US08583217B2
An in vivo drug concentration distribution measuring device for measuring, when a drug having an imaging function is administered, in vivo concentration distribution of the drug is disclosed. The device includes: a light source which casts light to a living body as a measuring target; a variable-wavelength filter which, when the light is cast to the drug from outside of the living body, the light emitted from the drug to outside of the living body becomes incident on and transmits light of a predetermined wavelength range, of an entire wavelength range of the incident light, and which is capable of changing the predetermined wavelength range; a photodetector unit which detects intensity of light made incident through the variable-wavelength filter and acquires intensity distribution of light emitted from plural positions on the measuring target; and a drug concentration calculating unit which calculates a concentration of the drug in accordance with the intensity distribution of the light at the plural positions on the measuring target acquired by the photodetector unit.
US08583215B2
A method for position sensing includes inserting a probe having a first probe-electrode and a second probe-electrode into a body of a subject, and coupling body-surface electrodes to a surface of the body. Currents passing between the first probe-electrode and the body-surface electrodes are measured, using first circuitry coupled to at least the first probe-electrode and having a first electrical ground, and position coordinates of the probe are determined responsively to the measured currents. Second circuitry, having a second electrical ground, is coupled to at least the second probe-electrode, and the first electrical ground is isolated from the second electrical ground.
US08583210B2
A device and a method for handling and withstanding electromagnetic fields, specifically such fields as occur in magnetic resonance tomography examinations (i.e., MRT or MRI). This refers in particular to an IMD that can transmit data and/or parameters to an MRT device.
US08583204B2
Devices and methods are described for providing continuous measurement of an analyte concentration. In some embodiments, the device has a sensing mechanism and a sensing membrane that includes at least one surface-active group-containing polymer and that is located over the sensing mechanism. The sensing membrane may have a bioprotective layer configured to substantially block the effect and/or influence of non-constant noise-causing species.
US08583198B1
Systems and methods of providing a mobile phone cover are described. In some embodiments, the mobile phone cover may include, for example, a processor and lighting devices. The lighting devices may be operatively coupled to the processor. The processor may be configured, for example, to receive first signals based on second signals in which the second signals are generated by the mobile phone. The second signals may be indicative of an incoming call, an incoming message, a pending message, and/or a calendar alert (e.g., an upcoming appointment), for example. The processor may be configured to cause lighting of one or more of the lighting devices based on the first signals.
US08583191B2
A base station apparatus includes a unit configured to determine a discontinuous reception pattern for a user apparatus that is classified according to a channel state of a radio link; and a unit configured to report the discontinuous reception pattern to the user apparatus. The discontinuous reception pattern specifies at least a cycle of discontinuous reception.
US08583189B2
A communication device [400] includes a transceiver [405] to receive and transmit data. A message detection element [410] detects at least a first message and a second message in the data received by the transceiver [405]. A processor [400] modifies a state of the communication device [400] based on the first message and the second message. A positive acknowledgement is transmitted in response to the first message comprising a call pending message, and the state is modified to establish a session and inhibit an alerting of a user of the communication device. The state is modified to alert the user of the communication device [400] in response to the second message comprising a call start message.
US08583183B2
A system and method for implementing transmission parameter control at a transmitting station is described. The exemplary system and method comprises querying a transmission parameter control module for a transmission schedule. The transmission schedule comprises at least one schedule entry defining a set of transmission parameter controls as they pertain to a destination address. At least one packet of data is then transmitted to the destination address according to the transmission parameters controls of at least one schedule entry from the transmission schedule. A system and method for selecting an antenna configuration corresponding to a next transmission of packet data is also disclosed.
US08583179B2
A mobile telecommunication device including at least one telecommunication circuit; at least one subscriber identification module; at least one assembly including at least one supply battery; and a switch of selection between a power supply of the subscriber identification module by the assembly and by the telecommunication circuit according to the presence or not of a near-field communication module in the assembly.
US08583177B2
An accessory for use with an existing portable electronic device has a housing that removably couples to a housing of the existing portable electronic device such that the accessory and portable electronic device function and can be portably carried as a single unit. A tunable FM radio receiver in the housing receives an FM broadcast signal and produces a broadcast audio output. A connector on the housing electrically connects the broadcast audio output to a corresponding connector on the device. Application software residing on the device utilizes an internet connection of the device to download digital content related to the broadcast audio output and display the digital content on a display of the device.
US08583174B2
A method for integrating a mobile communication device and a portable electronic device is disclosed. A protection cover and an electronic-device body of the portable electronic device are pivotally connected for containing the mobile communication device. The mobile communication device is removably and rotatably connected to the electronic-device body. The method includes detecting whether the mobile communication device is coupled to the electronic-device body by the mobile communication device, detecting whether the protection cover is open by the mobile communication device when the mobile communication device detects electrical connection of the mobile communication device to the electronic-device body, detecting whether the mobile communication device is rotated to a position parallel to a horizontal surface to generate a detection result by the mobile communication device when the protection cover is open, and switching the mobile communication device to a touch mode or an image capturing mode according to the detection result.
US08583166B2
A mobile terminal device includes an input unit for inputting addressee information data relevant to an addressee of a videophone communication including at least a phone number, a data storage unit for storing a plurality of the addressee information data inputted by the input unit in a group, a retrieval unit for retrieving one of plural groups stored in the data storage unit, a set unit for executing a retrieval process from the plural groups stored in the data storage unit using the retrieval unit based on the set addressee information data of the addressee after setting the addressee of the videophone communication to set the addressee corresponding to the addressee information data of the retrieved group as the addressee of the videophone communication, and a communication unit for executing the videophone communication based on the addressee information of the addressee of the videophone communication set by the set unit.
US08583159B2
Methods and apparatus of varying transmit power of signals for increasing system throughput and spectral reuse in an unlicensed spectrum are disclosed. One method includes transmitting from a first mobile device to a second mobile device a request to send (RTS) signal having a first transmit data power level based on a channel gain between the first mobile device and the second mobile device, receiving, at the first mobile device, a clear to send (CTS) signal from the second mobile device, and transmitting data at the first transmit data power level from the first mobile device to the second mobile device.
US08583157B2
Disclosed are techniques for managing situations where spectrum use by one party is preempted by spectrum needs of another party. A revocation may be sent from a spectrum management system to secondary radio systems that are impacted by the presence of priority radio system. Remedial action may be taken if an acknowledgement of the revocation message is not received from a secondary radio system. Also, the secondary radio systems may transmit keep-alive messages to monitor operation of the communication pathway for the revocation messages.
US08583148B2
An apparatus may include a messaging module configured to suggest a message segment in order to draft a message. A contextual characteristic determiner may be used to determine contextual characteristics of the apparatus, the recipient of a call, and/or the user of the apparatus and thereby the messaging module may suggest the message segment based on the contextual characteristics. The contextual characteristics may include user emotions, which may be recognized by an emotion recognizer. Message segments may also be based on prior messaging history. Thereby, the apparatus may suggest message segments in order to more easily draft messages when, for example, initiating or responding to attempted voice communications. Further, the apparatus may include a reminder scheduler which is configured to schedule a reminder to respond to an attempted voice communication.
US08583145B2
The present disclosure relates to location and communication systems that can be utilized for locating people, pets and other objects with a software defined radio set. A personal electronic device (PED) such as a cellular telephone, personal data assistant (PDA) or other device that include a software defined radio set can be configured for operation as a locator device. The PED transmits a signal A transponder or micro-transponder (MT) that is tagged to an object is arranged to reply to a transmission received from the PED. The PED based locator is arranged to calculate a distance between the PED and the MT using the time-of-flight (TOF) between the transmission and the receipt of a reply. The absolute geographic position of the PED can be determined using satellite navigation information, while the position of the MT relative to the PED can be determined from the TOF information.
US08583144B2
An accessory for use with a cooperating portable electronic device (PED) is provided. The accessory includes a station that can support a PED, and also charge it in some embodiments. A cooperating PED transmits an action signal when it receives an incoming call or text. When the station senses the action signal, it further generates a human-perceptible indication to help notify the user, who might have walked away. The human-perceptible indication can include a call sound or a light signal. This way, when the PED is only vibrating, the call sound can be such that the station rings like a regular home telephone. As such, the user can keep the PED at the “Silent” annunciation mode continuously, confident that they will learn about a call, even if they do not have it on their person.
US08583142B2
Methods, apparatuses and/or articles of manufacture are provided that selectively distribute location based service content for use by mobile devices with regard to certain indoor environment(s). In one example implementation, one or more computing devices generate data files that collectively represent an initial content for use by a mobile device with regard to an indoor environment, wherein at least one of the data files is generated based, at least in part, on one or more distribution schemes relating to the indoor environment. The one or more computing devices selectively initiates transmission of an indication to one or more mobile devices identifying that a shared data file corresponding to a seeded data file may be obtained from a first mobile device. The first mobile device and/or one or more of the other mobile devices may be identified based, at least in part, on the one or more distribution schemes.
US08583139B2
The invention provides a presentation of contextual information to a digital device in relation to a period of time. As such the invention provides for efficient user access to historical, as well as, current and future or forecasted contextual information. In addition, the present invention provides for current contextual information to be presented in an idle mode view, a scrolling bar mode view or another inconspicuous view. Additionally the present invention provides a novel means of using context information to create multimedia file presentations; image or video file presentations that can be associated with previous periods of time, locations or other context data.
US08583130B2
A resource management unit for a mobile telephone terminal, with the terminal comprising radio transmission/reception means for transmitting and receiving radio frequency signals corresponding to bursts of symbols during allocated time slots, and a device able to operate in a first mode and in a second mode, said device interfering less with the transmission/reception of radio frequency signals when it is in the first mode than when it is in the second mode. The resource management unit is able to cause the device to change from one of the first and second modes to the other of the first and second modes during the same time slot.
US08583119B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate management of automatic neighbor relation functions in wireless networks. The system can include components and/or devices that ascertain whether or not to add or remove a neighbor relation based on information associated with an operations and management system, wherein the operations and management system dispatches add or remove requests to a base station that establishes, updates, and/or maintains a neighbor relations table and/or set of neighbor relations that includes neighbor relations between cells.
US08583116B2
A method and system facilitates communicating network feature support between a mobile device and cellular network. The system protects network feature support information from tampering or spoofing during a periodic routing area update (RAU). In some cases, the network is prohibited from transmitting network feature support information in response to a periodic RAU. Instead, the mobile device may use previously provided network feature support information. In other cases, the network establishes integrity protection before transmitting network feature support information in response to a periodic RAU. The mobile device rejects responses that do not comply. If the mobile device rejects the response, it may also use previously provided network feature support information instead.
US08583110B2
A method of disseminating topology information related to a subscriber in a system having one or more networks, each network having access devices and policy functions, includes identifying a current location of the subscriber by a serving policy function. The method further includes forwarding information relating to the current location from the serving policy function to an anchor policy function associated with the subscriber. The process of identifying the location of the subscriber and forwarding the information to the anchor policy server is repeated each time the subscriber changes its physical location. The system uses the current location information to route policy information from the anchor policy function to the policy function that is serving the subscriber. The system may use a push model, a pull model, or a combination thereof, to disseminate the topology information.
US08583103B2
An apparatus and method for automatic mobile device crash notification to a wireless network comprising setting configuration parameters for automatic notification if a crash occurs, detecting at least one stalled condition to determine if the crash occurred, gathering crash data, establishing a reverse link data call to the wireless network, and transferring the crash data to the wireless network.
US08583102B2
A method for determining an amount of time required to download a data file to a wireless device includes receiving information indicating a first amount of wireless bandwidth allocated for the download of the data file, calculating a first length of time required to download the data file to the wireless device based on the first amount of wireless bandwidth allocated, and comparing the first length of time required to a predetermined amount of time. If the first length of time required is less than the predetermined amount of time, the download begins. If the first length of time required is more than the predetermined amount of time, information indicating the first length of time required is sent to the wireless device, a start download signal is received from the wireless device, and download of the data file to the wireless device begins in response to the start download signal.
US08583098B2
In a call forwarding system, a management apparatus of the call forwarding system determines service terminals capable of near field wireless communication within a reception range of near field wireless communication, generates a terminal list, and receives a call event message reporting the receipt of a call from a reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit a call report message including the terminal list to the reference terminal and the service terminals. The management apparatus may forward the call initially received by the reference terminal to a terminal which transmitted a receipt request message by transmitting a call forwarding request message to the reference terminal. The management apparatus may transmit, to the reference terminal and the service terminals, a receipt report message reporting the call was forwarded. According to a change receipt message or upon non-receipt by an intended terminal, the call may be reforwarded to another terminal.
US08583089B2
A system and method for positioning targeted sponsored content on a mobile communication facility, comprising (a) receiving data corresponding to a transaction event having occurred via the interaction of a user with the mobile communication facility, wherein the transaction event includes transmission of data representative of a first product or a first service being purchased by the user and a second product or a second service declined for purchase by the user; (b) selecting advertising content based at least upon a relevance between an advertisement for the declined second product or second service and the purchased first product or first service in the transaction event, wherein the relevance is further based on information relating to compatibility of the advertising content, second product, or second service with the mobile communication facility; and (c) presenting the selected advertising content on a display of the mobile communication facility.
US08583075B2
A power supply control apparatus is applied to a communication apparatus that is applied to a mobile apparatus. The power supply control apparatus includes a switch, coupled between the communication apparatus and a power supply; and a signal detecting unit, for detecting a wireless signal via an electromagnetic introduction approach to correspondingly generate a detection signal. It is determined whether to provide power to the communication apparatus via the switch according to the detection signal.
US08583066B2
A communications system includes a multiple-input/multiple-output (MIMO) architecture for high capacity switched mesh networks. The MIMO architecture has a plurality of radio frequency chains. One of the plurality of radio frequency chains is configured to apply a first frequency offset to a base frequency of an output signal to generate a first transmitting frequency; and another of the plurality of radio frequency chains being configured to apply a second frequency offset to the base frequency to generate a second transmitting frequency. The system uses the carrier frequency offset to lock the clock of the master subsystem to the clock of the slave subsystem, thereby enabling bandwidth expansion to be employed on the MIMO data streams.
US08583063B1
A wireless communication device comprises an antenna interface, a user interface, and a processing system. The antenna interface is configured to physically connect to an antenna mounting unit. The user interface is configured to receive wireless communication usage information from a user. The processing system is configured to process the wireless communication usage information to select one of a plurality of antenna configurations. The user interface is configured to display an image of the selected antenna configuration installed on the antenna mounting unit.
US08583062B2
Electronic devices with wireless communications capabilities are provided. The electronic device may include storage and processing circuitry, power amplifier circuitry, power supply circuitry, etc. The storage and processing circuitry may direct the power amplifier circuitry to operate using a desired gain mode, in a particular radio channel, and at a given output power level. The power supply circuitry may bias the power amplifier circuitry with a power supply voltage. The performance of the power amplifier circuitry may be characterized by an adjacent channel leakage ratio (ACLR) margin. The power consumption of the power amplifier circuitry may be characterized by a current savings ratio. A cost function may be calculated by taking the product of the ACLR margin and current savings ratio. A minimum point for each cost function curve may be determined. It is desirable to bias the power amplifier circuitry with a supply voltage corresponding to the minimum point.
US08583059B2
Described is a method for operating a power semiconductor component. A power amplifier provided with a programmable logic is assigned to this power semiconductor component. In at least one embodiment, control signals for the power semiconductor component are transmitted to the power amplifier. The power semiconductor component is influenced by the power amplifier in dependence on these control signals. The type and manner in which the power semiconductor component is influenced is determined by the programming of the logic. The power amplifier can be sent programming signals which are then processed by a processor of the power amplifier. The programming of the logic is changed by the processor in dependence on the programming signals.
US08583054B2
Embodiments may comprise logic such as hardware and/or code to adaptively control the transmission power for a wireless channel. In many embodiments, adaptively controlling the transmission power may reduce or, in some embodiments, minimize interference between the wireless display (WiDi) transmissions and other transmissions such as multimedia content streaming over another wireless channel to the notebook via a second generation (2G) channel, third generation (3G) channel, or a future long term evolution (LTE) channel.
US08583052B2
When controlling antenna apparatuses to select a predetermined combination from among a plurality of combinations of antenna elements, a controller measures RSSIs of wireless signals received by the antenna apparatuses, and sets a detection packet interval and a changeover threshold based on measured RSSIs with reference to a detection packet interval table and a changeover threshold table. Then, the combination of the antenna elements is changed over by using the set detection packet interval and the changeover threshold.
US08583046B2
Aspects of a method and system for portable data storage with an integrated 60 GHz radio may include establishing a microwave communication link between a wireless portable storage device and a wireless transmitter and/or wireless receiver. Beamforming parameters of a first antenna array coupled to said wireless portable storage device and a second antenna array coupled to said wireless transmitter and/or wireless receiver may be adjusted automatically and/or dynamically. The wireless portable storage and the wireless transmitter and/or wireless receiver may exchange data via said first antenna array and said second antenna array. A secondary wireless communication link may be established to initialize the establishing of the microwave communication link. The secondary wireless communication link may be established via Bluetooth protocol. The wireless portable storage and the wireless transmitter and/or wireless receiver may receive and transmit in the 60 GHz frequency band.
US08583040B2
Various embodiments include a devices, systems, and methods to configure a wireless device. A wireless device may comprise a housing, a wireless communication interface, and a configuration interface. The housing may be configured to be mounted to an outlet supplying power to the wireless device via an electrical conductor. The wireless communication interface may be capable of connecting the wireless device to a wireless network. The configuration interface may be coupled to both the electrical conductor and the wireless communication interface and communicate with a configuration device directly attached to the electrical conductor. The configuration device may communicate configuration instructions to the wireless device over the electrical conductor by modulating power on the electrical conductor. The configuration interface may configure the wireless interface to connect the wireless device to the wireless network based on the configuration instructions.
US08583037B2
Data transmission systems and methods are disclosed in which a transmitter and a receiver, each having an inductor, are configured for wirelessly transferring data and power between them. Error detection is implemented for implementing error correction techniques by making corrections at the receiver, at the transmitter, or both. In preferred embodiments of the invention, error correction approaches include oversampling, power adjustments, and frequency adjustments. In preferred implementations, the systems and methods are used for transmitting both power and data using a single pair of inductors.
US08583016B2
A developing device includes a developer bearing body provided so as to face a latent image bearing body. The developer bearing body rotates to supply a developer to the latent image bearing body. A developer supplying member is provided so as to contact the developer bearing body. The developer supplying member rotates to supply a developer to the developer bearing body. A developer recovery member is provided so as to contact a surface of the developer bearing body that moves from a position facing the latent image bearing body to a position in contact with the developer supplying member by a rotation of the developer bearing body. The developer recovery member rotates to recover the developer from the developer bearing body. The developer recovery member is constituted by a brush roller.
US08583014B2
A powder holding container includes: a tubular shaped section that is formed in a tubular shape with a hole formed in a tube wall for letting powder pass through; an opening and closing member that moves in a straight line inside the tubular shaped section to open and close the hole; a projection portion that projects out from the opening and closing member and enters the hole; and a resilient tab that is formed by a cutout provided in the opening and closing member, and is resiliently deformable in directions in which the projection portion enters or exits the hole.
US08583011B2
An image forming apparatus includes a positively-charged single layer type electrophotographic photoreceptor, a charging device with a contact charging roller for charging a surface of the photoreceptor and an exposure device for exposing the charged surface of the photoreceptor to light to form an electrostatic latent image thereon. A developing device develops the electrostatic latent image into a toner image and a transfer device transfers the toner image to a transferred body. The charging roller is made of electrically conductive rubber having an Asker-C rubber hardness of 62 to 81°. A roller surface roughness of the charging roller has an average distance (Sm) between asperity peaks on a cross-sectional curve of 55 to 130 μm and that a ten-point average roughness (Rz) is 9 to 19 μm. The image forming apparatus is capable of preventing carrier trapping, film peeling and uneven charging in the photoreceptor.
US08583010B2
Image forming apparatus employing an electrical charge removal device with an improved configuration
An image forming apparatus, including: a main body; an image carrying body disposed in the main body, a transfer unit and an electrical charge removal unit. The image forming apparatus forms a visible image on the image carrying body by carrying out charging, exposing and developing processes. The transfer unit transfers the visible image from the image carrying body to a printing medium. The electrical charge removal unit is configured to remove the residual electrical charge from the printing medium, and is movable, in cooperation with at least one replaceable component part of the transfer unit, between an operable position at which the electrical charge removal unit is capable of removing the electrical charge from the printing medium and a non-interfering position at which the electrical charge removal unit does not interfere with the movement of the at least one replaceable component part of the transfer unit being received into or being removed from the main body for replacement.
US08583009B2
A developing cartridge is provided. The developing cartridge includes a housing which accommodates developer therein, a receiving member provided which couples with a force output member of an image forming apparatus to receive a driving force, a developing roller which rotates by the driving force received by the receiving member; a detectable rotary member having a first detectable portion and a second detectable portion and rotates by the driving force from a first rotational position where the first detectable portion is detected by a detection member provided in the image forming apparatus to a second rotational position where the second detectable portion is detected by the detection member, and a cut-off mechanism which cuts off a transmission of the driving force from the receiving member to the detectable rotary member in a state where the detectable rotary member is positioned in the second rational position.
US08583007B2
A process cartridge comprises a photosensitive drum and a developing roller. A coupling member is provided adjacent to one axial end of the developing roller. The coupling member includes a driven portion, and an intermediary portion configured and positioned to engage with the driven portion. The intermediary portion is also configured to be movable relative to the driven portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the driven portion. The coupling member further includes a driving portion configured and positioned to receive a driving force for rotating the developing roller. The driving portion is also configured to engage with the intermediary portion, and to be movable relative to the intermediary portion in a direction crossing the axis of the developing roller while maintaining engagement with the intermediary portion.
US08582994B2
An image forming system including a first image forming apparatus and a second image forming apparatus. The first image forming apparatus forms an image on a first side of a recording medium and has a mark forming device to form a mark on the recording medium. The second image forming apparatus forms an image on a second side which is the obverse of the first side, and has a mark detector to detect the mark at a predetermined position in a conveyance path of the recording medium and a calculator to calculate an expansion and contraction ratio of the recording medium in a first direction and in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction based on the output of the mark detector.
US08582976B2
The invention is concerned with the transmission of broadband signals onto to a telephony connection having constraint profile limiting the maximum allowed power as a function of frequency. As a result, broadband signals can be delivered using low power equipment to a telephony line whilst respecting the constraint profile associated with that line.
US08582973B2
A data communication apparatus comprises a storage unit that stores network connection information required for establishing a connection via a network with an external device, a light emission element that emits light, a light emission control unit that converts the network connection information into an optical signal and emits the optical signal from the light emission element by controlling an operation of the light emission element based upon the network connection information stored in the storage unit, and a reception unit that receives data transmitted from the external device via the network.
US08582970B2
There is provided an office-side line concentration device that accommodates a plurality of passive optical networks, including a plurality of receiving means connected to each of the plurality of passive optical networks, and interface means for controlling a transmission timing of user data from the plurality of passive optical networks so that user data received by the plurality of receiving means can be arranged closely in an uplink, thus enabling effective use of bandwidth in the uplink.
US08582966B2
Systems and methods for performing protection switching in a passive optical network are provided. When a fiber cut is detected, control and management plane applications are not immediately informed. A rapid re-registration procedure is instigated upon detection of a fiber cut event. This allows multiple optical network units to re-register quickly without restarting control and management applications.
US08582961B2
The present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus including, an acquisition portion configured to acquire video data having a plurality of picture data constituting a moving picture for reproduction of a three-dimensional moving picture, an operation portion configured to give an instruction for thin-out reproduction of the plurality of picture data acquired for three-dimensional moving picture reproduction, and a selection portion configured to select in turns the picture data for thin-out reproduction of the three-dimensional moving picture from the plurality of picture data acquired for three-dimensional moving picture reproduction, based on the thin-out reproduction instruction, wherein the selection portion selects the picture data of which the display position relative to the last-selected picture is subject to a limited change in the direction of depth.
US08582958B2
Provided is a playback device which is capable of correctly determining a construction status of a virtual package. An access is attempted to a state signaling file recorded in a local storage using a fixed address on a virtual file system assigned by merge management information (step S13). The virtual package construction status is determined according to failure or success of the attempted access.
US08582951B2
A data recording structure supporting an AVCHD format is provided. The data recording structure allows a playing process, an editing process and a write-once recording process to be quickly performed. When data recording is performed in a data recording format having a layered management structure such as an AVCHD format, identification information is stored in an index file containing index information for record data. The identification information is needed to perform one of the playing process on the record data, the editing process on the record data and the write-once recording process on data. This arrangement eliminates the need for reading a variety of files and retrieving information when one of the record data playing process, the record data editing process and the write-once recording process is performed. Each process is thus quickly performed.
US08582948B2
A scenario editing apparatus which generates and edits scenario data to be referred at an image capturing, comprises: a first recording unit which records first scenario data appended with identification numbers for respective captured contents; a read-out unit which reads out image data captured with reference to the first scenario data and identification numbers for the respective captured contents; a selection unit which selects image data to be re-captured; a generation unit which generates second scenario data to be re-captured while reproducing the selected image data; and a second recording unit which records the generated second scenario data.
US08582947B2
A method and an apparatus for processing video and audio data received in a decoding system are provided. The method includes the following steps. When a program clock reference (PCR) is unavailable in the system, a system time clock (STC) is recovered by using a presentation time stamp (PTS) of video or audio data, or a linear combination result of the PTS of the video data and the PTS of the audio data. The STC is compared with the PTSs of the currently captured and audio data, and a current data processing mode is determined. A difference between the PTS of the video data and the PTS of the audio data is monitored. An absolute value of the difference is compared with a preset threshold value, and when the absolute value is greater than or equal to the threshold value, an asynchronous play mode is adopted as a system play mode; otherwise, a synchronous play mode is adopted as the system play mode. Through the method and apparatus, synchronization of video signals and audio signals can be achieved when the PCR is unavailable in the decoding system.
US08582935B2
A leaky travelling wave array of optical elements provide a solar wavelength rectenna.
US08582934B2
In part, the invention relates to optical caps having at least one lensed surface configured to redirect and focus light outside of the cap. The cap is placed over an optical fiber. Optical radiation travels through the fiber and interacts with the optical surface or optical surfaces of the cap, resulting in a beam that is either focused at a distance outside of the cap or substantially collimated. The optical elements such as the elongate caps described herein can be used with various data collection modalities such optical coherence tomography. In part, the invention relates to a lens assembly that includes a micro-lens; a beam director in optical communication with the micro-lens; and a substantially transparent film or cover. The substantially transparent film is capable of bi-directionally transmitting light, and generating a controlled amount of backscatter. The film can surround a portion of the beam director.
US08582933B2
A waveguide-mode (WM) coupler having a plurality of single-mode fibers, each optically coupled to a different respective waveguide mode of a multimode fiber. The coupling optics employed by the WM coupler are scalable and include reflective fiber-tip coatings, polarization beam splitters, phase masks, and quarter-wave plates configured to overlap and/or separate the optical beams corresponding to different waveguide modes of the multimode fiber in a manner that does not cause a significant increase in the optical insertion losses with an increase in the number of optical channels in the WM coupler.
US08582922B2
To obtain a high resolution image from two or more low resolution images, positional offsets among the low resolution images are determined and the low resolution images are mapped onto a common plane according to the positional offsets. Pixel values in the high resolution image are calculated by weighted interpolation from the pixel values of the low resolution images, using interpolation coefficients that increases with increasing correlation with the pixel of interest. Correlation is determined by taking horizontal and vertical first and second derivatives of the pixel values in one low resolution image to find a direction of strong correlation. Appropriate interpolation is thereby obtained even near edges and other abrupt changes in the image.
US08582920B2
A presentation device comprises an image capture portion for capturing an image of a subject and generating a raw image thereof; a detection portion adapted to analyze whether a first marker is present in the raw image, and if the first marker is present in the raw image, to detect an existing position of the first marker within the raw image; a storage portion for storing a positional relationship of a synthesis position at which a mask image for masking at least a portion of the raw image is synthesized with the raw image relative to the existing position of the first marker; a synthesized image generation portion adapted to determine the synthesis position according to the positional relationship with the detected existing position, and to synthesize the mask image at the determined synthesis position within the raw image to generate a synthesized image; and an output portion for outputting the synthesized image.
US08582919B2
Technologies are described herein for altering the appearance of a digital image using a shape. A mask edit mode of operation is provided in which an application program displays a mask shape superimposed on a digital image. The application program also provides user interface controls for altering the size, position, and rotation of the digital image independently of the mask shape, and user interface controls for altering the size, position, and rotation of the mask shape independently of the digital image. When a cropping request is received, the portion of the digital image within the mask shape is mapped onto the mask shape, thereby creating a mask-cropped shape, and a normal editing mode is entered. In the normal editing mode a set of user interface controls is provided for modifying the size, position, and rotation of the mask-cropped shape.
US08582902B2
A compressed pixel block (400) is decompressed by defining multiple available property values. At least one reference point relative the pixel block (300) is identified based on a reference codeword (410) of the compressed pixel block (400). Pixel indices of the pixels (310) are determined based on the respective positions of pixels (310) in the pixel block (300) relative the at least one reference point. These pixel indices are used for selecting among the multiple defined property values. The selected property values are then assigned to pixels (310) to be decompressed based on their determined pixel indices.
US08582901B2
A method and apparatus for encoding an image is provided. An image coding unit, including a region that deviates from a boundary of a current picture, is divided to obtain a coding unit having a smaller size than the size of the image coding unit, and encoding is performed only in a region that does not deviate from the boundary of the current picture. A method and apparatus for decoding an image encoded by the method and apparatus for encoding an image is also provided.
US08582900B2
An digital watermark embedding device including an interface unit configured to acquire content in a digital form and digital watermark information, the device includes, a codeword generating unit configured to generate a base codeword including a bit sequence including the digital watermark information; a shifting unit configured to generate a plurality of correcting codewords differing from one another by permutating an arrangement in the bit sequence included in the base codeword depending on a plurality of shift amounts, the plurality of shift amounts differing from one digital watermark information to another, under a predetermined permutation rule; and a watermark superimposing unit configured to embed the plurality of correcting codewords in the content.
US08582899B2
An image coding apparatus includes a significant bit detection processing unit that detects a number of pieces of coefficient data where a significant bit is detected on a higher-order bit plane for each bit plane from coefficient data generated by performing a frequency transform on image data, a coding selection unit that selects a variable-length coding or a fixed-length coding for each bit plane on the basis of the number of pieces of coefficient data and a bit depth of the bit plane, a variable-length coding unit that performs a variable-length coding on the bit plane where the variable-length coding is selected, and a fixed-length coding unit that performs a fixed-length coding on the bit plane where the fixed-length coding is selected.
US08582891B2
Method and apparatus for guiding user with suitable composition, and digital photographing apparatus
A method for guiding a user with a suitable composition includes detecting scene information from an input image, recognizing a scene of the input image by using the detected scene information, extracting composition information corresponding to the recognized scene, and displaying the extracted composition information. Accordingly, an apparatus for guiding a user with a suitable composition and a digital photographing apparatus using the method displays a composition suitable for a current scene by automatically recognizing the current scene, so that the user photographs the current scene quickly and easily.
US08582890B2
In an embodiment, a device comprises a plurality of elements, including logical elements, wherein the elements are configured to perform the operations of: in a neighborhood of pixels surrounding and including a particular pixel, applying a filter to multiple groups of pixels in the neighborhood to generate a set of filtered values; generating, based at least in part upon the set of filtered values, one or more sets of gradient values; based at least in part upon the one or more sets of gradient values, computing a first metric for an image environment in which the particular pixel is situated; determining a second metric for the image environment in which the particular pixel is situated, wherein the second metric distinguishes between a detail environment; and based at least in part upon the first metric and the second metric, computing a gradient improvement (GI) metric for the particular pixel.
US08582888B2
According to an aspect of an embodiment, a method of detecting boundary line information contained in image information comprising a plurality of pixels in either one of first and second states, comprising: detecting a first group of pixels in the first state disposed continuously in said image information to determine first line information and detecting a second group of pixels in the first state disposed adjacently with each other and surrounded by pixels in the second state to determine edge information based on the contour of the second group of pixels; and determining the boundary line information on the basis of the information of the relation of relative position of the line information and the edge information and the size of the first and second group of pixels.
US08582875B2
There is described a method for detecting the presence of skin tone in an image. A gray scale representation of a pixel within the image is provided. Next, a red chrominance independent representation for is provided for the pixel. Then, the two representations are analysed to determine whether a difference in value between the representations corresponds with a the presence of a skin tone value. The present invention provides a rapid skin tone detection classifier particularly useful for real time applications.
US08582871B2
In one embodiment, a method for generating an ensemble classifier may include transforming multidimensional training data into a plurality of response planes. Each of the response planes includes a set of confidence scores. The response planes are transformed into a plurality of binary response planes. Each of the binary response planes include a set of binary scores corresponding to one of the confidence scores. Combinations of the binary response planes are transformed into sets of diversity metrics according to a diversity measure. A metric is selected from the sets of diversity metrics. A predicted performance of a child combination of the recognition algorithms corresponding to the combinations is generated. The predicted performance is based at least in part upon the metrics. Parent recognition algorithms are selected from the recognition algorithms based at least in part upon the predicted performance. The ensemble classifier is generated and includes the parent recognition algorithms.
US08582869B2
The invention provides a fast method for a high-quality interpolation of a finite multidimensional dataset. It has particular application in digital image processing, including, but not limited to, processing of both still images and real-time image/data processing. The method uses discrete cosine and sine transforms of appropriate types to covert, in blocks of desired size, the initial dataset to the frequency domain. Proposed interpolators calculate a chain of inverse transforms of non-square sizes that perform the interpolation. The larger transform is broken into smaller transforms of non-square size using a recursive size reduction process of FFT-type, and the smaller transforms are calculated directly exploiting the symmetry properties of smaller interpolator functions involved. An output dataset is then assembled using the calculated transforms. The method avoids computationally costly process of inflating the coefficient space by padding zeros exploited for DCT-based interpolations previously.
US08582852B2
It is developed a Dual-Spectrum Heat Pattern Separation (DS-HPS) algorithm to quantify the energy from the area of the high temperature tissues, called qH map, and decompose the body surface into the high and normal temperature areas based on a pair of middle-wave Infra-red images and long-wave Infra-red images. Further, with longitudinal registration, we can detect the cancerous tissues and assess the chemotherapy treatment response on a pixel by pixel basis according to the change of the qH map derived by the DS-HPS algorithm. The preliminary result shows the area and the qH values in the high temperature area are decreased as the patients receive more chemotherapy. These suggest the proposed algorithm could capture the incremental or decremental of the energies emitted by the cancerous tissues, which has the potentials for chemotherapy assessment and early detection.
US08582849B2
Virtual slide image data and corresponding information are stored in a data storage area on a virtual slide image server. A client viewer requests image data at a particular resolution. The image server obtains corresponding image data from the data storage area at a resolution nearest to the requested resolution. The image data is then sent to the client viewer. The client viewer receives the image data and scales the image data to the requested resolution prior to displaying the image data.
US08582839B2
The present invention is directed to an ultrasound system and a method of forming an elastic image, which are capable of preventing the distortion of the elastic image. The persistence of the previous frame and the present frame is performed after moving the boundary pixels set up in the previous interest frame to the boundary pixels in the present interest frame. This is so that the distortion of the elastic image may be reduced and the signal to noise ratio may be increased.
US08582837B2
An integrated circuit (IC) package includes at least one light source disposed together with an IC structure within an encapsulation structure. The material forming the encapsulation structure is generally opaque. Accordingly, the light source and at least a portion of the IC are not visible to the unaided human eye. The thickness and geometry of the encapsulation are such that when the light source is caused to emit light, the encapsulation structure permits at least a portion of that light to be visible to a user. The IC may be a portion of a fingerprint sensor, exposed for receiving a fingertip of a user. The light source, or a plurality of such light sources, may be functional (e.g., providing visual indication of the of the condition or state of an item of hardware or software, assist the user in operation of a device), be primarily aesthetic, or a combination thereof.
US08582820B2
An image capture device is used to identify object range information, and includes: providing an image capture device, an image sensor, a coded aperture, and a lens; and using the image capture device to capture a digital image of the scene from light passing through the lens and the coded aperture, the scene having a plurality of objects. The method further includes: dividing the digital image into a set of blocks; assigning a point spread function (psf) value to each of the blocks; combining contiguous blocks in accordance with their psf values; producing a set of blur parameters based upon the psf values of the combined blocks and the psf values of the remaining blocks; producing a set of deblurred images based upon the captured image and each of the blur parameters; and using the set of deblurred images to determine the range information for the objects in the scene.
US08582817B2
An identification method and process for objects from digitally captured images thereof that uses data characteristics to identify an object from a plurality of objects in a database. The data is broken down into parameters such as a Shape Comparison, Grayscale Comparison, Wavelet Comparison, and Color Cube Comparison with object data in one or more databases to identify the actual object of a digital image.
US08582816B2
A video analytics based object counting method which can obtain and process video frames from one or more video sources is proposed. By setting a variety of parameters, calculating a reference point, and a mapping table, a sampled referenced image can be constructed to obtain image pixels variation information according to these parameters. With the changed value of multiple sampling line segments and the pre-defined reference object, total object counts can be estimated by analyzing the whole number of the triggered sampling line segments and their directional states.
US08582804B2
To modify a facial feature region in a video bitstream, the video bitstream is received and a feature region is extracted from the video bitstream. An audio characteristic, such as frequency, rhythm, or tempo is retrieved from an audio bitstream, and the feature region is modified according to the audio characteristic to generate a modified image. The modified image is outputted.
US08582801B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for assisting the authoring of posts to an asymmetric social network. In one aspect, a method performed by a system of one or more data processing devices includes receiving, at the system, an identification of an electronic document that is available on the Internet, the system identifying image content in the electronic document, the system filtering the identified image content, the system triggering presentation of the filtered image content to an author of a post to an asymmetric social network, the system receiving a selection of a first image from amongst the presented image content, and the system adding the first image to a post to the asymmetric social network.
US08582800B2
A speaker includes a frame, a diaphragm disposed in a top end of the frame of the speaker and a bobbin disposed below the diaphragm. A voice coil is wound around a bottom end of the bobbin and a magnetic member, which has a groove in which the bottom end of the bobbin around which the voice coil is wound, is inserted and reciprocated in a straight line upward and downward. A central pillar is fixed to the magnetic member at a center of the bobbin and extends parallel to the movement of the bobbin. A damper supports an inner circumferential surface of the bobbin from the central pillar. The damper additionally supports an outer circumferential surface of the bobbin, from the frame, so as to allow the bobbin to reciprocate in a straight line. This results in minimization of wobble and distortion, so that accurate sound is generated.
US08582796B2
An earmuff and a headphone includes: a headband; an ear cup attached to the headband; a baffle board fixed on the ear cup; an ear pad engaged to the baffle board. An air-permeable member provided between the baffle board and the ear pad.
US08582795B2
A rigid, flat plate diaphragm for an acoustic device is illustrated. The internal supporting structure of the diaphragm provides a combination of torsional and translational stiffeners, which resemble a number of crossbars. These stiffeners brace and support the diaphragm motion, thus causing its response to not be adversely affected by fabrication stresses and causing it to be very similar in dynamic response to an ideal flat plate operating in a frequency range that extends well beyond the audible.
US08582793B2
A method for determining feedback thresholds in a plurality of frequency bands and/or at a plurality of frequencies processed by a hearing device is disclosed. The feedback thresholds are defined as gains, at which feedback occurs while a hearing device user is wearing the hearing device. The method comprises the step of determining feedback thresholds in an order of precedence, wherein the order of precedence being defined according to a degree of importance that the feedback threshold is determined in a particular frequency band or at a particular frequency, respectively.
US08582784B2
A method and device for enhancing low frequency content of an input signal (X), e.g. bass boosting of an audio signal. An overdriving (ODR) of a low frequency signal part (LS1) of the input signal (X) is performed to produce a boosted low frequency signal (LS3), wherein the overdriving (ODR) includes amplifying the low frequency signal part (LS1) by a first gain (G1) to form an amplified low frequency signal (LS2), and hard-clipping (CLP) the amplified low frequency signal (LS2) to form the boosted low frequency signal (LS3). A first low-pass filtering (LPF1) is then performed, resulting in a processed low frequency signal (LS4). A cut-off frequency of the first low-pass filtering (LPF1) is selected so as to reduce distortion components introduced by the overdriving (ODR). Finally, the processed low frequency signal (LS4) is combined with at least part of the input signal (X) to form an output signal (Y). Preferred embodiments further include adding a part of the input signal (X) after a gain (G2), to the low frequency signal part (LS1), hereby taking into account possible high frequency peak in the overdriving (ODR) process. Preferably, a second low-pass filter (LPF2) serves to low-pass filter the input signal (X) to form the low frequency signal part (LS1). A second cut-off frequency of the second low-pass filter (LPF2) is preferably selected coincident with the first cut-off frequency. Further, the first and second cut-off frequencies are preferably selected equal to, or within one octave from, a low frequency cut-off frequency for a loudspeaker intended to reproduce the output signal (Y). Thus, the preferred method introduces a level dependent bass boost below the loudspeaker s low frequency cut-off frequency.
US08582778B2
A computer program product for integrated key serving is provided. The computer program product includes a tangible storage medium readable by a processing circuit and storing instructions for execution by the processing circuit for performing a method. The method includes using a smart card of two or more smart cards with a support element of two or more support elements to create an encryption key and storing the encryption key in an encrypted file that can only be decrypted by the smart card and the support element used to create the encryption key.
US08582771B2
Various methods and apparatus for encrypting signals in a wireless access system are disclosed. A method for selectively encrypting a management message in an MS includes steps of generating a Medium Access Control Protocol Data Unit (MAC PDU) including the selectively encrypted management message and an Fragmentation Extended Header (FEH) and transmitting the MAC PDU to the BS. The FEH includes indication information indicating whether the management message was encrypted.
US08582768B2
A method in a receiver includes receiving from a transmitter a sequence of communication packets, which carry data encrypted with an encryption scheme. The encryption scheme depends on a counter value that is incremented independently by each of the transmitter and the receiver. Attempts are made to decrypt the data of a received packet multiple times using different, respective counter values, to produce multiple respective decrypted outputs. A decrypted output in which the data has been decrypted correctly is identified, the counter value is corrected, and the data of the received packet is recovered from the identified decrypted output.
US08582766B2
A method for ensuring media stream security in an IP Multimedia Subsystem network is disclosed. The method includes: assigning an end-to-end media stream security key for a calling User Equipment (UE) or a called UE, by a network device with which the calling UE or the called UE is registered, respectively, and transmitting the media stream security key to a network device with which the opposite end is registered; encrypting the end-to-end media stream security key using a session key shared with the calling UE or the called UE respectively, and transmitting the encrypted end-to-end media stream security key to the calling UE or the called UE, respectively, via a session message; encrypting or decrypting a media stream, by the calling UE or the called UE, respectively, using the end-to-end media stream security key.
US08582761B2
A method determines an elliptical curve, suitable for a cryptographic method. An elliptical curve to be tested is prepared. The order of a twisted elliptical curve associated with the elliptical curve to be tested is determined. It is automatically checked whether the order of the twisted elliptical curve is a strong prime number. If the order of the twisted elliptical curve is a strong prime number, the elliptical curve to be tested is selected as an elliptical curve suitable for cryptographical methods.
US08582757B2
A method for protecting the execution of a ciphering or deciphering algorithm against the introduction of a disturbance in a step implementing one or several first values obtained from second values supposed to be invariant and stored in a non-volatile memory in which, during an execution of the algorithm: a current signature of the first values is calculated; this current signature is combined with a reference signature previously stored in a non-volatile memory; and the result of this combination is taken into account at least in the step of the algorithm implementing said first values.
US08582755B2
An earbud headset, a handset including the same, and methods of operating the headset and handset are provided. In one embodiment, an earbud headset includes a speaker portion that is retractable into and extendable from a base portion, thereby allowing for a thin profile form factor. Advantageously, the earbud headset allows for more convenient storage and/or integration with a handset such that a user may carry the handset and headset much like a single item.
US08582748B2
For enabling the forwarding of communication requests directed by callers to callees who are subscribers of a carrier network (4) and users in an enterprise network (5), forwarding-profile information is received in a computerized central unit (2). The central unit (2) transfers forwarding information to a network server (41) in the carrier network (4) and/or a network server (51) in the enterprise network (5) for enabling the network servers (41, 51) to forward communication requests based on forwarding information. Thus, forwarding-profile information can be captured and maintained in one central location for generating consistent forwarding-profiles in a plurality of separate communication networks (4, 5, 8) which are operated and managed independently form each other by different entities with regards to technical platforms and organization.
US08582746B2
An apparatus and method for providing incoming and outgoing call information in a mobile communication terminal. A display unit displays detailed incoming/outgoing call information integrated for a particular phone number. A memory stores an incoming/outgoing call list according to an incoming/outgoing event. A controller controls an operation for adding the detailed incoming/outgoing call information to an associated phone number item of the incoming/outgoing call list when the incoming/outgoing call event occurs, and controls an operation for displaying the detailed incoming/outgoing call information integrated for the particular phone number selected from among phone numbers of the incoming/outgoing call list. The detailed incoming/outgoing call information mapped to the same phone number can be viewed at one time by integrating and providing the incoming/outgoing call information.
US08582742B1
A method and apparatus of providing event data to end users is enclosed. The operations included may provide notifying end users of an event by communicating a notification message to the end users, and receiving event registration messages from at least a portion of the end users to register the end users for the event. The apparatus may also include storing the event registration messages in a registration list file, and establishing a connection for each of the portion of the plurality of end users via an interactive voice response (IVR) application. The IVR application is then dropped and the connection is maintained via a port on a network element to transfer the event data from the network element to the portion of the registered end users.
US08582738B1
Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for providing call connections between a calling party and a verified called party. A person-to-person account is identified for the called party. An answering party is prompted to provide identification information. The identification information is compared to data in the person-to-person account. The call connection is not completed unless the called party's identity is verified.
US08582732B2
The invention relates to a method for generating a digit map for a call setup, wherein leading digits of a call number are collected by a gateway and transmitted to a call control server where a call-specific digit map is generated by comparing the leading digits to a numbering plan.
US08582716B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a driver circuit including a normally-on thin film transistor, which driver circuit ensures a small malfunction and highly reliable operation. The driver circuit includes a static shift register including an inverter circuit having a first transistor and a second transistor, and a switch including a third transistor. The first to third transistors each include a semiconductor layer of an oxide semiconductor and are depletion-mode transistors. An amplitude voltage of clock signals for driving the third transistor is higher than a power supply voltage for driving the inverter circuit.
US08582712B2
Methods for detecting and identifying carbon- and/or nitrogen-containing materials are disclosed. The methods may comprise detection of photo-nuclear reaction products of nitrogen and carbon to detect and identify the carbon- and/or nitrogen-containing materials.
US08582696B2
The various embodiments provide circuitry and methods for packing Log Likelihood Ratio (“LLR”) values into a buffer memory in a compressed format which reduces the amount of buffer memory required. Various embodiments use a type of quantization which reduces the bit width of the LLR values that are stored, with the particular level of quantization depending upon the code rate of the data. The degree, pattern, and periodicity of bit width compression employed may depend upon the code rate of the received transmission. Bit width patterns use for LLR value quantization may be generated by a shift register circuit which provides an efficient mechanism for controlling an LLR packer circuit based upon the code rate of the received signal.
US08582695B2
The present invention provides a method for identifying a specific number of communicating points having relatively smallest accumulated path values from a plurality of transmitting points for a receiving point in a communication system. The method includes steps of: (a) defining a first coordination of each of the plurality of transmitting points and the receiving point on a complex plane; (b) transferring the first coordination of the receiving point to a second coordination thereof, in which the second coordination of the receiving point is near an origin of the complex plane; and (c) identifying the specific number of transmitting points having relatively smallest accumulated path values based on the second coordination of the receiving point.
US08582683B2
To realize prompt and efficient data communication by dynamically changing the optimum MCS and PC. A base station (120) serving as a wireless communication device according to the present invention includes an obtaining unit (220) for obtaining an RSSI and an SINR of a receive signal upon generation of transmission data to be sent to a PHS terminal (110) serving as a wireless communication device to communicate with; a modulation and coding scheme determining unit (224) for determining an MCS, based on the volume of the transmission data; a transmission power determining unit (226) for determining a transmission power, based on the volume of the transmission data, the RSSI, the SINR, and the MCS determined; and a wireless communication unit (214) for sending the transmission data, using the MCS determined and the transmission power determined.
US08582675B1
A pre-channelized spectrum analyzer utilizes a channelizer as a preprocessor for parallel-configured low-resolution spectrum analyzers so as to perform as a high resolution spectrum analyzer. The pre-channelized spectrum analyzer has a polyphase filter that channelizes a signal input and an IFFT that generates filter bank outputs derived from the channelized signal. Spectrum analyzers are in communications with the filter bank outputs so as to generate a spectral decomposition of a subset of those outputs. The spectrum analyzers each perform a window and an FFT function on a corresponding one of the filter bank subset.
US08582674B2
An apparatus and method for channel estimation comprising determining a channel impulse response using a Taylor series expansion with a plurality of Taylor series coefficients; determining a channel frequency response based on the channel impulse response; collecting the channel frequency response over a plurality of symbols to obtain a composite channel frequency response; generating a sensing matrix based on the Taylor series expansion; and determining the plurality of Taylor series coefficients based on the composite channel frequency response and the sensing matrix using compressive sensing channel estimation.
US08582670B2
A receiving apparatus receives parallel data signals including a plurality of channels from a transmitting apparatus. The receiving apparatus includes a receiver, a detector, and a switch. The receiver receives the parallel data signals. The detector detects a first skew between channels within the receiving apparatus, and a second skew between channels prior to reception by the receiver. The switch interchanges the plurality of channels of the parallel data signals so as to reduce a total skew as a sum of the first skew and the second skew.
US08582669B2
The invention is directed to a digital isolation system including an isolation barrier, a transmitter circuit receiving an input signal and transmitting a positive pulse upon detecting a first type of edge in the input signal and transmitting a negative pulse upon receipt of a second type of edge in the input signal and a receiver circuit receiving the transmitted signals, removing noise in the received signal and reconstructing the input signal using a differential comparator.
US08582663B2
There is disclosed a method and device of statistical interleaving of at least two digital video sequences each comprising a plurality of coded pictures to be reproduced by a decoder, wherein the two digital video sequences form a single video stream and are destined for being successively reproduced in time, comprising statistical multiplexing a first digital video sequence with a second digital video sequence, wherein the pictures of the second digital video sequence are associated with timing information, which prevents a decoder from reproducing the pictures; transmitting the digital video sequences in an interleaved manner in accordance with a result of the statistical multiplexing to the decoder; and once the second digital video sequence is to be reproduced by decoder receiving the stream: transmitting dummy pictures, which are coded to refer to one or more pictures of the second video sequence transmitted in advance to the decoder.
US08582662B2
The invention relates to methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding of a video sequence. In connection with encoding/decoding a video sequence it is desirable to increase the video quality without having to increase the bit-rate for the encoded video too much, thereby still providing a bit-efficient representation of the video. If multiple descriptions of the video sequence is used the invention improves the video quality without any increase of the bit-rate. According to the invention, this is achieved by using two or more coding units for encoding the same video sequence, wherein the encoding units perform their encoding operations displaced in time in relation to each other. Correspondingly, two or more decoding units are used for decoding the same video sequence, wherein the decoding units perform their decoding operations displaced in time in relation to each other.
US08582661B2
Bitstream decoding device having reconfigurable functional units and a corresponding decoding method
Disclosed are a bitstream decoding device and a method thereof. The decoding device can include a parser, configured to receive schema information for analyzing a bitstream and convert the bitstream to a meaningful datum to output the datum; and a decoding solution, configured to output a video datum by performing a bitstream decoding by use of the datum. With the present invention, it is possible to decode the bitstream encoded in various ways according to each standard by using the same information recognizing method.
US08582660B2
This disclosure is directed to techniques for selective video frame rate upconversion (FRUC) in a video decoder. A video decoder selectively enables or disables FRUC based on one or more adaptive criteria. The adaptive criteria may be selected to indicate whether FRUC is likely to introduce spatial artifacts. Adaptive criteria may include a motion activity threshold, a mode decision threshold, or both. The criteria are adaptive, rather than fixed. When the criteria indicate that a frame includes excessive motion or new content, the decoder disables FRUC.
US08582659B2
Techniques and tools are described for using a signaled or derived buffer fullness value to determine a decoding time stamp. The decoding time stamp can be used in a layer such as a system layer to determine when an access unit such as a coded representation of a field or frame should be decoded. For example, a decoding time stamp that corresponds to a clock cycle of a decoder is determined based at least in part on a hypothetical reference decoder initial buffer fullness value. An initial data access unit of a bitstream is transferred to the decoder for decoding at about the time of the corresponding clock cycle for the decoding time stamp.
US08582655B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a modeling unit, in video image data composed of frame images having an X direction and a Y direction perpendicular to the X direction, separating a motion from a standard image, which is one frame before a reference image subjected to a process, until the reference image into motions in the X and Y directions and representing the motions in the X and Y directions respectively as vector fields composed of a translation component composed of identical magnitude and direction regardless of positions in the X and Y directions, an X dependent component primarily changing with the position in the X direction, and a Y dependent component primarily changing with the position in the Y direction; and a calculation unit respectively calculating the translation component and the X and Y dependent components corresponding to the X and Y directions represented by the modeling unit.
US08582654B1
Compressed frames of a video with associated reduced information about an object are received. The video has unreduced information about an object moving with respect to boundaries that are fixed with in each frame of the video and the compressed frames have reduced information about the object moving with respect to the boundaries that are fixed with in each of the compressed frames. The reduced information has quantization error due to compression. An estimate of the unreduced information is created by transforming the reduced information into the estimate using computer implemented motion estimation. The estimate has less quantization error than the reduced information.
US08582641B2
Satellite distribution apparatus is provided for distributing digital broadcast signals in a pre-determined locality or building. The apparatus includes satellite receiving means for receiving broadcast signals from at least one satellite and communication means for transmitting the received signals to a control unit in the locality or building. The control unit allows a plurality of received digital broadcast signals to be selected and output onto a single cable for distribution around said locality or building. The control unit includes means for allowing the bandwidth of the selected signals to be compressed and rearranged for transmitting onto a single cable outlet. At least part of the means for compressing said selected digital broadcast signals includes signal symbol stacking means.
US08582637B1
A system may comprise circuitry that includes a sequence estimation circuit and a non-linearity modeling circuit. The circuitry may be operable to receive a single-carrier signal that was generated by passage of symbols through a partial response filter and through a non-linear circuit. The circuitry may be operable to generate estimated values of the symbols using the sequence estimation circuit and using the non-linearity modeling circuit. An output of the non-linearity modeling circuit may be equal to a corresponding input of the non-linearity modeling circuit modified according to a non-linear model that approximates the non-linearity of the non-linear circuit through which the received signal passed.
US08582629B1
A wireless signal transceiving apparatus is provided. The wireless signal transceiving apparatus includes a signal transceiving-end circuit, a transceiving amplify module, an output amplify module, a mixer, a frequency selecting filter, switch modules a first base-band signal transceiver and a second base-band signal transceiver. The transceiving amplify module receives and amplifies a signal from an antenna or the mixer. The output amplify module amplifies the signal from the mixer. The frequency selecting filter filters the signal from the mixer, the first base-band signal transceiver or the second base-band signal transceiver according to the mode selecting signal. The first base-band signal transceiver and the second base-band signal transceiver receive the signal generated by the frequency selecting filter and/or respectively transmit the first and the second base-band output signal. The switch modules turn on or turn off transmission paths for the signal according to the mode selecting signal.
US08582626B2
A method for receiving Acknowledgement/Negative acknowledgement (ACK/NACK) information in a mobile communication system includes receiving a first signal including first spread ACK/NACK information and second spread ACK/NACK information from a first antenna set of a transmitting end in an orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol; receiving a second signal including third spread ACK/NACK information and fourth spread ACK/NACK information from a second antenna set of the transmitting end in an OFDM symbol; and de-spreading at least the first and third spread ACK/NACK information or the second and fourth spread ACK/NACK information for identifying the ACK/NACK information.
US08582619B2
In one embodiment, the invention relates to systems, methods and devices for improving the operation of an electromagnetic radiation source or component thereof. In one embodiment, the source is a laser source. A Fourier domain mode locked laser can be used in various embodiments. The sources described herein can be used in an optical coherence tomography (OCT) system such as a frequency domain OCT system. In one embodiment, laser coherence length is increased by compensating for dispersion. A frequency shifter can also be used in one embodiment to compensate for a tunable filter induced Doppler shift.
US08582609B2
Techniques and devices for generating laser light that use large mode area fiber amplifiers and curved fiber sections to achieve desired operations in a fundamental fiber mode with high pulse quality and optical beam quality while reducing presence of high order fiber modes in continuous wave and pulsed laser devices.
US08582602B2
A general input/output communication port implements a communication stack that includes a physical layer, a data link layer and a transaction layer. The transaction layer includes assembling a packet header for a message request transaction to one or more logical devices. The packet header includes a format field to indicate the length of the packet header and to further specify whether the packet header includes a data payload, a subset of a type field to indicate the packet header relates to the message request transaction and a message field. The message field includes a message to implement the message request transaction. The message includes at least one message that is selected from a group of messages. The group of messages to include a message to unlock a logical device, a message to reset a logical device, a message to indicate a correctable error condition, a message to indicate an uncorrectable error condition, a message to indicate a fatal error condition, a message to report a bad request packet, a message to indicate power management and a message to emulate an interrupt signal.
US08582597B2
There is provided a time slot interchanger for processing channel setting data functioning as control data for interchanging time slots of multiplexed transmission data. In the time slot interchanger, processing of the channel setting data based on alarm data is performed in accordance with a preset first transmission capacity, and with respect to the channel setting data in accordance with a preset second transmission capacity, processing of the channel setting data in accordance with the first transmission capacity is dispersedly performed in a time series manner.
US08582587B2
A data communication apparatus to be coupled to a first network and a Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) network, includes a receiving unit which receives a data including header information indicating a destination and first header information used to identify a first Virtual Private Network (VPN) in the first network. The apparatus also includes a transmitter which transmits data having added thereto a MPLS header information used to identify one of the plurality of second VPNs in the MPLS network, the MPLS header information corresponding to both the header information indicating the destination and the first header information used to identify the first VPN in the first network included in the received data.
US08582584B2
Methods and apparatus for dynamically and automatically allocating network resources through anticipatory analysis and control. In an exemplary embodiment, the network comprises a broadcast switched digital architecture, and network bandwidth allocation to multiple digital program streams is performed by processing historical user tuning data, which is obtained directly from the subscriber's consumer premises equipment (e.g., DSTB). When an increase or decrease in bandwidth required to support certain programs is anticipated, network resource re-allocation is performed automatically by a software process running on the switching server. In this fashion, speculative but “intelligent” projections of bandwidth and program stream requirements can be made automatically by the server software, without operator intervention. The server also optionally dictates the optimal monitoring and data collection parameters to the DSTB.
US08582570B2
A network (100) includes a hub device (110) and at least one unattached peripheral device (120). The hub device comprises circuitry and a transceiver in communication with the circuitry. In operation, the hub device is configured to cause the transceiver to i) send a message to indicate the availability of the hub device for attachment to a first peripheral device, ii) receive, from the first peripheral device, a message indicating the availability of the first peripheral device for communication with the hub device, iii) send, to the first peripheral device, a signal including a first peripheral device identifier, iv) receive, from the first peripheral device, a response, v) send a hub response to the first peripheral device, and vi) receive, from the first peripheral device, a second peripheral response including the first peripheral device identifier.
US08582563B2
The present invention is aimed to provide a more flexible data structure where any IMPU, even those of the SIP URI type, may be shared by more than one IRS in order to simplify the registration of an IMPU for users of a Fixed-Mobile Convergent network. To this end, there is provided a flexible data structure wherein a number n of IMPUs of a user may be distributed in a number m of Implicit Registration Sets, wherein a given IMPU may be shared by more than one IRS, each IRS is associated with an access condition, and the explicit registration of said given IMPU under a given access condition triggers the implicit registration of those IMPUs in the IRS associated with said access condition, while the registration status of IMPUs in any other IRS remain unchanged.
US08582560B2
A method for routing a call associated with a private dialing plan includes receiving a call directed to a destination endpoint associated with a private dialing plan (PDP), receiving an internal egress path identifier associated with the destination endpoint, and routing the call to an egress path identified by the egress path identifier. A system for routing a call including a destination number associated with a PDP including a routing engine operable to route the call to a PDP call resolution server, and a first switch operable to receive an egress path identifier and a PDP telephone number from the PDP call resolution server, the egress path identifier identifying an egress path for routing the call to a destination endpoint associated with the destination number, and the PDP telephone number identifying a selected PDP destination endpoint and a second switch operable to receive the call based on the egress path identifier and route the call to the selected PDP destination endpoint using the PDP telephone number.
US08582557B2
A system comprising a first network gateway coupled to a circuit-switched network, the first network gateway to initiate a tunnel through the circuit-switched network responsive to packetized fax relay data received from a packet-switched network, and a second network gateway couple to the circuit-switched network, the second network gateway to receive packetized fax relay data through a tunnel over the circuit-switched network from the first network gateway.
US08582553B2
The invention comprises methods and arrangements for Policy Decision Point discovery in a roaming or handover scenario in an IP network (IN) comprising a plurality of network elements. The invention comprises methods and arrangement in an user equipment for receiving the address of the serving policy decision point and sending to the Home Agent a registration request comprising the local IP address of the user equipment so that the home agent can register the local IP address. The registration request will also comprise the address (ASPDP1) of the serving policy decision point (SPDP1) so that the Home Agent can forward the address of the serving policy decision point to the anchor Policy Decision Point and so that the anchor Policy Decision Point can contact the serving policy decision point by using said address of the serving Policy Decision Point.
US08582541B2
A technique is provided to enable a ranging-enhanced communication device that operates according to a legacy communication protocol to transmit a ranging waveform that is not defined in, or part of, the rules of the legacy communication protocol. In one embodiment, a ranging-enhanced communication device that is to transmit the ranging waveform generates information representing a time interval within which to wirelessly transmit a ranging waveform that is not defined by a legacy communication protocol. This information is encoded into a field of a frame that is formatted according to the legacy communication protocol to protect the time interval from transmissions by legacy communication devices that operate according to the legacy communication protocol. The ranging-enhanced communication device transmits the frame and transmits the ranging waveform during the time interval following the frame.
US08582536B2
Methods and apparatus for providing channel diversity to wireless terminals (WTs) in a manner that reduces the latency between the time a WT encounters satisfactory channel conditions are described. A plurality of communications channels with different physical characteristics are maintained in a cell by a base station (BS). Each WT monitors multiple channels and maintains multiple channel estimates at the same time so that rapid switching between channels is possible. Channel quality information is conveyed from each WT to the BS. The WT or BS selects a channel based on the measured channel quality. By supporting multiple channels and by introducing periodic variations into the channels in various embodiments, the time before a WT encounters a channel with good or acceptable channel conditions is minimized even if the WT does not change location. Multiple antennas are used at the BS to support numerous channels simultaneously, e.g., by controlling antenna patterns.
US08582533B2
A mobile communication system, that includes a buffer storing packet data to be sent; and a controller configured for discarding the packet data according to a value of a timer corresponding to the packet data, maintaining the value of the timer corresponding to the packet data when a handover is performed without restarting or resetting the value of the timer, wherein the discarding further includes discarding the corresponding packet data when the value of the timer reaches a given value.
US08582531B2
A method and apparatus for identifying a confusion of neighboring pseudo numbers (PN) are provided. The method includes: obtaining a first location information when a mobile station establishes a call with a reference base station where a reference sector is located, and a second location information after establishing a handover in a process of the call, with a neighboring base station where a valid non-reference sector is located; and when a deviation between the first location information and the second location information is larger than a threshold and the mobile station drops the call after establishing the handover, determining that the confusion of the neighboring PNs exists in the neighboring base station. The method and apparatus are able to fast identify the confusion of the neighboring PNs in the existing CDMA network, and achieve the object of optimizing the network quality and improving the product competitiveness.
US08582530B2
A wireless mobile device/station (MS) sends measurement reports of neighbor cells to a serving base transmitter station (BTS). The MS receives information messages transmitted by the BTS at a signaling period, while the MS is in a first cell. The MS is configured to receive a first information message and a subsequent second information message following a handoff. When both information messages are received, the MS transmits a measurement report to the base station, based on contents of the current, received information messages. Responsive to the MS failing to receive/detect the second information message, the MS transmits a measurement report to the BTS based on (a) a current/first information message(s) and (b) a previous information message of the same type as the undetected second information message. The BTS initiates another handoff based on the information in the second type of measurement report.
US08582527B2
A base station receives first uplink data packets on a first uplink data channel of a first uplink carrier. A first portion of bandwidth of the first uplink carrier is employed for the first uplink data channel and a second portion is employed for a first uplink control channel. The base station receives second uplink data packets on a second uplink data channel of a second uplink carrier. The entire active bandwidth of the second uplink carrier is employed for the second uplink data channel. The base station transmits positive/negative acknowledgements for the first and second uplink data packets.
US08582509B2
To support mobile stations that are not capable of demodulating the entire bandwidth or that can be made to demodulate less than the entire bandwidth, a system, apparatus and method are provided to schedule users on less than all of the bandwidth. Further, certain users can be scheduled on more of the bandwidth than others.
US08582508B2
Systems, apparatus, methods, and manufactures for caching content at a communications services cell site which include caching previously provided content and/or predictively caching content. Content may be transmitted to cell sites for caching via primary or ancillary channels. Ancillary channels may be provided through a broadcast medium such as the ancillary or supplementary services spectrum of the digital television (DTV) spectrum. Content may also be broadcast to multiple cell sites simultaneously.
US08582504B2
A transmission system determines whether property data of a transmission terminal matches property data of a counterpart terminal to generate similarity information indicating the degree of similarity between the property data of the transmission terminal and the property data of the counterpart terminal, and determines a destination to which the event data specifying an event created by the transmission terminal is to be transmitted based on the similarity information.
US08582501B2
A multiple antenna mode control method based on an Access Point comprises the following steps: step 1, the Access Point periodically sends out a multiple antenna mode set or subset supported by the Access Point (S101); step 2, the Station reports a multiple antenna mode set or subset supported by the Station or, reports a multiple antenna mode set or subset supported by both the Station and the Access Point to the Access Point (S105); step 3, a multiple antenna mode is chosen from a multiple antenna mode set or subset supported by both the Station and the Access Point for communicating (S110). As a result, the Station and the Access Point can communicate in a reliable or high-speed antenna mode supported by both sending and receiving sides, and thereby the error frame rate is reduced, and the network throughput is increased.
US08582498B2
Subscriptions to a network may be limited to certain geographic areas by defining a geographic area for the subscriber, identifying all of the network access points with the geographic area, and enabling the subscriber to access the network through those network access points. The network access points may be outfitted with Global Positioning System receivers or other geophysical location determination mechanisms such that the actual location of the network access point is used in determining a subscriber's permitted access.
US08582497B2
Certain embodiments of the invention may be found in a method and system for minimizing power consumption in a communication system. Exemplary aspects of the invention may comprise configuring a supply voltage of an amplifier to enable communication of data using a first communication protocol during a first timeslot in a TDM frame, reconfiguring the supply voltage of the amplifier to enable communication of data using a different communication protocol, and adjusting the supply voltage of the amplifier in proportion to the envelope of a baseband signal conforming to one of the communication protocols. The first and second communication protocols may conform to various communication protocols, such as WCDMA, HSDPA, HSUDPA, GSM, GPRS, EDGE, WiMAX, OFDM, UWB, ZigBee, and Bluetooth. The baseband signal may be delayed by a number of samples before being input into the amplifier.
US08582493B2
Disclosed in some examples is a method performed by a relay station, the method including receiving at a relay station a data packet transmitted from a base station to a subscriber station; receiving a non-acknowledgement (NACK) message transmitted from the subscriber station to the base station in response to the data packet; receiving resource allocation information transmitted from the base station to the subscriber station; and transmitting, in response to the received NACK message at the transmission time, the data packet to the subscriber station in a resource allocation allocated for a retransmission of the data packet from the base station to the subscriber station, wherein the resource allocation is determined from the resource allocation information.
US08582486B2
A method for efficiently providing data and a reference signal (RS) when antennas are added to an existing system is provided. The method includes transmitting an RS in a downlink MIMO system that supports a first user equipment (UE) and a second UE, the first UE recognizing four predetermined transmitting antennas among eight transmitting antennas and the second UE recognizing the eight transmitting antennas, generating a subframe that can be recognized by both the first UE and the second UE and transmitting the generated subframe to the first UE and the second UE, where the first UE and the second UE recognize all orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols of the subframe.
US08582484B2
The invention relates to a method for transmitting data packets between an eNodeB and a mobile node (MN) when simultaneously using the HARQ protocol with soft-combining for unicast and multicast transmissions. Unicast transmissions are assigned to HARQ processes by the eNB, whereas multicast transmissions need to be assigned to a HARQ process by the MN. According to a first aspect, the soft-buffer memory is strictly separated into a unicast and multicast section, and HARQ protocol operations for unicast and multicast are independent. Due to the separation, the eNB can still correctly assign the unicast transmissions to a HARQ process. According to a second aspect, the soft-buffer is not separated but commonly used for unicast and multicast. However, in order for the eNB to still be able to correctly assign the unicast transmissions to a free HARQ process, the MN assigns the multicast transmission depending on a rule, known also to the eNB.
US08582477B2
The present invention enables, in a mobile communication system using “EUL”, to enhance radio quality by certainly allocating hardware resources at a radio base station. A transmission rate control method according to the present invention includes a step of transmitting, from the radio base station to a mobile station, an RGCH for instructing to increase the transmission rate of uplink user data, only when the radio base station has successfully received the uplink user data transmitted from the mobile station.
US08582464B2
A terminal device, a method and an apparatus for configuring the terminal device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving a message sent by a service provider device, where the message includes configuration information about a terminal device; setting up a wireless connection to the terminal device by using a Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) technology; and transmitting the configuration information about a terminal device to the terminal device through the wireless connection. The present invention brings the following benefits: receive a message that includes configuration information about a terminal device, and transmit the configuration information to the terminal device according to the message; therefore, the problem of insecurity and complexity involved in the provisioning for configuring the terminal device is resolved, and the configuration information for the terminal device is provisioned securely and simply.
US08582459B2
An MC-ONU is an ONU installed at a subscriber's home. The MC-ONU includes: a receiving unit which receives signals transmitted from an OLT at a telecommunications carrier site which has not established a link; a determining unit which determines the OLT, which has not established a link, to be a remote-end device in point-to-point communication on the condition that the signal received for a predetermined period of time is idle signal only; and a transmitting unit which starts transmitting signals to the OLT from the subscriber's home on the condition that it has been determined by the determining unit that the OLT is the remote-end device in point-to-point communication.
US08582452B2
A receiver is enabled to perform self-configuration of the main data link to receive and display video data. A video data signal is received through a data link having multiple channels or lanes at a specific bit rate. No link configuration data normally associated with the video signal is received. It is then determined which one or more of the channels of the data link are active in transmitting the data signal. A symbol pattern in the data signal is then identified. The symbol rate of the data signal is then synchronized with the local clock frequency. The local clock frequency is set to correspond to the actual bit rate of the data signal, thereby creating a signal-based clock frequency. This local clock frequency is set using only the data signal since no link configuration data associated with the signal is received. In this manner, the receiver configures or trains the link itself using only the video data signal and therefore, the receiver may be described as self-sufficient.
US08582451B2
In a method and a system a good spread of users per code is obtained by providing a value related to the current load for each code in the system. The estimated load value can be used by the network to assign the HS-PDSCH code for users in HS-SCCH less operation, and may also be used in the dynamic transmission process, i.e. which codes are to be used by which user during this and future TTIs. If one code is over a given utilization threshold, where the threshold is set in order to avoid code blocking of VoIP users, enough users can be re-assigned to a different code. In the case that all of the current codes used in the HS-SCCH less operation model are over the utilization threshold, yet another code can be made available for HS-SCCH less operation.
US08582440B2
A network device includes a receiver component that generates flow control information. The network device also includes a transmitter component that receives a packet for forwarding to the receiver component, receives flow control data for the packet from the receiver component, and provides the packet and the flow control data for the packet to a fabric component. The fabric component performs a congestion management operation for the packet, and forwards the packet to the receiver component based on the flow control data and results of the congestion management operation.
US08582434B1
A media selection system includes a plurality of media ports. Each of the plurality of media ports is coupled to a corresponding physical medium, and each of the plurality of media ports is configured to generate an activity signal and a link status signal. A priority storage module is configured to contain priority information, which sets forth a priority for establishing a link through each of the plurality of media ports. A media selector module is configured to select a first media port through which a link will be maintained based on the link status signal generated by each of the plurality of media ports and the priority information. The media selector module is further configured to block all other links through media ports of the plurality of media ports other than the first media port.
US08582431B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for sensing a change in a network topology using a discovery node in a mesh network; transmitting an explore frame, based at least in part on the sensed change, from the discovery node to a destination node using an intermediate node; receiving a response to the explore frame from the destination node; determining at least one functional network route from the discovery node to the destination node based at least in part on route information received in association with the response to the explore frame, wherein the route information includes a node path; and transmitting an instruction to the destination node from the discovery node based on a reverse node path.
US08582430B2
Embodiments addressing MAC processing for efficient use of high throughput systems are disclosed. Data associated with at least one MAC ID can be aggregated into a single byte stream. The single byte stream can be formatted into MAC PDUs and then muxed. The muxed MAC PDUs can then be transmitted on a single MAC frame. Muxing of the MAC PDUs can be based on the priority of the MAC PDUs or other criteria. A MAC header can comprise information about the muxed PDUs, such as a pointer, that identifies the location of the MAC PDUs within the MAC frame. A MAC frame can contain partial MAC PDUs. The transmitted muxed MAC PDUs can be retransmitted, and an acknowledgment or feedback scheme may be used to help manage the transmission of the protocol data units.
US08582428B1
A packet processing pipeline is configured to classify packets received via a network based on information in the received packets: (1) as belonging to one of a plurality of identified flows, or (2) as not belonging to any of the plurality of identified flows. For each received packet determined not to belong to one of the previously identified flows, the pipeline sends at least a portion of the packet or a corresponding packet descriptor to a processing unit. For each received packet determined not to belong to one of the previously identified flows, the processing unit defines a new flow corresponding to the packet based on an analysis of the portion corresponding packet descriptor, and configures the packet processing pipeline to handle the new flow.
US08582421B2
A system and method of processing information regarding medical devices in wireless communication with each other is provided in which a handheld device has a first wireless communication link with a first medical device, such as a glucose sensor, and a second wireless communication link with a second medical device, such as an insulin pump. A processor in the handheld device monitors the status of the first and second wireless links and upon noting a change in status of either one, compares the first wireless link status with the second wireless link status and provides guidance for resolving a communication problem based on the comparison. The latency of the medical devices is considered as well as the ability to make system status changes, extend time periods before alarms are issued, and the characteristics of the medical devices are considered.
US08582411B2
An acquisition section acquires image data having a plurality of frames. Table information is written into a store when the image data is acquired. The table information includes first position information representing absolute position information of each of the plurality of frames and second position information representing relative position information when a head frame of the image data is set as a reference. A specification section specifics the second position information of a frame corresponding to a frame reproduction instruction using the first position information. A reproduction section reproduces the reproduction frame corresponding to the specified second position information. Writing of the table information into the table store is restricted when there is an instruction to reproduce the frame.
US08582409B1
A method and device for determining frequency error to extend the pull-in range of a timing recovery circuit for a storage device such as an optical disc drive. A code associated with a storage format of the storage device is detected, and the distance between occurrences of the code is determined. The calculated distance is compared with the expected distance to determine the difference. Based on the difference, the frequency error is determined.
US08582405B1
An optical tape decoding system includes a decoder that may apply a matched pattern signal representing an address index to a track address signal including a multi-cycle wobble block representing the address index such that a signal is output having a peak corresponding to the multi-cycle wobble block. The decoder may also identify the address index based on an amplitude of the peak.
US08582403B2
A layer-to-layer jumping method according to the present invention includes, after a layer-to-layer jump has been started in a multilayer optical disc, the step ST7 of detecting an S-curve signal from an information layer, which is located shallower than the target information layer of the layer-to-layer jump, with a spherical aberration correction made adaptively to that shallower information layer, and the step ST8 of generating a deceleration signal based on the S-curve signal detected to get the layer-to-layer jump done.
US08582402B2
An optical recording medium in which recording is performed by a recording device that is configured such that tracking servo control of recording light is performed by irradiating the recording light and ATS light for an adjacent track servo and by an adjacent track servo based on reflected light of the ATS light, wherein while a recording layer in which a mark is formed according to an irradiation of the recording light is included, a mark row is formed in advance by a pitch that is twice a distance between an irradiation spot of the recording light and an irradiation spot of the ATS light or greater in the recording layer.
US08582400B2
A data library apparatus capable of changing the mounting positions of disks on the basis of information recorded in the disks and the access histories of the disks. Disks expected to be accessed next are mounted in advance on data recording/reproducing devices, on slots nearer to the data recording/reproducing devices, or on a disk carrying device, etc. In addition, disks relevant to currently active disks are mounted on positions so that the optical disk carrying device can bring out the relevant disks at a time without being moved, and hereby the time necessary for disk access in the data library apparatus can be reduced.
US08582390B2
The apparatus and systems described herein may comprise a plurality of memory cells coupled to a local wordline, and a wordline drive circuit that includes a regulator coupled to a plurality of pass transistors and a string driver. The regulator may comprise a regulator transistor having a threshold voltage that is substantially the same as the threshold voltage of the string driver during memory cell program operations. In some embodiments, the regulator may comprise a cascode-connected pair of transistors. Methods of manufacturing and operating the apparatus and systems are also described.
US08582389B2
A semiconductor memory storage device with a plurality of storage cells, each cell includes two access control devices, each providing the cell with access to or isolation from a respective one of two data lines in response to an access control signal provided by access control circuitry. The control devices are controlled to provide the storage cell with access to or isolation from either of the first and second of the two data lines. The access control circuitry is responsive to a data access request, the data access request being a write request, to apply a data value to be written to both of the first and second data lines and to apply the access control signal to both of the first and second access control lines.
US08582385B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a reference voltage generation unit configured to generate first and second reference voltages, wherein a level of the first reference voltage increases with decreasing internal temperature, and a level of the second reference voltage decreases with decreasing internal temperature; and a level control unit configured to control an internal voltage in response to the first and second reference voltages so as to decrease the absolute value of the internal voltage.
US08582382B2
A semiconductor memory device and system are disclosed. The memory device includes a memory, a plurality of inputs, and a device identification register for storing register bits that distinguish the memory device from other possible memory devices. Circuitry for comparing identification bits in the information signal with the register bits provides positive or negative indication as to whether the identification bits match the register bits. If the indication is positive, then the memory device is configured to respond as having been selected by a controller. If the indication is negative, then the memory device is configured to respond as having not been selected by the controller. A plurality of outputs release a set of output signals towards a next device.
US08582380B2
Systems, circuits, and methods are disclosed for charge sharing. In one such example system, a first line is configured to be driven to a first voltage representative of data to be placed on the first line and then precharged to a first precharge voltage. A second line is configured to be driven to a second voltage representative of data to be placed on the second line and then precharged to a second precharge voltage. A charge sharing device is coupled between the first line and the second line. The charge sharing device is configured to selectively allow charge from the first line to flow to the second line after the first and second lines are driven to the respective first and second voltages representative of data to be placed on the respective lines.
US08582377B2
Memories and methods for replacing memory sections of a main memory array by mapping memory addresses for an entire main memory section to at least one memory section of a redundant memory array. One such memory includes a fuse block having programmable elements configured to be programmed to identify main memory sections to be mapped to redundant memory sections of the redundant memory array. The memory further includes a redundant memory logic circuit coupled to the redundant memory array and the fuse block. The redundant memory logic is configured to map the memory for a main memory section identified in the fuse block to at least one of the redundant memory sections of the redundant memory array.
US08582375B2
A memory device that, in certain embodiments, includes a plurality of memory elements connected to a bit-line and a delta-sigma modulator with a digital output and an analog input, which may be connected to the bit-line. In some embodiments, the delta-sigma modulator includes a circuit with first and second inputs and an output. The circuit is configured to combine (add or subtract) input signals. The first input may be connected to the analog input. The delta-sigma modulator may also include an integrator connected to the output of the circuit, an analog-to-digital converter with an input connected to an output of the integrator and an output connected to the digital output, and a digital-to-analog converter with an input connected to the output of the analog-to-digital converter and an output connected to the second input of the circuit.
US08582368B2
A method for operating a non-volatile memory device includes counting the number of consecutive verify operations performed without a precharge, sensing a temperature, and when the number of verify operations exceeds a set value of verify operations, controlling a level of a sensing bias voltage based on the sensed temperature.
US08582364B2
In an embodiment of a memory device including a matrix of memory cells wherein the memory cells are arranged in a plurality of memory cells strings each one including at least two serially-connected memory cells, groups of at least two memory cells strings being connected to a respective bit line, and wherein said memory cells are adapted to be programmed into at least a first programming state and a second programming state, a method of storing data comprising exploiting a single memory cell for each of the memory cells string for writing the data, wherein said exploiting includes bringing the single memory cell to the second programming state, the remaining memory cells of the string being left in the first programming state.
US08582359B2
Multi-port semiconductor memory cells including a common floating body region configured to be charged to a level indicative of a memory state of the memory cell. The multi-port semiconductor memory cells include a plurality of gates and conductive regions interfacing with said floating body region. Arrays of memory cells and method of operating said memory arrays are disclosed for making a memory device.
US08582356B2
A common standard may be used for both dynamic random access memories and non volatile memories, despite the fact that the non-volatile memory generally needs bidirectional communications to coordinate writing with a memory controller. In one embodiment, a package connector on the non-volatile memory may be used for one function that does not involve communications with the memory controller during reading and may be used for communications with the memory controller during writing. Particularly, those communications during writing may be to indicate to the memory controller when the memory is ready for writing and when the memory is busy so that a write must be deferred until the memory is ready to be written to.
US08582348B2
It is an object to provide a semiconductor device with a novel structure in which stored data can be held even when power is not supplied, and does not have a limitation on the number of writing operations. A semiconductor device includes a plurality of memory cells each including a transistor including a first semiconductor material, a transistor including a second semiconductor material that is different from the first semiconductor material, and a capacitor, and a potential switching circuit having a function of supplying a power supply potential to a source line in a writing period. Thus, power consumption of the semiconductor device can be sufficiently suppressed.
US08582347B2
A method and apparatus for writing data to a non-volatile memory cell, such as an STRAM memory cell or an RRAM memory cell. In some embodiments, a plurality of N non-volatile memory cells, where N is a greater than two, are connected to a common floating source line. A write circuit is adapted to program a selected memory cell of the plurality to a selected data state by passing a write current of selected magnitude through the selected memory cell and concurrently passing a portion of the write current in parallel through each of the remaining N−1 memory cells of the plurality via the common floating source line.
US08582344B2
A multiplexing/de-multiplexing memristive device includes a memristive matrix containing mobile dopants; and programming electrodes which apply programming electrical field such that the mobile dopants selectively form a conductive band which connects a first signal electrode to one of a plurality of second electrodes. A method for operating a multiplexing/de-multiplexing memristive device includes applying a programming electrical field to achieve a first dopant configuration in a memristive matrix, the first dopant configuration connecting a base electrode to a input/output electrode; conducting an electrical current from between the base electrode and the input/output electrode; and applying a second programming electrical field to achieve a second dopant configuration, the second dopant configuration connecting the base electrode to a second input/output electrode; and conducting an electrical current from the base electrode to the second input/output electrode.
US08582326B2
A resonance-type power supply is provided in which no short circuit occurs and driving is performed with a constant switching period by performing switching control using a change of magnetic flux of a magnetic component as a trigger. When the change of magnetic flux of the transformer is detected, the first switching control signal is caused to transition to the Hi level. The detection voltage signal is A/D-converted, a first on-time is determined from the level thereof, and a second on-time is calculated by subtracting the first on-time from the constant switching period. When the first switching control signal is caused to transition to the Low level based on the first on-time, the change of magnetic flux of the transformer is detected, and the second switching control signal is caused to transition to the Hi level and is caused to transition to the Low level after the second on-time has elapsed.
US08582319B2
A resonant mode converter includes a PFC power converter having an input coupled to receive an input voltage. An LLC power converter is cascaded with the PFC power converter. The LLC power converter includes a transformer coupled to generate an output of the resonant mode converter. A feedback circuit is coupled to generate a first current representative of the output of the resonant mode converter. A control unit includes a current limiting circuit coupled to receive the first current and a second current generated in response to a reference voltage. The current limiting circuit is coupled to limit the first current in response to the second current. The control unit further includes an oscillator coupled to generate a control signal having a control frequency in response to the first current. The resonant mode converter output is controlled in response to the control frequency.
US08582315B2
An electronic apparatus includes a first printed circuit board on which a first connector is provided, a first member connected with the first printed circuit board and having a first hole, a second member connected with the first printed circuit board and including a projecting portion extending in a standing direction on the first printed circuit board, and a second printed circuit board that includes a second connector connected to the first connector, a first end portion that penetrates the first hole, and a second end portion having a second hole, where the projecting portion of the second member penetrates the second hole.
US08582314B2
There is provided an interconnection structure. An interconnection structure according to an aspect of the invention may include: a plurality of side portions provided on one surface of a substrate part and a plurality of cavities located between the side portions and located further inward than the side portions; and electrode pattern portions provided on surfaces of the side portions and the cavities.
US08582312B2
A highly reliable electronic circuit board for suppressing propagation of noise and a power line communication apparatus using it are provided. An electronic circuit board of the invention is connected to a different electronic circuit board and including a first board having a first face and a second face opposed to the first face and a second board having a third face and a fourth face opposed to the third face. The electronic circuit board includes a first circuit mounted on one end of the first face for performing analog signal processing; a second circuit mounted on another end of the first face for performing digital signal processing; a junction layer provided between the second face and the third face for jointing the first board and the second board; a built-in electronic component built into the junction layer; a connection part mounted on the fourth face and to be connected to the different electronic circuit board; and a first conducting path for electrically connecting the second circuit and the connection part, wherein the connection part is mounted at a position overlapping projection projecting the second circuit onto the fourth face from a vertical direction relative to the first face.
US08582308B2
A method of making an electronic circuit device includes placing a circuit board in a cavity of a mold such that one side of the circuit board is held in close contact with an inner surface of the cavity, and encapsulating the circuit board in a casing by filling the cavity with a resin material. The one side of the circuit board is exposed to one side of an outer surface of the casing to define part of the one side of the outer surface of the casing. The method further includes thinning the casing by machining the entire one side of the outer surface of the casing.
US08582294B2
An electrical power supply device for a motor vehicle, which includes a tray made of a heat-conducting material, in which there is positioned at least one ultra-high capacity energy storage unit liable to emit heat, the tray including at least one housing to accommodate at least one electrical energy storage unit with the presence of a heat-conducting layer made of a heat conducting adhesive or a heat-conducting resin interposed without clearance between the storage unit and the interior face of the wall of the associated housing so as to conduct the heat emitted by the unit.
US08582284B2
A media display fixture includes a main body, a bracket and at least one first fastener. The main body includes a first side portion, a second side portion and a central portion coupling the first side portion to the second side portion. The central portion includes a ring binder for receiving media for display. The bracket includes a first side portion, a second side portion and a central portion coupling the first side portion to the second side portion. The at least one first fastener directly couples one of the first and second side portions of the main body to one of the first and second side portions of the bracket.
US08582281B2
A display device includes a first frame, a second frame, a backlight module and a display panel. The first frame has two plates separated with each other. Each plate includes a first bottom and a first side wall connected with the first bottom, wherein a first joint part is disposed at the first side wall. The second frame has a second side wall and a supporting part extended from the second side wall toward an inside of the second frame. Second joint parts corresponding to the first joint parts are disposed at the second side wall. The first frame and the second frame are assembled by combinations of the first joint parts and the second joint parts. The backlight module is disposed between the first bottoms and the supporting part. The display panel is disposed on the supporting part.
US08582276B2
A capacitor structure including a dielectric material layer and at least two metal layers is provided. The metal layers are disposed at intervals in the dielectric material layer. Each of the metal layers includes a zigzaging electrode, a first finger-shaped electrode and a second finger-shaped electrode. The zigzaging electrode forms a plurality of first concave parts disposed at one side of the zigzaging electrode and a plurality of second concave parts disposed at the other side of the zigzaging electrode. The first finger-shaped electrode includes a plurality of first extension parts. The first extension parts are respectively disposed in the first concave parts. The second finger-shaped electrode includes a plurality of second extension parts. The second extension parts are respectively disposed in the second concave parts. The zigzaging electrode in each of the metal layers is electrically coupled to the first and second finger-shaped electrodes of adjacent metal layers.
US08582275B2
An electronic detonator control chip (100) includes a communication interface circuit (101), a rectification bridge circuit (102), a charging circuit (103), a charging control circuit (110), a power management circuit (104), a firing control circuit (105), a logic control circuit (106), a non-volatile memory (107), a reset circuit (111), a safe discharging circuit (108), and a clock circuit (202). Wherein, the communication interface circuit (101) includes a data modulation module (210) and a data demodulation module (211) including two data demodulation circuits (212). The logic control circuit (106) further includes a programmable delay module (281), an input/out interface (282), a serial communication interface (283), a prescaler (284), a CPU (285), and so on. Therefore, the electronic detonator control chip provided by the invention enables to realize the functions of two-wire non-polarity connection, bidirectional communication with a detonation equipment external of the electronic detonator control chip, ID card inside the detonator, control of the detonation process and online program of the delay time and so on.
US08582272B2
A protection circuit for protecting light-emitting diodes of a laser emitter is provided. The laser emitter includes a first LED for reading multimedia data stored in a first media and a second LED for reading multimedia data stored in a second media. Cathodes of the first LED and the second LED are grounded, and anodes of the first LED and the second LED are connected with soldering tin. The protection circuit includes a first protection element with a first breakdown voltage and a second protection element with a second breakdown voltage. One end of each of the first protection element and the second protection element is grounded. When the circuit is connected to the laser emitter, residual ends of the first protection element and the second protection element are respectively connected to the anodes of the first LED and the second LED.
US08582260B2
According to one embodiment, an integrated circuit includes a first external terminal, a second external terminal, a third external terminal grounded, an output transistor connected to the second and third external terminals, an ESD protection circuit connected between the second external terminal and the third external terminal, a diode connected between the first and second external terminals, a power supply circuit connected between the first and third external terminals, an internal circuit connected between the power supply circuit and the third external terminal, a current source circuit, and a drive circuit having a first and second input terminals and an output terminal connected to the control electrode of the output transistor. When a voltage larger than a maximum rating voltage is applied to the second external terminal, the drive circuit turns off the output transistor and the ESD protection circuit operates.
US08582257B2
An ultra-low sensitivity ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) device and a method for manufacturing the device is disclosed. The GFCI device detects an unbalanced current between line and return conductors that results from an unintended path to ground. The GFCI device disconnects the current source when a leakage current is detected. The GFCI device includes a current transformer that has its core wrapped with the line and return conductors. The line and return conductors are secured around the core in a fixed position. During manufacture of the GFCI device an amplifier of the GFCI can be adjusted so that the GFCI device disconnects the current source when a leakage current exceeds a desired level.
US08582253B1
A magnetic sensor configured to reside in proximity to a recording medium during use having a high spin polarization reference layer stack above AFM layers. The reference layer stack comprises a first boron-free ferromagnetic layer above the AFM coupling layer; a magnetic coupling layer on and in contact with the first boron-free ferromagnetic layer; a second ferromagnetic layer comprising boron deposited on and contact with the magnetic coupling layer; and a boron-free third ferromagnetic layer on and in contact the second ferromagnetic layer. A barrier layer is deposited on and in contact with the boron-free third ferromagnetic layer. In one aspect of the invention, the magnetic coupling layer may comprise at least one of Ta, Ti, or Hf. A process for providing the magnetic sensor is also provided.
US08582245B2
An electrical connection structure for a piezoelectric element and a head suspension with the piezoelectric element employing the electrical connection structure are provided. The electrical connection structure fixes and connects a terminal of a wiring member to an electrode of the piezoelectric element, which is arranged to face the terminal, with a conductive adhesive so that no peeling due to thermal expansion occurs between the terminal and the conductive adhesive. The electrical connection structure includes a through hole formed through the terminal and a connection part formed around the through hole on an opposite side of a piezoelectric element on the terminal. The conductive adhesive is applied and solidified so that the conductive adhesive extends between a surface of the connection part and a surface of the electrode of the piezoelectric element through the through hole.
US08582238B1
Systems and methods for providing perpendicular magnetic writers having gradient magnetic moment side shields are provided. In one case, the system includes a pole having a leading edge and trailing edge, a leading shield positioned closer to the leading edge than the trailing edge, the leading shield having a leading shield moment, a trailing shield positioned closer to the trailing edge than the leading edge, the trailing shield having a trailing shield moment greater than the leading shield moment, and a side shield positioned along side of the pole, the side shield including a gradient magnetic moment progressing from a first side shield moment to a second side shield moment, where the first side shield moment is about equal to the leading shield moment, and where the second side shield moment is about equal to the trailing shield moment and positioned closer to the trailing shield than the leading shield.
US08582233B2
A spindle motor, which is for use in a disk drive apparatus which includes a housing including a base member and a cover member, includes a stationary portion and a rotating portion. The stationary portion includes a stationary shaft and the base member. The rotating portion includes a sleeve portion. The stationary shaft is inserted into the bearing hole. The stationary shaft includes an annular surface arranged to come into direct or indirect contact with the cover member, the annular surface being located higher than the sleeve portion and extending in a circumferential direction, and an upper protrusion arranged to be fixed to a cover inner circumferential surface defining a cover penetrating hole of the cover member, the upper protrusion protruding upward from the radial inner side of the annular surface. The base member includes a fixing portion arranged to directly or indirectly fix the cover member.
US08582228B2
A locking media pusher is coupled to a servo controlled stage and includes a protruding probe and a locking mechanism. The stage moves forward and backward along a base toward and away from a storage medium. If an eccentricity of a track on the storage medium exceeds a threshold, the storage medium is rotated to an orientation where the greatest eccentricity is directed toward the media pusher. The media pusher is moved toward the storage medium until a probe extending from the media pusher contacts the storage medium. The probe is locked within the media pusher. The stage and attached media pusher are retracted from the storage medium and the storage medium is unlocked. The magnitude of retraction of the stage is recorded. The stage is moved toward the storage medium a distance corresponding to the probe contact position plus the eccentricity magnitude to correct the eccentricity.
US08582226B2
Apparatus and method for write delay stabilization. A write driver is adapted to output bipolar write currents to write data to a memory. A preconditioning circuit is adapted to output first and second thermal preconditioning currents through the write driver to stabilize a write delay associated with the write driver to a steady-state level prior to the writing of data to the memory.
US08582220B2
A lens module includes a first lens group and a second lens group. The first lens group includes a first substrate, a diaphragm, a first lens, and second lens. The diaphragm with a aperture is disposed on the first side of the first substrate. The first lens and the second lens are respectively disposed on the first side and the second side of the first substrate. The second lens group includes a second substrate, a third lens, and a fourth lens. The third lens and the fourth lens are respectively disposed on the first side and the second side of the second substrate. The lens module meets the following requirements: 1.5
US08582214B2
The present disclosure relates to a lens module, the module including a first lens having a positive (+) refractive power and capable of moving for zooming operation; a second lens having a negative (−) refractive power; a third lens having a positive (+) refractive power and having an inflection point at an image surface; and a fourth lens having a negative (−) refractive power.
US08582195B2
Systems and methods for generating a position reference grid and relative positioning of an object are presented. Radiation is emitted towards a digital micro-mirror device including a plurality of micro-mirrors. Additionally, one or more of a plurality of micro-mirrors are modulated such that at least a portion of the radiation reflected from the plurality of micro-mirrors is projected on to a designated location in a designated pattern representative of a position reference grid. The radiation reflected from the plurality of micro-mirrors is detected. Further, the detected radiation is interpreted as location coordinates in the position reference grid. Additionally, the location coordinates are communicated to the object moving in relation to the digital micro-mirror device for positioning the object at a designated position in the position reference grid.
US08582190B2
A two-dimensional scanning device possesses: a light source for emitting light; a mirror for scanning on a test surface in the X direction; a mirror for scanning on the test surface in the Y direction; a lens which has different powers in relation to the X direction and the Y direction; and a lens which has different powers in relation to the X direction and the Y direction. The mirrors are arranged between the light source and a lens group including the lenses.
US08582189B2
A mirror device includes a mirror (153) which is supported to be pivotable with respect to a mirror substrate (151), a driving electrode (103-1-103-4) which is formed on an electrode substrate (101) facing the mirror substrate, and an antistatic structure (106) which is arranged in a space between the mirror and the electrode substrate. This structure can fix the potential of the lower surface of the mirror and suppress drift of the mirror by applying a second potential to the antistatic structure.
US08582188B2
A spot color rendering system and method that incorporates spot color press emulation color transformation to preserve spot color on a target rendering device. A spot color rendering option implemented in a graphical user interface can be selected in order to render the spot color via an intermediate emulation space. The spot color name calls can be first associated with a color value in an ICC profile connection space (PCS), as CIE L*a*b* or XYZ. A database relation of the spot color name with its associated PCS numerical value enables association of the name with the resultant color transformed output. Thereafter, a color transformation with respect to the spot color value can be performed in order to compute a color on an emulation press and then the color can be preserved to the target rendering device. Such an approach enables a color consistent rendering to the target rendering device similar to that of the emulation press.
US08582179B2
An image forming apparatus comprises: an image forming section that forms an image on a sheet; a density sensor that measures the image formed on the sheet and outputs a measured value corresponding to a density of the image; a conversion data storing section that stores plural conversion data showing relationship between the measured value outputted from the density sensor and the image density, for each sheet type and each screen for an image; a conversion data selection section that selects at least one conversion data from the plural conversion data stored in the conversion data storing section; and a density adjustment section that adjusts a density for an image formed by the image forming section based on a measured value acquired by measuring a prescribed image formed on a sheet and on the conversion data selected by the conversion data selection section.
US08582176B2
Image forming apparatus, image forming system, and method and program for supporting operation input
An image forming apparatus connected to an image forming system in which a plurality of image forming apparatuses is linked. The image forming apparatus comprises: a user environment information acquiring unit that acquires user environment information; a user environment information reflecting unit that generates the screen representing the settings by using the user environment information; a capability acquiring unit that acquires capability information representing capabilities; a settability determining unit that determines the settability of various settings; a display control unit that is a unit displaying the screen on the display unit and further displays the screen that represents a determination result of the settability determining unit on the display unit; a search unit that searches for a first image forming apparatus; and a search result output unit that further displays the screen representing a search result of the search unit on the display unit through the display control unit.
US08582168B2
An image processing apparatus stores pixel data of an input image in a storage apparatus after performing resolution conversion encoding, and performs a pixel interpolation process after reading out the pixel data stored in the storage apparatus and performing resolution conversion decoding. The image processing apparatus determines, when resolution conversion encoding the pixel data of the input image, whether a resolution of the pixel data will decrease due to the pixel interpolation process, based on attribute information indicating an attribute of the pixel data, and performs processing to decrease the resolution of the pixel data in the resolution conversion encoding, if it is determined that the resolution will decrease.
US08582156B2
A method of controlling a digital printing system that uses multiple metadata packets is provided. A controller including a metadata channel is provided. Information in a first metadata packet that is associated with an initial point of interest of a media is provided by a primary metadata packet creation unit. The first metadata packet is inserted into the metadata channel of the controller. A second metadata packet including new information associated with a new point of interest of the media is created using a secondary metadata creation unit. The second metadata packet with the new formation is inserted into the metadata channel of the controller based on the location of the new point of interest of the media.
US08582135B2
An image forming apparatus is provided that includes a storage unit configured to store print data which is received from a host, a generation unit configured to read the print data which is stored in the storage unit and generate an intermediate code, and an image forming unit configured to form an image according to the intermediate code which is generated by the generation unit. The image forming apparatus also has a restriction unit that is configured not to restrict execution of a specific print function if a processing unit configured to process the print data by interactively communicating with the host is not installed in the image forming apparatus, and is configured to restrict execution of the specific print function if the processing unit configured to process the print data by interactively communicating with the host is installed in the image forming apparatus.
US08582134B2
An information processing apparatus which has a processing function of processing information and includes a data providing device, a storage device, a setting device, a determination device, and a changing device. The data providing device provides data to the information processing apparatus, and the storage device stores data. The setting device is provided to selectively set a prohibited state and an allowed state of the processing function. The determination device determines whether or not provided data provided by the data providing device is identical with set data which is stored in the storage device as data to be used in a case of performing a processing function set by a user. The changing device instructs the setting device, when it is determined that the provided data is identical with the set data, to change one of the prohibited state and the allowed state previously set to the other state.
US08582129B2
An apparatus and method present application printing notes for a printer driver. The method can be performed in an electronic device including a network interface. The method can include receiving a print driver request. The method can include obtaining an application identifier corresponding to the print driver request. The application identifier can identify a particular application for a print job. The method can include sending an application printing notes query to an application printing notes repository to access application printing notes corresponding to the application identifier. The method can include displaying information corresponding to the application printing notes.
US08582107B2
A method of detecting a level of anesthesia agent in an anesthesia vaporizer is disclosed. The anesthesia agent forms a column of liquid within an external indicator; the method projects a beam of light into the external indicator. The method further receives the beam of light after the beam of light has traveled through the column of liquid, and detects when the level of anesthesia agent drops below a predetermined level.
US08582106B2
An automatic optical measurement system (100) is provided. The measurement system (100) includes a sample vial (10) and an automatic optical measurement apparatus (90) configured to receive the sample vial (10). The automatic optical measurement apparatus (90) is configured to detect a presence of the sample vial (10) in the automatic optical measurement apparatus (90) and measure a light intensity of light substantially passing through the sample vial (10) if the sample vial (10) is present. The measured light intensity is related to sample material properties of a sample material within the sample vial (10).
US08582097B2
An apparatus for phase detection of Raman scattered light emitted from a sample includes a first polarizer positioned along a first optical path containing a first beam and a second polarizer positioned along a second optical path containing a second beam. The first polarizer and second polarizer polarize the first beam and the second beam in one of mutually perpendicular and mutually parallel first and second directions. The apparatus also includes an optical phase modulator positioned along the second optical path to controllably modulate a phase of the second beam, a beam splitter positioned to join the first beam and the second beam together, and a spectrometer to receive the joined first beam and second beam and to measure a phase shift of the first beam and the second beam.
US08582089B2
A system and method for the detection and identification of explosives and explosive residues using a combination of SWIR, Raman, and LIBS spectroscopy techniques, including imaging. A region of interest may be surveyed to identify a target area, wherein the target area comprises at least one unknown material. This surveying may be accomplished using visible imagery or SWIR imagery. The target area may be interrogated using Raman spectroscopy and LIBS spectroscopy to identify the unknown material. SWIR techniques may also be used to interrogate the target area. Fusion algorithms may also be applied to visible images, SWIR data sets, Raman data sets, and/or LIBS data sets.
US08582088B2
Authentication apparatus (1, 100) and methods which authenticate an item (4, 110) responsive to the detection that a portion of the item has one or more predetermined characteristics, the said predetermined characteristics comprising either or both the thickness of the said portion of the item, and the thickness of one or more layers within the said portion of the item, determined by optically-based thickness measuring apparatus (6, 102-108). The item may be a product and the portion of the item may be a sheet of packaging material. The item may be a security document and the portion of the item may be a sheet of security document substrate.
US08582084B2
Positional information of a movement plane of a wafer stage is measured using an encoder system such as, for example, an X head and a Y head, and the wafer stage is controlled based on the measurement results. At the same time, positional information of the wafer stage is measured using an interferometer system such as, for example, an X interferometer and a Y interferometer. When abnormality of the encoder system is detected or when the wafer stage moves off from a measurement area of the encoder system, drive control is switched to a drive control based on the measurement results of the interferometer system. Accordingly, drive control of the wafer stage can be performed continuously in the entire stroke area, even at the time when abnormality occurs in the encoder system.
US08582077B2
A pellicle is provided that includes a pellicle film, a pellicle frame having the pellicle film stretched over one end face thereof and having the other end face open, and a pressure-sensitive adhesion layer for adhering the pellicle frame to a mask, the pressure-sensitive adhesion layer being provided on an inner peripheral face of the pellicle frame, and the pressure-sensitive adhesion layer being capable of adhering to a side face of a mask having a mask image on a front face. There are also provided a method of mounting a pellicle that includes fixing to a side face of a mask an inner peripheral face of a pellicle frame of a pellicle that includes a pellicle film and a pellicle frame having the pellicle film stretched over one end face thereof and having the other end face open, a method of mounting a pellicle that includes adhering the pellicle to a side face of the mask that is inclined in going from the reverse face of the mask toward the front face where the mask image is provided, thus adhering the side face of the mask to the pellicle frame inner peripheral face, a pellicle-equipped mask that includes the pellicle adhered to a mask, and a mask that includes a side face that is inclined in going toward the front face where a mask image is provided.
US08582075B2
A method for fabricating a liquid crystal display (LCD) device includes preparing a lower substrate and an upper substrate; forming a plurality of seal patterns on any one of the upper and lower substrates, each seal pattern including a main pattern and an injection port pattern, wherein a width of the injection port pattern is smaller than a width of the main pattern; bonding the upper and lower substrates to each other using the plurality of seal patterns; and cutting the bonded upper and lower substrates into a plurality of unit cells.
US08582072B2
A method for manufacturing a display device 10 includes a substrate supporting step for supporting a plastic substrate 19 on a support substrate 50, with the plastic substrate 19 curved, and a thin film lamination step for laminating a plurality of thin films on the plastic substrate 19 supported on the support substrate 50.
US08582053B2
A light exit surface of an illuminating lens has a first light exit surface and a second light exit surface. The first light exit surface is recessed toward a point on the optical axis, and the second light exit surface extends outwardly from the periphery of the first light exit surface. The first light exit surface has a transmissive region and a total reflection region. When the position of a light source on the optical axis is defined as a starting point, the transmissive region transmits light that has been emitted from the starting point at a relatively small angle with respect to the optical axis, and the total reflection region totally reflects light that has been emitted from the starting point at a relatively large angle with respect to the optical axis. A bottom surface that surrounds a light entrance surface and faces oppositely to the light exit surface is provided with a projecting portion or a recessed portion for reflecting light that has been emitted from the light source, totally reflected repeatedly at the light exit surface, and then reached the bottom surface.
US08582049B2
A foldable display apparatus includes a bendable display panel which folds with respect to a folding axis. The display panel includes a plurality of display devices and a window layer. Each of the display devices includes a plurality of pixels each including a plurality of color elements having different colors from each other. A plurality of color elements of a same color is linearly arranged in a direct line direction which is non-parallel to the folding axis. The window layer includes a soft material part including a soft material in a folding part of the display panel, and a protective window part other than the soft material part. The protective window part protects the display part of the plurality of display devices.
US08582033B2
After a sending-side clock and a clock 34 of a communication unit 33 on a receiving side are synchronized with each other, the first vertical synchronizing signal is generated in accordance with the sending-side clock, and movie data 5 representing a movie is generated by generating frame data in accordance with the generated first vertical synchronizing signal. Start time data indicating the time for starting generation of the movie data 5 and the movie data 5 are sent as communication data from the sending side to the communication unit 33. Then, the second vertical synchronizing signal is generated in accordance with the clock 34 of the communication unit 33 and the start time data received as the communication data. The frame data 50 included in the movie data 5 received as the communication data is presented in accordance with the second vertical synchronizing signal.
US08582031B2
System and method of transmission and display of progressive video with hints for interlaced display
Systems and methods that transmit and display progressive video with hints for interlaced display are provided. The systems and methods may find use in, for example, digital video compression systems. In one embodiment, a system or a method encodes video by following the native frame rate of the source material and, if desirable, embeds hint information for interlaced display into the coded bitstream. Presentation times for coded pictures may be generated using the hint information. The hint information may be used or ignored.
US08582029B2
A picture signal processing unit having a first and a second double rate conversion section, a storage section, and a quadruple rate conversion section is provided. The first double rate conversion section inserts a first interpolation frame between a couple of successive original frames to output the original frames and the first interpolation frames. The second double rate conversion section generates a second and a third interpolation frames and allocates the second and the third interpolation frames between the couple of successive original frames to output the second and the third interpolation frames. The storage section stores the original frame and the first to the third interpolation frames. The quadruple rate conversion section sequentially reads out the original frame and the first to the third interpolation frames from the storage section in a quadruple rate to output the original frame and the first to the third interpolation frames.
US08582025B2
An internet-protocol camera device includes a lens module and an image pickup module. The lens module guides light to the image pickup module. The image pickup module includes a metal housing, heat generating electronic devices received in the metal housing, heat sinks received in the metal housing, and heat dissipation plates. The metal housing includes a first inner side surface, a second inner side surface, a third inner side surface and a fourth inner side surface connected end-to-end in that order. The first inner side surface faces the third inner side surface. The second inner side surface faces the fourth inner side surface. The heat sinks are mounted on the corresponding heat generating electronic devices. The heat dissipation plates are mounted on the first inner side surface, the second inner side surface, the third inner side surface and the fourth inner side surface.
US08582018B2
An imaging device includes a detector that repeatedly carries out a series of operation of generating an evaluation value to evaluate the degree of focusing of a position after driving of a lens toward one end part in the drive range of the lens, and detects the evaluation value of a position that is closer to the end part than the position of the evaluation value of the highest degree of focusing and is immediately adjacent or adjacent across a predetermined number of positions to the position of the evaluation value of the highest degree of focusing. The imaging device further includes a drive controller that makes the series of operation be repeatedly carried out toward the other end part in the drive range of the lens, and drives the lens to a position of a degree of focusing not smaller than the detected evaluation value.
US08582017B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present invention a camera system comprising a lens module capable of linear movement in a direction of an optical axis; a drive portion generating for driving force to move said the lens module; a position sensor portion outputting a electrical signal to detect a position of the lens module; a image sensor portion outputting a electrical signal to capture image of a subject through the lens module; a control portion controlling the magnitude of driving force as the result that is judged by discriminating correct position to focus position of the lens module compared to real output and standard output of the position sensor corresponding to focus position of the subject to be detected as to output of the image sensor portion, wherein the control portion is composed of one chip.
US08582014B2
A lens front cap module and an image pickup apparatus having a zooming barrel, a focusing barrel and a lens front cap body. Both zooming barrel and focusing barrel are hollow barrel shaped structures. The focusing barrel is installed in the zooming barrel. An abutting portion is formed on an inner wall of the zooming barrel. The lens front cap body comprises a driving plate and a vane module. The driving plate is installed at an end of the zooming barrel and has a central window aperture. A driving pin is axially extended from the driving plate. The vane module is disposed on a side of the zooming barrel for shielding or unshielding the central window aperture. When the abutting portion abuts the driving pin, the driving pin drives the driving plate to rotate, and to drive the vane module to shield the central window aperture.
US08582006B2
The present invention relates to an imager for improving image quality. The imager includes a pixel array of a plurality of pixels arranged in rows and columns. The imager also includes a color filter array (CFA) including a color pattern of a first color filter allowing a first pixel to detect a first color of light, and a second color filter allowing a second pixel to detect a second color of light and a third color of light. Each of the color filters in the color pattern are included in each row of the pixel array.
US08582003B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging apparatus comprising signal lines to each of which a signal is outputted from each of pixels, a first holding capacitor for holding the signal outputted from each of the signal lines, first CMOS switches arranged between the signal lines and the first holding lines, each of the first CMOS switches including a first NMOS transistor and a first PMOS transistor, a first control line commonly connected to the gates of the first NMOS transistors of the first CMOS switches, and a second control line commonly connected to the gates of the first PMOS transistors of the first CMOS switches, and signals of different timings are supplied to the first control line and the second control line such that a timing of turning off the first NMOS transistor is shifted from a timing of turning off the first PMOS transistor.
US08582000B2
An apparatus and method for capturing an image on an electronic device having a flash comprising a first light source and a second light source is presented herein. A detection of a color spectrum of ambient light is made using image data sensed by an image sensor of a camera module. Additionally, a determination of an intensity of a first light when combined with an associated intensity of a second light results in a color spectrum that substantially matches the color spectrum of the ambient light. The flash emits a first light from the first light source of the flash and second light from the second light source of the flash. An image from a camera module is recorded during the emission of the first and second light.
US08581997B2
Portable communication devices transmit digital images and their location information to a central server. If a particular location is often photographed it can be designated as a hot spot. Thereafter, if a communication device is currently transmitting from within a vicinity of the hot spot, based on the location data received from the communication device, notification data can be transmitted to the communication device for notifying the user of the hot spot. The notification data can include directional information for the user to access on the communication device for enabling the user to find the hot spot.
US08581996B2
This invention provide an imaging device includes: a still image obtaining unit which obtains a plurality of still images; an omnifocal image generation unit which combines the still images, and generates the omnifocal image; a focal position control unit which obtains a focusing position of at least a part of the omnifocal image from height shape data, and controls the focal position so that the focal position of the frame image substantially coincides with the focusing position; a feature quantity extraction unit which extracts feature quantity from the frame image and the omnifocal image or a reference image; a relative position determination unit which determines a relative position between the frame image and the reference image; and a live image display unit which updates a display position of the frame image, and displays a moving picture image on the omnifocal image.
US08581985B2
A merchandise security system includes a display stand for supporting and displaying an article of merchandise, a video imaging device and an actuator operably coupled to the video imaging device for actuating the video imaging device to collect video data in response to a displacement of the article of merchandise relative to the display stand. In exemplary embodiments, the actuator includes a first activation element disposed on a sensor housing configured for attachment to the article of merchandise and a second activation element disposed on the display stand. The first activation element and the second activation element actuate the video imaging device between the inactive state and the active state to collect the video data when the article of merchandise is displaced relative to the display stand. The video imaging device may be a video camera housed within, positioned adjacent to, or integrated with the display stand.
US08581979B2
A system for constructing high resolution images includes a beam splitter assembly, a light intensity modulator, an image capturing module and an image processing module. The beam splitter assembly is utilized to reflect a light beam generated from a light source generating device and generate a splitting beam. The light intensity modulator is utilized to modulate the intensity of the splitting beam to generate a modulating beam, which includes a predetermined noise. The modulating beam is emitted onto an object to generate a modulating image. The image capturing module is utilized to obtain a plurality of modulating images. The image processing module is utilized to analyze the modulating images to generate a high resolution image.
US08581978B2
A geodetic apparatus for performing measurements using a target and a method for controlling the geodetic apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a detector for measuring a position of the target relative to a sighting axis of the apparatus, a light emitter for outputting to an outside of the geodetic apparatus a first cone of light having a first wavelength and a second cone of light having a second wavelength different from the first wavelength, and a controller connected to both the detector and the light emitter. The first cone of light overlaps with the second cone of light at the distance of one meter from the apparatus by at least 30%. The controller is configured to control the light emitter based on the detected position of the target to output at least one of the first cone of light and the second cone of light.
US08581973B2
Provided are an endoscopic diagnosis support method, an endoscopic diagnosis support apparatus, and an endoscopic diagnosis support program, all of which are capable of extracting an image picking up a bleeding region easily and accurately from among a large number of endoscopic images picked up by an endoscope observation apparatus by calculating a tone from a color signal of each of plural image zones obtained by dividing the endoscopic image; and discerning an image zone including a bleeding region by judging a difference among each of the plural image zones based on a tone of the calculated each image zone in the endoscopic diagnosis support apparatus for supporting an endoscopic diagnosis performed based on an endoscopic image picked up by an endoscope observation apparatus.
US08581966B2
A three-dimensional display method is provided in the present disclosure. The three-dimensional display method includes obtaining position information of an observer; and adjusting displaying content of a stereoscopic image according to the position information. A tracking three-dimensional display unit and an image processing device are also provided in the present disclosure. In the present disclosure, three-dimensional displaying contents may be adjusted according to the position information of the observer to introduce movement parallax, so as to achieve mutual effect between the observer and displaying contents, and enhance the sense of reality of three-dimensional displaying.
US08581964B2
Image sensors include three-dimensional (3D) color image sensors having an array of sensor pixels therein. A 3-D color image sensor may include a 3-D image sensor pixel having a plurality of color sensors and a depth sensor therein. The plurality of color sensors may include red, green and blue sensors extending adjacent the depth sensor. A rejection filter is also provided. This rejection filter, which extends opposite a light receiving surface of the 3-D image sensor pixel, is configured to be selectively transparent to visible and near-infrared light relative to far-infrared light. The depth sensor may also include an infrared filter that is selectively transparent to near-infrared light having wavelengths greater than about 700 nm relative to visible light.
US08581962B2
Utilizing two cameras as image sources, and two displays for visual presentation, it is possible to render still or moving pictures that can be viewed stereographically. Using special adapters and techniques, this dual-picture approach allows the viewer to see images in three-dimension space. By following simple set-up procedures and limitations imposed by human vision, three-dimensional images can be produced in any digital or analog media, or combinations of these two. These techniques can be applied to print media as well.
US08581956B2
Methods and systems for communicating each participant's focus of attention in a video conference are described. In one aspect, a method for communicating where each participant's attention is focused in a video conference includes receiving each remote participant's video and audio streams and focus of attention data, based on the remote participant's head location. The at least one remote participant's video streams are presented in separate viewing areas of the local participant's display. The viewing areas presenting the remote participants are modified to indicate to the local participant each remote participant's focus of attention, based on the focus of attention data.
US08581948B2
An information processing apparatus for generating render information of an image includes a storage for storing shape information of strokes forming the image; an information acquiring unit for acquiring the shape information of strokes from the storage; a thickness acquiring unit for acquiring thickness information of the image; a stroke generator for generating a number of parallel strokes that are each parallel to an original stroke, and to specify intervals between the parallel strokes, wherein the number and the intervals correspond to the thickness information; a length adjusting unit for adjusting a length of a first parallel stroke parallel to a first original stroke and/or a length of a second parallel stroke parallel to a second original stroke that is connected to the first original stroke; and a render information generator for registering, in the render information, the shape information of the parallel stroke whose length has been adjusted.
US08581945B2
A light emitting diode array including apertures, a line printer head using the light emitting diode array, and a method of manufacturing the light emitting diode array. The light emitting diode array includes the apertures that are formed in a substrate and restrict tunnels of light emitted from a plurality of light emitting diodes. Also, a lens that refracts the light transmitted through the plurality of apertures is included.
US08581942B2
A backlight unit for a liquid crystal display device includes a reflection plate, a light guide plate over the reflection plate, the light guide plate having n grooves at a lower surface and including (n+1) areas divided by the grooves, wherein n is a natural number, a first LED assembly disposed at a first side surface of the light guide plate, the first LED assembly including (n+1) LED packages, each of which has at least one LED, wherein the LED packages of the first LED assembly correspond to the areas, respectively, and are separately driven, and a plurality of optical sheets over the light guide plate.
US08581941B2
Provided is a backlight device wherein when the drive duty and the drive current are controlled according to a motion, the image quality is improved by preventing flicker caused by the change of the drive waveform. A light-emitting unit (121) comprises a plurality of light-emitting areas. A motion amount detecting unit (131) detects the motion amount of an image in each of a plurality of motion areas each corresponding to at least one or more light-emitting areas. A drive condition specifying unit specifies a drive condition including the duty and pulse height value of a drive pulse for causing each of the plurality of light-emitting areas to emit light, on the basis of the detected motion amount. A drive unit drives each of the plurality of light-emitting areas according to the specified drive condition. The drive condition specifying unit adjusts the drive condition such that the drive condition temporally smoothly changes.
US08581936B2
An apparatus generates display data on a display unit. An image constructing unit constructs an image of an image list including a plurality of images each corresponding to an image data file. A data output unit outputs first display data of the image list, and then, when a switching command is received from a user, outputs second display data of the image list in response to the switching command. A confirmation calculating unit calculates a degree of confirmation indicating whether a user confirmation is performed for each of the images in the image list. An image modifying unit modifies the images in the image list based on the degree of confirmation.
US08581930B2
A method for automatically producing video cartoons with user-provided faces superimposed on cartoon characters is presented. A cartoon template stores the original video cartoon with unanimously-colored backgrounds and original cartoon characters' faces drawn following the guidelines of the invention. A background detection algorithm is used to detect the unanimously-colored backgrounds, while a face detection algorithm is used to detect the facial colors, facial expressions, sizes, rotations, positions and clippings of the original cartoon characters' faces. The detected unanimously-colored backgrounds may be replaced by optional user-provided backgrounds. User-provided faces with the best matching user-specified facial colors and expressions are superimposed over and on top of the corresponding original faces of the cartoon characters at the detected sizes, rotations, positions and clippings to produce the final video cartoon. The cartoon template can be distributed to many different users. Different users can add different user-provided faces, background images and audio to the same cartoon template to produce many different final video cartoons.
US08581928B2
An image processing apparatus includes a display, a retrieving unit, a process display unit, a process receiving unit, a process storing unit, a thumbnail display unit, and a thumbnail designating unit. The retrieving unit retrieves image data. The process display unit displays on the display a plurality of candidate image processes to be performed on the image data. The process receiving unit receives an instruction indicating a selected image process selected from among the plurality of candidate image processes. The process storing unit stores the selected image process. The thumbnail display unit displays a thumbnail image corresponding to the image data on the display. The thumbnail designating unit designates a thumbnail image. The thumbnail display unit displays a processed thumbnail image that represents a result of the selected process performed on the image data corresponding to the designated thumbnail image.
US08581927B2
Systems and methods for multidimensional particle analysis data cluster mapping and reconstruction are provided. In one embodiment, a method for reconstructing multidimensional particle analysis data clusters is provided. The method includes obtaining a set of segmented two-dimensional projections corresponding to multidimensional particle analysis data associated with a biological sample of particles. Each segmented two-dimensional projection has two-dimensional clusters associated with particle populations in the biological sample. The method also includes reconstructing one or more multidimensional clusters based on the two-dimensional clusters in the segmented two-dimensional projections.
US08581925B2
A data correcting method is disclosed to implement an optimum picture quality according to surrounding conditions. The data correcting method includes: converting the input data into XYZ color space data; converting the XYZ color space data into JCh color space data by applying a reference illuminance parameter to a CIECAM02 forward algorithm; inversely converting the JCh color space data into the XYZ color space data by the illuminance by sequentially applying a plurality of illuminance parameters different from the reference illuminance, to a CIECAM02 backward algorithm; inversely converting the inversely converted XYZ color space data into an RGB color space to produce correction data of each illuminance; and making a look-up table by mapping the produced correction data of each illuminance to the input data.
US08581922B2
There are provided systems and methods for tinting an image by monochromatic tinting using saturation maps for use by an application providing a user interface supporting customizable tinted images. By using saturation map and a monochromatic value map derived from the image and configuring the saturation map to specify areas for tinting, a tint color can be applied to the image by a series of quickly processed arithmetic calculations. This provides a lightweight and high quality method for tinting images within an application without wasting unnecessary network bandwidth or processor resources. Furthermore, the method can be adapted to apply multiple tint colors for multiple tints or use an alpha channel to restore color information lost due to the monochromatic value map. The resulting tinted image can also be used as a texture for a three-dimensional rendering engine.
US08581919B2
A display controller is provided. The display controller includes an external memory and a timing controller which compresses current frame data to generate front first in-first out (FIFO) input data, temporarily stores the front FIFO input data and writes the front FIFO input data to the external memory in a burst mode, and reads data from the external memory in the burst mode, temporarily stores the read data as back FIFO output data, and decodes the back FIFO output data to output previous frame data.
US08581916B2
Embodiments provide techniques for the analysis of graphics applications. For instance, an apparatus may include a graphics application program interface (API), a graphics engine, and a graphics analysis tool. The graphics analysis tool may receive multiple draw calls issued to the graphics API, and arrange the draw calls into multiple sequences, each sequence corresponding to a particular render target. From this information various analysis tasks may be performed. For instance, overdraw images may be generated. Such overdraw images may be enhanced to improve their dynamic range. Also, pixel histories may be generated based on corresponding pixel selections. The effect of draw calls on selected pixels may also be determined. Further, such tasks may be performed on a per render target basis.
US08581901B2
Methods and apparatus for interactively rotating three-dimensional (3D) objects using multitouch gestures. To perform a roll gesture, multiple touch points are detected on a multitouch-enabled device. The touch points are associated with, or select, a 3D object displayed on the device. The centroid of the touch points is computed, and motion of the centroid, resulting from motion of the touch points, is tracked. When motion of the centroid is detected, a displacement is obtained, and the displacement is mapped to a rotation transformation. The 3D object may then be rotated according to the rotation transformation, and a 2D projection of the rotated 3D object is displayed. If the number of touch points changes, rotation may be reset without rotating the object. Alternatively, displacement from the previous centroid to the new centroid is determined and the object is rotated accordingly.
US08581900B2
Various embodiments provide a global approach for computing transitions between captured runs through an intersection. In accordance with one or more embodiments, a transition algorithm receives as input various runs that have been captured through an intersection and an input path through the intersection. The transition algorithm processes its inputs and provides, as an output, a set of points and data such as a direction associated with each of the points. The set of points includes points from different captured runs. The output set of points and associated data indicate which images to obtain from a database and which field of view to create a simulated turn for the user.
US08581899B2
A display medium includes a pair of substrates, a dispersion medium sealed between the pair of substrates, a migrating particle group dispersed in the dispersion medium, and a surface layer provided on at least one of the facing surfaces of the pair of substrates and including a polymer compound that is a copolymer containing the following constitutional unit (A) and constitutional unit (B), X represents a group containing a silicone chain, Ra1 and Ra2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Rb2 represents an organic group containing a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, n1 and n2 each represent mol % of the constitutional unit relative to the whole copolymer and satisfy 0
US08581894B2
An output circuit includes a differential amplifier circuit, an output amplifier circuit, a control circuit. The third power supply voltage is intermediate between the first and second power supply voltages. The differential amplifier circuit includes, between the first and second power supplies, a differential input stage, first and second current mirror and first and second junction circuits. The output amplifier circuit includes first and second transistors connected between the first and third power supplies. The control circuit includes a third transistor connected between the output of the second current mirror and an end of the second junction circuit and supplied with a bias signal having a voltage in accordance with the third power supply voltage.
US08581890B2
In a liquid crystal display, a flat display and a gate driving method thereof, the flat display comprises first and second pixel rows, first to third gate lines and a gate driving circuit. The first gate line is for determining whether to turn on a portion of pixels in the first pixel row, the second gate line is for determining whether to turn on another portion of pixels in the first pixel row, and the third gate line is for determining whether to turn on a portion of the pixels in the second pixel row. The gate driving circuit is for providing first to third gate driving pulses to the first to third gate lines. The first and second gate driving pulses do not overlap with each other, and the third gate driving pulse partially overlaps with one of the first and second gate driving pulses.
US08581882B2
A touch panel display device includes a liquid crystal panel to display an image by regulating transmittance of light supplied from a back light unit, and a touch sensing part provided on upper edges of the liquid crystal panel in order to detect a position touched by a user or an object. The touch sensing part includes infrared lamps to generate and emit infrared light, infrared light reflecting tubes mounted with the infrared lamps, and image sensors to sense the infrared light output from the light output regions of the infrared light reflecting tubes. Each of the infrared light reflecting tubes has light output regions and non-output regions evenly formed at a surface facing an upper surface of the liquid crystal panel so that the infrared light emitted from the infrared lamps is evenly irradiated on the upper surface of the liquid crystal panel.
US08581879B2
Negative pixel compensation in a touch sensor panel is disclosed. A method can compensate for a negative pixel effect in touch signal outputs due to poor grounding of an object touching the panel. To do so, the method can include determining at least one bound for a negative pixel compensation factor based on touch signal values, estimating the compensation factor within the determined bound based on the touch signal values that are negative, where the negative values indicate the presence of the negative pixel effect, and applying the estimated compensation factor to the touch signal outputs to compensate the touch signal values for the negative pixel effect.
US08581867B2
A touch sensor device is provided. The touch sensor device includes a touch panel including a plurality of touch mark-keys indicating a position touched by a touch object, a plurality of first touch pads disposed at positions corresponding to the plurality of touch mark-keys of the touch panel and generating touch information of the touch object as a first electrical signal, a plurality of second touch pads disposed between the plurality of first touch pads and generating touch information of a conductive material on the touch object as a second electrical signal, and a touch sensing unit receiving the first electrical signal, outputting a plurality of sensing signals to allow an electronic device to perform predetermined operations corresponding to the touched touch mark-keys, and determining whether the touch of the touch object is a normal one using the first and second electrical signals.
US08581853B2
A method for using a slider-based capacitive sensor to implement a user interface having discrete buttons. Button locations are designated on a slider-based capacitive sensor having at least two conductive traces such that a user input at any button location results in a capacitance change in the conductive traces. Locations of inputs are distinguishable by ratios between the capacitance changes of the conductive traces, which can be correlated to a particular button location. Ratio ranges corresponding to areas covered by each button are used to identify which button has received an input.
US08581847B2
The present invention discloses a hybrid pointing device including an optical navigation module and a pointing module. The optical navigation module is configured to replace the conventional buttons of a convention pointing device, such as an optical mouse or a trackball mouse. The optical navigation module is configured to sense gestures of at least one object operated by a user to activate commands associated with particular programs running on the host. Since the optical navigation module is only configured to sense gestures of the object but not the movement of the hybrid pointing device relative to a surface, the resolution thereof is aimed to be sufficiently high enough for sensing gestures and no need to be relatively high.
US08581829B2
Exemplary backlight driving method and display device are provided. The display device includes a light source array. The light source array includes a first group of light-emitting rows and a second group of light-emitting rows. The backlight driving method includes the steps of: firstly, receiving a gate driving frequency of the display device; subsequently, generating a backlight driving frequency according to the gate driving frequency; and afterwards, sequentially providing a first row driving voltage to the first group of light-emitting rows in a first time period and sequentially providing a second row driving voltage to the second group of light-emitting rows in a second time period, according to the backlight driving frequency. The first time period and the second time period have different phases from each other, and the gate driving frequency is different from the backlight driving frequency.
US08581825B2
A driving circuit for a flat panel display device includes a generation unit for generating n-phase form generation clocks; and a plurality of shift register stages for sequentially generating a plurality gate signals to a plurality of gate lines using the n-phase form generation clocks, one of the shift register stage including first and second output terminals for outputting first and second switching signals, respectively, using an output signal of one of the preceding shift register stages and an output signal of one of the subsequent shift register stages; a first transistor connected to the first output terminal for receiving one of the n-phase form generation clocks; and a second transistor connected to the second output terminal and the first transistor, wherein each gate line is connected to a node between the first and second transistors.
US08581822B2
A method for driving a liquid crystal display device provides sufficient charge time for a pixel unit by adjusting a main-charge time and a precharge time of the pixel unit according to the polarities of data driving signals applied during a main-charge period and a precharge period. Meanwhile, the method controls a write period during which a data driving signal is written into a pixel unit, so that each pixel unit can be equally charged.
US08581818B2
To increase the frequency of input of image signals, a pixel portion of a liquid crystal display device is divided into a plurality of regions, and input of image signals is controlled in each of the plurality of regions. As a result, a plurality of scan lines can be selected at the same time in the liquid crystal display device. That is, in the liquid crystal display device, image signals can be simultaneously supplied to pixels placed in a plurality of rows, among pixels arranged in matrix. Thus, the frequency of input of an image signal to each pixel can be increased without change in response speed of a transistor or the like included in the liquid crystal display device.
US08581812B2
An organic light emitting display device includes a display region including first sub-pixels, second sub-pixels and third sub-pixels at crossing regions of scan lines and data lines and arranged in a repeating pattern, the first, second and third sub-pixels for emitting light of different colors, a scan driver for supplying scan signals to the scan lines; a data driver for supplying data signals to the data lines; and a data distributor between the data driver and the data lines for distributing the data signals from output lines of the data driver to the data lines. Ones of the first and second sub-pixels are alternately arranged in a first column, and ones of the third sub-pixels are arranged in a second column adjacent to the first column.
US08581810B2
The present invention relates to circuits and methods for controlling one or more LEDs or LED drivers. The circuit comprises a programmable decentralized controller coupled to one or more detectors, wherein the one or more detectors are configured to detect one or more measurable parameters of one or more LEDs or LED drivers. The controller is configured to receive information from the one or more detectors related to the one or more measurable parameters. The controller is also configured to adjust one or more controllable parameters until one or more detectors indicate that one or more measurable parameters in one of the LEDs or LED drivers meet a reference condition. The controller is configured to then set one or more of the controllable parameters to operate at a value relative to the value of the controllable parameters at which the reference condition was met.
US08581808B2
The present invention relates to a method for properly controlling the drive current when driving an Active Matrix OLED (AMOLED) in order to prevent the brightness from being changed due to temperature changes in a panel or the performance deterioration of the OLED. The present invention comprises: an OLED (organic light emitting diode) panel that displays an image; pixel driving circuit including: a drive current control unit that outputs a current control signal corresponding to a detected current supplied to the OLED panel; and a comparator that compares the current control signal with a power supply voltage and outputs a bias voltage; and a transistor that receives the power supply voltage and that supplies a drive current to the OLED panel corresponding to the bias voltage.
US08581800B2
A millimeter wave reception device includes a base member, an antenna portion placed on an upper surface of the base member, and a cover arranged above the antenna portion to cover the antenna portion. The antenna portion is arranged within a space formed by the upper surface of the base member and an inner surface of the cover. The cover is formed in a tapered shape, and includes not less than one inclined surface having a constant gradient such that the space becomes narrower at a position closer to an upper portion. An angle formed between the inclined surface of the cover and the upper surface of the base member is not less than 60° and not more than 90°.
US08581799B2
A ground radiation antenna is disclosed. Herein, the ground radiation antenna provides a radiator-forming circuit, which is formed to have a simple structure using a capacitive element, as well as a feeding circuit suitable for the provided radiator-forming circuit. Thus, the structure of the antenna becomes simpler and the size of the antenna becomes smaller. Accordingly, the fabrication process of the antenna is simplified, thereby largely reducing the fabrication cost.
US08581798B2
Disclosed herein is an RFID antenna, including, a dipole antenna pattern, and a matching pattern containing a pair of first pattern parts, each part being discretely and protrusively disposed at one side of the dipole antenna pattern and a second pattern part connecting each distal end of the pair of first pattern parts, wherein a ratio of an inner length of the pair of first pattern parts vs an inner length of the second pattern part is substantially larger than 1:8.
US08581797B2
A portable whip antenna (100) is used to form a parallel wire transmission line (304) and support for a dipole antenna system (900). The portable whip antenna is formed of an elongated monopole radiating element (306) extending from a feed point (114, 202) comprising an RF connector, which can be connected directly to a portable radio transceiver (200). A first flexible conductor extends parallel to and spaced apart from the elongated monopole radiating element of the whip antenna to form the parallel wire transmission line. A first dipole element (512) is formed from a portion of the first flexible conductor extending from a link member in a first direction transverse to a length of the elongated monopole radiating element. A second dipole radiating element (516) is formed of an elongated length of a second flexible conductor (522) extending in a second direction transverse to the elongated monopole radiating element.
US08581795B2
A front feed reflector antenna with a dish reflector has a reflector focal length to reflector diameter ratio of less than 0.25. A wave guide is coupled to a proximal end of the dish reflector, projecting into the dish reflector along a longitudinal axis. A dielectric block is coupled to a distal end of the waveguide and a sub-reflector is coupled to a distal end of the dielectric block. A shield is coupled to the periphery of the dish reflector. The sub-reflector diameter is dimensioned to be 2.5 wavelengths or more of a desired operating frequency.
US08581777B2
In an electronic scanning radar apparatus, a receiving unit includes a plurality of antennas receiving a reflected wave arriving from a target having reflected a transmitted wave as a received wave. A beat signal generating unit generates beat signals from the transmitted wave and the received wave. A frequency resolving unit resolves the beat signals in beat frequencies having a predetermined frequency bandwidth and calculates complex data based on the resolved beat signals for each beat frequency. An azimuth calculating unit estimates an order of a normal equation used to calculate a DOA of the received wave on the basis of eigenvalues of a primary order matrix having complex data calculated from the beat signals as elements, creates a secondary order normal equation based on the estimated order, and calculates the DOA of the received wave based on the created secondary order normal equation.
US08581775B2
A method for determining a target angle. Optical frequency or radio frequency energy is received through a pair of fixed, foreshortened, and opposing subwavelength apertures in a lensing system. A lens of the lensing system positions at least one of the pair of fixed, foreshortened, and opposing subwavelength apertures and includes a dielectric medium, and a substrate encased in the dielectric medium and defining at least one of the pair of fixed, foreshortened, and opposing subwavelength apertures. A target angle is determined from a steep change of amplitude versus angle presented by the pair of fixed, foreshortened, and opposing subwavelength aperture's beamwidth from the received optical frequency or radio frequency energy.
US08581768B1
Provided is, among other things, an apparatus that includes an input line for accepting an input signal that is continuous in time and continuously variable. Multiple processing branches are coupled to the input line, each including: (a) an analog bandpass filter, (b) a sampling/quantization circuit coupled to an output of the analog bandpass filter, and (c) a digital bandpass filter coupled to an output of the sampling/quantization circuit. An adder is coupled to outputs of the processing branches. The digital bandpass filters in different ones of the processing branches have frequency response bandwidths that are centered at different frequencies, and the analog bandpass filters in different ones of the processing branches have frequency responses with bandwidths that are at least 25% greater than the frequency response bandwidths of the digital bandpass filters in their respective processing branches.
US08581761B1
Electronic devices may include image sensors having image sensor pixels. The pixels may be coupled to analog to digital converter (ADC) circuitry. The ADC may include a hybrid successive approximation register (SAR) ADC and ramp-compare ADC. The ramp-compare ADC may be controlled by count bits. The hybrid ADC may be subject to non-idealities at the transition between data conversion using the SAR ADC and the ramp-compare ADC. A voltage offset may be injected to the ramp-compare ADC to compensate for voltage glitches. The ramp-compare ADC may have an output range that is insufficiently matched to a least significant bit of the SAR ADC. An error correction bit may be added to the count bits to increase the output range of the ramp-compare ADC to match the SAR least significant bit. The ramp-compare ADC may include gain control circuitry to further match the output range to the SAR least significant bit.
US08581758B2
A semiconductor device includes a multiplexer and an output buffer. The multiplexer includes: n switches (n is an integer of 2 or greater) each including an input node receiving a different data signal and an output node coupled to an input node of the output buffer; and a plurality of switch control circuits each corresponding to a respective one of the n switches. Each of the plurality of switch control circuits turns on a corresponding one of the n switches based on a corresponding one of the signals each having a first cycle and a phase different by 1/n of the cycle from adjacent phases. When each of the plurality of switch control circuits detects that an input-side data signal of the corresponding one of the n switches appears at a corresponding output-side node, each of the plurality of switch control circuits turns off the corresponding switch. The multiplexer converts data, which is inputted in parallel to the n switches and which changes in the first cycle, into serial data that changes in 1/n of the first cycle and outputs the serial data via the output buffer.
US08581757B2
The invention relates to a method for the vector quantization of a feature vector, in particular with respect to a data compression of a signal to be transmitted or to be stored, particularly a voice signal or a video signal, wherein at least one codebook from a plurality of codebook vectors is searched for a code vector representing the feature vector. During the search, a sequence of codebook vectors is examined for the suitability thereof to represent the feature vector. In the course of the search for the code vector, a set of neighboring vectors is dedicated to at least one of the codebook vectors potentially to be examined, preferably prior to the search. The search for the code vector includes at least part of the neighboring vectors.
US08581755B2
A data encoding scheme for transmission of data from one circuit to another circuit considers the Hamming Weight of combined multiple words to determine whether to invert or not invert an individual word to be transmitted. The multi-word data encoding scheme performs DBI encoding with data inversion conducted based on the total HW in the combined multiple words. The decision to invert or not invert each of the multiple words is made based on the sum of the individual Hamming Weights of each of the words. Such encoding has the advantage that SSO noise is dramatically reduced when the encoded data has a large number of words transmitted from one circuit to another circuit over a wide parallel bus.
US08581750B2
A data input system is provided which comprises a processor, and a key array coupled to said processor, wherein said key array comprising at least one soft-key, at least one multi-directional pointing key for navigate a cursor and a conventional 3×4 telephone soft-key array for data selections; wherein said at least one soft-key includes a “backspace” key to delete a prior input data, a “space” key to add a space after said prior input data, or a “List/Fix” key to display a list of letter on a display for user to fix or list ambiguous letter/word presented by an input string.
US08581748B1
A present novel and non-trivial system, device, and method are disclosed for generating an ILS-based highway-in-the-sky (“HITS”). The system is comprised of an image data generator configured to receive navigation data, ILS deviation data, and navigation reference data from applicable data sources, where the navigation data is representative of ownship position, the ILS deviation data is representative of localizer and glide slope deviation, and navigation reference data is representative of data corresponding to an ILS approach of a runway; determine two instantaneous waypoints as a function of the received data; generate image data representative of a HITS, where the proximal and distal ends of the HITS are based upon the two instantaneous waypoints; and provide the image data to a display unit, whereby the HITS is presented on the screen of a display unit.
US08581745B2
A device for detecting a vehicle passing by a vehicle in the dark. A camera detects a light cone that is moving at a lateral offset relative to the vehicle. An analyzer device assigns the relatively moving light cone to the passing vehicle.
US08581744B2
A driver alert apparatus and related systems. The driver alert apparatus includes a controller and a wireless receiver connected to the controller and configured to receive data from a transmitter. The driver alert apparatus includes an at least partially transparent packaging containing the controller and receiver. The driver alert apparatus includes a speaker and visual indicator connected to be controlled by the controller, such that the speaker and visual indicator are controllably activated by the controller based on the received data.
US08581737B2
A security system comprises a system control panel for arming and disarming the security system. A door sensing unit comprises a first radio frequency (RF) transceiver interconnected with the system control panel over a network. The first RF transceiver is mounted proximate to a door that defines at least a portion of a perimeter around an area to be monitored by the security system. The first RF transceiver has an RF detection field proximate to the door. A disarm device comprises a second RF transceiver that automatically transmits a disarm device packet. The first RF transceiver receives the disarm device packet when the second RF transceiver is within the RF detection field. The first RF transceiver sends a disarm message to the system control panel over the network to disarm the security system based on at least the disarm device packet.
US08581735B2
The disclosure is directed at a system and method for preparing a device for power loss when the presence of a component cover is not sensed. The system includes a component cover with a detection portion; a sensor adapted to detect the presence of the detection portion in the component cover; and a processor able to receive information from the sensor and to prepare the mobile device for power loss.
US08581731B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide an electronic virtual running/walking coach that notifies a person as to how hard the person's feet have been impacting a surface, notifies the person as to whether the person's feet are impacting a surface at a proper relative distance from the body and/or at a proper side-to-side angle, and/or notifies the person as to how much cushioning life remains in a pair of shoes. When the notifications are provided to the person during the running/walking activity, the person can respond by taking immediate actions to adjust the foot placement relative to the body and/or adjust the level of foot impact to an acceptable level by varying the speed, step distance, and/or posture while running/walking and/or by selecting among different available surfaces on which to run/walk. A person may also more accurately determine when a particular pair of shoes should be replaced because they no longer provide a sufficient level of cushioning to compensate for the levels of foot impact that are occurring.
US08581729B2
A system and method are disclosed for transporting deterministic traffic in a gigabit passive optical network. A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, an Optical Line Termination (OLT) for exchanging data traffic in a Gigabit Passive Optical Network (GPON) having a controller programmed to generate a timeslot schedule for transport of a desired bandwidth of constant bit rate (CBR) data traffic by selecting one or more timeslots from periodic frame clusters operating according to a GPON Transmission Convergence (GTC) protocol. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US08581725B2
Position change sensing apparatus including at least one audio signal transducer for emitting audio signals and receiving audio signals and computer software embodied in a medium readable by the apparatus and having anti-theft functionality including learning functionality and theft-prevention functionality.
US08581723B2
A system for communicating information between a detection device and a wireless device is provided. The system generally includes a detection device adapted to monitor a condition related to a power system. A radio interface unit is in communication with the detection device via a communication member. A wireless device is further provided which is in radio communication with the radio interface unit such that the detection device communicates information to the wireless device through a radio interface unit. The system's components are further adapted to endure harsh conditions (e.g., prolonged exposure to water).
US08581719B2
An exemplary sunroof for mounting in a vehicle roof is provided. The sunroof includes a panel and a warning apparatus. The sunroof includes a first bottom surface for facing toward an inside of the vehicle. The warning apparatus includes a PCB attached to the panel, and a warning unit mounted on the first bottom surface and electrically connected to the PCB. The warning unit is configured to send an emergency alert signal when the panel is raised up to be substantially perpendicular to the vehicle roof. A vehicle includes the sunroof is also provided.
US08581713B1
A geo-fence is defined and established automatically based on a current location of an asset along with some range or distance, avoiding the need for a user to manually specify a location by drawing a perimeter, specifying a point location, or by any other means. Once established, the geo-fence can be activated so as to notify the owner of the asset and/or some other entity of movement of the asset beyond the boundary specified by the geo-fence. In one embodiment, the geo-fence can be automatically activated upon certain conditions, or can be manually activated, or any combination thereof.
US08581707B2
Systems for identifying and categorizing distributed devices, e.g., lighting fixtures and thermostats, is disclosed. In an embodiment, a user (200) sends a low power discovery message to devices (201) using a portable programming tool (100). The devices (201) within range respond with identification information. The portable programming tool (100) organizes the responses by proximity and sends a “flash” message to the device with the closest perceived proximity. That device responds with a visual or audible signal (202), allowing the user (200) to determine whether that device is the one intended for selection. If so, the user initiates a store routine in which identification information, including category information, is stored in one or more locations, such as, the selected device (201), the portable programming tool (100), and/or a central or local controller (1100). The identification and categorization can, for example, be used to automate load shedding and to reduce energy consumption.
US08581703B2
Methods and apparatuses to secure data transmission in a radio frequency identification (RFID) system against eavesdropping, using multiple communication channels. In one embodiment, a method includes communicating key information and cipher text generated based on the key information, or plain text, using a plurality of different, distinct and separate communication channels connected to an RFID tag.
US08581702B2
A solution for managing information using an identification tag is provided. For example, information relating to an item and/or one or more transfers of the item can be managed using an identification tag associated with the item. The identification tag can store and transmit an item identifier, such as an electronic product code (EPC), corresponding to the item, which can be obtained and stored in a data store. Access information for retrieving the item identifier and identification information for a party to the transfer can be used to generate a custom identifier that can be provided for storage on the identification tag in place of the item identifier. The custom identifier can subsequently be used to acquire information on the item and/or the transfer event.
US08581693B2
A method for passenger flow is described. A boarding pass identifier of a boarding pass is electronically identified at a workstation of one or more first workstations at a first level. Boarding pass information associated with the identified boarding pass identifier is electronically retrieved at the workstation. It is determined, via one or more computers, whether the boarding pass is valid based on the retrieved boarding pass information. If the boarding pass is determined valid, a holder of the boarding pass is directed, via one or more computers, to a queue for one workstation of a plurality of second workstations at a second level based on the retrieved boarding pass information. Each workstation of the second workstations has a different queue arranged before the workstation. If the boarding pass is determined not valid, the boarding pass holder is directed away from entering the queues. A system is also described.
US08581691B2
An apparatus is provided in one example embodiment and includes a locking member configured to be coupled to a case that contacts an electronic component, the locking member being part of a security protocol having a secure mode and a disabled mode. The secure mode restricts access to the electronic component and the disabled mode provides access to the electronic component. A signal receiver is configured to be coupled to the locking member to electronically control the locking member in order to switch between the modes. In more specific embodiments, the signal receiver receives instructions for switching the modes from a remote device configured to be coupled to a network. The remote device receives a password from an end user seeking to switch to one of the modes and the remote device switches between the modes if the password is authenticated.
US08581690B2
An electromechanical lock includes a user interface configured to receive input from a user, the user interface activating operating power for the lock; a memory configured to store access tables, the access tables including information on the keys allowed to open the lock; and an electronic circuitry configured to modify the access tables on the basis of the insertions of an associate master key and an end function key into the lock, the insertion of the associated master key initializing a programming mode and the insertion of an end function key causing the lock to exit the programming mode.
US08581689B2
For synchronization between the wireless communication device of a vehicle and a synchronization device installed on a road in a vehicle network, when the passage of a vehicle is detected, the synchronization device generates and transmits a beacon signal for synchronization. That is, a synchronization signal is transmitted to the wireless communication device of the vehicle only when the vehicle is detected by the synchronization device installed at predetermined intervals on the road.
US08581688B2
Method and system for monitoring coastlines includes arranging sensors proximate the coastline, obtaining data about the coastline via the sensors, analyzing the data to determine the presence of a reportable condition relating to passage of an object proximate the coastline, and transmitting the data or a signal indicative of the analysis, optionally with an identification or location of the sensors, to a monitoring facility. The sensors may be spaced apart from one another along the coastline and programmed to wake-up upon detection of a predetermined condition in order to obtain data. If the location of each sensor is not programmed into the sensor or otherwise known by the monitoring facility, each sensor may be arranged to determine its location so that each sensor provides its location when transmitting data or the signal to the monitoring facility.
US08581687B2
Thermally stable four-terminal resistor (current sensor) is characterized by having the capacity to adjust both resistance and temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR), during manufacturing process. The four-terminal resistor includes 3 or 4 elementary resistors R1-R3 forming a closed loop. Resistor R1 is the principal low-ohmic value resistor. The terminals of resistor R1 serve as “Force” terminals of the four-terminal resistor. Resistors R2, R3 form a voltage divider intended to minimize the TCR of the four-terminal resistor and connected in parallel to resistor R1. The terminals of resistor R3 serve as “Sense” terminals of the four-terminal resistor. Resistor R2 may be split into two resistors: R2a, R2b to simplify the implementation of four-terminal resistor. Elementary resistors R1, R2 must have the same sign of TCR. Target resistance and TCR minimization in four-terminal resistor are reached by adjustment of resistance of the elementary resistors.
US08581686B2
A reflowable thermal fuse includes a conduction element with first and second ends, disposed within a housing. The reflowable thermal fuse also includes an elastic element disposed within the housing and adapted to apply force on the conduction element in an activated state of the reflowable thermal fuse. A restraining element is utilized to secure the elastic element and prevent the elastic element from applying force on the conduction element in an installation state of the reflowable thermal fuse. Application of an activating current through the restraining element causes the restraining element to break and thereby release the elastic element and place the reflowable thermal fuse in the activated state.
US08581678B2
Embodiments of the subject invention relate to a method and apparatus for electromagnetic actuation. Embodiments of an electromagnet actuator in accordance with the subject invention can include a fixed main body and a deformable membrane or displaceable piston-like member. In the case of piston motion, in specific embodiments, the piston can be supported by a corrugated diaphragm or bellows. In various embodiments, all or portions of the electromagnet actuator can be produced using microfabrication techniques. Specific embodiment of the subject invention can incorporate a plurality of magnets providing magnetic flux to a plurality of coil conductor elements so as to provide a plurality of locations that a force is applied to the moveable body portion of the electromagnetic actuator. Specific embodiments can incorporate an array of magnets interdigitated with an array of coil conductor elements, where the arrays can include 2, 5, 10, 20, or more each. Further specific embodiments allow the relative position of the magnetic flux and coil conductor elements to remain substantially the same during the movement of the moveable body by positioning the magnets and coil conductor elements on the moveable body so that the relative position of the magnets and the coil conductor elements on the moveable body do not change with the movement of the moveable body.
US08581677B2
A variable resonator includes a ring-shaped conductor line (2) which is provided on a dielectric substrate (5) and has a circumferential length of a wavelength at a resonance frequency or an integral multiple of the wavelength, and at least two circuit switches (31, 32), wherein the circuit switches (31, 32) have one ends (31) electrically connected to the ring-shaped conductor line (2) and the other ends (32) electrically connected to a ground conductor (4) formed on the dielectric substrate (5), electrical connection/disconnection between the ground conductor (4) and ring-shaped conductor line (2) can be switched, and the one ends (31) of the circuit switches (31, 32) are connected to the ring-shaped conductor line (2) on different portions.
US08581673B2
In a circuit module in which a plurality of non-reciprocal circuit elements, each of which does not have a yoke, are mounted, the occurrence of magnetic coupling between the non-reciprocal circuit elements is significantly reduced and prevented. Core isolators are not arranged such that, in a state in which the direction of magnetic flux and the direction of magnetic flux are the same, the core isolators are aligned in the direction of the magnetic flux. Specifically, the core isolators generate the magnetic flux from left to right. The core isolators are aligned so as to be inclined relative to the magnetic flux. Thus, extension of the magnetic flux through the core isolator in a state of being directed in the same direction as that of the magnetic flux is significantly reduced and prevented.
US08581651B2
Duty cycle based phase interpolators, and methods for implementing duty cycle based phase interpolators are disclosed. One such phase interpolator includes a first pulse width modulator configured to generate a first duty cycle signal, and a second pulse width modulator configured to generate a second duty cycle signal. The phase interpolator further includes a logic unit configured to merge the first duty cycle signal and the second duty cycle signal to produce a periodic digital signal with a controllable phase depending on the first and second duty cycle signals.
US08581648B2
A method includes phase-shifting an output signal of a phase lock loop (PLL) circuit by applying an injection current to an output of a charge pump of a the PLL circuit. A circuit includes: a first phase lock loop (PLL) circuit and a second PLL circuit referenced to a same clock; a phase detector circuit that detects a phase difference between an output signal of the first PLL circuit and an output signal of the second PLL circuit; and an adjustable current source that applies an injection current to at least one of the first PLL circuit and the second PLL circuit based on an output of the phase detector circuit.
US08581642B2
A data transfer circuit includes primary data holding circuits that hold input data according to a first clock pulse signal and output data being held; and secondary data holding circuits that hold the output data of the primary data holding circuits according to a second clock pulse asynchronous to the first clock pulse and output data being held. Pulse signal generator generates a pulse signal synchronous with the second clock pulse signal when a pulse edge of the first clock pulse signal and a pulse edge of the second clock pulse signal occur at different timings and generates a pulse signal having the pulse edge the second clock pulse signal removed therefrom when the pulse edge of the the first clock pulse signal and the pulse edge of the the second clock pulse signal occur at the same timing. The secondary data holding circuits hold the output data of the primary data holding circuits synchronously with the pulse signal generated by the pulse signal generator.
US08581638B2
The present invention provides a high-side driver circuit including a power transistor, the first transistor, the second transistor, the second capacitor, the second diode, a start-up circuit. The start-up circuit is coupled between a resistor and the second capacitor to complete a gate driving circuit. And, the aforementioned resistor can either be the gate resistance of the power transistor or an external resistor. The design of start-up circuit enables the functionality of the bootstrap capacitor of being charged to a designate voltage level. Thus, the depletion-mode transistor can be controlled to turn on/off without a floating voltage source or a negative voltage source.
US08581636B2
Sample-and-hold circuits typically operate at maximum speed when the sampling phase is much shorter than the holding phase. Thus, a device driving the sampling capacitor is disconnected most of the time. Methods and apparatus use the holding phase to store the full charge required by the sampling capacitor to track the amplifier output in at least two “boost” capacitors configured such that when the sampling capacitor is switched to the driver, the boost capacitors are also switched to the driver. Thus, the sampling capacitor is almost instantly charged to the required voltage, and the driver needs to supply only any remaining “error” charge, avoiding delays due to driver output slewing.
US08581633B2
A peak hold circuit includes an input node configured to receive an input waveform, a peak hold component coupled to the input node and configured to sample and hold a peak value of the input waveform at a peak value node, a reset node configured to receive a reset signal, a reset circuit coupled to the peak hold component and the reset node, the reset circuit configured to reset the peak hold value, and a voltage clamp coupled to the input node, the reset circuit, and the reset node, the voltage clamp configured to clamp the input node in response to the reset signal.
US08581632B2
A comparator is provided. The comparator includes a voltage generator, a buffer unit and a threshold control loop. The voltage generator has an output terminal for providing a reference voltage according to a constant current. The buffer unit provides an output signal according to a first input signal and a bias signal. The threshold control loop provides the bias signal to the buffer unit according to a second input signal, so as to regulate a transition threshold of the buffer unit to close to the second input signal. The output signal represents a compare result of the first and second input signals. The buffer unit and the threshold control loop are powered by the reference voltage.
US08581631B2
A sense amplifier according to the present invention for detecting a potential difference of signals input to a first input terminal and a second input terminal, includes a first means for applying voltages corresponding to threshold voltages of first and second transistors to gate-source voltages of the first and second transistors, and a second means for transferring signals input to the first and second input terminals to gates of the first and second transistors. In this case, a threshold variation of the first and second transistors is corrected.
US08581630B2
A signal driver circuit having an adjustable output voltage for a high-logic level output signal. The signal driver circuit includes a signal driver configured to output a first logic level signal having a first voltage and output a second logic level signal having a second voltage according to an input signal. A voltage controlled voltage supply coupled to the signal driver provides the first voltage for the first logic level signal. The magnitude of the first voltage provided by the voltage controlled voltage supply is based on a bias voltage. A bias voltage generator can be coupled to the voltage controlled voltage supply to provide the bias voltage.
US08581629B1
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an analog timing controller and a digital state machine. An input circuit in the digital state machine is configured to receive a plurality of analog input signals, and an analog event circuit is coupled to the analog timing circuit, the glitch filter, and the input circuit. The analog event circuit and input circuit are configured to generate a composite event signal from the analog input signals and by using the analog timing circuit. The glitch filter is configured to receive the composite event signal. A clock generator also is coupled to the glitch filter, wherein the clock generator is configured to generate an aperiodic clock signal. The aperiodic clock signal is configured to be a synchronous clock signal for the digital state machine.
US08581627B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a level shifter circuit having switchable current mirrors that can be selectively activated and deactivated in a complementary manner to translate differential input signals between logic sides (e.g., to translate a differential input signal received at a low-side to a high-side). A latch is connected to outputs of the switchable current mirrors. The latch is configured to receive a translated output signal from an activated current mirror and drive the other output signal to a complementary value. The latch is also configured to provide the translated output signal to a switching element that deactivates (e.g., turns off) the activated switchable current mirror. Storage of the output signals allows for the current mirrors to remain deactivated until a new input signal is provided to the level shifter circuit, thereby allowing for a reduction in the static power consumption of the level shifter.
US08581624B2
A programmable logic region on a programmable integrated circuit may include a first set of look-up tables that receive programmable logic region input signals and a second set of look-up tables that produce programmable logic region output signals. Multiplexer circuitry may be interposed between the first and second sets of look-up tables. The multiplexer circuitry may receive the programmable logic region input signals in parallel with the output signals from the first set of look-up tables and may provide corresponding selected signals to the second set of look-up tables. The programmable logic region input signals may be shared by the first and second sets of look-up tables. Logic circuitry may be coupled to outputs of the first and second sets of look-up tables. The logic circuitry may be configured to logically combine output signals from the first and second sets of look-up tables.
US08581618B1
A system provides for the distribution of intellectual property logic blocks from a source to a user wherein the user may use the logic blocks during development but is prevented from using the block in production without permission. A sensor is connected in parallel with a first signal from the block and in series with a second signal from the block. When activity on the first signal exceeds a predetermined count, the output of the second signal is corrupted. In some embodiments all such sensors are connected to an aggregator which allows all blocks to continue to operate until all of them have exceeded their predetermined activity count. A state machine compares the values of two keys, one stored within the block, to another value stored in the state machine controller, and allows the block to be used in production if the key values coincide.
US08581616B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a circuit board, an electronic component, a first pad formed on the circuit board, a second pad formed on the electronic component, a junction which connects the first pad and the second pad, and a detecting unit. The detecting unit detects an electric characteristic of a connection path that includes the junction and at least one of the first pad and the second pad. An insulator is formed in part of a contact area of at least one of the first pad and the second pad that is in contact with the junction.
US08581615B2
A method for checking alignment accuracy of a thin film transistor includes providing a substrate, forming a first conductive layer on the substrate, performing a first patterning process to form a gate electrode of a thin film transistor and a first terminal and a second terminal of a testing device, forming a first insulating layer covering the first terminal, the second terminal and the gate electrode on the substrate, forming a contact hole substantially corresponding to the first terminal and the second terminal in the first insulating layer, forming a pixel electrode and a connecting electrode of the testing device in the first contact hole, and performing a close/open circuit test. When the first terminal, the connecting electrode and the second terminal construct a close circuit, alignment accuracy is confirmed. When the first terminal, the connecting electrode and the second terminal construct an open circuit, alignment inaccuracy is confirmed.
US08581614B2
A parking-structure test system has motherboards that test memory modules. The motherboards are not stationary but are placed inside movable trays that move along conveyors. An unloader removes tested memory modules from test sockets on the motherboards, and a loader inserts untested memory modules into the motherboards using a robotic arm. A conveyor carries the motherboards from the loader to a parking and testing structure. An elevator raises or lowers the motherboards to different parking levels in the parking and testing structure. The motherboards move from the elevator to test stations on the parking level. A retractable connector from the test station makes contact with a motherboard connector to power up the motherboard, which then tests the memory modules. Test results are communicated from the test station to a host controller, which instructs the loader-unloader to sort the tested memory modules once the motherboard returns via the elevator and conveyors.
US08581609B2
A system and method of conducting a full system test on a non-contact voltage detector while simultaneously shielding the voltage detector's antenna from stray electric fields is disclosed. When a user runs the self-test, an alternating current generator capacitively couples to the antenna through an antenna shielding to detect any breaks in the antenna. The coupled signal is amplified and filtered by the voltage detector's electronics, and triggers an indicator if the voltage detector is fully operative.
US08581603B2
Provided is an occupant classifying device which can detect an occupant sitting on a seat by a change in an electric field between first and second electrodes that is caused by the occupant sitting on the seat. The occupant classifying device includes: a seat for an occupant to sit on; a first electrode disposed in the seat; a second electrode disposed in the seat, spaced apart from the first electrode, and forming an electric field between the first and second electrodes; and a current measuring device for measuring a variation in current value corresponding to changes in the electric field caused by the occupant sitting on the seat.
US08581601B2
A rotation angle sensor with two or more oscillators which comprises, in each case, striplines fixed on a dielectric support, as sensor elements, such that the oscillators are arrayed in a curve, for angle measurement, or they are arrayed in a straight line, for position measurement. One or more actuating elements, for example eddy-current actuating elements, are passed over the curve or the line to cause relative movement. The striplines are shaped so that the one or more actuating elements (B1, B2) cover more than one oscillator.
US08581600B2
Methods and apparatus are provided related to testing electrical connectivity. A sequence of distinct test data signal patterns is issued. The test data signals are propagated by way of respective pathways and electrical connectors. A feedback signal is generated in accordance with a test function for each of the test data signal patterns. A test results message is generated in accordance with the feedback signals, which can include specific diagnostic or identifying information.
US08581584B2
The invention relates to the atomistic functional understanding of the M2 protein from the influenza A virus. This acid-activated selective proton channel has been the subject of numerous conductance, structural, and computational studies. Previously, little was known at the atomic level about the heart of the functional mechanism of this tetrameric protein, a tetrad of HxxxW residues. The structure of the M2 conductance domain in a lipid bilayer is disclosed and displays the defining features of the native protein that have not been attainable from structures solubilized by detergents. A detailed mechanism for acid activation and proton conductance, involving a strong hydrogen bond between two adjacent histidines and specific interactions with the tryptophan gate, is provided and elucidates many observations on the M2 proton conductance.
US08581580B2
Downhole orientation sensing with a nuclear spin gyroscope. A method of sensing orientation of an instrument assembly in a subterranean well can include incorporating an atomic comagnetometer and an optical source into the instrument assembly, and installing the instrument assembly in the well. A downhole orientation sensing system for use in conjunction with a subterranean well can include a downhole instrument assembly positioned in the well, the instrument assembly including an atomic comagnetometer and an optical source which transmits light to the atomic comagnetometer.
US08581575B2
An inductively working sensor for determining the conductivity of a liquid medium. The sensor includes: at least one transmitting circuit, which is designed to deliver an input signal for a transmitting coil, in order to produce in the transmitting coil an alternating electromagnetic field, which causes a ring-shaped electrical current in the liquid medium; at least one receiving circuit, which is designed to evaluate a received signal produced by the ring-shaped electrical current in a receiving coil; a first coil; a second coil, which is arranged at a distance from the first coil; a switching means for switching between a first switch state and a second switch state, wherein, in the first switch state, the first coil, serving as transmitting coil, is coupled with one of the transmitting circuits; and the second coil, serving as receiving coil, is coupled with one of the receiving circuits, and wherein, in the second switch state, the second coil, serving as transmitting coil, is coupled with one of the transmitting circuits, and the first coil, serving as receiving coil, is coupled with one of the receiving circuits.
US08581568B2
A start-up circuit in a switch-mode power converter that employs a Zener diode to provide a reference voltage to reduce the power consumption and the size of the start-up circuit. The start-up circuit also includes a coarse current source and a coarse reference voltage signal generator for producing current and reference voltage for initial startup operation of a bandgap circuit. The reference signal and current from coarse current source and the reference voltage signal generator are subject to large process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variations or susceptible to noise from the power supply, and hence, these signals are used temporarily during start-up and replaced with signals from higher performance components. After bandgap circuit becomes operational, the start-up receives voltage reference signal from the bandgap circuit to more accurately detect undervoltage lockout conditions.
US08581567B2
In a switching regulator, a peak current value of an inductor current iL corresponding to a critical current is obtained by {(Vin−Vout)/Vin×Vout/L×Ts}, where Ts is the frequency of clock signals CLK constituting set pulses generated at predetermined timings by an oscillating circuit 9. Accordingly, by setting a reference voltage VLL as (Vout/L×Ts/rs), the peak current value of the inductor current iL when the load current has decreased is set to be the peak current value of the inductor current iL corresponding to the critical current. Therefore, simply by setting the reference voltage VLL in advance, the peak current of the inductor current iL when the load current has decreased is set to be the peak current value of the inductor current iL corresponding to the critical current.
US08581565B2
A DC/DC converter for use in power supply applications employing multiple parallel-connected converters employs a digital controller referenced to the secondary or output side of an isolation boundary and having non-isolated direct connections to secondary side components. The controller directly monitors output voltage and output current and uses feedback control techniques to precisely control these values in a desired manner. The DC/DC converter can implement so-called “droop” current sharing with increased accuracy arising from the secondary-side digital control, so that a desired balanced sharing of current across multiple converters can be achieved. The converter uses calibration establish accurate set points, and any of a variety of additional functions/features to attain operational goals.
US08581563B2
A power supply device includes a power supply unit and a feedback control unit. The power supply unit is configured for generating an electric potential to be provided to a load. The feedback control unit detects the electric potential and adjusts relevant parameters of the electrical potential to achieve predetermined values. The feedback control unit includes a first feedback circuit and a second feedback circuit electrically connected in series.
US08581555B2
Provided is a secondary battery system including: a battery controller which controls charge and discharge of a secondary battery; a total controller which controls the entire system; an ammeter which detects a charge current and a discharge current of the secondary battery; and a voltmeter which detects a voltage of the secondary battery, in which a direct current resistance of the secondary battery at the time of charge and a direct current resistance of the secondary battery at the time of discharge are obtained on the basis of a current value and a voltage value detected by the ammeter and the voltmeter, to thereby determine a temporary increase in the direct current resistance of the secondary battery caused by charge and discharge with a large current on the basis of a relation between the two obtained direct current resistances. Accordingly, in a secondary battery system used in a hybrid system, a wind power generating system, a photovoltaic power generating system, and the like, the situation where a direct current resistance thereof transitionally (temporarily) increases is simply detected on the basis of the usage situation of a secondary battery, to thereby accurately calculate the deterioration state of the secondary battery and thus enable an appropriate coping process, so that the life of the secondary battery can be extended.
US08581553B2
A system power leveling device includes a bidirectional converter connected to a system bus line providing a electric power to a load from a power source and having a first and a second switching element, a power storage device connected to the bidirectional converter, a first specifying section for specifying a power consumption of the load, a charge-discharge control section for controlling the charge and the discharge of the power storage device by controlling the bidirectional converter based on the power consumption specified at the first specifying section, and a second specifying section specifying a current or an electric power of the charge or the discharge.
US08581552B2
A battery pack including at least one battery cell, a switch, and battery state monitoring circuitry. The battery state monitoring circuitry may be configured to control an ON resistance of the switch to a first ON resistance when the switch is ON and the battery pack is in a stand-by-state and to control the ON resistance to a second ON resistance when the switch is ON and said battery pack is not in said stand-by-state, the first ON resistance greater than the second ON resistance. A cordless electrical device and method consistent with embodiments are also provided.
US08581546B2
Provided is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a power conditioning module. The power conditioning module includes an input that is operable to receive a first power from an aircraft. The power conditioning module includes electronic circuitry that is operable to transform the first power to a second power. The second power is different from the first power and is suitable for charging a portable electronic device. The power conditioning module includes a status indication mechanism that is operable to indicate a status of the power conditioning module.
US08581543B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining a state of charge of a battery. The battery is subjected to a predetermined magnetic field such that the battery and the predetermined magnetic field jointly create a resultant magnetic field. The resultant magnetic field is sensed. The state of charge of the battery is determined based on the resultant magnetic field.
US08581541B2
Motor drives, signal conditioning systems and configurable circuit boards are presented in which diode blocking circuits are provided for contemporaneous opening of programming fuses in multiple programmable impedance circuits using a single configuration input signal during manufacturing and for mitigating interference between impedance circuits during system operation.
US08581532B2
A motor drive and a method in connection with a motor drive including a frequency converter are provided. The motor of the drive is connected to a load, and the motor is controlled with the frequency controller. The method includes the steps of converting changes in electrical quantities of the motor caused by actions affecting the load into observations representing the changes, selecting control symbols on the basis of matching of the sequences of observations with a set of valid patterns, and controlling the converter based on the selected symbols.
US08581528B2
An arrangement for controlling frequency converter modules of an electric drive. In the arrangement, the frequency converter modules are arranged to control alternatively a first motor or several motors having less power than the first motor.
US08581527B2
There is provided a mechanism for converting rotary motion into linear motion in which high positioning accuracy can be obtained in mutual conversion between rotary motion and linear motion. The mechanism includes a plurality of rollers having a roller annular groove member and a pair of thrust bearings, a thrust bearing portion that is convex shaped and is held between the pair of thrust bearings on an outer surface of an end of the roller shaft, a step surface that is disposed on an inner surface of the roller annular groove member and facing to the thrust bearing portion putting one of the pair of thrust bearing in between, a thrust facing member that is in mesh with an inner surface of the roller annular groove member and is facing to the thrust bearing portion putting the other one of the pair of thrust bearing in between.
US08581522B2
The present invention disinfects countertop surfaces using high intensity ultraviolet energy causing photolysis. The light is directed to the working area of an office countertop or the countertop used in food preparation such as in a residential or commercial kitchen. A motion detector provides a mechanism for disabling the light should a pet or individual enter an area during the disinfection process. The device further includes a fluorescent lamp allowing dual functionality wherein the device can provide conventional countertop lighting or disinfection lighting.
US08581516B2
A power processing apparatus includes an input port, an output port, a power transforming module, and a power releasing module. The power transforming module is between the input port and the output port to transform power into predetermined voltage or current. The power transforming module has a capacitor unit connected to LEDs in parallel. The power releasing module has a switch unit to disconnect the resistor unit and the capacitor unit when the power transforming module receives the power, and to connect the resistor unit to the capacitor unit when the power transforming module does not receive the power. Therefore, it may release the residual power to make the LED off in a short time when one turns off the power.
US08581515B2
The present invention relates to a light emitting diode driver that integrates a light emitting diode control function and a power switching control function at a secondary side insulated from a primary side in a power supply circuit, without using a photo coupler to control power switching at the primary side.
US08581506B2
In at least one embodiment of the disclosure, a discharge lamp driving device includes a discharge lamp lighting unit configured to supply power to a discharge lamp while alternately switching a polarity of a voltage applied across two electrodes of the discharge lamp. A controller performs a modulation control of the power in accordance with a power ratio characterized by the power supplied in a polarity switching period. The controller starts the modulation control at a predetermined time after the power supplied to the discharge lamp reaches a predetermined power value.
US08581501B2
Dimming ballasts and methods are presented for powering a plurality of fluorescent lamps in which at most one of the lamps is selectively dimmed while all the remaining lamps are turned on or off according to a dimming level setpoint to allow dimming to match a user's desired lighting level while maintaining high efficiency.
US08581499B2
There is provided a method of determining the state of a signal lamp. The method includes receiving time series data corresponding to an electrical signal used to power a signal lamp. The state of the signal lamp can switch from one of the following states to another of the following states: an on state, an off state, and a flashing state. The method also includes determining the state of the signal lamp, based at least in part on both the time series data and an amplitude value of the electrical signal relative to an amplitude-change threshold value over a determined number of amplitude changes.
US08581497B1
An electronic ballast is provided with circuitry for detecting the removal of one or more lamp filaments across a range of dimming levels, and regulating an output stage including at least first and second pairs of lamp connection output terminals based on a filament connection status. A filament removal sensing circuit is coupled to the output terminal pairs and configured to generate an output voltage representative of a filament connection status with respect to the output terminal pairs. A microcontroller is coupled to receive the output voltage from the filament removal sensing circuit and programmed to determine a rate of change in the output voltage, compare the rate of change in the output voltage to a predetermined threshold value, and disable the output stage when the rate of change in the output voltage exceeds the predetermined threshold value.
US08581494B2
A glow discharge spectrometer discharge lamp includes: a lamp body having a vacuum enclosure connected to pump elements and to injector elements for injecting an inert gas into the enclosure; a hollow cylindrical first electrode of longitudinal axis X-X′; a second electrode for receiving a sample for analysis and for holding the sample facing one end of the cylindrical electrode; electric field generator including an applicator for applying to the terminals of the electrodes an electric field that is continuous, pulsed, radiofrequency, or hybrid, and suitable for generating a glow discharge plasma in the presence of the gas; coupler elements for coupling the discharge lamp to a spectrometer suitable for measuring at least one component of the plasma; and magnetic field generator elements for generating a magnetic field having field lines oriented along the axis X-X′, the magnetic field being uniform in orientation and in intensity over an area of the sample that is not less than the inside area of the hollow cylindrical electrode as projected along the direction X-X′.
US08581485B2
According to one embodiment, an image display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel has a light emitting device; a drive transistor electrically connected to the light emitting device; and a capacitor electrically connected to the drive transistor. A ratio of an area occupied by the drive transistor per one pixel to an area of the one pixel is equal to or more than 0.05.
US08581472B2
A manufacturing method of an ultrasonic probe that has a signal foil made of a copper foil patterned by an additive method is provided. The manufacturing method includes preparing a base material and forming an insulating layer on a surface of the material, patterning the insulating layer by exposure, development, and peeling according to a lithographic technique, forming a cavity reaching an upper surface of the base material in the insulating layer along the patterning, forming a signal foil by performing plating in the cavity in the order of copper plating and solder plating, and demolding the formed signal foil from the cavity.
US08581466B2
An example electric machine includes a stator disposed about an axis having a plurality of slots. The electric machine also includes a plurality of windings each having a first portion and a second portion. At least two of the plurality of windings are at least partially disposed within each of the plurality of slots. At least one of the first portion or second portion of at least one of the plurality of windings of each slot includes a first exposed end with a surface having a plurality of grooves, the surface in contact with a second exposed end of at least one other winding of the same slot. The first exposed end and second exposed end form a joint between the plurality of windings. A braze material is dispersed in a plurality of grooves disposed between the first exposed end and the second exposed end.
US08581462B2
An electric rotary drive is proposed, designed as a bearingless external rotor motor, having a magnetically supported, substantially ring-shaped rotor (3) which is arranged around an inwardly disposed stator (2), wherein an air gap (4) is provided between the rotor (3) and the stator (2), wherein the stator (2) is designed as a bearing and drive stator with which the rotation of the rotor (3) can be driven about an axis of rotation (A) and with which the rotor (3) can be magnetically supported, wherein the rotor (3) is radially supported in an actively magnetic manner in the plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation (A) and is supported axially in the direction of the axis of rotation (A) and against tilting in a passively magnetic manner. The stator (2) has, at least in its marginal region (26), a magnetic height (H1) which is smaller than the magnetic rotor height (H2) of the rotor (3) in its radially inwardly disposed region (36).
US08581460B2
An armature for a rotating electrical machine, including an armature core and a coil wound around the armature core. The segment conductor includes a joint extension portion that extends in the axial direction relative to the armature core from at least one end portion of a conductor edge portion. The coil has an n-layer winding structure and includes an inter-layer joint portion on an axial direction outer side of the armature core. The inter-layer joint portion joining a first and second layer side joint extension portions. At least one of the first and second layer side joint extension portions forming a pair to be joined by the inter-layer joint portion includes an offset bend portion, and the first layer side joint extension portion and the second layer side joint extension portion are joined such that respective joint surfaces thereof oppose each other in a circumferential direction.
US08581453B2
A fan casing, webs, and a motor casing are integrally formed of a resin material by injection molding to configure a fan housing. An electrically grounded electromagnetic noise guard and a bearing holder to which an outer race of a ball bearing are electrically connected by an electrically-conducting path member provided in the fan casing by means of insert molding. Thus, the ball bearing may sufficiently be prevented from suffering electric corrosion in an electric fan of which a fan housing is made of an insulating resin.
US08581451B2
Disclosed is a vibration motor for a portable terminal, including a flat spring; a cylindrical magnetic substance mounted on the flat spring; an annular magnetic substance disposed around the cylindrical magnetic substance mounted on the flat spring; and a coil disposed between the cylindrical magnetic substance and the annular magnetic substance, wherein the magnetic substances perform a linear reciprocal movement by the electromagnetic force generated between the magnetic substances and the coil and by the elastic force of the flat spring as an electric current is applied to the coil. The vibration motor operates at higher resonant frequencies than those of conventional vibration motors, thereby improving the sense of an after-vibration and realizing a delicate haptic feedback function.
US08581448B2
An ECU executes a program including a step of turning on an SMRP and an A-SMRP if an ignition switch is turned on; a step of detecting voltage values VB(1) and VB(2) of running batteries when VH is detected and if VH is higher than 180 V; a step of detecting that SMRP connected to the running battery is welded, if VB(1) is higher than 150 V; and a step of detecting that A-SMRB connected to the running battery is welded, if VB(2) is higher than 150 V.
US08581442B2
An inductively coupled power transfer system has a power pick-up that uses an asymmetrical magnetically permeable core (103, 105, 106, 107). Such cores have been found to provide a significant increase in the output power for given losses and given core volume when transferring power from a primary conductive path (101) to a secondary coil (104) provided on the core.
US08581437B2
A power delivery system includes a rotary transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding and configured to transfer power between stationary coupling elements on a stationary side and rotational coupling elements on a rotational side. The rotational coupling elements share a central axis with the stationary coupling elements, and are adapted to rotate with respect to the stationary coupling elements. The power delivery system includes an isolation transformer that drives the primary winding of the rotary transformer, and a plurality of power inverter stages whose outputs are adapted to be summed and coupled to the rotary transformer. A plurality of output power converters receive transmitted power from the rotary transformer. A plurality of control elements, disposed on the rotating side, are configured to close a feedback loop on desired and actual performance of the output power converters, and to control the power inverter stages.
US08581436B2
An off-mains switch (14) and a control box (15) for electrically adjustable articles of furniture, such as beds, chairs or tables, which automatically interrupt the connection to the power supply when the article of furniture is not adjusted, such that this will not constantly be under the mains voltage. These off-main switches require a multi-part cable which is rigid and thick. In the present structure (14, 15) a single two-part cable (13) is sufficient, as the off-mains switch (14) is configured such that the control signals between control unit/control box (15) and the off-mains switch are transmitted through a mains cable (13). A standard cable having two conductors is then sufficient. This means in turn that standard plugs may be used, and thus that the cable (13) may be connected to the power supply via an ordinary plug. Since, hereby, the off-mains switch may appear as a separate unit, production and logistics are facilitated.
US08581434B2
According to one aspect of the invention, a device for converting kinetic energy of water waves to electrical power includes a turbine structure having multiple blades evenly attached to a first shaft, a first pulley wheel attached to the first shaft, a second pulley wheel attached to a second shaft disposed in parallel with the first shaft, an electricity generator is attached to the second shaft, and a platform is configured to support the turbine structure, the platform having an upper deck and a lower deck coupled to each other via a hinge. The upper deck is tilted from the lower deck via the hinge such that the first shaft is positioned with an inclining angle with respect to the water surface. The inclining angle is configured such that a distance and time for each fin to travel under the water surface between the entry point and exiting point are maximized while being near to the water surface.
US08581422B2
A semiconductor module includes a semiconductor device, a first conductive member, a second conductive member, a cylinder, and a cover. The first conductive member is in contact with a first electrode of the semiconductor device. The second conductive member is in contact with a second electrode of the semiconductor device. The cylinder encompasses the semiconductor device and is fixed to the first conductive member, and a first thread groove is formed on the cylinder. A second thread groove is formed on the cover. The cover is fixed to the cylinder by an engagement of the second thread groove with the first thread groove. The semiconductor device and the second conductive member are fixed by being sandwiched between the first conductive member and the cover. The second conductive member includes a portion extending from inside to outside the cylinder by penetrating an outer peripheral wall of the cylinder.
US08581420B2
An under-bump metallization (UBM) structure in a semiconductor device includes a copper layer, a nickel layer, and a Cu—Ni—Sn intermetallic compound (IMC) layer between the copper layer and the nickel layer.
US08581408B2
One wiring width of upper and lower wiring paths formed facing each other sandwiching an interlayer insulating film is large, and another wiring width is small; and the wiring widths of mutually adjacent wiring paths are formed to be large and small in alternating fashion on the same wiring layer.
US08581402B2
Apparatus and methods for providing a molded chip interposer structure and assembly. A molded chip structure having at least two integrated circuit dies disposed within a mold compound is provided having the die bond pads on the bottom surface; and solder bumps are formed in the openings of a dielectric layer on the bottom surface, the solder bumps forming connections to the bond pads. An interposer having a die side surface and a board side surface is provided having bump lands receiving the solder bumps of the molded chip structure on the die side of the interposer. An underfill layer is formed between the die side of the interposer and the bottom surface of the molded chip structure surrounding the solder bumps. Methods for forming the molded chip interposer structure are disclosed.
US08581392B2
A chip package includes: a substrate; a plurality of conductive connections in contact with the silicon carrier; a silicon carrier in a prefabricated shape disposed above the substrate, the silicon carrier including: a plurality of through silicon vias for providing interconnections through the silicon carrier to the chip stack; liquid microchannels for cooling; a liquid coolant flowing through the microchannels; and an interconnect to one or more chip stacks. The chip package further includes a cooling lid disposed above the chip stack providing additional cooling.
US08581389B2
The present disclosure involves a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a wafer containing an interconnect structure. The interconnect structure includes a plurality of vias and interconnect lines. The semiconductor device includes a first conductive pad disposed over the interconnect structure. The first conductive pad is electrically coupled to the interconnect structure. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of second conductive pads disposed over the interconnect structure. The semiconductor device includes a passivation layer disposed over and at least partially sealing the first and second conductive pads. The semiconductor device includes a conductive terminal that is electrically coupled to the first conductive pad but is not electrically coupled to the second conductive pads.
US08581388B2
A multilayered wiring substrate, comprising: a plurality of first main surface side connecting terminals arranged in a first main surface of a stack structure; and a plurality of second main surface side connecting terminals being arranged in a second main surface of the stack structure; wherein a plurality of conductor layers are alternately formed in a plurality of stacked resin insulation layers and are operably connected to each other through via conductors tapered such that diameters thereof are widened toward the first or the second main surface, wherein a plurality of openings are formed in an exposed outermost resin insulation layer in the second main surface, and terminal outer surfaces of the second main surface side connecting terminals arranged to match with the plurality of the openings are positioned inwardly from an outer main surface of the exposed outermost resin insulation layer, and edges of terminal inner surfaces are rounded.
US08581379B2
A lead frame for a resin-seal type semiconductor device, which includes a semiconductor element having an electrode, a bonding wire connected to the electrode of the semiconductor element, and a sealing resin covering and sealing the semiconductor element and the bonding wire. The lead frame includes a substrate frame, a four-layer plating, and a three-layer plating. The substrate frame include leads, a connection region, which is sealed by the sealing resin and connected to the bonding wire, and an exposed region, which is not sealed by the sealing resin. A four-layer plating is applied to a portion of the substrate frame that is to be connected to the bonding wire and sealed by the sealing resin. A three-layer plating is applied to an exposed region of the substrate frame that is exposed from the sealing resin.
US08581378B2
Terminals (2b, 2c) are divided into two along a common boundary, coatings (10, 11) most suitable for two conductive bonding materials (5, 6) to be used are exposed on the terminals (2b, 2c), the most suitable one of the coatings (10, 11) is selected, and the corresponding conductive bonding material (5, 6) is bonded onto the coating. Thus it is possible to improve the reliability of bonding and easily reduce a bonding resistance while suppressing a decrease in the reliability of a semiconductor element 3.
US08581374B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe semiconductor device packaging techniques and devices that incorporate a heat spreader into the insulating material of a packaged semiconductor device. In one embodiment, a device comprising a semiconductor device is coupled to a substrate, and insulating material covers (i) a portion of the semiconductor device and (ii) a portion of the substrate. The device also comprises a heat spreader embedded in the insulating material and the heat spreader is isolated from the substrate at least in part by the insulating material.
US08581364B2
Provided are resistance memory devices and methods of forming the same. The resistance memory devices include a first electrode and a second electrode on a substrate, a transition metal oxide layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, an electrolyte layer interposed between the second electrode and the transition metal oxide layer, and conductive bridges having one end that is electrically connected to the second electrode on the electrolyte.
US08581360B2
A trench Schottky diode and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A plurality of trenches are formed in A semiconductor substrate. A plurality of doped regions are formed in the semiconductor substrate and under some of the trenches. A gate oxide layer is formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate and the surfaces of the trenches. A polysilicon structure is formed on the gate oxide layer. Then, the polysilicon structure is etched, so that the gate oxide layer within the trenches is covered by the polysilicon structure. Then, a mask layer is formed to cover the polysilicon structure within a part of the trenches and a part of the gate oxide layer, and the semiconductor substrate uncovered by the mask layer is exposed. Afterwards, a metal sputtering layer is formed to cover a part of the surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US08581358B2
A photoelectric conversion device is provided which is capable of improving the light condensation efficiency without substantially decreasing the sensitivity. The photoelectric conversion device has a first pattern provided above an element isolation region formed between adjacent two photoelectric conversion elements, a second pattern provided above the element isolation region and above the first pattern, and microlenses provided above the photoelectric conversion elements with the first and the second patterns provided therebetween. The photoelectric conversion device further has convex-shaped interlayer lenses in optical paths between the photoelectric conversion elements and the microlenses, the peak of each convex shape projecting in the direction from the electro-optical element to the microlens.
US08581356B2
Semiconductor structures with high impedances for use in biasing for applying voltage bias to part of a device. The semiconductor structure comprises a continuous structure having a plurality of regions of a first semiconductor type (n type or p type) material arranged alternately with at least one region of the opposite type. The structure may be formed from polysilicon and may also include a plurality of intrinsic regions arranged between the n and p type regions. The structure forms a composite diode and provides a high impedance.
US08581352B2
Apparatus and methods of forming the apparatus include a dielectric layer containing barium strontium titanium oxide layer, an erbium-doped barium strontium titanium oxide layer, or a combination thereof. Embodiments of methods of fabricating such dielectric layers provide dielectric layers for use in a variety of devices. Embodiments include forming barium strontium titanium oxide film using atomic layer deposition. Embodiments include forming erbium-doped barium strontium titanium oxide film using atomic layer deposition.
US08581332B2
The invention provides a semiconductor device and its manufacturing method in which a memory transistor and a plurality of thin film transistors that have gate insulating films with different thicknesses are fabricated over a substrate. The invention is characterized by the structural difference between the memory transistor and the plurality of thin film transistors. Specifically, the memory transistor and some of the plurality of thin film transistors are provided to have a bottom gate structure while the other thin film transistors are provided to have a top gate structure, which enables the reduction of characteristic defects of the transistor and simplification of its manufacturing process.
US08581319B2
A method for fabricating a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) capacitor includes forming a first electrode layer, forming a catalytic layer on the first electrode layer, optionally annealing the catalytic layer, forming a dielectric layer on the catalytic layer, optionally annealing the dielectric layer, forming a second electrode layer on the dielectric layer, and optionally annealing the capacitor stack. Advantageously, the electrode layers are TiN, the catalytic layer is MoO2−x where x is between 0 and 2, and the physical thickness of the catalytic layer is between about 0.5 nm and about 10 nm, and the dielectric layer is ZrO2.
US08581316B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including, on the same semiconductor substrate, a transistor element, a capacitor, and a resistor. The capacitor is formed on an active region, and the resistor is formed on an element isolation region, both formed of the same polysilicon film. By CMP or etch-back, the surface is ground down while planarizing the surface until a resistor has a desired thickness. Owing to a difference in height between the active region and the element isolation region, a thin resistor and a thick upper electrode of the capacitor are formed to prevent passing through of a contact.
US08581311B1
A semiconductor device and a method for forming the same are provided. The method includes: providing a substrate having a gate structure and first spacers on both sidewalls of the gate structure formed on a top surface of the substrate; forming first openings in the substrate by using the first spacers as a mask, wherein the first openings are located on both sides of the gate structure; forming second openings by etching the first openings with an etching gas, wherein each of the second openings is an expansion of a corresponding one of the first openings toward the gate structure and extends to underneath an adjacent first spacer; and forming epitaxial layers in the first openings and the second openings.
US08581307B1
An image sensor pixel includes a photosensitive element having a first doping type disposed in semiconductor material. A deep extension having the first doping type is disposed beneath and overlapping the photosensitive element in the semiconductor material. A floating diffusion is disposed in the semiconductor material. A transfer gate is disposed over a gate oxide that is disposed over the semiconductor material. The transfer gate is disposed between the photosensitive element and the floating diffusion. The photosensitive element and the deep extension are stacked in the semiconductor material in a “U” shape extending from under the transfer gate.
US08581305B2
A semiconductor memory device according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a dielectric film configured to store information depending on presence or absence of a conductive path therein, and a plurality of electrodes provided to contact a first surface of the dielectric film. The conductive path can be formed between two electrodes arbitrarily selected form the plurality of electrodes. The conductive path has a rectifying property of allowing a current to flow more easily in a first direction connecting arbitrary two electrodes than in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The largest possible number of the conductive paths that may be formed is larger than the number of the plurality of electrodes.
US08581297B2
A method of manufacturing an organic EL display unit and an organic EL display unit capable of improving light emitting efficiency and life of blue are provided. A hole injection layer are formed on a lower electrode. For a red organic EL device and a green organic EL device, a hole transport layer, a red light emitting layer, and a green light emitting layer made of a polymer material are formed. A hole transport layer made of a low molecular material is formed on the hole injection layer of a blue organic EL device. A blue light emitting layer made of a low molecular material is formed on the red light emitting layer, the green light emitting layer, and the hole transport layer for the blue organic EL device. An electron transport layer, an electron injection layer, and an upper electrode are sequentially formed on the blue light emitting layer.
US08581292B2
The invention relates to a light emitting diode device comprising a light emitting diode arrangement comprising a flexible substrate (103) having an inner surface and an outer surface, and a light emitting diode (101) arranged on the inner surface of the flexible substrate (103) and a shape element (105, 107) at least partly covering the outer surface of the flexible substrate (103) and a surface of the light emitting diode (101) so as to at least partly sandwich the light emitting diode arrangement, the shape element (105, 107) being formed to determine a shape of the light emitting diode arrangement.
US08581291B2
Provided is an optical semiconductor device includes: a light-emitting layer having a first main surface, a second main surface opposed to the first main surface, a first electrode and a second electrode which are formed on the second main surface; a fluorescent layer provided on the first main surface; a light-transmissive layer provided on the fluorescent layer and made of a light-transmissive inorganic material; a first metal post provided on the first electrode; a second metal post provided on the second electrode; a sealing layer provided on the second main surface so as to seal in the first and second metal posts with one ends of the respective first and second metal posts exposed; a first metal layer provided on the exposed end of the first metal post; and a second metal layer provided on the exposed end of the second metal post.
US08581288B2
A light-emitting diode includes a carrier having a mounting surface; at least one light-emitting diode chip fixed to the mounting surface; and a reflective element provided for reflecting electromagnetic radiation, wherein the reflecting element is fixed to the carrier and includes porous polytetrafluoroethylene.
US08581285B2
The present invention is directed to the provision of a semiconductor light-emitting element that has an electrode formed with a desired thickness using a plated metal layer. A semiconductor light-emitting element for flip-chip mounting on a circuit substrate includes a semiconductor layer including a light-emitting layer, an N-side bump electrode for connecting the semiconductor layer to the circuit substrate, and a P-type bump electrode for connecting the semiconductor layer to the circuit substrate, wherein the N-side bump electrode and the P-type bump electrode each include an under-bump metal layer and a plated metal layer, the under-bump metal layer includes a high-reflectivity metal layer disposed on a side that faces the semiconductor layer and a metal layer disposed on a side opposite from the semiconductor layer, and the plated metal layer has a thickness not less than 3 μm but not greater than 30 μm.
US08581280B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor chip (1) having a semiconductor layer sequence (2), which comprises an active region (3) suitable for generating radiation and has a lateral main extension direction. The semiconductor layer sequence is arranged by a substrate (4) having a side surface (17), the side surface has a side surface region (18) that is beveled with respect to the main extension direction, and/or a cutout (21), and the semiconductor chip has a radiation-transmissive and electrically conductive contact layer (5).
US08581275B2
Disclosed herein is an organic EL display device in which pixels each including an organic EL element formed by interposing an organic layer between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode are arranged in a matrix, the organic EL display device including: a common layer configured to be included in the organic EL element and be formed in the organic layer in common to the pixels; and a metal interconnect configured to surround periphery of the anode electrode and be electrically connected to the organic layer, wherein potential of the metal interconnect is set to a potential lower than potential of the anode electrode in a non-light-emission state of the organic EL element.
US08581272B2
A nanopatterned surface is prepared by forming a block copolymer film on a miscut crystalline substrate, annealing the block copolymer film, then reconstructing the surface of the annealed block copolymer film. The method creates a well-ordered array of voids in the block copolymer film that is maintained over a large area. The nanopatterned block copolymer films can be used in a variety of different applications, including the fabrication of high density data storage media.
US08581271B2
At least one of the pixels has a first region and a second region that are the same in color but different in viewing angle characteristic, and includes a switching circuit configured to independently turn on or off each of the organic EL elements provided in the respective first and second regions.
US08581262B2
The present invention relates to compositions comprising functionalized or un-functionalized multi cyclic hydrocarbons and functional organic compounds, which can be used in different electronic devices. The invention further relates to an electronic device comprising one or more organic functional layers, wherein at least one of the layers comprises at least one functionalized or un-functionalized multi cyclic hydrocarbon. Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a formulation comprising functionalized or un-functionalized multi cyclic hydrocarbons, from which a thin layer comprising at least one functionalized or un-functionalized multi cyclic hydrocarbon can be formed.
US08581261B2
Two layers of protection films are formed such that a sheet resistance at a portion directly below the protection film is higher than that at a portion directly below the protection film. The protection films are formed, for example, of SiN film, as insulating films. The protection film is formed to be higher, for instance, in hydrogen concentration than the protection film so that the protection film is higher in refractive index the protection film. The protection film is formed to cover a gate electrode and extend to the vicinity of the gate electrode on an electron supplying layer. The protection film is formed on the entire surface to cover the protection film. According to this configuration, the gate leakage is significantly reduced by a relatively simple configuration to realize a highly-reliable compound semiconductor device achieving high voltage operation, high withstand voltage, and high output.
US08581255B2
A pixel structure includes a first electrode on a substrate, a first insulation layer covering the first electrode, a gate located on the first insulation layer, a second electrode located on the first insulation layer above the first electrode, a second insulation layer covering the gate and the second electrode, a semiconductor layer located on the second insulation layer above the gate, a source and a drain that are located on the semiconductor layer, a third electrode, a third insulation layer, and a pixel electrode. The third electrode is located on the second insulation layer above the second electrode and electrically connected to the first electrode. The third insulation layer covers the source, the drain, and the third electrode. The pixel electrode is located on the third insulation layer and electrically connected to the drain.
US08581252B2
An active device array substrate comprising a substrate, a pixel array, a partition configuration and an alignment material layer is provided. The substrate has an alignment region and a predetermined sealing region. The predetermined sealing region surrounds the alignment region. The pixel array is disposed on the substrate within the alignment region. The partition configuration is disposed on the substrate between the predetermined sealing region and the alignment region. The alignment material layer is disposed within the alignment region and covers the pixel array.
US08581250B2
The present disclosure involves a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate and an interconnect structure that is formed over the substrate. The interconnect structure has a plurality of metal layers. A first region and a second region each extend through both the interconnect structure and the substrate. The first and second regions are mutually exclusive. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of bond pads disposed above the first region, and a plurality of probe pads disposed above the second region. The semiconductor device also includes a plurality of conductive components that electrically couple at least a subset of the bond pads with at least a subset of the probe pads. Wherein each one of the subset of the bond pads is electrically coupled to a respective one of the subset of the probe pads through one of the conductive components.
US08581244B2
Example embodiments are directed to oxide thin film transistors and methods of manufacturing the oxide thin film transistors. The oxide thin film transistor includes an active region in a gate insulation layer and under a source and a drain in a bottom gate structure, thus improving electrical characteristics of the oxide thin film transistor.
US08581242B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus combining bypass diode and wire. According to the present invention, the bypass diode can connect with the wire directly. It is not necessary to reserve an extra region on the substrate of the solar cell as the wire soldering area. Thereby, the required area of the ceramic substrate is reduced, and hence lowering the manufacturing cost of the solar cell substantially.
US08581236B2
An electrically pumped optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes at least two radiation-active quantum wells comprising InGaN or consisting thereof. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes at least two cover layers which include AlGaN or consist thereof. Each of the cover layers is assigned to precisely one of the radiation-active quantum wells. The cover layers are each located on a p-side of the associated radiation-active quantum well. The distance between the radiation-active quantum well and the associated cover layer is at most 1.5 nm.
US08581233B2
The present invention provides a single-electron transistor device 100. The device comprises a source 105 and drain 110 located over a substrate 115 and a quantum island 120 situated between the source and drain, to form tunnel junctions 125, 130 between the source and drain. The device further includes a fixed-gate electrode 135 located adjacent the quantum island 120. The fixed-gate electrode has a capacitance associated therewith that varies as a function of an applied voltage to the fixed-gate electrode. The present invention also includes a method of fabricating a single-electron device 300, and a transistor circuit 800 that include a single-electron device 810.
US08581231B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device including a light emitting structure including a first conductive-type semiconductor layer, a second conductive-type semiconductor layer and an active layer interposed between the first conductive-type semiconductor layer and the second conductive-type semiconductor layer, a first electrode layer electrically connected to the first conductive-type semiconductor layer, and a second electrode layer disposed on the second conductive-type semiconductor layer, wherein the second electrode layer includes a plurality of adhesive seeds spaced from one another on the light emitting structure, a reflective layer disposed on the plurality of adhesive seeds, and a protective layer disposed on the reflective layer, wherein the reflective layer contains silver (Ag) or an Ag alloy. As a result, it is possible to improve light reflectance and electrical properties of the electrode layer of the light emitting device and reliability of the electrode layer.
US08581227B2
A computer-implemented method for encryption and decryption using quantum computational model is disclosed. Such a method includes providing a model of a lattice having a system of non-abelian anyons disposed thereon. From the lattice model, a first quantum state associated with the lattice is determined. Movement of non-abelian anyons within the lattice is modeled to model formation of first and second quantum braids in the space-time of the lattice. The first quantum braid corresponds to first text. The second quantum braid corresponds to second text. A second quantum state associated with the lattice is determined from the lattice model after formation of the first and second quantum braids has been modeled. The second quantum state corresponds to second text that is different from the first text.
US08581220B2
A target supply apparatus includes a tank for storing a liquid target material, a nozzle for outputting the liquid target material in the tank, and a gas supply source for supplying gas into the tank, and controls a gas pressure inside the tank with a pressure of the gas supplied from the gas supply source which is provided with a pressure regulator. The target supply apparatus also includes a pressure-decrease gas passage of which one end is connected to the tank and the other end forms an exhaust port, a pressure-decrease valve provided on the pressure-decrease gas passage, and a controller for controlling open/close of the pressure-decrease valve. The controller, when the target material is caused not to output from the nozzle, opens the pressure-decrease valve and decreases the pressure inside the tank.
US08581212B2
The monitoring of UV radiation has received increased attention recently due to the hazards of accelerated skin ageing and even cancer following excessive exposure. Personalized monitoring gives a more accurate reading than crude weather forecasts of the ‘UV index’. This invention answers both these needs in a personal UV monitor that is incorporated into an existing display. Minimal processing changes are made to an existing display in order to achieve this added functionality, which is therefore achieved at little additional cost.
US08581211B2
An imaging system for analyzing fluorescent molecules in a sample, including a confocal microscope device, has a support in contact with at least a portion of the sample. In the system, the support surface in contact with the sample is functionalized so as to reduce the observation volume of the microscope on the surface in the axial direction. The present disclosure also relates to various uses of such a system as well as to a method for analyzing fluorescent molecules in a sample, the method being implemented by such a system.
US08581206B2
A focused ion beam system includes a sample holder having a fixing plane for fixing a sample, a sample base on which the sample holder is provided, a focused ion beam irradiating mechanism that irradiates a focused ion beam to the sample, microtweezers that hold the sample and have the axial direction at a predetermined angle to a surface of the sample base, an opening/closing mechanism that opens and closes the microtweezers, a rotating mechanism that rotates the microtweezers about the axial direction, and a moving mechanism that moves the position of the microtweezers.
US08581205B2
A transmission electron microscope (TEM) micro-grid includes a grid and a carbon nanotube composite film covered thereon. The carbon nanotube composite film includes a carbon nanotube film and a layer of nano-materials coated thereon. The carbon nanotube composite film covers a surface of the grid. The nano-material layer is coated on a surface of each of the plurality of carbon nanotubes.
US08581201B2
A power supply apparatus for a detector of this invention provides a plurality of power supplies for the detector for detecting light or radiation, and includes a power output device capable of individually outputting the plurality of power supplies to be provided for the detector, a detection device for detecting a power supply state of a utility power source, a control device for carrying out an abnormal stopping process to stop the power supplies at the power output device in a predetermined order upon determination based on a result of detection by the detection device that an abnormality has occurred, and an electric storage device for supplying electric power to the control device, when the control device determines that an abnormality has occurred, to permit the control device to carry out the abnormal stopping process. Thus, without having a large-scale uninterruptible power supply system, the detector can be protected even when the electric power supply state from the utility power source becomes abnormal.
US08581200B2
The invention relates to a radiation detector (200), particularly an X-ray detector, which comprises at least one sensitive layer (212) for the conversion of incident photons (X) into electrical signals. A two-dimensional array of electrodes (213) is located on the front side of the sensitive layer (212), while its back side carries a counter-electrode (211). The size of the electrodes (213) may vary in radiation direction (y) for adapting the counting workload of the electrodes. Moreover, the position of the electrodes (213) with respect to the radiation direction (y) provides information about the energy of the detected photons (X).
US08581197B2
Radiation tomography apparatus of this invention has a shield that shields entering of radiation flying from outside of the gantry. The shield is formed of shielding pieces. Consequently, there is no need for manufacturing the shield in a large and expensive furnace. Accordingly, the radiation tomography apparatus may be provided that is easily manufactured and achieves suppressed cost. Moreover, with the radiation tomography apparatus of this invention, maintenance may be performed through removal of the shielding pieces without removing the entire shield.
US08581189B2
A charged-particle microscopy includes irradiating a sample in measurement sessions, each having an associated beam parameter (P) value detecting radiation emitted during each measurement session, associating a measurand (M) with each measurement session, thus providing a data set (S) of data pairs {Pn, Mn}, wherein an integer in the range of 1≦n≦N, and processing the set (S) by: defining a Point Spread Function (K) having a kernel value Kn for each value n; defining a spatial variable (V); defining an imaging quantity (Q) having fore each value of n a value Qn that is a three-dimensional convolution of Kn and V, such that Qn=Kn*V; for each value of n, determining a minimum divergence min D(Mn∥Kn*V) between Mn and Qn, solving V while applying constraints on the values Kn.
US08581186B2
There is proposed a charged particle beam apparatus including: a plurality of noise removal filters that remove noise of an electrical signal; a measurement unit that measures the contrast-to-noise ratio after applying one of the noise removal filters; and a determination unit that determines a magnitude relationship between the contrast-to-noise ratio measured by the measurement unit and a threshold value set in advance.
US08581181B2
An ion guiding device is disclosed comprising a first ion guide which is conjoined with a second ion guide. Ions are urged across a radial pseudo-potential barrier which separates the two guiding regions by a DC potential gradient. Ions may be transferred from an ion guide which has a relatively large cross-sectional profile to an ion guide which has a relatively small cross-sectional profile in order to improve the subsequent ion confinement of the ions.
US08581175B2
A device for converting light transmitted by an optical transmission element into an electrical signal. Light is decoupled from a coiled or helically bent fiber and coupled into distributed over photovoltaic cells rather than concentrated at a small coupling location.
US08581174B2
An image sensor includes a first imaging pixel for a first color having a photosensitive region disposed within a substrate of the image sensor and a second imaging pixel for a second color that is different from the first color having a photosensitive region disposed within the substrate. A refraction element disposed adjacent to the substrate, so that the refraction element refracts light of the first color to the photosensitive region of the first imaging pixel and refracts light of the second color to the photosensitive region of the second imaging pixel.
US08581170B2
A transistor a gate of which, one of a source and a drain of which, and the other are electrically connected to a selection signal line, an output signal line, and a reference signal line, respectively and a photodiode one of an anode and a cathode of which and the other are electrically connected to a reset signal line and a back gate of the transistor, respectively are included. The photodiode is forward biased to initialize the back-gate potential of the transistor, the back-gate potential is changed by current of the inversely-biased photodiode flowing in an inverse direction in accordance with the light intensity, and the transistor is turned on to change the potential of the output signal line, so that a signal in accordance with the intensity is obtained.
US08581168B2
A single camera capable of capturing high speed laser return pulses for a target, as well as provide imaging information on the background of the target. This capability is enabled by having a read-out integrated circuit (ROIC) capable of extracting both types of information from a pixel of a focal plane array (FPA). Further, an ROIC topology that allows for the ability to distinguish between high frequency and low frequency signal paths, and provide supporting circuitry to process the two paths separately. One path may integrate the low frequency background scene to provide a high fidelity image of the scene. The second path may process high frequency noise and multiple laser pulse returns within a frame. These two paths may be combined to provide a background image with a superimposed laser return.
US08581167B2
An optical electrical system that converts a photo image pattern to a conductance pattern comprises a photoconductive layer for receiving light image patterns and a conversion layer for converting an electrostatic voltage into a conductance pathway for a current flow. The light image pattern can be generated into a page sized area and generated from a light source comprising an array of projectors coupled together.
US08581163B2
An automated control method for a solar protection screen (SCR) installation (INST) comprising retroreflecting-type slats (B1, B2, B3) which can be inclined between two extreme inclinations, wherein, in the presence of direct solar radiation, the slats are inclined at a first intermediate inclination, equal to the maximum aperture inclination (AMAX) of the screen relative to a preferred direction, as long as an inclination threshold automatically controlled in relation to the height of the sun (ATH) remains less than the maximum aperture inclination.
US08581158B2
An electrically conductive coating composition is provided for use on aircraft and other substrate surfaces to prevent the formation of ice or to melt ice. The conductive coating composition may include a nanomaterial such as carbon nanotubes dispersed in a solvent which may be applied to a substrate surface to form a thin film which is resistively heatable. The conductive coating may also comprise a nanomaterial formed from carbon nanotubes or fullerenes grafted to a polymer containing an active functional group which renders a substrate surface icephobic and is also resistively heatable.
US08581148B2
An apparatus (10) provides flame-less heat utilizing electric heaters (90) receiving electricity from a generator (22) powered by an engine (20) of a self-contained trailer including a base (12) in the form of a fuel tank. An exhaust heat reclaimer (56) is located in an elevated portion (32) of a manifold (30) further including a vertical portion (42) in front of the engine (20). A centrifugal impeller (80) in a T interconnection draws air from the vertical portion (42) through a radiator (50) of the engine (20) and into first and second pressure blowers (76) which force air through the heaters (90) and transitions (92, 94) to exit ducts (96).
US08581144B2
A laser processing apparatus including a holding unit for holding a workpiece, a processing unit for applying a laser beam to the workpiece held by the holding unit, a surface displacement detecting unit for detecting a surface displacement of the workpiece, and a focal position adjusting unit for adjusting the position of a focusing lens provided in the processing unit according to the surface displacement detected. The surface displacement detecting unit includes a detecting light source capable of oscillating light having a plurality of wavelengths different from the wavelength of the laser beam and a wavelength selecting section configured to select one of the plurality of wavelengths as the wavelength of detecting light. The detecting light having the selected wavelength is focused by the focusing lens and applied to the workpiece.
US08581142B2
An apparatus for transferring images to a wooden support includes a component for acquiring and/or creating an image, at least one source of a laser beam, and a component for moving, either in rotation and/or translation, the laser beam relative to the wooden support, or vice versa, as well as focusing the laser beam relative to the support. At least one adjustment unit is provided for the emission of the laser beam, and at least one control unit controls the moving and focusing components. The information of the image is converted to be transferred into instructions for the adjustment unit and control unit. The adjustment unit adjusts the emission of the laser beam by directly varying the pumping of the active material and/or by varying the operation of a modulator placed within the resonant cavity of the laser source.
US08581140B2
A laser processing apparatus is provided. The laser processing apparatus includes a laser processing head having a transmission window, an opening portion, an outlet hole, a first vent hole and a second vent hole. The transmission window transmits laser light by which a processing object is irradiated. The opening portion passes the transmitted laser light to a bottom portion of the laser processing head. The outlet hole discharges an atmosphere in the vicinity of a laser light irradiation region of the processing object to the outside. The first vent hole directs gas into the vicinity of the laser light irradiation region. The second vent hole discharges the atmosphere in the vicinity of the laser light irradiation region. Debris generated from the processing object is discharged from the outlet hole and the second vent hole that are continuous with the opening portion provided at the bottom portion of the laser processing head.
US08581135B2
The embodiments of the switch described herein include latching and locking systems so as to retain the rod of a vacuum bottle in a determined, open or closed, position, the systems being driven and controlled by the same means that cause the movable portion of the vacuum bottle to move, or by the disconnector itself.
US08581133B2
An operator control apparatus of an electronic domestic appliance contains an operator control panel on that side of the operator control apparatus which faces a user, at least one electrically conductive sensor element on that side of the operator control panel which is averted from the user, and a printed circuit board with at least one electrically conductive contact area which is arranged on that side of the printed circuit board which faces the operator control panel so as to be associated with the at least one sensor element. In this case, the at least one sensor element and the at least one contact area of the printed circuit board are connected to one another by an adhesive which is electrically conductive at least in the connection direction.
US08581132B2
A shorting plug for a pulsed power system is provided, having a rotator assembly at least partially nested within a cam housing and at least partially rotatable within the cam housing with respect to a cam rail that operably engages the rotator assembly to transition between a shorted mode of operation and an open mode of operation. During the shorted mode of operation, a pair of electrical contacts extend from the cam housing to operably engage the electrical contacts electrically connected to a energy storage device such as a capacitor, while the electrical contacts are retracted and rotated within the cam housing during the open mode of operation. The rotator assembly is connected to a housing cap, which allows the operator to transition the shorting plug between the two modes of operation. The shorting plug also contains a first latch mechanism that operably engages the housing cap during the shorted mode of operation, and a second latch mechanism that operably engages the housing during the open mode of operation. During transition between the shorted and open modes of operation, a vertical load, a horizontal load and a rotational load are applied by the operator to overcome the horizontal load and rotational locking mechanism provided by the first and second latch mechanisms, a downward vertical load applied to the rotator assembly that operably engages the cam rail, and the cam rail that provides a rotational limit of the rotator assembly without an upward vertical load being applied.
US08581122B2
A bin monitoring system functions both as a device for lifting the bin and as a weighing system for monitoring or measuring the level of feed in a feed bin. Various embodiments having a suspended load cell and methods of retrofitting the bin monitoring system to existing bins are provided. Further, the accuracy provided by various embodiments enables one to accurately predict when the feed bin will be empty. Thus, the feed mill can be aware of anticipated needs days in advance, allowing the feed mill to better optimize its scheduling and deliveries.
US08581117B2
A plurality of conductive areas is formed on a conductive substrate which includes a frame. Each of the conductive areas includes a lead frame and two electrodes. The frame includes a first side and an opposite second side. The lead frame includes first and second lead frame beams. The first and second lead frame beams extend from the first side toward the second side to connect with the two electrodes. The first and second electrodes extend respectively from the first and second lead frame beams. Each conductive area also includes a supporting portion interconnecting the electrodes and the frame to reinforce the connection between the frame and the conductive area so that the conductive area can sustain a pressure when an insulation shell is injection molded on the conductive area.
US08581112B2
According to one embodiment, a coupler apparatus includes a coupling element and a ground plane. The coupling element comprises a conductive material and configured to be subjected to power feeding to a feeding point. The ground plane comprises a conductive material and faces the coupling element. The coupling element has one or more through holes along an alignment direction of the coupling element and the ground plane.
US08581107B2
Disclosed is a halogen-free flame-retardant epoxy resin composition for printed circuit board, which includes (A) a halogen-free epoxy resin; (B) a copolymer of styrene and maleic anhydride used as a first curing agent; (C) poly(1,3-phenylene methylphosphonate) used as a second curing agent; (D) a curing accelerator; and (E) an inorganic filler.
US08581101B2
A shielding device is provided for protecting wires, cables and the like from rays, heat and the like, in a wire harness manufacturing assembly. The shielding device comprises at least one wire-covering member, such as a tube through which the wire extends. The tube is adapted to be displaced between a wire-revealing position and a wire-concealing position, wherein in the former position, the tube allows the wire to be exposed to the rays, whereas in the latter position, the tube is in a ray-exposure area and at least partly shields the wire from the rays. Typically there are two aligned tubes slidably displaceable towards and away from each other so as to respectively assume the wire-concealing and wire-revealing positions. A compressed air source, in fluid communication with an inside of the tubes, cools the wire when in the wire-concealing position.
US08581100B2
A cover for an electronic device includes a display window and a cover body injection molded with the display window. The display window includes a window body and at least one protruding portion projecting form the window body. The cover body includes a cover wall and ribs. The window body includes a front surface, a rear surface and a peripheral surface connecting the front surface and the rear surface. The at least one protruding portion is fixed on the peripheral surface and embedded between the cover wall and the ribs.
US08581096B2
Replacing liquid electrolytes with solid or quasi-solid electrolytes facilitates the production of photovoltaic cells using continuous manufacturing processes, such as roll-to-roll or web processes, thus creating inexpensive, lightweight photovoltaic cells using flexible plastic substrates.
US08581092B2
A tandem solar cell includes: a substrate; a front electrode disposed on the substrate; a back electrode disposed opposite to the front electrode on the substrate; a first cell disposed below the front electrode and including a first buffer layer and a first light absorption layer; and a second cell disposed above the back electrode and including a second light absorption layer and a second buffer layer. The first light absorption layer includes a CuGaSeS layer and a CuGaSe layer, and the second light absorption layer includes a semiconductor compound selected from the group consisting of CuInSe2, CuInGaSe2, CuInSeS, CuInGaSeS and any combinations thereof. The CuGaSeS layer of the first light absorption layer is disposed closer than the CuGaSe layer of the first light absorption layer to the front electrode.
US08581076B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV760185. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV760185, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV760185 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 CV760185 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 CV760185.
US08581069B1
A novel maize variety designated X05B307 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X05B307 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X05B307 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X05B307, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X05B307. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X05B307.
US08581063B1
A novel maize variety designated X08A141 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X08A141 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08A141 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X08A141, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08A141. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08A141.
US08581062B1
A novel maize variety designated X03B505 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X03B505 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X03B505 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X03B505, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X03B505. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X03B505.
US08581057B1
A soybean cultivar designated 08351577 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 08351577, to the plants of soybean cultivar 08351577, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 08351577, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 08351577. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 08351577. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 08351577, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 08351577 with another soybean cultivar.
US08581055B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1025937. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1025937. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1025937 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1025937 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08581024B2
The present invention relates to transgenic blue ornamental fish, as well as methods of making such fish by in vitro fertilization techniques. Also disclosed are methods of establishing a population of such transgenic fish and methods of providing them to the ornamental fish industry for the purpose of marketing.
US08581022B2
A method of identifying a compound for preventing and/or treating an autoimmune disease is described which comprises obtaining a (BTLA−/−) NKT cell from a non-human animal, contacting the (BTLA−/−) NKT cell ex vivo with a test compound, in the presence of an antigen, measuring a response of the (BTLA−/−) NKT cell to the antigen, comparing the response of the (BTLA−/−) NKT cell to the antigen with a response of a (BTLA−/−) NKT cell in control assay, and selecting the compound that reduces the response of the (BTLA−/−) NKT cell in the presence of an antigen compared to a response of a (BTLA−/−) NKT cell in the control assay. Other methods of identifying a compound for preventing and/or treating an autoimmune disease are also described.
US08581020B2
A film particularly suited for use as a transfer layer in an absorbent article has a plurality of capillaries and a plurality of drains, said capillaries comprising side walls depending from a female side of the film and terminating in an aperture on a male side of the film; said drains comprising side walls that depending from the female side of the film and terminating in an aperture on the male side of the film, wherein the drains are disposed at an obtuse angle relative to a base plane of the film.
US08581004B2
Disclosed are compounds of Formula (I) and methods of using compounds of the invention for treating a subject with a proliferative disorder, such as cancer, and methods for treating disorders responsive to Hsp70 induction and/or natural killer induction. Also, disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of the invention and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US08581000B2
Disclosed is a process for preparing a compound of the formula wherein R1 and R1′, R2 and R2′, and R3 are as defined herein, said process comprising (I) reacting a diacid of the formula HOOC—R2—COOH with a diamine of the formula H2N—R3—NH2 to form an acid-terminated oligoamide intermediate of the formula HOOC—R2—CONH—R3—HNCO—R2′—COOH; and (II) reacting the acid-terminated oligoamide intermediate with a monoalcohol of the formula R1—OH in the presence of a tin or organic titanate catalyst, in the absence of a coupling agent, and in the absence of a solvent to form the product. Also disclosed is a composition prepared by the process.
US08580998B2
Embodiments of this disclosure, among others, encompass methods for generating alkenes under mild thermolytic conditions that can provide almost total conversion of a precursor compound to an alkene without isomerization or the need to chromatographically purify the final product By selectively blocking the amino and carboxy groups of the derivatized amino acid, the methods of the disclosure provide for the synthesis of a peptide having the vinylglycine moiety at either the carboxy or the amino terminus of the peptide The mild conditions for the thermolytic removal of an o-NO2-phenyl substituted aryl group ensure that there is minimal if any damage to thermally sensitive conjugates such as a peptide bearing the vinylglycine The methods of the present disclosure have practical applications for the preparation of unsaturated compounds under mild, thermolytic conditions.
US08580990B2
Methods are provided for the catalytic hydroamination of compounds having an alkyne or allene functional group, in which the compound is contacted with ammonia or an amine in the presence of a catalytic amount of a gold complex under conditions sufficient for hydroamination to occur.
US08580983B2
Steroid compounds having increased resistance against metabolism and increased water solubility are disclosed, together with methods for their production. These substances are suitable for the manufacture of pharmaceuticals for the treatment of steroid related or steroid induced CNS disorders and for use in methods of prevention, alleviation or treatment of such disorders.
US08580977B2
The present invention relates to the biosynthetic gene cluster for tautomycetin (TTN) produces tautomycetin. Also provided are engineered micro-organisms for the production of TTN and analogs thereof, as well as methods of screening for compounds for activity.
US08580970B2
A copper catalyzed click chemistry ligation process is employed to bind azides and terminal acetylenes to provide 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole triazoles. The process comprises contacting an organic azide and a terminal alkyne with a source of reactive Cu(I) ion for a time sufficient to form by cycloaddition a 1,4-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole. The source of reactive Cu(I) ion can be, for example, a Cu(I) salt or copper metal. The process is preferably carried out in a solvent, such as an aqueous alcohol. Optionally, the process can be performed in a solvent that comprises a ligand for Cu(I) and an amine.
US08580964B2
The present invention relates to cinchona-based bifunctional organocatalysts and methods for preparing chiral hemiesters using the same. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods for preparing chiral hemiesters from prochiral or meso cyclic acid anhydrides via desymmetrization, using bifunctional cinchona alkaloid catalysts comprising sulfonamide functional groups.
US08580962B2
The invention is directed to methods of using antagonists selective for the metabotropic mGlu5 receptor to treat conditions of neuromuscular dysfunction of the lower urinary tract in a mammal. Provided are methods of treating a mammal suffering from a condition of neuromuscular dysfunction of the lower urinary tract by administering a selective mGlu5 antagonist. The selective mGlu5 antagonist may be administered alone or in combination with one or more additional therapeutic agents for treating such a condition. Also provided are methods of identifying selective mGlu5 antagonists that are useful for treating neuromuscular dysfunction of the lower urinary tract in a mammal. Methods for treating migraine and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) using selective mGlu5 antagonists are also disclosed.
US08580959B2
The present application provides compounds that are useful as MCHR1 antagonists, especially for the treatment of obesity, including all stereoisomers, solvates, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable forms thereof according to Formula I wherein the variables are defined herein.
US08580956B2
In its many embodiments, the present invention provides a novel class of heterocyclic compounds as modulators of gamma secretase, methods of preparing such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing one or more such compounds, methods of preparing pharmaceutical formulations comprising one or more such compounds, and methods of treatment, prevention, inhibition, or amelioration of one or more diseases associated with the central nervous system using such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions.
US08580951B2
Novel aldehyde-functionalized polysaccharide compositions are described that are more stable in aqueous solution than oxidized polysaccharides or other types of polysaccharides containing pendant aldehyde groups. The aldehyde-functionalized polysaccharides may be reacted with various amine-containing polymers to form hydrogel tissue adhesives and sealants that may be useful for medical applications such as wound closure, supplementing or replacing sutures or staples in internal surgical procedures such as intestinal anastomosis and vascular anastomosis, tissue repair, preventing leakage of fluids such as blood, bile, gastrointestinal fluid and cerebrospinal fluid, ophthalmic procedures, drug delivery, and preventing post-surgical adhesions.
US08580944B2
The present disclosure relates to oligodeoxynucleotides that suppress an immune response. Methods are disclosed for preventing or treating an immune-mediated disorder, such as, but not limited to, an autoimmune disease, by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a suppressive oligodeoxynucleotide. Also disclosed are methods of suppressing an immune response in a subject by administering a therapeutically effective amount of a suppressive oligodeoxynucleotide.
US08580943B2
Described are synthetic promoters capable of mediating gene expression in plants upon pathogen infection. Furthermore, recombinant genes and vectors comprising said chimeric promoters as well as host cells transformed with such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, or vectors are provided. Additionally, diagnostic compositions and kits comprising such chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors or cells are described. Provided are further methods for the identification of compounds being capable of activating or inhibiting genes that are specifically expressed in plants upon pathogen infection employing the above described means. Furthermore, transgenic plant cells, plant tissue, and plants containing the above-described chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, and vectors as well as the use of the aforementioned chimeric promoters, recombinant genes, vectors and/or compounds identified by the method of the invention in plant cell and tissue culture, plant breeding, and/or agriculture are described.
US08580939B2
The invention provides a bacterium containing a polynucleotide comprising a nucleic acid encoding a heterologous antigen, as well as fusion protein partners. Also provided are vectors for mediating site-specific recombination and vectors comprising removable antibiotic resistance genes.
US08580938B2
The invention relates to binding compounds that specifically bind to human TSLP, as well as uses thereof, e.g., in the treatment of inflammatory disorders.
US08580936B2
The invention provides FGFR fusion proteins, methods of making them, and methods of using them to treat proliferative disorders, including cancers and disorders of angiogenesis. The FGFR fusion molecules can be made in CHO cells and may comprise deletion mutations in the extracellular domains of the FGFRs which improve their stability. These fusion proteins inhibit the growth and viability of cancer cells in vitro and in vivo. The combination of the relatively high affinity of these receptors for their ligand FGFs and the demonstrated ability of these decoy receptors to inhibit tumor growth is an indication of the clinical value of the compositions and methods provided herein.
US08580920B2
The present invention relates to novel peptides and to topical and food compositions comprising them. The novel peptides have applications in skin lightening and immunomodulation when applied topically and to immunomodulation and modulation of body mass when consumed in food compositions.
US08580919B2
Conjugates of a GLP-1 moiety may be covalently attached to one or more water-soluble polymers. For instance, a GLP-1 polymer conjugate may include a GLP-1 moiety releasably attached at its N-terminus to a water-soluble polymer. The GLP-1 polymer conjugate may include a GLP-1 moiety covalently attached to a water-soluble polymer, wherein the GLP-1 moiety possesses an N-methyl substituent.
US08580909B2
Process for producing a chemically crosslinked polyurethane film, comprising the steps of: A) chemically reacting a mixture comprising two or more polyols with one or more polyisocyanates, at least one of the polyols or at least one of the polyisocyanates comprising molecules having a functionality of three or more, to form hydroxyl-functionalized polyurethane hotmelt prepolymer, B) reacting the hydroxyl-functionalized polyurethane hotmelt prepolymer with one or more polyisocyanates in a continuously operating mixing assembly, C) coating the melt emerging from the mixing assembly onto an incoming web-form material or between two incoming web-form materials, in the course of which the reaction started in step B) continues.
US08580907B2
An insulating film material, which contains a polycarbosilane compound expressed by the following structural formula 1: where R1 may be the same or different to each other in the unit repeated “n” times, and each represents C1-4 hydrocarbon or aromatic hydrocarbon; R2 may be the same or different to each other in the unit repeated “n” times, and each represents C1-4 hydrocarbon or aromatic hydrocarbon; n is an integer of 5 to 5,000.
US08580906B2
Provided are a polyrotaxane capable of using an aqueous solvent in a fabricating process although it has hydrophobicity, an aqueous composition having the polyrotaxane, a crosslinked body comprising the polyrotaxane, etc. The polyrotaxane comprises blocking groups located at both ends of a pseudo-polyrotaxane having cyclic molecules and a linear molecule which pierces the cavities of the cyclic molecules in a skewered manner to form a clathrate therewith so as not to detach the cyclic molecules, wherein the cyclic molecules have a group represented by Formula I, a group represented by Formula II and a group represented by Formula III. Incidentally, M represents, for example, a group derived from ring-opening polymerization of ε-caprolactone or the like, A represents a hydroxy group or the like, B represents a —COOH group or the like, and C represents A and/or B: -M-A Formula I; -M-B Formula II; and —C Formula III.
US08580898B2
The present invention relates to a copolymer polyester resin and a molded product using the same, and more specifically to a copolymer polyester resin that contains 10˜80 mol % of 1,4-cyclohexane dimethanol, 0.1˜50 mol % of a diol compound expressed as HO—(CH2)a—CO—(CH2)b—OH (where a and b are integers in the range 1˜5), and ethylene glycol or other diols so that the sum of its entire diol composition is 100 mol % based on dicarboxylic acid. The copolymer polyester resin of the present invention enables reduction of cycle time, improvement of product processability and prevention of PET bottle deformation during mold processing with a heat-shrinking label by complementing low temperature shrinkage, maintaining a high shrinkage rate, and reducing shrinkage stress.
US08580893B2
A blown film composition including a first high density polyethylene component and a second high density polyethylene component, wherein the blown film contains a mixture of three or more discrete molecular weight distributions, and wherein the second high density polyethylene component has at least one more discrete molecular weight distribution than the first high density polyethylene component.
US08580891B2
Silicone acrylic hybrid compositions prepared by reacting together silicone polymers, silicone resins, and silyl containing acrylic polymers are useful in adhesive compositions that find use in skin contact applications.
US08580881B2
Silicon nitride coated crucibles for holding melted semiconductor material and for use in preparing multicrystalline silicon ingots by a directional solidification process; methods for coating crucibles; methods for preparing silicon ingots and wafers; compositions for coating crucibles and silicon ingots and wafers with a low oxygen content.
US08580878B2
The invention relates to a printing ink or printing varnish containing non-radiation-curable, preferably aromatic polycarbonate, in particular as a binder and adhesive component. According to the invention, the polycarbonate is provided with radiation-curable monomers, in particular is dissolved therein.
US08580872B2
A sulfopolyester containing residues of 2,2,4,4-tetralkylcyclobutane-1,3-diol such as 2,2,4,4-tetramethylcyclobutane-1,3-diol is highly dispersible in water. This allows one to reduce the content of sulfonate groups or reduce the amount of ethylene glycol or other hydrophilic glycols to retain good water resistance in cured coatings. The sulfopolyester may also be a reaction product of a 2,2,4,4-tetralkylcyclobutane-1,3-diol along with 1,4-cyclohexanedimethanol, neopentyl glycol, or a mixture thereof with an acid component. Coating compositions may also contain these sulfopolyesters along with water and a polymer resin.
US08580869B2
The present disclosure relates to a seamless model free of bond lines made by a method which includes the steps of providing a substructure having an exposed outer surface, applying a modeling paste to the outer surface of the substructure in the form of a continuous layer, curing the continuous layer of applied modeling paste, and machining said cured layer of modeling paste to the desired contour to form the seamless model. The modeling paste may be a mechanically frothed syntactic foam prepared by injecting inert gas with mechanical stirring into either a formed froth-forming polyurethane or epoxy composition containing microballoons.
US08580867B2
The vulcanizable rubber mixture according to this invention is used for rubber products in particular vehicle tires and vehicle tire treads, but also technical rubber products like belts on conveyor systems, technical hoses, vibration dampers and impact dampers, or wire coatings. All these products benefit from the improved processability that is achieved with the invention in that the mixture comprises a polymer represented by the formula F1-A-F2, or a mixture of F1-A-F2 with an astral or radial coupling product of F1-A-units, coupled by a multivalent coupling agent; wherein F1 represents a terminal functionalization of the polymeric chain, F2 represents a terminal functionalization different from F1; and A represents the polymeric chain of a polymer formed by the copolymerization between one or more conjugated dienes with one or more aromatic vinyl monomers.
US08580847B2
This subject invention is directed to a method for inhibition of cancer cells, comprising administrating an effective amount of a compound of formula I (Sesquiterpene lactones, antrocin) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, together with a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, wherein the cancer cells are selected from colorectal cancer cells, liver cancer cells, lung cancer cells or breast cancer cells.
US08580844B2
The present invention provides improved treatment methods by the administration of both an inhibitor of indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase in addition to the administration of an additional therapeutic agent.
US08580839B2
A new treatment regime is presenter using a low concentration formulation at a low dosage of hydrophobic photosensitizers (PS) that shows improved pharmacokinetics and an effective method for photodynamic therapy (“PDT”). The new formulation has better pharmacological effect compared to standard photosensitizer formulation with standard dosage. It was found that PDT treatments using the disclosed low concentration formulations provide for more accurate, more efficient and more convenient dosing. It was found that the inventive formulation; (1) reduces the time for a therapeutically effective level of photosensitizer to accumulate in diseased tissue; and, (2) reduces the time for achieving a sufficient ratio of photosensitizer in diseased tissue vs. healthy tissue. As a result, the formulation of the invention reduces the time interval between PS application/administration and irradiation (the drug-light interval or “DLI”) and can provide for a “same day” PDT treatment option. The inventive formulation can be used for PDT treatment regimes where photosensitizers are administered in at least one preselected dose, including a low concentration therapy for PDT. In particular, when meta-(Tetrahydroxyphenyl)Chlorin (m-THPC) is the photosensitizer, then a concentration of 0.8 mg/ml to 0.04 mg/ml in a mixture of pure propylene glycol and ethanol in a 3:2 volume ratio accumulates in diseased tissue and differentiates between diseased tissue and normal tissue sufficiently quickly for ‘one day’ or overnight administration and activation treatment procedures to be possible.
US08580833B2
The present invention provides imidazole derivatives of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. These compounds are useful in the treatment of RAGE-mediated diseases such as Alzheimer's Disease. The present invention further relates to methods for the preparation of compounds of Formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, and the use the such compounds and/or pharmaceutical compositions in treating RAGE-mediated diseases.
US08580832B2
The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), methods for preparing these compounds, compositions, intermediates and derivatives thereof and for treating a condition including but not limited to ankylosing spondylitis, artherosclerosis, arthritis (such as rheumatoid arthritis, infectious arthritis, childhood arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis), bone-related diseases (including those related to bone formation), breast cancer (including those unresponsive to anti-estrogen therapy), cardiovascular disorders, cartilage-related disease (such as cartilage injury/loss, cartilage degeneration, and those related to cartilage formation), chondrodysplasia, chondrosarcoma, chronic back injury, chronic bronchitis, chronic inflammatory airway disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, disorders of energy homeostasis, gout, pseudogout, lipid disorders, metabolic syndrome, multiple myeloma, obesity, osteoarthritis, osteogenesis imperfecta, osteolytic bone metastasis, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, Paget's disease, periodontal disease, polymyalgia rheumatica, Reiter's syndrome, repetitive stress injury, hyperglycemia, elevated blood glucose level, and insulin resistance.
US08580829B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1-R5 are as defined herein. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of using these compounds in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, processes for preparing these compounds and intermediates useful in these processes.
US08580825B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1-R5 are as defined herein. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds, methods of using these compounds in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, processes for preparing these compounds and intermediates useful in these processes.
US08580824B2
The invention relates to pyridine derivatives of Formula (I) wherein A, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are as described in the description, their preparation and their use as pharmaceutically active compounds. Said compounds particularly act as immunomodulating agents.
US08580823B2
The present invention is directed to aspartic protease inhibitors represented by the following structural formula: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aspartic protease inhibitors of Structural Formula (I).Methods of antagonizing one or more aspartic proteases in a subject in need thereof, and methods for treating an aspartic protease mediated disorder in a subject using these aspartic protease inhibitors are also disclosed.
US08580813B2
The present invention relates to cyclic azaindole-3-carboxamides of the formula I, wherein A, R, R10, R20, R30, R40, Y1, Y2, Y3, Y4, n, p and q have the meanings indicated in the claims, which are valuable pharmaceutical active compounds. Specifically, they inhibit the enzyme renin and modulate the activity of the renin-angiotensin system, and are useful for the treatment of diseases such as hypertension, for example. The invention furthermore relates to processes for the preparation of the compounds of the formula I, their use and pharmaceutical compositions comprising them.
US08580809B2
A compound, its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a composition containing the same and method of treatment that can provide analgesia and/or reduce inflammation are disclosed. A contemplated compound has a structure that corresponds to Formula A, wherein G, W, Q, Z, D, E, F, K, Y, d, e, f, k, n, m, and circle B and all R groups are defined within.
US08580804B2
The invention provides a compound having a heterocyclic skeleton of formula (I): wherein the indicated moieties are as described in the specification, as well as a tautomer thereof or a salt thereof. The compound is useful as a catalyst for an asymmetric synthesis.
US08580801B2
Methods and compositions are disclosed for the treatment of diseases or conditions produced by or associated with low cyclic nucleotide levels. The compositions comprise phosphodiesterase inhibitors and are formulated for intranasal and pulmonary administration.
US08580800B2
The present invention relates to novel 1,4-diarylpyrimido[4,5-d]pyridazine-2,5-dione derivatives, to processes for their preparation, to their use alone or in combination for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases and also to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prevention of diseases, in particular for the treatment and/or prevention of disorders of the lung and the cardiovascular system.
US08580785B2
Compounds of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim (1), and the agrochemically acceptable salts and all stereoisomers and tautomeric forms of the compounds of formula (I) can be used as agrochemical active ingredients and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US08580783B2
The present invention relates to [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-c]pyrimidine derivatives of formula (I) which inhibit the activity of Heat Shock Protein Hsp90. The compounds of the invention are therefore useful in treating proliferative diseases such as cancer and neurodegenerative diseases. The present invention also provides processes for preparing these compounds, methods of treating diseases and the pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds.
US08580778B2
The present application relates to novel substituted dihydropyrazolone derivatives, processes for their preparation, their use for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and their use for the preparation of medicaments for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular cardiovascular and haematological diseases and kidney diseases, and for promoting wound healing.
US08580770B2
A method for treating actinic keratosis or basal cell carcinoma. A person's skin is inspected to identify areas that exhibit lesions indicating actinic keratosis or basel cell carcinoma. If such areas are found, a treating composition is applied to the skin in that area. The treating composition may include avobenzone, octocrylene, octyl salicylate, and oxybenzone, and optionally may additionally include SD alcohol 40, C12-15 alkyl benzoate, acrylates, octylacrylamide copolymer, hydroxypropyl cellulose, PEG-40 sorbitan peroleate, tocopherol, and aloe barbadensis extract. The skin is monitored regularly to determine whether the skin lesions remain, and the treating composition is applied several times daily for a period of at least two months until the area is substantially free of the lesions.
US08580759B2
The present invention provides an anti-hepatitis C virus composition that includes a substance that suppresses the expression or function of a PA28γ gene, a method for preventing hepatitis C viral infection or suppressing hepatitis C virus growth that includes the step of administering the composition to a subject, and a method for screening an effective component of an anti-hepatitis C virus composition that includes the step of selecting a substance that inhibits the expression or function of a PA28γ gene.
US08580758B2
The present invention provides a method of inhibiting cancer cell proliferation by suppressing a function of ZNF143, a cancer cell proliferation inhibitor containing as an active ingredient a substance capable of inhibiting a function of ZNF143, like a ZNF143-specific siRNA, a prophylactic and/or therapeutic drug for cancer, a method of detecting cancer cells, a diagnostic reagent for cancer, a vector and transformant cell incorporating the vector, and a screening method for a substance possessing cancer cell proliferation inhibitory activity with the amount of inhibition of the binding of ZNF143 protein as an index.
US08580757B2
The present disclosure includes compositions and methods for modulating the differentiation of cells having osteogenic differentiation potential (such as mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs)) towards the osteogenic fate, and for obtaining diagnostic and prognostic information relating to diseases and disorders characterized by defects in osteogenic differentiation. The compositions include miRNAs, rm′RNA mimics, miRNA inhibitors, and siRNAs.
US08580754B2
A process is provided of introducing an RNA into a living cell to inhibit gene expression of a target gene in that cell. The process may be practiced ex vivo or in vivo. The RNA has a region with double-stranded structure. Inhibition is sequence-specific in that the nucleotide sequences of the duplex region of the RNA and of a portion of the target gene are identical. The present invention is distinguished from prior art interference in gene expression by antisense or triple-strand methods.
US08580741B2
The present invention relates to a skin-tightening cosmetic composition and a method of applying the same, and more specifically, to a cosmetic composition a method of applying the same that includes a hydrolyzed plant protein and glycoprotein. The cosmetic composition includes a hydrolyzed plant protein and glycoprotein in an optimal amount, thereby causing the occurrence of an immediate contraction effect and a long-lasting contracting effect, and achieving skin improvements such as skin moisturizing and induction of synthesizing collagen and elastine in use of the composition over a long period of time.
US08580737B2
The field of the invention is the treatment of acquired bleeding, a clinical condition associated with severe traumatic, peri- or post-operative bleeding. A novel treatment is proposed in which synergistic pro-coagulatory properties of Prothrombin Complex Concentrates (PCC) together with medicaments comprising FVIII and/or vWF are exploited.
US08580735B2
The present invention features the local administration of complement inhibitors for treatment of complement-mediated disorders. In certain embodiments the invention features inhibiting activation of one or more locally produced complement proteins. The invention provides sustained release formulations and devices comprising a complement inhibitor and methods of use thereof.
US08580717B2
An overbased, sulfurized salt of at least one alkylated hydroxyaromatic compound, wherein the alkyl substituent of the hydroxyaromatic compound is a residue of at least one isomerized olefin having from about 15 to about 99 wt. % branching is disclosed. The overbased, sulfurized salt of at least one alkylated hydroxyaromatic compound is produced by the process comprising: (a) alkylating at least one hydroxyaromatic compound with at least one isomerized olefin having from about 15 to about 99 wt. % branching obtained by isomerizing at least one normal alpha olefin having from about 10 to about 40 carbon atoms, to provide at least one alkylated hydroxyaromatic compound; (b) neutralizing and sulfurizing the alkylated hydroxyaromatic compound in any order to provide at least one neutralized, sulfurized alkylated hydroxyaromatic compound; and (c) overbasing the at least one neutralized, sulfurized alkylated hydroxyaromatic compound.
US08580706B2
An exhaust gas-purifying catalyst according to the present invention includes a substrate, a first catalytic layer facing the substrate and includes at least one precious metal selected from the group consisting of palladium and platinum, and alumina doped with an alkaline-earth metal element, and a second catalytic layer facing the substrate with the first catalytic layer interposed therebetween or intervening between the substrate and the first catalytic layer, the second catalytic layer includes rhodium and alumina doped with the alkaline-earth metal element.
US08580704B2
A catalyst precursor comprising (A) a microporous support, (B) a non-noble metal precursor, and (C) a pore-filler, wherein the micropores of the microporous support are filled with the pore-filler and the non-noble metal precursor so that the micropore surface area of the catalyst precursor is substantially smaller than the micropore surface area of the support when the pore-filler and the non-noble metal precursor are absent is provided. Also, a catalyst comprising the above catalyst precursor, wherein the catalyst precursor has been pyrolysed so that the micropore surface area of the catalyst is substantially larger than the micropore surface area of catalyst precursor, with the proviso that the pyrolysis is performed in the presence of a gas that is a nitrogen precursor when the microporous support, the non-noble metal precursor and the pore-filler are not nitrogen precursors is also provided. Methods of producing the catalyst precursor and the catalyst are provided.
US08580699B2
Catalyzed atomic layer deposition from a reduced number of precursors is described. A deposition precursor contains silicon, oxygen and a catalytic ligand. A hydroxyl-terminated substrate is exposed to the deposition precursor to form a silicon bridge bond between two surface-bound oxygens. The surface-bound oxygens were part of two surface-bound hydroxyl groups and the adsorption of the deposition precursor liberates the hydrogens. The silicon atom is also chemically-bound to one or two additional oxygen atoms which were already chemically-bound to the silicon within a same deposition precursor molecule. At least one of the additional oxygen atoms is further chemically-bound to the catalytic ligand either directly or by way of a hydrocarbon chain. Further exposure of the substrate to moisture (H2O) results in displacement of the additional oxygen which are replaced by hydroxyl groups from the moisture. The surface is again hydroxyl-terminated and the process may be repeated. The catalytic nature of the reaction enables the deposition to occur at low substrate temperatures. The chemically-embedded nature of the catalyst increases the deposition per cycle thereby reducing the number of precursor exposures to grow a film of the same thickness.
