting a note related to the specific CT images. A memory stores a text location of the note area assigned to the group information, and stores location information of the region of interest in the specific CT images. Furthermore, a first terminal device has the report editor, the ROI setting unit and the group setting unit. A second terminal device communicates with the first terminal device on line. A reporting display panel displays at least the specific CT images and the note.
US08189887B2
A standard used to test imaging systems is imaged by a digital camera which expresses the image of the standard as a plurality of pixels having associated intensities. A computer automatically finds the image of the standard in the image and quantitatively compares intensities of pixels of a subsequent image of the standard to the first image to discern changes indicative of malfunction. A set of images of the standard may be collected and compiled to develop standard data, such as average of median values, that can be used to test imaging apparatus. The standard may be provided with a plurality of types of imaging standards occupying sub-areas that produce a different photoresponse to a plurality of different light sources. A fluorescent standard may be included that has a plurality of different fluorescence levels. Multiple sub-areas of the same type may be distributed over the surface area of the standard to measure the photoresponse in several areas and also to facilitate locating all sub-areas of the standard, e.g., multiple white squares may be distributed over the standard that may be identified by thresholding. The results of testing via the standard may be graphically displayed.
US08189885B2
The present invention is an apparatus and method for computing regional statistical distributions or characteristics of one or more quantitative measures over a mean anatomic space for one or more predefined populations and uses this statistical distributions/characteristics to study, research or understand the regional response of a disease or a treatment process and to regionally assess clinical status in patient data from an unknown population for diagnostic purposes.
US08189881B1
A fingerprint sensor uses beams of light to detect a fingerprint as the finger is swiped over a ridged surface. The beams of light are directed toward individual regions of the ridged surface so that the light beams will generally be totally internally reflected when a finger is not touching the ridge. The total internal reflection characteristics of the ridged surface are altered at regions touched by the ridges on the finger as the finger is swiped over the sensor. This alters the amount of light reflected by the ridged surface. These changes in light reflection as the finger is swiped over the ridged surface can be observed simultaneously over multiple channels, preferably disposed laterally with respect to each other, to provide a fingerprint.
US08189876B2
There are described methods and apparatus for assessing sediments generated in liquid-based systems. The methods involve optically obtaining information to enable height and, thus, volume data relating to sediments to be measured. Although single samples of liquid-based systems may be processed the methods are particularly suited to processing multiple samples to obtain data relating to sediments at a high rate. The apparatus includes automated handling equipment to enable samples to be moved between workstations and relative to associated optical equipment that is used to obtain information relating to the sediments.
US08189871B2
A vision system for a vehicle includes an imaging device having an imaging sensor with a field of view exterior the vehicle, a camera controller, a display device and a display controller. The display device is operable to display information for viewing by a driver of the vehicle. The imaging device communicates an image signal to the display device via a link. The display controller may affect the image signal, such as in response to a user input, and the camera controller may adjust a function of the imaging device in response to a detection of the affected image signal. The vision system may adjust an image displayed by the display device in response to a signal from an auxiliary sensing system of the vehicle, such as a distance sensing system of the vehicle that is operable to determine a distance to an object exterior the vehicle.
US08189870B2
The present invention relates to a process for the automatic determination of the coefficient of a slope from a motor vehicle fitted with a camera.
US08189868B2
A vehicle periphery monitoring device is operable to report a high contact possibility between a vehicle and an object at an appropriate time or frequency according to the type of the object. When the object is determined to be a human being and the position of the object in real space is contained in a first contact determination area, a high contact possibility between the vehicle and the object is reported. On the other hand, when the object is determined to be a quadruped animal and the real spatial position of the object is contained in a second contact determination area, the corresponding report is made. The second contact determination area has an overlapped area that overlaps with the first contact determination area, and an overflowed area that has at least a part thereof overflowing from the first contact determination area.
US08189867B2
A learning method is disclosed for an article storage facility having an article storage rack including article storage units arranged in a rack lateral width direction and a vertical direction, a vertically movable lift, and a horizontal travel carriage associated with the vertically movable lift. A frontal view camera is positioned with respect to the article transfer device such as to capture an image of a detected member provided for each of the storage units from a rack fore-and-aft direction. An angular view camera is positioned with respect to the article transfer device such as to be displaced relative to the frontal view camera in the rack lateral width direction or the vertical direction and such as to capture an image of a detected member from a direction at an angle relative to the rack fore-and-aft direction. And vertical direction correction information, rack lateral width correction information and extending and retracting distance correction information are derived based from image information.
US08189863B1
A watermark is embedded in a document having a plurality of pages. The pages of the document are analyzed to produce watermark information, which indicates whether the page is suitable for use with one or more of a plurality of watermarking schemes. The plurality of watermarking schemes may include page element shifting, flyspecking and text warping. An identifier (ID) is established, the ID associating the document with a user receiving the document. The ID is embedded in the pages of the document using the plurality of watermark schemes according to the watermark information. To recover an ID from a document, the pages of the document are analyzed to identify watermark information associated with the document. Embedded watermarks are recovered from the pages using the watermark information.
US08189860B2
A method and system for increasing the detection, location, identification or classification of objects hidden on the surface or buried below the surface of the ground is disclosed. The method acquires image data in separate IR and/or visible spectral regions simultaneously and converts the data into intensity value arrays for each spectral region. These intensity value arrays are transformed into two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform arrays for each spectral region. The background clutter from the two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform arrays is removed; forming clutter reduced two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform arrays. The inverse two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform is performed on the clutter reduced two-dimensional discrete wavelet transform arrays to form clutter removed intensity value arrays. These arrays are subtracted in a pair-wise mariner to obtain chemical-specific spectral signatures. The processed images are correlated with 3-dimensional matched filters of known emissive signatures of objects to detect the presence of the object.
US08189859B2
There are provided an apparatus for inserting a watermark and a method therefor. The apparatus for inserting a watermark includes a watermark pattern image receiving unit that stores a watermark pattern image including a preset bit value; a watermark information generation unit that stores watermark information including binary tracking information generated based on at least one of a user ID value and a terminal ID value; and a watermark insertion unit that receives watermark pattern images corresponding to bit values of the stored watermark information from the watermark pattern image generation unit, and overlays the watermark pattern images in sequence on a display screen.
US08189856B2
System and apparatus for evaluating the reliability of a watermarking technique for a video sequence
A system and apparatus for evaluating the reliability of a watermarking technique for a video sequence, said system and apparatus comprising: a) a calibrating means adapted to calibrate said system and apparatus using a test original video sequence and a test attacked video sequence in compliance with predetermined degrees of quality; b) an attacking means adapted to attack embedded watermark in said video sequence, said attack selected from a group of attacks; and c) an evaluating means including a comparator means for comparing the test original video sequence with test attacked video sequence and the watermark in the test original video sequence with the watermark in the test attacked video sequence to evaluate the reliability of a watermarking technique to give a reliability score.
US08189854B2
A method of embedding information in digital content representing media streams. The method includes (1) selecting a set of locations within that digital content representing the media stream to embed information, (2) selecting a set of possible alterations to make at those locations, and (3) making a subset of the possible alterations. The set of locations and possible alterations is herein sometimes called a “watermark.” The subset of actual alterations that are made is herein sometimes called a “fingerprint.” The method determines a set of locations at which there are alternative versions of digital content representing the same media stream, such as one being the original and one being an alternative version of the same digital content, herein sometimes called the “original movie” and the “alt-movie,” or herein sometimes called the “original block” and the “alt-block” for a particular block in the digital content representing the media stream.
US08189819B2
Sound control circuit comprising a game port, installed on a digital audiovisual reproduction system managed by an operating system, characterized in that the game port in the sound control circuit is used to create an access to the configuration of the audiovisual reproduction system and/or additional management functions for the audiovisual reproduction system.
US08189817B2
System for pulse-width-modulated class D audio amplifiers. In one preferred embodiment an adder is described to generate a difference signal responsive to an input signal and a feedback signal, a pulse-width-modulator coupled to the adder to compare the difference signal to a reference signal and produce a pulse-width-modulated signal based on the comparing, a filter coupled to an output of the pulse-width-modulator, and a loop filter having a first input coupled to the output of the filter and a second input coupled to the input of the filter, the loop filter to generate a feedback signal by applying transfer functions to signals at its inputs. The loop transfer function of the amplifier is minimum aliasing error transfer function. The minimum aliasing error properties provide low distortion and taking the feedback from the output of the filter reduces high frequency output impedance.
US08189809B2
An audio device includes a first audio path with a loudspeaker for reproducing an audio signal, and a second audio path. The second audio path includes in series a band-pass filter for filtering an audio signal, a detector for detecting the amplitude of the band-pass filtered audio signal, a multiplier for multiplying a periodic signal by the amplitude of the band-pass filtered audio signal, and a vibration device for reproducing the multiplied periodic signal. The frequency of the periodic signal is substantially equal to the resonance frequency of the vibration device.
US08189802B2
An improved power amplifier system is provided. The power amplifier system includes a programmable digital filter and a power amplifier, each responsive to a plurality of frequency response settings and switching frequency settings, respectively. Each frequency response setting and switching frequency setting is adaptively selected by a processor device to match a bandwidth of an incoming audio signal. The processor device identifies the current bandwidth of an incoming audio signal and adaptively selects a switching rate setting and a frequency response setting based on the current bandwidth. The frequency response setting is selected so as to reduce noise fold over in the power amplifier for a corresponding bandwidth, sampling rate setting, and switching frequency setting.
US08189798B2
A method for controlling a maximum signal level output to headphones of a wireless device is provided. The method includes: determining an impedance of the headphones; determining a carrier specific maximum signal level for headphones having the impedance; and, adjusting an audio amplifier of the wireless device coupled to the headphones to restrict the maximum signal level output to the headphones to the carrier specific maximum signal level.
US08189796B2
The present invention concerns a voice response system in which a voice response unit sends a monaural voice signal corresponding to a request signal from a communication terminal to the communication terminal. The communication terminal comprises a monaural/stereo conversion portion for converting a monaural voice signal from the voice response unit to a stereo voice signal and a stereo voice outputting portion for outputting a converted stereo voice signal.
US08189792B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having logic to perform a round of a cryptographic algorithm responsive to first and second round micro-operations to perform the round on first and second pairs of columns, where the logic includes dual datapaths that are half the width of the cryptographic algorithm width (or smaller). Additional logic may be used to combine the results of the first and second round micro-operations to obtain a round result. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08189790B2
A technique for using a key repository to store data encryption keys provides a way to access key records in the key repository using a key identifier constructed from a media identifier associated with a data storage medium on which encrypted data is or will be stored. The media identifier is hashed and added to a counter value to produce the key identifier. In some embodiments, the technique is implemented in an encryption switch that provides data-at-rest encryption for a storage access network, but in other embodiments, the technique may be implemented in other devices, including data storage devices and hosts.
US08189785B2
Substantially identical numerical sequences known only to stations A and B are generated in a manner not subject to duplication by an eavesdropper and not subject to cryptanalytic attack because they are not derived using a mathematical function (such, as for example, factoring). The sequences are independently derived utilizing a physical phenomena that can only be “measured” precisely the same at stations A and B. Signals are simultaneously transmitted from each station toward the other through a communication channel having a characteristic physical property capable of modifying the signals in a non-deterministic way, such as causing a phase shift. Each signal is “reflected” by the opposite station back toward its station of origin. The effect of the communication channel is “measured” by comparing original and reflected signals. Measured differences are quantized and expressed as numbers.
US08189781B1
A method includes obtaining an original image; dividing the original image into a plurality of pixel blocks; forming a scrambled image by rearranging the plurality of pixel blocks; and forming a markup language description to display the original image from the scrambled image. Each pixel block may represent a rectangular region of the original image. The markup language description may be an HTML description.
US08189777B2
A display panel driver includes: an encryption unit configured to receive pixel data of unit pixels from an image data source, generate an encryption key by comparing an odd-numbered pixel data with a subsequent even-numbered pixel data, and assign a reference value corresponding to the encryption key; and a decryption unit configured to receive the encryption key and the reference value, compare the encryption key with a decryption key, and restore the odd-numbered pixel data and the even-numbered pixel data by using the reference value according to the comparison result.
US08189772B2
A method of performing a cryptographic operation on a point in an elliptic curve cryptosystem using an elliptic curve. The method comprises the steps of obtaining information that uniquely identifies the elliptic curve and performing computations on the point to obtain the result of the cryptographic operation. The computations use the information. The computations produce an incorrect result if the point is not on the elliptic curve.
US08189764B2
A SIP server 100 includes a first memory 20 storing a route management table in which, of route set information specified by a SIP signal on a session-by-session basis, address information as of each Record-Route header value is associated with a logical number, the same address information as of a Record-Route header values being set to the same single logical number; and a second memory 30 storing session information other than the address information as of each Record-Route header value, instance management information for use in session control, and logical numbers. The address information as of each Record-Route header value, which is stored in the first memory 20 is read on the basis of the logical numbers stored in the second memory 30.
US08189753B1
A distributed intercom system that interconnects a hub and various keypad and door zone units having microphones and/or speakers via CAT5 or similar cable having multiple twisted pairs. Audio is carried between all devices over a first audio wire pair, in analog signal format, forming an audio bus. Audio twisted pair acts as a data communication bus for control messages. One or more of receiver units may be active, while only one keypad device can be individually instructed to connect its corresponding microphone circuit to the audio bus. Determination of which unit is selected to be the transmitter occurs under the control of the hub. For example, in a case where a first user wishes to speak to another user in a different room, the first user presses a “talk” button at his keypad, causing that keypad to send out a message on a data communication bus to the hub. The hub unit then sends a reply on the data communication bus that grants permission to the first user's keypad to couple its microphone to the audio bus. The message is interpreted by the other stations as an instruction to keep their own microphones disconnected from the bus. A message is also sent to the desired receiving station(s) to couple their speakers to the bus to receive the audio signal.
US08189739B2
A radiosurgery system is described that delivers a therapeutic dose of radiation to a target structure in a patient. In some embodiments, inflammatory ocular disorders are treated, specifically macular degeneration. In some embodiments, ocular structures are placed in a global coordinate system, based on ocular imaging, which leads to direction of an automated positioning system. In some embodiments, the position of an ocular structure is tracked and related to a radiosurgery system. In some embodiments, a treatment plan is utilized for a specific disease to be treated and/or structures to be avoided. In some embodiments, a fiducial aids in positioning the system. In some embodiments, a reflection off the eye is used to aid in positioning. In some embodiments, radiodynamic therapy is described in which radiosurgery is used in combination with other treatments and can be delivered concomitant with, prior to, or following other treatments.
US08189733B2
A low power consumption shift register which inputs a CK signal with a low voltage with almost no effect of variation in characteristics of transistors. In the invention, an input portion of an inverter is set at a threshold voltage thereof and a CK signal is inputted to the input portion of the inverter through a capacitor means. In this mariner, the CK signal is amplified, which is sent to the shift register. That is, by obtaining the threshold potential of the inverter, the shift register which operates with almost no effect of variation in characteristics of transistors can be provided. A level shifter of the CK signal is generated from an output pulse of the shift register, therefore, the low power consumption shift register having the level shifter which flows a shoot-through current for a short period can be provided.
US08189726B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to integrated circuits comprising inputs for receiving an input signal and a plurality of clock signals having a predetermined phase relationship. The integrated circuit may include a plurality of track-and-hold devices and a plurality of slicer devices. Signal outputs of two track-and-hold devices may be coupled to signal inputs of one slicer device, one of the two track-and-hold devices and the slicer device being coupled to a first input configured to receive a first clock signal and the other track-and-hold device being coupled to a second input being configured to receive a second clock signal.
US08189715B2
A receiver and method for receiving symbols having a symbol period with duration SP comprising. N antenna signals are selected equally in time over a symbol period to obtain a combined antenna signal. An autocorrelation is performed on the combined antenna signal to obtain a combined signal. The combined signal is split into the corresponding antenna signal parts and subjected to an integration function. The output of the integration function is used the select the antenna signal with the best signal quality. The invention enables to perform an efficient antenna diversity circuit, which can partially be used for simultaneously preamble detection and frequency offset estimation.
US08189709B2
A method for frequency domain equalization of a cyclic CPM signal received via a channel is disclosed. In one aspect, the method includes representing the received cyclic CPM signal as a matrix model comprising a channel matrix representing influence of the channel, separate from a Laurent pulse matrix and a pseudocoefficient matrix respectively representing Laurent pulses and pseudocoefficients determined by Laurent decomposition of the received cyclic CPM signal. The method may further include applying a channel equalizer on the separate channel matrix and after the equalization. It may further include demodulating the received cyclic CPM signal by the matrix model, the demodulation exploiting known correlation properties of the Laurent pulses and the pseudocoefficients.
US08189705B2
A method and apparatus to perform equalization and decoding for a communication system are described. The embodiments may be directed to a method and apparatus to equalize a first signal and decode a second signal. In an embodiment, the second signal may include comparing the second signal with an output signal of a first feedback module. The decoded second signal may be compensated using a second feedback module. An output signal of the second feedback module may be compared with the equalized first signal to calculate the second signal.
US08189704B2
A method and apparatus are provided for joint equalization and decoding of multilevel codes, such as the Multilevel Threshold-3 (MLT-3) code, which are transmitted over dispersive channels. The MLT-3 code is treated as a code generated by a finite-state machine using a trellis having state dependencies between the various states. A super trellis concatenates the MLT-3 trellis with a trellis representation of the channel. Joint equalization and decoding of the received signal can be performed using the super trellis. A sequence detector is disclosed that uses the super trellis or a corresponding reduced-state trellis to perform joint equalization and decoding of the received signal to decode the MLT-3 coded data bits. The sequence detector may be embodied using maximum likelihood sequence estimation that applies the optimum Viterbi algorithm or a reduced complexity sequence estimation method, such as the reduced-state sequence estimation (RSSE) algorithm.
US08189703B2
Mobile device for receiving, demodulating, processing and storing an internet network or a cellular system provided photo, video or television (TV) signal. Processing photo and video signals generated in a cellular phone or mobile device and providing photo and video to a television (TV) set.Processing, modulating and transmitting a baseband video signal into a processed Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) modulated signal and transmitting OFDM modulated signal to a TV set or to a other mobile (portable) device. Method for receiving and processing a Global Positioning System (GPS) generated signal and touching the screen of a mobile phone and generating a processed control signal. Storing and transmitting a video signal and receiving, demodulating and processing a Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) modulated signal into a demodulated processed in-phase and quadrature-phase cross-correlated signal and demodulating and processing a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) modulated signal into a demodulated processed in-phase and quadrature-phase cross-correlated signal.
US08189681B1
A method and display system for displaying compressed video streams from a plurality of video sources. The display system comprises an input module for decompressing a compressed video stream in an intermediate data format, an intermediate module for receiving the video stream in the intermediate data format incompatible with a display device, and an output module for converting the video stream in the intermediate format into a final data format to be displayed on the display device.
US08189680B2
A picture encoding method of the present invention is a picture encoding method of predictively encoding an input picture with reference to pictures stored in a picture buffer, decoding the encoded input picture, judging whether or not the decoded picture is a picture for reference and whether or not the decoded picture is a picture for output which needs to be stored until its display time, and storing, in the picture buffer, the picture for reference and the picture for output based on the determination result.
US08189679B2
The present invention can reliably adjust the lip-sync between an video and audio at a decoder side, without making the viewer feel strangeness.In this invention, the encoded video frames to which video time-stamps VTS are attached and the encoded audio frames to which audio time-stamps ATS are attached, all received, are decoded, generating a plurality of video frames VF1 and a plurality of audio frames AF1. The video frames VF1 and audio frames AF1 are accumulated. Renderers 37 and 77 calculate the time difference resulting from a gap between the reference clock for the encoder side and the system time clock stc for the decoder side. In accordance with the time difference, the timing of outputting the plurality of video frames, one by one, on the basis of a timing of outputting the plurality of audio frames, one by one. Hence, the lip-sync can be achieved, while maintaining the continuity of the audio.
US08189665B2
An editing process is to be properly performed for video data that have been compression-encoded using inter-frame compression. Identification information that identifies a device that has recorded the stream file is extracted from the stream file that stores the video stream to be edited. When the extracted identification information represents a device that can encode the video stream with the same attribute as an attribute that the encoder of the editing apparatus can handle, an editing process is performed on the basis of a technique of decoding only a necessarily minimum region and re-encoding it. Otherwise, the editing process is performed on the basis of a technique of encoding all a video stream to be edited and re-encoding it. It can be determined whether or not the encoding process on the basis of the technique of decoding only a necessarily minimum region can be performed on the basis of only predetermined identification information contained in the video stream.
US08189660B2
Provided are a bit rate control method and apparatus for intra-only coding, the method including calculating a similarity between at least one block group from among block groups including a plurality of macroblocks in a current frame to be encoded and at least one block group in a previous frame, which corresponds to the at least one block group in the current frame, determining a target bit amount of a current block group including a current macroblock using a video characteristic of the previous frame if the calculated similarity is greater than a threshold value, determining a target bit amount of the current macroblock based on the determined target bit amount of the current block group, and calculating a quantization parameter of the current macroblock based on the determined target bit amount of the current macroblock and the amount of bits generated for up to a previous macroblock.
US08189658B2
A video-information encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus with a guarantee of a fixed processing time. By limiting the amount of data to be input into/output from a CABAC encoding unit and decoding unit on a unit-of-encoding basis, such as one picture, slice, macroblock or block, and by encoding uncompressed video data, it is possible to provide a video-information encoding apparatus and decoding apparatus with a guarantee of a fixed processing time. Thereby, an apparatus with a guarantee of the processing time can be mounted.
US08189656B2
Disclosed is a method (800) and an apparatus (250) for generating a scaled motion vector for a particular output coding unit, the method comprising determining (802) statistics of motion data from an area-of-interest selecting (804) from a pre-defined set (805-807) of re-sampling filters a re-sampling filter dependent upon said determined statistics for the particular output coding unit, and applying the selected re-sampling filter to motion vectors from said area-of-interest to generate the scaled motion vector.
US08189653B2
Techniques are described for optimizing processing facilities of a receiver in a wireless communication environment, taking into consideration processing performance set against the computing resources and/or power consumption required to obtain the processing performance. An embodiment of a radio receiver is described that includes a channel equalization means arranged to receive digital samples of an incoming signal and to generate an equalized output, said channel equalization means including means for processing said digital samples in accordance with an equalizer algorithm utilizing a set of equalizer parameters. The receiver can include means for estimating at least one parameter of a channel over which the signal has been received, and means for selecting at least one of said equalizer parameters based on at least one of said estimated channel parameters. Related methods, algorithms, and computer program products are also described.
US08189646B2
A spread-spectrum signal comprises a spreading waveform modulating a carrier wave and containing a real linear combination of a first waveform at a first waveform rate and a second waveform at a second waveform rate, the first waveform rate being distinct from the second waveform rate and both waveform rates being distinct and non-zero. The linear combination of the first and the second waveform is modulated with at least one binary sequence comprising a signal identification code.
US08189641B2
The semiconductor device includes: a base; a first mount placed on the bottom of the base; a second mount placed on the top of the base; a first light-emitting element placed on the bottom of the first mount; and a second light-emitting element placed on the top of the second mount for emitting light. The first light-emitting element and the second light-emitting element are placed so that the emission direction of light from the second light-emitting element is at an angle of depression with respect to the emission direction of light from the first light-emitting element and that the emission direction of light from the first light-emitting element and the emission direction of light from the second light-emitting element substantially coincide with each other as viewed from above the base.
US08189635B2
A laser diode having nano patterns is disposed on a substrate. A first conductive-type clad layer is disposed on the substrate, and a second conductive-type clad layer is disposed on the first conductive-type clad layer. An active layer is interposed between the first conductive-type clad layer and the second conductive-type clad layer. Column-shaped nano patterns are arranged at a surface of the second conductive-type clad layer to form a laser diode such as a distributed feedback laser diode.
US08189631B2
The present invention provides an external resonator-type wavelength tunable laser device that can properly fulfill a wavelength tuning function even with the use of a planar wavelength tunable reflector involving a considerable level of residual reflection. The external resonator-type wavelength tunable laser device includes a planar reflection structure enabling a reflection spectral peak wavelength to be varied and a semiconductor element as a semiconductor gain medium. The semiconductor gain medium is composed of a multiple quantum well in which product Γ·L of optical confinement constant Γ and semiconductor gain medium length L (μm) of a gain layer is at least 25 μm and at most 40 μm and in which gain peak wavelength λ0 (nm) observed during carrier injected with a maximum modal gain equal to an internal loss of the semiconductor gain medium is larger than −3·ΔR/2+(λc+35) and smaller than (−(Γ·L)/7+8)·ΔR+(−(Γ·L)+λc+45). Here, ΔR (dB) denotes a reflectance difference, and λc (nm) denotes a wavelength at a center of an operating wavelength range of the wavelength tunable laser device.
US08189630B2
A highly portable, high-powered infrared laser source is produced by intermittent operation of a quantum cascade laser power regulated to a predetermined operating range that permits passive cooling. The regulation process may boost battery voltage allowing the use of a more compact, low-voltage batteries.
US08189625B2
A method for clock link automatic protection in packet transport networks is disclosed. The method includes that: extending the clock synchronization status message to allow said clock synchronization status message to include: a clock identification (ID), a quality grade of clock, the number of network elements that the clock has passed, a clock alarm indication, and a forbidden-use indication; each network element in the clock link processes the clock synchronization status message; and said each network element selected a clock source according to the clock synchronization status message. The method in the present invention allows the network elements to be able to automatically select the optimal routing clock, forbid non-optimal routing clocks to participate in the selection, and effectively prevent the clocks from looping.
US08189608B2
According to embodiments of the invention, a first wireless access point discovers a second wireless access point, the first wireless access point tunes its radio and privacy settings, without user input, based upon parameters automatically exchanged in response to the discovery of the second wireless access point, and a secure direct wireless connection is established between the first and second wireless access points using the radio and privacy settings. Adding the first wireless to an existing mesh network includes a determination of the best available direct wireless connection.
US08189604B2
A system includes a terminal, a wireless access network, a multimedia core network and a network device, which connects the wireless access network to the multimedia core network, expanded location updating to the registration procedure of the multimedia core network, and performs double registration of the user to the multimedia core network. The terminal performs expanded location updating relaying the registration point identity of the multimedia core network, the user's phone number and the private user identity to the network device in connection with normal location updating signaling. In the double registration performed by the network device, two addresses are registered for the user of the terminal, one of which is associated with the domain name of the terminal in question or a numeric IP address, and the other to a domain name of the network device or a numeric IP address.
US08189597B2
A pipeline scheduler provides a minimum bandwidth guarantee by transporting cells from an input port to an output port in a two-phased approach. Cells that conform to a minimum cell rate (MCR) are selected from queues at the input port and arranged into supercells for transport to the output port, followed by nonconforming cells, to guarantee fairness by using scheduling modules to build the supercells first for conforming cells, and then for nonconforming cells. Reservation vectors are used to permit the same time slot of the next frame to be reserved by a first queue, and the same time slot of the following time frame to be held for reservation by a second queue, to ensure equal time slot access by the first and second queues over successive time frames.
US08189596B2
The invention relates to a method for the mapping of packet flows onto bearers in a communication system. The establishment of a session between a terminal and a remote terminal is initiated. Information on the session and packet flows associated with it is received to a second network node. A first network node obtains from the second network node one or two packet classifiers for each of the packet flows. At least a first bearer belonging to the bearers is established between the terminal and the first network node. A packet associated with the first bearer is received in the first network node. The packet is matched with the one or two packet classifiers associated with each of the packet flows to determine a first packet flow among the packet flows. A mapping is established between the first packet flow and the first bearer in the first network node.
US08189593B2
Provided is a communication system in which a transmission path between communication nodes is multiplexed. A communication node transmitting packets decides the order of the packets to be transmitted through each transmission path on the assumption that an event that causes a state change to the transmission path occurs upon the start of the packet transmission, such that the packet reception order is not reversed at a communication node that receives the packets.
US08189581B2
The present invention provides a method for transmitting broadcast channel information as part of a broadcast channel signal having one or more transmission intervals, where each transmission interval includes a plurality of transmissions, and one or more of the transmissions are active frames in which broadcast channel information is transmitted. Invariant portions that are present in the broadcast channel information are identified separate from any variant portions and are encoded for transmission, and the variant portions are used to select transmission specific configurations, which can be detected during the decoding by the receiver. Upon detection of the transmission specific configuration used to encode the invariant portions, the value of the variant portion can be identified and reintroduced as part of the received broadcast channel information.
US08189580B2
Disclosed herein are methods of searching for a host in a network using IPv4 and of blocking and searching a host in an IPv6 network which blocking access to an unauthorized network. The present invention provides a method of searching for a host in an IPv6 network, including the steps of requesting host information, including link-layer address information and IP address information about an IP to be searched for, by sending a Neighbor Solicitation (NS) packet in which the IP to be searched for is set in an ICMPv6 target address to the network, after sending the NS packet, waiting for a predetermined time by taking a processing speed of a host and a transfer rate according to a network environment and state into consideration, after the predetermined time of waiting, determining whether a Neighbor Advertisement (NA) packet of the IP to be searched for has been received, and if, as a result of the determination, the NA packet of the IP to be searched for is determined to have been received, acquiring the host information from the NA packet.
US08189578B2
A method for transmitting packets, including forwarding a first set of upstream packets and a first set of local packets by inserting at least one of the first set of local packets between subsets of the first set of upstream packets according to a first insertion rate; calculating a second insertion rate after forwarding a predetermined number of upstream packets generated by a single upstream source, by dividing a cardinality of the first set of upstream packets by a greatest common divisor of the predetermined number and the cardinality of the first set of upstream packets; and forwarding a second set of upstream packets and a second set of local packets from the local switch to the downstream switch by inserting at least one of the second set of local packets between subsets of the second set of upstream packets according to the second insertion rate.
US08189576B2
A system includes an input device configured to receive a packet having a header and a packet processing device. The packet processing device is configured to examine the header, identify at least one function from a group of functions based on at least a portion of the header, where the group of functions includes an index table lookup function, a filtering function, and a longest best match lookup function, perform the identified at least one function for the packet to obtain a result, and forward the packet using the result.
US08189570B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for system for processing calls to a SIP or VoIP device using the called party's Email address in which a call redirect server component is provisioned with the called party's Email address and VoIP or SIP device address, and a DNS system is updated with the called party's Email address and an address of the call redirect server. VoIP calls or other SIP sessions directed to the called party's Email address are resolved by the DNS system to the address of the redirect server, which in turn redirects the calls to the called party's VoIP or SIP device. The subscriber called party may provision the call redirect server with updated Email address or VoIP or SIP device address information to allow the subscribed to change VoIP phone service providers while callers only need to remember the subscriber's Email address.
US08189562B2
Methods are provided for managing communications over a communications routing network. A data store is maintained of records of communications links established over the communications routing network between a first endpoint of the communications routing network and multiple second endpoints of the communications routing network distinct from the first endpoint. A frequency analysis is performed of the second endpoints to identify a frequency of establishing a communications link between the first endpoint and each of the second endpoints. A list is generated of a subset of the second endpoints in accordance with a result of the frequency analysis.
US08189560B1
An apparatus for use with a first data device, a second data device, and a third data device operable to generate one of directly and indirectly an interrupt signal and to disable one of directly and indirectly the interrupt signal. The apparatus includes a switch connectable to the first data device, the second data device, and the third data device, the switch in a first state connecting the first data device and the second data device, the switch in a second state being operable, upon detection by the switch of the interrupt signal, to disconnect automatically the first data device from the second data device and to connect automatically thereafter the first data device to said the data device.
US08189552B2
A mobile router having a link monitor module is disclosed. The mobile router may be installed in a mobile vehicle and permit a local end-user to access wide area networks (e.g., the Internet) via the mobile router. The link monitor module may monitor the layer 2 and layer 3 links of the mobile router. When an interruption in one or more of the links is detected, the link monitor module may initiate corrective action to re-establish the link. That way, the interruption to the local end-user is minimized.
US08189545B2
There is provided a wireless LAN access point capable of confirming and changing the setting using the IP communication for a target wireless LAN access point positively even when the IP address of the wireless LAN access point is forgotten. The wireless LAN access point, upon receipt of a probe request, transmits a probe response while at the same time starting to transmit a beacon frame required to be periodically transmitted. The wireless LAN access point starts the DHCP server therein at the same time that the process of associating the wireless LAN station is started. The DHCP server operates only for the wireless interface of the wireless LAN access point and the wireless LAN station associated by use of the maintenance SSID. The wireless LAN access point, upon complete association of the wireless LAN station with the local access point, leases the IP address to the wireless LAN station from the DHCP server in the particular local access point.
US08189534B2
A base station system and method for call setting up, handing over and releasing in hybrid network are disclosed. The base station system consists of BSC, TC, several BTSs and a band-width guaranteed IP (Internet Protocol) network among them, IP mode transport and traditional TDM mode transport between BSC and TC are simultaneity supported in the system, and BTS supports TDM mode or IP mode. The invention is provided with such advantages: compatibility with TDM, which maximally protects the providers' investment; smooth transition from TDM to IP, which decreases investing risk; flexible choice for different physical layer or data link layer transmission apparatuses to bear IP message, which facilitates the providers to constitute their networks. In IP mode, data service can share bandwidth with the mute frames of voice service, the system can coexist with different IP networks such as 3G or WiMax, and the control plane and the user plane is independent each other so as to simplify the developing procedure and reduce the maintaining cost.
US08189529B2
A mobile communication system including a base station which divides a transmission frequency band into a plurality of frequency blocks, and assigns radio resources to each mobile station for each of the frequency blocks, the base station including: a frequency block assignment information creation portion that creates frequency block assignment information based on a downlink signal reception status and a downlink signal reception status degradation rate in each mobile station; and a radio resource assignment portion that assigns the radio resources to each frequency block based on the frequency block assignment information.
US08189528B2
A base station includes a multicast group administration unit administering a multicast group to which a mobile station belongs, a timing determination unit determining an inter-frequency measurement timing when the mobile station measures a signal having a frequency different from a frequency for a residing cell of the mobile station, and a transmission unit transmitting data. The timing determination unit assigns an uniform inter-frequency measurement timing for at least two mobile stations belonging to the same multicast group. The transmission unit transmits data to a mobile station within the multicast so as to avoid the inter-frequency measurement timing.
US08189521B2
A disclosed mobile station is designed to send or receive at least a control channel using a given frequency in a first operating mode and to tune to a frequency different from the given frequency and perform a neighboring cell search in a second operating mode. The mobile station includes a measuring unit configured to obtain a measurement of radio channel quality at a measurement interval; and a determining unit configured to compare the measurement and a threshold and to select one of the first operating mode and the second operating mode based on the result of comparison. The mobile station allows a base station to recognize the operating mode of the mobile station either by preventing reporting of the measurement lower than the threshold to the base station or by transmitting a signal indicating the selected operating mode to the base station.
US08189518B2
A method for using a format of an uplink control channel to transmit a channel quality indicator (CQI) is described. The uplink control channel is provided in a first format. The uplink control channel in the first format carries either the CQI or acknowledgment/non-acknowledgment (ACK/NAK) information. The CQI or the ACK/NAK information is inserted into the uplink control channel. Either the CQI or the ACK/NAK information is transmitted through uplink control channel.
US08189516B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a packet data control channel in an OFDMA wireless communication system are provided. The method includes dividing control information for user data transmitted during a specific frame into a packet data control channel to be transmitted in a diversity mode and a packet data control channel to be transmitted in an Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) mode; encoding and modulating the packet data control channel to be transmitted in the diversity mode and the packet data control channel to be transmitted in the AMC mode; and mapping the encoded and modulated packet data control channels to sub-carriers, before transmission.
US08189512B2
A method and apparatus for routing communications traffic in a Proxy Mobile IP communications network. A Mobile Node is attached to a first Proxy Mobile Agent, and an optimized route is established between the Mobile Node and a Corresponding Node via the first Proxy Mobile Agent. When the Mobile Node subsequently attaches to a second Proxy Mobile Agent, a determination is made that the Mobile Node is no longer attached to the first Proxy Mobile Agent. As a result of the determination a request is sent from the first Proxy Mobile Agent to the Corresponding Node to cancel the route optimization. In one embodiment, packets from the Corresponding Node are bi-cast from the Proxy Mobile Agent to the Home Agent and the Mobile Node. The Proxy Mobile Agent determines that the Mobile Node is no longer attached to if packets are not returned from the Home Agent.
US08189511B2
Systems and methods that provide remote access are described. In one embodiment, a system may include, for example, a plurality of communication devices and a media device. The plurality of communication devices may be operatively coupled to a network and may include, for example, a native communication device. The media device may be operatively coupled to the native communication device and the network. The media device may be associated with the native communication device and the network and may be capable of exchanging media content with the plurality of communication devices and the network. A profile of the media device may be stored in at least one of the media device and the native communication device. The profile may include, for example, information related to managing the media content when the media device is roaming.
US08189503B2
A system (190) provides information to multiple subscribers (105-125). The system (190) receives requests for different types of information from the subscribers (105-125) and stores rules for delivering the requested information. The system (190) gathers information from multiple information sources (145-155), packages at least some of the gathered information into customized bundles according to the received requests and the stored rules, and delivers the customized bundles to the subscribers (105-125) according to the stored rules.
US08189500B2
A communication terminal having a control unit performs a station search for determining that a not-yet-connected station is included in connectable stations, and performs a trial connection to the not-yet-connected station for determining whether the not-yet-connected station is capable of accommodating packet data communication. The determination results of the trial connection for the packet data communication, or packetability, are stored in a memory in the control unit in association with a station ID of the not-yet-connected station. The stored packetability of the not-yet-connected station is used for notifying a user, from a presentation unit of the communication terminal, of the availability of the packet data communication for the improved usability of the packet data communication.
US08189492B2
Architecture for enabling a communications endpoint to quickly recover from a packet loss, reducing duration of a signal dropout. A communications component sends a downlink of dependency-structured signals, such as audio and/or video signals using compressed frames between key frames. A multipoint control component (MCC) is located between the communications component and multiple endpoints, and distributes the downlink to the multiple endpoints. A frame caching component caches a key frame of the downlink. If a key frame is lost at one of the endpoints, the endpoint sends a packet loss report to the frame caching component. The key frame is resent from the frame caching component to the endpoint in response to the key frame loss. In this way, the frame caching component can respond to specific frame loss situations on any of the endpoints, without interfering with the performance on the other endpoints.
US08189490B2
A message analysis device serves for the analysis of messages transmitted via service access points on layers of an OSI reference model. The message analysis device comprises a storage device, for storing messages, a selection device, for reading a series of sequential messages and a display device, for the display of at least one first region and one second region. In the first region, a series of messages read by the selection device from the memory device can be displayed as a list. The selection device determines a characteristic feature of messages for at least one service access point, transmitted by the service access point, whereby the curve for the characteristic feature may be displayed on the display device in the second region.
US08189488B2
Methods, systems, and program products are provided for failback to a primary communications adapter. Embodiments of the present invention include receiving, in a driver for a primary communications adapter and a backup communications adapter, a link up event for the primary communications adapter; inferring that the primary communications adapter is capable of receiving packets; setting the backup communications adapter to idle; and activating the primary communications adapter. In typical embodiments, the primary communications adapter includes a plurality of linked communications adapters comprising an EtherChannel pseudo-adapter.
US08189482B2
In one embodiment, a routing node (e.g., a head-end node) determines a desire to route a selected tunnel (e.g., reroute), and computes a path for the selected tunnel. The routing node probes the path to discover information about tunnels that would be displaced by the selected tunnel if routed over the path (e.g., a number of tunnels), and correspondingly determines whether to establish the selected tunnel based on the information about the tunnels to be displaced. In another embodiment, intermediate nodes along the probed path of the selected tunnel may receive a probe (e.g., signaling message) requesting information about the tunnels that would be displaced by the selected tunnel. In response, each intermediate node inserts the information about the tunnels to be displaced at the intermediate node into the probe, and forwards the probe (e.g., toward the routing node initiating the probe).
US08189478B2
The invention relates to an optical data burst transmission method. An emitted network node obtains, together with a confirmation signal, information regarding the length of time of after which blocking no longer occurs and/or information indicating when the connection path is free. The emitted network node can be immediately emitted after an actual emitted data burst, another data burst and after other bursts. As a result, waiting time between the bursts is prevented and the available transmission capacity is used in an optimal manner. The probability of blocking is also reduced as is the necessary signaling information.
US08189477B2
A signal processing system which discriminates between voice signals and data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier. The signal processing system includes a voice exchange, a data exchange and a call discriminator. The voice exchange is capable of exchanging voice signals between a switched circuit network and a packet based network. The signal processing system also includes a data exchange capable of exchanging data signals modulated by a voiceband carrier on the switched circuit network with unmodulated data signal packets on the packet based network. The data exchange is performed by demodulating data signals from the switched circuit network for transmission on the packet based network, and modulating data signal packets from the packet based network for transmission on the switched circuit network. The call discriminator is used to selectively enable the voice exchange and data exchange.
US08189476B1
A method, apparatus, and system are directed toward managing network traffic over a plurality of Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) Level 2 switch ports. A network traffic is received over the plurality of OSI Level 2 switch ports. At least a part of the network traffic is categorized into a flow. The categorization may be based on a IP address, an OSI Level 4 port, a protocol type, a Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN) number, or the like, associated with the network traffic. One of the plurality of OSI Level 2 switch ports is selected based on a load-balancing metric. The load-balancing metric may be a priority of the flow, a congestion characteristic, a prediction of a load usage for the flow, a combination thereof, or the like. A frame associated with the flow is sent over the selected one of the plurality of OSI Level 2 switch ports.
US08189470B2
Provided is a communication apparatus by which a user can simply set a transmission quality in a network and QoS control effectively functions. QoS type receiving sections (11, 21, 31, 41) are arranged in communication apparatuses (10, 20, 30, 40) on a network, and a user is permitted to specify a QoS type to be requested to the communication apparatuses (10, 20, 30, 40), by operating the QoS type receiving sections (11, 21, 31, 41). When the communication apparatuses (10, 20, 30, 40) perform communication, the network is controlled to ensure the QoS corresponding to the QoS type received by the QoS type receiving sections (11, 21, 31, 41).
US08189468B2
A system and method for interconnecting networks. In one embodiment, a message is received from a first network to be communicated to a target device of a second network. Data within the message is identified. A determination is made whether the data is allowable based on a policy. The message is communicated to the target device of the second network in response to determining the data is allowed.
US08189463B2
A method for realizing backpressure of masses of ports and a device realizing the method are disclosed. The method for realizing backpressure of masses of ports includes: detecting whether user data transmitted to a channelized physical port reaches a backpressure threshold, generating an idle frame or a series of idle frames when the backpressure threshold is reached; combining the idle frame with the user data which needs to be transmitted to the channelized physical port reaching the backpressure threshold, and transmitting the combined data; discarding the idle frame before the combined data enters the channelized physical port. The idle frame is employed in the present invention to realize the backpressure. The idle frame occupies some of the transmission bandwidth and reduces the bandwidth of user data, while the idle frame does not enter the physical port. Therefore, the aim of backpressure is achieved. The bandwidth of idle frame can be pre-configured according to the requirements. After the idle frame is generated, its bandwidth can be increased or decreased smoothly based on the existence of the backpressure. The control is very easy and convenient.
US08189455B1
In a wireless access network, a transmitter provides a pool of sequences having a reduced peak-to-average power ratio. Information to be transmitted is mapped to a selected at least one of the pool of sequences. The selected at least one sequence is transmitted over an orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA)-based wireless link of the wireless access network.
US08189451B2
An information recording medium is at least composed of a substrate having a microscopic pattern constituted by a continuous substrate of grooves formed with a groove portion and a land portion alternately, a recording layer formed on the microscopic pattern for recording information, and a light transmitting layer formed on the recording layer. The microscopic pattern is formed with satisfying a relation of P≦λ/NA, wherein P is a pitch of the land portion or the groove portion, λ is a wavelength of reproducing light for reproducing the recording layer, and NA is a numerical aperture of an objective lens. The land portion is formed with wobbling so as to be parallel with each other for both sidewalls of the land portion. An auxiliary information based on data used supplementally when recording the information and a reference clock based on a clock used for controlling a recording speed when recording the information is recorded alternately. Information is recorded in the recording layer corresponding to only a land portion by at least either one change of reflectivity difference and refractive index difference in the recording layer so as to be more than 5% for reflectivity and so as to be more than 0.4 for modulated amplitude of signal recording.
US08189438B2
A control apparatus is provided for controlling an access means for accessing a recording medium containing at least one area so that the access means accesses the at least one area. The apparatus comprises a means for determining whether or not at least one first recorded area storing data is included in the at least one area, and a means for controlling the access means. When it is determined that the at least one first recorded area is included in the at least one area, the control means controls the access means based on a result of accessing the at least one first recorded area.
US08189437B2
An optical disc playback device is capable of being transitioned to a sleep mode in consideration of an optical disc status or an optical disc drive device status. An optical disc playback apparatus includes a main controller to transmit a sleep mode transition command to an optical disc drive device, and an optical disc drive device controller to check either a status of an optical disc or a status of the optical disc drive device when the sleep mode transition command is transmitted to the optical disc drive device, and to determine whether to perform transition to the sleep mode in response to the optical disc status or the optical disc drive device status.
US08189436B2
An optical drive device generates a first push-pull signal and a first sum signal based on a light receiving amount in two light receiving areas of which each width in a signal light tangent direction is smaller than a diameter of a spot of signal light, generates a first normalized push-pull signal by normalizing the first push-pull signal by using the first sum signal, and generates a tracking error signal based on the first normalized push-pull signal.
US08189429B2
A mobile communications device contains at least two microphones. One microphone is located away from the handset receiver and serves to pick up voice of a near end user of the device for transmission to the other party during a call. Another microphone is located near the handset receiver and serves to pick up acoustic output of the handset receiver (a far end signal). A signal processor measures the frequency response of the receiver. The signal processor performs spectral analysis of the receiver frequency response to determine whether or not the device is being held at the ear of the user. On that basis, the device automatically changes its operating mode, e.g., turns on or off a touch sensitive display screen during the call. Other embodiments are also described.
US08189426B2
Earth analysis methods, subsurface feature detection methods, earth analysis devices, and articles of manufacture are described. According to one embodiment, an earth analysis method includes engaging a device with the earth, analyzing the earth in a single substantially lineal direction using the device during the engaging, and providing information regarding a subsurface feature of the earth using the analysis.
US08189422B2
A semiconductor device according to example embodiments may be configured so that, when a read command for performing a read operation is input while a write operation is performed, and when a memory bank accessed by a write address during the write operation is the same as a memory bank accessed by a read address during the read operation, the semiconductor device may suspend the write operation automatically or in response to an internal signal until the read operation is finished and performs the write operation after the read operation is finished.
US08189420B2
Memory devices, connectors and methods for terminating an operation are provided, including a memory device configured to terminate an internal operation such as a programming or erase operation responsive to receiving a signal during removal of the memory device from a connector, such as a socket. The memory device may be specially configured to generate the removal signal, such as by including a dedicated removal terminal. The memory card may respond to the signal by terminating a programming or erase operation before power is lost. The removal terminal may have a dimension that is different from a dimension of a power terminal through which the memory device receives power. Alternatively, the connector may be specially configured to generate a signal that causes a host to terminate programming or erase operations in the memory device prior to memory card removal, such as by including a switch that is actuated when the memory device moves to a pre-power loss position.
US08189416B2
The semiconductor memory device includes a first memory cell connected between a first word line and a bit line. The semiconductor memory device may also include a second memory cell connected between a second word line and an inverted bit line. Additionally, the memory device may include a precharger configured to charge the bit line and the inverted bit line to a first voltage before a read operation, a first sense amplifier having a first transistor connected between to the bit line and a first node, the first transistor including a gate to which a signal of the inverted bit line is applied. The semiconductor memory device may have a second transistor connected between the inverted bit line and a second node, the second transistor including a gate to which a signal of the bit line is applied, and the first sense amplifier configured to amplify a voltage of the bit line or the inverted bit line to a second voltage based on to the second voltage applied to one of the first node and the second nodes during the read operation. The semiconductor memory device may also have a bias unit configured to generate a voltage difference between the first node and the second node, and a sense amplifier driver configured to apply the second voltage to one of the first and second nodes based on one of the first and second selected word lines during the read operation.
US08189415B2
A sensing amplifier consists of a sensing circuit, a boosting circuit, at least one bit-line isolating circuit, and at least a P-sensing enhancement circuit. The sensing circuit is disposed between a sensing line and a complementary sensing line. The boosting circuit boosts the sensing line and the complementary sensing line during a boosting stage. The bit-line isolating circuit is coupled to the sensing circuit for controlling whether to isolate a bit line/complementary bit line from the sensing line/complementary sensing line. The P-sensing enhancement circuit is coupled to the sensing line, the complementary sensing line, and a reference voltage. When the bit-line isolating circuit isolates the bit line from the sensing line and isolates the complementary bit line from the complementary sensing line, a voltage level of the bit line or the complementary bit line is pulled up to the reference voltage by the P-sensing enhancement circuit during an enhancement stage.
US08189403B2
A high speed linear differential amplifier (HSLDA) having automatic gain adjustment to maximize linearity regardless of manufacturing process, changes in temperature, or swing width change of the input signal. The HSLDA comprises a differential amplifier, and a control signal generator including a replica differential amplifier, a reference voltage generator, and a comparator. The comparator outputs a control signal that automatically adjusts the gain of the high speed linear differential amplifier and of the replica differential amplifier. The replica differential amplifier receives predetermined complementary voltages as input signals and outputs a replica output signal to the comparator. The reference voltage generator outputs a voltage to the comparator at which linearity of the output signal of the differential amplifier is maximized. The control signal equalizes the voltage level of the replica output signal and the reference voltage, and controls the gain of the differential amplifier.
US08189399B2
An electrically erasable programmable read-only memory (EEPROM) includes an access transistor having a floating gate and source/drain regions formed at opposite sides of the floating gate in a first well, a first well tap formed in the first well, a control gate located on a second region, first impurity regions formed at both sides of the control gate in the second region, and a second well tap formed in a third region. In order to erase information stored in a memory cell, a predetermined erasing voltage is applied to the source/drain regions of the access transistor and the first well tap, a ground voltage is applied to the first impurity regions in the second region, and a voltage, which is greater than 0V and less than a junction breakdown voltage between the active area and the first well, is applied to the second well tap.
US08189398B2
A read operation method of a memory device includes applying a first voltage to each of a first memory cell and a second memory cell during a first read operation, applying the first voltage to the first memory cell and a second voltage to the second memory cell during a second read operation, and applying the second voltage to the first memory cell and the first voltage to the second memory cell during a third read operation.
US08189392B2
A page buffer circuit comprises a first sensing unit configured to sense a voltage of a bit line and change a voltage of a first sense node, a data conversion unit configured to sense a voltage level of the first sense node and change a voltage level of a second sense node or to couple the second sense node and the first sense node, and first and second latch units coupled in common to the second sense node.
US08189382B2
Memory devices adapted to process and generate analog data signals representative of data values of two or more bits of information facilitate increases in data transfer rates relative to devices processing and generating only binary data signals indicative of individual bits. Programming of such memory devices includes programming to a target threshold voltage range representative of the desired bit pattern. Reading such memory devices includes generating an analog data signal indicative of a threshold voltage of a target memory cell. Cell reads are performed multiple times and the read threshold voltages averaged to more closely approximate actual threshold voltage and to compensate for random noise.
US08189379B2
Methods and apparatuses for reduction of Read Disturb errors in a NAND FLASH memory system utilizing modified or extra FLASH memory cells.
US08189377B2
p-type wells are provided within an n-type embedded well of a semiconductor substrate lying in an area for forming a flash memory, in a state of being isolated from one another. A capacitance section, a data write/erase charge injection/discharge section and a data read MIS•FET are disposed in each of the p-type wells. The capacitance section is disposed between the data write/erase charge injection/discharge section and the data read MIS•FET. In the data write/erase charge injection/discharge section, writing and erasing of data by an FN tunnel current at a channel entire surface are performed.
US08189373B2
A phase change memory device using a multiple level write voltage is described. The phase change memory device includes a cell array unit including a phase change resistance cell positioned at an intersection of a word line and a bit line. A voltage selection adjusting unit is configured to select one of a plurality of multiple voltages in response to a voltage adjusting signal to output a driving voltage. A write driving unit is also configured to finely adjust the voltage level of the driving voltage in response to a voltage fine-adjusting signal to supply the driving voltage to the cell array unit.
US08189368B2
A multi-port SRAM cell includes cross-coupled inverters each including a pull-up transistor and at least a pair of pull down transistors. The SRAM cell includes first and second access ports coupled to first and second word line conductors, each access port including a first pass gate transistor coupled to the data storage node and a second pass gate transistor coupled to the data bar storage node, each pass gate transistor being coupled to a respective bit line conductor, wherein the pull down transistors of the first inverter are formed in a first active region, the pull down transistors of the second inverter are formed in a second active region, the pass gate transistors coupled to the data storage node are formed in a third active region and the pass gate transistors coupled to the data bar storage node are formed in a fourth active region.
US08189364B2
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to semiconductors and semiconductor fabrication techniques, and more particularly, to devices, integrated circuits, memory cells and arrays, and methods to use silicon carbide structures to retain amounts of charge indicative of a resistive state in, for example, a charge-controlled resistor of a memory cell. In some embodiments, a memory cell comprises a silicon carbide structure including a charge reservoir configured to store an amount of charge carriers constituting a charge cloud. The amount of charge carriers in the charge cloud can represent a data value. Further, the memory cell includes a resistive element in communication with the charge reservoir and is configured to provide a resistance as a function of the amount of charge carriers in the charge reservoir. The charge reservoir is configured to modulate the size of the charge cloud to change the data value.
US08189356B2
There is provided a PWM inverter capable of preventing a phase error from occurring in generating a PWM signal even in the case where a carrier wave frequency is not sufficiently higher than a signal wave frequency. A PWM signal generating section (2) includes a phase adjusting section (11) configured to advance a phase of the signal wave by adding, to a signal wave, a delay component of the PWM signal with respect to the signal wave, the phase delay component being involved by digital control. Furthermore, in a case where the carrier wave frequency is changed, the phase delay component with respect to the signal wave is updated in synchronism with the timing of change of the carrier wave frequency.
US08189352B2
The present invention concerns a single stage inverter device for power converters, comprising switching means (M1-M4) capable to periodically connect an energy source, in particular a photovoltaic one, to an electric network or grid, the switching means (M1-M4) being controlled by controlling electronic means operating according to a single switching cycle control of the switching means (M1-M4), the operative and circuit device parameters being such to fulfill a series of constraints simultaneously optimizing both the maximum power point tracking or MPPT (Maximum Power Point Tracking) and the output power factor or PF-out (Power Factor-output) for one or more operation conditions. The present invention further concerns the related method of controlling and the related method of scaling such device.
US08189350B2
An input/output module for an automation device includes a housing having a lower part separable from an upper part; a first printed circuit board disposed in the housing; and an electronic subassembly for an input/output function of the input/output module. The electronic subassembly includes a plurality of connection elements disposed on the first printed circuit board and configured to connect signal lines and process voltage lines, the plurality of connecting elements being accessible from a front side of the upper part; and a plurality of optical waveguides disposed on the front side, wherein each one of the plurality of optical waveguides is assigned to a respective one of the plurality of connection elements and each configured to signal a state of at least one input/output channel of the input/output module.
US08189344B2
An integrated circuit package system includes: providing a package substrate; mounting an interposer chip containing active circuitry over the package substrate; attaching a conductive bump stack having a base bump end and a stud bump end, the base bump end on the interposer chip; connecting a stack connector to the interposer chip and the package substrate; and applying a package encapsulant over the interposer chip, the stack connector, and the conductive bump stack with the stud bump end of the conductive bump stack substantially exposed.
US08189336B2
A composite cover for a portion of a motor vehicle transmission has an integral, internal heat sink to which an electronic controller is attached. The cover, which may be fabricated of any temperature appropriate plastic or composite, closes off and protects that portion of a motor vehicle transmission having electrical and electronic components such as valves, solenoids, motors and sensors. Spaced from the inside surface of the cover where it is subjected on both sides to flow of transmission fluid is a plate or heat sink. An electronic controller is disposed on the outside of the cover and attached by heat transferring mechanical fasteners such as studs or bolts to the plate inside the cover. Preferably, the housing of the controller also includes a heat sink.
US08189332B2
A portable electronic device and technology operable to improve breakage resistance is disclosed. The portable electronic device and technology comprise a way for limiting rotation of a first housing and a second housing such that the housings are limited in further rotation in an open direction beyond a fully open position. A capacitive coupling may be used to provide a connection between electrical components in the first and second housings.
US08189326B2
The present invention discloses a product case for housing an electronic device, wherein the product case comprising a case body; a decoration layer disposed on the case body; a decorating panel; wherein the surface of the decoration layer is configured with a chamber, and the decorating panel is configured to be inlayed inside the chamber. According to the present invention, the product case is configured with the decoration layer, and the decorating panel is configured to be inlayed inside the chamber. Therefore, the design of the electronic device is improved without influencing the decoration layer. Further, the design of the electronic device case may be customized in accordance with the requirement of the consumer.
US08189315B2
A surge arrester includes two side electrodes extending into an interior space formed by means of at least one insulating body and a central electrode. The end-side distance between the side electrodes is greater than the distances between a respective side electrode and the central electrode. The distance between the side electrodes is less than the distance between the end regions of the central electrode and a base of the side electrodes.
US08189302B2
A graphene magnetic field sensor has a ferromagnetic biasing layer located beneath and in close proximity to the graphene sense layer. The sensor includes a suitable substrate, the ferromagnetic biasing layer, the graphene sense layer, and an electrically insulating underlayer between the ferromagnetic biasing layer and the graphene sense layer. The underlayer may be a hexagonal boron-nitride (h-BN) layer, and the sensor may include a seed layer to facilitate the growth of the h-BN underlayer. The ferromagnetic biasing layer has perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with its magnetic moment oriented substantially perpendicular to the plane of the layer. The graphene magnetic field sensor based on the extraordinary magnetoresistance (EMR) effect may function as the magnetoresistive read head in a magnetic recording disk drive.
US08189296B2
A method includes a step of stacking a first electrode layer, a piezoelectric layer, and a second electrode layer on a first substrate to form a first laminate; a step of stacking a support layer on a second substrate to form a second laminate; a step of bonding the first and second laminates through an adhesive layer to form a third laminate; a step of removing the first substrate from the third laminate; a step of processing the third laminate in a desired shape; and a step of removing the second substrate. A Young's modulus of the adhesive layer is smaller than a Young's modulus of the piezoelectric layer. Respective Young's moduli of the second electrode layer and the support layer are larger than the Young's modulus of the adhesive layer. The third laminate has no other piezoelectric layer except for the aforementioned piezoelectric layer.
US08189295B2
A perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) head has a pole tip shielded laterally by a separated pair of bottom side shields and shielded from above by an upper shield. The bottom side shields surround a lower portion of the pole tip while the upper portion of the pole tip is surrounded by non-magnetic layers. The bottom shields and the non-magnetic layer form a wedge-shaped trench in which the pole tip has been formed by a self-aligned plating process. A write gap layer and an upper shield is formed above the side shields and pole. The resulting structure substantially eliminates track overwrite while maintaining good track definition.
US08189291B2
Approaches for a fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) system for use within a hard-disk drive. A fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) system may comprise an upper conical bearing and a lower conical bearing that are both disposed along a stationary shaft on which a magnetic-recording disk is rotatably mounted. The upper conical bearing and the lower conical bearing may have different cone angles, diameters, and/or lubricants to produce a desired difference in stiffness between the first conical bearing and the second conical bearing. By adjusting characteristics of the fluid dynamic bearing (FDB) system to achieve the desired bearing stiffness ratio, the tendency for the magnetic-recording disks to experience a sustained vibration when the hard-disk drive receives a mechanical shock is reduced. By preventing the magnetic-recording disks from sustained vibration after a mechanical shock, data may be written to and read from the magnetic-recording disks with greater reliability.
US08189288B2
In a method for manufacturing a rotor hub for use in a spindle motor, free-cutting stainless steel is used as a material of the rotor hub. A slug of free-cutting stainless steel is subjected to a plastic working to form a disk mounting portion and a cylindrical surface positioned radially inwardly of the disk mounting portion. Then, a cylindrical disk fitting surface is formed by machining substantially the entirety of the cylindrical surface. The rotor hub contains A-type inclusions appearing in a cross section taken along a center axis of the disk mounting portion. The A-type inclusions are oriented in directions different than the center axis.
US08189282B2
Servo patterns for patterned media. The servo pattern includes specification of cylinder/track ID with and without a Gray code. The servo pattern space is minimized by the optimum usage of the islands. This is achieved by island allocation rules to take advantage of non-magnetic island. The island allocation also provides for easier lift-off. Logic is used to encode and decode the Gray code. Further, the Gray code is designed to stabilize the magnetic island/non-magnetic island ratio to allow for easier manufacture.
US08189279B2
A two-dimensional adjusting structure and a projection apparatus comprising the two-dimensional adjusting structure are provided. The two-dimensional adjusting structure comprises a first base, a second base, and a first slide rod and a second slide rod which extend along a first axis and a second axis respectively. The first slide rod is fixed to the first base. The second slide rod is adapted to move along the first axis with respect to the first slide rod by fitting the first slide rod into a first slide hole of the second slide rod. The second base is adapted to move along the second axis with respect to the second slide rod by receiving the second slide rod within a second slide hole. Thereby, the second base is adapted to move with respect to the first base upon a plane along the first axis and the second axis to adjust the relative position of a second object and a first object disposed on the first base and the second base respectively.
US08189277B2
An optics block includes a substrate having first and second opposing surfaces, the substrate being a first material, a plurality of through holes extending in the substrate between the first and second opposing surface, a second material, different than the first material, filling a portion of the through holes and extending on a portion of the first surface of the substrate outside the through holes, and a first lens structure in the second material and corresponding to each of the through holes.
US08189273B2
The present invention provides an imaging lens assembly, comprising in order from an object side toward an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface, a second lens element with negative refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a third lens element with positive refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface, a fourth lens element with negative refractive power, a fifth lens element with positive refractive power, and an aperture stop positioned between an imaged object and the first lens element. The above lens arrangement shortens the total track length effectively, enabling a high performance imaging lens assembly with a wide field of view.
US08189263B1
An image waveguide includes an in-coupling region for receiving input light into the image waveguide and an out-coupling region for emitting output light from the image waveguide. The in-coupling region includes a one dimensional array of in-coupling mirror structures orientated to reflect the input light within the waveguide towards the out-coupling region as guided light. The out-coupling region includes a two dimensional array of out-coupling mirror structures orientated to reflect the guided light out of the waveguide as the output light.
US08189259B1
A grating has a high diffraction efficiency into the minus first diffracted order in transmission, for both TE and TM polarizations. The incident angle may optionally be chosen so that the minus first diffracted order in reflection would be retroreflected back to the incident beam. The grating may be formed from various materials and/or layers, where the thicknesses of the individual layers may be determined by an optimization or simulation process. In one aspect, the grating may have four or more layers, formed with three or more materials. In another aspect, the grating may have a longitudinal refractive index profile that contains at least two local extrema, such as a maximum and/or minimum. Such a grating may be formed from three or more materials, two materials, or a single material that has a continuously varying refractive index. Any or all of the materials may have a continuously varying refractive index profile, as well. In another aspect, the grating may include a material that has a continuously varying refractive index profile.
US08189256B2
A gain equalizer for compensation a variation of intensity among a plurality of optical signals each including a different wavelength in a wavelength multiplexed optical signal includes an input part for receiving the wavelength multiplexed optical signal, an outputting part and a gain equalizing unit for repeatedly giving a loss to the wavelength multiplexed optical signal received by the input part, and for outputting the wavelength multiplexed optical signal to the outputting part. Here, the loss is set for each wavelength and is smaller than a loss characteristic required for compensation the variation of intensity.
US08189255B2
The present invention provides an all solid state type reflection light control electrochromic element and a light control member that uses this element, relates to an all solid state type reflection light control electrochromic element, which is a magnesium/titanium alloy reflection type light control element in which a multilayer thin film is formed on a transparent substrate, wherein at least a transparent conductive film layer, an ion storage layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a catalyst layer, and a reflection light control layer employing a magnesium/titanium alloy thin film are formed on the substrate; and a light control member which is incorporated with this reflection light control electrochromic element, and the present invention allows a reflection light control electrochromic element, which has a novel multilayer structure that is colorless when transparent and can be switched in a short time over a wide area, as well as a light control member incorporated with this element to be provided.
US08189250B2
A recording/playback apparatus includes a light-generating and intensity-modulating section for generating signal light and reference light to be shined on a hologram recording medium and a phase modulating section for performing phase modulation on the signal light and the reference light on the basis of a pixel unit by using the first to nth phase modulation levels. For the phase modulation on the reference light, all pixels corresponding to the reference light are divided and set using random phase units, each having a predetermined pixel array pattern having at least two pixels, the number of pixels corresponding to each of the first to nth phase modulation levels in each random phase unit is common to the random phase units, and the array pattern of the pixels corresponding to the first to nth phase modulation levels is random for each random phase unit.
US08189249B2
The present invention relates to a holographic storage system, and more specifically to a method for pixel detection in a coaxial holographic storage system.In a holographic storage system according to the invention, with a coaxial arrangement of an object beam and a reference beam the bright pixels within the object beam have a phase shift of essentially π relative to the reference beam. For readout of a data page contained in a reconstructed object beam a detector detects an interference pattern generated by the interference between the reference beam and the reconstructed object beam.
US08189244B2
In a calibration system for conducting calibration by using a patch sheet produced on the basis of data to form measurement patches with respective different densities arranged in a predetermined direction and reference patches with a constant density arranged in the vicinity of the measurement patches for each color toner, the calibration system is provided with a correcting section to correct, on the basis of the calorimetric values of the reference patches, the calorimetric values of the measurement patches arranged in the vicinity of the reference patches.
US08189240B2
An assembly for transferring information to and/or from flexible sheet media in a highly advantageous curved configuration is disclosed. The sheet material includes a length and a width defining first and second opposing surfaces. The assembly includes support means for supporting the sheet the curved configuration across its width, having the first surface inwardly oriented with respect to the curved configuration. Thereafter, moving means moves the flexible sheet material so supported in a direction along a read/write path generally parallel to the sheet material length and transverse to the direction of curvature. A read/write arrangement is provided which is configured for reading and/or writing information across the width of the first surface of the sheet as the sheet is moved along the path in the curved configuration. In one feature, means is provided for rotationally moving the read/write arrangement in a predetermined way in the housing such that the read/write arrangement is in a confronting relationship with the first, inwardly oriented surface and cooperates with the movement provided by the sheet material moving means so as to cause the read/write arrangement to sequentially read information from and/or write information to the inwardly oriented, first surface of the sheet as the read/write arrangement traverses the width of the flexible sheet material while the latter is on the read/write path in the curved configuration. In another feature, a read and/or write operation may be performed on the second, outwardly oriented surface of the sheet material.
US08189236B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first edge extracting unit and a binarizing unit. The first edge extracting unit extracts an edge of chromatic components of a color image other than brightness components of the color image. The binarizing unit performs an enhancement process and a binarization process for pixels being extracted as the edge by the first edge extracting unit and performs the binarization process for pixels other than the pixels being extracted as the edge based on the brightness components.
US08189229B2
There is provided an image processing method enabling image position correction processing to be preferably performed after scan of a paper document and thereby capable of significantly reducing image correction processing cost required before printing, an image processing apparatus and a program. First, when document images constituted by multiple pages are inputted into a POD site environment 103 from an end user environment A (101A) or the like, the document images are divided into multiple blocks, for each page, and a circumscribed rectangle around the multiple blocks is calculated, with the use of a process management section 104, a prepress section 105, a digital print section 106 and a post-press section 107. Then, a standard value for the calculated circumscribed rectangles on respective pages is calculated. Based on difference between the circumscribed rectangle on each page and the standard value, the shift amount of the image on each page is calculated, and then the image is shifted based on the shift amount.
US08189225B1
A system and machine-implemented method for sending a print request from a device to a cloud printer within a cloud, the cloud comprising the cloud printer and a cloud server. A network connection is established with the cloud server, and print data is transmitted from the device to the cloud server via the network connection. Print data location information is received from the cloud server via the network connection, the print data location information specifying an address of the print data in the cloud. An NFC connection is established with the cloud printer, and a print request is sent to the cloud printer via the NFC connection. The print request includes the print data location information and is configured to be used by the cloud printer to obtain the print data from the cloud.
US08189223B2
An image processing apparatus includes an input unit configured to obtain image data and to perform an input process on the image data to produce input image data, an input filter configured to control the input process performed by the input unit, an output unit configured to perform an output process on processed image data, an output filter configured to control the output process performed by the output unit, a process filter connecting between the input filter and the output filter to control processing of the input image data, and another output filter configured to control an output process for storing given image data and conditions concerning outputting of the given image data in a storage unit. The other output filter is coupled to one of the input filter and the process filter in response to receiving an instruction to store the given image data.
US08189218B2
Provided is an image forming device and a printing system having a selective printing function of an address book and a printing method thereof. The image forming device having a selective printing function of an address book comprising a storage part for storing an address book; a user interface for receiving at least one printing object of the address book; a controller for creating printing data corresponding to the received printing object if the printing object is received through the user interface; and a printing object printing the created printing data. Accordingly, it is possible to selectively print the address book.
US08189214B2
An image forming apparatus includes a unique information acquisition unit to acquire unique information unique to document data to be a print object from the document data; a storage unit to store the acquired unique information in association with the document data, and to store the unique information as reference unique information; an image forming unit to print an image based on the stored document data and the unique information associated with the document data on a same recording medium; a reading unit to read the printed unique information as unique information to be compared; and a control unit to compare the unique information to be compared with the stored reference unique information to stop printing of the document data when the control unit judges that the unique information to be compared and the stored reference unique information do not accord with each other.
US08189212B2
A printing control apparatus is provided which can produce an appropriate copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image by adding a monochrome copy-forgery-inhibited pattern even if monochrome mode printing is performed in the condition in which a color copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is set. When the monochrome mode printing is performed in the condition in which the color copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is set, and if the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern color is output with its color unchanged, the color is not converted into 100% black. Considering this, when a forced monochrome mode is selected, even if the user's setting for the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern is color, the color is changed to monochrome (black) before output. If the designated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting is for color, the designated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting is changed to the monochrome copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting so that the printing processing is performed in the monochrome mode using the designated copy-forgery-inhibited pattern setting.
US08189209B2
An image forming apparatus includes a setting section, a setting display section, a determination section, a change section, and an incompatible option display section. The setting section sets image formation functions, which include first and second functions. The setting display section displays a single or plurality of options on each of setting screens. The single or plurality of options is set as a setting condition for each function. The setting screens respectively correspond to the functions. The determination section determines if a combination of options is incompatible. The change section changes a display form of the option of the first function when the determination section determines that the combination is incompatible. The incompatible option display section displays a setting screen of the option of the second function when the option of the first function is selected after the display form of the option of the first function is changed.
US08189205B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a surface inspection tool in which a flat inspection range capable of measuring surface roughness of a wafer with patterns with high accuracy and in a nondestructive manner can be searched without visual search. In order to solve the object, in a surface inspection tool 110 which measures scattering light intensity of scattering light generated by irradiated irradiation light in association with a measurement coordinate on a wafer 200 with patterns and inspects the surface roughness of the wafer 200, the surface inspection tool includes a controller 250 which extracts measurement coordinate of the measured scattering light intensity that is equal to or more than a lower limit threshold L, sets an inspection range 406 of the surface roughness inspection in a partial layout 405a of a part of the whole layout 401 of the pattern corresponding to the periphery of the extracted measurement coordinate, and obtains the surface roughness in the inspection range 406.
US08189197B2
A substrate characterization device is provided which includes an optical sensor module and a processor. The optical sensor module includes a light emitting source and a light receiving detector for communicating with the substrate and providing an indication of the diffusion of light through the substrate. The indication of the diffusion of light through the substrate is a signal provided to a processor in communication with a memory module for making a comparison of the signal generated by the optical sensor module with a reference signal to determine the quality of the substrate.
US08189189B1
The invention relates to a device and method for monitoring a chemical reaction proceeding from a first state to a second state by emitting and detecting radiation in ranges of interest for a spectral signature of the material undergoing the chemical reaction. Using the concept of optical spectral detection and identification, it is therefore possible to utilize a combination of specific emitters and detectors, optics and signal processing in order to identify materials and events.
US08189187B2
An improved optical flow cell adapted for use in a flow cytometer for differentiating formed bodies (e.g., blood cells). Manufactured from a monolithic transparent material, the improved flow cell has an internal flow channel of polygonal transverse cross-section through which prepared samples can be metered and an external envelope suited to acquisition of optical parameters from formed bodies in such samples. Preferably, such flow cell is formed by a glass-drawing process in which a relatively large glass preform having a rectilinear internal channel of a desired polygonal cross-sectional shape is heated and drawn to achieve a desired cross-sectional area of reduced size. Also disclosed are preferred methods for differentiating formed bodies using the flow cell of the invention.
US08189180B2
A measurement apparatus for measuring an optical fiber transmission line used to connect to an opposite apparatus, the measurement apparatus includes a transmission part for generating a measurement packet used for measuring a length of a first and second optical fiber transmission line, and transmitting the measurement packet to the opposite apparatus through the first optical fiber transmission line, a reception part for detecting the measurement packet returned from the opposite apparatus that perform a loopback processing of the measurement packet through the second optical fiber transmission line, a calculation part for calculating a packet transmission time which is a processing time required from the generation of the measurement packet to the detection of the measurement packet, and a measurement part for performing a measurement control of the length of the first and second optical fiber transmission line based on the packet transmission time calculated by the calculation part.
US08189178B2
A system and method for sampling constituents in air including counting particles in the air to be sampled; collecting samples of accumulated particles; measuring UV response of a sample of accumulated particles only if the particle count exceeds a predetermined threshold; measuring IR response of that sample; and indicating a threat alarm if the IR response matches that of a target within a predetermined threshold.
US08189171B2
It is possible to set an optical magnification capable of making a recording position shift amount with respect to Y direction of the plotting point formed by a micro mirror within an allowance range from the relationship between a Y-direction distance between mirror images obtained by projecting micro mirrors constituting a DMD onto a substrate, an inclination angle of the DMD, an image pattern recording pitch, and an optical magnification.
US08189169B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a cooling apparatus which makes it possible to cool a substrate uniformly in a short period of time even if the substrate has a large area. The cooling apparatus 3 comprises a flat-box-shaped body 10, a cooling medium supply tube 11 which is inserted into the body 10, a nozzle 12 which is attached to the cooling medium supply tube 11 so as to eject the cooling medium toward the internal surface of the body, a pipe 13 for withdrawing water (refrigerant) ejected from the nozzle 12 toward the body 10, a chiller 14 for cooling the water from the pipe 13 to a predetermined temperature, and a circulating pipe 15 for sending the water which has been cooled by the chiller 14 back to the cooling medium supply tube 11.
