US08560356B2
A computer program product, method and system for producing seat availability information for a mode of travel such as airline travel produce a prediction of availability of a seat in accordance with an availability query. The prediction is used in place of making an actual query to an airline or other travel mode availability system.
US08560353B2
Receipt insurance systems and methods provide protection to consumers against losses which may result from failure to possess a physical receipt or proof of purchase for retail purchase transactions. In one embodiment, a third party receipt insurer insures or guarantees consumers or purchasers of benefits associated with having possession of a receipt or other proof of purchase for a retail purchase without the need for possession of a physical or paper receipt. A receipt insurance agreement between a receipt insurance provider and a consumer protects the consumer against a loss of consumer rights or personal property insurance rights resulting from a lost receipt by electronically storing for retrieval, if necessary, an electronic record of all of the receipt information.
US08560350B2
A method, system and computer program product for generating an electronic bill having optimized insurance claim items based on an insurance carrier of a patient are provided. The method includes receiving insurance carrier data which identifies a patient's insurance carrier and patient data which identifies a patient. The method also includes receiving treatment data which identifies a drug administered to the patient and a procedure performed on the patient on a date of service. The treatment data is processed to obtain nurse documentation, such as treatment and/or flow sheets. An electronic bill is automatically generated having optimized reimbursable insurance claim items including predetermined codes based on the treatment data and the insurance carrier data to facilitate approval of the bill by the insurance carrier.
US08560349B2
A method of documenting animal treatment, comprising the steps of: —downloading an electronic report form from a server via a network; —when an animal is treated, entering information on the treatment into the report form, said information identifying the type of treatment and including at least a unique identifier of the treatment act; and—starting a software program that automatically sends data that have been entered into the report form to a plurality of remote databases via the network and causes the data to be entered into the databases and further controls a writer to write a copy of the report, which copy is a certificate that proves sending of the data to the databases.
US08560348B2
A system, apparatus, and related methods for the collection, processing, evaluation, transformation, and reporting of individual health care information from diverse information systems and sources. An individual health record (IHR) of the present invention provides a structure for individuals to participate in, and manage, their health and their medical care, while still meeting the needs of health care organizations and caregivers. An IHR object may be formed by obtaining information from diverse health care information systems and sources, and transforming and re-purposing into a coherent account of the individual's overall health and care using a comprehensive health care ontology. As information from various sources is updated or available, the IHR is dynamically updated on a continuous or periodic basis. In one embodiment, the IHR system is contained in a self-contained package or “appliance” designed to “plug and play” in existing health care information technology systems and networks, with minimal effort and intervention.
US08560340B1
Systems and methods are provided for overriding rejections of healthcare claim transactions. A healthcare claim transaction is received by a service provider from a healthcare provider computer and at least one edit is performed on the healthcare claim transaction. A rejection for the healthcare claim transaction is identified based at least in part on the at least one edit, and a message comprising an indication of the rejection is communicated to the healthcare provider computer. A reason for overriding the edit is received at an edit override web server from the healthcare provider computer, and override information for the rejection is generated based at least in part on the receipt of the override reason. The healthcare claim transaction is then reprocessed, and the generate override information is utilized to suppress the at least one edit during the reprocessing of the healthcare claim transaction.
US08560338B2
Unfilled prescriptions are submitted to a registry comprising pre-qualified pharmacies for a “reverse auction” in which the pharmacies bid for the opportunity to fill the prescription. The pharmacies are allowed to bid based on price and/or offering ancillary services. The auction may also be used to bid on supplying specified pharmaceutical cognitive services. The method may also include obtaining cost comparisons with generic substitutes or similar alternative pharmaceutical products. The system may further comprise automatically requesting a review by the prescriber for a list of similar substitutes or prior-authorization for third party payers. The winner of the reverse auction is selected by the customer.
US08560334B2
Method and arrangement for arranging an information service to determine nutrition and/or medication
An arrangement for arranging an information service is configured to manage at least one probability weighting coefficient of an influence of at least one gene being in a functional state to at least one health property with a certain probability, and at least one probability weighting coefficient to at least one nutrient and/or medical substance influencing at least one health property in a healing or harmful manner with a certain probability. In addition, the arrangement is configured to form information describing the suitability of the nutrient and/or medical substance for the user with the help of the probability weighting coefficients.
US08560331B1
An audio receiving system includes logic configured to reduce the accumulation of delays caused by the late arrival of audio packets. This logic is configured to accelerate or decelerate presentation of a resulting audio stream in response to the detection of late packets. The acceleration is discontinued once the effects of the late packets have been compensated for. The audio receiving system is typically applied to applications in which lag is undesirable. These can include web conferencing, telepresence, and online video games.
US08560330B2
In accordance with an embodiment, A method of encoding an audio bitstream at an encoder includes encoding an original low band signal at the encoder by using a closed loop analysis-by-synthesis approach to obtain a coded low band signal, encoding an original high band signal at the encoder by using an open loop energy matching approach to obtain coded high band energy envelopes, comparing an energy of the coded low band signal with an energy of a corresponding original low band signal for a subframe, and generating an indication flag that indicates whether an energy envelope perceptual correction is needed for the subframe based on comparing the energy.
US08560320B2
Speech enhancement based on a psycho-acoustic model is disclosed that is capable of preserving the fidelity of speech while sufficiently suppressing noise including the processing artifact known as “musical noise”.
US08560316B2
The present invention relates to a system and method of making a verification decision within a speaker recognition system. A speech sample is gathered from a speaker over a period of time a verification score is then produce for said sample over the period. Once the verification score is determined a confidence measure is produced based on frame score observations from said sample over the period and a confidence measure calculated based on the standard Gaussian distribution. If the confidence measure indicates with a set level of confidence that the verification score is below the verification threshold the speaker is rejected and gathering process terminated.
US08560309B2
Certain embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for recording audio and video. In particular, in one embodiment, a method of recording audio signals is provided. The method includes recording audio signals with a plurality of distributed audio transducers to create multiple recordings of the audio signals and providing each of the multiple recordings of the audio signals to a computing device. The computing device combines each of the multiple recordings into a master recording and determines a source for each audio signal in the master recording. Additionally, the computing device stores each audio signal in separate audio files according to the determined source of each audio signal.
US08560307B2
Configurations disclosed herein include systems, methods and apparatus that may be applied in a voice communications and/or storage application to remove, enhance, and/or replace the existing context. Example embodiments may decode two sets of encoded frames from an encoded audio signal. The two frame sets may be encoded using different encoding schemes. For example, the bit rate or coding mode may differ between the two encoded frame sets. Based on information from one of the decoded sets of frames, a context component included in a signal represented by the other frame set may be suppressed. Other embodiments may generate an audio context signal within the mobile user terminal, and mix the generated audio signal with another decoded audio signal.
US08560303B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for visualizing multichannel audio signals. The apparatus includes a spatial audio decoding unit for receiving a downmix signal of a time domain, converting the downmix signal into a signal of a frequency domain to output a frequency domain downmix signal, and synthesizing a multichannel audio signal based on the spatial parameter and the downmix signal; and a multichannel visualizing unit for creating visualization information of the multichannel audio signal based on the frequency domain downmix signal and the spatial parameter.
US08560302B2
The present invention provides a method for generating derivative words including the steps of: creating a number of derivative grammar arrays; matching the inputting character information with the derivative grammar arrays and obtaining the match derivative grammar arrays; obtaining match words from the language database according to the condition arrays of the obtained derivative grammar arrays and the inputting character information; and generating derivative words by adding the suffix alphabetic character sets of the obtained derivative grammar arrays to the ends of the words. In accordance with the established grammar rules, the words in the language database can be converted to derivative words and the derivative words do not need to be stored in the language database. Therefore, the storage space of the language database can be remarkably reduced. The present invention also provides a system for generating derivative words.
US08560300B2
The disclosed system and method apply stores of factual information to correct errors in digital text, for example, generated from OCR, speech and/or handwriting recognition devices, and other automatic recognition devices. A text produced by OCR, speech recognition, handwriting recognition, and others may be processed to extract discussed facts. Databases of facts are searched based on information in the text. After comparing facts asserted in the text with the factual data from the databases, suggested corrections of the text are produced.
US08560298B2
A document in a first language and an additional document in a second language may be reviewed. It may be determined if the additional document is sufficiently similar to the document. If the additional document is determined sufficiently similar to the document, a named entity in the document may be selected. The method may search for a similar named entity by comparing the named entity to a word in the additional document and determining if the named entity and word are sufficiently similar. If a similar word to the named entity is located, the named entity and the similar named entities may be stored as name entity transliterations.
US08560291B2
Analyzing one or more physical infrastructure elements of a data center by generating a plurality of outputs from a stochastic process for a set of inputs to the stochastic process. The inputs comprise one or more inputs of certainty and one or more inputs of uncertainty. A statistical output analysis of the outputs is utilized to generate one or more threshold reaching projections for each of the physical infrastructure elements of the data center.
US08560289B2
A method for simulating the behavior of a tire mounted on a vehicle in running conditions on the ground, wherein a mechanical model is provided for essentially computing the longitudinal (Fx) and transverse (Fy) stresses transmitted by the tire between the ground and the vehicle in accordance with dynamic parameters related to the physical conditions of the tire running and use and in accordance with physical tire-specific parameters. The mechanical model is set and solved in an iterative manner, under the assumption that the tire in contact with the surface of the ground has an adherence contact area and a sliding contact area and under the assumption that there is a unique x-coordinate point b that is indicative of the transition between the two contact areas.
US08560286B2
One embodiment of the invention provides a computer-implemented method for discrete element modelling of a plurality of discrete elements corresponding to particles and physical geometry elements. The modelling performs a simulation through time of physical interactions of the particles with each other and with the physical geometry elements in a three-dimensional space. The method comprises providing a plurality of discrete element material models, each discrete element material model corresponding to a respective bulk material and containing (i) information regarding the properties of particles within said bulk material, and (ii) information regarding the behaviour of interactions between such particles. The method further comprises receiving from a user: (i) a selection of a bulk material for use in a simulation, and (ii) a specification of properties associated with the selected bulk material. The method further comprises generating a set of particles of the selected bulk material for use in the simulation based on (i) the discrete element material model for the selected bulk material, and (ii) the properties of the bulk material specified by the user. The method further comprises performing a discrete element model simulation on said set of particles, wherein the simulation uses the information regarding the behavior of interactions between particles from the discrete element material model for the selected bulk material.
US08560277B2
Techniques are disclosed for creating a load balanced spatial partitioning of a structured, diffusing system of particles. An exemplary method includes steps of determining a subset of a set of nodes within a given portion of the coordinate system intersected by a surface defined by points having a given distance from the surface of the given node; and mirroring the determined subset to at least another portion of the coordinate system.
US08560275B2
An automation system and a method for controlling a process and for monitoring the condition of process equipment. The method comprises the steps of measuring process signals indicating the condition of the process by means of a first sensor; measuring condition monitoring signals indicating the condition of process components by means of a second sensor; processing the process signals by means of a first I/O module; processing the condition monitoring signals by means of a second I/O module; transmitting the processed process signals obtained from the first I/O module to a process station. The method also comprises the steps of transferring the processed condition monitoring signals obtained from the second I/O module to the same process station; and processing both the said processed process signals and the said processed condition monitoring signals by process station software in the said process station.
US08560272B2
A method and a system for monitoring a turbojet engine. The method acquires a signal representative of a vibratory level of an operating rotor of the turbojet engine, acquires a rotation speed of the rotor during operation, compares the amplitude of the signal with at least one predetermined threshold based on the rotor rotation speed and, in event an amplitude peak exceeds the threshold, analyzes the signal over a time slot defined around the amplitude peak to determine if the phenomenon at the origin of the amplitude peak is a mechanical shock undergone by the rotor of the turbojet engine or an electronic interference of the signal.
US08560260B2
In a rotation angle positioning device 6 including: a rotation angle detection device 7 which has a detection target ring 8 and an angle detection sensor 9; and a rotating-shaft driving device 10 rotating a rotating shaft so as to cause a rotation angle to become a given command value α for rotation angle, there are provided: an error pattern storage unit 11a storing a tooth-to-tooth period error pattern F made up of errors between detected rotation angles by the angle detection sensor 9 and actual rotation angles, corresponding to respective correction dividing points of an arbitrary tooth-to-tooth period in the detection target ring 8; and a command value correction unit 11b correcting the command value α for rotation angle based on the tooth-to-tooth period error pattern F to find a corrected command value α2 for rotation angle.
US08560257B2
A method of determining a state of health of a battery in real time includes estimating a parameter value associated with the state of health of the battery and determining one or more of a terminal voltage, an accumulated charge, a state of charge, and a temperature of the battery. The method further includes determining, via a computing device, a reserve capacity of the battery based at least in part on the estimated parameter value and one or more of the terminal voltage, the accumulated charge, the state of charge, and the temperature of the battery.
US08560242B2
The instant invention is a method for numerically propagating waves or solving wave equations on a digital computer. This invention can be used to compute highly accurate solutions to the wave equation, in fact in some cases it computes the analytical solution, something previously considered impossible. The instant method can also propagate waves that are not described by differential equations, such as anisotropic scalar waves. The invention has the advantages that it is computationally efficient, accurate, and flexible. Of importance is the ability to propagate waves that simulate the P-wave arrivals in both isotropic and anisotropic media with a scalar as opposed to a vector equation.
US08560241B2
A method of passive surveying comprises generating one or more detected signals by passively detecting a signal generated within a subsurface earth formation due to a seismoelectric response or an electroseismic response in at least one porous subsurface earth formation containing at least one fluid, and processing the one or more detected signals to determine at least one property of the subsurface earth formation.
US08560232B2
Techniques are described for providing a meeting notification and automatic modification service. A system may be configured to identify an appointment in a calendar application, identify a geographic location of the appointment, and identify, before the appointment time, a geographic location of a first participant of the appointment. Based on the geographic information, the system may identify a route extending from the geographic location of the first participant to the geographic location of the appointment, and may identify a travel time associated with the route. Based on the travel time and the appointment time, the system may determine whether the first participant is estimated to arrive at the appointment on time and, based on the determination, the system may send a message to participants of the appointment or dynamically reschedule the appointment.
US08560230B2
Disclosed is a system and method for tracking mass transit vehicles, including monitoring a Base Station IDentification (BS ID) of a base station registered with a communication device; identifying a change in said BS ID; determining a current location of said communication device; determining a previous location of said communication device; calculating a distance d between said current location and said previous location; determining a subway exit closest to said current location; determining a distance dc between said current location and said subway exit; when said distance dc is less than an exit threshold, determining a subway entrance closest to said previous location; determining a distance dp between said previous location and said subway entrance; when said distance dp is less than an entrance threshold, determining a direction from said previous location to said current location; and identifying at least one subway train based on said entrance location, said exit location and said direction.
US08560224B2
A method and apparatus for a navigation system for calculating a route to an intersection destination establishes an optimum route to the intersection. The method and apparatus creates a virtual zero-length dummy link, connects one end of the virtual zero-length dummy link to all link-spot pairs indicating an original intersection destination, sets another end of the virtual zero-length dummy link as a temporary destination, calculates possible routes between the temporary destination and a current vehicle position and selects the optimum route. After determining the optimum route, the navigation system removes the virtual zero-length dummy link and starts the route guidance operation to the intersection destination.
US08560222B2
Methods of locating a vehicle are disclosed. Location coordinates are received at regular intervals via a handheld locator device for the current location of the handheld locator device. The handheld locator device detects the cessation of the presence of the vehicle. The location coordinates last-received before the detection of the cessation of the presence of the vehicle are stored automatically, and represent the approximate location of the parked vehicle when the cessation of the presence of the vehicle is detected.
US08560221B2
To use the same onboard apparatus and navigation system in many kinds of vehicles. A table in which manufacturers and vehicle types are connected with designs and functions has been previously stored in a navigation system module 21. The navigation system module 21 itself sends the center controller 11 a query about vehicle information (the country that manufactured, manufacturer, vehicle type, using country, manufacturing number), recognizes the vehicle information supplied from the center controller 11, and automatically sets the screen design, function, etc., suitable to the vehicle on which the onboard apparatus is mounted.
US08560218B1
A method and apparatus for detecting bad signals at a global positioning system (GPS) enabled device are described. In one embodiment, the GPS enabled device includes one or more inertial sensors to provide acceleration measurements for the GPS enabled device, and a GPS receiver to receive positioning data for the GPS enabled device. The GPS enabled device may also include a comparison logic to predict a position of the GPS enabled device from the acceleration measurements, and determine whether the received positioning data is within a confidence interval of the prediction.
US08560207B2
The invention is a method of controlling the combustion of a diesel engine comprising determining setpoint values for physical parameters linked with the intake of gaseous oxidizer in the combustion chamber, and a setpoint value θinjref for the crank angle at which fuel has to be injected into the combustion chamber. While the engine control system controls actuators in such a way that the values of the physical parameters are equal to the setpoint values, setpoint value θinjref is corrected before the physical parameters reach their setpoint values, by accounting for the differences between the real values of the physical parameters and the setpoint values of these parameters. Finally, the engine control system controls fuel injection into the combustion chamber when the crank angle is equal to this corrected setpoint value θinjref in order to keep combustion optimal.
US08560205B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a gas turbine control device which is capable of performing correction on the basis of a fuel composition of fuel gas to be supplied to a gas turbine, and is capable of changing an amount of correction in response to variation with time of the gas turbine. To attain this, a frequency analyzing unit 25 performs a frequency analysis of combustion oscillation of a combustor and splits a result of the analysis into respective frequency bands. Then, a state grasping unit 22 checks an operating state of the gas turbine on the basis of the result of the analysis of the combustion oscillation and process value of the gas turbine, and corrects the checked operating state on the basis of a fuel composition or a heat capacity of fuel gas measured by a fuel characteristic measuring unit 200. A countermeasure determining unit 23 conducts a countermeasure for controlling an operating action of the gas turbine on the basis of the operating state thus checked.
US08560200B2
Provided is a driving support apparatus for a vehicle. When a stop signal is recognized by a stereo image recognition device, a cruise control unit calculates a traffic signal target acceleration for making a subject vehicle stop at a stop position of the stop signal. When a follow-up cruise target acceleration is not calculated and the traffic signal target acceleration is calculated, the cruise control unit substitutes the traffic signal target acceleration for the follow-up cruise target acceleration. When the follow-up cruise target acceleration and the traffic signal target acceleration are calculated and the traffic signal target acceleration is smaller than the follow-up cruise target acceleration, the cruise control unit substitutes the value of the traffic signal target acceleration for the follow-up cruise target acceleration.
US08560198B2
The train braking device includes an air brake controller in which a plurality of friction coefficients corresponding to a brake command and a brake initial velocity are stored, an electropneumatic conversion valve that converts a pressure control signal transmitted from the air brake controller into a pneumatic signal, a relay valve that generates a predetermined brake cylinder pressure corresponding to the pneumatic signal, and a brake cylinder that controls brake shoes according to the brake cylinder pressure, wherein the air brake controller generates the pressure control signal based on the friction coefficients corresponding to the brake command and the brake initial velocity.
US08560195B2
A command hydraulic pressure learning control unit includes an output-side torque time rate of change calculation unit for calculating a time rate of change of a torque at an output side of an automatic transmission, and a correction unit for correcting a command hydraulic pressure when transmission of a drive force of a friction element to be engaged is started at the time of a next shift based on a difference between the calculated time rate of change of the output-side torque and a target value.
US08560190B2
A control device for an automatic transmission including a neutral control unit that executes neutral control for bringing the automatic transmission into a neutral state by reducing an engagement force for an engaged frictional engagement element; a speed ratio specifying unit that specifies an actual speed ratio of the automatic transmission on the basis of a rotating speed of an input shaft and a rotating speed of an output shaft; and a first failure determination unit that determines whether or not a failure is occurring in the automatic transmission on the basis of the actual speed ratio during execution of the neutral control. The first failure determination unit determines that a failure is occurring in the automatic transmission in the case where the actual speed ratio coincides with the speed ratio of any one of a plurality of shift speeds over a predetermined time.
US08560186B2
A method for identifying a driving resistance of a motor vehicle includes the steps of recording values of control and/or state variables of the vehicle during a driving state of the vehicle when a control route is covered, adapting parameters of a vehicle model and/or a model of the area surrounding the vehicle on the basis of the values of the recorded control and state variables, identifying the driving resistance on the basis of the adapted vehicle model and/or the surrounding area model, wherein the parameters of the vehicle model and/or the surrounding area model are adapted on the basis of a distinction between driving states, wherein these driving states include a driving state of a closed drive train with a positive driver demand torque, a driving state of a closed drive train without a positive driver demand torque, and/or and a driving state with an open drive train.
US08560182B2
An adjustable height implement system for an agricultural vehicle. A harvesting implement has an adjustable height. A control system is operably connected in a first operating mode to the harvesting implement to adjust the height of the harvesting implement with respect to the ground. The control system is operably connected in a second operating mode to the harvesting implement to maintain at least a predetermined distance between the harvesting implement and the ground. The second operating mode is engaged in response to the agricultural vehicle satisfying at least one predetermined vehicle operating parameter.
US08560179B2
A vision-based vehicle occupant detection and classification system includes a camera mounted in the vehicle interior to capture low resolution images of the seating area. Image processing algorithms account for lighting, motion, and other phenomena. A spatial-feature matrix numerically describes the content of the image. This descriptor is the result of a number of digital filters being run against a set of sub-images, derived from pre-defined window regions in the original image. This spatial-feature matrix is used as an input to an expert classifier function, which classifies this image as best representing a scenario in which the seat is (i) empty, (ii) occupied by an adult, (iii) occupied by a child, (iv) occupied by a rear-facing infant seat (RFIS), (v) occupied by a front-facing infant seat (FFIS), or (vi) occupied by an undetermined object.
US08560178B2
A system for providing steering torque assistance to an electrically-powered steering apparatus comprises a torque assistance motor coupled to the steering apparatus. A steering controller is configured to cause the torque assistance motor to apply a commanded level of steering torque assistance to the steering apparatus. The steering controller is configured to determine the commanded level of steering torque assistance based on a product of a scheduled level of steering torque assistance and a torque assistance scale factor, wherein the scheduled level of steering torque assistance is determined from a scheduled torque assistance characteristic having a nominal assist. The steering controller is configured to determine a scaled assist based on feedback from one or more safety sensors; and the torque assistance scale factor is determined as a ratio of the scaled assist and the nominal assist.
US08560168B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for transmitting obtained vehicle diagnostic data to a separate display device. The method includes a first vehicle diagnostic device obtaining vehicle diagnostic data via a vehicle interface to a diagnostic port of a vehicle, determining whether a direct wireless connection with one or more display devices is available, and determining whether an indirect wireless connection with the one or more display devices is available via a second separate vehicle diagnostic device. Responsive to a further determination, the vehicle diagnostic device may transmit the obtained diagnostic data to the one or more display devices via the second separate vehicle diagnostic device. The further determination may be based on one or more of wireless connectivity status, power level status, transmission power requirements, or other facts or determinations.
US08560166B2
An obtaining unit obtains information about a condition where a vehicle is placed. A detection unit detects at least one of a voice and an action of an occupant of the vehicle. An estimation unit estimates an in-vehicle apparatus to be a controlled target according to the condition where the vehicle is placed. A determination unit determines an in-vehicle apparatus to be a controlled in-vehicle apparatus and determines a control content thereof in consideration of the at least one of a voice and an action. A notification unit notifies the occupant of the in-vehicle apparatus to be controlled and the control content thereof determined by the determination unit. A control unit controls the in-vehicle apparatus according to the determination of the determination unit when receiving a response to the notification of the notification unit from the occupant to permit the control of the in-vehicle apparatus.
US08560159B2
In order to monitor and wirelessly signal data (D, D*) containing information (DRK) about the pressure conditions present in pneumatic tires of wheels of a vehicle, it is proposed to transmit the data from electronic modules (wheel electronics) disposed in the wheels wirelessly to a controller disposed in the vehicle, wherein no data is transmitted during a stopped mode of the vehicle, and wherein the data (D*) is transmitted in the form of datagrams (DT*) during at least one further mode, which is preferably associated with a starting mode of the vehicle, in that at least intermittently a plurality of, preferably shortened, datagrams (DT*) containing the same data (D*) are consecutively transmitted in a cumulative manner to the controller. In this way, the required data (D*) is transmitted only intermittently, however in a lumped form, to the controller, whereby the transmission duration, but not the actual usage duration, is shortened, and additionally battery energy is saved, without any data loss occurring.
US08560154B2
A method for optimizing torque control in a vehicle having a controller and a rotating member includes generating a closed-loop total proportional torque command using a state space feedback portion of the controller, and splitting the total proportional torque command into high-frequency and low-frequency proportional torque components. A total proportional torque is passed to the rotating member to provide driveline damping control when speed control is not required. The high-frequency proportional torque component is passed to the rotating member to provide driveline damping control, and the low-frequency torque component is passed with a total integral torque command to the rotating member to provide speed control, when speed control is required. A vehicle includes a controller having proportional-integral control capabilities and a state space observer, and a powertrain having a rotating member whose speed and damping characteristics are controlled by the controller.
US08560152B2
To provide an inverted type moving body capable of continuing the inversion control with stability even when abnormality occurs in the inversion control while the moving body is moving, and a method of controlling the inverted type moving body. In an inverted type moving body including a rotational body having a circular cross section, a driving portion that rotationally drives the rotational body, a main body that supports the rotational body, and a control portion that maintains the inverted state of the main body by controlling the driving portion such that the rotational driving of the rotational body touching a floor surface is controlled, the control portion multiplies a signal obtained based on the inclined state of the main body by a predefined gain to calculate the driving amount of the rotational body for maintaining the inverted state, and reduces the gain when the inverted state of the main body is determined to be abnormal.
US08560143B2
A method and system for adjusting a pedal map, the system includes an automobile which has a pedal map adjustment unit. The pedal map adjustment unit includes a processor, an accelerator pedal, a memory, an input unit, a speed detection unit, and/or a power train. The memory can store a pedal map, which indicates a desired output of the powertrain at particular speed value. The accelerator pedal can collect pedal data, the input unit can collect input data, and the speed detection unit can collect speed data. The processor, using the pedal data and the speed data can adjust pedal curves in the pedal map to intersect with a road load pedal angle curve. The road load pedal angle curve can indicate a pedal depression amount required to maintain the automobile at a particular speed value.
US08560140B2
A home appliance includes an electronic controller with a trigger port which starts an operating cycle for the home appliance in response to a signal received on the trigger port that indicates availability of an alternative resource.
US08560138B2
The present embodiments provide systems and methods for implementing and controlling local power line communication (PLC) networks. Some embodiments include a central controller communicationally coupled with a PLC power line, a sensor adaptor coupled between the PLC power line and a consumer product, with the sensor adaptor comprising a current detector that detects a current usage level passed through the sensor adaptor, a PLC interface through which the current usage level is communicated over the PLC power line to the central controller, and an adaptor switch that interrupts current flow to the consumer product in response to a command received over the PLC power line from the central controller when the current usage through the sensor adaptor has a predetermined relationship to a first threshold.
US08560136B2
A system stabilizing device disposed in a micro grid incorporates a self-supporting control unit (200). The self-supporting control unit (200) allows a dq transforming unit (201) to determine an effective system voltage Vsd and an ineffective system voltage Vsq from a system voltage Vs. A fluctuation detecting unit (202) has differential characteristics and first-order lag characteristics, and determines the fluctuation component of the effective system voltage Vsd. This fluctuation component is multiplied by a gain in a proportional computing unit (203) to determine an ineffective current command Irefq. A fluctuation detecting unit (204) does not have differential characteristics, but has first-order lag characteristics, and determines the fluctuation component of the ineffective system voltage Vsq. This fluctuation component is multiplied by a gain in a proportional computing unit (205) to determine an effective current command Irefd. By so doing, hardware and computation load necessary for system stabilizing control during a self-supporting run can be reduced in the system stabilizing device.
US08560128B2
A thermostat includes a user interface that is configured to operate in at least two different modes including a first mode and a second mode. The user interface may require more power when operating in the first mode than in the second mode. The thermostat also includes a plurality of sensors, including at least one sensor configured to detect a presence of a user within a proximity of the thermostat. The thermostat additionally includes a first processing function that is configured to determine a proximity profile and to cause the user interface to be in the first mode one or more sensors provides responses that match the proximity profile. The proximity profile may be computed using a history of responses from the sensors that are likely to coincide with times where users intend to view the user interface.
US08560114B2
A storage and order-picking system and method for processing in parallel a group of picking orders in batch mode, including an order-container conveyor for automatically transporting order containers to specific destinations; an order-picking station; at least one warehouse area which is assigned to the order-picking station and stores articles for processing the group of picking orders in provision locations; a collecting device moveable by an order-picking person through the warehouse area during a collecting process for retrieving in a first processing stage; a reading and displaying device assigned to the order-picking person; an article-reading device for scanning and identifying retrieved articles with a respect to a type of article; a plurality of display devices; and a controlling device which is adapted to: assemble the group of order containers which is to be transported to the order-picking station dependent on the articles stored in the warehouse area.
US08560113B2
A method is disclosed for generating a tool path for milling a region of a workpiece having first, second and third sides. The method includes: generating a first arc having a corresponding in-process material boundary intersecting the first side and which is tangent to the second side and to the third side; generating a succession of one or more second arcs, having a corresponding in-process material boundary which intersects the first side, is parallel to the first arc, and progresses by a corresponding first predetermined value from the first arc toward the first side until the in-process material boundary corresponding to one of the second arcs has a maximum distance from the first side less than the first predetermined value; and thereafter generating a succession of transition passes connecting each one of the second arcs end to end with the first arc to form the tool path.
US08560111B2
A method for uniformly planarizing a wafer that includes determining a first wafer warped value at a first zone on the wafer, determining a second wafer warped value at a second zone on the wafer, and calculating a pressure difference based on the first and second wafer warped values at the first and second zones is provided. The method also includes performing a chemical mechanical polishing of the wafer, applying a first pressure based on the first wafer warped value to the wafer at the first zone during the chemical mechanical polishing, and applying a second pressure based on the second wafer warped value to the wafer at the second zone during the chemical mechanical polishing, a difference between the first pressure and the second pressure based on the pressure difference.
US08560108B2
Even when a module constituting a multi-module becomes an unavailable module, transfer of substrates can be promptly performed, while restricting generation of inferior products. When a destination module of a multi-module becomes unavailable before a substrate is transferred to the destination module, a destination of the substrate is changed to a module to which a substrate subsequent to the substrate is to be loaded. Upon generation of an unavailable module, before the transfer unit accesses the module on an upstream end of the transfer cycle, the transfer cycle proceeds until a precedent substrate becomes ready to be unloaded from the changed destination module. Alternatively, upon generation of an unavailable module, when the transfer unit is located on an upstream side of the unavailable module in the transfer cycle, the transfer operation of the transfer unit is made standby until a precedent substrate becomes ready to be unloaded in the changed destination module.
US08560107B2
There are provided at least one or more of substrate processing apparatuses that process a substrate, and a group management device connected to each substrate processing apparatus, so that the group management device monitors an operation state of the substrate processing apparatus, thereby grasping a timing of updating a program of the substrate processing apparatus, and when the timing arrives, updates the program.
US08560104B2
A method of designing a modular package: determining a package outline of a modular package assembly from package outline design data; determining seating plane and overall package length characteristics of the assembly from seating plane and package length design data; the design tool calculating minimum package height of the modular package assembly from the seating plane and package length design data; designing the dimensions and configuration of one or more subassemblies from subassembly design data; defining dimensions and configuration of a plurality of mechanical layers of a protective modular package cover given the defined package outline, the seating plane, overall package length, the minimum package height, and the subassemblies; defining an adhesive deposition strategy to join mechanical layers of the cover; designing the cover in accordance with the dimensions and configuration of the mechanical layers; and incorporating the assembly and the adhesive deposition strategy into a manufacturing assembly process.
US08560103B2
A method for designing a formed sheet-metal part using a computing system is described. The method typically includes performing a numerical simulation of the forming process and computing a local property variable associated with points of the part. Problem zones of the sheet-metal part are identified based on the numerical simulation, and a visual representation of the sheet-metal part, in which problem zones are identified, is displayed. Information about a problem zone, such as status of the problem zone and the problem zone's unique identifier, are visually displayed.
US08560102B2
An interface and method for determining an operational reliability factor SB for a drive, including gear unit and motor, provided for a load, an operational reliability factor SB is determined for the drive or its gear unit from a load collective that is at least three-dimensional.
US08560096B1
A method to monitor a status from a secondary location of a plurality of equipment on a drilling site, while simultaneously enabling preventive maintenance for the plurality of equipment is described herein. A user can view at least one cycle, at least one control state, and at least one pressure. The user can also view equipment information, equipment repair history, and other information necessary to ensure that a piece of equipment has minimal down time.
US08560093B2
A common library stores therein user function blocks and ready-made protected function blocks. By being manipulated by the user, an editing device links some of function programs stored in the function blocks in the library to form a control program which controls the exchange of signals between I/O modules and external devices. A control section in the terminal device allows the alteration of the function programs included in the user function blocks, but inhibits the alteration of the function programs included in the protected function blocks.
US08560076B2
Systems and methods provide baroreflex activation to treat or reduce pain and/or to cause or enhance sedation or sleep. Methods involve activating the baroreflex system to provide pain reduction, sedation, improved sleep or some combination thereof. Systems include at least one baroreflex activation device, at least one sensor for sensing physiological activity of the patient, and a processor coupled with the baroreflex activation device(s) and the sensor(s) for processing sensed data received from the sensor and for activating the baroreflex activation device. In some embodiments, the system is fully implantable within a patient, such as in an intravascular, extravascular or intramural location.
US08560069B2
A system for heart performance characterization and abnormality detection includes an interface for receiving sampled data representing an electrical signal indicating electrical activity of a patient heart over multiple heart beat cycles and for receiving a pace signal indicating occurrence of a heart pace pulse applied to the heart. A signal processor uses the received sampled data and pace signal in calculating, a first signal characteristic value comprising a time interval between occurrence of the pace pulse and a cardiac cycle characteristic and a second signal characteristic comprising an average of the time intervals determined over a multiple heart cycles. A comparator compares at least one of the first and second characteristic values with a threshold value to provide a comparison indicator. A patient monitor generates an alert message associated with the threshold in response to the comparison indicator indicating a calculated signal characteristic value exceeds the threshold value.
US08560068B2
An implantable medical system for delivering pacing pulses to HIS bundle of a heart of a patient when implanted in said patient includes a medical lead, which is adapted to be attached with a distal end to tissue of said heart, including a at least two electrodes arranged being electrically separated from each other. The implantable medical device connectable to the medical lead includes a pacing circuit adapted to deliver the pacing pulses to said heart via the medical lead, a selection device connected between the pacing circuit and the electrodes adapted to selectively activate at least one of said electrodes, and a processing device adapted to control the selection device to selectively activate at least one of the electrodes to direct the pacing pulses to the HIS bundle.
US08560066B2
Methods and apparatus for a three-stage atrial cardioversion therapy that treats atrial arrhythmias within pain tolerance thresholds of a patient. An implantable therapy generator adapted to generate and selectively deliver a three-stage atrial cardioversion therapy and at least two leads operably each having at least one electrode adapted to be positioned proximate the atrium of the patient. The device is programmed with a set of therapy parameters for delivering a three-stage atrial cardioversion therapy to the patient via both a far-field configuration and a near-field configuration of the electrodes upon detection of an atrial arrhythmia. The three-stage atrial cardioversion therapy includes a first stage for unpinning of one or more singularities associated with an atrial arrhythmia, a second stage for anti-repinning of the one or more singularities associated with the atrial arrhythmia, both of which are delivered via the far-field configuration of the electrodes, and a third stage for extinguishing of the one or more singularities associated with the atrial arrhythmia delivered via the near-field configuration of the electrodes.
US08560063B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for cardiac pacing are provided. A defibrillation shock is applied to a heart of the patient and a pacing stimulation signal is automatically applied to the heart of the patient subsequent to termination of the delivery of the defibrillation shock. The pacing stimulation may be applied to the heart of the patient within about two seconds of termination of the defibrillation shock. The pacing stimulation signal may be applied to the heart of the patient subsequent to termination of the defibrillation shock irrespective of a characterization of electrical activity detected in the heart. The pacing stimulation may be single and/or paired pacing stimulation.
US08560061B2
A sufficient therapeutic effect is achieved for each of a plurality of pathologies constituting a cardiac failure. Provided is a nerve stimulation apparatus including: a heartbeat detection unit that detects a heartbeat; a nerve electrode that is connected to a nerve controlling a heart; a nerve stimulation unit that outputs an electrical pulse to the nerve electrode; a functional-status detection unit that detects in-vivo information that indicates a functional status of the heart; and a stimulation-timing controller that controls the nerve stimulation unit so as to switch between a synchronous mode in which the electrical pulse is output in synchronization with the heartbeat detected by the heartbeat detection unit and an asynchronous mode in which the electrical pulses are output at constant time intervals, on the basis of the in-vivo information that indicates the functional status of the heart detected by the functional-status detection unit.
US08560055B2
A heart rate monitor generates an ST deviation time series by employing a recursive filter that is preferably an exponential average filter whose output is a weighted sum of the then existing ST time series value and current ST deviation values of analyzable beats. Beats are detected in segments of data. ST deviation is measured for analyzable beats. The ST deviation time series is updated only if certain criteria are met. A first criterion for updating the time series is that at least half of the beats within a segment must be normal sinus rhythm beats. A second criterion for updating the time series is that (i) the average RR interval of the segment is between ¾ and 1.5 times the average RR interval of the previous segment; or (ii) both (a) the number of abnormal beats in the current segment is less than 2, and (b) the number of premature ventricular contractions within the current segment is less than 2.
US08560046B2
An electronic device for long-term adhesion to a mammal includes a housing with an electronic component. The electronic device may include a first wing and a second wing, each being integrally formed with the housing. An electrode is positioned on a bottom surface of each of the wings, the electrodes electrically connected to the electronic component. An adhesive layer is provided for adhesion to a surface of the mammal. The adhesive layer may cover a portion of the bottom surfaces of the wings but generally does not cover the electrode or a bottom surface of the housing. A method of applying an electronic device to a mammal includes removing first and second adhesive covers from first and second wings of the electronic device to expose an electrode and an adhesive coated on a bottom surface of each wing.
US08560045B2
The present invention is an article of manufacture and method for using same, comprising at least two self adhesive sensors having a paired offset potential of consistently below about +/−1.0 mV; and a data gathering device connected to the sensors capable of measuring the voltage difference between the sensors. The sensors preferably are AgCl coated Silver.
US08560042B2
A system to determine and illustrate a location of position element within a volume is disclosed. The position element can be used to determine the position of a portion of an instrument. The instrument can include one or both of a cannulated member and a lead member passed through the cannula.
US08560041B2
A system and method for an improved biological interface system that processes multicellular signals of a patient and controls one or more devices is disclosed. The system includes a sensor that detects the multicellular signals and a processing unit for producing the control signal based on the multicellular signals. The system may include improved communication, self-diagnostics, and surgical insertion tools.
US08560028B1
The present invention is directed to an antenna system. The antenna system may include a first antenna and a second antenna. The antenna system may further include a first LRU connected to the first antenna, and a second LRU connected to the second antenna. The antenna system may further include a router, said router being connected to the first LRU, the second LRU and a communication system, the communication system being remotely located from the antenna system. The router may be configured for receiving a plurality of concurrent (ex.—simultaneous) communication control inputs from the communication system and may selectively route the received communication control inputs to the LRUs. The LRUs may, based upon the received communication control inputs establish LRU settings for causing the antennas to transmit and/or receive communications in accordance with said communication control inputs.
US08560015B2
A method includes downloading at the request of a user an application for storage in a secure module of a terminal; requesting the user to assign a descriptive name for the downloaded application; storing the descriptive name together with an application identity of the downloaded application; in response to a request to activate a stored application, presenting the user with a list having elements of one or more stored applications, where each list element comprises at least the user assigned descriptive name; and activating an application associated with a selection of a list element by the user. Various embodiments of apparatus for implementing the method are also disclosed.
US08560012B2
The communication device can easily serve as an extended user interface such as a remote controller of a target apparatus without causing any complicated operations to a user. The communication device includes the following units. An apparatus information obtainment unit (203) obtains apparatus information from an apparatus. A position information obtainment unit (206) obtains position information of the communication device (102). An operation information obtainment unit (212) obtains operation information based on the apparatus information. A storage unit (213) stores the position information as apparatus position information indicating as a position of the apparatus, in association with the operation information. A direction sensor unit (207) detects direction of the communication device (102). A directional space calculation unit (208) calculates a directional space of the communication device (102). A selection unit (209a) specifies the apparatus existing in the directional space based on the apparatus position information and selects the operation information associated with the specified apparatus. An operation information transmission unit (215) transmits, based on the selected operation information, a control signal to the specified apparatus so as to allow the communication device to operate the apparatus.
US08560003B2
A mobile communication device includes a body, a first QWERTY key unit having a plurality of QWERTY keys to input alphabets, numbers, and symbols, and a second QWERTY key unit having a plurality of the QWERTY keys to input alphabets, numbers, and symbols. The first QWERTY key unit is fitted on a first end of the body to be pivotally folded backward and forward with respect to the body. The second QWERTY key unit is fitted on a second end of the body to be pivotally folded backward and forward with respect to the body.
US08560001B2
A base station apparatus includes a transmit diversity setting unit configured to set a transmit diversity mode to be applied to a user equipment terminal; a reception quality calculating unit configured to determine reception quality corresponding to the transmit diversity mode based on the transmit diversity mode set by the transmit diversity setting unit; a scheduling unit configured to determine a user equipment terminal to which a radio resource is to be allocated based on the reception quality determined by the reception quality calculating unit; and a notifying unit configured to notify the user equipment terminal to which the radio resource is allocated as determined by the scheduling unit of the transmit diversity mode to be applied.
US08559994B2
A wireless communication method and system using virtual MIMO (“V-MIMO”) are provided. Post processing signal to interference and noise ratios (“SINR”) for a plurality of signals corresponding to a plurality of mobile terminals arranged as a V-MIMO group are estimated. The one of the plurality of mobile terminals having the highest post processing SINR is selected. Wireless communication for the selected mobile terminal is scheduled. The signal corresponding to the selected mobile terminal is cancelled. Post processing signal to interference and noise ratios (“SINR”) for the signals corresponding to the remaining mobile terminals is re-estimated. The one of the remaining mobile terminals having the highest post processing SINR is selected. Wireless communication for the selected remaining mobile terminal is scheduled.
US08559983B1
The communication device comprising a power-off notification implementer, a power-off location notifying implementer, a header displaying implementer, a footer displaying implementer, a location scheduled notifying implementer, a zone leaving notifying implementer, and a zone entering notifying implementer.
US08559981B2
A system and method for controlling communication modes of a personal communication device traveling in a vehicle. The system includes a communication center configured to provide communication services, a personal communication device (PCD) configured to communicate with the communication center, and a controller installed in a vehicle. The communication center is configured to selectively disable any of the PCD communication modes when the PCD is residing or traveling in the vehicle. Which communication modes are disabled may be based on a customer profile. The system and method provide a way for a parent to limit the communication modes of PCD used by their child, especially when the child is traveling in and presumably operating a particular vehicle such as the family car. The system and method may also be used by employers to limit the PCD communication modes available to employees operating company vehicles.
US08559980B2
A method and system to integrate communication with location services. The method and system provide a mapping tool and discoverability tool whereby a user can define discoverability to other users of the system on a per group or per individual basis. The system enables users to coordinate activities with friends and groups and to easily communicate with friends, family and associates who happen to be nearby, where in the past these opportunities to meet and congregate would have been missed.
US08559979B2
A mobile terminal including a position detection unit that detects a current position of the mobile terminal; a communication interface that transmits the detected current position to a server, and receives, from the server, a plurality of tags corresponding to services provided in an area surrounding the current position of the mobile terminal; a status detection unit that detects a current status of the mobile terminal; a tag determination unit that determines a tag corresponding to the current status of the mobile terminal; a tag comparison unit that determines at least one recommended service by comparing the tag corresponding to the current status of the mobile terminal with each of the plurality of tags corresponding to services provided in an area surrounding the current position of the mobile terminal; and a display that displays information corresponding to the at least one recommended service determined by the tag comparison unit.
US08559977B2
Methods and systems that record the location of a user and transmit targeted content to a user based upon their current and past location. A network is configured to include a server programmed with a database of targeted content, a database of location information, a database of user information, a database searching algorithm, and a wireless communication system capable of communicating with the user's mobile device. The location of the mobile device is ascertained and recorded. The location information is analyzed to determine businesses visited by the user, and other behaviors of the user. Targeted content is sent to the mobile device of the user and whether the user visits the physical locations associated with the targeted content is monitored. Payment systems, phone exchange systems, and other features may also be integrated to provide detailed conversion tracking to producers of targeted content and business owners.
US08559970B2
A method for providing location-based information services to a portable electronic device includes the steps of: providing an information platform and a user preference settings database for receiving and recording preference settings data of a user of the portable electronic device, respectively, the preference settings data including categories of information and location range; receiving positioning information from the portable electronic device using a positioning module; selecting location information from a location information database in accordance with the preference settings data recorded in the user preference settings database that corresponds to the positioning information received by the positioning module; and transmitting the selected location information to the portable electronic device. Since location-based information services are provided based on the preference settings data, the user receives only the location information that he or she prefers.
US08559966B2
A method for configuring a wireless telecommunications network adapted to operate according to at least one radio system, includes a plurality of re-configurable base radio stations, wherein each base radio station is adapted to manage one or more cells of the telecommunications network, and wherein each cell has corresponding radio resources available. The method includes: obtaining measurements of the cells load status; dynamically configuring at least one of the cells by assigning thereto determined available radio resources depending on the measurements of the cell load status. Dynamically configuring includes: based on the measurements of the cell load status, determining at least one candidate radio resource to be assigned to the cell; prior to assigning the candidate radio resource to the cell, forecasting an impact on the network performance at the radio level potentially caused by the assignment of the candidate radio resource to the cell; and in case the forecasted impact complies with predetermined requirements, assigning the candidate radio resource to the cell.
US08559933B1
A system is provided. The system comprises a processor, a memory coupled to the processor, and an application stored in the memory. When executed by the processor, the application receives a plurality of first messages from a first plurality of handsets, each of the first messages indicating that one of the first plurality of handsets has installed a first ID, wherein the first ID is associated with a first ID provider, receives a second message from the first ID provider, the second message indicating that new content associated with the first ID is available, and in response to the second message, transmits a plurality of third messages, each of the third messages directed to one of the first plurality of handsets, indicating that new content associated with the first ID is available.
US08559932B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, at a vehicle computing system, a notification that an incoming communication is being sent to a wireless device in communication with the vehicle computing system. The method also includes determining that a do not disturb function is active in the vehicle computing system and blocking a notification to a driver regarding the incoming communication. Finally, this method includes sending a command from the vehicle computing system to the wireless device to silence any notification that the wireless device provides in conjunction with the incoming communication.
US08559930B2
Tools and techniques for activating a wireless device on a wireless network and/or for providing a wireless device with occasional access to a wireless network. In an aspect, such tools can provide a wireless device with a temporary addressing number to allow the wireless device to send data to the network; this temporary addressing number, then, can be recycled to be used by another wireless device for accessing the network.
US08559929B2
Various embodiments herein provide at least one of systems, methods, software, and data structures for tracking usage of mobile codes on mobile electronic devices. Some embodiments include tracking mobile code usage locally on mobile electronic devices. Some embodiments include server mechanisms which facilitate mobile code tracking by mobile code tracking processes on mobile electronic devices. Other embodiments are also described.
US08559928B2
A mobile communication apparatus, and a computer program product, comprising a memory arranged to hold contact information, wherein items of said contact information are arranged in a tree structure comprising a plurality of logical levels is disclosed. Methods for storing and accessing contact information arranged in this way are also disclosed.
US08559926B1
Subject matter described herein is directed to detecting unauthorized use, such as by a cloned mobile device, of wireless telecommunication services. Mobile-device locations are analyzed to detect outlying locations, such as locations that lack a call relationship with other locations or that are greater than a threshold distance away from other locations. Outlying locations might be detected when more than one discrete location cluster exists among a plurality of mobile-device locations, the discrete clusters having respective locations that are not related by way of a call and that fail to satisfy a threshold distance. Outlying locations or multiple discrete locations clusters suggest an unauthorized use of a mobile device's account.
US08559925B2
The present invention discloses an interacting method for WLAN UE fast selecting an optimal mobile communication network to access in WLAN, first a WLAN UE judges whether the identity information of the WLAN AN exists in the WLAN identity information stored when mobile connection with the WLAN AN is established, if so, the network selection information corresponding to the identity of the WLAN stored will be sent to the WLAN AN, otherwise, a pre-configured mobile communication network with highest priority is regarded as network selection information to be sent to the WLAN AN; the WLAN AN identifies the mobile communication network to access according to the network selection information carried in Authentication Request, and connects the WLAN UE to the selected network to implement authentication. The method makes the WLAN UE select a mobile communication network to access rapidly when the WLAN UE accesses from a WLAN connected with multiple mobile communication networks.
US08559913B2
The invention relates to an emergency response system. The emergency response system (10) comprises a central station (4) for receiving information about emergencies, whereby position information of a victim is provided and stored in a look-up table (6) of the central station (4). The central station addresses a list (7) of publicly available actuatable emergency response devices and selects a suitable device. The central station (4) transmits a trigger signal by means of a suitable communication network (3) to the selected remote actuatable emergency response device (14), which comprises communication means (13) for activating the signaling means (15) upon receipt of the trigger signal. Also, the actuatable emergency response device (14) comprises storage means (11) arranged to store the position information of the emergency response device and the provided position information of the victim. Upon receipt of a suitable signal from the communication means (13), the signaling means (15) start broadcasting a message arranged to attract as many potential emergency responders to the victim as possible. The emergency response device (14) comprises navigation means (20), arranged to provide a routing to the victim, which is being fed-back to the responder by the user interface. The invention further relates to an emergency response device and a method for summoning an emergency responder and for routing said responder to the victim.
US08559905B2
Systems, devices and methods are disclosed for suppressing the 2LO frequency spur, output from a mixer. In various exemplary embodiments, a DC bias circuit is electrically connected to provide DC bias to one or more non-linear elements of the mixer. The biasing voltage is used to cause the current-voltage characteristics and/or junction capacitances between non-linear elements to be more symmetric and/or to suppress 2LO leakage currents that form 2LO frequency spurs at the output of the mixer. The non-linear elements may comprise one of: BJT's, diodes, and FET's. The mixer may be one of: a subharmonic mixer; a fundamental resistive mixer; a fundamental subharmonic transconductance mixer; and a fundamental transconductance mixer comprising an anti-parallel diode pair. The system may further be configured to automatically determine an appropriate DC bias voltage level that will improve one of the LO-IF isolation and the LO-RF isolation.
US08559902B2
An operation method and a radio device for controlling a power switch of a radio based on moving speed. The radio device includes a speed estimator and an operator. The speed estimator is used for estimating the moving speed of the radio device, and the operator is used for comparing the moving speed of the radio device with a speed threshold value so as to turn on/off the power switch of the radio device. The power switch of the radio device can be controlled based on the moving speed so as to decrease the time the radio device stays on, thus reducing the power consumption of the radio device.
US08559891B2
Embodiments of cognitive radio technology can recover and utilize under-utilized portions of statically-allocated radio-frequency spectrum. A plurality of sensing methods can be employed. Transmission power control can be responsive to adjacent channel measurements. Digital pre-distortion techniques can enhance performance. Embodiments of a high DNR transceiver architecture can be employed.
US08559887B2
Techniques are provided to measure how fast a wireless channel is changing between a first wireless communication device (e.g., a wireless base station or access point) and a second wireless device (e.g., a wireless client device) based on signals that the first communication wireless device receives at a plurality of antennas from a second wireless communication device. Techniques are also provided to measure a degree of mobility of the second wireless communication device based on signals received at the first communication wireless device from the second communication wireless device.
US08559884B2
Method for providing information on a context parameter relating to a consumer device of a telecommunication system which includes a plurality of provider devices. The method includes: a) checking if data relevant to the context parameter are available for the consumer device; b) in the positive case of a), obtaining the information on the context parameter relating to the consumer device based upon the available data; c) in the negative case of a), checking, according to predetermined proximity rules, if among the plurality of provider devices, there is at least one nearby provider device that, with regard to the context parameter, is in the proximity of the consumer device; d) in the positive case of c), checking if data useful to determine the information on the context parameter relating to the consumer device are available for the at least one nearby provider device, and e) in the positive case of d), determining the context information on the consumer device based upon the data available for the at least one nearby provider device.
US08559882B2
Maintaining information about radio transmission sites in a computer accessible database. In one aspect this is a living database consisting of hundreds of thousands of wireless sites and their unique characteristics. The database includes energy transmissions information including site specific physical locations and utilization characteristics of the sites. The System can deliver MPE maps of radio frequency radiation and site specific safety programs to any worker visiting a wireless site in the United States. These maps (and site's specific safety programs) are updated on a daily basis. The System can be accessed via the Internet by registered users. The System creates and displays MPE maps and radiation pattern maps showing gradation power densities to identify exposure dangers.
US08559879B2
Techniques for transmitting null pilots to support interference estimation in a wireless network are described. A null pilot is non-transmission on designated time-frequency resources by a cell or a cluster of cells supporting cooperative transmission to a UE. The received power of the null pilot from the cell or cluster of cells may be indicative of interference from other cells. In one design, a cell in the cluster may determine resources for sending a null pilot by the cell. The cell may transmit the null pilot (i.e., send no transmissions) on the resources to allow UEs to estimate out-of-cluster interference. Some or all cells in the cluster may transmit null pilots on the same resources. The cell may receive interference and channel information from the UE and may send data transmission to the UE based on the interference and/or channel information. Remaining cells in the cluster may reduce interference to the UE.
US08559869B2
A system and method for processing signals in a selected channel through a repeater wherein the repeater is dynamically adapted to the channel by receiving channel information from a local cell phone, such information including modulation and channel designation.
US08559862B2
An image forming device includes: a heater; a nip member; a stay; fusing member; a pair of frame members; a backup member; and a ventilator. The nip member receives radiant heat from the heater. The stay has an inner surface confronting the heater and an outer surface opposing the inner surface. The fusing member surrounds the heater, the nip member and the stay. The pair of frame members is disposed at end portions of the fusing member. One frame members is formed with an inlet opening. The remaining frame member is formed with an outlet opening. The inlet and outlet openings are in fluid communication with a space between an inner peripheral surface of the fusing member and the outer surface. The backup member provides a nip region upon nipping the fusing member between the backup and nip members. The ventilator allows air to flow in the space.
US08559858B2
A fixing device includes: a fixing belt which is supported by one or more rollers; and a fixing roller which is in pressed contact with at least one of the rollers across the fixing belt, wherein the fixing roller includes a core portion which is rotatably provided, an elastic portion which covers the core portion so as to form a cylindrical shape with a rotation axis of the core portion being defined as a center, and a release portion which covers a cylindrical outer peripheral surface of the elastic portion, and an end of the elastic portion in a direction along the rotation axis and an end of the release portion in the direction along the rotation axis project from an end of the core portion, in the direction along the rotation axis, at a part where the core portion and the elastic portion are in contact with each other.
US08559854B2
A developing device includes: a developing container partitioned into a stirring-transport chamber, a supplying-transport chamber, and a collecting-transport chamber; a developer carrying member for carrying the developer on a surface thereof; a supplying-transport member located within the supplying-transport chamber; a stirring-transport member located within the stirring-transport chamber, for stirring and transporting the developer in a reverse direction to the supplying-transport member; a collecting-transport member located within the collecting-transport chamber, for stirring and transporting the developer in the same direction as the supplying-transport member; a first developer passage for passing the developer from the stirring-transport chamber to the supplying-transport chamber; a second developer passage for passing the developer from the supplying-transport chamber to the stirring-transport chamber, in which a communication portion for passing the developer from the collecting-transport chamber to the supplying-transport chamber is provided on an upstream side of the second developer passage in terms of a developer transporting direction.
US08559852B2
A driving method of an electron emitting device which includes a first electrode, a particle layer formed on the first electrode and including insulating particles, and a second electrode formed on the particle layer includes: applying a voltage between the first and second electrodes to emit electrons from the first electrode so that the electrons are accelerated through the particle layer and emitted from the second electrode, wherein the applied voltage includes pulses which have a first frequency and are oscillated at a second frequency lower than the first frequency.
US08559837B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a heater for heating an image formed on first and second recording materials, the second recording material being thicker than the first recording material; a pressing member for forming a nip, between itself and the heater, for nipping and conveying each recording material; and an executing portion for heating the images formed on the first and second recording materials under first and second heating conditions, respectively, in first and second operation modes, respectively. When the images are formed in the first mode and subsequently the image is formed in the second mode, a switching operation is carried out in which the first recording material is heated under a third image heating condition different from the first image heating condition. The switching operation is started before finishing the operation in the first mode.
US08559835B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form a toner image on an image bearing member, a first detection unit configured to detect a height of the toner image formed according to a predetermined image forming condition by the image forming unit, a determination unit configured to determine an image forming condition of the image forming unit according to a detection result of the first detection unit, a second detection unit configured to detect a density of the toner image formed according to a predetermined image forming condition by the image forming unit, and a correction unit configured to correct the image forming condition of the image forming unit determined by the determination unit based on the density of the toner image detected by the second detection unit.
US08559819B2
The information transfer method includes: determining an indicator of a start bit in a protection time slot or a preamble time slot of a laser, and establishing a communication channel according to the indicator of the start bit; inserting Operation Administration and Maintenance (OAM) information of a Long Reach-Passive Optical Network (LR-PON) device into an upstream frame sent to an Optical Line Terminal (OLT) device by the LR-PON device at a position indicated by the indicator of the start bit, and transporting the upstream frame to the OLT device through the communication channel. Therefore, OAM functions of the LR-PON device are extended, so that the OAM information can be transported by the LR-PON device independently, and OAM characteristics of the LR-PON device are enhanced. For example, PON protection is better supported, and the speed and success ratio of protection switching of a PON system are increased.
US08559810B2
Embodiments of this invention provide a flash module and an electronic apparatus using the flash module. The electronic apparatus has a sensor and a processor. The sensor is used by the processor to detect an environmental brightness and issue a flash order. The flash module comprises a flash cartridge, a linkage lever set, a housing, an electromagnetic actuator, a mechanical linkage, and a latching mechanism. When necessary, the elements of the flash module perform a process to automatically move the flash to an open position.
US08559806B2
A camera module and a method for manufacturing the same. The camera module includes a lens unit including at least one lens stacked along an optical axis, an autofocusing unit disposed on an object side of the lens unit and automatically controlling a focus of the lens unit, an image sensor unit receiving light incident through the lens unit, and at least one via formed in the lens unit to be penetrated in a thickness direction thereof for an electrical connection of the autofocusing unit.
US08559803B2
This invention provides a photographing module comprising: a supporting frame having a movable element accommodation space, at least one first elastic element accommodation space and at least one first electrically-driven element accommodation space; a movable element having an optical system unit, at least one second electrically-driven element accommodation space and at least one second elastic element accommodation space, the movable element being received by the movable element accommodation space; an electrically-driven element received by the at least one first electrically-driven element accommodation space and the at least one second electrically-driven element accommodation space; an elastic element received by the at least one first elastic element accommodation space and the at least one second elastic element accommodation space, the elastic element being capable of sliding in the at least one second elastic element accommodation space; a vibration sensor disposed at a proper position of the photographing module for detecting a direction and a magnitude of a vibration; and a photo sensor disposed at an image side of the photographing module.
US08559799B2
Two-step photo-irradiation heat treatment is performed so that a total photo-irradiation time is not more than one second and that a first step of photo-irradiation of a semiconductor wafer is performed with a light-emission output that averages out at a first light-emission output and a second step of photo-irradiation of the semiconductor wafer is performed in accordance with an output waveform that peaks at a second light-emission output that is higher than both average and maximum light-emission outputs in the first step. Performing preliminary photo-irradiation with a relatively low light-emission output in the first step and then performing intense photo-irradiation with a higher peak in the second step enables the surface temperature of a semiconductor wafer to increase further with a smaller amount of energy than in conventional cases, while preventing the semiconductor wafer from shattering.
US08559793B2
A media editing system provides an editor with full visibility and editing capability for synchronous data that is adjunct to audio and video. The data tracks include one or more streams of data packets, each stream being of a particular data type. Synchronous data tracks are displayed on the timeline, facilitating data track editing independent of the associated media tracks. The UI also enables selective playback and export of the data tracks along with the corresponding video and audio. The system also enables data streams to be filtered and combined. Data from the data tracks can be extracted and imported into a media asset management system, enabling the data to be searched.
US08559792B2
A system, method and medium playing a moving image, which includes various content objects is described. The system includes a script parser identifying a plurality of objects which form the moving image, a play-time calculation unit determining a framing time position, from among a total play time of the moving image, and a frame-information record unit recording attributes of the objects which exist in the framing time position.
US08559785B2
A clip, configured to support a furcation body, includes a keyhole member, a catch, a cover, and an arm. The keyhole member may be received in a keyhole of a mounting surface, and is offset from a bottom of the clip via a slot guide such that when the bottom of the clip slides along the mounting surface, a top of the keyhole member engages an underside of the mounting surface to lock the clip to the mounting surface. The catch extends from the bottom of the clip in a direction that the keyhole member is offset from the bottom of the clip. The cover is coupled to a wall of the clip extending from the bottom of the clip in a direction away from the catch. The arm extends from the clip in a direction away from the catch and provides a handling point above the clip.
US08559778B2
A fiber optic cable with first and second cavities accommodating separate groups of fibers. Arranging the optical fibers in separate cavities allows the fibers to be distinguished from one another without requiring secondary marking indicia such as stripes on the fibers. The cable jacket can be extruded such that the cavities are formed integrally in the jacket during extrusion.
US08559774B2
An optical device may include a substrate and an optical waveguide carried by the substrate and having a notch therein defining a feed optical waveguide and a longitudinal optical waveguide section on opposite longitudinal sides of the notch. The optical device may also include a transverse optical waveguide section carried by the substrate and transversely aligned with the feed optical waveguide adjacent the notch. The optical device may further include an elastomeric waveguide switch body configured to be moved between a first position within the notch and operative to switch light from the feed optical waveguide to the longitudinal optical waveguide section, and a second position removed from the notch and operative to switch light from the optical waveguide to the transverse optical waveguide section.
US08559761B2
Provided is an apparatus and method to restore a signal using minimum value sampling, more particularly, a signal restoring apparatus and method using minimum value sampling, which are capable of effectively preventing deterioration of a restored signal caused by aliasing occurring when minimum value sampling of an input signal is performed in order to restore a signal. The apparatus to restore a signal using the minimum value sampling includes a storage unit to store a sample value obtained through the minimum value sampling of an input signal in a predetermined sampling interval; a position determination unit to determine the position of the sample value in the sampling interval; and a restoration unit to restore the input signal using the stored sample value with respect to the determined position.
US08559753B2
A method and apparatus for removing undesired features in an image. The image is converted from a spatial domain to a frequency domain to form a transformed image. A filter is applied to the transformed image to form a filtered image in the frequency domain. The filtered image is converted from the frequency domain back into the spatial domain to form a modified image. An intensity of an undesired feature in the modified image is increased as compared to the intensity of the undesired feature in the image. The undesired feature is removed from the image using the modified image to form a processed image.
US08559751B2
The present invention provides an improved method and device for digital motion blur removal by using motion information extracted from a sequence of images captured immediately before the image to be corrected was captured. In particular, the invention includes estimating (56) motion information of the previous sequence of images and analyzing them based on motion estimation techniques and then extrapolating (58) the motion of the image to be corrected based on the motion estimation in order to remove (62) the motion blur effects in the desired captured image. The various types of devices which may implement the method of the present invention will thereby display (64) blur free digital images.
US08559747B2
In an image processing apparatus according to one embodiment, an edge correcting unit replaces a signal level of a target pixel with a maximum value of signal levels of a plurality of peripheral pixels when a sum of the signal level of the target pixel and the edge information is more than the maximum value, and the edge correcting unit replaces the signal level of the target pixel with a minimum value of the signal levels of the plurality of peripheral pixels when a sum of the signal level of the target pixel and the edge information is less than the minimum value.
US08559745B2
An image signal processor for image enhancement is provided. The image signal processor receives a first, a second, and a third component of an RGB signal of each pixel of an image, and has: an image enhancer for performing image enhancement on the first component of the RGB signal to produce a first enhanced component of the RGB signal; a gain generator, coupled to the image enhancer, for producing an enhancement gain based on the first component and the first enhanced component of the RGB signal; and a gain multiplier, coupled to the gain generator, for performing image enhancement on the second and the third component based on the enhancement gain to produce a second and a third enhanced component.
US08559739B2
A method for quality-aware transcoding of an input image into an output image for display on a terminal having device file size and image size constraints are disclosed. The method extracts features of the input image including dimensions and file size of the input image, predicts a file size of the output image taking into account constraints of the terminal and extracted features, including selecting a set of feasible transcoding parameters so that a corresponding predicted file size of the output image meets the device file size constraint of the terminal, determines quality metric values of the output image, characterizing a measure of distortion of the input image introduced by the transcoding, corresponding to the feasible transcoding parameters in the set of feasible transcoding parameters, and selects those transcoding parameters from the set of feasible transcoding parameters, which yield the highest quality metric value. A corresponding system is also provided.
US08559734B2
In one embodiment, an image encoding apparatus converts bit depth of an input image formed of a plurality of pixels each having an N bit depth into an (N+M) bit depth larger than N bit depth by M bits. An adaptive bit depth converter converts the bit depth of each pixel of the decoded image of the (N+M) bits into the N bits selectively using one of a plurality of conversion systems. The converted image of the N bit depth is stored in a frame memory as a reference image. The bit depth of each pixel of the reference image of the N bit depth read out from the frame memory is converted into the (N+M) bit depth larger than the N bit depth by M bits in accordance with the conversion system by a pixel bit depth inverse converter.
US08559728B2
An image processing method includes sending test image data to a plurality of image recognition units configured to detect a recognition object from an image, setting an evaluation condition for evaluating a recognition result, evaluating a recognition result of the test image data by each of the plurality of image recognition units under the evaluation condition, and selecting from the plurality of image recognition units an image recognition unit to be used based on an evaluation result by the evaluation.
US08559707B2
In one exemplary embodiment, a face detection method implemented in a computer system estimates location and size of face candidate regions for an input image, which includes image regionalization, region labeling and feature capturing, distance transform, and face location and size estimation, to predict at least a face location and size range for the input image. According to the at least a predicted face location and size range, the method further performs an adaptive face detection until a predicted face region is verified.
US08559696B2
Scattered waves from the defect of burst ultrasonic waves radiated from an ultrasonic transmitter to a structure in two different arrangements of the ultrasonic transmitter and an array receiver are received by the array receiver so as to obtain a reception signal. The reception signal is subjected to a band-pass filter that passes a specific frequency component, shifted by different time according to the position of each reception sensor element of the array receiver and then, added so as to obtain a processing signal. On the basis of the processing signal, an image of the defect is obtained, respectively. A common portion of the obtained two images is extracted.
US08559678B2
In one embodiment, a method includes capturing an image of a piece of a printed circuit board (PCB) that includes at least one inner layer having a metal foil portion. The piece of the PCB includes a cross-section of the inner layer having the metal foil portion. The method also includes determining a surface roughness of the metal foil portion, wherein determining the surface roughness of the metal foil portion includes processing the image.
US08559677B2
An image generation system includes an image information acquisition section that acquires image information from an image sensor, a motion information acquisition section that acquires motion information about an operator based on the image information from the image sensor, a correction section that performs a correction process on the motion information based on at least one of an aspect ratio of the image sensor and an aspect ratio of a display section, and an image generation section that generates an image displayed on the display section.
US08559672B2
Disclosed are embodiments for determining detection certainty in a cascade classifier (100). A first sequence (101) of detection stages (102) determines whether an image (112) is associated with a rare object. Each of the stages (102) rejects the image (112) when the image (112) is unassociated with the rare object and propagates the image (112) to a next stage (102) when the image (112) is unrejected. A second sequence (103) of detection stages (104) is configured for post-processing operation. If the image (112) is unrejected in a final stage (102d) of the first sequence (101), the second sequence (103) determines whether the image (112) is associated with the rare object. Each of the stages (104) propagates the image to a next stage (104), recording a rejection when the image (112) is unassociated with the rare object. A probability that the image (112) is associated with the rare object is determined.
US08559649B2
In one aspect, the invention is a sleep device. The sleep-aide device includes a soft housing adapted to be disposed over a user's head, a microphone positioned on the housing to receive an ambient sound signal, a suppression circuit that receives the ambient sound signal and produces a suppression sound signal, and a set of transducers, arranged in the soft housing, which receive the suppression sound signal. The suppression sound signal has a magnitude and phase to substantially cancel the ambient sound signal at the user's ear.In another aspect, the sleep-aide device includes a microphone to receive an ambient sound signal, a suppression circuitry, which receives the ambient sound signal and transmits a suppression sound signal based on the ambient sound signal, and a transducer which receives the suppression sound signal, which has a magnitude and phase to substantially cancel the ambient sound signal at the user's ear. The sleep device also includes an earphone housing, which is attached to the ear when worn by a user, containing the microphone, the suppression circuitry and the transducer.
US08559648B2
An active noise cancellation system reduces, at a listening position, the power of a noise signal being radiated from a noise source to the listening position. The system includes an adaptive filter that receives a reference signal representing the noise signal, and provides a compensation signal. A bass management unit receives the compensation signal and applies a phase shift to the compensation signal to provide a phase shifted compensation signal. A first acoustic radiator receives the phase shifted compensation signal and radiates audio indicative thereof to the listening position. A second acoustic radiator receives the compensation signal and radiates audio indicative thereof to the listening position. The transfer function characteristics from the input of the bass management system to the listening position approximately matches a desired transfer function.
US08559646B2
Embodiments of the present invention allow participants in a networked virtual world to converse naturally as in a real-life situation. Each participant can hear “nearby” participants localized according to their positions in the virtual world, desirably with reverberation and environmental audio effects derived from properties of the virtual world.
US08559643B2
A stereo capacitor microphone unit includes: two unidirectional microphone units integrally formed with respective fixed electrodes of the unidirectional microphone units facing each other; and an insulating spacer that is interposed between the fixed electrodes and provided with a gap formed at a portion of an outer periphery towards radial direction. The gap communicates fixed electrode rear spaces of the respective unidirectional microphone units with an external space to serve as a common rear acoustic terminal for the unidirectional microphone units.
US08559641B2
An S/MIME intermediate application is installed on a PC. The S/MIME intermediate application causes the PC to execute monitoring processing of monitoring data transmitted externally via a network by an e-mail software program or a printer driver, and encryption processing of encrypting the data to be transmitted when a predetermined requirement is satisfied. An MFP distributes the S/MIME intermediate application to the PC. The MFP stores therein an encryption key used in the encryption processing, and distributes the encryption key together with the S/MIME intermediate application, in response to a request from the PC.
US08559638B2
It is aimed to implement a hierarchical predicate encryption (HPE) scheme. A cryptographic process is performed using dual vector spaces (dual distortion vector spaces (DDVS)) of a space V and a space V* paired through a pairing operation. An encryption device generates as a cipher vector a vector in the space V, the vector having transmission information embedded therein. A decryption device, using a predetermined vector in the space V* as a key vector, performs the pairing operation on the cipher vector generated by the encryption device and the key vector, to decrypt the cipher vector and to extract information concerning the transmission information.
US08559637B2
A privacy key is provided over a network. An information page is provided over the network. A submission of data that is to be transmitted over the network in response to the information page is detected. A subset of the data is to be encrypted using the privacy key is determined. The privacy key is used to encrypt the subset of the data.
US08559636B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computer-readable storage medium in a communication device having computer instructions to establish communications with a cellular base station, generate a message request, and transmit to an authentication device by way of the cellular base station the message request. The computer-readable storage medium can also have computer instructions to receive from the authentication device by way of the cellular base station a message response, authenticate the message response, and determine from the authenticated message response whether the cellular base station is an approved network element of a cellular communication system. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08559634B2
An encoding/decoding operation portion includes an encoding/decoding operation circuit and an avoiding path for detouring the encoding decoding operation circuit and can select between encoding or decoding input data in the encoding/decoding operation circuit and detouring the encoding/decoding operation circuit to output the input data without change. Only one wire has to be provided from a selector to a key storage portion and an initialization-vector storage portion. With this construction, it is possible to realize an encoding/decoding circuit which can suppress an increase in the number of wires used to transmit a content of key data to the key storage portion and the initialization-vector storage portion and does not cause complication of circuit layout.
US08559632B2
Methods for transferring messages (30) comprising extensible markup language information from sources (104) via intermediates (105) to destinations (106) are provided with hop-by-hop encryption/decryption processes instead of end-to-end encryption/decryption processes to reduce a complexity and to make non-encrypted messages (30) available inside the intermediates (105). The encryption/decryption processes are different per hop. An encryption/decryption of the message (30) comprises an encryption/decryption of one or more fields of the message (30) and may comprise an addition/detection of a signature. The message (30) may comprise a start envelope field (32), a header field (33-35), a body field (36-38) and a stop envelope field (39). The message (30) may comprise a simple object access protocol message or SOAP message.
US08559624B1
The invention discloses Cyphometry a cryptographic system comprising ciferglifs, chaotiglyphs and word auras. Cyphometry is an esoteric mathematical system that is the direct result of a comparative study of the complex geometric patterns that are formed through specific adding formulas within its fixed number scales between the digits zero (0) and nine (9) used to create ciferglifs, chaotiglyphs and word auras.
US08559621B2
An apparatus and method are provided for determining the donned or doffed state of a headset. In one example, a headset includes a processor, an acoustic transducer, and a detector operably coupled to the processor, the detector providing an output charge pattern corresponding to a state selected from the group consisting of the headset being donned and doffed. Advantageously, the present disclosure provides for reliably determining a donned or doffed state of a headset for efficiently routing calls, text messages, and/or otherwise being used for notifications and requests in a system.
US08559616B2
A method for controlling establishment of a communication channel between a service provider terminal of a contact center and a service request terminal. Receipt of a request to establish the communication channel is responded to by determining whether a license for a media type associated with the communication channel is allocated to the service provider terminal. If a license is determined to be allocated to the service provider terminal, establishment of the communication channel is allowed. If a license is determined not to be allocated to the service provider terminal, availability of a license from a pool of licenses is determined. If a license is determined not to be available, establishment of the communication channel is refused. If a license is determined to be available, the license is allocated to the service provider terminal and establishment of the communication channel is allowed.
US08559599B2
An x-ray generation device and a cathode thereof are provided. The x-ray generation device comprises the cathode, a focusing device, an anode target, and a glass container. The cathode comprises a container and an electron beam generator. The container has a base and a side wall surrounding the base, and both of them define a trench. The electron beam generator comprises at least one metal unit, each of the at least one metal unit is chemical-vapor-deposited a carbon layer, and each of the at least one metal unit is disposed on a bottom of the trench. The at least one metal unit is electrically connected to an outer metal unit of the x-ray generation device. The glass container contains the cathode, the focusing device, and the anode target in sequence. Each of the at least one carbon layer faces the anode target. The glass container has a valve for evacuating and a window for emitting an x-ray.
US08559595B2
A mammographic imaging system is optimized for use with a single fixed size flat panel digital image receptor. It accommodates compression devices (paddles) of varying sizes, and positions them properly in the field of view of the image receptor. When a compression paddle with size smaller than the field of view of the image receptor is used, the compression paddle can be shifted laterally in the direction parallel to the chest wall, so as to facilitate different views of different size breasts, and permit the image receptor to image as much of the desired tissue as possible. An automatic x-ray collimator restricts the x-ray illumination of the breast in accordance with compression paddle size and location in the field of view. An anti-scatter grid, mounted inside the image receptor enclosure, just below the top cover of the enclosure, can be retracted out of the field of view of the image receptor for use in magnification imaging.
US08559591B2
Method and device for recording a projection dataset of an object using a plurality of X-ray sources
A method for recording a projection dataset of a object to be recorded using a plurality of X-ray sources is provided, which X-ray sources are spaced apart from one another on average by an angle α relative to an isocenter. A plurality of projection images from different recording directions are recorded in succession while activating the corresponding X-ray sources. Two X-ray sources are activated in succession having a spacing of at least 2 α relative to the isocenter.
US08559590B2
A radiation system includes a first radiation source and a first detector positioned opposite to each other configured to image a body portion, and a second radiation source and a second detector positioned opposite to each other configured to image a region of interest in the body portion. The first radiation source has a first spot size and the first detector has a first pixel size. The second radiation source has a second spot size and the second detector has a second pixel size. The first spot size of the first radiation source may be different from the second spot size of the second radiation source, and/or the first pixel size of the first detector may be different from the second pixel size of the second detector.
US08559586B2
A reactor fuel bundle includes both full-length fuel rods and part-length fuel rods. The part-length rods are clumped in two groups—a first rod group surrounds one or more water passages which are generally centrally disposed in a channel of the fuel bundle, and a second rod group is distributed about an inner perimeter wall of the channel.
US08559580B2
Techniques are disclosed for asynchronous calibration for eye diagram generation. For example, a method for calibrating a process for generating a data eye associated with a received signal comprises the following steps. Samples of the received signal are obtained for a first unit interval using a first data latch and a roaming latch. A delay offset is determined between the first data latch and the roaming latch by comparing at least one sample obtained using the first data latch and at least one sample obtained using the roaming latch, wherein the delay offset determined by the comparison is used to calibrate the process for generating the data eye associated with the received signal. A similar comparison may be done for a second data latch and used to calibrate the process. The method is able to find the accurate position of each data latch with respect to the roaming latch so as to improve the accuracy of data decoding in a digital receiver, i.e., provide receiver optimization.
US08559568B1
Provided are methods and systems for digital signal processing by applying an improved SDFT technique for eliminating ripple in side lobes of a resulting spectrum. An exemplary method may comprise receiving an input signal which includes a number of discrete samples taken at regular time intervals. The input signal may then be filtered by a modified comb filter according to the sliding DFT technique to generate first and second filtered signals, the second filtered signal being filtered using a different filter coefficient. The first and second filtered signals may be processed by a first and second plurality of resonators respectively, according to the sliding DFT technique, to generate respective first and second SDFT output signals. The first and second SDFT output signals may then be selectively summed to generate a resulting output signal.
US08559566B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for composing a received symbol signal modulated with a bit reflected Gray code into bit information. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a positive integer of the received symbol signal having bits is assigned according to the Gray mapping rule, and a sign is determined. A value that is indicative of an arrangement of the bits constituting the received symbol signal is calculated. A boundary value in at least one bit group consisting of the bits constituting the received symbol signal is acquired, and a difference from an absolute value of the received symbol signal is calculated. The received symbol signal is converted into information per bit using a value of the received symbol signal based on the positive integer and the determined sign, the value that is indicative of the bit arrangement, and the difference from the absolute value. Therefore, it is possible to reduce complexity in bitwise decomposition for an iterative decoder inevitably used in a receiver.
US08559564B2
A receiving system and a method of processing broadcast signals in the receiving system are disclosed. The receiving system includes a tuner, a known sequence detector, a carrier recovery unit, a baseband processor, and a channel equalizer. The tuner receives a broadcast signal of a passband including a data group. Herein, the data group comprises mobile service data, a plurality of known data sequences, and signaling data. The known sequence detector estimates an initial frequency offset and detects a position of each known data sequence based on the known data sequence having the first data pattern. The carrier recovery unit acquires an initial frequency synchronization using the initial frequency offset estimated by the known sequence detector and estimates a residual frequency offset based upon the known data sequences having the second data pattern so as to perform carrier recovery. The baseband processor performs complex multiplication between the received broadcast signal and an output of the carrier recovery unit, thereby converting the passband broadcast signal to a baseband broadcast signal.
US08559559B2
A communications system receiver incorporates a time-averaged DC component subtracter to subtract a time-averaged DC offset component from a received, processed signal. The time-averaged DC offset is selectably calculated from a moving average or a running average. The selection of the time-averaged DC offset can be done depending on whether the receiver operates in a frequency hop mode or not.
US08559556B2
The present invention provides a method of bandpass sampling which particularly includes the single-sideband signal conversion procedure prior to the sampling process in the purpose of lowering the required sampling frequency. Conversion of the bandpass RF signal into a single-sideband spectrum signal which has the spectrum components only in either the positive or the negative frequency domain is accomplished by bandpass-filtering, or more effectively by using a Hilbert transformer. This invention includes a method of finding the minimum sampling frequency for simultaneous frequency down-conversion of multiple RF bandpass signals. It is expected from this invention that the components additionally required in the RF receiver due to the proposed bandpass sampling method is the bandpass filters or the Hilbert transformer for single-sideband conversion, but the benefits from this invention could be the reduced ADC speed performance and the subsequent digital processing load in the receiver system because of the reduced data rates.
US08559552B2
A method (300) for performing dual carrier modulation (DCM) precoding. The method comprises generating data sub-blocks (S320), independently interleaving the sub-blocks (S330), generating bit vectors by grouping bits of the interleaved sub-blocks (S350), mapping the bit vectors into data symbols (S360), and precoding the data symbols using a precoding matrix to generate precoded symbols (S370).
US08559551B2
An input signal to a filter device is allowed to be written into one of a plurality of sequentially connected cells if the input signal is not the zero-valued sample. Each cell receives the input signal and multiplies the input signal by one of a plurality of weight coefficients. The input signal is stopped to be written into any of the cells if the input signal is the zero-valued sample. A result of a filtering operation is output from the last cell.
US08559546B2
The present invention relates to methods and an apparatus for estimating a residual frequency error. According to an embodiment, an expected vector for selected subcarriers of a received symbol is estimated using a channel estimate vector and a reference vector; a sampling frequency mismatch is removed and a dot product is calculated using the expected and a received vector. An angle of the product is estimated and a change in angle from a previous symbol is calculated. The residual frequency is estimated using the calculated change in angle. In another embodiment, an expected subcarrier is estimated based on a channel estimate and on a reference subcarrier, an angle and magnitude of the multiplication between the expected and a received subcarrier are estimated; a phase offset is removed; a weighted mean value of the angles is calculated and the residual frequency error is estimated using a change in weighted mean angle.
US08559544B2
Disclosed herein are lattice reduction systems and methods for a MIMO communication system. One such method includes providing a channel matrix corresponding to a channel in a MIMO communication system, preprocessing the channel matrix to form at least an upper triangular matrix, implementing a relaxed size reduction process, and implementing a basis update process. Implementing the relaxed size reduction process comprises choosing a first relaxed size reduction parameter for a first-off-diagonal element of the upper triangular matrix, choosing a second relaxed size reduction parameter, which is greater than the first relaxed size reduction parameter, for a second-off-diagonal element of the upper triangular matrix evaluating whether a first relaxed size reduction condition is satisfied for the first-off-diagonal element of the upper triangular matrix, and evaluating whether a second relaxed size reduction condition is satisfied for the second-off-diagonal element of the upper triangular matrix.
US08559540B2
An apparatus for trellis-based detection in a communication system including a processor and memory having computer program code configured to construct a trellis representing a transmitted signal formed from a plurality of symbols, each having a constellation size, transmitted by a number of transmit antennas, and form a log likelihood ratio at nodes of the trellis as a log-sum of a number of exponential terms corresponding to a hypothesized transmitted bit value of the plurality of symbols. The number of exponential terms is limited by a number of most likely paths of the trellis extending from each node of the trellis and the constellation size. The processor and memory including computer program code are further configured to form a list at each node of the trellis of a size limited to the number of the most likely paths of the trellis extending from each node of the trellis.
US08559530B2
In some embodiments, the inventions includes a transmitter including a cycle encoding circuit to receive a data input signal and to provide a full cycle encoded signal in response thereto by continuously joining portions of different encoding signals. Some of the encoding signals have a different frequency than others of the encoding signals and some of the encoding signals have a different phase than others of the encoding signals. Data is represented in data time segments of the full cycle encoded signal and no data time segment has more than one cycle of an encoding signal. In some embodiments, a receiver receives the cycle encoded signal and recovers data of the data input signal.
US08559523B2
The method includes receiving a multi-view video stream including a random access picture, which includes a random access slice. The random access slice references only a slice corresponding to a same time and a different view of the random access picture. A reference picture list is initialized using initialization information. The initialized reference picture list is modified based on modification information representing how to assign an inter-view reference index in the initialized reference picture list. A prediction value of a macroblock in the random access picture is determined based on the modified reference picture list, and the macroblock is decoded using the prediction value.
US08559510B2
An access unit to be decoded is selected from data stored in a coded picture buffer (CPB) (56). If the access unit is an IDR (Instantaneous Decoder Refresh) picture, it is checked whether a decoded picture buffer (DPB) (60) has a free area enough to store the access unit. If the DPB (60) has a sufficient free area, a decoder (58) stores the decoding result in the DPB (60), and selects the next access unit from the CPB (56). If the DPB (60) does not have a sufficient free area and the earliest stored picture has already been displayed, the buffer area of the displayed picture is deallocated. If the earliest stored picture has not been displayed, a warning is displayed to the user. All memory areas in the DPB (60) except for the area of a currently displayed picture are deallocated to wait for an IDR picture.
US08559503B2
A moving image coding method includes changing at least one of a resolution and a frame rate of an input image, according to a degree of difficulty in coding the input image, and outputting an image to be coded, coding the image outputted in the changing, and transmitting a coded bit stream through a transmission channel, and determining a coding bit rate that is a bit rate of the coded bit stream transmitted through the transmission channel. The moving image coding method also includes selecting a resolution range for determining an upper limit of a resolution of the image to be coded according to the coding bit rate determined in the determining to control the change in the changing so that the resolution of the image to be coded does not exceed the upper limit.
US08559495B2
This invention relates to methods and apparatus for equalizer adaptation for compensating for channel distortion on received data signals. The method comprises, for each bit, forming an adjusted bit signal comprising a weighted contribution from at least one other bit period. The polarity of the adjusted bit signal is determined and the bit is categorized as a hard, i.e. high confidence, bit is the bit is above an upper threshold or below a lower threshold or otherwise is categorized as a soft bit. The weightings are adjusted based on the category of the bit wherein a first adjustment is made it the bit is categorized as a soft bit but a second, different adjustment is made if the bit is categorized as a hard bit. For a soft bit the weightings may be increased for bits which have the same polarity as the bit in question and decreased for bits of opposite polarity. For a hard bit the adjustment may increase the weighting for bits of opposite polarity and decrease the weighting for bits of the same polarity as the bit in question. The adjustments for the hard and soft bits may be weighted differently according to the proportion of soft to hard bits.
US08559487B2
Data broadcast data, which is broadcast in data broadcasts, is constructed by disposing, for example, EMD (Electric Music Distribution) links required to acquire song data as actual broadcast data, which is broadcast in actual broadcasts by a transmitting device, the actual broadcast data is transmitted, and the data broadcast data wherein the EMD links for the song data in the actual broadcasts are disposed, is transmitted periodically during the transmission of the actual broadcast data. The actual broadcast data and the data broadcast data are received by a user terminal, and the EMD links disposed in the data broadcast data are stored whenever there is an input of an operation to attach a “bookmark”. Thus, audio data such as songs in programs broadcast can easily be acquired by radio.
US08559477B2
A planar waveguide laser device forms a waveguide by a plate-like laser medium (1) having birefringence and clad (2a, 2b) attached to at least one of the surfaces of the laser medium (1) perpendicular to its thickness direction, amplifies laser light by a gain produced by excitation light incident on the laser medium (1), and performs laser oscillation. The laser medium (1) is formed of a material having an optic axis on a cross section perpendicular to the light axis, which is the laser travelling direction. The clad (2a, 2b) is formed of a material having a refractive index in a range between refractive indexes of two polarized lights that travel along the light axis in the laser medium (1) and have oscillation surfaces that are orthogonal to each other. The planar waveguide laser device readily oscillates linearly polarized laser light.
US08559476B2
A semiconductor laser driver to execute automatic power control (APC) for multiple semiconductor lasers based on a common APC output from an image controller. The semiconductor laser driver includes a drive circuit to generate an individual APC signal to execute APC for each semiconductor laser based on the common APC signal.
US08559473B2
Disclosed is a surgical laser system. The system includes a laser generator to generate laser radiation to cause water absorption levels that approximate water absorption levels achieved with a CO2 laser, and one or more fibers coupled to the laser generator to deliver the generated laser radiation. In some embodiments, the laser generator is configured to generate radiation at multiple possible wavelengths in a range of between about 2.4 μm to about 2.75 μm.
US08559472B2
A solid state-gain medium is in the form of a thin disk backed by a reflective coating. A laser resonator is formed by the reflective coating and another mirror. Optical pump radiation is directed into the thin-disk gain-medium for energizing the gain-medium and generating a standing wave of fundamental-wavelength radiation in the resonator. The pump-radiation is directed into the gain-medium at an angle to the resonator axis and pump-radiation fringes are formed by interference between incident and reflected pump-radiation. The pump-radiation angle is selected such that the pump-radiation fringes are aligned with antinodes of the fundamental-wavelength standing wave.
US08559465B2
Apparatus and methods for transparently using otherwise wasted bandwidth associated with variable-rate program streams to deliver additional content. In one embodiment, the network comprises a broadcast switched architecture (BSA), and the program streams are loaded up to a target rate using “null” packets and then delivered over the network infrastructure to a plurality of hub sites. The streams are then unloaded to reproduce the original variable streams, and the bandwidth vacated by removal of the null packets used as the transport mechanism for additional (e.g., non time-sensitive) content to be delivered to the subscribers. The process can also be substantially automated and anticipatory (through, e.g., transmission of null bit insertion data downstream). The invention can also advantageously be implemented with minimal modifications to existing infrastructure, and supports business and operational supervisory processes. Network server, QAM modulator, and CPE apparatus implementing the aforementioned methodologies are also disclosed.
US08559464B2
A method for synchronizing nodes of a multi-hop network with a Time Division Multiplex Access scheme (TDMA), the nodes being hierarchically arranged in different levels, including a step of organizing the TDMA by periodic superframes, the respective superframe having a number of frames including at least a broadcast frame, a step of providing the respective broadcast frame with a number of slots, the number of slots being equal to a number of parent nodes in the multi-hop network, a step of assigning each parent node one slot in the broadcast frame in dependence on its level, and a step of distributing a synchronization information to the parent nodes by means of the broadcast frame, respectively.
US08559455B1
A computer-implemented method may include receiving, at the base station, an identification and request for transmission access from a wireless computing device, determining a level of efficiency for data communications between the base station and the wireless computing device, selecting a descriptor for the level of efficiency, from among a plurality of predetermined descriptors that identify discrete efficiency classifications across a range of efficiencies, determining a share of bandwidth for communication between the base station and the wireless computing device based on the selected descriptor, and communicating electronically with the wireless computing device using the selected share of bandwidth. A higher share of bandwidth may be selected for a wireless computing device having a higher determined level of efficiency.
US08559448B2
Method and arrangement for communication of data packets between a first device (D1) in a first local network (A) and a second device (D2) in a second local network (B). where private IP addresses are used for devices present in the first and second local networks. A first gateway (100) of the first network updates (1:1) a local name server record (100a) with a domain name and an IP address of a second gateway (102) of the second network, each gateway having a local DNS function. When an outgoing DNS request is received (1:2) from the first device referring to a hostname of the second device, the IP address of the second gateway is determined (1:3) from the local name server record based on a domain name in the hostname. A DNS request is then sent (1:4) to the second gateway using the determined IP address, to obtain a current private IP address of the second device in a DNS response (1:5) from the second gateway. A DNS response is then forwarded (1:8) to the first device, referring to the current private IP address of the second device.
US08559446B2
In one embodiment, a service gateway decomposition method is described that is operable in an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) environment. A service gateway controller (SGC) is provided for effectuating a signaling interface with respect to at least one remote services server. One or more service gateways (SGWs) are provided for effectuating a message transport interface with respect to the remote services server, wherein the SGC and SGWs are interfaced together using a suitable signaling architecture.
US08559437B2
A wireless network includes a transmitting device and a plurality of receiving devices. The transmitting device is configured to receive a plurality of data packets, including a first data packet and a second data packet, prepare a preamble, prepare a signal field for each of the plurality of data packets, including a first signal field based on the first data packet and a second signal field based on the second data packet, and broadcast the preamble, the first signal field, the first data packet, the second signal field, and the second data packet as a concatenated packet.
US08559436B2
An island-based network flow processor (IB-NFP) integrated circuit has a high performance processor island. The processor island has a processor and a tightly coupled memory. The integrated circuit also has another memory. The other memory may be internal or external memory. The header of an incoming packet is stored in the tightly coupled memory of the processor island. The payload is stored in the other memory. In one example, if the amount of a processing resource is below a threshold then the header is moved from the first island to the other memory before the header and payload are communicated to an egress island for outputting from the integrated circuit. If, however, the amount of the processing resource is not below the threshold then the header is moved directly from the processor island to the egress island and is combined with the payload there for outputting from the integrated circuit.
US08559431B2
A method associated with particular embodiments comprises establishing a connection between a first node and a network composed of a plurality of nodes supporting a plurality of services. Each of the services is supported by at least one of the nodes. The method further includes receiving at a first node a frame from a second node of the plurality of nodes. The frame comprises at least two labels attached to the frame by the second node. The method also includes extracting a first label value and a second label value from the two labels. The method further includes determining that the frame was sent by the second node based on an extracted first label value and that the frame is associated with a first service based on the extracted second label value. The method additionally includes processing the frame based on both of the determinations.
US08559430B2
A network connection device includes a processor and a switch unit. The processor learns an address. The switch unit outputs a packet received from a first port out of a plurality of ports to a second port. The switch unit manages a table including an entry which includes an address, status data, and an identifier of a port. The switch unit generates a first entry including a first address included in a first packet received via a first port, status data indicating “learning”, and an identifier of the first port, in the absence of the first address in the table, and requests the processor to learn the first address. The switch unit withholds requesting the processor to learn a second address included in a second packet received via the first port, when the second address is included in a second entry along with status data indicating “learning”.
US08559426B2
A system and method for efficient distribution of streamed media content to large and diversely located client locations is provided whereby an intelligent distribution network (IDN) center manages the delivery of the streamed media to a plurality of clients. The IDN center determines the most efficient delivery route to each client by utilizing trace routes between the IDN center, IDN nodes, various transmission devices and the client. Once a ‘best performing’ IDN node and network link is determined, the IDN center directs the client to the ‘best’ node and instructs deliver of a content stream along the ‘best’ link. Upon receiving the streamed media, the ‘best’ node replicates the stream and delivers the media to the client. Additional clients may ‘piggyback’ off the initial content stream by obtaining a replication of the media from their ‘best’ nodes which are, or connected to nodes, already transmitting/receiving the initial content stream.
US08559413B2
A method of providing frame synchronization for GPS signals can include performing coherent bit extraction on the GPS bits and then performing coherent frame boundary detection based on the bits of the coherent bit extraction. Concurrently, differential bit extraction on the GPS bits and differential frame boundary detection based on bits of the differential bit extraction can be performed. Whichever of the coherent frame boundary detection and the differential frame boundary detection first finds a frame boundary, then that frame boundary is used for the frame synchronization. A method of providing string synchronization for GLONASS signals includes performing coherent and differential bit extraction on the GLONASS bits.
US08559412B1
A first node in a network receives a timing packet containing time information, where the timing packet is originated by a time server. The first node then updates the time information in the timing packet to reflect a delay associated with communicating the timing packet over a network link. The first node then updates the time information in the timing packet to reflect the delay associated transfer of the timing packet through the node. The first node sends the timing packet with the updated time information to a second node to enable the second node to use the updated time information for synchronization of the second node. The process repeats across an arbitrary number of nodes to enable time alignment between the first node and final destination node.
US08559410B2
A system and associated method provides for a wireless local area network (WLAN) that permits mobile units to communicate with an external, wired network. Nodes in the WLAN include multiple components, such as a base module, antenna module, and one or more wireless modules. Indeed, this system can employ two or more wireless modules that employ different short-range wireless protocols, such as IEEE 802.11-type and Bluetooth protocols. The nodes may perform self-discovery to determine modules within the node and associated functionality, as well as identify neighboring nodes to thereby establish a mesh-type network. Nodes can be configured to provide connectivity to the wired network, while others (access points) communicate wirelessly with mobile devices. The nodes may then be interconnected wirelessly, or via wires.
US08559409B2
A system for managing mobile routers connected to a PMIP6 (proxy mobile internet protocol version 6) domain is provided with a plurality of MAGs (mobility access gateways) to which the mobile routers are to be connected, an LMA (local mobility anchor), connected to the plurality of MAGs, for managing location information of the mobile routers and packet forwarding information of the mobile routers, and a profile server in which profile information of the mobile routers is registered. Further, the plurality of MAGs and the LMA set up forwarding information of a home prefix of a mobile router that is connected to the PMIP6 domain and a mobile network prefix managed by the connected mobile router, based on the profile information of the mobile routers registered in the profile server.
US08559404B2
A communication system is provided that enables a node to be identified by a controller. To establish a communication link from the node an alignment signal is received from the controller. Upon receiving the controller alignment information, the node sends a response including information the node randomly generated. The controller then responds by sending back at least a portion of the information the node randomly generated indicating that the node has been recognized by the controller.
US08559401B2
A method for downlink power control for use in a spread spectrum time division communication system having time slots for communication, implemented in a user equipment, includes receiving data in a command per coded composite transport channel (CCTrCH) transmitted over a plurality of time slots. An interference power for each time slot of the plurality of time slots is measured and a single power command for the entire CCTrCH is transmitted in response to a signal to interference ratio of the received CCTrCH and the measured interference power measurement for each time slot. A subsequent data is received in the CCTrCH communication having a transmission power level for each downlink communication time slot set individually in response to the interference power measurement for that time slot and the single power command for the entire CCTrCH.
US08559395B2
Methods and apparatus that enable a wireless femtocell to operate in its designated frequency so as to minimize interference between the wireless femtocell and neighboring base stations (and other femtocells or nomadic cells). In one exemplary embodiment, the femtocell cell comprises a UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) femtocell which has the ability to scan the air interface in a manner similar to that associated with a UE in order to identify unallocated resources within the wireless network, and subsequently request access for the unallocated resources. Business methods useful in combination with the aforementioned methods and apparatus are also disclosed.
US08559394B2
An active handover method and terminal based on the HRPD system are disclosed by the present invention. The method comprises that: a terminal receives an active handover command, wherein if a virtual connection has existed, the virtual connection is disconnected; and if a virtual connection is being established, the establishment process of the virtual connection is terminated; and High Rate Packet Data air interface connection is established. With the method, processing of the access terminal and the access network is specified, and the problem of long-time interruption in the service of the terminal is solved, processing efficiency of the access terminal and the access network can be improved, thereby improving the processing efficiency of the whole system.
US08559392B2
Systems and methods for improved inter-technology handovers between wireless networks are disclosed, in which a source radio access network operates on a first technology and a target radio access network operates on a second technology, and both radio access networks are managed at a single packet serving gateway. A foreign agent receives a mobile subscriber identifier during a handover of a mobile device from the source radio access network to the target radio access network and sends the mobile subscriber identifier to the packet serving gateway, and the packet serving gateway locates at least one process instance running on the packet serving gateway that is routing existing packet flows to the mobile device based on the mobile subscriber identifier. The packet serving gateway then transfers control of the at least one process to a control process.
US08559385B2
A technique of operating a wireless communication device includes receiving an assigned starting point index and an assigned reference signal bandwidth for a reference signal. The reference signal is then transmitted multiple times, beginning at an initial resource block that is associated with the assigned starting point index and in accordance with the assigned reference signal bandwidth, across a shared channel.
US08559378B2
The present invention relates to the field of wireless access systems and more particularly to a broadband wireless access system and a transmission method for such system. At least two data streams (2, 3, 4) are simultaneously transmitted in a multi-user channel (1) having a location dependent capacity. The data streams (2, 3, 4) are transmitted on the same radio resources. Preferably, the data streams are combined in a transmitter and separated in a receiver using different modulation and/or coding for the data streams.
US08559377B2
A method and apparatus for transmission to support various QoS requirements and various channel conditions is provided. By staggering the transmission of data sub packets and partitioning discrete tones used for transmission, a plurality of users may be provided with a plurality of multiple access techniques.
US08559373B2
A space diversity method is disclosed having the steps of: setting space-frequency block coder (SFBC) based on Alamouti coder as the minimum unit of space-time coder; orthogonally processing the SFBC to acquire the transmission signals of part of antenna ports in eight antenna ports, and cyclically delaying the acquired transmission signals of antenna ports to obtain the transmission signals of the rest antenna ports; transmitting the acquired transmission signal in the corresponding time and sub-carrier by each antenna port. A space diversity device is also provided which has an orthogonal processing module, a signal cyclic delay module and a transmitting module. With the method and device, the eight-antenna data transmission in the long time evolution (LTE) advanced system is achieved, and better diversity gain is acquired without adding extra pilot overhead.
US08559359B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate quality of service (QoS) differentiation and/or prioritization across a plurality of base stations included in wireless communication systems. The system can include components and/or devices that obtain resource allocations for cells controlled by a local base station, ascertains whether or not the resource allocations satisfy quality of service targets associated with data flows traversing through cells controlled by the local base station, and dispatches inter cell interference coordination indicators to remote base stations that have a proximate relationship defined by an X2 channel between the local base station and the remote base stations.
US08559352B2
A method for operating a base station for Multicast Broadcast Services (MBS) in a wireless communication system that uses a multi-carrier is provided. In the method, MBS capability exchange is performed on a terminal using a primary carrier. A first message for configuring at least one MBS service flow is received from the terminal. A second message is transmitted to the terminal in response to the first message. The second message includes switching information between the primary carrier and a secondary carrier. MBS data is transmitted using the secondary carrier.
US08559351B2
Aspects describe utilizing a dedicated reference signal for supporting Network MIMO, distributed MIMO, Coordinated MultiPoint, and the like. A data modulation symbol is transmitting in the same direction as a pilot modulation symbol is transmitted. Two or more wireless devices can coordinate communications such that transmission of the same pilot modulation symbol and the same data modulation symbol are transmitted to a device in different directions, each direction associated with a wireless device and intended for a particular mobile device. Cluster-specific scrambling and/or user-group specific scrambling can be employed and a scrambling code can be communicated prior to transmission of the pilot modulation symbols and data modulation symbols.
US08559349B2
A communications device includes a wireless communications interface, a power line carrier (PLC) communications interface, and processing circuitry coupled to the wireless communications interface and to the PLC communications interface. The processing circuitry, in combination with at least one of the wireless communications interface and the PLC communications interface is operable to send a request for wireless communications interface operational parameters via the PLC communications interface, receive a response via the PLC communications interface, the response including wireless communications interface operational parameters corresponding to a wireless network, and configure wireless communications interface based upon response. In another operation, the processing circuitry is operable to listen for transmissions of at least one Wireless Access Point (WAP) of the wireless network. When transmissions of the at least one the WAP of the wireless network meets a sufficiency threshold, receive data service via the wireless communications interface and when the transmissions of the at least one the WAP of the wireless network fail to meet the sufficiency threshold, receive data service via the PLC communications interface.
US08559330B2
An access point allows access from at least one user device, which may be a wireless device or a wired local area network device. The access point has radio frequency transceiver circuitry for communicating over a wireless link with a base station selected from a plurality of available base stations, and an antenna, having an adjustable preferred direction for transmission and reception of radio frequency signals. Control circuitry selects a preferred direction for the antenna such that the access point can establish a wireless link with one of said base stations, based on a data rate that is available over the wireless link.
US08559329B2
Techniques for a node in a wireless network to process packets are disclosed. An example method includes registering with a network-management system in the network to become a node in the network, determining neighboring nodes, measuring costs of wireless links to its neighboring nodes, measuring radio characteristic levels of the wireless links to its neighboring nodes, sending a link-state advertisement to the network-management system, the link-state packets providing its neighboring relationships and the costs of the wireless links to its neighboring nodes, receiving link weights from the network-management system, computing a routing table for a link-state routing protocol based on (1) the sum of the link weights and the radio characteristic levels for the corresponding wireless links to its neighboring nodes, and (2) a topology of the network, and processing the packets using the routing table.
US08559322B2
A link state detection method is disclosed in an embodiment of the present invention. The method includes: obtaining link state information from the lowest level SE to the mid-level SE; notifying to the mid-level SE the link state information from the lowest level SE to the mid-level SE; obtaining accessibility information from the mid-level SE to the lowest level SE according to the link state information from the lowest level SE to the mid-level SE, and link state information from the mid-level SE to the first level SE; notifying the first level SE the link state information from the mid-level SE to the first level SE, and the accessibility information from the from the mid-level SE to the lowest level SE; obtaining the accessibility information from the first level SE to the lowest level SE according to the link state information and the accessibility information sent by the mid-level SE.
US08559318B2
A method for obtaining link aggregation group (LAG) information, and a node and a system thereof are provided, which belong to the field of communication technologies. The method includes the following steps. An ingress node of a label switched path (LSP) sends an echo request message to another node on the LSP, in which the message carries identification information, and the identification information is for identifying that the LAG information on the LSP needs to be obtained. The ingress node receives an echo reply message returned by said another node, in which the message carries LAG information between said another node and a next hop node on the LSP. The present invention implements the obtaining of LAG information on the LSP and brings great convenience to OAM of MPLS network, and has the advantages of being simple, convenient, and easy to implement and having strong practicality.
US08559316B2
A method to apply different treatments may include defining at least one treatment and selecting at least one channel. The method further may include applying the at least one treatment to the at least one selected channel.
US08559311B2
An operation method of a relay node in a wireless network using a superposition coding scheme is provided. In particular, a relay node may receive a first transmission message from a first source node in a first time slot. The relay node may also receive a second transmission message from a second source node in a second time slot. The relay node may then transmit a relay message to a first destination node corresponding to the first source node and a second destination node corresponding to the second source node in a third time slot, the relay message being associated with the first transmission message and the second transmission message.
US08559296B2
Aspects of a method and system for an OFDM joint timing and frequency tracking system may include tracking carrier frequency and symbol timing in an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) signal based on at least a reference symbol set. A receiver frequency and timing may be adjusted based on the tracked carrier frequency and symbol timing. The carrier frequency may be tracked by generating an output signal as a function of a frequency offset Δƒ, and the symbol timing may be tracked by generating an output signal as a function of a guard time Δtg. The received OFDM signal may be fast Fourier transformed to generate the reference symbol (RS) set. The receiver frequency and timing may be adjusted coarsely prior to fine adjustment. The coarse receiver frequency and the timing adjustment may be based on processing a primary synchronization signal and a secondary synchronization signal.
US08559295B2
A pilot transmission scheme is presented where during a first OFDM symbol period a first pilot sequence is transmitted over a first multiple sub-carriers on a first group of antennas. During a second OFDM symbol period, a second pilot sequence is transmitted over a second multiple sub-carriers on a second group of antennas. The first and the second groups of antennas only transmit one pilot sequence every subframe of M OFDM symbol periods.
US08559289B2
An optical pickup apparatus includes: first and second laser diodes to emit first and second laser beams having first and second wavelengths for reading signals recorded in first and second optical discs, respectively; a first objective lens configured to condense the first laser beam onto the signal recording layer of the first optical disc; a second objective lens arranged, along with the first objective lens, in a radial direction of the first and the second optical discs, the second objective lens configured to condense the second laser beam onto the signal recording layer of the second optical disc; a first optical system configured to guide the first laser beam from the first laser diode to the first objective lens; and a second optical system configured to guide the second laser beam from the second laser diode to the second objective lens independently of the first optical system.
US08559287B1
A method, system and apparatus for fault protection using a linear feedback shift register are presented. The system comprises a protected register containing a first portion for holding a value for a sequence of numbers and a second portion for other parameters. The system also comprises a linear feedback shift register circuit configured to write the sequence of numbers to the first portion of the protected register. If the written sequence of numbers of the protected register matches a reference sequence of numbers, a rewrite circuit is configured to write the second portion of the protected register.
US08559286B2
A recording method for use by an apparatus and/or which is encoded on a computer readable medium includes selecting a defect management on mode or a defect management off mode that indicates whether defect management is to be performed or not while data is recorded in the recording medium, recording the data in the recording medium while defect management is performed on the recording medium, if the defect management on mode is selected, and recording the data in the recording medium without defect management, if the defect management off mode is selected.
US08559275B2
A sweep generator is employed to generate a sweep to be used by a seismic vibrator device for generating a desired target output spectrum, wherein the frequency sweep is designed so as to comply with one or more constraints imposed by the seismic vibrator device and/or imposed by the environment in which the device is to be used. In one embodiment, a sweep generator determines a sweep for achieving a desired target output spectrum by a given seismic vibrator device in compliance with at least a pump flow constraint imposed by the seismic vibrator device. In another embodiment, a sweep generator determines a sweep for achieving a desired target output spectrum by a given seismic vibrator device in compliance with all of multiple operational constraints of the seismic vibrator device, such as both mass displacement and pump flow constraints. Environmental constraints may also be accounted for in certain embodiments.
US08559274B2
Implementations of a cMUT have dual operation modes. The cMUT has two different switchable operating conditions depending on whether a spring member in the cMUT contacts an opposing surface at a contact point in the cMUT. The two different operating conditions have different frequency responses due to the contact. The cMUT can be configured to operate in transmission mode when the cMUT in the first operating condition and to operate in reception mode when the cMUT is in the second operating condition. The implementations of the dual operation mode cMUT are particularly suitable for ultrasonic harmonic imaging in which the reception mode receives higher harmonic frequencies.
US08559272B2
An acoustic logging while drilling tool includes an acoustic transmitter and a linear array of acoustic receivers. At least one of the transmitter and the linear array of receivers is deployed on a blade having an outer diameter greater than that of the tool body. In preferred embodiments the transmitter and linear array are each deployed on a distinct blade. Deployment of the transmitter and/or the receivers on a blade reduces the standoff distance to the borehole wall which tends to improve the signal strength of received guided waves without an increase in transmitter power or receiver sensitivity.
US08559261B2
A dual function memory device architecture compatible with asynchronous operation and synchronous serial operation. The dual function memory device architecture includes one set of physical ports having two different functional assignments. Coupled between the physical ports and core circuits of the memory device are asynchronous and synchronous input and output signal paths or circuits. The signal paths include shared or dedicated buffers coupled to the ports, asynchronous and synchronous command decoders, a network of switches, and a mode detector. The mode detector determines the operating mode of the dual function memory device from a port, and provides the appropriate switch selection signal. The network of switches routes the input or output signals through the asynchronous or synchronous circuits in response to the switch selection signal. The appropriate command decoder interprets the input signals and provides common control logic with the necessary signals for initiating the corresponding operation.
US08559257B2
A method of maintaining the data state of a semiconductor dynamic random access memory cell is provided, wherein the memory cell comprises a substrate being made of a material having a first conductivity type selected from p-type conductivity type and n-type conductivity type; a first region having a second conductivity type selected from the p-type and n-type conductivity types, the second conductivity type being different from the first conductivity type; a second region having the second conductivity type, the second region being spaced apart from the first region; a buried layer in the substrate below the first and second regions, spaced apart from the first and second regions and having the second conductivity type; a body region having the first conductivity type; and a gate positioned between the first and second regions and adjacent the body region.
US08559252B2
Disclosed is a memory testing device having cross interconnections of multiple drivers, comprising a first wiring bus and a second wiring bus connected to a first device area and a third wiring bus and a fourth wiring bus connected to a second device area. A first I/O driver module is connected to the first wiring bus through a first driving bus. A second I/O driver module is connected to the third wiring bus through the second driving bus. The fourth wiring bus is Y-shaped connected to the node between the first wiring bus and first driving bus. And, the second wiring bus is Y-shaped connected to the node between the third wiring bus and the second driving bus.
US08559238B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to configurable inputs and/or outputs for memory and memory stacking applications in processor-based systems. More specifically, embodiments of the present invention include processor-based systems with volatile-memory having memory devices that include a die having a circuit configured for enablement by a particular signal, an input pin configured to receive the particular signal, and a path selector configured to selectively designate a signal path to the circuit from the input pin.
US08559233B2
A semiconductor memory device includes even page buffers coupled to even memory cells through respective even bit lines, odd page buffers coupled to odd memory cells through respective odd bit lines, first BL selectors, each configured to couple each of the even bit lines to the respective even page buffers and to couple each of the even page buffers to respective odd bit lines so that the even and odd page buffers precharge the odd bit lines in a precharge operation for the odd bit lines, and second BL selectors, each configured to couple each of the odd bit lines to the respective odd page buffers and to couple each of the odd page buffers to respective even bit lines so that the even and odd page buffers precharge the even bit lines in a precharge operation for the even bit lines.
US08559226B2
According to one embodiment, a threshold detecting method for detecting threshold values of nonvolatile semiconductor memory cells comprises applying a preset voltage to a word line connected to the memory cells, and performing bit-line sense at two different timings during discharging of one of a bit line connected to the memory cells and a node corresponding to the bit line, while a potential of the word line is kept constant.
US08559220B2
The semiconductor device includes a first wiring; a second wiring; a third wiring; a fourth wiring; a first transistor having a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; and a second transistor having a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode. The first transistor is formed on or in a substrate including a semiconductor material. The second transistor includes an oxide semiconductor layer.
US08559219B2
A storage element includes a storage layer which has magnetization vertical to the film surface and of which the direction of magnetization changes, a magnetization fixed layer which has magnetization vertical to the film surface serving as a reference of information, and an insulating layer, and the direction of magnetization of the storage layer changes by injecting spin-polarized electrons in the laminated direction of the layer structure so as to perform information recording, the size of an effective demagnetizing field that the storage layer receives is configured to be smaller than a saturated magnetization amount of the storage layer, and a ferromagnetic layer material constituting the storage layer has CoFeB as the base material and an anti-corrosive element is added to the base material.
US08559210B2
A memory device includes: a transistor array having transistors; and memory elements provided, one for each of the transistors. The transistor array includes a substrate having diffusion layers on a surface thereof, parallel word lines on the substrate, parallel first bit lines provided in a direction perpendicular to the word lines, bit contact electrodes between the adjacent two word lines and connecting the first bit lines and the diffusion layers, and node contact electrodes at an opposite side to the bit contact electrodes with the two word lines in between and connected to the diffusion layers. The memory elements have lower electrodes connected to the node contact electrodes, memory layers on the lower electrodes and having resistance values reversibly changing by voltage application, and parallel second bit lines extending in the same direction as that of the first bit lines on the memory layers.
US08559208B2
Polysilicon diodes fabricated in standard CMOS logic processes can be used as program selectors for reversible resistive devices such as PCRAM, RRAM, CBRAM, or other memory cells. The reversible resistive devices have a reversible resistive element coupled to a diode. The diode can be constructed by P+/N+ implants on a polysilicon as a program selector. By applying a voltage or a current between a reversible resistive element and the N-terminal of a diode, the reversible resistive device can be programmed into different states based on magnitude, duration, voltage-limit, or current-limit in a reversible manner. On the polysilicon diode, the spacing and doping level of a gap between the P- and N-implants can be controlled for different breakdown voltages and leakage currents. The Silicide Block Layer (SBL) can be used to block silicide formation on the top of polysilicon to prevent shorting.
US08559200B2
A startup circuit for a switching-mode power supply (SMPS) includes a first voltage detector configured to trigger the switching-mode power supply from a first operation mode to a second operation mode when an input supply voltage exceeds a first threshold voltage, a current consumption in the first voltage detector in the first operation mode being determined by a reverse leakage current of a diode. A feedback circuit is coupled to the first voltage detector and being capable of maintaining a positive feedback loop. A second voltage detector is coupled to the first voltage detector and the feedback circuit, and is configured to trigger the switching-mode power supply to switch from the second operation mode to the first operation mode when the input supply voltage is below a second threshold voltage.
US08559198B2
An AC to AC power converter has a rectifier configured to receive an AC signal. An H-Bridge is coupled to the rectifier and the DC Filter. A processor is coupled to the rectifier and to the H-Bridge, wherein the processor is configured to produce a pulse to modulate a rectified input or a constant DC input to the H-Bridge. A wave filter is coupled to the H-Bridge and configured to modulate an output of the H-Bridge to an AC voltage of a desired frequency, wherein an output of the wave filter is coupled to the processor.
US08559196B2
A control circuit of a power converter for light-load power saving according to the present invention comprises a first feedback circuit coupled to an output voltage of the power converter to receive a first feedback signal. A second feedback circuit is coupled to the output voltage to receive a second feedback signal. A control circuit generates a switching signal for switching a transformer of the power converter and regulating the output voltage of the power converter in response to the first feedback signal and the second feedback signal. The switching signal is generated in accordance with the first feedback signal when an output load is high. The switching signal is generated in accordance with the second feedback signal during a light-load condition.
US08559192B2
The display device includes: a panel module 4 that includes a display panel 16 and a driving circuit for driving the display panel 16; a metallic front housing 11 that partially covers the panel module 4 from a display surface side of the display panel 16; and a metallic back housing 12 that covers the panel module 4 from a back surface side of the display panel 16. A conductive cloth 24 is disposed between the panel module 4, and the front housing 11 and the back housing 12, the conductive cloth 24 continuously covering a circumferential edge portion of the panel module 4 on the display surface side, a side surface portion of the panel module 4 and a circumferential edge portion of the panel module 4 on the back surface side and being connected electrically to the front housing 11 and the back housing 12.
US08559186B2
An inductor with patterned ground plane is described. In one design, the inductor includes a conductor formed on a first layer and a patterned ground plane formed on a second layer under the conductor. The patterned ground plane has an open center area and a shape matching the shape of the conductor. The patterned ground plane includes multiple shields, e.g., eight shields for eight sides of an octagonal shape conductor. Each shield has multiple slots formed perpendicular to the conductor. Partitioning the patterned ground plane into separate shields and forming slots on each shield help prevent the flow of eddy current on the patterned ground plane, which may improve the Q of the inductor. Multiple interconnects couple the multiple shields to circuit ground, which may be located at the center of the conductor.
US08559176B2
Certain embodiments of the present invention provide a system for managing heat generated by electronic equipment in an electronic equipment enclosure. The electronic equipment enclosure includes a first pair of equipment rails and a second pair of equipment rails spaced apart from the first pair of equipment rails. The system includes a duct connected to the first pair of equipment rails and a bracket connected to the second pair of equipment rails and spaced apart from the duct. The duct is adapted to receive a first portion of the electronic equipment and the bracket is adapted to receive a second portion of the electronic equipment. The first portion of the electronic equipment includes an air intake opening and the second portion of the electronic equipment includes an air exhaust opening. The duct forms a barrier between the air intake opening and the air exhaust opening for separating cooled air entering the electronic equipment and heated air exiting the electronic equipment.
US08559170B2
A central processing unit (CPU) expansion card may be inserted into a first connector of a motherboard. The CPU expansion card includes a board, a CPU socket mounted on the board, a number of memory slots mounted on the board and electrically connected to the CPU socket, and a second connector electrically connected to the CPU socket and mounted on the bottom side of the board to be inserted into the first connector of the motherboard.
US08559162B2
A mesoporous carbon material, a fabrication method thereof and a supercapacitor containing the mesoporous carbon material are provided. The mesoporous carbon material includes a plurality of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and/or metal particles and/or metal oxide particles, and a carbon matrix. The mesoporous carbon material has a plurality of mesopores formed by the carbon matrix and the carbon nanotubes and/or the metal particles and/or the metal oxide particles. The plurality of carbon nanotubes, and/or the metal particles and/or the metal oxide particles are formed substantially adjacent to the plurality of mesopores.
US08559159B2
An electrostatic chuck and method of use thereof is provided herein. In some embodiments, an electrostatic chuck may include a disk having a first side to support a substrate thereon and a second side, opposing the first side, to provide an interface to selectively couple the disk to a thermal control plate, a first electrode disposed within the disk proximate the first side to electrostatically couple the substrate to the disk and a second electrode disposed within the disk proximate the opposing side of the disk to electrostatically couple the disk to the thermal control plate. In some embodiments, the second electrode may also be configured to heat the disk.
US08559155B2
A mechanism for protecting objects sensitive to electrostatic discharge (ESD) employs nested plates to direct the flow of ESD current to a targeted impedance. In one embodiment, an insulator plate is interposed between first and second electrically conductive plates. The insulator plate prevents any charge accumulating on the first plate from arcing to the second plate through the insulator plate. A target plate of electrically conductive material is interposed between the first and second plates over a hole in the insulator plate. The target plate, which is surrounded by an impedance layer of static dissipative material, includes a discharge portion that projects toward the second plate. ESD current flows in a path from the first plate, through the impedance layer, the target plate and again through the impedance layer, and to the second plate. The impedance layer provides a targeted impedance in the ESD current path.
US08559154B2
Circuitry, systems and methods that address the need to coordinate relay switching with another event, such as a zero crossing of an alternating current (AC) voltage waveform are described. In some embodiments, the systems and methods continuously or periodically calibrate the timing of control signals to a relay, such that the switching of the relay in response to some (e.g., second or subsequent) control signals occurs closer in time to a zero crossing of an AC line voltage than the switching of the relay in response to other (e.g., initial or first) control signals.
US08559152B2
System and method for protecting a power converter. The system includes a duty-cycle detection component configured to receive a modulation signal, determine a first duty cycle corresponding to a first period of the modulation signal, compare the first duty cycle with a threshold duty cycle, and generate a duty-cycle comparison signal. Additionally, the system includes a threshold generator configured to receive the duty-cycle comparison signal and generate a threshold signal corresponding to a second period of the modulation signal, the second period being after the first period, and a comparator configured to receive the threshold signal and a first signal and to generate a first comparison signal. The first signal is associated with an input current for a power converter. Moreover, the system includes a pulse-width-modulation component configured to receive the first comparison signal and generate the modulation signal for adjusting the input current for the power converter.
US08559144B2
In an SCR ESD protection circuit, the n-type emitter of the SCR is controlled to receive electron current only during an ESD event, thereby defining PNP characteristics during normal operation and SCR characteristics during an ESD event.
US08559139B2
A method of manufacturing a sensor module includes providing a substrate comprising an array of magnetically sensitive elements on a first main face of the substrate. An array of conducting lines is applied over the first main face of the substrate. An array of electrical interconnects is applied over the first main face of the substrate. The substrate is singulated after application of the electrical interconnects.
US08559137B2
A piezoelectric actuator includes an actuator base that supports a load beam and has an opening accommodating a piezoelectric element, a receiver member that is laid on and fixed to the actuator base and forms a receiver that faces the opening and receives the piezoelectric element, an adhesive part formed of a liquid adhesive that is filled in a space defined by the piezoelectric element, an inner circumference of the opening, and the receiver and adheres the piezoelectric element to the inner circumference of the opening and the receiver, and a suppressing zone that is formed along an overlapping area where the actuator base and receiver member overlap each other and suppresses penetration of the liquid adhesive due to a capillary phenomenon into the overlapping area.
US08559136B1
A magnetic recording medium according to one embodiment includes at least a ground layer above a non-magnetic substrate; a magnetic recording layer above the ground layer; and an overcoat above the magnetic recording layer, the overcoat characterized in that said overcoat is an amorphous carbon film having a ratio of sp3 bonding with respect to sp2 bonding (sp3/(sp2+sp3)) of at least 0.5, and hydrogen content in the overcoat in a center layer thereof in a film thickness direction of said overcoat is from 0.1 atom % to 0.6 atom %. Additional products and methods are also presented.
US08559135B2
A magnetic tape reel that has a plurality of gear teeth capable of engaging with a plurality of engagement gear teeth provided with a reel engaging portion of a recording and reproducing apparatus and upon which magnetic tape can be wound, the magnetic tape reel comprising: a hub portion including a cylindrical portion upon which the magnetic tape can be wound and the plurality of gear teeth; and a positioning mark capable of being detected using a contactless detector, the positioning mark being provided for aligning a specific gear tooth A from the plurality of gear teeth with a specific engagement gear tooth B from the plurality of engagement gear teeth.
US08559127B2
An apparatus includes a transducer assembly including a waveguide and a grating structured to couple electromagnetic radiation into the waveguide; and a body including an extended cavity vertical cavity surface emitting laser diode, and having an air bearing surface, wherein the transducer assembly is positioned adjacent to the body and the laser diode directs electromagnetic radiation onto the grating. A method of making the apparatus is also included.
US08559125B2
A disk storage system having servo data stored thereon for accurate head position control over a magnetic or other storage medium. The servo data is seamless and untrimmed and consists of a primary servo burst set (AB burst) in which the difference defines the desired tract pitch for the surface. Multiple secondary servo burst sets (e.g., CD burst and EF burst) are written at the desired track pitch but radially offset from the primary burst set. In one embodiment, two secondary servo burst sets are used, but alternatively, any number of secondary servo burst sets could be used. In this exemplary embodiment having two secondary servo burst sets, the CD servo burst set is offset by ⅓ of the track pitch from the primary servo burst set. Also in this embodiment, the EF servo burst set is offset by ⅔ of the track pitch from the primary servo burst set. There are six bursts per set. The servo data is written in multiple servo sectors around the surface of the medium. From the servo data, three PES (position error signals) are generated, A−B, C−D and E−F, for providing linear position sensitivity information to the head position control logic. The resulting PES is more linear for smaller head sizes.
US08559120B2
A control apparatus is configured to control an actuator, which moves one driven member by a plurality of vibrators, by supplying two alternating-current signals to each vibrator of the actuator. The control apparatus includes a controller configured to acquire a speed characteristic of the driven member corresponding to the frequency of the alternating-current signal with respect to the vibrator(s) based on the acquired speed and the frequency of the alternating-current signal supplied to the vibrator(s) at the time of the acquisition of the speed, and reduce a difference in the characteristic among the plurality of vibrators by adjusting at least one of an amplitude of an alternating-current signal to be supplied to the vibrator, a frequency of an alternating-current signal to be supplied to the vibrator, and a phase difference between two alternating-current signals to be supplied to the vibrator, based on the acquired characteristic.
US08559117B2
A zoom lens ZL including an optical element P for deflecting an optical path, including, in order from an object: a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power; a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power; a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group G4 having positive refractive power; a fifth lens group G5 having negative refractive power; and a sixth lens group G6, wherein a conditional expression 0.10
US08559115B2
A fluidic stabilized focus device comprises a fluidic lens core and a first yoke. The fluidic lens core includes a support ring, a first surface that includes an elastic membrane, a second surface, and a volume of fluid enclosed within the boundaries of the first and second surfaces and support ring. The first yoke has an annular portion configured to engage the first surface. Engagement of the first surface by the first yoke results in a displacement of the fluid and a change in optical properties of the device.
US08559108B2
A grating for EUV-radiation includes a plurality of reflecting lines. Each reflecting line includes a plurality of first reflecting dots, and a plurality of second reflecting dots arranged between each other. The first reflecting dots and the second reflecting dots are configured to reflect EUV-radiation with a mutual phase difference of 180±10 degrees mod 360 degrees.
US08559107B2
Systems and methods have been provided to increase output power, as well as spatial and/or spectral brightness when utilizing or combining a plurality of laser elements.
US08559106B2
A water-resistant polarizing film having an organic colorant having an anionic group, and organic nitrogen compounds. The organic nitrogen compounds include a first organic nitrogen compound having at least two nitrogen atoms in the molecule thereof, and a second organic nitrogen compound having at least two nitrogen atoms in the molecule thereof. The distance (A) between adjacent nitrogen atoms in the first organic nitrogen compound is shorter than the distance (B) between adjacent atoms of the nitrogen atoms in the second organic nitrogen compound.
US08559103B2
A microscope for conventional fluorescence microscopy (epi-fluorescence) and for total internal reflection microscopy is described. A first light source emits conventional fluorescent illumination light along a first illumination path and a second light source emitting evanescent illumination light along a second illumination path that differs from the first illumination path. An objective emits light onto an object to be viewed. A beam combiner directs the two lights into the objective while keeping their beam paths geometrically separated. The beam combiner comprises at least two spatially separated first zones for coupling in the conventional fluorescent illumination light and at least two spatially separated second zones for coupling in the evanescent illumination light. The first and second zones are adapted in their size and position to objective pupils of different objectives.
US08559099B2
A laser beam amplifier with high optical axis stability is provided. The laser beam amplifier includes: a container for accommodating a laser medium; a pair of electrodes for performing discharge in the laser medium to form an amplification region for a laser beam in the laser medium; and an optical system for forming an optical path between a first point, upon which the laser beam is incident, and a second point, from which the laser beam is outputted, such that the amplification region is located in the optical path between the first point and the second point, wherein the first point and the second point are conjugate to each other, and the laser beam incident upon the first point is amplified while passing through the amplification region at least twice and then transferred to the second point.
US08559096B2
Various reflective display pixels are provided. In one embodiment, among others, a reflective display pixel for modulating the return of incident visible light is provided that includes one or more stacked cells. Each cell includes a fluid containing a light absorbing medium capable of absorbing incident light in at least one specified wavelength band for that cell and a light returning medium capable of selectively returning at least a portion of the light within the specified wavelength band for that cell. In other embodiments, each cell includes a fluid containing a light absorbing medium capable of absorbing incident light in at least one specified wavelength band for that cell and a light returning medium capable of selectively returning at least a portion of visible light outside the specified wavelength band for that cell.
US08559095B2
A radiation emitting element comprising a radiation transmissive element having a first refractive index, a first surface, a second, opposite surface, a radiation emitter adapted to emit radiation of a predetermined wavelength into the radiation transmissive element, and a plurality of radiation controlling elements, wherein each radiation controlling element comprises: —a first liquid having a second refractive index, —a second fluid having a third refractive index being lower than the second refractive index, the second refractive index being closer to the first refractive index than the third refractive index, —means for altering a shape of the first liquid between two modes wherein: • in a first mode, the first liquid being in contact with the first surface at a first surface part, and an interface between the first liquid and the second fluid, at the first surface part, is not parallel to the first surface part and • in a second mode, a surface of the second fluid, at the first surface part, is at least substantially parallel to the shape of the first surface part, wherein the first liquid has a transmittance of at least 10% at the predetermined wavelength.
US08559087B2
A multi-beam light source device and a multi-beam scanning device including the multi-beam light source device are provided. The multi-beam light source device includes: a light source including: a cylindrical package having a side edge portion which extends in a rotational direction about a rotational axis line defined as a first direction; a plurality of light emitting units which are disposed in the cylindrical package and configured to emit laser light in the first direction; and a housing which holds the light source. The housing has a holder that holds the side edge portion of the cylindrical package to be relatively rotatable in the rotational direction. The holder is formed with at least one opening which exposes the side edge portion of the light source.
US08559084B2
A major object of the present invention is to provide a volume hologram transfer foil that gives a volume hologram laminate higher in antiforgery function.The present invention achieves the object by providing a volume hologram transfer foil comprising: a substrate, a volume hologram layer carrying a recorded volume hologram that is formed on the substrate, and an image forming layer carrying a formed image and a heat seal layer containing a thermoplastic resin that are formed on the volume hologram layer, and comprising no reflective layer having a function to reflect light.
US08559081B2
Disclosed is a method for processing raster image data and determining via a reference device (e.g., LUT), an amount of marking medium (toner, ink) to be used for printing a document. Then billing costs based on the amount of medium is determined. In particular, a calibration method may be performed on an apparatus to determine the amounts of medium used for that particular apparatus. The calibration method includes printing pages with test patches for a plurality of colors at a particular dot value (or density), and weighing similar printed test pages so that the amount of medium used to print colors at particular dot values is determined by subtracting a weight of the pages before printing from the weight of the printed test pages. The change in weight (or mass) of the medium is used to populate the reference device for that apparatus.
US08559070B2
As described above, the image processing apparatus scans an original document into scanned image data, and converts the scanned image data into converted image data having a data format that is suitable for a first process requested by a first processing request. In prior to receiving a subsequent processing request that follows the first processing request, the image processing apparatus generates converted image data from the scanned image data, which has a data format other than the data format of the converted image data generated for the first process, and stores the converted image data in a storage device. After the first process is executed, the image processing apparatus obtains the converted image data having a data format that is suitable for a subsequent process requested by a subsequent processing request, from the storage device, to perform the subsequent process.
US08559069B2
A sheet-fed scanner includes a housing, a scan assembly carrier, a scan assembly and a bent linking member. The scan assembly carrier is movably disposed in the housing. The scan assembly mounted in the scan assembly carrier scans a side of an original sheet in a main scan direction. The bent linking member disposed between the housing and the scan assembly carrier includes a first section and a second section. The first section extends transversally in relation to the main scan direction and interconnecting two opposed ends of the scan assembly carrier. The second section, connected with the first section, forms an angle with the first section. As one of two opposed ends of the scan assembly carrier is pushed towards the housing in a direction, the bent linking member urges the other end to move in the same direction.
US08559068B2
A camera system for imaging a document including an enclosed imaging-optical-chamber, at least one camera mounted inside the imaging-optical-chamber and having a lens defining the primary FOV of the camera, at least one light source for illuminating the document; at least one light-occluding structures, wherein each light sources are operatively coupled with a light-occluding structures, a glass-window, wherein the document is operatively disposed on the glass-window, and wherein the glass-window extends the FOV of the camera thereby forming an extended FOV of the camera. The system further includes at least one mirror operatively coupled with at least one of the light sources. Preferably, the light sources are disposed inside the primary FOV of the camera, such that the imaginary light-source of the light source is disposed outside the extended FOV of the camera.
US08559065B2
According to aspects of the embodiments, there is provided an apparatus that includes a calibration member that is disposed within a calibration holder and is movable to a position within the optical path of the scanner head assembly. The apparatus can perform optical analysis of images on sheets, comprising a structure forming a baffle for passage of a sheet therethrough, and a photosensor disposed to receive light reflected from a sheet in the baffle. In particular, this embodiment employs a shutter plate mounted to a rack and pinion system where the shutter plate serves the dual purpose of presenting the calibration member to the scanner when engaged into the paper path and when retracted, the backside of the shutter serves as a paper guide.
US08559052B2
Systems and methods for providing automated layouts and designs for recording text and images on any of a plurality of disparate three-dimensional objects. Server-based processing engine for automatically imposing designs and text onto consumer electronic devices and method for delivering the same to consumers.
US08559048B1
Imaging devices incorporating semi-volatile NAND flash memory are described herein. According to various embodiments, demonstration page information may be stored in the semi-volatile NAND flash memory, which may be reused and incorporated back into the memory pool after the demonstration page information is no longer needed. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08559046B2
An imaging device receives from a host device image data and commands including a normal command, an image data command associated with a parameter indicative of a data length of the image data to be processed, and a real-time command to be processed prior to the normal command. The imaging device comprises a receiver configured to receive the image data command and subsequently the parameter from the host device; and a processor configured to process the parameter without processing the real-time command, even if a data sequence identical to a byte stream of the real-time command is included in the image data, after processing the image data command.
US08559043B2
An image forming apparatus (50) at least includes a paper output tray (80), an actuator (16) and a photo sensor (15). The actuator (16) is supported in such a manner as to be swingable above a paper loading surface of the paper output tray (80). The actuator (16) includes a fullness detection section (164) and a rear edge curling detection section (162). The fullness detection section (164) is disposed at a tip portion of the actuator (16), being configured so as to contact the uppermost paper on the paper output tray (80). The rear edge curling detection section (162) is formed so as to extend from the fullness detection section (164) toward a direction that gets further away from the paper loading surface of the paper output tray (80) toward a direction generally parallel to the paper loading surface of the paper output tray (80) and opposite to a paper conveying direction.
US08559029B2
A print system having a printing apparatus and a post-processing apparatus, and a print control method thereof are capable of executing an inline job requiring printing by the printing apparatus and post-processing by the post-processing apparatus and an offline job that does not include print processing by the printing apparatus but requires post-processing by the post-processing apparatus, and allow a recovery process for carrying out unfinished processing in the inline job when the inline job is interrupted during execution thereof. On the other hand, if the offline job is interrupted, that offline job is canceled and, if there is a job that is unaffected by a cause of the interruption, execution of that job is allowed.
US08559028B2
A multifunction apparatus includes: an image forming section having (i) a normal operation mode and (ii) a waiting mode which is lower in power consumption than the normal operation mode, between which a mode of the mode switching target member is switchable; a second web server section for acquiring a command generated based on an external application; and a control application section for determining whether or not the command thus acquired is a specific command to execute a preprocess which is a process related to a specific function that causes the image forming section to operate and which is carried out before the specific function is executed, and for, if the control application section determines that the command thus acquired is a specific command, starting a warm-up for switching the image forming section from the waiting mode to the normal operation mode.
US08559025B2
A scanner connected to an external device through a network is provided. The scanner includes, a reading section that reads an image recorded on a sheet so as to generate image data, an image data group supply section that, in a case where a plurality of images recorded on a plurality of sheets are read by the reading section, sequentially generates an image data group every time a part of the plurality of sheets is read by the reading section, and sequentially supplies the generated image data group to the external device, a joint information generation section that generates joint information used to join two or more of the image data groups, the two or more of the image data groups representing the plurality of images; and a joint information supply section that supplies the joint information to the external device.
US08559024B2
There is provided an image processing method including an extraction step of extracting text data and image forming data based on an image processing apparatus control code as a job, and a storing step of relating the information of the job, the text data, and the image forming data to each other and storing them in a memory unit.
US08559022B2
The sensor apparatus is intended to detect the level of a liquid, gel or powder substance contained in a receptacle and includes an emitter able to emit radiation and a receiver able to receive and convert into an electric signal radiation which is emitted by the emitter and the intensity of which is variable depending on the quantity or level of substance present in the receptacle. The emitter is designed to emit visible radiation and the apparatus also includes a visible optical indicator and an optical element able to couple optically the emitter to the optical indicator so that, when the quantity or level of the substance in the receptacle is lower than a predetermined threshold, a fraction of the radiation generated by the emitter is able to light up the optical indicator.
US08559018B2
A surface layer formed of a composite material is stacked on the surface of a core layer formed of a foam synthetic resin material, and an arrester portion is provided in an interface region between the surface layer and the core layer to prevent the progression of delamination between the surface layer and the core layer. Optical fibers with grating portions are embedded inside the arrester and along the surface layer, and the spectra of reflected light from the optical fibers are compared to detect the occurrence position of a crack between the surface layer and the core layer.
US08559017B2
A method for aligning a plurality of sub-apertures of a multiple-aperture imaging system including, but not limited to, identifying one sub-aperture to serve as a reference sub-aperture, actuating the reference sub-aperture in a series of piston steps of a known amount, collecting data relating to each image of a plurality of images of a point object, each image corresponding to a respective piston step, compiling the data into a three-dimensional data cube, detecting a plurality of fringes positioned within the three-dimensional data cube, determining the relative location of each sub-aperture of the plurality of sub-apertures based on a location of each fringe of the plurality of fringes within the three-dimensional data cube, and actuating a piston associated with at least one sub-aperture based, at least in part, on the relative location to move the at least one sub-aperture into alignment with another sub-aperture and repeating with each remaining sub-aperture until all sub-apertures are at substantially the same piston height.
US08559008B2
An ellipsometer includes an integrated focusing system with a beam splitter between the sample and the ellipsometer detector. The beam splitter provides a portion of the radiation to a lens system that magnifies any deviation from a best focus position by at least 2×. The focusing system includes a 2D sensor, where the spot of light focused on the sensor is 50 percent or smaller than the sensor. The focusing system may further include a compensator to correct optical aberrations caused by the beam splitter. A processor receives an image signal and finds the location of the spot from which focus error can be determined and used to correct the focal position of the ellipsometer. The processor compensates for movement of the spot caused by rotating optics. Additionally, a proportional-integral-derivative controller may be used to control exposure time and/or gain of the camera.
US08559001B2
Inspection guided overlay metrology may include performing a pattern search in order to identify a predetermined pattern on a semiconductor wafer, generating a care area for all instances of the predetermined pattern on the semiconductor wafer, identifying defects within generated care areas by performing an inspection scan of each of the generated care areas, wherein the inspection scan includes a low-threshold or a high sensitivity inspection scan, identifying overlay sites of the predetermined pattern of the semiconductor wafer having a measured overlay error larger than a selected overlay specification utilizing a defect inspection technique, comparing location data of the identified defects of a generated care area to location data of the identified overlay sites within the generated care area in order to identify one or more locations wherein the defects are proximate to the identified overlay sites, and generating a metrology sampling plan based on the identified locations.
US08558996B2
A wavefront aberration measuring apparatus comprising: an illumination optical system provided to an incident side of a test lens; and a measuring optical system provided to an exit side of the test lens, the illumination optical system including an aperture stop capable of being opened and closed, and the illumination optical system being movable along an optical axis of the illumination optical system so as to adjust positions of the aperture stop and an entrance pupil of the test lens to have an optically conjugate relation with each other. Accordingly, it becomes possible to provide a wavefront aberration measuring apparatus capable of suppressing errors in measured result.
US08558988B2
A system and method for use of a lithography apparatus having a substrate and an absorbing film formed on the substrate. A thickness of the absorbing film is spatially modulated across at least a part of the substrate to reduce a non-uniform intensity of a radiation beam transmitted through the substrate.
US08558972B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate disposed to face each other, a polymer-dispersed liquid crystal layer provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a black matrix provided on the first substrate, where a display region for displaying an image and a frame region around the display region are defined, and in the frame region, the black matrix includes a plurality of light-blocking regions spaced apart from one another.
US08558971B2
The present invention discloses an integrated liquid crystal display (LCD) device, comprising a backlight module, a liquid crystal panel arranged above the backlight module, and a front frame which is arranged at the edge and is shared by the backlight module and the liquid crystal panel; wherein, the position of the front frame corresponding to the backlight module is provided with a reflecting layer. Because the backlight module and the liquid crystal panel of the present invention shares the front frame, and because the position of the front frame which is corresponding to the light emitting diode (LED) is provided with a reflecting layer, LED emitted light that irradiates onto the front frame is reflected by the reflecting layer; the front frame reduces its absorptivity of the LED emitted light, which then favors the reflection of light that irradiates onto the front frame into the LGP or onto the reflection sheet to increase the LED light utilization rate.
US08558968B2
The liquid crystal display device includes: a substantially rectangular optical switching member in which a first polarizer, a first substrate, a second substrate, and a second polarizer are sequentially provided from a front surface side; a frame which surrounds the optical switching member; a planar light source which is disposed at the rear surface of the optical switching member; at least one optical sheet group which is disposed at the front surface of the planar light source; and an adhesive layer which fixes the optical switching member, the frame, and the optical sheet group to each other, and has a substantially rectangular opening, wherein at least one side of an optical sheet included in the optical sheet group and located at the frontmost surface is adhered to the adhesive layer, and the other sides are located inside the opening of the adhesive layer.
US08558948B2
Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for providing high resolution frames. In one embodiment, there is a method comprising receiving upscaled frames; motion estimating the upscaled frames; and motion compensating the upscaled frames.
US08558940B2
An image sensor includes: a plurality of image-capturing pixels that, upon each receiving a partial light flux within a predetermined wavelength range, which is part of a photographic light flux used to form an optical image, output image signals corresponding to the optical image; a plurality of focus detection pixels that receive a pair of focus detection light fluxes in a wider wavelength range than the predetermined wavelength range and output a pair of focus detection signals; and a reduction unit that adjusts a signal level of the focus detection signals output from the plurality of focus detection pixels to be equal to or less than a signal level of the image signals each output from one of the plurality of image-capturing pixels under a given light receiving condition.
US08558939B2
Provided is an image pickup lens composed of three lens elements and an image pickup apparatus using the same, where the image pickup lens has satisfactorily corrected aberrations despite being smaller in size than conventional image pickup lenses. As image pickup lens includes, in order from the object side, an aperture stop, a first lens, a second lens, and a third lens. The first lens is a positive lens and is a meniscus lens having a convex surface facing the object side and a concave surface facing the object side, and the third lens is a negative lens. The image pickup lens satisfies conditional expressions relating to an air gap between the second and third lenses, a focal length of the second lens, and a curvature radius of the object-side surface of the second lens.
US08558935B2
In exemplary scene information displaying apparatus and methods, scene information is detected from an input image, a scene for the input image is determined by using the scene information, probabilities that the determined scene corresponds to respective scene modes are calculated, and a scene information identifier including the probabilities for the scene modes is generated and displayed. Thus, users may be informed of all applicable scene modes for a current image.
US08558933B2
An imaging device includes: a pixel array that has a plurality of pixels disposed according to an oblique pixel arrangement; a first conversion means for performing digital conversion for pixel signals output from pixels in an even column of the pixel array; a second conversion means for performing digital conversion for pixel signals output from pixels in an odd column of the pixel array; and an addition means for adding pixel data output from the first conversion means and the second conversion means, wherein each of the first conversion means and the second conversion means includes a counter having a flip-flop, a first latch circuit, and a second latch circuit.
US08558932B2
A MOS type solid state imaging device having unit pixels, each having a photodiode a transfer transistor for transferring the signal of the photodiode to a floating node, an amplifier transistor for outputting the signal of the floating node to a vertical signal line, and a reset transistor for resetting the floating node. A gate voltage of the reset transistor is controlled by three values of a power source potential (for example 3V), a ground potential (0V), and a negative power source potential (for example −1V).
US08558917B2
A method of transferring images from a first device to a second device and computer program code for performing this method is described. A connection characteristic for a connection between the first & second devices is determined and at least one image is selected from a plurality of images on the first device for transfer dependent upon both the connection characteristic and image selection criteria. The selected image(s) are then transferred over the connection from the first device to the second device.
US08558913B2
A model based method for capturing an improved archival image, including capturing at least two preview images of a scene that are analyzed for scene brightness and motion velocity in the scene. The analyzed data is used to calculate a ratio of pixel signal rate/pixel velocity which is used to select a capture mode, an ISO and an exposure time for capturing the archival image.
US08558911B2
A display control device includes an image data generating section and a control section. The image data generating section is configured to perform generation processing for generating image data in a predetermined processing sequence for each of a plurality of predetermined data units of the image data. The control section is configured to control a display unit to execute display processing based on the image data in the processing sequence for each of the predetermined data units. The control section is configured to control the display unit so that the longer a first time relating to the generation processing for one of the predetermined data units of the image data is, the longer a second time until the display processing starts for the one of the predetermined data units of the image data is.
US08558910B2
A method of detecting a red eye is provided that includes determining an eye area from an input image, obtaining a pixel having the maximum redness from the eye area, generating a first mask area having a predetermined size including the pixel from the eye area, obtaining an average of image data from pixels in the first mask area, obtaining red-eye pixels corresponding to the image data average from the eye area, and determining a red-eye area by using the red-eye pixels.
US08558904B2
A system and method for efficiently transferring data from an electronic camera device includes a camera device that is configured to capture image data and temporarily store the image data into an economical limited local buffer memory. A transfer manager from the camera device may then periodically arbitrate for access to a wireless communications network, and may transfer the captured image data from the buffer memory to a designated data destination, such as an image service on a distributed computer network like the Internet. A system user may then efficiently access the transferred image data from a dedicated storage location on the data destination by utilizing any appropriate data-access device, such as a personal computer device or a portable electronic device.
US08558896B2
A concept and method for the remote management of and recording of digital video content from a remote IP video camera to an application server via the internet. The recorder system comprises a user device capable of running a user interface, a server running a communications interface, a recorder module, and a digital recording device, and at least one remote IP camera. Upon system initialization, a recorder object and an associated unique ID for the recorder instance are transmitted with the user interface to the user device. A remote user of the device may request a video image from an associated remote camera to be sent to the server where it is recorded on the recording device. The image does not transmit to the user device, minimizing bandwidth requirements on the control side. The server provides a safe, secure and network-optimized environment for capturing the recording.
US08558890B2
An aerial reconnaissance camera system is disclosed which compensates for atmospheric dispersion. The dispersion is principally a function of the observing altitude and slant range and occurs in the camera depression direction only. The effective spectral dispersion of the atmosphere is shown to be about 15 microradians over the visible/near infrared spectrum (500 to 900 nanometers) at typical long range oblique photography (LOROP) imaging ranges. Consequently, dispersion is compensated by means of a fixed optical wedge incorporated into the optical path of the reconnaissance camera, e.g., in a fixed reconnaissance window. The wedge has dispersive qualities opposite to the effective net dispersion of the atmosphere for an expected reconnaissance mission using the camera.
US08558889B2
A method and system for detecting tampering of a security system component is provided. An analytic alarm indicative of potential tampering with a security system component is received. Data from at least one sensor is received. A computing device is used to analyze the analytic alarm and the data from the at least one sensor to determine whether tampering of the security system component has occurred. A qualified alarm signal is generated when the analysis of the analytic alarm and the data from the at least one sensor is indicative of tampering.
US08558886B1
A wireless communication system comprises an antenna system and a control system. The control system receives operator inputs and transfers control signals indicating a direction. The antenna system receives the control signals, and in response, points a camera to the direction, opens a door to expose the camera, operates the camera to collect video, and transfers the video. The antenna system receives additional control signals, and in response, closes the door to protect the camera from external environmental elements.
US08558882B1
In one general embodiment, a system for viewing partially or fully enclosed areas comprises a camera coupled to a first end of an elongated member and a viewing device operatively coupled to the camera. The system also includes a controller coupled to a second end of the elongated member for controlling at least one of the member, the camera, and the viewing device, wherein the elongated member has a cross sectional area of less than about one square inch at a point toward the first end of the elongated member. Additional systems and methods are also presented.
US08558880B2
A wireless operating room communication system provides wireless transmission of video signals from a wireless camera or a wireless transmitter unit to a portable wireless display unit. A wireless multiple device control unit is in wireless communication with the transmitter unit, the display unit, and a plurality of surgical devices disposed within the operating room. Each of the surgical devices has a video receiver to obtain a video signal to synchronize the devices and units. The video transmitter unit has a video transmitter and the other units or devices have a non-video transmitter. The arrangement enables transmission of device control signals on the same channel as the video signal. In response to changes in bandwidth, the video transmitter unit reduces the video signal to enable transmission thereof to the video display unit, while maintaining robustness of the control signals.
US08558873B2
A 3-D depth camera system, such as in a motion capture system, tracks an object such as a human in a field of view using an illuminator, where the field of view is illuminated using multiple diffracted beams. An image sensing component obtains an image of the object using a phase mask according to a double-helix point spread function, and determines a depth of each portion of the image based on a relative rotation of dots of light of the double-helix point spread function. In another aspect, dual image sensors are used to obtain a reference image and a phase-encoded image. A relative rotation of features in the images can be correlated with a depth. Depth information can be obtained using an optical transfer function of a point spread function of the reference image.
US08558870B2
A mobile communication terminal displays images of a video conference to enable a feeling of natural conversation ambience to the participants. The terminal captures an image of the terminal user and receives images of other video conference participants. The terminal displays one of the received images closest to the camera, and the captured image farthest from the camera to encourage the user to focus his line of sight to the camera. Also, a sight location indicator is displayed as a further aid to directing the line of sight. Looking at the camera provides a natural conversation ambience to the participants.
US08558867B2
A system allocates channel bandwidth based on the data received from a plurality of remote sources. A de-multiplexer/priority circuit separates two or more different data streams into their components parts. A stream modification driver modifies one or more characteristics of the data received from the de-multiplexer/priority circuit based on a priority assigned to the data by the de-multiplexer/priority circuit. The de-multiplexer/priority circuit determines the data transfer rates for each of the different data streams based on the assigned priority.
US08558859B2
A laser printer arranged to print a pixellated image on laser sensitive tape includes a carriage on which are arranged two laser-beam sources delivering separately modulated laser-beams and optics for focusing the beams on the tape. The tape is mounted on a tape drive which drives the tape incrementally in one direction. The carriage is translated over the tape in a direction perpendicular to the tape-drive direction, while the modulated beams are focused. Two rows of the pixellated image are drawn across the tape in this manner. The tape is then incremented and a further two rows are drawn.
US08558848B2
Video drive-by data provides a street level view of a neighborhood surrounding a selected geographic location. A video and data server farm incorporates a video storage server that stores video image files containing video drive-by data corresponding to a geographic location, a database server that processes a data query received from a user over the Internet corresponding to a geographic location of interest, and an image processing server. In operation, the database server identifies video image files stored in the video storage server that correspond to the geographic location of interest contained in the data query and transfers the video image files over a pre-processing network to the image processing server. The image processing server converts the video drive-by data to post-processed video data corresponding to a desired image format and transfers the post-processed video data via a post-processing network to the Internet in response to the query.
US08558845B2
A data conversion apparatus for converting converted data that belongs to an m-axis data space, includes: a data storage unit that stores correction data at respective lattice points of an m-dimensional lookup table; and a data conversion unit that reads the correction data at the lattice points positioned around the converted data from the first to N-th memories with reference to the m-dimensional lookup table, and converts the converted data, wherein the data storage unit assumes a virtual m-dimensional lookup table, which has an axis in which one virtual lattice point is included on the side of an end portion of the axis, and the data storage unit stores the data at the respective virtual lattice points and the correction data at the lattice points except for the virtual lattice points in the virtual m-dimensional lookup table in the first to N-th memories.
US08558842B1
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for detecting duplicate vertex indices in parallel and batching indices defining multiple primitives for parallel primitive processing. A lookback cache breaks the dependent loop for the miss processing. Because each index is compared to all previous indices (duplicate or not), each index is not dependent on whether the previous indices have hit or missed. This allows the comparison operation that detects the duplicate vertex indices to be fully pipelined. The duplicate vertex indices are removed to reduce the number of indices that define the primitives in the batch. Multiple, independent rasterizer units operate concurrently on the different batches of graphics primitives to render multiple primitives per system clock.
US08558835B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for focusing computing power to a region of interest that can be changed interactively and arbitrarily during the process of image synthesis. In operation, a problem domain is partitioned utilizing a first selected technique. Additionally, a number of samples to be drawn per partition are assigned utilizing a second selected technique. Furthermore, the assigned number of samples are drawn for each partition, where the samples are generated by only one deterministic sample sequence. Still yet, the partitioning, assigning, and drawing are capable of being repeated such that existing partitions and assignments are capable of remaining unchanged during sampling and a convergence speed is adapted without compromising convergence in at least one of a sequential computing environment or a parallel computing environment. In this way, the convergence of image synthesis is not compromised. In fact, the image synthesis process may converge to the same solution that would have been obtained without interaction.
US08558832B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for generating a plurality of two-dimensional images and a plurality of depth maps for a scene at a point in time. In various embodiments, such two-dimensional images and depth maps may be utilized to generate a plurality of images.
US08558824B2
Buffer amplifier included in display driver and method of generating driving voltages using the same
A method of generating a driving voltage includes inputting a test gradation voltage to a first input terminal and a second input terminal of a buffer, latching the logic level of a test driving voltage output from an output terminal of the buffer, setting the buffer to a first type when the logic level of the test driving voltage is high level and setting the buffer to a second type when the logic level of the test driving voltage is low level, and operating the buffer set to the first type or the second type to generate a driving voltage corresponding to a gradation voltage.
US08558809B2
An apparatus and method operate a portable terminal according to touch and movement. When a touch is sensed, an angle of the portable terminal is determined. When the determined angle belongs to a grip zone, the portable terminal is transitioned to a wake up state.
US08558806B2
An information processing apparatus includes a detector configured to detect an operation body approaching a display screen, a determination unit configured to determine whether or not the operation body detected by the detector approaches a first region of the display screen, a display controller configured to display display content included in the first region in a second region that is different from the first region when the operation body is determined by the determination unit to be approaching the first region, and an operation controller configured to regard an operation performed by the operation body in the first region as an operation for the display content displayed in the second region by the display controller.
US08558797B2
A video game processing apparatus for controlling progress of a video game by displaying an object on a display screen of a display device is provided. The video game processing apparatus includes a plurality of touch panels respectively provided on a plurality of surfaces of all of surfaces on a housing of the video game processing apparatus. The video game processing apparatus receives a touch operation for any one of the plurality of touch panels, and determines which surface of the housing contains the touch panel for which the touch operation is received. The video game processing apparatus carries out a predetermined representation against the object displayed on the display screen from a side of the determined surface. The predetermined representation includes a representation indicating an attack against the object from the side of the determined surface.
US08558787B2
An input device includes an operating unit that a user grasps and operates in a three-dimensional free space in order to remotely operate an information processing device; and a transmitting unit to transmit a signal for a first gesture in the free space of the operating unit to set a mode, and a signal for a second gesture in the free space of the operating unit which differs from the first gesture to execute processing in the mode set based on the first gesture.
US08558786B2
The driving system and methods of the present invention enable interruption of updating images. The system and methods not only have the advantage that they can prevent overdriving of an electrophoretic display, but they also allow updating images in the highest speed possible.
US08558779B2
A display device comprises a driver circuit having a shift register circuit having a level conversion function is provided with a simple circuit configuration of first, second, and third basic circuits connected in tandem at multistages. A common clear signal is supplied to a control electrode of a third transistor of each basic circuit, a first clock is supplied to a control electrode of a first transistor of each of the first and third basic circuits, a second clock different in phase from the first clock is supplied to a control electrode of a first transistor of the second basic circuit, outputs of the first and second basic circuit are respectively supplied to control electrodes of second transistors of the second and third basic circuits, and an inversion output of the third basic circuit is supplied to a control electrode of a fourth transistor of the first basic circuit.
US08558776B2
In a display panel and a display apparatus having the display panel, the display panel includes array and opposite substrates. The array substrate includes display and peripheral areas. Gate and source lines are formed in the display area. A gate driving part and first and second clock lines are formed in the peripheral area. The gate driving part outputs gate signals to the gate line. The first and second clock lines respectively transmit first and second clock signals to the gate driving part. The opposite substrate is combined with the array substrate and includes a common electrode layer. The common electrode layer has an opening portion patterned to expose the first and second clock lines. The exposed portions of the first and second clock lines have substantially the same area. Thus, delays of the gate signals may be minimized and distortion of the gate signals may be prevented.
US08558773B2
An EL display device capable of performing clear multi-gradation color display and electronic equipment provided with the EL display device are provided, wherein gradation display is performed according to a time-division driving method in which the luminescence and non-luminescence of an EL element (109) disposed in a pixel (104) are controlled by time, and the influence by the characteristic variability of a current controlling TFT (108) is prevented. When this method is used, a data signal side driving circuit (102) and a gate signal side driving circuit (103) are formed with TFTs that use a silicon film having a peculiar crystal structure and exhibit an extremely high operation speed.
US08558771B2
System and method for dynamically altering a color gamut used in projection display systems. An embodiment comprises determining a dim color from colors used in representing an image, adjusting the dim color to increase an available display time for a non-dim color used to represent the image, adjusting the non-dim color using the available display time, and generating a color sequence based on the adjusted dim color and the adjusted non-dim color. The pixel intensities of a dim color are increased, permitting a shortening of the display time of the dim color. The newly freed display time can be reallocated to all colors to increase the amount of light used to display the image, thereby increasing image brightness or altering color point.
US08558769B2
An active-matrix display device employs current-programmed-type pixel circuits and performs the writing data to each of pixels on a line-by-line basis. The active-matrix display device having a matrix of current-programmed-type pixel circuits includes a data line driving circuit 15 formed of m current driving circuits (CD) 15-1 to 15-m arranged corresponding to respective data lines 13-1 to 13-m. The data line driving circuit (CD) 15-1 to 15-m holds image data (luminance data herein) in the form of voltage, and then converts the voltage of the image data into a current signal. The current signal is then fed to the data lines 13-1 to 13-m at a time. The image information is thus written on the pixel circuits 11.
US08558750B2
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a wireless terminal. The wireless terminal according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a PCB primary board, a primary board circuit printed on both sides of the PCB primary board, and a diversity antenna, where the diversity antenna is disposed at an end of the PCB primary board, a first primary board metal shielding cover and a second primary board metal shielding cover are each disposed on the primary board circuit on the both sides of the PCB primary board, a radiator is printed on at least one side panel of the PCB primary board, the radiator and the primary board circuit are located in different areas of the PCB primary board, and a first wave absorbing sheet is attached to the first primary board metal shielding cover and/or the second primary board metal shielding cover.
US08558746B2
A panel array antenna has a waveguide network coupling an input feed to a plurality of primary coupling cavities. Each of the primary coupling cavities is provided with four output ports, each of the output ports coupled to a horn radiator. The waveguide network is provided on a second side of an input layer and a first side of a first intermediate layer. The primary coupling cavities are provided on a second side of the first intermediate layer and the output ports provided on a first side of an output layer, each of the output ports in communication with one of the horn radiators. The horn radiators are provided as an array of horn radiators on a second side of the output layer. Additional layers, such as a second intermediate layer and/or slot layer, may also be applied, for example to further simplify the waveguide network and/or rotate the polarization.
US08558738B2
A GNSS receiver reduces the time to first fix by utilizing the properties of existing radiated signals of opportunity, such as AM or FM radio signals, television signals and so forth, to reduce the uncertainties associated with oscillator frequency and phase, and further utilizing an Almanac and battery backed-up date and time to determine the satellites in view and reduce the uncertainties associated with Doppler. The receiver may use multiple signals of opportunity to determine the city or local area in which the receiver is located based on the set of frequencies of the signals, and also to reduce search uncertainties for oscillator frequency by estimating an offset based on the differences between the frequencies of the respective signals of opportunity at the receiver and the nominal broadcast frequencies of the signals.
US08558715B2
A container having an internally directed audible output actuated by removal of a stopper is described. The container includes a hollow body with an open mouth and a base that includes a speaker and control electronics. A sensor is provided that is configured to detect presence of the stopper in the open mouth of the container. In one embodiment the sensor is comprised of a normally open electrical circuit formed by a pair of opposing arrays of electrical traces disposed within the mouth. In another embodiment, the sensor comprises an infrared light source and sensor that detects an amount of internally reflected infrared light within walls of the body. In yet another embodiment, the sensor comprises a device which detects the presence and/or absence of a magnetic field. Upon detection of removal of the stopper, an audible output is produced by the speaker into the container body and is perceivable by nearby users.
US08558714B1
A detection system includes one or more base stations and one or more sensors. The base station defines a detection area and is configured to transmit a detection signal at a first frequency. The base station is further configured to facilitate selective variation of the detection area. The sensor is configured to detect the detection signal and transmit a communication signal at a second frequency in response to the detection signal. Movement of the sensor between the detection area and an area outside of the detection area affects detection of the detection signal. The first frequency is less than the second frequency.
US08558693B2
A system and method are described for processing location-based reminders. For example, a system according to one embodiment of the invention comprises: a location database to store a plurality of different locations including event facilities, points of interest, and one or more personal locations specified by an end user, the location database associating each of the different locations with a Global Positioning System (GPS) location or range of GPS locations; a location-based reminder application to receive user input related to one or more location-based reminders, each location-based reminder associating a particular location from the location database with reminder data input by the user; and wherein, in response to detecting the user's mobile device arriving within a particular location associated with the reminder data, the location-based reminder application triggering the reminder using a visual and/or audible notification on the user's mobile device.
US08558688B2
The invention disclosed here is a display system for managing power and security for a plurality of hand-held electronic devices sold to consumers in a retail location. The display includes features that allow power to be supplied to individual devices and security sensors without continuous hard wiring or multi-conductor retractor cables. The display also allows for individual security alarms to be triggered when a theft occurs. Security alarm conditions are preferably triggered via wireless signals.
US08558685B2
Methods and systems for detecting tampering of a remote display. According to one method, a first data integrity result is generated by performing a first data integrity operation on display data to be displayed on the remote display at a secure module. The display data is transmitted from the secure module to the remote display security module. The remote display security module receives the display data. A second data integrity result is generated by performing the first data integrity operation on the display data received at the remote display security module. A determination is made as to whether the remote display has been tampered with at the secure module if the first data integrity result does not match the second data integrity result.
US08558684B2
A belt lock for a seat belt equipped with a locking mechanism that is arranged in a belt lock housing. The locking mechanism has a component that changes its location from a first end position into a second end position and detects a locking status. In the actuation of the locking mechanism, the component that changes its location interacts with the detector of the locking status. The locking status is detected by an electromechanical switch that is arranged in the vicinity of the component that changes its location and can be actuated upon its movement from the first into the second end position.
US08558683B2
A display apparatus for a vehicle includes: a display element; an image generation element for generating a vehicle image, an analog image and an indication image; and a display controller. The analog image includes an indication position and multiple indexes arranged on an upside and downside of the indication position. The indication image shows the current vehicle speed at the indication position. Each index shows a corresponding vehicle speed. Display dimensions of each index are inverse proportion to the corresponding vehicle speed, and a distance between the indication position and each index is proportion to a difference between the current vehicle speed and the corresponding vehicle speed. The display controller controls the display element to display the indication image at the indication position of the analog image.
US08558680B2
A method is described for determining a vehicle tire tread depth using at least one sensor situated in or on the vehicle tire, the tire tread depth being determined as a function of a tire contact area detected by the sensor.
US08558675B2
An electronic system including a user interface for transmitting an operational parameter control signal in response to manual manipulation of the user interface. A processor is coupled to the user interface and adjusts an operational parameter of the electronic system in response to receiving the operational parameter control signal. An actuatable device is actuated by a user. In response to the user actuation, the actuatable device prevents the processor from adjusting the operational parameter of the electronic system.
US08558673B2
Embodiments of the present invention include systems and methods for providing Quality of service to RFID. In one embodiment the present invention includes a method of providing quality of service in an RFID network comprising storing RFID priority information corresponding to the RFID network, wherein the RFID network comprises one or more tags and one or more readers mapping the RFID priority information into priority information corresponding to a second network.
US08558666B2
Methods and systems for location detection are disclosed. One method includes a plurality of base stations of a location system obtaining information about at least one tag associated with the location system. One of the plurality of base stations is designated as a master base station for each tag. Each master base station electro-magnetically transmits beacons to each tag that the master base station has been designated as the master of. Each tag responds to the electro-magnetically transmitted beacons with an acoustic signal that identifies the tag. Multiple of the plurality of base stations, receive the acoustic signal of each tag. A location of each tag is estimated based on times of arrival of each acoustic signal of each tag at each of the multiple base stations, and based on location information of each of the multiple base stations.
US08558665B2
Embodiments relates to a display apparatus that can perform a video call and a method of connecting to a video call thereof, in which the method includes: receiving a control signal from an external device where an identification information for a video call is registered when a video call is received; turning on the display apparatus in response to the received control signal; and connecting to the received video call.
US08558657B2
A communication system has a server, base station devices, and terminal devices. The server notifies each base station device of a transmission order of a synchronization signal and of the base station device that is designated as a reference. Each one of the base station devices transmits a synchronization signal to the corresponding terminal device based on the transmission order in a case where the one base station device has been designated as the reference. In the case where the one base station device has not been designated as the reference, the one base station device transmits the synchronization signal to the corresponding terminal device at a timing calculated based on a reception timing by the corresponding terminal device of a synchronization signal received from the reference base station device, a transmission order of the reference base station device, and the transmission order of the one base station device.
US08558652B2
Provided is a laminated inductor having a magnetic body, a conductor part covered in a manner directly contacting the magnetic body, and external terminals provided on the outside of the magnetic body and conducting to the conductor part; wherein the magnetic body is a laminate constituted by layers containing soft magnetic alloy grains, and the soft magnetic alloy grain contacting the conductor part is flattened on the conductor part side.
US08558646B2
A disconnect mechanism for a power receptacle, which includes a disconnect block, a locking member slidably coupled to the disconnect block, and an electromagnetic device moveably coupled to the locking member. The disconnect block includes two side arms extending outwards. A pressing plate is disposed above the disconnect block, and a disconnect spring is disposed above the pressing plate. The moveable contact arms of the main switch of the receptacle are disposed between the pressing plate and the disconnect block, and the pressing plate pushes the moveable contact arms when the main switch is being opened when a current leakage is detected. The receptacle also includes an auxiliary switch disposed because the disconnect block and the circuit board.
US08558643B2
The invention relates to a micromechanical device comprising a semiconductor element capable of deflecting or resonating and comprising at least two regions having different material properties and drive or sense means functionally coupled to said semiconductor element. According to the invention, at least one of said regions comprises one or more n-type doping agents, and the relative volumes, doping concentrations, doping agents and/or crystal orientations of the regions being configured so that the temperature sensitivities of the generalized stiffness are opposite in sign at least at one temperature for the regions, and the overall temperature drift of the generalized stiffness of the semiconductor element is 50 ppm or less on a temperature range of 100° C. The device can be a resonator. Also a method of designing the device is disclosed.
US08558633B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an apparatus having an RF matching network including one or more variable reactive elements, where the RF matching network has a first port coupled to a transceiver and second port coupled to an antenna. The RF matching network can modify signal power transferred between the first port and the second port according to one or more bias signals applied to the one or more variable reactive elements to vary a variable impedance of the RF matching network. The one or more variable reactive elements are coupled to a circuit that maps one or more control signals to the one or more bias signals, and wherein the one or more control signals are generated by a controller according to a mode of operation of a communication device. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08558632B2
Multiple pulse width modulation (PWM) generators each have a separate phase offset counter creating a phase shift. The phase shifting process is separated from the duty cycle generation process, thereby easing the task of preserving the duty cycle and phase relationships among the various PWM channels following an asynchronous external synchronization event. A master time base generates a PWM cycle start signal that resets the phase offset counters in each of the PWM generator circuits. The phase offset counter continues counting until it matches the respective phase offset value. Then, the associated duty cycle counter is reset and restarted. The duty cycle continues until its count matches the specified value at which time the duty cycle counter stops until reset by the terminal count from the phase offset counter. The output of the duty cycle comparators provide the output PWM signals as a repetitive series of single cycle PWM signals.
US08558631B1
Methods, systems, and apparatuses can provide a plurality of RF channels and outputs using digital modulation and combining. In various examples, generation of digital IQ packetized data in combination with digital switching can increase the number of RF modulated channels, optimize broadcast transmission and/or provide transmission resiliency.
US08558624B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit capable of reliably detecting oscillation stop of a vibrator-type oscillation circuit and reliably restarting the oscillation circuit when oscillation stop is detected is provided. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes one or more main oscillation circuits configured to generate a main clock signal by a vibrator, a ring oscillator configured to always operate independently of the main oscillation circuit, a main clock detection circuit configured to monitor the main clock signal on the basis of an output clock signal of the ring oscillator and to determine an operation state of the main oscillation circuit, and an switch circuit configured to switch a combination of elements making up the main oscillation circuit in response to a detection result of the main clock detection circuit.
US08558623B2
An oscillator including two groups of elementary junctions having giant magnetoresistance effect traversed by electric currents, the junctions of each of the two groups being in series and energized by respective main currents and the voltages across the terminals of the groups being added together to provide a voltage on an output of the oscillating circuit. The voltage across the terminals of one or more junctions of a first group is applied to a first input of a phase comparator and the voltage across the terminals of one or more junctions of the other group is applied to another input of the phase comparator, the phase comparator providing on two outputs secondary currents of the same amplitude and of opposite signs, which are dependent on the mean phase difference between the voltages applied to the inputs, the secondary currents each being added to a respective main current.
US08558620B2
A radial power combination system is provided. The system comprises a radial divider comprising ports in the form of rectangular waveguides on the periphery, a radial combiner superposed on the radial divider, comprising ports in the form of rectangular waveguides on the periphery, a first, input transition transmitting a first signal to the center of the radial divider, a second, output transition capturing the first signal amplified to the output of the radial combiner, at least two amplifying channels comprising a third, input transition capable of interacting with the guides, a fourth, output transition capable of interacting with the guides and at least one amplifier, and means for adjusting the positioning of the amplifying channels, thus making it possible to adjust the phase shift of the various channels.
US08558614B2
An amplification device that amplifies a signal, the amplification device includes an amplification unit that amplifies the signal using supplied power, a variable power supply unit that changes the power supplied to the amplification unit in accordance with an envelope of the signal, a radiation unit that radiates light onto the amplification unit, and a control unit that controls the light to be emitted from the radiation unit in accordance with slope of the envelope of the signal.
US08558605B1
Frequency conversion circuitry has an input node for receiving an input signal at a first frequency and an output node for producing an output signal at a second frequency different from the first frequency. A mixer circuit is responsive to the input signal for producing a signal at the second frequency. A step down impedance transformation circuit is coupled between the input node and an input of the mixer circuit for providing input impedance of the mixer circuit lower than impedance at the input node. An amplifier circuit is coupled between an output of the mixer circuit and the output node for amplifying the signal at the second frequency produced at the output of the mixer circuit. The mixer circuit is configured for providing input impedance of the output amplifier lower than the impedance at the input node.
US08558602B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor integrated circuit includes first and second level shift circuits. The first level shifter includes a plurality of transistors and is connected to a power source voltage supply node of a first power source system and to which a first signal of a second power source system and a level inversion signal of the first signal are input. The second level shifter includes a plurality of transistors and is connected to the power source voltage supply node of the first power source system and to which the level inversion signal of the first signal of the second power source system and an output signal of the first level shifter are input. The first and second level shifters have substantially the same circuit configuration and driving abilities of corresponding ones of the transistors in the first and second level shifters are substantially set equal.
US08558600B2
A clock signal generation circuit includes a first oscillation circuit for generating a first oscillation clock signal having a first frequency; a second oscillation circuit for generating a second oscillation clock signal having a second frequency; a frequency division circuit for generating a frequency division clock signal obtained through dividing the first oscillation clock signal; and a clock selection circuit for outputting the first oscillation clock signal as a high speed clock signal. The clock selection circuit is configured to output the second oscillation clock signal as the low speed clock signal when the second oscillation circuit transmits the second oscillation clock signal, and to output the frequency division clock signal as the low speed clock signal when the second oscillation circuit does not transmit the second oscillation clock signal.
US08558597B2
A phase interpolator circuit is provided that generates an output clock signal by interpolating between phases of first and second clock signals. Interpolation is performed by detecting an edge of the first clock signal and applying a first current to charge a capacitance of an output node to a voltage level which is less than or equal to a switching threshold of a voltage comparator, and detecting an edge of the second clock signal and applying a second current to charge the capacitance of the output node to a voltage level which exceeds the switching threshold of the voltage comparator. The magnitude of the first current is varied to adjust a timing at which the capacitance of the output node is charged to a voltage level that exceeds the switching threshold of the voltage comparator and to adjust a phase of the output clock signal output from the voltage comparator.
US08558589B2
The present disclosure provides circuitry and a method for digital clock generation including the generation of integer and non-integer sub clocks. The proposed method provides simplified constant signal propagation and low skew in the divided clock path independent of division factor. Also provided is a simplified mechanism for generating low power clock patterns divided down by factors which are non-integer, phase-shifted, repeated pulse trains, dynamically changing and glitch-free.
US08558576B2
According to one embodiment, a clamp transistor is inserted in series between a P-channel field effect transistor and an N-channel field effect transistor and an intermediate level between a high potential supplied to a source of the P-channel field effect transistor and a low potential supplied to a source of the N-channel field effect transistor is input into a gate of the clamp transistor to clamp a drain potential of the N-channel field effect transistor.
US08558569B2
An opener for a test handler is provided. Even when holding members of inserts of a carrier board are manipulated to release semiconductor devices that have been in a held state, a predetermined distance can remain between an upper surface of the opening plate and a lower surface of the insert, thus preventing the inserts from becoming defective.
US08558568B2
A ground terminal has a cylindrical main body. A signal terminal has a terminal main body that is disposed on the inside of the cylindrical main body, and a connecting plate portion that extends from an end portion of the terminal main body. Additionally, a ground terminal has at least three connecting plate portions that are disposed so as to encompass the connecting plate portion of the ground terminal, each extending from mutually different positions on an edge of the cylindrical main body.
US08558566B2
A multi-interface integrated circuit in which, during the chip's lifetime in use, only one interface is active at a time. However, special test logic powers up all of the on-chip interface modules at once, so that a complete test cycle can be performed. All of the interfaces are exercised in one test program. Since some pads are inactive in some interface modes, mask bits are used to select which pads are monitored during which test cycles.
US08558563B2
In a first embodiment, electrodes are coupled to a surface at first, second, and third locations, the first location being further from the third location than from the second location. Impedance is measured at distinct frequencies between pairs of the electrodes. As a result, impedance is measured at differing regions below the surface, one region being deeper below the surface than the other region. In a second embodiment, a microfluidic device carries out an analysis. The analysis may be within a flexible patch adhered to a surface, or may be in a solid device implanted in a body of liquid surrounded by tissue. The analysis may involve pumping a fluid or may involve drawing an analyte electrophoretically through a microfluidic channel.
US08558558B2
The invention relates to a method and a monitoring system for automatically actuated, in particular power-driven closing covers, for example boot lids of motor vehicles. The invention also relates to a method and a detection system for detecting the presence of objects per se. The aim of the invention is to provide solutions for the implementation of a reliable safety system. According to the invention, this is achieved by a detection system comprising a modulation unit for generating an alternating voltage, which is applied between a first output and a second output on the modulation device, a field generation structure that is coupled to one of the outputs in order to generate an extensive excitation field and a detection device comprising a detection electrode structure for detecting a field-electric effect in a detection area that extends along the electrode structure, the field generation structure and the detection electrode structure being located in the vicinity of one another and the detection electrode structure and the field generation structure being shielded from one another, in such a way that when the excitation field and the detection area are bridged by an object to be detected, a voltage event that can be classified as indicating a presence is induced in the detection electrode structure.
US08558543B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a coil control device that controls a transmission coil and a gradient coil such that (A) a longitudinal magnetization adjustment pulse sequence for setting a longitudinal magnetization component positive in value of a first body fluid smaller than a longitudinal magnetization component positive in value of a second body fluid is executed on the first and second body fluids, (B) a longitudinal magnetization reverse pulse for reversing the longitudinal magnetization components of the first and second body fluids is transmitted, and (C) a data acquisition pulse sequence for acquiring data of the first body fluid when an absolute value of the longitudinal magnetization component of the first body fluid flowing through an imaging area is larger than an absolute value of the longitudinal magnetization component of the second body fluid, is executed.
US08558542B2
A magnetic detector includes a detecting section having a surface facing a magnetic body which moves and emits a magnetic flux. The detecting section includes plural magnetic sensors for detecting the magnetic flux. The magnetic sensors are arranged in a matrix form having three or more rows and three or more columns arranged along the surface of the detecting section. The magnetic detector provides an input device precisely detecting a moving direction and a moving amount of the magnetic body.
US08558540B2
In A method for measuring a dimensionless coupling constant of a magnetic structure includes the following steps. A step of applying an external vertical magnetic field is performed for enabling magnetic moments of a RE-TM (Rare Earth-Transition metal) alloy magnetic layer of the magnetic structure to be vertical and saturated. A step of measuring a compensation temperature is performed when the sum of the magnetization of the RE-TM alloy magnetic layer is zero. A step of applying an external parallel magnetic field to the RE-TM alloy magnetic layer is performed. A step of adjusting the temperature of the magnetic structure to the compensation temperature and measuring a hysteresis loop of the magnetic structure under the external parallel magnetic field is performed, wherein the inverse of the slope of hysteresis loop is a dimensionless coupling constant.
US08558536B2
A solar simulator and a measurement method of the multi-junction photovoltaic device is provided. The measurement method includes following processes. The process that the halogen lamp emits a flash and a top of a light pulse wave shape is controlled to be flat. The process that the xenon lamp once or plural times emits a flash which has the flat top and is shorter pulse than the flat area of the halogen lamp flash while the top of a light pulse shape of the halogen lamp flash is flat. The process that the flashes from the halogen lamp and the xenon lamp is irradiated to the photovoltaic device as the measurement object, and during the emission of the flash from the xenon lamp, the load of the photovoltaic device is controlled and the current and the voltage generating therefrom are measured at single point or plural points.
US08558534B2
An ECU detects a steering angle that is an absolute angle based on a sine signal and a cosine signal that are output from a steering sensor. The ECU includes a three-phase pulse generator that generates, based on the sine signal and the cosine signal, three-phase pulse signals that have edges corresponding to predetermined rotational angles and that are set in such a manner that the predetermined rotational angles corresponding to the respective edges do not overlap each other and are at regular intervals. A microcomputer has a function as a second rotational angle detector that calculates a steering angle based on the pulse signals.
US08558530B2
A voltage regulator may derive current from a bias circuitry having a constant-transconductance. The bias circuitry may generate the bias current using three NMOS devices. The temperature coefficient of the bias current may be within a specified, desired range. The bias current may be mirrored to low-power regulator circuitry to bias a diode-connected transistor in the low-power regulator circuitry to operate in the strong inversion region. A ratioed current based on the output load current may be injected into a bipolar junction transistor (BJT) device to cause the gate-source voltage (VGS) of the diode-connected device to track the VGS of the output transistor of the voltage regulator, to ensure tighter load regulation. By operating the diode-connected transistor in strong inversion, by maintaining its (VGS) constant over temperature, and by cancelling the VGS of the output transistor of the voltage regulator with the base-emitter voltage (VBE) of the BJT device, the regulated voltage output may become free of the effects of temperature and supply voltage.
US08558529B2
An output monitoring comparator outputs an ON signal when an output voltage becomes lower than a reference voltage. A pulse modulator generates a pulse signal at a predetermined level, an ON time-period from when the ON signal is outputted. A driver circuit alternately turns ON, after a dead time, a switching transistor and a synchronous rectification transistor, based on the pulse signal. A light load mode detector compares a switching voltage at a connection point of the switching transistor and the synchronous rectification transistor, and ground potential, and at timing at which the ON signal is outputted from the output monitoring comparator, when the switching voltage is higher than the ground potential, nullifies the ON signal.
US08558524B2
A power supply circuit can be configured to include a first circuit and a second circuit. Each circuit can be substantially identical to each other but provide different functionality depending on how they are configured. For example, each of the first circuit and second circuit can be chips having substantially the same pin layout and internal circuitry. However, the functionality provided by the circuits varies depending on whether a respective circuit is configured as a master or slave. The first circuit is configured as the master and generates multiple phase control signals. The first circuit uses a portion of the multiple phase control signals to control a first set of phases. The first circuit transmits a second portion of the multiple phase control signals to the second circuit configured as a slave. The second circuit is configured to receive and use the second portion of control signals to control a second set of phases.
US08558522B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a converter includes a circuit and method for scaling a drive signal. The converter determines the power at its input and scales a drive signal in accordance with the input power. In accordance with another embodiment the converter determines the power at its output and scales the drive signal in accordance with the output power.
US08558516B2
A charge-controlling semiconductor integrated circuit includes a current- controlling MOS transistor which is connected between a voltage input terminal and an output terminal and controls flowing current, a substratum voltage switching circuit connected between the voltage input/output terminal and a substratum to which an input/output voltage is applied, and a voltage comparison circuit to compare the input/output voltage. The charge-controlling semiconductor integrated circuit controls the substratum voltage switching circuit based on an output of the voltage comparison circuit, and the voltage comparison circuit includes an intentional offset in a first potential direction. A level shift circuit to shift the output voltage to a potential direction opposite to the first potential direction is provided in a preceding stage of a first input terminal of the voltage comparison circuit, and the input voltage is input to a second input terminal of the voltage comparison circuit.
US08558511B2
A method for managing the charging and discharging of batteries wherein at least one battery is connected to a battery charger, the battery charger is connected to a power supply. A plurality of controllers in communication with one and another are provided, each of the controllers monitoring a subset of input variables. A set of charging constraints may then generated for each controller as a function of the subset of input variables. A set of objectives for each controller may also be generated. A preferred charge rate for each controller is generated as a function of either the set of objectives, the charging constraints, or both, using an algorithm that accounts for each of the preferred charge rates for each of the controllers and/or that does not violate any of the charging constraints. A current flow between the battery and the battery charger is then provided at the actual charge rate.
US08558506B2
A device and method for controlling the charging of a portable terminal is provided. The device includes an external power supply interface unit for supplying an external power, a battery interface unit to which a main battery and a sub battery are connected, and a charging controller for controlling a charge of the main battery or a simultaneous charge of the main battery and the sub battery.
US08558505B2
When it is determined that a charge controllable vehicle and a charge uncontrollable vehicle coexist are connected to a plurality of charging stations, available power X is distributed and supplied to the charge controllable vehicle or the charge uncontrollable vehicle so that total power derived from the charge controllable vehicle and the charge uncontrollable vehicle does not exceed the available power X of a power supply unit, and the available power X is distributed as time division and supplied to the charge controllable vehicle and the charge uncontrollable vehicle.
US08558502B2
An assembly for electrically recharging vehicles, to which individual radio units are assigned, having a parking space for a vehicle, a recharging station assigned to the parking space for cable-connected recharging of a vehicle located therein, and a transceiver connecting to the recharging station for communication with a radio unit, wherein the transceiver clears the recharging station for the recharging process depending on the communication with the radio unit, and the transceiver has a communication zone, which is restricted to the region of the parking space or can locate a radio unit as being located in this restricted region.
US08558496B2
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring current in an electric motor. An electrical system includes a (DC) interface, an electric motor, an inverter module coupled between the DC interface and the electric motor, a first current sensor between a first phase leg of the inverter module and a first phase of the electric motor to measure a first current flowing through the first phase of the electric motor, a second current sensor between the first phase leg and the DC interface to measure a second current flowing through the first phase leg, and a control module coupled to the first current sensor and the second current sensor. The control module is configured to initiate remedial action based at least in part on a difference between the first current measured by the first current sensor and the second current measured by the second current sensor.
US08558495B2
Sensorless driving of a brushless DC (BLDC) motor includes detecting a zero crossing time from back electromotive force (BEMF) voltage of the BLDC motor. An instantaneous BEMF voltage and an average BEMF voltage are compared to detect the crossover time, which can be used to change the commutation switching sequence. Since the average BEMF voltage differs for odd and even steps of the commutation switching sequence, average BEMF voltages are calculated separately for odd and even sequences and compared to instantaneous BEMF voltages to detect crossover points for the odd and even sequences. The times to commutations for the odd and even sequences are averaged to provide an average time to the next commutation cycle. The average time can be scaled by a reduction factor to reduce the effects of measurement noise.
US08558489B2
A thinly configured and brushless miniature DC micro motor that includes at least two substantially-flat motor cells that are aligned axially. Each motor cell comprises a stator coil having an elongate opening and passage for a rotor shaft, and a cross-polarized rotor magnet carried on the rotor shaft and received within the elongate opening. The micro motor also includes a frame substrate that fixably supports the stator coils of the motor cells while providing a bearing means for rotatably supporting the rotor shaft, so that selectively energizing one of the motor cells creates an electric current in the stator coil interacting with a magnetic field of the received rotor magnet to generate a torque between the rotor shaft and the frame substrate.
US08558481B2
A luminescence driving apparatus, a display apparatus, and a driving method thereof are provided. The luminescence driving apparatus includes: a driving circuit which is connected to a light-emitting device and drives the light-emitting device according to a control pulse having a fluctuating amplitude; a controller which, if an internal current of the light-emitting device is less than or equal to a threshold value, selects a position from among a plurality of different positions of the driving circuit based on the amplitude of the control pulse, senses a voltage at the selected position and determines whether a short-circuit has occurred between the light-emitting device and the driving circuit using a level of the sensed voltage; and a protector which if it is determined that the short-circuit has occurred, performs a protection operation with respect to the light-emitting device.
US08558479B2
A driving device comprises a first transistor (B13), a second transistor (B14), and a resistance element. The first transistor (B13) has one terminal receiving a pulsed current and a control terminal connected to the one terminal. The second transistor (B14) has one terminal connected to at least one load, the other terminal connected to a reference potential together with the other terminal of the first transistor (B13), and a control terminal connected to the control terminal of the first transistor (B13). The resistance element is connected between the control terminal of the first transistor (B13) and the other terminal of the first transistor (B13).
US08558475B2
The invention provides a lamp circuit of a light emitting device, which comprises a capacitor, a rectification unit, a current limiting unit, and a light emitting device. The capacitor is connected to the two lamp contacts of the lamp holder of the electrical ballast to change the resonant frequency of the resonant circuit of the electrical ballast. The rectification unit is connected to the capacitor, and utilized to rectify a sine-wave voltage to a direct current voltage. The current limiting unit is connected to the rectification unit, outputting a direct current corresponding to the direct current voltage. The light emitting device is connected to the current limiting unit and the rectification unit to generate a light source. With the invention, the light emitting device can be installed directly in a lamp holder of a conventional fluorescent lamp.
US08558470B2
Exemplary embodiments provide an apparatus, system and method for power conversion to provide power to solid state lighting, and which may be coupled to a first switch, such as a dimmer switch. An exemplary system comprises: a switching power supply; solid state lighting; a first adaptive interface circuit to provide a resistive impedance to the first switch and conduct current from the first switch in a default mode; and a second adaptive interface circuit to create a resonant process. An exemplary apparatus comprises: a switching power supply; and an adaptive interface circuit comprising a resistive impedance coupled in series to a reactive impedance to conduct current from the first switch in a first current path in a default mode, and further comprising a second switch coupled to the reactive impedance to conduct current from the first switch in a second current path, with the adaptive interface circuit further damping oscillation when the first switch turns on.
US08558469B2
An apparatus and a method for driving a fluorescent lamp are provided. The apparatus submitted by the present invention includes a power switching circuit, an LC resonator and an automatic frequency tracing circuit. The power switching circuit is coupled between an input voltage and a ground potential, and is used for switching and outputting the input voltage and the ground potential in response to a ramp signal and a comparison voltage so as to generate a square signal. The LC resonator is used for receiving and converting the square signal to generate a sinusoidal driving signal for driving the fluorescent lamp. The automatic frequency tracing circuit is used for generating and adjusting the ramp signal according to a feedback signal related to the sinusoidal driving signal, so as to make a frequency of the sinusoidal driving signal automatically following a resonant frequency of the LC resonator.
US08558468B2
A white LED light source module can have a white LED light source that includes a blue LED element and a fluorescent material in combination, and a member that can prevent the color of the fluorescent material itself from being directly observed when the light source module does not function as a light source. The white LED light source module can have a photosensor to detect external light. In a standby mode of the white LED light source module, the blue LED element can be supplied with a small driving current corresponding to the brightness of the external light detected by the photosensor, so that the white LED light source can be lit with the luminance substantially equal to the external light.
US08558466B2
Embodiments of methods, apparatuses and systems for identifying an event are disclosed. One method includes sensing motion with a motion sensor, wherein the motion sensor is stationary, and the motion sensor senses motion of an object that is external to the motion sensor. The embodiment further includes matching the sensed motion with one of a plurality of stored patterns of events, and identifying an event associated with the sensed motion based on a match between a one of the plurality of patterns and the sensed motion. One apparatus includes a sensing device, wherein the sensing device includes a light sensor sensing motion and a processor. The processor is configured to match the sensed motion with one of a plurality of stored patterns of events, and identify an event associated with the sensed motion based on a match between a one of the plurality of patterns and the sensed motion.
US08558465B2
A lighting system comprising a lamp arranged to transform electricity into a light beam having properties such as intensity, color, color temperature, direction and beam cone angle; a light control means arranged to adjust said light beam properties; a plurality of ultrasonic transmitters arranged to transmit ultrasonic signals; a plurality of ultrasonic receivers arranged to receive reflected ultrasonic signals; and a processing means arranged to send an ultrasonic pulse sequentially through each of said transmitters and to determine after each pulse is sent which ones of said receivers receive a reflected ultrasonic signal with an amplitude exceeding a predetermined threshold within a predetermined period, and to send control signals to said light control means in dependence of said determination.
US08558461B2
Accelerated charged particles are provided by inductive amplification of particle energy in connection with a deflagration-mode plasma discharge. The deflagration mode discharge tends to increase particle energy relative to other operating modes. Inductive amplification of particle energy further increases output particle velocity. Inductive amplification can occur by formation of a current loop in the plasma discharge, and/or by a sudden increase in inductance due to collapse of the current distribution of the plasma discharge. Applications include particle therapy and production of radio-isotopes.
US08558458B2
An exit light and an emergency light which have a function to indicate a residual charge of a storage battery are provided for users to efficiently check the residual charge of the battery by using a bar graph indicating unit formed on a front portion. The exit light and the emergency light each includes a power input unit which receives a utilized voltage input, decreases the voltage input and applies the voltage input to a rectifier circuit unit; the rectifier circuit which transforms AC power applied from the power input unit into DC power and applies the DC power to a power supply unit; the power supply unit which applies the DC power applied from the rectifier circuit to a light emitting unit or a charging circuit; the light emitting unit which emits light by using the DC power applied from the power supply unit; the charging circuit which supplies the DC power applied from the power supply unit to a storage battery and charges the storage battery; the storage battery which is charged with the DC power applied from the charging circuit; a bar graph indicating unit which indicates a residual charge of the storage battery; and a check switch which, in response to switching-on by a user for checking, cuts off the utilized power and discharges the charge of the storage battery through the bar graph indicating unit so that the residual charge of the storage battery is indicated on the bar graph indicating unit.
US08558455B2
An organic electro luminescent display with auxiliary layers on a cathode contact and an encapsulating junction region to easily remove polymer organic layers of the junction. The organic electro luminescent display has the first electrode formed on a lower insulating substrate, a pixel defining layer formed to make some portions of the first electrode opened over the entire surface of the lower insulating substrate, an organic emission layer formed on an opening of the first electrode, the second electrode formed on the organic emission layer, an upper substrate for encapsulating the first electrode, the organic emission layer and the second electrode, and auxiliary layers formed on the cathode contact and the encapsulating junction region of the lower insulating substrate.
US08558454B2
A light-emitting device includes a rectangular substrate, a through-holes that is in a shape of a quarter of circle provided in two corners or four corners of the substrate, a pair of electrodes provided along short sides of the substrate and electrically connected to the through-hole(s) that is adjacently disposed to each of the electrodes. Each of the through-holes is covered by a cover that is in a shape of a quarter of circle.
US08558445B2
A light-emitting panel includes a thin film semiconductor that includes a thin film transistor. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a semiconductor layer above the gate electrode, a gate insulating film between the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer, a first electrode electrically connected to the semiconductor layer, and a second electrode. A first interlayer insulating film is above the thin film semiconductor. A gate line and an auxiliary line are above the first interlayer insulating film and between the first interlayer insulating film and a second interlayer insulating film. The gate line is electrically connected to the gate electrode. An electroluminescence emitter includes two electrodes and a light-emitting layer between the two electrodes. One of the two electrodes is connected to the auxiliary line.
US08558439B2
Disclosed herein is a spark plug comprising an insulative sleeve having a central axial bore and an exterior surface and a center electrode extending through the central axial bore of the insulative sleeve. The insulating sleeve is positioned within, and secured to, a metal shell that serves as a mounting platform and interface to an internal combustion engine. The metal sleeve also supports a ground electrode that is positioned in a spaced relationship relative to the center electrode so as to generate a spark gap. The insulating sleeve includes a shaped tip portion that resides in a recessed end portion of the metal shell. A coating is disposed on the exterior surface of the insulative sleeve. The coating comprises a silicone resin, optionally in combination with a filler.
US08558437B2
A lamp may include at least one housing; a heat source connected thereto; and a base for connection to a lampholder, wherein the base has at least one heat dissipation surface, and wherein at least one heat source is thermally conductively connected to at least one heat dissipation surface.
US08558420B2
A power tool has a motor having a stator made by separately forming pole pieces and field coils. The field coils are placed over necks of the pole path pieces. An armature has an outside diameter of at least 0.625 the outside diameter of the stator is placed in the stator. The housing has a girth of 200 mm or less with the motor wound to provide a maximum watts out to housing girth ratio of at least 5 maximum watts outs to 1 mm of housing girth. The field coils may be formed so that they extend beyond pole tips of the pole pieces.
US08558419B2
Disclosed is a voice coil motor, the motor including a mover having a bobbin equipped with a lens and a coil block secured to an outer circumference of the bobbin; a stator having a magnet that is disposed in such a way as to face the coil block; elastic members coupled to a lower end of the bobbin and connected to both ends of the coil block; a base supporting the elastic members and the stator; and a cover can covering the mover, the stator and the base, with an opening being formed in the cover can to expose the lens therethrough, wherein each of the elastic members includes a terminal portion that extends between the cover can and a side surface of the base, the terminal portion including a short-circuit prevention portion so as to prevent a short-circuit between the terminal portion and the cover can.
US08558416B2
The invention relates to a power transmission system for transmitting electrical power from a power source to a load. The system comprises a capacitive and lossy transmission line or cable and a transformer device. The transformer device comprises a magnetic core and a first winding wound around a first axis of the magnetic core. The first end of the transmission line or cable is connected to the power source and the second end of the transmission line is connected to the transformer device. A second winding wound around the first axis of the magnetic core, where the second winding is connected to the load. A control winding is wound around a second axis of the magnetic core, where the first axis and the second axis are orthogonal axes to that when the first winding, the second winding and/or the control winding are energized, orthogonal fluxes are generated in the magnetic core. A control system is connected to the control winding for controlling the permeability of the magnet core to automatically provide voltage control of the voltage supplied to the load and control of reactive power supplied to the cable.
US08558414B2
A voltage regulator for a merchandise display security device provides an appropriate operating voltage through a power cable electrically connected between an alarm sensor and an item of merchandise. The voltage regulator utilizes a feedback signal from a power conversion chip and data from a microprocessor look-up table to adjust the input power to the merchandise. The look-up table stores appropriate operating voltage requirements for each power cable used for different types and brands of merchandise. The type and brand of merchandise is identified by the resistance of the power cable and the feedback signal is modified continuously to maintain power to the merchandise at an appropriate operating voltage.
US08558412B2
Provided is a method for a wireless power transfer. The method includes modulating a transmission frequency according to a predetermined value at a wireless power transmitter; and transmitting a high frequency signal according to the modulated transmission signal from the wireless power transmitter to at least one wireless power receiver and redetermining the predetermined value according to information which corresponds to a power value of the high frequency signal received by the at least one wireless power receiver, wherein the modulating the transmission frequency at the wireless power transmitter and transmitting the high frequency and the redetermining the predetermined value the at least one wireless power receiver are repeated.
US08558403B2
The invention is directed to a single moored offshore marine turbine assembly having a central control vessel which includes a main vessel tethered to a control buoy. The main vessel having a first cap, a corresponding second cap and a tubular shell positioned between both the first cap and second cap. The tubular shell contains one or more vertical partitions to assist in ballasting. The control buoy includes a compressor and an air conduit which forces air into the main vessel through a manifold. A hollow suction caisson affixes the central control vessel to the ocean floor. A taut line mooring secures the suction caisson to the main vessel. Electricity is generated via a turbine shroud assembly having a conical shroud and a hydro-turbine. By attaching a plurality of turbine shroud assemblies in series via cables, a horizontal turbine train is formed resulting in a simple, economical and safe layout.
US08558399B2
A dual molded multi-chip package system is provided including forming an embedded integrated circuit package system having a first encapsulation partially covering a first integrated circuit die and a lead connected thereto, mounting a semiconductor device over the first encapsulation and connected to the lead, and forming a second encapsulation over the semiconductor device and the embedded integrated circuit package system.
US08558396B2
A semiconductor device is provided and includes a semiconductor die, and a plurality of bond pads having exposed surfaces arranged in an alternating interleaved pattern on the semiconductor die. Each of the surfaces of the bond pads have a first bond placement area that overlaps with a second bond placement area, with the first bond placement area having a major axis that is orthogonal to a major axis of the second bond placement area. A connecting bond is located at an intersection of the major axes of the first bond placement area and the second bond placement area on one or more of the bond pads.
US08558394B1
A chip stack structure and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The chip stack structure comprises a plurality of chips, a vertical conductive line, a plurality of insulating films and a fluid. The chips are overlapped. The vertical conductive line is electrically connected to some of the chips. The vertical conductive line is disposed at the outside of a projection area of some of the chips. Each chip is disposed in one of the insulating films. The channels which are hollow are formed in one of the insulating films. The fluid is disposed in the channels.
US08558388B2
A patternable adhesive composition including at least one alkali soluble resin including an alkali soluble group and an acryloyl group, at least one radically polymerizable compound, at least one thermosettable compound, and at least one photo-radical initiator.
US08558384B2
A design structure is provided for interconnect structures containing various capping materials for electrical fuses and other related applications. The structure includes a first interconnect structure having a first interfacial structure and a second interconnect structure adjacent to the first structure. The second interconnect structure has second interfacial structure different from the first interfacial structure.
US08558378B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die with a plurality of bumps formed over the die. A substrate has a plurality of conductive traces formed on the substrate. Each trace has an interconnect site for mating to the bumps. The interconnect sites have parallel edges along a length of the conductive traces under the bumps from a plan view for increasing escape routing density. The bumps have a noncollapsible portion for attaching to a contact pad on the die and fusible portion for attaching to the interconnect site. The fusible portion melts at a temperature which avoids damage to the substrate during reflow. The noncollapsible portion includes lead solder, and fusible portion includes eutectic solder. The interconnect sites have a width which is less than 1.2 times a width of the conductive trace. Alternatively, the interconnect sites have a width which is less than one-half a diameter of the bump.
US08558369B2
A method of manufacture of an integrated circuit packaging system includes: forming a post of multiple plating layers having a base end with an inward protrusion, a connect riser, and a top end opposite the base end; positioning an integrated circuit device having a perimeter end facing the connect riser and the inward protrusion; attaching a bond wire directly on the inward protrusion and the integrated circuit device; and applying an encapsulation over the integrated circuit device, the bond wire, the inward protrusion, and around the post, the encapsulation exposing a portion of the base end and the top end of the post.
US08558364B2
An approach to activating a getter within a sealed vacuum cavity is disclosed. The approach uses inductive coupling from an external coil to a magnetically permeable material deposited in the vacuum cavity. The getter material is formed over this magnetically permeable material, and heated specifically thereby, leaving the rest of the device cavity and microdevice relatively cool. Using this inductive coupling technique, the getter material can be activated after encapsulation, and delicate structures and low temperature wafer bonding mechanisms may be used.
US08558363B2
A lead frame substrate, includes: a metal plate having first and second surfaces; a semiconductor element mounting section, semiconductor element electrode connection terminals, and a first outer frame section formed on the first surface; external connection terminals formed on the second surface and electrically connected with the semiconductor element electrode connection terminals; a second outer frame section formed on the second surface; and a resin layer formed on a gap between the first outer frame and the second outer frame. Each external connection terminal buried in the resin layer has at least one projection formed on a side surface thereof throughout a side lower portion of the first surface.
US08558361B2
A power semiconductor module comprises: a heat dissipation plate; an insulating wiring board having an upper electrode and a lower electrode, the lower electrode joined to the heat dissipation plate via a first solder; a semiconductor chip joined to the upper electrode via a second solder; a first low-k dielectric film coating sides of the lower electrode and the first solder; a second low-k dielectric film coating sides of the semiconductor chip and the second solder; a case on the heat dissipation plate and surrounding the insulating wiring board and the semiconductor chip; and an insulator filled in the case and coating the insulating wiring board, the semiconductor chip, and the first and second low-k dielectric films.
US08558356B2
A stable electrical component includes a carrier substrate and a chip (2) mounted thereon. The component has a reactance element and a supporting element, which are at least partly arranged between the carrier substrate and the chip. The reactance element is at least partly realized by means of at least one conductor track. The reactance element includes a coil, a capacitor or a transmission line.
US08558352B2
A semiconductor IC includes grooves formed in a substrate to define a first dummy region and second dummy regions formed at a scribing area, and third dummy regions and a fourth dummy region formed at a product area. A width of the first dummy region is greater than widths of each of the second and third dummy regions and a width of the fourth dummy region is greater than widths of each of the third dummy regions. A conductor pattern is formed over the first dummy region for optical pattern recognition. The first dummy region is formed under the conductor pattern so the grooves are not formed under the conductor pattern. The second dummy regions are spaced from one another by a predetermined spacing at the scribing area, and the third dummy regions are spaced from one another by a predetermined spacing at the product area.
US08558346B1
A semiconductor structure includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor. The first capacitor includes a plurality of first units and each first unit includes a plurality of first finger electrodes. The second capacitor includes a plurality of second units and each second unit includes a plurality of second finger electrodes. The first units and the second units are alternately arranged to form an array. The semiconductor structure further includes a plurality of first connecting lines and a plurality of second connecting lines being parallel with each other. The first connecting lines are electrically connected to the first finger electrodes, and the second connecting lines are electrically connected to the second finger electrodes. The first finger electrodes and its adjacent first connecting lines form a straight line, and the second finger electrodes and its adjacent second connecting lines form another straight line.
US08558334B2
A semiconductor device in which MRAM is formed in a wiring layer A contained in a multilayered wiring layer, the MRAM having at least two first magnetization pinning layers in contact with a first wiring formed in a wiring layer and insulated from each other, a free magnetization layer overlapping the two first magnetization pinning layers in a plan view, and connected with the first magnetization pinning layers, a non-magnetic layer situated over the free magnetization layer, and a second magnetization pinning layer situated over the non-magnetic layer.
US08558328B2
A semiconductor device suitable for use in a pressure sensor is disclosed. A uniformly thin die is provided by chemically etching a back side of a wafer. Piezoelectric elements formed integrally within the die generate electrical signals in response to flexing the die. Conductive leads formed integrally within the die electrically communicate the generated electrical signals to support circuitry formed integrally within the die proximate the piezoelectric elements. In an example embodiment, the piezoresistive elements take the form of silicon resistors formed integrally via doping and diffusion in a Wheatstone bridge configuration. In one application, the die serves as a deformable diaphragm, seated atop an aperture of a threaded pressure sensor housing.
US08558324B2
a composite dielectric thin film capable of high dielectric constant, low leakage current characteristics, and high dielectric breakdown voltage while being deposited at a room temperature, a capacitor and a field effect transistor (FET) using the same, and their fabrication methods. The composite dielectric thin film is deposited at a room temperature or less than 200° C. and comprises crystalline or amorphous insulating filler uniformly distributed within an amorphous dielectric matrix or within an amorphous and partially nanocrystalline dielectric matrix.
US08558317B2
The object to provide a semiconductor device comprising a highly-integrated SGT-based CMOS inverter circuit is achieved by forming an inverter which comprises: a first transistor including; an first island-shaped semiconductor layer; a first gate insulating film; a gate electrode; a first first-conductive-type high-concentration semiconductor layer arranged above the first island-shaped semiconductor layer; and a second first-conductive-type high-concentration semiconductor layer arranged below the first island-shaped semiconductor layer, and a second transistor including; a second gate insulating film surrounding a part of the periphery of the gate electrode; a second semiconductor layer in contact with a part of the periphery of the second gate insulating film; a first second-conductive-type high-concentration semiconductor layer arranged above the second semiconductor layer; and a second second-conductive-type high-concentration semiconductor layer arranged below the second semiconductor layer.
US08558311B2
A dielectric material is disclosed comprising a plurality of substantially longitudinally oriented wires which are coupled together, wherein each of the wires includes a conductive core comprising a first material and one or more insulating shell layers comprising a compositionally different second material disposed about the core. In one embodiment, a dielectric layer is disclosed comprising a substrate comprising an insulating material having a plurality of nanoscale pores defined therein having a pore diameter less than about 100 nm, and a conductive material disposed within the nanoscale pores. Methods are also disclosed to create a dielectric material layer comprising, for example, providing a plurality of wires, wherein each of the wires includes a core comprising a first material and one or more insulating layers comprising a compositionally different second material disposed about the core; substantially longitudinally orienting said plurality of wires along their long axes; coupling the wires together; and depositing an insulating coating on at least one of a top and/or a bottom end of the wires.
US08558305B2
An embodiment of a method for manufacturing a power device integrated on a semiconductor substrate. The method includes photo-lithography and etching of an epitaxial layer for the formation of at least one deep trench; deposition of a dielectric layer with partial filling of the at least one trench; complete filling of the at least one trench with a layer of sacrificial material; selective etching of the dielectric layer with consequent retrocession below the layer of sacrificial material; selective etching of the layer of sacrificial material with consequent formation of an empty region within the at least one trench; and growth of a layer of gate oxide; formation of at least one gate region, of at least one buried source region, of at least one body region and of at least one source region.
US08558303B2
A semiconductor device and methods of manufacturing and operating the semiconductor device may be disclosed. The semiconductor device may comprise different nanostructures. The semiconductor device may have a first element formed of nanowires and a second element formed of nanoparticles. The nanowires may be ambipolar carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The first element may be a channel layer. The second element may be a charge trap layer. In this regard, the semiconductor device may be a transistor or a memory device.
US08558288B2
Methods and apparatus relating to very large scale FET arrays for analyte measurements. ChemFET (e.g., ISFET) arrays may be fabricated using conventional CMOS processing techniques based on improved FET pixel and array designs that increase measurement sensitivity and accuracy, and at the same time facilitate significantly small pixel sizes and dense arrays. Improved array control techniques provide for rapid data acquisition from large and dense arrays. Such arrays may be employed to detect a presence and/or concentration changes of various analyte types in a wide variety of chemical and/or biological processes. In one example, chemFET arrays facilitate DNA sequencing techniques based on monitoring changes in hydrogen ion concentration (pH), changes in other analyte concentration, and/or binding events associated with chemical processes relating to DNA synthesis.
US08558287B2
An apparatus including a first electrode portion configured to inject charge carriers; a second electrode portion configured to collect charge carriers and provide an output signal; a third electrode portion configured to collect charge carriers and provide an output signal; a monolithic semiconductor, providing a first channel for the transport of injected charge carriers between the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion and providing a second channel for the transport of injected charge carriers between the first electrode portion and the third electrode portion, wherein the first channel is configured such that a charge carrier injected at the first electrode portion will reach the second electrode portion via the first channel after a first transport time and the second channel is configured such that a charge carrier injected at the first electrode portion will reach the third electrode portion via the second channel after a second transport time greater than the first transport time; and at least one gate electrode coupled to the monolithic semiconductor configured to enable switching a route for charge carrier transport between at least the first channel and the second channel.
US08558286B2
A photodetector is described along with corresponding materials, systems, and methods. The photodetector comprises an integrated circuit and at least two optically sensitive layers. A first optically sensitive layer is over at least a portion of the integrated circuit, and a second optically sensitive layer is over the first optically sensitive layer. Each optically sensitive layer is interposed between two electrodes. The two electrodes include a respective first electrode and a respective second electrode. The integrated circuit selectively applies a bias to the electrodes and reads signals from the optically sensitive layers. The signal is related to the number of photons received by the respective optically sensitive layer.
US08558284B2
An integrated circuit comprising an electromigration barrier includes a line, the line comprising a first conductive material, the line further comprising a plurality of line segments separated by one or more electromigration barriers, wherein the one or more electromigration barriers comprise a second conductive material that isolates electromigration effects within individual segments of the line.
US08558278B2
A strain-induced layer is formed atop a MOS device in order to increase carrier mobility in the channel region. The dimension of the strain-induced layer in preferred embodiments may lead to an optimized drive current increase and improved drive current uniformity in an NMOS and PMOS device. An advantage of the preferred embodiments is that improved device performance is obtained without adding complex processing steps. A further advantage of the preferred embodiments is that the added processing steps can be readily integrated into a known CMOS process flow. Moreover, the creation of the photo masks defining the tensile and compressive strain-induced layers does not require extra design work on an existed design database.
US08558273B2
The present invention relates to an encapsulating sheet for an optical semiconductor, including: a phosphor-containing layer containing a phosphor; and an encapsulating resin layer containing an encapsulating resin and being laminated on the phosphor-containing layer, in which, on the laminated surface therebetween, an edge of the phosphor-containing layer protrudes from an edge of the encapsulating resin layer, and a protruded length of the phosphor-containing layer is from 1 to 10 times a thickness of the encapsulating resin layer.
US08558271B2
A housing for an optoelectronic component comprises a housing body and first and second electrical terminal strips. The first and second terminal strips extend in part inside the housing body and are guided out of the housing body at a first side face. Outside the housing body the two terminal strips are bent in such a way that they comprise a first portion extending at an angle to the first side face, and a second portion (11d, 12d) extending along and spaced from the first side face. A method for producing such a housing is also described.
US08558270B2
Provided is a light emitting device. The light emitting device includes: a plurality of lead frame units spaced apart from each other, each of the lead frame units being provided with at least one fixing space perforating a body thereof in a vertical direction; a light emitting diode chip mounted on one of the lead frame units; and a molding unit that is integrally formed on top surfaces of the lead frame units and in the fixing spaces to protect the light emitting diode chip.
US08558256B2
Provided are a light emitting diode (LED) using a Si nanowire as an emission device and a method of fabricating the same. The LED includes: a semiconductor substrate; first and second semiconductor protrusions disposed on the semiconductor substrate to face each other; a semiconductor nanowire suspended between the first and second semiconductor protrusions; and first and second electrodes disposed on the first and second protrusions, respectively.
US08558253B2
An organic EL display device includes organic EL elements provided for respective pixels. Each organic EL element has first and second electrodes between which an organic layer is provided and has a region that contributes to light emission and a region that does not contribute to light emission. A capacitor is formed between the first and second electrodes in the region that does not contribute to light emission and is used as a capacitance element in a drive circuit for the organic EL element.
US08558246B2
A light emitting diode includes: a light emitting diode chip including a substrate and a light emission structure disposed on the substrate; and a phosphor layer formed to cover at least one surface of a diode upper surface and a diode lower surface, when a surface formed by the light emitting diode chip, when viewed from above the light emission structure, is defined as the diode upper surface and a surface formed by the light emitting diode chip, when viewed from below the substrate is defined as the diode lower surface. The phosphor layer is formed in a manner such that the phosphor layer does not deviate from the diode upper surface or the diode lower surface and has a flat surface parallel to the diode upper surface or the diode lower surface and a curved surface connecting the flat surface to corners of the diode upper surface or the diode lower surface.
US08558241B2
This invention provides a semiconductor device having high operation performance and high reliability. An LDD region 707 overlapping with a gate wiring is arranged in an n-channel TFT 802 forming a driving circuit, and a TFT structure highly resistant to hot carrier injection is achieved. LDD regions 717, 718, 719 and 720 not overlapping with a gate wiring are arranged in an n-channel TFT 804 forming a pixel unit. As a result, a TFT structure having a small OFF current value is achieved. In this instance, an element belonging to the Group 15 of the Periodic Table exists in a higher concentration in the LDD region 707 than in the LDD regions 717, 718, 719 and 720.
US08558240B2
A thin film transistor display panel includes a substrate, a gate wire on the substrate and including a gate line and a gate electrode; a gate insulating layer on the gate wire; a semiconductor layer on the gate insulating layer; a data wire including a source electrode on the semiconductor layer, a drain electrode opposing the source electrode with respect to the gate electrode, and a data line; a passivation layer on the data wire having a contact hole exposing the drain electrode; and a pixel electrode on the passivation layer and connected to the drain electrode through the contact hole. The gate wire has a first region and second region where the gate line and the gate electrode are positioned, respectively. The thickness of the gate wire in the first region is greater than the thickness of the gate wire in the second region.
US08558229B2
The embodiments described above provide mechanisms for forming metal bumps on metal pads with testing pads on a packaged integrated circuit (IC) chip. A passivation layer is formed to cover the testing pads and possibly portions of metal pads. The passivation layer does not cover surfaces away from the testing pad region and the metal pad region. The limited covering of the testing pads and the portions of the metal pads by the passivation layer reduces interface resistance for a UBM layer formed between the metal pads and the metal bumps. Such reduction of interface resistance leads to the reduction of resistance of the metal bumps.
US08558219B2
A method for forming a nanowire field effect transistor (FET) device includes forming a nanowire over a substrate, forming a liner material around a portion of the nanowire, forming a capping layer on the liner material, forming a first spacer adjacent to sidewalls of the capping layer and around portions of the nanowire, forming a hardmask layer on the capping layer and the first spacer, removing an exposed portion of the nanowire to form a first cavity partially defined by the gate material, epitaxially growing a semiconductor material on an exposed cross section of the nanowire in the first cavity, removing the hardmask layer and the capping layer, forming a second capping layer around the semiconductor material epitaxially grown in the first cavity to define a channel region, and forming a source region and a drain region contacting the channel region.
US08558218B2
Methods and associated structures of forming microelectronic devices are described. Those methods may include method of forming a layered nanotube structure comprising a wetting layer disposed on a nanotube, a Shottky layer disposed on the wetting layer, a barrier layer disposed on the Shottky layer, and a matrix layer disposed on the barrier layer.
US08558212B2
A non-volatile memory device structure. The device structure includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a resistive switching material comprising an amorphous silicon material overlying the first electrode, and a thickness of dielectric material having a thickness ranging from 5 nm to 10 nm disposed between the second electrode and the resistive switching layer. The thickness of dielectric material is configured to electrically breakdown in a region upon application of an electroforming voltage to the second electrode. The electrical breakdown allows for a metal region having a dimension of less than about 10 nm by 10 nm to form in a portion of the resistive switching material.
US08558208B2
According to one embodiment, there are provided a first electrode, a second electrode, first and second variable-resistance layers that are arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode, and at least one non variable-resistance layer that is arranged so that positions of the first and second variable-resistance layers between the first electrode and the second electrode are symmetrical to each other.
US08558204B2
An improved personal radiation protection system that substantially contours to an operator's body is suspended from a suspension means. The garment is operable to protect the operator from radiation. The suspension means is operable to provide constant force and allows the operator to move freely in the X, Y and Z planes simultaneously, such that the protective garment, face shield, or other attachments integrated into the system are substantially weightless to the operator. The suspension means may be mounted to the ceiling, a vertical wall, the floor, or on a mobile platform. The suspension means may comprise an articulating arm, a balance arm, or a manipulator, and the radiation protection system is suspended generally about its center of gravity.
US08558203B1
This invention provides for a removable/replaceable, wavelength-transforming sleeve/sheath to be placed around a primary UV radiation source that emits a primary UV wavelength spectral distribution; such that at least a portion of the sleeve/sheath transforms at least a portion of the primary UV wavelength spectral distribution to a different secondary wavelength spectral distribution. Additionally, the sleeve/sheath may help to prevent breakage of the primary UV radiation source and to contain the broken pieces in the event of breakage. In some embodiments, a portion of the sleeve/sheath may be coupled with a UV reflective surface to direct radiation in a preferred direction. Individual sleeves/sheaths may have various patterns of wavelength-transforming materials that emit one or more secondary wavelength spectral distributions and the sleeve/sheath may also have one or more sections that allow transmission of the primary UV wavelength spectral distribution.
US08558200B2
An LED-UV lamp that is easily interchangeable within a UV-curing process and scalable in length with a fine resolution so that it is easily customizable to any UV-curing application. The LED-UV lamp may incorporate multiple rows of LEDs and contain corresponding optics that effectively deliver radiant power to a substrate at distances of several inches.
US08558197B2
An ion implanting system includes an ion beam generator configured for generating a first ion beam; a mass separation device configured for isolating a second ion beam including required ions from the first ion beam; a holder device configured for holding a plurality of substrates, wherein the holder device and the second ion beam reciprocate relative to each other along a first direction in straight line or arc to make the plurality of substrates pass across a projection region of the second ion beam; and a first detector configured for obtaining relevant parameters of the second ion beam. The above ion beam implanting system may increase the ion beam utilization rate. The ion implanting system further comprises a second detector arranged on the holder device which could fully scan across the projection range of the second ion beam and obtaining the relevant parameters of the second ion beam.
US08558196B2
A charged particle lithography system for pattern transfer onto a target surface, comprising a beam generator for generating a plurality of beamlets, and a plurality of aperture array elements comprising a first aperture array, a blanker array, a beam stop array, and a projection lens array. Each aperture array element comprises a plurality of apertures arranged in a plurality of groups, wherein the aperture groups of each aperture array element form beam areas distinct and separate from non-beam areas formed between the beam areas and containing no apertures for beamlet passage. The beam areas are aligned to form beam shafts, each comprising a plurality of beamlets, and the non-beam areas are aligned to form non-beam shafts not having beamlets present therein. The first aperture array element is provided with cooling channels in the non-beam areas for transmission of a cooling medium for cooling the array element.
US08558195B2
Methods and apparatus provide for: a source simultaneously producing first plasma, which includes a first species of ions, and second plasma, which includes a second, differing, species of ions; an accelerator system including an analyzer magnet, which cooperate to simultaneously: (i) accelerate the first and second plasma along an initial axis, (ii) alter a trajectory of the first species of ions from the first plasma, thereby producing at least one first ion beam along a first axis, which is transverse to the initial axis, and (iii) alter a trajectory of the second species of ions from the second plasma, thereby producing at least one second ion beam along a second axis, which is transverse to the initial axis and the first axis; and a beam processing system operating to simultaneously direct the first and second ion beams toward a semiconductor wafer such that the first and second species of ions bombard an implantation surface of the semiconductor wafer to create an exfoliation layer therein.
US08558182B2
A novel phase-coded aperture, associated imaging system, and design method is disclosed. The optical imaging system includes a coded-aperture followed optically by a detector array and includes an image processor. A diffraction pattern in the form of a band-limited uniformly redundant array is formed on the detector array when focusable radiation from a point source in object space is modulation by the transmission function of the coded-aperture. Since diffraction effects cannot be ignored in the optical regime, an iterative phase retrieval method is used to calculate the phase-coded aperture transmission function. Correlation type processing can be applied for the image recovery.
US08558174B2
A processing system includes a particle beam column for generating a particle beam directed to a first processing location; a laser system for generating a laser beam directed to a second processing location located at a distance from the first processing location; and a protector including an actuator and a plate connected to the actuator. The actuator is configured to move the plate between a first position in which it protects a component of the particle beam column from particles released from the object by the laser beam and a second position in which the component of the particle beam column is not protected from particles released from the object by the laser beam.
US08558158B2
Solid-state imaging device, manufacturing method and designing method thereof, and electronic device
A solid-state imaging device includes a semiconductor substrate, photodiodes, a first insulating film, a second insulating film, a third insulating film, and a color filter. The photodiodes are disposed on the semiconductor substrate. The first insulating film covers a multilayer wiring on the semiconductor substrate. The first insulating film comprises a material having a first refractive index lower than a refractive index of the semiconductor substrate for at least bottom surface and top surface portions of the first insulating film. The second insulating film has a second refractive index higher than the first refractive index. The third insulating film has a third refractive index higher than the second refractive index.
US08558155B2
A light tracking device comprising first and second support members and at least one light receiving element supported on each support member by one or more resilient flexible beams which deform upon relative translational displacement of the first and second support members. The first and second support members are arranged such that relative translational displacement of the members generates rotational displacement of the element. One or more resilient flexible beams may comprise spiral arms extending from the first to the second support members.
US08558150B2
A thermally controlled gas bearing supported inertial measurement unit (IMU) system is provided. The system comprises a sensor assembly enclosing one or more sensors and a plurality of heating elements, wherein each of the plurality of heating elements is proximal to the sensor assembly. The system also comprises a plurality of temperature sensors configured to determine a temperature of a region of the sensor assembly and a control unit configured to adjust a temperature of at least one of the plurality of heating elements based on feedback from the at least one temperature sensor.
US08558139B2
A hybrid welding device including a fuel cell and an energy storage device that cooperate to power a welding operation and/or an auxiliary operation are provided. In some embodiments, the hybrid welding device may also include an engine coupled to a generator that is configured to supplement the power provided by the fuel cell and/or the energy storage device. The hybrid welding device may be adapted to provide power for a welding operation and/or an auxiliary operation when operated as a standalone unit and/or when connected to a primary source of utility power.
US08558122B2
A filler panel for blocking an unused portion of a communications system. That filler panel may include an electromagnetic shielding base and a base cover removably coupled to the electromagnetic shielding base. The filler panel may also include an air dam composed substantially of low-cost, nonconductive material coupled to either the electromagnetic shielding base or to the base cover through the electromagnetic shielding base.
US08558120B2
A multilayer board for suppressing unwanted electromagnetic waves and noise includes: a power plane and a ground plane constituting a power distribution network; an electromagnetic wave suppression structure placed on the power plane or the ground plane; and a decoupling capacitor placed on the power plane or the ground plane, wherein the electromagnetic wave suppression structure and the decoupling capacitor are placed together.
US08558118B2
The circuit-connecting material for connection between circuit members each having a board and a circuit electrode formed on the primary surface of the board, comprising an adhesive composition that cures in response to light or heat and an organic compound containing a urethane group and an ester group.
US08558116B2
The present invention provides a multilayer rigid flexible printed circuit board including: a flexible region including a flexible film having a circuit pattern formed on one or both surfaces thereof and a laser blocking layer formed on the circuit pattern; and a rigid region formed adjacent to the flexible region and including a plurality of pattern layers on one or both surfaces of extended portions extended to both sides of the flexible film of the flexible region, and a method for manufacturing the same.
US08558113B2
A cable manager includes one or more cable manager units. Each cable manager unit includes a pair of side cable guides, each comprised of a plurality of finger-like projections extending forwardly from a support column. At least one of the pair of support columns has a socket arranged at a side thereof. Each cable manager unit further includes a separate midsection member capable of insertion into the socket for interconnecting the pair of side cable guides.
US08558108B2
An electron donating organic material includes a benzothiadiazole compound including (a) a benzothiadiazole skeleton and (b) an oligothiophene skeleton, and having a band gap (Eg) of 1.8 eV or less, and a level of highest occupied molecular orbital (HOMO) of −4.8 eV or less, wherein said benzothiadiazole compound is formed by covalently combining the benzothiadiazole skeleton and the oligothiophene skeleton alternately, a proportion between the benzothiadiazole skeleton and the oligothiophene skeleton is within a range of 1:1 to 1:2 (however, excluding 1:1), and the number of thiophene rings contained in an oligothiophene skeleton is 3 or more and 12 or less.
US08558103B2
Exemplary embodiments provide a solar cell device, and method for forming the solar cell device by integrating a switch component into a solar cell element. The solar cell element can include a solar cell, a solar cell array and/or a solar cell panel. The integrated solar cell element can be used for a solar sensor, while the solar sensor can also use discrete switches for each solar cell area of the sensor. Exemplary embodiments also provide a connection system for the solar cell elements and a method for super-connecting the solar cell elements to provide a desired connection path or a desired power output through switch settings. The disclosed connection systems and methods can allow for by-passing underperforming solar cell elements from a plurality of solar cell elements. In embodiments, the solar cell element can be extended to include a battery or a capacitor.
US08558099B2
A musical aid (2) has an elongate body (4) having at least three ridges (8) which extend outwards and along the musical aid (2). Each ridge (8) has two side surfaces (12) and at least two different side surfaces (12) carry respective sets of key-indicating markers (16) which each represent a different group of types of musical pattern. The musical aid (2) has multiple orientations in which it can be placed on a musical keyboard (40), and in each orientation the key-indicating markers (16) of a different side surface (12) indicate keys for playing a different group of one or more musical patterns. The ridge structure of the musical aid (2) enables many different musical patterns to be represented in a compact form on the different side surfaces (12) of the ridges (8). When in use, the shape of the ridge structure anchors the musical aid (2) to the keyboard (40) and causes the side surfaces (12) to be placed a convenient angle for the keyboard player to see the markers (16).
US08558086B1
The invention provides seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated 980005. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety 980005, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety 980005 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety 980005.
US08558084B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV198691. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV198691, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV198691 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV198691 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV198691.
US08558078B1
An inbred corn line, designated SLB24, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line SLB24, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line SLB24 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line SLB24 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line SLB24, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line SLB24 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
US08558073B1
Disclosed is the seed of a novel soybean variety, designated 18400RR, a sample of which is deposited under ATCC Accession No. PTA-120172. Also disclosed are plants, or parts thereof, grown from the seed of the variety, plants having the morphological and physiological characteristics of the 18400RR variety, and methods of using the plant or parts thereof in a soybean breeding program.
US08558069B2
The present invention relates to a plant, seed, variety and hybrid of the inbred Cucurbita pepo pumpkin line HSPMR7B1, which has a mutant allele designated Pm2 which results in a powdery mildew resistant plant. The invention also relates to crossing inbreds, varieties and hybrids containing the Pm2 mutant allele to produce powdery mildew resistant C. pepo plants.
US08558063B2
A lettuce cultivar, designated Jeanine, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of lettuce cultivar Jeanine, to the plants of lettuce cultivar Jeanine and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar Jeanine with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Jeanine, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar Jeanine and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar Jeanine with another lettuce cultivar.
US08558057B2
DNA constructions that provide for production of potent antifungal proteins in transgenic plants and transformed yeast cells are described. Methods of using the DNA constructs to produce transgenic plants that inhibit growth of plant pathogenic fungi are also disclosed. The use of transformed yeast cells containing the DNA constructs to produce the antifungal proteins and methods of isolating the antifungal proteins are also described.
US08558048B2
This invention relates to methods for the stabilization, storage and delivery of biologically active macromolecules, such as proteins, peptides and nucleic acids. In particular, this invention relates to protein or nucleic acid crystals, formulations and compositions comprising them. Methods are provided for the crystallization of proteins and nucleic acids and for the preparation of stabilized protein or nucleic acid crystals for use in dry or slurry formulations. The present invention is further directed to encapsulating proteins, glycoproteins, enzymes, antibodies, hormones and peptide crystals or crystal formulations into compositions for biological delivery to humans and animals. According to this invention, protein crystals or crystal formulations are encapsulated within a matrix comprising a polymeric carrier to form a composition. The formulations and compositions enhance preservation of the native biologically active tertiary structure of the proteins and create a reservoir which can slowly release active protein where and when it is needed. Methods are provided preparing stabilized formulations using pharmaceutical ingredients or excipients and optionally encapsulating them in a polymeric carrier to produce compositions and using such protein crystal formulations and compositions for biomedical applications, including delivery of therapeutic proteins and vaccines. Additional uses for-the protein crystal formulations and compositions of this invention involve protein delivery in human food, agricultural feeds, veterinary compositions, diagnostics, cosmetics and personal care compositions.
US08558045B2
A catalyst for aromatizing a lower hydrocarbon, in order to increase the amount of production of useful aromatic compounds, such as benzene and toluene, by improving the methane conversion rate, the benzene formation rate, the naphthalene formation rate and the BTX formation rate (or a total formation rate of benzene, toluene and xylene) is such that molybdenum and silver are loaded on a metallosilicate as a substrate. It is more preferable to obtain the aromatizing catalyst by loading molybdenum and silver after modifying a zeolite formed of the metallosilicate with a silane compound that has a molecular diameter larger than a pore diameter of the zeolite and that has an amino group, which selectively reacts at a Bronsted acid point of the zeolite, and a straight-chain hydrocarbon group.
US08558030B2
In an improved process for telomerizing butadiene, contact butadiene and an organic hydroxy compound represented by formula ROH (I), wherein R is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20-hydrocarbyl and the organic hydroxy compound is not glycerol, in a reaction fluid in the presence of a palladium catalyst and a phosphine ligand represented by formula PAr3 (II), wherein each Ar is independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl having a hydrogen atom on at least one ortho position, at least two Ar groups are ortho-hydrocarbyloxyl substituted aryls. The phosphine ligand has a total of two (2), three (3), four (4), five (5), or six (6) substituted or unsubstituted C1-C20-hydrocarbyloxyls, and optionally, any two adjacent substituents on an Ar group can be bonded to form a 5- to 7-membered ring.
US08558028B2
There is provided a compound having Formula I wherein each of R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8 and R9 are independently selected from (a) H, (b) R13, —OC(R13)3, —OCH(R13)2, —OCH2R13, C(R13)3, —CH(R13)2, or —CH2R13 wherein R13 is a halogen; (c) —CN; (d) optionally substituted alkyl, (e) optionally substituted heteroalkyl; (f) optionally substituted aryl; (g) optionally substituted heteroaryl; (h) optionally substituted arylalkyl; (i) optionally substituted heteroarylalkyl; (j) hydroxy; (k) alkoxy; (l) aryloxy; (m) —SO2-alkyl; and (n) —N(R14)C(O)R15, wherein R14 and R15 are independently selected from H and hydrocarbyl, wherein the optional substituents of (d) (e) (f) (h) and (i) are selected from the group consisting of: C1-6 alkyl, halo, cyano, nitro, haloalkyl, hydroxy, C1-6 alkoxy, carboxy, carboxyalkyl, carboxamide, mercapto, amino, alkylamino, dialkylamino, sulfonyl, sulfonamido, aryl and heteroaryl; wherein n and p are independently selected from 0 and 1; X is an optional group selected from O, S, S=0, S(═O)2, C═O, S(═O)2NR16, C═ONR17, NR18, in which R16, R17, and R18 are independently selected from H and hydrocarbyl, R10 is selected from H and hydrocarbyl, R11 is selected from CR19R20 and C═O, in which R19 and R20 are independently selected from H and hydrocarbyl, R12 is selected from a substituted five or six membered carbon rings optionally containing one or more hetero atoms selected from N, S, and O and optionally having fused thereto a further ring, and wherein the one or more substituents are selected from hydrocarbyl groups.
US08558027B2
The present disclosure relates to compositions, systems, and methods of forming an amine (e.g., methylenedianiline (MDA)) using an acid catalyst including, for example, a metal oxide-silica catalyst calcined at temperature(s) of about ≧500° C. to form a solid acid silica-metal oxide catalyst. A metal oxide of a solid acid silica-metal oxide catalyst may comprise alumina. A process for making a solid acid silica-metal oxide catalyst may comprise calcining an amorphous alumina-silica material at temperature(s) of about ≧500° C. and/or under an anhydrous and/or inert atmosphere. A rearrangement reaction of the condensation product of aniline and formaldehyde in the presence of a solid acid silica-metal oxide catalyst may yield more MDA and/or more desirable isomer(s) of MDA than reactions performed with a corresponding catalyst calcined at temperature(s) of less than 500° C.
US08558020B2
The present invention refers to an aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution having a hydrogen peroxide concentration [H2O2] expressed as % by weight of the solution and an apparent pH of from pHmin to pHmax, such that pHmin=3.45−0.0377×[H2O2], and pHmax=3.76−0.0379×[H2O2]. The present invention also relates to a process for the preparation of said hydrogen peroxide solution and the use of said solution in a process for the epoxidation of olefins.
US08558018B2
The disclosure pertains to a process for oxidation of furan aldehydes such as 5-hydroxymethyl)furfural (HMF) and derivatives thereof such as 5-(alkoxymethyl)furfural (AMF), 5-(aryloxymethyl)furfural, 5-(cycloalkoxy-methyl)furfural and 5-(alkoxycarbonyl)furfural compounds in the presence of dissolved oxygen and a Co(II), Mn(II), Ce(III) salt catalyst or mixtures thereof. The products from HMF can be selectively chosen to be predominantly 2,5-diformylfuran (DFF), particularly by inclusion of an aliphatic ketone, like methyl ethyl ketone, or can be further oxidized to 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) by the omission of methyl ethyl ketone and inclusion of bromide. When the reactant is an ether derivative of HMF the products are surprisingly ester derivatives where either both the ether and aldehyde functional groups have been oxidized or just the ether function group thereby producing one or both of 5-ester-furan-2-acids (i.e., 5-alkoxycarbonylfurancarboxylic acids) or 5-ester-furan aldehydes, (i.e., -alkoxycarbonylfurfurals a. k. a, 5-(alkoxycarbonyl)furfural). (I).
US08558009B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the general formula (I) their derivatives, their analogs, their tautomeric forms, their pharmaceutically acceptable salts, wherein all variables are as defined in the specification.
US08558006B2
The present invention relates to processes for the preparation of a compound of formula (I) comprising reacting a compound of formula (IV) with a compound of formula III or (IIIA) in the presence of an acid; wherein R1 is C1-C4 haloalkyl; R2 is optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; R3 is methyl or ethyl; R4 is hydrogen, optionally substituted alkyl, optionally substituted aryl or optionally substituted heteroaryl; and n is 0 or 1.
US08558000B2
Disclosed herein is a process for preparing a compound of Formula (I), comprising the steps of: (a) reacting an aniline compound of Formula (II) and an carboxylic acid compound of Formula (III) or an activated carboxylic acid compound thereof, to provide a compound of Formula (IV); and (b) converting said protected amine group attached to said compound of Formula (IV) to an amine group to provide said compound of Formula (I); wherein PAm is a protected amine group. Processes to prepare the compounds of Formulae (II), (III), and (IV) are also disclosed.
US08557996B2
The present invention comprises a new class of compounds useful for the prophylaxis and treatment of protein kinase mediated diseases, including inflammation, cancer and related conditions. The compounds have a general Formula I wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, R1 and R2 are defined herein. Accordingly, the invention also comprises pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds of the invention, methods for the prophylaxis and treatment of kinase mediated diseases using the compounds and compositions of the invention, and intermediates and processes useful for the preparation of compounds of the invention.
US08557984B2
Novel compounds of formula (I) and salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing such compounds and their use in therapy.
US08557982B2
The present invention relates to compounds of general formula (I) as tublin polymerization inhibitors and methods for preparing such compounds.
US08557979B2
The present invention provides β-methyl carbapenem compounds and pharmaceutical compositions useful in the treatment of bacterial infections and methods for treating such infections using such compounds and/or compositions. The invention includes administering an effective amount of a carbapenem compound or salt and/or prodrug thereof to a host in need of such a treatment. The present invention is also in the field of synthetic organic chemistry and is specifically provides an improved method of synthesis of β-methyl carbapenems which are useful as antibacterial agents.
US08557977B2
Compounds of the formula (I), in which R1, R2, R3, R4 and R5 have the meanings indicated in Claim 1, are inhibitors of cell proliferation\cell vitality and can be employed for the treatment of tumors.
US08557973B2
Target-specific hybrid capture (TSHC) provides a nucleic acid detection method that is not only rapid and sensitive, but is also highly specific and capable of discriminating highly homologous nucleic acid target sequences. The method produces DNA-RNA hybrids which can be detected by a variety of methods.
US08557971B2
The invention relates to chimeric polytropic viral envelope polypeptides and uses thereof, as well as to polynucleotides encoding said chimeric polypeptides and constructs comprising said polypeptides and/or polynucleotides. The invention also relates to chimeric retroviral envelope polypeptides, polynucleotides and vectors encoding said chimeric retroviral envelope polypeptides, virus particles and cells harboring said chimeric envelope polypeptides. Said chimeric polypeptide comprise an envelope polypeptide, or fragment thereof, and a polypeptide sequence of a receptor binding region, ligand or polypeptide sequence of a ligand binding region, and optionally a linker sequence. The invention include methods of targeting receptors, methods of treatment and methods for delivery of agents using said chimeric retroviral envelope polypeptides. The invention is applicable for directed targeting and controlled fusion of virus particles with other cellular membranes.
US08557963B2
A process of aqueous protein extraction from Brassicaceae oilseed meal, such as canola, commercial canola meal or yellow mustard, to obtain a napin-rich protein extract, a cruciferin-rich protein extract, and a low-protein residue. The process comprising the steps of performing aqueous extraction of the Brassicaceae oilseed meal at a pH of from about 2.5 to about 5.0 to obtain a soluble napin-rich protein extract and a cruciferin-rich residue followed by performing aqueous extraction of the cruciferin-rich residue to obtain a soluble cruciferin-rich protein extract and a low-protein residue. The cruciferin-rich residue may be treated with cell wall degrading enzymes to obtain a cruciferin-rich fraction The cruciferin-rich protein products may be substantially free of napin protein and may be useful as a non-allergenic food product for human consumption.
US08557960B2
Disclosed are peptides for augmenting the expression of BDNF (brain-derived neurotrophic factor) and a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention and treatment of Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease, comprising the same. The peptides can induce the expression of BDNF in dopamine-reactive human cells, pass easily through the blood-brain barrier thanks to their low molecular weights and are almost free of cytotoxicity. Thus, they are useful in the prevention and treatment of neuropathies such as Alzheimer's disease or Parkinson's disease.
US08557955B2
The present invention provides peptides having an amino acid sequence as set forth in SEQ ID NO: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 192, 195, 197, 209, 225, 226, 228, 230, 240, 241, 243, 244, 249, 253, 254 or 255, as well as peptides having the above-mentioned amino acid sequences in which 1, 2, or several amino acids are substituted, deleted, or added, wherein the peptides possess cytotoxic T cell inducibility. The present invention also provides drugs for treating or preventing a disease associated with the over-expression of MPHOSPH1 and/or DEPDC1, e.g. cancers, containing these peptides as an active ingredient. The peptides of the present invention can also be used as vaccines.
US08557941B2
A curable composition and a process for using the curable composition within a grating-coupled waveguide (GCW) sensor are disclosed. The composition can be used for facile replication of optical components, specifically those used in a label-independent detection system where operation of the waveguide is dependent on the detailed formation of micro and nano size patterns. The photo or electron beam curable composition has low viscosity (≦500 cPs) and cures to an optically clear material with high glass transition temperature (≧70° C.), low shrinkage on cure, low outgassing, and low extractables.
US08557937B1
A rubber composition with disperse phase particles containing poly(phenylene ether) can be formed by a method that includes melt blending an uncured rubber with a poly(phenylene ether) composition containing a poly(phenylene ether) and an oil to form an uncured rubber composition, then curing the uncured rubber composition. Before being blended with the rubber, the poly(phenylene ether) composition exhibits a glass transition temperature of about 40 to about 140° C., and during blending with the rubber, the oil component of poly(phenylene ether) composition migrates from the poly(phenylene ether) composition to the rubber, leaving a poly(phenylene ether)-containing disperse phase that gives rise to a second hysteresis peak temperature of about 160 to about 220° C. as measured by dynamic mechanical analysis of the cured rubber composition. Also described are the poly(phenylene ether) composition used in the method, a cured rubber composition formed by the method, and a tire containing the cured rubber composition.
US08557936B2
This invention relates to Group 4 catalyst compounds containing di-anionic tridentate nitrogen/oxygen based ligands. The catalyst compounds are useful, with or without activators, to polymerize olefins, particularly α-olefins, or other unsaturated monomers. Systems and processes to oligomerize and/or polymerize one or more unsaturated monomers using the catalyst compound, as well as the oligomers and/or polymers produced therefrom are also provided.
US08557928B2
A liquid crystal alignment agent is provided that includes a polymer including polyamic acid including a repeating unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 1, polyimide including a repeating unit represented by the following Chemical Formula 2, or a combination thereof. In Chemical Formulae 1 and 2, each X1, X2, Y1 and Y2 is the same as in the detailed description.
US08557926B2
A modified polymer is produced by reacting (A) a polymer with (B) a compound having a nitroxide free radical in the molecule stable at room temperature and in the presence of oxygen, (C) an organic peroxide, and (D) a radically polymerizable monomer having a functional group in the presence of (E) an amine compound comprising a monoamine compound represented by the general formula: NR1R2R3 (R1: C1-C20 alkyl group or aryl group; R2 and R3: H, C1-C20 alkyl group, or aryl group) or a polyamine compound represented by the general formula: (R4)2N(R5N)nR6N(R4)2 (R4: H or C1-C6 alkyl group; R5 and R6: C1-C6 alkylene group; n: 0 to 20). This method can not only reduce the reaction temperature but also improve the modification rate.
US08557925B2
A sizing composition comprises a blend of at least two anionic copolymers.
US08557917B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of a propylene homo- or copolymer, comprising the following steps: (i) feeding propylene and hydrogen, and optionally one or more comonomers, to a reactor R1, wherein the hydrogen is fed to the reactor R1 in a periodically varying amount, (ii) preparing a first fraction of the propylene homo- or copolymer in the reactor R1 in the presence of a catalyst, (iii) transferring the first fraction to a reactor R2, and (iv) preparing a second fraction of the propylene homo- or copolymer in the reactor R2, wherein the melt flow rate MFR (2.16 kg, 230° C.) of the propylene homo- or copolymer is higher than the melt flow rate MFR (2.16 kg, 230° C.) of the first fraction.
US08557916B1
A dual approach with slight modification was used to produce a nanocomposite using graphene sheets. The nanocomposite may be used for medical devices such as bone cement, dentures, paper, paint and automotive industries. A novel Microwave irradiation (MWI) was used to obtain R-(GO-(STY-co-MMA)). The results indicate that the nanocomposite obtained using the MWI had a better morphology and dispersion with enhanced thermal stability compared with the nanocomposite prepared without MWI. An average increase of 136% in hardness and 76% in elastic modulus were achieved through the addition of only 2.0 wt % of RGO nanocomposite obtained via the MWI method.
US08557909B2
An emulsion composition to coat a substrate that includes a barrier-forming material, water; an organometallic compound, and at least one thickener is described. The composition may further include a material such as talc. Articles, including ductile pipes, coated with this material are also described. A method of increasing the drying rate of a composition applied to a substrate to form a coating that includes application of the emulsion composition and drying the composition to form a coating layer. Also included are methods of forming a coating that exhibits a reduced incidence of blocking or pull-off, comprising applying the emulsion composition to a substrate and drying, whereby the coating layer formed exhibits a reduced incidence of blocking or pull off relative to conventional asphalt emulsion coatings.
US08557901B2
The present invention provides a polysilazane-containing composition capable of forming a dense siliceous film more rapidly and at a lower temperature than known polysilazane-containing composition. In a process for forming the siliceous film, the composition comprising a polysilazane compound, a particular amine compound and a solvent is coated on a substrate and converted into a siliceous substance. The particular amine compound preferably contains two amine groups separated from each other at the distance corresponding to five C—C bonds or more, and the amine groups preferably have hydrocarbon substituent groups.
US08557899B2
A reinforced flame retardant resin composition including 20 to 87% by mass of an (A) thermoplastic resin, 3 to 20% by mass of a (B) aromatic phosphoric acid ester-based flame retardant agent, 5 to 40% by mass of (C) mica powder, and 0.5 to 30% by mass of (D) hydrous mineral powder having a dehydration starting temperature for crystallization water in a range of 400 to 600° C.
US08557893B2
Substituted saccharide compounds, dental compositions comprising substituted saccharide compounds, and methods of using dental compositions are described. In one embodiment, the substituted saccharide amide compound comprises a hydrophobic group and at least one free-radically polymerizable group with the proviso that the hydrophobic group is not bonded to the ethylenically unsaturated carbon atom of the free-radically polymerizable group. The hydrophobic group is typically bonded to a nitrogen atom of a saccharide amine residue or a carbonyl moiety of saccharide amide residue.
US08557890B2
The present invention provides a coating composition and a coating film that comprises a binder containing a UV-curable functional group, a compound containing a fluorine UV-curable functional group, a photoinitiator; and nano-sized particles. The coating film according to the present invention has excellent abrasion resistance and contamination resistance such as fingerprint trace removability and scribbling resistance.
US08557887B2
The invention relates to a process for producing rigid polyurethane foams by reacting a) polyisocyanates with b) compounds having at least two hydrogen atoms which are reactive toward isocyanate groups in the presence of c) blowing agents, wherein the compounds b) having at least two hydrogen atoms which are reactive toward isocyanate groups comprise at least one aromatic polyester alcohol bi), at least one polyether alcohol bii) having a functionality of from 4 to 8 and a hydroxyl number in the range from 300 to 600 mg KOH/g.
US08557885B2
The present invention relates to an extruded thermoplastic resin foam, particularly relates to a board extruded thermoplastic resin which has low heat conductivity, an excellent heat insulating property over a long period of time, high flame retardancy, and excellent mechanical strength.The extruded thermoplastic resin foam having an apparent density of 20 to 50 kg/m3, a closed cells ratio of 85% or more and a thickness of 10 to 150 mm, and containing a non-halogen organic physical blowing agent, wherein the thermoplastic resin composing the extruded foam contains a mixture of 100 parts by weight of a polystyrene resin (A) and 5 to 150 parts by weight of a polyester resin (B), and an endothermic calorific value of the polyester resin (B) less than 5 J/g (including 0) for fusion of the polyester resin on a DSC curve obtained by heat flux differential scanning calorimetry based on JIS K7122 (1987).
US08557879B2
A method for producing an activated Fischer-Tropsch synthesis catalyst comprising a hydrogen reduction step of subjecting a catalyst comprising 3 parts by mass to 50 parts by mass, as a metal atom, of a cobalt compound and/or a ruthenium compound, based on 100 parts by mass of a carrier containing a porous inorganic oxide, supported on the carrier, to reduction in a gas containing molecular hydrogen at a temperature of 300° C. to 600° C.; and a CO reduction step of subjecting the catalyst to reduction in a gas containing carbon monoxide and containing no molecular hydrogen at a temperature of 200° C. to 400° C.
US08557877B2
Anti-reflective coatings and coating solutions, optically transparent elements and improved processes for preparing AR coatings and coating solutions are described. The anti-reflective coatings are formed from at least two different alkoxy silane materials in a base catalyzed reaction.
US08557872B2
This present disclosure relates to novel compounds, isomer thereof or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof as vanilloid receptor (Vanilloid Receptor 1; VR1; TRPV1) antagonist; and a pharmaceutical composition containing the same.The present disclosure provides a pharmaceutical composition for preventing or treating a disease such as pain, migraine, arthralgia, neuralgia, neuropathies, nerve injury, skin disorder, urinary bladder hypersensitiveness, irritable bowel syndrome, fecal urgency, a respiratory disorder, irritation of skin, eye or mucous membrane, stomach-duodenal ulcer, inflammatory diseases, ear disease, heart disease and so on.
US08557871B2
Dermatological compositions containing, in a physiologically acceptable medium, at least one retinoid, dispersed benzoyl peroxide and at least one gelling agent of the family of the carrageenans, are useful for treating dermatological conditions and afflictions linked to disorders of cell differentiation and/or proliferation and/or keratinization, notably for treating acne vulgaris.
US08557864B2
A method for preventing or treating a nervous disorder can include administrating to a person in need of such prevention or treatment a pharmaceutical preparation comprising, as an active ingredient, an ester of a decenoic acid. The ester of the decenoic acid can be selected from the group consisting of trans-2-decenoic acid ethyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid methyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid-2-decenyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid cyclohexyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid octyl ester, trans-2-decenoic acid isopropyl ester, trans-3-decenoic acid methyl ester, trans-3-decenoic acid ethyl ester, trans-9-decenoic acid methyl ester, and trans-9-decenoic acid ethyl ester.
US08557862B2
A synergistic antimicrobial composition having two components. The first component is glutaraldehyde. The second component is 2,6-dimethyl-1,3-dioxan-4-yl acetate.
US08557860B2
A compound comprising or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or a prodrug thereof, having the groups described in detail herein is disclosed. Also disclosed herein are compounds comprising or derivatives thereof, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, tetrazoles, or prodrugs of compounds of the structure or derivatives thereof, said derivatives being described in detail herein. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating diseases or conditions, including glaucoma and elevated intraocular pressure. Compositions and methods of manufacturing medicaments related thereto are also disclosed.
US08557857B2
Compounds represented by formula (Ia) or (Ib) and wherein R and R1 are as defined in the description, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are disclosed; the said compounds are useful in the treatment of cell cycle proliferative disorders, e.g. cancer, associated with an altered cell cycle dependent kinase activity.
US08557853B2
The invention provides well-defined aryl fluoroethyl ureas that are useful as selective alpha2 adrenergic agonists. As such, the compounds described herein are useful in treating a wide variety of disorders associated with modulation of alpha2 adrenergic receptors.
US08557845B2
Compounds represented by formula (Ia) or (Ib) and wherein R and R1 are as defined in the description, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, are disclosed; the said compounds are useful in the treatment of cell cycle proliferative disorders, e.g. cancer, associated with an altered cell cycle dependent kinase activity.
US08557840B2
The present invention relates to a method of controlling plants or inhibiting plant growth which comprises applying to the plants or to the locus thereof a herbicidally effective amount of a compound of formula (I): wherein A1, A2, A3, A4, R3, R4 and R5 are as defined in claim 1; or a salt or N-oxide thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to processes for preparing compounds of formula (I), to intermediates used in the preparation of compounds of formula (I), to herbicidal compositions comprising compounds of formula (I) and to certain novel pyridopyridines, pyridodiazines and pyridotriazines.
