US08196190B2
An authentication server, on receipt of a request to delete a user account, determines whether the account exists in a user authentication table. If the account exists, the authentication server deletes the account, and retrieves, from a requesters list in which information of devices from which users have to date requested user authentication is saved, an address of a device from which the user targeted for deletion has previously issued an authentication request, and issues a deletion request to that device together with account information. Similar processing to change a user account is performed in response to a change request.
US08196186B2
An exemplary method includes receiving a request to register a peer in a peer-to-peer system; generating or selecting a transaction key for the peer; storing the transaction key in association with registration information for the peer; transmitting the transaction key to the peer and, in response to a request to perform a desired peer-to-peer transaction by another peer, generating a token, based at least in part on the transaction key. Such a token allows for secure transactions in a peer-to-peer system including remote storage of data and retrieval of remotely stored data. Other exemplary techniques are also disclosed including exemplary modules for a peer-to-peer server and peers in a peer-to-peer system.
US08196183B2
A server interacts with a sender to form a package which can include one or more attached data files to be sent to one or more recipients, and the server applies a policy established by a policy authority of the sender to the package. Since the sever both forms the package through interaction with the sender and applies the policy, any violations of the policy by the package can be brought to the sender's attention during an interactive session with the sender and before encryption of all or part of the package. As a result, the sender is educated regarding the policy of the sender's policy authority, and the sender can modify the package immediately to comport with the policy. The server delivers the package to the one or more intended recipients by sending notification to each recipient and including in such notification package identification data, e.g., a URL by which the package can be retrieved. The policy of the policy authority can be specified as a list of associations between one or more conditions and one or more actions to be carried out upon satisfaction of the associated conditions.
US08196174B2
A set-top box device includes a processor and memory accessible to the processor. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to provide a graphical user interface (GUI) at a television coupled to the set-top box device. The GUI includes a bread crumb trail having a selectable category. The memory also includes instructions executable by the processor to receive a signal from a remote control device associated with the set-top box device, the television, or a combination thereof, the signal indicating a selection of the selectable category of the bread crumb trail. Further, the memory includes instructions executable by the processor to cause the GUI to display, in response to the signal, a menu including the selectable category and a peer category related to the selectable category. The menu automatically becomes navigable via directional keys at the remote control device when the menu is displayed.
US08196170B2
A method of connecting to the Internet via a broadcast receiving device and an apparatus for the same are provided. The method includes extracting transport stream (TS) from a received broadcast signal, obtaining mapping information between channel numbers and web addresses from the TS, and if a channel number selected by a user is included in the mapping information, connecting to the Internet via a web address mapped to the selected channel number.
US08196156B2
An optical disc reproducing apparatus includes a body installed at a wall or other mounting apparatus, and an optical disc drive protruding from the body such that an optical disc is inserted into the optical disc drive. The optical disc drive is rotatably installed to the body to protrude forward from the body, so that the optical disc reproducing apparatus is installed regardless of positions of a wall-mount television installed above the optical disc reproducing apparatus.
US08196154B2
The present invention is directed to a system and method for transferring workload files on a host to a Virtual Machine (VM) destination disk without the need for the VM to be running. This accomplished by creating a VM disk device interface to move data from the workload files to the VM destination disk. The VM disk device interface comprises a device driver to interact with the VM destination disk and destination access software utilizing standard operating system procedures to access the VM destination disk.
US08196153B1
Techniques for associating device drivers via a device tree are described herein. In one embodiment, a device tree having a hierarchical structure is maintained by a kernel of an operating system. The device tree includes device nodes corresponding to devices installed in a computer, including a first node and a second node. An auxiliary driver identifier is encoded within the first node for identifying a second device driver associated with the second node. The auxiliary driver identifier is used by a first device driver associated with the first node to invoke the second device driver to perform a predetermined operation on a device associated with the first node. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US08196151B1
A method, system and a computer-readable media for automatically detecting that a malfunction affecting message withdrawal from a queue is present is described. In one embodiment, the malfunction is detected by evaluating the number of messages that enter and leave a queue during a period of time. For example, if the messages entering the queue do not equal the messages leaving the queue a malfunction may be present. In one embodiment, queue-performance indicator is calculated based on the number of messages leaving and entering the queue. If the queue-performance indicator is outside of the normal-operating range an alarm is generated and sent to a designated responder who can fix malfunctions associated with the queue.
US08196134B2
A catalog for maintaining a store of public and private limited distribution release software changes in a single location. A method for distributing limited distribution release software changes to clients via a network comprises receiving a search request, authenticating the client, querying a database of limited distribution release software changes, filtering the returned data according to a screening criteria, and providing the returned data to the client. A further method receives a request from a client to develop a limited distribution release software change, develops the limited distribution release software change, adds the developed limited distribution release software change to a catalog, notifies the client, and provides an interface to the client for accessing. A system further links knowledge base entries with related limited distribution release software changes.
US08196132B2
An interactive multimedia applications device and method for an interactive multimedia application comprises one or more live media capture devices providing a media stream, an engine comprising a real time media processing module for processing said media stream, and rendering means connected to multimedia output devices. In addition, said device comprises (i) a virtual scenario description repository adapted for storing a plurality of scenarios expressed in a scenario programming language; (ii) a memory module adapted for storing an internal representation of one of said scenarios, and an internal representation of a virtual scene and (iii) a parser/loader for parsing a selected one of said plurality of scenarios, and loading it in said memory module.
US08196122B2
A XLANG/s compilation method is provided that uses data flow analysis of a program's flow graph to determine lifetimes of a data object. A flowgraph is created according to abstract computer instructions. A depth-first order is assigned to basic blocks and a dominance relationship between the basic blocks is determined. A determination is made as to whether any loops are present within the flowgraph and, if so, the loops are identified. A creation point, destruction point and lock point for the data object is determined. Instructions are inserted into the computer code to create the at least one data object at the creation point, to destroy the data object at the destruction point and to lock the data object at the lock point.
US08196118B2
Recording of functional steps resulting from actions in an application is desirable for performing functional testing or user interface automation of an application. However, certain events that may result from actions occurring in an application are often difficult to record, which may lead to playback failure. Further, a user's intent when performing an action is difficult to determine. In order to obtain effective playback, a reliable and efficient recording of an application's functional steps needs to occur. Injecting wrapper functions into an application and monitoring an event generator's state before and after an action has occurred may yield more reliable and effective results.
US08196117B2
In one embodiment, a computer system comprises one or more processors, and a memory module communicatively connected to the one or more processors. The memory module comprises logic instructions stored on a computer readable medium which, when executed on the one or more processors configure the one or more processors to normalize data from a first data set comprising sample based profiling data to form a first normalized data set, normalize data from a second data set comprising sample based profiling data to form a second normalized data set, combine the first normalized data set and the second normalized data set to form a merged data set, and present a portion of the merged data set on a user interface.
US08196114B2
A software development service offering of constructing and embedding feedback control based algorithms into computer systems management software applications is delivered by a provider entity to a client organization. The provider is contracted by the client to prepare a set of control modeling assets based on identified computing system management problems and goals of the diem and to create a set of control solutions. Bi-directional links between the problems, assets and solutions are used by the provider to develop feedback control based algorithms that solve the identified client computing management problems and meet the client's computing system goals.
US08196112B1
Widgets or other code modules for applications written in structured languages such as HTML can be tested advantageously by separating the extraction and validation logic. To test the functionality of a widget in response to an action, widget features of interest are identified. Context and feature nodes for these features are extracted from a page tree structure to generate a property vector that is representative of the state of the widget. After performing the action, context nodes for the features are attached to the new page tree for the newly loaded page, and an observed property vector is generated that represents the state of the widget after the action. The previous property vector is used with updated state information to generate an expected property vector. The observed property vector is compared with the expected property vector, and if the vectors match the validation is claimed to be successful.
US08196101B1
A reach and get technique includes invoking a reach command from a reach location within a computing environment. A user can then navigate to an object within the computing environment and invoke a get command on the object. In response to invoking the get command, the computing environment is automatically navigated back to the reach location and the object copied into the reach location.
US08196087B2
An optimized semiconductor chip pad configuration. The pad includes a pad circuit area Ap, a first dimension x and a second dimension y, in a chip having N number of pins on each side. The pins include a longitudinal axis, and the chip includes a chip core of length Lc. The method includes determining the first dimension x by dividing the length Lc by the N, determining the second dimension y by dividing the pad circuit area Ap by a result of a division of the length Lc by the N, and creating a semiconductor area pad that includes pins with the longitudinal axis positioned parallel to the chip core. A stack of circuits is designed in the chip to fit in the pad based on the first dimension x and the second dimension y.
US08196085B1
Techniques for analyzing and optimizing a design on an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. The techniques include an interface that aids interactive optimization. A visual indicator is generated based on the power usage value of each of the logic blocks in the design. The visual indicator can be overlaid on top of a floorplan layout of the IC to highlight the parts of the design that may be further optimized. The visual indicator can be updated in real time to highlight the optimizations that have been achieved by the changes made to the design. The real time update of the visual indicator may allow multiple changes to be made to the design before the design is recompiled with a design program.
US08196082B1
A method is provided for assigning signals to input pins of a component subject to asymmetric delays. A latency is determined for each signal-pin combination of the plurality of signals and plurality of input pins. The latency is determined as a function of an arrival time of the signal, a time to route the signal from to the input pin, and a time attributable to processing by the component. A latency threshold is selected. Signal to pin assignments using only signal-pin combinations having latencies less than or equal to the latency threshold are analyzed to determine if a one-to-one signal-to-pin assignment exists that includes all signals. The latency threshold is increased and the analysis is repeated until a valid one-to-one signal-to-pin assignment is found.
US08196077B2
A cell-library-for-statistical-timing-analysis creating apparatus includes: a unit that groups cells into groups of cells each having the same topology; a unit that selects representative cells from the respective grouped cell group; a unit that sets one or more kinds of signal transition time information based on output signal transition time and input signal transition time; a unit that calculates, for each of the representative cells, an output load capacitance and input signal transition time for each of kinds of signal transition time information; a unit that executes circuit simulation using the output load capacitance and the input signal transition time and calculates a delay variation amount; a unit that calculates delay variation information based on a delay average and the delay variation amount; and a unit that outputs association for each of the representative cells between the signal transition time information and the delay variation information.
US08196071B2
A pattern data creating method comprising: referring to a first correspondence relation between an amount of dimension variation between a first pattern formed on a substrate and a second pattern formed by processing the substrate using the first pattern and either one of a pattern total surface area and a pattern boundary length of the first pattern; and creating pattern data for forming the first pattern.
US08196067B2
A mask for exposure, which is used in a multi-column electron beam exposure apparatus having multiple column cells, includes a stencil pattern group constituted by multiple stencil patterns for each of the multiple column cells. The stencil pattern groups are arranged at intervals corresponding to arrangement intervals of the multiple column cells, and all of the stencil pattern groups are formed on a single mask substrate. The stencil pattern groups include: a first stencil pattern group formed within a deflectable range of an electron beam of each of the multiple column cells; and a second stencil pattern group having two or more of the first stencil patterns.
US08196065B2
A remote control unit of an air conditioning apparatus includes a display unit, a cursor-moving member, a confirmation member, and a controller. The display unit displays a menu and a cursor that indicates an item among a plurality of items inside the menu and is moved by the cursor-moving member when operated by a user. The confirmation member is configured to decide that the item is to be executed. The controller controls the display unit in response to the cursor-moving member or confirmation member being operated, and stores screen display modes displayed on the display unit. Upon receiving a predetermined input from the confirmation member, the controller causes items allowing selection of the display modes to be displayed on the menu.
US08196061B1
A system and method for providing scroll bar enabled bookmarks in electronic document displays whereby a bookmark enabled scroll bar is provided as a feature associated with a displayed electronic document. The bookmark enabled scroll bar includes one or more bookmark sequencing buttons. When a user desires to mark a portion of an electronic document for future reference, the user activates the bookmark enabled scroll bar and places/creates a bookmark/breakpoint at a location in the bookmark enabled scroll bar corresponding the portion of the electronic document the user wishes to bookmark for future reference. Once the user activates the bookmark enabled scroll bar and creates the bookmark, a visual indicator appears in the bookmark enabled scroll bar at the selected location corresponding to the portion of the electronic document the user wishes to bookmark for future reference. Then when the user desires to return to the portion of the electronic document the user bookmarked for future reference, the user activates one of the one or more bookmark sequencing buttons and the user is taken to the corresponding portion of the electronic document the user had bookmarked using the bookmark enabled scroll bar.
US08196058B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image data storage unit, an operation unit, a generation unit, a display unit and a control unit. The image data storage unit stores plural pieces of image data. The operation unit allows a user to input an instruction. The generation unit outputs one of a first list of the stored image data in a first display form and a second list of the stored image data in a second display form according to the instruction. The control unit controls the display unit to display the one. When the generation unit switches from outputting the one to outputting the other in accordance with the input instruction, the control unit controls the display unit to display the other so that image data, which is displayed at a particular position in a previous display form, is displayed at a particular position in a current display form.
US08196051B2
A novel technique automatically stores synchronized group history related to an online group interaction and enables individual group members to later view and access the group history. In an embodiment of the invention, the group history is accessible by group members independently of group interactions at any later time. According to various embodiments of the invention, the group history may be presented in an overview form or a detailed form. With respect to the detailed form, the group history may be presented graphically, such as in an icon timeline or collage, textually, such as in list form, or in any combination of presentation formats. In a further embodiment of the invention, the synchronized group history is writable by group members in addition to being automatically maintained.
US08196050B2
A system and method for providing a view of a virtual space to a user in a banner ad of a webpage. This enables an advertiser to provide content that is not merely static or scripted, but instead enabled provision of content through a web ad that represents activity within a virtual space (e.g., interactions of other users with the virtual space, content that changes based on current or recent events, etc.) in real time (or near real time). The provision of a virtual space in a web ad may be more effective than conventional web ad content.
US08196049B2
A method and apparatus for restoring an occluded window in application sharing. The method includes the steps of: detecting whether an unshared window occludes part of all of a shared window; making the unshared window semitransparent by an alpha blending operation in response to detecting an unshared window that occludes part or all of a shared window; changing the value of the alpha factor in the alpha blending operation, thus obtaining two alpha blended images; and restoring the occluded shared window by using the two alpha blended images.
US08196043B2
A user interface and methods for using a user interface for controlling processing of time-based media files. In one exemplary method, a graphical representation of a time line for a time-based media is displayed along with a graphical representation of a current time along the graphical representation of the time line. A start graphical indicator and a stop graphical indicator is also displayed along the graphical representation of the time line. A portion of the time-based media may be selected for presentation by dragging or positioning at least one of the start graphical indicator and the stop graphical indicator along the graphical representation of the time line. In another aspect of the invention, an exemplary method allows for the adaptive control of a portion of the interface which indicates time relating to a time-based media. An input speed is determined where this input is to change the portion and the rate at which the change to this portion occurs is dependent upon the input speed. Other aspects of the present invention relating to the interface for controlling the processing of time-based media files are also described.
US08196039B2
A method for programmatically extracting terms from a page is provided. A request to extract terms from a current page is received from a client browser. Responsive to receiving the request to extract terms from the current page, a command to extract terms from the current page is executed. A response is sent to the client browser. The response includes a result of the command to extract terms from the current page.
US08196037B2
A method for extracting web information includes: selecting a number of Hypertext Markup Language, HTML, tags as tag ruler elements to generate a tag ruler from an HTML text of a web page according to sequence of the HTML text; matching the HTML text with the tag ruler elements in the tag ruler according to the sequence of the tag ruler elements in the tag ruler, segmenting web information according to matched HTML tags and saving web information segments and location information of HTML tags enclosing the web information segments in the HTML text; and determining location of HTML tags containing web information needed by a user in the HTML text, extracting web information segments corresponding to the web information needed by the user from the saved web information segments.
US08196036B2
A method for converting an HTML web page to plain text includes extracting from HTML source code of the HTML web page a portion containing a plurality of character strings and tags, calculating length and position of each character string in the extracted portion so as to find a first predetermined percentage of the character strings with the longest lengths, analyzing a number of position intervals between adjacent ones of the character strings belonging to the first predetermined percentage of the character strings with the longest lengths, labeling the corresponding character strings as belonging to a same block if the number of position intervals is not greater than a second predetermined value so as to find a largest character string block, and deleting the tags in the largest character string block so as to obtain main content of the HTML web page in plain text.
US08196030B1
A document processing system for accurately and efficiently analyzing documents and methods for making and using same. Each incoming document includes at least one section of textual content and is provided in an electronic form or as a paper-based document that is converted into an electronic form. Since many categories of documents, such as legal and accounting documents, often include one or more common text sections with similar textual content, the document processing system compares the documents to identify and classify the common text sections. The document comparison can be further enhanced by dividing the document into document segments and comparing the document segments; whereas, the conversion of paper-based documents likewise can be improved by comparing the resultant electronic document with a library of standard phrases, sentences, and paragraphs. The document processing system thereby enables an image of the document to be manipulated, as desired, to facilitate its review.
US08196017B1
A CAM system (200) can include a number of entries (202-0 to 202-3) having one portion for storing a data value (e.g., E1) and another portion for storing a replicated data value (E1(REP)). For on-the-fly error correction, the entries can be searched by applying an appended key value that includes a key portion (KEY) and replicated key portion (KEY(REP)).
US08196006B2
A turbo decoder that calculates alpha, beta and gamma (branch metric) values does not normalize the branch metric but instead applies the normalization factor to the newly calculated extrinsic values before writing them to interleaving memory, resulting in use of less memory than in prior turbo decoders. A compensating factor is applied when the extrinsics are read from interleaving memory. The absence of normalization in the gamma calculation not only conserves memory but also enhances decoder sensitivity.
US08196000B2
A method, apparatus, and machine readable medium for processing a plurality of Z-vectors. Each Z-vector includes Z elements, and each element includes K bits. The Z-vectors correspond to a binary codeword, portions of which have a relationship to a plurality of transmission units. The Z-vectors are stored in a set of D memory arrays. Each memory array includes Z rows of memory locations. Each memory location corresponds to a different array column, and each array column corresponds to a different Z-vector. Each Z-vector identifies one column. A series of sets of control information is generated. Each set includes a transmission unit identifier, a Z-vector identifier, and a row identifier. For at least one set, P times K divided by D bits is read from each column identified by the Z-vector that is identified by the Z-vector identifier included in the set.
US08195993B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device related to an embodiment of the present invention includes an address register which includes an internal selection circuit connected with a control circuit, a signal generation instruction circuit which instructs the control circuit so that a predetermined internal control signal is generated, a latch circuit, a plurality of which are arranged corresponding to a number of bits of test parameter data, the latch circuit latching test result data which is provided from the data program/read circuit and outputting the test result data to the selection circuit and externally, the control circuit generating an internal control signal which activates the selection circuit at a timing at which a fixed value data of the test parameter data is changed, and the selection circuit controlling a test so that a fixed value data of the test parameter data is changed.
US08195991B2
Handling of integrity check failure in a wireless communication system can safely send the mobile station to the idle mode upon detection of security failure. Alternatively or in addition, attempts to recover from the security failure situation can be enabled without forcing the mobile station to enter idle mode. The mobile station autonomously transitions to idle mode when the integrity check failure is detected a certain threshold number ‘X’ times during a specified period ‘Y’. Whereupon, the mobile station initiates the Radio Resource Control (RRC) connection re-establishment procedure after integrity check failure is detected. In the RRC connection re-establishment procedure, the security parameters are re-initialized to provide a possibility to recover from the failure situation.
US08195988B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus in a Media Gateway (MG) for handling disconnection between the MG and a Media Gateway Controller (MGC). Multilevel requirements are fulfilled by setting different timeout periods for a disconnection timer. On the one hand, if the timeout period of the disconnection timer is not equal to zero, new events that occur during the disconnection are stored. Then, after the connection is recovered, the stored new events are reported to the MGC, so that the data and states in the MG can match those in the MGC after the connection recovery. On the other hand, if the timeout period of the disconnection timer is equal to zero, all active calls are immediately released.
US08195986B2
A system for processing errors in a processor comprising, a first register having a unique identifier operative to store a first error data, a processor operative to retrieve the first error data from the first register, associate the first error data with the unique identifier, and generate a first uniform error packet including the first error data and the unique identifier and a storage medium operative to store the first uniform error packet.
US08195981B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an interrupt handler configured to distinguish between critical and non-critical unrecoverable memory errors, yielding different actions for each. Doing so may allow a system to recover from certain memory errors without having to terminate a running process. In addition, when an operating system critical task experiences an unrecoverable error, such a task may be acting on behalf of a non-critical process (e.g., when swapping out a virtual memory page). When this occurs, an interrupt handler may respond to a memory error with the same response that would result had the process itself performed the memory operation. Further, firmware may be configured to perform diagnostics to identify potential memory errors and alert the operating system before a memory region state change occurs, such that the memory error would become critical.
US08195972B2
Synchronous circuitry for processing digital data in which the data are filtered to compensate for expected jitter in time-average frequency clock signals. Time-average frequency synthesis circuitry generates internal clock signals of a desired frequency, for example as based on a recovered clock signal from an input data stream, in a manner in which not all periods of the clock signal are of uniform duration. A jitter precorrection filter is inserted into the data path to apply a variable delay to pre-correct for distortion caused by jitter in the clock cycle. In embodiments of the invention using a flying-adder architecture to generate the clock signal, coefficients of the digital filer realizing the jitter precorrection filter are calculated according to the currently-selected oscillator phase and according to a fractional portion of a digital frequency control word.
US08195970B2
A device comprising a temperature measurement module, a performance state module, and a fan speed module. The temperature measurement module is configured to determine a temperature in a server, and to output a first control signal when temperature in the server is above a threshold. The performance state module is configured to change a performance state of the device to a lowest system performance state in response to the first control signal, and further configured to reduce a processor power consumption and a subsystem power consumption to a minimum power level in response to reducing the performance state to the lowest system performance state. The fan speed module is configured to reduce a fan speed to a minimum fan speed level based on the first control signal.
US08195968B2
In some embodiments, the invention involves a system and method relating to managing power utilization in partitioned systems. In at least one embodiment, the present invention is intended to control the sleeping/wakefulness of devices, as necessary, to minimize power utilization of devices whose accesses are routed away. Inter-partition communication is used to utilize devices in a sequestered partition while devices in the OS partition are put into a sleep state to save power. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08195965B2
A midspan unit arranged to supply power to a powered device over data communication cabling constituted of a signal conditioner exhibiting a transfer function with a gain of not less than −0.4 dB as compared with: (K1*(s+R/L1+a)^m)/((s+R/L2+b)^n) over a predetermined frequency range associated with the data transmitted from the powered device. s represents 2*π*(√−1)*f, wherein f represents the predetermined frequency range associated with the data terminal equipment to be powered. R represents the signal source impedance in parallel with the load termination impedance. L1 represents the effective inductance of a data transformer winding of the data transmitter of the powered device, the effective inductance determined responsive to power received by the powered device from the power sourcing equipment; and L2 represents the effective inductance of the data transformer winding of the data transmitter of the powered device expected by a receiver of the switch or hub equipment.
US08195959B2
The present invention is a method, system and apparatus for the encryption of a credential store by using a lockbox mechanism. In a credential store encryption method, a lockbox for a credential store can be retrieved and an encryption key can be selected from among a list of encryption keys in the lockbox. The lockbox can be a local lockbox and the local lockbox can be retrieved from an unencrypted region of the credential store. In any case, subsequent to the retrieval of the lockbox, the credential store can be decrypted with the selected encryption key.
US08195947B2
Methods and systems for sending a digitally signed electronic mail (email) comprising a message are described. A first canonicalization of a first version of the message is generated. A second canonicalization of a second version of the message is also generated. A single digital signature that includes both the first and second canonicalizations is generated. The digital signature is then sent with the message.
US08195939B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for protecting sensitive data. In one implementation, a message is received that includes a plurality of information elements, at least one of the plurality of information elements having message information and belonging to at least one of a plurality of predefined classes of information elements. At least one of the plurality of information elements may be selected that belongs to a predefined class corresponding to a target class, the target class including classes of information elements selected for removal. Further, any message information corresponding to the selected information elements may be removed to protect sensitive data.
US08195916B2
An apparatus and method to translate virtual addresses to physical addresses in a base plus offset addressing mode are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes performing a first translation lookaside buffer (TLB) lookup based on a base address value to retrieve a speculative physical address. While performing the TLB lookup based on the base address value, the base address value is added to an offset value to generate an effective address value. The method also includes performing a comparison of the base address value and the effective address value based on a variable page size to determine whether the speculative physical address corresponds to the effective address.
US08195908B2
A system and method of squeezing slabs of memory empty are provided. A slab is a block of allocated memory space that is dedicated to holding one type of data. When it is determined that a slab of memory is to be squeezed empty, no object may be allocated from the slab. That is, new data is precluded from being placed in any unused space of the slab. Further, data is also precluded from being placed in any space in the slab that becomes unused anytime thereafter. When the slab becomes empty, the slab is de-allocated.
US08195899B2
The present disclosure includes memory devices and systems having memory cells, as well as methods for operating the memory cells. One or more methods for operating memory cells includes determining age information for a portion of the memory cells and communicating a command set for the portion of the memory cells, the command set including the age information.
US08195897B2
A method, system, and computer usable program product for migrating memory data between partitions are provided in the illustrative embodiments. All or a portion of a memory data of the source partition is written to a data storage unit, which may be a shared paging space, or a shared area of a data storage unit other than a paging space. The writing uses a first data communication path configured for paging the memory data. The portion of the memory data from the data storage unit is read at a destination partition. The reading uses a second data communication path configured for paging a second memory data. The read portion of the memory data may be used for executing a migrated application. The writing and reading may use a third and a fourth data communication paths respectively that may be configured for paging memory data to the shared area.
US08195896B2
A method, apparatus, and program product share a resource in a computing system that includes a plurality of computing cores. A request from a second execution context (“EC”) to lock the resource currently locked by a first EC on a first core causes replication of the second EC as a third EC on a third core. The first and third ECs are executed substantially concurrently. When the first EC modifies the resource, the third EC is restarted after the resource has been modified. Alternately, a first EC is configured in a first core and shadowed as a second EC in a second core. In response to a blocked lock request, the first EC is halted and the second EC continues. After granting a lock, it is determined whether a conflict has occurred and the first and second EC are particularly synchronized to each other in response to that determination.
US08195893B2
A technique for optimizing grace period detection in a uniprocessor environment. An update operation is performed on a data element that is shared with non-preemptible readers of the data element. A call is issued to a synchronous grace period detection method. The synchronous grace period detection method performs synchronous grace period detection and returns from the call if the data processing system implements a multi-processor environment at the time of the call. The synchronous grace period detection determines the end of a grace period in which the readers have passed through a quiescent state and cannot be maintaining references to the pre-update view of the shared data. The synchronous grace period detection method returns from the call without performing grace period detection if the data processing system implements a uniprocessor environment at the time of the call.
US08195889B2
A first address is received and is used to determine a first address range. The first address range includes a second address range and a third address range. If the first address is in the second address range, a fourth address range is determined. The fourth address range is different from the first address range. Information is retrieved from a memory in response to determining that a second address is in the first address range or the fourth address range. If the first address is in the third address range, a fifth address range is determined. The fifth address range is different from the first address range. Other information is retrieved from the memory in response to determining the second address is in the first address range or the fifth address range.
US08195876B2
Systems and methods for managing storage virtualization in a storage infrastructure are provided. The method comprises examining storage virtualization configurations across a data storage infrastructure having one or more data storage resources, such that configuration data associated with the storage virtualization configurations applied to the one or more data storage resources is stored in a configuration repository; analyzing the configuration data to detect storage virtualization policy inconsistencies and redundancies across the data storage infrastructure; and reporting potential problems associated with applying the storage virtualization configurations to said one or more data storage resources, in response to detecting the virtualization policy inconsistencies.
US08195875B2
A system for responding to file system requests having file IDs comprising V, a volume identifier specifying the file system being accessed, and R, an integer, specifying the file within the file system being accessed includes D disk elements in which files are stored, where D is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer. The system includes a switching fabric having a first switching element and a second switching element, each of which are connected to each of the D disk elements. The system includes N network elements, each of which is connected to each of the switching elements of the switching fabric, where N is greater than or equal to 2 and is an integer and N+D is greater than or equal to 4.
US08195872B2
A method of controlling a semiconductor memory card system including a host device incorporating a semiconductor memory card and communicating information with a user of the host device to warn the imminent end of the life of the memory card in the system is provided. According to one aspect, there is provided a method of controlling a semiconductor memory card, the method comprising creating end-of-life index data of the semiconductor memory card, reading the end-of-life index data in response to a command from a host device to the semiconductor memory card, creating an end-of-life warning status of the semiconductor memory card from the end-of-life index data based on a life control limit value, and sending a response containing the end-of-life warning status to the host device as a response to the command through the same communication line as that for the command.
US08195871B2
A solid state drive (SSD) including a storage that includes a plurality of flash memories configured to be independently drivable and a controller to receive an input/output (I/O) request from a host, to split the I/O request into a plurality of sub-requests each having a size configured to be capable of being processed independently by each flash memory, and to process the I/O request based on the sub-requests.
US08195865B2
A migration destination storage creates an expansion device for virtualizing a migration source logical unit. A host computer accesses an external volume by way of an access path of a migration destination logical unit, a migration destination storage, a migration source storage, and an external volume. After destaging all dirty data accumulated in the disk cache of the migration source storage to the external volume, an expansion device for virtualizing the external volume is mapped to the migration destination logical unit.
US08195864B2
An apparatus for transmitting data across a high-speed serial bus includes an IEEE 802.3-compliant PHY having a GMII interface; an IEEE 1394-compliant PHY in communication with the IEEE 802.3-compliant PHY via a switch; the switch determining whether data transmission is be routed to the IEEE 802.3-compliant PHY or the IEEE 1394-compliant PHY; a first connection, the first connection for transmitting data between a device and the IEEE 802.3-compliant PHY; and a second connection, the second connection for transmitting data between a device and the IEEE 1394-compliant PHY.
US08195861B2
A hub apparatus provided by the present invention comprises an OTG (on-the-go) control module and at least one USB port and a linking module. The OTG control module has a buffer and be coupled to the USB port and the linking module. When the host apparatus and the peripheral apparatus link with the hub apparatus, the OTG control module captures a data, which is asserted by a user through the host apparatus, from the peripheral apparatus via the USB port, and saves the captured data into the buffer, so as to move the data saved into the buffer to the host apparatus via a data transmission for responding a data capturing requirement from the host apparatus.
US08195855B2
A bus system includes a plurality of stubs; a plurality of connectors, each of which is serially coupled between a corresponding one of the stubs and a corresponding one of memory modules; a plurality of first serial loads, each of which is serially coupled to a corresponding one of the connectors; and a plurality of second serial loads, each of which is serially coupled to characteristic impedance of a transmission line of a corresponding one of the stubs, wherein the first and the second serial loads are determined to be impedance matched at each transmission line terminal of the stubs.
US08195851B1
A display, possibly in combination with a computer, is used to manage the shape and position of various inputs, so that the inputs can be presented in combination. Possible combinations include displaying a subset of one input with another input, either overlapping or adjacent, displaying a temporal subset of one input, and using conditions to automatically control the selection of inputs.
US08195848B2
A method, system, and apparatus of medical device created through resource leverage of a host processing system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of a medical component includes automatically communicating a medical operating system to a host processing system from a memory location of the medical component when it is determined that the host processing system does not include a medical operating system optimized to operate with the medical component, processing a confirmation from the host processing system that the medial operating system has repurposed the host processing system of the host processor and that the medical operating system is now active on the host processing system, capturing a patient reading through the medical component, and leveraging at least one of a processing resource and an input-output (I/O) resource of the host processing system in providing a measurement of the patient reading to a user.
US08195847B2
A storage control apparatus for transmitting data to and receiving data from a plurality of storage devices connected to the same interface, the storage control apparatus includes a memory configured to store a management table registering a burst transfer length of each of the plurality of storage devices, the plurality of storage devices including a first storage device having a first burst transfer length that is a minimum in the management table and a second device having a second burst transfer length; an adjusting controller configured to adjust the second burst transfer length in input and/or output processing if the second burst transfer length registered in the management table is different from the first burst transfer length; and a data transfer controller configured to issue a command for a data transfer to the second storage device on the basis of the adjusted second burst transfer length.
US08195843B2
The present invention provides a high definition media interface (HDMI) controller having a modular design internal bus structure, and applications thereof. The controller includes a circuit interface, an address decoder coupled to the circuit interface, a plurality of sub-circuits, wherein each sub-circuit includes registers used to configure and control the sub-circuit, and a bus that couples the registers of each sub-circuit to the address decoder. After startup of the controller, the sub-circuits are configured by using the circuit interface, address decoder, and bus to write values to the registers of the sub-circuits. The sub-circuits of the controller include a video pixel sampler, an audio sampler, a frame composer, and a power controller. The video sampler can be configured to convert one of a plurality of RGB and YCbCr signals to a common format signal used by other sub-circuits of the controller.
US08195827B2
Illustrative embodiments of the invention provide for obtaining information from different devices in a computer network. Data representing the information from each of the different devices is received, the data is in a specific form relating to each of the different devices. The data from each of the different devices is assigned to one or more entities as defined by an information model. The data from each of the different devices is grouped using an adaptation layer before assigning the data from that device to one or more entities.
US08195825B2
A method is disclosed for implementing a modified form of User Datagram Protocol (UDP) multicast notification system in a client-server architecture that otherwise allows only client initiated messages. The method including: sending a registration message to a server from a client with a client IP address in the registration message, wherein the registration message includes types of notifications desired to be received by the client; adding the client IP address to a list in a registration message database; requesting a port number from the server by the client; and responding with the port number on which the client should listen by the server.
US08195818B2
A secure resource enforcer is configured to identify and provide selected secure resources. The secure resource enforcer includes a determining module configured to determine whether a resource of a web page that is requested in a first request by a client computer requires a secure connection based on a type of the resource that is requested. The secure resource enforcer also includes a redirecting module configured to redirect the client computer to a secure socket for the resource when the resource requires the secure connection. The secure resource enforcer further includes a receiving module configured to receive a second request from the client for the resource over the secure socket and a secure resource providing module configured to provide the requested resource to the client over the secure socket.
US08195816B2
The present invention provides a technique of preventing a user from being tricked into revealing personal information by pharming.Security server 50 checks whether a combination of a domain name and an IP address of WWW site 30 to be accessed by PC 10 is registered in access-permit DB 55a or access-inhibit DB 55b. Security sever 50 also checks whether the combination is registered in any of secure DNS servers 40 registered in secure DNS DB 55c. On the basis of a result of the checks, security server 50 controls an access by PC 10 to WWW site 30.
US08195814B2
The invention relates to an apparatus and a method for virtualizing resources. The apparatus is configured to store resource descriptions of a number of resources operatively connected to the apparatus, the resource descriptions including resource identification information, generate and store alternative descriptions of received resource descriptions by changing at least part of the identification information of the descriptions, publish at least some of the resource descriptions in a network, and handle resource data requests from the network relating to the resources.
US08195804B1
Systems and methods are provided in which performance is simulated for each of a plurality of traffic allocation models during each of a plurality of historical time segments to obtain a performance metric for each time segment. Thereafter, an allocation value is calculated for each model based on the performance metrics. Once the allocation value has been established for the models, allocations are auctioned among the plurality of models during a plurality of auction rounds. These auctioned allocations are used to determine traffic allocation probabilities among the plurality of model so that traffic can be served on at least one website according to models corresponding to the determined traffic allocation probabilities. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US08195800B2
A resource distribution method capable of lending surplus resources among a plurality of services and reducing the maintenance cost of the surplus resources is provided. Computer resources in the standby system have a dead standby state in which at least an application is not installed. A plurality of services or a plurality of users share the computer resources in the standby system. As a result, improvement of the utilization factor of idle computer resources and server integration are implemented, and the cost required to maintain the computer resources is reduced. Furthermore, load prediction is conducted as regards individual services by using past operation history. Idle computer resources secured from services having surplus and maintained are thrown in according to a result of the prediction.
US08195798B2
In an application execution system having a plurality of application servers, each application server stores a plurality of applications, and has computational resources for executing applications in response to received requests. Each application server also includes instructions for loading a respective application into volatile storage and executing the application in response to a request from a client, and for returning a result. In addition, each application server includes instructions for conditionally terminating execution of the respective application prior to returning the result if the respective application violates any execution restriction. The execution restrictions may include: a response time limit; an average response time limit over multiple executions of the application; a volatile memory usage limit; a restriction on using non-volatile storage of the application server; and a requirement limiting where state information is stored. The execution restrictions in aggregate maintain scalability of the application execution system.
US08195797B2
A method, system, and network for providing a method, system, and network, for network and device event monitoring and reporting. The disclosed subject matter associates with a host computer, a local network of information technology devices, a community of network users, and a global information technology community. The present disclosure initiates an inventory of a plurality of information technology devices associated with a local network of information technology devices. The method, system and apparatus determine change in the operational status of the plurality of the information technology devices associated with the local network. Then, the present disclosure monitors for changes in the operational status of the plurality of the information technology devices associated with the local network. The disclosed subject matter then presents to the host computer information relating changes in the operational status of the information technology devices associated with the local network. The present method and system associate changes to the operational status with a plurality of products from a set of product vendors, and those changes to the operational status with a plurality of advertisements presented in association with plurality of products.
US08195790B2
A data processing method for optimizing one or more parameters of a message handling system comprises defining a test workload comprising a plurality of messages, simulating the normal operation of the message handling system, processing at least a portion of the test workload, changing one or more parameters of the message handling system, monitoring the performance of the message handling system, and generating an optimization of at least one parameter based upon the performance of the message handling system.
US08195786B2
A method can be used to analyze the “real-estate” performance of content items within a network site. The method can comprise determining the click distance to reach each content item and determining the performance of each content item. The method can also comprise calculating a predicted value for performance based on statistical relationship between location and performance observed in a population of content items. The method can comprise comparing the predicted and actual performance. If a content item has an actual performance greater than its predicted performance, then it may be promoted to a better location in the site and the converse for poorer performing content.
US08195779B2
A network device includes a network port, at least one register, and a network information receiver. The network port is configured to send and receive data packets. The at least one register contains configuration data related to the network port. The network information receiver is coupled with the network port and is configured to receive the data packet from the network port, extract low level data from the data packet, and update the at least one register based on the low level data.
US08195771B2
A method for the configuration of network elements includes initially configuring a network element via a controller. The controller characterizes (learns) the configuration steps as a series of menu driven screen commands associated with the network element and processes subsequent substantially similar configuration requests for the network element and other network elements of the network using the characterized series of menu driven screen commands to execute the subsequent configuration requests. As such, the configuration and set-up of new network element(s) or the subsequent modifications to the configuration of existing network element(s), are vastly simplified processes. The present invention advantageously reduces the number of needed manually input parameters, thus making the configuration of network elements more reliable.
US08195769B2
A switched file system, also termed a file switch, is logically positioned between client computers and file servers in a computer network. The file switch distributes user files among multiple file servers using aggregated file, transaction and directory mechanisms. The file switch distributes and aggregates the client data files in accordance with a predetermined set of aggregation rules. Each rule can be modified independently of the other rules. Different aggregation rules can be used for different types of files, thereby adapting the characteristics of the switched file system to the intended use and to the expected or historical access patterns for different data files.
US08195759B2
A mechanism is provided for accessing, by an application running on a first processor, operating system services from an operating system running on a second processor by performing an assisted call. A data plane processor first constructs a parameter area based on the input and output parameters for the function that requires control processor assistance. The current values for the input parameters are copied into the parameter area. An assisted call message is generated based on a combination of a pointer to the parameter area and a specific library function opcode for the library function that is being called. The assisted call message is placed into the processor's stack immediately following a stop-and-signal instruction. The control plane processor is signaled to perform the library function corresponding to the opcode on behalf of the data plane processor by executing a stop and signal instruction.
US08195755B2
When a device is switched off, all messages for that device are stored in different distributed service centers. For example, the message from user A may be stored in SMSC A and a message from user B in SMSC B where both subscribers and respective SMSCs can even belong to different networks. When the device is switched on again it notifies its presence to the network (performed by the MSC indicating this to the HLR). As a result of this alert, different service centers that have messages pending for that device will be notified that the device has come on-line again (performed by the HLR notifying SMSC A and SMSC B). Instead of directly sending out all messages, as in the prior art, each service center instead schedules the messages in an internal queue for delivery according to a local control scheme, which achieves synchronized delivery from multiple distributed SMSCs even though there is no centralised control. Each service center maps the ‘age’ of the message on its time axis as the time-to-deliver the message to the device. The deliveries are then sent out according to the derived schedule. As independent service centers all will base their decisions on the same length of the delivery schedule and same maximum retention time, the message deliveries of the different service centers will be interleaved with one another. This ensures that for significant time differences, messages from different service centers will still arrive in order at the device.
US08195745B2
A distributed computer system including a server and a client, the server including a message store, a method for delivering Web content within a body section of electronic mail messages is provided. At least one mail message containing an embedded hyperlink is received at the server. Web content associated with the hyperlink is downloaded into the message content store at the server. The mail message and the corresponding Web content are then transmitted for display at the client.
US08195744B2
A directory view component runs on a host terminal. The directory view component is configured to interface with a file manager application resident on the host terminal. The file manager application provides an interface to a directory of the host terminal. The directory view component interfaces with the file manager to generate view data of the directory for use on a remote device.
US08195735B2
The present invention provides a system and method for improving the performance of general-purpose processors by implementing a functional unit that computes the product of a matrix operand with a vector operand, producing a vector result. The functional unit fully utilizes the entire resources of a 128b by 128b multiplier regardless of the operand size, as the number of elements of the matrix and vector operands increase as operand size is reduced. The unit performs both fixed-point and floating-point multiplications and additions with the highest-possible intermediate accuracy with modest resources.
US08195734B1
Combining multiple clusterings arises in various important data mining scenarios. However, finding a consensus clustering from multiple clusterings is a challenging task because there is no explicit correspondence between the classes from different clusterings. Provided is a framework based on soft correspondence to directly address the correspondence problem in combining multiple clusterings. Under this framework, an algorithm iteratively computes the consensus clustering and correspondence matrices using multiplicative updating rules. This algorithm provides a final consensus clustering as well as correspondence matrices that gives intuitive interpretation of the relations between the consensus clustering and each clustering from clustering ensembles. Extensive experimental evaluations demonstrate the effectiveness and potential of this framework as well as the algorithm for discovering a consensus clustering from multiple clusterings.
US08195731B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for determining at least one root of an n-dimensional function, utilizing triangulation. In operation, an n-dimensional function is received. Additionally, at least one root of the n-dimensional function is determined utilizing triangulation.
US08195728B2
Handling mask and range constraints. For example, a method of handling range and mask constraints, may include determining whether or not to utilize a mask constraint and a range constraint by determining whether or not the range and mask constraints are satisfiable. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08195726B2
Systems, devices, and methods for using an analog processor to solve computational problems. A digital processor is configured to track computational problem processing requests received from a plurality of different users, and to track at least one of a status and a processing cost for each of the computational problem processing requests. An analog processor, for example a quantum processor, is operable to assist in producing one or more solutions to computational problems identified by the computational problem processing requests via a physical evolution.
US08195724B2
A virtual binding system ensures that the WORM logic for protecting data immutability cannot be circumvented, effectively guaranteeing WORM property of a WORM storage system composed of rewritable magnetic hard disks. To close the security hole between the rewritable media and the WORM logic, virtual binding securely authenticates the legitimacy of a WORM logic controller before granting data access on a WORM storage media. Furthermore, the system verifies the legitimacy of the WORM logic controller during data access. This approach virtually binds together the WORM logic controller and the WORM storage media even though the WORM logic controller and the WORM storage media may be physically separate.
US08195722B1
A method and system for storage checkpointing of an independent computer application. The independent computer application is launched by a coordinator; and the coordinator installs at least one of an exec interceptor and a fork interceptor. The coordinator also installs at least one file operations interceptor for all file operations and registers the independent computer application with the coordinator. The independent computer application is run and the at least one file operations interceptor is called upon encountering a file operation. The file operations interceptor logs a file event in a file operations database and passes the operation to at least one of a file system, an operating system, at least one or more device drivers, and a storage disk via a storage interface. The file operations interceptor also verifies that the file operation has been issued.
US08195721B2
In a virtual machine, Java Virtual Machine, or other runtime environment, a system and a method for improving the garbage collection times of the virtual machine memory. The JVM, or a garbage collector operating therein, can estimate, for an area of the memory space, the sum of the pause times for garbage collection of the software objects within the area, and control the garbage collection process so that the sum of the pause times for garbage collection will be lower than a target pause time limit, with a high degree of probability. A preselected compaction area can be pre-compacted to keep the compaction time within the target limit. The garbage collector can also predict the time required for final marking and repeat precleaning until the predicted final marking time is within the limits for pause times, and can improve pause times by redirecting application worker threads to do garbage collector work when entering or leaving the memory subsystem.
US08195715B2
In one aspect, the invention comprises software stored in a computer readable medium, comprising: (a) software for receiving a user-specified file naming convention; (b) software for electronically storing said file naming convention; (c) software for detecting whether a file has been selected for download; and (d) software for displaying a default file name for said file, wherein said default file name is constructed based on said file naming convention.
US08195714B2
A system that facilitates the automatic tagging of contextual metadata information to a file as the file is being created. The system facilitates the automatic association of data with a user context, and includes a data operations component that associates with data operations being performed on a data. These data operations include standard data operations such as read, write, delete, move, copy, paste, etc., that are normally associated with data operations. The system further includes a tagging component that facilitates automatic tagging of contextual information to the data when the data is created. That is, when the data is first saved, the tagging operation of the contextual information is performed on the data. Subsequent save operations simply overwrite the existing data in the storage location. Thus, data and applications can be grouped based on the identity of the tag.
US08195711B2
The present invention is directed to utilizing contact data controls to simplify access to schematized contact data. Contact data controls abstract the formatting of schematized contact data from applications. In some embodiments, applications that lack the configuration to natively access schematized contact data (e.g., lack the functionality to convert between schematized and non-schematized data or are not authorized) forward requests to access schematized contact data to an external contact data control. In other embodiments, applications that lack the configuration to natively access schematized contact data forward non-schematized data, which is to be used to update schematized contact data, to an external contact data control. External contact data controls appropriately interact with the schematized data and can provide user-interface such that an application designer need not have extensive knowledge of contact schemas associated with the schematized contact data.
US08195702B2
Techniques are provided for processing a CREATE INDEX statement that avoids one or more locks on the underlying table. The processing of such a statement may be divided into a build phase and a cooperation phase. During the build phase, a journal table is created and published. A snapshot of the table is obtained after the last DML transaction (that was pending at the time the journal table was published) commits. The index is built based on the state of the table as of the snapshot. Any changes to the table while the index is built are recorded in the journal table. During the cooperation phase, the index is partially published. A subsequent DML statement determines whether any changes in the journal table affect the same data as the subsequent DML statement. If so, then those changes are applied to the index followed by the subsequent DML statement.
US08195699B1
A method and system to provide visualization of high resolution terrain for use in real-time simulation for digital image displays that is derived directly from source data including imagery, classification, elevation and vector data at run-time with little or no off-line manipulation of the source data. The fidelity of the visualization is scaled while based on the graphic system's capability readily available worldwide data exists for elevation vector and import runway data. System provides for facilitating run-time processing of source data utilizing a project file which lists each source file, desired attribute mapping and whether the source is enabled or disabled. For each source file a source proxy object is created in memory which references the target source file. The source proxy objects are stored in a vector manager in a spatial index to quickly determine which data sources intersect a given area. A spatial index can be queried for the proxies covering a requested geographical location. The resulting proxies are then accessed for the data within the query boundary. The system determines how attributes should be mapped from the source into what the internal algorithms need to process the data. The system defines how the data can be processed using a plurality of filter chains with a terminating filter which produces a result which is added to the scene imagery.
US08195698B2
A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture is configured to define a structured view of data in a computer system. A relational database management system (RDBMS) stores information in the computer system. As part of a process and framework, a series of business rules and process workflows that manage data (that is hierarchical in nature) that resides in one or more RDBMS tables are maintained. User input is accepted that defines a hierarchical structure that is projected onto the data. The hierarchical structure is stored as metadata in the RDBMS. The hierarchical structure is utilized to graphically visualize, manage, and manipulate the data.
US08195697B2
A database creation method relating to semiconductor ICs, the database registering function block cells constituting a design data of semiconductor IC and evaluation values corresponding to the function block cells such that the function block cells are associated with the evaluation values, for each of the semiconductor ICs, the creation method includes judging whether or not that function block cells constituting a design data of desired semiconductor IC include an unregistered function block cell which is not registered in the database, calculating an unregistered evaluation value corresponding to the unregistered function block cell when the function block cells constituting the design data of the desired semiconductor IC are judged to include the unregistered function block cell, and updating the database by registering the unregistered function block cell and the unregistered evaluation value such that the unregistered function block cell is associated with the unregistered evaluation value.
US08195695B2
A computer readable storage medium includes executable instructions to retrieve a dataset from a data source. The dataset includes a first set of categories. A data structure with nodes connected by edges is built to represent the dataset. A first set of merit values is calculated for the first set of categories. Each merit value is a measure of how efficient a category is in filtering data. The first set of categories is ordered based on a criterion. The first set of categories is then returned.
US08195693B2
A method of automatically matching schemas begins by extracting schemas from sources and targets. Then, source and target attributes are extracted from the schemas. Each source schema will have multiple source attributes and each target schema will also have multiple target attributes. The source attributes and the target attributes are presented as nodes in a bipartite graph. This bipartite graph has edges between nodes that are related to each other. A plurality of similarity scores are defined between each set of related nodes. Each of the similarity scores is based on a different context-specific cue of the attributes that the nodes represent. These context-specific cues can comprise lexical name, semantic name, type, structure, functional mappings, etc. An overall weight is computed for each edge in the bipartite graph by combining the similarity scores of each set of nodes that form an edge.
US08195690B2
An XML querying method and system for constructing an XQuery/XPath query to a schema variable XML document. The method includes: receiving the query from a client computer; generating a tree structure; and generating, by query rewriting, an XQuery/XPath for the XML document based on the tree structure and configurable query constraints. The system includes: a tree structure generating unit for generating a tree structure; and a query writing unit for generating an XQuery/XPath query for the XML document based on the tree structure and configurable query constraints.
US08195687B2
A program (e.g., tv/movie program) retrieval support device includes the following units. A program-information-accumulation unit (102) accumulating pieces of program information. A program-search-criterion-input unit(101) receiving from a user a search criterion. A program-information-search unit (103) searching the pieces of program information accumulated in the program-information-accumulation unit (102) using the received search criterion. A program-information-display unit (104) displaying a list of pieces of program information found by the search. A program-information-user-selection unit (105) receiving from the user an input of pointing (selecting) a piece of program information from the displayed pieces of program information. A program-search-criterion-generation unit (106) determining whether or not the pointed program is a major program and if the pointed program is a major program then generating new search criteria for narrowing down the search range to be more similar to the selected program. A program-search-criterion-display unit (107) displaying the generated new search criteria.
US08195684B2
Technique for effectively collecting and analyzing data in providing information assistance services
In an information/call center where calls are received, requesting information concerning entities, goods and services, directions to a given destination, etc., data is collected in processing such calls. In accordance with the invention, the collected data is analyzed to generate dynamic data to supplement and/or improve the traditional databases, typically searched by an operator for responses to the information requests. In providing a public information assistance service, such dynamic data may concern, e.g., the most popular movies, restaurants, requested categories, etc. In providing a personalized information assistance service, such dynamic data may concern, e.g., previous telephone connections made for a subscriber, the most popular telephone connections requested by a subscriber, etc. In addition, based on the past search behavior, “fuzzy” logic is developed for correlating between search terms. When one search term is used in a search, the correlated search term may be suggested for adoption, in accordance with the fuzzy logic.
US08195682B2
A topographical analysis system that provides an integrated approach for gathering available topographical data and synthesizing the topographical data for various uses by various users. The topographical data may be real time data, historical data, and/or most recent data. The processing of the data utilizes cloud resources in a cloud computing architecture. In addition, cloud resources are utilized to store various accumulated topographical data in a manner such that the cloud resources can quickly process calculations and return results to an end user requesting certain data.
US08195674B1
A system for generating a model is provided. The system generates, or selects, candidate conditions and generates, or otherwise obtains, statistics regarding the candidate conditions. The system also forms rules based, at least in part, on the statistics and the candidate conditions and selectively adds the rules to the model.
US08195673B2
It is provided a method of matching pairs of persons. The method includes receiving from the persons personal opinions on other persons, and based on a collaborative filtering algorithm, calculating from the personal opinions a first estimated opinion of a first person on a second person and a second estimated opinion of the second person on the first person. The method also includes matching the two persons in accordance with the estimated opinions and connecting them for a predetermined time duration. The first estimated opinions may be the estimated probability that the first person wants to be matched to the second person. The matching of the two persons is done in accordance with the product of the probabilities. Matching order is determined by a difference between a highest and a second highest product of a person in two different pairs.
US08195672B2
What is disclosed is a system and method for searching a repository of documents containing images using an image as a query. The present method enables the adjustment of a threshold level through a no-reference quality assessment of the query image which produces an estimated measure of quality for the image. For each image in each document in the repository, a distance is computed between a hash value of each image extracted from the document and the hash value of the query image. Documents are flagged as possible matches if the computed distance is less than the adjusted threshold. Documents flagged as a result of the search are retrieved and provided to the user. The present method can be used along or as an adjunct to text-based search techniques. Other embodiments are provided.
US08195666B2
A content management and delivery system that works with a publisher website to deliver access to advertising content within Microsites relevant to content accessed by the user on the publisher website. The system includes a computer program product for determining relevance of the advertising content with regard to a selected item of editorial content, and for creating a link to the advertising content in accordance with the relevance thereof. The computer program product ensures that when a user navigates to the advertising content using the link, the user is not caused to exit from a publisher environment.
US08195663B1
A product catalog system includes a product catalog having information regarding products for sale online by various merchants. The product catalog system transmits information regarding products in response to queries for a target product and also transmits information regarding products that serve as alternatives to the target product. The product catalog system includes a product alternatives module that identifies product alternatives based on information regarding a multitude of received queries and information regarding products that were selected from other products presented in response to the queries. The alternatives module computes an association weight for pairs of products that indicates the likelihood that the two products are alternatives. This association weight is based on the query and product information and further based on the number of times that the two products were the subject of a comparison query.
US08195660B2
Various embodiments described herein provide systems, methods, and software to automatically reorder search results presented to users based on information specific to the user or the computing environment of the user. Some embodiments include a data store holding user or environment specific data that is used to identify search results that are more likely to be relevant to the user. These and other embodiments are described in greater detail herein.
US08195656B2
A device, system and method to enable communications over a network wherein a user may conduct a search directed to target contacts within a social network. A knowledge base of prior social search responses may be searched for responses from the target contacts with the results being presented to the user. The results of the search can be sorted along with responses received from the target contacts. The selection of target contacts and presentation of results can be based on various attributes of target contacts or ranking of the prior search responses. The search responses received by the user along with attributes and rankings may be stored in the knowledge base for future use. The target contacts and search may be taken from contacts or the knowledge base of the contacts with greater than one degree of separation from the user.
US08195647B2
Embodiments of the invention provide methods, systems, and articles of manufacture improving the process of query composition, query processing, and presenting query results to users of an abstract database. Embodiments of the present invention organize and view data using abstract records. Specifically, users compose a query according to the logical relationships present in the data. Rather than evaluate conditions against a set of rows from a relational table, conditions included in abstract query are evaluated against instances of an abstract record. Instances that satisfy the conditions specified by an abstract query are returned as query results. In a specific case abstract records are used to evaluate a “never exists conditions, that determine the absence of data in an abstract records that satisfy a particular condition.
US08195641B2
Technologies and concepts are described herein for authoring a database query through the modification of a view of the data to be returned by the query. A user interface is provided for authoring a database query through the modification of a view of the data to be returned by the query that includes a view showing the results of a database query. A user interface is also provided for modifying the view to define the results of the query. As the view is modified, a query definition is generated which, when executed against the database, will return the results of the database query shown in the view. When the desired results are shown in the view, the query definition can be saved and run against the database to perform the database query.
US08195640B2
An integrated program lookup browser provides an integrated system with an online program lookup web service that assists the user in finding these unrecognized files, protocols and web page objects by allowing the user to perform a program lookup on a web service that can search one or more databases and return the URL to download the appropriate application or protocol or return the actual program or protocol.
US08195637B1
Click logs and query logs are processed to identify statistical search patterns. A search session is compared to the statistical search patterns. Content items responsive to a query of the search session are identified, and a ranking of the content items is adjusted based on the comparison.
US08195624B2
A shared file system may be updated by a non-native operating system writing information to a change file, while a native operating system is in a suspend or hibernation mode; after writing, the non-native operating system is placed in a suspend or hibernation mode and the native system activates and then retrieves the updated information from the change file and writes the updated information to a shared file system. The native operating system returns to a suspend or hibernate state before the non-native operating resumes operation. The updated information may be written as provided by the non-native operating system, or further updated by the native operating system before being written to the shared file system. The change file is created by the native operating system, and may be a reserved portion of the shared file system or may be a separate portion of non-volatile memory. The native and non-native operating systems operate both concurrently and independent of one another; thereby, preventing conflicts during file system updating.
US08195610B1
A method and apparatus for cache management of distributed objects have been disclosed. A query strategy, based on a fetch strategy and a merge strategy, may be used to query a database and reconcile data in a local cache. In one approach, a merge action depends upon whether an entity was added, deleted, or changed relative to the original version of the entity as it was last fetched.
US08195605B2
A method for synchronizing a database server to a current status of a client database using data cache techniques is provided. Upon initiating synchronization, the database server receives an identification of a client connection, and creates a server-cache-table having a structure that is compatible with the client database. Database records from a corresponding client-cache-table are received through the client connection and inserted into the server-cache-table. The server-cache-table is merged into the database server. Similar cache-tables can be utilized to synchronize data from the database server to the client. Optionally, a parent-cache-table can be created on the server and populated with records associated with the identified client. Queries and other database operations during synchronization can be performed over the parent-cache-table to further optimize performance.
US08195601B2
A visitor to a profile page is invited to modify a user profile associated with the profile page. If the visitor elects to provide a suggested modification to the profile page, a message is transmitted to the user that owns the profile page requesting authorization to perform the suggested modification. In response to the message, the user can accept the suggested modification to the user profile, decline the suggested modification to the user profile, or edit the suggested modification to the user profile. If the user accepts or edits the suggested modification to the user profile, the user profile is modified accordingly. In this manner, a visitor to a profile page can assist in the creation of a user profile.
US08195596B2
An analog processor, for example a quantum processor may include a plurality of elongated qubits that are disposed with respect to one another such that each qubit may selectively be directly coupled to each of the other qubits via a single coupling device. Such may provide a fully interconnected topology.
US08195594B1
Disclosed is a networked database-driven system for facilitating the generation by multiple users of reports containing frequently occurring, repetitive, or predictable elements, through the system making predictions or suggestions regarding elements to insert into or changes to make to a currently edited report in progress by one user, through the use of user-defined report elements and user-defined relations between those elements, as well as the system's drawing upon collected data regarding prior reports and report elements entered into the system by previous report authors and inclusion or exclusion decisions made by previous report authors regarding those elements in relation to other report elements.
US08195593B2
Avatars, methods, apparatuses, computer program products, devices and systems are described that carry out identifying a member of a population cohort; and indicating at least one behavior in the member of the population cohort based on an association between the population cohort and at least one cohort-linked avatar.
US08195592B1
Systems and methods are described for creating, disseminating, and using enhanced interactive constructs for single or multiple users. Preferred implementations are based on approaches used by experienced problem solvers or inquiry based projects, and may comprise playable, animated, game-like, or video-like forms, and others. Systems and methods may also comprise feedback, evaluation, tracking, scoring, commenting, and reward mechanisms, and may be implemented in or in conjunction with a variety of systems and collaborative environments.
US08195585B1
Techniques for supporting generalized motion recognition are disclosed. A set of motion recognizers created from training sets of labeled processed motion signals is provided, each of the component outputs is transformed. When a motion signal including two or more component outputs is received, the component outputs are transformed into device-independent motion signals, where each of the component outputs describes a different component of a motion made by a user. The motion recognizers are applied to the motion signal to build generalized motion recognizers responsive to the motion sensitive device that has generated the motion signal.
US08195575B2
This disclosure describes systems and methods for collecting and processing change of address data and providing change of address services to a customer using a computer network. The address data can include a physical address, an electronic address, or both. The systems and methods may also provide additional services to the customer to assist in changing addresses.
US08195573B2
The present invention is a system for conducting commercial transactions over the Internet, whereby a shopper can simultaneously search for a plurality of items on at least one website with a single search command. The shopper can selectively specify the items of interest to be searched and can also specify and/or exclude websites to be searched. The system also searches a selectively alterable set of default website(s) and intelligently recommended website(s). Under one search command, the system simultaneously searches for all of the items on any combination of the following: site(s) specified by the user, a default website, an alterable set of default or intelligently recommended website(s). Information regarding the items retrieved as a result of the search is compiled under an alterable set of criteria, and displayed for viewing by the shopper. The shopper can simultaneously purchase selected ones of said items with one order command.
US08195564B2
A system for creating and maintaining financial assets which accentuate different types of sub-loan level risk associated with a plurality of home mortgage loans and which are configured to operate as hedges against risks that oppose the different types of sub-loan level risk is provided. A decomposition tool is configured to decompose each of the plurality of home mortgage loans into a plurality of sub-loan level cash flows. A repackaging tool is configured to repackage the plurality of sub-loan level cash flows to form the financial assets. Repackaging includes selecting a sub-combination of the plurality of sub-loan level cash flows, packaging the sub-combination of sub-loan level cash flows to create one of the financial assets, and repeating the selecting and packaging steps to create additional financial assets. A graphical user interface is configured to display information relating to the sub-loan level cash flows and financial assets on a display.
US08195560B2
Presented is a system and method for performing crossing of institutional security orders. The system includes a first server interconnected to a second server and client stations across a communication network. The first server includes a database and is configured to receive institutional orders from the client station, which are stored in the database. The first server includes operating instructions operable to determine whether a match exists between contra institutional orders based on predetermined criteria. Upon determination of a match, the first server forwards a child order composed of at least a portion of one of the contra orders to the second server. At a fraction of a second later, the first server forwards the other of the contra orders to the second server followed by the remaining portion of the contra order.
US08195550B2
Commercial size of spending wallet (“SoSW”) is the total business spend of a business including cash but excluding bartered items. Commercial share of wallet (“SoW”) is the portion of the spending wallet that is captured by a particular financial company. Commercial SoW is a modeling approach that utilizes various data sources to provide outputs that describe a company's spend capacity. These outputs can be appended to data profiles of customers and prospects and can be utilized to support decisions involving prospecting, new account evaluation, and customer management across the lifecycle. Company financial statements are utilized to identify and calculate total business spend of a company that could be transacted using a commercial credit card. A spend-like regression model may then be developed to estimate annual commercial SoSW value for customers and prospects within a credit network.
US08195537B2
A system is disclosed for processing of electronic product order data from vendors and wholesalers based on pricing contracts specifying qualifying vendors, customers, products and pricing. Product order data is compared with a plurality of pricing contracts established by product manufacturers. Errors in the product order data are identified by comparing the product order data with pricing contracts and proposed or suggested solutions to the errors are compiled. Proposed error corrections in the product order data are electronically presented to manufacturers by way of a GUI computer interface so that acceptance of proposed solutions requires minimal analysis and feedback from the manufacturers. Where proposed error solutions are deemed erroneous, manufacturers are provided a GUI interface mechanism for manual keyboard entry of appropriate corrected data. Sales invoice data is reconciled, once errors are corrected, for automatic posting and payment of rebates to vendors or wholesalers based on pricing terms established in the contracts.
US08195532B2
A method to be performed in a procedure of manufacturing a product includes receiving, in a computer system, a request to initiate a manufacturing procedure including at least a first physical operation modeled as a manufacturing-type operation in the computer system and a second physical operation modeled as a warehouse-type operation in the computer system. Information to be used in the manufacturing procedure, identifying the manufacturing-type operation and the warehouse-type operation, is generated in response to the request. Using the information, the manufacturing procedure including the first and second physical operations is initiated. A post-manufacturing procedure for a product can include a manufacturing-type operation and a warehouse-type operation. A computer system includes an operation management module for managing a manufacturing-type operation and a warehouse-type operation. The computer system includes initiation components for initiating the operations.
US08195530B2
The invention provides a method, system, and program product for preparing customized educational materials. The invention may include, for example, receiving input from a user regarding the user's preferences for educational materials, retrieving core educational materials from a repository, accepting dynamic educational materials, and assembling the customized educational materials using the core educational materials, the dynamic educational materials, and the user's preferences. The invention may further include scheduling the delivery of the customized educational materials to a user.
US08195523B1
A system for conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes a web server for receiving bid data for one or more users for basic generation service products, an application server host application software, which processes the one or more bids according to at least one auction rule, tracks the auction, monitors the auction, and/or determines when to end the auction, and a database server, which stores auction data. A method of conducting a computer-based, simultaneous, multiple round, descending clock auction for basic generation services includes the repeating steps of receiving bids indicating desired tranche units of basic generation service products, calculating next round prices for each product, and sending round results to bidders. The subsequent round price for each of the products and a notice of the number of tranches bid during the immediately previous round of bidding for each of the products and/or the amount of excess supply offered. When the number of tranches bid for the round of bidding are equal to or less than the certain threshold for each of the products such that no further bidding can take place under the auction rules, the auction ends after the round of bidding and awarding winning bidders an ending price for each of the at least one of the plurality of products won by the winning bidders.
US08195518B2
A server acts as the hub of a collaborative commerce system. Suppliers of goods or services self publish information to the hub. Buyers are able to query the hub for product and service availability, price etc. Buyers are able to integrate real time multi product and multi service orders from multiple suppliers, carriers and field serve providers and thus secure available goods as well as the delivery and installation of those goods from the records available on the hub. Once an order is complete to the buyer's satisfaction, the order is transmitted to the hub. The hub then transmits the appropriate information to the relevant suppliers, carriers and installers as required. The system also provides for a system of virtual partitioning of a supplier's inventory.
US08195516B2
A computer-implemented automated method of generating a report of sales growth estimate from point of sale transaction settlement database includes selecting a subset of the point of sale transaction data that represents sales transactions for accounts in the transaction settlement database that are active during two consecutive reporting periods from the point of sale transaction settlement database. The selected subset of the point of sale transaction data is then analyzed based on a sorting category resulting in an estimate of sales growth rate over the reporting period.
US08195514B1
A software based system and method of displaying location based information from an information site on a network by determining location data of a user of the location based information on the network. The location based information is generated based on the determined location data of the user; and generated location based information is provided to the user over the network.
US08195513B2
A system and method for targeted delivery of advertising of a first or second sponsor to a plurality of cellular phones of a first or second type by way of a competitive bid auction process includes (a) receiving a mobile subscriber characteristic from a carrier; (b) presenting to the first and second sponsor data corresponding to (1) the mobile subscriber characteristic and (2) the first type and the second type of cellular phone; (c) receiving from each sponsor advertising associated with the mobile subscriber characteristic, wherein each advertising has a different rendering capability associated therewith; (d) attributing a priority to the delivery of the advertising based upon a resultant yield determination; and (e) transmitting the appropriate advertising to the types of cellular phones having the corresponding rendering capabilities of the advertising.
US08195508B1
The invention provides a method of providing and selling online advertising in which a single advertiser is guaranteed major advertising locations on each qualifying page viewed by a web site visitor during the viewer's entire web session. Advertisements from a single advertiser follow web site visitors through the web pages they select for viewing, allowing a consistent message to be displayed to a particular user over a period of time. Advantages include the ability to engage in linear storytelling and to obtain reach, duration, and impact of the advertising message on a par with or exceeding that obtainable from conventional advertising media such as television and print.
US08195501B2
A system and methodology for communication between a service provider and a service recipient relating to services is described, such that for a particular task or project, interaction and feedback between the respective service provider and service recipient is provided by the system in a manner that enables service recipient satisfaction to be accurately communicated to the service provider and documented by the service recipient. The system is modifiable and customizable to facilitate communication between a service provider and a service recipient in various industries.
US08195500B2
Systems and methods are described for transforming actual aggregated data (e.g., transaction and terminal data) from a large number of POS terminals into market trend reports that include macro-level trend data and analyses. For example, POS datasets are aggregated from POS terminals distributed across many merchant outlet locations, each POS dataset including location data and transaction data for its respective POS terminal. A reporting request is received for a market trend report corresponding to a designated market over a designated timeframe. A market dataset is identified from the portion of the aggregated POS data corresponding to the designated timeframe and market. Unreliable portions of the data may be discarded. Market trend data is then calculated as a function of the reliable portion of the market dataset, and graphical report data is output as a function of the market trend data in response to the reporting request.
US08195491B2
A method and system for evaluating a public sector organization includes identifying at least one outcome measure and at least one cost-effectiveness measure for a public sector organization; obtaining measurements associated with the measure; and determining a relative public performance measure of the public sector organization based on the measurements.
US08195474B2
A method and apparatus are provided in a computer network to present marketing and other pertinent information to clients from a host. The client environment is interrogated locally using a profiling engine. A customer class generated by a profiling engine on the customer server controls a URL behind an inquiry tab presented in a client user interface. When the user clicks on the tab they are taken to a portal designed by a host marketing team specifically designed for customers belonging to the customer class designated by the profiling engine. Using the method and apparatus of the present application, direct, cost effective marketing materials are delivered to customers without sending any customer information through the customer firewall back to the host.
US08195469B1
A speech decoding device of the invention smoothes, in decoding speech signal in a voice-less period, RMS and filter coefficients which is discontinuously transmitted, and provides them to a synthesis filter. Thereby, it is capable of preventing discontinuous changing of the filter coefficient caused by the intermittent transmission of the filter coefficient. As a result, a quality of decoding can be improved. Also, to remove an effect, caused by the smoothing process, from the filter coefficients or the RMS which are transmitted in the past frames, a smoothing factor is adjusted not to perform smoothing while a certain time period (or a certain number of frames) from when a transition is made from a voice period from a voice-less period, or when a decoded feature parameter satisfies a predetermined condition.
US08195461B2
A voice recognition system used for onboard equipment having a genre database (DB) that stores search target vocabularies in accordance with respective genres. It has a mike 1 for outputting speech sounds as spoken data; a first voice recognition dictionary 2a for recognizing words of search target genres in the genre DB; a second voice recognition dictionary 2b for recognizing words outside the search target genres; a voice recognition unit 3 for recognizing the speech sounds by collating the spoken data delivered from the mike with the vocabularies contained in the first and second voice recognition dictionaries; an interactive control unit 4 for outputting, when a word delivered from the voice recognition unit as a recognition result is a word obtained using the second voice recognition dictionary, a message so stating as presentation information; and a presentation unit 5 for presenting the presentation information to an outside.
US08195450B2
There is provided a method for use by a speech encoder to encode an input speech signal. The method comprises receiving the input speech signal; determining whether the input speech signal includes an active speech signal or an inactive speech signal; low-pass filtering the inactive speech signal to generate a narrowband inactive speech signal; high-pass filtering the inactive speech signal to generate a high-band inactive speech signal; encoding the narrowband inactive speech signal using a narrowband inactive speech encoder to generate an encoded narrowband inactive speech; generating a low-to-high auxiliary signal by the narrowband inactive speech encoder based on the narrowband inactive speech signal; encoding the high-band inactive speech signal using a wideband inactive speech encoder to generate an encoded wideband inactive speech based on the low-to-high auxiliary signal from the narrowband inactive speech encoder; and transmitting the encoded narrowband inactive speech and the encoded wideband inactive speech.
US08195445B2
A data backup system is provided for backing up data files from a data source and for securing those data files against accidental modification or deletion. The system comprises storage and a data protection component that includes an application programming interface defining a command set. The system can also comprise a backup application that is configured to use the commands of the command set. The data protection component allows applications that use the commands of the command set, such as the backup application, to access the storage of the system. The data protection component prevents operating systems and applications that do not use the commands of the command set from accessing the storage. The data protection function of the data protection component can optionally be disabled to allow open access to the storage.
US08195443B2
A user interface to a network simulator facilitates the use of application layer parameters and application layer logic. The user interface is configured to allow the user to define the input in a graphic form, or a text/programming form, or a combination of both. Preferably, the user interface provides common graphic forms for both inputting the data to the simulator as well as for displaying the resultant data from the simulator, thereby easing the progression from the analysis of output from one simulation to the generation of new input for a subsequent simulation.
US08195432B2
A media capture system, method, and computer program product are provided for assessing processing capabilities utilizing cascaded memories. In use, media data is captured from a system in accordance with predetermined criteria. Additionally, the media data is stored in a plurality of cascaded memories separate from the system. Further, the media data is used for assessing media processing capabilities of the system, based on the predetermined criteria.
US08195430B2
Aspects relate to a cognitive agent that performs functions associated with a desired result. The functions performed by cognitive agent supplement other activities performed at a same time. In such a manner, the cognitive agent can function as a surrogate for a user. A performed activity can trigger implementation of another activity that is an extension of the performed activity. Cognitive agent can perform functions that can be represented as an avatar. Further, cognitive agent can be associated with a diagnostics component that evaluates an operating condition. Based on the operating condition cognitive agent can implement automatic actions associated with mitigating failures and/or prolonging the life of machinery.
US08195428B2
The present invention provides a method for providing automated vehicle diagnostic function within a mobile vehicle communication system. The method includes configuring a primary diagnostic script for a telematics equipped mobile vehicle, providing the primary diagnostic script to the mobile vehicle, executing the primary diagnostic script, and collecting diagnostic data based on the executed primary diagnostic script. The primary diagnostic script may recreate known problem sequences when executed or may trigger data capture when specific conditions exist. The step of configuring the primary diagnostic script may include determining at least one diagnostic script based on diagnostic options and retrieving the at least one determined diagnostic script. One or more diagnostic scripts may be combined into the primary diagnostic script.
US08195424B2
A method and a measuring system for characterizing a deviation of an actual dimension of a component from a nominal dimension of the component, is disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes a) determining at least one measured value characterizing the actual dimension at a position of the component by a measuring device; b) making a nominal value available with which the nominal dimension is characterized as a function of the position of the measured value; c) determining a spatial distance between the measured value and the nominal value; d) making a limiting criterion available with which a permissible deviation from the nominal value is characterized as a function of the position of the measured value; and e) determining a tolerance utilization value characterizing the deviation for the measured value as a function of the spatial distance and of the limiting criterion.
US08195422B2
First and second devices having clocks which may have different clock rates. Obtaining a measure of the distance of propagation of a signal passing between the devices involves transmitting a first signal 12 from the first device to the second device. After a turnaround time TAT, a second signal 14 is transmitted from the second device to the first device. Any error in the clocks may lead to an error in the measurement of the turnaround time TAT. One device contains circuitry to calculate the ratio of the clock rates of the first and second devices, either by adjusting frequency divider ratios until there is LO frequency match, or by determining the offset frequency of an envelope of a mixed signal. The ratio of the clock rates is used to compensate the turnaround time TAT, to mitigate error. The accurate distance measurement can be used to determine if a relay attack has taken place in a vehicle security system.
US08195413B2
A measuring device for displaying several time-variable electrical signals. The measuring device includes a front panel, which provides various operating elements, with a screen, which provides several display fields. The first display field provides at least one window, which corresponds to a given measurement channel, where the time-variable electrical signal is presented in this first display field and can be switched as a maximized display to the second display field. For each signal presented in maximized format in the second display field, a status field is then displayed in the corresponding first display field.
US08195410B1
A system, method, and non-transitory computer-readable medium. The system includes an ultrasound transducer configured for coupling ultrasound incident waves into selected regions of an organic specimen and transferring resultant ultrasound data from specimen features for selected ultrasound incident waves to a processor, a location detection unit configured for detecting locations of the ultrasound transducer and organic specimen and for transferring that data to the processor, a memory module configured for storing anatomic model data for at least part of the organic specimen, the processor configured for identifying the region associated with the selected ultrasound data, creating an ultrasound image from that data, obtaining model extracted data from the anatomic model data corresponding to the selected ultrasound data region, creating a model image from the model extracted data, and transferring the ultrasound and model images to a display module, and the display module configured for displaying the ultrasound and model images.
US08195409B2
A portable threat detection apparatus and method is disclosed which may comprise a plurality of acoustic emission sensors arranged in a cluster, forming a polygon defining at least two axes of alignment between respective pairs of acoustic emission sensors; a computing device in cooperation with a non-transitory computer readable storage medium comprising computer readable instructions for performing: receiving a first signal produced by a first acoustic emission sensor within a respective pair of acoustic emission sensors, in response to the first acoustic emission sensor detecting an acoustic emission from a source, and receiving a second signal produced by a second acoustic emission sensor within the respective pair of acoustic emission sensors, in response to the second acoustic emission sensor detecting the acoustic emission; determining a cross-correlation factor between the first signal and the second signal; and, determining a bearing to the source based on the cross correlation factor.
US08195404B2
The system records the movement of tiny organisms housed in closed micro plates traversed by an infrared beam generating a signal as a function of the diffraction caused by the body of the microorganism. The behavior detection procedure includes processing the diffraction signal to discriminate the locomotor activity of the microorganism. The system may be used in the chronobiological field, longevity, toxicity, and pharmacology studies.
US08195400B2
A method for making directional resistivity measurements and forming a directional resistivity image of a subterranean formation includes processing a plurality of directional resistivity measurements and corresponding azimuth angles to calculate a first order harmonic representation at selected azimuth angles. A two dimensional borehole image may be formed by repeating the procedure at multiple measured depths in the borehole.
US08195392B2
A position detecting apparatus and method used in a navigation system, which can improve positional accuracy and bearing accuracy even in a system equipped with few sensors, are provided. A position detecting apparatus used in a navigation system for detecting a vehicle position includes: a sensor unit including a vehicle speed sensor, an acceleration sensor, and an angular velocity sensor; and a dead reckoning calculating unit for calculating state quantity inclusive of a current vehicle position, a vehicle speed, and a vehicle attitude angle based on a signal output from each of the sensors at a predetermined periodic interval. The dead reckoning calculating unit includes: a movement calculating unit for calculating a movement during a period from a previous state quantity calculation time up to a current state quantity calculation time; a change amount detecting unit for calculating an amount of change in vehicle attitude; a movement resolving unit for resolving the movement into a vehicle longitudinal component, a vehicle lateral component, and a vehicle vertical component based on the amount of change in vehicle attitude; and a state quantity calculating unit for determining, by calculation, a vehicle position at the current state quantity calculation time using each of the components.
US08195389B2
Systems and method of managing map data on electronic devices such as portable electronic devices include systems and methods of preloading map data, managing map data storage, sharing point of interest or pushpin data with other electronic devices, and displaying map data.
US08195376B2
A fuel injection control device for a diesel engine controls the first fuel injection timing so as to reduce the amount of white smoke generated in large amounts immediately after starting an engine. The fuel injection control device for the diesel engine comprises a high-pressure pump, a common rail for accumulating a highly-pressured fuel, injectors for injecting the fuel into a combustion chamber and a control means. Due to the fuel injection control device for the diesel engine, the fuel injection is performed after the cranking, without injecting the fuel for a certain period of time after an engine starting switch is turned on so that the pressure in the common rail becomes a set value.
US08195375B2
An internal combustion engine is selectively operative in one of a plurality of combustion modes. A method for controlling the engine includes commanding the engine operation to transition from a first combustion mode to a second combustion mode. Engine valve operation is commanded to a desired valve overlap and valve overlap is monitored. Engine operation is changed to the second combustion mode when the engine valve overlap achieves a predetermined range or threshold.
US08195366B2
A control system for controlling motion of a pallet truck vehicle includes three modes of operation for controlling coasting of the vehicle. In a first, constant pressure mode, the vehicle coasts for as long as an activation button is depressed. In a second, time controlled mode, the vehicle coasts for a predetermined period of time. In the third, distance controlled mode, the vehicle coasts for a predetermined distance. Each of these functions can be activated from a remote location using a remote activation device.
US08195365B2
An operator restraint system is provided. The operator restraint system includes a seatbelt payout sensor and a seatbelt buckle assembly. The seatbelt buckle assembly includes a housing and an alarm assembly. The alarm assembly includes at least one of a light source configured to generate a visible signal and an annunciator configured to generate an audible signal. A controller is associated with at least one of the seatbelt payout sensor and the alarm assembly. The controller is configured to receive from the seatbelt payout sensor a signal indicative of a length of a seatbelt that has been withdrawn, determine whether the length of the seatbelt that has been withdrawn is within a predetermined range, and control the alarm assembly to selectively generate at least one of the visible signal and the audible signal to remind an operator regarding employment of the seatbelt based on the determination.
US08195364B2
A steering control method including the steps of obtaining a heading error, obtaining a velocity value, obtaining a distance error, applying the heading error and defuzzifying an output from a steering rule base. The velocity value and the distance error are applied along with the heading error to fuzzy logic membership functions to produce an output that is applied to a steering rule base. An output from the steering rule base is defuzzified to produce a steering signal.
US08195363B2
A steering control device for a vehicle includes: a position detection sensor for detecting a position of a road boundary and accessories in front of the vehicle; a road curvature radius calculator for calculating an outer curvature radius of a road; a turning radius calculator for calculating an appropriate turning radius; an appropriate distance calculator for calculating an appropriate road boundary distance between a front end of the vehicle and the road boundary in front of the vehicle; an actual distance detector for detecting an actual road boundary distance between the front end of the vehicle and the road boundary in front of the vehicle; and a steering wheel angle determination element for determining acceptability of the turning angle of the steering wheel based on comparison between the appropriate road boundary distance and the actual road boundary distance.
US08195362B2
A method for controlling a driver assistance system having an LKS function of a vehicle is described. In the region of lane widening, a hypothetical lane which connects a starting lane to a destination lane is generated by the driver assistance system. In the region of the lane widening, the vehicle is guided along the hypothetical lane.
US08195360B2
A curve radius estimating device (100) configured to estimate a curve radius of a lane on which a self vehicle is driving includes a first curve radius calculating part (110) configured to calculate a first curve radius on a steering angle, a second curve radius calculating part (111) configured to calculate a second curve radius on a yaw rate, and a curve radius estimating part (112) configured to estimate a curve radius by combining the first curve radius and the second curve radius at a predetermined combination ratio. The curve radius estimating part (112) changes the predetermined combination ratio depending on a vehicle speed.
US08195347B2
Approach Decision Display and associated methods and systems are disclosed. A method and system in accordance to one embodiment of the disclosure includes a display of operationally-relevant information for final approach and landing on a cockpit graphical display. Approach Decision Display System (ADDS) provides, in a graphical display, dynamic decision parameters as a function of the health of required equipment for the selected approach and the aircraft's ability to execute the approach and landing.
US08195344B2
A remote control system and a remote control method of a construction machine for reducing a fatigue degree of an operator at the time when the operator controls driving of the construction machine depending on his/her body motion in the remote control system of the construction machine. For this, according to the present disclosure, a value acquired by compensating for a predetermined value εβ with respect to a finger bending angle βh for a palm is tracked by a bending angle βe of a bucket at the time of tracking the position of the bucket depending on hand motion of the operator to reduce a finger bending movement amount of the operator, thereby reducing fatigue. Further, the workspace of the operator is set to be smaller than points which are maximally movable in each of X, Y, and Z-axis directions at the time of setting the workspace of the operator, the workspace of WSh of the operator set to be small and a machine workspace WSe match each other, and the operator performs an operation in the workspace which is set to be small, thereby reducing the fatigue.
US08195333B2
A mobile robot guest for interacting with a human resident performs a room-traversing search procedure prior to interacting with the resident, and may verbally query whether the resident being sought is present. Upon finding the resident, the mobile robot may facilitate a teleconferencing session with a remote third party, or interact with the resident in a number of ways. For example, the robot may carry on a dialogue with the resident, reinforce compliance with medication or other schedules, etc. In addition, the robot incorporates safety features for preventing collisions with the resident; and the robot may audibly announce and/or visibly indicate its presence in order to avoid becoming a dangerous obstacle. Furthermore, the mobile robot behaves in accordance with an integral privacy policy, such that any sensor recording or transmission must be approved by the resident.
US08195332B2
A system and method is disclosed for controlling a robot having at least two legs, the robot subjected to an event such as a push that requires the robot to take a step to prevent a fall. In one embodiment, a current capture point is determined, where the current capture point indicates a location on a ground surface that is the current best estimate of a stepping location for avoiding a fall and for reaching a stopped state. The robot is controlled to take a step toward the current capture point. After taking the step, if the robot fails to reach a stopped state without taking any additional steps, an updated current capture point is determined based on the state of the robot after taking the step. The current capture points can be stored in a capture point memory and initialized based on a model of the robot.
US08195330B2
Interactive medicine organizers comprising integrated software and hardware elements and multifunctional interactive wireless devices to provide assistance to individuals who need to organize or monitor the administration of one or more medications are provided.
US08195327B2
The invention relates to a scalable freight loading system, especially for an aircraft, said system comprising drive means (L1-L9, R1-R9), covering sensors, bolts, proximity switches (PL1-PL9, PR1-PR9), and a central control device (CCB). According to the invention, the loading surface is divided into sectors (S1, S2, S3); a local control unit (SCB1, SCB2, SCB3) is associated with each sector; the drive means, covering sensors, and proximity switches of a sector are connected to IO ports of the local control unit; and the local control units are connected to the central control unit by means of a bus system (CAN-Bus).
US08195326B2
The invention relates to a commissioning area (10) comprising a buffer (12) for order containers (14) in which items can be commissioned, said buffer (12) comprising a plurality of adjacent buffer regions for respectively receiving an order container (14). According to the invention, a beam field (16) is provided above the buffer (12) in order to monitor the commissioning of items (28).
US08195319B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for providing predictive pre-recording of audio for voice input. In one aspect, a method includes establishing, as input data, state data that references a state of a mobile device and sensor data that is sensed by one or more sensors of the mobile device, applying a rule or a probabilistic model to the input data, inferring, based on applying the rule or the probabilistic model to the input data, that a user of the mobile device is likely to initiate voice input, and invoking one or more functionalities of the mobile device in response to inferring that the user is likely to initiate voice input.
US08195316B2
An audio apparatus includes an input unit for inputting stereo signals in which multi-channel surround-sound signals are mixed in accordance with a predetermined algorithm and a parameter indicating encoded contents of the algorithm, a surround-sound signal generator for generating left-side surround-sound signals and right-side surround-sound signals by decorrelating left-side signals and right-side signals contained in the stereo signals, and a controller for controlling the decorrelation performed by the surround-sound signal generator based on the parameter.
US08195300B2
Methods and devices for automatically optimizing the stimulus parameters and/or the configuration of electrodes to provide neural stimulation to a patient. In one embodiment, a system includes an electrode array having an implantable support member configured to be implanted into the patient and a plurality of therapy electrodes carried by the support member. The system can also have a pulse system operatively coupled to the therapy electrodes to deliver a stimulus to the therapy electrodes, and a sensing device configured to be attached to a sensing location of the patient. The sensing device generates response signals in response to the stimulus. The system can also include a controller operatively coupled to the pulse system and to the sensing device. The controller includes a computer operable medium that generates command signals that define the stimulus delivered by the pulse system, evaluates the response signals from the sensing device, and determines a desired configuration for the therapy electrodes and/or a desired stimulus to be delivered to the therapy electrodes.
US08195294B2
Method, controller and system for an implantable medical device capable of delivering therapeutic stimulation through a plurality of electrodes. A control module is operable to conduct a plurality of measurements of impedance values creating a plurality of measured impedance values for a plurality of selected sets of individual ones of the plurality of electrodes based on a plurality of active parameters. The control module conducts the plurality of measurements of impedance values in a plurality of stages in which at least one of said plurality of active parameters is varied between individual ones of the plurality of stages.
US08195273B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus including a magnetic structure having two opposite and spaced apart poles and a column or wall transverse to the poles and connecting the poles; the poles defining two opposite walls delimiting a patient-imaging space, the two opposite walls extending along substantially parallel planes which are substantially parallel to a vertical plane; and a patient positioning table which is slidably connected to a supporting frame between the two poles; the table being positioned with its longitudinal axis substantially parallel to the two opposite parallel walls of the poles and the table being oriented with its transverse axis perpendicular to at least one of the two opposite walls.
US08195270B2
A method for the non-invasive imaging of an anatomic tissue structure in isolation from surrounding tissues, including: receiving from an input device magnetic imaging data from a patient of the anatomic tissue structure and surrounding tissues; segmenting the imaging data to isolate the anatomic tissue structure imaging data from the imaging data for the surrounding tissues; separating the anatomic tissue structure imaging data into data populations corresponding to tissue microstructures; constructing an image from the imaging data for at least one of the tissue microstructures; and storing or displaying the image. An apparatus embodying the disclosed method is also described, as well as a method for the quantitative measurement of a nerve tissue suspected of demyelination.
US08195267B2
In some embodiments, an implantable microelectrode is provided with a shank comprised of a laterally extending platform whose thickness and/or configuration contributes to reduced tissue encapsulation, with at least one electrode site disposed at least partially on or in the laterally extending platform. Novel methods of designing, making, and using an implantable microelectrode or biosensor resulting in reduced tissue encapsulation are also disclosed.
US08195266B2
Microelectrode assemblies and related methods are disclosed for bio-stimulating and/or bio-sensing a target tissue. The assemblies can include a two-side substrate, an array of microelectrodes, each of the microelectrodes including a nano-wire embedded within the substrate and extending from a proximal end to a distal end and through the substrate, each nano-wire having a diameter preferably less than 1 μm. The substrate can include portions made of nano-porous material(s) through which the microelectrodes pass. The substrate with the embedded nano-wires can effectively be fluid impermeable. The proximal ends of the nano-wires can be adapted to be connected to an electronic device and the distal ends are adapted to be disposed in a biological environment for bio-stimulating a target tissue and/or bio-sensing activities of the target tissue. Suitable alloys such as platinum, platinum-iridium, and/or other noble-metal-alloyed compositions can be used for the nano-wires.
US08195245B2
A method and a user interface apparatus for managing functions of wireless communication components are provided. The present method displays a plurality of status bars respectively representing the wireless communication components on a screen of a communication device and arranges the status bars to form a management interface, wherein each of the status bars corresponds to a status switching region and displays a plurality of function icons of usable functions of the corresponding wireless communication component. Then, the communication device detects a selection operation from a user. When the selection operation is selecting the status switching region, an activation status of the wireless communication component corresponding to the selected status switching region is switched. When the selection operation is selecting the function icon, a function corresponding to the selected function icon is executed. Accordingly, the present invention provides a convenient way for the user to manage the wireless communication components.
US08195242B2
Improved methods and apparatuses are provided to address a potential “hidden beam problem” in wireless communication systems employing smart antennas. The improved methods and apparatuses utilize complementary beamforming (CBF) techniques, such as, for example, Subspace Complementary Beamforming (SCBF), Complementary Superposition Beamforming (CSBF) and/or Single Beam Complementary Beamforming (SBCBF) techniques.
US08195241B2
A receiver includes a plurality of antennas; a plurality of front end circuits producing digital signals in response to signals received on the antennas; a beamforming unit weighting and summing the digital signals to produce a first signal; a first stage including a first plurality of modems producing first bit streams in response to components of the first signal, a first plurality of signal reconstruction units producing first signal replicas in response to the first bit streams, and a first active cancellation unit weighting the first signal replicas and subtracting the weighted first signal replicas from the first signal to produce a second signal; and a second stage including a second plurality of modems producing second bit streams in response to components of the second signal, a second plurality of signal reconstruction units producing second signal replicas in response to the second bit streams, and a second active cancellation unit weighting the second signal replicas and subtracting the weighted second signal replicas from the first signal to produce a third signal. A method implemented by the receiver is also provided.
US08195240B2
A hybrid time-spatial multiplexing technique is provided for beamforming broadcast messages to mobile stations that may be within a coverage region or cell of a base station. The coverage region is divided into a plurality of segments. The mobile stations are assigned to at least one of the segments based on their locations within the coverage region or other criteria. The base station computes beamforming antenna weights which are configured to produce a radiation beam pattern from a plurality of antennas of the base station to respective ones of each of the plurality of segments in the region. A broadcast message is transmitted to each segment of the region in a time-division multiplexed manner using the beamforming antenna weights associated with the radiation beam pattern for the corresponding segment.
US08195232B2
A universal radio module for cellular communications devices can be plugged into any appropriately configured host device to supply the host device with cellular communication capability. The module can comprise three logical module-to-host interfaces—a voice interface, a data interface, and a management interface. The module may further comprise a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) physical interface and/or an antenna physical interface.
US08195227B1
An image encodes processing parameters for a set of images. A wireless communication device optically receives and processes the received image to generate first image data. The image data represents the processing parameters. The wireless communication device processes the first image data to obtain the processing parameters. The wireless communication device then optically receives the set of images. The set of images encode second image data. The wireless communication device processes the optically received set of images based on the processing parameters to obtain second image data.
US08195224B2
The invention is directed to a method and system for supporting multiple time division duplexed (TDD) based wireless services or frequency division duplexed (FDD) wireless services on a Distributed Antenna System (DAS). A DAS can support a many wireless services, including voice and data services using the same physical equipment. TDD based services use a common clock signal to synchronize the components of the DAS for transmission and reception of TDD signals. In accordance with the invention, the DAS can include a GPS receiver which can extract a timing signal (such as a 1 pps signal) from a GPS signal and distribute the timing signal to any and all components of the DAS to enable synchronization of the components for transmitting and receiving TDD signals. The GPS receiver can be part of the interface that connects a TDD based service to the DAS or separate component of the DAS. In accordance with the invention, the DAS can distribute a reference clock signal to all of the components of the DAS in order to maintain zero frequency shift while manipulating with the carrier frequencies of the various wireless services carried by the DAS. In addition, and in accordance with the invention, two analog architectures for better integration between the services sources (BTS) and the DAS are disclosed.
US08195223B2
The invention relates to a control module in telecommunications end devices, in particular in mobile telephones, that enables a two-way control of the mobile radio unit and the broadcast unit.Additionally, setting information from the entire system can also be transferred over control channels.
US08195215B2
A method and system is implemented to form a communication group comprising a plurality of entities. The method includes receiving a resource manager state generated for an event and extracting a plurality of parameters that indicate resource availability based on the resource manager state. The method further includes applying a set of rules to the resource state and to the plurality of parameters to select resources to form a communication group comprising a plurality of entities to distribute content related to the event.
US08195207B2
An uplink group call channel is assigned to a second user who acts as the new speaker in order to switch the speaker function from a first user to the second user in an on-going group call within a mobile radio system. The mobile radio system has at least one main mobile exchange and at least one secondary mobile exchange, to each of which at least one base station system is connected. Once the uplink group call channel has been assigned, transmission of data, especially group application data, is initiated via a group call control message to at least one listening user of the group call, particularly the first user. The group call control message is generated by the second user and is transmitted to the main mobile exchange via the uplink group call channel.
US08195204B1
A mobile station will sort wireless coverage sectors in order of distance of the sectors from the mobile station, and the mobile station will then scan for pilot signals from the sectors in the sorted order. The invention can be applied advantageously to provide an order of scanning remaining set sectors in a mobile station operating according to a code division multiple access protocol.
US08195202B2
The present invention relates to Assisted Global Positioning System (AGPS) high accuracy positioning in unknown cell areas. By using an approach of three alternative steps a reference position, needed for AGPS positioning, is determined. The first step involves using the location of any neighboring cell. The second involves using the location of a cell within the same Location Area as the cell serving the portable communication device to position. The third step comprises determining a fixed point within the same geographical area as the Serving Mobile Location Center (SMLC) is serving, and using this fixed point as a reference location. Using the three-step approach the AGPS positioning can be optimized, providing a possibility to position, for instance a mobile phone, by AGPS even though the location of the cell serving the phone is unknown to the positioning node operating the serving cell.
US08195191B1
A method and apparatus for communicating the location of a split sector in a cellular wireless communication system. A processor receives a definition of the separate coverage areas defining the split sector and programmatically determines whether a minimum composite angle spanning the coverage areas exceeds a threshold such as 180°. If so, the processor establishes an data-representation of the split sector as an omnidirectional sector. Otherwise, the processor establishes a data-representation of the split sector as a non-omnidirectional sector. The processor may then communicate the established data-representation for use as a basis to facilitate a location-based service keyed to the location of the split sector, such as response to an emergency service call for instance.
US08195184B2
Aspects of a method and system for best-M CQI feedback together with PMI feedback may include generating a plurality of feedback messages, which may be communicated from a mobile station to a base station, wherein at least one of the generated plurality of feedback messages may be associated with each corresponding selected one of a plurality of Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reporting units. The at least one of the generated feedback messages may comprise CQI information and Pre-coding Matrix Index (PMI) information, which may both be associated with the selected one of the plurality of CQI reporting units. At least one other of the generated plurality of feedback messages may comprise an aggregate CQI information, which is based on one or more of the plurality of CQI reporting units.
US08195181B2
In a radio communication system, a user terminal transmits a reservation packet to a base station using a common control channel (1), and the base station assigns an uplink data channel to the user terminal according to the reservation packet, and assigns a first shared control channel (2b) to the user terminal in association with the uplink data channel, and the mobile station transmits a control signal to the base station using the associated uplink shared control channel. According to status of radio communication, the base station may assign beforehand a second uplink shared control channel (2a) for which occupation by the user terminal is permitted only while the user terminal is performing communication.
US08195177B2
Methods and apparatus for processing voice call requests based on communication conditions of a mobile communication device are disclosed. In one illustrative example, a voice call request for a voice call is received through a user interface during an out-of-coverage condition of the mobile device. In response to the voice call request, when the out-of-coverage condition has existed for an out-of-coverage time period that is less than a first time period, a scanning operation is performed during a delay time period. If the out-of-coverage condition still exists upon expiration of the delay time period, a call denial indication and a call reminder prompt are produced in a visual display which indicates that the voice call could not be completed. If an in-coverage condition with a wireless network is identified during the delay time period, however, a voice call associated with the voice call request is initiated via the wireless network. On the other hand, in response to the voice call request when the out-of-coverage condition has existed for an out-of-coverage time period that is greater than the first time period, the call denial indication is immediately produced in the visual display without delaying for the delay time period.
US08195173B2
A transmission rate control method for controlling a transmission rate of user data transmitted by a mobile station via an uplink, include: notifying, at a radio network controller, a maximum allowable transmission rate of the user data to the mobile station, when the mobile station starts communications or when a cell to which the mobile station is to be connected is changed; and automatically increasing, at the mobile station, the transmission rate of the user data to the maximum allowable transmission rate that is notified by the radio network controller.
US08195154B2
It is a method for implementing terminal roam and management in the soft switch-based Next Generation Network, comprises: a user terminal moving on the IP network, when the IP address changing, the user terminal registering at a soft switch controlling device again, the user terminal attaining the allocated IP address of the said soft switch controlling device and registering at the exchange controlling device, after the soft switch controlling device receiving the register request of the user terminal, it attaining the user data of the said terminal from a database. The soft switch controlling device judges whether the user terminal roaming, if it roaming, the soft switch controlling device further judges whether allowing the user terminal to access, if the user terminal roaming and being allowed to access, then the soft switch controlling device transmits the transmission success response to the user terminal, the user terminal accesses to the soft switch controlling device. This method can provide the function of terminal roaming in the NGN, implementing the roaming management for the terminal, including the roaming right management function, roaming identification function and roaming charge function.
US08195150B2
A method and system for distributing files to remote receiving units such as passenger vehicles. The method includes the steps of (a) creating a file broadcast schedule that identifies a plurality of files and that includes scheduling information indicating when the files will be transmitted, (b) sending the file broadcast schedule to a number of remote receiving units via wireless transmission, (c) analyzing the file broadcast schedule at one or more of the remote receiving units by identifying at least one specific file intended for receipt and storage at that receiving unit and by determining from the scheduling information a scheduled time at which the specific file is intended to be received, (d) monitoring a digital satellite transmission channel at the scheduled time for the specific file, and (e) upon receiving the specific file, storing it at the remote receiving unit.
US08195148B2
A system and method for making vehicle originated calls to a telematics service provider or other call center. The method includes identifying a call type associated with a desired wireless communication of speech or data to the call center, and then carrying out one of a number of different call connection processes depending on the call type. For voice channel cellular connections, an in-band modem cellular connection is preferably established in most instances using a connection retry strategy that includes primary, secondary, and possibly tertiary connection attempts each of which utilize at least one of a number of different voice and data call origination processes. The system and method can be carried out in connection with various cellular system technologies, but is especially suited for use with GSM systems.
US08195144B2
A method for resetting a non-responsive mobile unit then-currently occupying a cellular traffic channel of a wireless network is disclosed herein. The method involves recognizing, at an external entity, that the mobile unit is in a non-responsive state that is occupying a voice channel of the cellular traffic channel, and establishing a wireless data connection between the mobile unit and an external entity over the cellular traffic channel. A data message is transmitted to the mobile unit from the external entity, where the data message includes at least a command to reset the mobile unit. In response to receiving the data message, the method further involves resetting the mobile unit via a protocol initiated by a processor associated with the mobile unit.
US08195138B2
In a communication control system 1, in an acquisition step of acquiring routing information before a line is set, a first mobile communication switching device 100 generates an acquisition request signal of routing information, which includes calling/called number specifying information and call information, and transmits the acquisition request signal to a subscriber information management device 200. The call information includes calling number information specifying a calling-side mobile communication terminal 600 and call type information representing a type of a call from the calling-side mobile communication terminal 600. The subscriber information management device 200 specifies a called-side second mobile communication switching device 300 based on the acquisition request signal and transmits an issuance request signal of a routing number to the second mobile communication switching device 300. The second mobile communication switching device 300 transmits the call information to a called-side mobile communication terminal 700 when a calling signal for acquiring the routing number is transmitted to the mobile communication terminal 700.
US08195133B2
In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for receiving a navigation request from a mobile communication facility, receiving an indicator input, receiving a business rule relating to handling a mobile content type, dynamically creating a content based at least in part on an association of the navigation request, the indicator input and the business rule, and presenting the dynamically created content to the mobile communication facility.
US08195114B2
An entertainment system comprising a base unit with a transceiver for interacting, at times, with a control unit via a communications link, and a control unit for controlling the base unit, the control unit being dockable with the base unit to establish direct electrical connection between them, and including a transceiver for interacting with the control unit via said link when undocked. The control unit is a separate aspect of the invention or system. The base unit may contain a tuner, preferably with bandless tuning capability, and may be designed to receive into a universal docking arrangement a digitally controllable auxiliary audio source such as a portable MP3 player or other device. The base unit may further provide alarm clock functionality with numerous features including a “fail-safe’ volume control system and fail-safe alarm time setting capability.
US08195110B2
A method and apparatus are provided for calibrating an information-signal transmission line that includes elements for generating a control signal and transmitting information signals controlled by the control signals, and an amplifier of the information signals. The amplifier can be configured according to at least a first gain configuration associated with a first gain value, and a second gain configuration associated with a second gain value. The method includes obtaining, for each of the first and second gain configurations, first and second sets of initial values of the control signal, that correspond to first and second sets of measured power that overlap, and selecting, for each power-recovery setpoint value to which corresponds a first measured-power value of the first set and a second measured-power value of the second set, from the first and second calibrated values of the control signal, the calibrated value that meets a predetermined criterion.
US08195105B1
The present example provides for adaptive preset gain control. Adaptive Preset gain control may initially utilize calibration look up table values to initially set a power amplifier's gain. Subsequent additional corrections are determined and an adaptation look up table is created and applied to bring operation within tolerance. To maintain the amplifier within tolerance additional corrections may also be determined and added to the Adaptation Look Up table. In an alternative example the Calibration Look Up Table may be omitted, with a first transmission through the power amplifier acting as a training event. The Adaptation Look Up Table, may, by storing the last corrections form a history of prior operation which may be used as built in test to indicate potential system failures.
US08195100B2
The transponder circuit comprises a double clock extractor unit (31, 32, 33), an antenna coil connected to a modulator rectifier block to supply a rectified supply voltage on the basis of a picked up radio-frequency signal, and a control logic receiving a clock signal (CLK) of the double clock extractor unit. The control logic supplies a modulation signal (MOD) to the modulator rectifier block as well as to the double clock extractor unit. A terminal (B1) of the antenna coil is connected to the double clock extractor unit, which comprises a first sensitive clock extractor, which is a comparator (32) with a sensitivity threshold defined by a low reference voltage (Vref), and a second clock extractor, which consists of two successive inverters (31, 33). The unit also comprises a multiplexer (37) to receive as input the clock signal (CLK_ON) of the first clock extractor (32) and the clock signal (CLK_OFF) of the second inverter clock extractor (31, 33), and to supply as output one of the selected clock signals (CLK). The unit additionally comprises a flip-flop (36), which receives as input the modulation signal and a combined signal depending on the modulation signal and the clock signal (CLK_OFF) of the second clock extractor. The flipflop supplies as output a selection signal (SEL) to the multiplexer depending on the status of each of the signals at the input of the flip-flop.
US08195099B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate utilizing different power control algorithms as a function of access terminal speed. For instance, instantaneous Channel Quality Indicator (CQI) reports can be inverted for slow moving access terminals while long-term geometry inversion (e.g., average CQI report inversion) can be utilized for quick moving access terminals. Speed of the access terminal can be estimated based upon time correlation of CQI values. Further, selection of implementing instantaneous CQI inversion or long-term geometry inversion can be based upon the estimated speed of the access terminal.
US08195096B2
The instant invention relates to an apparatus and method for enhancing DC offset correction speed of a radio device. On the exemplary, the apparatus includes one or two-stage signal-processing units and a controller. Each signal-processing unit has a baseband filter, a gain stage and a DC offset correction (DCOC) loop applied on the gain stage. A connection direction of an electrode terminal of a capacitor of the baseband filter is capable of being switched by the controller to process a pre-charge or a discharge phases thereby adjusting a bandwidth of the baseband filter to be either a normal operational bandwidth or wider than the normal operational bandwidth for rapidly setting time of the baseband filter.
US08195079B2
A collection device includes: a collection container that collects output material; a storage box that is opened upward to store a lower part of the collection container; and a support member that is fixed to a housing and supports the storage box so that the collection container is stored in the storage box and is freely drawn to the outside of the housing. The collection container includes a handle located frontward in a pulling direction and at an upper part of the collection container. The storage box includes a notch formed in a rear surface in the pulling direction. When the handle of the collection container is pressed backward in the pulling direction, a part of the collection container, which part is located backward in the pulling direction, protrudes from the storage box through the notch, so that the collection container inclines backward in the pulling direction.
US08195076B2
A fixing device to fix a toner image on a sheet includes a flexible endless belt that rotates in a predetermined direction, an inner circumferential surface of which includes a fluorine-containing surface layer, a rotary member that contacts an outer circumferential surface of the belt, a fixed member fixed inside the belt to press against the rotary member via the belt, forming a nip portion therebetween, a lubricant applied between the belt and the fixed member, and a heat source to heat at least one of the belt and the rotary member. A surface of the fixed member that slidingly contacts the inner circumferential surface of the belt includes a fluorine-containing surface layer. One of the fluorine-containing surface layers is porous, and at least one of the fluorine-containing surface layers has a surface energy greater than a surface tension of the lubricant.
US08195074B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming station for forming an image, a registration member, a registration motor, and a fixing unit. The registration member is configured to feed the recording medium in appropriate timing such that a recording medium is aligned with the toner image formed in the image forming station. The registration motor is configured to drive the registration member. The fixing unit is configured to fix the toner image on the recording medium and includes a rotary heating member to heat the recording medium, a rotary pressure member to contact and press against the heating member forming a fixing nip portion where the heating roller and the pressure roller meet, and a sheet separator to eject air to separate the recording medium from the rotary heating member based on a drive signal of the registration motor.
US08195070B2
A toner bottle includes: a bottle main part to contain toner therein and having a rotational axis; an outlet at an end of the bottle main part; a spiral raised ridge in an inner wall of the bottle main part and arranged to deliver the toner contained in the bottle main part to the outlet by rotation of the bottle main part around the rotational axis; a plurality of toner guiding portions on a side of the spiral raised ridge adjacent to the outlet and arranged to move the toner to the outlet beyond the spiral raised ridge; and a gear adjacent to the outlet to rotate the bottle main part around the rotational axis. The bottle main part has a diameter larger than a diameter of the outlet, and the gear is formed integrally with the bottle main part between the outlet and the plurality of toner guiding portions.
US08195067B2
A heating apparatus of the present invention includes a press member that undergoes driven rotation by contacting a heating member that rotates, the press member conveying a recording medium while nipping the recording medium between the press member and the heating member; a contact and separation mechanism that contacts the press member against the heating member and separates the press member away from the heating member; and a drive mechanism that rotationally drives the press member when the press member is separated from the heating member by the contact and separation mechanism.
US08195066B2
An image forming apparatus includes plural developing devices, plural toner cartridges, and plural sub-hoppers that receive toners stored in the respective toner cartridges and supply the toners to the respective developing devices. The plural sub-hoppers are coupled by a coupling member. The coupled plural sub-hoppers are detachably held between the toner cartridges and the developing devices.
US08195064B2
A separator hanger has a body with forward and rearward portions and a central portion interconnecting the forward and rearward portions. The rearward portion has side wing sections extending laterally in opposite directions beyond opposite side edges of the central portion with respective elements thereon adapted to extend through first slots in a packaging insert. The rearward portion also has a tail section between the side wing sections with an element thereon adapted to extend through a second slot in the packaging insert located between and offset from the first slots. Such elements provide the rearward portion in a threaded relationship with the packaging insert so as to detachably attach the rearward portion thereto. The forward portion is adapted to anchor the body to one portion of a device so as to thereby constrain the packaging insert to a position clear of another portion of the device located nearby the packaging insert.
US08195051B2
A rotating data transmission device for transmitting data from a data source to a data sink between a rotating part and a stationary part comprises a transmitting conductor arrangement which is fed from a transmitter means, and also a receiver means which taps signals from the transmitting conductor arrangement with the aid of a receiving coupler arrangement. The connection between data source and rotating data transmission device, or rotating data transmission device and data sink, is effected by means of light-waveguides. The receivers of the light-waveguides are linear receivers followed by equalizers for correcting the frequency and phase response.
US08195050B2
An optical transmission apparatus communicable with a plurality of subscriber including a delay measuring part for detecting a response delay time from each subscriber based on reception timing of the delay measurement response optical packet, a detection part for detecting a received optical level of the delay measurement response optical packet received by the reception part and a state determination part for determining quality of an optical transmission state between the optical transmission apparatus and each subscriber based on the received optical level of the delay measurement response optical packet of each of the plurality of subscribers.
US08195048B2
The invention pertains to optical fiber transmission systems, and is particularly relevant to transmission of high volume of data and voice traffic among different locations. In particular, the improvement teaches the use of a single optical transport system for both metropolitan area transport and long haul transport of data and voice traffic.
US08195043B2
A three-dimensional camera module includes a base plate, a first rotating shaft, a first supporting member, a second supporting member, a first lens unit, a second lens unit mounted, a first piezoelectric actuator, a second piezoelectric actuator and a image processor. The first rotating shaft and the second rotating shaft is positioned on the base plate. The first supporting member and the second supporting member are rotatably fixed to the first rotating shaft and second rotating shaft, respectively. The first lens unit and the second lens unit are mounted on the first supporting member and the second supporting member, respectively. The first piezoelectric actuator abuts the first supporting member to drive the first supporting member to pivot around the first rotating shaft. The second piezoelectric actuator abuts the second supporting member. Both of the first lens unit and the second lens unit are electrically connected to the image processor.
US08195036B2
A storage medium includes multimedia image data, and text-based subtitle data for displaying subtitles on an image based on the multimedia image data, wherein the text-based subtitle data includes dialog information indicating subtitle contents to be displayed on the image, style information indicating an output style of the dialog information, and partial style information indicating an output style applied to a portion of the dialog information. Accordingly, subtitles can be provided in a plurality of languages without being limited to a particular number of units of subtitle data. In addition, subtitle data can be easily produced and edited. Likewise, an output style of the subtitle data can be changed in a variety of ways. Also, a special style can be applied in order to emphasize a portion of the subtitles.
US08195032B2
A video apparatus includes a memory in which image information denoting a moving image is recorded and a thumbnail creator that creates thumbnail information denoting thumbnails upon completion of recording of the image information in the memory. The apparatus also includes various types of user interfaces by which a user can designate frames of the moving image information for thumbnail creation.
US08195027B2
A signal processing apparatus capable of easily linking video data of a DVCR connected by an i-Link or the like and utilizing the same in a desired format is disclosed. Streaming data such as video data is defined, managed, and controlled in usage by an “optional-media” link tag linked to a “gpoi” tag defining a specific position in a position information file. The “optional-media” link can describe the five attributes of a format attribute for designating a connected apparatus and format information thereof, id attribute for further specifying the target in the connected apparatus designated by the format attribute, an “in” attribute and “out” attribute for designating a reproduction start position and ending position of the designated data, and a repeat attribute for designating a number of times of reproduction.
US08195022B2
An adapter cassette including a housing and a plurality of fiber optic adapters. The fiber optic adapters being angled relative to a front plane defined by the housing. The fiber optic adapters being interconnected to a multi-fiber cable connecter by fiber optic cables located within an interior of the housing. The adapter cassette further including a quick-release cover that provides access to the interior of the housing.
US08195019B2
A plastic glass optical fiber includes a glass core (diameter a1, relative refractive index difference Δ1, and refractive index n1), a polymer core (diameter a2, relative refractive index difference Δ2, and refractive index n2), and a polymer cladding (refractive index n3), in which the diameter a1 of the glass core is within a range of 110 μm to 200 μm, a parameter X (X is a22/a12) is within a range of 1.15≦X≦2.9, a parameter Y (Y is Δ2/Δ1) is within a range of 0.25≦Y≦0.84X−0.68 (when 1.15≦X≦2) or 0.48X−0.71≦Y≦−(2/9)X+13/9 (when 2≦X≦2.9), a parameter ZR (ZR is Z2core/Z1core; Z2core=a22π/4×√(n12−n32) and Z1core=a12π/4×√(n12−n22)) is within a range of 1.25≦ZR≦4.
US08195017B2
A consumer input/output (CIO) optical transceiver module, an active optical cable that incorporates a CIO optical transceiver module, and a method for using a CIO optical transceiver module in an active optical cable are provided. In contrast to optical transceiver modules currently used in active optical cables, which utilize parallel arrays of laser diodes and parallel arrays of photodiodes, the CIO optical transceiver module includes two singlet laser diodes and two singlet photodiodes for providing two high-speed transmit channels and two high-speed receive channels, respectively. Because the singlet laser diodes and photodiodes of the CIO optical transceiver module are less costly than the parallel arrays of laser diodes and parallel arrays of photodiodes that are used in known active optical cables, the CIO optical transceiver module can be manufactured at relatively low costs with high quality, and therefore is well suited for consumer applications.
US08195014B2
An apparatus and method for optically detecting the presence of an analyte in a solution is presented. An embodiment comprises a waveguide resonator that is optically coupled to a fluid in a fluidic conduit so that the resonant wavelength of the waveguide resonator is based on the refractive index of the fluid.
US08195007B2
The image selecting apparatus includes plural operation indicating units that indicate arrangement places of images on an electronic album, an operator recognizing unit that acquires identification information of the plural operation indicating units, an image selecting unit that automatically selects, based on the identification information, as an image of an available image group, at least one image to be arranged on the electronic album out of an image group, an arrangement determining unit that determines propriety of arrangement of the images in the arrangement places and an arrangement instructing unit that determines images to be arranged in the determined arrangement places out of the available image group, and arranges the images. The image selecting method is performed by the image selecting apparatus.
US08195004B2
A device (D) is dedicated to the processing of data constituting initial tensor images, each tensor being a real symmetric and positive definite matrix representing an elementary part of a received tensor image. This device (D) comprises, on the one hand, a first calculating module (MC1) capable of performing a first selected, bijective and defined function of R*+ in R, and being associated with a selected metric definition, this first function allowing a second reciprocal function, and on the other, comprises a first processing module (MT1) provided for: i) constituting a first representation of a received tensor image; ii) calling the first calculating module (MC1) for applying the first function to a selected part of the first representation whereby obtaining a transformed part, and; iii) constituting, from the transformed part, a second representation of the tensor images ready to be processed.
US08194993B1
Methods and apparatus for matching image metadata to a profile database to determine image processing parameters are described. In embodiments, image metadata may be used to match input images against a profile database. For example, camera make and model information and/or lens make and model information may be retrieved from the image metadata corresponding to an input image and used to locate a best match profile in the profile database. Additional custom data may then be retrieved from the located profile to perform processing that may be optimized for a specific camera and lens that captured the images, and in some cases for particular camera settings. The profile database may be generated via a calibration process applied to each of a plurality of camera/lens combinations. In one embodiment, the additional custom data may be adjusted or scaled to account for differences in cameras, lenses, or settings.
US08194992B2
A content-based image processing system and method are disclosed. The method includes automatically identifying whether an original image is a seascape. For an image which is identified as being a seascape, the method includes automatically assigning an enhancement class for the image, selected from a plurality of enhancement classes, the classes comprising a first enhancement class for sea landscape images and a second enhancement class for portrait images. The image is processed to generate an enhanced image. Where the image is assigned to the first enhancement class, this includes applying a first enhancement chain, which may include applying a polarizing filter. Where the image is assigned to the second enhancement class, the processing includes applying a second enhancement chain, which may include detecting regions corresponding to skin in the image and selectively applying local contrast enhancement to those regions corresponding to skin.
US08194987B2
An apparatus and method for limiting bit rate of compressed data is disclosed. The apparatus and method allows the generation of parameters for encoding digital image data based on the data bit rate resulting from the use of different parameters. In one embodiment, a statistical analysis is performed to determine the different parameters. The use of parameters results in a bit rate that would prevent a decoder to stall during decompression while allowing the encoder compress without affecting the quality. Therefore, a more efficient encoding and decoding can be achieved.
US08194985B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for product identification using image analysis and user interaction. The method may include comparing a retail product image to a plurality of candidate retail product images. In addition, the method may include generating a candidate product set containing candidate retail product images satisfying image comparison criteria. The method may determine one or more product identity queries configured to solicit additional product identity information from a user. In addition, the product identity queries may eliminate one or more members of the candidate product set. The method may query the user with these inquiries and determine a product match based on the user's response. Therefore a user may obtain information about a product using only a picture and a user's knowledge of the product.
US08194984B2
An image processing system is disclosed that includes a buffer unit configured to store a predetermined pixel and peripheral pixels neighboring the predetermined pixel in image data in a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and a first edge-detecting circuit configured to calculate a maximum value and a minimum value of a set of pixels selected from the peripheral pixels that have the same color as the predetermined pixel to calculate a difference value between the maximum value and the minimum value.
US08194979B2
A method of correcting a false-color pixel in a digital image is used to correct a false-color pixel generated after being processed by a color correction matrix (CCM). The method includes the following steps. Obtaining a raw image, for being processed by the CCM operation to generate a processed image; comparing pixels of the raw image with that of the processed image according to a color difference ratio, to find out a false-color pixel in the pixels of the processed image; then, performing a color correction on the false-color pixel at the corresponding position of the raw image and the processed image. The false-color pixel is corrected according to the pixel color at the corresponding position of the raw image.
US08194971B2
The present invention relates to a robot motion data generation method and a generation apparatus using image data, and more specifically to a robot action data generation method for perceiving motion of an object from a consecutive first image frame and a second image frame including image information on the moving object, and for generating robot action data from the perceived motion, comprising the steps of: a first step of performing digital markings at plural spots on top of the object of the first image frame, and storing first location coordinates values of the digital markings in tree type; a second step of storing peripheral image patterns of each digital marking in association with the first location coordinates values; a third step of recognizing image data identical with peripheral image patterns of each of the first location coordinates values from the second image frame, and finding out changed second location coordinates values from the first location coordinates values; a fourth step of extracting angle changes of each location coordinates value from the first location coordinates values and the second location coordinates values; a fifth step of converting extracted angles into motion templates; and a sixth step of generating robot action data from the motion templates.
US08194966B2
A method for neutralizing the non-noise correlated, multiplicative image-artifacts introduced by the X-ray exposure, the detector or the digitizer prior to the determination of the Signal-to-Noise Ratio or the (Normalized) Noise Power Spectrum in CR/DR radiography systems. This method uses statistical techniques and the photon-noise physical model to correct the raw, digital image-data obtained in the selected region of interest (roi) for evaluation during quality control (QC).
US08194962B2
A method is disclosed for detecting movements and correcting movements in tomographic and projective image series. Further, a tomography or projection system is further disclosed for implementing this method. In at least one embodiment, the temporal changes in an image series with a multiplicity of temporally subsequent image data records are determined and a transformation function for correcting movements is calculated using registration methods, by which movements can be eliminated. To this end, in at least one embodiment a motion detection algorithm recognizes and distinguishes scan volumes and times at which a movement or no movement occurs. Subsequently, in at least one embodiment an algorithm for correcting the movement in those scan volumes in which a movement was detected is implemented, with the correction referring to respectively representative image intervals.
US08194957B2
A three-dimensional volume data record contains a vascular tree. A two-dimensional projection image is an image of an actual fill state, to which the vascular tree is filled with a contrast agent at an acquisition time. The volume data record and the projection image are registered in relation to one another by means of the set of imaging parameters. A computation facility determines an expected target fill state, which describes which parts of the vascular tree should be filled with contrast agent at acquisition time in the three-dimensional volume data record. The computation facility determines the set of imaging parameters based on the target fill state and the projection image.
US08194954B2
On a report making screen, medical images taken from a patient are displayed in a viewer. When an area of concern, such as an abnormal shadow, is designated in any of the displayed medical images, the medical images containing the area of concern are chosen. By drag-and-dropping one of the chosen images to an assigned position in a comment editing zone of the report making screen, a three-dimensional image reconstituted of the chosen images is displayed as a confirmation image, wherein the designated area of concern is displayed distinguishably from other portion, enabling checking whether the choice of the images or the designation of the area of concern is correct or not. When the choice and designation is fixed, group data registering the chosen images as a group and position data relating to positions of the area of concern in the chosen images are memorized in linkage with the assigned position.
US08194951B2
A method of aiding in the evaluation of lesions in a body using a plurality of sets of image data of sections of the body region in mutually parallel planes. Processing of the data requires several steps, including pixel intensity pattern recognition, ˜ contouring of the regions of probable pathology, thresholding and 3-dimensional clustering, providing each pixel with a color representative of a selected opacity level and displaying an image of the region of interest where areas of probable pathological conditions are highlighted.
US08194950B2
The invention relates to a registration method (100) of registering a second image dataset with a first image dataset on the basis of a set of landmarks, said registration method (100) comprising a weight-assigning step (125) for assigning a weight to each coordinate of each landmark from the set of landmarks and a registering step (145) for registering the second image dataset with the first image dataset on the basis of the weight assigned to the each coordinate. Choosing an appropriate set of landmarks and assigning an appropriate weight to each coordinate of each landmark from the set of landmarks can be used for optimizing selected displacements of a designated anatomical structure comprising elastic bodies and/or a plurality of independent rigid bodies in a sequence of image datasets. This enables rendering a sequence of views wherein the designated anatomical structure is not displaced off a viewing plane and/or a selected part of the designated anatomical structure is not displaced in a viewing plane.
US08194947B2
Facilitating analysis of one or more mammography images on a review workstation is described. A point or region of interest is identified in a first mammography image of a human breast. The distance between the point or region of interest and a point of reference, preferably the breast nipple, on the first mammography image is determined. A locus of points in a second mammography image of the breast is calculated, the locus of points representing potential locations corresponding to the point or region of interest in the first mammography image, and the calculation being based at least in part on the distance between the point or region of interest and the point of reference. The locus of points is then highlighted a user so as to facilitate a determination by the user of one or more locations in the second mammography image corresponding to the point or region of interest in the first mammography image. The locus of points is preferably a circular section arc having a radius corresponding to the point or region of interest to nipple distance, and centered about the nipple in the second mammography image.
US08194946B2
An aligning method and apparatus for aligning images having different imaged regions with improved alignment accuracy. Aligning the imaged region of each of a plurality of partial images with an overall reference image. Then, two images having an overlapping area are aligned with each other based on the amount of shift when one of the two images is aligned with the overall reference image, and the amount of shift when the other of the two images is aligned with the overall reference image.
US08194939B2
Images are searched to locate faces that are the same as a query face. Images that include a face that is the same as the query face may be presented to a user as search result images. Images also may be sorted by the faces included in the images and presented to the user as sorted search result images. The user may provide explicit or implicit feedback regarding the search result images. Additional feedback may be inferred regarding the search result images based on the user-provided feedback, and the results may be updated based on the user-provided and inferred feedback.
US08194932B2
Methods and apparatus for assessing a locate and marking operation. Ticket information is received as provided to a first locate technician prior to performing the operation. A locate manifest is received including a digital marked-up image of a geographic area surrounding a dig area in which the operation was performed, on which image at least one digital representation of at least one locate mark is electronically overlaid. The locate manifest, at least some of the ticket information, and a plurality of icons representing different possible quality assessments of the locate and marking operation are displayed. The plurality of icons includes an approved icon representing a satisfactory locate and marking operation, a QC icon representing an unsatisfactory locate and marking operation, and a coach icon representing that the first locate technician requires coaching. One of the displayed icons is selected so as to provide a quality assessment of the locate and marking operation.
US08194930B2
An image processing apparatus and method for real time motion detection is provided. In the apparatus, a sub-sampling module receives and sub-samples a current image and a plurality of previous images and a census transform module performs census transform on each of the sub-sampled images to obtain a census vector. A correlation calculation module calculates and compares correlation values between the current image and the plurality of previous images and detects a region having highest correlation. A motion detection module tracks positions of pixels corresponding to the region having the highest correlation to detect motion information in the images. The image processing apparatus and method can obtain, in real time, the direction and speed of an object that is in motion in each image.
US08194923B2
Methods and apparatus for detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device
Methods and apparatus for detecting a composition of an audience of an information presenting device are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes: capturing at least one image of the audience; determining a number of people within the at least one image; prompting the audience to identify its members if a change in the number of people is detected based on the number of people determined to be within the at least one image; and if a number of members identified by the audience is different from the determined number of people after a predetermined number of prompts of the audience, adjusting a value to avoid excessive prompting of the audience.
US08194921B2
A method for providing gesture analysis may include analyzing image data using a skin detection model generated with respect to detecting skin of a specific user, tracking a portion of the image data correlating to a skin region, and performing a gesture recognition for the tracked portion of the image based on comparing features recognized in the skin region to stored features corresponding to a predefined gesture. An apparatus and computer program product corresponding to the method are also provided.
US08194908B2
In a side-entry condenser microphone, noise is prevented effectively from being generated by electromagnetic waves coming from the outside. In a side-entry condenser microphone including a metallic head case portion 10 which is covered with a metallic guard net 12 at an upper part thereof and is formed into a substantially cylindrical shape in which a microphone unit 13 is arranged via support members 14a and 14b in an internal space, and a metallic body portion 20 for supporting the head case portion 10 at the upper end thereof, a circuit board 21 mounted with an audio output circuit including an impedance converter is fitted in a lower opening of the head case portion 10 supported on the body portion 20 so as to close the lower opening with the circuit mounting surface 21a of the circuit board 21 being on the case inner surface side. Thereby, an electrostatic shield is completed by the head case portion 10 only.
US08194882B2
Systems and methods for providing single microphone noise suppression fallback are provided. In exemplary embodiments, primary and secondary acoustic signals are received. A single microphone noise estimate may be generated based on the primary acoustic signal, while a dual microphone noise estimate may be generated based on the primary and secondary acoustic signals. A combined noise estimate based on the single and dual microphone noise estimates is then determined. Using the combined noise estimate, a gain mask may be generated and applied to the primary acoustic signal to generate a noise suppressed signal. Subsequently, the noise suppressed signal may be output.
US08194879B2
The objective of the present invention is to efficiently and inexpensively mass-produce a sound insulator for a vehicle which is light in weight and has excellent sound insulating properties. For this purpose, the ultra-light sound insulator of the present invention is composed of a felt single sheet 3 having a vehicle interior side surface 1 and a vehicle exterior side surface 2 and being thermoformed of cotton fibers and binder fibers which are tangled and contacted and jointed to each other in a random manner. The ratio of the stiffness of the vehicle interior side surface 1 to that of the vehicle exterior side surface 2 is set to be in a range of 1.1 to 10. The single sheet 3 also has an area of gradually-decreasing stiffness 4 that spreads over at least one part of the area between the vehicle interior side surface 1 and the vehicle exterior side surface 2. The area of gradually-decreasing stiffness 4 has a stiffness distribution pattern in which the stiffness decreases gradually from the vehicle interior side surface 1 toward the vehicle exterior side surface 2 with respect to the direction perpendicular to the vehicle exterior side surface 2.
US08194874B2
A system and method are provided for smoothing the in-room acoustic magnitude response of an audio reproduction system. An in-room acoustic magnitude response analysis is performed to determine a room resonance induced peak associated with an audio signal. A replica of the audio signal is filtered at the room resonance induced peak. The filtered replica signal is added with the audio signal. Through this, smoothing of the room resonance induced peak may be achieved, such that a subjective impression of transient response and dynamics of the audio signal are preserved.
US08194873B2
An active noise reduction system using adaptive filters. A method of operation the active noise reduction system includes smoothing a stream of leakage factors. The frequency of a noise reduction signal may be related to the engine speed of an engine associated with the system within which the active noise reduction system is operated. The engine speed signal may be a high latency signal and may be obtained by the active noise reduction system over audio entertainment circuitry.
US08194872B2
An adaptive signal processing system eliminates noise from input signals while retaining desired signal content, such as speech. The resulting low noise output signal delivers improved clarity and intelligibility. The low noise output signal also improves the performance of subsequent signal processing systems, including speech recognition systems. An adaptive beamformer in the signal processing system consistently updates beamforming signal weights in response to changing microphone signal conditions. The adaptive weights emphasize the contribution of high energy microphone signals to the beamformed output signal. In addition, adaptive noise cancellation logic removes residual noise from the beamformed output signal based on a noise estimate derived from the microphone input signals.
US08194869B2
An audio power management system manages operation of audio devices in an audio system. The audio power management system includes a parameter computer, a threshold comparator and a limiter. Audio signals generated with the audio system may be provided to the audio power management system. Based on a measured actual parameter of the audio signal, such as a real-time actual voltage and/or a real-time actual current, the parameter computer can derive estimated operational characteristics of audio devices, such as a loudspeaker included in the audio system. The threshold comparator may use the estimated operational characteristics to develop a threshold and manage operation of one of more devices in the audio system by monitoring the measured actual parameter, and selectively directing the limiter to adjust the audio signal, or another device in the audio system to protect or optimize performance.
US08194866B2
A sound monitoring system and method. The system can include a plurality of sound pressure level meters, a plurality of sound level indicators and a server connected by a network. The sound pressure level meters measuring a sound level at their location, and the sound level indicators providing a visual indication of the sound level measured by at least one of the sound pressure level meters. The system devices can be powered, as well as monitored and controlled remotely over the network. A user interface enables constructing and monitoring multiple zones and groups in a monitored area, as well as reviewing real-time and historical sound data. The system can also control lighting in the monitored area, and use lighting as a visual indicator of noise level.
US08194858B2
The present invention provides a method for a data encryption device to perform network communications, the method comprising obtaining an indexed array of encryption keys, wherein the indexed array of encryption keys is shared with a data decryption device; obtaining a message to be encrypted; using a first random or pseudorandom number to determine an index; obtaining a first key from the array of encryption keys, wherein the first key corresponds to the index; selecting a second key from the plurality of encryption keys; encrypting the message using the first key and a second random or pseudorandom number; encrypting the index using the second key and a third random or pseudorandom number; transmitting the encrypted message and the encrypted index to the data decryption device.
US08194856B2
A rolling code transmitter is useful in a security system for providing secure encrypted RF transmission comprising an interleaved trinary bit fixed code and rolling code. A receiver demodulates the encrypted RF transmission and recovers the fixed code and rolling code. Upon comparison of the fixed and rolling codes with stored codes and determining that the signal has emanated from an authorized transmitter, a signal is generated to actuate an electric motor to open or close a movable barrier.
US08194852B2
An echo reduction system includes a signal analysis filter that converts an input into sub-band signals. A signal down-sampling circuit down-samples the sub-band signals at a first down-sampling rate. An echo analysis filter converts a loudspeaker signal into echo sub-band signal that are further processed by an echo down-sampling circuit. The circuit down-samples the echo sub-band signals at a second down-sampling rate to generate down-sampled echo sub-band signals. An echo compensation filter folds the down-sampled echo sub-band signals with an estimated impulse response of a loudspeaker-room-input system. A second echo down-sampling circuit down-samples the folded down-sampled echo sub-band signals at a third down-sampling rate to generate estimated echo sub-band signals. The first down-sampling rate is equal to the product of the second and third down-sampling rates.
US08194851B2
A voice processing apparatus includes a band dividing portion dividing a first voice signal generated by a first microphone and a second voice signal generated by a second microphone into predetermined frequency bands, a sound source segregating portion segregating an echo component of a voice emitted by a first sound source included in a voice emitted by a second sound source in each of the predetermined frequency bands based on the power of the first and second microphones, and a band synthesis portion synthesizing the first and second voice signals from which the echo component of the first sound source has been segregated by the sound source segregating portion into a voice signal including the voice emitted by the first sound source and a voice signal including the echo component of the first sound source.
US08194838B2
A method provides call pickup in a communications network. The method includes initiating a call from a first device to a second device. The call is initiated over one or more networks, where at least one of the one or more networks includes a data network. The method further includes storing information relating to the call initiation between the first device and the second device, receiving a message from a third device during the call initiation, where the message includes a call pickup indication, retrieving the information relating to the call initiation between the first device and the second device, and establishing a call between the first device and the third device based on the retrieved information.
US08194830B2
Data pertaining to interactions between a plurality of customers is obtained. A graph is formed, having a plurality of nodes representing the customers and a plurality of edges representing interactions between the customers. A sub-set of the customers are denoted as previously churned customers. A spreading activation model is applied to the graph to identify, based on the graph and the previously churned customers, the potential churning customers.
US08194824B2
A radiation imaging apparatus irradiates a subject with a radioactive ray emitted from a radiation generation unit to capture a radiographic image based on a radioactive ray that has penetrated through the subject. The radiation imaging apparatus includes a histogram calculation unit configured to calculate a histogram resulting from pixel values of the radiographic image, and a radiation irradiation condition determination unit configured to determine radiation irradiation conditions for a radioactive ray to be emitted from the radiation generation unit in such a way as to flatten a distribution of the histogram.
US08194821B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer program products that generate estimates of errors caused by extraneous radiation in tomographic systems, such as cone-beam computerized tomography (CBCT) systems, fluoroscopic tomography systems, radiographic tomography systems, laminar tomography imaging systems, and the like. In one group of inventions, spatial errors are estimated from projection data collected where a known spatial perturbation has been introduced into radiation intensity of the source. In another group of inventions, temporal errors are estimated from a sequence of projections where a known perturbation in the radiation intensity of the source for different projections has been introduced.
US08194819B2
In a mammography method and a mammography apparatus to generate x-ray images of a breast, a support unit is positioned between the breasts. In the support unit two x-ray detectors are arranged with acquisition surfaces that are flat and parallel to one another. The acquisition surfaces face away from one another and respectively toward one of the breasts. At least one x-ray image of each breast is acquired while both breasts are simultaneously pressed against the support unit.
US08194816B2
A nuclear power plant is provided including a BWR, a reactor cooling system cooling the BWR, an HWC hydrogen injection system connected to the reactor cooling system and an alcohol injection system connected to the reactor cooling system. Methods for providing methanol and hydrogen are also provided.
US08194815B2
An embodiment of the present invention may reduce the level of vibration experienced by a line, such as, but not limiting of, a pipe, a cable, tubing, or the like, that is connected to at least one separate structure. For example, but not limiting of, the structure includes: a reactor pressure vessel, a sparger pipe, steam generator, a pipe, a pressure vessel, a heat exchanger, a pump, a condenser, a tank, or the like. An embodiment of the present invention may provide support and a preload to the line at a new location or may replace an existing support, such as, but not limiting of, a weld; which may alter the natural frequencies to avoid resonance from occurring when the structure(s) is excited.
US08194813B2
A method of absolute nuclear material assay of an unknown source comprising counting neutrons from the unknown source and providing an absolute nuclear material assay utilizing a model to optimally compare to the measured count distributions. In one embodiment, the step of providing an absolute nuclear material assay comprises utilizing a random sampling of analytically computed fission chain distributions to generate a continuous time-evolving sequence of event-counts by spreading the fission chain distribution in time.
US08194812B1
A data sampling apparatus and associated method are provided, including a first inverter receiving a data signal, and inverting the data signal to produce a trigger signal, a first flip-flop receiving the trigger signal, and outputting an output signal, a second flip-flop and a third-flop flop each receiving the output signal from the first flip-flop, the second flip-flop further receiving a strobe signal, and a second inverter inverting the strobe signal, and outputting the inverted strobe signal to the third flip-flop. An output of the second flip-flop indicates a value of the output signal output from the first flip-flop when the strobe signal is of a first state and an output of the third flip-flop indicates a value of the output signal output from the first flip-flop when the strobe signal is of a second state.
US08194804B2
An automatic gain control apparatus and method of a mobile station in an OFDM system are provided. The method includes identifying a preamble section and a data symbol section in a received frame signal; when a current symbol is the preamble section, measuring a power value of a preamble signal, comparing the measured power value of the preamble signal and a threshold value, and amplifying the received frame signal based on a predetermined gain; when a data symbol section includes a pilot carrier, measuring an average power value of the pilot carrier in the data symbol, comparing the measured average power value and the threshold value, and amplifying the received frame signal based on a predetermined gain; and when the data symbol section includes no pilot carrier, maintaining an existing gain, or performing an automatic gain control operation according to a gain estimated by using the pilot carrier during the data symbol section.
US08194786B2
A wireless communication method by which unnecessary retransmission request is suppressed and feedback information is reduced at the same time in a MIMO communication system. The wireless communication method is provided for transmitting signals by using a plurality of antennas (314), and has a step of applicably selecting the group configuration of the antennas (314), and a step of adding data to be used for error detection to a signal to be transmitted by using the antennas (314), by following the results of the selection.
US08194778B2
A method of sending data in a multiple antenna system includes the steps of generating a transmission signal by applying channel-dependent precoding to a first antenna cluster and a second antenna cluster, each comprising a plurality of antennas, wherein the channel-dependent precoding is performed by a precoding weight matrix in which a precoding weight for each of the antenna clusters has a block diagonal form and the precoding weight is represented by P×V for a number of transmission antennas P, included in each of the antenna clusters, and a number of layers V applied to each of the antenna clusters (P and V are an integer greater than 0) and sending the transmission signal.
US08194777B2
An apparatus and associated methods for performing space-frequency interleaving in a multicarrier wireless communication system is generally described.
US08194774B2
A method and apparatus of a receiver estimating a plurality of channels is disclosed. The method includes the receiver receiving a composite signal. The composite signal includes a signal from each of a plurality of transmission antennas, wherein the signal of each transmission antenna includes a delay relative to other signals of other antennas. The receiver estimates channels between the receiver and the plurality of transmission antennas based on amplitude and a phase of a received composite signal, at a plurality of frequencies.
US08194764B2
A phase tracking circuit includes a divider part dividing an input signal that includes data sub-carriers and pilot sub-carriers into groups so that each of the groups includes at least one of the pilot sub-carriers, and a correcting part correcting phases of data sub-carriers of the input signal included in one of the groups on the basis of an amount of phase rotation of the at least one of the pilot sub-carriers included in the above one of the groups.
US08194763B2
A method is provided for decoding spatiotemporal codes, in particular Golden type code. The received vector is subjected to a MMSE-GDFE filtering, a constellation re-centering to define a Z-matrix, a permutation to obtain X-shaped matrices, a trellis base reduction and a ZF-DFE algorithm by processing the elements of the Z-matrix layer by layer. Each layer includes both elements of the diagonal or anti-diagonal of the Z-matrix.
US08194762B2
An apparatus and method to feedforward non-quantized precoding weights in an OFDM communication system includes a first step (300) of sending feedback information from a subscriber station (SS) to a base station (BS). A next step (302) includes deriving non-quantized weight information from the feedback information. A next step (304) includes transmitting symbols carrying the non-quantized weight information and non-precoded pilot symbols by the BS. A next step (305) includes receiving the information and symbols by the SS. A next step (306) includes estimating the non-quantized weights from the symbols carrying the non-quantized weight information and the non-precoded pilot symbols by the SS. A next step (308) includes decoding data from the BS by the SS using the estimated non-quantized weight information.
US08194761B2
A system and method for estimating sample clock frequency offset (εs) in a digital radio mondiale (DRM) system such as, for example, DRM receivers. The system and method includes using a relationship given by the following equation: ɛ s = linearfit ( angle ( P G m P G _ tr m P G m - cycle P G _ tr m - cycle ) , l ) × N 2 π × cycle × ( N + L ) wherein the PGm is the gain pilot received in the mth symbol and PG—trm is the gain pilot transmitted in the mth symbol, the PGm-cycle is the gain pilot received in (m-cycle)th symbol, the PG—trm-cycle is the second gain pilot transmitted in (m-cycle)th symbol, the l is the index of the sub-carrier associated with the gain pilot, the N is a factor of a sample point number of a useful symbol, the L is a sample point number of a guard interval, and the cycle is the interval of two symbols which are inserted gain pilots at the same sub-carriers (l).
US08194758B2
A video receiving apparatus configured to receive packetized video data from a server includes a detecting unit configured to detect an error from the packetized video data received from the server; a determining unit configured to determine the importance of the packetized video data with the error in the case that the error is detected by the detecting unit, based on added information relating to the packetized video data; and an error processing unit configured to process the packetized video data with the error, according to the importance determined by the determining unit.
US08194752B2
A memory accessing apparatus and a method thereof are provided, which are suitable for methods and apparatuses that access memory data in blocks, such as a video decoder. An advanced memory mapping method is adopted to generate the column address and row address of a data word in a memory based on the logic address of the data word in a video frame. Macroblocks are organized into clusters, macroblocks of the same cluster are stored in the same row of the memory, and the orders in which the video decoder reads and writes macroblocks are rearranged so as to reduce the number of row changes in memory access and improve the throughput of memory access. Furthermore, memory accesses between the video decoder and the display controller can be coordinated.
US08194751B2
The moving picture coding apparatus includes: a flag information generation unit for generating a flag indicating that values indicated by display order information POC are in non-sequential order; and a variable length coding unit for performing variable length coding and other operations on the inputted coded signal and further generating a coded stream (Str) by including information such as the flag generated by the flag information generation unit.
US08194748B2
Provided are a scalable encoding/decoding apparatus and method for the same for a moving image of more than 8 bits. The scalable moving image encoding apparatus includes a pixel value clipper clipping a pixel value of an original image to a pixel value with a predetermined pixel depth, a base layer encoder receiving the clipped image and encoding the clipped image using a predetermined encoding method based on motion prediction, a pixel value scaler receiving a base layer image generated by the base layer encoder, which is a decoded image of an encoded image, and scaling a pixel depth of the base layer image to the pixel depth of the original image, and an enhancement layer encoder subtracting the base layer image having a scaled pixel value from the original image to form an enhancement layer image and encoding the enhancement layer image using a predetermined encoding method.
US08194743B2
A displacement estimation device includes a vector calculator and a displacement calculator, for use in estimating a displacement vector from a pattern in a first original image to a pattern in a second original image. The vector calculator calculates a parameter for each pixel in the first original image and the second original image. The parameter of a pixel integrates the information of the intensities of all the pixels in a region of interest (ROI) surrounding the pixel, and the relative distances from all the pixels in the ROI to the pixel. The displacement calculator calculates the displacement vector from a pattern in the first original image to a pattern in the second original image based on the parameters calculated by the vector calculator for the first original image and the second original image.
US08194741B2
Methods and systems for processing B pictures with missing or invalid forward reference pictures are disclosed. Aspects of one method may include decoding of a contiguous sequence of B pictures that immediately follow a first I picture after a sequence header. The decoding of the B pictures may handle video edit codes in the AVS1-P2 format and/or random access points. Some embodiments of the invention may discard B pictures that refer to invalid or missing forward reference pictures, while other embodiments of the invention may interpolate B pictures. For an invalid forward reference picture, the interpolation algorithm for generating pictures may use the invalid forward reference picture and the backward reference picture. For a missing decoded forward reference picture, as in a random access, the interpolation algorithm for generating pictures may use the backward reference picture.
US08194735B2
A video encoding apparatus provides with a generator to generate a decoded image corresponding to an image obtained by decoding an encoded image obtained by encoding an original image by a first prediction scheme, a selector to select one of the original image and the decoded image as an input image according to a flicker of an image, and an encoder to encode the input image by a second prediction scheme to generate encoded data.
US08194724B1
A programmable logic device is provided with adaptive equalization circuitry that is programmable in one or more respects. Examples of the programmable aspects of the equalization circuitry are (1) the number of taps used, (2) whether integer or fractional spaced taps are used, (3) what starting values are used in the computation of coefficient values, (4) whether satisfactory coefficient values are computed only once or on an on-going basis, (5) whether an error signal is generated using a decision directed algorithm or using a training pattern, (6) what training pattern (if any) is used, and/or (7) the location of the sampling point in the bit period of the signal to be equalized.
US08194716B2
The invention relates to a space-time coding method for a UWB transmission system comprising a plurality of radiative elements, said method coding a block of information symbols S=(σ1, σ2, . . . , σP) belonging to a PPM modulation alphabet, into a sequence of vectors, the components of a vector being intended to position-modulate a UWB pulse signal for a given radiative element of said system and a given transmission channel use, each component corresponding to a PPM modulation position, in which said vectors are obtained from the elements of the matrix: C = ( σ 1 σ 2 … σ P Ω σ P σ 1 ⋱ ⋮ ⋮ ⋱ ⋱ σ 2 Ω σ 2 … Ω σ P σ 1 ) a row of the matrix corresponding to a use of the transmission channel and a column of the matrix corresponding to a radiative element, the matrix C being defined to within a permutation of its rows and/or its columns and Ω carrying out a permutation operation on the PPM modulation positions.
US08194714B2
A light emitting and receiving device having a first region and a second region adjacent to the first region in a plan view, includes: a light absorbing layer formed in the first and second regions; a first cladding layer formed above the light absorbing layer; an active layer formed above the first cladding layer in the first region; and a second cladding layer formed above the active layer, wherein at least part of the active layer forms a gain region, a stepped side surface having an end surface of the gain region is formed at the boundary between the first region and the second region, light produced in the gain region exits through the end surface of the gain region, and part of the light having exited reaches the light absorbing layer in the second region and is received by the light absorbing layer.
US08194711B2
A nitride semiconductor laser device includes a multilayer structure including a plurality of nitride semiconductor layers including a light emitting layer, the multilayer structure having cavity facets facing each other, and a plurality of protective films made of a dielectric material provided on one of the cavity facets. The protective films include a first protective film, a second protective film and a third protective film. The first protective film contacts the cavity facet and is made of aluminum nitride. The second protective film is provided on a surface opposite to the cavity facet of the first protective film and is made of a material different from that of the first protective film. The third protective film is provided on a surface opposite to the first protective film of the second protective film and is made of the same material as that of the first protective film.
US08194702B2
A transmission apparatus including: a layer multiplexing unit configured to assign, to a radio resource which is divided based on a time, a frequency and a layer, a bit sequence which constitutes at least one information source to be transmitted, in accordance with a communication state and a priority level of the information source; and a layer coding unit configured to perform a layer coding processing for the bit sequence assigned to the radio resource. The layer multiplexing unit performs the assignment so that a length of each bit sequence assigned to each radio resource becomes equivalent.
US08194699B2
A media access control architecture operates to receive bandwidth requests in a first radio frame from mobile stations for uplink transmissions. A data plane provides once per radio frame a first aggregated message to a radio scheduler in a control plane. The first aggregated message comprises bandwidth requests for uplink transmissions received in the first radio frame from the mobile stations. Two or more messages for downlink transmission of packets are received from a core network for transmission to one or more of the mobile stations. The data plane provides once per radio frame a second aggregated message to the radio scheduler. The second aggregated message comprises the messages received from the core network for downlink transmission. At least one or more uplink transmissions or one or more downlink transmissions, or combinations thereof, are scheduled by the radio scheduler.
US08194698B2
Methods and systems are provided for updating the quality of service (QoS) of an IP flow in a wireless communications system. More particularly, the methods and systems provide the ability to update a QoS grant from any level of QoS to any other level of QoS, from no QoS to some level of QoS, and from some level of QoS to no level of QoS. The update of QoS can be based, at least in part, on a request being made for an updated QoS. A decision is made whether or not to update the QoS; and depending on the decision, the QoS can be updated.
US08194691B2
A buffering structure including at least a first FIFO storage structure to stage at least a selected one of undiverted egress packets and undiverted ingress packets is provided. The buffering structure further includes at least first associated packet drop logic to selectively effectuate head or tail flushes of the first FIFO storage structure. In various embodiments, one or more additional FIFO storage structures are also provided to stage one or more diverted and/or insertion of egress/ingress packets. Those use for staging diverted egress/ingress packets are likewise provided with associated packet drop logic to perform tail flushes of these additional FIFO structures. In one application, the buffering structure is employed by a multi-protocol network processor, which in turn is employed by an optical networking module.
US08194689B2
A system and method for implementing telephony devices in a distributed network environment is disclosed. The present invention provides for voice transmissions to be given a dedicated virtual local area network (“VLAN”) for packet transmission and reception to prevent poor quality of service. Non-voice data packets are transmitted on a separate VLAN.
US08194684B2
A network apparatus for a wide area network (WAN) includes a plurality of ports through which a local area network (LAN) and the WAN are connected; an active-port selecting unit that selects an active port from among the ports, and identifies a port other than the active port as a standby port; and a notifying unit that notifies an interface device for the LAN via the standby port that a line connected to the standby port is in a standby mode.
US08194682B2
A multiple protocol land mobile radio (LMR) and a method for communicating LMR content are provided. The method includes communicating the LMR content using a plurality of LMR transport protocols within a single LMR network. The method further includes encapsulating the LMR content based on an LMR application layer protocol for a portion of the single LMR network through which the LMR content is to be communicated.
US08194678B2
Methods, apparatus, and products are disclosed for providing point to point data communications among compute nodes in a global combining network of a parallel computer that include: determining a class route identifier available for all of the nodes along a communications path from an origin node to a target node; configuring network hardware of each node along the communications path with routing instructions in dependence upon the available class route identifier and the network's topology; transmitting, by the origin node along the communications path, a network packet to the target node, including encoding the available class route identifier in the network packet; and routing, by the network hardware of each node along the communications path, the network packet to the target node in dependence upon the routing instructions for each node and the available class route identifier.
US08194677B2
A system and method for setting an ad-hoc network in a terminal are provided. The system includes a storage unit for storing a critical value of acceleration of the terminal, an acceleration sensor for measuring the acceleration of the terminal to provide a value of the measured acceleration, and a transmission frame processor for controlling transmission of a Media Access Control (MAC) frame for setting the network depending on whether the value of the acceleration measured by the acceleration sensor exceeds the critical value of acceleration pre-stored in the storage unit. The system performs Radio Frequency (RF) control on the terminals, each of which must operate as a host and a router in the ad-hoc network, using the acceleration sensor, thereby preventing use of unnecessary resources and reducing an amount of unnecessarily broadcast frames.
US08194674B1
A gateway device including an access interface to an external network, a trunked interface, and translation logic. The access interface is associated with multiple external source addresses. The trunked interface is interfaced with multiple different virtual local area networks (VLANs), where each VLAN is associated with a corresponding VLAN tag and at least one of potentially overlapping internal source addresses. The translation logic translates between each external source address and each unique combination of internal source address and VLAN tag. A method of network address translation including assigning one of first network addresses to each first device of a first network, dividing the first network into a plurality of VLANs, separating the first devices with the same first network address into different VLANs, and assigning first devices with the same first address to different second network addresses.
US08194668B2
The invention relates to enabling differential forwarding in address-based carrier networks such as Ethernet networks. There is described a method of and connection controller for establishing connections (76, 77) in a frame-based communications network comprising nodes (71-75 and 78) such as Ethernet switches. The connections are established by configuring, in various of the nodes, mappings for forwarding data frames, such as Ethernet frames. The mappings are from a combination of a) a destination (or source) address corresponding to a destination (or source) node (73) of the connection and b) an identifier, such as a VLAN tag. The mappings are to selected output ports of the various nodes. By using the combination of destination (or source) address AND identifier, the mappings enable data frames belonging to different connections (76, 77) to be forwarded differentially (ie forwarded on different output ports) at a node (75) despite the different connections having the same destination node. This enables flexibility in routing connections and the ability to perform traffic engineering.
US08194667B2
A method for obtaining a capability from a network interface card (NIC), involving sending a query to the NIC for the capability, obtaining the capability from the NIC in response to the query, sending the capability to a virtual NIC, and sending the capability from the virtual NIC to a virtual network stack associated with the virtual NIC, wherein the capability is used by the virtual network stack to process packets.
US08194665B2
The invention pertains to utilizing a data packet with a header extended to contain information dealing with the payload. Specifically, IEEE 802.1Q standard contains an extendable header which is normally utilized to contain information regarding a VLAN. However, these fields can also be utilized to provide information about the payload of the data packet. In this manner, networking devices which are primarily concerned with layer 2 data-link layer protocols can transmit information according to the information being transmitted by the packet.
US08194659B2
A method and apparatus for processing message includes forming a logical address upon a creation of a channel of a group communication protocol at a logical address generator of a server. The logical address includes a unique identifier (UUID) associated with a logical name. The UUID created upon connecting the channel, and deleted upon disconnecting the channel. A mapping between UUIDs and physical addresses of members of the group is stored in a cache of a member of the group.
US08194657B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for routing are provided in which a connection track comprising a plurality of network or transport layer packets, received by a router, is identified by examination of header fields of one or more first packets in the plurality of packets. One or more quality of service (QoS) parameters is associated with the connection track by determining whether the track encodes a data type by (i) an identification of a predetermined application protocol used within the one or more first packets and/or (ii) a comparison of a payload of one or more packets in the plurality of packets to known data type formats. A first QoS parameter is set to a first value in a first value range when the connection track contains the first data type. The connection track is routed through the router in accordance with the one or more QoS parameters assigned to the connection track.
US08194631B2
A system and method allowing a mobile device user to initiate a transaction over the most widely used network such as a CDMA or GSM network and then have the device complete the transaction over a specialized data network such as Wi-Fi. The system includes a server communicating with a wireless device that maintains indexed data from the user's original transaction to ensure integrity through the completion of the transaction. The system also includes a method for the user to purchase content, download the content and upon successful completion, have it appropriately billed.
US08194620B2
The present invention discloses a method for terminals to switch among the reverse traffic channels in CDMA group call service. During the establishing procedure of the standard group call service, the originating call terminal sets the long code mask for the reverse dedicated traffic channel, establishes the reverse dedicated traffic channel and obtains the talk right to become the speaking terminal; the called terminal sets the long code mask for the reverse shared traffic channel, establishes the reverse shared traffic channel and becomes the listening terminal. After the speaking terminal successfully releases the talk right, it resets the long code mask of the reverse traffic channel as the long code mask of the reverse shared traffic channel and switches to the reverse shared traffic channel to become the listening terminal. After the listening terminal applies for and gets the talk right, it resets the long code mask of the reverse traffic channel as the long code mask of the reverse dedicated traffic channel and switches to the reverse dedicated traffic channel to become the speaking terminal. According to the present invention, in the standard group call service, the terminal of one group can rapidly switch to the corresponding reverse traffic channel when the status is changed.
US08194619B2
A ranging method of an access terminal comprising receiving and analyzing UL-MAP/DL-MAP; selecting a given uplink sub-channel number and a symbol number from the UL_MAP when a ranging event is generated; requesting a ranging process by transmitting a CDMA code; receiving a ranging response message broadcasted from the access point; extracting a CDMA code, a sub-channel number, and a symbol number from the received ranging response message, comparing the extracted result and the stored ranging parameters, and adjusting transmission power, timing, and frequency offset on the basis of the extracted result or discarding the ranging response message; and terminating a ranging response message receipt operation.
US08194613B2
Disclosed is a method of transmitting a media independent handover (MIH) protocol message in a wireless access system. A method for a mobile node to transmit an MIH message in a wireless access system includes receiving a primitive including prescribed information from a first entity, generating the MIH message by mapping a transport address to the primitive, and transmitting the MIH message to one or more network nodes. According to the present invention, transmission defects of the message are effectively reduced by accurately mapping an MIHF ID and a transport address.
US08194604B2
A wireless local area network comprising an access point and a plurality of remote stations arranged to communicate using Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM). The system can operate in a first access mode wherein access to the access point is in accordance with a Carrier Sense Multiple Access (CSMA) scheme and in a temporary second access mode wherein access to the access point is in accordance with a Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) scheme. A resource allocation of resource blocks when in the TDMA mode is furthermore such that resource blocks may be allocated to a plurality of remote stations which have overlapping time intervals and disjoint sets of OFDM subcarriers thereby allowing simultaneous communication for the plurality of remote stations within the overlapping time interval. The access operation is controlled by a single message transmitted from the access point. The invention may in particular be suitable for IEEE 802.11 systems.
US08194602B2
A system and method for downlink control signal structure for multi-user MIMO is provided. A method comprises selecting a set of mobile stations (MSs) to receive substantially simultaneously transmitted transmissions, and transmitting interference control information and data to each mobile station (MS) in the set of MSs. A number of MSs in the set of MSs is less than a maximum allowable number of simultaneously scheduled MSs, and an amount of interference control information and a type of interference control information transmitted is based on the number of MSs in the set of MSs and the maximum allowable number of simultaneously scheduled MSs.
US08194600B2
Aspects describe pairs of nodes negotiating air interfaces in a peer-to-peer and/or ad hoc network. The negotiation can take into account the capability of each node. The negotiation can be performed on a default link and after negotiation, the nodes can facilitate a communication handoff to the negotiated link. Further, one or more nodes can support multiple air interfaces, wherein nodes that support multiple air interfaces can establish more than one air interface with peer nodes over similar air interfaces or over different air interfaces as a function of negotiation between the nodes.
US08194596B2
A wireless communication system has a transmitting device and a receiving device that perform communication by using a multi-carrier signal, wherein the receiving device includes a quality generating unit generating each piece of receiving quality information on each pilot channel for transmitting each pilot signal, a determining unit determining the number of pilot channels needed in the multi-carrier signal based on the receiving quality information, and a notifying unit transmitting a signal requesting the determined number of pilot channels to the transmitting device, and the transmitting device includes an allocation unit determining allocations of pilot signals in the direction of the time axis and in the direction of the frequency axis, corresponding to a requested number of pilot channels, and a transmitting unit transmitting the multi-carrier signal having the determined pilot signal allocations.
US08194589B2
Systems and methods for wireless network selection based on attributes stored in a network database are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method comprises receiving a network identifier associated with a wireless network, determining if a network profile associated with the network identifier is stored within a network profile database comprising a plurality of network profiles, and if the network profile associated with the network identifier is stored within the network profile database, retrieving the network profile, or if the network profile associated with the network identifier is not stored within the network profile database, initiating the network profile, obtaining an attribute associated with the network device identifier, and storing the attribute within the network profile.
US08194575B2
The invention relates to a method in a first communication device within a communications network for designing a random access transmission power setting of the first communication device comprising to receive (42) data from a second communication device on a radio channel indicating a random access reception power. The first communication device determines (44) a desired random access reception power of the second communication device based on the received data and a parameter of random access configuration that influences a detection performance of the random access at the second communication device. Based on the desired random access reception power the first communication device determines (46) a random access transmission power to use and the first communication device designs (48) the random access transmission power setting of the first communication device in accordance with the determined random access transmission to use.
US08194571B2
A method to wirelessly network a sensor/actuator node is described. The sensor/actuator node is installed in a sensor/actuator node network and arranged in a hierarchical manner with a plurality of node levels and a cluster head network. A unique node identifier is assigned to the sensor node and the sensor node network is initialized. The sensor node is woken-up to perform a task and then set to an active low power mode.
US08194568B1
Blocked traffic is monitored in a telecommunications network. Respective switch data is collected from each of the switches including respective routing tables and trunk performance parameters for a current time period. Final trunk groups are identified for each respective switch in response to the respective routing tables. The number of circuits within each final trunk group is determined. The total usage of each of the final trunk groups is determined in response to the respective trunk performance parameters. A blocking value for each of the final trunk groups is determined. A network portrayal is generated wherein each of the switches is depicted according to one of a plurality of ranges of aggregate blocking values for each respective switch. A plurality of switch portrayals is generated wherein each switch portrayal depicts each final trunk group within a respective switch according to a plurality of ranges of blocking values.
US08194561B2
A packet relay device receives an input packet via a first communication port out of a plurality of communication ports of the packet relay device and transmits the input packet via a second communication port out of the plurality of communication ports. The packet relay device includes a learning table storage, a header adder, a discard determiner, and a packet reducer. The learning table storage stores a source address contained in the input packet, in association with an input port identifier capable of identifying the first communication port. The header adder adds an internal transfer header containing the input port identifier to the input packet to generate an internal transfer packet. The discard determiner determines whether to discard the internal transfer packet. The packet reducer reduces the internal transfer packet to preserve at least the source address and the input port identifier upon determining to discard the internal transfer packet.
US08194559B2
A method for controlling data retransmission at a transmitting side in a wireless communication system is provided. In the method, the transmitting side transmits a new transmission packet to a receiving side. The transmitting side then transmits reason indication information, indicating a reason why the transmitting side has initiated the transmission of the new transmission packet, to the receiving side.
US08194557B2
The present invention relates to a communication system and a method thereof, an information processing apparatus and a method thereof, an information processing terminal and a method thereof, which can start wireless communication easily and promptly. When an electromagnetic wave radiated from a reader/writer of a PDA 2 is received in a reader/writer of a personal computer 1, the personal computer 1 notifies the PDA 2 of device information stored therein. The PDA 2 establishes synchronization for Bluetooth communication with the personal computer 1 in accordance with a Bluetooth address contained in the device information and selects a service in accordance with a service record contained in the device information to establish communication via Bluetooth. The present invention can be applied to various information processing apparatuses such as a personal computer or a PDA.
US08194549B2
The subject innovation provides system(s) and method(s) to supply fixed, differentiated quality of service (QoS) for packetized traffic (e.g., voice and data) intended for femto cell coverage when transmitted concurrently with external broadband traffic. Quality of Service differentiation is supplied without an external implementation. Femto cell coverage is prioritized over concurrent packetized traffic to deliver a rich user experience for delay and jitter sensitive applications. A passthrough configuration for a femto access point (AP) facilitates supplying hard QoS for data packet streams, or flows, intended for femto cell coverage or non-femto-cell coverage. The femto AP receives a consolidated packet stream through backhaul link(s) and distinguishes flow(s) for femto coverage and flow(s) for auxiliary broadband coverage. The femto AP routes the flow(s) intended for femto with hard QoS according to QoS policy which can be determined by a network operator or a subscriber.
US08194546B2
A method of determining traffic paths between one or more source-destination node pairs in a communications network, comprising starting from a first set of paths between said source-destination node pairs, determining a second set of paths between said source-destination node pairs while taking into account a set of constraints, such that said second set of paths emulates said first set of paths.
US08194544B2
A distributed or centralized network backhaul delay system includes a plurality of cellular base transceiver stations. Each cellular base transceiver station includes a network backhaul delay element. The network backhaul delay element is configured to calculate delay information associated with network delays between cell sites. The network backhaul delay element is configured to adjust and shape the relative network delays to minimize network delays between cell sites to enable soft handoff to be performed.
US08194537B2
In the terminal affiliation switchover system of the invention, in the case of allocation of an IP address to one terminal in a VPN#1 in response to an IP address allocation request, a DHCP server module 121 changes registry information in a DHCP table 122 provided for the VPN#1 and simultaneously makes the change of the registry information reflected in registry of a DHCP table 222 provided for a VPN#2 via a DHCP server module 221. Similarly in the case of allocation of an IP address to one terminal in the VPN#2 in response to an IP address allocation request, the DHCP server module 221 changes the registry information in the DHCP table 222 for the VPN#2 and simultaneously makes the change of the registry information reflected in the registry of the DHCP table 122 for the VPN#1 via the DHCP server module 121.
US08194533B2
A data bus node, being a control node or a sensor node and being arranged to communicate over a TDMA data bus. The node includes a time signal processing device being configured to define a TDMA time slot transmission schedule for at least the node. A switch is configured to either connect or isolate a transmission path of the node to the bus and is configured to be controlled by the TDMA time slot transmission schedule for the node via a bus transmission access control device. The bus transmission access control device is configured to be further controlled by at least one external control signal via at least one external data transmission link being physically separated from the bus. A fault tolerant data bus system includes such a bus node and an aircraft exploiting the node/system. The babbling idiot problem is solved and at the same time the node/s/system fail silent behavior is enhanced.
US08194529B2
The present invention relates to a transmitting apparatus (54) for transmitting signals in a multi carrier system on the basis of a frame structure, each frame comprising at least one signalling pattern and one or more data patterns, said transmitting apparatus comprisingframe forming means (59) adapted to arrange signalling data in said at least one signalling pattern in a frame, and to arrange data and at least one pilot signal in said one or more data patterns in a frame, whereby the length of each of said one or more data patterns in the frequency direction is equal to or a multiple of a minimum data pattern length, transforming means (60) adapted to transform said at least one signalling pattern and said one or more data patterns from the frequency domain into the time domain in order to generate a time domain transmission signal, and transmitting means (61) adapted to transmit said time domain transmission signal. The present invention further relates to a corresponding transmitting method and a frame structure as well as a receiving apparatus and method, as well as a transmitting and receiving system and method.
US08194524B2
When a user requests a reproduction operation via a remote control, a microprocessor determines whether or not data on a medium of the type selected in advance by a user using the remote control can be reproduced. When the microprocessor determines that data on a medium of the selected type can be reproduced, it selectively reproduces data on the medium of the selected type. When the microprocessor determines that data on a medium of the selected type cannot be reproduced, it sequentially determines whether data on media other than media of the selected type among multiple types of media can be reproduced or not, sets the type of a medium on which data can be reproduced, which is found as a result of the determination, as the type of media to be played, and reproduces data on the medium on which data can be reproduced.
US08194523B2
An optical disc apparatus includes a light source for emitting laser light, a light source drive unit for driving said light source, an optical element for splitting the laser light into a plurality of light fluxes, an optical element drive unit for controlling the optical element, an element for focusing the laser light onto the optical disc, and a detection unit for detecting the laser light reflected by the optical disc. Reproduction of the optical disc is performed by switching effectiveness and ineffectiveness of a function of splitting the light flux of the optical element, and adjustment of an outgoing laser power is performed.
US08194518B2
According to one embodiment, a device includes a filter which limits a frequency bandwidth of a reproduced signal from an optical disc, an AD conversion module which converts an output signal from the filter into a multilevel digital signal, an equalizing module for equalizing a waveform of the multilevel digital signal based on a predetermined partial response class and generating an equalizing playback signal, a detection module for generating binary data corresponding to data recorded on the optical disc based on the equalizing playback signal, a module for determining an amplitude value of each of an input signal to and an output signal from the equalizing module with respect to each binary data sequence output from the detection module, and a module for adjusting a high-frequency amplification amount of the filter such that an amplitude value before waveform equalization and an amplitude value after waveform equalization satisfy a predetermined relationship.
US08194513B2
An optical data recording medium, in which irradiation of a light beam is used for recording and/or reproducing data includes (i) a substrate having an a rise and/or a recess which are a light-incident surface, (ii) a reflective layer, provided on the light-incident surface of the substrate, for reflecting the light beam, (iii) a light absorption layer for converting, to heat, a light of the light beam to heat on the surface of the reflective layer, (iv) a reproducing layer, provided on the surface of the heat-light converting layer, having a transmittance that changes in accordance with a light intensity distribution of the light beam. The optical data recording medium is excellent in super-resolution property, and enables reproduction of a shorter mark length.
US08194511B2
A near-field light generating element has an outer surface including a bottom surface that lies at an end closer to a top surface of a substrate, a waveguide facing surface that lies at an end farther from the top surface of the substrate and faces a waveguide, a front end face located in a medium facing surface, and a side surface that connects the bottom surface, the waveguide facing surface and the front end face to each other. The front end face includes a first side that lies at an end of the bottom surface, a tip that lies at an end farther from the top surface of the substrate and forms a near-field light generating part, a second side that connects an end of the first side to the tip, and a third side that connects the other end of the first side to the tip. The waveguide facing surface includes a width changing portion that has a width in a direction parallel to the bottom surface and the front end face, the width decreasing with decreasing distance to the front end face.
US08194509B2
A thermally-assisted magnetic recording head is provided, in which a light source having sufficiently high output power for performing thermal-assist is disposed in the element-integration surface of the substrate to achieve improved mass-productivity. The head includes: a light source having a multilayered structure including a photonic-band layer and having a light-emitting surface opposed to the element-integration surface; a diffraction optical element that converges the emitted light; a light-path changer that changes the direction of the converged light; a waveguide that propagates the direction-changed light toward the opposed-to-medium surface; and a magnetic pole that generates write field. The surface-emitting type light source includes a photonic-band layer having a periodic structure in which a light from an active region resonates, and thus emits laser light on a quite different principle from a VCSEL. Therefore, the light source can be disposed in the element-integration surface, even though having sufficiently high output power.
US08194507B2
A hidden display may be used in an apparatus to display information to a user. The display hardware is generally hidden within the apparatus and illuminated information appears on an outside surface of the apparatus to display the information. The hidden display may couple light into a display panel from the inside of the apparatus to provide the illuminated information on the outside surface of the display panel. The display panel may provide diffuse reflection of ambient light on the outside of the display panel such that the display hardware is not visible behind the display panel but without providing a mirror-like reflection. The display may be used in a variety of different apparatuses or devices including, but not limited to, clocks and clock audio devices.
US08194506B2
An analog radio controlled clock includes a housing, a plurality of indicating, a radio controlled unit, and an audio alarm arrangement, which includes an alarm control unit and an audio device. The alarm control unit is disposed in the receiving cavity of the housing to communicate with the driving control unit for allowing setup of an alarm time. The audio device is electrically connected with the alarm control unit, and is arranged to generate interactive audible signal to a user regarding setting of an alarm time, wherein the audio device is arranged to commands and transmits them to the alarm control unit for setting up the alarm time, so that the user is able to set up the alarm time through commands such as voice instructions and simple physical actuation to the analog radio controlled lock.
US08194504B2
A hydrophone unit comprising a resilient central wire; a conductive wire coiled around the resilient central wire, said conductive wire being coated with a piezo material for generating an electrical signal in response to the presence of an acoustic vibration, wherein the resilient central wire is fabricated from spring steel, the conductive wire is a copper wire, the piezo material includes polyvinylidene difluoride; a layer of conductive material deposited on the piezo material-coated conductive wire, wherein the layer of conductive material comprises a silver ink; and a jacket of polyurethane.
US08194498B2
A technique includes modeling a seismic wavefield in a vertical transversely isotropic media as a second order derivative of a first wavefield function with respect to a vertical direction and not with respect to crossline and inline directions and as second order derivatives of a second wave field function with respect to the inline and crossline directions and not with respect to the vertical direction. The method includes processing seismic measurements of the media in accordance with the modeled seismic wavefield to obtain information about the media. In another technique, a seismic wavefield in a tilted transversely isotropic media are modeled based at least in part on orientation of the symmetry axis and a nonzero shear velocity for the media; and seismic measurements of the media are processed in accordance with the modeled seismic wavefield to obtain information associated with the media.
US08194493B2
A method of operation within a memory device is disclosed. The method comprises receiving address information and corresponding enable information in association with a memory access request. The address information includes a row address that specifies a row of storage cells within a storage array of the memory device, and the enable information includes first and second enable values that correspond respectively to first and second storage locations within the row of storage cells. The method involves selectively transferring data between the first and second storage locations and sense amplifier circuitry according to states of the first and second enable values. This includes transferring data between the first storage location and the sense amplifier circuitry if the first enable value is in an enable state and transferring data between the second storage location and the sense amplifier circuitry if the second enable value is in the enable state. The states of the first and second enable values may be separately controlled.
US08194492B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device including a memory cell array having a plurality of variable resistance memory cells divided into first and second areas. An I/O circuit is configured to access the memory cell array under the control of control logic so as to access the first or second area in response to an external command. The I/O circuit accesses the first area using a memory cell unit and the second area using a page unit.
US08194489B2
A plurality of fuses are arranged in pairs and configured such that each pair of fuses represents a data bit when one fuse of the pair is blown; represents an un-programmed bit when no fuse of the pair is blown; and represents a zero-ized bit when both fuses of the pair are blown. A fuse programming system programs the fuses of the pairs such that each pair represents a bit, comprising blowing a first fuse of a pair to represent a “1” bit, blowing a second fuse of a pair to represent a “0” bit, and blowing both fuses of a pair to represent a zero-ized pair, whereby if neither fuse of a pair is blown represents a null, un-programmed bit.
US08194485B2
Semiconductor memory device and method of controlling sense amplifier of semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes at least one sense amplifier, a controller and a sense amplifier driver. The sense amplifier includes a PMOS sense amplifier and an NMOS sense amplifier configured to be respectively activated in response to a first supply voltage and a second supply voltage, and to sense and amplify a voltage difference between a corresponding bit line pair. The controller is configured to set an operating mode in response to an external command, to control activation timing of a PMOS drive activation signal and an NMOS drive activation signal according to the set operating mode, and to output the PMOS drive activation signal and the NMOS drive activation signal. The sense amplifier driver is configured to apply the first and second supply voltages to the PMOS and NMOS sense amplifiers, respectively, in response to the PMOS drive activation signal and the NMOS drive activation signal.
US08194482B2
A test circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes: a test control signal generating unit configured to enable a control signal if an active signal is enabled after a test signal is enabled, and substantially maintain the control signal in an enable state until a precharge timing signal is enabled; and a precharge control unit configured to invert the control signal to output the inverted signal as a bit line precharge signal when a preliminary bit line precharge signal is in a disable state.
US08194476B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a voltage detector configured to detect a level of an external power supply voltage and an internal voltage generator configured to generate an internal voltage in response to an active signal and drive an internal voltage terminal with a driving ability corresponding to an output signal of the voltage detector. A method for operating the semiconductor memory device includes detecting a level of an external power supply voltage, based on a first target level, to output a detection signal; and generating an internal voltage in response to an active signal, and driving an internal voltage terminal with a driving ability corresponding to the detection signal.
US08194451B2
A semiconductor memory cell and arrays of memory cells are provided In at least one embodiment, a memory cell includes a substrate having a top surface, the substrate having a first conductivity type selected from a p-type conductivity type and an n-type conductivity type; a first region having a second conductivity type selected from the p-type and n-type conductivity types, the second conductivity type being different from the first conductivity type, the first region being formed in the substrate and exposed at the top surface; a second region having the second conductivity type, the second region being formed in the substrate, spaced apart from the first region and exposed at the top surface; a buried layer in the substrate below the first and second regions, spaced apart from the first and second regions and having the second conductivity type; a body region formed between the first and second regions and the buried layer, the body region having the first conductivity type; a gate positioned between the first and second regions and above the top surface; and a nonvolatile memory configured to store data upon transfer from the body region.
US08194449B2
A method of operating a memory device includes; defining a plurality of read levels, using the plurality of read levels to determine electrical property differences between first and second memory cells adjacent dispose along a common word line, and determining read data stored in the first and second memory cells in relation to the determination of electrical property differences between the first and second memory cells.
US08194448B2
A method of reducing floating gate-floating gate interference in programming NAND flash memory is provided. Prior to programming an upper page of a memory cell, the method includes checking whether adjacent pages of near memory cells have been programmed. The method may program adjacent pages of near memory cells that have not been programmed.
US08194446B2
Methods for programming a memory array and memory devices are disclosed. In one such method, inhibited bit lines are charged to an inhibit voltage that is less than a supply voltage. The word lines of memory cells to be programmed are biased at a programming preparation voltage that is less than a nominal programming preparation voltage as used in the conventional art. Programming pulses can be applied to selected word lines of the memory cells to be programmed when the uninhibited bit lines are at 0V.
US08194441B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to techniques to read a memory cell that involve a threshold edge phenomenon of a reset state of phase change memory.
US08194429B2
An inverter has two input lines; an inverter bridge connected between the input lines and including at least one half-bridge having two normally conductive gate-controlled semiconductor switches; a controller which supplies control voltages to the gates of the semiconductor switches in an operative state of the inverter; and a DC voltage source for supplying an auxiliary control voltage to the gates of the semiconductor switches in an inoperative state of the inverter so as to hold the inverter bridge in a non-conductive state between the input lines. The DC voltage source has a charging unit connected between the input lines in series with a further normally conductive gate-controlled semiconductor switch, and charging a storage unit for electric charge, which is connected to the gate of the further semiconductor switch such that this switch becomes non-conductive, when the storage unit has been sufficiently charged for providing the auxiliary control voltage.
US08194426B2
A power supply includes a transformer having a primary winding and one or more secondary windings. The power supply also includes a primary switch coupled to the primary winding, a control unit coupled to control the primary switch, and N output circuits each to provide a respective one of N output voltages. N is an integer greater than one. Each of the N output circuits also includes a feedback circuit to produce a respective feedback signal representative of the respective one of N output voltages to the control unit to regulate the respective one of N output voltages. The power supply also includes a switching arrangement coupled to the N output circuits. The switching arrangement is to selectively couple each of at least N−1 of the N output circuits to a respective one of the one or more secondary windings during a respective time period. The switching arrangement is to couple the respective feedback signal representative of the respective one of the N output voltages to the control unit during the respective time period.
US08194420B2
An embodiment of a power-supply controller comprises a switching-control circuit, an error amplifier, and a signal generator. The switching-control circuit is operable to control a switch coupled to a primary winding of a transformer, and the error amplifier has a first input node operable to receive a feedback signal, a second input node operable to receive a comparison signal, and an output node operable to provide a control signal to the switching-control circuit. The signal generator is operable to generate either the feedback signal or the comparison signal in response to a compensation signal that is isolated from a secondary winding of the transformer and that is proportional to a load current through a conductor disposed between the secondary winding and a load.
US08194413B2
A head substrate for mounting a driver IC that selectively drives a plurality of driving elements is provided. An input signal wiring pattern electrically connects external connection terminals with the pads in a first pad array and a second pad array. The input signal wiring pattern includes a clock signal line for supplying the clock signal to the driver IC and a logic power line for supplying the logic power to the driver IC. A part of the clock signal line and a part of the logic power line are disposed between the first pad array and the second pad array.
US08194410B2
Sensors modules adapted to be mounted to a motherboard under challenging conditions by using automated manufacturing processes are disclosed. A sensor module can include a sensor mounted to a sensor PCB, a connector coupled to the sensor and having a plurality of guide pins extending therefrom in a vulnerable manner, with the guide pins being adapted to be inserted into guide pin holes on an associated motherboard, and a disposable carrier adapted to hold the connector and protect the guide pins thereof prior to mounting. The disposable carrier is removed from the sensor module before the sensor module is mounted directly to a motherboard by press-fitting the guide pins into guide pin holes on the motherboard and soldering connections thereto in an automated surface mounting operation. Disposable carrier protected sensor modules can be stored and processed in a tray or tape-and-reel automated manufacturing system.
US08194401B2
A keyboard module, including a base plate, a membrane circuit, keys and a frame set, is provided. The membrane circuit is disposed on the base plate and has touch portions. The keys are assembled to the base plate and correspond to the touch portions respectively. The frame set is assembled to the base plate and includes a first frame and a second frame. The first frame has a plurality of first ribs disposed in a staggered way. The second frame is connected to the first frame and located between the first frame and the base plate. The second frame has a plurality of second ribs disposed in a staggered way, wherein a width of a portion of the second ribs is smaller than a width of the corresponding first ribs, and the keys pass through the second frame and the first frame in sequence to protrude above the frame set.
US08194398B2
Disclosed is a system comprised of a bag and computer combination which allows the bag wearer to quickly access and use a computer while mobile. The system can be in three forms and all three are used in the same way: a pivoting cover is moved out of the way to expose a display which pivots into the line of sight of the wearer/operator. When assembled, all the components are physically connected and electrical components are electrically connected. Additional components include a keyboard or write pad mounted on the pivoting cover or on a separate pivoting mount near the center bag front, a display prop which braces the display in various angular positions and side pockets fitted for peripherals. An example is cited using a bag with flap mounts and equipment which mounts to the flaps using clamps.
US08194396B2
An AC adapter unit compactly houses the AC adapter block and DC cable so that radiation noise from the DC cable is not amplified. The AC adapter unit 4 has an AC adapter 7 that includes an AC adapter block 52 and a DC cable 51, and a storage tray 6 that stores the AC adapter 7. The connector-side cable part 51b of the DC cable 51 is stored in the storage tray 6 on the left-side part 6D of the AC adapter block 52. The connector-side cable part 51b has a bundled part 51c with a figure-8 shape when seen from the top opening 6a side of the storage tray 6. The long axis of this bundled part 51c is parallel to the long axis of the AC adapter block 52. Because the DC cable 51 has a figure-8 shaped bundled part 51c, the part that runs parallel to electronic circuit boards inside the AC adapter block 52 is reduced and amplification of radiation noise is reduced.
US08194395B2
A capacitor assembly that includes an electrolytic capacitor that contains an anode body, dielectric overlying the anode, and a solid electrolyte overlying the dielectric is provided. An anode lead is also electrically connected to the anode body and extends in a longitudinal direction therefrom. The anode lead is connected to an “upstanding” portion of a leadframe. Among other things, this helps to limit substantial horizontal movement of the lead and thereby improve the mechanical robustness of the part. The capacitor and leadframe are enclosed and hermetically sealed within a ceramic housing in the presence of an inert gas. It is believed that the ceramic housing is capable of limiting the amount of oxygen and moisture supplied to the conductive polymer of the capacitor. In this manner, the solid electrolyte (e.g., conductive polymer) is less likely to undergo a reaction in high temperature environments, thus increasing the thermal stability of the capacitor assembly.
US08194384B2
An electrostatic chuck configured for high temperature reduced-pressure processing is described. The electrostatic chuck comprises a chuck body having an electrostatic clamp electrode and an optional heating element, and a heat sink body having a heat transfer surface spaced in close relationship with an inner surface of the chuck body, wherein the heat sink body is configured to remove heat from the chuck body due to the close proximity of the inner surface and the heat transfer surface. The electrostatic chuck further comprises a table assembly configured to support the chuck body and the heat sink body, and an expansion joint disposed between the chuck body and the table assembly, and configured to sealably join the chuck body to the table assembly while accommodating for differential thermal expansion of the chuck body and the table assembly.
US08194377B2
An over-current protection circuit includes a voltage generating unit and a comparing unit. The voltage generating unit is configured for receiving a first voltage and generating a reference voltage. The reference voltage has an offset positively dependent on temperature and negatively dependent on the first voltage, and the offset of the reference voltage varies along with another offset varying within a sense voltage sensed by the over-current protection circuit. The comparing unit is configured for comparing the reference voltage with the sense voltage to output a control signal for de-asserting the sense voltage when the sense voltage is correlated to an over-current condition of the sense voltage exceeding the reference voltage. A driver is also disclosed herein.
US08194376B2
Storage device discharge means and methods are provided. Printer circuitry detects one or more anomalous operating conditions and asserts a switch, shunting storage capacitors to ground potential through a resistive load. Discharge of the storage capacitors protects inkjet firing resistors against damage that could otherwise result from the uncontrolled application of stored electrical energy.
US08194367B2
When an electricity storage unit is being charged or discharged, a control circuit obtains efficiency Efn of a DC/DC converter based on input/output voltage value Vi, input/output current value I and electricity storage unit voltage value Vc detected by an input/output voltage detection circuit, an input/output current detection circuit, and an electricity storage unit voltage detection circuit, respectively. By using temperature T a detected by temperature sensor, when efficiency Efn lies out of predetermined range (from Emin to Emax) according to input/output voltage value Vi, input/output current value I, electricity storage unit voltage value Vc and temperature T, at least any one of an electricity storage unit and the DC/DC converter is determined to be abnormal.
US08194358B2
A magnet of rectangular prism or parallelepiped prism shape is disposed on a yoke having a triangle shape or a frusto-triangular shape to construct a magnetic circuit for a voice coil motor. The magnetic circuits facilitate positioning and holding of a moving coil, and the voice coil motor is improved in positioning precision of a magnetic head.
US08194353B2
A suspension board with circuit includes a conductive pattern, a board main body portion, an auxiliary portion folded back with respect to the board main body portion, a slider disposed on a side of the suspension board with circuit which is closer to the board main body portion, and mounting thereon a magnetic head, and a light emitting element disposed on a side of the suspension board with circuit which is closer to the auxiliary portion. The conductive pattern includes a first conductive pattern including first and second terminals connected to an external circuit and the magnetic head, and second conductive pattern including third and fourth terminals connected to the external circuit and light emitting element. Both of the first and second terminal are disposed on the board main body portion. The third and fourth terminals are disposed on the board main body portion and on the auxiliary portion respectively.
US08194352B2
A head suspension 15 includes a base plate 27, a load bend 35, a load beam 37, a flexure 39, and a slider 25 that are assembled together through several processes including a pressing process. In such a head suspension 15 that is a finished product in a conventional sense, a front end 30 of the base plate 27 is twisted so that the front end 30 inclines toward one of inner and outer circumferences of a disk-like recording medium 33. The twisting process is carried out before attaching the head suspension 15 to an arm 13 of a carriage to be installed in a hard disk drive. The head suspension 15 with the twisted front end 30 prevents off-track errors even when it is used for a multi-arm assembly involving a plurality of head suspensions.
US08194350B2
According to an embodiment, a head includes a slider and a head portion on the slider. A facing surface of the slider includes a negative-pressure cavity defined by a recess in the facing surface, a leading step portion on an upstream side of the negative-pressure cavity, a pair of side portions extending in a first direction from the leading step portion, a trailing step portion on an outflow side of the negative-pressure cavity, a pair of skirt portions extending in the first direction from the side portions toward the outflow end of the slider, and an enclosure step portion continuously arranged along an outflow end edge and opposite side edges of the facing surface from the trailing step portion to opposite sides of the skirt portions and outsides of the side portions and formed deeper than the skirt portions and shallower than the negative-pressure cavity.
US08194335B2
An optical lens on wafer level consists of a first optical component, a first spacer, a second optical component, at least a first via plug, and an adhesion material. The first spacer includes at least a first via plug passing through the first spacer, wherein the first optical component and the second optical component are separated by the first spacer. The adhesion material is coated in between the first optical component and the first spacer and coated in between the first spacer and the second optical component, and is filled in at least a portion of the first via plug.
US08194329B2
A variable magnification optical system includes first lens group having negative refractive-power, an aperture-stop and second lens group having positive refractive-power, arranged from the object-side. A negative lens having a concave surface facing the image-side is arranged on the most object side of the first lens group, and an aspheric lens having a concave surface facing the object-side and an aspheric surface facing the image-side is arranged on the most image side of the first lens group. A positive lens having a convex surface facing the image-side is arranged, on the object-side of the aspheric lens, immediately before the aspheric lens. The image-side surface of the aspheric lens at the most image side of the first lens group includes a portion having higher positive power on the outside of positions through which outermost rays of an axial beam pass, compared with the vicinity of the optical axis.
US08194325B2
An apparatus and a method are provided. The apparatus including: a light expander configured to expand light, input into the light expander, in a first dimension, and configured to provide diverging light that diverges in the first dimension; and an optical device configured to redirect diverging light, received from the light expander, to produce converging light that converges in the first dimension.
US08194314B2
Providing a pair of binoculars that is able to prevent diopter from being changed after adjusting diopter difference by pushing down the focus knob after adjusting diopter difference so as not to touch the operating knob, and able to prevent the focus position from being changed after adjusting focus position by pulling out the focus knob to create a focus lock state after adjusting focus position.
US08194311B2
A scanning laser microscope obtains images by performing scanning with laser light. The scanning laser microscope includes scanner and controller. The scanner is applied for performing scanning with the laser light line by line. The controller is applied for calculating a required line scanning time that is required as time used for scanning one line, based on the time required for scanning one frame that is determined from a frame rate being set. The controller is also applied for adjusting at least one of a number of data in one line of drive waveform data for driving the scanner and a read cycle of the drive waveform data, so as to substantially match the time for the scanner to scan one line with the required line scanning time calculated by the controller.
US08194307B2
A tunable acoustic gradient index of refraction (TAG) lens and system are provided that permit, in one aspect, dynamic selection of the lens output, including dynamic focusing and imaging. The system may include a TAG lens and at least one of a source and a detector of electromagnetic radiation. A controller may be provided in electrical communication with the lens and at least one of the source and detector and may be configured to provide a driving signal to control the index of refraction and to provide a synchronizing signal to time at least one of the source and the detector relative to the driving signal. Thus, the controller is able to specify that the source irradiates the lens (or detector detects the lens output) when a desired refractive index distribution is present within the lens, e.g. when a desired lens output is present.
US08194305B2
The present invention discloses a mirror device that includes a mirror element which further comprising an elastic hinge and a mirror and which modulates incident light emitted from a light source, a device substrate on which a drive circuit for driving the mirror element is placed, a package substrate which is made of transparent glass or a silicon material and on which the device substrate is placed, a metallic thermal transfer path connected to the device substrate, and a cover glass connected to the package substrate so that the device substrate is covered.
US08194300B2
An optical scanner includes an inductor, an electric supply unit, an emitter, a mirror, a first receiving element, a second receiving element, and a measuring unit. The electric supply unit applies a supply voltage to the inductor alternately in opposite applying directions. The mirror reflects a laser beam to scan a photosensitive body within a scanning range. Each of the receiving elements is positioned at one end of the scanning range. The measuring unit measures the scanning time taken for the laser beam to be detected by the second receiving element after the beam is detected by the first receiving element. When the mirror scans the photosensitive body along a first primary scanning line after the mirror scans the body along a second primary scanning line, the electric supply unit varies the supply voltage according to the scanning time measured for the second primary scanning line.
US08194290B2
An image compensating method. First, multiple scanning lines are used to scan a document and a longitudinal black and white pattern, in order to produce the actual gray level value for multiple pixels with respect to each of the scanning lines and the document, as well as a correctional gray level value for complete black and a correctional gray level value for complete white with respect to the longitudinal black and white pattern. Then, the compensational gray level value with respect to the actual gray level value for each of the pixels is obtained according to the correctional gray level value for complete black, the correctional gray level value for complete white, the theoretical gray level value for complete black, the theoretical gray level value for complete white, and the actual gray level value for each of the pixels. Then, the procedure is complete.
US08194280B2
A method and apparatus for direct printing of multiple views of 3-D objects in a PDF file is described. When a PDF file containing 3-D object data is sent to a printer, without using an application or print driver, the controller of a printer generates and prints a plurality of views of the 3-D object based on pre-defined viewing angle settings. The printer controller opens the PDF file, converts the 3-D PDF data to PS data based on the viewing angle, performs raster image processing, prints the bitmap images corresponding to the viewing angle, and repeats the process for all viewing angles. The plurality of views may be printed on separate pages, or on one page in an N-in-1 format. More generally, the method applies to direct printing of files containing objects that are capable of providing multiple appearances, where multiple or desired appearances of the objects are automatically printed.
US08194279B2
An image data combining apparatus combines m lines of image data that have been output from a reading unit. The reading unit outputs m lines of image data based upon the pixel data that has been output upon being divided into the plurality of lines, and stored then in a memory. An upper address for accessing the memory is decided based upon first data indicating position, along the sub-scan direction, of an image that has been read by the reading unit, and a lower address for accessing the memory is decided based upon second data indicating position of the image along the main-scan direction. For the lower address utilizes values in which the sequence of a plurality of bits constituting the first data is interchanged, so that p items of pixel data at a time are extracted successively from each of the m lines of image data.
US08194273B2
A program transmission system in which a program is transmitted from a transmission apparatus to an image forming apparatus is provided. The program transmission system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire operational state information about an operational state in the image forming apparatus, a determination unit configured to determine timing to transmit the program to the image forming apparatus according to the operational state based on the operational state information acquired by the acquisition unit, and a transmission unit configured to transmit the program from the transmission apparatus to the image forming apparatus according to the timing determined by the determination unit.
US08194269B2
An image forming method using hypertext markup language (XHTML)-print data, including receiving registration information about an image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus, generating XHTML-Print data from print data using the registration information of the information forming apparatus, transmitting the XHTML-Print data to the image forming apparatus, and printing the XHTML-Print data.
US08194264B2
A method and apparatus for printing using a synchronization signal are provided. Printing processes are performed in the apparatus by determining points in time for performing the printing processes based on a synchronization signal so that it is possible to reduce a waiting time for printing.
US08194262B2
A method of printing includes, on an ongoing basis, determining a print defect state of a printing system, selecting a screen which has a halftone print parameter which masks a detected print defect, such as one or more of a screen frequency parameter, a screen angle parameter, and a dot growth parameter. The method further includes printing images according to the selected halftone print parameter. Alternatively, where the printing system includes more than one marking engine, the method includes selecting a marking engine according to the determined defect states of each of the marking engines.
US08194258B2
Methods for processing print jobs include flagging, or not, to-be-printed objects having PDL-specified math or logic functions requiring hard processing operations, such as two or more inputs. The math or logic functions preferably reside in ink attributes of display list objects corresponding to the to-be-printed objects. To-be-printed pages of the print job become divided into bands. Bands with to-be-printed objects therein have band display lists constructed in the event the to-be-printed objects become flagged. On a band-by-band basis, if bands have band display lists flagged with hard processing operations, contone bands become constructed. The contone bands result from color information blending between overlapping pixels of to-be-printed objects or an object and a contone page. A contone page includes color information of the to-be-printed page in a first color space. To-be-printed objects are rendered in a second color space in device specific page(s) of memory.
US08194237B2
A device detects multi-spectral imaging by using line scan elements. The device may include an illumination module and a detection module to detect light scattered from an object illuminated by the illumination module. The device may also include an array of light sources to produce light at a plurality of different wavelengths, and create a uniform line of illumination with each of the different wavelengths. The light detection may be applied to authenticate and validate documents, such as bank notes moving along a document conveyer.
US08194230B2
An optical system has a plurality of elements arranged to image radiation at a wavelength λ from an object surface to an image surface, the elements include mirror elements having a reflective surface positioned at a path of radiation. At least one of the mirror elements is a pupil mirror having a pupil mirror surface arranged at or near to a pupil surface of the optical system. At least one of the remaining mirror elements is a highly loaded mirror having a mirror surface arranged at a position where at least one of a largest value of a range of angles of incidence and a largest value of an average angle incidence of all remaining mirrors occurs, where the remaining mirrors include all mirrors except for the pupil mirror. The pupil mirror surface is formed by a reflective coating designed as a one-dimensionally graded coating including a multilayer stack of layers of different materials, the layers having a geometrical layer thickness which varies according to a first grading function in a first direction of the coating and which is substantially constant in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The mirror surface of the highly loaded mirror is coated with a reflective mirror coating designed as a graded coating according to a second grading function.
US08194227B2
The present invention discloses a super large wide-angle high-speed response liquid crystal display apparatus manufactured by using a photolithographic procedure for three times. The invention adopts a halftone exposure technology to form a gate electrode, a common electrode, a pixel electrode and a contact pad, and then uses the halftone exposure technology to form a silicon (Si) island and a contact hole, and a general exposure technology to form a source electrode, a drain electrode and an orientation control electrode. A passivation layer uses a masking deposition method. A film is formed by using a P-CVD method, or a protective area is formed at a local area by using an ink coating method or spray method, and a TFT array substrate used for the super large wide-angle high-speed response liquid crystal display apparatus manufactured by using a photolithographic procedure for three times can be produced.
US08194222B2
A display device that has a display panel having a front substrate, an image forming unit, and a back substrate rendered together in layers, and a wiring board layered on the back surface of the back substrate. A plurality of input/output pins are formed on the front surface of the back substrate, and a plurality of connection pins that are electrically connected to the input/output pins by respective conductor members are formed on the back surface of the wiring board.
US08194214B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a lower substrate and a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode is disposed in a pixel area of the first substrate, in which a first slit part extending along a first direction in a first zigzag shape and a second slit part extending along a second direction and passing through a first bent portion of the first slit part are disposed. The second slit part includes first edges opposite to each other which are inclined at a first angle. The second substrate includes an upper substrate and a common electrode. The common electrode is disposed on the upper substrate, in which a third slit part disposed between adjacent first slit parts and extended in a second zigzag shape is disposed.
US08194209B2
Optical low-pass filter, camera, imaging apparatus, and method for producing optical low-pass filter
An optical low-pass filter is constituted with a liquid crystal substrate including a layer of liquid crystal. The optical low-pass filter includes: a first liquid crystal part in which the liquid crystal is aligned along a first direction; and a second liquid crystal part in which the liquid crystal is aligned along a second direction different from the first direction. The first liquid crystal part and the second liquid crystal part are disposed in an alternately repeated fashion.
US08194200B2
Displays using a low cost method to implement switching element point inversion driving schemes while using integrated circuits that are designed to implement switching element row inversion or switching element column driving schemes are described. In one display, a first color dot is on a first side of a control line and a second color dot is on a second side of the control line. A first switching element is coupled to the first control line and the first color dot and a second switching element is coupled to the second color dot and the control line. Thus the control line controls color dots on two different rows or two different columns.
US08194195B2
Lighting systems, in particular used for SSTV, disco lights, lighting consoles and claviluxes. In order to reduce noise and to increase robustness, the system comprises a light beam source (6) arranged for generating a beam of light, a projection gate (8) arranged for controlling the beam of light, wherein the light beam source (6) is comprised of at least one light emitting diode, and the projection gate (8) comprises at least one liquid crystal (LC) optical element.
US08194188B2
An aspect of the present invention reduces memory accesses while forming combined images of a subpicture frame with each of a sequence of image frames. In an embodiment, line information indicating the specific lines (e.g., rows) of the subpicture frame having display information is first generated. The line information is then used to retrieve only those lines of the subpicture frame that have display information while forming combined frames. According to another aspect, the portions of the combined images having sharp edges due to the inclusion of the subpicture frame are identified based on the line information, and such portions are then filtered. The sequence of combined frames may be displayed on a video output device.
US08194183B2
Provided is an imaging device which simplifies an assembling adjustment so as to reduce the manufacturing time and cost, wherein second lens L2 driven by actuator 30 is brought into contact with first lens L1 and third lens L3 so that a hyper-focal position or an infinite position as a reference focal position, and close-up position are accurately positioned, that is, it is possible to perform assembling without adjustment and effectively reduce the number of manufacturing steps.
US08194182B2
A solid-state image pickup apparatus 100 of the present invention includes a transparent cover section 24 which is provided so as to be spaced from a lens section, the transparent cover section 24 being provided (i) so as to face a light-receiving section of a solid-state image sensing device 22 and (ii) so as to have a gap between the solid-state image sensing device 22 and the transparent cover section 24. Furthermore, the transparent cover section 24 is provided with a positioning mark which serves as a reference for positioning the lens section in consideration of the solid-state image sensing device 22. Consequently, it is possible to provide a shock-resistant solid-state image pickup apparatus in which a lens section and an image pickup section are positionally aligned with high accuracy.
US08194176B2
A switching mechanism for optical component includes: an optical component; a holder member holding the optical component; a drive mechanism having a drive motor that drives the optical component held by the holder member to rotate on a plane orthogonal to an optical axis from an optical axis position at which the optical component is on the optical axis to an evacuation position at which the optical component is off the optical axis; and a restriction member restricting a rotation of the holder member, by which at least a rotation of the optical component held by the holder member is restricted at the optical axis position. The drive mechanism includes the drive motor, a worm attached to a rotation shaft of the drive motor, and a worm wheel meshed with the worm and provided to the holder member.
US08194166B2
Multiple images are captured where the exposure times for some of the images overlap and the images are spatially overlapped. Charge packets are transferred from one or more portions of pixels after particular integration periods, thereby enabling the portion or portions of pixels to begin another integration period while one or more other portions of pixels continue to integrate charge. Charge packets may be binned during readout of the images from the image sensor. Comparison of two or more images having different lengths of overlapping or non-overlapping exposure periods provides motion information. The multiple images can then be aligned to compensate for motion between the images and assembled into a combined image with an improved signal to noise ratio and reduced motion blur.
US08194158B2
An image processor (24) includes an image processing section (04) which performs a blurring process on a given image data. The image processing section (04) is provided with an image data reduction part (04A), a spatial filter processing part (04B), and an image data expansion part (04C). The image data reduction part (04A) reduces the given image data at a predetermined reduction rate to generate a reduced image data. The spatial filter processing part (04B) performs a spatial filter process on the reduced image data reduced by the image data reduction part (04A) to generate a processed image data. An image data expansion part (04C) expands the processed image data processed by the spatial filter processing part (04B) at an expansion rate inverse of the reduction rate.
US08194157B2
An image-pickup apparatus includes an image-pickup element that photoelectrically converts an optical image formed by an image-pickup optical system having a zoom function, and a correcting part that performs correction processing for a distortion component in image data generated based on an output from the image-pickup element, the distortion component corresponding to a distortion of the image-pickup optical system. The image-pickup optical system provides a first zoom range in which a distortion amount at a certain image height is larger than a predetermined value and a second zoom range in which a distortion amount at the certain image height is smaller than the predetermined value. The correcting part performs the correction processing so that the distortion component remains in a first corrected image data in the first zoom range is larger than the distortion component remaining in a second corrected image data in the second zoom range.
US08194155B2
An information processing apparatus is provided which includes a buffer for holding image data output line by line from an image pickup device, a write enable generator for generating a write enable signal which indicates a timing by which the image data is written to the buffer line by line, an adder for adding per reference clock a read frequency set value which determines readout frequency of the image data written in the buffer, and a write enable generator for generating a read enable signal which indicates a timing by which the image data written in the buffer is read out line by line based on an added value of the read frequency set values.
US08194151B2
An image pickup apparatus is equipped with an image pickup device in which pixels coated with different color filters are arranged. Further, the image pickup apparatus includes a separation unit that separates a video signal outputted from the pixels coated with the different color filters into three color image signals; an adjustment signal generation unit for generating a color balance adjustment signal and a hue adjustment signal from the separated three color image signals; and an adjustment unit for adjusting the video signal outputted from the pixels coated with the different color filters by using the color balance adjustment signal and hue adjustment signal generated by the adjustment signal generation unit.
US08194150B2
A moving image processing apparatus, includes a low-speed clock generation source to generate a low-speed clock signal of a first frequency, a high-speed clock generation source to generate a high-speed clock signal of a second frequency which is higher than the first frequency, an image data source to output progressive-type image data, a PI converter to convert the progressive-type image data output from the image data source into interlaced-type image data forming a field and to output the interlaced-type image data, and an arithmetic part to process the interlaced-type image output from the PI converter by use of only one of a pair of fields each formed by the interlaced-type image output from the PI converter. The high-speed clock generation source supplies the high-speed clock signal to the image data source and the PI converter, and the low-speed clock generation source supplies the low-speed clock signal to the arithmetic part.
US08194148B2
The image processing device of the present invention is provided with an image input section, a position discrepancy detecting section, and an image composition section. The image input section reads a plurality of low resolution images imaging a same object, and at least one high resolution image imaging a same object. The position discrepancy detecting section detects position discrepancy of patterns between respective low resolution images and the high resolution image. The image composition section positions and composes patterns of the plurality of low resolution images based on the position discrepancy.
US08194144B2
An image data processing method to capture still images while capturing motion images is disclosed. The method includes stopping a motion image capturing according to a first instruction to generate a first motion image data with a first resolution, thereafter, carrying out live view at a predetermined time; outputting the image data in the predetermined time and generating a first temporal motion data with a second resolution; capturing a still image data according to a second instruction after the predetermined time; transforming the first temporal motion data and the still image data and generating a second motion image data by combining the transformed data with the first motion image data. The method and device according to the present invention can be used in a camera to capture still images while capturing motion images.
US08194143B2
A camera apparatus for encoding a video signal received from a photographing means in MPEG video format or equivalent format, encoding an audio signal received from an audio inputting means in MPEG audio format or equivalent format, multiplexing the encoded MPEG video signal and the encoded MPEG audio signal, storing the multiplexed data to a memory means is disclosed, that comprises an I picture generating means for encoding the video signal received from the photographing means corresponding to an intra-frame encoding process so as to generate an I picture in the MPEG video format or equivalent format, and a controlling means for controlling a storing process of the multiplexed data to the memory means, wherein said controlling means generates a P picture or a B picture in the MPEG video format or equivalent format in such a manner that moving vectors of all macro blocks thereof are 0 and the chronologically preceding picture is copied as an encoded picture, wherein said controlling means encodes the audio signal received from the audio inputting means in the MPEG audio format or equivalent format so as to generate MPEG audio data, and wherein said controlling means multiplexes the I picture, the P picture or the B picture, and the MPEG audio data so as to generate the multiplexed data.
US08194142B2
A photographic apparatus comprises a movable platform and a controller.The movable platform has an imager that captures an optical image through a taking lens, and is movable and rotatable on an xy plane.The controller calculates an inclination angle of the photographic apparatus, and performs a controlled movement of the movable platform for an inclination correction by rotating the movable platform from an initial state on said xy plane in accordance to a rotation quantity of the movable platform.The controller performs the controlled movement to offset the inclination angle by the rotation quantity, when the photographic apparatus is in a first inclination state.The controller performs the controlled movement to maintain an inclined state where the movable platform is rotated from the initial state in accordance to either the first angle or the negative of the first angle, when the photographic apparatus is in a second inclination state.
US08194136B1
Methods and systems for analyzing camera lenses and presenting information regarding camera lenses performance are described. An interactive user interface is provided over a network for display on a user terminal by a computer system. A user request is received at the computer system from the user terminal for lens data from a first lens. Lens data, including test data obtained via a first digital image captured using the first lens at the first focal length setting and the first aperture setting is accessed from memory and transmitted to interactive user interface. The interactive user interface is configured to display an identification of the first camera body, an identification of the first lens, the first focal length setting used to capture the image, and the first aperture setting used to capture the image. Using the lens test data, the interactive user interface generates and displays sharpness graph data.
US08194134B2
A target moving object tracking device takes a time series of picture images of a target moving object, and track a movement of the moving object in the picture images for displaying an enlarged view of the moving object. The device includes a template memory storing a template image which is compared with each one of time-series outline images given from the picture images to determine a partial area in match with the template image for each of the outline images and extract the partial areas as a moving object outline image. The template image is constantly updated by being replaced with a combination of the previous moving object outline images to accurately reflect the moving object.
US08194124B2
A holographic microscope comprising a source configured to provide a diverging beam of radiation, a beam splitter configured to direct a first portion of the diverging beam towards an object and a second portion of the diverging beam towards a reflector, the beam splitter being further configured to direct an object beam from the object and a reference beam from the reflector towards a transducer, and the transducer being configured to provide a signal indicative of the interference pattern of the object beam and the reference beam incident on the transducer. A method of digital holography is also disclosed.
US08194117B2
A system allocates channel bandwidth based on the data received from a plurality of remote sources. A de-multiplexer/priority circuit separates two or more different data streams into their components parts. A stream modification driver modifies one or more characteristics of the data received from the de-multiplexer/priority circuit based on a priority assigned to the data by the de-multiplexer/priority circuit. The de-multiplexer/priority circuit determines the data transfer rates for each of the different data streams based on the assigned priority.
US08194116B2
In accordance with one or more embodiments of the present disclosure, systems and methods disclosed herein provide for multipoint video teleconferencing via a communication network utilizing a relay communication device. The system comprises a plurality of video teleconferencing sites adapted to transmit and receive audio and video data via the relay communication device. Each video teleconferencing site is adapted to transmit audio and video data to the relay communication device. Each video teleconferencing site is adapted to receive audio and video data from the relay communication device, assemble the received audio and video data from each of the other video teleconferencing sites, and present the assembled audio and video data to one or more viewers via an audio and video interface.
US08194113B2
A high-frequency clock generating circuit generates a plurality of high-frequency clock signals having different phases. A modulation-signal generating circuit generates a pulse modulation signal based on transition timing data including data pertaining to a turn-on timing at which a state of a light source is changed from a turn-off state to a turn-on state and a turn-off timing at which the state of the light source is changed from the turn-on state to the turn-off state by inputting any one of the high-frequency clock signals for a predetermined period including the turn-on timing and the turn-off timing.
US08194108B1
A thermal printer that can print on media that is thicker than would otherwise be the case, because the outer surface of the heating element in its print head is oriented at an angle α with respect to a radial line A that extends from the center of its platen through the center of its heating element, wherein angle α is not essentially 90°; and/or because the output side of its ribbon and media is urged against the platen to curve arcuately around the platen for an angle γ, wherein angle γ is measured between radial line A and a line that extends from the center of the platen through the last contact point of the output side of the media with the outer surface of the platen.
US08194107B2
In an embodiment, a method of operating a dual-sided direct thermal printer comprising a first thermal print head on a first side of a media feed path and a second thermal print head on a second side of the media feed path opposite the first side is provided, wherein the method comprises receiving a select thermal printing mode command and operating the dual-sided direct thermal printer according to the received select thermal printing mode command.
US08194104B2
In a case where each of pixels of a liquid-crystal display panel is divided into two subpixels, the drive levels of the subpixels with respect to the gradation of an input video signal can be selected from among a plurality of drive levels while an increase in the circuit scale is suppressed.Thus, in the present invention, a first subpixel driving level converter for, on the basis of the gradation value of each pixel of the input video signal, obtaining a first gradation value for driving a first subpixel is provided, and the first subpixel is driven and controlled on the basis of the first gradation value. Then, the first gradation value obtained by the first subpixel driving level converter is converted into a luminance value, and a difference with the luminance value such that the gradation values of the whole pixels are converted is obtained. The obtained difference is converted into a gradation value, and a second gradation value for driving a second subpixel is obtained. The second subpixel is driven and controlled on the basis of the second gradation value.
US08194099B2
A method and apparatus for displaying digital images on a display is provided. A set of items from a sequence of items is displayed. The sequence of items includes one or more undisplayed items that do not belong to the set of items. The set of items are displayed, in an arrangement that includes a plurality of lines, in an order that corresponds to the sequence. In response to user input that selects a particular item from the set of items, it is determined whether the number of lines, in the plurality of lines, that precede the line containing the particular item is less than a first predetermined threshold. If that is the case, a line of undisplayed items that precede the set of items is displayed, while a line of displayed items that follow the particular item is ceased to be displayed.
US08194097B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for masking at least a portion of one image with another image. Aspects of the present invention facilitate the placing of a virtual mask onto an item in an image even if that items moves in subsequent images, such as between different image frames in a video.
US08194094B2
An image display apparatus includes: an image display panel having a two-dimensional matrix with (P×Q) pixels each including first, second and third sub-pixels for displaying respective first, second and third elementary colors, and fourth sub-pixel for displaying a fourth color; and a signal processing section configured to receive first, second and third sub-pixel input signals respectively provided with signal values of x1-(p, q), x2-(p, q) and x3-(p, q), and to output first, second, third and fourth sub-pixel output signals respectively provided with signal values of X1-(p, q), X2-(p, q), X3-(p, q) and X4-(p, q), which used for determining the display gradations of the first, second, third, and fourth sub-pixels, respectively, with regard to a (p, q)th pixel where notations p and q are integers satisfying equations 1≦p≦P and 1≦q≦Q.
US08194060B2
A display system includes a display device, a driving circuit, a flexible printed circuit (FPC), and a charge pump circuit. The driving circuit is disposed on the display device for driving the display device. The FPC is externally coupled to the display device. The charge pump circuit is disposed on the FPC for generating at least an output voltage to the driving circuit according to an input voltage. The charge pump circuit has at least one control line coupled to the driving circuit for receiving a control signal generated from the driving circuit, and the charge pump circuit sets a pumping factor according to the control signal.
US08194057B2
A display apparatus has a pixel including a main pixel connected to a main gate line and a data line, and a sub-pixel connected to a sub-gate line and the data line. A main gate driver outputs a main gate pulse to the main gate line during a time period 1H. A sub-gate driver receives the main gate pulse and outputs a sub-gate pulse to the sub-gate line during a first portion of time period 1H. The data driver applies a sub-pixel voltage to the data line during the first portion of time period 1H and applies the main pixel voltage to the data line during a second portion of time period 1H.
US08194050B2
A sensing circuit discharge control method and device for a touch panel are disclosed. A discharging duration of a current source in the sensing circuit of the touch panel is fine tuned in a digital control manner, so as to control the discharging amount of the sensing circuit without frequently adjusting the discharging current of the current source. By using the present invention, discharging time difference between a condition in which a touch event occurs and a condition in which no touch event occurs for each sensing circuit can approach the same.
US08194048B2
To realize an increase in an image quality of a liquid crystal display device having a capacitive touch screen, and an increase in are liability of a contact surface and a connection portion. A capacitive touch screen 50 and a liquid crystal display panel 30 are connected, by the same flexible wiring substrate 70, on an interior side when the touch screen 50 and the liquid crystal display panel 30 are laid one on top of the other. By so doing, a terminal is protected from an exterior, and an increase in a number of components is suppressed. Also, by installing the capacitive touch screen 50 on a color filter substrate 20 side of the liquid crystal display panel 30, a reduction of a contrast is prevented. Furthermore, a capacitive touch screen substrate 51 side is made a contact surface for an input. By so doing, a conductive layer 52 of the capacitive touch screen 50 is prevented from tearing due to an abrasion caused by a contact.
US08194036B1
Systems and methods for controlling a cursor on a display using a trackpad input device are disclosed. The systems and methods may be directed to controlling the cursor on a display separate from the trackpad input device, based on information identified about a motion of a trackpad input device or a computing device. A conversion factor may be determined to relate input to the trackpad input device with control of the cursor on the display in response to the input. The conversion factor can be adjusted when the motion information indicates that the trackpad input device or computing device is in motion. An input signal from an input to the trackpad input device may be smoothed by filtering out a mechanical vibration signal within the input signal. The input signal may also be smoothed by subtracting the absolute motion of the trackpad input device from the input signal.
US08194033B2
A reproducing device that can reproduce data and operates on a battery includes displaying means, attitude detecting means for detecting an attitude of the reproducing device, determining means for determining whether the reproducing device satisfies a predetermined condition, and controlling means for changing a setting of the reproducing device on a basis of a result of detection of the attitude detecting means when the determining means determines that the reproducing device satisfies the predetermined condition.
US08194031B2
Embodiments are provided herein which may be utilized to eliminate stray light emissions from an LED while ambient light is being sensed. As such, dynamic backlight control systems for use with an electronic display are presented including: an ambient light sensor for sensing ambient light intensity; a backlight for illuminating the electronic display; a switch for controlling the backlight, the switch configured to set a backlight condition to ON or OFF in response to a backlight-off frequency such that the ambient light sensor senses the ambient light intensity in the absence of the backlight; a logic module for determining a backlight level in response to the ambient light intensity; and a backlight control circuit for adjusting the backlight to the backlight level in response to the ambient light intensity.
US08194028B2
The disclosure relates to a system and method for determining pixel intensity values (luma values) for an image being displayed on a display of an electronic device, then adjusting the pixel intensity and the backlight level for the image that is output to a liquid crystal display (LCD). The system comprises: a display for displaying an image to be displayed on the device; an image adjustment module to identify the pixel intensity values of the image, to determine new pixel intensity values for the image based in part on the original pixel intensity values, to provide the (adjusted) image at the new pixel intensity values to the display and to determine a backlight level for the image at the new pixel intensity values. The system further comprises a backlight system to provide a backlight for the adjusted image at the adjusted backlight level.
US08194014B2
An organic light emitting display device capable of improving image quality on a large panel. The organic light emitting display device includes a panel divided into at least two regions including a first region crystallized by a first crystallization process and a second region crystallized by a second crystallization process, in which a boundary part of the first and second regions is subject to both the first crystallization process and the second crystallization process, and further includes: organic light emitting diodes at crossing regions of scan lines and data lines; and pixel circuits at the crossing regions and configured to supply currents to the organic light emitting diodes. Here, couplings between the pixel circuits within the first region and the boundary part and their respective organic light emitting diodes are different from couplings between the pixel circuits within the second region and their respective organic light emitting diodes.
US08194004B2
A plasma display driving method capable of displaying a vigorous image having enhanced maximum luminance and contrast. For this purpose, one field is divided into a plurality of sub-fields each including a sustain period. In the sustain period, the number of sustain pulses obtained by multiplying a proportionality factor by a brightness weight set for each of the sub-fields are applied to display electrode pairs to generate sustaining discharge in discharge cells having generated addressing discharge therein. Thus, the total number of the sustain pulses in one field period can be changed. When a predetermined image meeting predetermined conditions is displayed, the total number of the sustain pulses in one field period is made larger than those in the case where the other normal images are displayed.
US08194003B2
In a plasma display device, one frame is divided into a plurality of subfields having respective luminance weights, and a first line load ratio is measured from a plurality of video signals corresponding to a first row electrode among a plurality of row electrodes during the respective subfields. A first output estimation weight of each subfield is set based on the first line load ratio of each subfield in the first row electrode. The plurality of video signals corresponding to the first row electrode are converted into a plurality of first subfield data based on the first output estimation weight, and a driving signal is applied to the first row electrode and the plurality of column electrodes according to the plurality of first subfield data.
US08193985B2
A radio frequency (RF) positioning system for positioning an RF device on a surface is provided. The RF positioning system utilizes the property of the RF device generating a response signal upon receiving an RF signal to perform positioning. The RF positioning system includes an antenna set, a switch unit, an RF module and micro-controller unit (MCU). The antenna set has a plurality of antennas in different sizes. The RF module is coupled to the switch unit. The MCU, coupled to the switch unit and the RF module, controls the switch unit to select one antenna from the antenna set and controls the RF module to generate the RF signal. The MCU further estimates a distance between the RF device and the RF positioning system according to whether the RF positioning system receives the response signal through the selected antenna.
US08193981B1
The present invention is a geolocation system for providing coordinated sensing and precision geolocation of a target emitter. The system may include a Quint Networking Technology (QNT) subsystem which may be configured receiving, detecting and identifying a target emitter signal. The QNT subsystem may be further configured for extracting a carrier phase of the signal. The system may further include a Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System (RTK GPS) subsystem for determining a position of the geolocation system relative to a position of a second geolocation system. Further, the system may be configured for communicating with the second geolocation system via a QNT communication data link for: determining a QNT time difference via signal carrier phase differencing for calculating a time difference between the geolocation systems and geolocating the target emitter based on both the relative position information of the geolocation systems and the calculated time difference between the geolocation systems.
US08193971B2
A method and a system for calibrating at least one antenna (1,1-1,3. 1,j). At least a first antenna (1,4) within a first antenna array (102) can be selected as a primary reference antenna. At least one antenna (4,3) that is not within the first antenna array can be selected as a secondary reference antenna. At least a first signal propagation characteristic (122) can be measured based on at least one signal wirelessly communicated between the primary reference antenna and the secondary reference antenna. At least a second signal propagation characteristic (118) can be measured based on at least one signal wirelessly communicated between the secondary reference antenna and at least a second antenna (1,2) within the first antenna array. At least a first calibration coefficient can be determined for the second antenna.
US08193966B2
In one embodiment a system to detect, from a remote location, one or more wires in a target location comprises a radiation targeting assembly to direct a rotating polarization radiation field at the target location, a reflected radiation collecting assembly that collects radiation reflected from the target location, and a signal processing module to monitor radiation from the rotating radiation field reflected from the target location and generate a signal when the radiation reflected from the target location indicates the presence of a wire in the target location. Other embodiments may be described.
US08193960B2
Provided is an output apparatus comprising a plurality of current sources; a plurality of holding sections that correspond respectively to the current sources and that each hold a designated voltage that designates a current flowing through the corresponding current source; a setting DAC that sequentially generates the designated voltage to be held by each holding section; and a supply section that sequentially switches a supply of the designated voltage generated by the setting DAC among corresponding holding sections.
US08193956B2
A technique for improving the operation of a Time Interleaved Analog to Digital Converter (TIADC) by suppressing updates and/or correction to updates of an interleave mismatch errors estimator when one or more predetermined conditions indicate such mismatch correction may not improve performance.
US08193941B2
Health-sensing and health-action devices and systems are generally described. The health-sensing device may include one or more of a sensor, a filter, and a transmitter. The sensor may be configured to sense one or more factors relating to an indicator of a health related condition or occurrence such as snoring and may include one or more microphone devices, accelerometers, and/or MEMs devices. The filter may be configured to evaluate a signal from the sensor and determine if the indicator has been detected. The transmitter may be arranged for initiating a transmission based on a signal from the filter. The health-action device may be configured for responding to an indicator of a health related condition or occurrence of a user and may include one or more of a receiver, a processor, and a responder. The health-action device may stimulate the user or may cancel the snoring sound.
US08193924B2
An automotive vehicle includes one or more computers. The one or more computers are configured to, in a first mode of operation, receive and store, at a plurality of instances, inventory information about assets in a vicinity of the vehicle, and identify patterns in asset inventories based on a history of days and times when the inventory information was received. The one or more computers are also configured to, in a second mode of operation, generate output representing an alert if an asset expected to be in the vicinity of the vehicle on a particular day and time, based on the identified patterns, is not in the vicinity of the vehicle.
US08193923B2
An automotive vehicle includes one or more computers. The one or more computers are configured to, in a first mode of operation, receive and store, at a plurality of instances, inventory information about assets in a vicinity of the vehicle, and identify patterns in asset inventories based on the inventory information and a history of vehicle locations associated with the inventory information. The one or more computers are also configured to, in a second mode of operation, generate output representing at least one suggested vehicle destination based on the identified patterns and assets detected in the vicinity of the vehicle.
US08193917B2
A method includes accessing building automation data comprising a plurality of data objects, each data object corresponding to a device in a building automation system, the data objects interrelated in a first hierarchy. The method also includes receiving an event condition indication from a first device in the building automation system, and storing an indication of the event condition in a first data object corresponding to the first device. The method also includes propagating an indication of the event condition to upstream objects in the first hierarchy.
US08193914B2
A method, system and computer program product for filtering a RFID signal. At least one pre-operational interference signal is measured. Amplitude and frequency data are extracted from the at least one measured pre-operational interference signal. At least one filter-dependent parameter is computed based at least in part on the extracted amplitude and frequency data extracted from the measured at least one pre-operational interference signal. A table is generated during a pre-operational mode. The table has at least one set of filter coefficients based on the computed at least one filter-dependent parameter.
US08193913B2
A method for communicating between elements including a reader and tags of a radio frequency identification system. The method includes addressing a wide-band-message signal by including in the signal an identifier of the first tag. The addressed wide-band-message signal is transmitted by the reader. A first tag waits to receive the addressed wide-band-message signal; and upon receiving the addressed wide-band-message signal and recognizing the identifier, the first tag responds to the addressed wide-band-message signal by transmitting an addressed wide-band response signal either back to the reader or to a relaying tag. The tag relays to another element of the system by transferring at least one datum of the query from the addressed wide-band-message signal to the addressed wide-band response signal, where the elements are readers or tags. The system and method allow for many parallel wide band addressed links, and for position determination using at least two tags with known locations.
US08193910B2
There is provided an interrogator, transponder, and transponder identification method, which shorten processing time for identification. An interrogator that makes wireless communication with a transponder, comprising: a temporary number specify section that transmits a request for transmission of a unit bit string as a bit string having a predetermined length in a bit string expressing a temporary number owned by the transponder, receives a unit bit sting transmitted from the transponder in response to the request, and specifies the temporary number of the transponder, based on the unit bit string; and an identification information obtaining section that transmits, if a temporary number of a transponder is specified by the temporary number specify section, a request for transmission of identification information of the transponder to the transponder, and receives the identification information transmitted from the transponder, in response to the request.
US08193906B2
A mechanical key code verification system including a mechanical key and a lock apparatus into which the mechanical key is inserted. The mechanical key includes a key body. A key code pattern formed on the key body includes a plurality of recessed portions and a plurality of non-recessed portions. A wireless communication mechanism is incorporated in the key body which performs wireless communication with a communication device. The wireless communication device including an antenna arranged on the key body. The lock apparatus mechanically verifies the key code pattern of the mechanical key when the mechanical key is inserted therein. The recessed portions of the key code pattern of the mechanical key is located inward from the antenna on the key body.
US08193904B2
When a user enters or leaves an area to which a security level is assigned, it is determined whether the user is allowed to enter or leave the area by performing authentication. When the user moves between areas to which different security levels are preliminarily assigned, appropriate authentication is performed on the user depending on the difference between the security levels of the areas.
US08193899B2
A chip-like electric component such as a chip resistor is provided, which is easy to manufacture and in which cracks or fractures of an insulating substrate are unlikely to occur. A pair of surface electrodes 21, 23 are formed so that thicknesses of the pair of surface electrodes increase from a resistor layer 13 toward end portions 30 of an insulating substrate 29 in a direction in which the pair of surface electrodes 21, 23 are arranged. A plating reservoir S is formed between one of the surface electrodes 21, 23 and an insulating protective layer 15. When forming at least one plated layer 33, a plated metal pools in the plating reservoir S. The at least one plated layer 33 may work to reduce to some extent a height difference between a soldering electrode portion 21, 23, 27, 33 and the insulating protective layer 15.
US08193882B2
An electromagnetic switch unit comprises a solenoid device that pushes out a pinion gear to a ring gear side of an engine, and an electromagnetic switch that opens and closes a main point of contact of a motor circuit. The solenoid device and the electromagnetic switch are arranged in series in an axial direction, while a magnetic plate that forms a part of magnetic circuit between a first coil used for the solenoid device and a second coil used for the electromagnetic switch is shared by the solenoid device and the electromagnetic switch.
US08193877B2
A duplexer includes first and second acoustic filters and a phase shifter. The first acoustic filter is connected between an antenna and the transmitter, and has a first passband. The second acoustic filter is connected between the antenna and the receiver, and has a second passband. The phase shifter includes at least one series capacitor connected in series with the antenna and at least one shunt inductor connected between the at least one capacitor and ground. The phase shifter is connected between the antenna and the first filter when the first passband is higher than the second passband, and provides a negative phase shift of an output impedance of the first filter. The phase shifter is connected between the antenna and the second filter when the second passband is higher than the first passband, and provides a negative phase shift of an input impedance of the second filter.
US08193866B2
For decreasing errors within an analog phase-locked loop, an all-digital phase-locked loop (ADPLL) with only digital components and digital operations is used. The ADPLL may also be used for direct frequency modulation (DFM). By modulating certain parameters within the ADPLL by following an all-pass frequency response, a loop gain of the ADPLL may be precisely modulated, and an available bandwidth of the ADPLL is also significantly broadened.
US08193864B2
A distributed power converter is for use with an RF power amplifier and includes a primary converter connected to an input voltage and configured to provide a regulated DC intermediate voltage that is galvanically isolated from the input voltage. Additionally, the distributed power converter also includes a secondary regulator connected galvanically to the regulated DC intermediate voltage and configured to generate a regulated DC supply voltage for at least a portion of the RF power amplifier. In another aspect, a method of operating a distributed power converter is for use with an RF power amplifier and includes providing a regulated DC intermediate voltage that is galvanically isolated from an input voltage and generating a regulated DC supply voltage for at least a portion of the RF power amplifier that is galvanically connected to the regulated DC intermediate voltage.
US08193856B2
An amplifier (V) for an integrated circuit amplifier circuit (IC) having a switched capacitor circuit (Cs, Cf) includes a capacitor for frequency compensation (CC1) that is connected in parallel to an amplifier stage (V2). This amplifier is advantageous because at least one second capacitor for frequency compensation (CC2) is selectively connected in parallel to the first capacitor for frequency compensation (CC1) via a switch controlled by a capacitor switching signal (clk).
US08193851B2
A fuse circuit of a semiconductor device includes a plurality of fuse set units configured to compare an input address with address information programmed according to a fuse cutting state and a test control unit configured to enable one or more fuse set units selected based on a number of times that a selection signal is enabled in a test mode.
US08193847B2
A timing circuit and corresponding method are provided to generate an output timing signal in dependence on an input timing signal. The timing circuit comprises a plurality of circuit components, each circuit component configured to receive an input dependent on the input timing signal and to generate an output in dependence on that input. Each circuit component performs switching operations by switching its output level in response to a transition of its input level. Each circuit component exhibits a delay in switching its output level, the delay comprising a first delay associated with a first switching of its output level and a second delay associated with a second switching of its output level. The first switching is in an opposite direction to the second switching and the first delay and the second delay exhibit a change in magnitude as each circuit component repeatedly performs its switching operations. This change in magnitude is in opposite directions for the first delay and the second delay respectively, and the plurality of circuit components are arranged such that a timing of the output timing signal is dependent on both said first delay and said second delay, such that the effects of each on the timing of the output signal counteract one another.
US08193833B2
Provided is a semiconductor integrated circuit that includes a monitoring circuit for monitoring characteristics of a semiconductor chip. The semiconductor integrated circuit comprises a first terminal with a first voltage and a second terminal with a second voltage. The semiconductor integrated circuit also comprises an inverter chain circuit comprising a plurality of inverters connected in cascade. Each of the plurality of inverters includes a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistors included in the inverters located at either odd-number orders or even-number orders counted from an input terminal side of an inverter chain circuit function as pre-charge transistors. The pre-charge transistors have a conductivity type different from a conductivity type of the first transistors other then the pre-charge transistors.
US08193821B2
The invention relates to a sensor system and several method for the capacitive measurement of electromagnetic signals having a biological origin. Such a sensor system comprises a capacitive electrode device (10), an electrode shielding element (20) which surrounds the electrode device (10) at least in part in order to shield the same (10) from interfering external electromagnetic fields, and a signal processing device (30) for processing electromagnetic signals that can be detected by means of the electrode device (10). According to the invention, additional shielding means (21) three-dimensionally surround the electrode device (10) and the electrode shielding element (20) at least in part in order to block out interfering external electromagnetic fields. The changes in the electrode capacity of the capacitive sensor system are determined with the aid of several methods which particularly use the inventive sensor system in order to take said changes into account when the test signals are evaluated.
US08193817B2
Input channel diagnostics for an industrial process control system that provides improved apparatus and methods relating to fault containment, overload protection and input channel diagnostics. The input circuit includes one or more series resistors that have a total resistance that is at least two orders of magnitude greater than the magnitude of the resistance of a conditioned sensor signal source.
US08193814B2
Methods to identify a fluorescent lamp among multiple fluorescent lamps include: receiving input to a circuit including multiple fluorescent lamps operated by corresponding multiple control signals, each fluorescent lamp configured to output radio frequency (RF) signals in response to receiving a detection signal, the input to identify which first control signal is provided to a first fluorescent lamp; in response to receiving the input, providing a first discovery signal in place of each control signal provided to each fluorescent lamp, one fluorescent lamp at a time; determining that the first fluorescent lamp outputs RF signals; and identifying the control signal that was replaced with the detection signal that caused the first fluorescent lamp to output the RF signals.
US08193812B2
A surface coil array comprises a surface coil support and an arrangement of non-overlapping magnetically decoupled surface coils mounted on the support. The surface coils encompass a volume into which a target to be imaged is placed. Magnetic decoupling circuits act between adjacent surface coils. Impedance matching circuitry couples the surface coils to conventional transmit and receive components.
US08193808B2
An optically integrated magnetic biosensor includes an optically detected magnetic resonance (ODMR) center and a fluidics layer configured to contain a solution comprising analytes, the fluidics layer being disposed over the ODMR center. A light source which generates incident light excites electrons within the ODMR center from a ground state to an excited state and a radio frequency (RF) antenna generates an RF field incident with frequencies which correspond to ground state transitions in the ODMR center. The ODMR center produces emitted light when illuminated by the incident light. The characteristics of the emitted light are influenced by the RF field and magnetic nanoparticles attached to the analytes. A method for detecting analytes using optically detected magnetic resonance is also provided.
US08193803B2
A current sensor is provided for non-invasively measuring electrical current in an electrical conductor. The current sensor includes a housing having a Hall effect device and circuitry for transmitting a signal indicative of the current flowing through the electrical conductor. The current sensor includes a base having a surface for supporting an electrical conductor. A magnetic shielding member is coupled to the surface to shield the Hall effect device from stray or external magnetic fields. A compliant member is coupled to the magnetic shielding member opposite the surface. The compliant member compresses to allow the current sensor to accommodate a large variety of electrical conductor sizes. The compliant member further acts to bias the electrical conductor against the Hall effect device.
US08193800B2
A method and system for reducing the noise level of a power supply system with the implementation of a voltage controlled decoupling capacitor in an electrical circuit. Voltage variations of the power supply caused by switching currents are detected by a voltage sensor control circuit. The voltage sensor circuit compares a stable reference voltage with the varying voltage level of the power supply in order to generate a sensor control voltage. When applied to the decoupling capacitor, the control voltage adjusts the capacitance of the voltage controlled capacitor. The adjusted capacitance allows the voltage controlled decoupling capacitor to compensate for the effects of the voltage variations by supplying an increased quantity of charge to various circuit components. Thus, the voltage controlled capacitor is able to efficiently reduce noise within the power supply system.
US08193796B2
Disclosed is a power regulator for providing precisely regulated power to a microelectronic device such as a microprocessor. Improved power regulation is accomplished by optimizing the power efficiency of the power regulator. In particular, in a multiphase system, the number of active phases is increased or decreased to achieve optimum power efficiency. The multiphase voltage regulator adapts the operating mode to maximize efficiency as the load current demand of the load device changes by adjusting the number of active phases to maximize efficiency. The total value of current provided by the regulator and the total number of active phases is determined, the total number of active phases is compared with the number of active phases required to provide the total value of current at maximum efficiency; and the number of active phases is adjusted to provide the total value of current at maximum efficiency.A current sense circuit senses the current at each phase, a summing circuit coupled to the output of the current sense circuit provides the total current value of all the measured phases, a circuit coupled to the output of the summing circuit provides the time averaged total current value to a threshold detecting circuit that determines the number of phases at which the voltage regulator should be operating for maximum efficiency, and a circuit for comparing the number of phases that are operating to the number of phases at which the voltage regulator should be operating adjusts the number of active phases to the number of phases at which the voltage regulator should be operating for maximum efficiency.
US08193794B2
A voltage regulator includes an adjuster to provide an adjust signal according to its load current to adjust at least one of the feedback signal, the reference signal, the error signal, and the ripple signal of the voltage regulator, to automatically adjust the output voltage. The output voltage increases when the load current increases, and decreases when the load current decreases. Preferably, a CCR voltage regulator according to the present invention will have its PWM frequency varying with its output voltage and thus have better transient performance.
US08193792B2
A circuit and method for operating a circuit is provided that includes a circuit section that has a number of memory elements, a first voltage regulator that can be connected or is connected to the circuit section in order to operate the circuit section, a second voltage regulator that can be connected or is connected to the circuit section in order to preserve an information item stored in the memory elements, a switching device that is connected to the circuit section and is designed to deactivate and activate inputs of the circuit section. The circuit being configured to control a deactivation and activation of the first voltage regulator and the deactivation and activation of the inputs of the circuit section.
US08193790B2
A switching power converter includes an input for receiving an input voltage, an output for providing an output voltage, a controller, and a power circuit coupled between the input and the output and including at least one switch. The controller is configured to determine a duty cycle for the switch to regulate the output voltage and control the switch with a PWM drive signal having an on-time and an off-time. The PWM drive signal has a constant frequency and a duty cycle equal to the determined duty cycle when the determined duty cycle is greater than or equal to a minimum duty cycle. The PWM drive signal has a variable frequency and a duty cycle equal to the minimum duty cycle when the determined duty cycle is less than the minimum duty cycle.
US08193786B2
A driving circuit for a half bridge utilizing bidirectional semiconductor switches in accordance with an embodiment of the present application includes a high side driver operable to control a high side bidirectional semiconductor switch, wherein the high side driver provides a negative bias voltage to the bidirectional semiconductor switch to turn the high side bidirectional semiconductor switch OFF. A low side driver may be operable to control a low side bidirectional semiconductor switch. An external voltage source with a negative terminal of the voltage source connected to the high side driver may be provided. A high side driving switch may be positioned between the negative terminal of the voltage source and the high side driver and operable to connect the high side driver to the negative terminal of the voltage source when the low side driver turns the low side bidirectional semiconductor switch ON.
US08193784B2
A bidirectional DC to DC converter having a first operational mode and a second operational mode includes a first terminal pair that has a positive terminal and a negative terminal and that connects the converter to a first electric circuit, a second terminal pair that has a positive terminal and a negative terminal and that connects the converter to a second electric circuit, an accumulation element for temporary accumulation of electric energy; and a switching circuit connected to the first terminal pair, the second terminal pair, and the accumulation element. Electric energy is transferred from the first electric circuit to the second electric circuit via the accumulation element in the first operational mode of the bidirectional DC to DC converter and, from the second electric circuit to the first electric circuit via the accumulation element in the second operational mode of the DC to DC converter.
US08193782B2
The abnormality detection apparatus includes a first function of measuring a first temperature of a first portion of the abnormality detection apparatus, the first temperature having a correlation with a second temperature of a second portion of a vehicle alternator, a second function of integrating a stress depending on a temperature variation of the first portion on the basis of the first temperature measured by the first function, a third function of predicting occurrence of abnormality in the second portion depending on the stress integrated by the second function, and a fourth function of issuing an alarm when the third function predicts occurrence of abnormality.
US08193770B2
A battery system for storing electrical power and supplying electrical power to a vehicle is disclosed. The system includes multiple battery packs, each with a plurality of cells. The cells in each battery pack are electrically connected with one another and the multiple battery packs are also electrically connected with one another to combine the total energy output of the cells of the system. The electrical connections between at least some of the cells include a severable feature, whereby the electrical connection is severed locally at the severable feature in response to an impact force that is in excess of a predetermined magnitude and/or an overcurrent/overtemperature condition.
US08193759B2
A remote control with a solar-powered battery, a remote body includes the control panel. The control panel has a plurality of buttons. The solar-powered battery module is disposed in the remote and comprises the solar panel, the control unit and the storage unit. The solar panel is a rigid or flexible solar panel and is used for receiving light energy. The wireless control module disposed in the remote comprises the transmitting unit, the sensing unit and the activating unit. Therefore, the solar-powered battery module converts and stores the light energy and provides power to the wireless control module, thereby providing energy savings and environmental conservation benefits.
US08193749B2
A control device has a unit for determining a controlled phase of a controlled voltage outputted from an inverter to a generator according to a difference between a target torque and an estimated torque of the generator, a unit for calculating an instructed vector norm of the controlled voltage from the target torque, an electrical angular speed of the generator and parameters indicating characteristics of the generator, a unit for correcting the instructed norm to an adjusted vector norm such that a phase of current flowing through the generator in response to the controlled voltage set at the controlled phase and the adjusted norm is controlled to a phase of an instructed current determined from the target torque, and a unit for controlling the generator by controlling the inverter to output the controlled voltage set at the controlled phase and the adjusted norm to the generator.
US08193745B2
A method and apparatus comprises a filter receiving an input voltage signal from a drive circuit, and a filter producing an output voltage signal with reduced resonance and transients. The amplitude of the output voltage signal is boosted using the filter.
US08193742B2
An architectural window covering having a programmable electric motor is disclosed. The architectural window covering includes a head rail comprising at least one cavity, a shade coupled to the head rail, a bottom rail coupled to the shade, and at least two tandem stacked motors coupled to the shade via a drive rail such that the at least two motors fit within the at least one cavity of the head rail.
US08193741B2
Various embodiments relate to an light-emitting diode (LED) driver and related method that drives various LEDs in an LED string beyond their isolated nominal luminance. Individual LEDs in an LED string may be thermally dependent so that specific LEDs may operate at higher temperatures without degradation. This may include driving specific LEDs beyond isolated nominal luminance when associated LEDs dim below their isolated nominal luminance. Such operation allows the LED to receive higher amounts of current and therefore exhibit higher luminous intensity. A control circuit may monitor the forward voltage and temperature in a feedback loop to ensure that the LEDs in the string are operating below a defined maximum junction temperature. The control circuit may signal a processing unit to adjust adjacent circuits to compensate when the controlled LEDs cannot produce a requested luminance without operating beyond a maximum junction temperature.
US08193730B2
A dimmer and an illumination apparatus are connected by a two wire circuit. The dimmer energizes the illumination apparatus and provides control of the illumination apparatus via the two wire circuit. The illumination apparatus receives all of its energization and control from the two wire circuit. Multiple strings of multiple color light emitting devices are switched on in a partitioned order during flank intervals of a switched AC power envelope on the two wire circuit.
US08193728B2
A circuit arrangement for operating a high-pressure discharge lamp, comprising at least one first electronic switch and one second electronic switch in a half-bridge arrangement; a supply voltage terminal for supplying the half-bridge arrangement with a DC voltage signal; a load circuit, which comprises a lamp inductor and is coupled firstly to the half-bridge center point and secondly to at least one terminal for connecting the high-pressure discharge lamp; a drive circuit for providing at least one first and one second drive signal for the first electronic switch and the second electronic switch, the drive circuit being adapted to provide the first and the second drive signal in such a way that the clock thereof is firstly swept between a first and a second frequency; wherein the drive circuit is furthermore adapted to modulate the first and the second drive signal with a predeterminable third frequency, with the modulation with the predeterminable third frequency being single-tone frequency modulation, with the result that, in the amplitude spectrum of the first and the second drive signal, at least one first, one second and one third spectral line appear, the first spectral line corresponding to the instantaneous frequency of the swept clock, and the second and the third spectral lines, in terms of absolute value, appearing at an interval with respect to the predeterminable third frequency, symmetrically with respect to the first spectral line, and that, in the power spectrum of the signal, at the terminal for connecting the high-pressure discharge lamp, a spectral line at the predeterminable third frequency results.
US08193724B2
In the power supply apparatus which performs voltage conversion of an input voltage (Vbat), with a predetermined set voltage as a target value, and outputs the converted voltage, a boost ratio setting unit sets a boost ratio (XCP) of the charge pump circuit based on the input voltage (Vbat) and a predetermined set voltage. A voltage adjustment unit is a regulator circuit, and adjusts voltage (Vx) so that output voltage (Vout) of the charge pump circuit approaches the set voltage. An output voltage setting unit generates a predetermined set voltage as a digital value (Dset). An A/D converter performs analog-digital conversion of the input voltage (Vbat). The boost ratio setting unit sets the boost ratio based on a result of comparing an input voltage (Ddet) that has undergone analog-digital conversion, and the set voltage (Dset).
US08193723B2
An LED current-balance driving circuit for driving a plurality of LED strings comprises a feedback transformer, a plurality of current-balance transformers, a plurality of full-wave rectifiers and a current control circuit. The feedback transformer has a detecting winding and an outputting winding for outputting a feedback signal. Each of the current-balance transformers has a primary winding and a secondary winding. The primary windings of the current-balance transformers and the detecting winding of the feedback transformer are coupled in series to compose a current-balance loop with an AC power being supplied thereto. Each of the full-wave rectifiers is coupled between a corresponding secondary winding of the current balance transformers and a corresponding LED string of the LED strings. The current control circuit receives the feedback signal and controls the AC power according to the feedback signal.
US08193709B2
A plasma display panel includes a pair of substrates facing each other, barrier ribs defining discharge cells between the pair of substrates, sustain electrodes between the pair of substrates, the sustain electrodes including second bus electrodes along a first direction, the second bus electrodes being on the barrier ribs, scan electrodes between the pair of substrates, the scan electrodes including first bus electrodes along the first direction, the first bus electrodes being positioned between adjacent second bus electrodes, address electrodes between the pair of substrates, the address, scan, and sustain electrodes being configured to generate discharge in the discharge cells, and phosphors in the discharge cells, the phosphors being configured to emit light by the discharge.
US08193706B2
A plasma display device and a multi plasma display device are disclosed. The plasma display device includes a front substrate, a rear substrate opposite the front substrate, an electrode between the front substrate and the rear substrate, a seal layer between the front substrate and the rear substrate, a driving board positioned in the rear of the rear substrate, and a flexible circuit board electrically connecting the driving board to the electrode. The flexible circuit board is electrically connected to a side surface of the electrode.
US08193693B2
An image display device including a light emission section which emits light to an intensity adjusting section and a wavelength conversion section which change the intensity and wavelength of the emitted light. Phosphors and phosphor like materials are employed in wavelength conversion and a liquid crystal is employed for the light adjustment. The light emission device may include plural semiconductor light emitting elements having a different wavelength ranges such as diodes stacked in a compact and predetermined order such that wavelengths of light from each diode are emitted from the light emitting elements.
US08193683B2
A system and method for providing a continuous wave (“CW”) ultrasonic drive signal and a B-mode ultrasonic drive signal from an ultrasonic transmitter are disclosed herein. An ultrasonic transmitter includes a first shunt transistor and a second shunt transistor. The first shunt transistor shunts positive transmitter output voltage to ground. The second shunt transistor shunts negative transmitter output voltage to ground. The shunt transistors include control inputs that, when modulated, cause the shunt transistors to produce a CW ultrasonic drive signal on a transmitter output. The ultrasonic transmitter also includes a first CW control transistor coupled to the first shunt transistor, and a second CW control transistor coupled to the second shunt transistor. The first and second CW control transistors respectively provide negative and positive CW drive voltage to the first and second shunt transistors.
US08193678B2
A coil unit for a motor stator includes a plurality of layout layers. At least one coil and a conductive portion electrically connected to the at least one coil are formed on a surface of each layout layer. The conductive portions of two adjacent layout layers are electrically connected to each other. An insulting layer is provided between two adjacent layout layers. The coil unit can be coupled to a face of a substrate to form a motor stator with reduced axial height and reduced volume.
US08193677B2
A motor includes a cylindrical stator. The stator includes a stator core having teeth, which project inwardly in the radial direction, and coils, which are formed by winding a conductive wire onto each tooth with first and second insulators. The first insulator includes a support extending axially from an outer restriction wall. Each of first to third bus bars is supported by the support of the first insulator in a state in which a main portion is exposed. The main portions of the first to third bus bars are thus in contact with ambient air.
US08193675B2
A stator includes a hollow cylindrical stator core and a stator coil made up of wave-shaped electric wires. Each of the electric wires has in-slot portions, which are received in slots of the stator core, and turn portions that are located outside of the slots to connect the in-slot portions. The stator coil includes first crank-shaped portions and second crank-shaped portions. Each of the first and second crank-shaped portions is provided, in one of the electric wires, at the center of an apex part of one of the turn portions and is radially bent to shift the radial position of the electric wire. The amount of radial position shift made by each of the second crank-shaped portions is less than that made by each of the first crank-shaped portions. The second crank-shaped portions are located at a plurality of places in the circumferential direction of the stator core.
US08193673B2
A brush motor includes a stator with 2P magnetic poles and a rotor which includes a rotor core, a commutator and windings wound on the rotor core. The rotor core includes N teeth with a slot formed between adjacent teeth. The commutator includes M segments represented by Z1 . . . ZX . . . ZY . . . ZM, wherein M, N, P, Y and X are integers and M is odd and greater than N. Each winding includes a start connected to a segment ZX and an end connected to another segment ZY. Each winding includes at least one coil wound about a corresponding tooth or set of teeth. Some of the windings include a plurality of coils wound on different teeth. The total number of turns of the coils for each winding is substantially the same. A winding unit consisting of a plurality of windings is connected between each pair of adjacent segments. ZX and ZY satisfy the following equation: |Y−X|=(M±1)/P.
US08193667B2
An automotive alternator is provided that reduces exclusive circumferential space for a regulator assembly inside a rear bracket, and that also increases performance in cooling the regulator assembly and a rectifier by ensuring that flows of air that cool the regulator assembly and the rectifier do not interfere with each other.An approximately C-shaped rectifier is disposed in a vicinity of a rotating shaft, and a regulator assembly is disposed between two end portions of the approximate C shape of the rectifier. A brush holder portion, a regulator circuit housing portion, and a connector portion that constitute a regulator assembly are positioned such that respective center lines thereof are in a common plane that includes a central axis of the rotating shaft. A partitioning wall is disposed so as to project from an inner wall surface of the rear bracket so as to separate a rectifier cooling airflow passage for cooling the rectifier and a regulator circuit cooling airflow passage for cooling the regulator circuit by stopping circumferential flow of air that is sucked in through the suction aperture to cool the rectifier and the regulator circuit respectively.
US08193664B2
A power-saving control apparatus for reducing power consumption of a power supply is provided. The present invention includes a switching circuit and a rectifier circuit. The rectifier circuit rectifies an AC signal to a DC signal. The switching circuit controls either the AC signal or the DC signal as an input signal to an EMI filter of the power supply. Therefore, when the EMI filter receives the DC signal, the present invention achieves the effect of power-saving of the power supply.
US08193662B1
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a power distribution system that includes a DC bus configured to deliver operating power to a DC load, a conversion circuit configured to receive AC power and convert the received AC power to DC power that is provided to the DC bus, and a battery system configured to provide DC power from a battery to the DC bus. A controller determines an amount of DC power to be provided to the DC bus by the conversion circuit, determines an amount of DC power to be provided to the DC bus by the battery system, and controls the conversion circuit and the battery system such that the conversion circuit provides the first amount of DC power to the DC bus and the battery system concurrently provides the second amount of DC power to the DC bus.
US08193659B2
A power system is provided for delivering a custom level of electrical power to an industrial or commercial facility, comprising a local generator connected to a turbine operating in accordance with an organic Rankine cycle, the local generator having a capacity at least greater than a maximum anticipated power level needed for the electrical needs of a local industrial or commercial facility, one or more control devices operatively connected to the local generator for regulating active and reactive power generated by the generator, a detector for sensing active voltage induced by said generator, a detector for sensing reactive voltage produced by the generator, and a controller in electrical communication with said one or more control devices and with the active and reactive voltage detectors, wherein the controller directs the one or more control devices to regulate the generator such that the active power and reactive power generated by the generator are sufficient to satisfy active and reactive load conditions, of local industrial or commercial facilities. The present invention is also directed to a power system for providing a fast acting spinning reserve, comprising a turbine module of a organic Rankine cycle that is coupled to a generator, a main conduit through which motive fluid heated in said thermodynamic cycle is delivered to the turbine module, and a flow control component operatively connected to said main conduit for automatically limiting the flow of the motive fluid to the turbine module during base load conditions and for automatically increasing the flow of the motive fluid to the turbine module during variable load conditions.
US08193656B2
An apparatus using differential gearboxes to collect, combine, and transmit torque generated by multiple, interconnected rotor systems. The rotor systems are connected via a driveshaft. The driveshaft is connected to a generator gearbox, and the generator box drives an electrical generator. The torque may be converted to mechanical power by replacing the electrical generator with a mechanical power device. The rotors are activated by fluid currents such as wind or water.
US08193652B2
Reversible hydroelectric device that can be installed on an outside pipe, comprising a hydraulic power unit comprising a hydraulic machine comprising a centrifugal pump that can be reversed as a turbine and a hydraulic circuit having bypass branches and motorized valves allowing circulation of water in said hydraulic machine in one direction or the other irrespective of the direction of circulation of the water in said outside pipe; an electric machine coupled to said hydraulic machine and comprising an asynchronous motor that can be reversed as an asynchronous generator; and an electronic system comprising a programmable controller for adjusting and/or regulating said valves and an electronic variator for adjusting and/or regulating the rotation speed of said electric machine so that the pressure and/or flow rate downstream of the hydraulic machine depending on the direction of circulation is/are stabilized or adjusted to at least one set point value.
US08193651B2
A fleet of vessels attached together longitudinally (rows), and transversely (columns) and operating in unison convert wave energy to electrical energy which is stored in either a chemical or electrical form. The vessels when detached from the fleet provide transportation to coastal or by navigable waterway ports of call for distribution to market centers. Both wind wave and swell wave energy conversion is performed by use of the differential motion between the vessels. Means are provided for the energy conversion systems to adapt to changes in wave direction, wave length, amplitude, and phase. Such vessels are self powered for off shore or inland waterway navigation, either singularly or in multiples, with which to deliver energy to other sea going vessels or to land based ports of call. Two or more of such vessels are capable of using the energy of waves during the delivery process. The fleet can maintain a designated geographical location by dynamic positioning. Alternatively, the fleet may maintain its designated position by moorage of a designated centrally located vessel in the fleet to a permanent anchoring system when operating at appropriate depths.
US08193650B2
A system for generating electrical energy from the movement of the stroller includes: a wheel; a gear reduction system operationally coupled between the wheel and a motor such that rotation of the wheel causes the motor to generate electrical energy; a power storage device operationally coupled to the motor for storing the electrical energy produced by the motor; and a control system. The control system includes: a switching device operationally coupled between the motor and the power storage device; and a microcontroller operationally coupled to the switching device and configured to control the state of the switching device. The microcontroller controls the switching device to close to allow the electrical energy generated by the motor to flow into and charge the power storage device, and the microcontroller controls the switching device to open to prevent the electrical energy from flowing to the power storage device.
US08193647B2
A semiconductor device package includes a semiconductor device, a sealant, a first dielectric layer, an electrically conductive layer, and a second dielectric layer. The semiconductor device includes a contact pad, an active surface, and side surfaces, where the contact pad is disposed adjacent to the active surface. The semiconductor device is formed with a first alignment mark that is disposed adjacent to the active surface. The sealant envelopes the side surfaces of the semiconductor device and exposes the contact pad. The first dielectric layer is disposed adjacent to the sealant and the active surface, and defines a first aperture that exposes the contact pad. The electrically conductive layer is disposed adjacent to the first dielectric layer and is electrically connected to the contact pad through the first aperture. The second dielectric layer is disposed adjacent to the electrically conductive layer.
US08193646B2
A semiconductor component includes a semiconductor substrate having a substrate contact, and a through wire interconnect (TWI) bonded to the substrate contact. The through wire interconnect (TWI) includes a via through the substrate contact and the substrate, a wire in the via bonded to the substrate contact, and a contact on the wire. A stacked semiconductor component includes the semiconductor substrate, and a second semiconductor substrate stacked on the substrate and bonded to a through wire interconnect on the substrate. A method for fabricating a semiconductor component with a through wire interconnect includes the steps of providing a semiconductor substrate with a substrate contact, forming a via through the substrate contact and part way through the substrate, placing the wire in the via, bonding the wire to the substrate contact, and then thinning the substrate from a second side to expose a contact on the wire. A system for fabricating the semiconductor component includes a bonding capillary configured to place the wire in the via, and to form a bonded connection between the wire and the substrate contact.
US08193644B2
An electronic assembly adapted for forming package on package (PoP) devices includes a package substrate having a molded IC die thereon that defines a mold cap height and substrate contact pads lateral to the molded IC die. An interposer including an interposer substrate has bottom metal land pads and top metal land pads, interposer vias, and an open receptacle region formed through the interposer substrate. The substrate top surface is positioned relative to the interposer so that the molded IC die is within the open receptacle region to align the bottom metal land pads and substrate contact pads. An underfill layer is between the substrate top surface and the bottom side of the interposer substrate. A step height from the mold cap height minus a height of the top metal land pads is generally from 0 to 0.2 mm.
US08193634B2
A method for mounting a semiconductor device onto a composite substrate, including a submount and a heat sink, is described. According to one aspect of the invention, the materials for the submount and the heat sink are chosen so that the value of coefficient of thermal expansion of the semiconductor device is in between the values of coefficients of thermal expansion of the materials of the submount and the heat sink, the thickness of the submount being chosen so as to equalize thermal expansion of the semiconductor device to that of the surface of the submount the device is mounted on. According to another aspect of the invention, the semiconductor device, the submount, and the heat sink are soldered into a stack at a single step of heating, which facilitates reduction of residual post-soldering stresses.
US08193632B2
The three-dimensional conducting structure comprises a substrate, a first redistributed conductor, a second redistributed conductor and an insulator. The substrate has an active surface, a passive surface opposite to the active one, a pad on the active surface and a through hole. The first redistributed conductor comprises a projecting portion and a receiving portion. The projecting portion is projected from the active surface and electrically connected to the pad. The receiving portion is outside the active surface and in contact with the projecting portion, both of which constitute a recess communicating with the through hole. The second redistributed conductor is positioned within the through hole and the recess, in contact with the receiving portion, and extended toward the passive surface along the through hole. The insulator is filled between the second redistributed conductor and the substrate and between the second redistributed conductor and the projecting portion.
US08193630B2
In one particular embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a package and a substrate electrically and physically coupled to the package. The package includes a first package-substrate connection, a second package-substrate connection, and metallization coupling the first package-substrate connection to the second package-substrate connection. The substrate is coupled to the package via the first package-substrate connection and the second package-substrate connection. The substrate includes a plurality of power domains and a power control unit. The second package-substrate connection of the package is coupled to a particular power domain of the plurality of power domains. The power control unit includes logic and a switch, where the switch includes a first terminal coupled to a voltage supply terminal, a control terminal coupled to the logic, and a second terminal coupled to the first package-substrate connection of the package. The logic selectively activates the switch to distribute power to the particular power domain via the metallization of the package.
