US08533328B2
A method of determining vulnerability of web application comprises: selecting fixed parameters from parameters of URL link extracted from a website; determining whether a process of determining vulnerability for the selected fixed parameter is completed or not; inserting an attack pattern for each attack type to an input value for the selected fixed parameter, when the process of determining vulnerability for the selected fixed parameter is not completed; and determining vulnerability of the selected fixed parameter by each attack type through an analysis of response to an input of URL link with the attack pattern inserted thereinto.
US08533327B2
A peer-to-peer network comprises a plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, each intelligent terminal node being operable to establish, maintain, and tear-down communication sessions with another intelligent terminal node, a plurality of network service nodes coupled to the plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, the plurality of network service nodes comprise at least one of the plurality of intelligent terminal nodes, at least one user P2P function module operable to store, locate and distribute service resource information related to user policies, and at least one network P2P function module operable to store, locate and distribute service resource information related to operator provider policies, and operable to exert stricter security control than the at least one user P2P function module.
US08533326B2
A system and method for managing, routing and controlling devices and inter-device connections located within an environment to manage and control the environment using a control client is presented. A user provides commands via the control client to a server that maintains a representation of the environment and the devices within the environment. The server provides commands to devices present within the environment in response to user commands and other events, including events from the environment. The commands cause the devices in the environment to adopt specific desired states thereby causing the environment and the devices within the environment to create desired connections by and between the devices and to otherwise control and effect the environment.
US08533325B2
Identifying an incoming call as from a mobile device of an enterprise communication system. Creating a first list relating mobile devices of the enterprise communication system with Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) number of the device. Creating a hashmap comprising keys. Each key comprising the last n digits assigned as a PLMN number to at least one mobile device of the enterprise communication system. The hashmap further comprising a plurality of buckets. Each bucket corresponding to a key, and comprising a second list identifying each enterprise-associated mobile device having a PLMN number ending with the key. Receiving an Automatic Number Identification (ANI) number of an call incoming to the enterprise communication system. Retrieving at least one bucket corresponding to a key comprising the last n digits of the ANI number. Searching the retrieved bucket for the unique identifier associated with the full PLMN number.
US08533310B2
Association information is used to build association trees to associate base pages and embedded objects at a proxy. An association tree has a root node containing a URL for a base page, and zero or more leaf nodes each containing a URL for an embedded object. In most cases, an association tree will maintain the invariant that all leaves contain distinct URLs. However, it is also possible to have an association tree in which the same URL appears in multiple nodes. An association tree may optionally contain one or more internal nodes, each of which contains a URL that is an embedded object for some other base page, but which may also be fetched as a base page itself. Given a number of association trees and a base-page URL, a prefetch system finds the root or interior node corresponding to that URL (if any) and traverses the tree from that node, prefetching URLs until the URL of the last leaf node is prefetched. The prefetching starts the process of bringing over the various embedded objects before the user or program would ordinarily fetch them.
US08533307B2
A method for monitoring a data transmission between at least two network users, in particular according to the ISO 15765-2 transmission protocol, is described, at least one sender transmitting data to at least one receiver in the form of data telegrams, a data transmission taking place via at least one data telegram and the receiver transmitting at least one flow control telegram to the sender when the data of a data transmission is transmitted in a segmented manner in a first data telegram and at least one subsequent data telegram, an additional flow control telegram being transmitted from the receiver to the sender after the last data telegram of a data transmission.
US08533303B2
The present disclosure relates to a network management system node for re-configuring a set of data network nodes in a data network in response to a change management request requesting a creation of a network service to be performed in the data network. The network management system node is characterized in that it includes a processing unit configured to store each change of network service information in created, added and/or updated data network nodes in the resulting set of data network nodes established by the re-configuration of the set of data network nodes based on the change management request requesting the creation of the network service as a change-set of network service information, and associate the change-set of network service information with a network service instance indicating the moment of the creation of the network service.
US08533302B2
An enhanced network adapter framework, in which parameters are stored in a configuration table, the parameters being customized for a network and an application. A network adapter customized for the network and the application is instantiated based on invoking a generic network adapter which externally references the configuration table, and communication between the application and the network is effected using the instantiated network adapter.
US08533291B1
A method and system for protecting publicly viewable web client reference to network accessible data includes receiving a request for a server side resource from a client. The request is triggered upon loading of a page having a component that needs to access server side resource, at the client. A token for the server side resource is generated at the server using a resource-mapper, the resource-mapper identifying the server side resource that is to service the request from the client. The generated token and contents for the component are returned to the client, the generated token identifying an arbitrary path identifier to the server side resource that is viewable to the client, the arbitrary path identifier being interpreted by the resource-mapper to enable rendering of the content for the component at the client, such that the arbitrary path identifier protects identification information associated with the server side resource.
US08533287B2
In a motor vehicle having an Internet connection and at least two computer units to which at least one operating location respectively is assigned for using the Internet, each operating location includes at least one display unit and operating devices. By each computer unit, at least one browser application for the display of Internet pages is implementable such that, by way of the input devices, Internet pages can be called at each operating location via Internet addresses and can be displayed on the display unit. An Internet address used at a first operating location, which is assigned to a first computer unit, can be automatically stored in a central address memory such that the Internet address can be made available by an access taking place from a second computer unit to the address memory at a second operating location assigned to this second computer unit. This permits a facilitated address input by the operating devices of the second operating location.
US08533285B2
Techniques are provided for implementing clustering services in a virtual data center or other virtualized infrastructure in a manner that allows packets to be directed to a particular service engine of a service engine cluster.
US08533277B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium provides configuration data, such as for electronic mail access. A configuration module retrieves the configuration data from a source of configuration data, such as a user system. The configuration in one aspect could be for accessing different electronic mailboxes of a user. Data object are generated. Each data object is submitted as a distributed object module to a web service. The web service in one aspect of the invention could be for a pass-through access for configuring electronic mailboxes.
US08533273B2
A transfer controller determines whether or not a communication message received by a receiver satisfies a predetermined condition, on the basis of data stored in a communication data storage. When the communication message received by the receiver satisfies the predetermined condition, the transfer controller stops and cancels the process for transferring the communication message performed by the relay. The transfer controller stores, in the communication data storage, data regarding the communication message relayed by the relay. When the transfer controller stops the transfer of the communication message, a proxy register generates proxy data on the basis of the data stored in the communication data storage and registers the proxy data in a proxy data storage. On the basis of the proxy data registered to the proxy data storage, a communication proxy generates a proxy transmission message and causes a transmitter to transmit the proxy transmission message.
US08533272B2
The invention includes a method and apparatus for notification and delivery of messages to mobile users using a secure client associated with a user device. The secure client includes a power module, a communication module, a storage module, and an alert module. The power module powers the client device independent of a power state of the user device. The communication module receives a wake-up message and responsively triggers the secure client to switch from an inactive state to an active state without changing the power state of the user device, initiates a secure connection with a secure gateway in response to the wake-up message, and requests and receives a user message from a messaging application using the secure connection. The storage module stores the received message independent of the power state of the user device. The alert module activates an alert to indicate that the message is available.
US08533263B2
A method on a handheld device is provided. The method comprises sending a request from the handheld device to initiate an application on a host computer, receiving data related to the application from the host computer at the handheld device, and displaying the data in a view of the application appearing on the handheld device.
US08533261B2
An extensible, multi-tenant software-as-a-service business application platform is provided for hosting multiple organizations. Organization services are provided by virtual or physical servers with dedicated data stores assembled in scalable groups. Distributed interaction between components of the scalable groups may enable extensibility and reliability, while changes in locations of organization services are provided to the client(s) for seamless continuation of the client's access to the services. Customizable and dynamic APIs for accessing each organization's data and applications isolated from the others and pluggable third party authentication services may also be integrated into the platform.
US08533259B2
A system and methods are disclosed for serving combined media using resource metadata referencing original media data. Combined resource metadata is created from combining the metadata of two or more files for a virtual media file representing the requested combined media. The combined data can be adjusted to synch audio and video portions as needed for combining the files. The virtual media file references the original media files and serves the content on-the-fly, rather than creating a new file with the combined media, at a savings of server response time and memory consumption, while maintaining high performance.
US08533249B2
A rectangular wave for determining a range of a weight function is transformed to frequency domain by an FFT or the like, and after being multiplied by a window function (BlackmanHarris window function, for example) generated on a frequency axis by a multiplier, the frequency domain is transformed again to the time domain by an IFFT or the like thereby to generate a weight function.
US08533246B2
An apparatus comprising an integrated circuit configured to accept a plurality of operands; multiply the operands producing an result in a first binary format; and distribute the result in the first binary format over a plurality of data units in a second binary format, each unit having W bits with k>0 most significant bits set to zero.
US08533244B2
Method, apparatus, and program means for performing a conversion. In one embodiment, a disclosed apparatus includes a destination storage location corresponding to a first architectural register. A functional unit operates responsive to a control signal, to convert a first packed first format value selected from a set of packed first format values into a plurality of second format values. Each of the first format values has a plurality of sub elements having a first number of bits. The second format values have a greater number of bits. The functional unit stores the plurality of second format values into an architectural register.
US08533243B2
When converting an affine representation representing a 2r-th degree algebraic torus T2r(Fq) (r is a prime number, and q is an integer) to a projective representation representing a quadratic algebraic torus T2(Fq^r), a representation converting apparatus acquires member (c0, c1, . . . , cr-2), (ci is a member of a finite field Fq, where 0≦i≦r−2) of a 2r-th degree algebraic torus T2r(Fq) represented by the affine representation. The apparatus performs a multiplication operation on the acquired member. The multiplication operation is determined by a condition under which a member of a quadratic algebraic torus T2(Fq^r) is included in the 2r-th degree algebraic torus T2r(Fq), a modulus and a base of a quadratic extension, and a modulus and a base of an r-th degree extension. The representation converting apparatus then performs an addition and subtraction operation determined by the condition, the moduli, and the bases.
US08533241B2
Provided is a technique capable of efficiently operating files and directories that are stored in storage located in a physically far place from a file server, without causing a network latency. An index creation program is also loaded in a cloud computing environment, and a flag, which indicates whether or not to execute batch processing to a directory that has been migrated to the cloud side, is provided, whereby it becomes possible to collectively execute index creation processing for the migrated directory on the cloud side. More specifically, upon completion of migration of all files under a given directory to the cloud side, a flag, which indicates whether or not to perform batch processing on the cloud side, is validated for the metadata of the directory. Such a batch processing flag can be held for each application such as applications of the index creation processing and the virus check processing.
US08533235B2
A system that enables development and execution of predictive models comprises a centralized data management system, a data extraction tool a model validation tool and a model execution tool. In embodiments, a data management system includes a data management server that can be accessed via a web browser that stores data. An extraction tool includes a data filter adapted to filter data based on, for example, a population criteria, a sample size, and a date range criteria. A model validation tool validates the model. A model execution tool allows a user to score the model.
US08533233B2
An extensible, object-oriented framework describes various generic elements of legacy automation systems. That framework is used as a basis for porting one or more of those elements to another (“target”) automation system. Objects in the framework, known as “extensions,” adapt information from the legacy system to a corresponding, generic representation. Compilers express those representations in the target system. The framework thus translates the “old” automation configuration for use in a “new” automation system. The scheme can be extended to accommodate arbitrary control systems (i.e., other manufacturers and product lines), new sub-domains within the automation domain (e.g. operator interfaces, batch control etc.) and new target systems without altering the core framework.
US08533229B2
Systems and methods for generating dynamic communication contracts in a multi-tenant database system based on the datamodel of the user using the service. The communication contract contains objects, e.g., SOAP-objects, custom to the specific user's datamodel, including standard objects customized to the user's own security model and business purpose as well as entirely unique custom objects that are created by the user and available to only the user's organization. A database server queries the database for all objects available to that user (standard and custom), and all the fields on all those objects that are available to that user. The server iterates over the set of objects and each of their sets of fields and generates a contract that is specifically tailored to the user's own datamodel and field level security. The unique contract can be used to communicate with the server to access information in the user's own schema. For server-side implementation, all SOAP-objects—standard or custom—are translated across all users into a singular programmatic object on the server, which acts as a datamodel dictionary and which is used for looking up datamodel information for any given user and for any given object available to that user. With this datamodel information, the Web service performs access checking of the SOAP object against the given customer making a request, ensuring both the object and the fields on that object are defined and accessible to the user.
US08533228B2
Methods for modifying a notification template based on user access levels are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a first request, from a first user having a first level of access, to modify a first parameter from a first state to a second state in a notification template, and receiving a second request, from a second user having a second level of access, to modify a second parameter in the notification template from a first state to a second state. The method also includes storing the modified notification template. When the modified notification template is retrieved from storage, the first parameter is in the second state for both the first user and the second user, and the second parameter is in the first state for the first user and the second state for the second user. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US08533224B2
A system includes a computer(s) coupled to a data storage device(s) that stores a training data repository and a predictive model repository. The training data repository includes retained data samples from initial training data and from previously received data sets. The predictive model repository includes at least one updateable trained predictive model that was trained with the initial training data and retrained with the previously received data sets. A new data set is received. A richness score is assigned to each of the data samples in the set and to the retained data samples that indicates how information rich a data sample is for determining accuracy of the trained predictive model. A set of test data is selected based on ranking by richness score the retained data samples and the new data set. The trained predictive model is accuracy tested using the test data and an accuracy score determined.
US08533215B2
Information may be associated with geographic locations, and requests for this information may be used to determine future actions. In one example, a search engine returns results that refer to places having physical geographic locations. If imagery of the geographic locations is available, the imagery may be shown to the person who requests the information. If imagery is not available, this unavailability may be treated as a failure. If a number of failures occurs in a geographic area, then resources (e.g., a car with a camera) may be deployed to collect imagery of that area. In another example, knowledge about a geographic concentration of requests might be used to disambiguate a request relating to a larger area (e.g., requests relating to “Minneapolis” might be focused on the area near the I-35 bridge, if data show that many requests in Minneapolis are for the area around that bridge).
US08533211B2
Techniques are disclosed for bridging terminology differences between at least two subject areas. By way of example, a computer-implemented method includes executing the following steps on a computer. A first affinity measure is computed between a first term in a first corpus, corresponding to a first subject area, and a bridge term. A second affinity measure is computed between a second term in a second corpus, corresponding to a second subject area, and the bridge term. A third affinity measure is computed between the first term and the second term based on the first affinity measure and the second affinity measure. The bridge term is a term that appears in both the first corpus and the second corpus.
US08533205B2
Linking data objects, such as video objects, image objects, and audio objects, and displaying data associated with the data objects based upon the strength of the relationship between the data objects. Navigating a data collection of data objects by linking groups of data objects based upon related metadata is also disclosed. A user interface including the data associated with the grouped data objects facilitates browsing the data collection of data objects.
US08533204B2
A method and system are disclosed for conducting text-based searches of images using a visual signature associated with each image. A measure of string similarity between a query and an annotation associated with each entry in a first database is computed, and based upon the computed string similarity measures, a set of entries from the first database is selected. Each entry of the first database also includes an associated visual signature. At least one entry is then retrieved from a second database based upon a measure of visual similarity between a visual signature of each of the entries in the second database and the visual signatures of the entries in the selected set. Information corresponding to the retrieved entries from the second database is then generated.
US08533194B1
An electronic document analysis method using a processor for analyzing N electronic documents, the method comprising providing a set of control electronic documents from among the electronic N documents; and using the set of control electronic documents and a processor to evaluate at least one aspect of a computerized text-classifier based electronic document categorization process performed on the N documents including computation of at least one statistic; wherein providing includes providing an initial set of control electronic documents; computing, using a processor, an estimated validation level of the at least one statistic assuming the initial set is used, and comparing the estimated validation level to a desired validation level, using a processor, and enlarging the initial set of control electronic documents if the estimated validation level falls below the desired validation level.
US08533182B1
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for efficient graph pattern matching and querying are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes providing a graph comprising vertices and edges associated with the vertices. Further, the method includes sending one or more first activation messages to a first set of the vertices, wherein each of the first activation messages has a value. The method also includes determining, at each vertex of the first set of vertices, whether the values of the one or more first activation messages received at the vertex meets a query condition. Further, the method also includes sending, at each vertex of the first set of vertices, one or more second activation messages from the vertex to a second set of vertices in response to determining that the values of the one or more first activation messages received at the vertex meets the query condition.
US08533181B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with query pruning via query rewrite are described. One example method includes receiving a query on a partitioned table that will result in a first query plan that includes accessing a local domain index on each partition in the database. The query is rewritten to generate a second query that will result in a second query plan that includes accessing a global domain index instead of the local domain index on each partition in the database.
US08533178B1
A system includes a plurality of client devices and a server system. Each of the client devices is configured to implement at least one web browser and a panel application. The web browser is configured to access a plurality of different web pages that each provide search capability and are each configured to display search suggestions in response to character sequences entered by a user when using the search capability. The panel application is configured to send indications of displayed search suggestions and corresponding character sequences to a server system. The server system is configured to generate, based on the received indications, a data structure that correlates character sequences to lists of phrases.
US08533170B1
Systems and methods that provide versioning in a storage system may automatically determine the latest version of a stored object when a version identifier is not specified for an access operation. For example, retrieve type operations may behave differently when they specify a version identifier than when they do not. The system may determine and fill in the version identifier of the latest stored version of an object having a specified key for a retrieve type operation if a version identifier is not specified. Key map elements representing each object stored in the system may include an indication of the time at which the object was created or modified. The latest version of an object may be ascertained by locating the first element among ordered elements in the key map with the specified user key, or an adjacent element with the specified key that has a more recent creation/modification date.
US08533164B2
In a Virtual Input/Output (I/O) Server (VIOS) partition, a method comprises a cluster aware (CA) operating system (OS) of a VIOS partition performing the functions of: responsive to a restore command: retrieving a configuration backup file from storage; comparing a DRC name from the retrieved file with a DRC name of the current VIOS partition performing the restore operation; in response to an occurrence of a DRC name mismatch: retrieving an initial UUID of the VIOS from the configuration backup file; accessing a UUID table within a management tool; locating a matching UUID to the initial UUID within the UUID table; and in response to locating the matching UUID: verifying that the configuration data file belongs to the current VIOS initiating the restore operation; and performing the restore operation to restore the configurations of the hardware, logical and virtual devices of the first VIOS to an earlier configuration state.
US08533162B2
An object detection method that is provided with a step for extracting a plurality of reference feature vectors related to a local area from an image representing an object, and extracting a plurality of query feature vectors related to the local area from a search query image; a step for matching each query feature vector against each reference feature vector, and calculating a similarity score having a value that is higher the closer the distance between both vectors, the larger the local area for which the query feature vector has been extracted, and the larger the local area for which a matching reference feature vector has been extracted; a step for determining a reference feature vector for which a similarity score is highest as the similar vector for each query feature vector; and a step for acquiring a final score by object associated with the similar vectors, and setting the object returning the highest score as the detection result; and wherein the score is calculated by dividing a sum of the similarity score for each similar vector by the number of feature vectors that have matched the object.
US08533159B2
A method, system and computer program for processing materialized tables in a multi-tenant application system, wherein in the multi-tenant application system, a plurality of tenants share one or more basic-tables. According to the data access history information of the plurality of tenants, an update pattern analyzer analyzes the similarity of the update patterns for one or more basic-tables by the plurality of tenants. Furthermore, according to the similarity analyzed by the update pattern analyzer, a tenant grouping means groups the plurality of tenants into a plurality of tenant groups. Additionally, according to the tenant groups grouped by the tenant grouping means, a materialized table constructor constructs the tenant group materialized tables from the one or more basic-tables.
US08533158B1
Reclaiming data space by rewriting metadata is disclosed. It is determined that fewer than all of the previous version data included in a write is required to be retained, e.g., beyond a continuous data protection window. A metadata record associated with the write is modified to point only to those blocks in which previous version data that is still required to be retained is stored. Other blocks become eligible for reclamation.
US08533155B2
A content platform (or “cluster”) that comprises a redundant array of independent nodes is logically partitioned. Using a web-based interface, an administrator defines one or more “tenants” within the cluster, wherein a tenant has a set of attributes: namespaces, administrative accounts, data access accounts, and a permission mask. A namespace is a logical partition of the cluster that serves as a collection of objects typically associated with at least one defined application. Each namespace has a private file system with respect to other namespaces. This approach enables a user to segregate cluster data into logical partitions. According to this disclosure, tenant information, including all associated namespaces, in the cluster (the “source cluster”) is replicated to at least one target cluster over a replication link. Preferably, replication is available for multiple tenants in the source cluster, and a replication algorithm ensures that a particular tenant can be added to the replication link without stalling the progress of other tenants.
US08533147B2
A method for creating a dynamic systems based hybrid model for reasoning systems is described. The method receives, at a server, a plurality of expert identified deal attributes. The method presents a conjoint analysis questionnaire for input by one or more respondents. The conjoint analysis questionnaire includes questions based on the plurality of expert identified deal attributes. The method receives responses of the one or more respondents to the conjoint analysis questionnaire. The method then defines an expert reasoning model based on the responses of the one or more respondents to the conjoint analysis questionnaire. The method accesses historical deal information of one or more deals, the historical deal information including one or more deals, each deal including a plurality of expert identified deal attributes and a part-worth associated with each of the deal attributes. Finally, the method validates the expert reasoning model based on the historical deal information.
US08533146B1
A system and method for managing online map information determines map records that represent more than one map feature by identifying map feature records where at least one attribute of the map feature record has more than value wherein each of the values has a probability of being correct that exceeds a threshold.
US08533144B1
A method, system, and computer-readable medium that facilitate the reception of usage data about the utilization of an intelligent home system and recommend intelligent home system products based on the usage data. The method, system, and computer-readable medium facilitate the analysis of the usage data to determine whether to recommend intelligent home system products and which, if any, intelligent home system products to recommend. Recommendations may be generated by comparing the usage data to an updated products list or an upgraded products list. Recommendations may be generated by comparing the usage data to a similar products list. The similar products list may be generated by analyzing previously received usage data to determine which products are often used together. Recommendations may be generated by comparing the usage data to a similar customers list. The similar customers list may be generated by analyzing previously received usage data to determine which products are used by other, similar users. Recommendations may be presented to a user if the intelligent home system.
US08533141B2
The present solution provides a configurable, dynamic and flexible mechanism to define and use pixel rules to identity and select campaigns for the user based on the user's pixel history as well as other behavior data. The pixel rules can be configured to identify one or more mandatory pixels that have to be present or tracked for the user in order to include or exclude a campaign in a campaign selection process. The pixel rules can be configured to identify weighted pixels that have to be present or tracked for the user in order to include or exclude a campaign in a campaign selection process. The pixel rules may identify any combination of mandatory and weighted pixel rules. These pixel rules may be configured via a user interface of a development tool and during run-time campaign management applied to the user pixel history to select and deliver campaigns.
US08533137B2
The position calculation of prior art position sensitive detector systems relies on a known geometry pattern of individual electrodes and the distribution of the charge parts. A heuristic estimation is made in order to calculate an initial coordinate of irradiation. In contrast, the present invention allows one to calculate the position of an incident particle in terms of direct mapping of the measured detector response into position coordinates detector surface. The device for estimating the space coordinates of an irradiation position onto a detector comprises a position sensitive detector; an irradiation source; means for measuring the response of detector generated upon irradiation by irradiation source; and an artificial neural network structure provided such that the measured detector response is the input to the artificial neural network structure and the initial space coordinates of irradiation are the output of the artificial neural network structure.
US08533128B1
A multi-layered, dual purpose thermal blanket constructed from materials rendering a first blanket side heat reflective and a second blanket side wind resistant. Blanket may be utilized in temperature retention and weatherizing systems for storage units, lockers and bins. System for units having roll up doors comprises blanket support assembly to retain blanket across doorway and insulated enclosure around roll up door assembly. System optionally further includes a sensor interface in association with the blanket to receive data including an open or closed position of the blanket. A graphics generator presents the data as correlated to mappings and calculates time periods during which the blanket is left in an open position. Associated fees may be calculated as a penalty for leaving blanket open while storage unit is unattended.
US08533127B2
This invention relates to a device alerting to the expiration of tariffs for a franking system, comprising a random access memory (RAM) for recording postal data including a first table of postal tariffs relative to postal products and services and a processing unit for updating these postal tariffs, this RAM further comprising a second table of postal tariffs and the processing unit comprising means for comparing the postal tariffs of the first and second tables and for emitting a message alerting to the expiration of tariffs when a date of application of the postal tariffs of said second table is identical to or earlier than a desired date of franking and when one of these compared postal tariffs has been changed.
US08533119B2
A value transfer system and methods are disclosed. A sending entity may initiate a cross-border value transfer by authenticating with an authentication system, where the authentication system communicates with an identity database populated with profiles for the sending entity and a recipient entity that contain government data, where the government data is used in the authentication process.
US08533116B2
A system loads, authenticates and uses a virtual smart card for payment of goods and/or services purchased on-line over the Internet. An online purchase and load (OPAL) server includes a virtual smart card data base that has a record of information for each smart card that it represents for a user at the behest of an issuer. The server includes a smart card emulator that emulates a smart card by using the card data base and a hardware security module. The emulator interacts with a pseudo card reader module in the server that imitates a physical card reader. The server also includes a client code module that interacts with the pseudo card reader and a remote payment or load server. A pass-through client terminal presents a user interface and passes information between the OPAL server and a merchant server, and between the OPAL server and a bank server.
US08533115B2
A central coordinating body (CCB) is part of a global commercial card processing system. The CCB provides standards, relationships, management protocols, problem resolution, processing, data sourcing and reporting capabilities. The local card issuer services a client locally on behalf of the lead card issuer. The lead issuer and CCB enter into an agreement that defines services that will be performed for the client by local issuers and services to be performed by CCB. The local issuers and CCB enter into an agreement defining the services to be provided for the client. A list of services to be provided is published that describes the services provided by a local issuer. The agreements specify a bid process for when an RFP is received from a client. Revenue from transactions received by a local issuer is sent to the lead issuer. The local issuer and CCB charge fees for the services provided to the lead issuer.
US08533114B2
A system and method are provided that include determining eligibility of customers for flexible payment status and allowing the customers to implement the flexible payment status. The determination for eligibility is based on customer identity, payment date, and payment due date. Flex accrual is calculated if the customer is eligible for flexible payment status. The flex accrual is based on the payment amount, payment date, and payment due date. The system communicates the flex accrual to the customer and the customer is able to utilize the flex accrual by making a late payment without penalty.
US08533108B2
An improved computerized method for provides credit card services by a card issuer. The improvement operates in connection with continuing education offered to a constituent of an organization. In this context, the constituent has an account with the card issuer and the improvement includes storing, in association with the account, data associated with a provider's course approved by the organization for enrollment by the constituent. It also includes processing incoming merchant charges to be posted to the account to flag any charge identified as pertaining to the approved course by the associated data and to store such charge as flagged. Finally it includes deferring billing of any flagged charge, pending settlement of such flagged charge under an arrangement with the organization.
US08533106B2
Techniques for regulating order entry based on an acceptable slop range for a trading strategy are described. According to one example embodiment, a trader may define an acceptable slop range for a trading strategy as a percentage. Using a spread trading algorithm, a spread price axis is generated and the trader may place an order for the trading strategy at a desired price, comprising placing an order in one leg market dependent on the market conditions of another leg market. Using the acceptable slop range, the system keep the net cost to the trader within the acceptable slop range, by regulating orders in the leg markets. Defining an acceptable slop range as a percentage allows the trader to monitor and regulate their profits and loss, regardless of the type of spread trading algorithm used or the placement of an order on the spread price axis.
US08533096B2
Systems and techniques to implement compliance rules in a dynamic sourcing system. One or more compliance rules may be associated with an opportunity created using the dynamic sourcing system. A response to the opportunity may be evaluated based on the compliance rule. An action may be taken based on the evaluation.
US08533094B1
A method for generating on-line sales leads in an on-line auction. The method determines when a prospective bidder for an on-line auction of a specific item by a seller accesses the on-line screen for the item. The method obtains the e-mail address of the prospective bidder and either correlates the e-mail address of the prospective bidder with the item by seller or with a classification for the item. The correlated e-mail address is then delivered to the seller or to a purchaser and may be accompanied with information identifying the specific item, the classification, whether a bid was made or not, etc. Furthermore, the delivery occurs at periodic fixed time intervals or when a fixed number of e-mail addresses are obtained.
US08533093B1
A new type of general obligation bond, called Ed-Tech bonds, is structured to provide on-going funding for a district's technology needs, match the term of the underlying bonds to the useful short-term life of technology assets to be purchased with bond proceeds, and address federal restrictions regarding use of bond proceeds. Further, techniques are described for determining the appropriate financing parameters for the Ed-Tech bonds.
US08533089B1
Construction of indexes are addressed wherein a portfolio of securities and their associated investment weights or shares is generated. Indexes comprising a plurality of securities can often be bought and sold more cheaply than buying and selling the individual constituents of the index resulting in reduced transaction costs. In passive and enhanced indexing, investments are made with reference to an index. Factor indexes can serve as active manager benchmarks for investable products such as exchange traded funds and mutual funds. Computer based systems, methods and software are addressed for constructing indexes that replicate the returns of a quantitative factor such as medium term momentum or value with the best possible replication of the underlying factor returns. The methodology provides an approach to determine the index even when all desirable characteristics of the index are not simultaneously achievable.
US08533088B1
In one embodiment, a sale, by a company to another entity, of a security may be issued. The security may include a post-paid forward contract which obligates the other entity to purchase a fixed number of shares stock of the company; and debt. In one embodiment, a purchase, by the company from the other entity, of a pre-paid forward contract may be issued, which obligates the other entity to deliver to the company a variable number of shares of stock in the company. In one embodiment, the post-paid forward contract obligates the company to sell and the other entity to purchase, at maturity of the post-paid forward contract, a fixed number of shares of stock in the company for a fixed price.
US08533080B2
This invention relates to methods and systems that provide annuities with at least one liquidity option that allows the holder of the liquidity option to exercise the option and convert therewith a portion of a value of the annuity into a liquid asset, such as cash or a cash value, based on the value of future income payments, which can include payments that are guaranteed to be paid for the duration of one or more lifetime. The conversion may be in a variety of forms, such as an advance of at least a portion of the future income payments, or in the form a lump sum distribution of at least a portion of a commuted value of the annuity computed based at least in part on the present value, at the time of the conversion, of future income payments for the remainder of the guarantee period. This invention further relates to methods and systems that provide annuities including a liquid legacy benefit option that provide a lump sum distribution of a portion of an annuity premium to a beneficiary at the end of the guarantee period that is substantially certain at the inception of the annuity.
US08533073B2
An electronic method of auditing floorplan loans is provided. The floorplan loans are provided by a lending source to a plurality of vehicle dealers. The method includes, for each of the plurality of vehicle dealers, an entity other than the lending source or a dealer (i) retrieving the lending source's records corresponding to the dealer's floorplan loan; (ii) retrieving the dealer's internal financial records used by the dealer for tracking sales; (iii) comparing the lending source's records with the dealer's internal financial management records to determine a variance between the lending source's records and the dealer's records; and (iv) reporting the variance to the lending source.
US08533063B2
A bid processing system receives a project description and a baseline estimate for the project. The project is opened for bidding to multiple potential bidders. Each of the potential bidders have access to the project description and the baseline estimate for the project. The bid processing system receives multiple bids for the project and calculates a bid value associated with each of the multiple bids. The system then determines a best bid value from the plurality of received bids and awards the project to the bidder associated with the best bid value.
US08533053B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for implementing inventory pooling for multiple merchants. A first inventory of an item held at a first fulfillment center on behalf of a first merchant is contributed to a common pool of inventory. A second inventory of the item held at a second fulfillment center on behalf of a second merchant is contributed to the common pool of inventory. Fulfillment of an order placed by a customer of the first merchant is initiated from the second inventory of the item that was contributed by the second merchant to the common pool of inventory.
US08533045B1
The present invention comprises a universal coupon redemption system and method for redeeming both paper and electronic coupons that eliminates fraud. The system and method provides verification, validation and authentication of coupon redemption transactions in a third party environment while eliminating the need to ship coupons to manufacturers for reimbursement. In one embodiment, the system and method also advantageously addresses the increasingly complex identification of coupons by removing the encoded redemption requirements from the coupon itself and moving the redemption requirements to a third party coupon processing appliance.
US08533040B2
The present invention is directed towards systems and methods for generating weights with which one or more advertisements comprising an advertisement group are selected for distribution. The method of the present invention comprises retrieving analytics data for the one or more advertisements comprising the advertisement group, and retrieving advertiser specified configuration data associated with the one or more advertisements comprising the advertisement group. A score is calculated for the one or more advertisements comprising the advertisement group, and weights are assigned to the one or more advertisements comprising the advertisement group based upon the scores and analytics data associated with the one or more advertisements.
US08533039B1
Disclosed herein is a method and system for online sales providing automatic rebate and coupon redemption corresponding to online purchases. Purchase orders from customers may be fulfilled and the products shipped to customers by the system for online sales with automatic rebate and coupon redemption. The system may provide customers with the ability to make online purchases using applicable coupons and rebates from merchants or manufacturers thereby passing the savings on to the customer. The system may also automatically retrieve coupons and rebates for use during an online purchasing activity for items in a shopping cart during a shopping activity.
US08533033B2
Systems and methods are provided for delivering a discount using a partner-issued currency or a combination of virtual currency and partner-issued currency, offering a high-perceived savings value to an end-user while maintaining the perception of product value. An embodiment of an inventive method includes presenting a display of a price paid by a consumer without access to the virtual currency along with a display of an amount payable by the end-user in actual currency in combination with an amount payable in virtual currency. The end-user perceives a benefit to using the virtual currency and since the price paid in actual currency is less than the displayed price to be paid by a consumer without access to the virtual currency.
US08533032B2
A method of generating and redeeming a plurality of coupons includes generating a first coupon, generating a second coupon, distributing the first coupon to the first consumer, and distributing the second coupon to the second consumer. Generating a first coupon includes selecting a first group of offers from a plurality of offers such that the first group of offers is individually customized to the first consumer, and printing a first bar code identifying a first account and indicating that the first coupon relates to the first group of offers. Generating a second coupon includes selecting a second group of offers, and printing a second bar. Each of the plurality of offers is redeemable for a discount on a corresponding one of a plurality of products offered for sale, and the first group of offers differs from the second group of offers.
US08533025B2
Systems and methods are described for management of sales activity information. In an embodiment, a system comprises a client system; and a server system, communicatively coupled to the client system, wherein the server system comprises: a client interface to receive sales activity data from the client system, wherein the sales activity is associated with a sales process and arranged using a multi-dimensional matrix; and a data storage system to store the sales activity data using a coordinate system that corresponds with the multi-dimensional matrix. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08533018B2
To predict the service life of a construction machine more accurately, and to make it possible to draw up an appropriate overhaul implementation plan at an early stage.A first service life prediction unit 311 predicts the service lives of main components such as an engine and the like, based upon their actual wear states. And a second service life prediction unit 312 predicts the service lives of the same components, based upon their cumulative load amounts. An order setting unit 320 selects the ones of these two predicted service lives which are the shorter, and sets a priority order for overhaul in order of shortness of predicted service life. An overhaul schedule table generation unit 330 creates a schedule table D1 based upon this priority order. The contents of this schedule table D1 are decided upon by a judgment unit 340, and, if necessary, are corrected by a correction unit 341. And a plan creation unit 350 creates an overhaul implementation plan document D2 and the like, based upon the corrected schedule table D1a. The result of the overhaul task and the present states of components are tested, and these test results are reflected by the service life prediction units 311 and 312.
US08533012B2
A user interface for a fare summary tool is described. The user interface is for display on a monitor and includes a fare evaluation result table that displays fare rule summaries for fares in slices of an itinerary. A method for producing a rule summary is also described. The method retrieves fares and fare rules for a city pair over a specified time period and evaluates the retrieved fares against the retrieve rules to return a status corresponding to pass, fail defer. The method produces a summary of the results of evaluating the rules that indicates the status of the rules for each category of rules and displays the summary on a user output device.
US08533001B2
A system and method of calculating athlete performance, may include receiving information relating to at least one date of performance of physical activity and generating a proposed training schedule, including one or more training sessions, corresponding to the at least one date of performance of physical activity. Further, the system and method may include receiving information relating to records of the athlete's prior performances, and determining a performance model including predicted athlete performance based on the calculated training schedule and the prior performances.
US08533000B1
An automated system and method for customer management deploys customer databases to profile customer service requests for distribution to appropriately assigned agent representatives. The representatives adopt particular roles according to customer care volume, inquiry type, time of day and other customer management needs. Consumer profiles may be accessed in real time to combine customer care events with cross-selling and other promotions related to the consumer's transaction history and other factors.
US08532993B2
A system and method for performing speech recognition is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an utterance, applying the utterance to a recognizer with a language model having pronunciation probabilities associated with unique word identifiers for words given their pronunciations and presenting a recognition result for the utterance. Recognition improvement is found by moving a pronunciation model from a dictionary to the language model.
US08532992B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for selecting a speech recognition model in a standardized speech recognition infrastructure. The system receives speech from a user, and if a user-specific supervised speech model associated with the user is available, retrieves the supervised speech model. If the user-specific supervised speech model is unavailable and if an unsupervised speech model is available, the system retrieves the unsupervised speech model. If the user-specific supervised speech model and the unsupervised speech model are unavailable, the system retrieves a generic speech model associated with the user. Next the system recognizes the received speech from the user with the retrieved model. In one embodiment, the system trains a speech recognition model in a standardized speech recognition infrastructure. In another embodiment, the system handshakes with a remote application in a standardized speech recognition infrastructure.
US08532991B2
Speech models are trained using one or more of three different training systems. They include competitive training which reduces a distance between a recognized result and a true result, data boosting which divides and weights training data, and asymmetric training which trains different model components differently.
US08532987B2
A non-acoustic sensor is used to measure a user's speech and then broadcasts an obscuring acoustic signal diminishing the user's vocal acoustic output intensity and/or distorting the voice sounds making them unintelligible to persons nearby. The non-acoustic sensor is positioned proximate or contacting a user's neck or head skin tissue for sensing speech production information.
US08532985B2
A warped spectral estimate of an original audio signal can be used to encode a representation of a fine estimate of the original signal. The representation of the warped spectral estimate and the representation of the fine estimate can be sent to a speech recognition system. The representation of the warped spectral estimate can be passed to a speech recognition engine, where it may be used for speech recognition. The representation of the warped spectral estimate can also be used along with the representation of the fine estimate to reconstruct a representation of the original audio signal.
US08532977B2
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.
US08532975B2
A system and method for capturing and delivering emulation data from a hardware emulation system to a simulator running on a host workstation without considerably sacrificing emulation speed or sacrificing the emulation capacity available for a user's logic design. According to one embodiment, a system, comprises a logic software simulator running on a host workstation; a hardware emulation system having a system bus and an emulator chip, the emulator chip includes: an emulation processor cluster, and a capture buffer connected to the system bus; and a high-speed interface connecting the host workstation to the system bus of the hardware emulator, wherein the capture buffer captures a select output of the emulation processor cluster.
US08532972B2
According to one embodiment, a method of simulating a manufacturing process of a structure including adjacent components, the method includes causing a computer to perform operations of: importing mesh and material data set for each component; specifying, as a calculation target, a region in a first component in which impurities are to be diffused among the components; setting a virtual film of a desired thickness in contact with the region whose material is the same as that of a second component in contact with the specified calculation target; setting boundary conditions at interface between the region and the virtual film, based on the material data; incorporating the boundary conditions into diffusion equations to solve the diffusion equations of the region and the virtual film; and bringing data on the concentration of impurities of the region obtained by the calculation into data on the structure before the specification of the region.
US08532958B2
In one example of a method for remote identifying a non-Lambertian target material, a spectral signature for a target is determined from each of at least two different sets of imagery acquired at different angles, and compared to a predicted signature for a candidate material for each of the at least two different angles. The predicted signatures take into account the known anisotropy of reflectance, and thus also radiance, of the candidate material.
US08532951B2
An iterative method for calibrating a transducer array characterized by calibration parameters, based on time delay measurements between transducer pairs, comprising the steps of: creating a distance data set that includes pairwise distances between estimated positions of transducer; forming a time delay measurement data set that includes time delay measurements between transducer pairs; generating from the time delay measurement data set an estimate of at least one calibration parameter; modifying the time delay measurement data set and the distance data set based on the estimated calibration parameters; denoising the modified distance data set with an iterative algorithm; updating the estimated positions of transducers based on the denoised modified distance data set; and repeating at least a portion of the steps until the difference between the estimated positions of transducer pairs and updated estimated positions of transducers satisfies a stopping criterion.
US08532949B2
Various computer-implemented methods for classifying defects on a specimen are provided. One method includes assigning individual defects detected on the specimen to defect groups based on one or more characteristics of the individual defects. The method also includes displaying information about the defect groups to a user. In addition, the method includes allowing the user to assign a classification to each of the defect groups. Systems configured to classify defects on a specimen are also provided. One system includes program instructions executable on a processor for assigning individual defects detected on the specimen to defect groups based on one or more characteristics of the individual defects. The system also includes a user interface configured for displaying information about the defect groups to a user and allowing the user to assign a classification to each of the defect groups.
US08532947B2
An integrated circuit includes non-volatile storage configured to secretly store a digital word, the value of which forms an identification code. The integrated circuit also includes control circuitry configured to receive the digital word and to generate transient electrical currents or transient voltages, the characteristics of which depend on the value of the digital word. There is an electrically conductive network configured to be passed through by the electrical currents or receive the transient voltages so as to generate an electromagnetic field that identifies the integrated circuit.
US08532942B2
A system (20) for monitoring deformation of a substantially cylindrical casing (14). The system (20) includes at least two strings (22) of interconnected sensors (24) that are wrapped around the casing (14) so as not to intersect one another. At least one of the strings (22) includes a series of at least two segments (S). The series of segments (S) includes a segment (S) arranged at one wrap angle (θ) and another segment (S) arranged at a different wrap angle (θ).
US08532938B2
A method, system, and computer program product are described for receiving a test result of a state of a subject and indicating an amount of a nutraceutical partly based on the test result and partly based on a regimen.
US08532936B2
The present invention provides a method capable of detecting single or multiple fetal chromosomal aneuploidies in a maternal sample comprising fetal and maternal nucleic acids, and verifying that the correct determination has been made. The method is applicable to determining copy number variations (CNV) of any sequence of interest in samples comprising mixtures of genomic nucleic acids derived from two different genomes, and which are known or are suspected to differ in the amount of one or more sequence of interest. The method is applicable at least to the practice of noninvasive prenatal diagnostics, and to the diagnosis and monitoring of conditions associated with a difference in sequence representation in healthy versus diseased individuals.
US08532929B2
Pulse sequences are applied to a fluid in an earth formation with an external static magnetic field and NMR spin echo signals are obtained. The received NMR signals are affected by internal field gradients due to a contrast in magnetic susceptibility between the grains of the formation matrix and the fluid in the pore space. Processing of the data gives the relaxation time and diffusivity of the fluid.
US08532928B2
A technique provides a methodology for improving surveys of subterranean regions. The methodology comprises estimating macro anisotropy and an intrinsic or micro anisotropy of an overburden. A surface electromagnetic survey is conducted, and the data from the survey is inverted based on or including information gained from estimating the macro anisotropy and/or intrinsic anisotropy. A processor system can be used to conduct the inversion with the adjustments for anisotropy to improve the information provided by the survey.
US08532922B2
A method for simplifying a description of a travel route represented by a list of route points includes: reading in a travel route which is mapped by a list of route points represented by a plurality of route points, each route point representing a different subsegment of a travel route on a digital road map; altering the list of route points according to a predetermined algorithm, in order to obtain an altered list of route points that represents the travel route; and storing the altered list of route points in order to simplify the description of the travel route.
US08532921B1
Systems and methods for determining available providers is disclosed. One embodiment includes communicating with a plurality of third party data storage units, at least one of the plurality of third party data storage units comprising user preference data for a vehicle, retrieving the user preference data from a remote location, and facilitating storage of the user preference data. Some embodiments include utilizing the user preference data to predict a likely current destination and providing, by a vehicle computing device, data related to the likely current destination to a user.
US08532917B2
A method, a system, and a recording medium for navigating a vehicle are provided. In the present application, a current driving lane of the vehicle is first detected through a lane detection technique. Then, whether the current driving lane conforms to a navigation lane in navigation information is determined. If the current driving lane does not conform to the navigation lane, a notification of direction of the navigation lane relative to the current driving lane is generated. Accordingly, a driver can be instantly notified to switch to the appropriate lane.
US08532915B2
Embodiments of the invention describe receiving vehicle information data from a plurality of sensors. This vehicle information data may indicate at least orientation of a frame of a vehicle, orientation of a front wheel of the vehicle with respect to the frame, orientation and rotational speed of a flywheel included in a gyroscope coupled to the frame, and speed of frame. Based on the received data, a vehicle state may be determined. Based at least on this determination, at least one of the orientation and rotational speed of the flywheel may be adjusted. This adjustment may be further based on an input to change at least one of speed and direction of the vehicle.
US08532911B2
A method and system for adaptively controlling a diesel engine to account for variations in the cetane number of the diesel fuel being used. An engine controller includes various control modules with algorithms for estimating the fuel cetane number, or determining the ignition delay that the engine is experiencing, or both. With this information, the controller can adjust the amount of exhaust gas recirculation that is used, thus varying the amount of oxygen that is available in the intake charge to burn the fuel. The controller can also adjust the timing of the fuel injection event, as another way of altering the nature of combustion. Using these techniques, the controller can optimize the engine operation based on the fuel currently being used.
US08532909B2
Suggested is a procedure for operating a self-igniting Otto engine (OM) with at least one inlet valve (14), with one or several variably controllable outlet valves (15), with a sensor (21) for a continuous detection of an air-fuel-ratio (λ) of the Otto engine (OM) and with a sensor (22) for detecting an engine speed n of the Otto engine (OM), whereby the fuel is directly injected into at least one combustion chamber (10) and whereby the Otto engine (OM) is operated in such a way, that a desired combustion focus (MFB50%set) is adjusted. The procedure is thereby characterized, in that the self-igniting moment of the fuel is influenced by an injection moment depending on a combustion focus (MFB50%set). An independent claim relates to a control unit that is customized for controlling the process of the procedure.
US08532907B2
A cruise control system includes: a traffic condition acquisition unit that acquires a traffic condition that includes a vehicle density on a road on which a vehicle runs; and a cruise control unit that performs cruise control on the vehicle so that a following distance has a less tendency to decrease as the road gets busier.
US08532899B1
An inclinometer using speed, acceleration and yaw angle rate to measure inclination angle. The accuracy of the inclination angle measurement may be improved by compensating for a position offset of an accelerometer; Kalman filtering with an external altitude measurement; and/or compensating for an accelerometer bias. The accelerometer bias may be calculated based on a last incline angle before a dormant time period and/or by Kalman filtering.
US08532887B2
A switching apparatus is provided in a hydraulic control apparatus having a fluid transmission apparatus; a lockup clutch; a switching valve that controls engagement of the lockup clutch; and a control oil pressure generation apparatus that pressurizes oil and outputs a control oil pressure to control activation of the switching valve. The switching apparatus executes a control to warm the oil input into the control oil pressure generation apparatus if the temperature of the oil is below a predetermined temperature and prohibits execution of the control to warm the oil input into the control oil pressure generation apparatus if the temperature of the oil equals or exceeds the predetermined temperature.
US08532881B2
A connecting device arranged in a motor vehicle releasably connects a structural member of the vehicle to the vehicle chassis and includes a bolt joint system. The connecting device further includes a pyrotechnical charge and an igniter. The igniter detonates the pyrotechnical charge upon receipt of an ignition signal. The pyrotechnical charge is located near the bolt joint system such that, upon detonation, it destroys the connecting function of the bolt joint system and thereby releases the structural member from the chassis.
US08532880B2
A steering assist apparatus of a vehicle includes: a lane set unit to recognize an environment of ahead the vehicle; a deviation determination unit to determine whether the vehicle has a deviation tendency from a traveling lane; a steering control unit to apply steering force in a deviation avoiding direction to the steering mechanism when it is determined that the vehicle has a deviation tendency; a neighboring vehicle detection unit to detect a neighboring vehicle, which travels ahead of the vehicle in a lane next to the traveling lane of the vehicle; and an approach degree calculation unit to calculate an approach degree of the neighboring vehicle toward the vehicle. When the vehicle has a deviation tendency in a direction away from the traveling lane of the neighboring vehicle, the steering control unit reduces the steering force in the deviation avoiding direction according to an increase of the approach degree.
US08532875B2
Motor vehicle having a closed ride height control system which contains a control unit in which a switch-off limiting value for at least one operating parameter of at least one component of the ride height control system is monitored, wherein in raising processes the activation of the component is prohibited or aborted when the switch-off limiting value is reached, and upward transgression of the switch-off limiting value of the operating parameter is permitted in the case of lowering processes.
US08532862B2
Each respective vehicle of a plurality of vehicles transports a vehicle navigation system. A position determining system determines a position and a velocity of the respective vehicle and an information acquisition system is operable to determine a displacement and velocity between the respective vehicle and a vehicle adjacent to the respective vehicle. An information communication system of a respective vehicle is operable to transmit first information (that vehicle's velocity and position) to other vehicles and to receive information from other vehicles regarding their velocities and positions. A vehicle routing system can determine a target routing and target velocity for moving the respective vehicle over a path including the roadway. Based on the received or determined information, the velocity of the respective vehicle can be controlled.
US08532856B2
A hybrid electric vehicle has a controller, an engine, a traction motor, and a transmission. The controller is configured for calculating, using a costing function, the total system losses incurred at each operating point of the HEV, including the losses for each of the engine, the traction motor, and the transmission. The controller selectively modifies the calculated cost of at least one of the engine, the traction motor, and the transmission in a designated one of the transmission states as a function of transmission fluid temperature. An optimal transmission state is then selected as the state having the optimal cost relative to the other transmission states. Selectively modifying the calculated cost may include penalizing the cost of using designated transmission states when the measured fluid temperature exceeds certain calibrated temperature limits. Designated operating states may be disabled above an upper temperature limit to protect the transmission from overheating.
US08532854B2
A vehicle includes first and second battery packs having respective first and second banks of contactors. The packs are wired in electrical parallel. A propulsion system is driven using electrical power from the packs. A controller determines which pack has the highest state of charge (SOC), and balances the SOC of the packs by controlling an open/closed state of the contactors. Contactors open to disconnect the pack having the highest SOC, and close again when a voltage difference between the packs is approximately zero. A system for use in the vehicle includes the packs, contactors, and controller. A method for controlling power flow in the vehicle includes determining which pack has the highest SOC, opening designated contactors during a near zero current event to disconnect the battery pack having the highest SOC, and closing the designated contactors when a voltage difference between the packs is approximately zero.
US08532853B2
A drive-train system of a vehicle having at least one internal combustion engine, which may be started using an electric machine able to be coupled thereto via a clutch and controllable via an engine-speed controller. A control value of the engine-speed controller is detected toward the end of at least one startup operation of the internal combustion engine while the clutch is still subject to slip, and a comparison of the control value with a setpoint value is used to determine a value deviation, which is able to be compensated with the aid of a correction value in a renewed startup operation. Furthermore, a corresponding method is also described.
US08532849B1
A present novel and non-trivial system, device, and method for presenting course deviation information on an aircraft display unit are disclosed. Lateral/vertical boundaries are established based upon lateral/vertical navigation data provided by one or more navigation data sources. Lateral/vertical deviation symbology data set(s) representative of lateral/vertical deviation scale(s) are generated and adapted to the lateral/vertical navigation data. The adapted lateral/vertical deviation symbology data set(s) representative of adapted lateral/vertical deviation scale(s) are provided to a display unit, whereby symbology(ies) of such adapted scale(s) are presented on a screen of the display unit. Each adapted scale is comprised of a desired course indicator and at least one deviation indicator, where the desired course indicator corresponds to a desired course and each deviation indicator corresponds to one navigation boundary. In response to changes of aircraft deviation, all indicators move together in unison within their respective, adapted deviation scale.
US08532846B2
A sling load computer-operated hook assembly for helicopter or unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) use is provided. The hook assembly allows automated pick-up and delivery. The computer hook assembly also (1) directs navigation of the aircraft, (2) finds and engages loads for pickup, (3) controls stability of the sling load enroute, and (4) releases the load at the delivery point. The self-contained feature allows the hook assembly to be moved from aircraft to aircraft. The hook assembly senses weight, motion and position of the load for stability control. An integral GPS unit is used to direct navigation. These data are transmitted to the aircraft autopilot and flight director instruments to provide navigation to the designated points and to control load stability enroute. Mission data for pick-up and release points can be received remotely from a command and control tactical data net. Alternately, mission data can be locally entered.
US08532836B2
Certain embodiments of the invention may include systems, methods, and apparatus for estimating demand response load change. According to an example embodiment of the invention, a method is provided for estimating energy usage change associated with a demand event. The method may include determining energy potential change during a demand event for one or more devices associated with a location; estimating energy usage patterns for the location over predefined time periods before and after the demand event; determining pre-demand event and post-demand event energy rebounds based at least in part on the estimated energy usage patterns; determining an energy change profile associated with the location based at least in part on the determined energy potential change, and the pre-demand event and post-demand event energy rebounds.
US08532834B2
A control system for a combined power generation and metallurgical plant facility integrates generator-side and load-side control to provide coordinated operation of the two processes. The power generation facility includes one or more generator units and the metallurgical plant facility includes one or more controllable loads. Operating characteristics of the one or more loads are fed back to the one or generator units through a master controller to determine input control parameters for the one or more generator units. Similarly control signals and operating characteristics of the one or more generators are fed forward to the one or more loads through the master controller to determine input control parameters for the one or more loads. Using feed-forward as well as feed-back loops to exchange generator output and load set-point information, power balance between the generator units and controlled loads is maintained within an operating envelope.
US08532828B2
A system for damping audible noise from a drive train. One embodiment is a system with an audible noise signal from a drive train wherein a damping circuit produces a damping torque that is a phase shifted and amplified version of the noise signal that is applied to the air-gap torque of a generator or motor coupled to the drive train and effectively reduces the audible noise.
US08532826B2
Systems and methods for controlling temperature in an information handling system is provided. In certain embodiments, a method may include receiving a desired threshold value, determining if a current real-time system value exceeds the desired threshold value, determining if a power shedding mode is enabled, if the power shedding mode is enabled, adjusting power supplied to the information handling system, and if the power shedding mode is not enabled, dynamically adjusting a fan speed of a cooling fan associated with the information handling system.
US08532818B2
A vacuum chamber includes: a vacuum vessel arranged at the backward side, where a wafer of a processing subject is processed inside an internal processing chamber; a transfer chamber arranged at the forward side, where said wafer is transferred at the inside thereof under atmospheric pressure; a cassette stage arranged at the forward of this transfer chamber, where a cassette storing said wafer is mounted; a lock chamber connected with said transfer chamber at the backward of said transfer chamber; a robot arranged inside said transfer chamber, where said wafer is transferred between said cassette and said lock chamber; and an aligning machine for making position of said wafer fit with the predetermined position, wherein the wafer is transferred to said lock chamber, after performing alignment of said wafer on said aligning machine, in the case where displacement amount of position of this wafer is larger than the predetermined value.
US08532813B2
A method includes: (a) transferring a tool to where thread cutting is to start; (b) cutting threads in work with the tool; (c) performing tool deceleration along the Z-axis and acceleration along the X-axis during a predetermined acceleration/deceleration time Ta to retract the tool along the X-axis; and (d) returning the tool to a reference point. In Step (c), to shorten the incomplete thread portion, a command is issued concurrently with the start of the acceleration/deceleration time Ta to realize a pullout speed Ve along the X-axis that exceeds an allowable maximum speed Vmax to increase the acceleration along the X-axis. The speed command for moving the tool along the X-axis is maintained at the value of zero from the elapse of command time Te until the acceleration/deceleration time Ta expires to maintain the actual speed of the tool along the X-axis at or below the allowable maximum speed Vmax.
US08532811B2
A workpiece measuring apparatus has an external module provided outside an NC device to acquire position data of one or more movable axes of a movable unit having a measuring head attached thereto. The position data of the measuring head is acquired at the same time interval as that for the distance measurement by the measuring head. The position of the workpiece is acquired by calculation from the acquired distance measurement data and the position data of the measuring head. The continuous shape of the workpiece can be measured by performing continuous measurement while moving the measuring head. Therefore, no modification or change is required such as adding a new function to the NC device. In addition, the present invention is applicable to any machine tool equipped with an NC device of any configuration, without being restricted by constraints of the NC device.
US08532805B2
A method and a system control a manufacturing process of a plant via a MES system. The MES system is provided with a catalogue of a tool model, the catalogue of the tool model contains tool entities and tool methods on the tool entities. The tool entities contain engineering-time tool entities and run-time tool entities and the tool methods contain engineering-time tool methods and run-time tool methods. At engineering time or at run time, via a tool manager, the tool model catalogue is exposed and information on the tool model data is stored in a database. At engineering time, the specific engineering-time tool entities are defined by invoking engineering-time tool methods. At run time the specific tool entities are instantiated into run-time tool objects and the manufacturing process is controlled relative to physical plant tools by invoking the run-time tool methods on the run-time tool objects.
US08532797B2
A mechanism for constructing generic control logic with versions of the logic automatically generated and stored for one or more protocols. The complexity of the one or more protocols may be hidden under a hood of the mechanism from the view of engineers, programmers and users so as to improve their productivity relative to control logic designs and applications.
US08532788B2
In one embodiment, a neurostimulation lead comprises an elongated body of insulative material, comprising a first end portion and a second end portion; a plurality of terminals longitudinally positioned along the first end portion; a plurality of electrodes longitudinally positioned along the second end portion; a plurality of conductors electrically coupling the plurality of electrodes to the plurality of terminals; a flexible metal longitudinal stiffener positioned within the elongated body wherein the stiffener has a plurality of longitudinal zones and each zone has a different column strength, the column strength of one or more zones of the plurality of longitudinal zones being defined by cuts or gaps in the stiffener, the stiffener causing the neurostimulation lead to exhibit a greatest amount of column strength adjacent to one end portion of the elongated body and to transition to a lower column strength toward a medial portion of the elongated body.
US08532785B1
Recent advancements in power electronics technology have provided opportunities for enhancements to circuits of implantable medical devices. The enhancements have contributed to increasing circuit miniaturization and an increased efficiency in the operation of the implantable medical devices. The therapy delivery circuits and techniques of the disclosure facilitate generation of a therapy stimulation waveform that may be shaped based on the patient's physiological response to the stimulation waveform. The generated therapy stimulation waveforms include a stepped leading-edge that may be shaped having a varying slope and varying amplitudes associated with each of the segments of the slope. Unlike the truncated exponential waveform delivered by the conventional therapy delivery circuit which is based on the behavior of the output capacitors (i.e., i=C(dV/dt)), the stimulation waveform of the present disclosure may be dynamically shaped as a function of an individual patient's response. The dynamically shaped therapy stimulation waveforms facilitate achieving lower capture thresholds which reduces the device's supply consumption thereby increasing longevity of the device and facilitate a reduction of tissue damage.
US08532784B2
An implantable stimulation system (e.g., an implantable neurostimulation system (INS)) comprises memory including a first table and a second table. The first table stores blocks of stimulation event data corresponding to stimulation events that are to be performed during a period of time (e.g., a 0.5 sec. or 1 sec. period of time). The second table stores blocks of next stimulation event time data corresponding to the period of time. The implantable stimulation system also includes a direct memory access (DMA) controller including a first DMA channel and a second DMA channel. The first DMA channel selectively transfers one of the blocks stimulation event data from the first table to one or more registers that are used to control stimulation events. The second DMA channel selectively transfers one of the blocks of next stimulation event time data from the second table to a timer that is used to control timing associated with the stimulation events. In this manner, the DMA controller is able to control stimulation.
US08532781B1
Exemplary methods and systems of generating a graphical representation of an intracochlear trajectory of electrodes include using electrical field imaging to generate an electrical field spread curve for each of a plurality of electrodes contained within an electrode array at least partially inserted within a cochlear implant patient and generating a graphical representation of an intracochlear trajectory of the electrodes based on the electrical field spread curves.
US08532779B2
Electrical crosstalk between two implantable medical devices or two different therapy modules of a common implantable medical device may be evaluated, and, in some examples, mitigated. In some examples, one of the implantable medical devices or therapy modules delivers electrical stimulation to a nonmyocardial tissue site or a nonvascular cardiac tissue site, and the other implantable medical device or therapy module delivers cardiac rhythm management therapy to a heart of the patient.
US08532767B2
A device for medical applications, comprising an elongated conductive element having one proximal end and one distal end, wherein the latter undergoes a temperature increase by absorbing energy from an electromagnetic field, comprising a separating element disposed in the elongated conductive element for the galvanic separation of the proximal end from the distal end.
US08532765B2
A CPR coaching device is designed for placement on the chest of a patient during CPR. Chest compressions are delivered to the patient by a rescuer by pressing on the device. A force sensor and an accelerometer are located in the device and are responsive to the chest compressions. When the patient's body is stationary there will be a high correlation of a depth signal produced by doubly integrating the acceleration signal of the accelerometer and the force signal, and the depth signal is deemed reliable. When the patient's body is subject to motion such as by the motion of a vehicle transporting the patient, there will be a low correlation of the depth and force signals, with the force signal being relatively immune to this motion. In such cases, the force signal is used in association with the previously determined relationship between depth and force in the absence of motion to produce an indication of chest compression depth.
US08532763B2
Cardiovertor/defibrillator with electronics (12) that receives a detection signal from a detection device (16) indicating whether a heart of a mammal is fibrillating, processes the detection signal by running a program and generates a control signal for a stimulation device (17) based on the detection signal in order to allow the stimulation device (17) to provoke defibrillation of the heart by a resuscitating stimulation in the area of the pharynx of the mammal. The apparatus has a nose plug.
US08532760B2
One example includes a battery that includes a stack of at least one substantially planar anode and at least one substantially planar cathode, wherein the stack defines a contoured exterior, and a battery housing enclosing the stack, the battery housing defining a battery housing exterior, wherein the contoured exterior of the stack is shaped to conform to a contoured interior of the battery housing that approximately conforms to the battery housing exterior, the battery produced by the process of modeling, using fluid dynamics, an exterior of a biocompatible housing and shaping the battery housing to conform to at least some of the exterior of the biocompatible housing.
US08532759B2
Methods and systems, including computer readable mediums, are provided for transforming a measurement made relative to a first reference frame into a corresponding measurement relative to a second reference frame. Sensor signals that are produced by sensors in response to the sensors' motion relative to the first reference frame are transformed using a transformation matrix. The transformation generates corrected sensor signals that are relative to the axes of the second reference frame.
US08532756B2
A method and system are provided for analyzing electromagnetic brain signals such as EEG and ECoG signals in a subject in real time and which avoids the need for time-intensive retrospective analysis of brain activity in the subject. This can be applied to all complex systems with multiple fluctuating signals to identify and predict significant events.
US08532753B2
An active medical device using non-linear filtering for the reconstruction of a surface electrocardiogram (ECG) from an endocardial electrogram (EGM) is disclosed. The device for the reconstruction of the surface ECG comprises: a plurality of inputs, receiving a corresponding plurality of EGM signals from endocardial or epicardial electrogram (x1[n], x2[n]), each collected on a respective EGM derivation of a plurality of EGM derivations, and at least one output delivering a reconstructed surface ECG electrocardiogram signal (y[n]), related to an ECG derivation, and a non-linear digital filter (12′, 12′, 14) with a transfer function that determines the reconstructed ECG signal based on said plurality of input EGM signals. The non-linear digital filter includes a Volterra filter type (12, 12′, 12″) whose transfer function includes a linear term (h1) and at least one quadratic (h2) and/or cubic (h3) term(s).
US08532752B2
A biosignal amplifying device includes: an operational amplifier (op-amp); a capacitor load including a first capacitor connected with a first input terminal of the op-amp, and in which a first voltage is inputted from a first electrode, and a second capacitor which is connected with a second input terminal of the op-amp, and in which a second voltage is inputted from a second electrode; a feedback capacitor load including a first feedback capacitor connected with the first input terminal and an output terminal, and a second feedback capacitor connected with the second input terminal; and a feedback resistor load including a first feedback resistor connected with the first input terminal and the output terminal, and a second feedback resistor connected with the second input terminal.
US08532750B2
A process for determining whether tissue is precancer, in which tests discriminating between precancer and benign tissue and between precancer and normal tissue are combined, and tissue that is classified as precancer in both tests is determined to be precancer, in which neither of the tests to be combined is the most selective. Further, a process and device in which certain optimal wavelengths of glycogen, phosphate and lipid, but not protein, discriminate between normal and precancer tissues.
US08532749B1
A combination catheter enables performing an angiogram and an angioplasty (and repetitions of one or both) with the same catheter instrument, without removal from and re-insertion into an artery until the procedure is completed.
US08532746B2
An automatic atherectomy system uses a rotary burr at the tip of a catheter as a sensing device, in order to measure both electrical conductivity and permittivity of surrounding tissue at multiple frequencies. From these parameters it is determined which tissue lies in different directions around the tip. A servo system steers the catheter tip in the direction of the tissue to be removed. In non-atherectomy applications the rotary burr can be replaced with any desired tool and the system can be used to automatically steer the catheter to the desired position. The steering may be done hydraulically, by pressurizing miniature bellows located near the catheter tip.
US08532741B2
A method and apparatus can be used to guide or navigate an instrument relative to a body. Various types of information can be used to assist in the navigation, such as MRI data, diffusion tensor image data, and the like. The information can assist in identifying the portions of the body.
US08532740B2
A measurement device and measurement method make it possible to eliminate the load generated by stopping on a measurement subject that is moved among multiple magnetic field generating devices. The measurement device includes a first external magnetic field generating device that generates a magnetic field of a set size, a second external magnetic field generating device that generates a magnetic field of a size that differs from that of the magnetic field of the first external magnetic field generating device, a rotating table that causes the subject of measurement to pass in sequence through the magnetic fields of the first and second external magnetic field generating devices by causing the subject of measurement to move rotationally, and an OMRI measurement processing part and MRI measurement processing part that measures images such as functional images or structural images of the subject of measurement while it is being moved rotationally by the rotating table.
US08532738B2
A method, including constructing a simulated surface of a body cavity, and pressing a distal end of a probe against a wall of the body cavity. While pressing the distal end against the wall, position measurements are accepted from the probe indicating a position of the probe within the body cavity, and force measurements are accepted from the probe indicating a force between the distal end and the wall. A distortion in the simulated surface is created at the position indicated by the position measurements, so as to form a distorted surface, upon detecting that the force measurements exceed a predefined amount. The distorted surface is then displayed.
US08532725B2
A method of controlling fault currents within a utility power grid is provided. The method may include coupling a superconducting electrical path between a first and a second node within the utility power grid and coupling a non-superconducting electrical path between the first and second nodes within the utility power grid. The superconducting electrical path and the non-superconducting electrical path may be electrically connected in parallel. The superconducting electrical path may have a lower series impedance, when operated below a critical current level, than the non-superconducting electrical path. The superconducting electrical path may have a higher series impedance, when operated at or above the critical current level, than the non-superconductor electrical path.
US08532722B2
Systems and methods are provided for media devices including a housing, a frame disposed adjacent to the housing, a support panel that is integrated with the frame, and a flexible circuit that is disposed adjacent to the support panel such that the support panel provides support for the flexible circuit.
US08532703B1
The communication device comprising a voice communication implementer, an auto time adjusting implementer, a calculating implementer, a multiple language implementer, and a remote control implementer.
US08532701B2
A multi-mode communication device is disclosed and includes a host baseband processor configured to operate in a first communications system of a plurality of communications systems, and a baseband co-processor configured to operate in a second communications system of the plurality of communications systems. The second communications system is different from the first communications system. The host baseband processor is operable to time synchronize the second communications system to the first communications system based on timing information generated by the baseband co-processor. The host baseband processor may include circuitry for issuing, from the host baseband processor, a timer capture interrupt to the baseband co-processor during a predetermined timer phase of the first communications system.
US08532696B2
A mobile terminal having a flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) is includes: a first main body having a first electronic circuit board therein; a second main body slidably connected to the first main body and having a second electronic circuit board therein; a FPCB for transferring an electronic signal by electrically connecting the first electronic circuit board and the second electronic circuit board; and a ground extension portion connected to one end of the FPCB connected to the first electronic circuit board, having a ground layer connected to a ground line of the FPCB therein, and connected to a noise shielding portion for shielding noise generated from one or more electronic components mounted on the first electronic circuit board. By extending the ground, the influences of noise and static electricity is minimized on an electronic circuit board mounted on the electronic components.
US08532695B2
It is desired from the viewpoints of accessory and economy to make common use of one telephone number among a plurality of mobile telephones. A server makes an ID intrinsic to a mobile telephone and a telephone number correspond to each other thereby to relay communications between the mobile telephones made to correspond. A mobile telephone requests the server managing the telephone number and the ID of the mobile telephone from itself via the Internet, to change the correspondence between the telephone number and the mobile telephone ID. In response to this request, the server changes the correspondence between the telephone number and the mobile telephone ID.
US08532676B1
Methods for generating more accurate location estimates are based on indicative factors. The factors are gleaned from wireless signals that were received by a wireless terminal and from other network-specific data. Each factor is probative of whether the wireless signals were received by the wireless terminal: (i) indoors versus outdoors, and/or (ii) “above-the-clutter” versus “below-the-clutter” of ambient wireless signals, and/or (iii) while moving at a certain speed classification, e.g., stationary/pedestrian versus vehicular speeds. Each factor tends to prove or disprove the particular characteristic. The result is an estimated probability, such as the probability that the wireless terminal received the signals indoors. The estimated probability is applied to the analysis of candidate locations, eliminating some candidates from further consideration. This enables computational resources to focus on the remaining higher-likelihood candidate locations and provides improved accuracy in the location estimate.
US08532675B1
A device, system and method are provided for creation, accessing, and management of data items on a computing device, such as a mobile device, using physically-defined spatial relationships between the data items and the user. At least one of a tracking user interface and a kinetic user interface is used to determine the physical location of the mobile device with respect to the user, rather than with reference to a geographic location. Using one or both of these interfaces, individual data items may be associated with a location in the physical space surrounding the user. Data items may also be associated with a particular characteristic, such as a category or tag, based on its associated location. Data items may be subsequently retrieved by holding the mobile device in the physical space surrounding the user, then identifying those data items having an associated location proximate to the mobile device location.
US08532673B2
Data related to a subscriber in a communications network is to be retrieved. A first Generic User Profile (GUP) server receives an incoming request for the subscriber related data from a data consumer in a first communication domain and determines that the data is located in a second communication domain. An outgoing request for the data is then transmitted to a second GUP server in the second communication domain via an interface. The second GUP server then retrieves the requested subscriber related data from a network repository and transmits the requested data to the first GUP server, which forwards the requested data to the data consumer. Service access to subscriber data located in other domains than the GUP Server is enabled, for example when the subscriber is roaming. The subscriber related data can also be distributed in both the first and second communication domain.
US08532671B2
A method and mobile device of performing idle mode operation carried. The method includes receiving a first paging information of a first paging group and a second paging information of a second paging group from at least one base station. Entering idle mode at a first coverage belonging to the first paging group and starting a first timer for a periodic location update. Determining a paging group of a currently preferred base station. Starting a second timer, if the paging group of the currently preferred base station is determined to be the second paging group and performing location update when the second timer expires.
US08532666B2
A method and system provide a plurality of femto cells that are deployed within a macro cell of cellular network. The femto cells improve cellular service inside structures, such as residential and commercial structures. Femto base stations convert signals between an airlink-interface and core network to enable data communication between the mobile terminal and an access network to occur through the Internet and a public switched telephone network. The femto base stations are independent of each other and the macro cell. The method and system provide the femto base stations with interference awareness and mitigation techniques to minimize interference with the cellular network.
US08532659B2
A handover control method in a mobile communication system that performs handover control by switching base stations that communicate with a mobile terminal as the mobile terminal moves. In this handover control method, a mobile control device selects one or more handover base station candidates based on the communication state, and based on the communication capabilities of the handover base station candidates, decides a transmission rate for multicasting communication data, and transmits communication data to each of the handover base station candidates at the decided transmission rate, and a handover base station candidate that is decided as a handover base station sends the saved multicast communication data to the mobile terminal.
US08532657B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for processing registration and authentication procedures by an IP-based femtocell system are provided. The femtocell system includes a base transceiver station and a Session Initiation Protocol to Internet Operating System adapter. The femtocell system receives a registration message from a user equipment, issues a location update request on behalf of the user equipment, transmits a register message to a core network, receives an authentication request from the core network, and transmits an authentication challenge to the user equipment.
US08532650B2
Various embodiments for a communication control configuration and a communication control method are described for wireless communication devices having at least two radios that can potentially interfere with one another. The control schemes described herein reduce the likelihood that the two radios will interfere with one another during operation.
US08532645B2
A method and apparatus provide for removal of a display screen from a wireless device, or, in a different embodiment, provide for a display screen as a separate and additional device that functions in real time in the same way as if the screen were incorporated in the wireless device. This functionality is enabled by a short range wireless connection, such as Bluetooth, between transceivers located in the wireless device and the display screen device. The display screen device allows a user to monitor the associated wireless device without needing to operate the full device. The display screen device may also have control capability for controlling the wireless device. Thus, a user can monitor, and control, a mobile device from a smaller remote display device while being presented with the information that would be displayed on the display screen of the wireless device.
US08532643B2
A mobile phone is provided. The mobile phone includes a first buffer memory, a downloader for downloading a data file from a web server in the first buffer memory, the file being accessible at a web address on the web server, the downloader being connected to the first buffer memory, and a streaming server for streaming data to a remote client equipment according to a predetermined network protocol, the streaming server being connected to the first buffer memory. The streaming server is adapted to be connected to the remote client equipment via a data link and is adapted to receive, from the remote client equipment, a data streaming request. The streaming server includes an activater for activating the downloader, the activater being adapted to activate the downloading of the data file.
US08532638B2
A method for accessing content using a global textsite platform including registering a unique keyword received from a publisher, receiving content from the publisher for creating a textsite associated with the unique keyword, creating the textsite on behalf of the publisher, receiving, from a user, a request to access the textsite, processing the request from the user, and providing access to the textsite by sending the content of the textsite, via a text messaging service (TMS), to a user mobile device.
US08532637B2
A method and a system for providing convertible or interactive messaging between two or more users is provided. In an embodiment, a user sends a convertible message to another user. Such convertible messages can be sent using a communication means having two or more fields, ports, or the like. One of the fields, ports, or the like is used to identify the transmission as a convertible message. Another of the fields, ports, or the like is used to relay the text, icon, etc. of the message. Upon recognition of the convertible message, the receiving device allows for the display of the convertible message. The receiving user may manually accept to view the convertible message, and/or may view/not view the convertible message automatically upon receipt due to predefined rules.
US08532635B2
A method and system for providing targeted advertisement information to consumers over a wireless communications network. In one embodiment, local advertisers register to advertise on wireless communications devices that are in close proximity to the advertiser. As a consumer enters a cell site that is near the location of the advertiser, the wireless network delivers a message to the wireless device specified by the local advertiser. An acknowledgement signal is then received by the network, and the local advertiser's account is charged for transmission of the advertisement. In a further embodiment, each of the messages stored in the database is also associated with one or more demographic codes, and users of wireless communications device select from one more demographic codes to describe their advertisement preferences. Messages to be transmitted to particular wireless communications devices are selected based upon both the location information and the demographic codes associated with the messages.
US08532620B2
A method for performing user security operations using a mobile communications device includes, storing at least one security credential for a user in the mobile communications device, receiving a request from a client computer to perform an action requiring the stored at least one security credential, wherein the request includes information regarding a service application for which the action is requested, determining a response to the request based upon at least one user configured personal security preference at the mobile communications device, and transmitting the determined response to the client computer. Corresponding system and computer program products are also described.
US08532613B2
A cellular telephone, system and method are provided which are capable of transferring a portion of or an entire telephone directory consisting of a plurality of telephone numbers to another cellular telephone via a remote central station. The remote central station receives the telephone directory and stores the same in memory for either temporary or permanent storage. The telephone directory can then be transferred from the remote central station to the same or another cellular telephone for storing the telephone directory within a memory of the cellular telephone. An individual, a company, or other entity, utilizing the remote central station, in order to store and transfer a telephone directory from a cellular telephone to the same cellular telephone or to at least another cellular telephone, pays a fee to at least one operator of the remote central station for providing and/or performing the receiving, storing and transferring services.
US08532608B2
A computer system determines location probabilities for defined sub-areas (41, 43) of a geographical area (4), e.g. for squares arranged in a grid (40), based on field strengths expected in the small sub-areas (41, 43) from the antennas (A1, A2 A3, A4), and based on the antenna used by the mobile communication terminal. The location probabilities indicate for a sub-area (41, 43) the probability that the mobile communication terminal is located in the respective sub-area (41, 43). The computer system determines at least one ellipse defining the location area, based on the location probabilities of the sub-areas (41, 43). The location probabilities make it possible to determine elliptical location areas of mobile users much smaller than the area each antenna does cover physically, but without the need for measuring at the mobile communication terminal signal properties such as signal strength or observed time differences.
US08532604B2
A radio, comprising: an enclosure having a top lid, a bottom lid, and a body, the top lid and the bottom lid being removable from the body; a radio system mounted in the body, the body having a top cover and a bottom cover for the radio system; a first seal formed or provided between the top lid and the body to waterproof the radio system when the top lid is installed over the top cover; a second seal formed or provided between the bottom lid and the body to waterproof the radio system when the bottom lid is installed over the bottom cover; and, at least one cord for coupling the top lid and the bottom lid to the body.
US08532602B2
A transistor-based switch is coupled to a replica circuit that includes transistor circuitry similar to that of the switch. The replica circuit biases a switched transistor to promote linear operation of the switch.
US08532598B1
A method and system of optimizing transmit beam forming in a multiple radio wireless system is provided. A stimulus signal can be provided to an analog receive input of a device under test (DUT), wherein the DUT includes multiple radios. A receive phase and amplitude can be measured at baseband using the stimulus signal for each radio. At this point, a receive weight and its conjugate can be determined using the receive phases and amplitudes. A calibration vector and its conjugate can also be determined, wherein a product of the receive weight conjugate and the calibration vector conjugate generate a transmit weight. This transmit weight can be applied to transmit signals during the transmit beam forming using the multiple radios.
US08532589B2
A radio communications system has at least one base station and subscriber station. To transmit messages to a subscriber stations, the base station uses successive emission directions that differ from one another. The base station transmits information concerning the sequence of the use of said emission directions to subscriber stations.
US08532585B2
Control of multiple functions of an electronic device is provided by using a single control element (102) including a switch body (312) adjustable between multiple switch positions, a primary actuator (302) with lateral (302b) and distal surface (302a) portions extending from the switch body and configured for adjusting the switch body between the switch positions, and a pressure sensor (314) operable via an activation force at the lateral surfaces of the primary actuator. A first function can be controlled responsive to motion of the primary actuator during an activation of the pressure sensor. Additionally, a second function can be controlled responsive to the motion of the primary actuator of the control element exclusive of the activation of the pressure sensor. Further, a third function can be controlled in responsive to activation of the pressure sensor for at least a first period of time exclusive of motion of the primary actuator.
US08532581B2
A wireless communication method and apparatus are provided for selecting quality-reporting sub-carrier bands based on sub-carrier band quantity information received from a base station. The method includes generally four steps. First, from a base station, information indicating quantity of sub-carrier bands is acquired. Second, channel quality of each of a plurality of sub-carrier bands within a communication band is measured from a received signal. Third, sub-carrier bands are selected from the plurality of sub-carrier bands, wherein quantity of the selected sub-carrier bands corresponds to the quantity of sub-carrier bands indicated by the acquired information. Fourth, information indicating channel quality of the selected sub-carrier bands is reported to the base station.
US08532578B2
Spectrum usage in a radio cognitive transmission system may be monitored in a distributed manner in space and time through a first set of monitoring apparatuses and a second set of monitoring apparatuses. The first set of monitoring apparatuses may be associated to apparatuses, such as base stations, having a monitoring precision level, for example, linked to the spectrum sampling frequency, greater with respect to the monitoring precision of the monitoring apparatus of the second set. The later may be suitable to be represented by a low-cost “sniffer” associated to consumer electronics devices.
US08532571B2
A mobile device may be operable to determine, based on a known location of the mobile device, a location for a RF communication device that communicates with the mobile device, whenever the mobile device is within proximate range of the RF communication device. The determined location for the RF communication device may be stored in a location database in a location server and/or a memory in the RF communication device. The stored location of the RF communication device may then be used to determine a location for other mobile devices that may communicate with the RF communication device and are within proximate range of the RF communication device. The RF communication device may comprise a radio-frequency identification (RFID) device and/or a near field communication (NFC) device. The determined location for the RF communication device may comprise the known location of the mobile device.
US08532566B2
A repeater system including bi-directional amplifier circuitry that is configured for repeating signals between at least one device and a first signal source. Receiver circuitry is coupled with the amplifier circuitry provides at least one signal associated with at least one of a device or the first signal source or a second signal source. Controller circuitry is configured for monitoring a parameter of a provided signal that is reflective of a property of a signal source or a device. The monitored parameter is used to make a determination of whether repeated signals associated with the first signal source will desensitize the operation of the second signal source. The controller circuitry is also operable for adjusting the power level of the signals that are repeated by the bi-directional amplifier circuitry based on the determination that repeated signals will desensitize the operation of the second signal source.
US08532541B2
An image forming apparatus includes a detachably mountable cartridge having a developing unit, and a developer receiving opening is provided on the developing unit for receiving developer. The image forming apparatus also includes a detachably mountable developer supplying container that includes a discharge opening for discharging developer. A developer supplying mechanism is provided for supplying developer to the developer receiving opening through the discharge opening. The developer supplying mechanism is provided such that the developer receiving opening is disposed below the discharge opening.
US08532532B2
An image forming apparatus for forming image on a recording medium includes a photosensitive member, a motor, a belt, and a drive member to rotate the belt, the drive member including a driven coupling. The apparatus also includes a drive coupling to rotate by a driving force generated by the motor, the drive coupling being movable in an axial direction to take an engagement position at which the driving force is transmittable to the driven coupling, and a release position. The apparatus further includes a transfer member to transfer a toner image onto the recording medium or the belt, a voltage application unit to apply a voltage to the transfer member, and a control unit to cause the voltage application unit to apply the voltage to the transfer member after the drive coupling moves to the engagement position and the driving force is transmitted to the driven coupling.
US08532528B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly and a transfer unit. A rotatable first coupling is provided in the main assembly and is rotatable by a driving source. The transfer unit is detachably mountable to the main assembly and is movable in a first direction when dismounted from the main assembly. The transfer unit includes a movable belt and a rotatable second coupling capable of receiving a driving force from the first coupling. The first direction is parallel with a traveling direction of the belt. One of the first and second couplings is movable in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. When the transfer unit is dismounted from the main assembly, one of the first and second couplings is moved in the second direction to retract from the other coupling, by the transfer unit being moved in the first direction with the first and second couplings being kept in contact with each other.
US08532527B2
An image-forming apparatus includes an image-forming member assembly including a photosensitive member, a developing unit, and a rotating unit; a driving unit; a positioning member having a positioning hole in which a shaft of the photosensitive member is rotatably supported and positioned; and a support member having a support hole that has a guide side to guide a rotating shaft of the rotating unit and supports the rotating shaft in a direction toward and away from the positioning hole. When a force received by the rotating shaft while the driving unit drives the rotating unit is divided into a first component force along the guide side and a second component force orthogonal to the guide side, the first component force has a direction in which a contact force of the shaft of the photosensitive member against an edge of the positioning hole is increased.
US08532526B2
An image forming apparatus and an image forming method are provided that realize both the use of a decolorizing toner and a non-decolorizing toner and miniaturization of the apparatus.
US08532520B2
An endless belt circularly moves to convey a recording medium placed thereon in a conveying direction. A plurality of photosensitive bodies is juxtaposed in the conveying direction with confronting the endless belt. A plurality of process units supplies developer to the plurality of photosensitive bodies to form a developer image thereon, respectively. A first collecting member contacts the endless belt to collect the developer on the endless belt. A second collecting member is capable of collecting from the first collecting member the developer collected on the first collecting member. A control unit applies a bias between the first collecting member and the second collecting member to inhibit the developer collected on the first collecting member from being transferred to the second collecting member when the first collecting member rubs the endless belt with the toner collected on the first collecting member.
US08532518B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member; an image forming portion for forming a toner image on the image bearing member, the image forming portion being capable of forming an image to be formed on a recording material and forming a control image for controlling an image density at a position adjacent to the image to be formed on the recording material; an intermediary transfer member rotatable while carrying the toner image transferred from the image bearing member; a transfer member for forming a transfer portion where the toner image is to be transferred from the intermediary transfer member onto the recording material; an electrostatic cleaning member for electrostatically removing the toner deposited on the transfer member; a density detecting portion, provided upstream of the transfer member with respect to a rotational direction of the intermediary transfer member, for detecting a density of the control image transferred on the intermediary transfer member; an adjusting portion for adjusting an image forming condition of the image forming portion depending on an output of the density detecting portion; and a charge amount changing portion for adjusting a charge amount of the control image transferred onto the intermediary transfer member.
US08532512B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a charging unit which charges a surface of an image bearing member by contacting the image bearing member with a charging member to which a charging bias is applied, the charging bias being a voltage obtained by superimposing an AC voltage on a DC voltage; an electrostatic latent image forming unit which forms an electrostatic latent image on the surface of the image bearing member which is charged by the charging unit; a developing unit which develops the electrostatic latent image by using a developing bias formed by the voltage obtained by superimposing the AC voltage on the DC voltage; and a control unit which performs changing control of an AC frequency of the charging bias while maintaining a frequency ratio of an AC frequency of the developing bias to be an integral multiple of the AC frequency of the charging bias.
US08532498B2
The invention provides a system and method for secure communication that involve encoding and transmitting an optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) signal. Each subcarrier of an optical carrier in OFDM transmission is modulated with data individually, and a variety of data format are used, such as QPSK, OOK, QAM, etc. The data format of each subcarrier may change in time according to a predetermined pattern. An optical receiver uncovers the data transmitted via an optical link. It is based on a coherent optical receiver and a digital signal processing (DSP) unit. A key to the data mapping and change is transmitted via the same optical link or by a separate channel. In one embodiment, the key is transmitted using quantum encryption technique. Besides subcarrier modulation encoding, the system may provide additional layers of security: optical carrier frequency hopping and polarization scrambling.
US08532496B2
A path is established through an optical communications network. One or more partial paths are evaluated according to a first criterion, and candidate end-to-end paths are then evaluated according to a second criterion. The end-to-end path evaluation disregards candidate end-to-end paths that include partial paths not meeting the first criterion. A path is established by selecting one of the candidate end-to-end paths on the basis of the second criterion.
US08532493B2
An optical communication apparatus is disclosed. The optical communication apparatus includes a light transmission section, a light reception section, and a control section. The light transmission section causes a light emitting portion which outputs light in a visual line direction of a user to transmit information. The light reception section causes a light receiving portion which receives light from the visual line direction of the user to receive information. The control section determines whether or not another optical communication apparatus is an information communication target based on identification information when the light reception section has optically received communication request information and the identification information from the other optical communication apparatus and causes the light transmission section to optically transmit communication response information to the other optical communication apparatus when the control section has determined that the other optical communication apparatus be the information communication target.
US08532492B2
Optical fiber-based wireless systems and related components and methods are disclosed. The systems support radio frequency (RF) communications with clients over optical fiber, including Radio-over-Fiber (RoF) communications. The systems may be provided as part of an indoor distributed antenna system (IDAS) to provide wireless communication services to clients inside a building or other facility. The communications can be distributed between a head end unit (HEU) that receives carrier signals from one or more service or carrier providers and converts the signals to RoF signals for distribution over optical fibers to end points, which may be remote antenna units (RAUs). In one embodiment, calibration of communication downlinks and communication uplinks is performed to compensate for signal strength losses in the system.
US08532484B2
An apparatus comprising a network element (NE) configured to communicate at least one of signal constraints and processing capabilities for a plurality of resource blocks (RBs) associated with a network node in a wavelength switched optical network (WSON) node Type-Length-Value (TLV) and signal constraints and processing capabilities associated with a link in a WSON link TLV, wherein the WSON node TLV comprises a node identifier (ID), one or more Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) TLVs, a connectivity matrix TLV, and a resource pool TLV, and wherein the WSON link TLV comprises a link ID, one or more GMPLS TLVs, and a port wavelength restriction TLV.
US08532479B2
An electronic appliance which can be a camera device includes a resin case containing electronic components for taking a camera images, and a metal shield member attachable to the inside of the case. The shield member is provided with two staking holes, and three staking tabs which protrude inwardly are provided around each of the staking holes. The case is provided with a boss in a position corresponding to each of the staking holes. When the shield member is attached to the case, each boss is pushed into the staking hole and fastened by the three deformed staking tabs, so that the shield member is fixed to the case.
US08532473B2
A reproduction control method includes steps of converting first program data accumulated in a first apparatus into second program data reproducible in a second apparatus, transferring the converted second program data to the second apparatus, and converting the first program data accumulated in the first apparatus into reconstructable reproduction-disabled data.
US08532468B2
This invention is directed to the provision of a moving image data editing apparatus 1 for applying masking to a portion of an image by editing moving image data in which each frame is divided into pixel blocks of a predetermined size and encoded on a pixel block basis. Moving image data editing apparatus 1 comprises: pixel block extracting means 11 for extracting from an input data stream of moving image data 71 pixel blocks BL2 and BL4 that are located within the region 72 to which masking is to be applied; fixed pattern inserting means 12 for inserting precoded fixed pattern data 73 into the original positions of extracted pixel blocks BL2 and BL4 in the data stream; and pixel block inserting means 13 for inserting extracted pixel blocks BL2 and BL4 as user data into the data stream.
US08532463B2
Provided is a network system having connected thereto (i) a plurality of television receivers each having a function for specifying television program reservations, and (ii) a recording device, such that a list of the program reservations configured by all of the television receivers can be viewed on one television receiver. The recording device produces a predefined common reservation code, and sequentially receives and records the program reservation instructions with the common reservation codes in memory. When a list of the reservations is requested by one television receiver, a program reservation instruction is sent from memory with the common reservation code, and a list of reservations is compiled based on the common reservation codes.
US08532461B2
The recording medium includes a data structure with at least one playlist stored in a playlist area of the recording medium. The playlist includes at least one playitem and at least one sub-playitem. The playitem provides navigation information for reproducing at least one still picture from a first file, and the sub-playitem provides navigation information for reproducing audio data from a second file.
US08532459B2
A multiple-tuner digital video storage device, providing live-pause television program viewing from digital television program data recorded on a storage device, reduces channel change delay when changing digital television channels. The digital video storage device processes and stores video data from a digital television channel to which a channel change expected (predicted) concurrent with storing video data from a digital television channel that is currently selected. The digital video storage device substantially simultaneously reads the stored video data for the currently selected digital television channel and the predicted digital television channel, and decodes the video data of the currently selected digital television channel for presentation to a Decoding display associated with the digital video storage device. Upon receipt of a channel change request for the predicted digital television channel, the digital video storage device starts decoding the read video data of the predicted digital television channel for presentation to the display.
US08532458B2
A picture search method and apparatus for digital reproduction are provided. The picture search method includes, generating a multiple image screen by configuring one or more pictures provided before a reproduction start time selected by a user during a high-speed search to a screen or a plurality of screens, outputting the multiple image screen, and sequentially reproducing following pictures starting from a picture selected by the user among one or more pictures included in the output multiple image screen. Therefore, it is possible to allow a user to exactly select a desired reproduction start time during the high-speed search.
US08532456B2
An apparatus may include a waveguide. The waveguide may include a distal end surface which may be substantially normal to a centerline of a distal end portion of the waveguide. The apparatus may further include a cover which may be coupled to a portion of the waveguide. The cover may include a portion distal to the distal end surface of the waveguide, and the portion of the cover may be made of a material which may be configured to be removed when exposed to electromagnetic radiation emitted from a portion of the distal end surface of the waveguide.
US08532440B2
In an electro-optic device, a stack structure including a first silicon layer of a first conductivity type and a second silicon layer of a second conductivity type has a rib waveguide shape so as to form an optical confinement area, and a slab portion of a rib waveguide includes an area to which a metal electrode is connected. The slab portion in the area to which the metal electrode is connected is thicker than a surrounding slab portion. The area to which the metal electrode is connected is set so that a range of a distance from the rib waveguide to the area to which the metal electrode is connected is such that when the distance is changed, an effective refractive index of the rib waveguide in a zeroth-order mode does not change.
US08532439B2
A reproduction apparatus includes an attribute information recording unit for recording image attribute information in which an attribute value representing an image attribute is set for each of image, a target image selector for selecting an image of interest from among the images, a search condition setting unit for setting, as a search condition, an attribute value related to the image of interest set in the image attribute information, a reproduction information generator for generating reproduction information by setting one of pieces of image attribute information that satisfies the search condition, a search condition selector for selecting the search condition as a reproduction search condition, and a search result reproducing unit for, when the reproduction search condition is selected by the search condition selector, reproducing a search result with respect to the image of interest by displaying, on a display unit, an image whose image attribute information is designated with the reproduction information as a reproduction object.
US08532437B2
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support block-based compression of a compound image by skipping “don't care” blocks in the layers of the image while neither introducing significant overhead nor requiring changes to the compression method used. The block-based compression approach first segments a compound image into multiple layers and then recomposes a new set of image layers, possibly with new dimensions, from only the non-“don't care” blocks in the layers of the original image. The approach may later decompress the compressed image layers and restore the image by copying the decompressed blocks to their respective positions in the original image.
US08532433B2
A marker attaching apparatus attaches to an image a positioning marker for detecting a specific area in the image, and includes: an area size detection unit detecting a size of an area to which the positioning marker is attached; a marker adjustment unit adjusting the positioning marker depending on the detected size of the area; and a marker attaching unit attaching the adjusted positioning marker to the image.
US08532417B2
A method, system and computer program product for optimal encoding for an image defined by image data. The quantization table, run-length coding and Huffman codebook are selected to minimize a Lagrangian cost function, wherein the minimization includes iteratively determining the optimal run-size pairs and in-category indices for minimizing a rate-distortion cost function, and wherein the rate-distortion cost function includes a perceptual weighting factor applied to a quantization error. The perceptual weighting factor adjusts the rate-distortion cost function to apply greater weight to lower frequency quantization error than to higher frequency quantization error.
US08532414B2
A video-based object recognition system and method provides selective, local enhancement of image data for improved object-based recognition. A frame of video data is analyzed to detect objects to receive further analysis, these local portions of the frame being referred to as a region of interest (ROI). A video quality metric (VQM) value is calculated locally for each ROI to assess the quality of the ROI. Based on the VQM value calculated with respect to the ROI, a particular video quality enhancement (VQE) function is selected and applied to the ROI to cure deficiencies in the quality of the ROI. Based on the enhanced ROI, objects within the defined region can be accurately identified.
US08532411B2
In the disclosed multi-view image encoding/decoding method in which a frame to be encoded/decoded is divided and encoding/decoding is done to each region, first, a prediction image is generated not only for the region to be processed, but also for the already encoded/decoded regions neighboring to the region to be processed. The prediction image is generated using the same prediction method for both kinds of regions. Next, correction parameters for correcting illumination and color mismatches are estimated from the prediction image and decoded image of the neighboring regions. At this time, the estimated correction parameters can be obtained even at the decoding side, therefore, encoding them is unnecessary. Thus, by using the estimated correction parameters to correct the predicted image that was generated for the region to be processed, a corrected predicted image that can be actually used is generated.
US08532410B2
Various implementations are described. Several implementations relate to one or more encoding modes that use depth information to determine a corresponding reference block. According to a general aspect, a portion of a first-view image from a first view in a multiple-view system is encoded. The portion is all or part of the first-view image. It is determined that a portion of a second-view image from a second view in the multiple-view system corresponds to the portion of the first-view image. The determination is based on a second-view depth value providing depth information for the portion of the second-view image. The portion of the second-view image is encoded using information from the encoding of the portion of the first-view image.
US08532409B2
Provided is an adaptive motion search range determining apparatus and method for encoding UHD-class high-resolution images. The adaptive motion search range determining apparatus includes an MVD average/standard deviation calculation unit calculating an value average and a standard deviation of MVDs of neighboring macroblocks of a current macroblock, and a motion search range determination unit determining a motion search range of the current macroblock using the value average and the standard deviation. According to the adaptive motion search range determining apparatus, it is possible to enable each macroblock to have an adaptive search range by variably adjusting a motion vector search range of a current macroblock with reference to motion vectors of neighboring macroblocks of the current macroblock.
US08532407B2
A pseudo 3D image generation device includes frame memories that store a plurality of basic depth models used for estimating depth data based on a non-3D image signal and generating a pseudo 3D image signal; a depth model combination unit that combines the plurality of basic depth models for generating a composite depth model based on a control signal indicating composite percentages for combining the plurality of basic depth models; an addition unit that generates depth estimation data from the non-3D image signal and the composite depth models; and a texture shift unit that shifts the texture of the non-3D image for generating the pseudo 3D image signal.
US08532398B2
A method for the imaging of protein expression and location in biological samples using optical segmentation is provided. The steps comprise acquiring a fluorescent image of a biological sample, analyzing the image and generating a masking pattern corresponding to a specific structure within the biological sample, transforming the masking pattern into the spatial coordinates of a digital micro-mirror device (DMD) which may then be projected onto the biological sample and obtaining a masked fluorescent image. Also provided is an image analysis system for imaging of protein expression and location in biological samples using optical segmentation.
US08532397B1
A method of creating a container file for large format imagery and organizing data within the container file are described. In one embodiment, the method of creating the container file includes validating user input parameters for the file container, and determining whether the container file already exists, the container file having file container metadata. If the file container does not exist, creating the container by creating one or more empty records in a storage device, the one or more empty records having an image file section reserved for storing an image, an image metadata section reserved for storing data about the image and a record metadata section having at least a mark indicating that the image file section is empty. A size of the image file section, a size of the image metadata section and a size of the record metadata section are determined using the user input parameters.
US08532396B2
Method and system for low complexity assessment of quality of an image are presented. By performing multiresolution decomposition of images using, for example, a discrete wavelet transform, and determining a metric based on a structural similarity index or a structural similarity map, a structural similarity score, characterizing similarity between images with a high degree of accuracy, is produced. The processing time is much smaller in comparison to that required by other methods producing image quality metrics of comparable accuracy.
US08532393B2
A method for extracting line segments from an edge image comprises receiving a digital image comprising a plurality of edge pixels, and processing the plurality of edge pixels using a breadth first search to determine a plurality of breadth first search pixels in a breadth first search order for a connected component. The connected component comprises a plurality of components. The method continues by processing the plurality of breadth first search pixels in an order related to the breadth first search order to determine a plurality of component pixels for at least one component of the plurality of components. Each of the plurality of components comprises a line segment. The method concludes by processing the plurality of component pixels to determine a plurality of line segment pixels for the line segment.
US08532392B2
An object of the present invention is to provide the technology capable of appropriately balancing the preciseness of contour extraction and calculation cost. In order to achieve this object, an energy function setting section sets an energy function that is expressed by a weighted linear sum of a plurality of kinds of energy terms defined correspondingly to a state of an active curve and is formulated so as to have a smaller value as approaching a shape of the contour to be extracted, and an iterative computation processing section minimizes the energy function by an iterative computation. An end instruction section sets an auxiliary function formulated so as to monotonously increase in accordance with the number of iteration times of iterative computation and sets a judging function expressed by a linear sum of the auxiliary function and the energy function. Then, a point of time when a local minimum appears in the judging function in the course of the iterative computation is judged as the end timing of iterative computing.
US08532385B2
An image processing apparatus includes a region analysis unit configured to generate a quantized region by integrating regions that are included in an input multivalued image and have similar colors and to determine an attribute of a connected component included in the generated quantized region, and a character portion filling unit configured to determine a color used for filling a connected component that has been determined by the region analysis unit to have a character attribute and to execute processing for filling the connected component that has been determined to have the character attribute. In the image processing apparatus, the character portion filling unit is configured to change a method for determining the color used for filling based on the quantized region existing adjacent to the connected component determined to have the character attribute.
US08532382B1
A full-length fingerprint is generated for a video that represents characteristics of the entire duration of the video in a small amount of data. A plurality of subfingerprints for the video, each subfingerprint encoding features of a corresponding segment of the video, is accessed. A plurality of subhistograms is generated for the video, each subhistogram encoding a frequency of subfingerprint features for subfingerprints included in a subset of the plurality of accessed subfingerprints. A master histogram for the video is generated that encodes a frequency of subhistogram features for the plurality of generated subhistograms for the video. A hashing procedure is applied to the master histogram to produce the full-length fingerprint. Clustering can be performed on full-length video fingerprints for videos in a database to detect near-duplicate videos.
US08532381B2
A method and apparatus for improving stability of histogram correlation based image and video processing algorithms. The method includes computing a histogram for target signal and reference signal for generating a target histogram and a reference histogram, performing low pass filtering of the input signal and the reference signal and producing smoothed histograms, and performing correlation on the smoothed histograms for improving stability of histogram correlation.
US08532372B2
A system and method are disclosed that includes storing, on one or more processor readable media that are operatively coupled to one or more processors, at least one database. The database(s) includes electronic color information representing a plurality of colors, and electronic item information representing a plurality of items. Each of the plurality of items respectively contain at least one of the plurality of colors. The database(s) also store electronic user information representing a plurality of users. First electronic color information is received from a first user computing device associated with a first user. The first electronic color information represents a first color. A search request is received from the first user computing device for one or more items that contain a color that is at least associated with the first color. At least one of the plurality of items that respectively contains the color that is at least associated with the first color is determined, and the at least one of the plurality of items and the first color are displayed.
US08532368B2
The present invention provides a system (method and apparatus) for creating photorealistic 3D models of environments and/or objects from a plurality of stereo images obtained from a mobile stereo camera and optional monocular cameras. The cameras may be handheld, mounted on a mobile platform, manipulator or a positioning device. The system automatically detects and tracks features in image sequences and self-references the stereo camera in 6 degrees of freedom by matching the features to a database to track the camera motion, while building the database simultaneously. A motion estimate may be also provided from external sensors and fused with the motion computed from the images. Individual stereo pairs are processed to compute dense 3D data representing the scene and are transformed, using the estimated camera motion, into a common reference and fused together. The resulting 3D data is represented as point clouds, surfaces, or volumes. The present invention also provides a system (method and apparatus) for enhancing 3D models of environments or objects by registering information from additional sensors to improve model fidelity or to augment it with supplementary information by using a light pattern projector. The present invention also provides a system (method and apparatus) for generating photo-realistic 3D models of underground environments such as tunnels, mines, voids and caves, including automatic registration of the 3D models with pre-existing underground maps.
US08532366B2
A method detects a position of a mark based on an image signal of the mark. The method includes steps of obtaining a first position of the mark by performing a first process for the image signal, extracting plural feature values from the image signal based on the first position, and detecting the position of the mark by obtaining an offset value for the first position based on the plural feature values.
US08532364B2
Apparatus for inspecting a semiconductor wafer (8) has a plurality of light sensors (2) arranged relative to a light source (1) and wafer inspection platform (4), so that images of different angle views of a surface of the wafer can be received and compared with corresponding images taken of a reference wafer to automatically detect defects based on image comparison. The light sensors (2) may receive superposed images of light (7) reflected directly from the light source (1) off the wafer surface and light (6) indirectly reflected off the wafer surface after first reflecting off a dome (3) with a diffusely reflecting inner surface (5) positioned over the platform (4).
US08532362B2
The present invention provides a scoring system to monitor natural or drug-modified disease progression in erosive inter-phalangeal finger joint osteoarthrits and the use of said scoring system to identify and value drugs with anticatabolic and/or repair promoting potential.
US08532339B2
A system and method for motion detection and the use thereof in video coding are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of defining a region of motion within a video frame in a sequence of video frames comprises loading a current video frame and at least one reference video frame from the sequence, the reference video frame being different from the current video frame. The method further comprises applying filtering operations on the current and the reference video frame in order to obtain at least two scales of representation of the current and the reference video frame. The method further comprises determining for each of the scale representations a video-frame like representation of the structural changes between the current and the reference video frame. The method further comprises combining the video-frame like representations of different scales. The method further comprises determining one or more regions of motion from the combination.
US08532334B2
An image can be encoded to define one or more spatial regions that are detectable by a suitably-equipped mobile device (e.g., a smartphone), but are imperceptible to humans. When such a mobile device senses one of these regions, it takes an action in response (e.g., rendering an associated tone, playing linked video, etc.). The mobile device may send an excerpt of captured imagery to a cloud processor, which responds with an estimate of the viewing angle by which the image was captured. The mobile device can perform further operations (e.g., re-sampling, watermark decoding) based on this viewing angle estimate. A great variety of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US08532330B2
A method for enhancing security printing includes generating data for a region of interest (14), where the data includes information for at least one of locating or analyzing the region of interest (14) using a secure registry (18). The method further includes encrypting a deterrent (12) with the data, and printing the deterrent (12) and the region of interest (14) on an object (10).
US08532328B2
A method of navigating a space vehicle. An image of a planet surface is received. The received image is processed to identify edge pixels and angle data. The edge pixels and angle data are used to identify planetary features by shape, size, and spacing relative to other planetary features. At least some of the planetary features are compared with a predefined planet surface description including sizes and locations of planet landmarks. One or more matches are determined between the planetary feature(s) and the planet surface description. Based on the match(es), a location of the space vehicle relative to the planet is determined.
US08532326B2
A fastener structure is for retaining a speaker unit on a sound tank housing. The fastener structure includes a spring piece and an elastic protrusion rib. The spring piece includes a board, a first bending portion and a second bending portion. The board located within a through hole of the sound tank housing. The first bending portion located at one end of the board is for retaining the speaker unit on a second side of the sound tank housing. The second bending portion located at the other end of the board is exposed over a first side of the sound tank housing and used as an elastic contact. The elastic protrusion rib is disposed within the through hole, and is protruded from one side of the board to lean against between the board and the through hole, so that the board is wedged within the through hole.
US08532319B2
A filter bank configuration for a hearing device has filters in an analysis filter bank and corresponding filters in a synthesis filter bank that are coupled pair-wise to form a channel in each case. In order to compensate for a hearing loss, sub-band signals are amplified in the individual channels with the aid of multipliers. In the process, an audible distortion of an output signal Y of the filter bank configuration as a result of differences between amplification factors of the multipliers of neighboring channels should be prevented. Here, at least one channel changes a phase of a sub-band signal transmitted by the channel such that a difference between a group delay of the filter bank configuration and a prescribable reference value is reduced for at least one predetermined frequency. The filter bank configuration is particularly suited to hearing aids.
US08532308B2
To efficiently detect a standing wave generated in a room, a standing-wave detection apparatus for detecting a standing wave in a predetermined space, comprises: a sound-receiving unit adapted to receive a sound generated from a sound source arranged in the predetermined space; a storage unit adapted to store time series sound pressure level data acquired by the sound-receiving unit during movement along a path in the predetermined space; an adjustment unit adapted to adjust the time series sound pressure level data stored in the storage unit, based on an adjustment curve determined using a lower envelope of the time series sound pressure level data stored in the storage unit; and a detection unit adapted to detect an existence position of a standing wave in the predetermined space based on the adjusted time series sound pressure level data.
US08532304B2
Methods and systems for managing access to a wireless local area network are provided. A wireless access point (AP) may use a unified approach that utilizes an out-of-band channel to communicate authentication key and network address information to a guest device, and utilizes an in-band channel to establish communications with the guest device, and also provides support for in-band setup on all devices. The ability to use out-of-band where possible provides for an increase to security and usability, and the possibility of delegating access from one device to another. The unified approach thereby also provides easy management of guest access to the WLAN.
US08532300B1
Secure key management is provided for a symmetric encryption key. The symmetric encryption key is encrypted differently for two or more devices via which the symmetric encryption key is stored.
US08532298B2
An encryption key distribution method for service and content protection in a mobile broadcasting system, and a system for the same which includes generating, by a network, a first encryption key when the broadcast service is first provided; transmitting a generalized rights object message, which includes identification information for identifying the generated first encryption key, to the terminal; generating a second encryption key before the lifetime of the first encryption key expires; and transmitting the generalized rights object message, which includes identification information for identifying the generated second encryption key, to the terminal.
US08532296B2
A processor connected to a memory device includes a random number generator that generates random numbers identical to random numbers generated in the memory device; an XOR logic unit that performs a XOR operation of the random numbers and an address in the memory device to be accessed; and an after-operation-address sending unit that sends an after-operation-address indicating a result of the XOR operation.
US08532294B1
Essential data elements, particularly entitlement control messages (ECMs), are inserted in a manner that reduces the overhead bit rate without effecting overall tuning time at the customer receiver or security in satellite, cable or other programming networks. ECMs are inserted into the transport stream by detecting random access points (RAPS) in the encoded programming and inserting the ECM packets in a window just ahead of the RAP.
US08532286B2
A system and method are described that provide an alternative way in which to produce a Montgomery reduction from below by storing a new precomputed value used to substantially replace the μ and n values used in Montgomery reduction with a single value. By modifying the Montgomery reduction mechanism in this way, the number of multiplications and registers required to effect the Montgomery reduction can be reduced. To avoid having to store both μ and n, a modified reduction value or a logical shift or signed version of such a value can be used in place of μ and n for the bulk of the low-order reduction.
US08532279B2
The problem of an automated telephony system having only a single way to measure a caller's difficulty in processing a transaction when using the system is solved by selecting from multiple thresholds for measuring the caller's difficulty. Having a choice of alternative thresholds to measure the caller's difficulty, referred to as inefficiency thresholds, allows for a more responsive approach to managing an automated telephony system. This choice of inefficiency thresholds overcomes multiple problems of systems only using one inefficiency threshold, such as: (1) transferring a call to a live agent too quickly, (2) transferring a call to a live agent too slowly, and (3) giving a caller a feeling that the automated telephony system is unresponsive to his or her needs. Having multiple inefficiency thresholds allows for a more dynamic response to a diverse audience of callers and serves different needs of a caller during various parts of a call.
US08532278B2
The present invention automatically establishes a connection to each participant of a teleconference. Conference call set up and connect information may be provisioned in a variety of ways, including via a menu-based Dual Tone Multiple Frequency (DTMF) mechanism and via a form or formatted file sent from a subscriber. Additionally, a conference participant is not tied to one telephone number or other such address. The present invention queries a profile database to determine a conference participant's current location before connecting the participant to the conference. Therefore a conference participant who happens to be working from home on a particular day need only update one database, and any conferences in which the telecommuting worker is expected to participate will automatically be connected to the worker's home telephone number, rather than the worker's office telephone number.
US08532266B2
An emergency services key (e.g., ESQK or ESRK) is guaranteed to be available from a limited size ESQK pool, such that an available ESQK is always selected and associated with an ongoing emergency call with no measurable impact to existing calls, even if all ESQK pool members are marked as unavailable. A plurality of ESQKs are grouped into a pool of emergency service keys “ESQK Pool ID”, each including anywhere from 1 to N number of ESQKs. Each ESQK preferably has a “Timestamp”, and information relating to the specific emergency E911 call (“Call Data ID”). The ESQK having a Call Data ID=“NULL”, and having the oldest Timestamp, is chosen for selection. If no such ESQK has both Call Data ID=NULL and the oldest Timestamp is found, then the ESQK with merely the oldest Timestamp is selected.
US08532257B2
An X-ray imaging apparatus and an X-ray imaging method can alleviate the influence of scattered X-rays relative to the obtained image. A differential phase contrast image or a phase contrast image of a detection object is computed by using a splitting element and an exposure control unit that synchronizes the X-ray scanning speed and the image acquisition speed of a detecting unit.
US08532251B2
An imaging system (100) includes a radiation source (108) that emits radiation that traverses an examination region (106) and a detection system (114) that detects radiation that traverses the examination region (106) and generates a signal indicative thereof. The detection system (114) includes a first detector array (1141-114N) and a second detector array (1141-114N). The first and second detector arrays (1141-114N) are separately distinct detector arrays and at least one of the detector arrays (1141-114N) is moveable with respect to the radiation beam. A reconstructor (116) reconstructs the signal and generates volumetric image data indicative thereof.
US08532247B2
A clock divider divides a high speed input clock signal by an odd, even or fractional divide ratio. The clock divider receives a divide factor value F representative of a divide ratio N, wherein the N may be an odd or an even integer. A fractional indicator indicates a fractional divide ratio when one and an integral divide ratio when zero. A count indicator is asserted every N/2 input clock cycles when N is even. The count indicator is asserted alternately N/2 input clock cycles and then 1+N/2 input clock cycles when N is odd. The clock divider synthesizes one period of an output clock signal in response to each assertion of the count indicator for a fractional divide ratio and synthesizes one period of the output clock signal in response to two assertions of the count indicator for an integral divide ratio.
US08532245B2
A core shroud is provided, which includes a number of planar members, a number of unitary corners, and a number of subassemblies each comprising a combination of the planar members and the unitary corners. Each unitary corner comprises a unitary extrusion including a first planar portion and a second planar portion disposed perpendicularly with respect to the first planar portion. At least one of the subassemblies comprises a plurality of the unitary corners disposed side-by-side in an alternating opposing relationship. A plurality of the subassemblies can be combined to form a quarter perimeter segment of the core shroud. Four quarter perimeter segments join together to form the core shroud.
US08532238B2
Provided is a frequency selective noise canceller including: a frequency selective single to differential converter having a band pass filter function, converting a received single input signal into a differential signal in a wanted signal pass frequency band and into a common mode signal in an unwanted signal frequency band; and a common mode rejector functioning as a load having an arbitrary impedance with respect to the differential signal outputted from the frequency selective single to differential converter and functioning as a filter with respect to the common mode signal.
US08532224B2
A signal processing circuit comprises a frequency up-conversion circuit (14, 60) for performing up-conversion with a first local oscillator frequency and a frequency down-conversion circuit (16) for performing down-conversion with a second local oscillator frequency. A digital signal processor (10) controls supply first signals representing a first complex signal to the up-conversion circuit, and receives second signals representing a second complex signal. The digital signal processor controls a compensation of I/Q mismatch of results of up-conversion and/or down-conversion. The digital signal processor (10) switches to a calibration mode for selecting a parameter of said compensation. In the calibration mode the first and second local oscillator frequencies have a frequency offset with respect to each other. The digital signal processor (10) measures an amplitude of a frequency component at a frequency corresponding to mismatch in one and not more than one of the results of up-conversion and/or down-conversion, and selects the parameter dependent on the amplitude.
US08532210B2
The present invention is related to a method and apparatus for implementing space frequency block coding (SFBC) in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) wireless communication system. The present invention is applicable to both a closed loop mode and an open loop mode. In the closed loop mode, power loading and eigen-beamforming are performed based on channel state information (CSI). A channel coded data stream is multiplexed into two or more data streams. Power loading is performed based on the CSI on each of the multiplexed data streams. SFBC encoding is performed on the data streams for each of the paired subcarriers. Then, eigen-beamforming is performed based on the CSI to distribute eigenbeams to multiple transmit antennas. The power loading may be performed on two or more SFBC encoding blocks or on each eigenmodes. Additionally, the power loading may be performed across subcarriers or subcarrier groups for weak eigenmodes.
US08532206B2
A method and an apparatus for creating a frame of an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) specification using a frequency domain spreading (FDS). The method and the apparatus determine a number of padding bits based on various FDSs and a size of an interleaver and constitute a frame including a determined number of padding bits, so that there is provided a frame which is adequate for a data transmission rate using various FDSs and which includes a minimal number of redundant OFDM symbol.
US08532205B2
A frame transmission method in a wireless communication system comprises setting a primary frame including a multiplicity of primary sub-frames, setting a secondary frame including a multiplicity of secondary sub-frames, and transmitting the secondary frame, wherein each of the primary sub-frames and each of the secondary sub-frames consists of multiple OFDM symbols, the OFDM symbols included in the primary sub-frame and the OFDM symbols included in the secondary sub-frame have different CP (Cyclic Prefix) lengths from one another, and the primary sub-frames and the secondary sub-frames are all equal in length. It is an advantage of the invention that frames consisting of OFDM symbols with different CP lengths can coexist together. Moreover, when each of the sub-frames within one frame consists of multiple OFDM symbols with different CP lengths, even the sub-frames can coexist together.
US08532198B2
A method and system for identifying and determining banding artifacts in digital video content composed of a sequence of moving video pictures includes creating a mask image corresponding to a picture from said sequence of moving video pictures based on global gradient changes to detect potential areas containing banding artifacts. The values of the mask image are scaled thereby making banding artifact detection possible using gradient operators. The banding artifacts are then identified/detected based on the local gradients.
US08532197B2
A method for detecting a temporally oscillating source in digital video signals includes: using an imaging device to capture a sequence of input images of a scene; generating digital video signals from the sequence of input images; and processing the digital video signals using a recursive Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filter technique based on a differentiated version of Goertzel's Algorithm to detect a temporally oscillating source in the digital video signals. In various embodiments, the method also includes generating a visual display of the scene including one or more graphical elements at least one of which pertains to a detected temporally oscillating source.
US08532195B2
A sequence of video images represented using multiple related timelines can be searched by identifying a first point on a first timeline associated with the sequence of video images, wherein the sequence of video images is comprised of one or more samples, determining a search range on a second timeline associated with the sequence of video images based on a positive offset and a negative offset associated with the one or more samples, and searching the second timeline based on the determined search range for a second point that corresponds to the identified first point. A display offset can be associated with each of the samples comprising the sequence of video images, wherein one or more of the display offsets can comprise a negative value. Additionally, the search range can be based on a maximum positive display offset and maximum negative display offset associated with the one or more samples.
US08532191B2
A method of controlling an image photographing apparatus to track a subject using a non-viewable pixel region of an image sensor includes detecting a motion vector of a subject when a moving image is photographed, determining whether a non-viewable pixel region of an image sensor is present in the direction of the detected motion vector of the subject, and moving a photographing region to the non-viewable pixel region so as to track the motion of the subject. Accordingly, the moving subject may be tracked within a range of a predetermined Field of View (FOV) of the image photographing apparatus without an additional hardware system.
US08532182B2
A method of decoding a video signal is disclosed. The present invention includes obtaining identification information indicating whether a coded picture of a current NAL unit is an inter-view picture group, obtaining interview reference information of the inter-view picture group, and constructing a reference picture list for inter-view prediction using the inter-view reference information according to the identification information, wherein the inter-view reference information includes view identification information of an inter-view reference picture.
US08532176B2
Embodiments of the present invention comprise systems and methods for managing and combining data contained in layers in a multilayer bitstream such that one or more transform coefficients in a first layer are used to modify one or more coefficients in a second layers that in turn is reconstructed using the modified one or more coefficients.
US08532170B2
A system is provided for processing video images for display. In one example, the system comprises a stream parser for retrieving a compressed main video data and a sub-picture identifier. A video decoder generates a main video image having a main video intensity value for each pixel in the main video. A sub-picture decoder determines a sub-picture image based on the sub-picture identifier. The sub-picture image includes a pixel data for each pixel in the sub-picture image indicative of a sub-picture pixel type including a background pixel type and a pattern pixel type. Each pixel includes a command code indicative of a background contrast level, a pattern contrast level, a background color level and a pattern color level. An intensity formatter generates a sub-picture pixel intensity for each pixel in the sub-picture image. A preprocessing function calculates, for each sub-picture pixel, a sub-picture pixel intensity by alpha-blending the sub-picture pixel with no main video pixel when the background color intensity is greater than the pattern color intensity. A filtering function performs anti-aliasing filtering on the sub-picture image. A sub-picture alpha-blending function combines the sub-picture image with the main video image using alpha-blending.
US08532163B2
A transceiver system is disclosed that includes a plurality of transceiver chips. Each transceiver chip includes one or more SERDES cores. Each SERDES core includes one or more SERDES lanes. Each SERDES lane includes a receive channel and a transmit channel. The transmit channel of each SERDES lane is phase-locked with a corresponding receive channel. The transceiver system has the capability of phase-locking a transmit clock signal phase of a transmitting component with a receive clock signal phase of a receiving component that is a part of a different SERDES lane, a different SERDES core, a different substrate, or even a different board. Each SERDES core receives and transmits data to and from external components connected to the SERDES core, such as hard disk drives. A method of transferring data from a first external component coupled to a receive channel to a second external component coupled to a transmit channel is also disclosed.
US08532159B2
A transmitter has a portion that sets a parameter about the transmitter itself based on a parameter made to correspond to a condition for selecting a receiver with which the transmitter communicate with, a portion that generates a spread code based on the set parameter, and a sending portion that spreads transmit-data to form a spread signal by the generated spread code, and that sends the spread signal. The receiver has a portion that receives the signal transmitted by the transmitter, a portion that sets a parameter about the receiver itself based on the parameter made to correspond to the condition, a portion that generates a despread code based on the set parameter, a portion that performs a correlation computation of the received signal and the generated despread code, and a portion that selects a transmitter with which the receiver communicates, based on a result of the correlation computation.
US08532153B2
Thermal chirp compensation in a chirp managed laser. In one example embodiment, a laser package including a laser and an optical spectrum reshaper configured to convert frequency modulated optical signals from the laser into an amplitude modulated optical signals is provided. A thermal chirp compensation device is in communication with the laser package and a laser driver. The thermal chirp compensation device includes means for generating bias condition and temperature specific thermal chirp compensation signals that each corresponds to a predetermined level of thermal chirp that is induced in the laser by operating the laser at a particular bias condition and temperature.
US08532150B1
Techniques and devices for generating laser light that use large mode area fiber amplifiers and designed coiling fiber sections to achieve desired operations in a fundamental fiber mode with high pulse quality and optical beam quality while reducing presence of high order fiber modes in continuous wave (CW) and pulsed laser devices.
US08532144B2
A method for sending signals from an active computer in a high-voltage power transmission system including active protection computers and active and standby control computers in a hierarchical structure having at least two hierarchical levels. A high-voltage power transmission system and a control station for at least a part of such a transmission system. In the system all computers on the various hierarchical levels are connected to at least two separate computer communication networks. An active computer sends signals that are to be received by at least one other computer at the same or another hierarchical level simultaneously on the two separate computer communication networks to which it is connected.
US08532137B1
A method and architecture for Packet-Aware Transport Networks (PATN) which supports both packet and traditional TDM services and which leverages an assemblage of emerging technologies to provide efficient aggregation and switching of packet traffic in metro networks. The PATN provides significant cost savings to carriers by reducing the number of network elements, reducing transport costs through statistical multiplexing, and eliminating the need for redundant multiplexing operations.
US08532135B2
A method for performing random access in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting a preamble for random access in uplink, receiving a random access response message including back-off information as a response to the preamble, and performing back-off using the back-off information when the random access has failed.
US08532134B2
Quality of Service (QoS) support is provided by means of a Tiered Contention Multiple Access (TCMA) distributed medium access protocol that schedules transmission of different types of traffic based on their service quality specifications. In one embodiment, a wireless station is supplied with data from a source having a lower QoS priority QoS(A), such as file transfer data. Another wireless station is supplied with data from a source having a higher QoS priority QoS(B), such as voice and video data. Each wireless station can determine the urgency class of its pending packets according to a scheduling algorithm. For example file transfer data is assigned lower urgency class and voice and video data is assigned higher urgency class. There are several urgency classes which indicate the desired ordering. Pending packets in a given urgency class are transmitted before transmitting packets of a lower urgency class by relying on class-differentiated urgency arbitration times (UATs), which are the idle time intervals required before the random backoff counter is decreased. In another embodiment packets are reclassified in real time with a scheduling algorithm that adjusts the class assigned to packets based on observed performance parameters and according to negotiated QoS-based requirements. Further, for packets assigned the same arbitration time, additional differentiation into more urgency classes is achieved in terms of the contention resolution mechanism employed, thus yielding hybrid packet prioritization methods. An Enhanced DCF Parameter Set is contained in a control packet sent by the AP to the associated stations, which contains class differentiated parameter values necessary to support the TCMA. These parameters can be changed based on different algorithms to support call admission and flow control functions and to meet the requirements of service level agreements.
US08532133B2
A transmitting device for transmitting data symbols and pilot symbols in an OFDM transmission system; the device comprising symbol generating means for generating said data symbols and said pilot symbols, means for transmitting said data symbols and pilot symbols respectively by using a plurality of subcarriers of said OFDM transmission system, wherein said symbol generating means is designed to selectively generate a first type pilot symbol and a second type pilot symbol being orthogonal to said first type pilot symbol so that a pilot symbol pattern in the frequency dimension comprises at least said first type pilot symbol to be transmitted by using a predefined subcarrier and second type pilot symbol to be transmitted by using other predefined subcarrier, and wherein said pilot symbol pattern has a different pattern from a succeeding pilot symbol pattern in time dimension.
US08532132B2
The communication method applies to a home-automation installation comprising at least one sending element, a self-powered receiving element and an element for substituting for the receiving element. The method is such that, when the receiving element is in a sleep mode, the substitution element receives and records information sent by the sending element for the attention of the receiving element and such that, when the receiving element is no longer in sleep mode, the substitution element sends the information for the attention of the receiving element.
US08532124B2
Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method that can comprise, via an Ethernet Channel Service Unit (ECSU), providing a packet conversion between a Serial Wide Area Network (WAN) protocol and an Ethernet network protocol. The ECSU can be adapted to provide access to a network service between a first device adapted to communicate using an Ethernet protocol via the Ethernet network and a second device adapted to communicate using a serial protocol via the Serial WAN.
US08532111B2
Disclosed herein is a transmission apparatus including a receiving unit configured to receive ACK packets transmitted from a reception apparatus in response to transmission data items, an ACK storing unit configured to store a latest ACK packet which is last received among the ACK packets, and a TCP/IP processing unit configured to perform processing of receiving an ACK packet in accordance with the latest ACK packet supplied from the ACK storing means at a predetermined timing.
US08532098B2
A system and method for communicating over a single virtual channel. The method includes reserving a first group of credits of a credit pool for a first traffic class and a second group of credits of the credit pool for a second traffic class. In addition, a first and second respective groups of tags are reserved from a tag pool for the first and second traffic class. A packet may then be selected from a first buffer for transmission over the virtual channel. The packet may include a traffic indicator of the first traffic class operable to allow the packet to pass a packet of the second traffic class from a second buffer. The method further includes sending the packet over the virtual channel and adjusting the first group of credits and the first group of tags based on having sent a packet of the first traffic class.
US08532096B2
The present invention system and method facilitates efficient and accurate maintenance of LERG information. The present system and method periodic implementation of LERG downloads permits network devices to automatically update LERG information. A local exchange routing guide update method includes performing an automated LERG maintenance initialization process; engaging in an automated LERG parsing process; and executing an automated LERG synchronization process.
US08532094B2
A backbone network, comprising a network switch configured to communicate data over Ethernet and SONET/SDH interfaces without encapsulating the data. Also disclosed is a backbone network, comprising a plurality of synchronized network switches, wherein the switches are configured to communicate a plurality of time division multiplexed data streams across at least part of the network via a plurality of Ethernet interfaces and a plurality of SONET/SDH interfaces, and wherein the switches are configured to communicate the data streams without encapsulating the data streams.
US08532089B2
A device receives, from a calling party, a call to a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) subscriber, and generates a request for the calling party to record information. The device also receives information from the calling party based on the request, and provides the information from the calling party and call handling options to the VoIP subscriber. The device further receives a response from the VoIP subscriber to the call handling options, and handles the call based on the VoIP subscriber response.
US08532083B2
A method for allocating various transmit time intervals (TTIs) if a sub-frame structure is used, in a radio access system is provided. A transmitter transmits a super frame header including TTI information of a sub-frame included in a super frame to a receiver and transmits a sub-map including resource allocation information to the receiver, thereby dynamically allocating the TTI. Since the TTI information may not be received via the sub-map in every sub-frame, it is possible to prevent waste of a radio resource.
US08532080B2
Methods and systems for processing signals in a receiver are disclosed herein and may comprise receiving WCDMA signals via M receive antennas, tracking a plurality of received clusters within the received WCDMA signals, and estimating a complex phase and amplitude of a portion of each of the received clusters. A single cluster may comprise an aggregate of received WCDMA signal paths and (M−1) phase shifters may be utilized for the estimating of the complex phase. Complex waveforms, comprising in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components for the received clusters within the received WCDMA signals, may be processed. The processed complex waveforms comprising the in-phase and quadrature components may be filtered to a WCDMA baseband bandwidth. A phase and/or amplitude for at least one of the received WCDMA signals may be adjusted utilizing the estimated complex phase and amplitude. The phase and/or amplitude may be adjusted continuously and/or at discrete intervals.
US08532076B2
A telecommunications system communicates data packets to and from a mobile terminal in accordance with a mobile internet protocol. The system includes a packet radio network having a first radio access interface and a gateway support node and includes a wireless access network having a second radio access interface and a home agent The mobile terminal is arranged to connect to one of the packet radio network or the wireless access network and, when connected, to detect which of the packet radio network and the wireless access network the mobile terminal has connected. Upon detection that the mobile terminal is attached to the packet radio network, the mobile terminal and the home agent are arranged so that data packets are transmitted to and from the mobile terminal via the gateway support node, and mobile internet protocol operations through the home agent are deactivated or suppressed.
US08532072B2
A system and method of operating a wireless network having a plurality of nodes. Each node determines whether to replace the beacon node. When a node determines that the beacon node is to be replaced, the node determines whether it should nominate itself as a potential replacement beacon node. The decision whether to nominate itself as a potential replacement beacon node is a function of a nomination probability associated with the node. If the node determines that it should nominate itself as a potential replacement beacon node, the node sends out one or more beacon signals. Each node then adaptively modifies the probability of nominating itself as a function of the number of beacon signals received from other nodes. Beacon signals are received by potential replacement nodes and, if the potential replacement beacon node has received a beacon signal from a higher ranking potential replacement beacon node, the node removes itself as a candidate for the replacement beacon node.
US08532070B2
A method and apparatus for handoff of a wireless client from a first network device to a second network device in a wired network are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving data from a new wireless client at the second network device and transmitting a request for a route update for the new wireless client to the wired network. Prior to network convergence for the route update, data traffic for the new wireless client is received from the first network device and forwarded to the new wireless client. Context information for the new wireless client is transmitted from the second network device to other network devices in a proximity group of the second network device.
US08532065B2
Briefly, according to embodiments of the invention, there is provided a wireless communication system and a method to receive by a base station from a first mobile station a first chain of data symbols transmitted by at least two antennas and having a first transmit diversity, to receive from a second mobile station a second chain of data symbols transmitted by at least two antennas and having a second transmit diversity. Both first and second chains of data symbols are transmitted from the first and second mobile stations at the same time, modulated according to an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) scheme and encoded by a space time block codes scheme.
US08532063B1
The performance and ease of management of wireless communications environments is improved by a mechanism that enables access points (APs) to perform automatic channel selection. A wireless network can therefore include multiple APs, each of which will automatically choose a channel such that channel usage is optimized. Furthermore, APs can perform automatic power adjustment so that multiple APs can operate on the same channel while minimizing interference with each other. Wireless stations are load balanced across APs so that user bandwidth is optimized. A movement detection scheme provides seamless roaming of stations between APs.
US08532061B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates optimizing handover in connection with an access network. An access network can include at least one device exchanges data therewith, wherein the device communicates with at least one access station within the access network to exchange data. A rules engine can create a user-defined rule based upon at least one of a resource requirement for a device application or a user input related to a quality of service (QoS) experience with the device. The rules engine can enforce the user-defined rule to employ handover related to the device and at least one of an access station within the access network or a disparate access network.
US08532059B2
To handle a communication session at a wireless mobile communications device, after receiving an indication of current signal strength of an access point for a wireless local area network (“WLAN”) a signal strength threshold associated with the access point is retrieved. If the communication session is currently carried by a cellular network and the current signal strength exceeds the signal strength threshold, the communication session is switched from the cellular network to the WLAN. A metric is then adjusted based on timing of the switch relative to any switch of the communication session from the WLAN to the cellular network over a preceding time window associated with the access point. Based on the metric, the signal strength threshold associated with the access point is selectively adjusted.
US08532050B2
Efficient encoding techniques are described for encoding resource allocation data to be signalled to a user device. In one encoding technique one or more frequency blocks are assigned to a user device and a plurality of resource blocks within the assigned frequency blocks are allocated to the user device. The assignment of frequency blocks and the resource block allocation are encoded separately and signalled to the user device. On receipt of the signalled information the user device interprets the frequency block assignment and uses this when interpreting the resource block allocation.
US08532041B1
Methods for transmitting information in a regulated spectrum and networks configured to operate within a regulated spectrum (and optionally, within a given geographic region) are disclosed. The methods generally include receiving or transmitting radio signals encoded with spectral allocation information, analyzing the spectral allocation information to determine available bands in the regulated spectrum for signal transmission, and transmitting signals on at least one of the available bands in the regulated spectrum. The spectral allocation information includes restriction(s) on a bandwidth or bandwidth range in the regulated spectrum; The network generally includes a central database storing the spectral allocation information, a transmitter configured to transmit radio signals encoded with the spectral allocation information, and a receiving device configured to receive the radio signals, analyze the available bands in the regulated spectrum from the spectral allocation information, and transmit signals on at least one of the available bands.
US08532036B2
A system for providing Quality of Service (QoS) for voice over internet protocol (VoIP) provides a remote station with the address of an SIP proxy server. The initiates a VoIP service flow by sending an Invite to the proxy server via a base station. If the service flow is authorized, the remote station transmits a request to the base station to establish a service flow having a selected QoS. The proxy server also provides a dynamic address for a voice gateway. Once the service flow is established, the remote station transmits RTP packets to the designated voice gateway using the service flow having the designated QoS level.
US08532023B2
A method and system using inter-node interference data to improve the routing of data within a wireless mesh network.
US08532020B2
A method controls the setup of multi-hop communications. For this purpose, boundary values for the multi-hop communications are determined, actual values of the multi-hop communications are detected and multi-hop communications to subscriber terminals are only established if the actual values do not exceed the determined boundary values.
US08532018B2
A mobile communication system includes a data multiplexer which divides by time a radio frame of a communication channel in a radio layer and multiplexes one of a plurality of pieces of multicast data and a plurality of pieces of broadcast data into the divided radio frames; and a data multiplex demultiplexer which demultiplexes, when receiving one of the plurality of pieces of multicast data and the plurality of pieces of broadcast data multiplexed by the data multiplexer, the multiplexing of the received data.
US08532017B2
The present invention provides a method for long term evolution in 3GPP. More particularly, the transmission of transmission power control command signaling in a down link control channel to user equipment. The present invention also provides a method and apparatus for identifying a target user equipment for a transmission power control command. The transmission power control command for physical uplink control channel and for persistent physical uplink shared channel assignments is transmitted via a downlink control channel format 3.
US08532015B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises allocating a control channel resource in a wireless relay transmission frame on a wireless relay link; generating a control signaling based on at least one of a resource allocation scheme, a status of the wireless relay link and a traffic condition of the wireless relay link; mapping the control signaling to the allocated control channel resource via at least one of a time-first mapping, a frequency-first mapping, and a multiplexing mapping; and transmitting the control signaling in the allocated control channel resource on the wireless relay link to at least one associated relay node.
US08532013B2
The invention proposes method and apparatus in a plurality of rendezvous points for together processing multicast traffics from mobile multicast source. Wherein, a first rendezvous point and at least one second rendezvous point compose an anycast group which is used for sharing the processing task of the multicast data packets of the mobile multicast source point together, the first rendezvous point and the at least one second rendezvous point share a route forwarding table, the route forwarding table comprises corresponding relation among the care-of-address, the home address and the multicast address of one or more multicast sources. The first rendezvous point obtains the multicast data packets, forwards the multicast data packets to the at least one second rendezvous point, when needing to forward the multicast data packets to the at least one second rendezvous point; the first rendezvous point searches the route forwarding table, according to address information of the multicast packet; determines the corresponding shared multicast tree, when the address information matches the care-of address and/or home address and matches the multicast address of an candidate multicast source; and forwards the multicast data packet according to the shared multicast tree.
US08531996B2
A communication device is provided in a network including a plurality of network segments to which customer devices are connected respectively, the communication device being connected through a cable or radio communication line to a central management device so that management information required for remote management of the customer devices is exchanged between the communication device and the central management device through the communication line. In the communication device, a searching unit searches customer devices connected to a predetermined network segment among the plurality of network segments in the network by predetermined timing. A transmitting unit transmits segment configuration information of the predetermined network segment as a result of device searching by the searching unit through the communication line to the central management device by predetermined timing.
US08531994B2
An audio processing method includes: after the terminal accesses the control server, the control server obtains audio capabilities of the terminal through capability negotiation; and the control server forwards the coded audio data to each terminal according to the audio capabilities. An audio processing system and a control server are disclosed. In the embodiments of the present disclosure, the audio data does not need to undergo an operation of audio coding and decoding every time when the audio data passes through a control server, and the number of coding and decoding operations performed by the control server are reduced drastically. Especially, in the case that only one control server exists, the audio delay between terminals only derives from network transmission, coding of the sending terminal and decoding of the receiving terminal, and the control server extracts and reassembles the packets of the audio data only.
US08531986B2
Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, a network device publishes a test service profile to a group of communications devices, in which the test service profile provides for beta testing of the test service profile for a service on a network, and the test service profile includes service policy settings; and monitors use of the service by the group of communications devices based on the test service profile.
US08531984B2
An analyzing apparatus calculates a time-series change in an average process time per process of a server belonging to a first tier of a plurality of tiers and a time-series change in an average process time per process of a server belonging to a second tier of the plurality of tiers, referring to a storage unit that stores, with respect to each transaction executed in a multi-tier system in which a plurality of servers coordinate with each other to execute the transaction, information indicating periods in which the server in each of the plurality of tiers executes processes for the transaction. The apparatus determines the presence/absence of a correlation between the time-series change in the average process time of the server belonging to the first tier and the time-series change in the average process time of the server belonging to the second tier.
US08531980B2
Embodiments of a very-high throughput communication station and method for communicating on a primary channel and up to three or more secondary channels are generally described herein. Short-preamble detection may be performed during a contention window to detect packet transmissions on any one of the secondary channels starting within the contention window. Guard-interval detection is also performed during the contention window to detect a guard interval of a packet transmission on any one of the secondary channels. The short-preamble detection and the guard-interval detection may be performed concurrently during the contention window to determine if any of the secondary channels are busy.
US08531979B2
A networked TV gathers information pertaining to the quality of a wireless link over which the TV receives streamed multimedia content, and presents an indication of the quality to a user, selectively blocks content from display if the quality falls below a threshold, and/or reports poor link quality to a network server for diagnostic action by technical personnel.
US08531968B2
The invention utilizes a separate queue per output port as implemented in the traditional simple queuing schemes of the prior art. Further, it also uses the information found in the packet header to determine the output port and the next output port. Based on this information, it utilizes queues dedicated to congested flows, or “Congested Flow” queues. When the switch determines that, based on the first output port and the second subsequent output port, a packet in the output queue is destined for a congested path, it sets the offending packet aside in a Congested Flow queue, thereby allowing other packets destined for the first output port to continue to be transmitted. In this way, the HOL blocking issue is addressed, without the need for a significantly increased number of output queues.
US08531958B2
To perform wireless communications in a closed loop multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) system, a feedback data structure is communicated over a wireless channel between a first wireless node and a second wireless node, where the feedback data structure contains indicators identifying coding to be applied by the second wireless node on signaling communicated between the second wireless node and the first wireless node, where the information in the feedback data structure is based on wireless channel conditions detected at the first wireless node. The indicators identify different codings to be used for different corresponding bands in the wireless channel.
US08531956B2
Channel assignment for access points (APs) in a wireless network includes determining at least one of a MaxSum and a MaxMin, and determining a channel assignment for the APs based on at least one of the MaxSum and the MaxMin. The MaxSum is a maximization of a system throughput and the system throughput is a sum of throughput of nodes in the network. The MaxMin is a maximization of a minimum throughput of a set of AP-client links in the network. The AP-client link is a link between an AP and a client associated with the AP.
US08531952B2
A method for achieving fast and efficient measurement of path capacity of a communication network. The method includes the following steps: (a) transmitting a number of probes from a local endpoint to a remote endpoint over a network path and each probe contains at least two outgoing packets and each probe can elicit at least two response packets from the remote endpoint; (b) determining a first minDelay by measuring RTT between the time sending the first probe packet and the time receiving the first response packet; (c) determining a second minDelay by measuring RTT between the time sending the second probe packet and the time receiving the second response packet; and (d) determining a minimum delay difference by subtracting said first minDelay from said second minDelay. The minimum delay difference divided by packet size can be used as a measurement of the network path capacity.
US08531949B2
A method and an arrangement for transferring information including delay sensitive data, such as speech and video data, in a packet radio service is provided. Data blocks are transmitted from a mobile station to a radio resource entity during a first active data transfer period using an uplink temporary block flow (TBF) connection. The uplink TBF connection is maintained during a passive period that follows the first active data transfer period, wherein during the passive period the mobile station does not send data blocks to the radio resource entity.
US08531948B2
A technique for admission control of packet flows is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as a method for admission control of packet flows in a network. The method may comprise determining at least one flow rate associated with a plurality of packets. The method may also comprise marking at least one predetermined bit in at least one of the plurality of packets if the at least one flow rate is greater than a predetermined rate. The method may further comprise controlling an admission of additional packets into the network based at least in part on the marking of the at least one predetermined bit in the at least one of the plurality of packets.
US08531941B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a first autonomous system border router (ASBR) of a first autonomous system (AS), a first plurality of provider-provisioned media access control (B-MAC) addresses via Interior Border Gateway Protocol (I-BGP). Each of first plurality of B-MAC addresses is associated with a provider edge (PE) device of the first AS. The first ASBR sends the first plurality of B-MAC addresses to a second ASBR of a second AS using Exterior Border Gateway Protocol (E-BGP). The first ASBR also receives via E-BGP a second plurality of B-MAC addresses each of which is associated with a PE device of the second AS. The first ASBR then distributes the second plurality of B-MAC addresses to each of the PE devices of the first AS using I-BGP.
US08531940B2
An apparatus such as a mobile telephone or a network card is described. In one implementation, the apparatus comprises a first functional module, a second functional module and a hub circuit. The hub circuit includes a first downstream port connectable to the first functional module, a second downstream port connectable to the second functional module and an upstream port adapted to be coupled to an external device. The hub circuit is configured to couple the upstream port with at least one of the first and second downstream port. Moreover, the hub circuit comprises a switching mechanism adapted to selectively couple the first downstream port internally within the hub circuit with the second downstream port to enable a data transfer between the first functional module and the second functional module.
US08531936B2
According to an embodiment, a storage medium includes a transparent resin substrate having a concentric or spiral groove and a recording film formed on the groove on the transparent resin substrate, a recording mark being formed by irradiation of a laser beam, wherein a reproduction durability count in a case where reproduction is continuously carried out by a laser beam is 1,000,000 or more.
US08531934B2
In order to achieve further cost reduction while the package size of an optical pickup having two objective lenses and the restriction on the disposition of the two objective lenses are maintained, an optical system for laser light emitted from a red/infrared dual-wavelength laser diode is disposed such that a parallel plate beam splitter is disposed to be inclined with respect to the optical axis of focused light of the laser light reflected by an optical disk and the optical axis of the laser light between a rising mirror and the parallel plate beam splitter is inclined from the signal track direction of the optical disk. The laser light to which astigmatism is given by transmission through the parallel plate beam splitter is caused to be directly incident on a light detector without passing through an astigmatism adjustment optical element.
US08531916B2
A human-machine interface system adapted to track movement of an object in air is disclosed. In one aspect, the human-machine interface includes an acoustic transmitter, an acoustic receiver, and logic configured to apply a calculated inverse matrix of an impulse signal transmitted by the acoustic transmitter to a signal received by the acoustic receiver, wherein movement of the object is used to control the machine.
US08531907B2
In an embodiment, a method of operating a memory cell coupled to a first port and to a second port includes determining if a first port is requesting to access the memory cell and determining if a second port is requesting to access the memory cell. Based on the determining, if the first port and the second port are simultaneously requesting to access the memory cell, the second port is deactivated, the memory cell is accessed from the first port, and an accessed memory state is propagated from the first port to circuitry associated with the second port.
US08531904B2
Apparatus and systems are provided for thermal regulation of a memory integrated circuit (“IC”). The apparatus and systems may include a thermal sensor on a memory IC, and a heating element coupled to the thermal sensor. The heating element is adapted to heat the memory IC in response to a signal from the thermal sensor. Other aspects are also provided.
US08531897B2
A delay control circuit includes a delay locked loop configured to delay an external clock by a first delay amount and generate an internal clock, a first delay unit configured to delay an input signal by a first delay amount, a first replica delay unit having a replica delay amount corresponding to a modeled delay amount of a system, a delay control unit configured to control the replica delay amount in response to a latency of an input signal, a measurement unit configured to measure the first delay amount and the controlled replica delay amount and generate path information, an operation unit configured to generate delay information in response to the latency of the input signal and the path information, and a latency delay unit configured to delay the delayed input signal of the first delay unit by the delay information and generate a latency signal.
US08531894B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor memory device having a low power consumption type column decoder and read operation method thereof. In accordance with the semiconductor memory device and read operation method thereof according to the present invention, one of a plurality of decoding units of a column decoder is selectively operated according to a logic value(s) of one of some of bits of a column address signal. It is thus possible to reduce unnecessary switching current.
US08531886B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in series in the semiconductor body, such as a NAND string, having a plurality of word lines. A selected memory cell is programmed by hot carrier injection using a boosted channel potential to establish the heating field. Boosted channel hot carrier injection can be based on blocking flow of carriers between a first side of a selected cell and a second side of the selected cell in the NAND string, boosting by capacitive coupling the first semiconductor body region to a boosted voltage level, biasing the second semiconductor body region to a reference voltage level, applying a program potential greater than a hot carrier injection barrier level to the selected cell and enabling flow of carriers from the second semiconductor body region to the selected cell to cause generation of hot carriers.
US08531883B1
Systems and processes may use a first memory, a second memory, and a memory controller. The second memory is at least as large as a block of the first memory. Data is received and stored in the second memory for further writing to the second memory.
US08531871B2
An 8-transistor SRAM cell which includes two pull-up transistors and two pull-down transistors in cross-coupled inverter configuration to form two inverters for storing a single data bit, wherein each of the inverters includes a Schottky diode; first and second pass gate transistors having a gate terminal coupled to a write word line and a source or drain of each of the pass gate transistors coupled to a write bit line; and first and second read transistors coupled to the two pull-up and two pull-down transistors, one of the read transistors having a gate terminal coupled to a read word line and a source or a drain coupled to a read bit line. In a preferred embodiment, the 8-transistor SRAM cell has column select writing enabled for writing a value to the 8-transistor SRAM cell without inadvertently also writing a value to another 8-transistor SRAM cell.
US08531868B2
According to various embodiments, a resistive-switching memory element and memory element array that uses a bipolar switching includes a select element comprising only a single diode that is not a Zener diode. The resistive-switching memory elements described herein can switch even when a switching voltage less than the breakdown voltage of the diode is applied in the reverse-bias direction of the diode. The memory elements are able to switch during the very brief period when a transient pulse voltage is visible to the memory element, and therefore can use a single diode per memory cell.
US08531863B2
A method for operating a resistivity changing memory including applying a programming voltage to a resistivity changing memory cell to define a programmed state and applying a refresh voltage to the resistivity changing memory cell for maintaining the programmed state of the resistivity changing memory cell. In one embodiment, the refresh voltage is less than the programming voltage.
US08531862B2
The present invention relates to an electric component comprising at least one first MIM capacitor having a ferroelectric insulator with a dielectric constant of at least 100 between a first capacitor electrode of a first electrode material and a second capacitor electrode of a second electrode material. The first and second electrode materials are selected such that the first MIM capacitor exhibits, as a function of a DC voltage applicable between the first and second electrodes, an asymmetric capacitance hysteresis that lets the first MIM capacitor, in absence of the DC voltage, assume one of at least two possible distinct capacitance values, in dependence on a polarity of a switching voltage last applied to the capacitor, the switching voltage having an amount larger than a threshold-voltage amount. The invention is applicable for ESD sensors, memories and high-frequency devices.
US08531861B2
One time programming memory and methods of storage and manufacture of the same are provided. Examples relate to microelectronic memory technology and manufacture. The one time programming memory includes a diode (10) having a unidirectional conducting rectification characteristic and a variable-resistance memory (20) having a bipolar conversion characteristic. The diode (10) having the unidirectional conducting rectification characteristic and the variable-resistance memory (20) having the bipolar conversion characteristic are connected in series. The one time programming memory device of this example takes the bipolar variable-resistance memory (20) as a storage unit, programming the bipolar variable-resistance memory (20) into different resistance states so as to carry out multilevel storage, and takes the unidirectional conducting rectification diode (10) as a gating unit. The rectification characteristic of unidirectional conducting rectification diode (10) can not only enable the bipolar variable-resistance storage (20) to be programmed only once but also inhibit crosstalk in a cross-array structure.
US08531845B2
A structure of an anti tamper case for the solid state disk includes an upper housing and a lower housing. The upper housing has an extending portion formed respectively on the two sides of the flange. The extending portion has at least one opening. The lower housing corresponds to the upper housing and a space is formed there-between for receiving the solid state disk. The lower housing has a hook formed at the flange corresponding to the opening. The hook and the opening are buckled to each other. The hook will be broken by the flange in the opening when the upper and lower housings are separated, thus prevent the user from forcefully opening the case for self maintenance or internal component replacement.
US08531843B2
A method of manufacture of a foldable electrical connector-housing system includes: providing a first end panel having an outer first end panel side with first end panel contacts that substantially span from one edge of the outer first end panel side to an opposite edge of the outer first end panel side; providing a second end panel having an outer second end panel side, the second end panel and the first end panel with the outer second end panel side facing away from the outer first end panel side and the first end panel contacts exposed in a folded configuration; mounting an electronic component between the outer first end panel side and the outer second end panel side; and connecting a conductor to the first end panel contacts and the electronic component.
US08531841B2
The present invention provides a non-intrusive method for dissipating heat from open-frame DC-DC power converters where bottom side components are exposed. A thermal interface material is placed between the motherboard to which the power converter is soldered and power dissipating and temperature sensitive components on the bottom of the power converter. The thermal interface material fills the gap between the power converter components and the motherboard, thereby providing a heat conductive path for dissipating heat from the power converter to the motherboard.
US08531836B2
The position of an electronic apparatus can be stabilized. At least one of foot portions of a notebook computer includes a height adjustment mechanism consisting of a ground contact member, a height adjustment member, and a screw. Thus, even if a variation in height dimension among the foot portions, deformation of a first housing, or the like causes the first housing to become unsteady, the unsteadiness of the first housing can be cancelled by adjusting the height of the foot portion to any height.
US08531831B2
A notebook computer comprises a first machinery, a first latch, a second machinery, a slider, an elastic element and a push element. The first latch is disposed on an edge of the first machinery. The second machinery has one side pivotally connected to the first machinery, and the other side formed with at least one latching hole. When the computer is closed, the first latch is inserted into the latching hole. The slider includes a body and a second latch. The body is slidably disposed in the second machinery along a first moving path. The second latch, disposed on the body, suits to latch or unlatch the first latch. The elastic element has one end connected to the slider, and the other end connected to the second machinery. The push element, slidably disposed in the second machinery along a second moving path, suits to push the body.
US08531830B2
A notebook computer comprises a first machinery, a first latch, a second machinery, a slider, a second elastic element and a push element. The second machinery has one side pivotally connected to the first machinery, and the other side formed with at least one latching hole. The slider comprises a body, a second latch and a first elastic element. The body is slidably disposed in the second machinery along a first moving path. The second latch disposed on the body latches or unlatches the first latch disposed on the first machinery. The first elastic element has one end connected to the body, and the other end pressing the first latch. The second elastic element has one end connected to the slider, and the other end connected to the second machinery. The push element, slidably disposed in the second machinery along a second moving path, pushes the first elastic element.
US08531828B2
An apparatus includes a storage device having at least one electrical connector and at least one first engagement structure separate from the at least one electrical connector. A carrier receives the storage device, where the carrier has at least one pivotable panel that is pivotable between a closed position and an open position. The panel has at least one second engagement structure to mechanically engage with the at least one first engagement structure if the panel is in the closed position, and the at least one second engagement structure is released from the at least one first engagement structure if the panel is in the open position.
US08531826B2
The present invention discloses a display supporting structure, a manufacture method thereof, and a display device having the display supporting structure. The display supporting structure accommodates a flat display panel and includes a housing and a connector, wherein the housing includes a first cover and a second cover. The connector is movably coupled with the first housing and the second housing. The first housing and the second housing respectively include a first coupler and a second coupler for accommodating a friction end of the connector. The friction end generates a friction by making contact with inner surfaces of both the first coupler and the second coupler. The friction is used to selectively fix the housing in position.
US08531824B2
This disclosure relates generally to an apparatus and/or system for housing a device. The apparatus includes a housing that is configured such that a device may be fitted within the housing and thereby be protected, such as from shocks and/or liquid. The housing may include top and bottom members that may be removably coupled together so as to form the housing. Each top and bottom member optionally includes front and back surfaces surrounded by a perimeter. The perimeter is defined by proximal and distal ends as well as opposing sides. The top and bottom members may include respective clasping mechanisms that extend along the perimeter of the top and bottom members. The clasping mechanisms are configured for coupling the top and bottom members with one another thereby sealing the housing, for instance, in a shock-proof and/or water tight seal.
US08531817B2
A ceramic electronic component includes a first reinforcement layer. The first reinforcement layer is arranged in a first outer layer portion so as to extend in the length direction and in the width direction. Portions of the first reinforcement layer face a first portion of a first external electrode and a first portion of a second external electrode in the thickness direction. The first reinforcement layer is not exposed at a first end surface or a second end surface of the ceramic electronic component. In a portion of a first main surface of the ceramic electronic component in which the first portion of the first or second external electrode is provided, a portion that does not face the first reinforcement layer is closer to the center in the thickness direction than a portion that faces the first reinforcement layer.
US08531816B2
A capacitor forming unit includes a dielectric plate, a first conductor film formed on a plate upper surface region other than front and rear end portions, a first insulator film formed on the upper surface front end portion, a second insulator film formed on the upper surface rear end portion, a second conductor film formed on a plate lower surface region other than front and rear end portion, a third insulator film formed on the front end portion lower surface, and a fourth insulator film formed on the lower surface rear end portion. One or more first electrode rods are disposed in through holes, and electrically connected to the first conductor film and electrically insulated from the second conductor film. One or more second electrode rods are disposed in other through holes, and electrically connected to the second conductor film and electrically insulated from the first conductor film.
US08531804B2
The present invention is implemented by deploying an enhanced ground fault detection and location apparatus and by using the apparatus in conjunction with specific circuit analysis methods, using the information generated by the ground fault detection and location apparatus. The ground fault detection and location apparatus comprises the functionality of a voltmeter, an ammeter, a phase angle meter, a frequency generator, and a variable power supply, thereby providing for a variety of signals and analyses to be performed on a unintentionally grounded circuit in an ungrounded AC or DC power distribution system. The ground fault detection and location apparatus is capable of operating in six different modes, with each mode providing a different capability or opportunity for detecting, analyzing, and locating one or more unintentionally grounded circuits in an normally ungrounded AC or DC power distribution system.
US08531801B1
A method and system provide a magnetic transducer including first and second shields, a read sensor, and magnetic bias structure(s) adjacent to the read sensor. The read sensor and magnetic bias structure(s) are between the shields. The second shield includes first and second ferromagnetic layers, a nonmagnetic spacer layer and a pinning layer. The nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the first and second ferromagnetic layers. The first ferromagnetic layer is between the read sensor and the nonmagnetic spacer layer. The pinning layer is adjacent to the second ferromagnetic layer. The first and second ferromagnetic layers are coupled antiparallel. The first ferromagnetic layer includes magnetic layers interleaved with trilayer(s). Each magnetic layer includes crystalline grains. The trilayer(s) include an amorphous nonmagnetic layer less than three Angstroms thick. Thus, the magnetic layers are ferromagnetically coupled but the crystalline grains in different magnetic layers are decoupled.
US08531799B2
An apparatus and associated method for a head gimbal assembly (HGA) that detects a contact event. Various embodiments of the present invention are generally directed to a load beam coupled to a plate via a gimbal. The plate has a cantilevered ramp limiter which extends forward from the gimbal to engage a ramp load/unload structure. A slider is affixed to a lower surface of the plate opposite the gimbal while a strain gage is affixed to the ramp limiter.
US08531788B2
A lens device includes a main body unit, a guiding shaft unit, a lens unit, a focus adjusting unit and a resilient component. The guiding shaft unit includes three parallel guiding shafts disposed in the main body unit. The lens unit includes a lens frame disposed in the main body unit and having three guiding portions that receive slidably and respectively the guiding shafts, and a lens mounted co-movably in the lens frame. The focus adjusting unit is disposed in the main body unit and includes a driven member abutting against the lens frame and driven by a driving member for driving the lens unit to slide along the guiding shafts. The resilient component is disposed for biasing resiliently the lens frame toward the driven member.
US08531783B2
An optical processor is presented for applying optical processing to a light field passing through a predetermined imaging lens unit. The optical processor comprises a pattern in the form of spaced apart regions of different optical properties. The pattern is configured to define a phase coder, and a dispersion profile coder. The phase coder affects profiles of Through Focus Modulation Transfer Function (TFMTF) for different wavelength components of the light field in accordance with a predetermined profile of an extended depth of focusing to be obtained by the imaging lens unit. The dispersion profile coder is configured in accordance with the imaging lens unit and the predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing to provide a predetermined overlapping between said TFMTF profiles within said predetermined profile of the extended depth of focusing.
US08531781B2
An objective optical system includes, in order from an object, a negative-powered first-lens, an aperture stop, a positive-powered second-lens, and a third-lens, wherein: a surface of the first-lens which is closest to an image is a concave surface; a surface of the second-lens which is closest to the image is an aspheric surface; a surface of the third-lens which is closest to the object is a convex surface; the objective optical system has a three-group, three-lens configuration in which each of the first- to third-lenses is made up of a single lens and all surfaces of the three lenses have power; a distance d_L23 between the second-lens and the third-lens is smaller than a distance d_L12 between the first-lens and the second-lens, satisfying a conditional d_L23/d_L12<0.25; and a focal length f_L2 of the second-lens, and a focal length f_L3 of the third-lens satisfy the conditional 1.7
US08531778B2
A small-sized zoom lens having a high zooming rate and a high optical performance, the zoom lens including a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power, a third lens group having a positive refractive power, and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, wherein an iris diaphragm is disposed between the second lens group and the third lens group.
US08531768B2
A zoom lens system includes a negative first lens group, a positive second lens group, and a positive third lens group, in that order from the object side, wherein upon zooming from the short to long focal length extremities, the distance between the first lens group and the second lens group decreases, and the distance between the second lens group and the third lens group increases. The second lens group includes a positive first sub-lens group and a negative second sub-lens group, in that order from the object side. In at least part of the zooming range of the zoom lens system, the second sub-lens group and the third lens group each serves as a focusing lens group that is moved along the optical axis during a focusing operation.
US08531767B2
A zoom lens includes, sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power. Zoom is performed by moving the second and the third lens groups in a direction along an optical axis. The fourth lens group consists of, sequentially from the object side, a front group having a positive refractive power, an intermediate group configured by a cemented lens formed by a positive lens and a negative lens and having an overall refractive power that is negative, and a rear group having a positive refractive power. Blur is corrected by moving the intermediate group in a direction that is substantially orthogonal to the optical axis.
US08531758B2
The invention relates to a device (35) comprising a multilayered structure (35a) with a first portion and a second portion wherein the first portion is conceived to be rolled about a first roller (38), said device comprising a second roller (39) for receiving the second portion for at least partially counteracting the effects of mechanical strain induced in the multilayered structure upon said rolling. The first roller (38) is rotated in a first direction, whereby the second roller (39) is rotated in a second direction. Preferably, the diameters of the first roller (38) and the second roller (39) are equal. Alternatively, the edge portions A, B of the multilayer structure (34a) are suitably interconnected by stoppers (33a, 33b) for preventing creeping.
US08531750B2
An afocal beam relay has first and second primary concave reflective surfaces and first and second secondary convex toroidal reflective surfaces. The centers of curvature of each of the first and second primary reflective surfaces and first and second secondary reflective surfaces lie on an axis. The first and second secondary convex reflective surfaces face toward the first and second primary concave reflective surfaces and are disposed to relay a decentered entrance pupil to a decentered exit pupil. An aspheric corrector element is disposed in the path of an input beam of light that is directed by the primary and secondary surfaces to the decentered entrance pupil. The directed beam of light between the first and second secondary convex mirrors is collimated in one direction and focused in mid air in an orthogonal direction.
US08531746B2
An image processing apparatus is provided. The image processing apparatus includes: an acquiring unit that acquires original image data and a first color conversion profile associated with the original image data; an editing unit that edits the original image data by using the first color conversion profile to generate edited image data; a preparing unit that prepares a second color conversion profile different from the first color conversion profile in a first case where the editing unit generates the edited image data having a data size smaller than that of the original image data, wherein a data size of the second color conversion profile is smaller than that of the first color conversion profile; and a storage control unit that, in the first case, stores the edited image data and the second color conversion profile in a memory while being associated with each other.
US08531733B2
An image processing system such as a multi-function device (MFD) with an “e-reader” mode is disclosed. The e-reader mode can be activated by a user from the MFD user interface, or automatically detected by the system if the mode is set to “auto.” Once in e-reader mode, the system automatically locates the area corresponding to the e-reader screen, crops it, de-skews it when necessary, and enhances the image. In addition, N-Up (printing several pages of content on one physical page) may be applied if users desire. The enhancement adjusts background color, boosts the contrast, and de-blurs the image when necessary. Two embodiments of enhancement are presented. The first one performs Tone Reproduction Curve (TRC) adjustment and possible de-blurring on the entire screen area. The second one segments the screen area into three kinds of objects (text/picture/background). Different TRCs are applied to enhance the objects.
US08531725B2
Disclosed is a method of rasterizing a page comprising a plurality of graphic objects. The method obtains a plurality of pixel-aligned object edges (302,303) of the graphic objects (203), and determining a pixel generation path (402) for the plurality of graphic objects. The method determines a plurality of crossing locations (420-424) based on the pixel aligned object edges and the pixel generation path, at least one of the crossing locations being a vertical crossing location and at least one other crossing location being a horizontal crossing location, rasterizes the page according to the pixel generation path by updating a fill sequence (620-623) upon encountering said determined crossing locations.
US08531722B2
A color compensation apparatus, a color compensation method, an image forming apparatus, and a computer readable recording medium are provided. The color compensation apparatus includes a color scheme analyzing unit to classify an input image into one or more objects and to compute average color values for each of the classified one or more objects, a storage unit to store a color table proposed for color compensation, and a color compensating unit to compensate the average color values computed for each of the classified one or more objects using colors of the stored color table which match the computed average color values.
US08531718B2
An image forming device includes a power source unit, motors supplied with and driven by electric power from the power source unit, and a control device for controlling the motors' operations. A CPU in the control device monitors presence/absence of power supply from the power source unit. When power is cut off during image forming, the CPU causes regenerative braking of the motors. The regenerated power is voltage-converted by a second DC-DC converter in the power source unit and supplied to the control device for continuously driving the CPU, which in turn backs up operating information. This eliminates inconsistency between the actual life status and the backed-up information when power is off, with no need of frequent backup during image forming. It is thus possible to provide the image forming device which can reliably manage operating information even if power supply to the motors is stopped during printing.
US08531717B2
A reference level of data required for outputting (printing, sending and so on) in accordance with output configuration settings is set. It is determined whether or not a level of target data to be output which is stored in a storage is lower than the reference level. When the level of the target data is lower than the reference level, the data level is increased in stages. The data of the level raised to the reference level is output in accordance with the output configuration settings.
US08531715B2
An external device is configured to be directly connected to an image forming device. The external device includes an image storage unit configured to store therein image data. The external device further includes a setting unit configured to issue a plurality of output commands of the image data to an image forming device based on a total number of images to be output by the image forming device and a specified mode indicative of a number of images to be output onto one side of a medium. The external device further includes a communication unit configured to transmit the image data based on the plurality of output commands to the image forming device.
US08531706B2
The systems and methods presented herein provide for delivery of a set of capabilities that encompasses system-level capabilities and device capabilities via a print protocol of a physical printer. For example, a printer object may respond to a print protocol request for capabilities of a physical printer with a set of capabilities that differs from the actual capabilities of the physical printer than would be typically delivered in response to such a request. The printer object comprises the capabilities of the physical printer. The capabilities of the physical printer are accessible via the print protocol of the physical printer. The printer object processes a request from the client system via the print protocol and in turn provides a set of capabilities that is different from the capabilities of the physical printer in response to the request.
US08531697B2
An image forming system is disclosed that includes a groupware server and an image forming apparatus that functions as a groupware terminal. The groupware server includes a document database that stores document data and attribute information corresponding to the document data. The image forming apparatus includes a read unit that reads the document data and the attribute information corresponding to the document data stored in the document database, and a change unit that changes the attribute information read by the read unit into changed attribute information. In turn, the groupware server stores the read document data and the changed attribute information in the document database.
US08531696B2
A management apparatus includes: a receiver that receives, via a network, status data based on control system data for stabilizing image forming from an image forming apparatus formed by image forming units; an inference unit that determines abnormality occurrence symptom, and calculates an index of the abnormality occurrence symptom, of the image forming units based on the received status data; a replacement part information acquisition unit that acquires information including a replacement date from a maintenance management system via the network when receiving a diagnosis request from a terminal of a maintenance person; a judgment table generator that calculates weight information of the symptom determination index value; a integrated diagnostic information generator for the image forming units based on the symptom determination index value and the weight information; and a integrated diagnostic information notification unit transmitting the integrated diagnostic value information to the terminal of the maintenance person.
US08531690B2
According to an embodiment, a linkage system of plural multi function peripherals includes a first multi function peripheral and a second multi function peripheral. The first multi function peripheral includes a first network interface, a first memory and a first management unit. The first memory is configured to store a first data group. The first management unit is configured to manage first management information relating to the first data group. The second multi function peripheral includes a second network interface, a second memory, a second management unit and a control unit. The second memory is configured to store a second data group. The second management unit is configured to manage second management information relating to the second data group. The control unit is configured to link the first management information and the second management information.
US08531687B2
The present invention relates to an image formation device, a display screen switching method, and a program. Excellent operability with user friendliness is realized by appropriately controlling switching of a display screen without increasing a burden on an operating system. In order to accomplish this, an image formation device 1 for example includes: a panel manager 33 for controlling switching of a display screen to be displayed on a display unit 5; a system controller 32 for controlling a hardware section; and an application section 39 for executing a specific function by putting the hardware section into operation through the system controller 32, and for creating a display screen relating to the specific function. When the system controller 32 detects the occurrence of an event with the display screen created in the application section 39 being displayed on the display unit 5, the panel manager 33 requests the application section 39 to determine whether or not switching of a display screen should be made, and controls switching of a display screen to be displayed on the display unit 5 based on a result of the determination made by the application section 39.
US08531684B2
In a printing apparatus having full-color and monochrome print processes and a method therefor, whether a page to be printed is color or monochrome is checked. The presence of an immediately preceding page which is successively printed before a page to be printed that is determined to be monochrome, and the attribute of the immediately preceding page are determined. The presence of a succeeding page which is successively printed after the page to be printed, and the attribute of the succeeding page are determined. The number of pages corresponding to the determination results is set. The print process of the page to be printed is decided on the basis of the presence of succeeding pages corresponding to the number of pages and their attributes.
US08531681B2
A multifunction printer includes a scanner; a still image data-extracting section which extracts a plurality of still image data from inputted movie image data; a memory which stores a correlation between the extracted still image data and time positions thereof in the movie image data; a printing head which prints, on a first printing medium, a plurality of thumbnail images corresponding to the extracted still image data and the time positions; and a selected image-extracting section which specifies the time position in the movie image data corresponding to a selection mark marked by a user when the first printing medium is read by the scanner after the selection mark is marked by the user to the first printing medium and which extracts a still image data corresponding to the identified time position based on the correlation stored in the memory.
US08531680B2
A method for inspecting the width of a coated film in accordance with the present disclosure is a method for detecting a width W1 of a coated film 20, the method including: a step of measuring a thickness profile in the transverse direction of the coated film 20; a step of creating approximating curves L1, L2 of a function of a distance X and a thickness Y in end-proximal regions 24a, 24b of both ends of the coated film 20; and a step of taking a distance Xe1 corresponding to a thickness threshold Yt determined from the approximating curve L1 of one end-proximal region 24a and a distance Xe2 corresponding to the thickness threshold Yt determined from the approximating curve L2 of the other end-proximal region 24b, and of calculating Xe1−Xe2 as the width W1.
US08531679B2
The present invention provides a novel system and method for obtaining at least one of a cross-section profile, depth, width, slope, undercut and other parameters of via-holes by non-destructive technique. The optical system comprises an illumination system for producing at least one light beam and directing it on a sample in a region of the structure containing at least one via-hole; a detection system configured and operable to collect a pattern of light reflected from the illuminated region, the light pattern being indicative of one or more parameters of said via-hole; and, a control system connected to the detection system, the control system comprising a memory utility for storing a predetermined theoretical model comprising data representative of a set of parameters describing via-holes reflected pattern, and a data processing and analyzing utility configured and operable to receive and analyze image data indicative of the detected light pattern and determine one or more parameters of said via-hole.
US08531670B2
An optical sensor to measure the turbidity of wash water in a household washing machine or dishwasher, includes a housing having a housing interior containing a measurement module having a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element, the measurement module defining a measurement light path which extends from the light-emitting element to the light-receiving element and passes outside the housing over a part of its path length. The light-emitting element and the light-receiving element are arranged together in a first subspace of the housing interior, and the measurement light path extends over a part of its path length through at least one second subspace of the housing interior, which is sealed from the first subspace. All the electrical/electronic components of the measurement module are fitted in the first subspace, so that any ingress of wash water into the second subspace does not compromise the electrical functionality of the sensor.
US08531666B2
A method for positioning a viewing center of a parallax barrier mainly includes: disposing multiple alignment markers respectively at appropriate places of the parallax barrier and a flat panel display, and performing position measurement and alignment of the multiple alignment markers, so as to achieve a purpose of setting a viewing center at a specific and appropriate position.
US08531664B2
There is provided a particle number measurement method capable of accurately measuring the number of particles generated by a specific factor. When the number of particles is measured by irradiating laser beam 25 into a main exhaust line 16 via a glass window 24, receiving lights (L1 and L2) scattered from particles (P1 and P2) crossing with the laser beam 25 by a photodetector 21, and calculating the number of particles based on the received scattered light, static particles P2 are considered as contaminants attached to the glass window 24 and the number of static particles P2 is subtracted from the measured number of particles within the main exhaust line 16.
US08531660B2
The invention relates to a substrate for surface enhanced Raman scattering studies comprising a semiconductor surface with whiskers, coated with metal selected from the group consisting of silver, gold, platinum, copper and/or alloys thereof, where the semiconductor mentioned is a gallium-containing nitride and essentially each whisker contains a linear defect inside.
US08531651B2
A distance measuring device using a multiple wave enables measurement of long distances with a high resolution and with a high precision by significantly reducing the circuit scale required for demultiplexing circuitry. A distance measuring device (1) includes an illumination unit (1) that illuminates using multiple modulated light having a plurality of frequencies satisfying a relationship in which one frequency is an even multiple of another frequency, a light receiving unit (20) that accumulates the charge of reflected light of the multiple modulated light into a plurality of accumulation units while switching an accumulation unit into which the charge is accumulated at a predetermined timing, and a distance calculation unit (30) that calculates a distance based on the charge.
US08531647B2
An exposure apparatus for a photosensitive film includes: light-emitting diodes for generating rays to expose a photosensitive film; a light shield positioned between the light-emitting diodes to prevent noise; a stage for receiving a substrate having the photosensitive film thereon; and a parallelizer positioned between the light-emitting diodes and the stage for redirecting the rays from the light-emitting diodes to be perpendicularly incident upon the photosensitive film.
US08531635B2
Disclosed herein is a liquid-crystal display apparatus including: a pair of substrates facing each other to sandwich a liquid-crystal layer; signal and scan lines laid out in a matrix form to sandwich a first insulation film on one of the substrates; a lower electrode created in each area enclosed by the signal and scan lines; a second insulation film created on a surface of the lower electrode; an upper electrode on which a plurality of slits are created in parallel all over an entire surface of the second insulation film; and an oriented film created to cover surfaces of the upper electrode and the second insulation film.
US08531629B2
According to example embodiments, a reflective display device includes a plurality of pixel units. Each of the plurality of pixel units may include a reflective plate having at least one concave reflective surface, a first electrode on the reflective plate, a second electrode separate from the first electrode, at least one light-absorbing member corresponding to the at least one concave reflective surface, and a polymer dispersed liquid crystal PDLC layer between the first electrode and the second electrode. The PDLC layer includes a polymer and liquid crystals. The light-absorbing member may be at a focus position of the at least one concave reflective surface.
US08531623B2
A direct-viewing type display device 100A includes: a display panel which has a display region 10A and a frame region 10F provided outside the display region; and a light-transmitting cover 20 provided on a viewer's side of the display panel. The light-transmitting cover includes a lens portion 22 positioned so as to overlap a region that includes part of the frame region of the display panel and part of a peripheral display region 10D within the display region which adjoins the part of the frame region. The display device further includes a housing 30 which has a housing portion 36 provided at least on a side surface 10b of the display panel. Part of light going out from the part of the peripheral display region and/or part of light entering the housing portion on a rear side goes out on a viewer's side of the housing portion 36. According to the present invention, a direct-viewing type display device is provided which includes a sole display panel and in which the frame is visually obscured.
US08531614B2
Disclosed is a display device in which high resolution representation is made by generating and displaying display data for each sub-pixel, and in which reduction in image quality is improved. The display device is provided with a display panel in which one pixel is constructed from sub-pixels of at least 4 colors. The display device generates the display data for each sub-pixel in accordance with an input image signal, and displays the display data on the display panel. Within the sub-pixels, high brightness sub-pixels which are the two sub-pixels having the highest brightness are arranged alternately with the other sub-pixels. Also, the area of each high brightness sub-pixel is smaller than that of the other sub-pixels. In a preferred example, the areas of the two sub-pixels having the highest brightness and the areas of the other two sub-pixels have area ratios in the following order: 1.0:1.0:1.6:1.6.
US08531611B2
There is provided a system and method for powering down particular circuits in an electronic device based on the usage habits of the user. An exemplary method comprises collecting usage data for a plurality of device functions of the electronic device, and reducing power consumption by circuitry associated with at least one of the plurality of device functions when the electronic device is in use if the usage data for the at least one of the plurality of device functions indicates that the at least one of the plurality of device functions is used less than at least another of the plurality of device functions.
US08531606B2
A broadcast receiving apparatus which accumulates and stores a status value of a broadcast signal is provided. The broadcast receiving apparatus includes a signal receiver which receives a broadcast signal, a decoder which decodes the received broadcast signal, a signal detector which detects a signal status of at least one of the received broadcast signal and the decoded broadcast signal, and a storage unit which accumulates and stores a status value of the broadcast signal detected by the signal detector. Accordingly, the past signal status of the broadcast receiving apparatus can be easily recognized.
US08531603B2
A system and method for characterizing the relative offset in time between audio and video signals and enables the receiver of the audio and video signals to resynchronize the audio and video signals. Signal characterization data is dynamically captured and encoded into frames of video and audio data that is output by a television origination facility. The signal characterization data is extracted by the receiver and signal characterization data is recomputed for the received frames. The extracted signal characterization data is compared with the recomputed signal characterization data to compute the relative offset in time between the video and one or more audio signals for a frame. The receiver may then resynchronize the video and audio signals using the computed relative offset.
US08531599B2
An image display system having a generation unit to generate a video signal which is composed of a partial image cut out from a still image; and a display unit to display a video signal inputted from said generation unit at a frame rate higher than that of said inputted video signal by creating an interpolated frame based on a motion vector, wherein said generation unit has a movement unit to move a cut-out position of said partial image, and an output unit to output movement information including at least information indicative of the direction of movement of said cut-out position together with said video signal, and wherein said display unit has a setting unit to set a motion vector used for the creation of said interpolated frame by using said movement information.
US08531597B2
A video processing apparatus stores input viewpoint information which indicates on a viewpoint of video to be displayed that of video content constituted by a plurality of videos captured at a plurality of respectively different viewpoint positions. At this time, the input viewpoint information is stored in association with at least one of identification information for identifying the video content and captured viewpoint information that includes information on the plurality of viewpoint positions at which the plurality of videos constituting the video content are captured. The viewpoint corresponding to the stored input viewpoint information is displayed as a selectable viewpoint based on at least one of the identification information and the captured viewpoint information of the video content, when viewing video content that is different from the video content for which the input viewpoint information is already registered.
US08531592B2
A helmet- or head-mounted video recording system is provided for mounting on a piece of head gear such as a head-protective helmet. The system includes a camera module attachable to the head gear, including a first video camera integrated into the camera module for generating a video signal. A recording module is removably attachable to the head gear and is adapted to receive the video signal and store data representative of the video signal. A power supply module is removably attachable to the head gear and is electrically connectable to the camera module and the recording module.
US08531584B2
The image-pickup apparatus includes an image acquiring part respectively photoelectrically converting first and second object images respectively formed by first and second light fluxes into first image data and second image data, the first and second light fluxes being formed by dividing a light flux from an image-pickup optical system by a pupil divider, and photoelectrically converting a third object image formed by a third light flux of the light flux from the image-pickup optical system into third image data, the third light flux being not divided by the pupil divider, and a split image generating part which generates split image data to be displayed in the third image data. The split image generating part generates the split image data based on the first image data and the second image data, and adds color information extracted from the third image data to the split image data.
US08531583B2
An image capturing apparatus comprises an image sensor comprising an imaging pixel for receiving light through an opening with a center position coincident with the optical axis of a microlens, first and second focus detection pixels for receiving pupil-divided light through a first and second opening offset in first and second directions from the optical axis of a microlens, respectively; ROM for storing shading correction data; correction coefficient generation unit for generating shading correction coefficients respectively for the imaging pixel, and the first and second focus detection pixels from the shading correction data; and correction unit for subjecting a signal for the imaging pixel to shading correction with the use of the shading correction coefficient for the imaging pixel, and subjecting signals for the first and second focus detection pixels to shading correction with the use of the shading correction coefficients for the first and second focus detection pixels.
US08531582B2
Light transmitted through the imaging lens 100 is divided into two light fluxes by the half mirror 202 fixed in the camera body 200, and two light fluxes are guided to the imaging element 201 and optical viewfinder, respectively. An image processing unit corrects aberration, which occurs due to the transmittance of light through the half mirror 202, of the image data generated after receiving light at the imaging element 201, by conversion processing based on a transfer function representing its optical transfer characteristics and restores the image data prior to the occurrence of aberration.
US08531581B2
Metrics for characterizing the focusing of a plenoptic imaging system. In one aspect, the metric is based on the high frequency content and/or the blurring of the plenoptic image.
US08531568B2
An image sensing apparatus is provided, which is provided with a plurality of image sensing elements each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections and an adding circuit adapted to add signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion sections to obtain a one-pixel signal, wherein the adding circuit adds the signals such that the one-pixel signals obtained by the addition are arranged at equal intervals in an area extending over the plurality of image sensing elements.
US08531566B2
The present invention relates to an image sensor, in particular a CMOS image sensor, for electronic cameras, having a plurality of light-sensitive pixels arranged in rows and columns, wherein all or at least some of the pixels of a column are connected to a respective common column line, and wherein the image sensor has a signal preprocessing device for one or more of the column lines to process a exposure signals generated by the pixels which can be applied to the respective column line. The image sensor is made selectively to apply one of at least two test input signals to the column lines.
US08531563B2
A color imaging apparatus comprising: a single-plate color imaging element including color filters arranged on pixels arranged in horizontal and vertical directions where all colors are arranged in each line in the directions; weighted average filters with filter coefficients set in a local area extracted from a mosaic image acquired from the color imaging element corresponding to the weighted average filters so that proportions of sums of the filter coefficients of each color in the lines in the horizontal and vertical directions are equal; a weighted average calculation unit that calculates weighted average values of each color; a demosaicking processing unit that calculates a pixel value of another color at a pixel position of a target pixel of demosaicking processing and that interpolates a pixel value of the target pixel based on a color ratio or a color difference of the calculated weighted average values to calculate the pixel value.
US08531558B2
Disclosed herein is an image processing apparatus including: a storage section configured to store a correction matrix correcting crosstalk generated by a light or electron leak from an adjacent pixel existing among a plurality of pixels for receiving light in an imaging device; and a processing section configured to carry out processing to apply the correction matrix stored in the storage section to an image signal generated by the imaging device for each of the pixels.
US08531557B2
A method of performing a zoom operation on a camera is disclosed, wherein, one or more regions of interest within a captured image of a scene are determined. Camera motion direction towards one of the regions of interest is determined. A target region of interest is determined based on the determined camera motion direction. The zoom operation is performed to the target region of interest.
US08531555B2
A method and apparatus for automatically categorizing images in a digital camera is provided. In one aspect, image data is captured by a digital camera. Image data analysis is performed on the captured image data by the digital camera to automatically generate a category tag to which the captured image data may relate. The generated category tag is stored in association with the captured image data for categorizing the captured image data.
US08531550B2
Automatic exposure adjusting device considers the image on a pixel-by-pixel basis. Each pixel is characterized according to its most significant bits. After the pixels are characterized, the number of pixels in any particular group is counted. That counting is compared with thresholds which set whether the image is over exposed, under exposed, and can optionally also determine if the image is seriously over exposed or seriously under exposed. Adjustment of the exposure is carried out to bring the image to a more desired state.
US08531546B2
Two local buffers are provided between an image processing unit and an image compression and expansion unit for compression into a predetermined format. Write and read control units serve to alternately use the two local buffers. As a result, process flow starting from the image processing unit to generate compressed image data by the image compression and expansion unit requires no main memory, whereby high-speed image processing is allowed with low power consumption.
US08531540B2
A mobile terminal (1) of the present invention includes an image capturing section (19), an image obtaining section (22) for obtaining a subject image captured by the image capturing section (19), and an image capturing mode determination section (24) for determining which one of a plurality of image capturing modes is suitable for the subject image. The image capturing section (19) captures the subject in an image capturing mode determined to be suitable for the subject by the image capturing mode determination section (24). This makes it possible to provide a mobile terminal which makes it possible to switch to an image capturing mode suitable for a subject.
US08531538B2
An image processing apparatus includes a decoding processor including a decoder configured to decode encoded data of image data of one frame having a plurality of pixels encoded by a variable length coding method and generating decoded data, and a data transfer unit configured to select decoded data in a target partial region in which a predetermined image processing is to be performed as partial image data out of the decoded data inputted from the decoder and transfer the selected data; and an image processor configured to perform the given image processing on the partial image data selected in the data transfer unit and store the image-processed partial image data in a storage device.
US08531534B2
A lens driving apparatus comprises a lens portion having at least one lens (21), a first driving portion (39) to cause a movement of said lens portion relatively to a base portion (40) along a vertical direction of a light axis (L) of said lens portion, and a second driving portion (38) to cause a movement of said lens portion relatively to said base portion along said light axis.
US08531529B2
A dead pixel compensating apparatus includes, inter alia, a pattern generation unit generating a programmable test pattern including data with respect to at least one dead pixel; a register array storing the test pattern; a dead pixel compensation unit receiving the test pattern stored in the register array and performing a dead pixel compensation algorithm to output compensation data; and a determination unit comparing the test pattern and the compensation data to determine whether or not the dead pixel compensation algorithm has an error, wherein a dead pixel compensation algorithm for compensating for a dead pixel of an image sensor in image data supplied from the image sensor is tested.
US08531521B2
Methods and apparatus related to smart surveillance camera operation and implementation are described. A smart surveillance camera stores a map corresponding to an area subject to monitoring. The camera provides at least one image detected by said camera and at least a portion of the stored map in conjunction with the at least one image detected by said camera, e.g., to a wireless communications device of an emergency responder in its local vicinity. Current camera position and/or viewing controls such as camera angle setting and/or zoom, are sometimes used, to determine the portion of the overlay map to be communicated in conjunction with a video stream. Externally detectable trigger events, e.g., from a 911 call or from a gunshot audio detector, and/or internally detectable trigger events, e.g., a detected mob in the camera viewing area, are sometimes used to initiate transmission of a video stream and corresponding map overlay.
US08531520B2
The invention is directed to a system and method for acquiring image evidence of traffic violations. The system has a controller, an image acquisition system, and sensors. The controller acquires data from the sensors to determine the likelihood of a traffic violation. The controller determines a schedule for acquiring images associated with the violation. Multiple images may be acquired as evidence of the violation. The controller then directs the image acquisition to acquire images in compliance with the schedule. The controller may then package, encrypt, and authenticate data and images associated with the violation. The controller may then transfer the data to a remote location. The system may also determine a schedule to acquire images associated with multiple violations and/or traffic accidents.
US08531516B2
This invention relates to measuring the light that is scattered from particulates (aerosols) in a gas or liquid. The sample typically flows into the instrument and the particulates are measured in-situ. The intensity of the scattered light is measured at many different angles, which determines both the amount of particulates in the sample, and detailed information about the particles such as average size, shape and composition. The measurement can be applied to climate and air pollution research, and clean room monitoring.
US08531515B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging unit for capturing a subject and generating image data of the subject, an operation input unit for receiving inputs of operation signals containing a release signal for instructing the imaging unit to shoot, an acceleration detector for detecting an acceleration of the imaging apparatus, a state detector for separately detecting a case in which the imaging apparatus is overland, a case in which the imaging apparatus is underwater and a photographer shoots while swimming, and a case in which the imaging apparatus is underwater and the photographer shoots while changing a water depth, and a control unit for performing operation control depending on an input into the operation input unit and/or into the acceleration detector according to a state detection result by the state detector.
US08531506B2
An interactive stereo display system and a method for calculating a three-dimensional (3D) coordinate are provided. The interactive stereo display system includes a plurality of interactive devices, a stereo display panel, and a processing unit. When the stereo display panel is irradiated by a light radiated from a light source of each interactive device, an image of each light filtered by a color filter is captured by an in-cell type optical sensor array. After receiving the images, the processing unit determines overlapping circle objects in each image and identifies the circle object formed by each light source according to a light intensity value at the center of each circle objects. Accordingly, the 3D coordinate of each interactive device relative to the stereo display panel can be calculated according to the center and a radius of each circle object corresponding to each light source.
US08531504B2
Methods and systems to for generating high accuracy estimates of the 3D orientation of a camera within a global frame of reference. Orientation estimates may be produced from an image-based alignment method. Other orientation estimates may be taken from a camera-mounted orientation sensor. The alignment-derived estimates may be input to a high pass filter. The orientation estimates from the orientation sensor may be processed and input to a low pass filter. The outputs of the high pass and low pass filters are fused, producing a stabilized video sequence.
US08531499B2
An optical scanner includes a light source, a scan-deflecting portion including a resonance mirror to scan and deflect along a scan line, a plurality of light receiving sensors for synchronous detection provided on the scan line, a phase controller, an amplitude controller, and an offset controller. The phase controller obtains a difference between a true phase and a target phase, and generates a drive signal incorporating the difference between the true phase and the target phase. The amplitude controller incorporates the difference between a value equivalent of a true amplitude and a value equivalent of a target amplitude into the drive signal generated by the phase controller. The offset controller calculates an offset value by obtaining the difference between each of the time intervals, incorporates the difference between the offset value and a target offset value in the amplitude-controlled drive signal, and supply the drive signal to a driving device.
US08531495B2
A printer detects black marks BM formed at a constant interval along the length of recording paper by a detector disposed to the recording paper conveyance path at a position upstream from a printing position, positions the recording paper to a printing start position for printing on the recording paper based on the detection results from the detector, and positions the recording paper to a cutting position downstream from the printing position in order to cut the recording paper based on detection of a black mark BM after printing ends. When a power-off command is input, the printer starts conveying the recording paper forward, stops conveying the recording paper when a black mark BM is detected by the detector after conveyance starts, and then turns the power off.
US08531494B2
A portable reading device includes a computing device and a computer readable medium storing a computer program product to receive an image and select a section of the image to process. The product processes the section of the image with a first process and when the first process is finished processing the section of the image, process a result of the first process with a second process. While the second process is processing, repeats the first process on another section of the image.
US08531480B2
Systems and methods for providing a user with increased flexibility and control over the appearance and behavior of objects on a user interface are described. Sets of objects can be grouped into themes to provide a user with a distinct overall impression of the interface. These themes can be switched dynamically by switching pointers to drawing procedures or switching data being supplied to these procedures. To buffer applications from the switchable nature of graphical user interfaces according to the present invention, colors and patterns used to implement the interface objects are abstracted from the interface by, for example, pattern look-up tables.
US08531472B2
Methods are described for automatically generating a three-dimensional model of a structure including real façade textures obtained from geo-referenced oblique images. The geographical position of at least one real façade texture is located. Geo-referenced images containing the real façade texture are located. A base image having the real façade texture is selected from the geo-referenced images by analyzing image raster content. The real façade texture of the base image is applied to the three-dimensional model. Systems for generating the three-dimensional model are also described herein.
US08531470B2
A method and an apparatus for maintaining separate information for graphics commands that have been sent to a graphics processing unit (GPU) and for graphics commands that have been processed by the GPU are described. The graphics commands may be associated with graphics resources. A manner to respond to a request for updating the graphics resources may be determined based on examining the separate information maintained for the graphics commands. The request may be received from a graphics API (application programming interface). Responding to the request may include at least one of notifying the graphics API regarding a status of the graphics resources and updating the graphics resources identified by the request.
US08531469B2
This invention is directed to a system for processing media in an electronic device. An application operative to request the display of one or more graphics elements may be implemented on the electronic device. The application may identify graphics elements for display and organize the graphics elements in a layer tree for processing and display by a render server (e.g., a core animation render server). To coordinate the processing of graphics elements of the application or of several applications, the electronic device may include a media server operative to receive media from the application and generate an image queue that includes video frames of the media. The render server may associate a slot ID with each image queue, while the media server may provide the slot ID to the application for inclusion in the layer tree. When the render server reaches a slot ID in the layer tree, the render server may identify and display the associated image queue.
US08531464B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are disclosed for animations that simulate skin deformation relative to a muscle. Displacement of a skin representation in response to deformation of a muscle representation and sliding of the skin representation over the deformed muscle representation can be determined quickly and interactively by monitoring changes in position and scale of defining ring elements of the muscle representation's geometry. The determined skin displacements can be constrained to prevent portions of the displaced skin representation from sinking into the underlying muscle representation's geometry.
US08531450B2
A method, system, and computer-readable storage medium for using a two dimensional image adjustment operations to modify a three dimensional object. A first representation of a three dimensional model may be rendered using three dimensional rendering effects. A second representation of the model may be rendered without using the three dimensional rendering effects. The first representation may be displayed. Input may be received to apply an image adjustment operation to the first representation. The image adjustment operation may be applied to the second representation. At least a portion of the first representation may be re-rendered using the three dimensional rendering effects. The modified first representation may be displayed.
US08531444B2
An image display apparatus having a display screen configured of a plurality of pixels includes a measurement unit adapted to measure a distribution of light amount when the display screen carries out a display, a detection unit adapted to detect a display problem region in the display screen based on an imbalance in the display screen of the distribution of the measured light amount when a uniform image is displayed in the display screen, and a correction unit adapted to perform correction on an image signal that is to be displayed in the display screen so as to suppress the influence of the display problem region on the display. The correction unit includes an expected value calculation unit, a difference value calculation unit adapted to calculate a difference value between an expected value of a distribution of light amount and a measured value of a distribution of light amount when an image based on the image signal corrected by the correction unit is displayed in the display screen, and a correction amount calculation unit adapted to calculate a correction amount for the display problem region detected by the detection unit based on the difference value.
US08531427B2
An apparatus to control playback of multimedia contents comprising a touch screen to display an information scroll controlling bar and a scroll pointer, the information scroll controlling bar and the scroll pointer being included in an information scroll controlling region, and a controller to sense a touch at the scroll pointer on the touch screen, to sense a movement of the touch in a direction to a location outside the information scroll controlling region on the touch screen, to set a moving rate of the scroll pointer based on the sensed location outside the information scroll controlling region to control playback of multimedia contents, and to move the scroll pointer in a moving direction based on the direction of the movement.
US08531416B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) panel includes an array substrate, an opposite substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The array substrate includes a plurality of data lines, a plurality of gate lines, a pixel electrode, a plurality of sensing lines and a touch sensing circuit. The gate lines cross the data lines. The number of the gate lines is double the number of data lines. The pixel electrode is connected to the data line and the gate line to define a pixel area. The sensing lines are formed substantially parallel to the data lines. The touch sensing circuit is electrically connected to adjacent gate lines in a forming direction of the data line and the sensing line, a sensing line for touch position detection being formed in one line direction. such that an aperture ratio of an LCD panel is increased.
US08531412B1
A method and system for processing touch input. A computing device with a touch-sensing interface may maintain a stored size value for touch input by a known user. The computing device may detect and then determine a size of a touch input. The computing device may then compare the determined size of the detected touch input to the stored size value for the known user's tough input. Based on this comparison, the computing device may process the touch input. For example, in response to the touch input, the computing device may (a) take a first action if the determined size exceeds the stored size value by a first value, and (b) otherwise, take a second action. In one aspect, before using the stored size value for the known user's touch input, the computing device may identify a current user of the computing device as the known user.
US08531411B2
Provided is a display device including: a rectangular display panel; a first film-like printed circuit board including a first terminal portion, the first film-like printed circuit board extending from one side of the rectangular display panel in a direction; a rectangular touch panel provided so as to be opposed to the rectangular display panel; and a second film-like printed circuit board including a second terminal portion, the second film-like printed circuit board extending from one side of the rectangular touch panel in the direction, the one side of the rectangular touch panel corresponding to a side parallel with and adjacent to the one side of the rectangular display panel, the first terminal portion and the second terminal portion being provided so that a connecting direction of the first terminal portion is different from a connecting direction of the second terminal portion.
US08531409B2
An electrostatic capacitance input device having a plurality of first electrodes extending in a first direction and a plurality of second electrodes extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction in an input area, including a plurality of first lines extending in parallel to each other from the plurality of first electrodes to a plurality of first terminals, and a plurality of second lines extending in parallel to each other from the plurality of second electrode to a plurality of second terminals, the first lines and the second lines being formed outside the input area, and an auxiliary line extending outside at least one of the lines at both ends in terms of the direction of arrangement of one or both of the plurality of first lines and the plurality of second lines, the auxiliary line generating a parasitic capacitance with respect to the at least one of the lines.
US08531395B2
A control device includes: a receiver for receiving first information regarding the movement of a casing, and second information regarding whether to reflect the first information on the movement of coordinate values; a storage unit for storing a whole-screen region including a real-screen region, and a virtual-screen region set around the real-screen region; a generator for generating the coordinate values within the whole-screen region based on the first information; a switcher for switching a first state in which the coordinate values are movable, and a second state in which the coordinate values are immovable, based on the second information; a determining unit for determining which of the real-screen region or the virtual-screen region the coordinate values belong to; and a coordinate-value control unit for controlling the coordinate values so as to move the coordinate values within the virtual-screen region to the position of predetermined coordinate values within the real-screen region.
US08531385B2
A driving method for local dimming of a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) device and an apparatus using the same are disclosed. The driving method includes determining a dimming value of each of a plurality of local dimming blocks into which a backlight unit is divided to be driven on a block basis by analyzing input image data on a block basis, detecting a high gray area concentrated with high gray levels from each local dimming block based on the analysis of the input image data, and generating position information about the high gray area according to a distance between the high gray area in the block and an adjacent block, and compensating the dimming value of each of the plurality of local dimming blocks by spatial filtering using a spatial filter having a different filter size or different filter coefficients for local dimming blocks according to the position information about the high gray area in the local dimming block.
US08531374B2
A compensation circuitry of gate driving pulse signal is adapted to receive a gate driving pulse signal and includes a pre-processing circuit, a peak detector, a discharge circuit, a voltage buffer and a charge pump circuit. The pre-preprocessing circuit performs a pre-processing operation to the gate driving pulse signal to adjust a voltage thereof. The pre-processed gate driving pulse signal then is transmitted to the peak detector for obtaining a peak voltage after a charging operation, and also is transmitted to the discharge circuit to determine whether to enable the discharge circuit so that providing the peak detector with a discharge loop when the discharge circuit is enabled. The charge pump circuit acquires the peak voltage through the voltage buffer and then modulates a waveform of the gate driving pulse signal according to the peak voltage. A display device using the above compensation circuitry also is provided.
US08531370B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and method for operating the device including, during a first time period, applying data from a data line to a capacitor included in a pixel and applying additional data from the data line to a capacitor included in an additional pixel. During a second time period, which follows the first time period, simultaneously applying the data to a liquid crystal capacitor included in the pixel and applying the additional data to a liquid crystal capacitor included in the additional pixel.
US08531359B2
A circuit according to one embodiment includes a data line; a select line; a storage node coupled to the select line; a first transistor with a gate coupled to the select line, a first electrode thereof coupled to the storage node, and a second electrode thereof coupled to the data line; a second transistor with a gate coupled to the storage node, a first electrode thereof coupled to the data line; and a light emitting diode coupled to a second electrode of the second transistor. Additional systems and methods are claimed.
US08531356B2
In a plasma display panel, a protective layer of a front plate is formed of a base protective layer and a particle layer. The base protective layer is a thin film of metal oxide containing at least one of magnesium oxide, strontium oxide, calcium oxide, and barium oxide. The particle layer is formed in a manner that single-crystal particles of magnesium oxide having a peak of emission intensity at 200-300 nm two times or higher than another peak of emission intensity at 300-550 nm in the emission spectrum in cathode luminescence emission are stuck on the base protective layer. A panel driving circuit drives the plasma display panel with a subfield structure in which subfields are temporally disposed so that a magnitude of luminance weight has a monotonous decrease from a subfield where an all-cell initializing operation is performed to a subfield where a next all-cell initializing operation is performed.
US08531355B2
A device allowing a user to inconspicuously send and receive wireless messages, often short text messages. The device may have an outward appearance resembling standard eyeglasses or sun glasses, and comprise a built in wireless transceiver and an optical display that enables the user to inconspicuously view incoming wireless text messages. The device allows the user to inconspicuously transmit outgoing text messages by a process in which the user simply moves his or her eyes and gazes at various display targets. The device's eye tracking systems and software track the motion and gaze of the user's eyes, and convert this gaze into message symbols and system control commands. The device then transmits the resulting messages using its transceiver. In a preferred embodiment, the device is self-contained and operates, when placed on the user's head, without the need of external battery packs or external transceivers.
US08531351B2
A multi plasma display device is disclosed. The multi plasma display device includes a first panel, a second panel adjacent to the first panel, and a lens unit positioned so that the lens unit commonly overlaps a portion of a front surface of the first panel and a portion of a front surface of the second panel in a boundary portion between the first panel and the second panel. The lens unit overlaps a seal layer of the first panel and a seal layer of the second panel and does not overlap a discharge cell of the first panel and a discharge cell of the second panel.
US08531348B2
An electronic device with an embedded three-dimensional antenna is disclosed. The electronic device includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and an embedded three-dimensional antenna. The embedded three-dimensional antenna includes a radiation element and a connection element. The connection element includes a first connection part and a second connection part. The first and second connection parts are coupled to the PCB, and utilized for transferring signals of the embedded three-dimensional antenna to the PCB. The first and second connection parts further clamp the PCB to attach the embedded three-dimensional antenna on the PCB.
US08531346B2
A wireless IC device includes a wireless IC chip; a feeder circuit board which has the wireless IC chip located thereon, is magnetically coupled to a radiation plate, supplies electric power to the wireless IC chip, and relays signals between the wireless IC chip and the radiation plate; and a substrate on which the feeder circuit board is placed. On the substrate, there are formed a plurality of positioning markers indicating the boundaries of a plurality of positioning areas in which the feeder circuit board is selectively placed.
US08531342B2
An antenna device of a mobile terminal that can secure radiation performance is provided. The antenna device having a battery cover composed of a metal material includes a radiation unit for transmitting and receiving a signal, a feeding unit formed at an end portion of a first side of the radiation unit for electrically connecting the radiation unit to a Printed Circuit Board (PCB), and a ground part disposed a predetermined distance from the feeding unit and formed at a second side of the radiation unit. When the battery cover is fastened to the mobile terminal, the ground part contacts a first side of the battery cover.
US08531334B2
A wireless computing device includes an antenna that is configured to transmit and receive wireless signals. The wireless computing device comprises a transmitter component that causes a first wireless signal to be transmitted to a wireless access point via the antenna, wherein the first wireless signal comprises a request for a location proof, wherein the request for the location proof comprises data that identifies the wireless computing device, and wherein the location proof comprises data that is indicative of a geographic location of the wireless access point. The system also includes a receiver component that receives, via the antenna, a second wireless signal from the wireless access point, wherein the second wireless signal is received by the receiver component subsequent to the transmitter component causing the first wireless signal to be transmitted to the wireless access point.
US08531333B2
A GNSS system operates intermittently and has adaptive activity and sleep time in order to reduce power consumption. The GNSS system provides an enhanced estimate of its position in the absence of GNSS signals of sufficient strength. The user's activity and behavior is modeled and used to improve performance, response time, and power consumption of the GNSS system. The user model is based, in part, on the received GNSS signals, a history of the user's positions, velocity, time, and inputs from other sensors disposed in the GNSS system, as well as data related to the network. During each activity time, the GNSS receiver performs either tracking, or acquisition followed by tracking. The GNSS receiver supports both normal acquisition as well as low-power acquisition.
US08531329B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining the thickness of material by penetrating the material, in particular a method for measuring the thickness of walls, ceilings and floors, with which a measurement signal (28) in the gigahertz frequency range emitted using a high-frequency transmitter (24) penetrates the material (10) to be investigated at least once and is detected by a high-frequency receiver (38).According to the present invention, it is provided that the thickness (d) of the material (10) is measured via at least two transit-time measurements of the measurement signal (28) performed at various positions (20, 22) of the high-frequency transmitter (24) and/or the high-frequency receiver (34).The present invention also relates to a device system (12; 40, 140, 240, 340) for carrying out the method described above.
US08531328B2
Provided is an analog digital converter (ADC). The ADC includes: a capacitor array generating a level voltage; a comparator outputting a compare signal by comparing the level voltage; and a logic circuit determining digital bits of an analog signal based on the compare signal, wherein the logic circuit determines at least one digital bit among digital bits of the analog signal while a sampling operation of the analog signal is performed in the capacitor array.
US08531321B1
A signal processor is configured to encode a signal in a hierarchy including multiple levels of quality. The signal processor produces a rendition of the signal for at least a first level of quality. The signal processor generates sets of reconstruction data specifying how to convert the rendition of the signal at the first level of quality into a rendition of the signal at a second (higher) level of quality in the hierarchy, potentially leveraging on available reference signals. According to one arrangement, the signal processor utilizes an entropy encoder to encode the reconstruction data. Based on probability distribution information for one or more symbols in each set of reconstruction data and based on probability distribution information and/or other encoding parameters inherited from previous levels of quality, the entropy encoder encodes the reconstruction data into an encoded value or bit string. Using the probability distribution information, an entropy decoder converts the encoded value or bit string back into the reconstruction data.
US08531317B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for automated notification systems. A representative method, among others, can be summarized as follows: engaging in a communication session with a personal communications device, based upon impending arrival or departure of one or more mobile things in relation to a location; during the communication session, providing a plurality of arrival or departure times in relation to a location and enabling selection of one of the times; and causing a mobile thing to arrive at or depart from the location at substantially the selected time. A representative system, among others, is a computer system that has been programmed to perform the foregoing steps.
US08531306B2
This invention related to a kind of energy-saving control circuit connected between the electrical appliance and commercial power for turning on and off the power supply of the electrical appliances, said energy-saving control circuit comprises a relay control circuit for connecting and disconnecting the power supply of the electrical appliance; a main control module; a power conversion module; a circuit for collecting working current signals; said energy-saving control circuit further features: comprising at least a remote induction circuit at least provided with features of induction and receiving of remote signals, said remote induction circuit is connected to the main control module, said main control module, after said remote induction circuit received remote signals, will export control signals to the relay control circuit for connecting the power supply of the electrical appliance. Compared with existing technologies, the user only needs to approach the external micro induction transmitter for human body to “arouse” the energy-saving control circuit, and then the this electrical appliance can be turned on, which complies with the habit of most users.
US08531300B2
A system and method for automatically identifying and locating a cotton module that has been transported prior to marking with an identifier, such system and method locating the cotton module as a function of a location of the cotton module and a heading of an unloading vehicle.
US08531294B2
Techniques are described for moving asset location tracking and monitoring system technology. A system monitors for events related to a monitoring system that monitors a fixed property and the system detects an event related to the monitoring system based on the monitoring. The system performs an operation that leverages geographic location tracking of at least one mobile asset associated with the fixed property based on the detected event.
US08531293B2
A predictive geofence system predicts a geofence crossing for a distance-horizon and/or a time-horizon. The predictive geofence system includes a predictive geofence platform that predicts future positions of objects, and generates an alert if the predicted future positions of the objects result in a geofence crossing or the predicted future positions cross a geofence in less than a set time.
US08531289B2
A system for monitoring objects and individuals. In this system, a monitoring station is remotely accessible through a user interface. The interface is adapted to provide a visually cognizable rendering of an area and a tool useful for selecting at least a portion of said area, and to communicate a first request signal to provide location coordinates of a first tracking device. The first tracking device comprises a first transceiver adapted to receive the first request signal, and to transmit a first reply signal that comprises a first identification code. In addition, a second tracking device having a second transceiver is adapted to receive the first reply signal, compare the first identification code to a stored identification code, and communicate to the monitoring station a second reply signal that comprises location coordinates of the first tracking device in part responsive to verification of the first identification code.
US08531287B2
Wireless terminal, method for operating wireless terminal, and method for operating wireless network
Provided is a method for operating a wireless terminal. In the method, an event is detected through a user interface. Location information is detected through a wireless channel in response to the event detection. The detected event information and the detected location information are outputted to the user interface.
US08531281B2
A device and a method for detecting motor vehicles and their approach angles by passive or active transponders which are provided on the motor vehicles is described, which can be triggered by a transceiver device to transfer information stored in the transponders. It is recommended that on a motor vehicle at least two transponders are arranged with a restricted emission angle range and a different emission direction, and that information suitable for identifying the motor vehicle is stored in the transponders.
US08531278B2
An accessory system for a vehicle includes a windshield that has a mounting element adhesively attached to its inner surface, an interior rearview mirror assembly, and an accessory support adapted for mounting to and demounting from the mounting element. The accessory support includes an accessory receiving portion configured to receive an accessory. The accessory support may comprise part of the interior rearview mirror assembly or may include a mirror mounting element with the interior rearview mirror assembly adapted for mounting to the mirror mounting element of the accessory support. The accessory comprises an imaging sensor and the accessory receiving portion is configured to receive the imaging sensor in a manner that compensates for the windshield angle of the windshield so that the imaging sensor has a more generally horizontal forward field of view through the windshield when the accessory support is mounted to the mounting element.
US08531277B2
A finding system with a base charger, finder, and other functional features includes a receiving unit and a base unit. The receiving unit is recharged using the base unit. The base unit also includes a button operationally coupled to a transmitter for sending a locate signal to the receiving unit. The receiving unit includes a receiver for receiving the locate signal. In response to the locate signal, the receiving unit provides audio and visual signals to assist a user in finding the receiving unit. The receiving unit can include, but is not limited to, a remote control unit that has the capability to operate multiple devices including TVs, VCRs, satellite receivers, audio and visual receivers, stereo equipment, and the like.
US08531259B2
A proportional electromagnet includes a cylindrical shell, first and second covers connected to two ends of the shell by riveting, a metal core inserted through an axial defined in the second cover and formed with a first section located in the shell and a second section located outside the shell, a coil unit provided between the shell and the metal core, a supporting element provided on the first section of the metal core, a bushing provided on the second section of the metal core, a copper ring provided on the first section of the metal core to improve magnetic thrust of the proportional electromagnet, a stop provided on the first section of the metal core, and a magnetic shield provided between the first section of the metal core and the coil unit to direct magnetic flux toward the supporting element and the metal core to stably drive the metal core.
US08531246B2
A clock synthesis circuit includes a delta sigma modulator that receives a divide ratio and generates an integer portion and a digital quantization error (a fractional portion). A fractional-N divider divides a received signal according to a divide control value corresponding to the integer portion and generates a divided signal. A phase interpolator adjusts a phase of the divided signal according to the digital quantization error to thereby reduce noise associated with the fractional-N divider.
US08531245B2
A method and apparatus for compensating for temperature variation in a phase locked loop (PLL) includes receiving an error signal by a controller in which the error signal representative of an instantaneous frequency difference between a reference frequency signal and an output frequency signal of a voltage controlled oscillator of the PLL, and determining when a voltage of the error signal is outside of a predetermined voltage range. When the voltage is outside the predetermined voltage range, the method includes generating a new digital compensation signal based upon a previous digital compensation signal, and converting the new digital compensation signal to be an analog compensation signal. The method further includes filtering the analog compensation signal by a filter to produce a filtered analog compensation signal, and adjusting the output frequency of the voltage controlled oscillator in accordance with the filtered analog compensation signal.
US08531242B2
Disclosed is an operational amplifier including an overdriving circuit capable of reaching a target voltage within an operation time by outputting a higher voltage than the target voltage when an RC delay time is greater. The operational amplifier may including an overdriving circuit, in which first and second input terminals and an output terminal may be provided, an input voltage may be applied to the first input terminal, a second input terminal may be connected to the output terminal, and the input voltage applied to the first input terminal may be overdriven to have a certain level to be outputted to the output terminal, may include: first and second overdriving units performing an overdriving operation at a rising edge and a falling edge, respectively.
US08531236B2
A current mirror arrangement comprises a switchable, adjustable current source (Q1, Q2) for providing an impression current (IP), a current mirror (SP) having an input (E) for feeding in an impression current (IP) and an output (A) for providing a current (I), and a step-up generator (AG) coupled to the current mirror (SP) such that the current (I) is switched on with an adjustable slew rate. In addition, a method for switching on a current is provided.
US08531231B2
A switching device for switching a high operating voltage is described. The switching device-includes a first switching arrangement with a first self-conducting switching element), which has a control connector and a first and second main connector for forming a switching section. The switching device may include a second switching arrangement having a first and a second connector for forming a switching section, which is wired serially in respect to the switching section of the first switching arrangement. The second switching arrangement includes an optically triggerable switching element for switching the switching section of the second switching arrangement so it becomes conductive. The second connector of the second switching arrangement is connected with the control connector of the first self-conducting switching element.
US08531226B2
In one general aspect, an apparatus can include a polarity insensitive input coupled to a gate of a metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) device. The MOSFET device can have a gate dielectric rating greater than twenty-five volts. The apparatus can also include a fixed polarity output coupled to a source of the MOSFET device.
US08531225B1
The subject matter of this application is embodied in an apparatus that includes a configurable delay circuit comprising a plurality of delay elements, and a lookup table having information for configuring the delay circuit based on one or more conditions. The apparatus also includes a controller to configure the delay circuit according to the information in the lookup table, and a sampling circuit to sample outputs of each of a subset of the delay elements and generate a multi-bit delay signal providing information about an amount of delay caused by the delay elements to an input signal propagating through the configurable delay circuit. Each bit in the multi-bit delay signal indicates whether the input signal has propagated through a corresponding delay element.
US08531223B2
There is provided a signal generator outputting an analog frequency signal based on a digital value according to a set frequency, which provides excellent noise characteristics, requires no ROM table corresponding to waveform data, and has a simple configuration. A digital signal having a digital value according to a set frequency is integrated to generate a waveform in a sawtooth shape, a waveform in a triangular wave shape is generated based on the waveform, and this waveform output is differentiated and then D/A converted and integrated. A comparator using, for example, the voltage at a midpoint of the triangular wave as a threshold value is used for the integrated output, and a frequency signal of an objective frequency is obtained from the comparator.
US08531220B1
A delay lock loop includes a phase frequency detector, a loop filter, and a voltage controlled delay circuit. The phase frequency detector is used for outputting an upper switch signal or a lower switch signal according to a reference clock and a feedback clock. The loop filter includes a first capacitor, a second capacitor, and a first switch. The first capacitor is charged or discharged and the first switch is turned off during a phase tracking period. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are charged or discharged and the first switch is turned on during a phase locking period. The voltage controlled delay circuit is used for outputting the feedback clock according to the reference clock and a control voltage outputted by the loop filter.
US08531219B1
A method of performing modulation of a data signal at a phase-locked loop (PLL) includes generating, at an upper frequency port of the PLL, a digital loop signal based at least in part on the data signal. The method further includes differentiating the digital loop signal to generate a digital input signal and converting the digital input signal to an analog current signal. A first feedback signal is generated based on the analog current signal. The method further includes generating, at a lower frequency port of the PLL, a second feedback signal based on the first feedback signal and further based on the data signal. According to further embodiments, apparatuses and a computer-readable medium are disclosed.
US08531214B2
Spread spectrum generators and methods are disclosed. In one implementation, a spread spectrum clock generator includes a phase locked loop generating an output clock according to a first clock and a second clock; a delay line coupled between the first clock and the phase locked loop; a modulation unit providing a modulation signal to control the delay line thereby modulating phase of the first clock, such that frequency of the output clock generated by the phase locked loop varies periodically; a scaling unit scaling the modulation signal from the modulation unit according to a scaling ratio, and outputting to the delay line; and a calibration unit generating an output signal for controlling the scaling ratio.
US08531212B2
A charging current is supplied to the gate (control terminal) of a driven switching device during an on-state command interval, for raising the gate voltage to an on-state value. Otherwise, discharging of the gate capacitance is enabled, for decreasing the gate voltage to an off-state value. A second switching device is connected between the gate and a circuit point held at the off-state voltage value, and is maintained in an on state while the gate discharging is enabled. At a first time point, the gate voltage rises above a threshold value. At a second time point, a voltage detection circuit detects that that the gate voltage has risen above the threshold value, causing the second switching device to be set in the off state. It is ensured that the delay between the first and second time points is shorter than a minimum duration of an on-state command interval.
US08531204B2
Disclosed is an integrated circuit (200) comprising a plurality of cores (110, 110), at least some of the cores being located in different power domains (VDD1, VDD2), each core being surrounded by a test wrapper (220) comprising a plurality of wrapper cells (128, 230), wherein each of said test wrappers are located in a single power domain (VDD3) and each plurality of wrapper cells comprises wrapper output cells (230) each arranged to output a signal from its associated core, each of said wrapper output cells comprising an output level shifter (232, 240) for shifting the voltage of said signal to the voltage of the single power domain (VDD3). A method for testing such an IC and standard library cells for designing such an IC are also disclosed.
US08531200B2
A semiconductor device includes an internal operation signal generation circuit configured to generate an internal operation signal in response to a signal applied through a reset signal input pad during a test period.
US08531198B2
A substrate support unit adapted for a system for testing or processing of a substrate is provided. The substrate support unit includes a support table having at least one substrate carrier structure adapted to support a substrate, wherein the substrate carrier structure is electrically floating with respect to ground.
US08531188B2
An improved internturn short circuit detection device of transformer via differential voltage comprises a single-phase transformer (TM). The single-phase transformer (TM) comprises a high-voltage coil (K) and a low-voltage coil (N). A voltage transformer (PT) is positioned at the high voltage side of the single-phase transformer (TM). Two branches of a tap (K1) of the high-voltage coil (K) are connected with the input of a first converter (Q′), and a first voltage (U1′) is obtained. The secondary side of the voltage transformer (PT) is connected with the input of a second converter (Q), and a second voltage (U1) is obtained, and the first voltage (U1′) and the second voltage (U1) are compared, and when the voltage difference is above a predetermined primary threshold value, an interturn short circuit failure of the primary side is determined. A tap (N1) of the low-voltage coil (N) and one terminal of the low-voltage coil (N) are connected with the input of a third converter (M′), and a third voltage (U2′) is obtained, and two terminals of the low-voltage (N) are connected with the input of a fourth converter (M), and a fourth voltage (U2) is obtained, and the third voltage (U2′) and the fourth voltage (U2) are compared, and when the voltage difference is above a predetermine secondary threshold value, an interturn short circuit failure of the secondary side is determined.
US08531187B2
Provided is a correction circuit for generating an output signal emphasizing a predetermined signal component of a supplied input signal, including: a first detection section that detects a waveform of the input signal; an amplifying section that amplifies the waveform detected by the first detection section; a correction signal generating section that generates a correction signal by extracting an alternate current component from the waveform amplified by the amplifying section; and an output signal generating section that superimposes the correction signal on the waveform of the input signal, thereby generating the output signal. The first detection section detects the waveform of the input signal and an inverted waveform thereof, the amplifying section amplifies the waveform and the inverted waveform of the input signal, the correction signal generating section generates a correction signal and an inverted correction signal by extracting an alternate current component respectively of the waveform and the inverted waveform of the input signal amplified by the amplifying section, and the output signal generating section generates a pair of differential signals for the output signal, by superimposing the correction signal on the waveform of the input signal and superimposing the inverted correction signal on the inverted waveform of the input signal.
US08531184B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprises: static magnetic field generation means which generates a static magnetic field in an imaging space where an object to be examined is placed; gradient magnetic field generation means which generates a gradient magnetic field in the imaging space; high-frequency magnetic field generation means which generates a high-frequency magnetic field in the imaging space; calculation means which calculates an amount of the electromagnetic wave absorbed by the object when the high-frequency magnetic field is irradiated to the object; and a measurement means which measures a characteristic of the high-frequency magnetic field generation means.The calculation means calculates the amount of the electromagnetic wave absorbed by the object according to the characteristic of the high-frequency magnetic field generation means measured by the measurement means.
US08531176B2
Circuitry includes a pre-amplifier having a differential output, where the differential output corresponds to a common mode voltage; a multiplexer including sets of transistors, each of which has a control input; a comparator including input terminals, a first terminal of the input terminals to receive a signal that is based on an output of the multiplexer, and a second terminal of the input terminals to receive a threshold voltage; a compensation circuit to produce a divided voltage that varies in accordance with variations in the common mode voltage; and an amplifier to receive a predefined voltage and to use the divided voltage to affect the predefined voltage to produce the threshold voltage for the comparator. Signals in the differential output of the pre-amplifier are applicable to corresponding control inputs in the sets of transistors.
US08531175B2
A monitoring device for an electric power system includes a detection unit and a display unit. The detection unit has a power module, a current detecting module and a transmission module. The power module includes positive and negative electrodes and is coupled to the current detecting module. The current detecting module includes a first switching unit and a second switching unit. The first and second switching units are coupled between the positive and negative electrodes to detect currents on detection points of the electric power system. The transmission module includes a micro-controller unit and a transmission device coupled to the micro-controller unit. The micro-controller unit includes a first end and a second end. The first end is coupled to the first switching unit and the second end is coupled to the second switching unit. The display unit is coupled to the transmission device for receiving signals from the detection unit.
US08531172B2
Power efficient power supply regulator circuits are disclosed. The circuits are configured to modify their overhead current according to current load. This is particularly advantageous for use in display devices with widely varying current loads. Such displays include bi-stable displays, such as interferometric modulation displays, LCD displays, and DMD displays.
US08531171B1
A circuit including a first circuit, a second circuit, and a calibration circuit. The first circuit is configured to generate a first reference voltage potential. The second circuit is configured to generate a second reference voltage potential based on a calibration signal. The calibration circuit is configured to generate the calibration signal, to adjust the second reference voltage potential, based on the first reference voltage potential and the second reference voltage potential. The calibration circuit includes a comparing circuit configured to compare the first reference voltage potential and the second reference voltage potential, and a counter configured to increment a counter value based on the comparison of the first reference voltage potential and the second reference voltage potential and generate the calibration signal based on the counter value.
US08531157B2
The present invention aims to suppress waste of charging power during charging and improve charging efficiency.A charging apparatus 1 for charging a cell group 24, in which a plurality of secondary cells 22 are connected in series, by supplying a charging current Ic to the secondary cells 22 is provided with an overcharge protection circuit 26 including discharge route circuits 34 provided to each of the secondary cells 22 and adapted to cause the secondary cells 22 to discharge during charging by connecting the secondary cells 22 to the discharge route circuits 34 based on cell voltages Vb of the secondary cells 22 or to stop discharging by cutting off the secondary cells 22 from the discharge route circuits 34; and a charger controller 10 for continuing charging while reducing the charging current Ic until the discharge of the secondary cell 22 having started discharging to the discharge route circuit 34 is stopped when the discharge of any one of the secondary cells 22 to the discharge route circuit 34 is started by the overcharge protection circuit 26.
US08531156B2
A battery charger includes a housing, at least two contacts, a transmission mechanism and a driving member. The housing defines a sliding slot and at least two guide holes. The at least two contacts are received in the housing and are operable to protrude out of the housing via the at least two guide holes. The transmission mechanism is received in the housing and is used for driving the at least two contacts to protrude out of the housing. The driving member is received in the housing and partially extends out of the housing after passing through the sliding slot. The driving member is coupled to the transmission mechanism, and is capable of sliding in the sliding slot to activate the transmission mechanism to drive the at least two contacts to protrude out of the housing.
US08531152B2
A personal solar appliance (PSA) is presented that collects and stores solar energy. A method of charging a battery from a solar cell according to some embodiments is presented that includes applying power from a bootstrap circuit when the battery has a very low state of charge or the solar cell has output below a threshold; and applying power from a maximum power point circuit when the battery and the solar cell provide power above the threshold.
US08531151B2
A portable terminal and a method for controlling a display of a mobile terminal are provided. The portable terminal includes a terminal body having a display, a solar cell disposed on at least one region of the terminal body and configured to convert sunlight into electric energy for charging a battery, a sensing unit configured to detect a quantity of electric energy generated from the solar cell, and a controller configured to control brightness of the display based upon the quantity of energy detected by the sensing unit.
US08531148B2
A control apparatus and a control method for an AC electric motor detect DC bus current plural times at predetermined intervals during first and second predetermined periods and multiply vectors having integrated values of detected values during respective periods as elements by an inverse matrix of a matrix having integrated values during respective periods of sine and cosine functions of output voltage phase of an inverter at the moment that detection is made as elements to thereby estimate reactive and active currents.
US08531146B2
The drive control circuit for an electric motor is provided. The drive control circuit includes: an original drive signal generator that generates an original drive signal; an excitation interval setter that is able, for each half cycle of respective length π in each 2π excitation cycle of the original drive signal, to arbitrarily set excitation intervals during which to excite coils of the electric motor to any one of a plurality of intervals which include at least either one of a symmetrical interval centered on a center of each half-cycle and an unsymmetrical interval; and a drive signal shaping circuit that generates a drive signal for driving the electric motor, by validating the original drive signal during the excitation intervals and invalidating the original drive signal during non-excitation intervals other than the excitation interval.
US08531143B2
A permanent magnet motor for position sensorless drive operation provides a stator design that exhibits a saliency (machine asymmetric) functionally dependent on rotor position as caused by periodic magnetic saturation of stator structure. This saturation property is caused by rotor zigzag leakage flux from surface permanent magnets. The stator structure may be designed to further saturate from zigzag leakage flux to provide greatest spatial saliency in the quadrature phase for motor position sensorless position estimation. The position, velocity, and shaft torque can be extracted by measuring the phase current from the stator coil of permanent magnet motor.
US08531142B2
A bi-power motor controlling apparatus, which is electrically connected with a motor, includes a driver IC having a first pin and a second pin. The first and second pins are used to receive a first power and a second power, respectively, from outside. The second power is supplied to the driver IC, and the first power is supplied to the motor for controlling the rotational speed of the motor.
US08531140B2
The performance of a power transducer is improved while efficiently using a power semiconductor also by managing the permissible duty factor of the power semiconductor in the regenerative braking circuit provided in the power transducer. The user is allowed to set, through an operation panel provided on the power transducer, the resistance value of the regenerative braking resistor for thermally consuming the rotational energy generated during motor deceleration. The power transducer performs the steps of: calculating the current which flows in the regenerative braking circuit from the resistance value setting; obtaining the generation loss of the power semiconductor in the regenerative braking circuit with the calculated current value; and determining the permissible duty factor of the power semiconductor from the obtained generation loss.
US08531138B2
A method includes receiving a sense signal having multiple pulses, where the sense signal is based on an output of a dimmer. The method also includes, for each of multiple sampling periods, sampling a subset of the pulses in the sense signal during that sampling period. The method further includes generating a holding current for the dimmer during the sampling of the subset of pulses in at least one of the sampling periods. In addition, the method includes, for each of the sampling periods, generating an output value identifying a duty cycle for driving one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs). The subset of pulses in each of the sampling periods includes multiple pulses during that sampling period but not one or more initial pulses at a beginning of that sampling period.
US08531137B2
A modular light emitting apparatus includes a light emitting device, a connector to couple to an AC power source, circuitry on a first electronics module to drive the light emitting device, and a support structure arranged to position and hold a second electronics module that conforms to a predetermined form factor.
US08531126B2
A white light emitting apparatus includes a light source section in which a first white LED that emits white light whose chromaticity deviates to a blue side from a predetermined white region of a CIE chromaticity diagram and a second white LED that emits white light whose chromaticity deviates to a yellow side from the predetermined white region are adjacently disposed so as to emit light with optical axes in substantially the same direction, and a current regulator that independently drives the blue LED chip in the first and second white LEDs, respectively. A color mixture of lights emitted from the first and second white LEDs is adjusted to a chromaticity of the predetermined white region using the current regulator.
US08531124B2
In an event of switching a DC output voltage of a boost chopper circuit from a first DC output voltage to a second DC output voltage, a boost chopper control circuit operates a boost chopper circuit intermittently. Therefore, a stop period of the boost chopper circuit is shortened as compared with a case where the boost chopper control circuit does not operate the boost chopper circuit intermittently. As a result, it becomes possible to supply a control power also when the DC output voltage of the boost chopper circuit is switched at a starting time of a high pressure discharge lamp while avoiding size and cost increases of a power supply circuit that supplies the control power.
US08531120B2
The present invention, according to a preferred embodiment, is directed to portable electronic devices which operate on exhaustible power sources, for example, batteries. The electronic devices of the present invention comprise at least one signal switch and a microchip in communication with the switch wherein the switch is only capable of transmitting a signal to the microchip that the switch has been activated or deactivated. The microchip is in communication with the exhaustible power source of the electronic device and controls (i) the power on/off function of the device, (ii) at least one other function of the device in response to activation and deactivation signals from the switch, and (iii) an automatic shut off function in response to the receipt of an activation signal from the switch.
US08531118B2
An LED device for use with an AC voltage power source configured such that at least one LED emits light during a positive phase of power provided from an AC power supply and at least one LED emits light during the negative phase of power provided from an AC power supply. The LED device includes a first power connection lead and a second power connection lead, both leads capable of being connected to and receiving power from an AC power supply.
US08531114B2
An illumination beacon including a housing including a transparent top surface and a transparent bottom surface. An upper mounting member is supported within the housing proximate the transparent top surface, and a lower mounting member supported within the housing proximate the transparent bottom surface. An upper light source is supported by the upper mounting member and oriented to project light upwardly through the transparent top surface, and a lower light source is supported by the lower mounting member and oriented to project light downwardly through the transparent bottom surface. A battery is received within the housing intermediate the upper mounting member and the lower mounting member. A power management system is operably coupled to the battery.
US08531109B2
The invention relates to an LED tube system for driving at least one LED assembly comprising: an LED tube housing for containing the at least one LED assembly, two pairs of mains input terminals (A, B) provided at ends of the LED tube housing for receiving a mains supply voltage (Vmns) and for supplying the mains supply voltage (Vmns) to an internal part of the LED tube system for driving the at least one LED assembly, and further comprising a switching circuit being electrically connected with all mains input terminals (A, B, C, D) and being arranged for electrically connecting the pairs of mains input terminals together in a first state (2/ON) and electrically separating the pairs in a second state (1/OFF) of the switching circuit. The switching circuit being further arranged for providing a coupling capacitor (C10, C11) between the first pair and the second pair of input terminals in the first state (2/ON) and removing the coupling capacitor (C10, C11) in the second state (1/OFF) of the switching circuit. Due to the switching circuit the LED tube system in accordance with the invention can be used in lighting fixtures for parallel fluorescent tubes as well as in lighting fixtures for serial fluorescent tubes. The invention further relates to safety devices for the LED tube system.
US08531092B2
Piezoelectric devices are disclosed that are mountable on the surface of a printed circuit board or the like. An exemplary device comprises a piezoelectric vibrating piece enclosed and sealed within a package including at least a cover and a base-substrate formed of glass or piezoelectric material. The package includes frame-shaped metallic films formed in peripheral regions of inner main surfaces of the cover and/or the base substrate. The frame-shaped metallic films are used for sealing the package using a eutectic material (e.g., solder). At least one mounting terminal is provided on the outer (bottom) main surface of the base-substrate. At least one of the frame-shaped metallic films and mounting terminals includes a chromium foundation layer formed on the surface of the glass or piezoelectric material, a middle layer of NiW alloy formed on the surface of the chromium layer, and a gold layer formed on the surface of the middle layer.
US08531082B2
An actuator and a method for using the same are provided. The actuator includes a flexible element and a photoelectric layer. The flexible element includes an elastic layer or a piezoelectric layer. The photoelectric layer is disposed on a side of the flexible element. An electrical characteristic of the photoelectric layer is determined according to an irradiation condition of the photoelectric layer.
US08531078B2
A stator includes a stator support having multiple axially extending circumferentially arranged slots. Multiple phases each include multiple coils. Each of the coils has first and second opposing sides of conductor provided in the slots. A conductor in a second side of a first phase first coil is interspersed with a conductor in a second phase first coil. The conductors in a first side of the first phase first coil are arranged adjacent to one another and non-interspersed.
US08531077B2
A stator coil production method using a plurality of shaping press pairs. A stator coil is made up of in-slot portions to be disposed in slots of a stator core and coil-end portions each of which extends every adjacent two of the in-slot portions. Each of the shaping press pairs has a die and a punch disposed on both sides of a conductor wire travel path. The method includes a first step of moving the die and the punch close to each other to shape a portion of a conductor wire into one of the coil-end portions, and a second step of bringing adjacent two of the shaping press pairs close to each other and simultaneously moving one of the adjacent two of the shaping press pairs in a direction perpendicular to the conductor wire to shape a portion of the conductor wire into one of the in-slot portion.
US08531076B2
A stator for an electric motor includes first and second rows of conductors arranged concentrically around an axis inside a steel core. Each conductor includes a linking end. The stator also includes a first dielectric shim ring arranged between the two rows of conductors. Each conductor of the first row is bent in either a clockwise or a counter-clockwise direction relative to the axis and each conductor of the second row is bent in the opposite direction. The linking end of each conductor of the first row is attached to the linking end of an adjacent conductor of the second row after the conductors are bent. The first shim ring separates the first and second rows of conductors when the conductors are being bent, and is also at least partially disposed between the first and second rows of conductors when the linking ends are being attached.
US08531070B2
A pressure-resistant explosion-proof connector that allows even a different type of sensor to be mounted via a common connector, and thereby eliminates the need for replacement of each sensor is provided. A canned motor pump includes a centrifugal pump, a stand that supports a body, a motor, a bearing holder of the motor, a terminal flange mounted to an outer cylinder of the motor, a terminal box mounted onto the terminal flange, a motor monitoring unit mounted onto the terminal box, and a pressure-resistant explosion-proof connector mounted to the terminal flange. Also, the pressure-resistant explosion-proof connector includes a base joint mounted to the terminal flange, and a connection cylinder connected to the base joint, and a pressure sensor is connected to the distal end of the connection cylinder.
US08531066B2
A spindle motor includes a rotor including a rotary shaft and magnets, a stator including a bearing, which supports the rotary shaft, and an armature corresponding to the magnets. The rotor is caused to rotate by an electromagnetic force generated by the magnets and the armature. The stator includes a plate having a stepped portion in a portion thereof, which faces the rotary shaft.
US08531063B2
A linear vibrator are disclosed, wherein the linear vibrator includes a housing having a bracket and a case coupled to the bracket to form a receiving space, a spring coupled to an inner face of the case, a vibration unit having a magnet, the magnet being coupled to the spring, a coil, which has a hollow-can shape, disposed over the bracket for vibrating the vibration unit by using a magnetic field generated from the magnet and a magnet field generated from the coil, and a substrate electrically connected to the coil and the substrate interposed between the coil and the bracket, the substrate having an air venting portion being communicated with an inner space of the coil and outside of the coil.
US08531061B2
The present invention relates to a plug device, which can control the power source of an electrical product using a plug of the electrical product. The plug device includes a plug control circuit unit embedded in a plug main body of an electrical product, which is inserted in a power source outlet. The plug control circuit unit includes a switching unit coupled to internal power source lines of the plug control circuit unit, a current detection unit for detecting a current flowing from the internal power source lines to the electrical product, a wireless unit for receiving an external plug control wireless signal, and a controller for checking a current value corresponding to a non-operation of the electrical product and controlling the switching unit to switch on or off according to the checking result.
US08531059B2
In wireless power transfer with applying magnetic resonance therein, for suppressing deterioration of transfer efficiency, with lessening fluctuation of the resonance frequency when a distance between coils is close to, coils are so position that a supply-side power supply coil 101 and a load-side power supply coil 102 are inserted between a supply-side magnetic resonance coil 1 and a load-side magnetic resonance coil 2.
US08531053B2
A system for controlling voltage to be supplied to electronic devices in a hybrid vehicle that includes: a main battery for storing power to be supplied to a motor of the vehicle; a sub-battery for storing power to be supplied to electronic devices of the vehicle; a low-voltage DC/DC converter (LDC) for converting a high voltage of the main battery into a low voltage and providing the low voltage to the sub-battery and the electronic devices; and a power controller for controlling power of the main battery, the LDC, and the sub-battery. The power controller controls the voltage to be supplied to the electronic devices with a low voltage, a reference voltage higher than the low voltage, and a high voltage higher than the reference voltage in accordance with an idle stop state, a constant velocity traveling state, an acceleration state, and a deceleration state of the vehicle.
US08531050B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an interactive toy or gaming device for actuating various interactive play effects within a compatible play environment. The gaming device comprises a portable housing having an internal cavity configured to receive one or more batteries or other power sources for powering the device. Optional lighting, laser or sound effects may be provided as well as one or more optionally-powered infrared (IR) or radio frequency (RF) wireless communications devices. The interactive toy or gaming device may also comprise an optional RFID (radio frequency identification device) transponder that is operable to provide relatively short-range non-battery-powered RF communications with one or more receivers or transceivers provided within a compatible play environment. The interactive toy or gaming device may further include an optional magnetic inductance energy source or motion-generated energy source for wirelessly powering the device by motion and/or using an externally applied electromagnetic field.
US08531049B2
A power harvesting device and method thereof are provided, wherein the power harvesting device is configured to harvest power from at least one falling object and transfer the harvested power. The power harvesting device includes a wheel configured to rotate when the at least one falling object contacts the wheel, wherein the wheel includes an axle, and at least one paddle surface extends radially from the axle. The power harvesting device further includes a linkage device operably connected to the wheel and configured to transfer the harvested power, and the linkage device is further configured to convert mechanical power from the wheel rotating to electrical power and an electrical load electrically connected to the linkage device.
US08531048B2
A light kit for a pump. The light kit includes a coil and a LED, where power produce by the coil when exposed to a rotating magnetic field powers the LEDs.
US08531046B2
The invention includes methods of determining x-y spatial orientation of a semiconductor substrate comprising an integrated circuit, methods of positioning a semiconductor substrate comprising an integrated circuit, methods of processing a semiconductor substrate, and semiconductor devices. In one implementation, a method of determining x-y spatial orientation of a semiconductor substrate comprising an integrated circuit includes providing a semiconductor substrate comprising at least one integrated circuit die. The semiconductor substrate comprises a circuit side, a backside, and a plurality of conductive vias extending from the circuit side to the backside. The plurality of conductive vias on the semiconductor substrate backside is examined to determine location of portions of at least two of the plurality of conductive vias on the semiconductor substrate backside. From the determined location, x-y spatial orientation of the semiconductor substrate is determined. Other aspects and implementations are contemplated.
US08531023B2
Disclosed is a substrate for a semiconductor package in which leakage of radiation noise from a gap between a semiconductor element and a mounting substrate can be prevented. The substrate for the semiconductor package includes a coplanar waveguide including a signal and ground electrodes on the mounting substrate, the signal electrode flip-chip connected to the semiconductor element, the ground electrodes arranged on both sides of the signal electrode with intervals therebetween. A step part is formed in the ground electrodes in an outer circumferential part of a mounting region of the semiconductor element, the step part having a larger distance between upper surfaces of the mounting substrate and the ground electrode in the outer circumferential part of the mounting region than such distance in the mounting region, and an insulator for covering the signal electrode in the outer circumferential part of the mounting region is formed.
US08531021B2
A package stack device includes a first package structure having a plurality of first metal posts and a first electronic element disposed on a surface thereof, a second package structure having a plurality of second metal posts and a second electronic element disposed on opposite surfaces thereof, and an encapsulant formed between the first and second package structures for encapsulating the first electronic element. By connecting the first and second metal posts, the second package structure is stacked on the first package structure with the support of the metal posts and the encapsulant filling the gap therebetween so as to prevent warpage of the substrate.
US08531016B2
One exemplary disclosed embodiment comprises a semiconductor package including an inside pad, a transistor, and a conductive clip coupled to the inside pad and a terminal of the transistor. A top surface of the conductive clip is substantially exposed at the top of the package, and a side surface of the conductive clip is exposed at a side of the package. By supporting the semiconductor package on an outside pad during the fabrication process and by removing the outside pad during singulation, the conductive clip may be kept substantially parallel and in alignment with the package substrate while optimizing the package form factor compared to conventional packages. The exposed top surface of the conductive clip may be further attached to a heat sink for enhanced thermal dissipation.
US08531010B2
A semiconductor structure may include, but is not limited to: a semiconductor substrate; a first semiconductor structure extending upwardly over the semiconductor substrate; and a second semiconductor structure extending upwardly over the semiconductor substrate, the first and second semiconductor structures being aligned in a first <100> direction.
US08531004B1
A current sense resistor integrated with an integrated circuit die where the integrated circuit die is housed in a chip-scale semiconductor package includes a metal layer formed over a passivation layer of the integrated circuit die where the metal layer has an array of metal pillars extending therefrom. The metal pillars are to be electrically connected to a first conductive trace portion and a second conductive trace portion formed on a printed circuit board where the first conductive trace portion and the second conductive trace portion are electrically isolated from each other and physically separated by a separation of a first distance. The current sense resistor is formed in a portion of the metal layer spanning the separation between the first and second metal trace portions, the first and second conductive trace portions forming terminals of the current sense resistor.
US08530997B1
A double seal ring for an integrated circuit includes a first seal ring with a first opening. The first seal ring surrounds the integrated circuit. A second seal ring with a second opening surrounds the first seal ring. Two connectors connect the first opening of the first seal ring and the second opening of the second seal ring. The first seal ring, the second seal ring, and the two connectors form a closed loop.
US08530996B2
A semiconductor device includes a high-side field-effect transistor including a high-side drain electrode, a high-side gate electrode, and a high-side source electrode; and a first low-side field-effect transistor including a first low-side drain electrode, a first low-side gate electrode and a first low-side source electrode, wherein the high-side source electrode and the first low-side drain electrode are shared as a single source and drain electrode, and the high-side drain electrode, the high-side gate electrode, the source and drain electrode, the first low-side gate electrode and the first low-side source electrode are arranged in this order while being interposed by gaps, respectively.
US08530990B2
Optoelectronic devices with heat spreader units are described. An optoelectronic device includes a back-contact optoelectronic cell including a plurality of back-contact metallization regions. One or more heat spreader units are disposed above the plurality of back-contact metallization regions. A heat sink is disposed above the one or more heat spreader units.
US08530973B2
It is an object to form a conductive region in an insulating film without forming contact holes in the insulating film. A method is provided, in which an insulating film is formed over a first electrode over a substrate, a first region having many defects is formed at a first depth in the insulating film by adding first ions into the insulating film at a first accelerating voltage; a second region having many defects is formed at a second depth which is different from the first depth in the insulating film by adding second ions into the insulating film at a second accelerating voltage, a conductive material containing a metal element is formed over the first and second regions; and a conductive region which electrically connects the first electrode and the conductive material is formed in the insulating film by diffusing the metal element into the first and second regions.
US08530971B2
In one exemplary embodiment of the invention, a method (e.g., to fabricate a semiconductor device having a borderless contact) including: forming a first gate structure on a substrate; depositing an interlevel dielectric over the first gate structure; planarizing the interlevel dielectric to expose a top surface of the first gate structure; removing at least a portion of the first gate structure; forming a second gate structure in place of the first gate structure; forming a contact area for the borderless contact by removing a portion of the interlevel dielectric; and forming the borderless contact by filling the contact area with a metal-containing material.
US08530970B2
A method for reducing areas of high field density in an integrated circuit is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes forming a first curvilinear wiring structure in a first interconnect layer of an integrated circuit. A second curvilinear wiring structure may be formed in a second interconnect layer of the integrated circuit, such that the first and second curvilinear wiring structures are substantially vertically aligned. The first curvilinear wiring structure may then be electrically connected to the second curvilinear wiring structure.
US08530953B2
A transistor power switch device comprising an array of vertical transistor elements for carrying current between the first and second faces of a semiconductor body and a vertical avalanche diode electrically in parallel with the array of vertical transistors. The array of transistor elements includes at the first face an array of source regions of a first semiconductor type, at least one p region of a second semiconductor type opposite to the first type interposed between the source regions and the second face, at least one control electrode for switchably controlling flow of the current through the p region, and a conductive layer contacting the source regions and insulated from the control electrode. The vertical avalanche diode is configured to conduct breakdown current between the first and second faces in the off state of the device and having a first current carrying diode region of the second semiconductor type in contact with the first face and with the conductive layer and a second semiconductor region of the first semiconductor type electrically connected with the second face.
US08530944B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device which achieves miniaturization as well as suppressing a defect. Further, another object is to provide a semiconductor device which achieves miniaturization as well as keeping favorable characteristics. Is provided a semiconductor device including: a source wiring and a drain wiring each of which include a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer having a smaller thickness than the first conductive layer; an insulating layer which has an opening portion and is provided over the source wiring and the drain wiring; an oxide semiconductor layer which is in contact with part of the second conductive layer of the source wiring or the drain wiring in the opening portion; a gate insulating layer provided over the oxide semiconductor layer; and a gate electrode provided over the gate insulating layer.
US08530939B2
Some embodiments include cross-point memory structures. The structures may include a line of first electrode material extending along a first horizontal direction, a multi-sided container of access device materials over the first electrode material, a memory element material within the multi-sided container, and a line of second electrode material over the memory element material and extending along a second horizontal direction that is orthogonal to the first horizontal direction. Some embodiments include methods of forming memory arrays. The methods may include forming a memory cell stack over a first electrode material, and then patterning the first electrode material and the memory cell stack into a first set of spaced lines extending along a first horizontal direction. Spaced lines of second electrode material may be formed over the first set of spaced lines, and may extend along a second horizontal direction that is orthogonal to the first horizontal direction.
US08530933B2
A highly sensitive and wide spectra-range mesa type photodetector having the impurity diffusion along the mesa-sidewall is provided. A mesa-type hetero-bipolar phototransistor or photodiode having a photo-absorption layer formed by a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type, an anode layer (or base layer) formed by a second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type which has an opposite polarity with the first conductivity type, a wide band gap emitter or window layer formed by the third semiconductor layer on the anode layer, and the wide band gap buffer layer of the first conductivity type which has a relatively wide band gap semiconductor as compared with the second semiconductor layer on the substrate, which also serves as the cathode layer. And the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer and the wide band gap emitter or window layer is selectively etched to form the mesa structure. The diffusion region shaped like a ring in plan view is also provided from the exposed sidewall of this mesa structure toward the center of the device by a predetermined horizontal width, converted into the second conductivity type, which is the same conductivity type as the second semiconductor layer.
US08530930B2
In a semiconductor device including a plurality of insulated gate switching cells each of which has a gate electrode, an emitter electrode that is commonly provided to cover the plurality of insulated gate switching cells, and a bonding wire connected to the emitter electrode, a gate driving voltage being applied to the gate electrode of each insulated gate switching cell so that emitter current flows through the emitter electrode, mutual conductance of each insulated gate switching cell is varied in accordance with the distance from the connection portion corresponding to the bonding position of the bonding wire so that the emitter current flowing through the emitter electrode is substantially equal among the plurality of insulated gate switching cells.
US08530918B2
Disclosed are a light emitting device package and a lighting system. The light emitting device package includes a body including a cavity and formed in a transmittive material; a plurality of lead electrodes in the cavity; an isolation member disposed between the lead electrodes; a light emitting device electrically connected to the lead electrodes in the cavity; and a molding member on the light emitting device.
US08530913B2
According to one embodiment, a light emitting device includes a light emitting layer, a first electrode, a first and second layers, and a cladding layer. The first layer has a first impurity concentration of a first conductivity type, and allows a carrier to be diffused in the light emitting layer. The second layer has a second impurity concentration of the first conductivity type higher than the first impurity concentration, and includes a first and second surfaces. The first surface is with the first layer. The second surface has a formation region and a non-formation region of the first electrode. The non-formation region includes convex structures with an average pitch not more than a wavelength of the emission light. The cladding layer is provided between the first layer and the light emitting layer and has an impurity concentration of the first conductivity type.
US08530911B2
A semiconductor light emitting module is provided with a supporting conductor including a die bonding pad, and with a plurality of semiconductor light emitting elements bonded to the die bonding pad. The semiconductor light emitting elements are arranged in series along an arrangement line extending in a first direction. The die bonding pad includes a portion overlapping alternative die-bonding positions which are symmetrical to positions of the bonded semiconductor light emitting elements with respect to a line of symmetry extending in a second direction different from the first direction.
US08530908B2
An organic EL element includes: an organic EL layer including a transparent electrode, a reflective electrode, and a light-emitting layer; a transparent layer disposed on a light-exiting side of the transparent electrode; and a light extraction structure disposed on a light-exiting side of the transparent layer and having a protruding shape with inclined portions. The transparent layer and the light extraction structure have a larger refractive index than the light-emitting layer. The inclined portions of the light extraction structure satisfy Condition 1 or 2 for extracting guided wave light emitted from the light-emitting layer and incident on the light extraction structure from the light extraction structure to the outside of the organic EL element, in a cross section taken along a plane perpendicular to the reflective electrode, where two inclination angles φ1 and φ2 formed between the reflective electrode and the inclined portions are the largest.
US08530901B2
A method for fabricating a thin film transistor and a thin film transistor includes a polycrystalline silicon layer formed by irradiating an amorphous silicon layer with a laser beam through an organic layer formed on the amorphous silicon layer and removing the organic layer.
US08530899B2
The present invention has an object of providing a TFT in which generation of an OFF current is reduced by an efficient manufacturing method. A thin film transistor 100 according to the present invention has a gate electrode 12 formed on a substrate 10, an insulating layer 14 formed on the gate electrode 12, a microcrystalline amorphous silicon layer 18 and an amorphous silicon layer 16 that are formed on the insulating layer 14, a semiconductor layer 20 containing an impurity formed on the amorphous silicon layer 16, and a source electrode 22A and a drain electrode 22B that are formed on the semiconductor layer 20 containing an impurity. The microcrystalline amorphous silicon layer 18 and the semiconductor layer 20 containing an impurity are connected to each other through the amorphous silicon layer 16 without being in direct contact with each other.
US08530896B2
A p channel TFT of a driving circuit has a single drain structure and its n channel TFT, an LDD structure. A pixel TFT has the LDD structure. A pixel electrode disposed in a pixel unit is connected to the pixel TFT through a hole bored in at least a protective insulation film formed of an inorganic insulating material and formed above a gate electrode of the pixel TFT, and in an inter-layer insulation film disposed on the insulation film in close contact therewith. These process steps use 6 to 8 photo-masks.
