US08286564B2
A shelf support system including a collet lock for engaging a hole in the shelf post for arresting downward movement of a shelf support collar on the post.
US08286558B2
A projectile includes a leading end formed by a tip having an ogive configuration, a trailing end formed by a frusto-conical base, and a cylindrical mid-section interconnecting the tip and the base. A first annular shoulder is formed where the tip meets the cylindrical mid-section and a second annular shoulder is formed where the mid-section meets the base. A metallic band abuts the second annular shoulder and a third annular shoulder is formed where the metallic band meets the cylindrical mid-section. A trailing end of a thermoset polymer guide band abuts the third annular shoulder and a leading end abuts the first annular shoulder. The thermoset polymer guide band conforms to the shape and size of the cylindrical mid-section. The thermoset polymer guide band may be impregnated with barrel treatment chemicals so that the barrel is cleaned and lubricated when the projectile is fired.
US08286549B2
An apparatus for stuffing a pasty food that includes an applicator sleeve arranged between the inlet end and the outlet end of a stuffing tube. At least a portion of the applicator sleeve surrounds the stuffing tube about part or its complete circumference and the applicator sleeve supplies one or more strips coated and/or impregnated with transferable additives to the stuffing tube, with the strips being ultimately applied to the pasty food. The innovation further relates to a foodstuff in a tubular casing (e.g. sausage skin), in which at least one strip is arranged between the foodstuff and the surrounding casing, the strip being coated and/or impregnated with at least one transferable additive.
US08286547B1
A French press-like quality high volume, electrical, automatic beverage brewer (10) with a rotatable mixing chamber (12) for mixing water (109) from a hot water tank (28) with dry beverage ingredient (108) having a closed top (7) and an open bottom (3, 66) to which is releasably mounted a brew basket (14) with an open top (19) for fluid communication with the mixing chamber (12) through the open bottom (3, 66). Before mounting, the brew basket (14) is loaded with a filter (105) and dry beverage ingredient (109). The mixing chamber (12) with the brew basket (14) attached is then automatically turned upside down (FIG. 6) to dump the dry beverage ingredient (109) out of the filter (105) and onto the closed top (7) of the rotatable mixing chamber (12). A preselected amount of water (109) is then infused into the mixing chamber (12) to a level beneath the open bottom (3) and filter (105) and onto the dry beverage ingredient (109) for mixing therewith. After a preselected mixing time period is passed the mixing chamber (12) and mounted brew basket (14) is automatically turned right side up to pass the beverage (110) through the filter (105) and out of the drain hole (90) of the brew basket (14). After the mixing chamber (12) has been returned to an upright position, pressurized air (44,46,48) is automatically injected into the mixing chamber (12) to hasten the passage of beverage (110) through the filter (105) and out of the drain hole (90).
US08286539B2
A tile saw includes a base, a frame assembly disposed on the base, a first rail disposed on the frame assembly, the first rail having a longitudinal axis, a table slidingly disposed on the first rail, a support assembly disposed on the base, a saw assembly supported by the support assembly, the saw assembly including a motor, a cutting wheel driven by the motor, the saw assembly being pivotable about a horizontal axis substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis, and a switch electrically connected to the motor and disposed on the support assembly so that, when the motor assembly is pivoted about the horizontal axis, the switch remains stationary.
US08286538B2
A sizing center for and a method of sizing different styles of window coverings includes at least two sizing mechanisms disposed on a sizing center in which each sizing mechanism is adapted to size a different style of window covering. Each window covering includes a color marking. At least two measuring scales are disposed on the sizing center, each measuring scale being associated with a sizing mechanism and having a different color, and each color associated with a sizing center being associated with a color marking of a window covering.
US08286535B1
A wrench for handling a fastener, involving an elongated member with a proximal end and a distal end, a step pad being disposed proximate the elongated member proximal end and for providing additional torque, and an adapter being disposed proximate the elongated member distal end. The adapter may include an element, such as a socket member and a ratchet member. The elongated member distal end may include a tool member.
US08286533B2
The invention relates to a gear housing (1) comprising a gear, particularly comprising a gear of a wiper device for motor vehicles, having a housing base body (4), having a housing cover (3) affixed at a distance to the housing base body (4) by means of a plurality of retaining clips (6) made of spring steel in circumferential direction, and having an annular seal (20) disposed between the housing base body (4) and the housing cover (3) and pressed against a support region (24) of the housing base body. The invention provides that the radial extension (y) of the support region is smaller than the radial extension (x, x′) of the annular seal.
US08286529B2
A bicycle control device is provided with a base member, a first operating member, a first non-contact switch and a first clicking mechanism. The first operating member is movably mounted with respect to the base member to move between a rest position, a first operation position and a second operation position. The first non-contact switch detects movement of the first operating member with respect to the base member from the rest position to the first operation position. The first non-contact switch is further detects movement of the first operating member with respect to the base member from the rest position to the second operation position. The first clicking mechanism is arranged such that the first clicking mechanism produces a first haptic feedback response to indicate the first operating member being moved from the rest position to the first operation position.
US08286528B2
A robot arm has a drive gear that has a shaft, a gear frame being capable of turning about the shaft of the drive gear, a first follower gear being capable of turning, in synchronization with the drive gear, about a shaft fixed to the gear frame, in a direction opposite to the turning direction of the drive gear, a transmission control mechanism that is capable of locking the first follower gear to the drive gear, an arm that moves in synchronization with the first follower gear, and a collision detection unit that is capable of detecting a collision between the arm and an obstacle. The transmission control mechanism unlocks the follower gear from the drive gear in response to detection, by the collision detection unit, of a collision between the arm and the obstacle. The robot arm enables quick cushioning of the impact force of the collision.
US08286527B2
An exemplary manipulator includes arms, an inlet conduit, and sealing members. The arms are rotatably joined. The inlet conduit extends into one of the arms and non-combustible gas is introduced into the arms via the inlet conduit. The sealing members are disposed where two corresponding of the arms are rotatably joined together. The manipulator is doubly protected from infiltration by unwanted gases by the high pressure gas in the manipulator and by the sealing members.
US08286526B2
A synchronizer actuating system for use in an automated manual transmission or a dual clutch transmission includes an apply finger and a fork mounted on a shifting rail. The fork grips and actuates a synchronizer sleeve. A piston is operable to engage and actuate the apply finger. The piston has an opening with a dual frusto-conical inner surface. The opening receives an extension of the apply finger therein. The dual frusto-conical inner surface allows the apply finger to be engaged by the piston at the center of the piston even if the apply finger or shifting rail is bent relative to the piston.
US08286520B2
A telescopic actuator comprising a cylinder in which a main rod is mounted to slide telescopically along a sliding axis (X) between a retracted position and an extended position. The actuator includes an auxiliary rod mounted to slide in the main rod along the sliding axis between retracted and extended positions. A structure is provided for retaining the auxiliary rod in the retracted position inside the main rod. There also is a brake structure for braking sliding of the auxiliary rod in the main rod in the extension direction. The auxiliary rod has a thread on an outside surface, and the main rod has a rotary bearing that centers the auxiliary rod inside the main rod and co-operates via a reversible helical connection with the thread of the auxiliary rod such that extension of the auxiliary rod causes the rotary bearing to rotate.
US08286519B2
Linear actuator device, comprising a housing (2), an externally threaded screw (5), a piston (9) and an internally threaded extended nut (7), where the extended nut (7) comprises a plurality of longitudinal segments (40) having longitudinal edges (39) parallel to a center axis (18) of the internally threaded nut (7), where each segment (40) has an identical radius of curvature and an angle of curvature of less than 360°, so that the circumference of the internally threaded nut (7) is formed by at least two segments (40). One advantage of the invention is that linear actuators of different lengths can be manufactured in an easy and cost-effective manner.
US08286517B2
A method and apparatus for generating a standardized surface contaminated by an aerosol deposited on its surface is described. Aerosols are propelled horizontally onto a vertical surface. The standardized contaminated surface is used to evaluate the effectiveness of cleaning and removing techniques.
US08286513B2
A water sampling device comprises a cylinder, a first disk positioned at a top of the cylinder, a plurality of sampling tubes attached to the first disk, and a second disk positioned on the first disk, wherein the second disk includes an aperture through which water to be sampled flows into one of the plurality of sampling tubes when the aperture is lined up with an opening of the one sampling tube.
US08286509B2
The present invention provides a tactile sensor which can reproduce a sensor surface in contact with a sensing object and contribute to a reduction in cost of an automation system which utilizes an industrial robot, the tactile sensor including: a contact-portion unit 12 composed of a flexible material; a contact-portion housing unit 11 which surrounds and houses the contact-portion unit in a removable state while forming a posture so that a top portion of the contact-portion unit may project; and a strain sensing element 15 or a pressure sensing element embedded into the contact-portion housing unit.
US08286495B2
There is disclosed a high pressure sensing header which is relatively insensitive to mounting torque. The header comprises an outer torque isolating shell which surround an inner “H” section header. The inner “H” section header has a thick diaphragm and is surrounded by the torque isolating shell which is secured to the “H” section header at a peripheral flange of the “H” section header. In this manner when the header is installed, the installation force is absorbed by the outer shell and there is no installation force or torque exhibited by the inner “H” section which will respond only to stress due to pressure. The torque isolating shell also contains a top surface which has a counterbore that accommodates a crush ring. When the unit is installed, the crush ring is crushed against an installation wall to enable the inner header to receive pressure without experiencing significant installation force.
US08286492B2
The different advantageous embodiments provide a transducer unit, a testing system, and a method for testing a structure. The transducer unit comprises a first segment configured to generate a first electrical signal in response to detecting a plurality of waves propagating in a structure. The transducer unit also comprises a second segment configured to generate a second electrical signal in response to detecting the plurality of waves propagating in the structure.
US08286486B2
The concentration of a material covering a surface is controlled via an equilibrium process. Equilibrium parameters such as a concentration of the provided material, the exposure time of the material to the surface, and the surface area of an attractor applied to the surface are determined utilizing a millimeter sized piezoelectric cantilever sensor. In an example embodiment, the material is provided at a low concentration to the surface until equilibrium is attained. The amount of material accumulated on the surface is determined utilizing the cantilever sensor. The surface area of the attractor and the measured amount of material are utilized to determine the amount of the attractor surface area having the material bound thereto. Knowledge of the equilibrium parameters allows controlled surface coverage of the material on the attractor for any application. The concentration of the material adsorbed on the surface is precisely determinable and repeatable.
US08286479B2
A pipeline apparatus has a body configured to fit inside a pipeline. A flow channel is formed within the body and includes an inlet, an outlet, and a bypass channel connecting the inlet and the outlet, the inlet being configured to receive a portion of a fluid flowing through the pipeline, and the outlet being configured such that the fluid flowing through the bypass channel flows out of the bypass channel through the outlet. A flow control valve is attached to the body and has a sleeve configured to move to vary a flow rate of the fluid flowing out of the outlet. A conduit is connected between the flow control valve and a back face of the body and configured to communicate a high pressure of the fluid to the flow control valve.
US08286477B2
An aircraft 160 approaches a landing point 162 following a flight path 164 to a designation point 166, the pilot sights the landing point 162 and activates the apparatus. A first calculation of coordinates for the landing point 162 is made and landing symbology generated. The pilot reviews the landing symbology and decides whether or not there is an acceptable correlation with the landing point 162. If not, the pilot will continue along the flight path 164 activating the apparatus at further designation points 168, 170 and 172 to reduce the designation error between the coordinates calculated by the apparatus and the real world landing position 162 observed by the pilot until the pilot is satisfied. At this point the pilot enters a landing phase and the symbology provides the pilot with landing cues even when the helicopter 160 enters a brown out event indicated by cloud 174.
US08286470B2
A method for operating an exhaust gas probe, in particular a lambda probe, in the exhaust gas of an internal combustion engine, where at least one heating element for achieving the operating temperature in the exhaust gas probe and determination of the temperature of the exhaust gas probe is performed by measuring the internal resistance. Measurement of the internal resistance occurs by the superimposition of discrete bipolar test pulses that include a pulse and a counter pulse, and by acquisition of the Nernst voltage.
US08286465B2
A composition that will automatically flow (auto-flow) and form a fillet (self-fillet) will have a yield stress within the range of 1.8 Pa to 10 Pa (20 dynes/cm2 to 100 dynes/cm2). Such a composition can be designed by using an appropriate choice of filler, regardless of the resin system used in the composition.
US08286462B2
In a change from a lean to a rich exhaust gas mixture, a characteristic behavior appears in a short time interval in the vicinity of the lambda jump of an upstream catalytic converter lambda probe in the signal characteristic which is measured by a downstream catalytic converter lambda probe. From the signals in small intervals, around the instant of changing, the reliability performance of the downstream lambda probe can be deduced without the actual probe jump in curves of the voltage characteristics having to be considered.
US08286460B2
A process and apparatus to make an edge or a collar featuring a complex structure on extruded, deep-drawn and deep-drawn/wire-drawn metal rough pieces with which bottles for the beverage and food sector or for technical use are particularly obtained, suitable for the application of a closing cap and fit to use on a tapering machine. The process includes a starting operating stage to deform an upper end portion of a metal holder by turning it outwardly so as to obtain an edge or a collar with a basically circular section, one or more intermediate operating stages to deform the edge or collar by squeezing in the radial direction and stretching towards the bottom of the metal holder, a final operating deformation stage to obtain an edge or collar with a complex ovoidal profile for the application of at least two caps of different types.
US08286458B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel method of manufacturing a lever plate that is made of a material having a relatively small thickness but nonetheless has an engaging protrusion having an adequate thickness and an adequate height.A lever plate in a VGS type turbocharger according to the present invention is a lever plate that is incorporated in an exhaust guide assembly in a VGS type turbocharger. The lever plate has a fitting hole into which a shaft part of the adjustable vane is fitted formed at a position close to one end of an elongated plate main body thereof and an engaging protrusion to be engaged with the drive ring formed at the other end thereof. The engaging protrusion is formed by bending a blanking material having the shape of an elongated flat plate. The engaging protrusion is pressed in a direction of raising thereof so as to have a thickness greater than the thickness of the plate main body of the lever plate, and opposite side peripheries of the engaging protrusion are subjected to finish blanking to have an arc shape.
US08286454B2
A locking device for a merchandise display hook has an upper rod disposed along a longitudinal axis and a lower rod disposed generally parallel to the longitudinal axis and the upper rod. The locking device includes a housing having a vertical slot adapted to receive the upper rod and the lower rod of the display hook. A bayonet is movable between a locked position in which a portion of the bayonet extends into the slot and restricts movement of at least one of the upper rod and the lower rod within the slot, and an unlocked position in which the bayonet does not extend into the slot and thereby permits movement of the upper rod and the lower rod within the slot. An elongate nose depending outwardly from the housing defines a channel that intersects the slot of the housing and receives the upper rod of the display hook with the upper rod and the lower rod disposed within the slot.
US08286451B2
A spacer textile, particularly knitted spacer textile, has two cover plies spaced apart from one another, and spacer threads that connect the cover plies with one another. The cover plies are formed from a main thread system and a further thread system, forming courses that follow one another in the production direction. According to the invention, a first course is formed at least by the main thread system, and a second courses is formed by the further thread system. The thread or threads of the main thread system is/are guided without forming stitches, in the production direction, in the second course, and the cover plies have a lower tear strength there, when pulled in the production direction.
US08286447B2
A method of producing a quartz glass crucible by arc melting a quartz powder molded product loaded on the inner side of a mold while performing vacuum suction, includes initiating the melting of quartz powder from the rim edge of a quartz powder molded product, subsequently lowering the arc electrode or raising the mold to heat and melt the sections on the downside of the rim edge. The method is preferably carried out such that the inner surface of the crucible is sealed within a time corresponding to 10% of the total arc time starting from the initiation of arc melting, and the seal thickness is 3 mm or less. The quartz glass crucible thus produced is useful for the pulling up of silicon single crystals and has a uniform glass layer with fewer internal bubbles.
US08286443B2
Provided is a dispenser in which a wash water discharge opening provided to a drain pan is connected to an external tap water system via a wash water supply path. The wash water supply path is provided with a wash water supply valve for controlling whether or not to supply wash water to the drain pan. A wash control section in a controller performs timing separately from control of a generation/delivery control section for performing generation and delivery of ice chips, and also performs a wash action at predetermined time intervals by opening the wash water supply valve.
US08286429B2
A solar hybrid combined cycle gas-steam power plant and method including a solar unit, a gas turbine unit and a steam turbine unit. The solar unit includes a receiver. The gas turbine unit includes a gas turbine with a waste heat boiler arranged downstream, and a steam turbine with a feed water heater. The power plant includes a heat transfer medium cycle for transferring solar heat. The heat transfer medium cycle is coupled to the gas turbine unit through a gas turbine heat exchanger and to the steam turbine unit through a solar boiler. Alternatively to the gas turbine unit and the steam turbine unit, the solar hybrid combined cycle power plant includes an integrated gas-steam turbine having a waste heat boiler arranged downstream, wherein the heat transfer medium cycle is coupled to the integrated gas-steam turbine through the gas turbine heat exchanger and through the solar boiler.
US08286428B2
An apparatus for improving the performance of a radial compressor 36 forming part of an inlet system of an engine 10 is disclosed in which the configuration and positioning of a flow management device 137 used to generate pre-whirl is optimized so as to produce a pressure drop below a maximum acceptable level. An inlet duct ‘I’ connected to the radial compressor 36 has a tapered end portion so that a flow management device 137 of a larger diameter d2 can be accommodated than the diameter d1 of an inlet port ‘IP’ to the radial compressor 36.
US08286420B2
A DPF accumulation amount estimating apparatus uses an integrated PM accumulation amount estimation logic which combines the difference between an engine PM emission amount and a PM regeneration amount and a DPF differential pressure model, thereby achieving minimized influences of changes in an exhaust gas flow rate and the like with resultant improved estimation accuracy. The DPF accumulation amount estimating apparatus for estimating the accumulation amount in a DPF (diesel particulate filter) provided therewith for removing PM (particulates (particulate matters)) in an exhaust gas, and includes a PM emission amount model in which a PM emission amount is set on the basis of the operating condition of an engine, a PM regeneration amount model in which a PM regeneration amount is set on the basis of the temperature difference between an outlet temperature and an inlet temperature of the DPF, and a DPF differential pressure model in which a PM accumulation amount is set on the basis of the differential pressure between an exhaust gas flow rate and the DPF, wherein the estimated PM accumulation amount of the DPF is calculated by adding a corrected PM accumulation amount obtained by correcting the estimated value of the DPF differential pressure model by using a coefficient K, which is determined on the basis of an engine speed and the fuel injection amount of an engine, to a difference between a PM emission amount and a PM regeneration amount.
US08286417B2
The invention relates to a diagnosis method for an exhaust gas post-treatment system for the reduction of nitric oxides in the exhaust gas train of an internal combustion engine by means of selective catalytic reduction. The following steps are provided for easy recognition of errors: definition of at least one threshold value for the Nox concentration for at least one engine operation point; shifting the operational mode of the internal combustion engine into an operational state of diagnosis, wherein in the operational state of diagnosis substantially more Nox emissions are produced than in the normal operational mode; determining an amount of reducing agents corresponding to the increased amount of Nox emisions in the operational state of diagnosis; controlling a dosing device in order to introduce the amount of reducing agents, corresponding to the increased amount of NOx emissions during the operational state of diagnosis, into the wase gas; measuring the concentration of NOx downstream from the post-treatment device; comparing the measured concentration of NOx to the threshold value; taking a decision as to the erroneous or error-free operation of the waste gas post-treatment system based on comparison of the measured concentration of NOx to the threshold value; terminating the operational state of diagnosis.
US08286411B2
A crop header has generally horizontal flail disks mounted for driven rotation about generally upright axes. A pair of conditioner rolls is mounted in a discharge opening. A crop converging system includes two over-shot auger elements defined by a common auger shaft with an auger flight carried thereon arranged generally longitudinal of the cutter bar so as to carry the cut crop longitudinally of the cutter bar to the entrance opening. Each auger element is arranged with a forwardmost tangent to the auger flight located behind the axes of the rotary disks and with an outer end thereof spaced outwardly of the respective end of the entrance mouth. The common auger shaft is driven by a common rotary drive with the bottom roll of the conditioner rolls. The augers terminate inwardly of the outer end of the cutter bar to locate the drive inboard of the end plates.
US08286408B2
An apparatus for grouping discrete laminar articles (hereinafter referred to as articles) into batches of predetermined count includes a feed conveyor, a left-hand screw and a right-hand screw combination (hereinafter referred to as screws), a means for synchronizing and automating starting and stopping rotation of the screws and a platform assembly. The platform assembly is connected to the feed conveyor and includes a hatch and a pusher mechanism. The feed conveyor supports articles disposed thereon. The screws are disposed along edges of and at either side of the feed conveyor and are adapted to rotate to facilitate counting and pushing of the articles. The screws stop rotating and thereby stop further pushing of the articles, when a predetermined count of articles has been pushed. The pusher mechanism receives the predetermined count of articles pushed by screws and moves them to the hatch from where they are dropped into delivery line.
US08286399B2
A structural insulated panel system includes a frame having a first and second vertical frame members and top and bottom frame members. First and second siding members are attached to opposite sides of the frame, the frame and the first and second siding members forming a cavity, with an insulation material within the cavity. The first vertical frame member includes recesses having a first depth and the second vertical frame member includes projections having a second depth. A first compressible seal is disposed within the recesses and is compressed by the projections of an adjacent panel upon assembly. A second compressible seal is disposed adjacent to each outside edge of the first or second vertical frame member and is compressed by the other frame member upon assembly. A plurality of voids are formed in at least one of the frame members and filled with the insulation fill material.
US08286397B2
Multi-layered, fire-barriers each sized and shaped for installation into accepting intersection-spaces formed by the spaced-intersection of at least two expansion-joint spaces that occur between two adjacent spaced structural building units, each of said expansion-joint spaces defined by a plane, said plane defined by a set of three non-colinear points with each point defined by a set of x, y, z coordinates from the same coordinate system with no two of said coordinate sets being identical. The fire-barriers are shaped for use in 2-way planar, L-shaped expansion-joint spaces, T-shaped, cross-shaped, V-shaped, and vertical/horizontal L-shaped corner expansion-joint spaces, for example, and may comprise at least one layer of: protective cloth, insulating blanket, intumescent material, and mechanically supporting layer. The barriers prohibit the travel of fire, heat, or smoke through the flue-like channels created by the expansion-joints of a structure are provided ready to install in a one-step, drop-in process.
US08286392B2
An inhabitable space frame (100) can define and support inhabitable living space within, around and projecting from the exterior of the perimeter of the space frame (100). The space frame (100) includes a vector matrix of strut members (105) that defines a plurality of interconnected basic tetrahedral modules (110) and, optionally, a plurality of prime octahedral modules (115). At least a part of each prime octahedral module (115) in the plurality of prime octahedral modules (115) is adjacent to at least two of the basic tetrahedral modules (110). Use of one or more right triangular faces, or planes, within a repeating geometry of a vector matrix enables an interior of the space frame (100) to be inhabitable, with horizontal floors and vertical walls aligned with associated strut members (105).
US08286388B2
A jalousie window in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes a jalousie window insert having parallel side rails and a plurality of window louvers extending between the side rails for simultaneous rotation around parallel horizontal axes. A window frame includes a frame head, a frame sill, and a pair of spaced frame jambs interconnected with the frame head and sill in a rectangular frame geometry. A pair of opposed jamb adapters include outer portions secured by snap fit to the frame jambs and inner portions that receive by snap fit an associated one of the insert side rails such that the side rails and the jalousie window insert are secured by the jamb adapters within the window frame. A head adapter has an outer portion secured by snap fit to the frame head, and a sill adapter has an outer portion secured by snap fit to the frame sill. Weather seals are disposed on the head and sill adapters for engagement by upper and lower louvers of the window insert in closed positions of the louvers.
US08286379B2
A support for thin plastic plant identifiers is configured with a ground engaging stake portion integrally formed with an elevating portion. Integrally formed with the elevating portion and canted rearwardly about 45° is a retainer portion with two parallel engagement channels configured to receive the edges of an identifier. A transverse slot in the retainer portion slidably receives a tail of the plastic identifier.
US08286369B2
A device for determining the conductance of laundry in a drier. The device comprises at least two electrodes and means for dissipating heat from at least one part of at least one of said electrodes. The invention further relates to a drier comprising at least one area for receiving laundry and at least two electrodes for measuring the conductance of the laundry, at least one of the electrodes at least partly bordering said receiving area. Means for cooling at least one part of at least one of the electrodes are also provided inside the drier. Also disclosed is a method for preventing the formation of layers on electrodes used for measuring conductance in a drier.
US08286360B1
A tool assembly that includes a tool, which has a frame and a pair of suction cups. Each suction cup has a cup housing and a cup structure. The cup housing is coupled to the frame. The cup structure is at least partly received in the cup housing. At least one of the cup structures is rotatable relative to the frame. A method for releasably securing a tool assembly to a wall is also provided.
US08286359B2
A battery operated chain saw including a frame, an electric motor and a battery. The frame includes a housing and a chain bar. The frame forms a front handle and a rear handle. The electric motor is connected to the frame. The battery is coupled to the electric motor. The battery is located at a position on the frame proximate the front handle to provide a front-to-rear chain saw center-of-gravity located proximate the front handle. The battery is part of a power pack removably connected to the frame. The power pack is located spaced from a front-to-rear centerline of the frame located along the chain bar. The power pack includes an electrical coupling side which is not located on a lateral side of the power pack.
US08286356B1
A guard for a folding knife which guard protects the fingers of the user when the blade is open. The guards may be lifted by the movement of the blade by a link, spring, lifting pin, gears, underside of the blade or hooked by thumb stud or back of blade or by a flipping motion due to the contour of the handles. The guards may be of various shapes and may be recessed in an out-of-the-way position when the blade is closed. The guards may extend at opposite sides of the blade and opposite sides of the handle. The guards are adaptable to a wide variety of folding knife styles.
US08286348B2
A method of forming integrally bladed rotors for gas turbines is described. The method includes drilling in a workpiece material recesses defining flow passages and rotor blades, performing a coarse milling step to refine surfaces of the rotor blades, and filling the recesses between the rotor blades with a damping material, thus encasing the rotor blades in the damping material. The method further includes performing a finishing milling step to remove the damping material and the workpiece material on surfaces of the rotor blades, while maximizing a damping effect of the damping material on the rotor blades. To maximize the damping effect, the finishing milling tool moves along a path that preferentially mills one surface of a blade while the other surface is in contact with the damping material.
US08286346B2
The present invention is to provide a terminal insertion apparatus and method to insert a terminal into a terminal-receiving chamber without hitting an inner surface of the terminal-receiving chamber. A terminal insertion apparatus includes a housing holder unit, an insertion unit, and a control device. The housing holder unit holds a connector housing and is movable in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction. The insertion unit inserts a terminal attached with an electrical wire into a terminal-receiving chamber of the connector housing. The control device controls a move unit support portion to reciprocate a housing holder by a move distance after an end portion of the terminal is inserted into the terminal-receiving chamber so that the terminal can be inserted without hitting an inner surface of the terminal-receiving chamber.
US08286337B2
A mattress material removal device for bedding mattresses comprising a fixed base member 15 in FIG. 4 with at least one side panel 4 and 5 in FIG. 1, at least one overhead portion 14 in FIG. 3 and at least one guide rail 2 in FIG. 1 adapted to secure and guide the mattress over the base member 15 as it moves through the removal device; at least one brush member 12 in FIG. 5 that makes contact with the top, bottom and side of the mattress; at least one suction member 6 in FIG. 5 positioned in close proximity to at least one brush member 12; at least one sprinkler device that is positioned in close proximity to the brush member 12; a conveyor mechanism 7 and 10 in FIG. 2 which is adapted to move the mattress so that it is in contact with the components of the removal device; a control device 16 in FIG. 5 that has at least one switch which is adapted to activate and de-activate one or more features of the mattress material removal device.
US08286336B2
A lead wire insertion device includes a first chuck member and a second chuck member, each of which is separable, and connects a coil terminal of a cassette coil to a terminal of a connection terminal. The first chuck member is divided into the first chuck inner member and a first chuck outer member at a first division position that is inside both ends of a cross section of the coil terminal in a lateral direction, and that is offset from a center of the cross section in the lateral direction. The second chuck member is divided into the second chuck inner member and a second chuck outer member at a second division position that is inside the both ends of the cross section of the coil terminal in the lateral direction, and that is offset from a center of the cross section in the lateral direction.
US08286328B2
A method of fabricating an ultra-high frequency module is disclosed. The method includes providing a top layer; drilling the top layer; milling the top layer; providing a bottom; milling the bottom layer to define a bottom layer cavity; aligning the top layer and the bottom layer; and adhering the top layer to the bottom layer. The present invention also includes an ultra-high frequency module operating at ultra-high speeds having a top layer, the top layer defining a top layer cavity; a bottom layer, the bottom layer defining a bottom layer cavity; and an adhesive adhering both the top layer to the bottom layer, wherein the top layer and the bottom layer are formed from a large area panel of a printed circuit board.
US08286327B2
Disclosed is a method for manufacturing an RF device. The method comprises the steps of (a) forming a metal sheet where interior structure of the RF device is formed; (b) attaching a plastic material housing to the formed metal sheet; and (c) performing silver plating on the RF device on which the plastic material housing is attached.
US08286326B2
A method of manufacturing an elongated core which is buried in an elongated trim. The method includes, forming slits to a metal plate, which extend in a second direction, at predetermined intervals in a first direction so as to form core pieces between the adjacent slits; and rolling a portion of the metal plate in which the slits are not formed in the second direction to form a rolled portion extending in the first direction, and expanding the slits in the first direction to form spaces, thereby preparing a primary core in which the core pieces and the spaces are alternately provided in the first direction. Additionally, the method includes, supplying the primary core to between a pair of deformed portion forming rollers engaged with each other such that reinforcing defaulted portions extending in the second direction are repetitively formed in the first direction.
US08286320B2
This machine generally is an apparatus for preparing rolls of previously wound material for an unwinding machine. More particularly industrial robots are used to improve the apparatus onto which rolls of sheet form material and the like can be loaded in preparation for unwinding and then, when a previously loaded roll has been unwound, disposing of the remaining core. The robots are programmable robots including a means for engaging the transfer plug and placing the plug into the tubular core of a large roll.
US08286316B2
A tool for removing a chisel, in particular from a chisel holder, having a base element which receives an actuating member, wherein the actuating member has an expeller mandrel. The actuating member is adjustable along a displacement direction. In order to be able to perform the removal simply and rapidly, the actuating member of this invention is indirectly or directly coupled to a piston of a fluid-charged cylinder, or to an electric motor unit.
US08286313B2
A clip support member 30 has a first shaft member 51 cantilevered by guide rollers 56 and 56 for a guiding along a reference rail with a recessed channel 101, the clip support member 30 being provided with a slider 40 having a second shaft member 52 cantilevered by guide rollers 57 and 57 for a guiding along a pitch setting rail 120 with a recessed channel 121, the clip support member 30 supporting a clip 20 at an end thereof, where it has the first shaft member 51, whereto one end of a main link member 53 and one end of a sub-link member 54 are pivotally connected, to constitute a reference linkage at the clip 20 end.
US08286295B2
A cleaning assembly including a disposable cleaning implement having a cleaning element mounted to a fitment having an elongated post. The cleaning assembly includes an elongated maneuvering wand having a handle portion and a distal implement attachment end thereof. A gripping mechanism is coupled to the wand attachment end, and is configured to releasably grip the fitment post to mount the cleaning implement. The gripping mechanism and the maneuvering wand cooperate to substantially limited pivotal movement of a longitudinal axis of the fitment post, relative a longitudinal axis of the gripping mechanism to not more than about 0 degrees to about 25 degrees when the fitment post is subjected to forces radial to the longitudinal axis of the fitment post. In another aspect, the frictional drag between the sliding components is significantly reduced, enabling a tool assembly with a high axial holding force for the cleaning implement, but with a significantly lower, consumer friendly release force for the implement during release operation of the tool assembly.
US08286294B2
An adjoined shock absorbing non-breakable two-sectional swivel type attachment in which one section is made from a unitary shock absorbing flexible elastomer material absorbing shocks and allowing for a quick release clamp mechanism and the other section is adjoined by an axis that retains the handle allowing for swivel movement. The combination of the quick release unitary flexible clamp mechanism adjoined to a swivel mechanism allows for small tools, cleaning devices, such as scrub brushes, wall washers, abrasive pad holders, etc. or any other type of device requiring a non-breakable quick disconnect device to occur that can be easily engaged and disengaged allowing tools, etc. to also be used as a hand held device. When the swivel mechanism is in the locked fixed non-swiveling position, the shock absorbing axis and its supporting upper and lower plates, that are retained by a pin, flex and absorbs shocks due to its elastomers flexible properties and eliminates breakage when hitting stationary objects. Furthermore, swivel type floor cleaning devices will no longer need their own swivel type connector affixed onto the cleaning head thus making the cleaning products more cost efficient.
US08286290B2
The present invention provides a dock leveler that: facilitates safe and smooth movement of any driving device by reducing inclination of the dock leveler; and allows easy maintenance by removing a driving unit such as a hydraulic device. The dock leveler comprises a body which is fixed and rotatable on the rear top of an installation space for a dock; and a support unit supporting the body when positioned inside the installation space and sliding toward the front of the body so that the rear of the support unit can be connected to the front of the body when operating as a passage way for a transportation unit or a carrying unit.
US08286283B2
A patient positioning support for an operating theatre table (2) has a saddle (18) for clamping to the rail (8) which runs alongside the edge of the table and a pair of articulating arms (26, 32) attached to the saddle for holding a pad in contact with a patients body or limb. The devices are mounted in pairs and are lockable in positions which overlie the tame or lie outboard of the table or below the table when not required. The locking action is by friction but radial arrays of teeth (66, 68), which are locked by hand screws (62), give the preferred locking action. Other items of equipment such as arm boards, neural head supports and stirrups can be substituted for the pad.
US08286282B2
A support apparatus includes a bed frame with movable portions and a mattress supported on the bed frame. A control system synchronously controls inflation and deflation of at least one air bladder of the mattress and movement of at least one of the movable portions.
US08286278B2
Methods are disclosed for making a base of a spa apparatus to resemble artificial rocks and wood. In one embodiment, the method is comprised of the following steps: making a mold in which its inner surface has the shape and surface texture of a rock or wood; placing a first structure on the inner surface of the mold, the first structure being operative to prevent warping of the base; spraying polymer on the mold; allowing the polymer to harden; and removing the hardened polymer from the mold, the hardened polymer having substantially the shape and surface texture of rock or wood.
US08286276B1
A pool or spa cover adapted for use with a waterfall chute projecting from the top edge of a pool or spa water receptacle, comprising in combination, the cover having sections hinge connected to allow one section to pivot downwardly toward the waterfall chute while the other section remains peripherally seated on the receptacle, the one section having edge portions adapted to seat on receptacle edge portions at opposite sides of the chute, the one section locally configured to accommodate the cover to the chute as the cover pivots downwardly to seat on the pool or spa receptacle top edge.
US08286269B2
A hard hat with attached glasses including a hard hat including a dome portion, the dome portion having an interior surface defining a dome space for receiving a wearer's head and said interior surface including a generally vertical front portion, a pair of glasses and a connection system connecting said pair of glasses to said hard hat, the connection system adapted to allow adjustment of the position of the glasses inside said dome space and down out of said dome space and pivotable about a substantially horizontal axis.
US08286262B2
This application describes garments (2), for example swim suits or other sports or athletic garments, in which a plurality of panels (10-22 & 30-44) are laminated on the outer surface of a base layer (4) of stretchable elasticated fabric to offer (in the case of a swim suit) improved performance for competitive swimmers through a reduction in surface drag, a reduction in form drag and/or improved stability in the water.
US08291510B2
An apparatus for atomic force microscopy (AFM) comprises a first actuator configured to move a cantilever along an axis; a second actuator configured to move the cantilever along the axis; an amplifier; and a crossover network connected between the amplifier, and the first actuator and the second actuator. The crossover network is adapted to provide a first drive signal to the first actuator over a first frequency range and to provide a second drive signal to the second actuator over a second frequency range.
US08291505B2
Computer data containing compressed video data is examined to see if it is banned computer data, for example containing pirate or copyright-infringing video material, by examining the identifier of the video codec associated with the compressed video data. Certain video codec identifiers are highly correlated with the computer data concerned being banned computer data. Thus, an examination of the header file of the computer data may be used as an efficient and sensitive tool for identifying the computer data as banned computer data.
US08291502B2
An information processing apparatus includes a data processor configured to obtain first content stored in a first information recording medium and second content which is stored in a second information recording medium and which is usable together with the first content, and to perform content playback processing by using the first content and the second content. The data processor calculates a hash value of a certificate stored in the first information recording medium, and verifies the calculated hash value against a hash value stored in a content certificate corresponding to the first content, and on the condition that the calculated hash value and the hash value stored in the content certificate coincide with each other, the data processor performs the content playback processing by using the first content and the second content.
US08291500B1
An automated malware analysis method is disclosed which can perform receiving a first universal resource locator identifying a first intermediate network node, accessing the first intermediate network node to retrieve a first malware artifact file, storing the malware artifact file in a data storage device, analyzing the malware artifact file to identify a second universal resource locator within the malware artifact file, and accessing a second intermediate network node to retrieve a second malware artifact file.
US08291496B2
An Internet infrastructure is provided to transfer a packet of data between a client device and source device. The infrastructure consists of a support server that screens the packet for malware codes on behalf of a registered client. In order to scan for malware, the support server contains hardware and/or software modules to perform malware detection and quarantine functions. The modules identify malware bit sequence in the packet(s), malware bit sequences or entire contaminated code is quarantined or repaired as appropriate. After identification of malware code (if any), the support server sends warning messages to affected parties, providing information regarding the malware codes that were detected.
US08291490B1
Managing user access to application-specific capabilities of a system includes maintaining data correlating application-specific capabilities for each of the applications of the system, where the application-specific capabilities of different applications are independent of each other. Managing user access also includes maintaining data correlating user identifiers with user roles, maintaining data correlating user roles with application-specific capabilities, and managing the data using a security module that accesses the data correlating application-specific capabilities, data correlating user identifiers, and the data correlating user roles. The system may have a plurality of tenants and wherein each of the tenants subscribes to one or more of the applications. Each of the users may correspond to a particular one of the tenants. Each tenant may subscribe to a particular set of applications/features.
US08291489B2
A method and apparatus for registering auto-configured network addresses includes receiving first data at a networking device connected to a host at a physical connection. The first data is received from a first server and indicates authentication information associated with the host. A first message is received at the networking device from the host. The first message requests configuration information and includes a logical network address for the host determined at least in part by the host. A second message is generated based on the first message and the first data. The second message is sent to a second server that registers the host by associating the logical network address with the first data.
US08291486B2
Provided is a socket library for monitoring that allows the communication data of a process A to be easily shared by the other processes by way of a socket API. The gateway device uses a socket library for monitoring in which communication content of an application can be shared by a plurality of other applications, the gateway device including a shared memory space provided in the socket library for monitoring; a listen socket controlling section provided in the shared memory space, the listen socket controlling section being for storing a listen socket of an owner process; a process controlling section provided in the shared memory space, the process controlling section being for transmitting and receiving the owner process and the monitoring process; a connected socket controlling section provided in the shared memory space, the connected socket controlling section being for storing a connected socket; a session controlling section for storing a communication session; and a message controlling section for storing communication data that have been actually transmitted and received.
US08291484B2
A server-based hosted application used to transmit and manage multiple media across the Internet. Digital video recorders (DVRs) collect media (such as video with or without audio) and record it to a local disk. DVRs are located in sites or stores where they are attached to cameras, microphones and point-of-sale (POS), or other data collection devices. The DVR accesses the Internet through a typical “residential” broadband connection. A hybrid peer-to-peer network allows peers (a DVR and an Internet browser) to directly transmit and receive video and audio (and other information, such as POS data). A hosted infrastructure tracks the presence of DVRs. A server-based application exposes a presence database to users. Users find DVRs via an Internet interface. Viewers can then connect to the DVR and its corresponding media collection devices (such as cameras, microphones and POS devices) and control collection and use of media information directly.
US08291468B1
In general, techniques are described for translating authorization information within computer networks. For example, a first network device of a computer network may receive authentication information from an endpoint device requesting access to the computer network. The first network device authenticates the endpoint device based on this authentication information and stores authorization information in accordance with a first vendor-specific authorization data model. The first network device stores and applies an export translation policy to translate this information from the vendor-specific data model to a vendor-neutral authorization data model, which it then publishes to an intermediate storage device that implements the vendor-neutral data model. A second network device of the computer network may store an import translation policy to translate this same authorization information from the vendor-neutral authorization data model to a different vendor-specific data model. In this manner, the techniques facilitate translation of authorization information within computer networks.
US08291464B2
A digital broadcast receiving apparatus receives a digital broadcast signal, which consists of layers each obtained by dividing a transmission bandwidth into a plurality of segments and combining some of the segments, and outputs images and/or sound from one of the layers constituting the received digital signal. This apparatus is characterized by comprising broadcasting format retention means (channel to broadcasting format correspondence table database) for retaining the broadcasting format, for each layer, of each broadcast station and switching means (layer switching means) for switching the output layer based on the broadcasting format, for each layer, of each broadcast station retained in the broadcasting retention means. Thus, this apparatus can output images and sound without interruption.
US08291458B2
A digital broadcast receiver includes an operation mode manager that switches an operation mode to a first mode in which a function is implemented by the downloaded application or a second mode in which a function is implemented by the pre-installed application, and a key delivery module that delivers the key code received from the remote control to the downloaded application or the pre-installed application. When the receiver is in the first mode, the key delivery module delivers the received key code to the downloaded application if the received key code is a key code for the first mode, and delivers the received key code to the pre-installed application if the received key code is a key code for the second mode. When the receiver is in the second mode, the key delivery module delivers the received key code to the pre-installed application.
US08291456B2
ProblemIn the case of displaying text information, a static image and a dynamic image on an image display device carried on a train or car in accordance with designated schedule, a blank period that can be visually recognized by human eyes occurs when displaying a compressed static image by switching from a previous video image. Thus, there is a problem of discomfort such as lack of real-time property and difficulty in viewing by a viewer.Means for SolutionIn a video information distribution and display system carried on a train or car, compressed static image video information scheduled to be displayed next is expanded and prepared by extracting and storing into a display storage part in advance, or the like, in accordance with an image control signal (display command) sent thereto together with video information, and the static image is displayed by seamlessly switching from a currently displayed video image at content switching timing of the display command.
US08291455B2
A band converter consists of a band-pass filter, a band-stop filter, a first power distributor, a local oscillator, a mixer, a switch circuit, a high-pass filter, a second power distributor, and a low-pass filter. The band-pass filter and the band-stop filter respectively filter a down-converted input signal to generate a first filtered signal and a second filtered signal. The first power distributor is coupled to the band-stop filter. The mixer is coupled to the first power distributor and the local oscillator. The switch circuit is coupled to the first power distributor and the mixer. The high-pass filter is coupled to the switch circuit. The second power distributor is coupled to the band-pass filter and the high-pass filter. The low-pass filter is coupled to the second power distributor.
US08291446B2
Systems and methods allow for the distribution of a requested program to a consumer device via a high-bandwidth connection. Consumers cast votes for requested programs via communications channels other than the high-bandwidth connection. A portion of the high-bandwidth connection is allocated to a number of programs, including the requested program. An instruction is subsequently transmitted to the consumer device to thereby allow the consumer device to receive the requested program from the allocated portion of the high-bandwidth connection.
US08291437B2
A method and server manage a consolidation of multiple middleware threads, by identifying types of a plurality of middleware, selecting a main middleware from the plurality of middleware, and initializing the main middleware as a main middleware thread. The managing also includes identifying other middleware from the plurality of middleware, based on a consolidated middleware functionality, and selecting slave middleware from the identified other middleware. The managing further includes initializing the slave middleware as slave middleware threads by the main middleware thread, such that each initialized slave middleware thread functions independently of the main middleware thread.
US08291436B2
A method for synchronizing the handling of events in a computer using the Advanced Configuration and Power Interface (ACPI) standard is presented, wherein an ACPI Notification Queue (ANQ) is provided to store events, such that such events can be handled in first-in-first-out order.
US08291435B2
A method and system for performing class loader notification. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods comprising raising a notification during execution of a first method (the notification based on an event), identifying the first method, and invoking a second method based on the identification of the first method in response to the notification.
US08291431B2
A thread scheduler includes context units for managing the execution of threads where each context unit includes a load reference counter for maintaining a counter value indicative of a difference between a number of data requests and a number of data returns associated with the particular context unit. A context controller of the thread context unit is configured to refrain from forwarding an instruction of a thread when the counter value is nonzero and the instruction includes a data dependency indicator indicating the instruction requires data returned by a previous instruction.
US08291428B2
A low processing overhead resource manager for a control system uses the control system operating state as a proxy for processing resource capacity, making judgments about execution of asynchronous services based on empirically derived data linked to the states. The control system exists in one of a plurality of predefined operating states logically related to the real-time control of the equipment. A resource model provides predefined processing reserves as a function of operating state, which is based on the control variables representing inputs outputs to and from the equipment. A simple assessment of the operating state determines the process reserves for asynchronous non real-time services.
US08291418B2
Multiple sub-dispatched application server threads are provided in a single local process, where the multiple sub-dispatched application server threads carry out their own task dispatching. The multiple sub-dispatched application server threads are linked in the single local process using a distributed programming model. Scope-aware access is managed by the multiple sub-dispatched application server threads to shared memory content. It is determined if an application request is eligible to execute at a local sub-dispatched application server thread.
US08291417B2
A method includes storing a first transaction entry to a first software configurable storage location, storing a second transaction entry to a second software configurable storage location, determining that a first transaction indicated by the first transaction entry has occurred, determining that a second transaction indicated by the second transaction entry has occurred subsequent to the first transaction, and, in response to determining that the first transaction occurred and the second transaction occurred, storing at least one transaction attribute captured during at least one clock cycle subsequent to the second transaction. The first and second software configurable storage locations may be located in a trace buffer, where the at least one transaction attribute is stored to the trace buffer and overwrites the first and second transaction attributes. Each transaction entry may include a dead cycle field, a consecutive transaction requirement field, and a last entry field.
US08291415B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for paging instructions for a virtualization engine to local storage. An apparatus includes a processor, a physical device controller, a virtualization engine, system memory, and local storage. The physical device controller is to be shared by a plurality of virtual machines created by a virtual machine monitor installed on a processor. The virtualization engine is to represent the physical device controller as a plurality of virtual device controllers available to be allocated to the plurality of virtual machines. The local storage is separate from the physical memory to store instructions transferred from the system memory for execution by the virtualization engine.
US08291406B2
A method performed by a network device may include receiving index information from a second network device identifying an updated application, querying a third network device for the identified updated application, receiving the identified updated application from the third network device, storing the identified updated application received from the third network device and applying stored application user settings from memory to the stored updated application.
US08291400B1
A system comprises a plurality of computation units interconnected by an interconnection network. A method for configuring the system comprises receiving subsets of instructions corresponding to different portions of a program, each subset assigned to one of the computation units; scheduling instructions in a given subset for execution on the assigned computation unit, including scheduling communication instructions that send to or receive from a different computation unit over the interconnection network; allocating registers in a given computation unit for storing values accessed by instructions in a subset assigned to the given computation unit; and scheduling instructions after allocating registers to account for spills of values stored in allocated register to memory, preserving the order of communication instructions scheduled before allocating registers.
US08291388B2
A method for controlling a debugger, the method includes: determining whether to execute a certain breakpoint of the debugger in view of certain breakpoint conditional information and in view of at least one previous visit, during the execution of the debugger, to at least one other breakpoint of the debugger; and selectively executing the certain breakpoint in response to the determination.
US08291380B2
A method for configuring a software package for an enterprise includes gathering desired To-be configuration requirements for a software package through at least one questionnaire; gathering current As-Is raw data for the enterprise; displaying the To-Be configuration requirements and As-Is raw data; comparing the To-Be configuration requirements and As-Is raw data; selecting final To-Be configuration requirements; and generating and executing configuration code for the software package to pre-configure the software package with the final To-Be configuration requirements.
US08291369B2
A verification support apparatus and method are provided. The verification support apparatus executing a simulation controlling a communication between a first hardware model in communication with a bus model and adapted to the same first specifications as the bus model, and a second hardware model in communication with the bus model and adapted to second specifications differing from those of the bus model, the apparatus includes a reception unit that receives data based on the second specifications from the second hardware model, a conversion unit that, based on the first specifications, converts the data received by the reception unit into data adapted to the first specifications; and a transmission unit that transmits the data converted by the conversion unit, via the bus model, to a hardware model which is a transmission destination.
US08291368B2
A method for reducing a surface area of a pad limited semiconductor die layout includes choosing an outer die pad row from a group of outer die pad rows on the semiconductor die, each of the outer die pad rows being adjacent an edge of the semiconductor die. Next, the method performs selecting, from the outer die pad row, a common die pad group with die pads that are arranged to be electrically connected to an external connection pad. The method then performs repositioning a subgroup of the common die pad group on an inner die pad row, the inner pad row being adjacent the outer die pad row. After he repositioning there is performed a step of adjusting positions of at least some of the remaining pads in the outer die pad row thereby reducing an overall length of the outer die pad row. The method then provides for repeating the above steps until the surface area of a pad limited semiconductor die cannot be reduced any further by the step of adjusting positions or until every common die pad group, on every one of the outer die pad rows, has been selected by the selecting step.
US08291360B2
A data conversion apparatus for converting circuit description related to a dynamically-reconfigurable circuit to circuit configuration information, the data conversion apparatus includes a first generation section that generates a data flow graph from the circuit description; a segment count determining section that determines a number of segments for segmenting the data flow graph generated by the first generation section; a virtual circuit creating section that creates a virtual circuit that has as many resources of the dynamically-reconfigurable circuit as the number of the resources multiplied by the number of segments determined by the segment count determining section; a second generation section that generates, from the circuit description, a data flow graph corresponding to the virtual circuit created by the virtual circuit creating section; and a conversion section that allocates and adjusts the resources of the virtual circuit in accordance with the data flow graph.
US08291343B2
A display control apparatus is disclosed which includes: an application configured to display a plurality of first icons each representing a category; and a plurality of plug-ins each of which is assigned items represented by second icons; wherein one of the plurality of plug-ins associates the items assigned thereto with a plurality of categories; and wherein, if one of the categories represented by the first icons is selected and if the selected category is found associated with the items assigned to the one plug-in, then that one plug-in displays the second icons representing the items belonging to the selected category.
US08291342B2
A device and method for placing the device in a locked state having an associated set of permitted tasks so as to permit the device owner to share the device with others but maintain security over aspects of the device. A task change request is evaluated to determine whether the requested task is permitted and, if so, the requested task is allowed; if not, then an authorization process is invoked to prompt the user to input authorization data. Upon verification of the authorization data, the device may be unlocked and the requested change implemented. The permitted tasks may designate specific applications, specific operations or functions within applications or at the operating system level, one or more currently open windows, and other levels of granularity.
US08291338B2
A method, apparatus and computer-usable medium for improved management of object properties in an integrated development environment (IDE). A cursor mode allows the underlying properties of one or more predetermined objects in a graphical editor to be dynamically viewed and modified by a user. One or more object's properties are displayed in an object properties pop-up viewer/editor window adjacent to the cursor when a user “mouses-over” target objects in a graphical editor and are editable upon explicit user gesture. The properties pop-up viewer/editor window is implementable to move with the cursor, i.e., cursor-attached, and to remain open to dynamically display, without additional user gestures, the respective properties of each predetermined object a user mouses-over.
US08291336B2
In a medical system architecture having a modality for the acquisition of examination images, a device allocated to the modality for processing the examination images, a device for the transmission of data and the examination images and a device for storing the data and examination images, the device for processing the examination images is fashioned as an RIS client for the exchange of text messages as well as for the display of an RIS client window and for the creation of RIS interaction masks, and is connected via a network connection of the devices to an RIS server for communication with the RIS client on the devices.
US08291333B2
An air conditioning controller includes a storage component, a data receiving component configured to receive set numeric data, a display component configured to display data, and a control component. The storage component has stored operation explanation data, relationship explanation data, and setting layout display data stored therein. The stored operation explanation data defines operations of functions executed in the air conditioner. The relationship explanation data defines relationships between explanations of operations of functions and values that are set. The setting display layout data includes setting display region data and explanation display region data. The control component is configured to cause the set numeric data that the data receiving component has received to be displayed in a setting display region while causing the operation explanation data and the relationship explanation data to be displayed in an explanation display region in accordance with the setting display layout data.
US08291332B2
A user-activatable dashboard (also referred to as a unified interest layer) contains any number of user interface elements, referred to herein as “widgets,” for quick access by a user. In response to a command from a user, the dashboard is invoked and the widgets are shown on the screen. The user can activate the dashboard at any time, causing the dashboard to temporarily replace the existing user interface display on the user's screen. Once the dashboard has been activated, the user can interact with any or all of the widgets, and can configure the dashboard by adding, deleting, moving, or configuring individual widgets as desired. When the user wishes to return to the normal user interface he or she was working with, the user issues a command causing the dashboard to be dismissed. Once the dashboard has been dismissed, the previous user interface state is restored, allowing the user to resume normal interactions with the operating system.
US08291331B2
A creation, editing, and display tool for complex diagrams may enable portions of the diagram to be updated without having to update the entire diagram. The tool may use a set of rules that define the positioning and layout of various elements and relationships between elements in the diagram. The update mechanism may enable the rules to be applied to a subset of the diagram and may not update some portions of the diagram, such as those elements outside the viewing area. In some embodiments, a background or low priority process may apply the rules to those portions not updated. The tool may be used for various diagrams, including sequence diagrams and other complex, highly restrained diagram types.
US08291325B2
A computer implemented method and system is provided for displaying information resources linked from a host interface on selected locations on the host interface. A processing element is defined for a link referenced in the host interface. The processing element determines an address of an information resource referenced by the link. An area representation element specifies locations for displaying the information resource on the host interface. A display element is defined for displaying content of the information resource on the host interface and is linked to the processing element and the area representation element. The linked display element retrieves the address of the information resource from the processing element and retrieves the location selected by the user from the area representation element. The linked display element retrieves content of the information resource from the retrieved address and displays the retrieved content in the selected location on the host interface.
US08291320B2
Improved graphical user interfaces suitable for reviewing, browsing, previewing and/or purchasing media items are disclosed. The graphical user interfaces are particularly useful for a system that provides purchase and distribution of media in a client-server environment.
US08291318B2
Visualizing a mixture of automated and manual steps in a procedure. An application engages a teaching mode in a web-based graphical user interface (GUI), wherein a collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI is accentuated. The application records a sequence of selections made among the collection of selectable portions of the web-based GUI as well as data entered within the GUI, where the sequence of selections represent a repeatable user-defined procedure for interacting with the web-based GUI. The application replays the sequence of selections within the web-based GUI while displaying a status of the replaying of said sequence of selections that enables a user to differentiate between manual steps that require user intervention and automatic steps that do not require user intervention.
US08291313B1
In an example embodiment, a container hierarchy may be determined for a document design, such as, for example, a web page design, through an iterative technique for partitioning a plurality of containers into one or more rows and one or more columns.
US08291312B1
A computing device is configured to receive a configuration file. The configuration filed includes at least one reference to a static file associated with a web page of a website. The static file is ranked as a most-downloaded static file, of a plurality of static files, by a provider of the configuration file and the website. The computing device is further configured to retrieve the static file based on the reference; store the static file in a memory local to the computing device; receive a request for the web page; identify the static file for the web page; and use the static file to display the web page in a browser associated with the computing device.
US08291311B2
A system which converts a first Web display program designed for a first communication terminal apparatus to a second Web display program for a second communication terminal apparatus. The system of the present invention stores a segment list created by dividing the first Web display program into segments, assigning identification information to tags contained in the segments, and listing the identification information, stores a conversion condition created for the segments for changing a display setting described in the first Web display program to a display setting of the second Web display program, and stores a conversion program for causing a conversion process for converting the first Web display program to the second Web display program to be executed using he segment list and the conversion condition. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, the conversion process is executed by the second communication terminal apparatus.
US08291304B2
According to one embodiment, a signal processing device comprises a first waveform equalizer, a second waveform equalizer, a first Viterbi decoder, a second Viterbi decoder. The first and the second waveform equalizers equalize a waveform of the input signal according to first and second partial response characteristics and output first and second partial response signals. The first and second Viterbi decoders decode the first and the second partial response signals by means of Viterbi decoding process. The input signal is reproduced based on an output of the first Viterbi decoder and an output of the second Viterbi decoder.
US08291303B2
There is disclosed a memory device with an error detection and correction system formed therein, the error detection and correction system being configured to detect and correct errors in read out data by use of a BCH code, wherein the error detection and correction system is 4-bit error correctable, and searches error locations in such a way as to: divide an error location searching biquadratic equation into two or more factor equations; convert the factor equations to have unknown parts and syndrome parts separated from each other for solving them; and compare indexes of the solution candidates with those of the syndromes, the corresponding relationships being previously obtained as a table, thereby obtaining error locations.
US08291293B2
An approach is provided for decoding a low density parity check (LDPC) coded signal. Edge values associated with a structured parity check matrix used to generate the LDPC coded signal are retrieved from memory. The edge values specify the relationship of bit nodes and check nodes, and are stored within memory according to a predetermined scheme that permits concurrent retrieval of a set of the edge values. A decoded signal corresponding to the LDPC coded signal is output based on the retrieved edge values.
US08291292B1
Systems and methods are provided for selecting precisions during iterative decoding with a low-density parity check (LDPC) decoder in order to maximize LDPC code's performance in the error floor region. The selection of the precision of the messages may be done in such a way as to avoid catastrophic errors and to minimize the number of near-codeword errors during the decoding process. Another system and method to avoid catastrophic errors in the layered (serial) LDPC decoder is provided. Lastly, a system and method that select precisions and provide circuitry that optimizes the exchange of information between a soft-input, soft-output (SISO) channel detector and an error correction code (ECC) decoder for channels with memory is provided.
US08291291B1
Interleaving in which functions relating final and original positions are implemented with low complexity using inequalities based on the functions.
US08291284B2
A device and method for the iterative decoding of a received word represented by signal values according to a parity control matrix code of the type for passing messages between variable nodes and control nodes of a two-part graph related to the matrix. The method includes at least the following steps: setting up at least one message of a variable node, according to the values, by an information representative of the ratio between the probability of having the most likely symbol at a position corresponding to the variable node and the probability of having the current symbol at the position; determining at least one message, relating to a determined symbol, of a control node to a determined variable node, as the selected minimal value, among the symbol sequences corresponding to the control node equation using the determined symbol at the determined variable node, by the maximal value of the messages received at the control node from variable nodes different from the determined variable node and each relating to the symbol associated with the different variable node in the sequence corresponding to the equation; and determining the messages of a variable node to a control node that relate to the whole set of symbols so that the minimal value of said messages is equal to zero.
US08291283B1
This disclosure relates generally to data decoding, and more particularly to iterative decoders for data encoded with a low-density parity check (LDPC) encoder. LDPC decoders are disclosed that use reduced-complexity circular shifters that may be used to decode predefined or designed QC-LDPC codes. In addition, methods to design codes which may have particular LDPC code performance capabilities and which may operate with such decoders using reduced-complexity circular shifters are provided. The generation of quasi-cyclic low density parity check codes and the use of circular shifters by LDPC decoders, may be done in such a way as to provide increased computational efficiency, decreased routing congestion, easier timing closure, and improved application performance.
US08291281B2
An optical transmitter and receiver has stored in advance therein FEC techniques and applicable conditions for applying the FEC techniques to a counterpart optical transmitter and receiver. The optical transmitter and receiver measures a state of receiving data transmitted from the counterpart optical transmitter and receiver, determines an applicable condition satisfying the measured data reception state from among the stored applicable conditions, and selects a FEC technique stored in association with the applicable condition determined as satisfying. The optical transmitter and receiver then notifies the counterpart optical transmitter and receiver of the selected FEC technique.
US08291274B2
A radio communication apparatus having a retransmission function includes a pattern storing unit configured to store a correspondence between resource blocks used for a transmission packet and resource blocks used for a retransmission packet; and a packet scheduling unit configured to arrange the retransmission packet based on the correspondence.
US08291271B2
Memory devices that, in a particular embodiment, receive and transmit analog data signals representative of bit patterns of two or more bits such as to facilitate increases in data transfer rates relative to devices communicating data signals indicative of individual bits. Programming error correction code (ECC) and metadata into such memory devices includes storing the ECC and metadata at different bit levels per cell based on an actual error rate of the cells. The ECC and metadata can be stored with the data block at a different bit level than the data block. If the area of memory in which the block of data is stored does not support the desired reliability for the ECC and metadata at a particular bit level, the ECC and metadata can be stored in other areas of the memory array at different bit levels.
US08291262B2
An image processing apparatus includes an input portion for inputting image information, an information storage portion for storing the input image information, a transmission portion for transmitting the image information, and a control portion for processing input, storage and transmission of image information in parallel. The control portion, in the case where an input error occurs in the middle of performing input of image information, causes a transmission portion to transmit an instruction to delete information that has been transmitted to a transmission destination, and to start a retransmission after combining the image information before the input error occurs with the image information input after the input error occurred to form one file.
US08291260B2
This disclosure describes methods, systems and software that can be used to calculate the estimated mean time to data loss for a particular configuration of a disk group. For example, a system can be used to evaluate a plurality of configurations, and/or to select (and/or allow a user to select) an optimal configuration of the disk group, based, in some cases, on the relative estimated mean times to data loss of the various configurations. This can allow, if desired, the configuration of the disk group to minimize the likelihood of data loss in the disk group.
US08291255B1
Clock data recovery (CDR) circuitry of a high-speed serial interface on a programmable integrated circuit device toggles, during the electrical idle period of the receiver of the interface, between its “lock-to-reference” (“LTR”) state and its normal “lock-to-data” (“LTD”) state. Whenever during this toggling mode the CDR circuitry toggles to the LTD state, it remains in that state for a predetermined interval and then returns to the LTR state, unless, while it is in the LTD state, it receives a signal from elsewhere in the receiver that data have been received and byte synchronization has occurred. The predetermined toggling interval preferably is long enough to obtain an LTR lock to minimize frequency drift, but short enough to avoid unnecessary delay in detection of the synchronization signal. Preferably, this interval is programmable by the user within limits determined by the characterization of the programmable device. Unreliable analog signal detection is thereby avoided.
US08291251B2
Various systems and methods for power management are disclosed herein. For example, a modular, adaptive power management system for use in a hard disk drive system is disclosed. This modular, adaptive power management system includes a hard disk drive controller, a read channel module, a host interface controller and a power manager system. The hard disk controller includes a processor executing firmware, and the host interface controller provides for host access via a host interface. The host interface may be, for example, an ATA interface, a SATA interface, and/or other emerging serial interfaces such as MMC, CE-ATA or SDIO. The power manager system includes a power island register and an oscillation control register. Both the power island register and the oscillation control register are each at least indirectly writable via the firmware and via the host interface. The hard disk controller, the interface controller, the read channel module and the power manager system are implemented across two or more distinct power islands and use two or more distinct clocks. Power to the two or more distinct power islands is at least in part controlled by the power manager system via the power island register, and the two or more distinct clocks are each controlled by the power manager system via the oscillation control register.
US08291249B2
A method for transitioning power states in a device includes designating a first reduced power state as a target power state. A first expected residency for the target power state is determined based on a counting of activity requests associated with the device. The device is transitioned to the target power state responsive to the expected residency satisfying a first predetermined threshold.
US08291248B2
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device, comprising: an interface for receiving commands issued by a controller, the commands including an erase command; a functional entity with circuit components and having a terminal; a node; switchable circuitry capable of controllably switching between a first operational state in which the terminal is electrically connected to the node and a second operational state in which the terminal is electrically decoupled from the node, the node being configured to have a signal for the functional entity communicated through it when the switchable circuitry is in the first operational state; and a command processing unit configured to recognize the commands issued by the controller and, in response to recognizing the erase command, to cause the switchable circuitry to switch from the first operational state to the second operational state.
US08291247B1
A system and method for removing a portion of a system such as an external device from lower power mode includes a host device and an external device in communication with the host device. The external device is in a low power mode. The host device includes a controller generating a prediction signal in response to an input to an external device and commands the external device from low power mode in response to the prediction signal.
US08291245B2
The invention provides a method, apparatus and system for reducing power consumption involving data storage devices. One embodiment involves storing data in a first memory; in response to the first memory exceeding a first threshold, migrating the data from the first memory to a second memory; in response to the second memory exceeding a second threshold, then activating a third memory if the third memory is in active; and in response to the second memory exceeding a third threshold greater than the second threshold, migrating the data from the second memory to a third memory; wherein the second memory is sized and configured to store data targeted for the third memory to intelligently maintain a portion of the third memory in an inactive state.
US08291241B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for detecting the connection of a FireWire peer to a FireWire device. In one embodiment, a device may determine whether a peer connection is present based on peer detection circuit configured in each FireWire port of a FireWire device. When no peer is connected to a device, a peer connection in the circuit may be open, and a current path through the circuit may provide a low detect signal, indicating that no peer is connected. When a peer is connected to a detecting device, the current may pass through a resistance in the detected peer to provide a high detect signal, indicating that a peer is connected. In some embodiments, once a peer is detected, the FireWire system of the detecting device may be powered on, and the peer detection circuit may be powered off.
US08291237B2
A method for private keyword searching on streaming data such that the searching does not reveal what keywords are being searched for and does not reveal whether any such keywords have been located nor which documents in the data stream are saved.
US08291236B2
Conditional access to media content of primary security systems on a secondary networked environment. In one embodiment, a conditional access server is used to provide services to secondary CA clients (e.g., a bridge, a renderer, a storage, or their different combinations) through network connections. Containing data representing the subscriber, a conditional access server recovers entitlement data and/or decryption keys of a primary security system for the conditional access protected content, such as service keys and control words, and/or enforces conditional access to the content by secondary CA clients according to the authorization of the primary security system for the secondary CA clients. In one embodiment, a conditional access system provides delayed authorization for use so that the content can be recorded for later use when authorized and broadcasts rights for use on multiple secondary CA clients.
US08291235B2
A method of controlling use of a printer on a network includes providing a key to a client on the network. The key is then used to submit a print job from the client to a printer on the network.
US08291232B2
Secure execution of workflow tasks are executed according to a given execution pattern in a decentralized workflow system with a central workflow engine and multiple task execution agents. The method starts at an i'th execution agent which is selected by at least one preceding execution agent in accord with the execution pattern to perform an i'th task of the workflow. The method includes receiving, from the at least one preceding execution agent via a secure channel, a task-based private key generated by the at least one preceding execution agent, signing workflow information of the workflow for at least one subsequent execution agent with a workflow signature, selecting at least one appropriate subsequent execution agent, computing a task-based private key for the at least one subsequent execution agent, and forwarding to the at least one subsequent execution agent the workflow information with its associated workflow signature.
US08291231B2
A secret key of a second apparatus is stored in a relay apparatus. A first apparatus specifies secret information used to identify a common key, generates encrypted secret information by encrypting the secret information by using a public key of the second apparatus, and transmits the encrypted secret information to the relay apparatus. Then, the relay apparatus decrypts the encrypted secret information by using the secret key of the second apparatus to extract the secret information. The relay apparatus transmits the encrypted secret information to the second apparatus. The second apparatus decrypts the encrypted secret information by using the secret key of the second apparatus to extract the secret information. Finished messages corresponding to communication log information and the secret information are exchanged between the first apparatus and the relay apparatus and between the second apparatus and the relay apparatus.
US08291230B2
A machine-implemented method for signing a JSON message begins by constructing a reference element for each data object in the JSON message. The data object is identified by a reference identifier that includes a pointer to a digest method, and a digest generated by applying the digest method to the data object. Then, a signature information element is constructed for reference elements corresponding to data objects in the message. The signature information element includes a pointer to a signature method, as well as one or more reference elements, or a canonical form of the one or more reference elements. Then, a signature element is constructed that includes the signature information element, and a signature value generated by applying the signature method to the signature information element. The signature enables a sending entity to generate a digest on a JSON message and to secure the digests using a signing key.
US08291226B2
Techniques to securely boot up an electronics device (e.g., a cellular phone) from an external storage device are described. Secure data (e.g., a hash digest, a signature, a cryptographic key, and so on) is initially retrieved from a non-writable area of an external memory device (e.g., an one-time programmable (OTP) area of a NAND Flash device). A first program (e.g., a boot program) is retrieved from a writable or main area of the external memory device and authenticated based on the secure data. The first program is enabled for execution if authenticated. A second program may be retrieved from the main area of the external memory device and authenticated based on the secure data. The second program is enabled for execution if authenticated. Additional programs may be retrieved and authenticated. Each program may be authenticated using a secure hash function, a digital signature, and/or some other cryptographic technique.
US08291225B2
An apparatus in a system which includes at least a high-level apparatus and a plurality of low-level apparatuses, said apparatus being one of the low-level apparatuses. The apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store an individual certificate set and a common certificate set and a communication unit configured to transmit own authentication information to the high level apparatus to allow the high level apparatus to perform decryption to authenticate the validity of the apparatus.
US08291220B2
A key establishment protocol for securing wireless body sensor networks using environmental data for nonce values. To establish a secure communication between sensors in a sensor network using environmental data, the protocol measures a first environmental value at a first sensor and a trusted third party. A second environmental value is measured at a second sensor and the trusted third party. The trusted third party then sends to the second sensor a first authentication construct comprising the second environmental value, wherein the second environmental value is used by the second sensor to prevent replay attacks of messages between the trusted third party and second sensor. The trusted third party also sends to the first sensor a second authentication construct comprising the first environmental value, wherein the first environmental value is used by the first sensor to prevent replay attacks of messages between the trusted third party and first sensor.
US08291214B2
A method and apparatus for providing on-demand services to an organization. The services are provided by a hosting center. The apparatus comprises an on-premises connectivity agent at the organization, which receives requests or commands from computing platforms within the organization and concentrates all communication to and from the hosting center. The on-premises connectivity agent embeds or otherwise introduces organization metadata to the messages. The apparatus further comprises a hosted connectivity agent associated with the hosting center. The apparatus may further comprise a central connectivity component for routing communication between the on-premises connectivity agent and the hosted connectivity agent, in accordance with the metadata. Communication between the on-premises connectivity agent and the central connectivity component flows through a secure channel and comprises only communications related to the organization. Communication between the central connectivity component and the hosted connectivity agent may comprise communications related multiple organizations. Such communications may be multiplexed.
US08291212B2
System and method for compressing secure E-mail for exchange with a mobile data communication device
A system and method are provided for pre-processing encrypted and/or signed messages at a host system before the message is transmitted to a wireless mobile communication device. The message is received at the host system from a message sender. There is a determination as to whether any of the message receivers has a corresponding wireless mobile communication device. For each message receiver that has a corresponding wireless mobile communication device: the message is processed so as to modify the message with respect to encryption and/or authentication aspect. The processed message is transmitted to a wireless mobile communication device that corresponds to the first message receiver. The system and method may include post-processing messages sent from a wireless mobile communications device to a remote system. Authentication and/or encryption message processing is performed upon the message. The processed message may then be sent through the remote system to one or more receivers.
US08291207B2
Methods and systems are described for displaying video data after a hot plug event during a start-up dead period. In particular, approaches for receiving data, determining whether link training can be performed and, if not, self-configuring a receiver to display the information in a proper format even during the dead period.
US08291198B2
Apparatus and method for regulating data in a signal processing pipeline are disclosed. For example, an apparatus is disclosed that includes a first element operable to determine a time interval between a first plurality of data samples input to the signal processing pipeline, and calculate a sample spacing count value associated with the time interval, a second element coupled to the first element, the second element operable to hold the sample spacing count value until the time interval between the first plurality of data samples is changed, a third element coupled to the second element and the signal processing pipeline, the third element operable to output a control signal to the signal processing pipeline, and responsive to the control signal, the signal processing pipeline operable to output a second plurality of data samples.
US08291191B2
A system and method includes steps or acts of: organizing table partitions in logical order; presenting the partition table numbers and their current ending values in logical order to a user; receiving an alter command from the user, the alter command specifying at least one logical partition number and its corresponding ending value; internally matching the specified logical partition number to its corresponding physical partition number; altering the physical partitioning of the table by manipulating one or more current ending values of partitions by altering the current ending value of the physical partition to which the specified logical partition is associated, such that new ending values are generated; and automatically generating at least one data definition language statement corresponding to the alter command, using the new ending value.
US08291188B2
A microcontroller in which respective CPUs execute different applications so as to improve processing performance, and the respective CPUs execute an application that requires safety and mutually compare the results thereof so as to enhance the reliability of write data is provided. The microcontroller has a plurality of processing systems made up of a first CPU, a second CPU, a first memory and a second memory, and for the instruction processing about specific processing set in advance, the write to peripheral modules which are not multiplexed is executed twice, and the write data of the first time and the second time are mutually collated.
US08291185B2
A data storing location managing method including generating an access frequency of a storing area accessed in a first storage apparatus according to a command received, copying data stored in the storing area of the first storage apparatus to a storing area of a second storage apparatus when the access frequency of the storing area of the first storage apparatus is greater than a reference value, and replacing location information of the storing area of the first storage apparatus with location information of the storing area of the second storage apparatus.
US08291175B2
A method for processing a read request identifying an address. The method includes receiving, at a module including a flash memory and a memory buffer, the read request from a requesting processor, mapping, using a coherence directory controller within the module, the address to a cache line in a cache memory associated with a remote processor, and sending a coherency message from the module to the remote processor to change a state of the cache line in the cache memory. The method further includes receiving, at the module, the cache line from the remote processor, sending, using processor bus and in response to the read request, the cache line to the requesting processor, identifying a requested page stored within the flash memory based on the address, storing a copy of the requested page in the memory buffer, and writing the cache line to the copy of the requested page.
US08291166B2
A method for managing data storage is described. The method includes receiving data from an external host at a peripheral storage device, detecting a file system type of the external host, and adapting a caching policy for transmitting the data to a memory accessible by the storage device, wherein the caching policy is based on the detected file system type. The detection of the file system type can be based on the received data. The detection bases can include a size of the received data. In some implementations, the detection of the file system type can be based on accessing the memory for file system type indicators that are associated with a unique file system type. Adapting the caching policy can reduce a number of data transmissions to the memory. The detected file system type can be a file allocation table (FAT) system type.
US08291162B2
One code (a compressed redundant code) is created based on a plurality of first redundant codes, each created on the basis of a plurality of data units, and this compressed redundant code is written to a nonvolatile storage area. This compressed redundant code is used to restore either a data element constituting a multiple-failure data, or a first redundant code corresponding to the multiple-failure data, which is stored in an unreadable sub-storage area of a partially failed storage device, and to restore the data element constituting the multiple-failure data which is stored in a sub-storage area of a completely failed storage device, based on the restored either data element or first redundant code, and either another data element constituting the multiple-failure data or the first redundant code corresponding to the multiple-failure data.
US08291154B2
The memory device electrically connectable to a host circuit includes a nonvolatile data memory section, a data reception section, a determination section, and a data transmission section. The data reception section receives, from the host circuit, data including first data to be written into a memory array, and second data generated from the first data. The determination section determines the consistency the first data and the second data. The data transmission section transmits the result of the determination to the host circuit.
US08291152B2
A method for operating a non-volatile memory is provided. The non-volatile memory includes a plurality of physical blocks having a plurality of data blocks and spare blocks. An index is obtained by comparing an average erase count of selected physical blocks with a first threshold. Each erase count for each physical block is the total number of the erase operations performed thereon. A performance capability status for the memory is determined according to the index. The performance capability status is set to a first status when the average erase count exceeds the first threshold. An indication is generated based on the performance capability status. A limp function is performed in response to the first status for configuring a minimum number of the at least some spare blocks reserved and used for data update operations.
US08291147B2
A computer motherboard includes first and second peripheral interfaces, a switching interface, a switching card inserted into the switching card, and first and second central processing unit (CPU) sockets. The switching interface is placed between the first and second peripheral interfaces. The switching card includes first and second interface. Pins of the first interface of the switching card are interconnected, and pins of the second interface of the switching card are interconnected. Connection between the first and second peripheral sockets and the first and second CPU sockets is adjustable by selectively connecting one of the first and second interfaces of the switching card to the switching interface.
US08291142B2
A method is disclosed in which data is exchanged via a bus coupler (500) between a network (410) designed for transmitting Ethernet telegrams and a lower-level bus system (420), wherein the bus coupler (500) is connected via a first interface (520) to the network (410) and via a second interface (530) to the lower-level bus system (420), and wherein process data is read in and/or output through at least one bus node (610, 620, 630) of the lower-level bus system (420).Furthermore, a bus coupler (500), a bus node (610, 620, 630), and a control system (10) that are designed for execution of the method are disclosed.
US08291132B2
The present invention provides an improved method and system of improving the efficiency, and ensuring the integrity, of a data transfer in a serverless backup, or third party copy, system having one or more physical storage devices. The present invention provides improvements to the processing of serverless copy, or EXTENDED COPY, commands, and transfers of data associated with such commands. These improvements increase the speed at which such commands are executed and completed, and increase the capabilities of copy managers in serverless backup systems. The improvements also make better use of the storage devices involved in the data backup process. Certain aspects of the invention allow for execution of data segments of any size, and providing a compiler for generating input/output actions.
US08291131B2
Methods, controllers, and systems for managing data transfer, such as those in solid state drives (SSDs), are described. In some embodiments, the data transfer between a host and a memory is monitored and then assessed to provide an assessment result. A number of storage units of the memory allocated to service another data transfer is adjusted based on the assessment result. Additional methods and systems are also described.
US08291127B2
A circuit for controlling a peripheral device interface is to enable a central processing unit to detect a peripheral device. The circuit includes a control chip and first to sixth capacitors. The control chip includes a power supply input pin, first to second differential signal output pins, first to second differential signal input pins, and an expansion pin. The power supply input pin is connected to a power supply and grounded via the first and second capacitors in parallel. The first and second differential signal output pins are connected to the peripheral device interface via the third and fourth capacitors respectively. The first and second differential signal input pins are connected to the peripheral device interface via the fifth and sixth capacitors respectively. The expansion pin is grounded via a resistor.
US08291122B2
Uninterrupted Media Change (UMC) is a solution for changing between input channels such that complete segments of content are observed in the output channel. UMC provides for seamless switching between concurrent, multi-segment, media data streams. Media data streams are input channels composed of discrete segments of information, which may include audio, images or video content. Segments are defined by points that mark the beginning and end of content within the input data stream. When a UMC event is selected by a user, the next segment beginning for the target input channel is detected and that target segment is buffered until the end of the current active segment is reached, at which point the buffered target segment is made the new active segment and presented to the user from its buffered beginning.
US08291110B2
An apparatus, method and system to enable dynamic replication of Web servers across a wide area in response to access patterns by Web clients as well as in response to customer requests. The method for dynamically replicating one or more parent nodes on a network in response to a user request by a policy manager. The policy manager transmits the user request to an event module. The event module transmits the user request to a data consistency module, wherein the data consistency module maintains integrity of the data on the parent node. The event system communicates with a resource management module to ensure proper utilization of network resources, and transmits the routing request to a request routing module for appropriately balancing the network load. The request routing module is capable of providing optimal routing based on the network resources.
US08291107B1
Disclosed herein are methods and systems using a Media Channel Descriptor (MCD) file to manage media streams in a coverage area of a wireless access network. For example, an exemplary method involves (a) receiving a request for a media stream in the first format (that was specified by the MCD file), wherein the request is received from an access terminal that is operating in a coverage area of a wireless access network; (b) in response to the request, initiating a media stream in the first format, to the access terminal; (c) making a determination as to whether or not, with the media steam in the first format, traffic in the coverage area has reached a threshold level; and (d) in response to the determination that the traffic in the coverage area has reached the threshold level, modifying the MCD file to indicate a second format for new media streams.
US08291106B2
A bandwidth monitoring device for use in a network for transferring priority packets in preference to non priority packets as far as the amount of the priority packets is within a contract bandwidth established between a network user and a network operator, comprising a bandwidth check result decision unit for detecting whether the bandwidth of the priority packets is less than the contract bandwidth, and a DSCP decision unit for determining that a non priority packet may be transferred as a priority packet when the bandwidth of the priority packets is less than the contract bandwidth thereby to sufficiently use the contract bandwidth.
US08291096B2
A central administration tool or manager supports entry or selection of attribute data or datum (e.g., an attribute value) associated with at least one of a resource and a user. The entered or selected attribute data is arranged into a data structure (e.g., a file) for transmission over a communications network. The data structure is transmitted over the communications network to a directory interface. The transmitted data structure is processed to be compatible with interpretation by a directory services system. The directory services system is invoked consistent with the contents of the data structure (e.g., the file) and the previous processing of the data structure. Resources (e.g., applications) that are under the control of the directory services are managed consistent with the contents of the data structure.
US08291088B2
A system for providing single sign-on (SSO) user names for Web cookies. SSO access to multiple applications is supported in situations where multiple user information directories are deployed, and users may be known by multiple identifiers. Convenient specification is enabled for which of a user's multiple names is to be used in an SSO Web cookie that is passed from application to application to enable SSO operation. The user's SSO Web cookie user name is fully separated conceptually from the user's effective name for any given application within the SSO environment. The SSO Web cookie user name provided by the disclosed system is specified independently from the effective name by which the user is known when operating in the Web application that writes the SSO Web cookie back to the user's computer system. Use of an administratively supplied user name in the SSO Web cookie is facilitated.
US08291087B2
In a case where session management information is created from request information concerning a Web-based e-mail transmitted as HTTP data, if the request information coincides with a previously defined session start event for each Web-based e-mail service, a relay server adds a new entry to the session management information. On the other hand, if the request information coincides with a previously defined data operation event for each Web-based e-mail service, the relay server updates entry data of the session management information. Consequently, an administrator can execute higher accurate mail browsing by extracting, from the request information concerning the Web-based e-mail, not only the content of the Web-based e-mail but also a mail creation start method and a transmission state of the Web-based e-mail.
US08291085B2
A value information transfer system transfers value information held by a transfer source communication device, which is connected via a network to a transfer management server, to a transfer destination communication device. The transfer source communication device includes a transfer request acceptor for accepting a transfer request for transfer of the value information held by the transfer source communication device to the transfer destination communication device, a transfer request information transmitter for transmitting the request as transfer request information to the transfer management server, and a command executor for executing a command generated by the transfer management server. The transfer management server includes a command generator for generating at least one command and a command transmitter. The transfer destination communication device includes a command receiver for receiving the command using wireless communication and a value information increasing unit for increasing the value information held by the transfer destination communication device.
US08291078B2
Systems and methods for multi-process browser architecture are described herein. In an embodiment, a system for providing multi-process browser architecture includes at least one rendering process for each browser instance that renders a content area; and at least one browser process that communicates with one or a plurality of rendering engine processes. In another embodiment, a method for providing a multi-process browser architecture includes instantiating a unique rendering process for each content area instance and instantiating a unique browser process. In this way browsers may avoid the effects of faulty processes affecting other browser processes. This may improve user efficiency while enhancing user experience.
US08291073B2
The present application is directed to systems and methods for associating a geographic location with an IP address. Generally, an IP address associated with each of a plurality of browser cookies is determined, where each of the plurality of browser cookies indicate a geographic location such as a home address or business address of a user. A geo tag is associated with each of the plurality of browser cookies and a subset of the plurality of browser cookies including browser cookies associated with a first IP address is identified. The subset of the plurality of browser cookies is clustered into a spatial cluster including browser cookies associated with geo tags located within a defined distance of a geo tag of at least one other browser cookie of the cluster. A geographic location associated with a geographic center of the cluster is then associated with the first IP address.
US08291068B2
A method and corresponding device provides for automatically detecting a protocol for a load testing routine. The method includes the steps of, for an application to be load tested, executing the application and recording communications between a first tier and a second tier during the execution. The recording step includes recording modules loaded by the application, recording network traffic and Web traffic, comparing the recorded modules, network traffic and Web traffic to a rule set, and based on the comparing step, selecting one or more protocols appropriate for load testing the application. Finally, the method includes the step of generating a script based on the recorded communications and the protocols, where the script specifies the protocols.
US08291065B2
Phishing detection, prevention, and notification is described. In an embodiment, a messaging application facilitates communication via a messaging user interface, and receives a communication, such as an email message, from a domain. A phishing detection module detects a phishing attack in the communication by determining that the domain is similar to a known phishing domain, or by detecting suspicious network properties of the domain. In another embodiment, a Web browsing application receives content, such as data for a Web page, from a network-based resource, such as a Web site or domain. The Web browsing application initiates a display of the content, and a phishing detection module detects a phishing attack in the content by determining that a domain of the network-based resource is similar to a known phishing domain, or that an address of the network-based resource from which the content is received has suspicious network properties.
US08291060B2
A network interconnect device (NID) includes an interface to receive a configuration data request for the NID. The configuration data request may include data identifiers determined from a data identifier group for the NID, wherein the data identifier group comprises a reference to a parent data identifier group from which the data identifier group inherits data type information, and a data specification which overrides a corresponding data specification in the parent data identifier group. The NID also includes a data storage to store information for the NID and a logic device to retrieve information from the data storage corresponding to the data identifiers and to transmit a message including the retrieved information corresponding to the data identifiers.
US08291058B2
The present invention describes a system and method of extracting and storing data elements from network packets, thus performing the task of data mining. In one embodiment of the present invention incoming packets are decomposed one protocol layer at a time to extract data elements contained in the protocol headers. Layer-specific parsers perform deep packet inspection in order to extract data elements from upper-level protocols. Extracted data is arranged in rows, which are subsequently stored into a memory-based accumulator. After some length of time the accumulator is flushed to disk files. Another process reads the flushed disk files row-by-row, inserting each row into a relational database. Standard SQL operations are performed on the relational database in order to generate and display reports of the collected data.
US08291057B2
In a method of transferring data in a data interoperable environment, a secure authenticated channel is established with a receiving entity corresponding to receiver information included in a received control message, when the control message is received from a control entity, a plurality of data designated by the control entity are transmitted to the receiving entity through the established secure authenticated channel, and an event message for representing a transmission status of the transmitted data is transmitted to the control entity. Accordingly, it is possible to transmit the plurality of data through a single transmission session and provide a transmission status of each data through an event.
US08291052B2
An apparatus for distributed information management may include a processor. The processor may be configured to select one or more network domain features and one or more information domain features. In this regard, the network domain features may be based on the connectivity of a network, and the information domain features may be based on meta-data associated with information stored within the network. The processor may also be configured to determine a network domain covariance based on the one or more network domain features and determine an information domain covariance based on the one or more information domain features. Further, the processor may be configured to combine the network domain covariance and the information domain covariance to determine a path update. Associated methods and computer program products may also be provided.
US08291050B2
A graphical user interface, method, and apparatus for configuring a logical partition (LPAR), comprises one or more screens for configuring an LPAR having allocated resources residing on a server computer, the LPAR being uniquely identified by a partition ID; the one or more screens comprising an SNA selection element configured for user-selection of a shared network adapter (SNA) ID from one or more available SNA IDs, wherein each selectable SNA ID uniquely identifies a respective SNA installed on the server computer; a physical port selection element configured for user-selection of a physical port ID from one or more physical port IDs each corresponding to a respective physical port, wherein the one or more physical port IDs uniquely identify all physical ports residing on the respective SNA for the selected SNA ID; and an active configure button which, when selected by a user, causes the display of one or more screens for configuring a logical shared adapter (LSA) associated with the respective SNA.
US08291047B2
An interface can serve as a client-mainframe interface, enabling clients to develop applications without a need to understand mainframe processes and screen flows. Extended Tool Command Language (Tcl) can define services that can include a series of interactions with a mainframe system and service definitions can be added or updated on the interface during operation of the interface without disrupting processing. The service definitions can enable the interface to receive XML requests from a client, parse the XML requests, execute the service scripts to interact with the mainframe systems, generate the result in a XML format and send the XML file back to the client. Fundamental Mainframe Interactions (FMI) commands can interact with the mainframe systems and enable the specification of the XML structure of the request and response. The interface can provide efficient connection pooling management and connection life cycle control to improve the performance of the mainframe system interactions.
US08291039B2
A system transfers data via a communication session between a client application and a server application, where the client application runs on a first network and the server application runs on a second network. The system includes a proxy having a socket to the client application. The proxy converts data between a local protocol run on the first network to a non-local protocol. An agent creates a socket to the server application. The agent converts data between a local protocol run on the second network and the non-local protocol. A server is in communication with the proxy and the agent. The server contains a message queue dedicated to the communication session. The message queue stores data transmitted during the communication session.
US08291038B2
Implementations of the present disclosure provide for automation of manual tasks executed on an application server. Implementations include generating a manual action request at the application server, the manual action request including at least one parameter, transmitting the manual action request to an administrator computer, determining that an automation module corresponding to the manual action request exists within a database based on the at least one parameter, providing the automation module to the application server, and executing the automation module on the application server to resolve a task corresponding to the manual action request.
US08291037B2
A local media cache engine stores content locally for a particular local device. The content is downloaded or copied from other source devices within a network of devices, when the particular local device is coupled to the network. The content is then available to the local device even when that device is not coupled to the network or when the source device is not coupled to the network. Further, even when the source device of the content is coupled to the network, the local cache provides an easier and faster source of desired content for the local device. The content from the local cache is available to be loaded on a portable device through a synchronization operation. The local media cache engine also has the capability to automatically search for content from the source devices within the network and download the content to the local cache, based on user defined preferences and criteria.
US08291031B1
A system and machine-implemented method for deleting an electronic correspondence stored on a server is provided. A command for sending an electronic correspondence from a sender to a recipient is received. The electronic correspondence is provided for delivery to the recipient based on an electronic correspondence address for the recipient included in the electronic correspondence. A sender specified time value associated with the electronic correspondence is received from the sender of the electronic correspondence. The electronic correspondence is deleted from the server on which the electronic correspondence is stored when the received time value has elapsed.
US08291029B2
A system is for pushing information from a host system to a mobile data communication device upon sensing a triggering event. A redirector program operating at the host system enables a user to continuously redirect user-selected data items from the host system to the user's mobile data communication device upon detecting that one or more user-defined triggering events has occurred. The redirector program operates in connection with event generating applications and repackaging systems at the host system to configure and detect particular user-defined events, and to repackage the user-selected data items in an electronic wrapper prior to pushing the data items to the mobile device.
US08291020B2
A wireless communications system may include a plurality of mobile wireless communications devices each having a subscriber account associated therewith including a respective personal identification number (PIN) and a unique identification (ID). The system may further include at least one electronic mail (email) server comprising a database of subscriber accounts and for sending emails to and receiving emails from the mobile wireless communications devices based upon the PINs and unique IDs. The at least one email server may compare a given PIN and unique ID, based upon a communication from a given mobile wireless device, with a corresponding PIN and unique ID for the corresponding subscriber account in the database, and update the corresponding subscriber account based upon a discrepancy.
US08291018B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are provided, which may provide activity coordination services. An apparatus may include a processor configured to receive a request for a context-sensitive calendar. The request may comprise an indication of an associated context. The processor may also be configured to determine the context associated with the received request. The processor may further be configured to aggregate one or more information atoms based at least in part upon the determined context. The processor may additionally be configured to generate a context-sensitive calendar comprising the aggregated information atoms. The processor may also be configured to provide the generated context-sensitive calendar to a user. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.
US08291015B2
A program product for modeling video network reliability includes a computer-usable medium that encodes computer instructions. The computer instructions cause a data processing system to perform modeling operations. Those operations include obtaining historical data for multiple video conferences, and executing a modeling algorithm that produces a model representing the historical data. The model can be analyzed to identify opportunities for improving reliability of a video network. In an example embodiment, the computer instructions output results that a user can use reconfigure the video network for improved reliability. In another embodiment, the computer instructions analyze the model to identify opportunities for improving reliability of the video network, and the computer instructions automatically reconfigure the video network, based on the identified opportunities. The modeling algorithm may be a decision tree algorithm, such as the ID3-based algorithm known as C4.5.
US08291009B2
A system and method for remote rendering of computer graphics wherein user transactions are reliable and the transmission of rendered graphics is relatively fast. The invention is implemented in a client server context, where a computer graphics application and rendering resources are located at a server. A user controls the graphics application through a client machine connected to the server through a computer network. The user's commands are sent from the client to the server, while rendered computer graphics are transmitted from the server to a display at the client. Different transport protocols are used, depending on the requirements of a particular transmission. Data related to user interactions is transmitted using a relatively reliable transport protocol, such as TCP. Rendered subject graphics data is transmitted from the server to the client using a less reliable but faster transport protocol, such as UDP.
US08291008B2
This invention relates to information operation carried out between information processing apparatuses such as computer, etc. mutually connected through network such as internet, etc. More particularly, this invention relates to an information picture utilization system where there is used “information picture” in which picture information and related information for causing an operator to carry out a predetermined operation on the basis of the picture information are caused to be one handling unit, and a system for allowing notification to server carried out when processing operation based on related information included in information picture is carried out to have lifetime to thereby realize lowering of communications traffic taking place when information pictures are distributed and duplications are increased with time. In more practical sense, this invention relates to a system in which lifetime information is included in information picture itself, a system in which lifetime control is carried out on the basis of history at client, and a system in which lifetime control is carried out at the server side.
US08291006B2
Techniques for generating a distributed stream processing application are provided. The techniques include obtaining a declarative description of one or more data stream processing tasks, wherein the declarative description expresses at least one stream processing task, and generating one or more execution units from the declarative description of one or more data stream processing tasks, wherein the one or more execution units are deployable across one or more distributed computing nodes, and comprise a distributed data stream processing application.
US08291004B2
A communications network comprises a computer having a control panel application with controls for remotely controlling playback on a web browser of a wireless communication device; a wireless communications device; and data connection means between the computer and the device, such as a wireless network, Bluetooth®, or USB. The device comprises a web browser; a content playback application program interface (API) communicative with the web browser; and a playback control application communicative with the control panel application to receive web browser playback instructions and with the content playback API to transmit the instructions thereto.
US08291002B2
A data processing apparatus includes a register file having a set of registers for storing data values for processing by processing circuitry. The apparatus has first shift circuitry arranged to receive a data value from the register and selection circuitry is responsive to a second control signal to select between the first shifted data value and a load data value received from a memory. Second shift circuitry is arranged to receive the data value selected by the selection circuitry and is responsive to a third control signal indicating a second shift amount S2 of a x (n+1) bit positions to generate a second shifted data value by shifting bit values within the received selected data value by the second shift amount S2, where a is zero or an integer. The second shift circuitry is then operable to output the second shifted data value to the register file.
US08290998B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a computer-implemented method comprising specifying a landscape definition, the landscape definition specifying a plurality of different servers to be instantiated on a cloud computing system, wherein the plurality of servers are operable to work together as a single logical entity, the landscape definition further specifying dependencies between the servers, and wherein each server in the landscape definition is stored as an image on the cloud computing system, each image including information for instantiating a corresponding server on the cloud computing system and instantiating the plurality of servers on the cloud computing system using the landscape definition.
US08290992B2
A file management method includes creating a rotation group by grouping a file group in which the generations of the files are managed by changes in the file names, and storing information of the rotation group in a rotation group management unit; acquiring file identification information of the files belonging to the rotation group from the file group according to the information of the rotation group, and storing the file identification information in a file identification information management unit; and acquiring file identification information of the rotation group from the file identification information management unit, further acquiring file identification information of the files belonging to the rotation group from the file group according to the information of the rotation group, and comparing the acquired pieces of file identification information.
US08290988B2
The present invention provides a Global Information Architecture (GINA) to create an object oriented, software-based modeling environment for the modeling of various data sources and allowing queries and transactions across those sources. The modeling environment is described in itself. Introspection is achieved since the model is described in the model, and early validation that the infrastructure is correct is established in that the infrastructure must execute against itself. Object traversal is accomplished via vectors that describe how an object can be reached from other objects. Objects are linked by describing what type of object (data source) is to be reached and on the basis of what possible attribute values of that object.
US08290986B2
Techniques are provided for generating quality measures for items, including web pages, based on a “random searcher” behavior model. The random searcher behavior model takes into account “implicit” links between items, instead of or in addition to the explicit links. After identifying the implicit links between items, the implicit links may be used as the basis for generating quality measures for the items to which the implicit links point. A variety of types of implicit links are described. To facilitate the generation of quality measures for items based on implicit links, a graph of the implicit links may be constructed in a manner similar to a webgraph.
US08290984B2
Applications, code modules, and other such software objects are able to be deployed and/or ported even when the corresponding configuration data is spread between a relational database management system (RDBMS) database and a meta data services (MDS) database, even where the configuration data is spread across any disparate databases. Configuration data also can be stored in a custom repository, such as a custom extensible markup language (XML) file. One approach involves detecting foreign keys, creating logical references to replace the foreign keys, and resolving the foreign keys to new references in the deployed environment by using the logical references. Code can be stored in the databases in order to help resolve the foreign keys.
US08290978B2
This invention has as its object to attain strong security and to implement network solutions with high convenience and simplicity with low cost upon providing Web services. To this end, an information processing apparatus according to this invention has the following arrangement. That is, an information processing apparatus (1400) which includes a plurality of Web services (110 and the like) and a plurality of authentication/authorization services (107 and the like), is characterized by having an XML script unit (104) which holds an XML script (106) that describes association between information pertaining to respective Web services and information pertaining to the authentication/authorization services that execute authentication processing upon providing the respective Web services, and an arbitration service (103) which determines information pertaining to the authentication/authorization service described in association with the Web service requested by the user, and in that when the user is authenticated using the determined authentication/authorization service, the Web service requested by the user is provided.
US08290973B2
The present disclosure relates generally to determining influencers in a Web 2.0 environment. More specifically, in some implementations, an influence of an electronically-accessed content on an involvement between an accessor and a third party is determined. In further implementations, a provider of the electronically accessed content is rewarded based on the assessed influence.
US08290970B2
In accordance with at least some embodiments of the invention, a computer-implemented method, and associated apparatus, comprises determining a configuration of a computer, comparing the computer's configuration to configuration information in a database, and based on the comparison, offering a user at least one driver from which to select for running on the computer. In accordance with other embodiments, a computer-implemented method, and associated apparatus, comprises, in response to a user selecting a software control, determining if extended memory exists above a maximum amount of memory permitted by an operating system, and if extended memory exists, automatically making accessible the extended memory.
US08290933B2
A method and system for accurately estimating a result size of a Group-By operation in a relational database. The estimate utilizes the probability of union of the columns involved in the operation, as well as the relative cardinality of each column with respect to the other columns in the operation. In addition, the estimate incorporates the use of table filters when indicated such that table filters are applied prior to determining the size of the tables in the operation, as well as including equivalent columns into the list of columns that are a part of the Group-By operation. Accordingly, the estimate of the result size of the operation includes influencing factors that provide an accurate estimation of system memory requirements.
US08290924B2
A type of search engine (referred to as the “Get Engine”) receives one or more keywords, semantically formulates a question being asked from the keywords, generates specifications for the query, and searches a website index to determine websites that are likely owners of the answer to the question based on the query specifications and website classifications. The Get Engine determines a website that is most likely the owner of the answer based on credibility, searches the pages of the website using the keywords and additional keywords related to the query, retrieves the answer from the pages of the website, and receives feedback used in part to determine the credibility of the website.
US08290922B2
Accessing data in a data store at a field granularity. A method includes receiving a query from a user. The query specifies one or more non-unique fields of a record. The method further includes sending the query to a data store to retrieve the fields of the record at a field granularity. The method further includes receiving data for the one or more non-unique fields of the record at a field granularity.
US08290919B1
A system and method for distributing and accessing files in a distributed storage system uses an ordered list of the storage nodes in the system to determine the storage node on which a file is stored. The distributed storage system includes a cluster of storage nodes and may also include one or more client nodes that participate in the system as storage resources. Each node (client and storage) stores an ordered list of the storage nodes in the system, allowing any of the nodes to access the file. The list is updated whenever a new storage node is added to the system, an existing storage node is removed from the system, or a new storage node is swapped with an existing storage node. Each one of the nodes may independently compute a new mapping of files to the storage nodes when the ordered list is changed.
US08290917B2
A query that identifies an input data source is received. The input data source is partitioned into a plurality of partitions. Each of the partitions includes a set of data elements with an associated set of indices for indicating an ordering of the data elements. A query type for a query operator in the received query is identified. It is determined whether a reordering of data elements will be performed based on the identified query type. The data elements in at least one of the partitions are reordered when it is determined based on the identified query type that reordering will be performed.
US08290915B2
One aspect of the present invention includes retrieving and recovering data chunks from alternate data stores in a storage management system which utilizes deduplication. In one embodiment, deduplication information for data chunks of data objects is stored at a system-wide level to enable the transfer and access of data chunks stored among multiple storage pools. When a data object is accessed on a first storage pool that contains damaged or inaccessible data chunks, the undamaged and accessible chunks may be retrieved from the first storage pool, in addition to retrieving an undamaged copy of the damaged or inaccessible data chunks from alternate data storage pools. Thus, a complete data object can be retrieved or recovered with a combination of chunks from the first storage pool and other storage pools within the storage management system, without requiring the entire data object to be retrieved from a backup source.
US08290914B2
Disclosed is a system for, and method of, determining whether records and entity representations should be delinked. The system and method need no human interaction in order to calculate internal match scores by considering data associated with an entity representation and external match scores by considering data external to the entity representation. The system and method uses the internal match scores and external match scores to make the delinking decisions.
US08290912B1
A system and method for efficiently utilizing endpoint virtualization information during backup operations. A computer system includes a backup server that permits the identification, browsing and selecting of files within virtual layers. Examples of virtual layers comprise at least a user data layer, an applications layer, and an operating system layer. Backup messages are sent to a corresponding client computer to backup the selected files or layers. The client computer includes a virtualization agent configured to manage one or more virtual layers in the client. In response to determining the selected data corresponds to a virtual layer of the one or more virtual layers, a backup agent in the client is configured to communicate with the virtualization agent in order to identify one or more files that correspond to the virtual layer, retrieve the one or more files, and send the one or more files to the backup server. The backup server is further able to create a different backup schedule for each virtual layer. Also, during an incremental backup of data in a virtual layer, the client computer is configured to ignore files outside of the virtual layer.
US08290908B2
Processing data synchronization sessions includes processing a request to initiate a synchronization session from one or more clients to update one or more data records that include one or more data items. The one or more clients are selectively identified as one of a trusted client and an untrusted client based on one or more properties of the synchronization session, wherein the trusted client is configured to support all data classes defined by the server. The one or more clients are detected as being configured to support field level differencing that sends changed data items only for the one or data records or record level differencing that sends all of the data items included in the one or more data records.
US08290899B2
A group stamping style asynchronous replication service utilizes a loosely-accurate global clock in a data backup and recovery storage environment. The storage environment includes a set of source storage systems illustratively embodied as source replication nodes that cooperate to maintain a consistency group that may span multiple geographical sites. The storage environment also includes one or more target storage systems illustratively embodied as target replication nodes configured to service the consistency group. The group stamping style service utilizes the loosely-accurate global clock to provide consistent replication of a storage space, e.g., a target storage space, of the consistency group.
US08290896B2
The present disclosure provides a method of statistical application in an OLTP environment to reduce the intensive computational load of invoking SQL statements for statistical calculations. The method introduces a time element into statistical records, and use the time element to determine the time status of previously computed statistical records. Upon receiving a query for a statistical record, the system first searches for an existing copy of the statistical record, and checks the time status of the statistical record if found. The system sends the statistical record to the inquirer if the record exists and is unexpired, and invokes an SQL statement to compute the statistical record only if the record does not exist or has expired. The statistical records may be placed in statistical table in a database and/or a cache of an application server. The disclosed strategy may also increase attack resistance of the system.
US08290895B2
An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In some situations, certain words can be stored, for example, in a temporary dictionary for use in particular situations. For instance, the names of the recipients of an electronic message might be stored in a temporary dictionary for rapid retrieval when entering a salutation in the message. As another example, a number of the words in an existing electronic message may be stored in a temporary dictionary and made available to a user when replying to or forwarding the message since the existing message might include words that the user might reasonably be expected to type in the reply message or the forwarded message.
US08290886B2
Memory networks and methods are provided. Machine intelligence is achieved by a plurality of linked processor units in which child modules receive input data. The input data are processed to identify patterns and/or sequences. Data regarding the observed patterns and/or sequences are passed to a patent module which may receive as inputs data from one or more child modules. the parent module examines its input data for patterns and/or sequences and then provides feedback to the child module or modules regarding the parent-level patterns that correlate with the child-level patterns. These systems and methods are extensible to large networks of interconnected processor modules.
US08290879B2
Disclosed is a system and method for enabling a fundraising program using fundraising cards redeemable by not-for-profit organization (“NPO”) supporters for branded stored-value cards. The system includes a scrip company host system having a server, where the server includes a microcontroller. A remote user device, having a display, is operatively coupled to the scrip company host system and configured to enable access to the scrip company web site. The microcontroller is adapted to detect access to the scrip company web site by a NPO, and cause the plurality of fundraising cards to be distributed to the NPO in response to detecting an order for the plurality of fundraising cards by the NPO. The fundraising cards are distributed to the NPO prior to receiving payment from the NPO for the fundraising cards, thereby making it unnecessary for the NPO to carry a paid-for inventory of fundraising cards.
US08290867B2
A micro-payment system has buyers, sellers, and a broker. The buyers establish accounts with the broker and provide payment information allowing the broker to invoice the buyers. The sellers establish accounts with the brokers and specify terms for accessing items, including electronic content, available from the sellers. The sellers also provide payment information that allows the broker to credit the sellers for sales of the items. The broker aggregates the buyers' micro-payment purchases and invoices the buyers. The broker also aggregates the sellers' micro-payment sales and credits the sellers.
US08290851B2
A system and methods are provided for using order descriptor identifiers in relation to orders being used in trading strategies. According to one example method, when a hedge order is submitted upon detecting a fill of another order, the hedge order includes one or more order descriptor identifiers conveying a purpose of the hedge order to a user. The order descriptor identifiers can be used to search for desired orders and perform more effective order management and post trade analysis.
US08290843B2
A method for managing an investment vehicle. The investment vehicle issues multiple debt instruments to a plurality of investors. The debt instruments have different liability characteristics. The proceeds of the debt instruments are invested in assets. From time to time, liabilities on the debt instruments and the credit quality of the assets is reevaluated, to ensure that the cash flows generated by the portfolio, disregarding fair market value of the assets, will be sufficient to pay timely principal and interest on the liabilities based on the evaluation criteria of two different rating agencies. In response to the reevaluating, the capital structure of the investment vehicle is adjusted to maintain a desired agency rating for the debt instruments.
US08290841B2
A system and method for determining policy coverage and generating a suggested policy for gaps in the policy coverage includes determining policy coverage for one or more policies in a policy coverage space and determining regions uncovered by the policy coverage in the policy coverage space. Suggested policies are generated to cover the regions uncovered by the policy coverage. The policy coverage is supplemented with the suggested polices to complete coverage of a policy set.
US08290825B1
An Internet-based auction of items for sale is hosted in a server computer. Different members who want to participate in the Internet-based auction establish credit information. That credit information is shown to other users in the auction. The credit information for example can be shown as colors or the like.
US08290822B2
A computer-implemented system leverages binary decision diagram (BDD) structures to provide selectable attribute values for one or more configurable products. The BDD structures may define offering attribute nodes and non-offering attribute nodes. The offering attribute nodes may represent product attribute values selectable by the user based on product configuration rules, and the non-offering attribute nodes may represent product attribute values not selectable by the user based on the product configuration rules. The computer-implemented system may further include at least one memory storage device that stores one or more product configuration rules used to define permissible product configurations and attributes of the products. By evaluating the BDD structures and the product configuration rules, the computer-implemented system may prepare a customized set of product records for transmission to a user, wherein the customized set of product records contains product attribute values corresponding to the offering attribute nodes.
US08290820B2
Creating a journal of media encounters listing media content that was previously provided to a user. Metadata describing the media encounters is used to create journal entries. The journal is presented to the user for interaction. A purchase opportunity for the media content is provided to the user based on the metadata.
US08290817B2
A user may select and purchase digital content for a mobile terminal over a wireless communication system. The user may select among two or more delivery options, each having a different price. Immediate delivery may be selected at a first price; and delayed delivery may be selected at a second price less than the first price. The immediate delivery may be via a high-speed wireless channel at the first price, or a low-speed wireless channel at a third price less than the first price. The delayed delivery may be during off-peak usage time of the wireless communication system at the second price, or via a wired communication system at a fourth price less than the second price. The mobile terminal may dock to a terminal connected to a wired communication system to download the purchased digital content, transmitting a unique identifier to the content provider for identification.
US08290813B2
Aspects to ensure maintenance of individual government benefits in a retail environment include identifying of an individual shopper with an associated level of available benefits during a shopping session. Purchases relative to predetermined criteria, including the associated level of available benefits, are tracked. Scheduling a next appointment during the shopping session for the individual shopper with an agency providing the government benefits based on the tracking occurs, wherein a potential lapse in benefits is avoided.
US08290810B2
In embodiments, the present invention provides a method and system for associating a survey question with an interactive sponsored content, selecting the interactive sponsored content based at least in part on a mobile subscriber characteristic associated with a mobile communication facility, presenting the interactive sponsored content to the mobile communication facility, receiving a response to the survey question from the mobile communication facility, analyzing a plurality of user responses to the survey question, and presenting a survey analytic to the mobile communication facility based at least in part on the analysis.
US08290807B2
Systems, program products, and methods of human resources planning and development are provided. An example of a system includes a server in communication with a plurality of client computers over a communication network and program product stored in the memory of the server adapted to predict a future number of employees desired within the organization for a preselected period of time to define a human resource manning plan, to assign a plurality of employment development activities to each of a plurality of participating employees in the organization to define an employment development plan for each participating employee, to form a recruitment plan for the organization, and to provide continuous feedback loops so that revisions in the human resource manning plan, the recruitment plan, or at least one of the employment development plans are accounted for in each other of such plans.
US08290803B2
A migration system and method. The migration method comprises receiving a request to generate a migration plan for an entity and generating a strategic plan comprising a first procedure for transferring knowledge required for performing job functions comprised by a first set of individuals to a second set of individuals and a second procedure for defining a set of temporary individuals to perform a transition management process through the transferring. Additionally, an allocation plan and a ramping down plan are generated. The allocation plan is for allocating the set of temporary resources to the entity for the transition management process and second allocating said second set of individuals for the transferring. The ramping down plan is for ramping down to close out the set of temporary individuals based on external data. The resource migration plan is for supporting the entity and includes a procedure for allocating the second set of individuals for supporting the entity.
US08290790B1
Systems and methods for allowing a user (e.g., a benefits administrator) to maintain and modify a contract or a group for a prescription drug plan may be provided. In response to receiving a request to modify a contract or a group, a prescription benefits management application may retrieve data relating to the contract or group and allow the user to input information relating to the contract or group, input broker information, input billing information, select a pharmacy network, select pricing options for the prescription plan, create a customized prescription plan, input brand/generic difference overrides, etc. In some embodiments, the modifications and/or additions made to a contract or group may be transmitted to a pharmacist, thereby allowing the pharmacist to fill one or more prescriptions in real-time or upon updating the system (e.g., within 48 to 72 hours).
US08290789B2
A system for predicting healthcare financial risk including the process of accessing patient data associated with one or more patents, accessing geographic and healthcare system data, filtering the patient data, geographic data, and healthcare system data into clean data, and applying a predictive risk model to the clean data to generate patient profile data and to identify a portion of the patients associated with a level of predicted financial risk.
US08290783B2
An apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention for mixing a first frame of a first input data stream and a second frame of a second input data stream has a processing unit adapted to generate an output frame, wherein the output frame has output spectral data describing a lower part of an output spectrum up to an output cross-over frequency, and wherein the output frame further has output SBR-data describing a higher part of the output spectrum above the output cross-over frequency by way of energy-related values in an output time/frequency grid resolution. The processing unit is further adapted such that the output spectral data corresponding to frequencies below a minimum value of cross-over frequencies of the first frame, the second frame and the output cross-over frequency is generated in a spectral domain and the output SBR-data corresponding to frequencies above a maximum value of cross-over frequencies of the first and second frames and the output cross-over frequency is processed in a SBR-domain.
US08290778B2
A computerized information apparatus useful for providing directions and other information to a user. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a processor and network interface and computer readable medium having at least one computer program disposed thereon, the at least one program being configured to receive a speech input from the user regarding an organization or entities, and provide a graphic or visual representation of the organization or entity to aid them in finding the organization or entity. At least a portion of the information is obtained via the network interface from a remote server.
US08290776B2
Voice of plural participants during a meeting is obtained and dialogue situations of the participants that change every second are displayed in real time, so that it is possible to provide a meeting visualization system for triggering more positive discussions. Voice data collected from plural voice collecting units associated with plural participants is processed by a voice processing server to extract speech information. The speech information is sequentially input to an aggregation server. A query process is performed for the speech information by a stream data processing unit of the aggregation server, so that activity data such as the accumulation value of speeches of the participants in the meeting is generated. A display processing unit visualizes and displays dialogue situations of the participants by using the sizes of circles and the thicknesses of lines on the basis of the activity data.
US08290767B2
A method of enabling the selection of a language to be employed as a method input language by a disambiguation routine of a handheld electronic device having stored therein a plurality of method input languages and disambiguation routine number, includes detecting a selection of a language, detecting as an ambiguous input an actuation of one or more input members, outputting at least a plurality of the language objects that corresponds to the ambiguous input, outputting an indicator which one of the method input languages is currently employed by the disambiguation function, and enabling an alternate one of the input language methods to be selected in response to a selection of the indicator in lieu of one of the plurality of language objects.
US08290765B2
An improved handheld electronic device having a reduced keyboard provides facilitated language entry by making available to a user certain words that a user may reasonably be expected to enter. In some situations, certain words can be stored, for example, in a temporary dictionary for use in particular situations. For instance, the names of the recipients of an electronic message might be stored in a temporary dictionary for rapid retrieval when entering a salutation in the message. As another example, a number of the words in an existing electronic message may be stored in a temporary dictionary and made available to a user when replying to or forwarding the message since the existing message might include words that the user might reasonably be expected to type in the reply message or the forwarded message.
US08290761B1
A method and system for rapidly modeling and simulating intra-die variations in an integrated circuit are disclosed. In one embodiment, each logic gate in an integrated circuit has a characteristic to be simulated, where the characteristic of the gate is a function of one or more parameters having intra-die variations. For each parameter, a model of intra-die variation of the parameter is generated such that a number of random variables in the model is compressed to a reduced number (r) of random variables based on a spatial correlation of the intra-die variation of the parameter. Then, using a Quasi Monte Carlo (QMC) technique, the integrated circuit is simulated based on the model of the intra-die variation of each of the one or more parameters.
US08290758B2
Mechanisms are provided for controlling a fidelity of a simulation of a system. A model of the system is received, where the model has a plurality of individual components of the system. Fidelity values are assigned to models of the individual components of the system and a simulation of the system is executed using the model of the system and the models of the individual components of the system. The simulation comprises a plurality of transactions targeting a receiver component. A history of mismatches between a fidelity value associated with the receiver component and required fidelity values of the plurality of transactions targeting the receiver component is maintained. A prediction of a fidelity value to be assigned to the receiver component based on the history of mismatches is performed. A fidelity value of the receiver component is adjusted based on results of predicting the fidelity value to be assigned to the receiver component.
US08290756B2
A process for simulating the physical behavior of a vehicle tire rolling on the ground with which the tire tread has an area of contact including at least one adherent contact zone and at least one sliding contact zone, which process includes at least modeling operations, wherein the modeling operations, by applying physical laws that are known and/or developed by specific experimentation, as a first model, a model of the longitudinal forces (Fx), the transverse forces (Fy), and a self-alignment torque (Mz), including an adherence coefficient and a shear modulus of the rubber of the tire, and on the basis of dynamic parameters associated with the physical conditions of rolling and use of the tire, in which the self-alignment torque is associated with the intensity of the longitudinal and transverse forces and their distribution in the contact area, a second model of a local heating model expressing variations in a temperature of contact of the tread with the ground, and a third model of a general heating and thermal flux model, in which said third model in a peripheral tread temperature and an internal tire temperature, a coefficient of thermal conductivity of the tread, and phenomena with a thermodynamic component such as internal deformations of the tire, heat transfers between the tire and its environment, and slip of the tread on the ground, in which at least the adherence coefficient and the shear modulus are involved in the first models as variable.
US08290753B2
The technology includes methods, a system, and a computer readable medium for predicting the time to failure of an electronic component, by generating a finite element model of the component, developing a microstructure-based failure model for each representative volume element associated with each node in the finite element model, and calculating a time to failure of the component from the shortest predicted time to failure of any node when a value of a stress variable is applied to the microstructure-based failure model of each node. The technology further includes methods, system, and a medium programmed to predict failure of a system that includes an electronic component, based on predicting time to failure of the component.
US08290751B2
Disclosed is an electronic processing system for a flow cytometer that uses a processing chip that processes data in a parallel architecture on a sample by sample basis and provides for high throughput of data. In addition, multi-gain linear amplifiers are used which are matched using feedback circuits to provide accurate data and high resolution data having high dynamic range.
US08290745B2
A photovoltaic (PV) power generation system is described. The system includes at least one PV module comprising a plurality of PV cells, a plurality of sensors, and a processing device communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors. The processing device is configured to determine a power output each of the plurality of PV cells, receive data from the plurality of sensors, and identify a faulty sensor within the plurality of sensors based at least partially on the determined power output and the received data.
US08290742B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses directed to determining the performance of a dehumidifier are disclosed herein. A method of determining dehumidifier performance configured in accordance with one embodiment includes determining an inlet humidity value for airflow entering the dehumidifier, and determining an outlet humidity value for airflow exiting the dehumidifier. The outlet humidity value is determined based at least in part on an efficiency or correction factor for the dehumidifier. The method further includes comparing the inlet humidity value with the outlet humidity value to determine the amount of moisture that the dehumidifier is removing for the air.
US08290730B2
Methods and systems are provided for deriving and analyzing shape metrics, including skewness metrics, from physiological signals and their derivatives to determine measurement quality, patient status and operating conditions of a physiological measurement device. Such determinations may be used for any number of functions, including indicating to a patient or care provider that the measurement quality is low or unacceptable, alerting a patient or care provider to a change in patient status, triggering or delaying a recalibration of a monitoring device, and adjusting the operating parameters of a monitoring system.
US08290721B2
A flow meter for measuring flow of a process fluid includes a sensor configured to provide a sensor output signal. The sensor output signal is related to flow of the process fluid. Circuitry in the flow meter is configured to determine a statistical parameter related to sensor output signal. Diagnostic circuitry provides a diagnostic output based upon the determined statistical parameter and the sensor output signal.
US08290715B2
The disclosed subject matter provides techniques for multiple-factor selection. The factors can be features or elements that are jointly associated with one or more outcomes by their joint presence or absence. There may be a non-causative correlation between the factors, features, or elements and the outcomes. In some embodiments, Entropy Minimization and Boolean Parsimony (EMBP) is used to identify modules of genes jointly associated with disease from gene expression data, and a logic function is provided to connect the combined expression levels in each gene module with the presence of disease. The smallest module of genes whose joint expression levels can predict the presence of disease can be identified.
US08290713B2
The present invention provides methods of predicting protein aggregation and designing aggregation inhibitors. One such method for predicting potential protein aggregation inhibiting peptide sequences, includes the steps of: a) identifying a peptide sequence forming at least part of an aggregation region in a target protein; b) testing whether said peptide sequence forms part of a β-sheet; c) if a positive result is achieved in step b), extracting the adjacent strands of that sheet; d) identifying residues in the adjacent strands to said peptide sequence whose side chains interact with said peptide sequence, those residues forming a potential protein aggregation inhibiting peptide sequence. The present invention also provides methods of designing compounds using the residues identified in the above method; compounds produced by the methods and computer programs for carrying out the above methods.
US08290711B2
The invention is a method of constructing a three-dimensional fracture density log of a porous formation traversed by fractures and a borehole. A number N of intersections between the fractures and the borehole is measured over a section of the borehole of length L located at a depth d, from observations of the wall of this section. A conditional probability law of the three-dimensional fracture density is then estimated, knowing the number N of intersections. The value of the three-dimensional fracture density at depth d is determined by calculating the mean of this conditional probability law. Finally, the three-dimensional fracture density log is constructed by repeating the previous stages for different depths. A three-dimensional fracture density uncertainty log can also be associated by calculating quantiles of the conditional probability law.
US08290706B2
A map data display control apparatus includes: a position information acquiring section acquiring position information; a latitude determining section determining whether a latitude identified by the acquired position information is in the excess of a predetermined latitude threshold or not; a display range calculating section calculating a display range for displaying a map with reference to a position identified by the acquired position information based on the result of the determination made by the latitude determining section; and a rendering section rendering a map associated with the reference position based on the calculated display range.
US08290704B2
A system and method for collecting and conveying point of interest (POI) information is disclosed. The system detects when a vehicle is at a previously unknown POI, gathers information related to the new POI, and updates a central server with the new POI location information. In this context, a POI may be any type of location including roads, gas stations, strip malls, retail establishments, eating establishments, hospitals, police stations, etc. POI information may include a variety of data including new road locations, new entrances to roads, toll amounts, gas station names, gas prices, strip mall names, retail establishment names, eating establishment names, sales and specials, hospital names, emergency room entrance locations, police station entrances, etc.
US08290702B2
After a navigation device performs navigation positioning, the moving speed of the navigation device and the distance between the position of the navigation device and a destination can be acquired. If the moving speed of the navigation device is slower than a predetermined speed and if the distance between the navigation device and the destination is smaller than a predetermined distance, the navigation device displays a pedestrian mode or a slow driving speed mode; otherwise the navigation device displays a normal driving speed mode.
US08290696B1
Methods for evaluating and implementing air traffic management tools and approaches for managing and avoiding an air traffic incident before the incident occurs. A first system receives parameters for flight plan configurations (e.g., initial fuel carried, flight route, flight route segments followed, flight altitude for a given flight route segment, aircraft velocity for each flight route segment, flight route ascent rate, flight route descent route, flight departure site, flight departure time, flight arrival time, flight destination site and/or alternate flight destination site), flight plan schedule, expected weather along each flight route segment, aircraft specifics, airspace (altitude) bounds for each flight route segment, navigational aids available. The invention provides flight plan routing and direct routing or wind optimal routing, using great circle navigation and spherical Earth geometry. The invention provides for aircraft dynamics effects, such as wind effects at each altitude, altitude changes, airspeed changes and aircraft turns to provide predictions of aircraft trajectory (and, optionally, aircraft fuel use). A second system provides several aviation applications using the first system. Several classes of potential incidents are analyzed and averted, by appropriate change en route of one or more parameters in the flight plan configuration, as provided by a conflict detection and resolution module and/or traffic flow management modules. These applications include conflict detection and resolution, miles-in trail or minutes-in-trail aircraft separation, flight arrival management, flight re-routing, weather prediction and analysis and interpolation of weather variables based upon sparse measurements. The invention combines these features to provide an aircraft monitoring system and an aircraft user system that interact and negotiate changes with each other.
US08290692B2
An engine-starting device for stopping the engine after satisfaction of an idling-stop condition during idling of a vehicle, starting rotation of a starter-motor upon satisfaction of a starter-motor rotation start condition, and causing a pinion gear to mesh with a ring gear upon satisfaction of a pinion gear meshing condition, includes the ring gear to be connected to a crank shaft, the pinion gear for transmitting the starter-motor rotation, a plunger for causing the pinion gear to mesh with the ring gear, and a starter control section for instructing energization of the starter-motor, in which the starter-motor is energized to be rotated upon the satisfaction of the starter-motor rotation start condition prior to clearing of the idling-stop condition in response to a restart request, and the pinion gear is caused to mesh with the ring gear by the plunger upon the satisfaction of the pinion gear meshing condition.
US08290686B2
Transitioning between combustion modes includes an intermediate combustion mode. Transitions are controlled in accordance with a preferred fuel mass and permissible fuel mass ranges corresponding to changing intake airflow.
US08290685B2
A control device for an engine, capable of accurately estimating the quantity of exhaust heat from the engine and performing engine control which improves the exhaust quality and fuel consumption of the engine in various operating conditions thereof, by using the accurate estimated value of the quantity of exhaust heat. A control device for an engine is provided with an exhaust flow rate sensor for directly sensing the flow rate of exhaust gas discharged from the engine, an exhaust temperature estimating device for sensing or estimating the temperature of the exhaust gas discharged from the engine, and an exhaust heat quantity estimating device for estimating, based on an output of the exhaust flow rate sensor and an output of the exhaust temperature estimating device, the quantity of heat of the exhaust gas discharged from the engine.
US08290682B2
The invention comprises an engine control device and method for use in a vehicle incorporating an internal combustion engine and a motor that are capable of transmitting motive power to an axle. The device has an engine utilization reduction portion configured to reduce the power supplied by the engine when a requested engine power is above a predefined engine power minimum value when the device is in a hybrid mode thereby increasing power provided by the electric motor. The device also may have a computer readable engine off portion configured to prevent the engine from starting or consuming fuel thereby causing the vehicle to be directionally powered by the electric motor only. The device may also have a warm up portion configured to operate the engine in warmup mode and limit the power supplied by the engine when the engine temperature is below a predefined engine operating temperature thereby reducing emissions during engine warmup.
US08290678B2
To further improve, in a brake control method and device for a two-wheeled motor vehicle that utilizes a wheel cylinder pressure as a parameter for predicting the potential for lifting of a rear wheel, the accuracy of predicting lifting of the rear wheel.A brake control method of the present invention comprises the steps of inputting a signal of an input sensor (step 100); detecting a front wheel cylinder pressure (step 102); detecting an amount of change in the front wheel cylinder pressure (step 104); determining whether or not the front wheel cylinder pressure and the amount of change in the front wheel cylinder pressure that have been detected correspond to a brake condition where lifting of a rear wheel can occur (step 106); and, when it is determined that the front wheel cylinder pressure and the amount of change in the front wheel cylinder pressure that have been detected correspond to the brake condition, reducing a pressure amplification gradient of the front wheel cylinder pressure.
US08290676B2
The invention relates to a method of controlling a vehicle brake that is adapted to exert a braking force in response to an actuation setpoint, the method comprising the following steps: from a braking setpoint, determining a nominal actuation setpoint for the brake actuator, taking account of all of the components of the braking setpoint; from the same braking setpoint, and from a measurement of the torque developed by the brake, determining a correction for the nominal actuation setpoint, this correction taking account only of low-frequency variations in the braking setpoint; and adding the correction to the nominal setpoint.
US08290673B2
A system includes a friction element having a driving mechanism and a driven mechanism. At least one of the driving mechanism and the driven mechanism is configured to rotate. A drive unit is configured to provide a torque to at least one of the driving mechanism and the driven mechanism. A control processor is configured to diagnose a friction element failure based on a slip speed, which is the difference between rotational speeds of the driving mechanism and the driven mechanism. The control processor is further configured to induce a slip condition as part of a shift process and diagnose the friction element failure if the derived slip speed is substantially zero after inducing the slip condition.
US08290672B2
A method is provided for controlling a vehicle, including receiving an operator input indicative of a desired power for at least one predetermined function, and variably controlling at least one pressure-actuated friction slip clutch in a vehicle powertrain in response to the received operator input in order to control a torque transmitted via the friction slip clutch.
US08290669B2
A system for controlling an engine of a vehicle can include: an engine, a transmission, a coupling, and a controller. The controller can be configured to adjust a speed of the engine output shaft based on a comparison of a shaft speed of the input shaft with a shaft speed limit when an operator of the vehicle changes from a first one of the plurality of speed ratios to a second one of the plurality of speed ratios. This control can occur during a downshift, for example, when the second one of the plurality of speed ratios is numerically greater than the first one of the speed ratios. Thus, the controller can be configured to protect the engine and the vehicle from shift shock when a sensor in the control system for the transmission has failed. Also, a method for controlling an engine of a vehicle during a downshift in a transmission driven by the engine can include comparing a current speed of an input shaft of the transmission to a shaft speed limit when a change from a first one of a plurality of speed ratios of the transmission to a second one of a plurality of speed ratios of the transmission occurs, where the first one of the plurality of speed ratios is numerically less than the second one of the plurality of speed ratios.
US08290659B2
When an updating event occurs, an information management base station unit inquires all the vehicles under its management about the presence or absence of vehicle-mounted control units to be updated. Based on replies from the individual vehicles, the information management base station unit selects the vehicles to be updated, and then it automatically updates them via wireless communication.
US08290656B2
A controller of electric vehicle includes: sensor sensing vehicle information; torque target value setter; torque command value calculator; first paragraph calculator implementing first filtering treatment of the torque command value, the first filtering treatment including transmission characteristic having hand pass filter characteristic; second paragraph calculator implementing second filtering treatment of motor revolution speed which is one of pieces of the vehicle information, the second filtering treatment including: the transmission characteristic having band pass filter characteristic, and model of a transmission characteristic between: torque input to the vehicle, and the motor revolution speed; torque target value calculator calculating the second torque target value. Based on the first torque target value and the second torque target value, the torque command value calculator calculates the torque command value. In the second filtering treatment, the second paragraph calculator uses attenuation coefficient which is larger than identification value of the model of the transmission characteristic.
US08290654B2
A method is provided for interrupting the force flux in the drive train of a vehicle in the event of a crash. The method includes disconnecting an electric machine, which is provided in the drive train, from a driven axle. In the event of a crash an automatic transmission (G) that is arranged in the drive train between the electric machine (EM) and a driven axle (A) is shifted into a neutral position.
US08290644B2
In a method for aiding aircraft landing using a GPS and an MLS within the context of a computed axial approach, the method uses coordinates of an azimuth antenna and/or of an elevation antenna as a reference point for the computation of a position of the aircraft in a reference frame centered on the landing runway. This position of the aircraft is thereafter used to determine an angle of azimuth between a longitudinal axis of the landing runway and the aircraft.
US08290640B2
Device for servoing graphical representations of the aerial environment for aircraft, an avionics the device including a display, a computer and memory in communication with the computer, the memory storing means for generating images of environmental data, said data being servoed by the first calculation resource and periodically refreshed in a first time interval. The device comprises a calculation resource providing an angle of heading of the aircraft relative to North and its geo-referenced current position, these data being servoed, periodically, in real time in a second time interval. The representation of a part of the environmental data on the viewing screen of the device is servoed and refreshed during the second time interval and positioned and oriented graphically, by the display, according to the last current angle of the position of the aircraft calculated and of the last geo-referenced current position.
US08290632B2
A method for controlling the influx of fluids into a multizone well in which each inflow zone is provided with an inflow control device, comprises: assessing the flux of oil, gas, water and other effluents from the well; monitoring production variables, including ICD position and/or fluid pressure in each inflow zone upstream of each ICD and/or downstream of each ICD; sequentially adjusting the position of each of the ICDs and assessing the flux of crude oil, natural gas and/or other well effluents; monitoring production variables; deriving a zonal production estimation model for each inflow zone of the well; and adjusting each ICD to control the influx of crude oil, natural gas and/or other effluents into each inflow zone on the basis of data derived from the zonal production estimation model for each inflow zone of the well.
US08290630B2
In one embodiment, the disclosed method includes controlling operation of a machine system via actuators and a first set of signals received from sensors, receiving a second signal from a vibration sensor, calculating vibration parameters based on the second signal. The method further includes the steps of normalizing each of the vibration parameters and presenting the normalized vibration parameters in an operator interface. In another embodiment, the system includes a controller configured to receive sensor signals from a machine system and to control operation of the machine system via actuators. The system also includes a condition monitoring user interface configured to display normalized vibration parameters for the machine system.
US08290626B2
A method for assuring safety of a particular chemical process plant includes measuring, for each of a plurality of sets of proposed process conditions for a particular chemical process within the particular chemical process plant, a pressure rise rate following a deliberate contained ignition of at least one material used within the particular chemical process. From the resulting plurality of pressure rise rates that corresponds with the plurality of sets of proposed process conditions a particular pressure rise rate that allows for a safe operation of the particular chemical reaction within the particular chemical process plant may be selected. The particular chemical process may be implemented within the particular chemical process plant while using a particular set of process conditions from the plurality of sets of process conditions that corresponds with the selected pressure rise rate. As an adjunct, the particular chemical reaction may also be subsequently and additionally optimized with respect to an ancillary parameter, such as product yield or feedstock utilization.
US08290619B2
The present invention features methods for operating, such as methods for dispersing and clustering, robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of receiving, processing, and acting on one or more multi-device primitive commands that describe a task the robot will perform in response to other robots and the external conditions. The commands facilitate a distributed command and control structure, relieving a central apparatus or operator from the need to monitor the progress of each robot. This virtually eliminates the corresponding constraint on the maximum number of robots that can be deployed to perform a task (e.g., data collection, mapping, searching, dispersion, and retrieval). By increasing the number of robots, the efficiency in completing the task is also increased.
US08290611B2
The present exemplary embodiment relates to motion control and planning algorithms to facilitate execution of a series of moves within a motion trajectory. In one example, a trajectory is specified as a sequence of one or more path segments. A velocity profile is calculated for each of the one or more path segments, wherein each velocity profile is divided into a blend-in region, a blend-out region and a remainder region. Each path segment is executed such that the blend-in region of its velocity profile overlaps only with the blend-out region of the previous profile.
US08290609B2
The invention provides a production management system and a production management method which are applied to an optical display device production system which can more precisely carry out a production management. A memory stores a panel information allocated per an optical display unit, and a roll information including a positional information of optical films in a material roll before the optical films bonded to the optical display unit are cut so as to coordinate. A position in the material roll before the optical films bonded to the optical display unit are cut is specified based on the panel information corresponding to the optical display unit of the optical display device determined by an inspecting apparatus that a defect exists, and the roll information coordinated to the panel information. If it is possible to recognize what position in what material roll the defect exists, as mentioned above, it is possible to carry out a production management more precisely.
US08290602B2
An electronic system with component redundancy includes a first processing unit, connected to a first board, and a second processing unit redundant with respect to the first unit, and connected to a second board redundant with respect to the first board. Each processing unit and each board include a first communication port, the first communication ports of the first unit and of the first board, and, respectively, of the second unit and of the second board, being interconnected by a wired communication link. Each processing unit and each board include a second communication port, the second port of the first board being connected to the second port of the second unit by a wired communication link, and the second port of the second board being connected to the second port of the first unit by a wired communication link, each communication port able to be activated or deactivated by a corresponding software command.
US08290600B2
Some embodiments of a cardiac stimulation system may include a plurality of electrode assemblies that are interconnected by one or more wires while at least one of the electrode assemblies (e.g., a control electrode) wirelessly receives energy through inductive coupling with a power communication unit external to the heart (e.g., a device implanted along one or more ribs). These embodiments may provide an arrangement for efficient inductive coupling from the power communication unit to the control electrode. Also, in some circumstances, the cardiac stimulation system may eliminate the need for wired leads that extend to a location outside the heart, thereby reducing the likelihood of infection that passes along the wire and into the heart.
US08290594B2
A male sexual impotence treatment apparatus includes or use an operable restriction device implantable in a male patient for engaging a tissue portion of the penile tissue to form a restrictable passageway for the penile exit blood flow. An energy transmission device is provided for wireless transmission of energy from outside the patient's body to inside the patient's body for use in connection with the operation of the restriction device, including temporarily contracting said tissue portion to restrict the penile exit blood flow in the blood flow passageway to achieve erection.
US08290587B2
System and methods provide pacing therapy that modulates the atrioventricular (AV) delay to control ventricular interval variability. A base AV delay is determined as a function of heart rate. For each cardiac cycle, the base AV delay is modulated to reduce beat-to-beat variability of successive ventricular beats. The modulated AV delay compensates for variability of successive atrial beats. For example, modulation of the base AV delay may involve varying the AV delay inversely with a change in atrial interval.
US08290574B2
An ECG monitoring system for ambulatory patients includes a small multi-electrode patch that adhesively attaches to the chest of a patient. A reusable battery-powered ECG monitor clips onto the patch and receives patient electrical signals from the electrodes of the patch. A processor continuously processes received ECG signals and analyzes the received ECG signals for pre-defined arrhythmia. If an arrhythmia is detected, a wireless transceiver in the ECG monitor transmits the event information and an ECG strip to a monitoring center. At the commencement of a monitoring procedure a message is sent to the monitoring center and configuration information for arrhythmia detection is down-loaded and installed in the monitor. The configuration file is determined by a screen of selectable standard and custom arrhythmias and alarm limits at the monitoring center.
US08290561B2
Systems and methods for dynamically and intelligently estimating analyte data from a continuous analyte sensor, including receiving a data stream, selecting one of a plurality of algorithms, and employing the selected algorithm to estimate analyte values. Additional data processing includes evaluating the selected estimative algorithms, analyzing a variation of the estimated analyte values based on statistical, clinical, or physiological parameters, comparing the estimated analyte values with corresponding measure analyte values, and providing output to a user. Estimation can be used to compensate for time lag, match sensor data with corresponding reference data, warn of upcoming clinical risk, replace erroneous sensor data signals, and provide more timely analyte information encourage proactive behavior and preempt clinical risk.
US08290557B2
An implantable medical device includes a hermetically sealed housing and a first light emitting diode (LED) enclosed within the housing configured to detect light corresponding to a selected light wavelength. A conductive element extends from the LED for carrying a current signal corresponding to the light detected by the LED, the intensity of the detected light being correlated to a change in a physiological condition in a body fluid volume or a tissue volume proximate the LED.
US08290554B2
A cryostat has a tank for accommodation of a coolant and at least one superconducting magnet coil to generate a magnetic field. The tank has on a top side at least one tower pipe for filling the coolant and/or for venting vaporized coolant. In order to immediately indicate if and when sealing of filling pipes and discharging pipes with (for example) ice has occurred, a pressure sensor is connected via a pressure sensor pipe with the inside of the tank.
US08290551B2
Wireless systems and methods establish an optimal wireless communication link by efficiently positioning an antenna module to receive/transmit the most effective signal. An antenna module scans and rotates and receives data such as available networks and the qualities of received signals. Received networks are analyzed, recorded and mapped to antenna variables such as azimuth, elevation and polarity. Automatic or manual selection of a wireless network is based upon antenna variables, qualities of received network signals and predefined conditions. If desired, a more refined antenna position is obtained by the addition of spiral antenna rotations and additional recordings of received data are mapped to antenna elevation, azimuth and polarity. In the event the measured effective signal reception diminishes, the center destination of the spiral path shifts and the process repeats until the highest effective signal reception is found. The disclosed technique acknowledges the realities of complicated modern day signal topography.
US08290543B2
A system and methods are provided whereby a user of a mobile device can adaptively switch the mobile device from speakerphone mode to handset mode without needing to look at the mobile device or without the need to activate a button or key sequence. In a preferred embodiment, modules are provided in the mobile device which allow for the detection of a voice conversation, the sampling of the user's voice and the switching between the two modes of operation. If the user's voice volume is above a certain threshold the mobile device operates in handset mode. If the user's voice volume is below a certain threshold the mobile device operates in handset mode. Through the inclusion of the embodiments described herein, a mobile device can allow a user to safely and quickly switch from one mode of operation to the other without a requirement for additional hardware in the mobile device.
US08290541B2
An integrated web browser, instant messaging system is presented. The system operates on mobile devices and other types of embedded devices. The system is an integrated instant messaging and web browsing application controlled by an embedded application on a mobile device. Today most web browsers, instant messaging, and other programs are separate or discrete applications that are executed on an either/or type of situation. The present system provides an integrated application environment that is a single application that shares data between instant messaging and web browser sub-modules, which allows users to simultaneously message and browse. The system may also be deployed as part of an overall method for enhancing safety and producing revenue for communications networks.
US08290540B2
The invention relates to a method for managing a display device (DSP) of a portable communications device (MFG) having the following characteristics: said display device is used for displaying graphical subject matter, it also comprises a processing device (LAE) for carrying out first and second applications, each of which has an output subject matter. A control device (IM) for managing the graphical display surface of the display device is also provided, wherein the control device of the first application allocates a first display area and the control device of the second application allocates a second display area in such a way that no overlap of said display areas is produced, thereby avoiding the harmful influence of the first performed application on the second later invoked application.
US08290538B2
A data entry system includes a hand held data entry unit having a reading sensor for sensing commands and/or data, rewritable storage for storing information relating to selectable items, a controller (a microprocessor or other processing circuitry) and a display screen for displaying a user readable representation of the commands and/or stored information for a selected item, and a telecommunication interface for the telephonic transmission of information relating to a selected item or items from the storage to a remote processing center and for the telephonic information relating to selectable items from the remote processing center to the storage. Preferably a telecommunications interface is provided in the hand held unit for cellular or other wireless telephony systems. The hand held unit can be configured to combine the data entry functions with those of audio telephony.
US08290523B2
A high accuracy clock synchronization mechanism between a sender and a receiver in a communication network achieves time synchronization using broadcast beacons, directly at the PHY/MAC layer of the sender and the receiver, to minimize synchronization delay jitter. This provides a more efficient synchronization method than either NTP or SNTP, because multiple handshaking information exchange is avoided. Further, using beacons avoids the overhead of introducing additional synchronization packets in higher layer synchronization.
US08290521B1
Configurations providing a reusable stream model for a user interface over SMS for interacting with one or more interactive systems in a parallel manner are described. An SMS server can implement the reusable stream model in which an available number from a sequence of numbers (e.g., a block of numbers) is assigned to a user session upon receiving an SMS message to initiate the user session from a communication device. The user session corresponds with a message stream for the interactive system. In one aspect, the SMS server places each number from the sequence of numbers in a respective status to indicate whether the number is currently assigned to a user session. When a subsequent SMS message is received that requests to initiate an additional user session for another interactive system, the SMS can assign the next available number from the sequence to the additional user session.
US08290515B2
A method and system of selectively communicating with one or more devices within pre-defined geographical zones is disclosed. A plurality of geographical zones is defined, each zone being defined by latitude and longitude attributes. A plurality of devices is associated with each geographical zone with which a portable device can communicate, the portable device having data representative of the plurality of geographical zones. The portable device also has a ground positioning unit receiver to obtain geographical coordinates of the portable device. If the portable device determines that its location is within one of the plurality of geographical zones, the portable device communicates with the devices in associated with the geographical zone.
US08290511B2
Disclosed is a method, and a system to perform the method, comprising receiving venue infrastructure information at an entity hosted on a mobile station, and selectively providing a portion of the venue infrastructure information to one or more other entities hosted on the mobile station based, at least in part, on a privilege level attributed to the mobile station or a user associated with the mobile station.
US08290504B2
A cellular network system and a method for realizing broadcast communication and data communication utilize a cellular network to carry out video data broadcast and data communication with terminals. The cellular network system includes a central control node and base stations. The central control node generates control information to control the base stations to broadcast video broadcast data to the terminals during the time slot for video data broadcast, and said control information includes frequency allocation information and time slot allocation information. With the cellular network system and method thereof for realizing video broadcast and data communication in the cellular network, video broadcast and data communication are incorporated in the sectorized cellular network while avoiding a lowered efficiency of frequency spectrum use during video broadcasting due to sectorization.
US08290503B2
Multichannel dynamic frequency selection in wireless networks begins with an access point for a wireless network broadcasting a list of unused channels that are available for communication within the area served by the access point. The various access terminals within this service area receive the broadcast and measure various interference characteristics of each of the channels in the list. The access terminals then send this interference information to the access point, which compiles a matrix of interference information that is associated with the quality of each signal as related to each access terminal. Using this information, the access point selects the appropriate channels to serve the most number of access terminals at the highest possible channel qualities.
US08290500B2
Method and arrangement in a base station for computing a delay time parameter of data in a buffer of a terminal. The base station and the terminal are within a wireless communication system. The terminal buffer is arranged to comprise frames, which frames in turn are arranged to comprise data. The method comprises determining a service requested by the terminal, estimating the arrival time of the last frame comprising transmit data to be received from the terminal, estimating the number of frames comprised in the buffer of the terminal, establishing a frame interval according to the determined service and estimating the arrival time of the oldest frame in the terminal buffer by subtracting, from the estimated arrival time of the last received frame comprising transmit data, one established frame interval for each frame the terminal buffer is estimated to comprise, additional to the oldest frame.
US08290491B2
A method and apparatus for selecting cells in a mobile telecommunications system, the system comprising a network of a plurality of cells of a Universal Mobile Telecommunications Systems (UMTS) and a network of a plurality of cells of a second Radio Access Technology (RAT), the method comprising, at a user equipment device: when in UMTS mode, flagging in a neighboring cell list stored on the user equipment device information for a cell of a second RAT which is known to be unsuitable for selection. Information from the neighboring cell list information for the flagged cell may be removed, in particular for a limited period of time.
US08290487B2
A mobile network is adapted to provide a first mobile telephony service to a first group of subscribers and a second mobile telephony service to a second group of subscribers. The mobile network includes a home location register; at least one switching equipment cooperating with the home location register for providing the first mobile telephony service to the first group of subscribers; at least one adapter node cooperating with the home location register and with the switching equipment for providing the second mobile telephony service to the second group of subscribers.
US08290470B2
A system and method for providing location information to a public safety answering point may include receiving, at a network access point, an emergency 911 call signal including GPS location information and mobile directory number of a wireless device. The GPS location information and mobile directory information may be communicated to a selective router associated with a public safety access point servicing an area including the network access point. The network access point may be a WiFi access point. The access point address information may be communicated using a type II caller ID data packet after the public safety answering point goes off-hook. By communicating both the access point address information and GPS location information, both PSAPs that are configured as E911 Phase I and E911 Phase II may display address location information of an emergency 911 caller.
US08290469B2
Methods for associating multiple communication terminals with a given user, based on the geographical locations of the terminals. A target user may be known to own or operate a certain communication terminal (e.g., cellular phone). To identify additional terminals associated with this user, historical location indications are obtained for the known terminal. Each location indication indicates the geographical location of the terminal at a given time. The location indications of the known terminal are correlated with location indications of other terminals. When significant spatial correlation is found between the known terminal and another terminal, the other terminal is assumed likely to be associated with the same target user.
US08290463B2
The present invention provides a universal demodulation circuit, a load modulation circuit and associated method, and an associated power transfer system, all suitable for use in wireless power transfer. A power receiver with signal strength detection is also provided. Modulation of the impedance of the demodulation circuit is determinable by detecting the amplitudes of a first and a second electrical parameter, thereby demodulating data communicated by modulation of the impedance of the demodulation circuit. The modulation circuit has a communication modulator to modulate the impedance of the modulation circuit, to a predetermined minimum modulation depth, thereby to communicate data.
US08290460B2
In various embodiments, a method for measuring Received Signal Strength Indication is provided. The method may include carrying out a first partial Received Signal Strength Indication measurement for a plurality of mobile radio base stations, selecting at least one mobile radio base station out of the plurality of mobile radio base stations based on the result of the first partial Received Signal Strength Indication measurement for a second partial Received Signal Strength Indication measurement, and carrying out the second partial Received Signal Strength Indication measurement for the selected at least one mobile radio base station.
US08290451B2
In a noise reduction circuit, a transistor circuit amplifies an input signal and outputs an output signal with supply of power from the DC voltage source via a power supply line circuit. The canceling signal adding circuit acquires and attenuates a part of the output signal, to generate a canceling signal having a phase substantially opposite to a phase of a leakage signal leaking to the power supply line circuit, and having an amplitude substantially the same as an amplitude of the leakage signal.
US08290448B2
Embodiments of systems and methods for implementing multi-channel tuners are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08290446B2
A radio transceiver device includes circuitry for radiating electromagnetic signals at a very high radio frequency both through space, as well as through wave guides that are formed within a substrate material. In one embodiment, the substrate comprises a dielectric substrate formed within a board, for example, a printed circuit board. In another embodiment of the invention, the wave guide is formed within a die of an integrated circuit radio transceiver. A plurality of transceivers with different functionality is defined. Substrate transceivers are operable to transmit through the wave guides, while local transceivers are operable to produce very short range wireless transmissions through space. A third and final transceiver is a typical wireless transceiver for communication with remote (non-local to the device) transceivers.
US08290442B2
A communications network comprises a wireless communication device, a mobile data service and an apparatus for testing media content developed for a wireless communication device. This apparatus comprises a media content composer module, a web server, and a dispatcher module. The dispatcher module is programmed to: receive a media content simulation request from the composer module; publish media content developed on the composer module onto the web server, the published content having a uniform resource locator (URL) associated thereto; and transmit to the mobile data service the URL and instructions to the wireless communication device or a wireless communication device simulator to open a web browser and access the URL thereby downloading the media content from the web server.
US08290438B2
An apparatus comprising a scheduler configured to schedule at least two radio communication processes for simultaneous operation, a controller configured to control a communication parameter of a radio communication process in the set of at least two radio communication processes, the controller being configured to control the communication parameter before the simultaneous operation of the at least two radio communication processes takes place.
US08290435B1
A short-range communication system includes an antenna, a transmitter, and a receiver. The antenna is an electrical conductor formed as a planar coil with rings thereof being uniformly spaced. The transmitter is spaced apart from the plane of the coil by a gap. An amplitude-modulated and asynchronous signal indicative of a data stream of known peak amplitude is transmitted into the gap. The receiver detects the coil's resonance and decodes same to recover the data stream.
US08290432B2
A method is devoted to synchronizing the transmission of user signals within a single-frequency hybrid network comprising at least one transmission satellite (SAT) and regenerative emitters (E1-E6) tasked with retransmitting received user signals to user terminals (T1, T2), using the same frequency and the same waveform. This method consists of temporally shifting, with respect to a time marker (TM) corresponding to the moment when a chosen element of the user signals arrives at a terrestrial reference arc (RA) from said satellite (SAT), the moment when the user signals received by each emitter (E1-E6) are retransmitted, by a local duration which is a function of the respective positions of the emitter and the satellite (SAT) with respect to a chosen reference position (RP) on said arc (RA), so that the same user signals retransmitted by the satellite (SAT) and the emitter (Ei) reach a user terminal (T1, T2) at roughly the same time.
US08290430B2
The invention relates to wireless repeater systems and methods. In embodiments, such systems and methods involve receiving a wireless transmission signal; and processing the wireless transmission signal using a digital signal processing facility (DSP); wherein the DSP is adapted to filter at least one sub-band of the wireless transmission signal using a digital bandpass filter.
US08290426B2
In a mobile radio communication system of the cognitive radio method, a database device has a use state table indicating a probability that each frequency band is used for each period of time and for each location. An on-vehicle terminal acquires a frequency band having the highest probability that the band is empty at the current time and the current location according to the use state table and performs a radio communication by using the frequency band. The use state table is preferably created by a statistical process using the database device which acquires the use states of frequency bands of various locations and times by using respective vehicles as probe cars. Thus, it is possible to detect the frequency of the empty state in a short time.
US08290425B2
A method of and apparatus for allowing a user to interact with first media material that is broadcast on a first broadcast channel and second nedia material that is broadcast on a second broadcast that are received and presented by a broadcast reception device while the broadcast reception device is tuned to a third broadcast channel. The method includes maintaining in a temporary storage an item identifier. Additionally, when the broadcast reception device is tuned to the third broadcast channel and presents the first representation of the first media item, the method includes providing the item identifier as a basis for identifying the first media item-related information. When the broadcast reception device is tuned to the third broadcast channel and presents the first representation of the second media item, the method includes providing the item identifier as a basis for identifying the second media item-related information.
US08290424B2
An antenna system and a corresponding method for satellite lock-on applied to vehicles automatically lock on at least one satellite in the space by means of a lock-on signal. The technique features on a scan driving signal that initiates a space scan of the antenna system so as to obtain a scan data. According to peak values of the scan data, coordinates of a plurality of satellites in the space are realized and individually recorded. Then, after receiving a lock-on signal, the satellite coordinate of the satellite to be locked is retrieved so as to drive the antenna to point at the satellite to be locked.
US08290420B2
The present invention includes an image carrier unit, configured to carry a toner image including: an image carrier member configured to carry the toner image and a cleaning portion configured to clean the image carrier unit. The cleaning portion includes a cleaning blade. The cleaning blade includes a blade portion in contact with the image carrier member and a holder configured to partially surround and hold the blade portion. The holder includes a crimping claw portion which latches the blade portion.
US08290418B2
A fixing unit includes a heating member which includes a core member, and a heating layer. The heating layer is disposed on an outer circumference of the core member. The heating layer includes an elastic material, and carbon nanotube doped with metal and distributed in the elastic material as a conductive filler of the heating layer. A press member faces the heating member to form a fixing nip. The fixing unit applies heat and pressure to toner on a medium passing through the fixing nip, to fix the toner on the medium.
US08290413B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first image carrier facing an intermediate transfer belt, a primary transfer unit primarily transferring images on the first image carrier onto the intermediate transfer belt, a secondary transfer roller facing the intermediate transfer belt secondarily transferring images on the intermediate transfer belt onto a recording medium, a second image carrier provided upstream/downstream of a secondary transfer position in a recording medium conveying direction, a direct transfer unit directly transferring images on the second image carrier onto the recording medium, a recording medium carriage belt rotatably stretched across roller members including the secondary transfer roller supporting and conveying the recording medium to pass a direct transfer position and the secondary transfer position, and a displacement unit displacing the secondary transfer roller between a contact position where the recording medium carriage belt contacts the intermediate transfer belt and a separate position where it is separated therefrom.
US08290410B2
A developing unit provided in an image forming apparatus includes a regulating member that improves developer layer regulation performance. The developing unit is configured to feed developer to a photoconductor, on which an electrostatic latent image is formed, to form an image. The regulating member of the developing unit includes a bending portion contacting an outer peripheral surface of a developing device provided in a frame of the developing unit. The width of the regulating member is variable to increase rearward from the bending portion. The regulating member may further include an extension portion extending from the bending portion. Sealing members may be attached to both ends of the frame of the developing unit so as to contact the respective ends of the bending portion.
US08290408B2
An improved method and system for non-contact powder image development are provided. The present technique implements a 5-stage jumping development cycle where the initial stage is a momentary over-voltage condition to release the majority of the toner on a donor substrate and the final stage includes the implementation of a decelerating potential to minimize return impact on the donor and therefore toner abuse. It also uses a routine to directly determine improved (e.g. up to optimal) waveform amplitudes and pulse widths based on toner size and q/m, guided by physical insight.
US08290401B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image carrying body having a surface on which a toner image is formed. A charger charges the surface body and a charge eliminator removes charge from the surface. The charge eliminator includes light sources to generate charge elimination light and a light guide to guide the charge elimination light onto the surface. The light guide includes a first portion to guide the charge elimination light onto an axial central portion of the image carrying body and a second portion to guide the charge elimination light onto axial end portions of the image carrying body. The second light guide portion allows charge elimination light that is incident on the first light guide portion to travel into the second light guide portion, but restricts charge elimination light that is incident on the second light guide portion from traveling into the first light guide portion.
US08290400B2
An image forming apparatus has a holding member having a plurality of photosensitive drums and configured to hold a plurality of toner cartridges in a detachable manner. The holding member is coupled to an apparatus body in a tiltable manner between a first position where the holding member is disposed in the apparatus body and a second position where the holding member is raised from the apparatus body. A top cover is coupled to the apparatus body in a tiltable manner between a closed position and an open position. The top cover tilts in a different direction from a direction that the holding member tilts.
US08290398B2
In order to provide an agitator having a wiper made of a resiliency deformable material, an agitator according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a main body and a resiliently deformable plate-like member. The main body has a placing surface, a first protrusion, and a second protrusion protruding from the placing surface. The resiliently deformable plate-like member has a free end portion including a free end and a supported portion supported to the main body, the supported portion being placed on the placing surface and having a first engaging section engaging the first protrusion and a second engaging section engaging the second protrusion, the supported portion being curved upon resilient deformation thereof as a result of engagement of the first engaging section and the second engaging section with the first protrusion and the second protrusion respectively, a length between the first engaging section and the second engaging section being greater than a linear distance between the first protrusion and the second protrusion.
US08290396B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus that includes a body housing having an opening and a cover covering the opening, a body frame in the body housing for supporting thereon various component parts of the image forming apparatus, an image forming cartridge receivable into the body housing through the opening to be detachably supported on the body frame and a support assembly supporting the mounted image forming cartridge. The support assembly includes a locking member movable between a locking position at which the image forming cartridge is limited in its movement along the direction of separating away from the body frame and a releasing position at which the image forming cartridge is allowed to move away from the body frame. The support assembly further includes an elastic member elastically biasing the locking member to the releasing position and a pressing member provided on the cover for pressing the locking member to remain in the locking position when the covered is closed to cover the opening.
US08290394B2
A sealing member seals an opening provided at one axial end of a rotatable container body of a toner supply container detachably mountable to an assembly of an image forming apparatus having a hollow cylindrical driving member. The sealing member includes a sealing portion provided at a side adjacent the container body to seal the opening, and a coupling portion provided at a side remote from the container body to receive a rotational drive force. The coupling portion includes a supporting portion provided on the sealing portion, an engaging portion provided at a free end of the supporting portion, and a displacing force receiving portion provided closer to the container body than the engaging portion. The engaging portion includes a rotational force receiving portion being abuttable in a circumferential direction of the driving member, and a locking portion being abuttable in an axial direction of the driving member.
US08290388B2
An image forming apparatus includes a sensor having a light emitting section for irradiating a detection area and a light receiving section for outputting a light sensitive signal indicative of the amount of the light received from the detection area. A sensor adjustment section adjusts the sensitivity of the sensor by varying the set value of an adjustable characteristic value associated with the sensitivity, based on explorative measurement of the adjustable characteristic value corresponding to a predetermined reference level of the light sensitive signal. If an estimation section estimates that the amount of a leakage current generated on the light receiving section is larger than a reference amount, a mitigation section mitigates the influence of the leakage current on the explorative measurement, by at least one of adjustment of the light receiving section for reduction of the leakage current and modification of the predetermined reference level.
US08290379B2
An image forming device includes a main casing, a cartridge accommodating portion, a detection unit and a determination unit. The cartridge accommodating portion is configured to detachably accommodate a first cartridge and a second cartridge that is able to be detachably combined with the first cartridge, the first cartridge being provided with a pressing member movable between a first position and a second position, the pressing member being in the first position when the second cartridge is removed from the first cartridge, the pressing member being in the second position when the second cartridge is combined with the first cartridge. The detection unit is provided on the main casing and is configured to perform non-contact position detection of the pressing member. The determination unit is configured not to start image forming operations until the detection unit detects that the pressing member is in the second position.
US08290368B2
A system, and methods for detecting collisions on multipoint shared optical media, comprising an optical receiver, clock phase detector, clock recovery circuit, and a Passive Optical Network (PON) that transmits optical signals wherein the PON, the clock recovery circuit, and the clock phase detector are communicably coupled to the optical receiver, detecting of the collision is determined by a distortion of transition times of the optical signals at the optical receiver.
US08290360B2
A camera can include a camera body and a lens mounted to the camera body. Light passing through the lens can be incident on a recording surface that is adapted to capture the incident light. The camera can include a focus calibration control, wherein manipulation of the focus calibration control causes the focus calibration control to adjust a distance between the lens and the recording surface. The camera can include a locking control that is separate from the focus calibration control. The locking control can be configured for selective engagement to prevent the focus calibration control from adjusting the distance between the lens and the recording surface.
US08290356B2
In an imaging device including a mechanical image blurring correction and a sensitivity image blurring reduction, a subject-shake amount is calculated based on a motion vector size acquired during a through image process display. Usage percentages of the mechanical image blurring correction and a sensitivity image blurring reduction are sequentially set based on the calculated subject-shake amount. When shooting a still-image, still-image data is recorded after blurring reduction is performed on the still-image data by the mechanical image blurring correction and a sensitivity image blurring reduction, based on the most recently set usage percentages.
US08290353B2
A data processor includes: a receiving section for receiving a data stream including first data on a compressed and encoded video content, first time information setting the presentation time of the first data, second data on a different type of content from the video content, and second time information setting the presentation time of the second data; a separating section for extracting the first data, first time information, second data and second time information from the data stream; a first decoding section for decoding the first data and outputting it in accordance with the first time information; and a second decoding section for outputting the second data in accordance with the second time information. The processor further includes a lag setting section for retaining lag information defining how much lag should be caused in presentation time if the first and second time information defines a time at which the first and second data are presented synchronously, modifying the second time information according to the lag information, and causing the lag in the presentation time of the second data.
US08290351B2
Presenting viewers with an alternative brief version of a recorded advertisement when they choose to fast-forward through or skip (or any other trick play event) the recorded advertisement. The alternative advertisement may be displayed instead of or in conjunction with the recorded advertisement (i.e., fast-forwarding advertisement is displayed in one portion of the screen (i.e., background or portion of a split screen) and the alternative brief version is displayed in another portion). The alternative brief version of the advertisement (trick play advertisement) may be a marketing message that is a static screen presenting a logo or a portion of the recorded advertisement, or may be a condensed version of the actual advertisement. The trick play advertisements may be targeted. An alternate or entirely unrelated advertisement can also be displayed as the trick play advertisement.
US08290345B2
In a device for generating a digest of a television broadcast program containing subtitle information, a character number calculation section calculates, based on the subtitle information, a character number of a subtitle displayed in each of segments provided at regular intervals. A digest scene specifying section compares the calculated character number with a threshold and specifies, as one or more digest scenes of the television broadcast program, one or more segments in which the calculated character number is larger than the threshold.
US08290341B2
A video playing device includes a classification unit classifying a video or a video section to be played according to a degree of user's necessary concentration on a video. A user's concentration derivation unit calculates a degree of user's concentration on the video. A video selection unit selects the video or the video section to be played based on a classification result and the degree of user's concentration on the video. A video playing unit plays the video or the video section selected by the video selection unit, and operates so as to preferentially play videos or video sections which the degree of user's concentration necessary to watch each video or video section is lower than the current degree of user's concentration.
US08290338B2
A main-view and sub-view video stream pair, a graphics stream, and playlist information are recorded on a BD-ROM disc. In the sub-view video stream, metadata is provided in each GOP. The metadata includes a correspondence table associating offset identifiers and offset information. The offset information defines offset control for each picture in a GOP. Offset control is processing to provide a left offset and right offset for the horizontal coordinates in a graphics plane to generate a pair of graphics planes that are respectively combined with main-view and sub-view video planes. The playlist information includes a stream selection table for each playback section. When the stream selection table associates a stream number with a packet identifier of a graphics stream, one of the offset identifiers is allocated to the stream number.
US08290328B2
A cutter tool for cutting at least one optical fiber arranged freely in a cavity of a telecommunications cable, the tool including a cutting element and a tube, the cutting element being adapted to form a snare around at least one optical fiber to be cut, the snare providing two strands of filament adapted to be introduced in the tube, and the tool enabling an optical fiber branch connection to be made over a long distance through an existing tapping window.
US08290325B2
Embodiments of the present invention describe a waveguide-based photodetector device and its methods of fabrication. The waveguide photodetector device comprises a substrate having a cladding structure formed thereon. A waveguide element for receiving optical signals is disposed within the cladding structure. A portion of the waveguide element is encapsulated by a photodetector element that detects the optical signal received by the waveguide element and generates an electrical signal based on the optical signal. Encapsulating the waveguide element in the photodetector element improves coupling efficiency and enables a waveguide photodetector device with higher speeds and higher responsivity.
US08290321B2
Micromodule subunit cables are constructed to allow for ease of identification between optical fibers in differing groups of optical fibers. In one cable, a first group of fibers is located within a buffer tube core while a second group of fibers is located within the cable jacket, but outside of the core. The fibers in the first and second groups can accordingly use the same color coding sequence without requiring additional indicia such as stripes or binding.
US08290317B2
An apparatus and method for producing optical pulses of a desired wavelength utilizes a section of higher-order-mode (HOM) fiber to receive input optical pulses at a first wavelength, and thereafter produce output optical pulses at the desired wavelength through soliton self-frequency shifting (SSFS) or Cherenkov radiation. The HOM fiber is configured to exhibit a large positive dispersion and effective area at wavelengths less than 1300 nm.
US08290311B1
A method is described that includes converting the present image of resolution N to resolution M, M being less than N. The method also includes generating a signature of the present converted image. The method further includes comparing the signature of the present converted image to stored signatures of converted spam images, the converted spam images being of resolution M. The method also includes determining spam features corresponding to the stored signatures of converted spam images that match the signature of the present converted image.
US08290302B2
A method and system for skew detection is provided using connected components analysis. The methodology includes extracting connected components corresponding to the image and analyzing the image based on said connected components for determining skew of the image.
US08290298B2
A method edits an input video to produce an output video. Pixels of the input video are partitioned into sets of pixels, wherein the pixels in the sets are adjacent, and for each set of pixels performing the following steps. A trellis having nodes connected by directed links is constructed. Each node corresponds to one of the pixels in the set of pixels, and each node is associated with an action and location of the pixel in the output image. Costs are assigned to the nodes and the links, wherein the costs are on apparent motion in the input video. A least cost path is determined through the trellis. Then, for each node on the path, apply the action associated the node to the corresponding pixel in the input video to edit the corresponding pixel at the location in the output video associated with the node.
US08290288B2
The coded block parameters used to code blocks of image samples into structures called macroblocks are compressed more efficiently by exploiting the correlation between chrominance and luminance blocks in each macroblock. In particular, the coded block pattern for chrominance and luminance are combined into a single parameter for the macroblock and jointly coded with a single variable length code. To further enhance coding efficiency, the spatial coherence of coded block patterns can be exploited by using spatial prediction to compute predicted values for coded block pattern parameters.
US08290287B2
A method for displaying encoded image data includes providing data in an encoded form, the data when displayed forming a two-dimensional image. Using a decoding cellular automaton rule and a predetermined secret key, the data is processed through a plurality of iterations to obtain the data in a non-encoded form. A series of images resulting from the processing, and ending in the two-dimensional image, is displayed in time-sequence. The series of images contains information that is insufficient for determining the secret key, given knowledge of each one of the decoding cellular automaton rule, the data in the encoded form and the data in the non-encoded form.
US08290285B2
A method for decoding compressed multimedia data is disclosed. At least one performance parameter corresponding to a system environment or a display requirement of the compressed multimedia data is first acquired. A rendering flow for the compressed multimedia data according to the at least one performance parameter is then determined dynamically, wherein the rendering flow comprises a specific arrangement of rendering procedures indicating the execution order of the rendering procedures. Then, the compressed multimedia data is decoded with the determined rendering flow so as to display the decoded data as an image data.
US08290284B2
A processing-coefficient decision unit decides a processing coefficient based on a format of the stream. A target-PTS decision unit multiplies an input PTS value by the processing coefficient, to set this as a target PTS used to determine the continuity of the pictures. A reference-PTS calculation unit sets the target PTS as an initial value of a reference PTS, sequentially adds an increment corresponding to the PTS value per picture, and calculates the reference PTS which is compared with the target PTS. A difference calculation unit calculates a difference between the target PTS and the reference PTS. A threshold determination unit compares an absolute value of the difference with the processing coefficient being a threshold and determines whether the absolute value of the difference is less than the processing coefficient.
US08290283B2
An image processing device includes an input portion for selecting encoding processing for an image to be filed as a monochrome image from first encoding processing according to a first compression method for compressing multilevel image data and second encoding processing according to a second compression method for compressing binary image data. An encoding processing portion performs encoding processing on the image to be filed as the monochrome image. The input portion includes a display and first and second input portions. The display displays a list of images to be filed as the monochrome image. The first input portion is used to specify an image shown on the display and to select encoding processing to be performed on the specified image. The second input portion is used to select the first or second encoding processing to be performed on the specified image.
US08290277B2
A method for setting a lip region of a face included in an image, including setting a first region and a second region in an image including a face, identifying contrast information of the first region, setting a threshold for binarization using the contrast information, and binarizing the second region based on the threshold. A region in which a pixel having an identical binary value continuously distributed within a predetermined number of ranges in the binarized image is set as an eye candidate object. An eye region is then extracted from the eye candidate object based on geometric characteristic of an eye region in an image, and the lip region is set with reference to the extracted eye region based on geometric information of the eye region and the lip region.
US08290272B2
In one embodiment, there is disclosed a method capturing data from a document image. The method 300 comprises processing the document image to identify at least one repetitive structure and performing a capturing operation including creating a plurality of instances of the repetitive structure based on once-described structure properties of the repetitive structure in a document template, and populating each instance with corresponding data from the document image. The method may also include creating a document template for capturing data from a document image.
US08290267B2
A method for detecting a redeye defect in a digital image containing an eye comprises converting the digital image into an intensity image, and segmenting the intensity image into segments each having a local intensity maximum. Separately, the original digital image is thresholded to identify regions of relatively high intensity and a size falling within a predetermined range. Of these, a region is selected having substantially the highest average intensity, and those segments from the segmentation of the intensity image whose maxima are located in the selected region are identified.
US08290263B2
An image processing apparatus includes a photographing condition estimation unit for estimating a photographing condition of the input image based on photometric information and focal information. A Y/C separation unit separates the input image into a luminance signal and a color difference signal; a luminance correction unit extracts an edge from the luminance signal and corrects the luminance signal by a gradation conversion curve; a color difference correction unit corrects the color difference signal based on luminance signals obtained before and after the gradation correction and a theoretical limit characteristic of color reproduction; a skin color correction unit performs skin color correction depending on the photographing condition; and a Y/C synthesis unit synthesizes the luminance signal and the color difference signal obtained after the correction. Gradation correction is performed on the input image such that appropriate hue and saturation are achieved while emphasizing a main object.
US08290261B2
When the range of luminance values expressed by an image is divided into a plurality of levels, a histogram measurement unit generates histogram data indicating the numbers of pixels for respective levels by calculating, for respective levels, the total of the number of pixels in the image, which have luminance values belonging to an identical level. A microcomputer calculates, for respective levels, the difference between the number of pixels belonging to an identical level using the histogram data of a first frame image and that of a second frame image input immediately before the first frame image. The microcomputer determines based on the differences for the respective levels whether or not to update a tone correction table held by a tone correction unit, and then converts the tone characteristic of the first frame image using the tone correction table, and outputs the converted image.
US08290260B2
A system and method for creating a remote custom rendering profile and automatically delivering and installing the resulting remote custom profile into a digital front end (DFE) in order to perform color management for a rendering device. A color test rendering job comprising color swatches with a number of additional information can be forwarded to a remote service provider and the test job can be scanned and the custom rendering profile can be generated utilizing a profiler application. The resultant rendering profile can then be electronically transferred back to the rendering device based on the additional information and can be installed without user intervention.
US08290254B2
A gray level weighting centroid method for holographic data storage is disclosed. Firstly, a first gray level image having a plurality of blocks is received. Then, a convolution calculation is performed on a weight matrix and the image, so as to obtain a second gray level image having a plurality of blocks each having a gray level value. The gray level values are divided into a bright gray level value and a dark gray level value by a threshold value, so as to convert the second gray level image into a thresholding image and find the positions of the borders of the blocks corresponding to the bright gray level value. Next, the blocks surrounded by the positions of the borders and respectively used as a centroid block are found by making the positions of the borders correspond to the first gray level image. Finally, the centroid block is calculated to obtain a centroid point.
US08290251B2
A computer-implemented method that includes segmenting a training image into training image patches, where each training image patch is represented by a linear combination of dictionary image patches from an image dictionary, and each dictionary image patch has a sparse representation coefficient. The method includes segmenting a stylized training image into stylized training image patches, where each stylized training image patch is represented by a linear combination of stylized dictionary image patches from a stylized image dictionary, and each stylized dictionary image patch has a sparse representation coefficient. The method also includes training the image dictionary with the training image patches and the stylized image dictionary with the stylized training image patches in a substantially simultaneous manner. The sparse representation coefficient for each training image patch is substantially similar to the sparse representation coefficient for the corresponding stylized training image patch.
US08290248B2
Embodiments of the invention disclose a system and a method for determining a disparity search range for a current stereo image of a scene based on a set of stereo images of the scene, comprising steps of: selecting a subset of stereo images from the set of stereo images, the subset includes the current stereo image and at least one neighboring stereo image, wherein the neighboring stereo image is temporally-neighboring to the current stereo image; determining a disparity histogram for each stereo image in the subset of stereo images to form a set of disparity histograms; determining a weighted disparity histogram as a weighted sum of the disparity histograms in the set of disparity histograms; and determining the disparity search range from the weighted disparity histogram.
US08290245B2
The present invention relates to an imaging apparatus and method for measuring the three-dimensional characteristics of an object using range data acquisition and analysis. The imaging apparatus comprises: means for configuring the range data acquisition and analysis before starting the measuring; means for creating an image of the object by detecting reflected light from the object using at least one sensor comprising pixels; means for acquiring range data of the object from the created image measured in sensor pixel units; means for calibrating the acquired range data from sensor pixel values to world-coordinates; means for rectifying the calibrated range data by re-sampling the range data onto a uniformly spaced grid; and, means for analyzing the calibrated and rectified range data in order to obtain the three-dimensional characteristics of the object.
US08290238B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatus for automatic optoelectronic detection and inspection of objects, based on capturing digital images of a two-dimensional field of view in which an object to be detected or inspected may be located, analyzing the images, and making and reporting decisions on the status of the object. Decisions are based on evidence obtained from a plurality of images for which the object is located in the field of view, generally corresponding to a plurality of viewing perspectives. Evidence that an object is located in the field of view is used for detection, and evidence that the object satisfies appropriate inspection criteria is used for inspection. Methods and apparatus are disclosed for capturing and analyzing images at high speed so that multiple viewing perspectives can be obtained for objects in continuous motion.
US08290232B2
A system and method for decomposing more than two materials in an imaging object includes performing a CT imaging acquisition of a portion of an imaging object using at least two energy levels to acquire imaging data associated with each of the at least two energy levels. A total mass attenuation of the imaging data is expressed as a weighted sum of constituent element mass attenuation coefficients and an effective atomic number and density of the constituent elements in the portion of the imaging object is determined by one of a number of methods. Accordingly, concentration of the constituent elements in imaged object is determined by solve the expression using known material attenuation coefficients and the measured CT data.
US08290227B2
A method for displaying a diagnostic image acquires the diagnostic digital image and applies one or more pattern recognition algorithms to the acquired diagnostic digital image, detecting at least one feature within the acquired diagnostic digital image. At least a portion of the acquired diagnostic digital image displays with a marking at the location of the at least one detected feature. At least one detected feature displays under a first set of image display settings for a first interval, then under at least a second set of image display settings for a second interval.
US08290225B2
A method of relating medical data image viewing planes to each other is provided. The method comprises defining at least two non-orthogonal two-dimensional (2D) image viewing planes in at least one three-dimensional (3D) medical image data set, and linking said 2D image viewing planes with a fixed relation to each other, such that when a first of said 2D image viewing planes is altered, the remaining 2D image viewing planes are automatically changed by said fixed relation with reference to said first 2D image viewing plane.
US08290222B2
An image processing system and method to resize image data from two sources of image data. The method includes receiving a first matrix of image data from a first detector and a second matrix of image data from a second detector. Detector-specific image correction is performed on the first matrix data and the second matrix data independently. The first matrix and the second matrix are re-mapped into virtual matrices of a common size, which are processed through a common image pipeline. The virtual matrices are remapped into different matrix sizes for further processing or display.
US08290220B2
The present invention provides a technique for preventing an unauthorized user from using a terminal and ensuring secure use of the terminal.A presentation pattern display unit 5 that is provided at a different position from a key input unit displays an instruction for a user to input a key pattern during face authentication, and a built-in camera 1 captures a face of the user and/or a movement of a portion of the face of the user during a portion of or the entire time from when the presentation pattern display unit 5 displays the instruction to when the key input through the key input unit 10 is completed, so that it is determined whether the captured face image is of a living body.
US08290216B1
According to an illustrative embodiment, a method for detecting a document includes capturing a first plurality of images of a document at a first wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, capturing a second plurality of images of the document at a second wavelength of electromagnetic radiation, and assembling the first and second pluralities of images to form one or more images of the document.
US08290214B2
When the user of a system directs an indicator toward a light-emitting section, an imaging section provided in the indicator acquires an image PA in a given area including the light-emitting section. A determination section determines whether or not each pixel individually satisfies a first condition based on light-reception information relating to each pixel of the image PA, and a calculation section calculates an indication position of the indicator based on the positions of effective pixels in the image using the effective pixels which satisfy the first condition as pixels corresponding to the light-emitting section. The calculation section calculates a representative value of the effective pixels based on identification information relating to the effective pixels while changing weighting on the identification information relating to the effective pixels depending on whether or not the effective pixels satisfy a second condition.
US08290212B2
A method is provided for accurately determining the registration for a moving vehicle over a number of frames so that the vehicle can be super-resolved. Instead of causing artifacts in a super-resolved image, the moving vehicle can be specifically registered and super-resolved individually. This method is very accurate, as it uses a mathematical model that captures motion with a minimal number of parameters and uses all available image information to solve for those parameters. Methods are provided that implement the vehicle registration algorithm and super-resolve moving vehicles using the resulting vehicle registration. One advantage of this system is that better images of moving vehicles can be created without requiring costly new aerial surveillance equipment.
US08290208B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods that provide enhanced eye safety for image projection systems. In particular, the instant invention provides enhanced eye safety for long throw laser projection systems.
US08290201B2
The invention provides a speaker in which a damper is effectively added without impairing the thinness of the speaker, and which, although the speaker is thin and small, exhibits high withstand input and high output power performances. A damper (14) is disposed between the lower end of a voice coil bobbin (12) and a magnet (3) of a magnetic circuit (5), and supports a vibration system (13) in a manner that the system is vibratable with respect to the magnet (3).
US08290200B2
A diaphragm includes a central portion in a center of the diaphragm and an external portion surrounding the central portion. The central portion includes a central section in a center of the central portion, a peripheral section at an outer periphery of the central portion and a connecting section between the central section and the peripheral section. The peripheral section forms at least one protrusion.
US08290196B2
A speaker module includes a casing whereon an opening is formed. The casing includes a blocking structure disposed on a side of the opening. The speaker module further includes a first speaker device, which includes a first housing, a first speaker unit disposed inside the first housing, and an engaging component connected to an end of the first housing for engaging with the blocking structure when the first housing is pulled out of the casing through the opening and for rotating relative to the blocking structure so as to adjust an angle of the first speaker unit. The speaker module further includes a second speaker device connected to the first speaker device and capable of passing through the opening, which includes a second housing connected to the first housing in a slidable manner relative to the first housing, and a second speaker unit disposed inside the second housing.
US08290187B2
This invention relates to a hearing device and earpiece therefore. The hearing device comprises a BTE unit for converting and processing sound to an electrical signal and a tubular element communicating the electrical signal to an earpiece. The earpiece comprises a canal element providing a tight fit of the earpiece in an ear canal, and a speaker element rotate-ably mounted in the canal element.
US08290185B2
A method of compensating for spatial audio frequency characteristics that varies in accordance with a mounting condition of a down firing speaker of an audio/video (AV) apparatus includes calculating a listening distance between the AV apparatus and a listener, calculating a distance between a speaker mounted on the AV apparatus and a neighboring reflective surface, setting a spatial frequency compensation filter value and a speaker frequency characteristic compensation filter value based on the calculated distances, and compensating for frequency characteristics of an audio signal by combining the spatial frequency compensation filter value and the speaker frequency characteristic compensation filter value.
US08290183B2
An illuminating device includes a holding element, a light source, and an acoustic member. The acoustic member includes a carbon nanotube structure.
US08290182B2
A method includes comparing a magnitude value of an audio signal in a fixed unit section with a target volume level, measuring audio gain in each fixed unit section using specific functions which are each determined to be different according to a ratio of the target volume level to the audio signal magnitude, and providing the measured audio gain to the audio signal in the fixed unit section.
US08290177B2
A sound zoom method, medium, and apparatus generating a signal in which a target sound is removed from sound signals input to a microphone-array by adjusting a null width that restricts a directivity sensitivity of the microphone array, and extracting a signal corresponding to the target sound from the sound signals by using the generated signal. Thus, a sound located at a predetermined position away from the microphone array can be selectively obtained so that a target sound is efficiently obtained.
US08290172B2
Various embodiments of the invention are directed toward a multi-zone audio distribution, amplification, and control system for use with structured wiring systems. Various embodiments of the invention allow audio signals received from multiple input sources to be selectively distributed to multiple zones in a home or building over a structured wiring system.
US08290168B2
An audio broadcast processing method includes a plurality of steps. One step involves processing an audio broadcast having at least one occurrence of signal degradation that adversely affects audio quality of a corresponding segment of the audio performance. Another step involves modifying the segment of the audio performance with a plurality of differing signal degradation compensation factors to selectively compensate for the at least one occurrence of signal degradation to produce a plurality of compensated audio performances. Another step involves evaluating the compensated audio performances. Still another step involves determining at least one preferred signal degradation compensation factor based on data from the evaluating of the compensated audio performances. Yet another step includes configuring an audio device with the at least one preferred processing factor.
US08290159B2
A disclosed data recovery method, image processing apparatus, controller board, and data recovery program enable data stored encrypted in a storage unit within an information processing apparatus to be recovered when an internal encryption key of the apparatus becomes unavailable. A first encryption key is stored in a secure memory, a second encryption key is stored in a first storage unit, and data is stored in a second storage unit. The second encryption key is decrypted with the first encryption key. The second encryption key is backed up outside the information processing apparatus as a backup key, such as by printing it on a sheet with a plotter. When the first encryption key becomes unavailable, the backup key is restored back in the information processing apparatus. The data stored in the second storage unit is then decrypted with the restored backup key.
US08290156B2
In a method for communicating media content stored on a digital video recorder (DVR) protected by a first DRM system to a portable multimedia device (PMD) using a second DRM system, in which the first DRM system differs from the second DRM system, a request for communication of a media content item stored on the DVR to the PMD is received. In addition, a portable content key is employed to encrypt the media content item to a PMD format suitable content version and the encrypted PMD format suitable content version is communicated to the PMD along with a portable content identifier (ID).
US08290155B2
A configuration is adopted for including in key specifying information, being the configuration data of a key specifying code, subset division identifying information (partition bit) indicating whether or not cryptograms to which subset keys corresponding to divided subsets obtained by division of a dividable subset into a plurality of subsets are applied are included in a cryptogram block. With such a configuration, a cryptogram to which a subset key corresponding to a divided subset is applied can be generated and transmitted to an information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus accepting the cryptogram and the key specifying code judges whether or not the accepted cryptogram is one to which the subset key corresponding to the divided subset is applied. Then, the information processing apparatus can select the cryptogram that is a target of decoding on the basis of the key specifying code.
US08290153B2
In a method of managing a plurality of cached keys, a determination is made as to whether to generate an additional key for the plurality of cached keys. If it is determined to generate the additional key, control of a central processing unit is acquired and a first current time is recorded. While a difference between a second current time and the first current time is not greater than a predefined time slice, one or more operational units of a plurality of operational units for generating the additional key are executed on the central processing unit. If the additional key is completed, the additional key is saved as a cached key with the plurality of cached keys.
US08290151B2
A device for determining an inverse of an initial value related to a modulus, comprising a unit configured to process an iterative algorithm in a plurality of iterations, wherein an iteration includes two modular reductions and has, as an iteration loop result, values obtained by an iteration loop of an extended Euclidean algorithm.
US08290143B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for finding an estimate of the delay of a signal travelling between two points. A quantity is evaluated from the signal at a final number of time instants, at both a reference point and a reception point. The values are quantized by comparison with a threshold adapted to a typical magnitude of the quantity. If the quantized values from the reception point are shifted back by the true delay with respect to the quantized values from the referenced point, then certain co-occurrences of quantized values have very low probability. Hence, the best delay estimate is that shift which yields the least number of low-probability co-occurrences.
US08290132B2
A method is provided in which information about one or more telecommunications session characteristics is stored in a communications history log. A prediction is then made for the occurrence of telecommunications session characteristic in the future on the basis of the information stored in the communications history log.
US08290128B2
A multiple screen telepresence style video conferencing experience is provided employing generic hardware and intelligent software, which may be based on existing enhanced communication systems such as unified communication systems. Through a component based approach, the system can be deployed in any conference room, assembled on the spot by an untrained user, flexible to accommodate any number of screens.
US08290121B2
A method is disclosed for producing a comb-like collimator element for a collimator arrangement. In at least one embodiment of the method, a collimator sheet extending in a first direction and made of an X-ray absorbing material is used as a support, onto which webs made of an X-ray absorbing material are formed in layers by way of a rapid prototyping technique and protrude transversely in respect of the support in a second direction.
US08290118B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus includes an X-ray source including a plurality of X-ray focuses, an X-ray detector which detects X-rays emitted from the X-ray focuses and transmitted through an object, and a control unit which controls the X-ray source and the X-ray detector. The X-ray imaging apparatus selects a pair of X-ray focuses, of X-ray focuses of the plurality of X-ray focuses which project images on the X-ray detector through a region of interest which is an imaging region of the object, from which emitted X-rays define an intersecting angle coinciding with a predetermined angle in the region of interest, and decides an X-ray focus to be used for imaging from X-ray focuses between the selected pair of X-ray focuses. An X-ray image is captured by emitting X-rays from the decided X-ray focus and causing the X-ray detector to detect the X-rays.
US08290109B2
An apparatus having a plurality of power supply domains and a plurality of logic components. Each of the plurality of logic components residing within a different one of the plurality of power supply domains. Each of the plurality of logic components is configured to operate with a corresponding clock signal within a respective one of the plurality of power supply domains.
US08290101B2
A wireless receiver including receiving antennas, frequency-space transformers, noise wave removers, a back-end signal processor, a pattern detector, a broadcast interruption detector, and a back-end controller. The frequency-space transformers convert signals received by the antennas into frequency-space signals. The noise wave removers each at least perform the calculation of a transmission line coefficient matrix and the calculation of an inter-antenna covariance matrix on the frequency-space signals. A controller controls the back-end signal processor to operate when the multicarrier transmission waves have been detected to be interrupted. The noise wave removers each perform the calculation of the inter-antenna covariance matrix when a broadcast interruption detector has detected the interruption of the multicarrier airwaves. Thus, the wireless receiver removes noise generated within it, thereby having high reception sensitivity.
US08290090B2
A receiver apparatus and method are provided blind amplitude estimation for a received complex signal, wherein the complex signal is analyzed to determine first and second order statistics of real part and imaginary part of the complex signal. Based on a predetermined non-linear function, amplitude scaling information is pre-calculated and used to derive a desired amplitude scaling information for said determined first and second order statistics. Thereby, a low complexity method for blind amplitude estimation for unknown data symbols distorted by an unknown amount of noise can be provided.
US08290089B2
Techniques for efficiently deriving a transmit steering matrix and sending feedback for this matrix are described. A receiver determines a set of parameters defining a transmit steering matrix to be used for transmission from a transmitter to the receiver. The receiver may derive the transmit steering matrix based on a set of transformation matrices, which may be used for multiple iterations of Jacobi rotation to zero out off-diagonal elements of a channel matrix. The receiver may then determine the set of parameters based on the transformation matrices. The set of parameters may comprise at least one angle, at least one value, at least one index, etc., for each transformation matrix. The receiver sends the set of parameters defining the transmit steering matrix (instead of elements of the transmit steering matrix) to the transmitter for use by the transmitter to derive the transmit steering matrix.
US08290088B2
Data is scrambled at a transmitter according to one of a number of predetermined scrambling sequences which are associated with a particular one of a number of predetermined transmit antenna diversity schemes (i.e., a specific number of transmit antenna ports). Received data is decoded using one or more of the known transmit antenna diversity schemes and the scrambled data is descrambled according to a corresponding descrambling sequence (related to the scrambling sequence). Based on the descrambled data, the receiver determines which transmit antenna, diversity scheme (i.e., the number of antenna ports) is used by the transmitter. In one specific embodiment, CRC parity data is scrambled in the transmitter and the receiver descrambles the recovered CRC parity data according to a descrambling sequence, computes CRC parity data from the received data, and compares the descrambled CRC parity data to the newly computed CRC parity data.
US08290087B2
Transmitter comprising a delta-sigma modulator (DSM), a sample rate converter (SRC) situated downstream of the delta-sigma modulator with respect to a direction of transmission signal flow, and a switching amplifier (SA) situated downstream of the sample rate converter (SRC) with respect to the direction of transmission signal flow. The invention as defined above allows for a decoupling of the clock frequency of the delta-sigma modulator (DSM) and the carrier frequency, for example in radio frequency (RF) signal generation applications using delta-sigma modulators. With the invention described herein it is possible to design the delta-sigma modulator independently of the carrier frequency.
US08290086B2
Techniques for producing an output signal using an outphasing transmitter are disclosed. In some examples, constant modulation (CM) signals may be produced from a digital input signal. The CM signals may be converted to an analog state and filtered. The signals may then be modulated to produce modulated signals, which may be amplified. The amplified signals may be combined to produce combined signals, which may further be combined to produce an output signal.
US08290084B2
A circuit is designed with a matched filter circuit including a plurality of fingers (700, 702, 704) coupled to receive a data symbol. Each finger corresponds to a respective path of the data symbol. Each finger produces a respective output signal. A plurality of decoder circuits (706, 708, 710) receives the respective output signal from a respective finger of the plurality of fingers. Each decoder circuit produces a respective output signal. A joint detector circuit (1310) is coupled to receive each respective output signal from the plurality of decoder circuits. The joint detector circuit produces an output signal corresponding to a predetermined code.
US08290070B2
A method for loading bits over a set of subcarriers of a multiple-carrier communications system comprises the operation of associating with the subcarriers respective numbers of bits chosen from among a plurality of available constellations. The method envisages definition of a performance target for the system and execution of bit loading, guaranteeing the aforesaid target on a plurality of subcarriers. The performance target can be a target error rate, such as a bit-error rate (BER), or else be transferred into a constraint, such as, for example, a threshold, in a metric of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs). In this case, there is preferably envisaged application to the signals received within the multiple-carrier system a function that estimates a signal to noise ratio on each sub-carrier. The aforesaid metric of log-likelihood ratios (LLRs) is hence defined as a function of said signal to noise ratios.
US08290069B2
A system and method for media access control are disclosed. The method comprises providing concurrent orthogonal channels to access media using pulse division multiple access to define pulse positions, wherein the pulse division multiple access includes a time hopping sequence and an offset to distinguish the concurrent orthogonal channels. In addition, the method comprises processing signals associated with at least one of the orthogonal channels.
US08290067B2
A system and method for synchronous spectrum sharing for use in a wireless communication system based on orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) or orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) signaling is disclosed. The system includes a frame detector configured to detect a frame of a broadcast waveform and extract sub-carrier information from the frame. Sub-carrier information may include information on usable sub-carrier and pilot sub-carriers for secondary users. The system allows transmitting data from the secondary user node in unused sub-carriers thereby making efficient use of unused or idle spectrum. Accordingly, secondary users of wireless communication systems can dynamically form ad-hoc mesh network communications in fixed or mobile scenarios.
US08290059B2
Erasure information associated with a received group of encoded and interleaved data in a digital video broadcasting system is stored in a much compacted form. An erasure flag and an address of a last byte associated with the received group of encoded and interleaved data (a record) encapsulated in an MPE-FEC column will be stored in an erasure table. All bytes in the column preceding the last byte of the record will have the same erasure flag as the last byte. Erasure information deinterleaver 524 reads out the content of the erasure table (i.e., the erasure information) in a de-interleaving fashion; and the de-interleaved erasure information 525 are then applied with the de-interleaved coded signals 511 to an FEC decoder 526 to enhance the FEC decoding performance.
US08290055B2
Disclosed herein is a method for encoding at least one video frame having a plurality of blocks including a current block, including determining motion vectors for each of at least some of blocks surrounding the current block, identifying surrounding blocks having that have the same motion vector and assigning the identified surrounding blocks to a plurality of groups, determining a number of blocks in at least two of the plurality of groups and selecting a motion vector to encode the current block based on the determined number of blocks in the at least two groups.
US08290048B2
A motion vector coding unit 117 executes processing including a neighboring block specification step (S100) of specifying a neighboring block which is located in the neighborhood of a current block; a judgment step (Steps S102, S104) of judging whether or not the neighboring block has been coded using a motion vector of another block; a prediction step (S106, S108) of deriving a predictive motion vector of the current block using a motion vector calculated from the motion vector of the other block as a motion vector of the neighboring block; and a coding step (S110) of coding the motion vector of the current block using the predictive motion vector.
US08290044B2
Method and apparatus for performing two independent sum-of-absolute-difference (SAD) operations when receiving a single instruction (505, 705) is provided. The two operations may be performed in parallel. The operations process values stored in two source registers (405, 410) and the results are stored to a destination register (425). The source and destination registers each have two independently accessible sections, whereby a first SAD operation (401) can access a first section while a second independent SAD operation (402) can simultaneously access a second section of the register. The first SAD operation is performed on values in a first section of the source registers, the result being stored to a first section of the destination register. The second SAD operation is performed on values in a second section of the source registers, the result being stored to a second section of the destination register. The values may comprise pixel values.
US08290041B2
A communication terminal performs a discrete cosine transform and a quantization process in accordance with a selected coding mode so as to reduce loads caused by these processings and suppress degradation of picture quality. When performing coding of a moving picture inputted through a picture input part, a control part determines which coding mode among 4×4 intra prediction coding on a luminance signal, 16×16 intra prediction coding, intra prediction coding on a color-differential signal, and inter prediction coding is performed. In accordance with the selected coding mode, and in view of a predictive error, the processing content in the discrete cosine transform and the quantization process is switched.
US08290037B2
MD-FEC is considered an efficient way to generate a large number of descriptions. However, typically, MD-FEC introduces significant redundancy across streams. MD-FEC encoded streams (descriptions) are adapted based on feedback. Specifically, the bits sent in each description by a supplying peer are adapted based on the number of available descriptions in its receiving peer. The adaptive delivery eliminates unnecessary bits in the original MD-FEC streams (descriptions), and significantly reduces the consumed uplink bandwidth at supplying peers. The saved bandwidth can be used to accommodate more video sessions or for other applications.
US08290036B2
A system apparatus and method for concurrent delivery of a plurality of video streams comprising one or more transcoders for bitrate reduction and a cache memory to save copies of transcoded segments. When the total outgoing bitrate of the system exceeds a predefined threshold, the system decides which of the video segments to transcode and the magnitude of bitrate reduction. Before assigning a transcoder for the bitrate reduction, the system first checks the cache for saved transcoded segments. If appropriate transcoded segments are not found in cache, the system may assign a transcoder for the video segments designated for bitrate reduction.
US08290023B2
This disclosure relates to method, device and system for detecting errors in a communication system. A signal is received from a transmitter at a receiver wherein the signal includes a data portion and a result of a hash function. The hash function is computed in part from a transmitter identification code. The receiver determines if the result of the hash function matches both the data portion and the transmitter identification code. The receiver discards the signal if the result of the hash function does not match both the data portion and the transmitter identification code of the transmitter.
US08290017B2
A carbon-dioxide (CO2) gas-discharge slab laser includes elongated discharge-electrodes in a sealed enclosure. Radio Frequency (RF) power is supplied to the electrodes via an impedance matching network and a co-axial electrical low inductance transmission line feed-through sealed to the enclosure. The feed-trough includes two spring contacts which are configured to be spring compression push-fit in grooves in edges of the discharge-electrodes. A central conductor of the feed-through is fluid cooled. A capacitor of the impedance matching network is assembled on the central conductor as an integral part of the feed-trough.
US08290015B2
A two-beam semiconductor laser device 10 includes: a two-beam semiconductor element LDC having a first and a second semiconductor laser elements LD1 and LD2 that can be driven independently and that are formed integrally on a substrate; and a submount 63 having, mounted on a front part thereof, the two-beam semiconductor laser element LDC with the light-emitting face thereof directed forward and having a first and a second electrode pads 64 and 65 connected to electrodes 61 and 62 of the first and second semiconductor laser element LD1 and LD2 by being kept in contact therewith. The first and second electrode pads 64 and 65 are formed to extend farther behind the two-beam semiconductor laser element LDC, and wires 14 and 16 are wire-bonded behind the two-beam semiconductor laser element LDC.
US08290004B2
The present invention relates to a laser light source having a structure for effectively suppressing generation of an optical surge upon a restart after suspension of output of pulsed light. The laser light source comprises a first light source outputting light with a first wavelength as pulsed light, a second light source outputting light with a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, an optical amplification fiber as an optical amplifier amplifying the pulsed light outputted from the first light source and the light outputted from the second light source, and a control unit controlling the output of the light from the second light source in accordance with the light output from the first light source. The first light source has an ON state in which repetitive output of the pulsed light on a fixed cycle starts and continues, and an OFF state in which the output of the pulsed light is suspended during a duration of not less than the fixed cycle. The control unit controls the second light source to output the light to the optical amplification fiber during the duration of the first light source being in the OFF state, so as to suppress a rise of population inversion of a rare earth element added in the optical amplification fiber.
US08289999B1
A method of communicating individual packets i of K bits includes permutation mapping of the packets, with each permuted packet being denoted by Πn(i), wherein Πn is a permutation on K letters that is unique for each packet transmission. Each permuted packet Πn(i) is modulated to provide a complex vector x(Πn(i)) for each packet. The packets are transmitted over a AWGN channel so each individual packet i is received as a variable of the vector x(Πn(i)) in a complex vector yn=x(Πn(i))+vn, wherein n represents the sequential number of the transmission attempt for a particular packet and vn represents noise. This method enables the packets to be transmitted while using an improved ARQ routine that includes soft-combining decisions and a constant constellation with a constellation complexity greater than two bits/symbol to thereby significantly improve ARQ-routine performance over the current state of the art.
US08289986B2
Self-organizing resource access apparatus and method in local area network communication environment
A self-organizing resource access method is provided for transmitting data by self-organizing resource access by each individual node in a Local Area Network (LAN) communication environment where at least two nodes exchange data with each other. A first node listens to at least one data transmission of at least one other node connected to the LAN, and adjusts a data transmission start time of the first node in accordance with a data transmission start time of the at least one other node so that the data transmission start time of the first node does not overlap the data transmission start time of the at least one other node. The first node transmits data to the at least one other node at the adjusted data transmission start time.
US08289983B2
An implementing method for removing duplication protection for multimedia messaging service interworking forwarding message and multimedia messaging service interworking gateway. The method determines whether to return response message according to the different value of the acknowledgement request field of the request signaling. Using the SMTP-interactive-status code as a criterion, when the acknowledgement request field is set to be “NO”, requesting not to return the response message, and when the acknowledgement request field is set to be “YES”, requesting to return the response message. Determine whether the forwarding is successful by determining whether the SMTP-sending-status code returned by the response signaling is received according to the replying status of the response signaling.
US08289972B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for strict priority weighted round robin scheduling includes selecting a set of bandwidth allocation table filled entries having a common destination address, each filled entry associated with a received data packet and determining a scheduling weight for each bandwidth allocation table entry in the selected set, the scheduling weight determined first by a priority and then by an assigned weight.
US08289969B2
Connection profiles are created and stored. The connection profiles are for connections for sources to connect to a network. The connection profiles identify network attributes for the connections and each connection profile includes a status of available or subscribed. A connection profile is assigned to a requested connection for a source. The network attributes for the assigned connection are sent to an edge switch for the source to configure the edge switch to accept traffic for the source.
US08289948B2
Aspects of a method and system for bridging and routing offload in a multiport wireless system are presented. Various aspects of the system may include a wireless network interface subsystem that enables transcoding of at least a portion of a data packet received by the wireless network interface subsystem. The wireless network interface subsystem may enable transfer of the transcoded portion of the data packet from the wireless network interface subsystem to a wired network interface subsystem that is communicatively coupled thereto. The transcoded portion of the data packet may be compliant with a format utilized by the wired network interface subsystem.
US08289945B2
The invention discloses a method for adjusting a reference frequency. First, a training signal is received based on the reference frequency. Then, a target region of the training signal is divided by an original training sequence so that a quotient polynomial is generated. Afterward, the quotient polynomial is divided by a predetermined polynomial so that a remainder polynomial is generated. Finally, the reference frequency is adjusted based on the remainder polynomial.
US08289944B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes a plurality of circuit modules, a millimeter wave (MMW) transceiver coupled to a configurable antenna structure, and a controller. The controller is operably coupled to: receive parameters for an inter-chip MMW communication link; interpret the parameters to determine a range of operational requirements; compare the range of operational requirements with configuration options of the MMW transceiver and the configurable antenna structure; and, when one of the configuration options compares favorably with the range of operational requirements, generate a configuration signal to instruct the MMW transceiver and the configurable antenna structure to implement the one of the configuration options.
US08289938B2
In a wireless LAN system using an access point to perform access control for accesses from a plurality of client terminals, an access point and each of a plurality of client terminals have a transmission means using a data transmission carrier wave frequency and a control signal transmission carrier wave frequency; each of the plurality of client terminals has a memory storing priority information; when the data transmission carrier wave frequency is not sensed on the wireless LAN, data are transmitted to the access point at a relevant data transmission carrier wave frequency; when the data transmission carrier wave frequency is sensed on the wireless LAN, a band reservation request is sent to the access point at a relevant control signal transmission carrier wave frequency along with priority information stored in the memory; and after a transmission confirmation is received from the access point for the band reservation request, data is transmitted to the access point at a relevant data transmission carrier wave frequency.
US08289937B2
There is provided a method for supporting an internetworking between a WLAN and a mobile communications network. The mobile communications network, for example UMTS network, has a GPRS support node and a serving GPRS support node. The internetworking is facilitated by an IWF. The method comprises the steps of establishing at least one GPRS tunneling protocol tunnel between the IWF and the GGSN for transferring data signals, and establishing at least one GPRS (tunneling protocol tunnel between the GGSN and the SGSN for transferring control signals.
US08289924B2
A technique is disclosed, according to which it is possible to efficiently use network resources, to reduce the burden on a control device, and to control the communication between radio terminals by the control device when a transmitting side radio terminal and a receiving side radio terminal are connected to the same radio relay device. According to this technique, when a transmitting side UE1 and a receiving side UE2 are connected to the same E-Node B 103, the transmitting side UE1 divides a transmission packet addressed to UE2 into a first packet to be transmitted via a route not passing through ACGW 105 and a second packet to be transmitted via a route passing through ACGW 105, and the packets are transmitted to E-Node B 103. E-Node B 103 transmits the first packet to UE2 and also transmits the second packet to ACGW 105.
US08289921B2
A method of receiving a first InitialIN message, determining if the first InitialIN message is a mobile origination, determining if an mscAddress comprising the first InitialIN message is an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) MSC address, and establishing DMS IN services with an SCF/SCP and performing VCC anchoring for a DMS communication session with a VCC SCF/SCP if the InitialIN is a mobile origination and if the mscAddress is an IMS MSC address.
US08289919B2
A method, apparatus and system for transmitting signal, the method includes: using the weighting factor sequence, processing weighting repeating modulation for the basic cell block mapped by the data symbol block at the sending end, and obtaining a plurality of the repeating cell blocks corresponding to the said basic cell block; the sending end maps each repeating cell block to the appointed time-frequency position respectively, then sends the signals in the said time-frequency position; and the receiving end demodulates the plurality of data symbol blocks from the blocks, and incorporates the plurality of data symbol blocks; the said receiving end demodulates the incorporated data symbol blocks, and generates the received data. This scheme can be called for short as the block repeating spread diversity transmission technology, it is based on the information symbol in the time-frequency domain two-dimensional grid point. This scheme doesn't restrict the modulating signal generation manner at bottom, it can form a new multiple address/multiple path transmission scheme, and can be incorporated with the other key technologies in the existing mobile communication.
US08289917B1
Methods, apparatus and computer program products define additional resource elements of a physical resource block (PRB) to be allocated for the provision of channel state information reference signals in a manner that does not create issues relating to backwards compatibility for legacy mobile terminals. A method may include receiving a definition of a plurality of resource elements of a PRB to be allocated for provision of channel state information reference signals. At least some of the plurality of resource elements of the PRB that are allocated for the provision of channel state information reference signals correspond in position to resource elements of the PRB that are interpreted by a different type of mobile terminal to be muted. The method also causes, channel state information reference signals to be received via the plurality of resource elements of the PRB that are allocated for the provision of channel state information reference signals.
US08289914B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a signal transmission method and apparatus used in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) wireless communication system, to enhance stability of signal transmission and resist time-frequency dispersion. The signal transmission method used in the OFDMA wireless communication system provided by an embodiment of the invention includes: converting an L×1 symbol vector into an N×1 modulating signal vector according to a loading factor fed back by a receiving party, in which value of N is known, both L and N are natural numbers larger than one, N is larger than or equal to L, the loading factor is a ratio of L and N; mapping the N×1 modulating signal vector into N time-frequency grids; and converting the N time-frequency grids into a signal waveform and sending the signal waveform to the receiving party.
US08289912B2
A wireless communication method for providing zone boundary detection performed by a controller managing communications within a multicast/broadcast service (MBS) zone. The method includes assigning to a boundary paging group a first base station communicating within the MBS zone and near a boundary of the MBS zone. The method further includes transmitting, through a second base station which covers a mobile station, to the mobile station information indicating that the boundary paging group corresponds to locations near the boundary of the MBS zone.
US08289902B2
The invention relates to a device to be used in a wireless communication system with CSMA-based MAC, comprising transmitting circuitry for transmitting at least a first and a second RTS message and at least a first and a second data packet on a transmission medium, and a spatially selective antenna. It is further proposed that the device uses a distributed antenna that combines the antenna elements of several devices and that the device observes the transmissions of other devices, analyzes the observed transmissions for transmission patterns and adapts its own transmissions to the detected transmission patterns. The invention further relates to a system, a method and a computer program to be used in a wireless communication system.
US08289892B2
Provided is a broadcast multicast service control system capable of distributively processing excessively given load under environments that have to offer MBMS service by linking with several mobile communication networks, and a control method thereof. The service control system provides a multimedia broadcast multicast service including a service announcement function of announcing service information, a security function of executing generation and distribution of keys for user authentication and information protection, and a proxy and transport function of transmitting/receiving control signals and traffics to/from a mobile communication network to provide the multimedia broadcast multicast service, and the service control system includes: a plurality of service control units, a load management unit, a service distribution policy management unit, and a processing load distribution policy management unit.
US08289886B2
Systems and methods for facilitating transferring of a conference call. In some embodiments, users of a secure mobile device may be provided with the ability to transfer a media session for use in a conference call to a non-secure communication device. The method may include displaying a user interface on the primary communication device, the user interface including a transfer option, receiving a command selecting the transfer option, sending a transfer request from the primary communication device to the conference call controller to link an alternate communication device within the conference call session, and determining whether the transfer request requires authentication, and if so performing authentication of the transfer request.
US08289882B2
The disclosed systems and methods provide a user interface for modifying host configuration data that has been automatically and passively determined and for adding or modifying other parameters associated with a host. A host data table can store various parameters descriptive of a host including the applicability of specific vulnerabilities. If it is determined that one or more hosts should not be identified as associated with a specific vulnerability, a graphical user interface can be used to modify the vulnerability parameter.
US08289879B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for preventing the misconfiguration of OSRP and OS/ISIS networks using a NMS, including: configuring a GNE with an address and NE ID for the NMS; forwarding topology information through a management interface to a NMS server; at the NMS server, copying a topology database of all NEs that are connected to the GNE; and, at the NMS server, launching NE mediators for all of the NEs in the topology database. Each NE mediator includes a listener that listens for updates and topology changes within the network.
US08289872B2
A system and method for determining an efficient assignment of information categories to multicast addresses is described. In one embodiment, the assignment takes into account the overlapping info cation needs of the subscriber nodes and the network bandwidth that will be consumed in the dissemination of each information category based on its size and the frequency of dissemination. In another embodiment, the assignment takes into consideration the additional constraint of a quality of service network having different prioritizations associated with the information categories.
US08289867B2
A message routing method includes receiving a plurality of messages at a routing node. The routing node is configured to receive instructions indicating an offset, criteria associated with the offset, and a group of interested nodes. The routing node examines a portion of a data payload of a received message based on the offset. If the information at the offset matches the criteria, the routing node routes the message to each of the group of interested nodes. Thus, the routing node can route messages to different groups of destination nodes depending on information in the data payload of received messages, thereby providing a flexible way to route messages over a network.
US08289862B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for supporting mobility in a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol (“IP”) network without having a mobile node (“MN”) to participate in certain mobility related signaling. Instead, a proxy agent might implement functions of a mobile access gateway (“MAG”) in a Proxy Mobile Internet Protocol Version 6 (“IPv6”) network. The proxy agent, rather than the MN, might send a request to a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (“DHCP”) server, and receive back a local mobility anchor address (“LMAA”) of a local mobility anchor (“LMA”). The proxy agent might instead perform a Domain Name System (“DNS”) lookup for the LMAA of the LMA first; in response to a failure to receive the LMAA, the proxy agent might then send the request to the DHCP server to receive the LMAA. The proxy agent might further update DNS information of the MN.
US08289858B2
A system and method provide measurement of round trip delay and jitter in an optical network without adding cost to the components of the network. A method of determining round-trip delay and jitter in an optical network comprises the steps of a) transmitting a test frame over the optical network to a device on the optical network, b) receiving a looped-back test frame from the device over the optical network, and c) determining a round-trip delay measurement using the received looped-back test frame.
US08289855B2
A method of fault notification in a communication apparatus, including terminating transmission of a signal over a transmission link; determining whether or not a specified fault notification signal is detected in a reception link and storing a determination result from the determining; and upon detection of a fault in the reception link after starting an operation, outputting a specified fault notification signal to the transmission link when the stored determination result is affirmative.
US08289852B2
A method of scheduling air-interface resources is disclosed. A throughput indicator associated with a wireless device is received. A modulation and coding scheme indicator is received. The modulation and coding scheme indicator being associated with a modulation and coding scheme recently used by the wireless device. Based on the modulation and coding scheme indicator, a token bucket size for a token bucket is selected. Based on the throughput indicator, a token rate for the token bucket is received. An air-interface resource is allocated to the wireless device based on the token bucket.
US08289849B2
According to an embodiment, a method, apparatus, and computer readable medium can provide an efficient mechanism to improve data rates of nodes suffering high interference without sacrificing performance of nodes that do not need interference-free channels to communicate. A node can receive two or more RTS packets and identify the RTS packet corresponding to its own cell, as well as RTS packets belonging to interferers. Based on the interference level estimated from the RTS packets, the node can decide if the channel needs to be interference-free for the intended transmission or if the current level of interference is acceptable. According to the embodiment, there can be two or more different types of CTS packets. A node can decide which type of CTS packet to transmit based on the information, signal level, interference level, or a combination therein, of at least two RTS channels, and based on measurements performed on these RTS channels, or other channels.
US08289834B2
A signal receiving unit receives the OFDM signal and to convert the OFDM signal into a baseband OFDM signal. A time wave operation unit performs a predetermined calculation on a time wave signal that is an output of the signal receiving unit. A Fourier transform unit performs a Fourier transform on an output of the time wave operation unit. A frequency component extraction unit extracts a specific frequency component from an output of the Fourier transform unit. An inverse Fourier transform unit performs an inverse Fourier transform on the frequency component extracted by the frequency component extraction unit. A reception quality measurement unit measures quality of an output signal of the inverse Fourier transform unit and generate reception quality data. A time wave control unit controls the time wave operation unit based on the reception quality data.
US08289827B2
Recording parameters are decided so that the time control information on at least the front edge and the rear edge of a parameter forming a mark of twice size or above of the laser spot diameter focused on the recording medium is substantially proportional to the recording linear velocity. The mark is recorded and reproduced at a predetermined linear velocity to obtain an electric signal waveform having a time width Tm. A parameter is decided so as to control the laser pulse for recording information so that a voltage value change amount at two points at a distance Ts (Ts
US08289825B2
The invention provides an optical disk drive. The optical disk drive comprises a pickup head, a seek control device, a lens vision characteristic decoder, and an anti lens shift device. The pickup head comprises a sled and a lens for projecting a beam on a disk. The seek control device moves the sled, and shifts the lens with a shift distance relative to an origin at a center of the sled. The equalizer derives a servo signal from a reflection of the beam. The lens vision characteristic decoder obtains a vision characteristic of the lens according to the servo signal and determines a track-on direction according to the vision characteristic. The anti lens shift device triggers the seek control device to perform a track-on process according to the track-on direction.
US08289822B2
Where a hybrid disc has different types of media, the light spot moves among recording layers of the different media, after loading the disc into an optical disc apparatus, there is a problem that information on a media type of each recording layer should be recorded in DI etc. of the optical disc. Detailed information on the hybrid disc is stored in DI, by changing a disc layer type identifier or a disc structure in DI such as BCA or PIC on the optical disc.
US08289820B2
Recording capacity per layer is detected from a disc and bit allocation of wobble addresses in a conventional optical disc and bit allocation in a high-density optical disc are controlled selectively to detect physical position addresses on the disc. Address detection can be performed for two kinds of discs which are equal in structure of addresses embedded in wobbles but different in bit allocation of addresses.
US08289816B2
Disclosed is a chronograph timepiece whose chronograph hands are electrically drive-controlled and mechanically zero-restoring-controlled, wherein it possible to perform a normal operation at the time of start operation and reset operation. After a mechanical control unit releases the setting of chronograph hands in response to the start operation of a start/stop button, a contact portion is placed in a start state, and an electrical control unit starts a time measurement operation to electrically hand-movement-drive the chronograph hands, and, after a contact portion is placed in a reset state in response to a reset operation of a reset button and the electrical control unit electrically resets the time measurement operation, the mechanical control unit mechanically zero-restores and sets the chronograph hands.
US08289812B2
A method and system of deterring mammals is disclosed involving incurring an acoustic startle response comprising the steps of selecting a target order, family, genus or species to be deterred, selecting a received level that is a predetermined level above a representative hearing threshold of the targeted mammals, and, taking transmission loss into account, transmitting an acoustic signal at a source level required to create the selected received level at a predetermined distance from the transmission point. The acoustic signal may comprise frequency components at which the aural sensitivity of the targeted mammals is greater than that of selected other animals, preventing the disturbance of the selected other animals while deterring the targeted mammals. In addition, a secondary conditioning sound may be played prior to the main acoustic signal to condition the mammals to avoid the main stimulus. Furthermore, using the same steps, an aversive stimulus may be played that elicits an avoidance without a startle reflex. The characteristics of these aversive sounds are those found to be unpleasant to humans. Accordingly, the aversive sound is selected to have one or more of the following psychophysical features: high roughness; low tonality; high loudness; high sharpness.
US08289807B2
Electronic apparatus, systems, and methods to implement selective edge phase mixing are disclosed. A selective edge phase mixing system includes a processor and memory device configured to perform operations in synchronization with transitions of an externally provided clock signal. A selective edge phase mixing unit for the memory device may include a first logic gate that receives the clock signal at an input port and receives first control signals, and pull-up circuits in communication with an output of the first logic gate and first control signals. A second logic gate receives the clock signal at the input port and receives second control signals. Pull-down circuits are coupled to the second logic gate and the second control signals, wherein the pull-up circuits and the pull-down circuits are coupled to the output port to provide a duty cycle corrected clock signal to the memory device. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US08289796B2
Memories, sense amplifiers, and methods for amplifying a current input are disclosed, including a sense amplifier including a bias circuit configured to provide a bias voltage having a magnitude responsive to maintaining a substantially constant loop gain, and further including an amplifier stage coupled to the bias circuit to receive the bias voltage and configured to amplify a input current at an input-output node, a loop gain of the current amplifier stage is controlled at least in part to the bias voltage.
US08289795B1
A semiconductor memory device and a method of testing the same are provided. In the method, the semiconductor memory device enters a test mode after receiving a mode selection signal. After the semiconductor memory device enters the test mode, a first word line is activated. Test data are then sequentially written into a plurality of memory cells coupled to the first word line. The first word line is deactivated, and data between each pair of bit lines are latched. A second word line is activated. After the second word line is activated, the data latched between each pair of bit lines are directly written into the memory cells coupled to the second word line.
US08289788B2
The control section performs a write operation, in synchronism with a clock signal, for transferring write data to one of the plurality of memory devices, utilizing: (i) an identification information transmission period during which the control section sends the identification information of a single memory device to all of the plurality of memory devices through the data line to select the single memory device; (ii) a write data transmission period during which the control section sends a single set of write data having a prescribed size to the selected single memory device; and (iii) a response period during which the selected single memory device responds to the control section with a response signal indicating presence or absence of communication error in relation to the received set of write data. Communications between the control section and the selected memory device during the write data transmission period and the response period are repeatedly performed for each transmission of one of plural sets of write data having the prescribed size. The control section sets a frequency of the clock signal during the response period to a lower value than that of the clock signal during the write data transmission period.
US08289786B2
Method and apparatus for writing data to a storage array, such as but not limited to an STRAM or RRAM memory array, using a read-mask-write operation. In accordance with various embodiments, a first bit pattern stored in a plurality of memory cells is read. A second bit pattern is stored to the plurality of memory cells by applying a mask to selectively write only those cells of said plurality corresponding to different bit values between the first and second bit patterns.
US08289781B2
Each of a plurality of flash memory cells is programmed to a respective one of L≧2 threshold voltage states within a threshold voltage window. Values of parameters of threshold voltage functions are adjusted in accordance with comparisons of the threshold voltages of some or all of the cells to two or more of m≧2 threshold voltage intervals within the threshold voltage window. Reference voltages for reading the cells are selected based on the values. Alternatively, the m threshold voltage intervals span the threshold voltage window, and respective threshold voltage states are assigned to the cells based on numbers of cells whose threshold voltages are in the intervals, without re-reading the cells.
US08289774B2
Disclosed is an operating method of a flash memory device, which includes normal memory cells and dummy memory cells. The operating method includes programming the normal memory cells and programming the dummy memory cells. A dummy pass voltage used for programming the dummy memory cells is different from a normal pass voltage used for programming the normal memory cells.
US08289767B2
A common standard may be used for both dynamic random access memories and non-volatile memories, despite the fact that the non-volatile memory generally needs bidirectional communications to coordinate writing with a memory controller. In one embodiment, a package connector on the non-volatile memory may be used for one function that does not involve communications with the memory controller during reading and may be used for communications with the memory controller during writing. Particularly, those communications during writing may be to indicate to the memory controller when the memory is ready for writing and when the memory is busy so that a write must be deferred until the memory is ready to be written to.
US08289760B2
Memory device systems, systems and methods are disclosed, such as those involving a plurality of stacked memory device dice and a logic die connected to each other through a plurality of conductors. The logic die serves, for example, as a memory interface device to a memory access device, such as a processor. The logic die can include a command register that allows selective operation in either of two modes. In a direct mode, conventional command signals as well as row and column address signals are applied to the logic die, and the logic die can essentially couple these signals directly to the memory device dice. In an indirect mode, a packet containing a command and a composite address are applied to the logic die, and the logic die can decode the command and composite address to apply conventional command signals as well as row and column address signals to the memory device dice.
US08289758B2
Magnetic tunnel junctions having a specular insulative spacer are disclosed. The magnetic tunnel junction includes a free magnetic layer, a reference magnetic layer, an electrically insulating and non-magnetic tunneling barrier layer separating the free magnetic layer from the reference magnetic layer, and an electrically insulating and electronically reflective layer positioned to reflect at least a portion of electrons back into the free magnetic layer.
US08289753B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device having a novel structure. A first wiring; a second wiring; a third wiring, a fourth wiring; a first transistor including a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; a second transistor including a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode are included. The first transistor is provided over a substrate including a semiconductor material and a second transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer.
US08289737B2
According to one example embodiment, a bridgeless boost power factor correction (PFC) system includes a first input for connection to a first line of an alternating current (AC) source and a second input for connection to a second line of the AC source. The PFC system includes an output for delivering an output of the bridgeless boost PFC system, a first boost choke coupled to the first input and a second boost choke coupled to the second input. A common mode choke is coupled between the first and second input and the first and second boost choke. A first X capacitor is coupled between the first input and the output and a second X capacitor coupled between the second input and the output.
US08289729B2
An ATX compatible power supply unit having a main printed circuit board and at least one connector printed circuit board that includes at least one outlet connector for use with a DC modular cable, the at least one connector printed circuit board is connected to the main printed circuit board with connectors other than bare or insulated wires to allow high currents to be transferred between the at least one connector printed circuit board and the main printed circuit board at low voltage drops is disclosed.
US08289727B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a substrate layout comprises a ground plane of a first power loop on a layer of a substrate, a first trace rail on the layer extending along a first periphery of the ground plane, and a first perpendicular trace coupled to the first trace rail. The ground plane is between the first trace rail and a die area, and the first perpendicular trace extends perpendicularly from the first trace rail. The first trace rail and the first perpendicular trace are components of a second power loop.
US08289726B2
An electronic device (10) has a screen (12) protecting against radiofrequency electromagnetic fields, wherein the screen is formed by an at least partially conductive cap (12). In order to avoid the formation of a defined conductive connection between the cap (12) and a reference potential, conductive two-dimensional regions (30) of the cap (12) are arranged in electrically insulated fashion at a short distance parallel to at least one two-dimensional region (42) of a conductor (22) of a reference potential. The two-dimensional regions act as a capacitor and a capacitive coupling (12) to the reference potential is produced which eliminates or attenuates radiofrequency electromagnetic interference fields, which enter the electronic device or are emitted from it.
US08289715B2
A plasma display device is provided with a chassis supporting a PDP on its front surface, circuit boards located within a specific region of the back surface of the chassis, a back cover including an edge portion covering the outside of the specific region of the back surface of the chassis and a projecting portion accommodating the plurality of the circuit boards, and a fan arranged inside a space defined by the projecting portion. The peripheral wall of the projecting portion is provided with a plurality of air inlets and a plurality of air outlets.
US08289713B2
A heat radiation structure of an electric apparatus provided herein is capable of readily releasing heat of electronic components to the outside and suppressing heat conduction to a rotational position sensor. A metal electromagnetic wave shielding member is fixed to a casing body of a casing. The electromagnetic wave shielding member includes a first portion that is connected to an opposed wall portion of the casing body to face a circuit substrate and a cylindrical second portion that is extending from a peripheral end of the first portion and along a peripheral wall portion of the casing body without being in contact with a housing. A heat conductive member having electrical insulating and heat conductivity properties as well as flexibility is disposed between the circuit substrate and the electromagnetic wave shielding member to closely contact both of the plurality of electronic components and the first portion of the electromagnetic wave shielding member.
US08289709B2
A housing includes a first chamber having an exhaust aperture to provide fluid communication with an outside environment, a wall disposed in the first chamber and containing an electrical component, wherein a thermal energy generated by the electrical component is transferred from the first chamber to the outside environment through the exhaust aperture, a second chamber formed adjacent the first chamber and including a control means for the electrical component, and a means for selectively providing access to the first chamber and the second chamber.
US08289704B2
An electronic apparatus includes: a housing having an internal space formed by top, bottom and side plates; and a power-source housing section formed next to a part of the side plate in the internal space and having a plate wall shaped such that a part adjacent to the side plate is near the side plate on one side and is away from the side plate on the other side in a direction connecting the top plate with the bottom plate. The apparatus further includes: a power-source block having an outer wall-surface whose shape conforms to the plate wall and housed in the power-source housing section; an antenna disposed in a space between the side plate and the plate wall; and a circuit board disposed in the internal space and mounted with an electronic circuit that operates based on power supplied from the power-source block housed in the power-source housing section.
US08289700B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems directed to efficient cooling of data centers. Some embodiments of the invention allow encapsulation of cold rows through an enclosure and allow server fans to draw cold air from the cold row encapsulation structure to cool servers installed on the server racks. In other particular embodiments, the systems disclosed can be used to mix outside cool air into the cold row encapsulation structure to cool the servers. In some embodiments, the present invention involves using multiple cold row encapsulation structures to cool the servers installed on the racks.
US08289697B2
An apparatus includes an equipment chassis configured to house electronic circuitry and to be inserted in an equipment rack between an opposed pair of rails. The equipment chassis includes a bottom face configured to rest on shelf members of the rails. The apparatus further includes a retaining bracket disposed at a side face of the equipment chassis facing one of the rails and oriented substantially perpendicular to the bottom face of the equipment chassis. The retaining bracket is configured to engage a horizontal groove in the one of the rails when the equipment chassis is inserted horizontally into the equipment rack between the rails. The retaining bracket may be configured to engage the one of the rails to limit vertical movement of the equipment chassis.
US08289694B2
A storage device includes a memory and a wireless transmitter, both contained in a disaster-proof enclosure. The memory is configured to receive and store data, and the wireless transmitter is coupled to read and transmit the data from the memory. The disaster-proof enclosure is surrounded by a thermally-insulating layer, and is configured to protect the memory and the transmitter from environmental conditions caused by a disaster event, such that the memory and the wireless transmitter remain functional during and after the disaster event and the transmitter is able to transmit at least a portion of the data to a receiver from within the disaster-proof enclosure after the disaster event.
US08289686B2
A portable computing device includes a base and a display rotatably connected to the base. A display positioning mechanism includes a first sleeve that is fixed to the display and includes a first end wall defining a first through bore and a plurality of first positioning holes extending therethrough. The positioning mechanism also includes a second sleeve fixed to the base and including a second end wall defining a second through bore and a second positioning hole. The positioning mechanism further includes a button slidably that is received in the first sleeve and the second sleeve and includes a rod, a first annular plate, and a second annular plate. The rod extends through the first through bore and the second bore. The first annular plate and the second annular plate are spaced from each other and extend radially outward from the rod. The first annular plate includes a first post.
US08289683B2
A casing for all-in-one electronic devices includes a main body and a rail assembly. The main body has a bottom surface and a through hole disposed opposite to the bottom surface. The through hole communicates an interior of the main body. The rail assembly has a guide member and a slide member. The guide member is disposed in the main body, and extends toward the through hole. The slide member is movably combined with the guide member to be moved in a longitudinal direction to pass through the through hole, so as to protrude out of the main body. A display is fixed to one end of the slide member to be driven by the slide member, so as to change a height of the display relative to the bottom surface of the main body.
US08289675B2
A capacitor device mountable on a plane of a substrate includes an electrically conductive bottom plate adapted to be mounted substantially parallel to, and in electrical contact at the plane of the substrate and a first multilayer capacitor having substantially parallel first and second electrode plates oriented substantially perpendicular to the bottom plate with the first electrode plates being electrically connected to the bottom plate. An electrically conductive top lead frame overlaps with, and is electrically isolated from, the bottom plate. The top lead frame electrically connected to the second electrode plates and adapted to be electrically connected at the plane of the substrate. The bottom lead frame may have a corrugated shape, where the corrugated shape provides compliance between the first multilayer capacitor and the substrate. A portion of the top lead frame may contact at least a portion of a side of the first multilayer capacitor.
US08289673B2
A bipolar ionization apparatus includes a positive high voltage power supply having an output with at least one positive ion emitting electrode connected thereto and configured to generate positive ions. A negative high voltage power supply has an output with at least one negative ion emitting electrode connected thereto and is configured to generate negative ions. A controller for an ionizer outputs a positive high voltage ionization waveform and a negative high voltage ionization waveform. The controller simultaneously adjusts an amplitude and a duty cycle of each of the waveforms.
US08289672B2
The present invention concerns a method of producing a lightning diverter for conducting a lightning-induced electrical current, which is to be placed on structures such as wings on wind turbines, aircraft components, radomes and the like with the purpose of lightning protection. The method comprises the steps of making a plurality of holes in a plate of an electrically conductive material, filling said holes at least partly with one or more electrically non-conductive materials, and then finally dividing the plate—preferably into strips. The lightning diverter obtained hereby consists of a layer of electrically non-conductive material with a plurality of isolated segments of electrically conductive material.The invention further relates to a diverter strip with isolated segments of concave shapes being advantageous because of the good connection between the segments and the non-conductive material.
US08289669B2
A semiconductor device includes an output transistor which controls a power supply to a load according to a control voltage applied to a gate thereof, a voltage control circuit coupled between the gate and a drain of the output transistor, the voltage control circuit having a conduction state controlled according to a potential difference between a source and the drain of the output transistor, and a voltage control detection circuit which outputs a voltage control detection signal on a basis of the conduction state of the voltage control circuit. A first discharge switch is connected between the gate and the source of the output transistor, an on-off state of the first discharge switch being controlled according to the voltage control detection signal, a second discharge switch is series-connected to the first discharge switch between the gate and the source of the output transistor, an on-off state of the second discharge switch being controlled according to a temperature condition of the output transistor, and a third discharge switch is connected in parallel with the first and second discharge switches.
US08289657B2
Embodiments of the present invention help provide a simple and inexpensive actuator mechanism for a magnetic disk drive. The actuator mechanism includes an approximately circular coil and a simple shaped magnet, and is capable of displaying adequate performance required for the magnetic disk drive. According to one embodiment, the magnetic disk drive includes an actuator mechanism which has an approximately circular coil and an approximately rectangular magnet. The long axis direction of the rectangular magnet is oriented in parallel to a straight line connecting the center of the inner circle of the circular coil in a state in which the actuator is positioned at the outermost circumference of a data area and the center of the inner circle of the circular coil in a state in which the actuator is positioned at the innermost circumference of the data area.
US08289655B2
In a hard disk drive (HDD), a ratio of the distance R between the axis of rotation of an actuator and a magnetic head to the distance R0 between the axis of rotation of the actuator and the center of a disk is in the range of 0.9 to 0.96. Thus, the deviation of the skew angles for the tracks from 0 degrees is minimized and yet a swing arm of the actuator can be relatively short. Accordingly, not only is the recording density maximized, but the HDD can be small and light as well.
US08289651B2
Methods and apparatus to control heat dissipation in hard-disk drives (HDDs) are disclosed. A disclosed example apparatus comprises a semiconductor die, a ground bump positioned on the die, and a hard-disk drive writer head positioned on the die relative to the ground bump based on a thermal impedance.
US08289644B2
A reader apparatus is disclosed to read data magnetically stored on a storage medium. The apparatus has a sense structure to change resistance in response to a proximity of a stored magnetic field, and a variable magnetic field biasing arrangement to vary an active response length of the sense structure.
US08289636B2
An auto-focus lens module includes a lens holder, a movable member, and a focusing spring assembly. The lens holder includes an immovable member and an upper plate. The upper plate has a surface facing the immovable member. First recesses are defined in the first surface. The movable member is received in the immovable member, and includes a lens barrel and ring. The lens barrel has a top surface. The ring is protruded from the top surface of the lens barrel. Arc portions equidistantly extend upward from the ring and are received in the recesses correspondingly. The focusing spring assembly contacts the immovable member and confines the movable member in the immovable member.
US08289632B2
A zoom lens includes three groups that are a negative first group, a positive second group, and a positive third group in order from an object side. The first group includes a negative cemented lens formed by joining together, from the object side, a first lens formed by a negative single lens and a second lens formed by a positive single lens. The second group includes, from the object side, a third lens formed by a positive single lens and a cemented lens formed by joining together a fourth lens formed by a positive single lens and a fifth lens formed by a negative single lens. The third group includes a sixth lens formed by a positive single lens.
US08289627B2
A lens barrel that causes base portions of cam followers in a first optical member and a second optical member to follow a single straight-ahead movement guide groove along an optical axis even when circumferential phases of the cam followers are staggered, so that the optical members can move straight ahead while being inhibited from rotating. The base portion of the cam follower of one of the first optical member and the second optical member has a slide portion that is guided along both inner wall surfaces of a straight-ahead movement guide groove which face each other in a circumferential direction of a straight-ahead moving cylinder. The slide portion has a guide surface that guides the base portion of the cam follower of the other one of the first optical member and the second optical member in the direction of the optical axis.
US08289625B2
In a zoom lens, a first lens group having a negative refractive power, a second lens group having a positive refractive power, and a third lens group having the positive refractive power are disposed from an object side to an image side; and in a phase of variable magnification from a wide-angle end to a telescopic end, the first lens group is moved and the second lens group is moved to the object side such that an air interval between the first lens group and the second lens group is decreased and an air interval between the second lens group and the third lens group is increased.
US08289610B2
Certain example embodiments of this invention relate to electrochromic (EC) devices, assemblies incorporating electrochromic devices, and/or methods of making the same. More particularly, certain example embodiments of this invention relate to improved EC materials, EC device stacks, high-volume manufacturing (HVM) compatible process integration schemes, and/or high-throughput low cost deposition sources, equipment, and factories.
US08289608B2
Formulations are used in organically based electrochromic components, e.g. for producing displays and/or state indicators having a longer service life. The service life is increased by end-capping the 4,4′-bipyridinium salt.
US08289606B2
An optical image shutter having a transparent electro-optical crystal formed on a transparent amorphous substrate and a method of manufacturing the optical image shutter. The light image shutter is created by forming a buffer layer using a material having a similar crystalline structure to an electro-optical crystal, on a transparent amorphous substrate such as glass, and forming an electro-optical thin film layer such as the electro-optical crystal on the buffer layer.
US08289605B2
A dimmer wheel which is formed to absorb large amounts of light and to disperse the light that is absorbed. The dimmer wheel has a bottom surface that is irregular, and a reflective material in that bottom surface to scatter the light. A light absorbing material also receives some of the light.
US08289603B2
Optical pattern generators use rotating reflective axicon segments to produce images that can have different dimensions along the pattern direction compared to the cross pattern direction. Examples include both single axicon pattern generators and dual axicon pattern generators that independently control the image space relative aperture and thereby control the image dimensions in two orthogonal directions.
US08289601B2
An optical scanning device to be employed in an image forming apparatus having a photosensitive member that is scanned with a plurality of beams, and the optical scanning device has a plurality of light emitting elements that are arranged in an area of a parallelogram, in a matrix of M rows and N columns, all the light emitting elements emitting beams, and a deflector for deflecting the beams emitted from the light emitting elements. The light emitting elements are arranged such that the beam emitted from the light emitting element located in the mth row and the nth column and the beam emitted from the light emitting element located in the (m−1)th row and the (n+1)th column are scanned on adjacent scanning lines on the photosensitive member, and a scanning line on which the beam emitted from the light emitting element in the first row and the first column is scanned at a time of the (L+1)th scanning motion of the light emitting elements is located in an area from a scanning line on which the beam emitted from the light emitting element in the first row and the first column is scanned at a time of the Lth scanning motion of the light emitting elements to a scanning line on which the beam emitted from the light emitting element in the Mth row and the Nth column is scanned at a time of the Lth scanning motion of the light emitting elements.
US08289588B2
A method and apparatus for verifying content of partially printed purge sheets of confidential documents just after shredding the purge sheets but before the individual strands become separated and disassociated is disclosed. The purge sheet can be passed through a single nip paper transport to a shredder and then to a scanner in order to verify the content of the purge sheets. The scanned document can also be stored on a DFE (digital front end) disk, which provides visual documentation of, purge sheet destruction and can be utilized for later reconciliation. The individual strands of the purge sheet(s) can be separated and disassociated to a container in order to ensure destruction. A small electronic controller board associated with the scanner provides function control and communications to the DFE.
US08289586B2
A document reading device includes: a document image acquisition unit that scans a document and obtains a document image; a document image storage unit that stores the document image obtained by the document image acquisition unit; a compression unit that compresses the document image stored in the document image storage unit; a determination unit that determines whether or not a document image file compressed by the compression unit has been normally produced; and a setting change unit that, in the case where it is determined that the document image file compressed has not been produced normally, changes a setting so as to recompress the document image stored in the document image storage unit with another setting.
US08289583B2
In a control method for a processing apparatus connected to an image reading apparatus, in a case where the processing apparatus receives a cancellation instruction while the image reading apparatus performs a reading step, the processing apparatus causes the image reading apparatus to terminate the reading step and deletes image data of a page being read, and in a case where the processing apparatus receives a cancellation instruction after the image reading apparatus has performed the reading step, the processing apparatus performs controlling processing for deleting image data that has been acquired in the last reading step and has yet to be stored.
US08289575B2
A method for controlling color in printing technology machines, includes measuring color measured values without/with a UV filter and converting them with a computer to color measured values measured with/without a UV filter. The color measured values measured without/with a UV filter are recorded by a color measurement instrument on a substrate. The spectral remission values of the substrate measured with and without a UV filter are supplied to the computer and the computer converts color measured values measured without/with a UV filter to color measured values measured with/without a UV filter taking into account these supplied spectral remission values of the substrate, and uses them to control the color in the printing technology machine. A printing technology machine having a computer for carrying out the method, is also provided.
US08289561B2
An album creating system is provided for speedily creating an album in which images appropriate for the album are automatically laid out without selecting the images to be laid out in the album by a user. The album creating system according to the present invention includes: a low-quality image receiving section for receiving a low-quality image; a layout information generating section for generating layout information on a low-quality image album in which the low-quality image is laid out; a layout information storage section for storing the layout information in association with order identification information an order identification information transmitting section for transmitting the order identification information to the album orderer terminal; an order identification information acquiring section for acquiring a high-quality image corresponding to the low-quality image from the album orderer; a layout information acquiring section for acquiring layout information; and an album creating section for creating a high-quality image album by laying out the high-quality image according to the layout information.
US08289558B2
Device detection is performed by using a second detection unit which uses unicast transmission with a destination address being changed in addition to a first detection unit which uses broadcasting/multicasting. When unicast transmission can be normally performed, detection using the first detection unit is performed to determine whether broadcasting/multicasting at this point of time can be performed. In addition, the first or second detection unit is selected or the processing order of the first and second detection units is changed in accordance with the permission/inhibition determination result.
US08289548B2
A personal computer connected to a USB port of a printer through a management table managing writing on an ordinary storage region in FLASH ROM recognizes the ordinary storage region in the FLASH ROM of the printer as a removable drive which is a USB mass storage class device. Accordingly, an execution file of an application program stored in a portion of the ordinary storage region in the FLASH ROM can be read with a usual access from the personal computer, enabling the application program to be executed without being installed. When the application program is executed on the personal computer, periodic accesses are made to the ordinary storage region of the printer, and when an access fails, the application program is terminated.
US08289535B2
A method of using a mobile device to authenticate a print medium online before completing printing onto the print medium, the mobile device including processing means, a printhead, a sensor, a transmitter and a receiver, the print medium comprising a laminar substrate, the method comprising the steps of: using the sensor to sense coded data provided on a surface of the substrate; using the processing means to determine, from the sensed coded data: an identity of the print medium; and at least part of a signature, the signature being a digital signature of at least part of the identity; using the transmitter to send first data to a remote computer system, the first data being indicative of the identity and the at least part of the signature; using the receiver to receive second data from the remote computer system in reply to the first data, the second data being indicative of whether the print medium is authentic based on the identity and the at least part of the signature; and in the event the print medium is authentic, using the printhead to print onto the print medium.
US08289528B2
A position-determining apparatus, such as measuring or surveying instruments, is disclosed. In at least one embodiment, the present invention relates to a tilt sensor for a measuring instrument including a movable housing that is controllably rotatable around a rotational axis, wherein the rotational axis may be positioned so that it deviates from a true vertical axis being parallel with a gravitational axis. In at least one embodiment, the tilt sensor includes a gravity sensitive gradient indicating element arranged such that a surface of the element is positioned orthogonally to the true vertical axis during movements of the measuring instrument, wherein the gravity sensitive gradient indicating element is arranged in connection to the non-rotating base; and a detecting device adapted to produce at least one detecting signal and to receive at least one response signal, wherein a deviation between the rotational axis and the true vertical axis is detectable using the at least one response signal.
US08289519B2
Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) microscopy systems, methods of making SPR microscopy systems, methods of measuring and detecting the presence of one or more compounds present in a sample using the SPR microscopy system, and the like, are disclosed. In an embodiment, a surface plasmon resonance (SPR) microscopy system can include an integrated microfluidic chip that includes a plurality of layers, an SPR imaging system, and a pressure manifold to actuate flow control components in the integrated microfluidic chip.
US08289517B2
A method for measuring a photoacoustic signal using light sources that emit light at different wavelengths, wherein the method comprises electing a scanning frequency with which signals are recorded, determining a modulation frequency for each light source by dividing the scanning frequency by an integer division value that is different for each light source, exciting a photoacoustic signal in a photoacoustic measuring cell using the light sources and the modulation frequency, measuring, with a sound pressure sensor, a produced sound pressure, digitizing a signal of the sound pressure sensor, determining a signal component assignable to a respective light source by evaluating a sequence of digitized measured values, and filtering out measured value components that occur periodically with a period of a respective modulation frequency.
US08289515B2
A method and system are presented for use in characterizing properties of an article having a structure comprising a multiplicity of sites comprising different periodic patterns. The method comprises: providing a theoretical model of prediction indicative of optical properties of different stacks defined by geometrical and material parameters of corresponding sites, said sites being common in at least one of geometrical parameter and material parameter; performing optical measurements on at least two different stacks of the article and generating optical measured data indicative of the geometrical parameters and material composition parameters for each of the measured stacks; processing the optical measured data, said processing comprising simultaneously fitting said optical measured data for the multiple measured stacks with said theoretical model and extracting said at least one common parameter, thereby enabling to characterize the properties of the multi-layer structure within the single article.
US08289512B2
A device for mass spectroscopy comprising a chamber configured to provide an atomization source, a boost device configured to provide radio frequency energy to the chamber, and a mass analyzer in fluid communication with the chamber and configured to separate species based on mass-to-charge ratios is disclosed. In certain examples, a boost device may be used with a flame or plasma to provide additional energy to a flame or plasma to enhance desolvation, atomization, and/or ionization.
US08289509B2
An inspection device and a method of inspection, for optical examination of object surfaces, particularly wafer surfaces, wherein the object surface is illuminated by a first illumination device and a second illumination device, wherewith the light reflected and/or scattered from irregularities on the object surface is detected by means of a “scattered light detector” operating in the dark field of the first and second illumination devices, and wherewith the object surface is illuminated by a first illumination device and a second illumination device, wherewith the first illumination device has a laser for illuminating a measurement point on the object surface. The second illumination device is disposed (and oriented) to illuminate the same measurement point on the object surface but with a larger image spot, with the use of light of lower coherence and/or with less anisotropy than that of the laser.
US08289499B2
Spectral purity of a radiation beam of a first wavelength may be improved by providing an optical element that includes a structure having at least first layer including a first material, which structure is configured to be substantially reflective for a radiation of the first wavelength and substantially transparent or absorptive for a radiation of a second wavelength, a second layer including a second material, the second layer being configured to be substantially reflective, absorptive or scattering for the radiation of the second wavelength, and vacuum between the first layer and the second layer, wherein the first layer is located upstream in the optical path of incoming radiation with respect to the second layer.
US08289496B2
A method and system for treating a substrate are provided. The system includes a coating unit, a pre/post-exposure treatment unit, and a developing unit. Each of the units includes a load port and an index module. The pre/post-exposure treatment unit includes first and second modules that are arranged in different layers. The first module performs a process for coating a protective layer on the wafer before an exposure process. The second module performs a process for cleaning the wafer and a post-exposure bake process after the exposure process.
US08289488B2
A liquid crystal display device includes an alignment layer having an alignment direction inclined at an angle α where 0°<α<90° with respect to an extending direction of a gate line, a pixel electrode, and a common electrode placed opposite to the pixel electrode with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. One of the pixel electrode and the common electrode has a slit for generating a fringe electric field to liquid crystals with the other of the pixel electrode and the common electrode. The slit includes a first slit lying in the alignment direction or a direction perpendicular to the alignment direction, and a plurality of second slits and a plurality of third slits respectively inclined at an angle ±θ with respect to the first slit.
US08289487B2
An MVA-type LCD capable of displaying with a high contrast ratio is provided. An LCD according to the present invention is an MVA-type LCD including a stripe-shaped rib 21b provided on a first electrode 11 of a liquid crystal layer and a stripe-shaped slit 22 formed in a second electrode 12 of the liquid crystal layer. The rib 21b has a side face whose taper angle in a cross section which is orthogonal to an azimuth direction that the rib 21 extends is 18° or less, and is made of a material such that a film of the material with a thickness corresponding to the height of the rib has an OD value of 0.8 or more.
US08289481B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display, which can surely perform an instillation process used when liquid crystal is sealed between substrates in a cell process, and a fabrication method thereof. A liquid crystal display comprises a sealing material made of a photo-curing type material which seals liquid crystal sandwiched between substrates, and a shading film having a shading area which overlays a red-colored layer transmitting red light, a green-colored layer transmitting green light and a blue-colored layer transmitting blue light, wherein only the blue-colored layer is formed in an area of the shading film contacting with the sealing material and the photo-curing type material of the sealing material is structured to have a light reactive area for a wavelength of blue color band.
US08289473B2
A lens for illumination has a light entrance surface and a light exit surface. The light exit surface has a first light exit surface and a second light exit surface. The first light exit surface projects toward a vertex on the optical axis, and the second light exit surface extends outwardly from the periphery of the first light exit surface. The first light exit surface has a shape allowing light that has been emitted from a starting point, which is the position of a light source on the optical axis, at an angle of a specified value or more with respect to the optical axis and reached the first light exit surface to reach a surface to be irradiated by totally reflecting the emitted light at a first point thereon reached by the emitted light first and then refracting the totally reflected light at a second point thereon reached by the emitted light after being totally reflected. The second light exit surface has a shape allowing light that has been emitted from the starting point and reached the second light exit surface to reach the surface to be irradiated by refracting the emitted light at a point thereon reached by the emitted light.
US08289466B2
In a manufacturing method for a liquid crystal display device, a translucent first adhesive is placed between a first surface of a substrate and a display surface of a liquid crystal panel so that the first adhesive covers the entire surface of the liquid crystal panel. The first adhesive is cured to bond the substrate and the liquid crystal panel. The bonded substrate and liquid crystal panel are positionally aligned relative to a backlight unit. A second adhesive is placed between the substrate and the backlight unit so that the second adhesive surrounds an outer peripheral end portion of the liquid crystal panel. The first adhesive is cured to integrally bond the substrate, liquid crystal panel, and backlight unit to each other.
US08289465B2
A liquid crystal display device, includes: a liquid crystal module in which a liquid crystal cell is arranged in a rear frame that is made by metal and has a rectangular box shape; a front cabinet which has a rectangular frame shape and has a window portion in central part thereof; and a plurality of protruding portions for fixing which have rectangular shape, protruding toward outside from side surfaces that form shorter sides and longer sides of the rear frame, and fastened on to the front cabinet by screws, wherein the front cabinet includes at back surface side thereof: a first positioning rib which contacts with at least an outer peripheral part opposing to the longer side of the rear frame of one of the protruding portions for fixing that protrudes from the longer side of the rear frame, and a second positioning rib which contacts with at least an outer peripheral part opposing to the shorter side of the rear frame of one of the protruding portions for fixing that protrudes from the shorter side of the rear frame.
US08289454B2
A signal conversion device supplies a video signal to each video projection device of plural video projection devices that display a video image by superimposing the projection image. The device includes a characteristic information transmitting unit that transmits, to at least one video projection device of the plural video projection devices, characteristic information representing a light modulation characteristic of a light modulation element provided in the at least one video projection device, and a signal conversion processing unit that performs signal conversion processing corresponding to each of the video projection devices to an input video signal in accordance with the characteristic information transmitted from the characteristic information transmitting unit, and supplies the video signal after the signal conversion processing to each of the video projection devices.
US08289452B2
A method and a system for determining a video deinterlacing strategy are disclosed. First, all the pixels of a (i+2)th field are subtracted from the corresponding pixels of the ith field to obtain a difference field. Next, a specific check-area is located according to the difference field. Next, the ith field is combined with the (i+1)th field into a specific frame. Next, the combing phenomenon of the specific check-area in the specific frame is checked to determine the deinterlacing scheme for the pixels in the specific check-area.
US08289450B2
A video processing apparatus includes an input unit to which a video signal containing content is input, a first detector which detects a color of light in the surroundings, a second detector which detects whether a pattern portion formed of a single color of black or white is contained in the video signal input to the input unit, a corrector which corrects the video signal input to the input unit, and a controller. The controller conducts control so that the corrector corrects the video signal input to the input unit according to the color of light detected by the first detector if the second detector detects that the pattern portion formed of the single color of black or white is contained in the video signal input to the input unit.
US08289449B2
There is provided a display device including a signal receiving unit for receiving a video signal from an external device via a transmission path through a plurality of channels using a differential signal, an information receiving unit for receiving program information from the external device using a bidirectional communication path including predetermined lines of the transmission path, an image display unit for displaying images on image display elements based on the video signal received by the signal receiving unit, and a program information display unit for displaying the program information on the image display elements based on the program information received by the information receiving unit.
US08289446B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided for performing motion compensated interpolation wherein, for any pixels in the interpolated frame to which there is neither a forward vector nor a backward vector projecting: including the pixel in an intermediate frame conceal area if it is not located within the full frame reveal area; including the pixel in an intermediate frame reveal area if it is not located within the full frame conceal area; and using the intermediate frame conceal and reveal areas to interpolate values for pixels within an area of the interpolated frame.
US08289445B2
Pixels extracted from each of an input video signal are thinned out in units of predetermined samples, and the thinned out samples are fetched in equal order frame by frame and mapped into active periods of first, second, third, and fourth sub-images conformable to the HD-SDI format. The mapped first, second, third, and fourth sub-images are each separated into a first-link transmission channel and a second-link transmission channel, and are thus mapped into eight channels. The mapped first, second, third, and fourth sub-images are converted in parallel. Parallel digital data items into which the sub-images are converted in parallel are then outputted.
US08289444B2
A system and method for video frame interpolation are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving first motion estimation data representing estimated motion of blocks between a first frame and a second frame, receiving second motion estimation data representing estimated motion of blocks between the second frame and a third frame, determining whether an area in an interpolated frame between the first and second frame is an occlusion area based at least in part on the first and second motion estimation data, and estimating characteristics of pixels of the area based in part on the determination.
US08289439B2
In an image capturing apparatus that carries out TV-AF type autofocus control by setting an AF frame on a predetermined object, for example a person's face, that is detected in an image, in a case in which a in-focus position search direction cannot be determined from an AF evaluation value, changes in the size of the region of the object are detected and focus detection is carried out by determining the in-focus position search direction based on the changes in the size of the region of the object.
US08289435B2
An image displaying method using virtual illumination and a portable terminal using the method are provided. The method includes recognizing a face of a person in a captured portrait, setting virtual illumination in the captured portrait, and displaying a virtual illumination effect according to the set virtual illumination. Therefore, the user can apply desired illumination effect to the captured image to generate an effect that the image was captured under an external light source.
