US08589025B2
A tire cornering power estimation and monitoring system may include a steering torque sensor, a steering wheel angle sensor, a yaw rate sensor, a lateral acceleration sensor, and a speed sensor. The system may further include at least one controller configured to receive signals from the steering torque sensor, steering wheel angle sensor, yaw rate sensor, lateral acceleration sensor, and speed sensor and send a notification if the signals indicate that one or more of the vehicle's tires need to be checked or serviced. The system may further include a notification system configured to receive a signal from the controller and indicate that one or more of the vehicle's tires need to be checked or serviced.
US08589022B2
A diagnostic tool for a vehicle, includes a signal translator communicating with the vehicle in at least one protocol, an input device for inputting information, a processor controlling a software according to the input information from the input device and communication with the vehicle from the signal translator, the processor controlling a reception of diagnostic data of the vehicle through the signal translator, the processor receiving a selected information of a user and configuration of the diagnostic tool through the input device and correlating the configuration information with the user information, the processor processing the received diagnostic data according to the selected configuration information corresponding to the selected user by the input unit, a memory storing the configuration information according to the corresponding user information, and a display unit receiving and displaying diagnostic information according to the selected stored configuration information according to the user.
US08589016B2
A motor vehicle monitoring apparatus has a controller as a component of a control loop for controlling the electric current of an actuator. The vehicle power supply system voltage of a motor vehicle voltage source is applied to the actuator. A correction unit is provided in the forward path of the control loop between the controller and a subordinate actuator element of the control loop and applies the actuation signal output by the controller with a correction factor which is proportional to the reciprocal value of the instantaneous vehicle power supply system voltage.
US08589015B2
An accelerometer sensor equipped device uses GPS and known alignment data to determine the alignment of the accelerometer sub-system when the vehicle is stationary and in motion. The alignment data is determined from known surface information, measured GPS velocity, and measured GPS Heading.
US08589014B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate generally to safe and effective use of autonomous vehicles. More specifically, an autonomous vehicle is able to detect objects in its surroundings which are within the sensor fields. In response to detecting objects, the computer may adjust the autonomous vehicle's speed or change direction. In some examples, however, the sensor fields may be changed or become less reliable based on objects or other features in the vehicle's surroundings. As a result, the vehicle's computer may calculate the size and shape of the area of sensor diminution and a new sensor field based on this area of diminution. In response to identifying the area of sensor diminution or the new sensor field, the vehicle's computer may change the control strategies of the vehicle.
US08589008B2
An electrically driven vehicle includes a vehicle body, a battery that is mounted in the vehicle body and is usable for running, and a generator unit that is detachably mounted in the vehicle body and charges the battery, a first fuel tank that stores fuel supplied to the generator unit being provided in the vehicle body. The generator unit includes a generator-unit-side fuel tank that stores fuel of the generator unit, and a fuel pipe is provided so as to detachably connect a vehicle-side fuel tank and the generator-unit-side fuel tank.
US08588997B2
A control circuit for operating the lights of a vehicle. In one embodiment, the rear lights of the vehicle are controlled by the control circuit. The control circuit illuminates two or more of the vehicle lights in a common pattern to indicate a specific vehicle operation. When the vehicle simultaneously performs two operations, the controller may transition the lights to illuminate in different patterns to clearly indicate the separate vehicle operations. The controller may further provide for adjusting the light intensity of one or more of the lights. The lights may be adjusted to have a similar intensity to prevent confusion when the different lights are used in combination to indicate a vehicle operation.
US08588991B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus embodiments for electric power grid and network registration and management of active grid elements. Grid elements are transformed into active grid elements following initial registration of each grid element with the system, preferably through network-based communication between the grid elements and a coordinator, either in coordination with or outside of an IP-based communications network router. A multiplicity of active grid elements function in the grid for supply capacity, supply and/or load curtailment as supply or capacity. Also preferably, messaging is managed through a network by a Coordinator using IP messaging for communication with the grid elements, with the energy management system (EMS), and with the utilities, market participants, and/or grid operators.
US08588990B2
A method and apparatus for communicating between electrical appliances (e.g. smoke detectors, thermostats, refrigerators, TV program recorders, lawn/garden sprinkler systems, irrigation control systems, etc.) and cloud-based applications (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, email, SMS, etc.) includes a server that translates communications between the communication protocols used by the appliances and applications. The electrical appliances include a minimum complexity necessary to perform their primary functions and to communicate with the server. Additional complexity necessary for the electrical appliances to communicate with the cloud-based applications is enabled by the server remote from the electrical appliances.
US08588984B2
A new method for predicting the rotor angle stability status of a power system immediately after a large disturbance is presented. The proposed two stage method involves estimation of the similarity of post-fault voltage trajectories of the generator buses after the disturbance to some pre-identified templates and then prediction of the stability status using a classifier which takes the similarity values calculated at the different generator buses as inputs. The typical bus voltage variation patterns after a disturbance for both stable and unstable situations are identified from a database of simulations using fuzzy C-means clustering algorithm. The same database is used to train a support vector machine classifier which takes proximity of the actual voltage variations to the identified templates as features.
US08588983B2
A system incorporating an actuator. The actuator may have a motor unit with motor controller connected to it. A processor may be connected to the motor controller. A coupling for a shaft connection may be attached to an output of the motor unit. The processor may incorporate a diagnostics program. The processor may be connected to a polarity-insensitive two-wire communications bus. Diagnostic results of the diagnostics program may be communicated from the processor over the communications bus to a system controller. If the diagnostic results communicated from the processor over the communications bus to the system controller indicate an insufficiency of the actuator, then an alarm identifying the insufficiency may be communicated over the communications bus to the system controller.
US08588978B2
Disclosed is a robot setting a display unit corresponding to an eye level of the user. The robot includes a body unit, a display unit, and at least one sliding section. The display unit is provided with a detection unit, which detects a position of a user, to rotate together with the body unit according to an eye level of the user. The sliding section connects the body unit with the display unit such that the body unit and the display unit rotate longitudinally and transversely according to a detection result of the detection unit.
US08588977B2
An apparatus in an example comprises a manipulator, a force sensor, a signal modulator, and a visual indicator. The manipulator is employed by a user. The force sensor determines a force signal from a force applied by the manipulator on a part of an environment of the user. The signal modulator is adjustable by the user to select a switch point for the visual indicator based on relative fragility of the part of the environment. The signal modulator employs the force signal and the switch point to control the visual indicator for the user.
US08588960B1
A “pick-and-place” package marshalling system uses multiple pneumatic transfer units synchronized with a packaging conveyor to marshal packets into a single-file array for shipping and to cull out empty and defective packets. The system can be employed in a blister packaging operation in place of a standard marshalling system. A pick-and-place module, comprising one or more pairs of pneumatic transfer units, lifts packets off the conveyor at a pick station, marshalls them into a single-file array, carries the packets above the conveyor to a downstream place station, and pneumatically deposits the packets there.
US08588959B2
The present invention relates to a saw including a sawhead pivotably connected to a base. The pivotable connection may define a pivot axis therethrough, wherein the pivot axis may be parallel to the horizontal plane. In addition, the sawhead may rotate around the pivot axis and may be axially displaceable along the pivot axis.
US08588954B2
Methods and apparatus to manipulate embroidery designs via a communication network are disclosed. The method includes receiving at a server, via the communication network, a request from a client computer, the request including first data associated with the embroidery design, processing at least some of the first data at the server to generate at least one of image data or embroidery data, and transmitting, via the communication network, a response to the client computer, the response to be received by a user interface for manipulating embroidery design information at the client computer and including at least one of the image data or the embroidery data.
US08588952B2
A substrate processing system, which repeats a carrying cycle in which a substrate is carried sequentially in a carrying order indicated by module numbers assigned to the modules, respectively, from the module of a lower module number to that of a higher module number, and is capable of processing substrates at a high throughput even if some modules become unusable and, thereafter, become usable. A controller controls a carrier such that the carrier carries a substrate taken out from the module preceding a multimodule unit including a plurality of modules to the module nest in the carrying order to the module of the multimodule unit from which a substrate is carried out at time nearest to time when the substrate was carried out from the module preceding the multimodule.
US08588951B2
A method and apparatus includes determining a number of planned starts of a product during a predetermined time period for future processing, averaging the number of planned starts for the predetermined time period, and setting a production rate for a first range based on the average number of planned starts.
US08588950B2
Only a wafer for QC check may be transferred and a production wafer may prevent from being transferred into an assigned process chamber whose QC check is not completed after a maintenance task, and the production wafer may be processed the assigned process chamber after the completion of the QC check. The wafer for QC check is transferred while inhibiting a transfer of the production wafer into the assigned process chamber, and the production wafer is transferred into each of the process chambers of the plurality except the assigned process chamber.
US08588947B2
An apparatus for processing an audio signal and method thereof are disclosed. The present invention includes an apparatus for a processing a signal, the apparatus comprising: a wire/wireless communication unit receiving object information and an audio signal which comprises multiple object groups from a multipoint control unit; a signal coding unit obtaining object group information by decoding the object information; a display unit displaying the object group information; and, an input unit receiving selection command designating at least one object group as non-recipient terminal among multiple object groups, based on the object group information; wherein, when the selection command is received, the signal coding unit generates destination information using the selection command, wherein, when the destination information is generated, the wire/wireless communication unit transmits the destination information to the multiple control unit, wherein the multiple object groups comprise first object group of first terminal and second object group of second terminal.
US08588946B2
Disclosed are portable devices having function for providing information and contents related to various kinds of acoustic sources, apparatuses for providing acoustic source information, and methods for providing acoustic source information. The portable device includes characteristic code extractor and controller. The characteristic code extractor receives acoustic source to divide the acoustic source into audio signal with audio frequency band and signal with supersonic frequency band, and extracts characteristic code of the audio signal with the audio frequency band from the signal with the supersonic frequency band. The controller transmits the characteristic code to acoustic information server, and outputs the acoustic source information corresponding to the characteristic code that is provided from the acoustic information server. Therefore, the acoustic source information can be provided without separate procedure for storing or processing various kinds of acoustic sources as well as music, and the process for providing acoustic source information is simpler.
US08588943B2
The invention relates to a method for parameterizing operating means connected to a data transmission medium. In this case, for at least several of the connected operating means, in each case, a device description will be stored in a central facility, each device description containing at least one function and the parameter set belonging thereto. In addition, a list of several predefined device functions will be stored in memory, for which the corresponding parameter set will be assigned each time to the operating means that support the device function. If a device function is selected, then in response to the selected device function, at least one operating means that supports this device function will be parameterized.
US08588930B2
A method for stimulating a predetermined body part such as a nerve using a stimulation device including an external non-implantable transmitting device powered by a power source and generating an electrical waveform signal. A surface electrode applies the generated electrical waveform signal transcutaneously. An implantable piezoelectric element receives the applied electrical waveform signal generated transcutaneously and, in turn, causes mechanical deformation resulting in mechanical vibration of the implantable piezoelectric element sufficient to stimulate the predetermined body part. The electrical waveform signal may be either a high frequency continuous waveform or high frequency burst packets.
US08588921B2
The present invention is an improved method of electrically stimulating percepts in a patient with a visual prosthesis, to induce a more controlled perception of light. In particular, the present invention is an improved electrode array to maximize retinal response. The array of the present invention is an array with a center section with no electrode, surrounded by a ring of small high density electrodes. Electrodes beyond to ring are gradually larger and more widely spaced.
US08588917B2
An implantable stimulator(s), small enough to be located near or adjacent to an autonomic nerve(s) innervating urinary and/or gastrointestinal structures, uses a power source/storage device, such as a rechargeable battery. Periodic recharging of such a power source/storage device is accomplished, for example, by inductive coupling with an external appliance. The small stimulator provides a means of stimulating a nerve(s) or other tissue when desired, without the need for external appliances during the stimulation session. When necessary, external appliances are used for the transmission of data to and/or from the stimulator(s) and for the transmission of power, if necessary. In a preferred embodiment, the system is capable of open- and closed-loop operation. In closed-loop operation, at least one implant includes at least one sensor, and the sensed condition is used to adjust stimulation parameters.
US08588911B2
Medical device implants for stimulating the nervous system of a recipient are disclosed. Embodiments include a cochlear implant with electrodes for delivering charge to the cochlea of the recipient and stimulation circuitry for delivering the charge to the electrodes. The medical devices include a transfer line which carries power and/or communication signals, the transfer line being in contact with tissue of the recipient when the medical device implant is implanted. A leakage capture conductor and/or sensing electrode is located or locatable proximate the insulated conductor.
US08588903B2
An automated external defibrillator including: a reserve power source for providing power to defibrillate a patient, the reserve power source including: a reserve battery which requires activation to produce power; an activator for activating the reserve power upon one of an electrical or mechanical activation; a pair of terminals operatively connected to the reserve battery for outputting the produced power to electrode pads configured to supply the produced power to a surface of the patient; and a stop for preventing the activator from activating the reserve power source, the stop being selectively removable when activation is desired.
US08588899B2
The present invention relates to a novel means to use a fundamental model of the parts of the brain that are dysfunctional in Parkinson's disease, and related dynamical diseases of the brain, as part of a feedback control system to modulate the signs and symptoms of disease. Fundamental computational models that embody our knowledge of the anatomy, neurons, and dynamics of the parts of the brain we wish to control, and use those models to reconstruct what is inaccessible to our measurements. Through emulation the controller synchronizes to the parts of the brain we wish to observe and track. By passing simultaneous control pulses to both the model controller, as well as the brain, we control both the model and the brain. The detailed framework to embed fundamental models of the brain within a control scheme to control symptoms of Parkinsons and related dynamical diseases of the brain are disclosed.
US08588894B2
Techniques include determining a first vector of temporal changes in electrical data measured at multiple electrical sensors positioned at corresponding locations on a surface of a living body due to a natural electrical pulse. A different vector of temporal changes in electrical data measured at the same electrical sensors is determined due to each stimulated signal of multiple stimulated signals within the living body. Stimulated position data is received, which indicates a different corresponding position within the living body where each of the stimulated signals originates. The site of origin of the natural electrical pulse is determined based on the first vector and the multiple different vectors and the stimulated position data. Among other applications, these techniques allow the rapid, automatic determination of the site of origin of ventricular tachycardia arrhythmia (VT).
US08588889B2
A method and apparatus are presented for acquiring MR cardiac images in a time equivalent to a single breath-hold. MR data acquisition is segmented across multiple cardiac cycles. MR data acquisition is interleaved from each phase of a first cardiac cycle with MR data from each phase of a subsequent cardiac cycle. Preferably, low spatial frequency data are interleaved between multiple cardiac cycles, and the subsequent cardiac cycle acquisition includes sequential acquisition of high spatial frequency data towards the end of the acquisition window. An MR image can then be reconstructed with data acquired from each of the acquisitions that reduce ghosting and artifacts. Volume images of the heart can be produced within a single breath-hold. Images can be acquired throughout the cardiac cycle to measure ventricular volumes and ejection fractions. Single phase volume acquisitions can also be performed to assess myocardial infarction.
US08588887B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for an ingestible sensor device are described. The ingestible sensor devices may be swallowed by an animal to diagnose one or more conditions of the animal. The ingestible sensor device may include a sensor configured to receive a stimulus inside the gastrointestinal tract of an animal, wherein the sensor is configured to output a signal having a characteristic proportional to the received stimulus. The ingestible sensor device may further include a communications module that transmits a signal modulated with the sensor output signal and a housing configured to have a size that is swallowable, wherein the housing substantially encloses the sensor and communications module.
US08588883B2
The invention relates to an apparatus for monitoring muscle activity related to bruxism, said apparatus comprising:—an electrode assembly for providing signals indicative of said muscle activity, means for processing said signals in order to detect said bruxism, and means for providing a feedback signal in response to detecting said bruxism; wherein said electrode assembly comprises three electrodes in a fixed spatial relationship one to another, each electrode having a contact area for electrical connection with the skin which is spaced from the contact area of each other electrode in the electrode assembly by at least 2 mm, the maximum distance from an edge of one electrode contact area to the furthest edge of the furthest away of the other electrode contact areas being not greater than 60 mm.
US08588870B1
A method and system for reducing resource consumption to extend battery life based on an estimated time to a destination location is provided. A mobile station having mobile station resources, and having a battery that provides power to the mobile station resources for executing applications, is located at a current location and is heading to a destination location. The mobile station allocates a first extent of the resources for execution of at least one application by the mobile station. The mobile station estimates a current travel time from the current location to reach the destination location, and estimates a current remaining power of the battery. Based on the estimated remaining power and the estimated travel time to reach the destination, the mobile station reduces the allocation of resources for execution of the at least one application from the first extent to a second extent.
US08588869B2
Power management scheme for portable data collection devices utilizing location and position sensors
A data collection device (DCD) is placed in a first low power mode after the DCD has been in a first predetermined position, and placed in a second low power mode after a first predetermined period of time. In another embodiment the DCD includes a wireless telephone, and a proximity sensor which detects when the DCD is close to a user's face, wherein the telephone is automatically put in a handset mode when the DCD is close to a user's face, and automatically put in a speakerphone mode when the DCD is not close to a user's face.
US08588866B1
Signal strength and battery level are presented on a display associated with a mobile communications device. A scene is presented on the display, where the scene includes constituent items that collectively convey the battery level and the signal strength. Different states of the constituent items correspond to different states of the battery level and the signal strength. The constituent items together form a representation of a real-world situation.
US08588863B2
A device, system and method is described for augmenting cellular telephone signals for a cellular telephone. In an exemplary embodiment, an audio signal device cellular is provided with a sound generating device that stores one or more audio signals that are activated upon receipt of a telephone call. Optionally, the audio signal device may store a library of audio signals that may be programmable and edited. The device, system and method of the present invention enables a user to choose audio alert sounds beyond the scope of those provided by the manufacturer of a cellular telephone.
US08588860B2
Embodiments are described for handling receipt of call in a multi-screen device. In embodiments, the device may be in a closed mode in which a primary screen is being used. A message regarding the incoming call is displayed on the primary screen to a user so that a user can decide whether to answer the call from the primary screen. If the device is being used in a closed secondary screen mode (with the user interacting with the secondary screen) when the call is received, a notice will be displayed to the user to turn the phone around to the primary screen so that the user can decide whether to answer the phone.
US08588856B2
An antenna system is disclosed. In the antenna system, a first antenna element array includes multiple antenna elements, where the antenna elements are configured to receive and transmit signals in two different polarization directions; the first combiner-splitter is configured to combine signals, received by the multiple antenna elements; the active module is configured to receive combined signals in the two different polarization directions, and perform frequency translation on the combined signals to obtain baseband signals; at least one pair of receiving channels in the antenna system corresponds to a second antenna apparatus, and are configured to receive signals output by the second antenna apparatus in the two different polarization directions; and the active module is further configured to perform frequency translation on the signals received by the at least one pair of receiving channels to obtain baseband signals. In this way, the network performance gain is improved.
US08588854B2
A controlling station (110, 400) comprising an antenna arrangement (420) with a number of antennas, which each covers one of a number of adjacent cells, with a main beam with a beamwidth that extends into two immediately adjacent cells. The controlling station (110, 400) is adapted to: -transmit on a control channel on a first number of antennas, -measure the output power on the traffic channels on the first number of antennas, -if the traffic channel output power on any of said first number of antenna is above a threshold, transmission on the control channel is activated on a second number of antennas, -measure the traffic channel output power on each antenna in the antenna arrangement, -if the measured traffic channel output power on an antenna is below a second threshold and the traffic channel on the antennas of both adjacent cells is active, the control channel transmissions on that antenna are deactivated.
US08588853B2
A method and apparatus for configuring a first cellular base station such as a femtocell to operate in a digital cellular telecommunications network includes: placing the first cellular base station in the digital cellular telecommunications network; detecting with a radio receiver at least one second operating cellular base station within the digital cellular telecommunications network; demodulating a first transmission of the at least one second cellular base station transmitter to obtain a first data stream; predictively modifying the first data stream to create a modified first data stream; correlating at least one periodic portion of the modified first data stream to form an enhanced data signal; decoding the enhanced data signal to obtain information; and configuring the first cellular base station with the information.
US08588847B1
An apparatus for reducing power consumption in an IP (Internet Protocol) communications device. The apparatus may include a high-power consumption main application processor and a low-power consumption application processor to share processor functions. The high-power consumption application processor may carry out functions related to the user interface of the device, signaling and control path. The low-power consumption application processor may implement IP processing, voice signal processing and video signal processing.
US08588841B2
A base station apparatus that estimates whether or not each terminal device belonging to a communication cell of the present apparatus is present in an end area of the cell. The apparatus includes a reception device that receives from each terminal device, transmission power information which indicates transmission power of the terminal device; a registration device that successively registers the transmission power information with a storage device; a statistical processing device that computes a statistic used for estimating the terminal device present in the end area of the communication cell, with respect to a population which is the transmission power information stored in the storage device; a candidate extraction device that extracts candidates for the terminal device present in the end area of the communication cell, based on the statistic computed by the statistical processing device; and an estimation device that estimates the terminal device present in the end area of the communication cell from among the candidates extracted by the candidate extraction device.
US08588834B2
A method of performing a random access procedure in multiple component carrier system is provided. The method includes transmitting a random access preamble on an uplink component carrier, receiving a response to the random access preamble, transmitting an identity for the MS based on the response and monitoring a downlink component carrier linked to the uplink component carrier among a plurality of aggregated downlink component carriers. It is clear which downlink component carrier the MS needs to monitor for contention resolution.
US08588832B2
A precoding method for a femtocell or a picocell and a communication system using the same is provided. The communication system may include a small base station that is able to implement a protection mode to protect a neighbor terminal from an interference regardless of whether a neighbor base station is performing a process to protect the neighbor terminal from the interference. Also, the small base station may use at least one process scheme appropriate for a current environment among various process schemes, thereby effectively protecting the neighbor terminal from the interference.
US08588831B2
The present invention relates to mobile communication technologies, and in particular, to a method, base station and system for sending information. The method includes: obtaining discontinuous reception (DRX) parameter of a terminal; determining discontinuous transmission (DTX) parameter of the base station according to the DRX parameter; and sending pilot and broadcast information periodically according to the DTX parameter. The technical solution under the present invention saves time-frequency resources, reduces interference on neighboring cells, and saves electric power.
US08588828B2
The base station includes: a first combiner which weights the BB signals received by first and second antenna elements by first and second weight coefficients and adds them; a second combiner which weights the BB signals received by third and fourth antenna elements by first and second weight coefficients and adds them; a third combiner which weights the BB signals added by the first and second combiners by third and fourth weight coefficients and adds them; a first processor which calculates such first and second weight coefficients that a combined polarization of the received signals of each antenna is orthogonal to a polarization of an interfering signal existing in the same direction as a desired signal; and a second processor which calculates such third and fourth coefficients that a null is formed in a direction different from the desired signal and in which an interfering signal exists.
US08588823B2
An apparatus and method for providing a location information service using a mobile code in a Mobile Station (MS) are provided. The method includes obtaining a mobile code scanned by an input device of the MS; acquiring location information if the location information is included in the obtained mobile code; matching coordinates of the acquired location information on a first cyber map in the MS if cyber map information corresponding to the coordinates of the acquired location information is included in the first cyber map in the MS; and if the cyber map information corresponding to the coordinates of the acquired location information is not included in the first cyber map in the MS, updating the first cyber map with cyber map information corresponding to coordinates of corresponding location information obtained from a second cyber map in a server and matching the acquired location information on the updated first cyber map.
US08588822B1
A system and method are disclosed for triggering location estimation of mobile stations in a geographic region of interest. The disclosed system includes a list of International Mobile Subscriber Identities (“IMSI”) used to track which mobile stations are to have location estimates generated, a database of Network Measurement Reports (“NMR”) used for generating the location estimates, and a location engine. The system operates as a group of concurrently executing processes that i) process IMSIs and NMRs that are extracted by and received from probes that monitor communication links; ii) generate location estimates of mobile stations in the region of interest, based on a sequential indexing of the IMSI list; iii) maintain the freshness of the NMR database; and iv) maintain the freshness of the IMSI list. These processes operate such that the triggering of the location estimations occurs asynchronously with respect to the detection of information on the communication links.
US08588819B2
Systems and methods relating to location-based applications, such as widgets, are disclosed. In general, in one embodiment, a mobile device obtains a list of applications associated with a current or anticipated location of the mobile device from a centralized or distributed application service. One or more desired applications to be activated are either manually or automatically selected from the list of applications associated with the current location or the anticipated location of the mobile device. The mobile device then activates the one or more desired applications. Optionally, for each desired application that has been activated, the desired application may be deactivated once one or more deactivation criteria are satisfied.
US08588815B2
A method of delivering location-specific information to a wireless subscriber includes receiving one or more rules from an information distribution entity. The one or more rules define a geographic area related to the information distribution entity and define information to be distributed to the wireless subscriber when a wireless device of the wireless subscriber is in the geographic area. The method also includes receiving a registration message from the wireless subscriber, determining that the wireless device of the subscriber is in the geographic area, and delivering the information to the wireless device of the wireless subscriber.
US08588813B2
Apparatus, and an associated method, for providing a location estimate of a GAN (Generic Access Network) mobile station. Data is collected pertaining to the location of the network at which the mobile station is connected in communication connectivity. The data is stored at a database that is subsequently accessible. And, pursuant to a call to a PSAP or pursuant to another location service provided by a location service center, appropriate data is retrieved and used pursuant to the location estimate.
US08588811B2
A method and apparatus to utilize a set of measurements (either partial or compete) to improve the accuracy of an initial position estimate for a wireless terminal. The initial position estimate for the terminal is first obtained (e.g., based on a cell-ID or an enhanced cell-ID solution). Measurements are obtained for the terminal. The initial position estimate is then updated with the measurements to obtain a revised position estimate for the terminal. The updating may be performed by (1) deriving a measurement vector based on the initial position estimate and the measurements, (2) forming an observation matrix for the measurements, (3) determining a matrix of weights, (4) deriving a correction vector based on the measurement vector, the observation matrix, and the weight matrix, and (5) updating the initial position estimate with the correction vector.
US08588803B2
In accordance with an example embodiment of the present invention, a method comprises obtaining at a network node a scheduling reference point with a fluctuation range based at least in part on at least one metric for a plurality of cellular user equipments (UEs) and at least a pair of device-to-device (D2D) UEs; signaling the scheduling reference point and the fluctuation range to the at least pair of D2D UEs; allocating radio resources to the pair of D2D UEs according to one or more allocation criteria; receiving metrics updates from the pair of D2D UEs and the plurality of cellular users; and adjusting the scheduling reference point and the fluctuation range according to the received metric updates.
US08588794B2
A media control profile is described herein. The media control profile provides a number of selectable pre-defined and/or user-defined settings to manipulate the functionality of a hybrid telecommunications and entertainment mobile device. Three basic modes of operation, namely a telecommunications-only device mode, an entertainment-only device mode, and a hybrid telecommunications and entertainment device mode are provided. Setting associated with one or more of these basic modes are combined to form a media control profile for the hybrid mobile device.
US08588771B2
A method of providing access to an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) for a subscriber (UE) comprises the steps of providing an home interface entity (HGGSN) with access network data (MCC′,MNC′) identifying the access communication network (AN), sending a message comprising the access network data (MCC′,MNC′) from an home interface entity (HGGSN) to serving means (HSS), comparing the home network data (MCC,MNC) and the access network data (MCC′,MNC′), checking if the subscriber (UE) is allowed to roam based on a set of predefined criteria when the result of the comparing step is false, and sending a message comprising the access network data (MCC′,MNC′) to at least one of call state control functionality means (CSCF) when the result of the checking step is true.
US08588766B2
The present invention provides safe and secure application distribution and execution by providing systems and methods that test an application to ensure that it satisfies predetermined criteria associated with the environment in which it will execute. Furthermore, by using rules and permission lists, application removal, and a modification detection technique, such as digital signatures, the present invention provides mechanisms to safely distribute and execute tested, or untested, applications by determining whether the application has been modified, determining if it has permission to execute in a given wireless device environment, and removing the application should it be desirable to do so.
US08588761B2
A method of handling measurement reporting for a network in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The network maintains an active set for storing at least a cell identity which is capable of providing a service to a mobile device of the wireless communication system. The method includes receiving a measurement report message from the mobile device, wherein the measurement report message is used for notification of a cell replacement procedure and includes a first cell identity corresponding to a first cell, determining whether the first cell identity is included in the active set and whether a number of the cell identity in the active set exceeds a threshold, to generate a result, and performing the cell replacement procedure according to the result.
US08588757B2
A system and method of initiating user notification for a wireless device is provided for allowing a user to locate the wireless device when it has been accidentally misplaced. Notification settings of a wireless device indicate whether incoming communication triggers user notification. If the wireless device has been configured to not ring, then calling the wireless device will not help the user to locate the wireless device. A message (e.g. email, SMS) configured for prompting user notification notwithstanding the notification settings is sent to the wireless device. The message is routed through a wireless network and received by the wireless device. In accordance with an embodiment of the disclosure, in response to the message, the wireless device executes a user notification notwithstanding the notification settings. In some implementations, the user notification includes audible ringing, which might help the user to locate the wireless device based on the audible ringing.
US08588756B2
A method is disclosed for checking updates of a software application installed in a wireless communications terminal adapted to be used in a wireless communications network in combination with a subscriber identity module. In the subscriber identity module, a web server function adapted to interact with the software application installed in the wireless communications terminal is provided. When an update of the software application is available, the wireless communications terminal is notified, so that information about availability of the update is made available to the web server function. The software application sends at least one update availability request to the web server function in the subscriber identity module, in order to check if an update is available.
US08588746B2
A method for establishing communication via a VoIP network bypasses the IP PBX component conventionally used to obtain address information. Instead of obtaining the IP address from a location register of the IP PBX, the method involves use of a server configured to assign and provide to the caller's communication device a unique address (IP address/port) of a proxy. The caller then sends a Short Message Service (SMS) text message to the callee with the assigned address of the proxy. Thereafter, the caller and the callee connect at the assigned address of the proxy, thereby forming a communication path. Preferably, the devices operated by the parties are conventional smart phones. According to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the method further comprises the steps of: determining whether to encrypt the communication; and encrypting the communication, if it is determined that the communication is to be encrypted. Preferably, the Station-to-Station (STS) protocol is used to encrypt the data packets.
US08588742B2
Techniques for providing wireless services to mobile subscribers using existing broadband network infrastructures are described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a request received at a gateway device from a mobile subscriber over a radio access network (RAN) for accessing a service provider network, the gateway device authenticates the mobile subscriber for accessing the RAN, where the gateway device interfaces the RAN and the existing broadband network. Upon successfully authenticating the mobile subscriber for accessing RAN, the gateway device accesses a network service provider over the existing network to acquire a network address on behalf of the mobile subscriber optionally using at least a portion of credentials derived from the authentication, where the network address allows the mobile subscriber to access the service provider network. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US08588734B2
A method and a mobile services switching center of providing differentiated services in a communications network. The method comprises receiving in a mobile services switching center an indication message from a first radio access network, said message indicating a radio access network type to which a called communication apparatus of a terminating communication session is connected, in response to the indication message: accessing differentiated service information associated with the radio access network type of the terminating communication session, and sending the differentiated service information to be applied for service differentiation by a second access network of calling communication apparatus.
US08588731B2
The described method and system provide for determining whether to immediately contact a PSAP (Public Safety Answering Point) or attempt to communicate with a telematics services subscriber before contacting the PSAP in the event of an emergency. If a subscriber associated with the telematics unit is deaf and/or mute, and a TIM (TTY (TeleTYpewriter) Interface Module) or TTY device is not available to the subscriber, the subscriber may not be able to communicate with a call center regarding an emergency situation. Thus, expedited emergency procedures are executed by the call center in such a situation to avoid delay and facilitate the arrival of assistance as soon as possible.
US08588726B2
An apparatus comprising a low noise mixer comprising a transconductance amplifier configured to receive a differential voltage and to generate a differential current signal, a passive mixer directly connected to an output of the transconductance amplifier, and a transimpedance amplifier coupled to the passive mixer, wherein the transimpedance amplifier is configured to receive a current signal and convert the current signal to a voltage signal.
US08588724B2
A system and method for improving the processing of communications signals received in the presence of narrowband interference signals. The received communications signals are time sampled and transformed into a series of spectral terms in the frequency domain that are then evaluated to identify narrowband interference signals. The identified narrowband interference terms can be calculated to a value that will optimize the corrupted spectral terms resulting from the communication, and an inverse transformation can be used to generate a time domain signal that is free from interference.
US08588719B1
A radio receiver includes a plurality of receiver signal strength indicator (RSSI) circuits coupled to respective output taps of various gain stages along the receiver chain. Each of the RSSI circuits generates a respective 1-bit clip information signal. A processor accumulates the clip information signals to estimate the signal strength of an inbound RF signal and sets a gain of the radio receiver based on the estimated signal strength.
US08588712B2
A modulation circuit for use in a radiofrequency transmitter includes a local oscillator circuit configured to generate one or more local oscillator signals at a desired frequency and with a duty cycle at or about twenty-five percent, and a modulator configured to generate one or more modulated signals responsive to the one or more local oscillator signals and one or more baseband information signals. In at least one embodiment, the modulation circuit includes a modulator comprising a combined mixing and transconductance circuit that includes a transistor circuit for each baseband information signal serving as a modulation input to the modulator. Each transistor circuit comprises a first transistor driven by the baseband information signal and coupling a modulator output node to a corresponding transconductance element, and a second transistor driven by one of the one or more local oscillator signals and coupling the corresponding transconductance element to a signal ground node.
US08588690B2
The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) for discovery of D2D devices in wireless communications, e.g., LTE systems by relating beacon/discovery resources to paging frames, so that the UE may save power being active (e.g., in the wake-up state) only during paging frames. The user equipment may receive during a paging receiving time a paging signal from the wireless network and at least one discovery signal from at least one user equipment operating in the wireless network, wherein a discovery cycle period of the at least one discovery signal is different than the paging cycle period and is determined using the paging cycle period based on a predefined rule.
US08588689B2
A wireless network may be managed by identifying one or more wireless subscriber systems included in a lobe pool of a wireless network, identifying at least one candidate subscriber system outside of the lobe pool with which to enable communications, and reconfiguring the antenna such that the lobe pool includes the identified candidate subscriber system.
US08588686B2
A Method and system for remote power distribution and networking for passive devices is provided. In this regard, a sensor comprising a leaky wave antenna may be powered utilizing energy from a radio frequency signal received via the leaky wave antenna. The sensor may be operable to recover a baseband signal from the received radio frequency signal. The sensor may be operable to generate one or more sensor readings in response to the received baseband signal. The sensor may be operable to communicate the sensor reading to a source of the received radio frequency signal via a backscattered signal. The backscattered signal may be generated by controlling spacing between surfaces of the leaky wave antenna. The backscattered signal may be generated by switching a load in and out of a receive path of the sensor and/or by switching between a plurality of feed points of the leaky wave antenna.
US08588678B2
A data receiving and recording method and data receiver are provided for receiving data coded by a predetermined method and copyright information attached to the data. While recording the received data on a predetermined recording medium, the copyright information is recorded into a predetermined area of the recording medium. Preferably, the data consists of audio data of the song, lyrics data of the song and image data relating to the song and the copyright information is allotted respectively to the audio data, lyrics data and image data.
US08588666B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus whose primary transfer roller is structured in a way as to move from a transfer position along a locus of a rotational motion of a radius r about a rotational center of a photosensitive drum as a rotational axis so that the transfer position is set to a position shifted downstream in a belt moving direction from a position of contact between the photosensitive drum and an intermediate transfer belt by a shift amount f. Accordingly, even when there is an error the upward/downward movement of the primary transfer roller to shift the position of contact, the distance of the primary transfer roller from the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum is constant, so that the shift amount f which is the tangent of the circumferential surface of the photosensitive drum and the circumferential surface of the primary transfer roller is always set constant.
US08588662B2
A developing device 2 includes a developer collecting guide member 128 for carrying a residual developer on the surface of a developing roller 114 in a direction from the developing roller 114 to a carrying member 112, the developer collecting guide member 128 including (i) a first inclined plane 128b that guides the residual developer to a position in a carrying path P which position is between a first side wall 117 and a rotary shaft of the carrying member 112 and (ii) a second inclined plane 128c which has a smaller angle of inclination than the first inclined plane 128b and guides the residual developer to the carrying path P, the second inclined plane 128c having an end section present downstream in a developer guiding direction, the end section reaching a position between the side wall 111a and the rotary shaft, and tapering in area to the end section.
US08588657B2
In a developing device including a developer tank and a developing roller, an internal space of the developer tank is partitioned by a partition into a first conveying path, a second conveying path, a first communication path, and a second communication path. A first developer conveying section that conveys the developer in the developer tank in a first conveying direction X is disposed in the first conveying path. A second developer conveying section that conveys the developer in the developer tank in a second conveying direction Y is disposed in the second conveying path. The first developer conveying section includes a first spiral blade, and a rotation tube.
US08588655B2
In a device or method to develop potential images of images to be printed, the potential images being generated on an intermediate image carrier using developer fluid having a charged toner and carrier fluid, developing with an applicator device the potential images, the applicator device directing the developer fluid across the intermediate image carrier. With the feed device the developer fluid is supplied to the applicator device, the feed device discharging excess developer fluid depleted of toner and that is not transferred to the applicator device. With a conditioning device the carrier fluid is taken from the applicator device and the taken up carrier fluid is discharged. With a cleaning device residual developer fluid remaining after development of the potential images is cleaned off of the applicator device and the residual developer fluid is supplied to a chamber arranged in the cleaning device. The discharge from the feed device and the discharge from the conditioning device are fed to the cleaning device chamber.
US08588653B2
A charging device includes a corona charger for electrically charging a photosensitive member; a sheet-like member for covering and uncovering an opening of the corona charger; a regulating member for regulating a shape of the sheet-like member so that the sheet-like member is convex toward the corona charger with respect to a circumferential direction of the photosensitive member; and a winding-up member, including a winding-up shaft around which the sheet-like member is to be wound up, for winding up the sheet-like member so that a surface of the sheet-like member opposing the corona charger is directed toward a winding-up center of the winding-up shaft when the sheet-like member is wound up by the winding-up shaft.
US08588642B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a chassis, photosensitive members, an intermediate transfer belt including a first plane and a second plane, a waste toner container, a first feeding path extending between a first feed roller and a secondary-transfer roller, a second feeding path being a path for a recording sheet inserted through a sheet inlet, a second feed roller arranged in an overlapping position to at least partially overlap with the waste toner container when viewed along a horizontal plane and in a position out of a course of the waste toner container being installed in and removed from the chassis. The second plane of the intermediate transfer belt extends downwardly in an inclined angle with respect to the first plane. The waste toner container is movable along the second plane of the intermediate transfer belt to be settled in the chassis.
US08588641B2
An image foaming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer unit, and a pressing mechanism. The image bearing member bears a toner image. The transfer unit is disposed opposite the image bearing member and is swingably and detachably held within a main body of the image forming apparatus. The transfer unit includes a transfer member and a power receiving electrode. The transfer member is disposed opposite the image bearing member, to contact the image bearing member to form a transfer nip therebetween and transfer the toner image on the image bearing member onto a recording medium in the transfer nip. The power receiving electrode receives power from the main body of the image forming apparatus. The pressing mechanism presses the transfer unit against the image bearing member and includes a power supply electrode that contacts the power receiving electrode of the transfer unit to supply power thereto.
US08588636B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image carrier; an image-forming device including a toner and forming a toner image on the image carrier during a first running period; a detector detecting a toner quantity in a set period within the first running period; and a toner supplying device supplying the image-forming device with a toner according to the detected toner quantity. The apparatus further includes a period setting device that causes the image-forming device to stir the toner over a second running duration longer than the first running duration, and causes, during the second running duration, the detector to perform detection plural times over a period longer than the period, thereby measuring a result stable time required to stabilize the result of the detection, and setting in the detector, as the period, a period over which the result of the detection is stable within the first running duration.
US08588634B2
The present disclosure provides toners having a tunable gloss level, electrophotographic apparatuses for using such toners as well as processes for making such toners.
US08588632B2
An information processor includes a storage unit storing a first coefficient in correspondence with a characteristic of a sheet of paper, a first acquisition unit acquiring a first signal based on the water content of a first sheet of paper not having an image formed thereon, a second acquisition unit acquiring a second signal based on the water content of the first sheet of paper having an image formed thereon and being heated for fixing, a determination unit determining the characteristic of the first sheet of paper, a first calculation unit calculating a variation in water content of the first sheet of paper using the difference between the first signal and the second signal and the first coefficient stored in correspondence with the determined characteristic, and a second calculation unit calculating an expansion and contraction ratio of the first sheet of paper using the variation in water content.
US08588626B2
An apparatus that uses plural kinds of consumable items different from each other, the apparatus including a consumption status detecting device to detect a respective consumption status for each of the plural kinds of the consumable items, a memory to store a plurality of settings for each of the plural kinds of the consumable items, each of the settings including presence or non-presence of information output, and an output device to output the consumption status detected by the consumption status detecting unit, according to the setting of the presence or the non-presence of information output stored in the memory.
US08588624B2
Methods and systems for processing an optical signal in a communication system are disclosed. The disclosed methods yield benefits for estimation and tracking of carrier phase of received signals at a digital coherent receiver. Specifically, phase ambiguity is removed by the insertion of pilot symbols into a transmitted data stream. Pilot symbols are detected from a received signal, and carrier phase is estimated for the detected pilot symbols. If carrier phase track of received data symbols was lost, a correction is applied to recover the track. Coherent symbol decoding may be used which has not been possible with prior art techniques due to the possibility of phase tracking loss.
US08588622B2
An optical device includes a light source, a controller that supplies control information to the light source and controls an output level of the light source, a monitor that outputs an operation state of the optical output as a monitor output, and an auxiliary controller that records the monitor output and the control information. When the controller stops supplying the control information, the auxiliary controller outputs the control information to the light source in accordance with the relation between the recorded monitor output and the recorded control information.
US08588615B2
Multiplexing-technology based large-capacity transmission requires the installation of many types of interface card. In addition, supporting a redundant configuration for preventing data communication from being interrupted requires the devices and cards more than double those required for the production system. An optical communication card includes multiple optical signal transmission/reception units, main signal processing units corresponding to the optical signal transmission/reception units and required for a multiplexed system, and a connection selection unit that can switch among multiple optical transmission lines, and each of the main signal processing units includes multiple function units and a function selection unit.
US08588614B2
An apparatus and method for implementing a flexible distributed antenna system (DAS) head end are disclosed. A flexible DAS head end includes an RF conditioning module configured to be connected to one or more base station transceiver (BTS) devices and one or more low-power RF modules that are also part of the flexible DAS head end. In an example embodiment, the flexible DAS head end receives high-power digital-RF passband transmissions from its connections to the one or more BTS devices, and low-power digital-RF passband signals from the one or more low-power RF modules. The low-power RF modules, in turn, can receive input baseband signals from one or more baseband units (BBUs) in a wireless network, and then convert the input signals to the lo low-power digital-RF passband signals. The RF conditioning module constructs one or more superposition RF signals from the passband signals, and routes and transmits them to an array of antenna nodes.
US08588613B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for propagating a timing signal over a Dense Wave Division Multiplexer fiber optic network by polarity modulation of the Optical Service Channel are provided. The systems, methods, and computer-readable media may make the timing signal available for use by devices that require a reference timing source.
US08588612B2
A optical detection apparatus includes: an optical splitting unit configured to split a seed lightwave and split upward signal light generated by an optical network unit, based on the seed lightwave; a first control unit configured to control polarizations of the split seed lightwaves based on a first electrical signal; a second control unit configured to control phases of the split seed lightwaves based on a second electrical signal; an optical coupling and signal conversion unit configured to couple the seed lightwaves, of which the polarization and phase are controlled, and the split upward signal lights, convert the coupled optical signals into the first and second electrical signals, and transfer the first and second electrical signals to the first and second control units, respectively; and a signal detection unit.
US08588608B2
A method is provided for managing connections in an optical access network. Also provided are a corresponding platform, exchange, network and computer software product. The method manages connections of a plurality of user modules to a plurality of transmission modules of an exchange in an optical access network. The management method includes a dynamic re-arrangement of the connection of at least one of the user modules to at least one of the transmission modules according to at least one predetermined optimization criterion.
US08588601B2
A drive control apparatus 118 includes a stepping motor 111-a capable of performing a micro step drive having a predetermined division number by using a sinusoidal excitation current, a transmission mechanism 111-c, 111-d configured to transmit an energy generated by a drive of the stepping motor to a focus lens 105 to move the focus lens 105, and a controller 111-b configured to control the stepping motor 111-a so that the number of micro steps in a micro step drive having the predetermined division number in a drive crossing a first phase is smaller than the number of micro steps in a drive crossing a second phase where a rotation angle of the stepping motor 111-a is smaller than a rotation angle in the first phase.
US08588599B2
An imaging apparatus which includes a focus detection unit performing focus detection in a contrast system, and a display unit displaying the image obtained from an imaging unit in live view display is provided. The imaging apparatus includes a setting member setting a contrast AF calibration mode, a calibration amount obtaining unit for obtaining a difference amount between a focus position selected by a photographer and an in-focus position by the focus detection unit as a contrast AF calibration amount when the focus position is selected by the photographer in the contrast AF calibration mode, a storage unit storing the contrast AF calibration amount, and a focus control unit performing in-focus control by adding the contrast AF calibration amount to the in-focus position by the focus detection unit at the time of shooting while performing the in-focus control based on a result of the focus detection by the focus detection unit.
US08588594B2
An electrical heater for heating liquid containing at least one scale forming element and methods for fabrication and use of the heater are described. The electrical heater comprises a heating unit including electrical resistance heating material, and a heat conducting sheath disposed over at least a portion of the heating unit. The heater also includes a pair of terminal ends extending from the electrical resistance heating material for connecting the heating unit to an external source of electric power. The heat conducting sheath includes an electrically insulating compound that features anisotropic heat conductivity with enhanced transparency to infra-red radiation along axes normal to a surface of said electrical resistance heating material.
US08588586B2
A recording method for recording received digital broadcasting on a medium, wherein system resume information including an operation mode at the time of playback and resume information for each piece of program information are separately recorded in a management file as resume information. This makes it possible to provide a recording method that allows the user to perform desired Resume Playback.
US08588578B2
The present invention provides for a method for converting a video data file into a format usable by a portable video player that comprises, in a single selection on the video data file, ripping and deCSS the video data file if necessary 8, converting the video data file 10 into the format usable by the portable video player to produce a playable file, the file has a name prefix and a name suffix, renaming the name suffix to be compatible with the portable video player, and making the playable file accessible to the portable video player 12. Converting the video data file specifies the video format, the video aspect ratios the maximum video bit rate, the maximum video frame rate, the audio encoder type and the maximum audio bit rate. In a particular embodiment 36 the video format is H.264, the video aspect ratio is 320×240, maximum video bit rate is 768 kbps, the maximum video frame rate is 30 fps, the audio encoder is ACC-LC and the maximum audio bit rate is 160 kbps.
US08588577B2
A timer-recording managing apparatus for a recorder that includes a plurality of recording resources that enable the recorder to simultaneously record broadcast programs. The apparatus includes a registration unit configured to register schedule information of the broadcast programs; a registration change unit configured to make a change on the schedule information; a schedule group extraction unit configured to extract a schedule group including a plurality of timer-recording schedules that are affected by an allocation of the recording resources to a start-vertex timer-recording schedule, when the registration change unit makes a change on the schedule information with respect to the start-vertex timer-recording schedule; and a resource allocation unit configured to collectively re-allocate the recording resources to the plurality of timer-recording schedules.
US08588569B2
One embodiment of a single mode optical fiber includes: a graded index central core region having outer radius r1 and refractive index Δ1; a cladding region comprising (i) a first inner cladding region having an outer radius r2<10 microns and refractive index Δ2 and 0.65≦r1/r2≦1; (ii) and a second inner cladding region having an outer radius r3>10 microns and comprising a minimum refractive index Δ3, wherein said second cladding region has at least one region with a refractive index delta that becomes more negative with increasing radius; and (iii) an outer cladding region surrounding the inner cladding region and comprising refractive index Δ4, wherein Δ1>Δ2>Δ3, Δ3<Δ4.
US08588566B2
According to the electronic apparatus and cellular phone of the present invention, in an optical waveguide forming body of a flexible cable, an air layer is provided in a deforming section which experiences bending deformation as a result of the movement of a second body relative to a first body (either a pivoting or sliding movement), and the position of this air layer becomes located on the outer circumferential side of a core when the deforming section undergoes bending deformation. As a result of this, it is possible to ensure sufficient flexibility and to also achieve a sufficient improvement in the folding endurance of the core portion for this optical waveguide forming body to be utilized in practical applications. Moreover, it is possible to suppress light loss and achieve high-speed, large-capacity transmissions even when the optical waveguide forming body of a flexible cable experiences bending deformation due to the relative movement of the second body relative to the first body.
US08588560B2
An optical 90-degree hybrid circuit includes a first demultiplexing optical coupler having two or more first input ports and two or more first output ports, a second demultiplexing optical coupler having two or more second input ports and two or more second output ports, two first arm waveguides connected to the first output ports, two second arm waveguides connected to the second output ports, a 90-degree phase shift section installed in one of the four arm waveguides, a first optical coupler and a second optical coupler connected to the first arm waveguides and the second arm waveguides, a first optical waveguide for connecting an optical splitter and the first input ports, and a second optical waveguide for connecting the optical splitter and the second input ports, wherein an optical length of the first optical waveguide is different from that of the second optical waveguide.
US08588551B2
The multi-image sharpening and denoising technique described herein creates a clean (low-noise, high contrast), detailed image of a scene from a temporal series of images of the scene. The technique employs a process of image alignment to remove global and local camera motion plus a novel weighted image averaging procedure that avoids sacrificing sharpness to create a resultant high-detail, low-noise image from the temporal series. In addition, the multi-image sharpening and denoising technique can employ a dehazing procedure that uses a spatially varying airlight model to dehaze an input image.
US08588543B2
A signal processing apparatus includes: a first low-pass filter filtering a data signal; and a convolving section convolving low frequency components of the data signal obtained by the first low-pass filter with a compensation filter for compensating for signal degradation attributable to low frequency components of impulse response obtained by filtering the impulse response with a second low-pass filter.
US08588542B1
An image processing apparatus for processing pixels is disclosed. The image processing apparatus comprises one or more functional blocks adapted to perform a corresponding functional task on the pixels. Further, the image processing apparatus includes one or more line-delay elements for delaying a horizontal scan line of the pixels. A desired processing task, which includes at least one functional task, is performed by configuring each functional block based on an actual number of the line-delay elements used for performing the desired processing task. Each functional block used for performing the desired processing task receives a group of pixels for processing from one or more horizontal scan lines such that the group overlaps another group of pixels for processing from one or more horizontal scan lines by another functional block.
US08588537B2
An apparatus for compressing data and optimizing transfer of the compressed data via a wireless link(s) may include a processor and memory storing executable computer code causing the apparatus to at least perform operations including compressing one or more samples of data corresponding to at least one image based in part on generating a plurality of wavelet coefficients. The wavelet coefficients correspond to the sampled data. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to generate one or more messages including at least one of the wavelet coefficients. Each of the messages may include content denoting that one or more detected errors below a predetermined threshold are insufficient to inhibit reconstruction of the image. The computer program code may further cause the apparatus to enable transmission of the messages to a device(s) via at least one wireless link. Corresponding methods and computer program products are also provided.
US08588532B2
An image processor includes a storing unit, an image determining unit, and an output unit. The storing unit stores a selecting condition. The image determining unit determines whether the image corresponding to the set of the image data satisfies the selecting condition. The output unit outputs an image list including either one of the image that is determined to satisfy the selecting condition by the image determining unit and a resized image resized from the image that is determined to satisfy the selecting condition by the image determining unit.
US08588522B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a system and method for dynamic color correction of an imaged object. According to one embodiment, an image containing an object and color chart is received. The color chart includes a range of color values, while at least one feature and an associated correctable color value is determined from the imaged object. Furthermore, a target color value substantially corresponding to the correctable color value is identified. Based on the identified target color value, the correctable color value associated with the feature is then corrected.
US08588519B2
An apparatus and method for training a landmark detector receives training data which includes a plurality of positive training bags, each including a plurality of positively annotated instances, and a plurality of negative training bags, each including at least one negatively annotated instance. Classification function is initialized by training a first weak classifier based on the positive training bags and the negative training bags. All training instances are evaluated using the classification function. For each of a plurality of remaining classifiers, a cost value gradient is calculated based on spatial context information of each instance in each positive bag evaluated by the classification function. A gradient value associated with each of the remaining weak classifiers is calculated based on the cost value gradients, and a weak classifier is selected which has a lowest associated gradient value and given a weighting parameter and added to the classification function.
US08588515B2
A method and apparatus for enhancing quality of a depth image are provided. A method for enhancing quality of a depth image includes: receiving a multi-view image including a left image, a right image, and a center image; receiving a current depth image frame and a previous depth image frame of the current depth image frame; setting an intensity difference value corresponding to a specific disparity value of the current depth image frame by using the current depth image frame and the previous depth image frame; setting a disparity value range including the specific disparity value; and setting an intensity difference value corresponding to the disparity value range of the current depth image frame by using the multi-viewpoint image.
US08588507B2
A computing device reads pixels of an image of a product along an x-direction and a y-direction of the image. In response to reading two neighboring pixels having different color values, the device regards one pixel having a predetermined color value from the two neighboring pixels as a profile point of the image, to generate one or more point-clouds consisting of all profile points of the image. Furthermore, the device reads one or more theoretical profile curves of the product from the storage device, aligns the one or more point-clouds and the one or more theoretical profile curves, and determines a minimum distance from each profile point in the one or more point-clouds to the one or more adjusted theoretical profile curves. A profile tolerance of the product is then determined according to a maximum value and a minimum value of the minimum distances.
US08588505B2
This disclosure is directed to imaging techniques and image analysis techniques for automated analysis of biological growth media. According to this disclosure, the spectral responses of biological growth media can be used to identify and count biological agents from images of biological growth media. The biological growth media may be illuminated with two or more different wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation, and images of the biological growth media can be captured under these different illuminations. The spectral reflectance values in one or more first images can be normalized based on the spectral reflectance values in one or more second images, wherein the first images are associated with a different wavelength of illumination than the second images. The normalization may allow for better identification of biological agents that manifest on the biological growth media.
US08588502B2
Statistical data of a fluorescence population is obtained easily with high accuracy. To achieve this, an evaluation apparatus of fluorescence population of the present application includes an input unit inputting a fluorescence observation image (If) of a fluorescence population and a transillumination observation image (It) having a same field of view as the fluorescence observation image, a first detecting unit (Mt) detecting, as a first area, an area in which a cellular image exists on the transillumination observation image being input, a setting unit (If′) setting, as a reference area, an area corresponding to the first area on the fluorescence observation image being input, and an obtaining unit obtaining fluorescence intensity data of a fluorescence image from the reference area in the fluorescence observation image.
US08588500B2
A method for determining an orientation in space of a substantially cylindrical shaped elementary object using a radiography device comprising a source of X-rays and a detector disposed opposite the source is provided. The radiography device is arranged to record a projection image of the elementary object when the elementary object is located between the source and the detector. The method includes: determining a quantity A of X-rays absorbed by the elementary object on the projection image; and evaluating the sine of an angle θ as a function of the quantity A of absorbed X-rays, wherein the angle θ is between a longitudinal axis of the elementary object and a plane of the projection image.
US08588498B2
A method for segmenting bones on magnetic resonance (MR) images includes retrieving an MR image and performing an enhancement process on the MR image to generate a bone enhanced MR image. The bone enhanced MR image is then registered to a computer tomography (CT) based bone atlas. An MR image with bone segmentation is generated by segmenting the bone enhanced MR image using the CT based bone atlas as a mask. The MR image with bone segmentation may be presented on a display.
US08588496B2
A medical image display apparatus includes an image database for recording a three-dimensional standard image of a model subject, a three-dimensional anatomical image corresponding to the three-dimensional standard image, and anatomical information on living tissue names, an image acquirer for acquiring a three-dimensional medical image of an examinee, a medical tomographic image identifier for identifying a medical tomographic image in the three-dimensional medical image based on a user's instruction, a standard tomographic image identifier for identifying a standard tomographic image in the three-dimensional standard image, which corresponds to the medical tomographic image, an anatomical tomographic image identifier for identifying an anatomical tomographic image in the three-dimensional anatomical image, which corresponds to the standard tomographic image, and a display controller for displaying the medical tomographic image and the anatomical tomographic image on a display unit, while displaying the living tissue names over the anatomical tomographic image based on the anatomical information.
US08588491B2
A storage unit stores four-dimensional image data indicative of an aged change in perfusion in a three-dimensional region including at least a part of a subject including a body axis thereof. A control unit analyzes a distribution of a TTP value of the perfusion concerning the coronal slice. The control unit calculates a difference value between the TTP values on both sides sandwiching the body axis on a straight line orthogonal to the body axis in the coronal slice. The control unit analyzes at least one of a distribution of the TTP value and a distribution of a characteristic value different from the TTP value in regard to a axial slice orthogonal to the coronal slice at a position of the straight line on which a maximum value in a plurality of difference values calculated is calculated.
US08588490B2
Plural points present on a boundary surface dividing a subject are set as input points. A plane approximating the boundary surface is determined as a reference plane by using the input points. Plural supplementary points are set on the reference plane on the outside of the subject. A surface approximating the boundary surface is generated by interpolating points between the input points by using the supplementary points and the input points. The subject is divided into separate regions by using the generated surface as a boundary surface.
US08588484B2
Exemplary embodiments of method and apparatus for processing the images of fingerprints can be provided. For example, aligned images can be subjected to a tessellation process, whereas each image can be partitioned into a number of regions. Within each region at least one parameter associated with the ridges can be measured and stored. Such exemplary parameter can include, e.g., the prevailing ridge orientation, the average ridge separation and the phase of the ridges. The data can be projected and stored in a multidimensional coordinate system, whereas the representations of any two data can be separated by an amount corresponding to the dissimilarity of these data.
US08588474B2
A method for motion detection is provided that includes determining a first motion measure for a pixel based on differences between first neighboring pixels of the pixel, determining a detail measure for the pixel, wherein the detail measure is indicative of an amount of detail in second neighboring pixels of the pixel, adapting a first coring threshold and a first gain of a first transfer function based on the detail measure, and using the adapted first transfer function to map the first motion measure to a first motion parameter.
US08588472B2
Motion of an object is characterized based on data indicative of a plurality of pixilated images of the object. An outline of the object may be extracted from the data for each pixilated image of the object. Changes over time in a shape and/or position of the outline may be used to determine a speed associated with the object.
US08588471B2
A mapping method is provided. The environment is scanned to obtain depth information of environmental obstacles. The image of the environment is captured to generate an image plane. The depth information of environmental obstacles is projected onto the image plane, so as to obtain projection positions. At least one feature vector is calculated from a predetermined range around each projection position. The environmental obstacle depth information and the environmental feature vector are merged to generate a sub-map at a certain time point. Sub-maps at all time points are combined to generate a map. In addition, a localization method using the map is also provided.
US08588466B2
To enable detection of an overlying object distinctively even if a stationary object is overlaid with another stationary object or a moving object. A data processing device includes a first unit which detects an object area in a plurality of time-series continuous input images, a second unit which detects a stationary area in the object area from the plurality of continuous input images, a third unit which stores information of the stationary area as time-series background information, and a fourth unit which compares the time-series background information with the object area to thereby detect each object included in the object area.
US08588465B2
A method of tracking a target includes classifying a pixel having a pixel address with one or more pixel cases. The pixel is classified based on one or more observed or synthesized values. An example of an observed value for a pixel address includes an observed depth value obtained from a depth camera. Examples of synthesized values for a pixel address include a synthesized depth value calculated by rasterizing a model of the target; one or more body-part indices estimating a body part corresponding to that pixel address; and one or more player indices estimating a target corresponding to that pixel address. One or more force vectors are calculated for the pixel based on the pixel case, and the force vector is mapped to one or more force-receiving locations of the model representing the target to adjust the model representing the target into an adjusted pose.
US08588463B2
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.
US08588457B2
A loudspeaker magnetic motor utilizes a voice coil with two or more wire coils that are connected in parallel and that are layered on top of one another. The motor utilizes, as a magnetic field source, a permanent magnet and, more particularly, a permanent magnet that includes a rare earth metal such as a neodymium boron iron magnet.
US08588443B2
The method of operating a hearing system comprising at least two devices comprises the step of establishing a common network time among said at least two devices. Said at least two devices can be provided with information on the number of network time units that passed since a time zero point of said common network time. Information on the common network time can be communicated from one device to another device. A wireless link can be used for establishing said common network time. The common network time not only allows for a precise synchronization of events within the hearing system, but also for ordering and sequencing events. A priorization of events, like tasks and actions, is enabled, based on the common network time. Doubly-received or obsolete commands can be recognized and deleted, and tasks can be scheduled.
US08588441B2
A method and a hearing system for adaptively matching microphones (3, 4) of a hearing system. The method comprising the steps of determining a true direction towards a sound source, determining an estimated direction towards the sound source using microphones (3, 4) of the hearing system, comparing the true direction with the estimated direction to obtain a correction factor, applying the correction factor to the signals of the microphones (3, 4) of the hearing system in order to reduce a difference between the true direction and a corrected estimated direction obtained via corrected microphone signals.
US08588436B2
Various electromagnetically-countered systems are provided and include at least one wave source irradiating harmful electromagnetic waves and at least one counter unit emitting counter electromagnetic waves for countering the harmful waves. Various generic counter units of such systems and various mechanisms are provided to counter the harmful waves by the counter units by matching configurations of the counter units with those of the wave sources, matching shapes of such counter waves with shapes of the harmful waves, etc. Various methods are provided for countering the harmful waves with the counter waves by such source or wave matching. Various methods are also provided for the counter units as well as counter waves. Various processes are provided for providing such systems and counter units. Various electric and/or magnetic shields may be used alone or in conjunction with such counter units to minimize irradiation of the harmful waves from the system.
US08588432B1
A wireless device and method may comprise a receiver and method for receiving wireless transmissions including program data. Program data may include audio data, or video data, or text data, or a combination thereof. An authorization authorizes reproduction and/or controlling of received program data. The device and method may delay the received program data so that it can be brought into substantial time alignment with the natural sound, and to be so reproduced and/or recorded, when authorized. Optionally, location may be determined from locating data, and optionally may utilize a stored representation of a venue. Optionally, a binaural microphone may pick up ambient sound which is mixed or combined with delayed program data for producing a combined stereo audio signal.
US08588428B2
A signal processing system for use in a multi-channel audio system having a plurality of power amplifier channels connected to a plurality of loudspeakers and power amplifiers, configured to receive and reproduce audio signals through the loudspeakers, and at least a first channel of the plurality of power amplifier channels amplifying a first audio signal, comprises a processor responsive to a signal level threshold applicable to at least said first channel, such that at and above the signal level threshold, the first audio signal in the first channel is amplitude limited and a portion of at least the first audio signal is mixed into at least a second channel. The amplitude limiting and signal mixing is configured so as to reduce introduction of at least one of: a) audible tonal distortion; and b) perceivable spatial distortion; of a sonic presentation due to said limiting and signal mixing.
US08588426B2
Methods and apparatus to secure communications in a mobile network are disclosed. An example method disclosed herein comprises randomizing a first set of bits associated with information to be communicated over a slow associated control channel by applying a scrambling factor to generate a set of scrambled bits equal in length to the first set of bits. Another example method disclosed herein comprises concatenating a set of error detection bits with a set of information bits associated with information to be transmitted over a slow associated control channel to generate a set of coded bits, and shuffling the set of coded bits to generate a set of shuffled bits.
US08588425B1
A data processing system stores encrypted data. Object identifiers are assigned to storage objects, and data encryption keys are assigned to the storage objects. When performing an operation upon a storage object, data encryption key failure may occur due to a corrupt or incorrect key. In this case, a copy of the data encryption key is fetched from a key server. It is possible for the association of the object identifiers with the data encryption keys to become lost or confused, so that the key server may fail to provide the correct key for a specified object identifier. Therefore, an absolute key identifier that is unique across the key server namespace also is stored in association with the object identifier in the storage system and in the key store of the key server, and the absolute key identifier is used as a failsafe for recovery of encrypted data.
US08588420B2
A method for determining a time delay for sending an update request by a computing device is described. A first update request is sent by a computing device at the termination of a first random delay. A first load data is received. A second update request is sent by the computing device at the termination of a maximum update parameter. A second load data is received. The first load data is compared with the second load data. A next update time is adjusted if the first load data differs from the second load data.
US08588419B2
In a communication system, a first wireless communication apparatuses belonging to a communication group receives a connection request frame including a notifying security level from a second communication apparatus outside of the communication group. The first communication apparatus stores a reference security level peculiar to the communication group, which is selected from security levels depending on one of encryption methods including non-encryption and encryption strengths. In the first communication apparatus, the notifying security level is compared with the reference level, and a response frame including one of a connect rejection and a connection permission is described, is generated and transferred to the second communication apparatus. The connect rejection represents a rejection of connection to the second communication apparatus and the connection permission represents a permission of connection to the second communication apparatus.
US08588413B1
A disclosed method for enabling a seamless authenticated access to an Aggregator's Wi-Fi network includes steps of receiving a request to establish a data session from a mobile device and at a public mobile service provider network, authenticating the mobile device in response to the request to establish the data session, and establishing the data session upon successful authentication. The method further includes steps of receiving an activation key associated with the mobile device from the mobile device and at the public mobile service provider network and recording the activation key against an identification of the mobile device such as a Mobile Directory Number assigned to the mobile device. The activation key is used to generate a password, which is used to authenticate the mobile device request to access the Aggregator's Wi-Fi network.
US08588408B2
A method of implementing a block cipher algorithm by a device storing a fixed initialization datum includes determining, before execution of a first iteration of the algorithm in the course of a session, a modified initialization datum by way of a determined function supplied as input with the fixed initialization datum and a state value specific to the session. The state value may be stored in the device. The modified initialization datum may be used to implement the first iteration of the algorithm.
US08588406B2
A portion of data is obfuscated by performing a bitwise XOR function between bits of the data portion and bits of a mask. The mask is generated based on the memory address of the data portion. A bitfield representing the memory address of the data portion is split into subset bitfields. Each subset then forms the input of a corresponding primary randomizing unit. Each primary randomizing unit is arranged to generate an output bitfield that appears to be randomly correlated with the input, but which may be determined from the input if certain secret information is known. The output of the primary randomizing units is input into a series of secondary randomizing units. Each secondary randomizing unit is arranged to input at least one bit of the output of every primary randomizing unit. The output of the secondary randomizing units are then combined by concatenation to form a data mask.
US08588404B2
A method of acoustic echo cancellation in the VoIP terminal using processing of the far-end signal with the digital adaptive filter in order to obtain the echo estimate that is subtracted from the microphone signal in which the far-end signal, before it is converted to the analog form and passed to the loudspeaker (4), is marked by embedding an encoded digital signature obtained from the signature generator (14) and then detection of the digital signature is performed in the signal collected by the microphone (7) and converted to digital form, depending on the result of the digital signature detection, adaptation of the digital adaptive filter (9) is resumed or stopped. A circuit for acoustic echo cancellation in VoIP terminal contains the digital adaptive filter with the control block situated between the far-end speech signal path and the near-end speech signal path, and the double-talk detector (11) that comprises the signature generator (14) connected by the signature encoder (15) to the signature embedding block (16) that is situated between the speech decoder (2) and the digital-to-analog converter (3) in the far-end speech signal path. The signature generator (14) is also connected to the signature decoder (17) which is connected to the output of the analog-to-digital converter (8) in the near-end speech signal path and the output of the signature decoder (17) is connected by the decision block (18) to the control block (10) of the digital adaptive filter (9).
US08588397B2
A communication control system includes accessing a document data recording unit based on the information concerning a document and acquiring characteristic data indicating the characteristic of the document when receiving a call initiation request including at least information identifying a called party terminal and information concerning a document related to the call initiation request; accessing a status data recording unit based on information identifying the called party terminal included in the call initiation request and acquiring status data indicating a status of the called party terminal of the call initiation request; determining whether a call requested by the call initiation request is initiated or not based on the acquired characteristic data and the acquired status data; and executing a call initiation process depending on the determination by the call initiation determining unit.
US08588395B2
Methods and apparatus that provide customer service representatives with information for supporting a customer service call are described. Also described are method and apparatus for collecting customer service call information and generating reports and/or alerts there from. Through the use of customer service call data from multiple divisions, problems and/or underperformance at a division can be identified and rectified in a timely manner. Information from one division can also be used to predict possible problems at other divisions allowing problems to be addressed, in some cases, prior to customer complaints at a division to be addressed in some cases before an increase in the number of customer service calls at the individual division triggers an alert.
US08588385B2
In an example embodiment, there is described a unified communication system that automatically presents a number of communication attempts from a caller since last contact with a caller, along with the caller identification information. Optionally, links may be provided to access detailed information about the past communication attempts.
US08588383B2
Various methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for controlling a number of calls based on promotional message impressions. The method may include receiving a request to communicate at least one promotional message, wherein the at least one promotional message is associated with one or more phone numbers. The method may include communicating the at least one promotional message and the one or more phone numbers. The method may include receiving one or more calls associated with the at least one promotional message. The method may include determining a call through rate for the at least one promotional message based on the one or more calls. The method may include determining a number of impressions of the at least one promotional message based on the determined call through rate.
US08588381B2
Methods and systems for processing outbound fax messages in an efficient and scalable manner are provided. According to one embodiment, an Internet fax system receives a request to deliver a fax message. Source files representing content to be included as part of the fax message are stored to a shared storage area accessible by imaging systems and fax processing resources. An imaging system is selected to convert the source files into a digital representation suitable for faxing. A work request identifying the selected imaging system is stored on a centralized work queue within a database. The imaging systems poll the centralized work queue to retrieve pending work requests. Responsive to identifying the work request, the selected imaging system converts the source files, associates the resulting digital representation with an outbound fax job and causes the fax message to be delivered by submitting the outbound fax job to a fax modem.
US08588380B2
A system and method for processing a communication signal from a wireline is provided. The system comprises a coupling unit and signal processing circuitry. The coupling unit comprises a transformer and is configured to receive the communication signal from the wireline. The coupling unit is also configured to generate a first signal based on amplifying or attenuating the communication signal according to a first winding ratio of the transformer and a second signal based on amplifying or attenuating the communication signal according to a second winding ratio of the transformer. The signal processing circuitry is configured to process the first signal and the second signal.
US08588379B2
At one of the timings: during a period between the moment when one of terminals which performs transmission calls out a communication partner and the moment of response and at the timing after the communication between the terminals is complete; content data is read out from a database and the read out content data is transmitted to the terminal.
US08588376B2
The invention is directed to efficient notification of the hearing impaired during emergencies. A message initiating agency and an administrator create an outbound message for delivery and further selects a number of campaign related parameters. A telecommunications interface module is provided that is capable of detecting the presence of a connected TTY device, and a connected TTY device logging system for recording in a database the occurrences of detection of a TTY devices associated with a particular telecommunications interface, or outbound message contact. The system delivers the campaign message to one or more telecommunications interfaces, delivers a TTY compatible message or a provides notification to said administrator of the detection of a connected TTY device, and records the incidence of failures to deliver the campaign message.
US08588375B1
A communication system to handle call-back calls from emergency services to callers comprises a communication network and a call processing system. The communication network is configured to receive an emergency call for an emergency service from a communication device operated by a caller, and receive an incoming call for the communication device. The call processing system is configured to, in response to the emergency call, modify call controls associated with the caller, and process the modified call controls associated with the caller to determine if the incoming call is allowed. The communication network is further configured to connect the incoming call if the incoming call is allowed, and to block the incoming call if the incoming call is not allowed.
US08588365B2
The present invention relates to calibration devices and to methods of using these devices.
US08588364B2
A medical X-ray apparatus comprising a supporting part for supporting an X-ray generator and a two-dimensional X-ray detector while interposing an object to be examined therebetween, a radiation area restricting part for restricting a radiation area of X-ray generated from the X-ray generator, and a scan driving part for scanning the object with the X-ray restricted by the radiation area restricting part as X-ray beam and for executing radiography. A direction intersecting with X-ray scan direction is defined as a height direction, the apparatus further comprises a radiation area setting part for setting at least one of both ends of width of the X-ray beam in the height direction at a desired position in accordance with the position of an interested area of the object; and the X-ray beam is irradiated only to the radiation area as set by the radiation area setting part with its beam width in height direction restricted by the radiation area restricting part.
US08588361B2
A device for supporting nuclear fuel plates (4) with a longitudinal axis (X) including a bottom (6) forming a lower longitudinal end of the supporting device and a lid (8) forming an upper longitudinal end of the supporting device, the bottom (6) and the lid (8) being rigidly connected to each other through a central connecting means and peripheral connecting means, a plurality of upper means (18) for supporting the plates (4) attached to the lid (8), and a plurality of lower means (16) for supporting the plates (4) attached to the bottom (6), ensuring elastic support of the longitudinal ends of the plates (4) in a direction of the width (R) of the plate (4) and allowing free deformation of said longitudinal ends in the direction of the thickness (T) of the plate.
US08588359B2
A reception circuit includes: an AD converter; an equalization circuit that equalizes an output of the AD converter; a determination circuit to which error information is input from the equalization circuit; and a controller that adjusts at least one of resolution and voltage range of the AD converter, in the circuit the determination circuit outputs a control signal to adjust at least one of resolution and voltage range to the controller based on the error information.
US08588354B2
A method and apparatus that allows egress pointer smoothing data by evaluating the average fill of an elastic store. For one embodiment of the invention, by measuring the average fill, the 3 bytes of SOH and 87 bytes of data are taken together in each sample, and the relative phase of ingress and egress frames does not impact the fill depth calculation. For one such embodiment, the calculation is performed by summing the elastic store fill over a full row and increment/decrement decisions based on that average figure provide smooth rate of pointers coming out even as a section overhead moves through the frame.
US08588350B2
A diversity receiver has multiple antenna receiving branches. Each branch has means for estimating at least a receiving channel parameter, and the channel parameter estimating means in one branch are coupled to the channel parameter estimating means in an other branch. This way at least a part of the channel parameter estimate in the one branch is used as an aid for estimating at least a receiving channel parameter in the other branch. This saves processing time and processing power in the diversity receiver, and even results in a higher accuracy when selecting the best antenna and receiving branch.
US08588349B2
A receiver employs low-rate processing to synthesize the effect of high-rate interference in a received multi-rate signal. Each high-rate subchannel is analyzed on its low-rate descendents to produce symbol estimates for each low-rate symbol interval. The symbol estimates are applied to low-rate descendent subchannels, which are then combined to synthesize the effects of the high-rate interference. An interference canceller processes the synthesized interference with the received signal for producing an interference-cancelled signal. Alternatively, analogous steps may be applied at high-rate to analyze, synthesize, and cancel the effects of low-rate interference in a multi-rate signal.
US08588348B2
An automatic gain control (AGC) system and corresponding method is configured to increase signal to noise which may be referred to as signal to noise ratio in a receiver. The AGC system includes: a signal level detector for determining a signal level for a desired signal; a wideband signal detector for determining a wideband signal level of a wideband signal, the wideband signal being indicative of an interfering signal being present; and a controller coupled to both detectors and configured to provide one or more AGC signals to the receiver to establish a gain setting for the receiver, wherein an initial AGC setting for the receiver is based on the signal level, and AGC adjustments, based e.g., on one or more of the signal level and the wideband signal level, are provided such that an adjusted AGC setting for the receiver increases the signal to noise.
US08588343B2
A multiport amplifier modulates a reference quadrature phase shift keying (QPSK) signal using an input RF signal to an input hybrid network, generates a plurality of binary phase shift keying (BPSK) signals by demodulating RF signals that are amplified by a plurality of power amplifiers, detects an amplitude error and a phase error of two corresponding amplified RF signals by comparing a QPSK signal that is generated by coupling two RF signals having a phase difference of 90° among the plurality of BPSK signals with a reference QPSK signal, and compensates the detected amplitude error and phase error.
US08588339B2
A method (200) and system (300) for detecting temporarily available bandwidth in a frequency band: select (205) a channel in the frequency band; measure (210) an energy received in the selected channel; compare (215) the measured energy to a first threshold; when the measured energy exceeds the first threshold, determine that the channel is unavailable (220) for transmission, otherwise determine (225) that the channel is available for transmission; correlate (255) a signal received in the channel with a known feature of a signal conforming to a particular transmission format; compare (260) the correlation result to a second threshold; when the correlation result in the channel exceeds the second threshold, determine (265) that a signal conforming to the particular transmission format is present in the channel, otherwise determine (270) that the signal conforming to the particular transmission format is not present in the channel.
US08588334B2
A wireless communication system that includes a robust transmitter array. The robust transmitter array includes an antenna array system with at least one column, at least one antenna element, and at least one polarization, a plurality of transmitter devices to transmit analog voice/data signals through the antenna array system, and a signal processor. The signal processor modifies two or more input signals in the event of a transmitter device failure such that substantially similar amounts of each of the two or more input signals are output from the transmitter system to the antenna array system, and wherein substantially less transmitted signal power is lost than in the case wherein the signal processor does not modify the two or more input signals in the event of a transmitter failure.
US08588331B2
A transmitter system for transmitting parallel data by compensating a crosstalk includes: first and second transmission lines parallel to each other; a first inverted crosstalk pulse generation unit configured to receive first transmission data and inverted first transmission data and output a first inverted crosstalk pulse according to a data mode; a second inverted crosstalk pulse generation unit configured to receive second transmission data transmitted in parallel to the first transmission data and inverted second transmission data and output a second inverted crosstalk pulse according to the data mode; a first addition unit configured to combine the first transmission data and the second inverted crosstalk pulse and output first compensation data to be transmitted to the first transmission line; and a second addition unit configured to combine the second transmission data and the first inverted crosstalk pulse and output second compensation data to be transmitted to the second transmission line.
US08588330B2
A communications device may include In-phase (I) power amplifiers configured to respectively generate I amplified signals, Quadrature (Q) power amplifiers configured to respectively generate Q amplified signals, I antennas respectively coupled to the I power amplifiers, and Q antennas respectively coupled to the Q power amplifiers. The communications device may also include an I controller coupled to the I power amplifiers and configured to selectively enable some of the I power amplifiers, and a Q controller coupled to the Q power amplifiers and configured to selectively enable some of the Q power amplifiers.
US08588329B2
A phase-locked loop having: an oscillator for forming an oscillating output signal; a frequency divider connected to receive the output of the oscillator and frequency divide it by a value dependent on a division control signal; and a phase comparator for comparing the phase of the divided signal and a reference signal to generate a control signal, the operation of the oscillator being dependent on the control signal; the output data to form a divided signal a division ratio controller configured to, when clocked by an input signal, generate a series of output data for forming the division control signal; the phase-locked loop having: a first mode of operation in which the frequency divider is operable to frequency divide the output of the oscillator by a value dependent on the output of the division ratio controller; and a second mode of operation in which the frequency divider is not operable to frequency divide the output of the oscillator by a value dependent on the output of the division ratio controller, and the division ratio controller is clocked by a signal that is independent of the output of the oscillator.
US08588327B1
A digital transmitter includes a digital-to-digital sigma-delta modulator (SDM) receiving digital baseband data (fBB) which sigma-delta modulates the baseband signal to generate a digital SDM signal. The digital SDM signal is digitally mixed with an oscillation signal (fLO) to frequency shift the baseband data to fLO+/−fBB. The frequency shifted signal is filtered to remove either the upper or lower frequency band and the remaining signal is converted to an RF analog signal for eventual RF transmission. In another embodiment, the digital-to-digital SDM is a multi-level SDM that generates N parallel binary (digital) waveform signals which are each individually mixed with the oscillation signal. The resulting N frequency shifted SDM signals are summed and filtered, or in the alternative are each filtered and summed, to generate the RF analog signal.
US08588322B2
An embodiment of a method and device for detecting a signal and generating bit soft-output of a multiple-input multiple-output system is provided. The device includes at least one channel estimates pre-processing unit, one received vector processing and one detection and soft-output generation unit. The pre-processing unit calculates multiple QR Decompositions of the input channel estimation matrix. The detection and soft-output generation unit computes near optimal bit soft output information with a deterministic complexity and latency. It may implement a reduced complexity search method. Globally, embodiments of the invention may allow achieving low complexity, high data rate, scalability in terms of the dimension of the MIMO system and flexibility versus the supported modulation order, all potentially key factors for most MIMO wireless transmission applications.
US08588315B2
Provided are a decoding apparatus, a decoding method and a receiving apparatus for decoding in a system supporting an OFDM/OFDMA scheme. The decoding method includes the steps of: receiving phase-modulated signal; performing subcarrier demodulation on the received signal and generating correlation metrics; generating decoding metrics using the correlation metrics; and determining a payload using the largest metric of the decoding metrics and at least one of an average metric and the second largest metric of the decoding metrics. The decoding apparatus includes: a receiving buffer for buffering received phase-modulated signal; a likelihood metric generator for generating decoding metrics corresponding to likelihoods of the received signal buffered in the receiving buffer being determined as respective potential payload values; a mean calculator for calculating an average metric; and a payload determiner for determining a payload using the largest metric of the decoding metrics and at least one of an average metric and the second largest metric of the decoding metrics.
US08588313B2
Provided are a scalable video coding method and apparatus, and a scalable video decoding method and apparatus. The coding method generates a base layer bitstream of video by using one of a plurality of codecs, determines whether the used codec supports enhancement layer coding, decodes the base layer bitstream according to the result of the determination in order to extract coded information used for the generation of the base layer bitstream, and generates an enhancement layer bitstream of the original video based on the extracted information. Accordingly, it is possible to provide high-quality video and increase coding efficiency while using the various existing codecs.
US08588297B2
A method for encoding a video frame. The method including obtaining a current frame from a video stream, where the video stream includes a number of frames, determining a first base QP value for the current frame, and sending the first base QP value for the current frame to a decoder. The method also includes obtaining a first macroblock from the current frame, where the first macroblock includes a first image on the current frame, determining a first actual quantization parameter (QP) value for the first macroblock, and determining a first reference block for the first macroblock. The method also includes determining a first predicted QP value for the first macroblock using the first reference block, calculating a first ΔQP value for the first macroblock, and sending the first ΔQP value, a first prediction mode, and a first reference vector to the decoder.
US08588296B2
A video transcoding system and method employing an improved rate control algorithm. A plurality of frames in an input video bitstream are received by the system, in which each frame is in a first coding format. Each frame in the input bitstream is decoded, and complexity information indicating the complexity of the frame after decoding is obtained. An estimated number of bits to allocate for the respective frame is calculated. Using a rate estimation model that employs the complexity information for the respective frame, a picture cost for the frame is calculated based on the estimated number of bits allocated to encode the frame, and a parameter of the rate estimation model. A target cost for the respective frame is calculated based at least in part on the picture cost and the complexity information for the frame. A quantization parameter (QP) is calculated that, when used to encode the respective frame in a second coding format, would generate an encoded frame having an actual cost approximately equal to the target cost. The respective frame is encoded using the calculated QP, and the frames encoded in the second coding format are provided in an output video bitstream.
US08588284B2
A medical sensor system comprises a gateway comprising a wideband receiver and a narrow band transmitter, the each gateway configured to receive a wideband positioning frame using the wideband receiver from one or more wearable sensors and to transmit acknowledgement frames using the narrow band transmitter that include timing and control data for use by the sensors to establish timing for transmission of the positioning frame; and at least one wearable sensor comprising a wideband transmitter and a narrow band receiver, the sensor configured to transmit a sensor data frame to the gateway using the wideband transmitter and to receive an acknowledgement frame from the gateway using the narrow band receiver, extract timing and control information from the frame, and adjust the timing and synchronization of the wideband transmitter using the timing and control information.
US08588282B2
A transmitting/receiving device includes a transmitting/receiving unit and a signal processing unit. The transmitting/receiving unit is connected to a transmission side or a reception side via a differential signal line including a pair of signal lines, receives a signal using one of the pair of signal lines when being connected to the transmission side, and transmits a signal using the other of the pair of signal lines when being connected to the reception side. The signal processing unit processes a signal that is transmitted or received by the transmitting/receiving unit.
US08588281B2
A transceiver comprises a transmitter that converts a plurality of data components into serial data in response to a first clock signal and transmits the serial data, and a receiver that receives the serial data and converts the serial data into the plurality of data components in response to a second clock signal generated from the serial data. The transmitter adds at least one dummy bit to the serial data at predetermined intervals. The at least one dummy bit includes information regarding a data type of the plurality of data components.
US08588279B2
Aspects of a method and system for inter-PCB communication utilizing a spatial multi-link repeater are provided. In this regard, a signal may be transmitted between printed circuit boards via one or more repeaters, wherein the repeaters may frequency shift received signals to generate repeated signals. Each of the repeated signals may be generated by quadrature down-converting said received signal by mixing the received signal with a first LO signal pair, up-converting the down-converted signal by mixing it with a second LO signal pair, and adding or subtracting an in-phase portion and a quadrature-phase portion of the up-converted signal. Each repeated signal may comprise one or more signal components and a phase and/or amplitude of each of the components may be controlled to control a directivity of the repeated signals. The repeater may reside on one of the plurality of printed circuit boards.
US08588277B2
Method and apparatus for high rate code-division multiple access wireless communication is described. Each of a channel encoded data is modulated by an associated code having a small number of pseudo-noise spreading chips per orthogonal waveform period, thus producing a set of streams of modulated symbols. Each of the set of streams of modulated symbols is then gain adjusted, and combined to yield two streams of combined symbols. The combination is the set of streams is carried out to reduce a peak-to-average ratio of the transmission. The resulting two combined symbol streams are modulated by a complex multiplyer using a user long code and a pseudorandom spreading code (PN code) and upconverted for transmission.
US08588263B1
Apparatus and method for generating controlled-linewidth laser-seed-signals for high-powered fiber-laser amplifier systems. In some embodiments, the natural chirp (frequency change of laser light over a short start-up time) of a DBR laser diode when driven by pulsed current is used to broaden the linewidth of the laser output, while adjusting the peak current and/or the pulse duration to obtain the desired linewidth.
US08588255B2
A full-T cross apparatus and method are provided. The full-T cross apparatus includes an input module, which includes multiple input channels; and multiple output modules, each of which includes an output channel, an output control module, and multiple data storage modules. Each of the multiple data storage modules is corresponding to each of the multiple input channels of the input module. The multiple output modules are configured to receive service data from the multiple input channels according to the output channels corresponding to the service data, and send the service data according to output time slots corresponding to the service data. In this way, the chip size is reduced to some extent, and further, the costs and power consumption of the chip are reduced.
US08588254B2
Aspects of a method and system for energy efficient signaling for 100 mbps Ethernet using a subset are provided. In this regard, a network device enabled to communicate over a network link at 1 Gbps or faster may be configured to communicate over the network link at, or approximately at, 100 Mbps by reducing a number of active channels over which the network device communicates and/or reducing a size of a signal constellation utilized by the network device to encode data. The device may communicate according to 1GBASE-T or 10GBASE-T standards. The number of active channels may be reduced to a single bidirectional channel or two unidirectional channels. The signal constellation may be reduced to two or three levels. One or more components of the network device may be unnecessary for recovering data when communicating at 100 Mbps and may thus be powered down, or placed into a lower power mode.
US08588252B2
Techniques for sending control information on uplink channels are disclosed. In one design, a user equipment (UE) may determine its current configuration for concurrent transmission of a control channel and a shared channel. The UE may select one or more channels, from among the control channel and the shared channel, to send control information of at least one type in a same subframe. The UE may select the one or more channels based on the types of control information to send, the current configuration for concurrent transmission of the control channel and the shared channel, whether the UE is scheduled for data transmission on the shared channel in the subframe, whether the UE has sufficient transmit power to transmit both the control channel and the shared channel, etc. The UE may send the control information on the one or more selected channels in the subframe.
US08588249B2
Multicast information contained in a request from an IP TV set top box for video content to an IGMP manager is passed to an SA processor to perform a lookup of an SA table. A result of the lookup is the frequency of the downstream legacy channel over which the requested content is being delivered from an edge QAM device. The SA processor instructs a legacy QAM tuner to tune the determined frequency. The IGMP manager selects packets corresponding to the request content based on a program identifier that is associated with the multicast address in the SA table. As selected packets are received by the IGMP manager, multicast address information is placed into them, and they are passed on from the manager to the IP TV set top box. The IP TV set top box receives the requested content packets based on the multicast address.
US08588247B2
A relay device is provided that includes a reception unit and a transmission unit. The reception unit receives a startup packet including a magic packet, a MAC address of controllable equipment, and a first ID for starting up the controllable equipment. The transmission unit transmits a first electric signal indicating the first ID to all link-downed Ethernet ports.
US08588242B1
Some of the embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for scheduling processing of packets received from a network, comprising assigning a corresponding queue weight to each of a plurality of queues that are configured to enqueue the packets for processing; for each of the plurality of queues, determining a corresponding multiplication factor (MF) as a function of a number of cycles until a next packet is available from the corresponding queue for processing; and incrementing a plurality of counters, associated with the corresponding plurality of queues, based at least in part on the multiplication factors. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.
US08588241B1
In general, the invention is directed to techniques for improving memory utilization in a priority queuing system of a network device. More specifically, a priority queue memory management system is described in which memory pages are assigned to the various priority queues in order to implement an efficient first in, first out (FIFO) functionality. The dynamic memory techniques described herein allow the multiple priority queues to share a common memory space. As a result, each priority queue does not require a pre-allocated amount of memory that matches the aggregate size of the packets that must be buffered by the queue.
US08588234B2
A data processing apparatus includes a receiving unit for receiving a packet, a determining unit for determining whether to process the packet data by a self-module, based on first information contained in the packet and indicating a processing order, a processing unit for processing the data if the data should be processed by the self-module, a generating unit for generating a packet containing the first information, and one of the processed data, and second information indicating that the data to be processed is stalled, and a transmitting unit for transmitting, according to the first information, the packet to a module expected to process the packet next. The transmitting unit performs the transmission at a transmission interval longer than a predetermined time, if the first and second information indicate that the packet contains data which should be processed by a module next to the self-module in processing order and is stalled.
US08588229B1
A system comprises N ports and memory that stores M address databases each storing MAC addresses and having a database number. One of the N ports associated with one of the M address databases receives a frame including a destination MAC address, wherein N and M are integers greater than one. A controller generates a hashed MAC address based on the destination MAC address and combines the hashed MAC address and the database number of the one of the M address databases to generate a bucket address.
US08588221B2
An interface includes three sub-interfaces. A first and second sub-interface receive first/second inbound IQ data streams, respectively, packetize the first/second inbound IQ data streams to obtain first/second inbound IQ data packets, respectively, and transmit the first/second inbound IQ data packets to the baseband processor via a first/second set of RX lanes, respectively. Each first/second inbound IQ data packet comprises a data packet identifier out of a common set of possible data packet identifiers. A third sub-interface receives outbound IQ data packets from the baseband processor via a TX lane, and depacketizes the outbound IQ data packets to obtain an outbound IQ data stream. The third sub-interface receives an RX not-acknowledge signal via the TX lane that identifies a defective first or second inbound IQ data packet within the first/second inbound IQ data packets.
US08588211B2
A method for changing ICS session media includes: receiving a media type change request including a new media type sent from a terminal equipment or a MSC, releasing a CS call leg based on an original media type between an ICCF and the terminal equipment, establishing a CS call leg based on the new media type between the ICCF and the terminal equipment, and updating a media type of a second call leg between the ICCF and a second party into the new media type; or, receiving a media type change request including a new media type sent from a second party, updating a media type of a second call leg between an ICCF and the second party into the new media type, releasing a CS call leg based on an original media type between the ICCF and a terminal equipment, and establishing a CS call leg based on the new media type between the ICCF and the terminal equipment.
US08588208B2
A method performed by a wireless node includes receiving a data flow associated with user devices; performing a packet inspection of the data flow; determining whether a network address of the wireless node matches another network address associated with the data flow; converting the other network address to a layer 2 identifier when the other network address matches the network address; establishing a bearer link within the wireless node based on the layer 2 identifier; and offloading the data flow from layers of a network, which are higher relative to the wireless node, to the bearer link, wherein the data flow does not traverse the layers.
US08588206B2
A method and system of assigning reference signals to antennas and nodes in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system comprising N number of transmitting nodes, wherein N is an integer N≧1, is disclosed. The transmitting nodes are transmitting reference signals in a first slot and a second slot within sub-frames, over the same bandwidth. Each transmitting node has at least one transmit antenna, wherein different nodes can have different number of transmit antennas. The reference signals are of two different types, a first type of reference signals used for demodulation, and a second type of reference signals used for measurements. According to the method, reference signals of the first type is assigned to a number of transmitting nodes with at least one transmit antenna in the first and second slot in a predefined bandwidth; and reference signals of the second type is assigned to at least one transmitting node with at least transmit antennas in at least one of the first and second slot in a predefined bandwidth.
US08588198B2
An apparatus, method, and system are provided for combining and processing broadcast and narrowcast content on a common platform. The broadcast and narrowcast content may be processed, routed, encrypted, and transmitted. In some embodiments, a modulator may be used modulate the broadcast content and the output from that modulator may be coupled to an input of one or more interface cards. The inputs of the one or more interface cards may also be coupled to outputs from a plurality of modulators that may be configured to modulate the narrowcast content. In this manner, a reduction in resources may be obtained.
US08588191B2
A wireless LAN provides access to a mobile terminal (MT) utilizing beacon frames to broadcast access point (AP) service specific information. The MT listens to the beacon frames and compares the broadcast service(s) and service parameters to a predetermined service profile stored in the MT. When the services offered by an AP matches the services designated in the stored service profile, the MT associates with that particular AP.
US08588190B2
A multiple access digital communication method in ultra-wideband (UWB) radio access network is provided. More specifically, a multiple access technique in UWB communication channels is provided where UWB communication channels can be more efficiently used and collisions between multiple access user nodes can be more effectively avoided when the channels have a great multiple path fading. The digital communication method for use in an uplink in a UWB communication system includes the steps of: receiving data symbols from respective nodes, in which the data symbols are transmitted according to respective orthogonal time hopping patterns; checking whether there is a collision of the orthogonal time hopping patterns; and decoding the data symbols depending on whether data symbols of nodes involved in the collision of the orthogonal time hopping patterns are the same.
US08588181B2
A communication method performed in a mobile communication device of a telecommunication system includes receiving Service Data Units, SDUs, for transmission to a source node of the telecommunication system, storing a copy of the SDUs in an SDU management buffer, passing the SDUs to a concatenation and segmentation unit to generate Protocol Data Units, PDUs, storing the PDUs in a transmit buffer for transmission to the source node, sending a feedback message to the SDU management buffer identifying an SDU that can be removed from the SDU management buffer, receiving a handover command from the source node after receiving the status report, and after completing handover to a target node, using the received status report to control which SDUs are passed to the concatenation and segmentation unit to form PDUs for transmission to the target node.
US08588174B2
A method and dual-mode device for handing over an active call from the device's VoIP interface to its cellular interface. The active call is placed on hold and a second call is established from the VoIP interface to the cellular interface of the dual-mode device, wherein the second call includes a VoIP leg from the VoIP interface of the dual-mode device to a communications server. The remote device involved in the VoIP call is then instructed to initiate a new call to the communications server referencing the second call and causing the communications server to replace the VoIP leg of the second call with the new call, thereby joining the remote party to the second call connected to the cellular interface of the dual-mode device. The active call is then terminated.
US08588173B2
Disclosed is a frequency band allocation method which reduces PAPR (peak to average power ratio) when performing a single carrier transmission in the uplink line of an LTE+ (LTE Advanced) system in a system using both of an LTE (Long Term Evolution) system and the LTE+ system. In the frequency band allocation method, a UL band for the LTE is arranged adjacently in a lower frequency band than the UL band for the LTE+. With this arrangement, it is possible to prevent division of the band for the LTE+ by the uplink line control channel (such as PUCCH) transmitted by an LTE mobile station and to allocate a wide band continuously with the LTE+ mobile station. Especially when the LTE+ mobile station performs a single carrier transmission with the uplink line, the PAPR can be reduced since it is possible to allocate a band continuous with the single carrier signal.
US08588170B2
A method, in a wireless communications device, for transitioning between communication states, the wireless communications device compliant for use in a Universal Mobile Telecommunications System (UMTS), the method comprising: checking for radio bearer mapping information for the communication state being transitioned to prior to sending an update message, where the transition between communication states is not a transition from a paging state to a bidirectional communication state using shared channels; and transitioning to the state to be transitioned to using the checked radio bearer mapping information for that state and sending the update message.
US08588156B1
In an infrastructure wireless network, a direct data communication mechanism can be implemented for wireless network devices in a common basic service set (BSS) to directly exchange data frames, without transmitting the data frames via an access point. Each of the wireless network devices in the BSS can receive connection information that indicates whether data frames can be directly transmitted to each of the wireless network devices in the BSS. A source wireless network device can determine whether the data frames can be directly transmitted to a destination wireless network device based on analyzing the connection information. If the data frames can be directly transmitted, the source wireless network device can directly transmit the data frames to the destination WLAN device without having to transmit the data frames to the access point, which may improve transmission efficiency.
US08588153B2
A method for transmitting an uplink control channel at a terminal in a Single Carrier Frequency Division Multiple Access (SC-FDMA)-based mobile communication system is provided. The transmission method includes receiving a control channel index allocated from a base station; transmitting control information at every symbol through a subband and a Zadoff-Chue sequence offset resource, which are mapped to the control channel index according to a first grouping rule; and transmitting control information through a subband and a Zadoff-Chue sequence offset resource, which are mapped to the control channel index according to a second grouping rule, beginning from a symbol after a slot boundary.
US08588151B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate updating an access terminal's capability information in a wireless access node. Upon detecting a change in its capabilities, the access terminal transmits a message to the access node indicating the change. The message triggers the access node to determine the capability change associated with the access terminal, and to update its records to indicate the new capability information.
US08588139B2
Embodiments of a system and methods for identification of base station types are generally described herein. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US08588135B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for communicating data in an integrated sensor network having one or more nodes coupled to an optical sensor network and a radio frequency wireless sensor network, each node having an optical link and a wireless link. The method includes determining a transmission path having one or more hybrid hops for packet transmission over the optical sensor network and the radio frequency wireless sensor network, each hybrid hop including optical and wireless links between two neighboring nodes; and selecting a set of optical and wireless links for the optical sensor network and the radio frequency wireless sensor network to minimize contiguous wireless links.
US08588125B2
A method for communicating with a receiving station and a system for implementing the method. The system includes the receiving station. A geographical area is divided into at least two geographical cells. Each cell is a unique geographical region within the geographical area. Each cell is associated with one and only one unique joining address of at least two joining addresses. A totality of joining addresses in a joining message consisting of the one and only one unique joining address to which each cell is associated. The joining message is an IP unicast message including the at least two joining addresses.
US08588115B2
The invention provides apparatus methods for avoiding channel collisions in Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRAN), A medium access controller (MAC) for switching a base station (BS) of a WRAN from a first channel to a second channel at a time t is provided. The MAC includes a switch time delay circuit for delaying said switching with respect to time t by a random delay time.
US08588112B2
In one aspect of the invention, a method for transmission in a wireless communication system includes selecting by a signal destination one of a source-destination direct transmission, a decode-forward relay transmission, and a compress-forward transmission, responsive to channel gains between a signal source and a relay, between the signal source and the signal destination, and between the relay and the signal destination; informing a selected transmission mode from the selecting step to the signal source and the relay; and operating in the selected transmission mode by the relay.
US08588111B1
A system for passive communication recording, comprising a plurality of record servers and a recording management server. Upon receiving a recording request for a specific communication, the recording management server extracts identification information, generates recording rules, and sends target information and recording rules to a record server capable of intercepting packets arriving at or sent from the target. The record server creates a hashtable entry for the target and associates the hashtable entry with the recording rules. On detecting a new data packet, the packet sniffer passes the new packet to a cyclic buffer. A recorder software module pulls a second data packet from the cyclic buffer, determines if a hashtable entry exists that corresponds to the second data packet, and if a corresponding hashtable entry exists and any recording rules associated with the corresponding hashtable entry are satisfied, sends the second data packet to the local packet storage.
US08588110B2
Various embodiments are disclosed for a services policy communication system and method. In some embodiments, a communications device implements a service policy for assisting billing for the communications device use of a service on a network; and monitors use of the service based on the service policy, in which a local service usage is synchronized with a network based service usage.
US08588109B2
A system includes a device that receives a lawful intercept request from a law enforcement agency, and determines whether a packet data lawful intercept or a session initiation protocol (SIP)-based applications (SBA) lawful intercept is requested by the lawful intercept request. The device also provisions, when a packet data lawful intercept is requested by the lawful intercept request, a policy control and charging rules function (PCRF) and a packet data network (PDN) gateway (PGW) for the packet data lawful intercept. The device further provisions, when a SBA lawful intercept is requested, a proxy call session control function. (P-CSCF), a serving-CSCF (S-CSCF), and a session border controller (SBC) for the SBA lawful intercept.
US08588103B2
A system and method for distributing communications through a dense mesh network having a plurality of nodes coupled to one of at least two gateway controllers is disclosed. A node location of each node is calculated relative to other nodes in the mesh network. Nodes that are less than a predetermined distance of each other are assigned to separate gateway controllers. Radio frequency interference levels between the nodes in the mesh network are measured and channels or PN codes of nodes having interference levels greater than a predetermined amount are changed.
US08588101B2
Described herein are techniques related to data communications using a data packet having at least one frame with a robust preamble for use over media having a high degree of non-stationary noise (e.g., impulsive noise). The described techniques employ a preamble with a structure having multiple transitions between the preamble sections. Each transition indicates the start of the upcoming frame. With the techniques described herein, if noise damages the transitions between such sections beyond recognition, the receiver can still determine the frame start time from the one or more of the undamaged transitions. Thus, the robustness of communications via the noisy media is significantly increased.
US08588088B2
The preferred methodology for classifying VLANs based on the content of a packet arriving at the edge switch involves receiving a policy that defines content based classification of VLANs for packets from a network management station; assigning a VLAN to the packet received from a node based on inspection of a content of the packet and the policy received from the network management station; and sending the packet with the assigned VLAN to other nodes in the network for operations based on the assigned VLAN.
US08588078B1
A method and system for tracking network events are provided. A network event tracking system includes a network event database, multiple disparate networks, and a report generator. The network event database stores network event data and network element data associated with the multiple disparate networks. A vendor corresponding to each network element supplements the network element data stored in the network event database with vendor data when the network element is operating in a specified condition. The report generator utilizes the network event database to provide snapshots of network health during specified periods based on the network events associated with the network elements. Also, the report generator provides definitions for network acronyms and contact information for network sites associated with network elements.
US08588077B2
The Real-time Transport Protocol (RTP) and its related standards define a retransmission packet format and a way to give feedback via Negative ACKnowledge (NACK) packets for data that has been lost. In one embodiment, a unicast RTP repair session is associated with a main Source Specific Multicast (SSM) multicast session. Real-time Transport Control Protocol (RTCP) NACK packets are then used for feedback to a SSM feedback target address. This dynamically instantiates unicast RTP repair for multicast sessions. The repair scheme can be used for repairing multicast channels or joining new multicast channels. In another embodiment, a media transmission device shares an IP address with one or more other media transmission devices. The shared IP address can also be used to route multiple identical multicast media streams to different media stream receivers.
US08588071B2
A device, system, and method for adapting a current target rate of a video signal (VS) transmitted from a video provider (32) to a video receiver (10). The method includes receiving the video signal (VS) at the video receiver (10), measuring at the video receiver (10) at least an indicator of the received video signal (VS), the at least an indicator being different from a packet loss rate, calculating at the video receiver (10) a new target rate based on the current target rate of the received video signal (VS), the at least an indicator, and at least a reference, and transmitting from the video receiver (10) the new target rate to the video provider (32) to adapt the current target rate.
US08588058B2
Recovery time upon the failure of a link or switching system in an asynchronous data network can be minimized if downstream data switches provide upstream messages indicating to upstream switching system that the downstream traffic arrived in tact and was properly handled. Upon this loss or failure of the upstream status message to an upstream switching system, an upstream switching system can reroute data traffic around a failed link or failed switch with a minimal amount of lost data. The upstream status message is conveyed from a downstream switching system to an upstream switching system via a reverse notification tree data pathway.
US08588056B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for eliminating unwanted data packets by a restricted bandwidth network that interfaces with a second network are provided. In embodiments, a device receives unwanted data packets associated with identification of the device. Due to the transient nature of some forms of device identification, data packets intended for one user may be received by another user who has taken on the device identification of the first user. To remedy this situation, unwanted data packets are identified and blocked at a gateway based on the source and/or destination identification associated with the data packets.
US08588054B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate silence interval specification and utilization in wireless communications. In particular, a silence interval can be defined such that communications cease during the interval, defined by an interval period, offset within the interval period, and duration; the communication can be that of mobile devices to base stations in a wireless communication network. In this regard, base stations can measure thermal noise during the silence to set a interference over thermal (IoT) level in one example. Additionally, other systems and networks can use the silence intervals to transmit, such as public safety devices and/or peer-to-peer communication. The wireless mobile devices can receive the silence interval information and appropriately blank out communications during the defined period.
US08588049B2
The optical storage medium comprises a substrate layer, a data layer having a pit/land data structure with data arranged in tracks on the substrate layer and a nonlinear layer with a super-resolution material, wherein the data structure comprises diffractive pits and lands having a size above an optical resolution limit of a pickup for reading of the data and super-resolution pits and lands having a size below the optical resolution limit, said pits and lands having a defined length with regard to a channel bit length. A diffractive land preceding a super-resolution pit is changed by a first length depending on the laser power of the pickup, and/or a diffractive pit preceding a super-resolution land is changed by the first length depending on the laser power of the pickup, to compensate a phase shift of the super-resolution pit, respectively super-resolution land.
US08588045B2
Information is recorded on a multi-layered optical recording medium by irradiating it with a laser beam. The recording medium can form a first information recording layer that is the farthest from a light incident surface, a second information recording layer that is the second farthest from the light incident surface, and at least one third information recording layer that is located closer to the light incident surface than the second information recording layer is. At this time, if all the information recording layers other than the first information recording layer are either blank or have been completely recorded, then information is recorded on the first information recording layer. This allows for stabilizing the energy of a recording laser beam during recording and thereby providing improved recording quality.
US08588039B1
A method and system for providing a waveguide for an energy assisted magnetic recording (EAMR) transducer is described. The EAMR transducer has an air-bearing surface (ABS) that resides in proximity to a media during use and is coupled with a laser that provides energy. The EAMR transducer includes a write pole that writes to a region of the media and coil(s) that energize the write pole. The waveguide includes first and second cladding layers, a core, and assistant cores. The core is configured to direct the energy from the laser toward the ABS and has a core length. The core resides between the first and second cladding layers. A first portion of the assistant cores resides in the first cladding layer. A second portion of the assistant cores is in the second cladding layer. Each assistant core has an assistant core length less than the core length.
US08588038B2
An optical pickup has a laser light source, beam splitter, collimator lens, reflection mirror, objective lens and photo detector are mounted in a case. An objective lens actuator includes a magnetic member and magnet. The optical pickup may become contaminated by uncured adhesive remaining at the edges of the adhesive surfaces of the magnet and the magnetic member that is transferred to the optical pickup via finger cots or tweezers, etc. In an adhesion step between the magnet and the magnetic member, in which part of a groove near to the center of the surface has a small depth and part of the groove near to the outer circumference of the surface has a large depth, an adhesive is drawn toward the center of the surface of the magnetic member by a capillary phenomenon and is prevented from spreading along the outer edge of the surface.
US08588035B2
A minute repeater of a striking mechanism is normally actuated by pressing on a first lever. A release cam driven by a motion work in automatic operation pivots a release lever towards a ratchet of a striking mechanism unit of this striking mechanism. When a strike is operated, this striking unit drives a plate carrying a winding cam. The first lever controls the pivoting of a second lever included in a safety mechanism, when the minute repeater is set in motion, and this second lever includes a catch cooperating with a finger of a pivoting bolt returned by a spring, to prevent the minute repeater from being released again once set in motion. This bolt is only released at the end of the striking cycle performed by the minute repeater.
US08588013B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: a strobe clock generator configured to generate a strobe clock signal having a delay time controlled according to a plurality of test mode signals which are selectively enabled in response to a read signal or write signal; an internal address generator configured to latch an address in response to a first level of the strobe clock signal, and generate an internal address by decoding the address in response to a second level of the strobe clock signal; and an output enable signal generator configured to decode the internal address and generate output enable signals which are selectively enabled.
US08588011B2
A semiconductor device is provided with first and second main word lines, and a control circuit. The control circuit, in response to a command signal received from outside of the semiconductor device, activates the first main word line at a first timing, and activates the second main word line at a second timing different from the first timing, the first main word line maintaining an activation state at said second timing.
US08588009B2
An apparatus and method for combating the effects of bias temperature instability (BTI) in a memory cell. Bit lines connecting to a memory cell contain two alternate paths criss-crossing to connect a lower portion of a first bit line to an upper portion of a second bit line, and to connect a lower portion of the second bit line to an upper portion of the first bit line. Alternative to activating transistors on the bit lines to read and write to the memory cell, transistors on the alternative paths may be activated to read and write to the memory cell from the opposite bit lines. The memory cell may be read through the bit lines to a sense amplifier, the transistors on the bit lines are subsequently deactivated and the transistors on the alternate paths are activated to write transposed bit values to the memory cell, thereby reversing the biases.
US08588006B2
A semiconductor memory is provided which includes: a first pad; a second pad disposed adjacent to the first pad; a first output buffer coupled to the first pad; and a second output buffer coupled to the second pad. The first pad is coupled to the second pad by metal.
US08587999B2
An object is to provide a semiconductor device with a novel structure in which stored data can be retained even when power is not supplied, and does not have a limitation on the number of times of writing operations. A semiconductor device includes a source-bit line, a first signal line, a second signal line, a word line, and a memory cell connected between the source-bit lines. The memory cell includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor. The second transistor is formed including an oxide semiconductor material. A gate electrode of the first transistor, one of a source and drain electrodes, and one of electrodes of the capacitor are electrically connected to one another. The source-bit line and a source electrode of the first transistor are electrically connected to each other. Another source-bit line adjacent to the above source-bit line and a drain electrode of the first transistor are electrically connected to each other.
US08587989B2
NRAM arrays with nanotube blocks, traces and planes, and methods of making the same are disclosed. In some embodiments, a nanotube memory array includes a nanotube fabric layer disposed in electrical communication with first and second conductor layers. A memory operation circuit including a circuit for generating and applying a select signal on first and second conductor layers to induce a change in the resistance of the nanotube fabric layer between the first and second conductor layers is provided. At least two adjacent memory cells are formed in at least two selected cross sections of the nanotube fabric and conductor layers such that each memory cell is uniquely addressable and programmable. For each cell, a change in resistance corresponds to a change in an informational state of the memory cell. Some embodiments include bit lines, word lines, and reference lines. In some embodiments, 6F2 memory cell density is achieved.
US08587987B2
A semiconductor memory includes a real memory cell including a selection transistor and a resistance variable element which are connected in series between a first voltage line and a second voltage line through a connection node, a real amplification transistor having a gate connected to the connection node, a source connected to a reference voltage line, and a drain connected to a real read line, and a sense amplifier to determine a logic held in the real memory cell by receiving a voltage of the real read line varied with a voltage generated in the connection node by resistance dividing between a source/drain resistance of the selection transistor, and the resistance variable element, the selection transistor receiving a read control voltage at the gate thereof.
US08587983B2
A bistable resistance random access memory is described for enhancing the data retention in a resistance random access memory member. A dielectric member, e.g. the bottom dielectric member, underlies the resistance random access memory member which improves the SET/RESET window in the retention of information. The deposition of the bottom dielectric member is carried out by a plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition or by high-density-plasma chemical vapor deposition. One suitable material for constructing the bottom dielectric member is a silicon oxide. The bistable resistance random access memory includes a bottom dielectric member disposed between a resistance random access member and a bottom electrode or bottom contact plug. Additional layers including a bit line, a top contact plug, and a top electrode disposed over the top surface of the resistance random access memory member. Sides of the top electrode and the resistance random access memory member are substantially aligned with each other.
US08587968B2
A switching mode power supply (SMPS) includes a transformer having a primary winding, a secondary winding for providing an output voltage, and an auxiliary winding. The SMPS also includes a power switch coupled to the primary winding. A first control circuit is coupled to the secondary winding, and is configured to provide a first electrical signal to the secondary winding when the output voltage of the SMPS is less than a reference voltage during a discontinuous time, whereupon a second electrical signal is induced in the auxiliary winding. A second control circuit is coupled to the auxiliary winding and the power switch. The second control circuit is configured to regulate the output of the SMPS by controlling the power switch in response to a feedback voltage signal from the auxiliary winding, and is further configured to turn on the power switch in response to the second electrical signal.
US08587962B2
Systems and methods are provided for delivering energy from an input interface to an output interface. An electrical system includes an input interface, an output interface, an energy conversion module between the input interface and the output interface, an inductive element between the input interface and the energy conversion module, and a control module. The control module determines a compensated duty cycle control value for operating the energy conversion module to produce a desired voltage at the output interface and operates the energy conversion module to deliver energy to the output interface with a duty cycle that is influenced by the compensated duty cycle control value. The compensated duty cycle control value is influenced by the current through the inductive element and accounts for voltage across the switching elements of the energy conversion module.
US08587959B2
A fastening device for an electric module is disclosed. The fastening device is adapted for fastening at least one electric conductor unit at an electric module and includes a screw nut compartment adapted to receive a screw nut. The screw nut compartment has an open first side for inserting at least one of the screw nut and a screw. A second side arranged opposite to the first side. The fastening device further includes a stiffening extension formed at the second side of the screw nut compartment, wherein the stiffening extension has a non-circular cross section.
US08587949B2
A digital electrical power and energy meter integrates a primary processing module and a user interface module onto a single printed circuit board to reduce overall meter size, assembly time, and cost.
US08587942B2
A heat dissipating apparatus includes a first fan and a second fan. A clipping portion with a block is located on the first fan. A receiving hole is defined in the second fan, and two first retaining panels and a second retaining panel extend from the second fan. The two first retaining panels are substantially parallel to each other and perpendicular to the second retaining panel. The clipping portion is located between the two retaining panels and abuts the first retaining panel, and the block is engaged in the receiving hole.
US08587935B2
A display device that includes a display panel and a container member that accommodates the display panel, where the container member can effectively absorb an external impact to sufficiently protect the display panel from damage and minimize deformation caused by an external stress, a method of manufacturing the same. The container member includes a metal frame including a space that accommodates the display panel, a plurality of sides and a bottom having a first opening; and a mold frame arranged between the sides of the metal frame and sides of the display panel. The display device may also include a buffer tape within the first opening. The mold frame is preferably produced by an injection molding technique.
US08587933B2
A handheld electronic device including a first body, a second body, a stand, and a transmission module is provided. The second body is slidably connected to the first body. The stand is pivoted to the first body. The transmission module connects between the first body and the second body. When the second body slides relative to the first body, the second body drives the transmission module to move the stand so that the stand is opened and closed relative to the first body.
US08587930B2
Gas-insulated bus is provided with: current-carrying conductor disposed along axial direction of metallic container that is filled with insulating-gas; shield fitting through which passes current-carrying conductor and that has depressed portion formed on portion of barrel-shaped outer surface; insulating support that has second end thereof fixed in depressed portion of shield fitting and has first end thereof fixed to metallic-container, and that supports current-carrying conductor via shield fitting; internal conductor being implanted in second end of insulating support and being, along with second end, positioned in depressed portion and fixed to shield fitting; and contact being attached to inner surface of shield fitting, being disposed in space formed on inside of shield fitting, and that makes contact with current-carrying conductor so as to maintain shield fitting and current-carrying conductor at same electric potential, wherein internal conductor has such shape that internal conductor and shield fitting together form barrel-like profile.
US08587929B2
High density uninterruptible power supplies are provided including an enclosure and at least one uninterruptible power supply positioned in the enclosure. A battery associated with the at least one uninterruptible power supply is positioned in the enclosure. The at least one uninterruptible power supply and the associated battery are configured to provide at least thirty seconds of backup power to a load connected thereto. Related systems and power distribution units are also provided.
US08587926B2
A present invention provide a lithium ion storage device capable of reliably doping a negative active material of a negative plate with lithium ions generated through dissolution of a lithium metal plate disposed in an electrode group. A conductive shielding member includes a current collecting metal foil and a negative active material layer formed on at least one surface of the current collecting metal foil. The conductive shielding member is provided between a lithium metal plate and a positive plate such that the lithium metal plate is sandwiched between the negative plate and the negative active material layer formed on the current collecting metal foil of the conductive shielding member.
US08587919B2
In a laminate type ceramic electronic component, when an external electrode for a laminated ceramic capacitor is formed directly by plating onto a surface of a component main body, the film that is directly plated may have a low fixing strength with respect to the component main body. As the external electrode, a first plating layer composed of a Ni—P plating film with a P content rate of about 9 weight % or more is first formed such that a plating deposition deposited with the exposed ends of respective internal electrodes as starting points is grown on at least an end surface of a component main body. Then, a second plating layer composed of a Ni plating film containing substantially no P is formed on the first plating layer. Preferably, the first plating layer is formed by electroless plating, whereas the second plating layer is formed by electrolytic plating.
US08587916B2
A long-life lightning protection fastener or the like to prevent explosion for aircrafts at low cost is provided, the fastener having a light weight, ensuring sufficient lightning protection, and having extremely less failures and high reliability. A ring-shaped ring member 40A made of resin is mounted on a collar 26. This ring member 40A is interposed between a member 22 and the collar 26 and is in intimate contact with both of the member 22 and the collar 26, thereby sealing an interface with the member 22 for sealing and preventing the occurrence of an arc at an outer perimeter edge of the collar 26.
US08587909B2
A transient current suppression device, which is applied to a fan, includes a filtering circuit, a delayed turn-on circuit and a forcibly electrical discharging circuit. The filtering circuit outputs a first voltage signal and a first current signal according to a first power signal. The delayed turn-on circuit is electrically connected with the filtering circuit. The delayed turn-on circuit provides a first discharging path for the first current signal according to a second power signal after a delayed time and outputs a second current signal. The forcibly electrical discharging circuit is electrically connected with the delayed turn-on circuit and the filtering circuit. The forcibly electrical discharging circuit provides a second discharging path for the second current signal according to the first voltage signal. Hence, the transient current suppression device can suppress the transient current effectively and rapidly.
US08587907B2
A lithium-based battery system for a vehicle includes a plurality of lithium battery cells arranged in series that provide energy to propel the vehicle. Each of the battery cells includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a plurality of lithium battery elements arranged in parallel, a plurality of disconnect switches, and a shunt switch. Each of the battery elements includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal of each of the battery elements is connected to the first terminal of the battery cell. The second terminal of each of the battery elements is connected to the second terminal of the battery cell via a corresponding one of the disconnect switches. The shunt switch is connected between the first and second terminals of the battery cell. A control module selectively opens and closes the shunt switches and the disconnect switches.
US08587904B2
A suspension board with circuit includes a conductive pattern, including a slider arranged on a surface side of the suspension board with circuit and mounted with a magnetic head, the magnetic head being electrically connected with the conductive pattern; and a light emitting device arranged on the back surface side of the suspension board with circuit and electrically connected with the conductive pattern, in which the conductive pattern includes a first terminal provided on a surface of the suspension board with circuit and electrically connected with the magnetic head; and a second terminal provided on the back surface of the suspension board with circuit and electrically connected with the light emitting device.
US08587898B2
A magnetic head in one embodiment includes a first array of writers interleaved with readers; a second array of writers interleaved with readers, the writers of the first array being generally aligned with the writers of the second array in a direction of media travel relative thereto, the readers of the first array being generally aligned with the readers of the second array in a direction of media travel relative thereto; and a third array of writers interleaved with readers, the third array being positioned between the first and second arrays, the writers of the third array being generally aligned with the readers of the first and second arrays in a direction of media travel relative thereto, the readers of the third array being generally aligned with the writers of the first and second arrays in a direction of media travel relative thereto. Other embodiments are also presented.
US08587895B1
A bearing mechanism includes a shaft portion, a sleeve portion, a lower opposing portion, a lower outer ring-shaped portion, and an upper opposing portion. A lower seal portion serving as a pumping seal portion is provided in a lower seal gap between the sleeve portion and the lower outer ring-shaped portion. An upper seal portion is provided in an upper seal gap joined to an upper thrust gap. The lower portion of the sleeve portion includes a large-diameter portion and a small-diameter portion positioned below the large-diameter portion. The sleeve portion includes a communication path joined to the upper seal gap. The communication path includes an opening portion opened in a border between the large-diameter portion and the small-diameter portion. The outer peripheral portion of the lower opposing portion includes an outer periphery protrusion portion radially opposed to the small-diameter portion and axially opposed to the large-diameter portion.
US08587889B2
According to one embodiment, a disk storage apparatus includes a write module and a controller. The write module is configured to move a write head over a disk, and to perform the shingled write method, recording data in the first track while erasing data from a part of the second, i.e., adjacent track. The controller is configured to acquire a first head positioning error with respect to the first track and a second head positioning error with respect to the second track. If the first head positioning error exceeds an off-track threshold value, indicating that the data may no longer be maintained in the first and second tracks, the controller inhibits the data writing.
US08587887B2
A color filter substrate includes a plurality of color filters and a first dummy pattern. The color filters are formed in a display area. The color filters include a plurality of colors. The first dummy pattern is formed in a peripheral area surrounding the display area. The first dummy pattern has a color identical to one of the colors. An edge portion of the first dummy pattern corresponding to an apex of the display area is rounded. Therefore, the reliability of a color filter manufacturing process may be improved, the reliability of the color filter may be improved, and the generation of stain defects having a radial shape may be prevented, so that display quality may be improved.
US08587884B2
An imaging apparatus includes a first lens barrel, a second lens barrel disposed side by side with the first lens barrel in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the first lens barrel, a reference metal sheet including a mounted surface portion mounted on a surface perpendicular to the optical axis of the first lens barrel and a reference surface portion facing an optical axis direction, an adjustment metal sheet including a base surface portion mounted on a surface perpendicular to an optical axis of the second lens barrel and an adjustment surface portion facing an optical axis direction and positioned side by side with the reference surface portion in state of being separated in the optical axis direction, and an adjustment section changing a direction of the adjustment surface portion to reference surface portion and adjusting a direction of optical axis of second lens barrel.
US08587882B2
An optical layer stack having a first layer, a second layer, a first spacer part associated with the first layer and a second spacer part associated with the second layer, wherein the two spacer parts have groove and tongue for an engagement in a stacking direction of the optical layer stack in order to provide a connection between the first and the second spacer part and a spacing of the first and the second layer in stacking direction.
US08587880B2
A small-size wide angle lens substantially consists of a first lens group having positive refractive power, a stop, a second lens group having positive refractive power, and a third lens group having negative refractive power, which are arranged in this order from the object side. Each of the first lens group, the second lens group and the third lens group includes a negative lens and a positive lens. Further, at least one of the second lens group and the third lens group includes an aspheric surface. Further, the small-size wide angle lens satisfies predetermined formulas.
US08587879B2
A fixed focus lens comprising, sequentially from an object side, a first lens group having a positive refractive power; a second lens group having a negative refractive power; and a third lens group having a positive refractive power. The first lens group includes an aperture stop. The second lens group is configured by a single lens element. During focusing, the second lens group moves along an optical axis and the first lens group and the third lens group are fixed with respect to an imaging plane.
US08587878B2
An image-forming lens consists of: from an object side to an image side in the following order, a first lens group with a positive refractive power; an aperture stop; and a second lens group with a positive refractive power, and the second lens group includes: from the object side to the image side in the following order, a second F lens group with a positive refractive power in which a biconvex lens and a biconcave lens are cemented to each other; a second M lens group having a concave shape on a surface on a most object side and a convex shape on a surface on a most image side; and a second R lens group of a positive lens.
US08587873B2
Wide-angle projection lens, as well as optical engines and projection display devices comprising such projections lens are described. In one embodiment, a wide-angle projection lens is described comprising in sequential order from a screen side a first lens group of negative refractive power, a second lens group of positive refractive power, a third lens group of positive refractive power; and a fourth lens group of positive refractive power. At least one lens group has an aspheric surface. The ratio of the focal length of the wide-angle projection lens (F) to the focal length of each of the lens groups (F1, F2, F3, and F4) is such that |F1/F|>1.3, F2/F>2, 1
US08587871B2
Disclosed is a wafer lens in which the warpage of a glass substrate included therein can be prevented. Specifically disclosed is a wafer lens comprising a glass substrate, a first resin part composed of a curable resin, and a second resin part composed of a curable resin. In each of the first resin part and the second resin part, two or more lens parts are formed. The volume of the resin of the first resin part after the cutting and the volume of the resin of the second resin part after the cutting satisfy the condition 0.6≦Vwa/Vwb≦2.1, wherein “Vwa” indicates a volume of a resin on an object side and “Vwb” indicates a volume of a resin on an image side.
US08587864B2
System for converting relatively long pulses from rep-rate variable ultrafast optical sources to shorter, high-energy pulses suitable for sources in high-energy ultrafast lasers. Fibers with positive group velocity dispersion (GVD) and self phase modulation are advantageously employed with the optical sources. These systems take advantage of the need for higher pulse energies at lower repetition rates so that such sources can be cost effective.
US08587857B2
An electro-wetting display device and a non-polar color solution thereof are provided. The electro-wetting device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a polar solution layer and a non-polar color solution layer. The first substrate is opposite to the second substrate. The polar solution layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The non-polar color solution layer is disposed between the first substrate and the polar solution layer and includes at least one non-polar solvent, at least one dye and at least one improvement agent. The improvement agent is dissolved in the non-polar solvent, and the improvement agent is not dissolved in the polar solution layer.
US08587854B2
An aperture adjusting device is disclosed. The aperture adjusting device includes a support frame, a gear ring, at least one blade, and a connector. The support frame includes an aperture, and a guiding slot. The gear ring is rotatably disposed on a first side of the support frame. The blade is swingably disposed on a second side of the support frame, and used to partially cover the aperture. The connector is fixed to the gear ring, and passes through the guiding slot to connect with the blade. The gear ring is adapted to rotate to make the connector move along the guiding slot to drive the blade to swing.
US08587849B2
Imaging systems, imaging device analysis systems, imaging device analysis methods, and light beam emission methods are described. According to one aspect, an imaging device analysis method includes receiving initial light comprising a plurality of wavelengths of light, filtering some of the wavelengths of the initial light forming a plurality of light beams comprising different wavelengths of light, after the filtering, optically communicating the light beams of the different wavelengths of light to an imaging device, receiving the light beams using the imaging device, and analyzing the imaging device using light, wherein the light beams comprising the different wavelengths of light are emitted beams after the receiving.
US08587848B2
A document feeding route is provided in an automatic document feeder, and a feeder cover is provided on an upper portion of the automatic feeder and arranged to open and close an upstream half route of the document feeding route by being movable in a pivoting fashion. A plurality of pairs of drive rollers and idler rollers are provided in a downstream half route to feed a document toward a document ejection port. A jam clearance mechanism arranged to move the idler rollers or the drive rollers in a direction toward releasing a nipped state is arranged to face the downstream half route. The jam clearance mechanism includes a pair of cam frames and releasing bodies. The cam frames undergo a sliding displacement in a direction along which the pairs of idler rollers and drive rollers are arranged in coordination with opening and closing of the feeder cover. The releasing bodies move back and forth in coordination with the sliding movement of the cam frames.
US08587839B2
An image transmission system including an image processing device and a communicating device which are communicable with each other through an access point in an infrastructure mode through an “m” channel, wherein upon a communication failure in the infrastructure mode, the communication mode is switched from the infrastructure mode to an ad hoc mode in which the two devices are directly communicable with each other through an “n” channel. During the communication in the ad hoc mode, the “m” channel is scanned to detect the access point at a predetermined time interval, and upon detection of the access point through the “m” channel, the communication mode is switched back to the infrastructure mode.
US08587834B2
A shading correction apparatus includes: a light irradiating unit configured to scan an original document; a reference plate located in a scanning area of the light irradiating unit; a detecting unit configured to receive reflected light from the original document or the reference plate of light irradiated by the light irradiating unit; a first control unit configured to classify plural areas of the reference plate, which are divided in a direction perpendicular to a traveling direction of the light irradiating unit, as plural blocks, scan the reference plate for each of the blocks with the light irradiating unit, and detect valid areas of the plural blocks; and a second control unit configured to set the valid areas of the plural blocks as adopted areas used for shading correction.
US08587831B2
It is difficult to appropriate estimate the colorimetric values of an arbitrary patch at a desired temperature with respect to an arbitrary medium in consideration of the influence of a fluorescent whitening agent contained in the medium. Target patch colorimetric values obtained when patches of a plurality of colors formed on a medium using color samples are measured at a target temperature designated in step S101. This estimation is implemented when both media-dependent variation correction processing (S102) that estimates patch colorimetric values based on the temperature characteristics of the medium, and toner-dependent variation correction processing (S103) that estimates patch colorimetric values based on the temperature characteristics of the color samples are executed. By correcting image data whose image is to be formed based on the target patch colorimetric values (S104), an arbitrary color patch on an arbitrary medium can be coped with.
US08587830B2
When input image data is high-resolution data, the input image data is downsampled to low-resolution data. Subsequently, it is judged whether or not the trapping process is performed with respect to an edge extracted based on the image data after the downsampling. When the trapping process is performed, a trap color is determined. Pixel data based on the determined trap color is upsampled based on the resolution of the input image data. Then, the trapping process is performed based on the input image data and the pixel data after the upsampling.
US08587826B2
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture to enhance automation of conversion and/or persistent storage of color management information embedded within an associated, received data object. Features and aspects hereof provide that color management information embedded within an identified data object (e.g., an image data object) is converted to an appropriate form useful within the printing environment and persistently stored for re-use in conjunction with presentation of received data objects in a print job. For example, an ICC profile embedded within a received image data object may be converted to an AFP color management resource (a color conversion CMR and/or zero or more link CMRs) and persistently stored in an object library for re-use in presentation of print jobs. The conversion and persistent storage of such color management information may be substantially automated as a step in the installation of the underlying data object.
US08587825B2
Ethernet and Universal Serial Bus (USB) powered printing devices are provided. In particular, Ethernet and USB powered printers and methods of Ethernet powering of printers that support high speed printing and/or data intensive printing. Such high-speed and/or data intensive printing operations are able to be Ethernet or USB powered by providing for a power storage unit within the printer device that is able be charged during non-printing periods and provide for necessary energy bursts to support such higher powered processes. In addition, the present invention provides for devices and methods that allow for printers to operate with main power provided by conventional power mains and for back-up or secondary power to be supplied by Ethernet or USB power. Additionally, the invention provides for Ethernet or USB powering, both primary and back-up, of the data and configuration settings in the printer control and image generating electronics. In the back-up power mode, the Ethernet or USB power insures that data and configurations are not lost during periods of main power outage. The invention also provides a printer and method that can optimize a printing operation, e.g., by adjusting the speed of the printing operation according to the power required for the operation and/or the power available.
US08587824B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first type printer driver and a second type printer driver that is different than the first type printer driver, where each driver runs on the information processing apparatus. The information processing apparatus also includes a display control unit that displays an identification of the first type printer driver as a printer driver suited to create print data based on drawing data in response to a first type application outputting the drawing data, and displays an identification of the second type printer driver as a printer driver suited to create print data based on drawing data in response to a second type application different than the first type application outputting the drawing data. The first and second type printer drivers are used for a printing apparatus.
US08587822B2
To effectively output a job in which a double-sided page and a single-sided page are mixed by using a double-sided conveying path and a single-sided conveying path or the single-sided conveying path, a method for controlling a printing apparatus comprises: specifying a print prediction time in a case where the job is executed by using a first printing process of printing the double-sided page and the single-sided page in the job by using the double-sided conveying path, and a print prediction time in a case where the job is executed by using a second printing process of printing the double-sided page and the single-sided page in the job by switching between the double-sided conveying path and the single-sided conveying path; and executing the job by using, from either the first printing process or the second printing process, the printing process for which the specified print prediction time is shorter.
US08587821B2
A tape printer having a large-size printing function of printing an enlarged printing image which is larger than the tape width of a long tape into a plurality of tape parts, includes: a tape width detecting section detecting the tape width; a layout determination section determining enlargement layout information for forming the enlarged printing image; a margin determining section determining the widths of an upper margin and a lower margin of the enlarged printing image and determining whether or not the sum of the determined margin widths is equal to or greater than the tape width; an image data generating section generating image data of the enlarged printing image; and a printing section sequentially printing, on two or more tape parts respectively, the image data of the enlarged printing image other than part of the upper margin and part of the lower margin.
US08587815B2
A display method for drivers is provided that executes according to printing instruction on an application, retrieving data from the application, and converting the retrieved data into printing data readable with an image forming apparatus. The display method includes the steps of executing a first driver according to the application, displaying functional information of the first driver on a display screen for the executing first driver, and displaying information regarding a second driver different from the executing first driver together with the display screen for the executing first driver. The display method allows a user to effectively select whether to acquire the second printer driver, and further allows one of the printer drivers to correspond to the image forming apparatus.
US08587805B2
An execution log generation apparatus generates an execution log upon receiving, for each job operation, job operation data indicating content of a job operation performed in a job procedure from a job processing apparatus that performs job processes through job procedures. The execution log generation apparatus includes a definition file holding unit that holds a definition file in which job operations performed in the job procedures are defined along a flow of the job processes and the job procedures, and in which output items to be output as execution logs for the each job operation are listed in a common format; and an execution log output unit that selects, from the definition file, an output item corresponding to a job operation contained in the job operation data, and outputs, as an execution log, the same output item as the selected output item from the job operation data.
US08587803B2
There is provided a printing device, comprising: a data receiving unit configured to receive print job data; a buffer used to store the print job data; a judgment unit configured to judge whether the print job data received by the data receiving unit can be stored in available space of the buffer; and a deletion target extraction unit configured such that, in response to the judgment unit judging that the print job data received by the data receiving unit can not be stored in available space of the buffer, the deletion target extraction unit extracts deletion target print job data which can de deleted from the buffer, from among one or more pieces of print job data stored in the buffer.
US08587799B2
An image processing device, which performs an image-related process about an image in cooperation with another image forming device via a network, is provided with a device configuration detection portion for detecting a function that is added to the image processing device itself, and a new function information notifying portion for notifying another image processing device that a function is added to the image forming device.
US08587794B2
An information processing apparatus which processes print information including inputted serial number information and arbitrary information includes: a serial number processing unit which carries out serial number processing to update the serial number information in ascending order or in descending order; a storage unit which stores the print information as a target of the serial number processing; an editing unit which carries out editing processing of the arbitrary information of the print information that is serial number-processed; a display unit which displays the print information that is inputted and edited; and a display control unit which compares at least two or more pieces of the print information that is stored, and displays the print information from which a different part of the arbitrary information is erased, at the time of displaying the print information after the serial number processing is executed twice or more for the editing processing.
US08587788B2
A laser gyro for measuring the angular velocity or the angular position relative to a defined rotation axis includes: an optical ring cavity; a solid-state amplifying medium; and a non-reciprocal magneto-optic device; which are arranged so that four linearly polarized propagation modes can propagate within the cavity, the magneto-optic device introducing a frequency bias between the modes propagating in a first direction and the modes propagating in the opposite direction. In the device, the cavity also includes a stabilizer device for stabilizing the intensity of the four propagation modes at substantially equivalent levels, said device comprising at least one optical element made of a non-linear crystal of the frequency-doubling type.
US08587777B2
A change in surface state can be dealt with by setting threshold values different for respective regions of an object to be examined in accordance with a magnitude of noises, thereby improving a detection sensitivity. A function for setting an examination threshold value every region is installed. A function for setting examination threshold values every plurality of detectors spatially independent of each other is installed. The magnitude of noises from the object to be examined differs depending on a spatial direction even in the same region. Therefore, the detection sensitivity is maximized by maximizing an S/N ratio of a detection signal by an optimum signal arithmetic operating process according to the magnitude of noises from the object to be examined every detector and every region of the object to be examined and by setting the optimum threshold values.
US08587776B2
Techniques are disclosed for sensing a location of laser and/or other optical signals. According to certain embodiments of the invention, an electro-optical assembly can include a detector array coupled to one or more lenses for detecting the signals. Outputs of the photo detectors can be processed using peak detection and/or other techniques to conserve power, help ensure detection, and avoid the need for moving parts.
US08587774B2
A velocity detecting device includes an image-pattern acquiring unit that includes a laser light source and an area sensor that acquires a one-dimensional or a two-dimensional image. The image-pattern acquiring unit includes a lens between a moving member and the area sensor, irradiates a beam emitted from the laser light source to the moving member to make a scattering light of the moving member scattered from the moving member on the area sensor by using the lens, and acquires an image pattern at a predetermined time interval in association with movement of the moving member. A velocity calculating unit calculates the velocity of the moving member by computing the image pattern acquired by the image-pattern acquiring unit. The lens is a reduced optical system that projects a reduced object onto the area sensor.
US08587773B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide methods to produce a high performance, feature rich TOF system, phase-based or otherwise using small TOF pixels, single-ended or preferably differential, as well as TOF systems so designed. IC chip area required for pixels is reduced by intelligently off-loading or removing from within the pixel certain components and/or functionality. In some embodiments during a single TOF system capture period, analog values from each pixel are repeatedly sampled and converted to digital values, which are combined and manipulated on the sensor chip. Combining this plurality of values enables appropriately compact data from the sensor chip. Embodiments of the present invention implement a TOF system with high ambient light resilience, high dynamic range, low motion blur and dealiasing support, while advantageously reducing pixel area size relative to prior art TOF pixels.
US08587767B2
Illumination optics for EUV microlithography guide an illumination light bundle from a radiation source to an object field with an extension ratio between a longer field dimension and a shorter field dimension, where the ratio is considerably greater than 1.
US08587765B2
In some embodiments, the disclosure provides a system that includes an optical element group including a plurality of optical elements configured to project a pattern of an object in an object plane to an image plane. The system also includes a unit configured to detect an image selected from an image of at least part of the projection the pattern of the object, and an image of a measurement element arranged in the area of the object. The image is created via at least some of the optical elements in the optical element group. The unit is configured to determine an imaging error in the projection of the pattern of the object from the object plane to the image plane. The device is configured to be used in microlithography.
US08587758B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) is provided having a discontinuous electrode. In certain embodiments, finger- or slit-like extensions of the discontinuous electrode may be shaped to reduce or eliminate disclinations of liquid crystals within a pixel aperture used to transmit light, where the liquid crystals are oriented in response to an electric field generated using the discontinuous electrode. Similarly, in other embodiments, the different portions of the discontinuous electrode may be lengthened to extend under an opaque mask or may not be linked at one end to reduce or eliminate the disclinations.
US08587748B2
A backlight module is provided and the backlight module comprises a back plate, a frame, a light source, and a diffusion plate, wherein the diffusion plate is connected with and fixed to the frame or the back plate by hold structures that impose a tension effect on the diffusion plate. Also, a liquid crystal display device comprising the backlight module is provided.
US08587742B2
The present invention provides a display device which can display characters clearly and display images smoothly. An area gray scale method is adopted and a configuration of one pixel is changed depending on a mode, by selecting one or more display regions in each pixel. When characters are needed to be displayed clearly, one pixel is configured by selecting a stripe arrangement. Thus, clear display can be conducted. When images are needed to be displayed, one pixel is configured by selecting an indented state. Thus, smooth display can be conducted.
US08587739B2
A storage capacitor bus line (CsL) connected to a CS trunk line (bb) of at least one of CS trunk line groups (BB1 and BB2), which CS trunk line (bb) is other than a CS trunk line (bb) being closest to an active area (AA), has a meandering part (41) in its feed part (F) that extends from the active area (AA) to a connection point where the storage capacitor bus line (CsL) is connected to the CS trunk line (bb). The meandering part (41) is a part drawn out and deviated from a line on which the storage capacitor bus line (CsL) extends, and the meandering part (41) has a line length which is larger as a distance (d) from the active area AA to the connection point is smaller.
US08587737B2
A display device includes: a display section including display pixels; and a liquid crystal barrier section including barrier regions. Each of the barrier regions extends in a first direction that is inclined with respect to an array direction of the display pixels, and allows light to transmit therethrough and blocks the light. The liquid crystal barrier section includes a liquid crystal layer, and a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer interposing the liquid crystal layer in between. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of line-shaped electrodes. The line-shaped electrodes extend in the first direction and arranged side-by-side in a second direction different from the first direction, and one or more of the line-shaped electrodes includes first slits and second slits extending in respective directions different from the array direction of the display pixels.
US08587732B2
The present invention provides a projection display apparatus realizing improved operability at the time of registration adjustment irrespective of a use situation of the apparatus. In the case where misregistration occurs between primary color lights, video signals for three colors are corrected (registration adjustment is performed) so as to reduce the misregistration in accordance with an input adjustment value. An image inverting process is performed on an input video signal so that the image is inverted in a display screen. By a configuration by the user, the image is properly inverted in the display screen. When the image inverting process is performed, an adjustment value, with a sign different from that in the misregistration direction in a coordinate system where the image is not inverted, is input by an operation on the display screen.
US08587725B2
A method of digitally processing images and/or audio in the form of a plurality of data samples, each data sample having a value representative of a visual or audio property, the method comprising: identifying a first set of data samples having values outside a first predefined range of data values; identifying a second set of data samples having values outside a second predefined range of data values, the second predefined range being within the first predefined range; and applying a non-linear scaling algorithm to the data values of the first and second sets of data samples to generate a set of modified data samples having data values within the first predefined range.
US08587723B2
Electronic equipment and methods for permitting quick control of the operating state of a source equipment side from sink equipment. A television receiver (sink equipment) 100 and an amplifier (repeater equipment) 200 are interconnected over an HDMI cable 610, and the amplifier 200 and a DVD recorder (source equipment) 300 are interconnected over an HDMI cable 620. Each of the pieces of equipment includes, in addition to an HDMI receiving unit and an HDMI transmitting unit, a high-speed data line I/F included in a bidirectional communication unit that uses predetermined lines of the HDMI cable. The bidirectional communication unit is used to transmit channel selection information, a remote control code instructing recording, “theater mode” designating information, a remote control code, or the like from the television receiver 100 to the audio amplifier 200 or DVD recorder 300.
US08587706B2
The present invention relates to improved imaging devices having high dynamic range and to monitoring and automatic control systems incorporating the improved imaging devices.
US08587700B2
A method of detecting defects in an image sensor that may occur from a floating diffusion area of the image sensor, a tester using the method, and a control signal generator using the method include a photo diode generating charges corresponding to an image signal; a transmission transistor having a first terminal connected to a the photodiode and a second terminal connected to a floating diffusion area, thereby transmitting the charges generated in the photo diode to the floating diffusion area in response to a charge transmission control signal; and a reset transistor having a first terminal applied by a reset voltage and a second transistor connected to the floating diffusion area, thereby transmitting the reset voltage to the floating diffusion area in response to a reset control signal. The reset transistor is turned on during at least one sampling zone selected between reset level sampling and signal level sampling that are performed with respect to the image sensor.
US08587699B2
A solid state imaging device including: a pixel portion having a plurality of pixels arrayed two-dimensionally and including an effective pixel portion and a dummy pixel portion; a timing generator for generating address information for reading signals of pixels of the pixel portion and timing signals for reading; a column decoder; a column selection circuit for generating transfer signals and reset signals used for control for reading signals of pixels in the column portions of the pixel portion by the plurality of line selection signals output from the column decoder based on the timing signals and selecting column portions of pixels in an effective portion and a dummy portion of the pixel portion; and a transfer circuit for reading signals of corresponding pixels based on the transfer signals and reset signals output from the column selection circuit, then transferring signals of read pixels by the row signal lines.
US08587694B2
An image data imaged consecutively is divided into three groups in time series. As for a first group imaged most newly, all imaged image data are held in buffers. The image data of a second group is divided again into subgroups at every 2N images. In the second group, the number of pieces of image data to be recorded in a certain subgroup is twice the number of pieces of image data held in the buffer in the subgroup imaged in the past adjoining the certain subgroup. In a third group, the image data having been held in the buffer included in the subgroup imaged in the earliest in the second group will be all held in the buffer.
US08587692B2
A method for increasing a dynamic range of an image by using an electronic shutter of a camera, the method including initiating exposure of an image sensor by moving a mechanical front curtain included in the camera; moving an electronic front curtain with respect to at least one pixel of the image sensor according to a control pulse signal of the electronic shutter; and blocking the exposure of the image sensor by moving a mechanical rear curtain included in the camera.
US08587677B2
A remote instruction system includes an attention image outputting portion that projects an annotation image and an attention image from a projecting portion onto a captured area of an image capturing portion that captures an image of an object, the annotation image being created on the basis of the image captured, the attention image being provided for attracting attention to the annotation image.
US08587666B2
A measure of frame-to-frame rotation is determined. A global XY alignment of a pair of image frames is performed. At least one section of each of the X and Y integral projection vectors is determined, where aligned global vectors demonstrate a significant localized difference. Based on X and Y locations of the at least one section of the X and Y integral projection vectors, location, relative velocity and/or approximate area of at least one moving object within the sequence of image frames is/are determined.
US08587665B2
A measure of frame-to-frame rotation is determined. A global XY alignment of a pair of frames is performed. Local XY alignments in at least two matching corner regions of the pair of images are determined after the global XY alignment. Based on differences between the local XY alignments, a global rotation is determined between the pair of frames.
US08587663B2
One embodiment of the present invention relates to a machine-readable form configuration (and associated method). Another embodiment of the present invention relates to a system for interpreting at least one user mark (and associated methods). In one example, a plurality of user marks may be interpreted. In another example, the machine-readable form may be a lottery play slip, survey, test, or the like. In another example, the system may interpret user mark(s) made on a lottery play slip, survey, test or the like. In another example, the system may interpret user mark(s) made on a paper or the like having non-planar distortion(s).
US08587662B1
A method for responding to potential threats at a store, such as theft or vandalism, can include analyzing threat predictors, such as police reports and store reports, to determine a trend of theft or other threats. In some implementations, a organization, such as a chain of retail stores, can include a large number of facilities. Each facility may be capable of producing a significant volume of video data from various video cameras at the facility. In some implementations, the volume of video data monitored from the stores and from the cameras within the stores can be narrowed or reduced by monitoring substantially only the video data from the stores and locations within the stores that were identified as potential targets in the trend of theft.
US08587659B1
A methodology and apparatus is described that registers images outputted by at least two video camera sensors that are not necessarily bore-sighted nor co-located together. Preferably this can be performed in real-time at least at video rate. The two video camera sensors can be either of similar or two different modalities (e.g., one can be intensified visible, while the other can be thermal infrared) each possibly with a different field-of-view. The methodology and apparatus take advantage of a combination of Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) information and image registration between the two camera sensors from computational image processing. In one preferred embodiment, the system uses a rifle mounted weapon sight camera sensor and a helmet mounted sensor camera. The aim point of the weapon sight camera sensor (e.g., typically at the image center) zeroed to the true rifle aim point is digitally overlayed as a reticle on the video image from the helmet sensor, displayed on a head mounted display (HMD). In another embodiment pixel-level image fusion is displayed across the overlapping field-of-view of the rifle mounted camera sensor weapon sight with the helmet mounted camera image.
US08587657B2
What is disclosed is a novel system and method for determining the number of objects in an IR image obtained using an IR imaging system. In one embodiment, a total of N intensity values are collected for each pixel in an IR image using a IR imaging system comprising an IR detection device and an IR Illuminator. Intensity values are retrieved from a database which have been estimated for a plurality of known materials, such as skin and hair. A classification is determined for each pixel in the IR image using either a best fitting method of a reflectance, or a correlation method. Upon classification, a total number of objects in the IR image can be determined. The present system and method finds its intended uses in of real world applications such as, determining the number of occupants in a vehicle traveling in a HOV/HOT lane.
US08587639B2
A method of displaying an image. The method includes aligning a first display relative to a second display. The first and second displays having a differing encoding patterns. The method also includes determining a location in relation between the displays and activating pixels on the displays based on the determined location.
US08587635B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first images that are captured by a first camera system at a first location associated with a live presentation by the first user, transmitting first video content representative of the first images over a network for presentation by a group of other processors that are each at one of a group of other locations associated with corresponding other users, receiving second video content representative of second images that are associated with each of the other users, and presenting the second video content in a telepresence configuration that simulates each of the other users being present in an audience at the first location. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08587631B2
An exemplary method of facilitating communication includes determining a position of a portable communication device that generates a video output. A sound output control is provided to an audio device that is distinct from the portable communication device for directing a sound output from the audio device based on the determined position of the portable communication device.
US08587625B2
A laser scanning assembly generates a laser beam and scans the laser beam through a plurality of scan lines to form desired dots. Each scan line is positioned to overlap an adjacent scan line and each dot includes a plurality of segments. The scanning assembly scans the laser beam through multiple scan lines to fully discharge each segment of each dot. The laser scanner assembly would typically be part of a laser printer.
US08587623B2
A printer has first and second units configured for attachment/detachment relative one another and for supporting one of a recording head and a platen roller. The first unit has spaced wall portions provided with first and second recesses. The second unit has engagement pins that detachably fit into respective ones of the first recesses, a latch member that undergoes rotation about an axial line of the engagement pins and has a pair of lock pins that detachably fit into respective ones of the second recesses after the engagement pins are fitted in the first recesses, a biasing member biasing the latch member in a first direction of detachably fitting the lock pins in the second recesses, and a release member for moving the lock pins in a second direction opposite to the first direction to detach the lock pins from the second recesses.
US08587622B2
An apparatus for printing a latent image includes a rotary contact, a power supply, driving electronics and a plurality of TFT transistors configured as a TFT backplane. The rotary contact receives serially transmitted digital data signals from a controller and generates selection signals and digital pixel voltages. The rotary contact receives operating voltage signals from the controller. The power supply receives the operating voltage signals from the rotary contact and generates a low voltage signal, a ground signal and a high voltage signal. The driving electronics receive the low voltage signal, the ground signal, selection signals and the digital pixel voltages, and generates bias signals and pixel voltages. The TFT backplane receives the high voltage signal, the bias signals and the pixel voltages, and then drives the hole injection pixels to generate an electrostatic latent image in response to the bias signals and pixel voltages.
US08587614B2
Electronic document design systems and methods allowing a user engaged in customizing an electronic product to select an image container and modify the placement, scaling, and displayed portion of an image associated with the image container. Upon user selection of an image container from the product design, an image pane is presented to the user which displays the base image associated with the selected image container and at least one active control on either or both of the image container and the image pane which allow the user to modify which portion of, and how the portion of, the base image appears in the electronic product design. The image editor tool is displayed simultaneously with the product design to allow the user to immediately see the resulting changes in the product design due to modifications, using the active control(s), of the placement or scaling of the selected image container or of the cropping of the base image or magnification of the portion of the base image appearing within the image container.
US08587611B2
The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method, and associated apparatus, for printed document verification. A document to be printed will have related content data, imposition data, and finishing data, wherein the imposition data describes at least one imposition signature for the document and the finishing data describes the application of one or more finishing operations to be performed in order to produce the printed document. This data is obtained using an input device and is passed to a representation system that generates an electronic output representation of the document to be printed and finished, in accordance with the said content, imposition and finishing data. An operator can then inspect this electronic representation to check for errors that might arise.
US08587577B2
Disclosed herein are signal transmission lines for an image display device and a method for wiring the same. The signal transmission lines include a plurality of control signal supply lines formed in a display panel in which at least one driving circuit is formed integrally with an image display region, such that the control signal supply lines are supplied with control signals for control of the driving circuit, respectively, and a plurality of control signal transmission lines formed in the display panel to cross the control signal supply lines and each electrically connected with at least one of the control signal supply lines, so as to transmit a corresponding one of the control signals to the driving circuit, wherein the control signal transmission lines have the same overlap areas with the control signal supply lines when they cross the control signal supply lines.
US08587574B2
A pixel structure of an electroluminescent display panel includes a plurality of sub-pixel columns, first power lines, and second power lines. Each of the first power lines and each of the second power lines are disposed between two adjacent sub-pixel columns. Each first power line is electrically connected to a portion of sub-pixels of a sub-pixel column disposed on one side of the first power line, and a portion of sub-pixels of the other sub-pixel column disposed on the other side of the first power line. Each second power line is electrically connected to a portion of sub-pixels of a sub-pixel column disposed on one side of the second power line, and a portion of sub-pixels of the other sub-pixel column disposed on the other side of the second power line.
US08587570B2
Crosstalk in the area of intersection between row leads and row electrodes as well as undesired optical effects are avoided in an LCD display element. An LCD display panel is made of the disclosed LCD display elements. By extending the row leads over the full width of the rectangular viewing area in which information is visually displayed, the portion of the viewing area that cannot be controlled by proper drive voltage pulses is minimized. Thus, undesired crosstalk and optical effects are reduced. By driving row electrodes using column voltage sequences of the prior art and by driving column electrodes using row voltage sequences of the prior art, row and column voltage sequences are generated such that an intermediate area of liquid crystal located between the row leads and corresponding row electrodes cannot be driven to a voltage that produces an intermediate condition between an ON condition and an OFF condition.
US08587566B2
A driver for driving a display panel having a light emitting element includes a plurality of control pads, each of which is electrically connected to a control line of the display panel; and a plurality of power source pads, each of which is electrically connected to a power source line of the display panel and is larger in area than the control pad. The control pads and the power source pads are arranged in line and an order of arrangement of the control pads and the power source pads is symmetrical with respect to a direction of pad arrangement.
US08587564B2
The present invention relates to a touch module including a light emitting part, a light waveguide, a frustration layer, and a light receiving part. The light emitting part emits light and is disposed along a first direction. The light waveguide includes a first side surface and a second side surface and transmits light incident to the first side surface to the second side surface. The light emitting part is disposed on the first side surface, and the second side surface is disposed opposite to the first side surface along a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction. The frustration layer is disposed over the light waveguide and contacts the light waveguide in response to a touch to frustrate a total internal light reflection. The light receiving part is disposed on the second side surface of the light waveguide to detect a position of the touch. The frustration layer includes a plurality of frustration parts, the total internal light reflection is frustrated at a contact surface between a frustration part and the light waveguide, and an area of a first frustration part differs from an area of a second frustration part that is spaced apart from the first frustration part.
US08587563B2
The present invention provides a positioning method for a touch system that obtains a pair of current correct positions according to the following steps: obtaining two pairs of possible positions from a current frame to be compared with a pair of previous correct positions obtained from a previous frame; or comparing four pairs of possible positions with each other obtained from the current frame. The present invention further provides a touch system.
US08587560B2
A display apparatus is provided and includes display cells each having a display circuit, light receiving cells each having a photosensor configured to receive light from an outside, and display signal lines. The display cells and the light receiving cells are arranged in a row direction perpendicular to the display signal lines and in a column direction parallel with the display signal lines. Also, the light receiving cells in each row are displaced in the row direction between every two adjacent rows in a column direction.
US08587558B2
A capacitive touch sensor includes multiple first-axis traces, multiple second-axis traces, an insulation layer and multiple metal traces. Each first-axis trace includes multiple first touch-sensing pads and first connecting lines connected therebetween. Each second-axis trace includes multiple second touch-sensing pads and second connecting lines connected therebetween. At least one of the first connecting line and the second connecting line is a metal printing line.
US08587550B1
An electronic device comprising a touchscreen and a light element may be operable to illuminate the light element in response to an event. In response to an input from a user of the electronic device, the electronic device may display on the touchscreen an animation of a graphical representation of the light element moving onto the touchscreen to a target location on the touchscreen. The graphical representation of the light element may share one or more characteristics with the light element. The characteristic(s) may indicate a contact, application, and/or operating system associated with the event.
US08587549B2
Various embodiments related to the location and adjustment of a virtual object on a display in response to a detected physical object are disclosed. One disclosed embodiment provides a computing device comprising a multi-touch display, a processor and memory comprising instructions executable by the processor to display on the display a virtual object, to detect a change in relative location between the virtual object and a physical object that constrains a viewable area of the display, and to adjust a location of the virtual object on the display in response to detecting the change in relative location between the virtual object and the physical object.
US08587544B2
There are provided an image display apparatus having a display unit capable of sensing a touch made by a pointing device, and a method for operating the same. The method includes outputting a synchronous signal through the entire region of the display unit, transmitting a first scanning signal and a second scanning signal respectively scanning the display unit in a first direction and a second direction to the pointing device; and acquiring touch position information regarding a touch made by the pointing device by using touch time information regarding time points when the pointing device receives the first scanning signal and the second scanning signal after sensing the synchronous signal. Accordingly, an error in touch recognition caused by the delay of a synchronous signal can be minimized.
US08587540B2
A method includes, at an electronic device with a display and a touch-sensitive surface: concurrently displaying a first text entry area and an unsplit keyboard on the display; detecting a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface; and, in response to detecting the gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, replacing the unsplit keyboard with an integrated input area. The integrated input area includes a left portion with a left side of a split keyboard, a right portion with a right side of the split keyboard, and a center portion in between the left portion and the right portion.
US08587536B2
The disclosure is related to a touch panel with a micro-electrode matrix. It is formed by a plurality of x-axis scanning line, a plurality of y-axis scanning line and a micro-electrode matrix defined by each of the scanning lines, wherein the micro-electrode matrix is formed by the plurality of micro-electrode series in x-axis connected to the scanning line in x-axis and the plurality of micro-electrode series in y-axis connected to the scanning line in y-axis. Each of the micro-electrode chains is composed by the plurality of micro-electrode and series resistances.
US08587532B2
Briefly, a feature rich touch subsystem is disclosed. The feature rich touch subsystem includes one or more novel user input capabilities that enhance the user experience.
US08587523B2
A non-contract selecting device is disclosed. The non-contract selecting device include a light source, emitting light to an outside; a camera unit, generating and outputting a video signal corresponding to an external video; a video data generating unit, generating video data corresponding to the video signal; and an identity unit, detecting a location of a detected area formed by light, reflected by pointing-means and inputted, of the light emitted from the video data in units of each frame, recognizing a moving locus of the detected area by comparing at least two continuous frames and generating and outputting corresponding change information. With the present invention, the function-selecting can be more quickly and easily and increase making the most use of elements.
US08587522B2
A mouse for operating an electronic device and having an actuating base, that is movable relative to a guide surface to thereby perform a function on an associated electronic device, and a moving assembly for the actuating base. The moving assembly has an elongate member. The elongate member is constructed to be: a) operatively held in a user's hand that is configured to hold the elongate member in the same manner that an elongate writing instrument would be held by a user's hand during a writing action; and b) moved while being operatively held to thereby cause the actuating base to be moved relative to the surface. The elongate member connected to the actuating base for controlled guided movement relative to the actuating base.
US08587520B2
Some implementations provide techniques and arrangements to receive image information. A plurality of reference fields of a user-manipulated device may be identified. Each reference field of the plurality of reference fields may include reference elements. The plurality of reference fields may be identified based on colors of the reference elements, shapes of the reference elements, and/or a pattern of the reference elements. Some implementations may generate position information based on the plurality of reference fields. The position information may identify a position of the user-manipulated device relative to the video camera. Some implementations may provide the position information to an application.
US08587519B2
A system and a method for performing a rolling gesture using a multi-dimensional pointing device. An initiation of a gesture by a user of the multi-dimensional pointing device is detected. A rolling gesture metric corresponding to performance of a rolling gesture comprising rotation of the multi-dimensional pointing device about a longitudinal axis of the multi-dimensional pointing device is determined. Information corresponding the rolling gesture metric is conveyed to a client computer system, wherein the client computer system is configured to manipulate an object in a user interface of the client computer system in accordance with the rolling gesture metric.
US08587510B2
According to one embodiment, an information processing apparatus includes a displaying unit including a display panel, a drive circuit for driving a white pixel, an illumination unit, and an inverter supplying a boosted driving power to the illumination unit, a power supply which supplies the inverter the driving power corresponding to a second control signal, a selecting unit which selects one item of setting data from a setting table including a plurality of items of setting data including luminance setting of the white pixel and luminance setting of the illumination unit, a first control signal outputting unit which supplies to the drive circuit the first control signal corresponding to luminance of the white pixel included in the selected item, and a second control signal outputting unit which supplies to the power supply the second control signal corresponding to luminance of the illumination unit included in the selected item.
US08587508B2
There is realized a scanning signal line drive circuit (in a display device) capable of, even in a case where a circuit in a shift register is formed using a thin-film transistor which is relatively large in off leakage, suppressing unnecessary power consumption due to a leakage current in the thin-film transistor. In at least one embodiment, bistable circuit that forms the shift register includes a thin-film transistor for raising a potential of an output terminal based on a first clock, a region netA connected to a gate terminal of the thin-film transistor, another thin-film transistor for lowering a potential of the region netA, and a region netB connected to a gate terminal of the other thin-film transistor. With this configuration, the potential of the region netB is raised based on a third clock which is advanced in phase by 90 degrees with respect to the first clock and is lowered based on a fourth clock which is delayed in phase by 90 degrees with respect to the first clock.
US08587504B2
A liquid crystal display (“LCD”) includes an LCD panel, a data driving unit, and a selection unit. A configuration of the selection unit, which includes a plurality of switching devices driven by a selection control signal to connect a plurality of data lines to each channel of the data driving unit, is adjusted according to the selection control signal, so that charging voltages of the same color pixels of the LCD panel are made the same, whereby no stripe defect appears. In addition, the configuration of the selection unit is adjusted according to the selection control signal and the polarity change of the data signal supplied from the data driving unit, so that color aggregation caused by supplying the same polarity voltage to adjacent color pixels of the LCD panel can be minimized.
US08587487B2
In an antenna arrangement, particularly for a motor vehicle window pane antenna, a first conductor structure is provided, which is formed by the heating field of a window pane and a second conductor structure, which is configured as an antenna conductor structure and which is situated galvanically separated from the heating field. At least one conductor of the heating field runs in the form of loops between the actual heating field and an outer edge of the pane 2. The second conductor structure extends comb-like into the loops of this at least one conductor of the heating field.
US08587477B2
A receiver for receiving both GPS signals and GLONASS signals is provided. This receiver includes an analog front end (AFE), a GPS digital front end (DFE) and a GLONASS DFE for receiving an output of the AFE, and a dual mode interface (DMI) for receiving outputs of the GPS and GLONASS DFEs. Search engines are provided for receiving outputs of the DMI. Notably, certain front-end components of the AFE are configured to process both the GPS signals and the GLONASS signals.
US08587475B2
A method of determining the position of a GNSS receiver antenna includes steps of acquiring input data which includes observations at the GNSS receiver antenna of signals of at least clock and position information of GNSS satellites, for each of a plurality of epochs. Float parameters of a state vector from the input data of each epoch are then estimated. The float parameters include receiver antenna position, receiver clock, and at least one ambiguity per satellite. A jump in the at least one ambiguity of at least one satellite from one epoch to another epoch is detected. Then bridge parameters from the input data of at least one epoch and from the estimated float parameters are estimated. The bridge parameters include values sufficient to update the float parameters to compensate for the jump, and the bridge parameters are then used to update the float parameters.
US08587473B2
A method for onboard determination of a roll angle of a projectile. The method including: transmitting a polarized RF signal from a reference source, with a predetermined polarization plane; receiving the signal at a pair of polarized RF sensor cavities positioned symmetrical on the projectile with respect to a reference roll position on the projectile; measuring a difference between an output of the pair of polarized RF sensor cavities resulting from the received signal to determine zero output roll positions of the projectile; and comparing an output of the pair of polarized RF sensor cavities at each of the zero output positions to determine when the projectile is parallel to the predetermined polarization plane. The method can also include analyzing an output of at least one third sensor positioned on the projectile to determine whether the roll angle position of the projectile is up as compared to the horizon.
US08587467B1
A method for determining locations of a moving emitter is disclosed. Initially, a set of emitter pulses is collected when a collector platform moves over a collection baseline. In addition, the time and location of the collection platform are recorded each time an emitter pulse is collected. A set of time-tagged pulse time-of-arrival (TOA) values is then generated by associating a recorded collection time value to each of the collected emitter pulses. Next, a set of time-tagged and position-tagged pulse TOA values is generated by associating a recorded collection location value to each of the time-tagged pulse TOA values. Finally, a set of location values and velocity values of a moving emitter is estimated based on the time-tagged and position-tagged pulse TOA values.
US08587455B2
An RFID system for determining the location of a vehicle or mobile object that passes thereover is presented. The system comprises a tag arrangement having at least one tag where the arrangement having a width of between approximately 0.5 m and 2 m.
US08587453B2
A portable traffic signaling system includes a plurality of portable traffic signals, each of the portable traffic signals having a plurality of traffic lights and a stand having legs that fold for transport and unfold for deployment. A short range wireless traffic signal transceiver that communicates bidirectionally via a short range wireless communication link. A traffic signal processing module controls the operation of the plurality of traffic lights to at least: a stop condition, and a go condition based on control data, such as control data received from a remote control device via the short range wireless communication link.
US08587445B2
A system and method of monitoring a plurality of electrical assets comprise an electricity distribution infrastructure, including a plurality of electrical asset sensors coupled to the electrical assets for monitoring an operating condition of the electrical assets as well as any fault conditions. The sensors may include a current transformer for obtaining a current waveform, a GPS receiver for applying a synchronized time-stamp to the waveform data, and a mesh network radio for transmitting the time-stamped waveform data. Data from the plurality of sensors may be encrypted and transmitted over a mesh network to one or more gateways that are in communication with a central command processor. In response to an abnormal operating condition of any electrical asset, the central command processor may determine a probable fault location, a probable fault type, and a fault response.
US08587441B2
A water flow detector has a gear driven timer responsive to the movement of a lever. The lever is connected to a paddle and the paddle is responsive to the flow of water in a pipe. The detector via the gear driven timer responds to the flow of water in the pipe.
US08587431B2
A method and apparatus involve a radio frequency identification tag that receives a wireless signal containing a message type conforming to an extension of a standard communication protocol and having an extended services segment, the tag then transmitting the extended services segment through an extended services interface. According to a different aspect, a method and apparatus involve a radio frequency identification tag that stores data which includes respective information regarding each of multiple extended services, and that responds to receipt of a wireless signal which is an extension to a standard protocol by transmitting a further wireless signal which is an extension to the protocol and contains at least part of the data. According to yet another aspect, a method and apparatus involve a radio frequency identification tag that responds to receipt of one wireless signal by transmitting a further wireless signal containing information regarding multiple sensors.
US08587428B2
The present invention relates to a system for protecting underground utilities and preventing damages which can be easily manufactured, carried, installed, and removed, and can minimize breakage of underground utilities and danger of an accident due to the breakage, by transmitting direct warning through light or sound in response to pressure applied over a predetermined level, or by transmitting a dangerous situation to an underground utilities management server.
US08587425B2
Aspects of the present invention are related to systems, methods and apparatus for monitoring and controlling energy usage. Alert notifications may be generated based on a current power status of an energy-consuming device and location information of a mobile device associated with the energy-consuming device.
US08587423B2
Systems and methods for displaying a driver shift aid are disclosed. In one aspect, an electronic control unit causes a shift indicator to be presented if a need for a shift is detected and vehicle performance after the shift would not be unduly impacted. If the vehicle operator follows the guidance of the shift indicator, vehicle fuel efficiency may be improved while vehicle performance remains adequate. In one aspect, a different indicator may be displayed to prompt the vehicle operator to shift either one gear or two gears.
US08587416B2
A base may locate a remote control by transmitting a first location signal, receiving a second location signal at base receivers from a remote control device transponder transmitted in response, and calculating a location of the remote control device based on the received second location signal. The base may provide navigation information based on the calculated location. In some implementations, the base may perform a setup routine by providing an interface that accepts position information, accepting an indication that the remote control is located at a position, transmitting a first calibration signal, receiving a second calibration signal at the receivers transmitted by the transponder in response, and recording baselines for the position. When the base unit subsequently analyses a second location signal to calculate a location of the remote control, the base may base the calculated location at least partly on the baselines.
US08587408B1
An item identification method includes providing a layer of material having an array of zones thereon. The array of zones on the layer is interrogated with a transmitted optical light beam. Light reflected by the array of zones is received. The light is reflected in a pattern that represents a code. At least one value of the code provided by the reflected light is determined.
US08587401B2
A fuse includes an upper shell, a lower shell and a cavity formed by the upper shell and the lower shell; first and second conductors which are respectively disposed between the upper shell and the lower shell. The first ends of each conductors are disposed in the cavity and form a clearance. The second ends of the conductors extend out from the cavity. A conductive bar is welded to the first and second conductors to form a first weld line and a second weld line.
US08587396B2
An electronic device includes a magnetic switch, a magnetic element for actuating the magnetic switch to send a control signal to an electronic element module, and a retaining mechanism for retaining the magnetic element at a housing. The retaining mechanism includes a retaining casing, a connecting member, and a blocking member. The retaining casing is disposed on and cooperates with the housing to define a receiving space to receive the magnetic element, and has an opening in spatial communication with the receiving space. The blocking member is connected to the housing by the connecting member and is adjacent to the opening to prevent removal of the magnetic element from the receiving space through the opening.
US08587392B1
A MOC operator structure for a circuit breaker includes linkage structure coupled between the operating mechanism and an interface structure. An armature is associated with the linkage structure. Permanent magnet structure is associated with the circuit breaker and is disposed generally adjacent to the armature. Wherein, when the operating mechanism is coupled with the linkage structure and the operating mechanism moves in a first direction, a portion of the linkage structure moves in a first direction and moves the MOC operator structure to an open position, with the armature being magnetically engaged with permanent magnet structure to maintain the MOC operator structure in the open position. When the portion of the operating mechanism moves in a second direction, the portion of the linkage structure moves in a second direction and moves the MOC operator structure to a closed position, with the armature magnetically disengaging from the permanent magnet structure.
US08587391B2
In accordance with a representative embodiment, a bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonator structure, comprises: a first BAW resonator comprising a first lower electrode, a first upper electrode and a first piezoelectric layer disposed between the first lower electrode and the first upper electrode; a second BAW resonator comprising a second lower electrode, a second upper electrode and a second piezoelectric layer disposed between the second lower electrode and the second upper electrode; and a single-material acoustic coupling layer disposed between the first and second BAW resonators, the acoustic coupling layer having an acoustic impedance less than approximately 6.0 MRayls and an acoustic attenuation less than approximately 1000 dB/cm.
US08587389B2
The branching filter has the piezoelectric substrate having the main surface on which there are formed a transmission filter, which includes an input electrode and an antenna electrode, and a reception filter, which includes an output electrodes and the antenna electrode. The branching filter also has the mounting substrate having, on a first main surface, a first electrode group that is connected to the transmission filter and reception filter and that is formed symmetrical with respect to a line when viewed from the above, and also having, on a second main surface locating on the opposite side to the first main surface, a second electrode group that is connected to the circuit interconnects of an external circuit board and that is formed symmetrical with respect to a line when viewed from the above.
US08587384B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device includes a DCO and a storing unit that stores a temperature coefficient of an oscillation frequency and an absolute value of the oscillation frequency, which should be set in the DCO, corresponding to potential obtained from a voltage source that changes with a monotonic characteristic with respect to temperature.
US08587383B2
A method establishes an initial voltage in a ring oscillator and a logic circuit of an integrated circuit device. Following this, the method enables the operating state of the ring oscillator. After enabling the operating state of the ring oscillator, the method steps up to a stressing voltage in the ring oscillator. The initial voltage is approximately one-half the stressing voltage. The stressing voltage creates operating-level stress within the ring oscillator. The method measures the operating-level frequency within the ring oscillator using an oscilloscope (after stepping up to the stressing voltage).
US08587380B2
A system for preventing power amplifier supply voltage saturation includes a multiple stage voltage regulator configured to provide a regulated voltage, a power amplifier configured to receive the regulated voltage, and a saturation protection circuit configured to apply a current into a first stage of the multiple stage voltage regulator when the regulated voltage reaches a reference voltage, the applied current causing a subsequent stage of the multiple stage voltage regulator to prevent the regulated voltage from exceeding the reference voltage.
US08587379B2
A power amplifier circuit comprising a transistor for receiving a signal to be amplified at an input and for outputting an amplified signal at an output; a modulated power supply connected to the transistor output; and a resistive element connected at the transistor output such that a low impedance is maintained at the transistor output across a range of operational frequencies.
US08587370B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first transistor having a control electrode coupled to an input node receiving a signal synchronized with a clock, a first conductive electrode coupled to an output node, and a second conductive electrode; a second transistor having a control electrode coupled to the input node, a first conductive electrode coupled to the output node, and a second conductive electrode coupled to a power supply node; and a first switch element connected between the power supply node and the second conductive electrode of the second transistor and turned on and off based on a first control signal indicating a detection result of a frequency of the clock.
US08587368B2
A method includes generating a first current, wherein the first current flows through a first resistor and a first bipolar transistor. A first end of the first resistor is serially connected to an emitter-collector path of the first bipolar transistor, and a second end of the resistor is connected to an input of an operational amplifier. A second current is generated to flow through a second resistor that is connected to the input of the operational amplifier. An emitter of a second bipolar transistor is connected to a base of the first bipolar transistor, wherein a base and a collector of the second bipolar transistor are connected to VSS. The first and the second currents are added to generate a third current, which is mirrored to generate a fourth current proportional to the third current. The fourth current is conducted through a third resistor to generate an output reference voltage.
US08587366B2
A semiconductor device includes: a unit configured to, in a period before power up, compare a voltage obtained by dividing a voltage of a first voltage node at a first division ratio with a voltage obtained by dividing a voltage of a second voltage node at a second division ratio and determine whether to activate an enable signal according to a result of the comparison; and a voltage driving unit configured to increase the voltage of the second voltage node when the enable signal is activated in the period before power up.
US08587364B2
According to one embodiment, a receiving circuit is provided. The receiving circuit has a first light receiving element, a signal voltage generator, a second light receiving element, a delay element and a comparator. The first light receiving element receives a light signal and converts the light signal into a first current. The signal voltage generator converts the first current into a signal voltage. The second light receiving element receives the light signal and converts the light signal into a second current. The reference voltage generator converts the second current into a voltage and outputs the voltage as a reference voltage. The delay element delays and reduces a signal component of the reference voltage. The comparator compares the signal voltage from the signal voltage generator with a threshold voltage based on an output voltage of the delay element.
US08587346B2
A driving circuit is disclosed that has low power consumption and supplies a current to a load. The driving circuit includes a constant current circuit section to generate and output a predetermined constant current, a current mirror circuit section to generate a current proportional to an input current supplied from the constant current circuit section and supply the current to the load, and a constant voltage supplying circuit section to generate a constant voltage and supply the constant voltage to a series circuit of the load and an output transistor of the current mirror circuit. The constant voltage supplying circuit section gene-rates the constant voltage so that an output voltage of the current mirror circuit section equals an input voltage of the current mirror circuit section.
US08587340B2
Apparatuses and methods are described that include a plurality of drivers corresponding to a single via. A number of drivers can be selected to operate individually or together to drive a signal through a single via. Additional apparatus and methods are described.
US08587339B2
A multi-mode driver with multiple transmitter types including a first transmitter coupled to a transmission channel and operative to output a signal for transmission on the channel and a second transmitter coupled to the channel and operative to output the signal for transmission on the channel, the second transmitter having at least one different output characteristic than the first transmitter. During the output of the signal from one of the transmitters, the other of the transmitters is biased with a bias supply voltage that prevents voltage breakdown of one or more transistors of the other transmitter.
US08587338B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide a clock gate circuit for generating a clock signal. The clock gate circuit includes a multiplexer and a logic module coupled to the multiplexer. The multiplexer is configured to receive a first logic signal at a first data input, a second logic signal at a second data input, and a reference clock signal at a selector input, and to output the clock signal having a logic state selected from one of the first logic signal or the second logic signal based on transitions of the reference clock signal. The logic module includes at least one of an XNOR and an XOR module and is configured to provide an output signal that is responsive to performing at least one of an XNOR and an XOR operation of the output of the multiplexer and an enable signal that enables or disables the clock gate circuit to generate the clock signal.
US08587322B2
Methods and apparatus provide for: a first DC bus operating to support a first DC voltage potential and for connecting to a DC input of a motor driver inverter circuit; a motor emulator circuit operating to emulate a polyphase motor and including polyphase output terminals for connecting to a polyphase output of the motor driver inverter circuit; a second DC bus operating to support a second DC voltage potential to a DC input of the motor emulator circuit; and a bi-directional DC-DC power supply coupled between the first and second DC busses, and operating to both: (i) add voltage potential to the first DC voltage potential to produce the higher, second DC voltage potential on the second DC bus, and (ii) subtract voltage potential from the second DC voltage potential to produce the lower, first DC voltage potential on the first DC bus.
US08587318B2
A sensor arrangement and method that may be used with a variety of different energy storage devices, including battery packs found in hybrid vehicles, battery electric vehicles, and other types of vehicles. Some battery monitoring systems, such as those designed to monitor and/or control lithium-ion battery packs, may require individual voltage readings for each and every cell. If a battery monitoring system component—even one that provides just one of these sensor readings—malfunctions or otherwise experiences a fault condition, then it may be necessary to bring the entire vehicle in for service. The exemplary sensor arrangement and method may be used to control a series of balancing switches in the sensor arrangement in such a way that enables the vehicle to detect fault conditions and to continue operating successfully in the event that such fault conditions occur.
US08587308B2
A flexible design of a transmission system for a magnetic resonance tomography apparatus has multiple radio-frequency control units, connectors that are connected to the radio-frequency control units, a unit to which at least one first connector is connected, which connector is also connected to a first radio-frequency control unit of the radio-frequency control units. The unit is connected via a connector to only some—in particular only one—of the radio-frequency control units. One of these few radio-frequency control units is connected to an additional radio-frequency control unit via an additional connector.
US08587304B2
An optical atomic magnetometers is provided operating on the principles of nonlinear magneto-optical rotation. An atomic vapor is optically pumped using linearly polarized modulated light. The vapor is then probed using a non-modulated linearly polarized light beam. The resulting modulation in polarization angle of the probe light is detected and used in a feedback loop to induce self-oscillation at the resonant frequency.
US08587300B2
An MI sensor element 1 includes a substrate 4 formed of a non-magnetic material, a plurality of magneto-sensitive bodies 2, and a plurality of detecting coils 3. The plurality of magneto-sensitive bodies 2 are formed of an amorphous material, and are fixed on the substrate 4, and are electrically connected to each other. The detecting coils 3 are wound around each of the magneto-sensitive bodies 2, and are electrically connected to each other. The MI sensor element 1 outputs a voltage corresponding to a magnetic field strength acting on the magneto-sensitive bodies 2 from the detecting coil 3 by flowing a pulse current or a high-frequency current to the magneto-sensitive body 2. The plurality of magneto-sensitive bodies 2 are formed by fixing one amorphous wire 20 on the substrate 4, and then cutting the wire.
US08587293B2
A simple position determination is enabled by a device and a method to determine the position of a local coil in a magnetic resonance apparatus, wherein at least one signal emitted by at least one transmission coil is received by the local coil and is evaluated with a position determination device in order to determine the position of the local coil.
US08587291B2
A diagnosis device and method of a voltage transformer can include a current transformer disposed at one side of an output port for generating a current variation according to an on/off operation of a power switch element; a first current detector configured to detect a forward direction current from the current transformer; a second current detector configured to detect a reverse direction current from the current transformer; a first voltage transformer configured to transform the forward direction current detected from the first current detector to a forward direction voltage; a second voltage transformer configured to transform the reverse direction current detected from the second current detector to a reverse direction voltage; and a diagnosis portion for comparing the forward direction voltage with the reverse direction voltage to determine whether or not an offset is formed.
US08587277B2
The invention relates to a DC to DC voltage converter including a charge pump capacitor (C) installed parallel to a means (10, 20) for controlling switches (T1, T2), arranged to maintain a predefined voltage range on the terminals of the means (10) for controlling the upper switch (T1). The control means (10, 20) are arranged so as to close the lower switch (T2) in order to impose zero electric potential on the central terminal of the star (O) when the upper switch (T1) is open, in order to force the charging of the charge pump capacitor (C).
US08587271B2
An envelope tracking power supply circuit is a power supply circuit for generating an output voltage according to the envelope of a high frequency signal and includes a voltage follower circuit for receiving an envelope signal and outputting a voltage according to the envelope signal; two parallel resistors connected in parallel between the output of the voltage follower circuit and an output terminal; hysteresis comparators for detecting respective voltage drops in the parallel resistors and generating voltages according to the voltage drops; and switching converters for performing switching according to the respective voltages outputted from the hysteresis comparators and outputting a voltage to the output terminal.
US08587269B2
A DC-DC voltage converter having a switching stage including high- and low-side switches connected in series at a switched node across a DC voltage bus; a control circuit; and a feedback loop connected between an output of the switching stage and an input of the control circuit, the control circuit having a clock signal input and including an error processing circuit coupled to the input for detecting an output of the feedback loop, the control circuit turning OFF the low-side switch and turning ON the high-side switch when the clock signal is detected. The control circuit operates in a cycle-by-cycle operation generating PWM modulation synchronous to the external clock source.
US08587259B2
The present invention relates to a temperature estimating method of a battery. A predetermined module of a battery is equipped with a temperature sensor and a current/voltage sensor(s). Whether the battery deteriorates can be determined by using the measured temperature, current, and voltage.
US08587253B2
A method for recharging an electric vehicle having an electric battery for powering a vehicle drive system is provided. The method includes recharging the electric vehicle during a first period at a first electrical power and recharging the electric vehicle during a second period shorter than the first period at a second electrical power higher than the first electrical power. The recharging includes delivering coolant to the electric vehicle to cool the electric battery during the second period. Other methods of recharging an electric vehicle are also provided.
US08587246B2
An error condition detection circuit coupled to the motor control circuit reports an error condition when actual motor operation deviates from predetermined desired motor operation. An overcurrent threshold comparator compares motor current with a threshold data value stored in a data storage register, and sets an overcurrent flag when the motor current exceeds the threshold. A current interrogation processor monitors the reported error condition and is programmed to respond to the error condition by iteratively reading the overcurrent flag and decrementing the overcurrent threshold data value by a predetermined decrement amount until the overcurrent flag becomes set. The current interrogation processor is further programmed to report the overcurrent threshold data value extant at the time the flag becomes set as an estimate of electric current.
US08587232B2
A system and method are presented for aligning a rotor in a motor. The motor may include the rotor and a plurality of pairs of electromagnets. One or more pairs of electromagnets may be excited at a first excitation level. The one or more pairs of electromagnets may be less than all of the plurality of pairs of electromagnets. The excitation of the one or more pairs of electromagnets may be increased to a second excitation level over a first period of time. The excitation of the one or more pairs of electromagnets may be decreased to a third excitation level over a second period of time. Exciting the one or more pairs of electromagnets, increasing the excitation, and decreasing the excitation may cause the rotor to stop in a known position.
US08587227B2
An arrangement with radiation cooling of the anode, which avoids the need for complex additional cooling measures, is proposed for an electrostatic ion accelerator arrangement in which the thermal power loss which is not negligible occurs at the anode, which is arranged in an ionization chamber, during operation.
US08587220B2
The present invention includes a first DC converter converting AC voltage, into DC voltage while correcting a power factor, and a second DC converter electrically isolating the first DC converter from an LED group load, and converting the DC voltage, into a predetermined DC voltage and supply the resultant voltage to the LED group load. The second DC converter includes a current detection circuit disposed on the secondary side, and detecting current flowing into the LED group load, an error amplifier amplifying an error between a detected current value detected and a reference current value, a signal transmission isolation element transmitting a control signal based on an output signal from the error amplifier, to the primary side, and a switching element transferring power to the secondary side through the transformer by being turned on/off according to the control signal.
US08587215B2
Lighting devices and operating methods are presented in which voltage or current perturbations of an OLED caused by a user pressing the OLED are monitored while the OLED is providing general lighting, and one or more lighting control signals are generated based on the sensed perturbations.
US08587211B2
A light emitting diode (LED) lighting system includes a PFC and output voltage controller and a LED lighting power system. The controller advantageously operates from an auxiliary voltage less than a link voltage generated by the LED lighting power system. The common reference voltage allows all the components of lighting system to work together. A power factor correction switch and an LED drive current switch are coupled to the common reference node and have control node-to-common node, absolute voltage that allows the controller to control the conductivity of the switches. The LED lighting system can utilize feed forward control to concurrently modify power demand by the LED lighting power system and power demand of one or more LEDs. The LED lighting system can utilize a common current sense device to provide a common feedback signal to the controller representing current in at least two of the LEDs.
US08587196B2
The photomultiplier tube 1 is provided with a casing 5 made of an upper frame 2 and a lower frame 4, an electron multiplying part 33 having dynodes 33a to 331 arrayed on the lower frame 4, a photocathode 41, and an anode part 34. Conductive layers 202 are installed on an opposing surface 20a of the upper frame 2. The electron multiplying part 33 is provided with base parts 52a to 52d of the respective dynodes 33a to 33d installed on the side of the lower frame 4, and power supplying parts 53a to 53d connected to the conductive layers 202 at one end parts of the respective base parts 52a to 52d in a direction along the opposing surface 40a. The base parts 52a to 52d are constituted in such a manner that the both end parts are joined to the opposing surface 40a, the central part is spaced away from the opposing surface 40a, and a cross sectional area at the one end part on the side of each of the power supplying parts 53a to 53d is made greater than a cross sectional area at another end part.
US08587191B2
A top-emitting or bottom-emitting OLED has a wide color gamut and reduces a variation in color with a viewing angle. The OLED includes a reflective electrode and a transmissive or semi-transmissive electrode disposed opposite each other; at least two organic emission layers (EMLs) interposed between the reflective electrode and the transmissive or semi-transmissive electrode; and an optical path control layer disposed on an outer surface of the transmissive or semi-transmissive electrode. A resonator is formed between the reflective electrode and the optical path control layer so a resonance mode of light extracted from the optical path control layer is a multi-resonance mode having at least two modes in a visible light region. A distance between the organic EMLs satisfies the condition of constructive interference between light beams emitted by the respective organic EMLs. A color display apparatus using the OLED are taught.
US08587182B2
An ultrasonic transducer includes: a diaphragm pot that has a surrounding wall; a transducer element mounted in a diaphragm pot on a transducer section on an inner side of the diaphragm for generating the ultrasonic vibrations; a first damping element situated in the diaphragm pot on transducer element for damping the diaphragm; and a second damping element situated within the diaphragm pot in an edge section of the diaphragm around the transducer element for damping vibrations of the wall; the second damping element being connected with force locking, at least section by section, both to the edge section and to the inner side of the wall.
US08587180B2
A pressure control valve piezoelectric element driving circuit is provided for a pressure type flow rate control device provided with a flow rate self-diagnosis function for comparing initial pressure drop characteristics data measured and with pressure drop characteristics data in a flow rate diagnosis which are measured under conditions that are the same for both measurements to detect malfunction in flow rate control from a difference between both characteristics data, wherein a first discharge circuit slowly discharges a piezoelectric element driving voltage applied to the piezoelectric element according to a step-down command signal from a CPU, through a step-down command circuit to step down the voltage, and a second discharge circuit that rapidly discharges a piezoelectric element driving voltage applied to the piezoelectric element according to a high-speed step-down command signal from the CPU, through a high-speed step-down command circuit to step down the voltage.
US08587172B2
A sensor fastening method and a sensor fastening frame for use therewith are provided. The sensor fastening frame is coupled to a motor stator of a brushless motor having distributed coils and extends over the distributed coils to allow the sensor fastening frame to rotate about the axle of a motor rotor, without interference with the distributed coils. At least a sensor is fastened in position to the sensor fastening frame proximate to one end of the axle of the motor stator for positioning the sensor to detect magnetic field variations of the motor rotor.
US08587159B2
Method for increasing the performance of a communications system on a medium formed by multiple conductors which increases the performance of a communications system by means of the creation of numerous communication channels with a high degree of isolation between each other on the same physical medium formed by multiple conductors. The method can be extended to be used in various applications, such as the reuse of frequencies on the same channel, the increase of the capacity of the point-to-point links in a network and the improvement of performance and reliability when used with digital processing of signals for transmission or reception, among others.
US08587154B2
There is disclosed an inductive power transfer system including a primary unit and a secondary device separable from the primary unit, the primary unit may include a power transfer surface and more than two field generators each operable to generate an electromagnetic field. The field generators may be located at different positions relative to the power transfer surface. The secondary device may include a power receiver having a secondary coil. In one embodiment, the system may determine at least one of the position and the orientation of the power receiver relative to the power transfer surface, and control the field generators such that at least one first field generator and at least one second field generators, selected in dependence upon such determination, are active in a substantially opposite sense to one another so as to direct magnetic flux through the secondary coil thereby supplying power to the secondary device, and further such that a third one of the field generators is inactive so that fewer than all of the field generators are active simultaneously.
US08587150B2
A battery charging system according to some embodiments includes a plurality of power modules coupled to a backplane, each of the plurality of power modules providing an electrical indication of type of power module to the backplane, the power modules of each type providing an electrical function associated with charging a battery consistent with the type of power module; and a controller that determines the number of power modules of a particular type and supplies control signals that allocate to each of the power modules of the particular type a portion of the electrical function.
US08587149B2
Electronic protection unit comprising a control unit and a main and auxiliary power supply stage to supply electrical power to said control unit. The auxiliary power supply stage comprises electronic means suitable to generate an auxiliary power supply voltage, in response to a light radiation received in input. In a further aspect, the present invention relates to a process to manage an electronic protection unit of a power line, in emergency condition.
US08587140B2
A method for estimating an achievable power production of a wind turbine, which is operated with a reduced power set point is provided. The method includes determining the values of at least two parameters, inputting the values of the at least two parameters into a neural network, and outputting an output value from the neural network. The at least two parameters are indicative of an operating condition of the wind turbine. Thereby, the output value is an estimate of the achievable power production of the wind turbine. A control system which is adapted to carry out the described power estimation method is also provided. Furthermore, a wind turbine which uses the control system adapted to carry out the described power estimation method is provided.
US08587136B2
A mobile power system includes a first transportable body including a generator assembly and a second transportable body including a turbine assembly. One end of the second transportable body is attached to and faces an end of the first transportable body such that the first and second transportable bodies are generally collinear. The mobile power system also includes a third transportable body including auxiliary equipment and a fourth transportable body including electrical equipment. The third transportable body includes a portion that is generally aligned with at least a portion of the first and second transportable bodies along a direction that is generally perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of the third transportable body. The third transportable body is located between the fourth transportable body and the first and second transportable bodies. The first, second, third, and fourth transportable bodies are substantially parallel and are separately transportable.
US08587130B2
A die-sorting sheet includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer exposed on an outer periphery of the carrier sheet, and a base film exposed on a central area that is inside the outer periphery. A method for transporting a chip having an adhesive layer includes the steps of: providing the above die-sorting sheet that is fixed with a frame through the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer on the outer periphery; temporarily attaching a picked up chip through an adhesive layer thereof onto the base film exposed on the die-sorting sheet; and transporting the die-sorting sheet to a subsequent step while the chip is temporarily attached on the sheet through the adhesive layer.
US08587127B2
A semiconductor structure includes a dielectric layer disposed over a substrate. A metallic line is disposed in the dielectric layer. A through-silicon-via (TSV) structure continuously extends through the dielectric layer and the substrate. A surface of the metallic line is substantially leveled with a surface of the TSV structure.
US08587125B2
A layered chip package includes a main body, and wiring including a plurality of wires disposed on a side surface of the main body. The main body includes a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked, and a plurality of electrodes that electrically connect the semiconductor chips to the wires. A method of manufacturing the layered chip package includes the steps of: fabricating a substructure that includes an array of a plurality of pre-separation main bodies and a plurality of holes for accommodating a plurality of preliminary wires, the holes being formed between two adjacent pre-separation main bodies; forming the preliminary wires in the plurality of holes by plating; and cutting the substructure so that the plurality of pre-separation main bodies are separated from each other and the preliminary wires are split into two sets of wires of two separate main bodies, whereby a plurality of layered chip packages are formed.
US08587121B2
A semiconductor structure includes backside dummy plugs embedded in a substrate. The backside dummy plugs can be a conductive structure that enhances vertical thermal conductivity of the semiconductor structure and provides electrical decoupling of signals in through-substrate vias (TSVs) in the substrate. The backside dummy plug can include a cavity to accommodate volume changes in other components in the substrate, thereby alleviating mechanical stress in the substrate during thermal cycling and operation of the semiconductor chip. The backside dummy plug including the cavity can be composed of an insulator material or a conductive material. The inventive structures can be employed to form three-dimensional structures having vertical chip integration, in which inter-wafer thermal conductivity is enhanced, cross-talk between signals through TSVs is reduced, and/or mechanical stress to the TSVs is reduced.
US08587120B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor die with a first conductive layer formed over the die. A first insulating layer is formed over the die with a first opening in the first insulating layer disposed over the first conductive layer. A second conductive layer is formed over the first insulating layer and into the first opening over the first conductive layer. An interconnect structure is constructed by forming a second insulating layer over the first insulating layer with a second opening having a width less than the first opening and depositing a conductive material into the second opening. The interconnect structure can be a conductive pillar or conductive pad. The interconnect structure has a width less than a width of the first opening. The second conductive layer over the first insulating layer outside the first opening is removed while leaving the second conductive layer under the interconnect structure.
US08587118B2
Provided is a light emitting device package. The light emitting device package comprises a housing, first and second lead frames, and a light emitting device. The housing comprises a front opening and side openings. The first and second lead frames pass through the housing to extend to an outside. A portion of each lead frame being exposed through the front opening. The light emitting device is in the front opening and electrically connected to the first and second lead frames. A protrusion protruding in a direction of the side opening is formed on an inner surface of the side opening.
US08587115B2
A heat dissipation substrate including a metal substrate, a metal layer, an insulating material layer and a patterned conductive layer is provided. The metal layer is disposed on the metal substrate and entirely covers the metal substrate. The metal layer has a first metal block and a second metal block surrounding the first metal block. A thickness of the first metal block is greater than a thickness of the second metal block. The insulating material layer is disposed on the second metal block. The patterned conductive layer is disposed on the insulating material layer and on the first metal block.
US08587110B2
A semiconductor module having a semiconductor chip stack and a method for producing the same is disclosed. In one embodiment, a thermally conductive layer with anisotropically thermally conductive particles is arranged between the semiconductor chips. The anisotropically thermally conductive particles have a lower thermal conductivity in a direction vertically with respect to the layer or the film than in a direction of the layer or the film.
US08587100B2
A semiconductor package includes a lead frame, a first chip, a second chip, a plurality of bonding wires and a mold compound. The lead frame includes a pad portion at a center of the frame and a plurality of lead portions. The pad portion and the plurality of lead portions collectively define a receiving portion. The first chip is securely received in the receiving portion. The second chip is mechanically attached to the first chip. The plurality of bonding wires electrically connect the second chip to the plurality of lead portions. The mold compound encapsulates the lead frame, the first chip, the second chip and the plurality of bonding wires to form the semiconductor package.
US08587094B2
A semiconductor device having an active element and an MIM capacitor and a structure capable of reducing the number of the manufacturing steps thereof and a manufacturing method therefor are provided. The semiconductor device has a structure that the active element having an ohmic electrode and the MIM capacitor having a dielectric layer arranged between a lower electrode and an upper electrode are formed on a semiconductor substrate, wherein the lower electrode and ohmic electrode have the same structure. In an MMIC 100 in which an FET as an active element and the MIM capacitor are formed on a GaAs substrate 10, for example, a source electrode 16a and a drain electrode 16b, which are ohmic electrodes of the FET, are manufactured simultaneously with a lower electrode 16c of the MIM capacitor. Here the electrodes are formed with the same metal.
US08587091B2
A wafer-leveled chip packaging method, comprising the steps of: providing a wafer; attaching at least one first chip to the wafer; forming a first insulating layer on the wafer; forming a plurality of first conductive vias penetrating the first insulating layer, wherein parts of the first conductive vias are electrically connected with the first chip; forming a conductive pattern layer on the surface of the first insulating layer wherein the conductive pattern layer is electrically connected with the first conductive vias; forming a plurality of through holes penetrating the wafer; filling a second insulating layer in the through holes; and forming a plurality of second conductive vias in the second insulating layer, wherein the second conductive vias are electrically connected with the first conductive vias.
US08587084B2
A sensor array is integrated onto the same chip as core logic. The sensor array uses a first polysilicon and the core logic uses a second polysilicon. The first polysilicon is etched to provide a tapered profile edge in the interface between the sensor array and the core logic regions to avoid an excessive step. Amorphous carbon can be deposited over the interface region without formation of voids, thus providing for improved manufacturing yield and reliability.
US08587082B2
An imaging device includes: an optical sensor including a light receiving unit capable of forming an object image; a seal material for protecting the light receiving unit of the optical sensor; an intermediate layer formed at least between the light receiving unit and an opposite surface of the seal material facing the light receiving unit; and a control film arranged between the intermediate layer and the opposite surface of the seal material, wherein, in the control film, a cutoff wavelength is shifted to a shortwave side in accordance with an incident angle of light which is obliquely incident on the film.
US08587079B2
A memory device includes a first plurality of magnetic random access memory (MRAM) cells positioned along a first direction, and a first bit line electrically connected to the first plurality of MRAM cells, the bit line oriented in the first direction. The device includes a first plurality of field lines oriented in a second direction different from the first direction, the first plurality of field lines being spaced such that only a corresponding first one of the first plurality of MRAM cells is configurable by each of the first plurality of field lines. The device includes a second plurality of field lines oriented in a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction, the second plurality of field lines being spaced such that only a corresponding second one of the first plurality of MRAM cells is configurable by each of the second plurality of field lines.
US08587078B2
A fabricating method of integrated circuit is provided. During the fabricating process of an interconnecting structure of the integrated circuit, a micro electromechanical system (MENS) diaphragm is formed between two adjacent dielectric layers of the interconnecting structure. The method of forming the MENS diaphragm includes the following steps. Firstly, a plurality of first openings is formed within any dielectric layer to expose corresponding conductive materials of the interconnecting structure. Secondly, a bottom insulating layer is formed on the dielectric layer and filling into the first openings. Third, portions of the bottom insulating layer located in the first openings are removed to form at least a first trench for exposing the corresponding conductive materials. Then, a first electrode layer and a top insulating layer are sequentially formed on the bottom insulating layer, and the first electrode layer filled into the first trench and is electrically connected to the conductive materials.
US08587077B2
A compact MEMS motion sensor device is provided, including a CMOS substrate layer, with plural anchor posts having an isolation oxide layer surrounding a conductive layer. On one side of the CMOS substrate layer, the device further includes a field oxide (FOX) layer, a first set and a second set of implant doped silicon areas, a first polysilicon layer, an oxide layer embedded with plural metal layers interleaved with via hole layers, a Nitride deposition layer, an under bump metal (UBM) layer and a plurality of solder spheres. On the other side of the CMOS substrate layer, it further includes a backside interconnect isolation oxide layer, a first MEMS bonding layer, a first metal compound layer, a second MEMS bonding layer, a MEMS layer, a first MEMS eutectic bonding layer, a second metal compound layer, a second MEMS eutectic bonding layer, and a MEMS cap layer.
US08587067B2
A three dimensional integrated circuit includes a silicon substrate, a first source region disposed on the substrate, a first drain region disposed on the substrate, a first gate stack portion disposed on the substrate, a first dielectric layer disposed on the first source region, the first drain region, the first gate stack portion, and the substrate, a second dielectric layer formed on the first dielectric layer, a second source region disposed on the second dielectric layer, a second drain region disposed on the second dielectric layer, and a second gate stack portion disposed on the second dielectric layer, the second gate stack portion including a graphene layer.
US08587066B2
A device and method is provided that in one embodiment provides a first semiconductor device including a first gate structure on a first channel region, in which a first source region and a first drain region are present on opposing sides of the first channel region, in which a metal nitride spacer is present on only one side of the first channel region. The device further includes a second semiconductor device including a second gate structure on a second channel region, in which a second source region and a second drain region are present on opposing sides of the second channel region. Interconnects may be present providing electrical communication between the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device, in which at least one of the first semiconductor device and the second semiconductor device is inverted. A structure having a reverse halo dopant profile is also provided.
US08587062B2
A field effect transistor (FET) with an adjacent body contact, a SOI IC with circuits including the FETs and a method of fabricating the ICs. Device islands are formed in the silicon surface layer of a SOI wafer. Gates are defined on the wafer. Body contacts are formed in a perimeter conductive region adjacent to the gates. The body contacts may be either a silicide strap along the gate sidewall at one side of the FET or a separate contact separated from the gate by a dielectric stripe at one side of the FET. Separate contacts may be connected to a bias supply.
US08587057B2
A metal oxide semiconductor field transistor including a source region, a drain region, a gate and a gate dielectric layer is provided. The drain region is located in a substrate. The drain region has an elliptical spiral shape and a starting portion of the drain region is strip or water drop or has a curvature of 0.02 to 0.0025 [1/um]. The source region located in the substrate is around the drain region. The gate is located above the substrate and between the source region and the drain region. The gate dielectric layer is located between the gate and the substrate.
US08587054B2
A trench MOSFET with split gates and diffused drift region for on-resistance reduction is disclosed. Each of the split gates is symmetrically disposed in the middle of the source electrode and adjacent trench sidewall of a deep trench. The inventive structure can save a mask for definition of the location of the split gate electrodes. Furthermore, the fabrication method can be implemented more reliably with lower cost.
US08587052B2
One example embodiment of a semiconductor device includes a memory cell array formed on a substrate. The memory cell array includes a gate stack including alternating conductive and insulating layers. A first lower conductive layer in the gate stack has a portion disposed below a first upper conductive layer in the gate stack, and a first contact area of the first lower conductive layer is disposed higher than a second contact area of the first upper conductive layer. The semiconductor device further includes first and second contact plugs extending into the gate stack to contact the first and second contact areas, respectively.
US08587051B2
Provided is an electrically erasable and programmable nonvolatile semiconductor memory device whose tunnel region formed in the drain region has the second conductivity-type low-impurity-concentration region with the first tunnel insulating film for solely injecting electrons disposed thereon, and the first conductivity-type low-impurity-concentration region with the second tunnel insulating film for solely ejecting electrons disposed thereon, both regions fixed to the same potential as the drain region and having a lower impurity concentration than that of the drain region.
US08587047B2
A capacitor structure for a pumping circuit includes a substrate, a U-shaped bottom electrode in the substrate, a T-shaped top electrode in the substrate and a dielectric layer disposed between the U-shaped bottom and T-shaped top electrode. The contact area of the capacitor structure between the U-shaped bottom and T-shaped top electrode is extended by means of the cubic engagement of the U-shaped bottom electrode and the T-shaped top electrode.
US08587038B2
According to one embodiment, an electric component includes: a first insulating layer formed on a first wire; a second wire and a functional element formed on the first insulating layer; a second insulating layer formed on the first insulating layer; and a connection wire that connects the second wire and the first wire. In the connection wire, a first via, a second via, and an inter-via wire are integrally formed of the same material. The first via is formed in the second insulating layer. The second via is formed in the first and second insulating layers.
US08587035B2
A device includes a semiconductor substrate, a first local bit line formed in the semiconductor substrate and elongated in a first direction, a first insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate, a first global bit line formed on the first insulating layer, a first path formed in the first insulating layer to couple a first end of the first local bit line with the first global bit line, and a second path formed in the first insulating layer to couple a second end of the first local bit line with the first global bit line.
US08587032B2
For an HEMT component, in particular on the basis of GaN, it is proposed, for the purpose of reducing field spikes in the conduction channel, in a partial section of the conduction channel between gate electrode and drain electrode, to set the sheet resistance of the conduction channel such that it is higher than in adjacent regions. Various measures for subsequently increasing the sheet resistance in an area-selective manner are specified.
US08587027B2
A J-FET includes a channel layer of a first conductivity type (a Si-doped n-type AlGaAs electron supply layers 3 and 7, undoped AlGaAs spacer layers 4 and 6, and an undoped InGaAs channel layer 5) formed above a semi-insulating GaAs substrate, an upper semiconductor layer made up of at least one semiconductor layer and formed above the channel layer of the first conductivity type, a semiconductor layer of a second conductivity type (C-doped p+-GaAs layer 18) formed in a recess made in the upper semiconductor layer or formed above the upper semiconductor layer, a gate electrode placed above and in contact with the semiconductor layer of the second conductivity type, and a gate insulating film including a nitride film formed above and in contact with the upper semiconductor layer and an oxide film formed above the nitride film and having a larger thickness than the nitride film.
US08587026B2
This invention relates to a semiconductor device and a manufacturing method therefor for reducing stacking faults caused by high content of Ge in an embedded SiGe structure. The semiconductor device comprises a Si substrate with a recess formed therein. A SiGe seed layer is formed on sidewalls of the recess, and a first SiGe layer having a Ge content gradually increased from bottom to top is formed on the recess bottom. A second SiGe layer having a constant content of Ge is formed on the first SiGe layer. The thickness of the first SiGe layer is less than the depth of the recess. The Ge content in the SiGe seed layer is less than the Ge content in the second SiGe layer, and the Ge content at the upper surface of the first SiGe layer is less than or equal to the Ge content in the second SiGe layer.
US08587024B2
Methods of making semiconductor devices such as vertical junction field effect transistors (VJFETs) or bipolar junction transistors (BJTs) are described. The methods do not require ion implantation. The VJFET device has an epitaxially regrown n-type channel layer and an epitaxially regrown p-type gate layer as well as an epitaxially grown buried gate layer. Devices made by the methods are also described.
US08587021B2
A mounting structure for solid-state light sources, for example of the LED type, comprises a support board; a submount mounted on said support board and having at least one solid-state light radiation source mounted thereon; a drive board carrying drive circuitry for the light radiation source, the aforementioned drive board being mounted on the support board and extending peripherally with respect to the aforementioned submount; electrical interface connections between the submount and the drive board for connecting the light radiation source to the drive circuitry; and mechanical and thermal interface connections between the submount and the support board.
US08587020B2
A high power LED lamp has a GaN chip placed over an AlGaInP chip. A reflector is placed between the two chips. Each of the chips has trenches diverting light for output. The chip pair can be arranged to produce white light having a spectral distribution in the red to blue region that is close to that of daylight. Also, the chip pair can be used to provide an RGB lamp or a red-amber-green traffic lamp. The active regions of both chips can be less than 50 microns away from a heat sink.
US08587018B2
A light emitting diode (LED) structure comprises a first dopant region, a dielectric layer on top of the first dopant region, a bond pad layer on top of a first portion the dielectric layer, and an LED layer having a first LED region and a second LED region. The bond pad layer is electrically connected to the first dopant region. The first LED region is electrically connected to the bond pad layer.
US08587010B2
Provided is a light emitting device package including: a plurality of lead frames disposed to be separated from one another; at least one light emitting device mounted on the lead frames and electrically connected to the lead frames through a bonding wire provided on a wire bonding pad, the wire bonding pad being disposed on the same surface as a light emission surface provided as an upper surface of the light emitting device; a body part formed to encapsulate and support the wire bonding pad, the bonding wire, the light emitting device and the lead frames, and having a reflective groove formed in an upper surface thereof to expose the light emission surface to the outside therethrough; and a lens part disposed on the body part, to cover the light emitting device.
US08587006B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus including a thin-film transistor (TFT) is disclosed. In one embodiment, the organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a thin-film transistor (TFT) and an organic light-emitting device electrically connected to the TFT. The apparatus further includes a light blocking portion formed directly above at least a portion of the TFT and configured to prevent light, emitted from the organic light-emitting device, from entering the portion of the TFT.
US08587000B2
A light-emitting element includes a cathode; an anode; and a light-emitting section which is disposed between the cathode and the anode and which includes a first light-emitting layer, second light-emitting layer, and third light-emitting layer each containing a corresponding one of luminescent materials emitting light of different colors and host materials supporting the luminescent materials. The first, second, and third light-emitting layers commonly contain a first host material that is one of the host materials. The first light-emitting layer emits light of a first color having a longer wavelength as compared to light emitted from the second and third light-emitting layers and contains a second host material which is one of the host materials and which is different from the first host material. The second host material is superior in enhancing the luminescence of the first light-emitting layer to the first host material.
US08586997B2
A semiconductor device including a low conducting field-controlling element is provided. The device can include a semiconductor including an active region, and a set of contacts to the active region. The field-controlling element can be coupled to one or more of the contacts in the set of contacts. The field-controlling element can be formed of a low conducting layer having a sheet resistance between approximately 103 Ohms per square and approximately 107 Ohms per square. During direct current and/or low frequency operation, the field-controlling element can behave similar to a metal electrode. However, during high frequency operation, the field-controlling element can behave similar to an insulator.
US08586996B2
A semiconductor device includes a SiC substrate, a semiconductor layer formed on the SiC substrate, a via hole penetrating through the SiC substrate and the semiconductor layer, a Cu pad that is formed on the semiconductor layer and is in contact with the via hole, and a barrier layer covering an upper face and side faces of the Cu pad, and restrains Cu diffusion.
US08586995B2
A semiconductor element having a high breakdown voltage includes a substrate, a buffer layer, a semiconductor composite layer and a bias electrode. The buffer layer disposed on the substrate includes a high edge dislocation defect density area. The semiconductor composite layer disposed on the buffer layer includes a second high edge dislocation defect density area formed due to the first high edge dislocation defect density area. The bias electrode is disposed on the semiconductor composite layer. A virtual gate effect of defect energy level capturing electrons is generated due to the first and second high edge dislocation defect density areas, such that an extended depletion region expanded from the bias electrode is formed at the semiconductor composite layer. When the bias electrode receives a reverse bias, the extended depletion region reduces a leakage current and increases the breakdown voltage of the semiconductor element.
US08586988B2
[Summary][Problem]A TFT is manufactured using at least five photomasks in a conventional liquid crystal display device, and therefore the manufacturing cost is high.[Solving Means]By performing the formation of the pixel electrode 127, the source region 123 and the drain region 124 by using three photomasks in three photolithography steps, a liquid crystal display device prepared with a pixel TFT portion, having a reverse stagger type n-channel TFT, and a storage capacitor can be realized.
US08586986B2
A pixel structure having the following structure is provided. A light-shielding layer with a flat layer covering thereon is disposed on a substrate. A channel layer, a data line and a first pad are disposed on the flat layer. A source and a drain partially cover two sides of the channel layer. A gate dielectric layer with a gate, a scan line and a second pad disposed thereon covering the channel layer, the source and the data line exposes the drain and the first pad. A protection layer covering the gate and the scan line exposes the drain, the first and second pads. A patterned transparent conductive layer includes a pixel electrode disposed on the protection layer, a first retain portion disposed on the first pad and a second retain portion disposed on the second pad.
US08586985B2
The present invention provides an active matrix type display device having a high aperture ratio and a required auxiliary capacitor. A source line and a gate line are overlapped with part of a pixel electrode. This overlapped region functions to be a black matrix. Further, an electrode pattern made of the same material as the pixel electrode is disposed to form the auxiliary capacitor by utilizing the pixel electrode. It allows a required value of auxiliary capacitor to be obtained without dropping the aperture ratio. Also, it allows the electrode pattern to function as a electrically shielding film for suppressing the cross-talk between the source and gate lines and the pixel electrode.
US08586982B2
A semiconductor test device including a plurality of conductive layers, each of the layers comprising integrated circuit devices, a plurality of insulating layers between the conductive layers, a plurality of heat generating structures positioned between the insulating layers and the conductive layers, each of the heat generating structures being sized and positioned to only heat a predetermined limited area of the plurality of layers, a plurality of thermal monitors positioned within each of the plurality of layers, a control unit operatively connected to the heat generating structures and the thermal monitors, the control unit individually cycling the heat generating structures on and off for multiple heat cycles, such that different areas of the layers are treated to different heat cycles.
US08586973B2
The present invention relates to a host material comprising a compound having two carbazole moieties which is suitable for blue-emitting OLEDs. Surprisingly, it has been found that when appropriate substituents are present in the carbazole structure, the solubility of the compounds can be improved without any adverse effect on the OLED performance. The present invention further relates to the use of the host materials and to an organic light emitting device comprising the host material.
US08586972B2
An organic light emitting device includes an organic light emitting panel and at least one light extraction enhanced film. The organic light emitting panel has at least one light emitting surface. The light extraction enhanced film is disposed on the light emitting surface of the organic light emitting panel, and the light extraction enhanced film has a recess array. The recess array includes a plurality of recess holes. The recess holes are recessed toward the organic light emitting panel.
US08586963B2
A conventional semiconductor LED is modified to include a microlens layer over its light-emitting surface. The LED may have an active layer including at least one quantum well layer of InGaN and GaN. The microlens layer includes a plurality of concave microstructures that cause light rays emanating from the LED to diffuse outwardly, leading to an increase in the light extraction efficiency of the LED. The concave microstructures may be arranged in a substantially uniform array, such as a close-packed hexagonal array. The microlens layer is preferably constructed of curable material, such as polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS), and is formed by soft-lithography imprinting by contacting fluid material of the microlens layer with a template bearing a monolayer of homogeneous microsphere crystals, to cause concave impressions, and then curing the material to fix the concave microstructures in the microlens layer and provide relatively uniform surface roughness.
US08586954B2
An extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus generating an extreme ultraviolet light from plasma generated by irradiating a target material with a laser light within a chamber, and controlling a flow of ions generated together with the extreme ultraviolet light using a magnetic field or an electric field, the extreme ultraviolet light source apparatus comprises an ion collector device collecting the ion via an aperture arranged at a side of the chamber, and an interrupting mechanism interrupting movement of a sputtered particle in a direction toward the aperture, the sputtered particle generated at an ion collision surface collided with the ion in the ion collector device.
US08586951B2
In accordance with one aspect of this invention, a multi charged particle beam writing apparatus includes an aperture member, in which a plurality of openings are formed, configured to form multi-beams by making portions of the charged particle beam pass through the plurality of openings; a writing processing control unit configured to control writing processing so that a plurality of beams having passed through different openings among the plurality of openings are arranged to align on the target object; and a shot interval adjusting unit configured to adjust shot intervals among beams so that a maximum shot interval among beams being a control grid interval defined by a predetermined quantization size or a size which is prescribed within a predetermined range from the predetermined quantization size, or less when the shot intervals among beams which are arranged to align on the target object are different depending on a place.
US08586945B2
A fluorescence light scanning microscope (2) comprises a light source providing excitation light (8) for exciting a fluorophore in a sample to be imaged for spontaneous emission of fluorescence light, and suppression light (7) for suppressing spontaneous emission of fluorescence light by the fluorophore on a common optical axis (4), the suppression wavelength differing from the excitation wavelength; an objective (19) focusing both the excitation (8) and the suppression (7) light to a focus point; a detector (21) detecting fluorescence light (11) spontaneously emitted by the fluorophore; and a chromatic beam shaping device (1) arranged on the common optical axis (4), and including a birefringent chromatic optical element (3) adapted to shape a polarization distribution of the suppression light (7) such as to produce an intensity zero at the focus point, and to leave the excitation light such as to produce a maximum at the focus point.
US08586939B2
Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods, apparatus, and systems for performing neutron radiography. For example, in one exemplary method, an object is interrogated with a plurality of neutrons. The plurality of neutrons includes a first portion of neutrons generated from a first neutron source and a second portion of neutrons generated from a second neutron source. Further, at least some of the first portion and the second portion are generated during a same time period. In the exemplary method, one or more neutrons from the first portion and one or more neutrons from the second portion are detected, and an image of the object is generated based at least in part on the detected neutrons from the first portion and the detected neutrons from the second portion.
US08586925B2
Passive IR sensor detection circuitry is provided that consumes eighty to ninety percent less power than conventional PIR sensor detection circuitry. Whereas prior art PIR sensor detection circuitry employs multiple amplification stages, to boost the power of the weak sensor signal, and a window comparator to determine whether an occupancy condition exists, the present invention uses, at most, a single amplification stage and no window comparator. In place of multiple amplification stages and a window comparators, the PIR sensor circuitry of the present invention uses a sensitive microcontroller to both detect and process the signal. A peak detector can be added just before the signal—whether amplified or not—is received by the microcontroller. Decay time of the peak detector is adjusted so that the signal will not substantially decay between measurements.
US08586922B2
A transmission electron microscope includes an electron gun 1 that irradiates a sample 5 with an electron beam 2; an electron detector 13 that detects electrons that are passed through the sample 5 and scattered; a first detection-side annular aperture 15 that is located between the electron detector 13 and the sample 5 and has a ring-shaped slit that limits inner and outer diameters of a transmission region of electrons scattered from the sample 5; and a second detection-side annular aperture 16 that is located between the first detection-side annular aperture 15 and the electron detector 13 and has a ring-shaped slit that limits inner and outer diameters of a transmission region of scattered electrons that have passed through the first detection-side annular aperture 15. It is, therefore, possible to detect electrons scattered at high scattering angles without a limitation caused by a spherical aberration of an electron lens and improve a depth resolution.
US08586916B2
A technology for collecting a granular substance adhering to a baggage with high rate without touching the substance and inspecting whether a dangerous or specific sample material is adhered to the baggage. A method for simplifying or automating such an inspection is also provided. An adhering matter inspection equipment (1) is characterized in that the equipment comprises a collecting section (5) for collecting a sample material peeled off from an inspection object (25) whereupon the sample material is adhered by blowing compression gas through a capturing filter (52), and an inspecting section (2) for analyzing the sample material captured by the capturing filter (52), and further characterized in that the inspection equipment comprises a section (3) for delivering a baggage to the inspecting section (2), and a carrying section (4) for carrying the capturing filter (52) from the capturing section (5) to the inspecting section (2).
US08586912B1
Systems, methods for manufacturing, and devices for producing an output current that simulates a current generated by an optical patient sensor are provided. An optical patient sensor includes a sensor light source having a first characteristic profile and a sensor photodetector having a second characteristic profile. The current source includes a light source having a characteristic profile similar to the first characteristic profile and indicative of interchangeability between the light source and the sensor light source, and a first photodetector configured to produce an output current in response to receiving light from the light source, the first photodetector having a characteristic profile similar to the second characteristic profile and indicative of interchangeability between the sensor photodetector and the first photodetector.
US08586908B2
Disclosed are a system, a method and an apparatus of reduction of delay between subsequent capture operations of a light-detection device. In one embodiment, a light-detection circuit includes an avalanche photodiode implemented in a deep submicron CMOS technology. In addition, the light-detection circuit includes a passive quench control circuit to create an avalanche current that generates a high voltage at an output of a second inverter gate of the circuit. The light-detection circuit further includes an active quench control circuit to reduce a dead time of the circuit. The light-detection circuit also includes a reset circuit to create a low voltage at an output of the second inverter gate and to create an active reset through a PMOS transistor of the light-detection circuit.
US08586901B2
Embodiments of a guidance section that compensates for boresight error (BSE) caused by effects of a composite radome. The guidance section includes a BSE compensation element to add high-pass filtered noise to compensated BSE data. The guidance section also includes and a Kalman filter to generate line-of-sight rate (LOSR) BSE noise from the compensated BSE data and the added high-pass filtered noise. In some embodiments, a method for generating a revised BSE correction matrix is provided. The revised BSE correction matrix may compensate for BSE caused by effects in the composite radome and may correct for relative target velocity error.
US08586889B2
A multiposition switch that comprises a base member accommodating a plurality contact members, respectively. The plurality of contact members are adapted to electrically mate to a host printed circuit board. A routing subassembly is rotatably coupled to the base member. The routing subassembly includes a routing member that defines a plurality of electrical paths between the contact members for switching between combined and uncombined positions. An actuator is coupled to the rotating member for rotating the routing member with respect to the base member between the combined and uncombined positions.
US08586886B2
A switch mechanism includes a support structure and an electric switch having an activator moveable between a first position where the electric switch is ON and a second position where the electric switch is OFF. A cam is connected to a first actuator, moveably mounted on the support structure, so that movement of the first actuator results in movement of the cam. A bar is connected to a second actuator, moveably mounted on the support structure, so that movement of the second actuator results in movement of the bar. The cam engages the activator so that movement of the cam by movement of the first actuator results in the activator moving between its two positions. The bar engages the activator so that movement of the bar by movement of the second actuator results in the activator moving between its two positions.
US08586882B2
A multi-directional switch includes switches, a wiring board having an electrode, a pressure-sensitive body disposed over the electrode, a detection pin disposed on the upper surface of the pressure-sensitive body, and an operating body configured to push the detection pin and the switches by being tilted. The degree of a pushing force exerted by the operating body onto the detection pin changes the contact resistance between the pressure-sensitive body and the electrode. The multi-directional switch enables an electronic apparatus connected thereto to perform diverse functions by reflecting changes in the contact resistance.
US08586876B2
A laminated circuit board includes a first wiring board that has a first land formed on a surface thereof; a second wiring board that has a second land formed on a surface thereof; a bonding layer that is made of a bonding resin, being laid between the first wiring board and the second wiring board, wherein the bonding layer electrically connects the first land and the second land via a conducting material; and a plate that has a through-hole into which the conducting material is supplied, wherein the plate has a resin accommodating space that accommodates therein an excess bonding resin that appears during layer stacking.
US08586863B2
A solar cell is provided with a semiconductor substrate including a light-receiving surface, a back surface, a first region of a first conductivity type disposed on the back surface, a second region of a second conductivity type disposed on the light-receiving surface, and a PN junction at the boundary between the first and second regions. An electrode is provided on the light-receiving surface to expose a portion of the light-receiving surface, and the semiconductor substrate includes a plurality of recesses formed by recessing the exposed portion of the light-receiving surface. The recesses may function as a texturing structure.
US08586852B2
Provided is a program for musical performance which causes a computer of a musical performance apparatus to function as a posture variation acquisition unit 101 for acquiring the posture variation of a controller 5 per frame based on the angular velocity with respect to the posture or movement of the controller 5, a volume parameter setting unit 102 for setting a volume parameter for deciding the volume according to the posture variation, and a sound signal output unit 106 for outputting a sound signal of the volume according to the volume parameter.
US08586851B2
A vibration sensor for a musical instrument includes a substrate, a first electrode film that is formed on the substrate, a piezoelectric film that is formed on the first electrode film, a second electrode film that is formed on the piezoelectric film, an insulating film that is formed on the second electrode film, and a shield film that is formed on the insulating film, the shield film being made of a conductive material, electrically connected to the first electrode film and insulated from the second electrode film by the insulating film.
US08586842B2
A novel maize variety designated X4K584 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 maize variety X4K584 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X4K584 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X4K584, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X4K584. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X4K584 and to the maize varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US08586839B1
A novel maize variety designated X13A487 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 X13A487 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X13A487 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X13A487, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X13A487. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X13A487.
US08586838B1
An inbred corn line, designated LLN55, the plants and seeds of the inbred corn line LLN55, methods for producing a corn plant, either inbred or hybrid, produced by crossing the inbred corn line LLN55 with itself or with another corn plant, and hybrid corn seeds and plants produced by crossing the inbred line LLN55 with another corn line or plant and to methods for producing a corn plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic corn plants produced by that method. This invention also relates to inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line LLN55, to methods for producing other inbred corn lines derived from inbred corn line LLN55 and to the inbred corn lines derived by the use of those methods.
US08586837B2
The present invention features Nicotiana nucleic acid sequences such as sequences encoding constitutive, or ethylene or senescence induced polypeptides, in particular cytochrome p450 enzymes, in Nicotiana plants and methods for using these nucleic acid sequences and plants to alter desirable traits, for example by using breeding protocols.
US08586831B2
The invention relates to early flowering Chia (Salvia hispanica L.) strains that are suitable for culturing in a temperate area for seed production. Mutations are introduced to wild type chia seeds. Desired mutant progeny having normal appearance and an altered flora organ development is subsequently identified.
US08586830B2
The TT1 gene, the recombinant expression vector containing the gene, the polypeptide encoded by the gene and the use thereof are provided. The TT1 gene can effectively increase tolerance of plants and microbes to abiotic stresses, such as drought, acid-alkaline, saline-alkaline and heat. The methods for producing transgenic plants and microbes are also provided. The methods are simple and effective. The transgenic plants and microbes exhibit enhanced tolerance to environmental stresses.
US08586820B2
An absorbent article such as a diaper, a pant diaper, a sanitary napkin, an incontinence guard etc., which includes thermochromic fibers. The thermochromic fibers may be incorporated in one or more of the following components of the absorbent article: the inner coversheet, the acquisition layer, the absorbent structure, the outer coversheet or a layer arranged between the outer coversheet and the absorbent structure. The article may alternatively contain a fibrous layer which mainly or entirely contains thermochromic fibers. The thermochromic fibers may be used as wetness indicator, as a fever indicator, as a function control for microorganisms that have been incorporated in the article or for amusement purposes, such as creating color imprints of hands etc.
US08586812B2
Processes for upgrading condensate in a first hydrocarbon stream to provide distillate material may involve ionic liquid catalyzed olefin oligomerization of olefins in the first hydrocarbon stream to provide a first distillate enriched stream, dechlorination of the first distillate enriched stream, hydroprocessing at least one of a second and a third hydrocarbon stream to provide a second distillate enriched stream, and separation of a distillate product from the first and second distillate enriched streams.
US08586809B2
A guard bed or absorber is placed upstream of a transalkylation reactor to avoid deposition of halide and/or halogen species on the catalysts in said reactor.
US08586806B2
A method comprising providing a fatty acyl mixture comprising: (i) a C10-C16 acyl carbon atom chain content of at least 30 wt. % wherein at least 80% of the C10-C16 acyl carbon atom chains are saturated; and (ii) a C18-C22 acyl carbon atom chain content of at least 20 wt. % wherein at least 50% of the acyl C18-C22 carbon atom chains contain at least one double bond; hydrolyzing the mixture to yield a quantity of C10-C16 saturated fatty acids and C18-C22 unsaturated fatty acids; separating the C10-C16 saturated fatty acids from the C18-C22 unsaturated fatty acids; hydrotreating the C10-C16 saturated fatty acids to yield a quantity of diesel fuel blendstock; oligomerizing at least some of the C18-C22 unsaturated fatty acids to yield a quantity of C36+ fatty acid oligomers; and hydrotreating the C36+ fatty acid oligomers to yield a quantity of C36+ alkanes.
US08586805B2
A method comprising the steps of providing a fatty acyl mixture comprising: (i) a C10-C16 acyl carbon atom chain content of at least 30 wt. % wherein at least 80% of the C10-C16 acyl carbon atom chains are saturated; and (ii) a C18-C22 acyl carbon atom chain content of at least 20 wt. % wherein at least 50% of the acyl C16-C22 carbon atom chains contain at least one double bond; hydrolyzing at least some of the mixture to yield a quantity of C10-C16 saturated fatty acids and C18-C22 unsaturated fatty acids; oligomerizing at least some of the C18-C22 unsaturated fatty acids to yield a quantity of C36+ fatty acid oligomers; separating at least some of the C10-C16 saturated fatty acids from the C36+ fatty acid oligomers.
US08586786B2
A catalyst for use in the production of an unsaturated aldehyde and/or an unsaturated carboxylic acid, the catalyst comparing (or, preferably, being composed of) a mixed oxide containing molybdenum, bismuth and iron, which has improved methanical strength, is produced by a method including the steps of (1) drying an aqueous solution or an aqueous slurry containing raw materials of the catalyst and then firstly calcining a dried product in a molecular oxygen-containing gas atmosphere to obtain a calcined product; (2) heating the calcined product obtained in Step (1) in the presence of a reducing material to obtain a reduced product having a mass loss of 0.05 to 6%; and (3) secondly calcining the reduced product obtained in Step (2) in a molecular oxygen-containing gas atmosphere.
US08586785B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a process for stably producing a catalyst for methacrylic acid production exhibiting high activity and high performance. The process for producing a catalyst for methacrylic acid production of the invention is characterized in that the water content of the catalyst ingredient powder for use in molding, temperature and humidity of a molding step, humidity and temperature of a baking step are individually controlled in the case where molding is performed by a coating method using an Mo—V—P—Cu-based hetero polyacid as an active ingredient and water or an alcohol and/or an aqueous solution of an alcohol as a binder.
US08586778B2
A process for the production of acetic acid and/or methyl acetate by carbonylating methanol and/or reactive derivatives thereof with carbon monoxide in the presence of a catalyst which is a mordenite which has been treated with an aqueous basic solution containing at least one of aluminate ions and gallate ions and has a silica:X2O3 molar ratio (wherein X is A1 and/or Ga) of at least 12:1.
US08586776B2
Disclosed are compounds of formula: that inhibiting GPBP activity, making them useful as therapeutics in antibody-mediated disorders, drug-resistant cancer, inflammation, protein misfolding and ER stress-mediated disorders, and aberrant apoptosis.
US08586773B2
The present invention is directed to processes for preparing oil compositions having a high concentration of poly-unsaturated fatty acids and oil compositions having a low concentration of α-linolenic acid. In addition, the present invention is directed to processes for preparing oil compositions having advantageous stability characteristics.
US08586769B2
An improved carrier for an ethylene epoxidation catalyst is provided. The carrier includes an alumina component containing a first portion of alumina particles having a particle size of, or greater than, 3 μm and up to 6 μm, and a second portion of alumina particles having a particle size of, or less than, 2 μm. An improved catalyst containing the above-described carrier, as well as an improved process for the epoxidation of ethylene using the catalyst are also provided.
US08586768B2
A method of synthesizing rottlerin analogs is described. The synthesis methods described are the first known method of synthesizing rottlerin analogs from commercially-available materials to produce cost effective analogs. Rottlerin analog structures made by the synthesis methods and methods of use for treating a neurological or inflammatory response mediated by protein kinase C (PKC) are further described.
US08586765B2
A process for preparing 3-amino-3-cyclobutylmethyl-2-hydroxypropionamide of the Formula I: or a salt thereof involves providing a compound of the Formula VI described herein in a solution comprising predominately dimethylsulfoxide (DMSO) and converting this compound directly to the compound of the Formula VIII described herein without working up or isolating the intermediate compound of the Formula VII described herein.
US08586761B2
Provided is a method for selectively demethylating a 2-methoxy group. Specifically provided is a production method of a compound represented by formula (7) below through the following reactions.
US08586755B2
Substituted nicotinamides, processes for their preparation, medicaments comprising these compounds and methods of using these compounds to treat pain, epilepsy, urinary incontinence, anxiety, dependency, mania, bipolar disorders, migraine, cognitive diseases, and/or dystonia-associated dyskinesias.
US08586752B1
Disclosed are a crystalline S-omeprazole strontium hydrate for the prevention or treatment of gastric acid-related diseases, which has high optical purity, theremostability, solubility and nonhygroscopicity, a method for preparing same, and a pharmaceutical composition containing same.
US08586751B2
Disclosed are nicotinamide compounds of Formula (I): or stereoisomers or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. Also disclosed are methods of using such compounds in the treatment of at least one Btk associated condition, such as, for example, inflammatory disease, and pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds.
US08586743B2
The present disclosure is directed to a reactive ester agent capable of conjugating a reporter molecule to a carrier molecule or solid support. The reactive ester agent has the general formula: wherein the variables are described throughout the application.
US08586736B2
A perimidine-based squarylium dye contains a compound represented by Formula (I), the compound containing an isomer A and satisfying the following formula: Pa≧95(%) wherein the isomer A is an isomer of the peak shown in the longest retention time among all peaks due to isomers obtained by analysis of the compound by means of reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography, and Pa represents a value of the peak area of the isomer A relative to the peak area of all peaks.
US08586733B2
The present invention includes methods/processes and intermediates for preparing compounds having structural Formula (I): wherein X is alkyl, substituted alkyl, alkenyl, substituted alkenyl, heteroalkyl, substituted heteroalkyl, heteroalkenyl, or substituted heteroalkenyl.
US08586729B2
A method for producing a β-enriched protected decitabine comprising: a) coupling a protected 2-deoxy-ribofuranose with a protected 5-azacytosine in the presence of a catalyst to form a reaction mixture comprising the protected decitabine of formula I; and b) quenching the reaction mixture of step a) with a base. The β-enriched protected decitabine so made may be deprotected to produce a decitabine product in a high yield and purity.
US08586723B2
The present invention relates to a method of detection of the presence of at least one domain of interest on a macromolecule to test, wherein said method comprises the following steps: a) determining beforehand at least two target regions on the domain of interest, designing and obtaining corresponding labeled probes of each target region, named set of probe of the domain of interest, the position of these probes one compared to the others being chosen and forming the specific signature of said domain of interest on the macromolecule to test; b) after spreading of the macromolecule to test on which the probes obtained in step a) are bound, detection of the position one compared to the others of the probes bound on the linearized macromolecule, the detection of the signature of a domain of interest indicating the presence of said domain of interest on the macromolecule to test, and conversely the absence of detection of signature or part of signature of a domain of interest indicating the absence of said domain or part of said domain of interest on the macromolecule to test.
US08586722B2
Nucleic acid molecules are described encoding a starch granule-bound protein as well as methods and recombinant DNA molecules for the production of transgenic plant cells and plants synthesizing a modified starch with modified viscosity properties and a modified phosphate content. Moreover, the plant cells and plants resulting from those methods as well as the starch obtainable therefrom are described.
US08586713B2
A bispecific antibody format providing ease of isolation is provided, comprising immunoglobulin heavy chain variable domains that are differentially modified in the CH3 domain, wherein the differential modifications are non-immunogenic or substantially non-immunogenic with respect to the CH3 modifications, and at least one of the modifications results in a differential affinity for the bispecific antibody for an affinity reagent such as Protein A, and the bispecific antibody is isolable from a disrupted cell, from medium, or from a mixture of antibodies based on its affinity for Protein A.
US08586710B2
The present invention relates to a process for improving pegylation reaction yield of r-metHuG-CSF comprising conjugating r-metHuG-CSF to a PEG aldehyde at a free amine moiety at the N terminal end on the G-CSF in presence of a reducing agent in a pegylation buffer solution comprising a polyol having the formula CnH2n+2On where n is from 3 to 6, or a carbohydrate, or a derivative thereof wherein the concentration of said polyol or carbohydrate or derivative thereof is in the range of 0.1% to 10% w/w.
US08586705B2
The following invention is directed to macromolecules having controlled stoichiometry and topology, processes for their production, and applications for their use. The macromolecules have a controlled functional moiety stoichiometry and include at least one dendritic motif having a surface layer formed from at least one surface building unit and at least one subsurface layer formed from at least one building unit, the surface building unit and building units having a hydrocarbon backbone bearing a carbonyl group and at least one amine group; and at least two different functional moieties on the building unit and/or surface building unit; where functional moiety stoichiometry refers to the number and type of functional moieties.
US08586702B2
Substituted 3,4-propylenedioxythiophene monomers may be prepared by reacting 3-allyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-thieno[3,4-b][1,4]dioxepine or 3,3-diallyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-thieno[3,4-b][1,4]dioxepine with a thiol having a hydrocarbyl moiety optionally containing one or more heteroatom-containing functional groups under radical addition conditions under radical addition conditions. Such monomers may be used in homo- or copolymerization processes to obtain thiophene-type polymers containing substituents (which may bear functional groups such as silane, thiol, hydroxyl, carboxylic acid, amine, sugar groups, polyoxyalkylene, and the like). Crosslinkers useful for introducing crosslinking into thiophene-type polymers may be prepared by reacting 3-allyl-3,4-dihydro-2H-thieno[3,4-b][1,4]dioxepine with a compound having two or more thiol groups under radical addition conditions.
US08586700B2
Disclosed is a method for preparing a poly(ethersulfonimide or ethersulfonamide) copolymer using cyclic oligomers, and more particularly, to a method for preparing a poly(ethersulfonimide or ethersulfonamide) copolymer by preparing a cyclic ether sulfone oligomer and a cyclic imide or amide oligomer and subjecting the cyclic ether sulfone oligomer and the cyclic imide or amide oligomer to ring-opening copolymerization in the presence of an alkali metal fluoride catalyst.
US08586688B2
Disclosed are a curable composition characterized by using a curable composition including an organic polymer (A1) having one or more silicon-containing functional groups capable of cross-linking by forming siloxane bonds in which the one or more silicon-containing functional groups capable of cross-linking by forming siloxane bonds are silicon-containing functional groups each having three or more hydrolyzable groups on one or more silicon atoms thereof; and a method for controlling the recovery properties, durability and creep resistance of the cured article. Herewith, the present invention provides a curable composition capable of giving a cured article excellent in recovery properties, durability and creep resistance, and a method for controlling the recovery properties, durability and creep resistance of the cured article.
US08586679B2
The present invention relates to structural, radically curable resin compositions suitable for (re)lining containing a. 30-70 wt. % of a resin characterized by (i) a molecular weight Mn between 500 and 3000 and (ii) an acid value between 0 and 30 mg KOH/g resin, and wherein at least 80 % of the total amount of resin is vinyl ester resin, b. 30-70 wt. % of at least one reactive diluent, characterized in that at least 25% of the reactive diluent is a difunctional diluent having a molecular weight Mn between 200 and 500 and the optional monofunctional diluent having a molecular weight Mn between 100 and 200, c. 0.00001-5 wt. % initiator, d. 0.00001-5 wt. % inhibitor further characterized in that the average molecular weight per reactive unsaturation (WPU) of the components (a) and (b) is equal or greater than 190 Dalton and that the amount of styrene in the resin composition is less than 5 wt. % (calculated as wt. % of the total weight of the components (a), (b), (c) and (d)).
US08586678B2
The invention relates to golf ball formulations formed from blends of linear and branched polybutadienes catalyzed with neodymium that have improved properties and processing characteristics. Golf ball components may be formed from the blends to provide high coefficient of restitution.
US08586677B2
Blended fluoropolymer compositions that, in one exemplary application, may be applied as a coating to a substrate and, optionally, may be applied to a substrate that has been previously coated with a primer or basecoat and/or a midcoat. In one embodiment, the composition is a blend of at least one high molecular weight trace modified polytetrafluoroethyelene (TMHPTFE) and at least one melt-processible fluoropolymer (MPF). After being applied to the substrate, optionally over a primer or basecoat and/or midcoat, and then cured, the present compositions form coatings that demonstrate improved abrasion resistance and/or improved release characteristics and/or increased translucency/transparency and/or improved impermeability. The present compositions may also be used to produce films having a high degree of clarity and impermeability. The present compositions in powder form may be melt or paste extruded to form articles with improved impermeability.
US08586676B2
A polymer composition and articles made therefrom are provided. The composition includes: (a) Component A having (i) at least 50 wt % ethylene moieties; and (ii) up to 50 wt % of a C3 to C20 comonomer moieties, a density of about 0.860 to about 0.965 g/cm3, a melt index of about 0.1 to about 10.0 g/10 min and a branching index of about 0.96 to about 1.0; and (b) Component B having: (i) at least 65 wt % ethylene moieties; and (ii) up to 35 wt % of a C3 to C20 comonomer moieties, the wt % s based upon total the total weight of Component B, a density of about 0.905 to about 0.945 g/cm3, a melt index (MI) of about 0.1 to about 10.0 g/10 min, and a branching index (g′) of about 0.7 to about 0.95. Films made using the polymer composition exhibit excellent toughness and processability.
US08586660B2
A dielectric paste composition including: a plurality of inorganic dielectric particles, a binder, a solvent, and a halogenated hydrocarbon. Also disclosed is a method of forming a dielectric layer, a dielectric layer, and a device including the dielectric layer.
US08586657B2
Disclosed is a fire-retardant, non-corrosive, insect-resistant, fungus-resistant composition comprising a first flame-retardant agent, a preservative composition, a second flame-retardant agent, a third flame-retardant agent, and a liquid melamine formaldehyde resin adhesive. The composition is to be used for topical application to articles using a spray device, where a layer of a desired thickness is applied.
US08586650B2
A composition for use as a thermally conductive composition in a heat-generating electronic device is provided. The composition comprises physically treated fillers modified with a surface area modifying agent and one or more resins.
US08586646B2
A process for the preparation of barium containing polyacrylates for optical and coating applications. The process consists in dispersing octahydrate of barium hydroxide in acrylic acid to form a monomer mixture. An aromatic carboxylic acid is added to the monomer mixture and then a cross linking agent is added thereto. Such a monomer mixture is subjected to the step of polymerization by gamma radiation.
US08586645B2
A process for the preparation of lead containing polyacrylates for optical applications. The process consists in dispersing lead monoxide in acrylic acid to form a monomer mixture. An aromatic carboxylic acid is added to the monomer mixture and then a cross linking agent is added thereto. Such a monomer mixture is subjected to the step of polymerization by gamma radiation.
US08586641B2
The present invention relates to a monolithic organic copolymer prepared by copolymerization of at least one monomer of the group consisting of styrene, (C1-C3)alkylstyrene, (meth)acrylic acid and esters thereof with a crosslinker in the presence of a macroporogen and a microporogen, wherein a) the sum of said at least one monomer of the group and the crosslinker is 10-20%, preferably 10-15%, by volume of the reaction mixture, with the rest being essentially macroporogen and microporogen, and the degree of said copolymerization is at least 70%, preferably at least 90%, more preferably at least 99%, or b) the sum of said at least one monomer of the group and the crosslinker is 30-50%, preferably 35-45%, by volume of the reaction mixture, with the rest being essentially macroporogen and microporogen, and the degree of said copolymerization is in the range of 25-60%, preferably 35-50%. These copolymers can be used in high-performance liquid chromatography for the separation of biopolymers as well as small molecules.
US08586640B2
A hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus which synthesizes a hydrocarbon compound by a chemical reaction of a synthesis gas including hydrogen and carbon monoxide as the main components, and a slurry having solid catalyst particles suspended in a liquid, the hydrocarbon synthesis reaction apparatus is provided with: a reactor which contains the slurry; a synthesis gas introduction part which introduces the synthesis gas into the reactor; and a synthesis gas heating part which is provided in the synthesis gas introduction part to heat the synthesis gas introduced into the reactor to the decomposition temperature of carbonyl compounds or higher.
US08586637B2
The present invention pertains to products and processes relating to compatible polymer blends comprising at least one sulfonated polymer and at least one non-sulfonated polymer. The sulfonated polymers may be produced using a number of sulfonating agents including a coordination complex of sulfur trioxide. The polymeric blended materials described herein are useful in a variety of applications, including as coatings for medical devices, protective clothing and fabric, laboratory equipment, vascular stents and shunts, absorbent materials and separation membranes, three-dimensional constructs, devices, and other uses.
US08586631B2
Novel calcilytic compounds and methods of using them are provided.
US08586625B2
A cytotoxic composition in which two moieties are conjugated covalently. A first moiety is a tax moiety, selected from the group consisting of taxanes, taxane derivatives, and or other closely relative compounds. A second moiety is an acid moiety selected from the group consisting of lipoic acid, acetylcysteine, compounds having an acidic group.
US08586619B2
The present invention includes a group of chemical compounds useful as modulators of calcium ion (Ca2+) channels, especially for T-type, N-Type and L-type channels. The present invention also includes pharmaceutical compositions comprising these calcium ion channel modulating agents and methods of using these calcium ion channel modulating agents for the treatment diseases and conditions associated with the calcium ion channels.
US08586618B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula I and a compound of formula II, methods of use and formulations thereof.
US08586617B2
The present invention relates to amino-4-methyl imidazoles and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof. The compound may be used for the treatment of depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), stress-related disorders, psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease, neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, migraine, hypertension, substance abuse and metabolic disorders such as eating disorders, diabetes, diabetic complications, obesity, dyslipidemia, disorders of energy consumption and assimilation, disorders and malfunction of body temperature homeostasis, disorders of sleep and circadian rhythm, and cardiovascular disorders.
