US08706374B2
An accelerator pedal device provided with a driving control device. The driving control device generates a braking force for braking a vehicle when the operation quantity of an acceleration pedal is below a first threshold value, and generates a driving force for driving the vehicle when the operation quantity exceeds a second threshold value larger than the first threshold value. The driving control device does not generate either the driving force or the braking force, and allows the vehicle to drive inertially, when the operation quantity ranges from the first threshold value to the second threshold value.
US08706373B2
An aftermarket amplifier of acceleration signal (FIG. 2, box A), which is mounted between the potentiometer of the acceleration pedal (FIG. 2, box B) and the electronic control unit (FIG. 2, box C) and is programmed to control and to modify the signals from the accelerator pedal. The amplifier improves the acceleration of a car and overcomes the problems occurring during overreacting. The amplifier measures the signals from the acceleration pedal, calculates the change of the angle of the potentiometer of acceleration speed (angular speed) and multiplies the signals from the acceleration pedal by a value which is determined by the angular speed of the potentiometer of the accelerator pedal. Additionally, the amplifier includes a function of a cruise control, which can be controlled with a single control switch (FIG. 2, box F).
US08706371B1
A method for adjusting hydraulic line pressure applied to one or more clutch devices in an electro-mechanical transmission mechanically-operatively coupled to an internal combustion engine and at least one electric machine includes predicting a first plurality of powertrain parameters for an upcoming event. For each of a plurality of engine torques, a predicted output torque and a predicted clutch load are determined that minimize a total powertrain operating cost based on an operator torque request and the predicted first plurality of powertrain parameters. Hydraulic line pressure is adjusted based on the engine torque having a lowest powertrain operating cost among the plurality of available engine torques.
US08706367B2
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine stores priorities preset for a plurality of external loads on the internal combustion engine and actuates the plurality of external loads in order of priority at time intervals when requests for actuation of the external loads are simultaneously made during idling of the internal combustion engine. The plurality of external loads are properly actuated, thus preventing possible engine stall.
US08706355B2
A tire angle change motor steers a host vehicle according to a tire angle corresponding to the rotation angle of a steering wheel detected by a steering wheel angle sensor. A gear ratio calculating unit of a tire angle control unit changes the amount of steering corresponding to the rotation angle of the steering wheel required for the tire angle change motor to steer the host vehicle, depending on the amount of pushing of the steering wheel detected by the pushing amount sensor. Therefore, it is possible to improve the convenience of a driving operation for steering. A pushing direction reaction force motor changes a reaction force generated against the amount of pushing of the steering wheel by the driver, depending on the speed of the host vehicle detected by a vehicle speed sensor. Therefore, the reaction force makes it possible to prevent the host vehicle from being steered by an unintended operation of the driver in various traveling states of the vehicle.
US08706352B2
When an obstacle is sensed on a side of a vehicle, the future position of the vehicle after a prescribed time is predicted. When the predicted vehicle future position reaches a prescribed lateral position in the lane width direction, a decision to start a control is made, and the vehicle is controlled in a direction to prevent it from coming too close to the obstacle. If a state occurs in which the obstacle is sensed after not being sensed (i.e., it is first sensed), a decision to start the control is suppressed.
US08706351B2
Provided is an active noise cancellation apparatus capable of reliably reducing road noise by a technique other than mounting a vibration generator on a floor panel itself or another plate-like interior part itself, while reducing costs and size of the apparatus. A reference signal detector is mounted on a knuckle and the vibration generator is mounted on a wheel housing or a suspension member. An error signal detector detects vibration of the wheel housing or vibration of the suspension member as an error signal, or detects sound in a vehicle interior as an error signal. A controller controls the vibration generator based on the reference signal and the error signal so as to reduce the error signal.
US08706346B2
A method to control a powertrain having an electric motor includes monitoring a torque command to the motor, predicting a motor torque for the motor based upon the torque command, monitoring an actual motor torque of the motor, comparing the actual motor torque to the predicted torque, and indicating a motor fault when the actual motor torque and the predicted torque differ by more than a calibratable threshold.
US08706340B2
An underground utility vault inspection system and method includes a pre-defined railway installed in an underground utility vault, and an inspection vehicle adapted to traverse the railway to provide inspection results to inspection personnel. The inspection vehicle includes inspection tools for inspecting underground power lines and equipment, recording inspection results, and transmitting the inspection results to the inspection personnel.
US08706339B2
A robotic mower boundary sensing system includes a boundary driving circuit on a charging station transmitting an encoded signal on a boundary wire, a boundary sensor on a robotic mower and including an inductor receiving the encoded signal, and a vehicle control unit on the robotic mower receiving the encoded signal from the boundary sensor and decoding the signal and cross correlating the received signal to determine the distance of the boundary sensor from the boundary wire.
US08706330B2
A method of integrating, optimizing and combining in a marine hybrid system, the operation of one or more variable speed high voltage direct current (HVDC) generator(s), one or more energy storage units and a combination of one or more HVDC parallel hybrid and serial hybrid propulsion systems through use of an Energy Management Computer. One aspect of the invention involves the application of logic programming to automate the optimization and the operation of the Internal Combustion Engines (ICE) so that whenever the system requires their usage, they are operated at optimum efficiency conditions. For an ICE to operate at peak efficiency a combination of a large energy storage unit used as a buffer combined with a mixture of both a serial and a parallel hybrid system is used.
US08706323B2
Systems and methods to manage aircraft dispatch information are provided. A particular method includes receiving fault information at a dispatch information computing system. The fault information is associated with an aircraft. The method also includes accessing operational restriction information associated with the aircraft based on the fault information. The method further includes automatically determining a set of bottom line operational limitations of the aircraft based on the fault information and the operational restriction information. The method also includes generating customized checklists for the various users of the information. The method also includes sending output data from the dispatch information computing system to an output device. The output data identifies the set of bottom line operational limitations of the aircraft and tasks to be completed by the various users.
US08706314B2
Embodiments of a system for regulating temperature in a computer system are described. During operation, the system estimates a thermal trajectory as a function of time in at least a portion of the computer system. Then, the system modifies a flow resistance of a cooling mechanism in a thermal-regulation system in the computer system based on the estimated thermal trajectory, where the flow resistance is modified to regulate a temperature of at least the portion of the computer system.
US08706296B2
A peripheral device communication system includes a communications medium having physical network hardware. The system also includes a first network device capable of issuing to the physical network hardware a request to communicate a datagram with greater priority than any other communications request. This datagram encapsulates a memory register access command. The system further includes a second network device having addressable memory registers and capable of issuing to the physical network hardware a request to communicate a datagram with greater priority than any other communications request. This datagram encapsulates a response to a memory register access command.
US08706294B2
A dispensing system has a cartridge with a body having a plurality of bins and a plurality of attached lids that cover the respective bins when the lids are closed. The body has an external connector and the lids are opened by receipt of a command signal through the connector. The system also includes a cabinet with a docking location configured to accept a cartridge. The cabinet has a docking connector that connects to the cartridge connector when the cartridge is placed on the docking location. The cabinet also has a controller that sends the command signal through the docking connector to the cartridge to open one or more of the lids.
US08706291B2
The invention relates to a modular automated tool dispenser comprising at least one tool delivery module with at least one tool compartment containing a plurality of tools that are combined to form tool classes and with a plurality of tool conveying devices, each device being associated with one of the tool classes and conveying tools of one class to a tool delivery point. Each tool class is defined by the tool type, tool size and/or the tool weight as a tool parameter. The dispenser also comprises a tool selection device for selecting the desired tool class and the number of tools to be delivered and for activating the tool conveying device that is associated with the selected tool class.
US08706289B2
Methods and systems, in one embodiment, for receiving a warped flexible wafer to be transferred between a first mechanism and a second mechanism are described. The method and system senses a first vacuum suction between the warped flexible wafer and the first mechanism. The warped flexible wafer is positioned to define a gap between the warped flexible wafer and the second mechanism. Methods and systems for closing the gap incrementally between the warped flexible wafer and the second mechanism are described. At each increment, the methods and systems detect whether a second vacuum suction is created between the warped flexible wafer and the second mechanism. When a second vacuum suction is detected between the warped flexible wafer and the second mechanism, the first vacuum suction between the warped flexible wafer and the first mechanism is released.
US08706287B2
The invention related to a control system for a mill, particularly a roller grinding mill, comprising a mill control device (11), which is designed to control at least one mill characteristic on the basis of an associated target variable, and a fuzzy-control device (13), which is connected to the mill control device (11) and designed to adjust the target variable of the at least one mill characteristic to be controlled when at least one operating parameter of the mill deviates from a predefined normal range as a function of fuzzy rules that are based on said at least one operating parameter of the mill until the at least one operating parameter of the mill has reached the predefined normal range again. A solution is to be provided, which enables automated optimized mill operation even with changing operating conditions, particularly a mill operation that prevents the “mill rumbling”. This is achieved in that the at least one operating parameter of the mill encompasses as least the air pressure difference over the mill.
US08706277B2
System and method for encoding, transmitting and decoding audio data. Audio bit steam syntax is re-organized to allow system optimizations that work well with memory latency and memory burst operations. Multiple small entropy coding tables are stored in RAM and loaded to on-chip memory as needed. Audio prediction is pipelined in the bitstream syntax. Intra frames, independent of other frames in the bitstream, are included in the bitstream for error recovery and channel change. New algorithms are implemented in legacy syntax by including the new information in the user data space of the audio frame. The new decoder can use projection to determine where the new information is and read ahead in the stream. Audio prediction from the immediately previous frame is restricted. Audio prediction is performed across channels within a single audio frame. A variable re-order function comprises storing channels of data to DRAM in the order they are decoded and reading them out in presentation order.
US08706265B2
The present invention relates to time partitioning to enable execution of tasks in a constant cycle while guaranteeing dependence of a safety-related system. A safety controller includes a processor and a system program for controlling allocation of an execution time of the processor to tasks. The processor executes the system program to schedule tasks in accordance with scheduling information indicating, in a constant cycle, a period of one of a safety-related TP to which a safety-related task belongs and a non-safety-related TP to which a non-safety-related task belongs. In a task of a TP in the constant cycle, the processor stores the end information upon completion of processing in the task and brings the task into a ready state. In the scheduling, when the end information is stored, the processor inhibits allocation of the execution time even when the task in the TP in the constant cycle is in the ready state, and deletes the end information during a period between an end of the period of the TP in the constant cycle and a start of a period in a next cycle of the TP.
US08706262B2
A system program causes, as an execution preparation process for a control operation of a PLC, execution of a process for generating a reception buffer for storing received input data, and execution of a process for generating, for each input data referred to by a control program, an input synchronization buffer used by the control program as a reference target for the input data. The system program causes, as an execution control process for the control operation of the PLC, execution of an input copy process for copying the received input data from the reception buffer to the input synchronization buffer corresponding to the input data, and execution of a control program start process for starting execution of the control program.
US08706260B2
A catheter suitable for use in applying ablation energy to body tissue or detecting electrical signals conducted within the body tissue is disclosed. The catheter has a deflectable distal tip section. At least one electrode is adapted to be disposed against body tissue for delivery of ablation energy thereto or for conduction of body tissue electrical signals. An actuation mechanism comprising first and second pull wires is adapted to curve a proximal segment in a first direction and to independently bend an intermediate segment in a second direction.
US08706259B2
A system for lead implantation includes a lead having a paddle-style electrode extending from a proximal end to a distal end, the paddle-style electrode, having a back surface; an active surface; a plurality of electrode contacts disposed on the active surface; and a longitudinal lumen extending into the paddle-style electrode and defining an opening at the proximal end of the paddle-style electrode. The lead also has at least one lead body extending from the paddle-style electrode. The at least one lead body includes conductors that are electrically coupled to the electrode contracts. The system also includes an insertion tool having a distal portion for insertion into the longitudinal lumen of the paddle-style electrode. At least the distal portion of the insertion tool or the longitudinal lumen (or both) includes a low friction material forming a surface with a coefficient of friction of 0.1 or less.
US08706258B2
A method and apparatus for treating masses, such as prostate or breast cancer, or any other soft tissue cancerous or benign mass, employs a unique, three-dimensional software-controlled electronic amplifier array using arbitrary waveforms that dynamically and proportionally steer electrical currents by using two or more current vector paths, sequentially or simultaneously, through a mass containing electrically-conductive ionic solutions so as to obtain 100% thermal heating or hyperthermia through the mass, and destroying it with a minimally-invasive treatment which requires no radiation or chemotherapy which could be harmful to the patient.
US08706257B2
In one embodiment, a stimulation system for generating and delivering electrical stimulation pulse to tissue of a patient, comprises: a pulse generator for generating electrical pulses, the pulse generator comprising a housing portion and a header portion with feedthroughs extending from the housing portion into the header portion; and a stimulation lead comprising a flex film component enclosed in a lead body of insulative material, the flex film component including a plurality of electrically isolated conductors extending along a substantial length of the stimulation lead, the stimulation lead further comprising a plurality of electrodes electrically coupled to the conductors, the flex film component comprising a proximal portion that is exposed out of the insulative material of the lead body and includes a plurality of terminal bond bands, the terminal bond bands being electrically coupled to the conductors; and wherein the header portion of the pulse generator comprises a lid component to compress the terminal bond pads of the stimulation lead into electrical contact with conductors of feedthroughs of the pulse generator.
US08706252B2
Systems and methods for programming and logging medical device and patient data are provided. The systems include a handheld device, which is capable of communicating with a medical device, and a base station, which provides connectivity for the handheld device to accomplish various functions such as recharging, programming, data back-up and data entry. The methods comprise the steps of detecting a medical device, obtaining and recording information from the medical device. Additionally, medical device parameters may be modified and the recorded information may be archived for future reference.
US08706251B2
A method and system for enabling secure communications between an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external device (ED) over a telemetry channel. A telemetry interlock may be implemented which limits any communications between the ED and the IMD over the telemetry channel, where the telemetry interlock is released when the ED transmits an enable command to the IMD via a short-range communications channel requiring physical proximity to the IMD. As either an alternative or addition to the telemetry interlock, a data communications session between the IMD and ED over the telemetry channel may be allowed to occur only after the IMD and ED have been cryptographically authenticated to one other.
US08706249B2
In one embodiment, an implantable pulse generator (IPG) for generating electrical pulses for stimulation of tissue of a patient, comprises: a controller for controlling operations of the IPG; pulse generating circuitry for generating electrical pulses; and conversion circuitry for converting a received logic signal generated by a first voltage domain for provision to a second voltage domain, the conversion circuitry comprising a first stage and a second stage, wherein (i) the first stage receives first signals at first and second logic levels; (ii) the second stage receives second signals at third and fourth logic levels, (iii) the second stage comprising two sets of cross-coupled transistors for generating a rail-to-rail output at the third and fourth logic levels according to whether the received logic signal is at the first or second logic level.
US08706247B2
An exemplary auditory prosthesis system includes an auditory prosthesis configured to be implanted within a head of a patient and to apply electrical stimulation representative of an audio signal to one or more stimulation sites within the patient in accordance with one or more stimulation parameters, a behind-the-ear sound processing unit configured to be secured to an ear of the patient and to transmit the one or more stimulation parameters to the auditory prosthesis, and a remote audio processor module separate from the behind-the-ear sound processing unit and communicatively coupled to the behind-the-ear sound processing unit via a communication link, the remote audio processor module configured to perform at least a portion of a signal processing heuristic on the audio signal in order to facilitate generation of the one or more stimulation parameters.
US08706233B2
In some examples, a medical device delivers a first electrical stimulation therapy to a patient, and, upon detecting a trigger event, delivers a second electrical stimulation therapy to the patient. In some examples, the first stimulation therapy includes unilateral stimulation or stimulation delivered to both lateral sides of the patient at different times at a stimulation intensity lower than, equal to, or greater than a threshold intensity level for the patient, or bilateral stimulation delivered substantially simultaneously to both lateral sides of the patient, where one lateral side of the patient receives stimulation at an intensity level that is lower than the threshold intensity level and the other lateral side receives stimulation at an intensity level that is greater than or equal to the threshold intensity level. The second stimulation therapy may include substantially simultaneous bilateral stimulation therapy at an intensity level that at or above the threshold intensity level.
US08706228B2
An electronic module assembly (EMA) for an implantable medical device is disclosed. The EMA includes conductive strips connected to a non-conductive block. The non-conductive block possesses, a top side, a bottom side, a front side and a back side. A seamless non-conductive barrier extends from the bottom side and between the front side and the back side. The barrier prevents a pin from contacting another pin and eliminates welding of the ground pin to the side of the ferrule.
US08706223B2
The disclosure herein relates generally to methods for treating heart conditions using vagal stimulation, and further to systems and devices for performing such treatment. Such methods may include monitoring physiological parameters of a patient, detecting cardiac conditions, and delivering vagal stimulation (e.g., electrical stimulation to the vagus nerve or neurons having parasympathetic function) to the patient to treat the detected cardiac conditions.
US08706204B2
A system and method is provided for observing a heart rate of a passenger. The system for observing a heart rate of a passenger includes a plurality of different types of heart rate sensors provided on a seat cushion or a seat back, and a control unit for collecting waveforms of the heart rate sensors for respective sensor types, computing accuracies of the waveforms for respective sensor types at each unit time, selecting a waveform having a highest accuracy at each unit time, and then calculating a heart rate.
US08706195B2
Method and system for producing an electrophysiological map of a heart of the body of a patient, the method including, for at least one target point, determining a respective target point location and a respective probe orientation, confirming that the tip of a probe is located at the respective target point location, confirming that the tip is oriented at the respective probe orientation, measuring at least one heart parameter value at the respective target point location, and superimposing at least one representation of the at least one heart parameter value on an image of the heart, at the respective target point location, to produce the electrophysiological map.
US08706171B2
A user of a hands-free phone cannot determine with which speech quality the distant side of communication is listened to, and does not know which action to be required to improve the speech quality. In the case of the present invention, a function of presenting an action to be implemented by the user to improve the speech quality at the opposite party is mounted on the hands-free terminal. For the presentation here, it is assumed that the hands-free terminal according to the present invention has a function of estimating the speech quality at the distant side, a function of estimating an action to be implemented by the user to improve the estimated speech quality, and a function of presenting the estimated action to the user.
US08706168B2
A mobile communication terminal call history displays call distinguishing icons representing the types of calls performed with counterparts. The call types include sent and received voice calls, video calls, and messages. If a user selects one call distinguishing icon displayed on a mobile communication terminal's display unit, a voice call or a video call is sent to the counterpart or a screen on which a message can be written to the counterpart is displayed, according to the call type of the selected call distinguishing icon. The user can directly select a counterpart and the call type to be sent to the counterpart by selecting one of the call distinguishing icons displayed on the display unit. A desired call distinguishing icon can be selected by entering a command on a touch screen, a keypad, or by voice command.
US08706161B2
A method and apparatus for disabling the communication functionality (i.e., disabling the transmission and/or reception of RF signals) of an integrated device, while still providing access to the local functionality of such device. A control and select function, such as a switch that is implemented by hardware or software or a combination thereof, is provided in an integrated device to allow the end user of the device to access the local data processing functionality of the device, even while the wireless communication functionality of such device is disabled.
US08706148B2
A method of routing legacy messages between a message center and a mobile telecommunications device registered with a mobile telecommunications network, which mobile telecommunications network includes a plurality of base stations each serving a plurality of mobile telecommunications devices, and a plurality of mobility management entities, each serving a plurality of said base stations, the mobility management entities (being adapted to communicate using a legacy protocol with a legacy network for routing the legacy messages between the message center and the mobile telecommunications device via the legacy network. A legacy message interworking function communicates with the mobility management entities using the legacy protocol and directly routes messages between the mobility management entities and the message center without routing the messages via the legacy network.
US08706133B2
A method (300, 400) and a non-incumbent system (102) that selects a pilot signal candidate within the RF spectrum, determines a first ratio between a measured total power within the RF spectrum and a measured power level of the pilot signal candidate, measures a first difference between the first ratio and an expected ratio, processes the first difference to select a threshold difference value, and outputs the threshold difference value.
US08706125B2
A method of allocating a plurality of communication channels of a network, for a plurality of network stations of the network. The method comprises generating a common transmission message for the plurality of network stations and transmitting the generated transmission message to the plurality of network stations. The message comprises channel allocation information allowing an allocation of channels by the network stations, the information relating to each of the plurality of network stations. A network managing station for communicating with the plurality of network stations, there being a plurality of communication channels available for use by the plurality of network stations. The network managing station comprises a processor, arranged to generate the common transmission message for the plurality of network stations and a transmitter arranged to transmit the generated transmission to said plurality of networks. A network station, capable of communicating over one or more of a plurality of communication channels, the network station comprising: a receiver, arranged to receive the common transmission message and a processor, arranged to determine a channel for use by the network station based on the received channel allocation information.
US08706124B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product embodiments are disclosed to setup data path transfer between concurrently operating frequency bands of multiband wireless LAN (WLAN) devices. The embodiments provide an enhancement to the Fast Session Transfer (FST) by introducing a new Information Element (IE) in the Fast Session Transfer (FST) frames to enable negotiating the parameters to be established as a result of switching of at least a portion of the existing data/traffic streams to another frequency band. The new Information Element (IE) includes at least the number of streams being switched and for each stream being switched the stream ID. The new Information Element enables the transmitting and receiving devices to negotiate the connection setup parameters associated with a requested transfer of the operating frequency band.
US08706119B2
Group handover method and apparatus in a broadband wireless communication system which supports a mobile relay station are provided. A method of a serving base station for group handover of the mobile relay station includes when receiving a measurement report message from a relay station, determining whether the relay station is a mobile relay station of a simple type which forwards a signal; collecting handover related information of the mobile relay station and mobile terminals belonging to the mobile relay station, from pre-stored information; requesting handover of the mobile relay station and the mobile terminals by transmitting the collected handover related information to a target base station; and receiving a message indicating whether the handover of the mobile relay station and the mobile terminals is approved, from the target base station.
US08706118B2
Empty GRE packets are used to ensure in-order delivery of data packets for a session to a UE during intra-EUTRAN handover involving SGW relocation. In particular, a PGW sends an empty GRE packet per PDN session of the UE to a source SGW upon handover execution to indicate the end of pre-handover data packets delivered to the source SGW. Upon receipt of the empty GRE packet, the source SGW generates an end marker packet, and sends it to the source eNodeB. The source eNodeB forwards buffered, pre-handover data packets not delivered to the UE, followed by the end marker packet, to the target eNodeB, either directly (X2 interface) or indirectly (GTP-U tunnel between source and target SGWs). The target eNodeB then sends the pre-handover data packets, and post-handover data packets delivered to it by the PGW, to the UE in order, in reliance on the end marker packet.
US08706108B2
A technique for scanning multiple carrier frequencies during a cell search procedure is described. The cell search procedure involves for an investigated frequency multiple serially arranged processing steps until it will be determined that a network connection can be established on the investigated frequency. A method embodiment of this technique comprises performing a first processing step for an investigated first frequency, and in parallel with performing a second or further processing step for the first frequency, performing the first processing step for an investigated second frequency.
US08706095B2
System for providing dynamic group and service assignments. In one embodiment, a method is provided for dynamically assigning regional groups and service providers to provide services for equipment. The method includes determining that the equipment has moved into a selected regional group, and assigning the equipment to the selected regional group. The method also includes selecting a service provider associated with the selected regional group, and assigning the service provider to provide services for the equipment.
US08706076B2
Disclosed is a method of receiving a warning message through a broadcast/multicast channel in wireless communication system. The terminal (UE) receives control information of the warning message through a first point-to-multipoint control channel, receives the warning message based on the received control information through a point-to-multipoint traffic channel, receives control information of a particular broadcast/multicast service through the first point-to-multipoint control channel and a second point-to-multipoint control channel, and receives the particular broadcast/multicast service based on the received control channel through the point-to-multipoint traffic channel.
US08706071B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a receiver for wireless communication. The receiver includes a demodulator and at least one filtering mechanism coupled to the demodulator, and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) coupled to the filtering mechanism. The filtering mechanism can be configured to function as a low-pass filter (LPF) or a band-pass filter (BPF), thereby enabling the receiver to function as a direct-conversion receiver or a low-intermediate frequency (low-IF) receiver.
US08706065B2
A radio frequency front-end includes a first path, second path, and third path each coupled between an antenna and a transceiver. The first path is configured to convey WLAN signals from the transceiver to the antenna for transmission. The second path is configured to convey received Bluetooth signals and received WLAN signals from the antenna to the transceiver. The third path is configured to convey Bluetooth signals from the transceiver to the antenna for transmission when a WLAN link is active and not in a power save state, and is configured to convey received Bluetooth signals from the antenna to the transceiver, and Bluetooth signals from the transceiver to the antenna for transmission, when the WLAN link is either inactive or in the power save state.
US08706064B2
A system and method improve amplifier efficiency of operation relative to that of an amplifying transistor with a fixed bias current. A power level representing a level of transmission power from an amplifier circuit and an indicator of amplifier circuit operation are provided. The indicator is at least one of channel, channel bandwidth, out-of band spectral requirements, spectral mask requirements, error vector magnitude, modulation rate, and modulation type. The amplifying transistor is biased with a bias current that is determined based at least in part on the power level and the indication where the bias current is different for channels at an edge of a channel band than for channels nearer a center of the channel band.
US08706057B2
When notification information about a company code is received from a center device, a control unit of an in-vehicle device refers to uplink information which is generated for each qualified delivery company and stored in a storage unit and cross-checks the company code included in the uplink information with the received company code (step S8). Only when those are identical, the uplink information corresponding to the company code to which it is judged that those are identical is read out from the storage unit and written in an uplink information storage area of the storage unit of a DSRC unit (step S9). Security on content information delivery is improved.
US08706040B2
A method is disclosed for avoiding inter-cell interference in a closed-loop multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) system using a plurality of codebooks. A base station of a serving cell transmits information about codebooks used in an interfering cell among the plurality of codebooks to a mobile station. The transmission of the information may be made at the request of the mobile station. Alternatively, the mobile station may directly measure information about codebooks used in the interfering cell among the plurality of codebooks. The mobile station measures restricted precoding matrix indexes (PMIs) or requested PMIs based on the codebook information. The measured PMIs are transmitted to the interfering cell and are used to restrict the use of a PMI in the interfering cell.
US08706035B2
A system and method for allowing mobile devices to simultaneously access a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) are disclosed. The SIM contains a wireless transceiver, and the SIM may be located within a mobile phone, or it may be a stand-alone device. The mobile devices use a wireless protocol, such as Bluetooth, to retrieve identification information from the SIM. The devices then use this identification information to connect to a wireless communications network, such as a wireless local area network. Through this network the devices will be able to access the Internet. The SIM will never need to be removed and inserted from one device to another, and multiple devices can use the SIM simultaneously. Thus, the mobile phone will work regardless of whether other devices are also using the SIM.
US08706020B2
Disclosed are a bookbinding unit and an image forming apparatus having the same. The bookbinding unit includes a bookbinding unit main body, a pair of stack trays disposed in the bookbinding unit main body so as to support print media on the upper surfaces of the stack trays and a folding knife movable in the space between the pair of the stack trays to fold the print media on the stack trays and to move the folded print media into the space between the pair of the stack trays. The pair of the stack trays is rotatable in conformity with the movement of the print media into the space between the stack trays to provide a surface contact guiding of the folded print media.
US08706008B2
An image forming apparatus may transfer an image to a transfer-receiving material. The image forming apparatus includes a main body to which a cartridge is detachably mounted. The cartridge includes an image bearing member in contact with the transfer-receiving material and a receiving member to receive driving force from the main body to drive and rotate the image bearing member. The image forming apparatus also includes a shaft passing through and supporting the receiving member of the cartridge and a transmission member to rotate around the shaft and to transmit drive force from a motor to the receiving member. A bending unit included with the image forming apparatus bends the shaft passing through and supporting the receiving member and the transmission member.
US08706007B2
An image forming apparatus includes a positively-charged single layer type electrophotographic photoreceptor, a charging device with a contact charging roller for charging a surface of the photoreceptor and an exposure device for exposing the charged surface of the photoreceptor to light to form an electrostatic latent image thereon. A developing device develops the electrostatic latent image into a toner image and a transfer device transfers the toner image to a transferred body. The charging roller is made of electrically conductive rubber having an Asker-C rubber hardness of 62 to 81°. A roller surface roughness of the charging roller has an average distance (Sm) between asperity peaks on a cross-sectional curve of 55 to 130 μm and that a ten-point average roughness (Rz) is 9 to 19 μm. The image forming apparatus is capable of preventing carrier trapping, film peeling and uneven charging in the photoreceptor.
US08706005B2
A process cartridge that is detachably mounted to a main body of an image forming apparatus, the process cartridge including: an image carrier cartridge that has an image carrier; and a developing cartridge that has a developer carrier. The developing cartridge includes: a driving input part, to which external power for rotating the developer carrier is input, is provided to a first axial end side of the developer carrier; a first supported part; a second supported part; and a third supported part. The image carrier cartridge includes: a first support part arranged on a rotational axis line of the driving input part, a second support part arranged at an image carrier side rather than the rotational axis line of the driving input part; and a third support part arranged at an opposite side to the second support part with the rotational axis line of the driving input part.
US08706003B2
An image forming device includes a main casing, a support member, a plurality of developing cartridges, a handle provided to the support member, and a pair of interfering parts provided at both ends of the support member. Each developing cartridge includes a casing and a developing member supported by the casing. A gap between the pair of interfering parts is narrower than a length of the developing member, and the pair of interfering parts is located between the handle and one of the developing cartridges. Each of the interfering parts has a higher height than the handle.
US08705997B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fusing unit configured to fuse an image formed on a recording medium to a recording medium, at a fusing position where a heater and a rotator nip the recording medium therebetween, and a current-feed controller configured to execute a first current-feed mode of changing a current-feed ratio of current-feed time from an AC power source to the heater to unit time by controlling switching of a switching circuit so that a temperature detected by a temperature detector falls within a target range. The current-feed controller executes a second current-feed mode of fixing the current-feed ratio to almost 100% or almost 0% in place of the first current-feed mode based on a timing when a position detector detects that an end of the recording medium in a conveying direction is located at the fusing position.
US08705995B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transporting section including a transport path for transporting a recording medium; an image forming unit that forms an image on the recording medium that is transported at the transporting section; a fixing device that fixes the image formed on the recording medium at the image forming unit while heating the image; and a controller that performs control so that Pw
US08705994B2
A pressure lever journaling a pressure roller is rockably connected to a fixation frame journaling a fixing roller. A pivotal position of the pressure lever is adjusted by a motor through driving gears, sector gears, press-contact adjusting levers, and press contact springs, so that a mode of a fixing press contact force is set to a heavy press contact mode or a light press contact mode. By a control section, at start-up immediately after power-on and on basis of a temperature and a humidity detected by a temperature and humidity sensor, the heavy press contact mode is established for rectifying poor curl conditions of paper sheets on condition that the present temperature and humidity environment is a high-temperature high-humidity environment or the light press contact mode is established for rectifying poor fixation performance on condition that the present temperature and humidity environment is a low-temperature low-humidity environment.
US08705989B2
A color electrophotographic image forming apparatus for forming an image on a recording material, wherein plurality of cartridges are detachably mounted to a main assembly of the apparatus, the color electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a cartridge supporting member for supporting the cartridges, the cartridge supporting member being movable between an inside position which is in the main assembly the outside position which is out of the main assembly; a belt unit including a feeding belt for feeding a recording material on which the image is to be formed; and locking means for locking the cartridge supporting member and the belt unit in the state that the feeding belt and the cartridge are contacted to each other, wherein the belt unit and the cartridge supporting member in the state of being locked by the locking means are movable from the inside position to the outside position, and the feeding belt and the cartridge are capable of being spaced from each other by releasing the locking means.
US08705985B2
A method and an optical receiver implementing this method suitable for robustly receiving unencoded optical data. The method sets the threshold for the receiver using values relating to the high and low values of a binary signal. However, for some data patterns these values may not be accurately determined, such as for extended periods of constant high or low values being transmitted. In this case the method, in one embodiment, assumes that the extinction ratio of the signal is substantially constant and is thereby able to track the threshold for the signal.
US08705979B2
LD driver with an improved falling edge of driving signal and optical transmitter providing the same
An LD driver to generate an asymmetrical driving current with a relatively faster falling edge and an optical transmitter having the LD driver are disclosed. The LD driver includes a primary driver and the sub-driver connected in parallel to the primary driver. The primary driver converts the input signal or the delayed signal delayed from the input signal into the primary current. The sub-driver generates a symmetrical current tracing the input or the delayed signal, and an asymmetrical current formed by the OR operation between the input and delayed signals. The driving current is formed by adding the primary current, the symmetrical current and the asymmetrical current.
US08705976B2
The present invention relates generally to optical rotary joints (35) for enabling optical communication between a rotor and a stator, and to improved optical reflector assemblies for use in such optical rotary joints.
US08705974B2
An optical transmission system transmits an optical signal of multi-level modulation. In a transmitter module, a data string in a specified frame is rearranged into a plurality of logical lanes. A lane ID, which specifies in what logical lane out of the plurality of logical lanes a start of the data string is arranged, is assigned to a non-scrambled area in an overhead portion of the frame. The lane ID corresponding to one of the plurality of logical lanes is different from the lane IDs corresponding to the other remaining logical lanes. The optical signal is generated using the data string rearranged into the plurality of logical lanes. In a receiver, the lane ID is detected according to a majority method. The inversion of bits and the swapping of lanes are detected using the lane ID and compensated.
US08705964B2
A system and method for data synchronization in Passive Optical Networks are disclosed. According to an embodiment, the present invention provides a method for providing upstream data synchronization in an optical communication network. The method includes sending data from an Optical Network Unit. The data includes a first data frame, which includes a header sequence, a synchronization segment, and a data segment. The synchronization segment includes 66 bits, which includes a first number of bits having nonzero values and a second number of bits having a value of zero. The first number is different from the second number. The method further includes receiving at least the first data frame by an Optical Line Terminal. The method also includes processing the first data frame. The method additionally includes selecting a first segment of the first data frame, the first segment including 66 bits.
US08705963B2
A method implemented in an optical flexible wavelength division multiplexing FWDM network includes finding a first channel out of available channels with sufficient spectrum on a given route out of available channels in an optical FWDM network; finding a second channel at a lower wavelength out of the available channels for minimizing total spectrum on the given route; selecting a channel out of the available channels on K-distinct shortest routes; and finding line rates of channels using a predetermined channel selection.
US08705960B2
An M×N wavelength-selective switch (WSS) is provided. M input ports launch M input beams towards a wavelength-dispersing system, which disperses the M input beams into M×K sub-beams at K wavelength bands. A redirecting system redirects the M×K sub-beams towards a first 1×K switching array, which selects K sub-beams from the M×K sub-beams. The redirecting system blocks the (M−1)×K non-selected sub-beams, but re-images the K selected sub-beams onto a second 1×K switching array by means of at least one relaying element having optical power. The second 1×K switching array routes the K selected sub-beams to N output ports. The redirecting system redirects the K selected sub-beams towards the wavelength-dispersing system, which combines any selected sub-beams that are routed to a same output port. The N output ports then output the K selected sub-beams.
US08705957B2
An optical line terminal (OLT) includes an optical receiving assembly and a processor (4). A current mirror (1), a current-voltage conversion circuit (2) and a switching circuit (3) are connected in sequence between the optical receiving assembly and the processor (4). An energy storage circuit connected to ground is connected between the switching circuit (3) and the processor (4). The optical receiving assembly generates a response current according to the optical signal received. The current mirror (1) processes the current and then transmits it to the current-voltage conversion circuit (2). The conversion circuit (2) converts the current into a voltage signal and transmits the voltage signal to the switching circuit (3). The switching circuit (3) transmits the voltage signal outputted by the conversion circuit (2) to the energy storage circuit. The voltage signal is sampled and held by the energy storage circuit and then outputted to the processor (4). The processor (4) monitors the average optical power of the voltage signal. The OLT can provide a more accurate detection of the average optical power of each burst signal pack in an upstream burst mode.
US08705956B2
A system and method are provided for carrier frequency offset (CFO) estimation for coherent optical orthogonal-frequency-division-multiplexing (CO-OFDM) broadband systems. The method includes obtaining an initial estimate of a normalized CFO with an estimation range equal to ±L/2 subcarrier subspacing using a single training symbol with L identical portions. The method further includes obtaining a maximum likelihood (ML) estimate of the CFO by performing a local grid search based on the initial estimate.
US08705950B2
A system and method for synchronizing a photographic lighting device to image acquisition by a camera such that initiation of light emission of the photographic lighting device occurs after the first shutter blade of the camera begins to expose an image acquisition sensor of the camera to light and before X-sync associated with the first shutter blade stopping movement.
US08705946B2
Systems and methods are provided to implement a technique for providing 3D content, such as on optical media like Blu-ray® discs. In one implementation, a 3D authoring tool executing on a computer system manages how to construct an image for replication where the image handles jumps without buffer underruns, the jumps caused by layer switching or by moving from or to branches in a multi-branch story line.
US08705939B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a data processing unit which performs copy processing for recording recorded data of a first medium in a second medium, wherein the data processing unit receives three-dimensional image restriction information as copy restriction information of a three-dimensional image from a management server, and when a three-dimensional image is included in copy data from the first medium, performs processing for referencing the three-dimensional image restriction information, determining whether or not the copy processing is permitted, and copying recorded data of the first medium to the second medium under the condition it is determined that the copy processing is permitted.
US08705933B2
The video bookmark feature allows a user to tag an item or segment of interest within audio/video content being watched. Each tag, or bookmark, can contain within it metadata associated with the content captured by the receiver at the time the bookmark was recorded; further information can be derived via interaction over the Internet with a service provider. Applications supported by video bookmarks include telescoping ads, capturing screen shots for later review or printing, and retrieving more information about any arbitrary subject being viewed, whether it is a scene in a program, an advertisement, or other associated information about the subject. This abstract is not to be considered limiting, since other embodiments may deviate from the features described in this abstract.
US08705929B2
A fiber optic enclosure assembly includes a housing having an interior region and a bearing mount disposed in the interior region of the housing. A cable spool is connectedly engaged with the bearing mount such that the cable spool selectively rotates within the housing. A termination module disposed on the cable spool so that the termination module rotates in unison with the cable spool. A method of paying out a fiber optic cable from a fiber optic enclosure includes rotating a cable spool, which has a subscriber cable coiled around a spooling portion of the cable spool, about an axis of a housing of the fiber optic enclosure until a desired length of subscriber cable is paid out. A termination module is disposed on the cable spool.
US08705927B2
A cable management panel including a chassis and a drawer. The chassis defining rear and side openings for cable entry and exit. The drawer having a front panel that may include angled adapters. The drawer having an open rear that accommodates cables entering from the rear openings of the chassis, and that accommodates the addition of a rear wall. The cable management panel being adaptable to provide a variety of cable routing configurations to accommodate a user's particular cable routing needs.
US08705921B2
A fiber optic cable includes a subunit and an outer portion. The subunit includes a subunit jacket defining a passageway interior thereto, an optical fiber extending through the passageway, and a first reinforcement material constraining the optical fiber within the subunit jacket such that the optical fiber and the subunit jacket are coupled to one another by way of the first reinforcement material. The outer portion of the fiber optic cable includes an outer jacket defining an outer periphery of the cable and a second reinforcement material between the outer jacket and the subunit jacket. The second reinforcement material includes fiberglass yarn, and hoop stress applied to the fiberglass yarn by the outer jacket constrains the fiberglass yarn such that it is positioned and oriented to provide anti-buckling support to the fiber optic cable and mitigate effects on the optical fiber of jacket shrinkage due to low temperatures.
US08705918B2
A planar laser gain medium and laser system. The novel laser gain medium includes an active core having a high aspect ratio cross-section with a fast-axis dimension and a slow-axis dimension, signal claddings adapted to form reflective boundaries at fast-axis boundaries of the core, and a material adapted to minimize reflections at slow-axis boundaries of the core. In an illustrative embodiment, the laser gain medium is an optical fiber. The core and claddings for a waveguide adapted to control modes propagating in the fast-axis direction. When the laser gain medium is employed as a laser oscillator, a high reflectivity mirror and an outcoupler are positioned at opposite ends of the core to form a laser resonator adapted to control modes in the slow-axis direction.
US08705916B2
An optical module configured to perform conversion between an optical signal and an electrical signal includes a board having a flat-plate shape; a light-receiving part and a light-emitting part attached on a surface of the board, the light-receiving part being configured to receive a first optical signal input from an optical cable and the light-emitting part being configured to output a second optical signal based on an input electrical signal; and an optical deflection member configured to deflect the first optical signal substantially 90 degrees and output the first optical signal to the light-receiving part and to deflect the second optical signal input from the light-emitting part substantially 90 degrees and output the second optical signal to the optical cable, the optical deflection member including multiple optical waveguides arranged in a first array and a second array.
US08705912B2
The present invention relates to a light source apparatus. The light source apparatus has an MOPA configuration and comprises a seed light source, a pulse generator, an intermediate optical amplifier, a final stage optical amplifier, a delivery optical fiber, and a light output terminal. The delivery optical fiber is a PBG fiber having a photonic bandgap (PBG) structure in a core-surrounding portion located around the core. Light with a wavelength in a high loss band of the PBG fiber is inputted into the PBG fiber.
US08705903B2
An instrument system that includes an elongate body, an optical fiber, and a detector is provided. The elongate body is capable of being twisted. The optical fiber includes a first portion coupled to the elongate body and a second portion having a curved shape adapted to reduce transfer of twisting or bending from the elongate body to the second portion, the second portion having a strain sensor provided thereon. The detector is coupled to the optical fiber and adapted to receive a signal from the strain sensor.
US08705901B2
A method for making a polarization rotator includes the steps of forming a structure including a semiconductor substrate and a mesa part, forming a first semiconductor layer on a main surface of the semiconductor substrate and around the mesa part, forming a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, forming a semiconductor laminate by forming a third semiconductor layer on the second semiconductor layer, forming a mask layer on the third semiconductor layer, forming a mesa including a first semiconductor core by etching the semiconductor laminate, and forming a first semiconductor cladding by forming a fourth semiconductor layer around the mesa. The first semiconductor core and the first semiconductor cladding form a polarization rotating unit. An inclined surface of a mesa-part-adjacent portion extends in a second direction forming an acute angle with the main surface. An inclined portion of the second semiconductor layer extends in the second direction.
US08705888B2
In an embodiment, a method includes receiving values of a first pixel and a second pixel of an image at an input processor element of an image signal processor and distributing fractional parts of a number of values from surrounding pixels to the first pixel and the second pixel non-serially using first and second accelerator units, respectively, of the image signal processor. The method further includes assigning output values to the first pixel and the second pixel based on the values of the first pixel and the second pixel and the fractional parts of the number of values from the surrounding pixels using an output processor element of the image signal processor and outputting the output values to an output device that has a color range that is less than a color range of the image using the output processor element.
US08705879B2
Systems, methods and computer readable media are disclosed for accelerating the compression of images on a multi-processor computer. In an embodiment, an image is divided into a plurality of slices, each slice having the same width as the image. These slices are provided to a work manager that maintains a thread for each processor. The work manager assigns each slice to a thread for processing in an efficient manner (such as the thread corresponding to the first available processor), and when an indication that the slice has been compressed for each slice is received, the work manager assembles the compressed image.
US08705877B1
A method, system and computer program for segmenting an image are provided. The method may include the steps of acquiring a plurality of images, and clustering pixels from one of the plurality of images into one or more segments, each segment being defined in a state of either stable, mesostable or unstable. The clustering may include the steps of determining residual pixels changing by more than a predetermined threshold, grouping the determined residual pixels to form segments selected from the group of unstable and mesostable segments, determining depth for all unstable and mesostable segments, transitioning unstable segments to corresponding mesostable segments if predetermined stability criteria are met, transitioning mesostable segments to corresponding stable segments upon a determination that the mesostable segments have remained stable for a predetermined number of frames, and merging stable and mesostable segments.
US08705871B2
A form image managing system includes a master image storing unit configured to store a plurality of types of master images, a obtaining unit configured to obtain a form image, a searching unit configured to search the master image storing unit for a master image having the highest correlation with the form image obtained by the obtaining unit among the plurality of types of master images, a generating unit configured to generate differential data of the form image, obtained by the obtaining unit, from the master image searched by the searching unit, and a differential data storing unit configured to associate identification information for identifying the master image searched by the searching unit from the plurality of types of master images stored in the master image storing unit with the differential data generated by the generating unit, and to store the identification information and the differential data.
US08705868B2
First, a difference between a pixel value of a first pixel in an image and a pixel value of a second pixel is calculated, the second pixel placed a predetermined number of pixels away from the first pixel. Then, when the difference is equal to or greater than a predetermined value, an edge determination threshold is calculated on the basis of: the pixel value of the first pixel or a pixel value of a pixel near the first pixel; and the pixel value of the second pixel or a pixel value of a pixel near the second pixel. Then, an edge pixel corresponding to an edge present between the first pixel and the second pixel is detected by comparing the edge determination threshold with a pixel value of each pixel placed between the first pixel and the second pixel.
US08705865B2
An image analysis method includes acquiring an image of an observation region including a plurality of pixels respectively having a plurality of time serially acquired data, setting an analysis region on the image of the observation region, setting a sub analysis region smaller than the analysis region, intermittently moving the sub analysis region in increments of a pixel interval over the entire analysis region, executing correlation analysis using data of pixels in the sub analysis region every time the sub analysis region is moved, so as to estimate at least a molecular number or a diffusion constant of the sub analysis region, and forming a molecular number or diffusion constant image by mapping the molecular numbers or the diffusion constants.
US08705864B2
Provided is a marker generation device which has a singular feature selection means and a marker pattern generation means. The singular feature selection means extracts feature points from an image, indicates the feature points in a predetermined space, and selects, as singular features, a plurality of parts where the number of feature points is equal to or less than a predetermined number in the space. The marker pattern generation means generates a plurality of kinds of marker patterns with the use of the whole or a part of the plurality of singular features.
US08705863B1
Methods, systems and computer program products are described for providing a computer implemented control system for an automated system. The system includes a document receiving component configured for receiving a plurality of design documents and for rendering a plurality of design document views corresponding to the plurality of design documents. The system also includes an input receiving component configured for receiving an indication selecting first and second design document views, a data extraction component configured for automatically extracting design data from the first and second design document views, a matching component configured for determining a relationship between the design data from the first and second design document views, and a data manager component configured for storing the relationship in a data store accessible by a computer implemented control system that controls a plurality of devices in the automated system based on the stored relationship.
US08705860B2
This application describes grouping variables together to minimize cost or time of performing computer vision analysis techniques on images. In one instance, the pixels of an image are represented by a lattice structure of nodes that are connected to each other by edges. The nodes are grouped or merged together based in part on the energy function associated with each edge that connects the nodes together. The energy function of the edge is based in part on the energy functions associated with each node. The energy functions of the node are based on the possible states in which the node may exist. The states of the node are representative of an object, image, or any other feature or classification that may be associated with the pixels in the image.
US08705855B2
To provide a color image processing method and device to realize desired color reproduction of the object area of a specific object in a color image taken by a color imaging device and thereby to improve the texture. A color image processing device (100) comprises an image information acquisition unit (110) that detects an object area based on an input image, and obtains color information and 3D information of the object area, a reflection information restoration unit (120) that restores a specular component and a body reflection component containing shade of the object area based on the color information and the 3D information, an albedo calculation unit (130) that calculates an albedo by removing the specular component and the shade in the body reflection component from the color information, an albedo correction processing unit (140) that restores a surface reflectance by using the color information and the albedo, and calculates a corrected albedo by correcting the albedo using the surface reflectance, and a reproduced-color calculation unit (150) that calculates a reproduced color of the object area by adding the shade in the body reflection component and specular component to the corrected albedo, and thereby generating an output image.
US08705851B2
A method for training a pattern recognition algorithm including the steps of identifying the known location of the pattern that includes repeating elements within a fine resolution image, using the fine resolution image to train a model associated with the fine image, using the model to examine the fine image resolution image to generate a score space, examining the score space to identify a repeating pattern frequency, using a coarse image that is coarser than the finest image resolution image to train a model associated with the coarse image, using the model associated with the coarse image to examine the coarse image thereby generating a location error, comparing the location error to the repeating pattern frequency and determining if the coarse image resolution is suitable for locating the pattern within a fraction of one pitch of the repeating elements.
US08705849B2
A system for object recognition in which a multi-dimensional scanner generates a temporal sequence of multi-dimensional output data of a scanned object. That data is then coupled as an input signal to a trainable dynamic system. The system exemplified by a general-purpose recurrent neural network is previously trained to generate an output signal representative of the class of the object in response to a temporal sequence of multi-dimensional data.
US08705848B2
A method, system and computer program product for encoding an image is provided. The image that needs to be represented is represented in the form of a Gaussian pyramid which is a scale-space representation of the image and includes several pyramid images. The feature points in the pyramid images are identified and a specified number of feature points are selected. The orientations of the selected feature points are obtained by using a set of orientation calculating algorithms. A patch is extracted around the feature point in the pyramid images based on the orientations of the feature point and the sampling factor of the pyramid image. The boundary patches in the pyramid images are extracted by padding the pyramid images with extra pixels. The feature vectors of the extracted patches are defined. These feature vectors are normalized so that the components in the feature vectors are less than a threshold.
US08705847B2
In one embodiment, a method of two-dimensional to stereoscopic image conversion, the method comprising detecting a face in a two-dimensional image; determining a body region based on the detected face; providing a color model from a portion of the determined body region, a portion of the detected face, or a combination of both portions; calculating a similarity value of at least one image pixel of the two-dimensional image based on the provided color model; and assigning a depth value of the image pixel based on the calculated similarity value to generate a stereoscopic image.
US08705845B2
A method of interaction for an augmented reality environment comprises the steps of capturing an image of a drawn picture comprising one or more drawn shapes, identifying the or each respective drawn shape as corresponding to a component of an archetypal model and generating a three dimensional virtual model representing the archetypal model using generation rules associated with the archetypal model, wherein components of the three dimensional virtual model generated from components of the archetypal model corresponding to the or each respective drawn shape have the appearance of the or each respective drawn shape.
US08705841B2
A pattern inspection apparatus for detecting an abnormality includes a storage, a compensator and an abnormality judger. The storage stores data based on a reference pattern associated with an object pattern as an object to detect an abnormality and including a first pattern edge portion and a second pattern edge portion. The compensator partially compensates a location of the first pattern edge portion to be shrunk or expanded based on the reference pattern such that the first pattern edge portion is to be placed at a location of a third pattern edge portion while the second pattern edge portion maintains the same size. The abnormality judger sets a tolerance based on the location compensated based on the reference pattern, and judges the object pattern as abnormal when an outline of the object pattern is fallen outside of the tolerance.
US08705839B2
An electronic device configured for defect detection is described. The electronic device includes a processor and instructions stored in memory that is in electronic communication with the processor. The electronic device performs background suppression on the image data based on a transform of the image data to obtain a score map. The electronic device also applies thresholding to the score map to generate a detection mask. The thresholding comprises bi-thresholding. The electronic device additionally detects any defects based on the detection mask. The electronic device further indicates any defects.
US08705831B2
The invention relates to an image generation system for generating an image of a region of interest. The image generation system comprises a measured data providing unit for providing measured data of the region of interest, a reconstruction unit (12) for reconstructing a first and a second image of the region of interest from the measured data using a first and a second reconstruction method, a noise determination unit (13) for determining first and second noise values for first and second image elements of the first and second image, and an image element combining unit (14) for combining corresponding first and second image elements into combined image elements forming a combined image based on the first and second noise values. By combining corresponding image elements of two differently reconstructed images based on determined noise values, a combined image of a region of interest can be generated with an improved quality.
US08705827B2
Described herein are improved methods for correcting cone beam computed tomography signals to reduce scatter contamination contained therein. Generally, the improved methods involve generating a plurality of two-dimensional projection images of a subject from a three-dimensional multi-detector computed tomography image of the subject. This is followed by subtracting the plurality of two-dimensional projection images from a plurality of two-dimensional cone beam projection images of the subject to produce a plurality of two-dimensional estimated error projections that comprise an estimated error in the plurality of two-dimensional cone beam projection images. The plurality of two-dimensional estimated error projection images are subtracted from the plurality of two-dimensional cone beam projection images to generate a plurality of two-dimensional corrected cone beam projection images. A three-dimensional corrected cone beam computed tomography image of the subject is then constructed from the plurality of two-dimensional corrected cone beam projection images.
US08705826B2
A two-dimensional retinal fundus image of the retinal fundus of an eye is processed by optic disc segmentation (2) followed by cup segmentation 4. Data derived from the optic disc segmentation (i.e. the output of the disc segmentation (2) and/or data derived from the output of the optic disc segmentation step, e.g. by a smoothing operation 3) and data derived from the out-put of the optic cup segmentation (i.e. the output of the cup segmentation (4) and/or data derived from the output of the optic disc segmentation, e.g. by a smoothing operation 5) are fed (6) to an adaptive model which has been trained to generate from such inputs a value indicative of cup-to-disc ratio (CDR) of the eye. The CDR is indicative of glaucoma. Thus, the method can be used to screen patients for glaucoma.
US08705825B2
A digital slide analysis system comprises an algorithm server that maintains or has access to a plurality of image processing and analysis routines. The algorithm server additionally has access to a plurality of digital slide images. The algorithm server executes a selected routine on an identified digital slide and provides the resulting data. Prior to the application of selected routine, the system employs a digital pre-processing module to create a metadata mask that reduces undesirable image data such that the image data processed by the selected routine has an improved signal to noise ratio. The pre-processing module uses a classifier that may be implemented as a pattern recognition module, for example. Undesirable image data is therefore excluded from the image data that is processed by the digital pathology image processing and analysis routine, which significantly improves the digital pathology image analysis.
US08705818B2
An image processing device includes a feature value calculating unit that calculates a color feature value of each pixel or each segment inside at least one of a series of images captured by an image pickup device while moving inside a gastrointestinal tract; a color feature value estimating unit that, based on data distribution of the color feature value of each pixel or each segment, estimates color feature value data representing mucous membrane and color feature value data representing gastrointestinal contents; and a discrimination boundary setting unit that, based on the estimated color feature value data, sets a color feature value discrimination boundary between mucous membrane and gastrointestinal contents.
US08705814B2
Disclosed is a method of detecting an upper body. The method includes detecting an omega candidate area including a shape formed of a face and a shoulder line of a human from a target image, cutting the target image into the upper body candidate area including the omega candidate area, detecting a human face from the upper body candidate area, and judging whether the upper body of the human is included in the target image according to the result of detecting the human face.
US08705813B2
An identification device capable of improving identification accuracy. The identification device performs identification according to a face area contained in image data. Feature data is extracted from a face area in each of frames of image data. The extracted feature data is registered in a person database section. Identification is performed through comparison between the feature data registered in the person database section and the extracted feature data. A tracking section identifies an identical face area in consecutive frames. If a face area is identified in a first frame, but a face area in a second frame following the first frame, which is identified by the tracking section as identical to the identified face area in the first frame, is not identified, the extracted feature data associated with the face area in the second frame is registered as additional feature data in the person database section.
US08705811B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for adjusting luminance of a candidate window prior to facial detection processing. In one aspect, a method includes establishing a target region of an image that potentially contains at least a portion of a face. The method further includes establishing an inset region inside the established target region. The inset region is sized to include a predetermined fraction of the target region. Furthermore, the method includes detecting a face within the established target region of the image using the established inset region.
US08705806B2
An object identification apparatus, which identifies a class of a plurality of registered classes to which an object included in an input image belongs, registers a plurality of registered images used in identification of an input image, and holds designation data required to designate partial areas used in identification. The apparatus extracts feature amounts of the partial areas designated by the designation data from the input image and each of the plurality of registered images, and identifies a class to which the input image belongs based on the extracted feature amounts. The apparatus determines based on the plurality of registered images whether or not is required to update processing contents of an identification unit. When it is determined that the processing contents are required to be updated, the apparatus updates the designation data based on registered images.
US08705801B2
A distance estimation device (1x) prevents the variation in distance estimation accuracy that has been a problem in distance estimation performed using an all-in-focus image and an arbitrary-focal-depth image. The distance estimation device can estimate a focal distance of any subject with a high degree of accuracy, and includes: a first generation unit (10w) generating a first distance map indicating a focal depth determined from an all-in-focus image and a first focal-depth image; a second generation unit (11w) generating a second distance map indicating a focal depth determined from the all-in-focus image and a second focal-depth image; and a distance map synthesis unit (14) synthesizing the generated first distance map and the generated second distance map to generate a synthetic distance map.
US08705798B2
People are counted in a segment of video with a video processing system that is configured with a first set of parameters. This produces a first output. Based on this first output, a second set of parameters is chosen. People are then counted in the segment of video using the second set of parameters. This produces a second output. People are counted with a video played forward. People are counted with a video played backwards. The results of these two counts are reconciled to produce a more accurate people count.
US08705796B2
The present invention provides an obstacle detection device that enables stable obstacle detection with less misdetections even when a bright section and a dark section are present in an obstacle and a continuous contour of the obstacle is present across the bright section and the dark section. The obstacle detection device includes a processed image generating unit that generates a processed image for detecting an obstacle from a picked-up image, a small region dividing unit that divides the processed image into plural small regions, an edge threshold setting unit that sets an edge threshold for each of the small regions from pixel values of the plural small regions and the processed image, an edge extracting unit that calculates a gray gradient value of each of the small regions from the plural small regions and the processed image and generates, using the edge threshold for the small region corresponding to the calculated gray gradient value, an edge image and a gradient direction image, and an obstacle recognizing unit that determines presence or absence of an obstacle from the edge image in a matching determination region set in the edge image and the gradient direction image corresponding to the edge image. The small region dividing unit divides the processed image into the plural small regions on the basis of an illumination state on the outside of the own vehicle.
US08705788B2
A method for fabricating a speaker is disclosed. The speaker is equipped with a case having a through cavity, an inner surface forming the cavity and an outer surface, a magnetic bowl coupled to the case, a magnet positioned in the magnetic bowl, a pole plate covering the magnet, a magnetic gap formed by the magnet and the magnetic bowl, a diaphragm supported by the case and vibrating along a vibrating direction, a voice coil connected to the diaphragm, and a hearing aid coil formed on the case. The method includes the steps of: providing a case made of thermoplastic doped with organometallic additive; activating the organometallic additive in the case by a laser beam for forming initial pattern of the hearing aid coil in the inner surface of the case; and bathing the case in copper solution for providing the initial pattern with copper plating layer.
US08705787B2
A custom in-ear headset. The headset includes a housing having a proximate housing portion and a distant housing portion. The distant housing portion is shaped and sized to fit inside an ear canal of a user. The headset includes a miniature speaker that is acoustically coupled to a sound outlet in the distant portion of the housing for conveying sound pressure to an ear canal of the user. The headset further includes any one or more of: (a) a microphone with a sound inlet in the proximate housing portion, (b) a bone conduction microphone arranged in the distant housing portion, or (c) a microphone with a sound inlet in the distant housing portion. The headset further includes at least one ridge projecting from and circumscribing the distant housing portion.
US08705783B1
An exemplary method of acoustically controlling a cochlear implant system includes acoustically transmitting, by a remote control subsystem, a control signal comprising one or more control parameters, detecting, by a sound processing subsystem communicatively coupled to a stimulation subsystem implanted within a patient, the control signal, extracting, by the sound processing subsystem, the one or more control parameters from the control signal, and performing, by the sound processing subsystem, at least one operation in accordance with the one or more control parameters. Corresponding methods and systems are also described.
US08705774B2
Acoustic transducer means are provided. A monolithic semiconductor layer defines a plate, a pair of oppositely disposed torsional hinges, a flexible extension and at least a portion of a support structure. Acoustic pressure communicated to the plate results in tensile strain of the flexible extension. The flexible extension provides a varying electrical characteristic responsive to the tensile strain. An electric signal corresponding to the acoustic pressure can be derived from the varying electrical characteristic of the flexible extension.
US08705770B2
A method, a device and a system for mixing processing of an audio signal are provided in the embodiments of the present invention. The method includes: judging a channel type of a receiving terminal; for a single-channel receiving terminal, sending a mixed audio signal and meanwhile sending location information of a sending terminal that has maximum audio signal energy on each sub-band of the mixed audio signal to the single-channel receiving terminal; for a double-channel receiving terminal or a multi-channel receiving terminal, performing up-mixing to obtain double-channel or multi-channel audio data according to location information that is allocated to a single-channel sending terminal, performing mixing processing on audio data that participates in mixing to obtain double-channel or multi-channel mixed audio data, and sending the double-channel or multi-channel mixed audio data.
US08705769B2
A frequency-domain upmix process uses vector-based signal decomposition and methods for improving the selectivity of center channel extraction. The upmix processes described do not perform an explicit primary/ambient decomposition. This reduces the complexity and improves the quality of the center channel derivation. A method of upmixing a two-channel stereo signal to a three-channel signal is described. A left input vector and a right input vector are added to arrive at a sum magnitude. Similarly, the difference between the left input vector and the right input vector is determined to arrive at a difference magnitude. The difference between the sum magnitude and the difference magnitude is scaled to compute a center channel magnitude estimate, and this estimate is used to calculate a center output vector. A left output vector and a right output vector are computed. The method is completed by outputting the left output vector, the center output vector, and the right output vector.
US08705765B2
The present invention(s) provides for methods and systems for digitally processing a ringtone. In various embodiments, a method comprises generating a profile comprising a plurality of filter equalizing coefficients, configuring a plurality of filters of a graphic equalizer using the plurality of filter equalizing coefficients from the profile, receiving a ringtone for processing, adjusting the plurality of filters using a first gain, equalizing the ringtone using the plurality of filters of the graphic equalizer, and outputting the equalized ringtone.
US08705761B2
There is provided an entertainment system comprising at least one seat, an electronic unit (100) for active noise reduction in the seat and at least one headphone (300). The headphone has an electro-acoustic reproduction transducer (310), a microphone (330) for recording interference signals and an adjusting unit (320) having an active filter for correcting a frequency response characteristic of the output signal of the microphone, for performing pre-filtration for active noise reduction and for the output of a corrected and filtered signal. The electronic unit (100) performs active noise reduction based on the corrected and filtered signal of the adjusting unit (320).
US08705757B1
A signal processor to produce a simulated reverberation effect based on an input signal and conveying the impression of multiple interconnected resonating spaces. A feedback delay network produces a reverberation tail signal, which is delayed by varying amounts in a delay module. A panning module produces a multi-channel signal based on the reverberation tail signal and its echoes.
US08705754B2
Displacement of a moving diaphragm in an electroacoustic transducer is measured by modulating an electrical signal based on changes in capacitance between the voice coil assembly and the magnetic structure resulting from relative motion between the voice coil and the magnetic structure. The modulated electrical signal is demodulated to produce an output signal having a value proportional to the displacement.
US08705746B2
A system that enables a cloud-based data repository to function as a secure ‘drop-box’ for data that corresponds to a user is provided. The ‘drop box’ can be facilitated through the use of cryptographic keying technologies. For instance, data that is ‘dropped’ by or on behalf of a particular user can be encrypted using a public key that corresponds to a user-specific private key. Thus, although the data resides within the large pool of ‘cloud-based’ data, it is protected since it can only be decrypted by using the private key, which is kept secret. The innovation can further facilitate user-centric secure storage by partitioning the cloud-based repository into multiple partitions, each of which corresponds to specific indexing criteria.
US08705741B2
The present invention includes various novel techniques, apparatus, and systems for optical WDM communications that involve dynamically modifying certain aspects of the WDM transmission (and corresponding receive) process at the optical (physical) layer to significantly enhance data/network security. These various dynamic modifications can be employed individually or in combination to provide even greater security depending upon the desired application and design tradeoffs. WDM transmission steps typically include encoding the client signals, mapping them to one or more subchannels within or across ITU channels, modulating them onto subcarrier frequencies, and multiplexing them together for optical transmission. By dynamically modifying one or more of these processing steps over time (in addition to any encryption of the underlying client signals), the current invention provides additional security at the physical (optical) layer of an optical network and thus greatly enhances overall network security.
US08705738B2
Systems and/or methods of selectively terminating security in mobile networks are presented. User equipment (UE) can specify cipher termination location capabilities for encrypting/decrypting data packets to a base station in a mobile network. The mobile network can subsequently determine at which node in the network to terminate the cipher in part according to the capabilities provided and deliver the determined location to the UE. The determined cipher termination location can be provided in response to a request to initiate communications, the initial request can specify the capabilities. The UE can utilize the location to support disparate types of networks and to intelligently deal with hand-offs and other functions of the mobile network.
US08705737B2
Disclosed herein is a video processing apparatus for generating video data capable of representing a color gamut beyond a first color gamut specified by a predetermined requirement. The video processing apparatus includes: a detector detecting, from the video data, a section corresponding to video of a color gamut beyond the first color gamut; a supplemental-data generator generating supplemental data pertaining to the video data; and an embedding unit embedding the supplemental data generated by the supplemental-data generator in the section detected by the detector, with a change to a color beyond the first color gamut, the color having substantially a same hue as that of video to be represented.
US08705734B2
A method and system for authenticating in a wireless communication system. The system includes a Mobile Terminal (MT), an authenticator, and an Authentication, Authorization, Accounting (AAA) server. When the authenticator requests NAI information for authentication, the MT adds an authentication code to the NAI, and sends a response message including the NAI information to the authenticator. The authenticator relays the NAI to which the authentication code is added, to the AAA server. The AAA server extracts the authentication code from the NAI information, verifies the authentication of the MT, generates a new authentication key, and transmits the new authentication key to the authenticator.
US08705731B2
Processing of masked data using multiple lookup tables (LUTs), or sub-tables, is described. For each input value, an appropriate sub-table provides an output value that is the result of a non-linear transformation (e.g., byte substitution) applied to the input value. An additive mask can be applied to the input data. A transformation can be applied to the masked input data to transform the additive mask into a multiplicative-additive mask. Selected bits of the masked input data and the bits in the additive component of the multiplicative-additive mask can be used in combination to select one of the sub-tables. An entry in the selected sub-table, corresponding to a transformed version of the input data, can then be identified.
US08705730B2
A cryptography module includes a key store having a plurality of storage locations for storing a private key as k key fragments. One or more crypto-processing segments each operate based on corresponding ones of the k key fragments to process a message in accordance with elliptic curve digital signature algorithm (ECDSA) to produce a signed message.
US08705728B2
A device includes a plurality of subscriber line interface circuits and a shared protection device. Each subscriber line interface circuit has a voltage input terminal and first and second interface line terminals. The shared protection device is coupled to the interface line terminals and operable to sense a negative reference voltage representing a most negative one of the voltages present on the voltage input terminals and to provide overvoltage protection responsive to a voltage on at least one of the interface line terminals exceeding the negative reference voltage.
US08705724B2
A method of posting a voice related message on a remotely accessible networking page includes receiving, at a data center, a voice connection from a communications device. An account on the remotely accessible networking page that is associated with the voice connection is identified at the data center. A voice post is generated during or from the voice connection. Via the data center, the voice post is associated with the remotely accessible networking page so that the voice post is associated with the identified account.
US08705721B2
A system for providing ringback content. In the system, a user places a call on a communication device to a callee via a network. The network may store content information about the user and uses this content information to deduce the intent of the user's call. The callee provides ringback content to the user's communication device based on the deduced user call intent.
US08705718B2
Subscription profile data is managed. The subscription profile data is associated with a communications service. A user interface is sent to a hosting client for a user to obtain access to and make changes to subscription profile data. A request to retrieve the subscription profile data is received from the client. The subscription profile data is retrieved from within a communications network in response to the request to retrieve the subscription profile data. A request to update the subscription profile data is received. An update for the subscription profile data is forwarded so that the communications service is implemented in the communications network in accordance with the update.
US08705709B2
One or more devices in a visual voicemail system voicemail notification messages indicating voicemails are available for a user of the visual voicemail system and distribute the voicemail notification messages to a network device. The one or more devices receive an indication of a backlog processing requests for the visual voicemail system and stop, based on the indication, distributing the voicemail notification messages to the network device. After the stopping, the one or more devices receive another indication that the backlog processing requests for the visual voicemail system no longer exists and resume, based on the other indication, distributing the voicemail notification messages to the network device.
US08705707B1
A method comprising determining that a phone call has been answered, missed, or terminated, generating an indication of the phone call being answered, missed, or terminated at a graphical user interface, and determining one or more contextual identifiers associated with the phone call. The contextual identifiers may include metadata associated with the phone call, and may be based on data associated with at least one of data generated indications and data received by the computing device from a first input at the graphical user interface associated with the computing device. The method further includes storing the contextual identifiers in association with the indication of the phone call in a data structure that includes other contextual identifiers associated with other indications of phone calls. The contextual identifiers and the other contextual identifiers included in the data structure are searchable.
US08705701B2
A security system with call management functionality includes a security controller having at least one first interface to at least one user identification device and a second interface to a call management controller. The security controller also includes logic to determine a security status of a user based on identification information received from the at least one user identification device and to communicate the security status of the user to the call management controller. The call management controller enables, disables, or modifies a communication service based on the security status of the user.
US08705698B2
Provided are an X-ray analyzer and a mapping method for an X-ray analysis which, in a inspection for a harmful substance contained in, for example, a material or a composite electronic component, enable determination as to whether a sample is normal or abnormal to be performed visually based on an image obtained by the X-ray mapping analysis. In the X-ray analyzer, an X-ray mapping image of a sample which is confirmed to be normal in advance is obtained as a reference mapping image. A mapping analysis is performed on a inspection sample. A difference from the reference mapping image is obtained for each pixel, to thereby display a difference mapping image. A region in which the amount of specific element is larger than a reference amount is displayed with high brightness, and hence an abnormal portion may be easily found.
US08705694B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for x-ray imaging. In some embodiments, an aperture, or a plurality thereof, are configured to have image transfer functions lacking a zero within a usable spatial frequency range. In further embodiments, the image transfer function is determined according to the shape of the aperture and the usable spatial frequency range is determined according to a usable signal to noise ratio.
US08705690B2
An imaging method with an improved display of a tissue region generates a first visualization and a second visualization from projection recordings that were recorded at different angles. A radiologist is enabled to mark a region in the first visualization, which region is displayed by way of the second visualization.
US08705689B2
According to the present invention, improved methods and apparatus are provided for providing cushioning and other ergonomic surfaces on devices requiring the patient or tissue to be compressed, such as radiography machines, fluoroscopy units, mammography units and the like. In particular a radiolucent pad element is provided for releasable attachment to at least one surface of a compression device to be used under x-ray, for example, during mammography. The pad element of the present invention can be disposable or constructed to be reusable and in some cases may be applied directly to the patient's breast. Furthermore, a cushioned paddle is provided wherein the compression paddle and the cushion can be separately or integrally formed.
US08705681B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes a process for production and recovery of no-carrier-added radioactive tin (NCA radiotin). An antimony target can be irradiated with a beam of accelerated particles forming NCA radiotin, followed by separation of the NCA radiotin from the irradiated target. The target is metallic Sb in a hermetically sealed shell. The shell can be graphite, molybdenum, or stainless steel. The irradiated target can be removed from the shell by chemical or mechanical means, and dissolved in an acidic solution. Sb can be removed from the dissolved irradiated target by extraction. NCA radiotin can be separated from the remaining Sb and other impurities using chromatography on silica gel sorbent. NCA tin-117m can be obtained from this process. NCA tin-117m can be used for labeling organic compounds and biological objects to be applied in medicine for imaging and therapy of various diseases.
US08705665B2
A process for computing Log-Likelihood-ratios (LLRs) in a detector of a wireless communication receiver is disclosed, with the, LLRs being used by a channel decoder. A signal is received from a telecom front end, the signal corresponding to data belonging to a finite set of constellation symbols, each constellation symbol being arranged in a lattice constellation impaired by additive noise and a multiplicative channel. A limited set of distances representative of Euclidian distances between the received signal and a finite set of predetermined constellation symbols are computed, possibly multiplied by the channel. A set of soft decision LLRs are derived from the computed set of distances under the constraint of a limited length of the list of distances. The derived LLRs are completed by clipping values read from a look-up table which is simultaneously addressed by the values of the SNR and a bit index.
US08705661B2
A method for performing channel estimation in a millimeter wave wireless communication system. The method includes receiving complementary sequences at a receiver of the millimeter wave wireless communication system. The received complementary sequences are generated at a first sampling rate; producing special complementary sequences from the received complementary sequences; cross-correlating the special complementary sequences with an input signal related to the received complementary sequences. The cross-correlation is performed at a second sampling rate and the second sampling rate is higher than the first sampling rate; and analyzing the result of the cross-correlation to estimate at least characteristics of a channel between the receiver and a transmitter of the millimeter wave wireless communication system.
US08705651B2
A wireless communication system is disclosed. The system performs data transmission from a first terminal including N antennas to a second terminal including M antennas using spatially multiplexed streams (N and M are integers larger than or equal to 2).
US08705647B2
A method is described that enables maximum-likelihood (ML) demodulation for MIMO communications over frequency-selective channels. An equalizer is typically employed to suppress inter-symbol interference (ISI) due to frequency-selectiveness of the channel, but the noise of the equalizer output can be highly correlated such that standard ML-MIMO demodulations cannot directly apply. The method comprises first constructing equivalent post-equalization MIMO channel and noise covariance matrix, and then de-correlating the equalizer output so that ML or near-ML MIMO demodulations can be applied to improve the performance. Additionally, successive ISI cancellation (SIC) is described for further performance improvement.
US08705646B1
Matrix operations are simplified by precalculating and storing certain portions of the operation. This reduces the computational burden, while requiring a modest increase in memory usage. The operations may be performed in a Multiple-Input/Multiple-Output (“MIMO”) configuration of an LTE system, where a number of equalizer functions require matrix operations such as derivation of a covariance matrix, which involves matrix multiplication, as do other operations. The operations may be performed on a programmable integrated circuit device configured for that purposes.
US08705620B1
A system, method, and apparatus for encoding a frame of video having a plurality of pixels are disclosed. The method includes identifying a plurality of sets of substantially identical adjacent pixels within the frame and determining a number of pixels in each set. The method includes assigning the pixels in each set to one of an enhancement layer or base layer based at least in part on the number of pixels in that set. The method further includes encoding the pixels assigned to the base layer using a first encoding technique and encoding the pixels assigned to the enhancement layer using a second encoding technique.
US08705614B2
Presented herein are system(s) and method(s) for motion estimation using camera movements. In one embodiment, there is presented a video camera system for providing video data. The video camera system comprises a video camera, and a circuit. The video camera captures video data. The circuit records information that indicates tracking movements of the video camera.
US08705608B2
A noise discriminator circuit and a noise discrimination method in a burst mode receiver is configured to determine the validity of an incoming burst signal by analyzing the timing of the signal edges of incoming signal to look for a time duration conforming to the preamble data bits of a valid burst signal. In one embodiment, the noise discriminator circuit and method analyze the time duration between signal edges of the same pulse of an incoming signal. In another embodiment, the noise discriminator circuit and method analyze the time duration between a first set of pulses of an incoming signal and the time duration between signal edges of a second set of pulses of the incoming signal. When the time durations are within a given time range relating to a predetermined timing separation of a valid burst signal, the incoming signal is validated as a valid burst signal.
US08705605B1
Devices and methods for serial loopback testing in an integrated circuit (IC) are provided. To implement loopback testing, an equalizer stage of a receiver of the IC is powered down. In addition, the common-mode voltage of the equalizer stage is reduced and/or a bulk node of the equalizer stage is connected to ground. Doing so may reduce the impact of capacitive coupling from the input pins of buffer, thereby improving the quality of the loopback output signal.
US08705603B2
Data receivers often include equalizers for operating on received signals. The equalizers often have a plurality of taps, with signals from each tap weighted based on tap settings or values. The tap settings may be set based on bit error rates of data output from the equalizer. In some embodiments data output from the equalizer is split into two signals, and the two signals are processed to indicate a data eye of the data output from the equalizer. Preferred tap settings may be determined by setting tap settings to different values and using tap settings expected to maximize the data eye. This may be performed separately for different bit settings in an attempt to reduce effects of inter-signal interference.
US08705601B2
A signal generating device has a display, central processing unit and a waveform generating circuit. The central processing unit generates a user interface on the display for setting parameters for a serial data pattern and a parameter for an intersymbol interference and a bandwidth extension pre-emphasis effect on the serial data pattern. A waveform record file is generated using the serial data pattern parameters and the intersymbol interference effect and bandwidth extension pre-emphasis effect parameter. A waveform generation circuit receives the waveform record file and generates a serial data pattern analog output signal having the intersymbol interference effect or the bandwidth extension pre-emphasis effects defined by the intersymbol interference and bandwidth extension pre-emphasis effect parameter.
US08705600B1
One or more communications parameters associated with a multiple input, multiple output (MIMO) signal transmitted by a transmitter are identified. The one or more communications parameters include one or more of (i) a number of receive antennas via which the MIMO signal is received, (ii) a number of spatial streams in the MIMO signal, and (iii) a signal to noise ratio (SNR) corresponding to the MIMO signal. A particular data detection technique of a plurality of data detection techniques employed by a receiver is selected in accordance with at least one of the one or more communications parameters.
US08705597B2
A method of identifying an electronic or electromechanical system includes: applying at least one noise signal (u) as input to the system, applying an output signal of the system to a one-bit analog digital converter, acquiring a signal at the output of the converter, carrying out an estimation of the output of the system with aid of performing an estimation (ĥ) of the impulse response of the system. The estimation (ĥ) of the impulse response includes: iterative calculation of a plurality of nh elements (J0, . . . , Ji, . . . , Jnh−1) of a given criterion (J), each element including, respectively: at least one term of correlation between the signal at the output of the converter and the noise signal.
US08705595B2
Devices and methods related to devices capable to perform digital output power measurement besides attenuation control are provided. A device includes a digital signal processing unit, a transmitter and a feedback receiver. The digital signal processing unit is configured to control attenuation along a transmission path and a feedback path based on a comparison of a power of a digital input signal with a raw power of a corresponding digital feedback signal, and to calculate an output power value of an analog RF signal to be broadcasted, using the raw power of the digital feedback signal and one or more feedback gain factors related to gain in the feedback receiver.
US08705593B2
Evaluation device and method for providing a transceiver system with performance information thereof
An evaluation device is configured to provide a transceiver system with performance information thereof. The transceiver system models a channel between a transmitter and a receiver thereof using Nakagami distribution with a fading parameter. The evaluation device includes a setting module operable to set an average signal-to-noise rate (SNR) for the channel between the transmitter and the receiver, a computing module operable to estimate a symbol error rate related to a signal received by the receiver from the transmitter based upon the fading parameter and the average SNR, and an output module operable to provide the average SNR and the symbol error rate as the performance information of the transceiver system.
US08705591B2
A signal processing system and method for a GNSS digital signal wherein a carrier-stripped GNSS signal, is sampled according to a variable rate, determined by the code NCO, and including a timing circuit arranged to generate a timestamp code determining the sampling time of at least one of the samples in the buffer memory. By taking code samples in this way it is possible to transfer the samples asynchronously to a separate processor for the search task to be performed, for example an asynchronous parallel correlator implemented in the same silicon in hardware, or a media processor such as a graphics accelerator implemented in the same device or a separate physical device.
US08705586B2
To suppress the amplification of spontaneous emission light in a principal plane width direction to thereby suppress a gain in directions other than a beam axis direction and output a high-power laser, in a solid-state laser element of a plane waveguide type that causes a fundamental wave laser beam to oscillate in a beam axis direction in a laser medium of a flat shape and forms a waveguide structure in a thickness direction as a direction perpendicular to a principal plane of the flat shape in the laser medium, inclined sections 12 are provided on both sides of the laser medium, the inclined sections 12 inclining a predetermined angle to reflect spontaneous emission light in the laser medium to a principal plane side of the flat shape, the spontaneous emission light traveling in the beam axis direction and a principal plane width direction as a direction perpendicular to the thickness direction.
US08705578B2
A method and a system for implementing time synchronization in a local area network are disclosed, and the local area network includes a master system device (1) and a slave system device (31, 32, 33). The method includes: the master system device (1) synchronizing a local time according to a Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) time normally received from a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and a network clock aligned with the UTC time, and regularly broadcasting the local time to each network node which serves as the slave system device (31, 32, 33) and needs to perform time synchronization; and the slave system device (31, 32, 33) synchronously updating the local time according to the received local time of the maser system device (1) and a local network clock aligned with the network clock of the maser system device (1).
US08705549B2
A Universal Virtual Private Network (VPN) apparatus, and method and system for using universal VPNs. The Universal VPNs include a first Internet Protocol (IP) switch connected to a second IP switch by a public telecommunications medium. Each IP switch has an interswitch port and access ports to which hosts are directly connected. A virtual private line services (VPLS) packet received by the first IP switch from a source host directly connected to an access port of the first IP switch is routed by the first IP switch to destination hosts of a universal VPN attached to access ports of the first and second IP switches via respective transmission paths that use a VPLS transmission protocol throughout each respective transmission path. The VPLS packet includes a header appended to an IP frame including a packet payload including a first message, the header including a VPN label identifying the universal VPN.
US08705547B2
Techniques for performing protocol translation for a modular system may be described. In some examples, a first packet created in accordance with a first protocol may be received. A packet type for the first packet may be determined, a second protocol based on the packet type may be selected and the first packet may be translated to a second packet in accordance with the second protocol. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08705546B2
A redundancy switch includes at least three data ports and a control input. Each data port includes a data input and a data output. The redundancy switch operates in one of at least three states. In a first state, a first data port is communicatively coupled with a second data port. In a second state, the first data port is communicatively coupled with a third data port. In a third state, the second data port is communicatively coupled with the third data port. The state of the redundancy switch can be controlled based on a signal received at the control input. The redundancy switch can further include transconductance switching elements that convert a voltage input to a current output.
US08705545B2
A system and method for routing packets. The method includes receiving a first packet from an intermediate network by a first network interface card (NIC) operatively connected to a host, where the first packet originates from a first remote network, where the first NIC is operatively connected to the intermediate network, and where the first packet, the intermediate network, and the first NIC use a first network protocol. The method further includes classifying, by the first NIC, the first packet based on the first remote network, sending the first packet to a first receive ring in the first NIC, sending the first packet from the first receive ring to a first non-global container, and converting the first packet, using a first converter located in the first non-global container, to obtain a first converted packet, where the first converted packet and the first remote network use a second network protocol.
US08705540B2
The network relay apparatus includes: a plurality of distributed processing units configured to receive and send a packet from and to an external device; an integrated processing unit connected with the plurality of distributed processing units; and a mode selector configured to change over a processing mode of the network relay apparatus between a distributed processing mode and an integrated processing mode, based on at least either one of a load applied to the network relay apparatus and a packet type determined according to header information of the received packet.
US08705538B1
Methods and systems are disclosed that relate to selecting a path for sending an I/O request from a host to a data storage subsystem from among a plurality of paths from the host to the subsystem. An exemplary method includes identifying a limitation on the traffic level for the plurality of paths, tracking a first metric corresponding to the limitation on the traffic level for each path, and transmitting a first I/O request having an urgency level other than the highest urgency level by one of the plurality of paths whose first metric does not exceed its limitation on the traffic level.
US08705532B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for selective layer 2 port blocking using layer 2 source addresses are disclosed. According to one method, a layer 2 frame is received. An I/O port block list is identified based on a layer 2 source address in the layer 2 frame. A set of ports to which the layer 2 fame should be forwarded is identified. The frame is blocked from being forwarded to ports in the set that are also in the I/O port block list.
US08705527B1
A system includes an on-board unit (OBU) in communication with an internal subsystem in a vehicle on at least one Ethernet network and a node on a wireless network. A method in one embodiment includes receiving a message on the Ethernet network in the vehicle, encapsulating the message to facilitate translation to Ethernet protocol if the message is not in Ethernet protocol, and transmitting the message in Ethernet protocol to its destination. Certain embodiments include optimizing data transmission over the wireless network using redundancy caches, dictionaries, object contexts databases, speech templates and protocol header templates, and cross layer optimization of data flow from a receiver to a sender over a TCP connection. Certain embodiments also include dynamically identifying and selecting an operating frequency with least interference for data transmission over the wireless network.
US08705518B1
Method and apparatus for providing integrated network and operations control for a converged communications network providing all service types on a common architecture.
US08705516B2
A method for operating a directory assistance system responsive to Voice over IP device requests including receiving a first directory assistance request from at least one Voice over IP device and identifying the requested information on a database. The requested information is formatted in the database in accordance with a format required by the Voice over IP device and is then a notification message is transmitted to indicating its availability. A second request is received from the Voice over IP device for retrieval of the formatted requested information, which is in turn transmitted to the Voice over IP device via the web server.
US08705512B2
A base station apparatus is provided, which includes a generator configured to generate a synchronization signal and a transmitter configured to transmit the generated synchronization signal. The generator is configured to generate a synchronization signal to be mapped on a subcarrier included in one of a plurality of frequency resource candidates that are separated by an interval, which is a common multiple of a determined frequency spacing and a subcarrier spacing between contiguous subcarriers, wherein the subcarrier spacing does not have a value that is a divisor of the determined frequency spacing.
US08705501B2
Aspects are disclosed for self-configuring an access point via a backhaul connection. A backhaul connection is established between an access point base station and a neighboring base station. Information associated with an external neighbor parameter is then received via the backhaul connection, and an internal neighbor parameter is self-configured based on the external neighbor parameter.
US08705499B2
A wireless access router for separately controlling a traffic signal and a control signal is provided. In a mobile communication access network structure, in order to optimally support a mobile communication terminal, a control signal and a traffic signal of a base station are divided, and a router is controlled by mobile communication system functions such as a mobility management function, a QoS management function, a session control of the terminal, a mobility control, and a QoS control function that are effectively processed. With a wireless access router having the divided control signal and traffic signal, it is expected the traffic concentration and a packet transmission delay can be prevented.
US08705489B2
A method and apparatus for controlling an optimization of handover procedures between universal terrestrial radio access (UTRA) release 6 (R6) cells and UTRA release 7 (R7) cells are disclosed. When a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) is moving between an R6 cell and an R7 cell, or between R7 cells, a handover is initiated from a source Node-B to a target Node-B. In the R7 cell, the enhanced medium access control (MAC) functionality including flexible radio link control (RLC) protocol data unit (PDU) size and high speed MAC (MAC-hs) segmentation and multiplexing of different priority queues are supported. After the handover, a MAC layer and/or an RLC layer are reconfigured or reset based on functionality supported by the target Node-B.
US08705487B2
A system, method and computer-readable medium for concurrent support of Voice Call Continuity (VCC) capabilities in both the enterprise space and the carrier space are provided. The enterprise VCC functionality is used when the user is located in the enterprise domain which does not impact the carrier's network while the carrier VCC capability is used when the user is located in the carrier domain to support seamless handover between the wireless networks that the carrier may offer. The carrier VCC anchoring point and the enterprise VCC anchoring point may communicate with each other to confirm and inform the other anchoring point that a call handover is occurring or will occur.
US08705486B2
A wireless terminal receives peer to peer resource control information from a base station. The peer to peer resource control information is used by the wireless terminal in a peer to peer network to control transmission scheduling and/or resource utilization. The base station sends the control signals at a first rate which is slower than the rate at which wireless terminals make transmission decisions for traffic slots. During the intervals between receipt of the base station control signals, wireless terminals make transmission decisions with regard to multiple traffic segments. The decisions are also influenced based on peer to peer signaling occurring between the wireless terminals in the network for each traffic slot. Resource utilization feedback information is provided from the wireless terminal to the base station. Based on the feedback information the base station updates the resource utilization control information and sends updated resource utilization control signals to the wireless terminals.
US08705484B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for varying transmit power patterns in a multi-cell wireless transmission environment. In one embodiment, the method comprises varying transmit power coordination patterns for base stations in the wireless communication system to jointly vary base station power over a set of virtual channels over base stations within a cluster and across clusters of base stations; and jointly transmitting by groups of the base stations to one or more user terminals in their respective clusters based on the transmit power coordination patterns.
US08705479B2
A communications system that includes a transmission data generator configured to generate frequency band information indicating which frequency band is to be used for transmission of data information between said communication apparatuses; a transmitter configured to transmit the frequency band information by using a specific frequency band, set from among a plurality of frequency band assigned to the communications system, to transmit data information using at least one frequency band set from among said plurality of frequency bands; a receiver configured to receive the frequency band information, using the specific frequency band. The frequency band set as said at least one frequency band set from among said plurality of frequency bands, other than the specific frequency band, is made variable, at the time of establishing the wireless channel, the frequency band usable by the communications apparatus is restricted.
US08705473B2
To partially suppress interference to control channels of a pico-cell from a base station apparatus of a macro-cell and enable assignment of user data to a subframe besides the same subframe using a part of control channels with interference suppressed thereto, a base station apparatus disposed in a second system having a system band comprised of a plurality of component carriers for sharing at least a part of a frequency band with a first system having a macro-cell (C2) and covering a pico-cell (C1) is configured to generate a carrier indicator for indicating another component carrier to which user data is assigned besides the same component carrier on a control channel of the component carrier, while indicating another subframe to which user data is assigned besides the same subframe on the downlink control channel.
US08705461B2
A method and apparatus for handling a control channel for carrier aggregation in wireless communications. The method includes determining which component carrier to listen to, detecting the downlink control channel, processing mapping information related to downlink and uplink transmissions and operating discontinuous reception with respect to carrier aggregation. The method also includes detecting a component carrier, determining the component carrier type and locating the anchor component carrier, if necessary, where the anchor component carrier carries the carrier aggregation information.
US08705450B2
A method (200) for discovering paths between source nodes and destination nodes in mesh wireless media (WiMedia) based networks. Each of the discovered paths has sufficient medium time to enable efficient data transfers over the path. The method comprises, upon receiving a route request (RREQ), computing a number of available medium access slots (MAS) of a wireless link between a node receiving the RREQ and a node transmitting the RREQ (S210); computing a number of required MAS to deliver data over the wireless link in an upstream direction (S220); updating a local neighbor link (LNL) list when the number of required MASs is not above the number of available MASs (S240); computing an upper bound value and a lower bound value of a sufficient medium time coefficient (CSMT) (S250); and selecting the path based on at least the upper and lower bound CSMT values (S280).
US08705429B2
The present invention discloses a method, apparatus and system for transmitting a Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service notification message, relates to the wireless communication field, and solves the problem that there is not a MBMS notification message transmission mechanism. The technical scheme of the present invention is: receiving a Radio Resource Control signaling, reading subframe configuration information of the MBMS notification message included in said Radio Resource Control signaling; and using a subframe selection rule corresponding to said subframe configuration information to receive said MBMS notification message. The technical scheme provided by the present invention is suitable for the MBMS service.
US08705414B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting and receiving data in a wireless communication system. The method of transmitting data in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention supports time division duplex (TDD), and a base station transmits data to a terminal through a first sub-frame of a first frame and receives a confirmatory response to the data through a second sub-frame of a second frame. The second frame is determined according to hybrid automatic retransmit request (HARQ) processing latency which is the minimal required time from the reception of the data to the transmission of the confirmatory response by the first frame and the terminal. The second sub-frame is determined according to both the first sub-frame and the numbers of the downlink and uplink sub-frames of the first frame, wherein the downlink and uplink sub-frames are respectively used in the HARQ operation.
US08705412B2
An apparatus and a method for protecting receive circuits in a Time Division Duplexing (TDD) wireless communication system are provided. The receive circuit protecting apparatus includes a TDD controller for controlling transmission and reception modes according to transmission and reception intervals, a transmitter for power-amplifying and outputting a Radio Frequency (RF) signal in the transmission mode under control of the TDD controller, and a Transmit/Receive Antenna Switch (TRAS) for, in the transmission mode, forwarding a signal of the transmitter to an antenna feed line under the control of the TDD controller and for absorbing an output signal of the transmitter flowing to the receive circuits using a reflection structure positioned in a reception path, and, in the reception mode, for forwarding a signal fed from the antenna feed line to the receive circuits under the control of the TDD controller.
US08705401B1
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for validating at least one command. Specifically, the method comprises receiving the at least one command, wherein the at least one command is associated with at least one command source, processing the at least one command for determining at least one network component for which the at least one command is destined, and validating the at least one command according to at least one attribute, wherein the at least one attribute is associated with at least one of the at least one network component, the at least one command source, and the at least one command.
US08705397B2
A method of transmitting signals from a transmitter of a wireless communication system comprises determining each transmission power of a first signal and a second signal; if the difference Y in transmission power between the first signal and the second signal exceeds a predetermined value X, adjusting at least one of the transmission powers of the first signal or the second signal so as not to allow the difference in adjusted transmission power to exceed the predetermined value; and simultaneously transmitting the first signal and the second signal to a receiver using the adjusted transmission power.
US08705393B2
Provided is a data communication method and apparatus based on a sequential response protocol that is applicable to a multiple user multiple input and multiple output (MU-MIMO) system. The data communication apparatus may include response indexes (RIs) with respect to multiple terminals in at least one spatio-temporal stream to be transmitted to the multiple terminals, and the response indexes may be information associated with a transmission sequence of data to be transmitted by the multiple terminals.
US08705392B2
Methods and systems for determining attributes of communication channels of MU-MIMO users in an (OFDMA) system are disclosed. One method includes receiving from a base station, for at least one sub-band of contiguous sub-carriers, an indication of an estimate of or an upper-bound on a total number of streams that are co-scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band. The method further includes determining one or more signal quality measures for the at least one sub-band based on the estimate of or the upper-bound on the total number of streams that are scheduled by the base station on the at least one sub-band in accordance with at least one of single-user scheduling rules or multi-user scheduling rules. In addition, the method includes transmitting to the base station an indication of the one or more signal quality measures and at least one tag identifying each signal quality measure as being determined in accordance with the single-user scheduling rules or the multi-user scheduling rules.
US08705390B2
A method for monitoring of a wireless link quality comprises measuring the link quality of a wireless link (120-XY) between a beacon device (110-X) transmitting a beacon and a beacon device (110-Y) receiving the beacon, wherein the measuring is performed by the receiving device (S320); saving link quality measures in a local neighborhood link quality (LNLQ) table (400) maintained by the receiving device (110-Y) (S330); and advertising the link quality measures of wireless links by transmitting the measures in beacons (S340).
US08705388B2
In an example embodiment, a method for determining backhaul channel assignments for multi-channel dual radio mesh nodes. The method comprises acquiring collision domain data for each access point of an associated mesh network. A cost function is calculated for each access point of the associated mesh network, the cost function assigning a weighted value for each access point in a collision domain based on a number of access points in the collision domain. Backhaul channel assignments for selected for each access point that minimizes the cost function.
US08705383B2
A method and apparatus are described including multicasting a medium reservation message and receiving a response to the medium reservation message. Also described are a method and apparatus including receiving a medium reservation message, determining if a medium is idle and transmitting a response to the medium reservation message responsive to the determination. Further described are a method and apparatus including receiving a medium reservation message, determining if a received network allocation vector in the medium reservation message has a value greater than a current network allocation vector, determining if transmission over a medium during a time interval is detected and resetting the current network allocation vector responsive to the determination of transmission. Yet further described are a method and apparatus including receiving a response to a medium reservation message, determining if a network allocation vector in the response is greater than a current network allocation vector and updating the current network allocation vector responsive to the determination.
US08705382B2
A subscriber station (SS) utilizes uplink resources that have been assigned to it for communicating with an infrastructure station to exchange data with a neighboring SS while maintaining its link to the infrastructure station. This is accomplished by the SS receiving an uplink allocation from the infrastructure station, transmitting a subscriber-to-infrastructure station header and trailer to the infrastructure station using the modulation and coding scheme (MCS) assigned by the infrastructure station and also transmitting a subscriber-to-subscriber (S2S) message payload, optionally using a second MCS level appropriate for the link between itself and the receiving SS. The subscriber to infrastructure station message is composed so that it occupies the first m codewords and contains a header that describes the length of the subscriber to infrastructure station message. The subscriber to infrastructure station message, then, is followed by the S2S message, composed to occupy the remaining symbols of the allocation.
US08705378B2
In a DOCSIS-based communications system, different upstream channel descriptors (UCDs) all identify a single logical upsteam channel identifier (UCID) regardless of the type of cable modem (CM) to which the UCDs are sent. Different CMs having different capabilities (e.g., CMs configured according to the different DOCSIS standards 1.x, 2.0, and 3.0) receive their respective UCDs from an upstream headend. All the UCDs, however, refer to the same logical upstream channel. The different CMs therefore share this single logical upstream channel.
US08705355B1
A first network switch includes a first queue that stores first frames transmitted to the first network switch from a second network switch, and stores second frames transmitted to the first network switch from a third network switch. A first port receives the first and second frames from the first queue, and transmits the first and second frames from the first network switch. A second port receives third frames transmitted to the first network switch from the third network switch, and transmits the third frames from the first network switch. A first control module, based on whether the first queue is filled above a threshold, sends a first message to the third network switch to assert flow control for the second frames and not for the third frames including adjusting a transmission rate of the second frames from the third network switch to the first network switch.
US08705354B2
A node on a core network, in accordance with a connection state of a terminal, releases a transmission path resource which is made unnecessary due to LIPA (Local IP access) or SIPTO (Selected IP traffic offload) connection configuration.
US08705352B2
Prioritized random access methods are proposed. According to an embodiment, random access attempts are classified into the priority levels according to delay requirements, and adedicated random access opportunities are reserved for different priority levels. A congestion detecting mechanism is introduced for such dedicated ranging (random access) opportunities. When congestion is detected by the base station, parameters or configurations of random access can be dynamically or temporarily modified through random access response message. Furthermore, a prioritized contention resolution is introduced to guarantee a high priority access is processed earlier than a low priority access. According to another embodiment, another prioritized contention resolution is introduced to reduce the impact of random access of a low priority M2M device upon H2H traffic.
US08705351B1
Method and system is provided for handling both network traffic and storage traffic to and from a plurality of nodes. The system includes a converged switch module that includes a plurality of ports configured to operate as a part of a group that is managed by a controller and each of the plurality of ports are configurable to process network traffic, storage traffic or a combination of both network traffic and storage traffic to and from a virtual port. The controller selects one of the plurality of ports to operate as a primary port for responding to a solicitation message from one of a plurality of nodes addressed to any of the ports within the group.
US08705350B2
A system is provided for maintaining Quality of Service (“QoS”) parameters of data transmissions. A packet-switched network framework is provided. The network framework includes at least one router for routing the data transmissions over the network framework. The network framework also includes multiple links, including a first link and a second link. The first link forms at least part of a first path over the network framework, and the second link forms at least part of an alternate, second path over the network framework. A link utilization monitor is configured to monitor a link utilization rate of the first link and to determine whether the rate has exceeded a predetermined maximum utilization threshold. The router is configured to reroute data transmissions over the second link when the rate is determined to have exceeded the predetermined maximum utilization threshold.
US08705349B2
A method for communication includes sending communication packets over a network from a first network interface. A notification, which originates from a second network interface and indicates a network congestion encountered by one or more of the packets, is received in the first network interface. A network address of the second network interface is identified based on the notification. A transmission rate of subsequent packets addressed to the network address is regulated responsively to the notification, irrespective of a transport service instance on which the subsequent packets are sent from the first network interface.
US08705348B2
A system and method for facilitating anti-replay protection with multi-sender traffic is disclosed. The system employs time-based anti-replay protection wherein a sender transmits a data packet with a pseudo-timestamp encapsulated in a metadata payload. At the receiving end, the receiver compares the pseudo-timestamp information received with its own pseudo-time, determines if a packet is valid, and rejects a replay packet. The pseudo-time information is transmitted through the metadata payload and new fields need not be added to the IPSec (IP Security) Protocol, thus the existing hardware can be employed without any changes or modifications.
US08705347B2
A method for electing a ring manager of ring topology network and a node are disclosed, where, to this end, a node responsible for electing the ring manager periodically requests each node of diagnostic information on packet traffic and receives the diagnostic information on packet traffic from each node, newly elects a node capable of performing a ring manager role, and informs each node of information on the newly elected ring manager, whereby, the ring network can be more effectively operated because the ring manager is elected based on network load status that changes in real time even in the course of a ring network being initially set up and operated responsive to structural conditions including hop count of each nod and MAC node.
US08705346B2
The present invention discloses a method for detection of Ethernet segment protection, and this method includes: configuring a detection point in two segment protection domains with a shared link; configuring a joint monitor group on the shared link of said two segment protection domains; and judging whether the configured detection point and the joint monitor group receive a Continuity Check Message (CCM) in a certain period, if the CCM message is received, determining a detected segment corresponding to this CCM message is normal; if the CCM message is not received, determining the detected segment corresponding to this CCM message has a fault. The present invention further discloses a system for detection of Ethernet segment protection, including: a detection point configuration unit, a joint monitor group configuration unit and a judgment unit. The method and system of the present invention can solve the problem of the segment protection in the case of the multi-node fault and greatly improve the network performance.
US08705344B2
In one embodiment, detecting a failure mode of a first communication link on a first port, selecting a second communication link on a second port associated with the first port, and transmitting a profile information associated with the second port are provided.
US08705336B2
A system and method are provided that are operable for network communications that promote network devices to receive a transmit request, transmit a first part of a frame by a physical layer without a second part of the frame from a medium access control layer, and request the second part of the frame by the physical layer from the medium access control layer. These systems and methods also allow, in some embodiments, for the transmitting of the second part of the frame by the physical layer with data from the medium access control layer.
US08705323B2
TAR enable write heads may use a plasmonic device (e.g., an optical transducer) which uses electromagnetic energy generated from a laser to heat the magnetic media. However, as the temperature of the plasmonic device rises, the likelihood of stressing the material of the device or other materials of the head near the plasmonic device increases. Accordingly, the write head may include a temperature sensor proximate to the plasmonic device. In one embodiment, the resistance of the temperature sensor may change according to the temperature of the plasmonic device. Based on the measured resistance of the temperature sensor, a sensing circuit may adjust the power of the laser, and thus, prevent the stressing of the materials. Moreover, the thermal coupling between the temperature sensor and a heat sink connected to the plasmonic device may be improved by moving elements associated with the sensing circuit closer to a heat sink.
US08705322B2
A timepiece device with multiple-hand which can be miniaturized and made thin as a whole has a configuration where a hour hand hour wheel positioned close to an hour hand to which a rotation movement of a 3rd motor via an hour hand gear train mechanism and a functional hand hour wheel positioned close to a functional hand to which a rotation movement of a 4th motor via a functional hand gear train mechanism are arranged on a front side of a support plate, and a 4th wheel positioned close to a second hand and a 2nd wheel positioned close to a minute hand are arranged on a rear side of the support plate.
US08705310B2
A method can include storing bank addresses, if received, on at least rising and falling edges of a same clock cycle; and if addresses stored on the rising and falling edges of the same clock cycle correspond to different banks of a memory device, starting accesses to both banks after the falling edge of the clock cycle; wherein any of the banks can be accessed in response to an address stored on a rising edge of a next clock cycle. Devices and additional methods are also disclosed.
US08705299B2
An apparatus has a controller. The controller is configured to address a non-defective memory block of a sequence of memory blocks in place of a defective memory block of the sequence of memory blocks such that the non-defective memory block replaces the defective memory block. The non-defective memory block is a proximate non-defective memory block following the defective memory block in the sequence of memory blocks that is available to replace the defective memory block. The controller is configured to apply a voltage-delay correction to the non-defective memory block that replaces the defective memory block based on the actual location of the non-defective memory block.
US08705292B2
To provide a nonvolatile memory circuit having a novel structure. A first memory circuit, a second memory circuit, a first switch, a second switch, and a phase inverter circuit are included. The first memory circuit includes a first transistor formed using an oxide semiconductor film, a second transistor, a third transistor, and a capacitor. The first transistor formed using an oxide semiconductor film and the capacitor are used to form the nonvolatile memory circuit. Reductions in number of power supply lines and signal lines which are connected to the memory circuit and transistors used in the memory circuit allow a reduction in circuit scale of the nonvolatile memory circuit.
US08705288B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory includes a source line connected to first and second cell units, a cell-source driver setting the source line on a fixed potential in a programming, a data latch circuit temporary storing program data, a hookup circuit connecting one of the first and second bit lines to the data latch circuit, and connecting the other one of the first and second bit lines to the source line, in the programming, a level detection circuit detecting a potential level of the source line, and a control circuit determining a completion of a charge of the first and second bit lines when the potential level of the source line is larger than a threshold value, and making a charge time of the first and second bit lines variable, in the programming.
US08705287B2
A method of operating a semiconductor memory device includes performing a first program operation in order to raise threshold voltages of memory cells, performing a program verification operation for detecting fast program memory cells, each having a threshold voltage risen higher than a first sub-verification voltage from a second sub-verification voltage or lower, by using a target verification voltage and the first sub-verification voltage and the second sub-verification voltage which are sequentially lower than the target verification voltage, and performing a second program operation under a condition that an increment of each of threshold voltages of memory cells, which is lower than the target verification voltage, is greater than an increment of the threshold voltage of each of the fast program memory cells.
US08705283B2
Disclosed herein is a method that comprises applying a first voltage to a memory cell, applying again the first voltage to the memory cell when the memory cell have not been shifted to an erased condition, and applying a second voltage to the memory cell when the memory cell have not still been shifted to an erased condition, the second voltage being higher than the first voltage.
US08705274B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of microelectronics manufacture and memories. A three-dimensional multi-bit non-volatile memory and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The memory comprises a plurality of memory cells constituting a memory array. The memory array may comprise: a gate stack structure; periodically and alternately arranged gate stack regions and channel region spaces; gate dielectric layers for discrete charge storage; periodically arranged channel regions; source doping regions and drain doping regions symmetrically arranged to each other; bit lines led from the source doping regions and the drain doping regions; and word lines led from the gate stack regions. The gate dielectric layers for discrete charge storage can provide physical storage spots to achieve single-bit or multi-bit operations, so as to achieve a high storage density. According to the present disclosure, the localized charge storage characteristic of the charge trapping layer and characteristics such as a longer effective channel length and a higher density of a vertical memory structure are utilized, to provide multiple storage spots in a single memory cell. Therefore, the storage density is improved while good performances such as high speed are ensured.
US08705272B2
A memory system is provided with a processor, a main memory, and a flash memory. Performance of the memory system is improved through achievement of speed-up and high data reliability. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to drive a control program to control the nonvolatile memory device. The control program executes a second access operation for the nonvolatile memory device even before a first access operation to the nonvolatile memory device is completed.
US08705270B2
A semiconductor memory has a first switch circuit and a second switch circuit. The semiconductor memory has a row decoder that controls a voltage of a word line. The semiconductor memory has a first writing circuit including a first signal terminal connected to one end of the first switch circuit to input and output a writing current. The semiconductor memory has a second writing circuit including a second signal terminal connected to a one end of the second switch circuit to input and output the writing current. The semiconductor memory has a select transistor including a control terminal connected to the word line. The semiconductor memory has a resistance change element that is connected in series with the select transistor between the first bit line and the second bit line and varies in resistance value depending on an applied current.
US08705262B1
A stacked memory device for a configurable bandwidth memory interface includes a first number of contact pads arranged in a pattern on a first surface of the memory device and a second number of contact pads arranged in the same pattern on a second surface. Each of the second contact pads may be electrically coupled to a corresponding contact pad on the first surface using a via. When the memory device is oriented in a first orientation and stacked in vertical alignment and electrical connection upon a second memory device having the same pattern of contact pads, each data signal of the memory bus is coupled to a corresponding data signal of both the memory devices. When the memory device is oriented in a second orientation, a given data signal of the memory bus is coupled to the corresponding data signal of only one of the memory devices.
US08705259B2
In one aspect of the present invention, a memory apparatus comprises a plurality of resettable memory cells, a plurality of memory units, and a reset information propagation logic coupled to the resettable memory cells and the memory units. The reset information propagation logic designed to write reset information into a portion of the memory units in response to one of the resettable memory cells having a reset value when one of the memory units is written into.
US08705253B2
A system includes a load and a single-ended primary-inductance converter (SEPIC) power converter configured to provide power to the load. The SEPIC power converter includes a primary side and a secondary side that are electrically isolated by a transformer. The transformer includes a primary coil and a secondary coil. The primary side includes (i) a capacitor coupled to a first end of the primary coil and (ii) an inductor and a switch coupled to a second end of the primary coil. The primary side of the SEPIC power converter could also include a diode coupled between the inductor and the switch, where the diode is coupled to the second end of the primary coil. The capacitor could be configured to transfer energy to the secondary side of the SEPIC power converter through the transformer during valleys associated with a rectified input voltage.
US08705252B2
An off line resonant converter includes a boost storage inductance circuit coupled to a switcher circuit that includes stacked first and second passive switching devices coupled to the boost storage inductance circuit and stacked first and second active bidirectional switching devices coupled to the stacked first and second passive switching devices. The stacked first and second active bidirectional switching devices generate a square wave signal and alternately store energy in and receive energy from the boost storage inductance circuit such that a pulsating current is conducted between the boost storage inductance circuit and the switcher circuit. The pulsating current is bidirectional and flows in a direction responsive to a polarity of the ac input line voltage. A resonant circuit is coupled to an output of the switcher circuit to receive the square wave signal from the switcher circuit to generate an output of the resonant converter.
US08705245B2
A sensor device has a ceramic carrier substrate. At least two conductor tracks are arranged on the carrier substrate. The sensor device has at least one ceramic component that is in the form of a chip and is connected to the conductor tracks in an electrically conductive manner. The at least one ceramic component is mechanically connected to the conductor tracks by means of a screen printing paste which has been burnt in.
US08705242B2
In two systems of three-phase alternating-current inverter devices that drive a motor, power elements on power supply sides of bridge circuits are mounted on unit bases to constitute upper arm units. Power elements on ground sides of the bridge circuits are mounted on unit bases to constitute lower arm units. The upper arm units and the lower arm units are arranged separately on upper surfaces and outside surfaces of heat dissipation blocks of a heat sink. Heats generated by the power elements do not interfere with each other and are emitted to the heat sink, whereby heat dissipation performance of the power elements constituting the bridge circuits is improved.
US08705231B2
An information processing system includes: a main device including first and second engagement portions in a principal surface and a third engagement portion in a surface on the main-device side reverse from the principal surface; and an extension device including a placement portion on which the main device is placed, a first wall portion provided standing on one edge side of the placement portion, a second wall portion facing the first wall portion across the placement portion, a first engaging portion and a second engaging portion formed in the first wall portion, and a third engaging portion formed in the second wall portion. The first engaging portion engages the first engagement portion, the second engaging portion engages the second engagement portion, and the third engaging portion engages the third engagement portion. In the information processing system, the main device can be prevented from being improperly mounted on the extension device.
US08705230B2
A hard disc device including a frame, a hard disc, a pushing rod and a door is provided. The frame has a pair of troughs interior. The hard disc is movably disposed in the frame and leans against the troughs. The pushing rod disposed outside the frame has a first end and a second end. The second end extends along external of the frame. The door has a third end and a fourth end, wherein the fourth end is disposed at the frame, such that the third end rotates relative to the fourth end. The fourth end has a cam leaning against the second end of the rod.
US08705220B2
A surge arrester according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a switching unit connected to a gas-insulated electric equipment in which insulating gas is sealed, and switching a limited voltage of the surge arrester into a limited voltage smaller than a low-temperature critical voltage indicating a withstand voltage generating a dielectric breakdown when the insulating gas is liquefied.
US08705218B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed that operate to boost an electrical potential of a control terminal of a transistor from a signal on an input terminal of the transistor to render a channel in the transistor more conductive. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US08705206B1
A magnetic data storage system according to one embodiment includes a magnetic head adapted to record data according to a shingled magnetic recording (SMR) process. The magnetic head includes a main pole adapted to produce a writing magnetic field, a trailing shield positioned above a trailing side of the main pole, wherein a trailing gap is defined between the trailing shield and the main pole, and a spin torque oscillator (STO) positioned above a first trailing corner of the main pole at an STO-side of the main pole, wherein the trailing gap has a greater length in a film thickness direction near the STO-side of the main pole and a lesser length in the film thickness direction near a second trailing corner of the main pole opposite the first trailing corner in a track width direction of the main pole.
US08705190B2
According to one embodiment, there is provided a method for determining whether a defect on a disk in an apparatus includes head is a recess or a protrusion. The method detects a first defect on the disk using a read element provided in the head. The method detects a second defect on the disk using a head disk interference sensor provided in the head. The method further determines whether a third defect is a recessed defect or a protruding defect based on a ratio between a first width of the first defect in a radial direction on the disk and a second width of the second defect in the radial direction of the disk. The third defect is identified based on the first defect and the second defect.
US08705187B2
A lens apparatus includes a first lens barrel member and a second lens barrel member coupled with the first lens barrel member via a cam mechanism. The first lens barrel member includes a stopper portion and a gear portion. The stopper portion comes into contact with a first contact surface formed in the second lens barrel member, when the first lens barrel member protruding from the second lens barrel member in the optical axis direction receives the external force from a front end side of the first lens barrel member in its protruding direction, to restrict a displacement of the first lens barrel member with respect to the second lens barrel member due to the external force. The gear portion comes into contact with a second contact surface formed in the second lens barrel member to restrict the displacement due to the external force.
US08705180B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side in an optical axis a first lens group having a positive refractive power, a second lens group having a negative refractive power; a third lens group having a negative refractive power, a fourth lens group having a positive refractive power, a fifth lens group having a positive refractive power, and an aperture stop arranged between the third lens group and the fourth lens group, an interval between the first lens group and the second lens group being increased, an interval between the second lens group and the third lens group being varied, an interval between the third lens group and the fourth lens group being decreased, and an interval between the fourth lens group and the fifth lens group being decreased when changing a magnification from a wide-angle end to a telephoto end.
US08705167B2
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure a system for compensating for polarization dependent loss experienced by an optical signal comprises an optical amplifier configured to amplify an optical signal and having a polarization dependent gain (PDG). The system also comprises a polarization rotator coupled to the amplifier and configured to rotate the polarization of the optical signal before the signal enters the amplifier. The system also comprises a polarization dependent loss (PDL) controller coupled to the amplifier and the rotator. The PDL controller may be configured to determine a post-amplifier PDL of the optical signal as the signal leaves the optical amplifier. The PDL controller may also be configured to control the rotator to rotate the polarization of the optical signal based on the post-amplifier PDL, such that the PDG of the amplifier compensates for the PDL experienced by the optical signal.
US08705163B2
Reflective systems include one or more reflective elements that have a plurality of rotatable elements embedded between a first layer that is bonded to a second layer. The rotatable elements have a first and a second portion that are separated by a reflective plane. An alignment mechanism causes the rotatable elements to move into a desired position.
US08705162B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for controlling transitions in an optically switchable device. In one aspect, a controller for a tintable window may include a processor, an input for receiving output signals from sensors, and instructions for causing the processor to determine a level of tint of the tintable window, and an output for controlling the level of tint in the tintable window. The instructions may include a relationship between the received output signals and the level of tint, with the relationship employing output signals from an exterior photosensor, an interior photosensor, an occupancy sensor, an exterior temperature sensor, and a transmissivity sensor. In some instances, the controller may receive output signals over a network and/or be interfaced with a network, and in some instances, the controller may be a standalone controller that is not interfaced with a network.
US08705150B2
An image reading apparatus according to the present invention comprises an image reading unit arranged on a conveying path of a first medium and reading an image on the first medium, a conveying unit conveying the first medium and a second medium to the image reading unit, a width of the second medium being smaller than the first medium, and guide portions guiding the second medium introduced from a discharge port along the conveying path.
US08705148B2
A multi-function printer having a compact size and portable configuration while providing printing, scanning and copying functionalities is disclosed herein. The multi-function printer includes a printer assembly and a scanner assembly configured to cooperatively utilize the same pick and paper movement systems along a common feed or paper path to perform these printing, scanning and copying functions. Thus, the disclosed multi-function printer may require a less complex paper movement and control system which, in turn, reduces the printer's overall weight while increasing its flexibility and/or portability.
US08705145B2
Systems and methods resume capture of a base image from an object by a mobile scanner operated by a user. An indication of an overlap area on a base image displayed within a computer display is received. A scan image is received from the mobile scanner positioned on the object at a location corresponding to the overlap area. A match between a segment of the scan image and a corresponding segment of the base image is determined, where the match defines a location and orientation of the mobile scanner relative to the base image. An indication that the scan has resumed is made to the user when the match is found, and images that are subsequently received from the mobile scanner are stitched to the base image based upon the determined location and orientation. The partially formed base image and the scanner image are concurrently displayed to the user.
US08705138B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus including a print head adapted to form an image on a recording medium, a transport path for the recording medium, the transport path being provided on at least one of a feed side and a discharge side of the recording medium with respect to the print head, an image reading device provided on the transport path, the image reading device being adapted to read an image formed by the print head, a correction chart provided opposite the image reading device with the transport path interposed in between, the correction chart being read by the image reading device in order to correct a reading result of the image reading device, based on information obtained from reading the correction chart, and a distance adjustment device adapted to increase or decrease the distance between the correction chart and the image reading device.
US08705133B2
A display system and method of producing images with high dynamic range are provided. The display system employs multiple light valves for projecting a portion of the image onto another.
US08705127B2
An image processing apparatus includes a setting unit and a correcting unit. The setting unit sets a gloss level of an image to be formed by forming plural toner images using a transparent toner and plural color toners having different colors and by fixing the plural toner images onto a recording medium in such a manner that the plural toner images are placed on top of one another on the recording medium. The correcting unit corrects image data defining density values per pixel of the toner images formed using the plural color toners of the respective colors so that a total density value that is a sum of a density value per pixel of the toner image formed using the transparent toner and density values per pixel of the toner images formed using the plural color toners of the respective colors may not exceed a predetermined threshold.
US08705123B2
An image forming apparatus including an attribute-value-information holding unit that holds an attribute-value table showing correspondence between a type of gradation processing and a fixing-temperature control attribute value; an image-formation-attribute processing unit that determines a type of gradation processing and a corresponding fixing-temperature control attribute value on the basis of contents of a print instruction and the attribute-value table; a gradation processing unit that performs gradation processing in accordance with the type of gradation processing determined by the image-formation-attribute processing unit; and a fixing-temperature control unit that controls fixing temperature in formation of a print image according to the fixing-temperature control attribute value determined by the image-formation-attribute processing unit.
US08705121B2
The systems and methods presented herein provide for the testing of calibration processing within a print controller. In one embodiment, a method provides for testing a printer calibration module. The method includes simulating an optical density response of the printer to generate a plurality of optical density curves for the printer and determining spectral reflectance values for corresponding optical density values in the optical density curves. The method also includes processing the spectral reflectance values via the printer calibration module to generate a calibration output. The method also includes analyzing the calibration output to determine accuracy of the printer calibration module.
US08705115B1
An inverse transfer function is computed from a forward transfer function of an image rendering device. During the computation, device-dependent values are extrapolated for border nodes. The extrapolated values are out-of-gamut.
US08705103B2
An image processing system includes an image forming apparatus and first and second image processing servers connected to the image forming apparatus via a network, the first image processing server includes: a first image processor which performs a first image processing operation on target image data received from the image forming apparatus; and a protected area calculator which calculates a protected area to be prohibited from being processed next, which is related to the area processed by the first image processor, and generates image protection information including information of the protected area, and the second image processing server includes a second image processor which performs a second image processing operation on the areas excluding the protected area whose information is included in the image protection information generated by the protected area calculator.
US08705098B2
Disclosed is an image forming system including a series tandem configuration in which a plurality of image forming apparatuses are linked and the plurality of image forming apparatuses each form an image of a different printing face to perform a job, the system including: a storage section which is provided in each of the image forming apparatuses and which stores job data and image data regarding all pages of the job; and a control section which is provided in each of the image forming apparatuses, and which reads out job data and image data of an already performed job from the storage section, and performs control of performing the job again based on the read out job data and image data.
US08705096B2
Disclosed is an image forming apparatus including a plurality of components, a display section to display information of the components, a storage section to store replacing person information of the components and a control section to make the information of the components which are displayed in the display section be different according to the replacing person information of the components.
US08705086B2
A scanner, an image forming apparatus including the same, an image processing method of the scanner and a printing method of the image forming apparatus. The image processing method includes acquiring an environment image, acquiring a main scan image by scanning a document on a flatbed, and extracting a document image from the main scan image using the environment image when the document is scanned with the cover in an open position.
US08705071B2
A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes performing an exact comparison between a first bitmap and a second bitmap, calculating a number of miscompared pixels that occurred during the comparison and calculating a quantity value representing a characteristic of the miscompared pixels.
US08705065B2
An image scanning system includes (1) an image scanning device, which includes an input unit configured to acquire an instruction by a user, an image scanner configured to scan an image and generate image data and a transmitting unit configured to transmit the image data; (2) a display lock judging unit configured to judge whether a display lock is necessary based on whether a predetermined instruction is acquired by the input unit; and (3) a data processing device which includes a first reception unit configured to receive the image data transmitted by the transmitting unit of the image scanning device, a first display unit configured to display the image data received by the first reception unit and a display control unit configured to control the first display unit so as not to display the image data if the display lock judging unit judges that the display lock is necessary.
US08705061B2
A multi-function printer (MFP) is provided, which includes a user interface, a storage unit, a network module and a control module. The user interface is served as an input interface and a display interface of the MFP. The storage unit stores address information and at least one really simple syndication (RSS) message of at least one subscription website on the Internet. The network module enables the MFP to have network connectivity. The control module is served as an operation core of the MFP, and has a built-in RSS reader. The control module is periodically connected to the subscription website through the network module according to the address information of the subscription website, and reads the at least one RSS message of the subscription website through the RSS reader for storing into the storage unit and further displaying the at least one stored RSS message on the user interface.
US08705056B2
A method for generating a hardcopy document, including: receiving, by a printer, a direct print request for an Office Open XML (OOXML) document having a plurality of pages; identifying, by the printer, a tag in the OOXML document specifying a multiple page printing feature (MPPF) for the plurality of pages, where the tag is located within a settings.xml file of the OOXML document; identifying, by the printer, a first printer setting required to implement the MPPF; invoking, by the printer, the first printer setting on the printer; and generating, by the printer and from the OOXML document, the hardcopy document with the MPPF feature after invoking the first printer setting.
US08705053B2
Attachment of a USB memory is sensed and whether the USB memory can be recognized or not is determined based on data information output from the USB memory. When the USB memory cannot be recognized, an emulation transition screen is displayed. Thereafter, when an instruction to start transition to an emulation mode is given, an emulation mode transition instruction signal and an IP address of an MFP on a network are output. Receiving the input of the emulation mode transition instruction signal, an emulation mode start-up/end unit starts up the emulation mode.
US08705047B2
An optical imaging system includes an optical radiation source, a frequency clock module outputting frequency clock signals, an optical interferometer, a data acquisition (DAQ) device triggered by the frequency clock signals, and a computer to perform multi-dimensional optical imaging of the samples. The frequency clock signals are processed by software or hardware to produce a record containing frequency-time relationship of the optical radiation source to externally clock the sampling process of the DAQ device. The system may employ over-sampling and various digital signal processing methods to improve image quality. The system further includes multiple stages of routers connecting the light source with a plurality of interferometers and a DAQ system externally clocked by frequency clock signals to perform high-speed multi-channel optical imaging of samples.
US08705036B2
The invention relates to a method and device for determining the static and/or dynamic scattering of light. In the method, a plurality of different zones within a sample vessel (6) is illuminated during various time periods, wherein light is scattered on the sample. The scattered light is detected by means of a plurality of detectors (11, 12, 13, 14), wherein during the implementation of the method each detector captures scattered light from a plurality of different zones, and during a time period each detector detects scattered light from one zone and generates a signal. Said signals are transmitted to an electronic evaluation unit and are processed by said unit, wherein in each case those signals which are generated by the same detector and result from the detection of scattered light from the same zone are processed together.
US08705024B2
Measurement cannot be made when trying to measure a wavefront aberration of a wide-angle lens, being wide in a field of view, comparing to a focus distance, by a Shack-Hartmann sensor, since an inclination of the wavefront exceeds an allowable value of inclination of the Shack-Hartmann sensor. The Shack-Hartmann sensor is inclined at a position of a pupil of a lens, and is controlled so that it lies within the allowable value mentioned above. Photographing is made through step & repeat while overlapping at the same position, to compose in such a manner that overlapping spots are piled up, and thereby measuring the wavefront aberration of the lens having a large pupil diameter.
US08705005B2
A microlithographic illumination system can include a light distribution device that can generate a two-dimensional intensity distribution in a first illumination plane. A first raster array of optical raster elements can generates a raster array of secondary light sources. A device with an additional optical effect can be disposed spatially adjacent to the two raster arrays. The device can be configured as an illumination angle variation device. The device can influence the intensity and/or the phase and/or the beam direction of the illumination light. The influence can be such that an intensity contribution of raster elements to the total illumination intensity can vary across the illumination field. This can enable the illumination intensity to be influenced across the illumination field in a defined manner with respect to the total illumination intensity and/or with respect to the intensity contributions from different directions of illumination.
US08704993B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first insulation substrate, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines disposed on the first insulation substrate, a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines, a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the plurality of thin film transistors, a second insulation substrate disposed substantially opposite to the first insulation substrate; a plurality of column spacers disposed between the first and second insulation substrates and which supports the first and second insulation substrates, a light blocking member disposed on the first insulation substrate and including a sheet portion which includes an opening, a height controlling member disposed at the opening of the sheet portion of the light blocking member, where the plurality of column spacers is disposed on the height controlling member or the light blocking member.
US08704992B2
An electro-optic device includes: an electro-optic panel; a first flexible printed circuit; a second flexible printed circuit; and a conductive section. Each of the first flexible printed circuit and the second flexible printed circuit has a structure in which a reference potential layer and a signal potential layer are laminated after being insulated from each other, the reference potential layer applying a reference potential to the electro-optic panel, the signal potential layer applying a signal potential to the electro-optic panel, and the first flexible printed circuit and the second flexible printed circuit each having an opening in which a part of the reference potential layer is exposed. The conductive section electrically connects the part exposed in the opening of the reference potential layer in the first flexible printed circuit and the part exposed in the opening of the reference potential layer in the second flexible printed circuit to each other.
US08704976B2
A method for the control of a liquid crystal display that includes a matrix of pixels arranged in crossed lines and columns. A switching of state of the liquid crystal molecules, is controlled by application of an electrical control signal between two electrodes (50, 52) framing each pixel, generates a flow according to a particular direction (18), characterized in that, to control the switching of at least some of the pixels (P). The method includes applying to at least one neighboring pixel (58), according to the direction of flow, of a pixel (P) whose switching is controlled by the electrical control signal, auxiliary electrical signals whose amplitude is less than the anchorage breaking voltage and whose rising or falling edges are temporally placed in advance or in coincidence with the active falling edge of the electrical control signal, to favor the switching of the said pixel to be controlled (P).
US08704972B2
A connector for a light source module includes a body portion and a terminal portion. The body portion includes a first opening portion and a second opening portion. The first opening portion receives a portion of the light source module. The second opening portion receives a portion of a light source driver which drives the light source module. The terminal portion includes a first terminal and a second terminal. The first terminal is in the first opening portion of the body portion. The second terminal is connected to the first terminal. The second terminal is in the second opening portion of the body portion.
US08704971B2
In a method for manufacturing a liquid crystal display device in which a liquid crystal layer is formed by dropping liquid crystal by a dropping method, a surface of a sealant which is formed over a first substrate is cured by a first cure treatment before dropping the liquid crystal, and then the liquid crystal is dropped. A second substrate has a plurality of projections in a sealant adhesive region. The first substrate and the second substrate are attached to each other with the liquid crystal interposed therebetween so that the plurality of projections is in contact with an uncured region in the sealant formed over the first substrate.
US08704960B2
A deployment system for user interface devices with enhanced interface capabilities and methods for manufacturing and using same. The deployment system includes a main rotating joint system and a device mounting assembly that are coupled via an extension support system. The main rotating joint system enables the deployment system to be installed at any suitable installation location, such as an armrest; whereas, the device mounting assembly is configured to receive a selected user interface device. Advantageously, the deployment system provides an enlarged internal channel for accommodating larger communication cables and a progressive clutch system for supporting the increased weight of the user interface devices. The deployment system thereby can maintain near-constant tension during deployment of the user interface devices, inhibiting drop injuries to users and damage to the user interface devices.
US08704958B2
An image display device and method may be provided for pairing with a remote control device for transmitting a command to the image display device. Upon power-on, the image display device may be paired with the remote control device. When the image display device is power-on, a guide screen may be displayed to indicate how to pair the image display device with the remote control device. A user may easily pair the remote control device with the image display device through the pairing guide screen.
US08704957B2
The present invention discloses an apparatus a television apparatus capable of showing, on a screen, a menu screen and an input switching screen instead of an image display screen, while being capable of changing setting data through a remote controller operation, comprising: an operation history recording unit configured to record operation instructions to the television apparatus as the items of an operation history; and a unit for returning from erroneous operation configured to be started up by the panic key mounted on the remote controller and perform a return movement from erroneous operations so as to return the setting of the television apparatus to the state corresponding to the item of the operation history recorded before the panic key operation by the operation history recording unit.
US08704956B2
An apparatus for transmitting broadcasting content including a control signal in a broadcasting network, the apparatus includes: a modulator configured to modulate broadcasting content by a predetermined modulation method; a control signal generator configured to generate a control signal for remote control of infrastructure; an adder configured to add the control signal to the modulated broadcasting content; and a DTV transmitter configured to convert the added signal to a DTV broadcasting signal and transmit the DTV broadcasting signal.
US08704949B2
Disclosed herein is a video processing apparatus for performing video processing compatible with a dual link progressive scheme, said video processing apparatus including: two video processing circuits; and a control section.
US08704947B2
A wireless audio-video (AV) transmission module is to be disposed in an AV source device. The AV source device includes an AV source unit for generating an AV signal. The wireless AV transmission module includes a video scaler unit and a wireless transmission unit. The video scaler unit is to be coupled electrically to the AV source unit, upscales a video signal of the AV signal from the AV source unit, and outputs an upscaled AV signal including the upscaled video signal. The wireless transmission unit is coupled electrically to the video scaler unit and wirelessly transmits the upscaled AV signal that includes the upscaled video signal.
US08704937B2
An imaging optical system, an imaging device, and a digital apparatus have a four lens construction with positive, negative, positive, and negative refractive powers. A surface position at the maximum effective diameter of the second lens element is located on the object side than a surface vertex thereof. The fourth lens element has an inflection point at a position other than the intersection of the optical axis and the fourth lens element. The optical system satisfies the following conditions. 0.7
US08704935B2
An imaging system may include an array of lenses, each of which is aligned over a respective one of a plurality of imaging pixels. The array of lenses may be formed in two layers. The first layer may include a first set of non-adjacent lenses and centering structures between the first lenses. The centering structures may be aligned with the first set of lenses as part of a mask design with a high level of accuracy. The second layer may include a second set of lenses, each of which is formed on a respective one of the centering structures. Forming the second set of lenses may include a reflow process in which surface tension forces center the second set of lenses on their respective centering structures, thereby aligning the second set of lenses with the first set of lenses with a high level of accuracy.
US08704931B2
An apparatus and method to generate a thumbnail image in a moving image photographing mode, and storing the generated thumbnail image are disclosed. The apparatus to photograph the thumbnail image generates a thumbnail image at intervals of a predetermined time simultaneously with photographing the moving image. In addition, the apparatus selects a thumbnail image to be preserved and a thumbnail image to deleted from among generated thumbnail images in such a manner that the number of generated thumbnail images does not exceed a predetermined number, thereby limiting the number of generated thumbnail images.
US08704930B2
This image display apparatus includes a display unit that displays at least an image, an operation input unit that is divided into a plurality of areas, predetermined operations being assigned to the respective areas, and a control unit that displays an operation manual screen on the display unit for a predetermined time when a full-screen display process starts, that presents content of the operations assigned to the respective areas of the operation input unit by the screen, and that performs control to perform, when one of the areas is pressed, the operation assigned to the area.
US08704928B2
Disclosed are a pixel, a pixel array, an image sensor including the pixel array and a method for operating the image sensor. The pixel includes a photo-electro conversion unit; a capacitor for storing charges converted by the photo-electro conversion unit; an output switching device for outputting an electric potential of the capacitor; and a removal unit for removing a part of the charges converted by the photo-electro conversion unit.
US08704925B2
Solid-state image sensing elements p and q arranged on an image sensor at a higher density than other solid-state image sensing elements are configured so that the focus error amount due to the axial chromatic aberration of an imaging lens between the solid-state image sensing elements p and q is equal to or larger than an amount corresponding to the depth of focus in a maximum aperture. Also, the imaging lens has a f-number which allows the focus error amount to fall within the range between the two ends of the depth of focus.
US08704921B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: photodiodes formed for pixels arranged on a light sensing surface of a semiconductor substrate; a signal reading unit formed on the semiconductor substrate to read a signal charge or a voltage; an insulating film formed on the semiconductor substrate and including optical waveguides; color filters formed on the insulating film; and on-chip lenses formed on the color filters. The first and second pixel combinations are alternately arranged both in the horizontal and vertical directions, the first pixel combination having a layout in which two green pixels are arranged both in the horizontal and vertical directions and a total of four pixels are arranged, the second pixel combination having a layout in which two pixels are arranged both in the horizontal and vertical directions, a total of four pixels are arranged, and two red pixels and two blue pixels are arranged cater cornered.
US08704897B1
Various systems and methods are provided to implement a flexible approach to the remote control of camera systems. For example, camera systems and related methods may be implemented to recognize a protocol that supports a multi-tiered configuration of camera system components. In one example, routing tables may be maintained at various tiers of a camera system to facilitate the selective routing or execution of commands at different tiers in a hierarchical manner. In one example, the routing tables may be dynamically built and may include routing information related to lower level tiers but not higher level tiers.
US08704892B2
An electronic mirror includes a first display section, a second display sections and a half mirror disposed between the display sections. The first display section displays a surrounding image captured by an imaging device in a display region. The second display section displays a frame image that has a shape taken along an outer periphery of the display region. A distance between the first display section and a point of the half mirror is greater than a distance between the second display section and the point the half mirror so that the frame image is offset relative to the outer periphery of the surrounding image when viewed in the half mirror.
US08704882B2
To overcome problems with vergence, a binocular head mounted display (HMD) is used in a simulator in which an out-the-window scene is displayed in real time on a screen arrangement. Imagery for the left and right eyes of the HMD is derived by generating a starting HMD image for a Cyclops viewpoint between the user's eves, and then rendering respective views for each eve from the position of the eye in a virtual 3D model of the screen arrangement, wherein the starting HMD image is frustum projected against the screen arrangement of the 3D model.
US08704878B2
An image display apparatus for displaying an image of an object on a screen by using a projector includes a three-dimensional image display unit having a plurality of screens overlaid but spaced apart from one another, each of the screens diffusing and reflecting part of the light incident thereon and transmitting the remainder of the light, and an image projection unit having a plurality of projectors, each of the projectors is assigned to the corresponding one of the screens and projects an image of the object on the screen. The image projection unit displays a three-dimensional image of the object in the three-dimensional image display unit by projecting on the screens the shapes of the object in sectioning positions corresponding to the positions of the screens.
US08704874B2
A method for transmitting a three-dimensional (3D) caption signal and caption display method are disclosed to three-dimensionally display caption text such that it fits a 3D image in a 3D display device. 3D caption box configuration information and caption text are generated to display a 3D caption within a 3D image, and the 3D caption box configuration information and the caption text are inserted into a video picture header region to code the image signal, and then, the image signal is transmitted. In the caption display method, a broadcast signal including a 3D image signal is received, and 3D caption box configuration information and caption text included in the broadcast signal are acquired. A caption image including 3D caption text disposed within a 3D caption box is then generated based on the 3D caption box configuration information and the caption text, and displayed.
US08704871B2
One or more horizontal stripes are defined in a continuous presence video conferencing image, comprising one or more segments of the video image. The horizontal stripes may have different heights. A horizontal stripe builder associated with a continuous presence videoconferencing port composes and compresses the horizontal stripe from two or more video images received from a plurality of endpoints of the video conferencing system. A continuous presence image stream generator organizes compressed horizontal strips into a plurality of compressed continuous presence video streams for sending toward sites of the video conferencing system.
US08704870B2
System and method for performing a videoconference. The videoconference may be established between at least three videoconferencing locations. Each videoconferencing location may include respective pluralities of displays, video inputs, and videoconferencing units. A first videoconferencing unit at a first videoconferencing location may receive an indication that there is an active talker at the first videoconferencing location. An indication that there is an active talker at the first videoconferencing location may also be provided to a second videoconferencing unit at the first videoconferencing location. The first and second videoconferencing units may provide signals to corresponding videoconferencing units at second and third videoconferencing locations indicating that videoconferencing signals from the first videoconferencing location should be displayed. The second and third videoconferencing locations may switch to display videoconferencing signals from the first videoconferencing location based on the signals which indicate that videoconferencing signals from the first videoconferencing location should be displayed.
US08704869B2
A videoconferencing system which encodes different streams of information. The information may include video, audio, speech recognized versions of the audio, and language translated versions of the audio. Text may be sent as part of the videoconference.
US08704855B1
A force measurement system having a displaceable force measurement assembly includes: a force measurement assembly with a surface configured to receive a subject, and having at least one force transducer; at least one actuator operatively coupled to the force measurement assembly, the at least one actuator configured to displace the force measurement assembly; at least one visual display device having an output screen, the at least one visual display device configured to display one or more virtual reality scenes on the output screen so as to create a simulated environment for the subject; and one or more data processing devices operatively coupled to the force measurement assembly, the at least one actuator, and the at least one visual display device. In one or more embodiments, a method for testing a subject disposed on a displaceable force measurement assembly is further disclosed.
US08704848B2
A transform model is established by the calibration system for color transformation between a first color space and a second color space. Three first target curves are defined and transformed by the transform model so as to establish three look-up tables. The display is calibrated according to the three look-up tables such that the color temperature of the display may be substantially constant for every gray-level.
US08704844B2
In embodiments of power saving field sequential color (FSC), an illumination source illuminates pixels of a displayable image by sequentially generating RGB (red, green, blue) components of a pixel in a timed sequence of field sequential color. The pixels of a displayable image may also include a white component derived from the RGB components. An illumination reduction algorithm is implemented to determine the highest RGB (or RGBW) components from any of the pixels of the displayable image. The highest RGB (or RGBW) components can be determined from any combination of the same or different pixels of the displayable image. The illumination reduction algorithm then divides each of the highest RGB (or RGBW) components by a maximum brightness value to generate respective RGB (or RGBW) component factors. A display controller then processes each pixel of the displayable image for display according to the RGB (or RGBW) component factors.
US08704839B2
A sink device having a display panel capable of performing a video frame self-refresh as directed by a source device is described. A source determines that a video frame will persist (i.e., remain the same). In this situation, the frame data does not need to be repeatedly transmitted over a main link between the source and sink devices. The main link can be turned off and transmission can cease for a certain time thereby reducing power usage by the devices or system as a whole. The source ensures that the last frame transmitted to the sink is correct by performing CRC checks and then instructs the sink, via certain bit settings in a video status indication symbol, to store the last transmitted frame in the sink's local buffer and use that frame to refresh the panel. The source can then disable the self-refresh when the frame changes.
US08704836B1
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for parallel distribution of primitives to multiple rasterizers. Multiple, independent geometry units perform geometry processing concurrently on different graphics primitives. A primitive distribution scheme delivers primitives from the multiple geometry units concurrently to multiple rasterizers at rates of multiple primitives per clock. The multiple, independent rasterizer units perform rasterization concurrently on one or more graphics primitives, enabling the rendering of multiple primitives per system clock.
US08704834B2
A method for synchronizing an input data stream with an output data stream in a video processor. The method includes receiving an input data stream and receiving an output data stream, wherein the input data stream and the output data stream each comprise a plurality of pixels. The method further includes sequentially storing pixels of the input data stream using an input buffer and sequentially storing pixels of the output data stream using an output buffer. Timing information is determined by examining the input data stream and the output data stream. A synchronization adjustment is applied to the input buffer and the output buffer in accordance with the timing information. Pixels are output from the input buffer and the output buffer to produce a synchronized mixed video output stream.
US08704828B1
A model is associated with a deep pose. When the model is changed from an attractor pose to a current pose, the current pose and the attractor pose are compared with the deep pose. If any portion of the current pose is more similar to the deep pose than the attractor pose, then the attractor pose is updated. A portion of the attractor pose may be set to the corresponding portion of the current pose. The attractor pose may be modified by a function. Pose attributes of each pose degrees of freedom for the attractor pose, the current pose, and the deep pose may be evaluated to potentially modify all or a portion of the attractor pose. The attractor pose and pose constraints are used to determine a pose of the model, for example by an optimization process based on the attractor pose while satisfying pose constraints.
US08704823B1
An interactive multi-mesh modeling system allows users to employ a variety of modeling techniques to interactively create objects for a variety of different tasks or tools. Some of these different tasks or tools can have requirements for computer-generated representations of objects on which they operate. These requirements may differ from how some computer-generated representations were originally created (e.g., 3D solid objects output using solid modeling techniques vs. 2D flat “panel constructed” objects required for some computer simulations). Thus, the interactive multi-mesh modeling system may further employ a variety of techniques for taking a source computer-generated representation of an object and providing the automatic creation, management, and maintenance of instances or versions of the source. The interactive multi-mesh modeling system may further employ a variety of techniques for the automatic management and transfer of information defined thereon or associated with these meshes.
US08704819B2
There is provided a display device capable of displaying an image that barely changes with low power consumption on the basis of video data included in a transmitted command, and there is also provided a method for driving the same. A display timing controller (31) determines every frame period whether or not an externally transmitted command includes updated video data. As a result, when it is determined that no updated video data is included, screen refreshing is paused by not reading video data stored in frame memory (36). Moreover, when it is determined that updated video data is included, the screen refreshing is performed by reading video data stored in the frame memory (36).
US08704817B2
A driving control apparatus and method for use with a display array are provided. The display array comprises a plurality of pixel areas arranged in an array configuration. The driving control apparatus comprises a system control circuit and a drive circuit. The system control circuit is adapted to detect an activation signal and determine an enabling period after the detection. The drive circuit is adapted to control the activation of the display array. The drive circuit comprises a plurality of scan lines and data lines. During the enabling period, each of the scan lines activates part of the pixel areas while each of the data lines transmit a voltage to the activated pixel area so that at least a part of the activated pixels corresponds to a predetermined luminance. The driving control method comprises steps for implementing the driving control apparatus.
US08704812B2
A light sensing circuit, a method of controlling the same, and a touch panel including the light sensing circuit. In the method of controlling the light sensing circuit, including sensing light incident on a photodiode, generating current corresponding to the brightness of the sensed light, amplifying the current using a driving transistor, and outputting the amplified current, the ambient temperature is sensed, and a time period during which the light is sensed by the photodiode or the amplified current is output is controlled by the sensed ambient temperature. Thus, the sensitivity of the light sensing circuit may be constantly maintained without being influenced by the ambient temperature.
US08704811B2
The present invention provides an active matrix image display apparatus including an organic EL element capable of efficiently arranging a wiring pattern on an insulating substrate compared to the related art. The present invention provides a dummy region arranged at the outermost periphery of a display unit as a scanning line coupling region or a pitch conversion region. A power supply scanning line is commonly used by a pixel circuit of an odd-numbered line and a pixel circuit of a following even-numbered line.
US08704810B2
There is provided a decoder in which a matrix of transistors, a plurality of reference voltage signal lines arranged on a first interconnect layer and extended in a row direction, being separated to one another over the matrix, and a plurality of reference voltage signal lines arranged on a second interconnect layer and extended in the row direction, being separated to one another over the matrix. The reference voltage signal lines on the mutually different layers are respectively connected to impurity diffusion layers of the transistors that are adjacent in the row direction. The reference voltage signal lines on the mutually different layers are respectively connected to the impurity diffusion layers of the transistors that are adjacent in a column direction.
US08704804B2
A display apparatus and display method are provided. The display apparatus capable of displaying an image and receiving light simultaneously or alternately, the display apparatus including: a plurality of display devices laid out to form a matrix; a plurality of light receiving devices for receiving light hitting a display screen; a received-light image generation unit for generating image data representing the state of a substance brought into contact with the display screen or brought to a position in close proximity to the display screen; an image processing/evaluating unit for evaluating the position and size of a substance as well as evaluating changes in the position and in the size; and a command determination unit for recognizing a command entered by an operator. In the display apparatus, predetermined processing according to a command recognized by the command determination unit is carried out.
US08704801B2
A touch display apparatus including a light guide plate, a light emitting module, a display panel, a plurality of prism structures, an image transmission unit, and an image detector is provided. The light guide plate has a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a light incident surface connecting the first surface and the second surface. The light emitting module includes at least one visible light source and at least one invisible light source. The prism structures are disposed between the first surface and the display panel. The image transmission unit includes a wedge portion and a light guide portion. The wedge portion is disposed between the prism structures and the display panel. The image detector is disposed beside the light guide portion for receiving the invisible light beam from the light guide portion. A backlight module is also provided.
US08704784B2
A liquid crystal display (LCD) with a built-in touch screen includes: a first substrate including a pixel area having a plurality of pixels and a sensor area having a plurality of photosensors; a second substrate positioned over the first substrate, and including a color filter, a light receiving portion, a transparent electrode layer, and a front polarizing plate; an LCD panel including a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first and second substrates; and a touch screen driver circuit to sense a capacitance variation provided through a first sensing line connected to the transparent electrode layer when an object is in contact with the LCD panel, and to output position information of the object, sensed by using optical information sensed through a second sensing line connected the plurality of photosensors when the capacitance variation is greater than or equal to a predetermined threshold value.
US08704782B2
An electronic device, a method for viewing a desktop thereof, and a computer-readable medium are provided. One of n continuous areas of the desktop and a navigation bar are displayed in a touch screen of the electronic device. The navigation bar includes an indicator and n indexes, wherein the n indexes are respectively corresponding to the n areas, and the indicator points to the index corresponding to the area currently displayed in the touch screen. When a sliding operation applied to the indicator is detected on the navigation bar, the desktop and the indicator are moved according to the sliding operation. When the sliding operation terminates, an index closest to the indicator is selected from the n indexes as a target index. Finally, the indicator is controlled to point to the target index, and a target area corresponding to the target index is displayed in the touch screen.
US08704781B2
An information processing apparatus includes a first touch panel, a second touch panel, a touch sensor, and a controller. The first touch panel displays an object and detects a first touch operation of a user on the object. The second touch panel detects a second touch operation of the user. The touch sensor is provided between the first touch panel and the second touch panel and detects a third touch operation of the user. The controller moves the object displayed on the first touch panel in accordance with the first touch operation, and displays the object on the second touch panel when the third touch operation is detected within a first time period since the first touch operation has become undetected and the second touch operation is detected within a second time period since the third touch operation is detected.
US08704779B2
Two different sets of electrodes in a touch sensitive device are formed to produce an electric field gradient from one end of the electrodes to the other end when opposite ends of the electrodes are driven with different voltages. A signal measuring cycle is performed by alternately driving the ends of one set of electrodes, while using the other set of electrodes to receive signals. The roles of the sets of electrodes are then reversed, such that the set that that was driven is now used to receive signals from the other set of electrodes. Reference signals may be obtained by driving both sides of one set of electrodes, and then both sides of the other set of electrodes. The signals obtained are then used to determine the touch position on the touch sensitive device.
US08704776B2
A mobile terminal is presented. The mobile terminal includes a touchscreen for displaying an object, an output unit for outputting a vibration when the object is selected and moved along a display area of the touchscreen, and a control unit for controlling a characteristic of the vibration according to at least one of an attribute of the object, an attribute of the display area, or a combination thereof.
US08704775B2
In some embodiments, a touchscreen may display a graphical user interface with one or more input options and may detect which input options are selected by a user by detecting a user's contact on the touchscreen. The system may determine a new graphical user interface configuration to increase the size and/or spacing of the input options. In some embodiments, one or more of the input options may be removed to increase the space available to increase the size of the other input options. In some embodiments, the system may maintain a history of input option use to determine which input options to remove. In some embodiments, the new graphical user interface configuration may include smaller (and/or additional) input options (e.g., if the contact areas are detected as consistently within the displayed input options).
US08704761B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which an input method editor receives input in a first writing system and presents input candidates in the first writing system or a second writing system. In one implementation, a method is provided. The method includes receiving input in a first writing system; presenting the input in the first writing system in a first interface element of an interface as content input; automatically identifying one or more candidates in a second writing system based on the input in the first writing system; and presenting the one or more candidates in the second writing system in a second interface element that is separate from the first interface element.
US08704756B2
A method for driving a display cell filled with an electrophoretic fluid comprising two types of pigment particles carrying opposite charge polarities and of two contrast colors wherein said two types of pigment particles are dispersed in a solvent of a color, which method comprises driving said display cell to a color state which color is the color of the solvent by applying a driving voltage which is about 1 to about 20% of the full driving voltage.
US08704755B2
An electrophoretic display includes a display area where images are displayed, and an edge area around the display area and where a single color is displayed. The display area includes a plurality of display pixels which include gate lines on a first substrate, data lines intersecting the gate lines, thin film transistors connected to the gate lines and data lines, display pixel electrodes on the first substrate and connected to the thin film transistors, a common electrode on a second substrate and facing the first substrate, and an electronic ink layer between the display pixel electrodes and the common electrode The edge area includes a plurality of edge pixels which include edge pixel electrodes in a same shape as the display pixel electrodes.
US08704751B2
A system for powering and controlling an LED-backlit liquid crystal display (LCD) where redundancy is used to provide two independent paths from a pair of power supplies to the LED backlight. Further, two independent paths are also used from a pair of power supplies to the LCD. If any one of the paths were to fail or begin to degrade in performance, the system contains monitoring circuits which can direct another path to be used by the system. Two separate control circuits for the LCD may be used so that either one may be used to control the LCD if one were to fail. Two separate temperature sensors and luminance sensors may also be used to increase the durability of the system.
US08704750B2
A control apparatus for controlling a three-dimensional (3D) display apparatus includes: an image processing unit to receive an image source signal and convert the image source signal to an interval signal. The interval signal is defined as a first timing interval and a second timing interval. A backlight control device, coupled to the image processing unit, receives the interval signal and generates a plurality of backlight control signals according to the interval signal. A backlight device, coupled to the backlight control device, receives the plurality of backlight control signals and provides a lighting source to a display device during the first timing interval and/or the second timing interval according to the plurality of backlight control signals.
US08704749B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel which receives a light, a backlight which provides the light to the display panel in response to a driving voltage, and a backlight driver which applies the driving voltage to the backlight. The backlight is turned on and off during a communication period to transmit data to an external receiver using visible light communication during the communication period. The backlight driver controls a voltage level of the driving voltage according to a number of turn-on periods of the driving voltage during the communication period.
US08704746B2
A line-on-glass liquid crystal display device includes data lines for supplying data signals to drive sub-pixel units on a substrate, gate lines for supplying gate signals, and a gate low voltage stabilization circuit connected to a gate low voltage line from a data printed circuit board for applying a gate low voltage signal to the sub-pixel units.
US08704736B2
A display device capable of obtaining a constant luminance without being influenced by temperature change is provided as well as a method of driving the display device. A current mirror circuit composed of a first transistor and a second transistor is provided in each pixel. The first transistor and second transistor of the current mirror circuit are connected such that their drain currents are kept almost equal irrespective of the level of load resistance. By controlling the OLED drive current using the current mirror circuit, a change in OLED drive current due to fluctuation in characteristics between transistors is avoided and a constant luminance is obtained without being influenced by temperature change.
US08704710B2
Techniques for watching a location of a device with respect to a destination target include obtaining a current location of a device from a localization operation, calculating an interval, and performing a next localization operation after the interval has expired. The interval may be calculated based on a velocity and a distance from the current location to a destination target. The techniques may also include calculating a displacement distance from the current location and adjusting the interval based on the displacement distance to thereby adjust a time for performing the next localization operation. The techniques may include performing state detection to determine a motion state of the device and performing the next localization operation based on the determined motion state.
US08704706B2
According to one embodiment, a radar return signal processing apparatus includes a detector, an estimation unit and an extraction unit. The detector detects an average Doppler frequency, a spectrum width, and a received power of each of echoes, from a radar return signal obtained repeatedly at regular intervals. The estimation unit estimates an optimum mixed density function by learning modeling a shaped of the frequency spectrum by calculating repeatedly a sum of density functions of each of the echoes. The extraction unit extracts information on any one of the echoes included in the radar return signal, from a parameter of the estimated mixed density function.
US08704703B2
Methods and systems for post processing synchronization of bistatic radar data are disclosed. A transmitter is configured to transmit pulses at a first rate controlled by a first local oscillator. A receiver is configured to receive pulses at a second rate controlled by a second oscillator. A processing device is configured to synchronize, with respect to the first rate, in-phase quadrature data received from the receiver using a keystone formatting technique.
US08704699B2
A dipole based decoy system provides an inexpensive alternative to chaff. A non-conductive filament patterned with lengths of conductive material that form dipole antennas at one or more radar frequencies is stored on the air vehicle and attached to a projectile. In response to a RWR warning, a programmed time or location or a time-to-target, a mechanism releases the projectile(s) to deploy the filament with its dipole antennas at a speed greater than or equal to the speed of the air vehicle to present an extended target or a separate false target to enemy radar. The projectile is either towed behind the air vehicle or launched away from the air vehicle. Either approach is effective to overcome Doppler and moving range gating by presenting coherent signal returns and ranges and velocities consistent with the air vehicle during a threat interval posed by the radar defense systems.
US08704691B2
A track-and-hold circuit comprises at least first and second amplifier stages, and switched capacitor circuitry coupled between the first and second amplifier stages. In a track mode of operation of the track-and-hold circuit, the switched capacitor circuitry is configured to decouple inputs of the second amplifier stage from respective outputs of the first amplifier stage and to couple the inputs of the second amplifier stage to a common mode voltage via respective first and second capacitors. In a hold mode of operation of the track-and-hold circuit, the switched capacitor circuitry is configured to couple the inputs of the second amplifier stage to the respective outputs of the first amplifier stage via the respective first and second capacitors. Multiple instances of the track-and-hold circuit may be implemented in parallel in a time-interleaved analog-to-digital converter.
US08704686B1
A mechanism is provided in a data processing system for pipelined compression of multi-byte frames. The mechanism combines a current cycle of data in an input data stream with at least a portion of a next cycle of data in the input data stream to form a frame of data. The mechanism identifies a plurality of matches in a plurality of dictionary memories. Each match matches a portion of a given substring in the frame of data. The mechanism identifies a subset of matches from the plurality of matches that provides a best coverage of the current cycle of data. The mechanism encodes the frame of data into an encoded output data stream.
US08704679B2
A packet processing framework is provided for a vehicle-to-vehicle communication packet processing system. The framework includes a neighborhood vehicle tracking module for tracking neighboring vehicles relative to a host vehicle. The neighborhood vehicle tracking module assigns a priority level of neighboring vehicles relative to a host vehicle. An adaptive security processing module regulates messages streamed to the neighboring vehicle tracker module that are in accordance with the priorities set forth by the neighborhood vehicle tracking module. The adaptive security processing module selects security modes and schedules messages streamed to the neighborhood vehicle tracking module as a function of priorities set forth by the neighborhood vehicle tracking module, a communication reliability of the transmitting neighboring vehicle, and a likelihood that a message from the neighboring vehicle is genuine as determined by the adaptive security processing module. The neighborhood vehicle tracking module outputs processed kinematics and alert information to at least one vehicle-to-vehicle application.
US08704671B2
An electromechanical toilet leak detector comprises first and second enclosure portions. An adhesive structure disposed on the second enclosure portion, the adhesive structure in use for being removably adhered to the porcelain outer surface of a flush toilet. One of the first and second enclosure portions includes a groove that mates with a lip provided by the other of the first and second enclosure portions to provide a substantially water-resistant seal therebetween. A vibration sensing transducer disposed between the first and second enclosure portions generates a signal responsive to vibration generated by the toilet due to water inflow turbulence.
US08704669B2
A computer-implemented method includes registering at least one medical condition associated with a vehicle occupant. The method also includes monitoring environmental conditions for the onset of a trigger likely to cause complications with regards to the medical condition. The method further includes warning the vehicle occupant about the onset of the trigger. The method also includes adjusting a vehicle component or system, via the VCS, in response to the onset of the trigger.
US08704665B2
An electronic article surveillance (EAS) tag incorporates alternative theft deterrence systems. The security tag incorporates both a benefit-denial ink-based system and two independent EAS detection elements operating at two different frequencies such that the tag can alternatively be operated in two different systems. The security tag is further adapted to be reusable after ink ampoule breakage and includes a visual indication of ink to serve as a further visual deterrence to shoplifters.
US08704663B2
A work direction determining device includes a passive tag type IC tag secured at a predetermined position on the front surface thereof. The IC tag includes a substrate, an IC module and an antenna coil disposed on the substrate in an offset manner. The device includes an antenna communicating with the IC tag, and a determination circuit. Where the work and the direction determining device are located at respective predetermined communication positions, communication is done between the antenna of the direction determining device and the antenna coil of the IC tag, and the magnitude of communication intensity during the communication is determined by the determination circuit to thereby determine a direction of the work.
US08704662B2
A system and method for monitoring a structure and for distinguishing between an alarm condition, and a nuisance event such as rain. An optical fibre sensor (20,22) produces a signal indicative of a disturbance and level crossing rates are determined to distinguish between noise in the signal (nuisance event) and a required event. A FFT technique is also disclosed as well as classification of an event by extracting predetermined features from the signal.
US08704660B2
A smartcard or other media that detects the presence of chemical and/or biological compounds or other items of interest on individuals handling by using chemical-selective devices. These chemical-selective devices can include non-linear (e.g., diode and/or transistor) and/or time non-linear (e.g., controlled resistor) electrical components and can indicate exposure to an item of interest through a change in one or more electrical characteristics. The exposure of the chemical-selective devices to items of interest is stored such that, when the smartcard or other media is presented to a card reader, the detection data can be transmitted to the card reader for appropriate processing by the system.
US08704659B2
A method of analyzing participant activity includes providing an identification unit to a participant, receiving signals from the identification unit, determining location of the participant based on the received signals, storing the location information and the associated timestamp and analyzing the stored information.
US08704658B2
A satellite aided location tracking and data services with user interface. A graphical user interface is provided that enables users to monitor the status of movable assets. Detailed information in a position history enables the user to obtain status information (e.g., starts and stops) at each position report. This status information promotes visibility into the journey of each movable asset.
US08704657B2
A method for reminding objects being away, a communication device and a computer readable medium using the same method are proposed. The proposed method is adapted to the communication device, and includes the following steps. Location information of the communication device is recorded. A connection between the communication device and a specified object is established. A safety zone of the specified object is configured according to a user configuration signal. It is determined whether the specified object is away from the communication device, which is carried by the user. It is further determined whether the specified object is not in the safety zone. When the specified object is determined to be away from the communication device and is not in the safety zone, an alarm signal is provided to the user.
US08704655B2
An approach for providing presence-based communication over a cellular network for a dwelling is described. A notification message is received over a wireless network to a mobile device associated with a user, wherein the notification message indicates generation of a presence indication signal by a device within a premise of the user. A registration status of the mobile device with the notification service is determined. The notification message is forwarded to the mobile device based on the registration status.
US08704651B2
A system, apparatus, and method are provided for controlling equipment operable by a plurality of operators. A control state evaluation device is configured to evaluate a control state of an equipment control. A signal detection device is configured to detect if a signal associated with an operator of the equipment control is present. A process controller is configured to activate a first equipment function if the signal from the equipment control is present, and is configured to activate a second equipment function if the signal is not present.
US08704647B2
Disclosed is a haptic feedback case for electronic equipment, including: a main body configured to accommodate the electronic equipment; a communication unit configured to receive haptic generation information from the electronic equipment; a filmy type actuator configured to generate haptic sensations; and a control unit configured to operate the film type actuator according to the haptic generation information input from the communication unit.
US08704633B2
A method of preventing fraud at a self-service terminal is described. The method comprises: receiving a signal from an electromagnetic sensor located in the vicinity of an electromagnetic signal transmitter; monitoring a drive signal being delivered to the electromagnetic signal transmitter; and comparing the drive signal with the electromagnetic sensor signal. The method then ascertains if a state of the electromagnetic sensor signal is inconsistent with a state of the drive signal; and triggers an alarm when the state of the electromagnetic sensor signal is inconsistent with a state of the drive signal.
US08704630B2
In one or more embodiments, an intelligent communications device is disclosed. In one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed for controlling the operations of temperature-sensitive electronic devices in an enclosure, based on a requisite temperature range. The apparatus includes a main circuit board with a plurality of secondary circuit board connectors that are operative to connect secondary circuit boards to the main circuit board. The apparatus also includes one or more temperature sensors that are operative to sense temperature within the enclosure, and one or more selectively actuatable heating elements that are mounted to the main circuit board in proximity to the plurality of secondary circuit board connectors. Each heating element is operative to emit heat when actuated. The apparatus further includes a programmable processor that is programmed to cause the temperature sensors to sense the temperature within the enclosure and, if the sensed temperature is above or below the requisite temperature range, selectively actuate or shut down at least one of the heating elements.
US08704620B2
A linear actuator includes a drive arm and an extension arm each extending along a common drive axis. One of the arms has a plurality of resiliently deformable fingers extending beyond the end of the arm towards the other arm. At least one of the fingers has a thread on its inner face while the other arm has a threaded portion. At least part of the threaded portion is received between the fingers. The fingers are adapted to urge the threads of the two arms into interengagement such that rotation of the drive arm about the drive axis displaces the extension arm along the drive axis. The two threads are arranged such that when the ridge of one thread is received in the groove of the other thread the two sides of the ridge abut the two edges of the mouth of the groove.
US08704614B2
A cavity filter includes a base member defining therein a resonant chamber, an antenna port disposed at the center of the resonant chamber, two signal input/output ports respectively disposed at two distal ends of the resonant chamber for signal input/output, a cover member covering the base member, two feedback channels disposed in the base member at two opposite lateral sides relative to the resonant chamber and respectively connected between the signal ports and the antenna port, and wave-absorbing components respectively mounted in the feedback channels for removing surge waves from feedback frequency components in the feedback channels.
US08704605B1
A resonant element driver circuit includes a NMOS transistor and a PMOS transistor that are configured to drive a resonant element. The resonant element driver circuit includes biasing circuitry that is configured to bias the PMOS transistor. The biasing circuitry receives a reference signal that is used to set the biasing on the PMOS transistor. The resonant element driver further includes mirror circuitry that tracks current flowing through the NMOS and PMOS transistors.
US08704597B2
Apparatus are provided for amplifier circuits and related receiver systems. An amplifier circuit includes a first common-source amplification stage and a second common-source amplification stage. The input of the second common-source amplification stage is coupled to the output of the first common-source amplification stage such that the first common-source amplification stage generates a first amplified signal, and the second common-source amplification stage generates a second amplified signal based on the first amplified signal. The first common-source amplification stage is coupled to a first node and the second common-source amplification stage is coupled to a second node, wherein the common-source amplification stages are configured such that a current between the first node and the second node flows in series through the common-source amplification stages.
US08704592B2
A traveling wave amplifier (TWA) primarily for driving a semiconductor optical device is disclosed. The TWA of an embodiment provides a plurality of differential amplifiers of the first type and an additional differential amplifier of the second type, where are they are connected between the input and the output of the TWA. The differential amplifiers of the first type provide a first delay from the input to the output, while, the differential amplifier of the second type provide a second delay longer than the first delay between the input and the output of the TWA.
US08704581B2
A switched capacitor circuit employs a single operational amplifier to implement both an integrator and a summer. One input signal is routed to the input of the operational amplifier through (1) one or more integration branches, and (2) one or more first summing branches. A second input signal is routed to the input of the operational amplifier through one or more second summing branches. Each of the branches includes a capacitor and a number of switches controlled by different clock phases. The switched capacitor circuit may be single-ended or differential. The circuit may be used in an access terminal of a cellular communication system. The access terminal may operate under a code division multiple access (CDMA) communication standard.
US08704579B2
A level shifting circuit includes a first circuit, a second circuit and an output voltage controlling circuit. The first circuit is coupled to an input node, an output node and a first supply voltage node and configured to pull an output voltage at the output node toward the first supply voltage in accordance with an input voltage applied to the input node. The second circuit is coupled to the first circuit, the output node and the second supply voltage node and configured to pull the output voltage toward the second supply voltage in accordance with the input voltage from the first circuit. The output voltage controlling circuit is coupled to the output node and configured to control the output voltage within a range narrower than a range from the first voltage to the second voltage.
US08704578B2
A P-channel MOS transistor MP1 is provided between an input voltage Vin and the low-voltage circuit. The cathode of a first zener diode Z1 is connected to a node between the input voltage Vin and the source of the P-channel MOS transistor MP1. The anode of the first zener diode Z1 is branched into two lines at a branch node N1, and one of the two lines is connected to a ground through a resistor R1. The other of the two lines is connected to the gate of the P-channel MOS transistor MP1. The cathode of a second zener diode Z2 is connected to a node between the low-voltage circuit and the drain of the P-channel MOS transistor MP1. The anode of the second zener diode Z2 is connected to a ground.
US08704577B2
A clock mesh network synthesis method is proposed which enables clock gating on the local sub-trees of the clock mesh network in order to reduce the clock power dissipation. Clock gating is performed with a register clustering strategy that considers both i) the similarity of switching activities between registers in a local area and ii) the timing slack on every local data path of the design area. The method encapsulates the efficient implementation of the gated local trees and activity driven register clustering with timing slack awareness for clock mesh synthesis. With gated local tree and activity driven register clustering, the switching capacitance on the mesh network can be reduced by 22% with limited skew degradation. The method has two synthesis modes as low power mode and high performance mode to serve different design purposes.
US08704576B1
A wide bandwidth resonant clock distribution comprises a clock grid configured to distribute a clock signal to a plurality of components of an integrated circuit, at least one inductor, at least one tunable resistance switch, and a capacitor network. The inductor, tunable resistance switch, and capacitor network are connected between the clock grid and a reference voltage. The at least one tunable resistance switch is programmable to dynamically switch the at least one inductor in or out of the clock distribution to effect at least one resonant mode of operation or a non-resonant mode of operation based on a frequency of the clock signal.
US08704572B2
A method and circuit for implementing low duty cycle distortion and low power differential to single ended level shifter, and a design structure on which the subject circuit resides are provided. The circuit includes an input differential amplifier providing positive and negative differential amplifier output signals coupled to an output amplifier providing a single ended output signal. The output amplifier amplifies and inverts the negative differential amplifier output signal. The output amplifier amplifies and superimposes the positive differential amplifier output signal with the amplified and inverted negative differential amplifier output signal, providing the single ended output signal with low duty cycle distortion.
US08704568B1
A delay locked loop (DLL) includes a delay line that delays a clock signal to generate a delayed clock signal, a phase frequency detector (PFD) for detecting a phase and/or frequency difference between the clock signal and the delayed clock signal, and a charge pump having an adjustable bias current for converting the phase and/or frequency difference taking into account a bias current adjustment into a control voltage, in which the control voltage controls an amount of delay in the delayed clock signal.
US08704566B2
Phase locked loop (PLL) architectures are provided such as hybrid PLL architectures having separate digital integrating control paths and analog proportional control paths. An analog proportional control path can be implemented with a charge pump circuit that includes resistors in series with CMOS switches to generate control currents (e.g., Up/Down control currents) which are used to adjust a control voltage applied to a digitally controlled oscillator. A digital integrating control path can be implemented with a series of sigma-delta modulators that operate at different frequencies to convert higher bit data signals to lower bit data signals along the digital integrating control path. A single phase frequency detector may be implemented to generate control signals that separately control the analog proportional and digital integrating control paths.
US08704559B2
A method and system for synchronizing the output signal phase of a plurality of frequency divider circuits in a local-oscillator (LO) or clock signal path is disclosed. The LO path includes a plurality of frequency divider circuits and a LO buffer for receiving a LO signal coupled to the plurality of frequency divider circuits. The method and system comprise adding offset voltage and setting predetermined state to each of the frequency divider circuits; and enabling the frequency divider circuits. The method and system includes enabling the LO buffer to provide the LO signal to the frequency divider circuits after they have been enabled. When the LO signal drives each of the frequency divider circuits, each of the frequency divider circuits starts an operation. Finally the method and system comprise removing the offset voltage from each of the frequency divider circuits to allow them to effectively drive other circuits.
US08704556B2
A drive circuit supplies a charging current via a charging path to drive the control terminal of a voltage-controlled switching device, with a resistor and a switching device being connected in series in the charging path. A control circuit in an integrated circuit of the drive circuit operates an internal switching device such as to selectively enable/interrupt the charging current and to regulate the voltage drop across the resistor to a fixed value. The switching device connected in the charging path can be readily changed from the internal switching device to an external switching device, in accordance with the operating requirements of the driven switching device.
US08704549B1
Programmable integrated circuits with configurable logic circuitry and routing resources are provided. Portions of the routing resources on a programmable integrated circuit may be used in implementing a desired user-specified custom logic function, whereas other portions of the routing resources on the programmable integrated circuit may be unused. The unused routing resources may include adjacent pairs of routing paths. These paths may be coupled to control circuitry configured to drive the routing paths to desired voltage levels to provide an optimal amount of decoupling capacitance. In one suitable arrangement, two adjacent routing paths may both be driven to a positive power supply voltage level. In another suitable arrangement, the two adjacent routing paths may be driven to the positive power supply voltage level and a ground power supply voltage level, respectively.
US08704546B2
A method of manufacturing a silicon carbide (SiC) bipolar junction transistor (BJT) and a SiC BJT are provided. The SiC BJT comprises an emitter region, a base region and a collector region. The collector region is arranged on a substrate having an off-axis orientation of about 4 degrees or lower. Further, a defect termination layer (DTL) is arranged between the substrate and the collector region. A thickness and a doping level of the DTL are configured to terminate basal plane dislocations in the DTL and reduce the growth of defects from the DTL to the collector region. At least some of the embodiments are advantageous in that SiC BJTs with improved stability are provided. Further, a method of evaluating the degradation performance of a SiC BJT is provided.
US08704545B2
A device and method of determining the electrical properties of an electrical device, including taking of at least one measurement of an electrical measured quantity at one or more brought-out electrical connections of each of several equipotential bodies of the electrical device, wherein measurement of the electrical measured quantity of certain equipotential bodies on at least one other brought-out electrical connection of the equipotential body concerned is not performed if a defect, which if appropriate is to be detected, of the relevant equipotential body in the area of this other connection, influences the electrical measured quantity more strongly than a tolerance of the measurement of this measured quantity.
US08704537B2
The present approach is based on the use of an integrated capacitance bridge circuit to measure the capacitance of a device under test. A significant feature of this approach is that the operating point is not the null point of the bridge circuit. Instead, the operating point of the bridge circuit is tuned to be away from the null point. By moving away from the null point, the output signal from the bridge circuit is increased. Preferably, this output signal is substantially larger than the input noise floor of an amplifier connected to the bridge circuit output, while being substantially less than GνDUT, where G is the gain provided by the bridge circuit transistor and νDUT is the AC signal applied to the device under test. Experiments on graphene devices and on carbon nanotube FETs demonstrate about 10 aF resolution (graphene) and about 13 aF resolution (carbon nanotube FET) at room temperature.
US08704532B2
A system for determining power supply noise in an integrated circuit includes a circuit system comprising a circuit element and a power delivery network, the power delivery network comprising at least one impedance, a channel formed by input and output portions of the circuit element, the channel having the impedance of the power delivery network, a signal source for providing an aggressor signal having a known spectrum to the input portion of the circuit element, and an analysis device for measuring the aggressor signal at the output portion of the circuit element, whereby the aggressor signal at the output portion of the circuit element is influenced by the impedance of the power delivery network and indicates power supply noise.
US08704524B2
An apparatus and method for conducting resistivity logging in a borehole. The apparatus may include a housing configured for fluid isolation, an electrical conductor penetrating the housing and a sealing interface. The apparatus may also include at least one of: an electrical component inside the housing and an electrode disposed on the exterior of the housing. The apparatus is configured to allow the electrical conductor to be moved, while maintaining the sealing interface, between an electrically connected state and an electrically disconnected state with at least one of: the electrical component and the electrode. The method may include using the apparatus for resistivity logging operations.
US08704517B2
This invention relates generally to detection devices having one or more small wells each surrounded by, or in close proximity to, an NMR micro coil, each well containing a liquid sample with magnetic nanoparticles that self-assemble or disperse in the presence of a target analyte, thereby altering the measured NMR properties of the liquid sample. The device may be used, for example, as a portable unit for point of care diagnosis and/or field use, or the device may be implanted for continuous or intermittent monitoring of one or more biological species of interest in a patient.
US08704508B2
Method in which the current is measured inside an integrated PWM control circuit using at least one A/D converter which is likewise integrated in the circuit is described. The PWM controller is provided for the purpose of driving inductive loads and is arranged, in particular, in an electronic circuit of an electronic controller for a motor vehicle braking system. Before determining the actual current of the PWM controller, which is determined using the at least one A/D converter, the current is smoothed using a low-pass filter. A circuit arrangement for carrying out the above method and its use in electronic motor vehicle control systems is also described herein.
US08704505B2
A switching power source apparatus includes a high-side MOSFET 11 connected to an input voltage Vin, a ramp signal generator 18 to generate a ramp signal in synchronization with a switching frequency of the high-side MOSFET 11, an amplitude signal generator (second feedback controller 2) to generate an amplitude signal Comp corresponding to an amplitude of the ramp signal, and a controller 1 to control ON timing of the high-side MOSFET 11 according to the ramp signal, a feedback signal FB corresponding to an output voltage Vout, and a first reference voltage REF, as well as controlling an ON width of the high-side MOSFET 11 according to the amplitude signal Comp, the input voltage Vin, and the output voltage Vout.
US08704491B2
Provided is a battery pack capable of reducing the number of terminals of a battery protection IC. When a battery (15) enters an overdischarge state, a temperature switch IC (12) included in a battery pack (10) monitors a voltage of a voltage monitoring terminal (VM2) provided to an external connection terminal (EB−), rather than a voltage of a terminal of the battery protection IC (11) for use in communication with the temperature switch IC (12), and then shuts down. Therefore, the battery protection IC (11) included in the battery pack (10) does not require an additional terminal for use in communication with the temperature switch IC (12).
US08704488B2
A battery pack and a method of controlling the same is disclosed. The battery pack determines a cell deviation after the battery pack is fully charged or over-discharged, and thus the battery pack can reduce the cell deviation by performing cell balancing.
US08704485B1
A battery pack system is disclosed. The battery pack system includes a plurality of battery pack modules that are each configured to be concurrently and removably attached to a base. Each battery pack module includes batteries arranged in a plurality of parallel groups that are connected in series. Each parallel group includes a plurality of batteries connected in parallel. Additionally or alternately, the base has electronics that connect the battery pack modules in a plurality of system parallel groups that are connected in series. Each system parallel group includes a plurality of battery pack modules connected in parallel.
US08704480B2
Synchronous motors are controlled using a three-phase AC power controller. According to at least one embodiment of the invention, a fundamental wave having the desired frequency is defined for the first phase, and corresponding fundamental waves which have the same frequency as the frequency in the first phase but are out of phase by specific values are defined in the other phases. The triggering times during which the generated current pulse concurrently has the same polarity as the respective fundamental wave in two of the phases are determined for each phase and are used. Two of the three fundamental waves are generated in phase opposition when the desired frequency amounts to half the system frequency.
US08704478B2
A motor-drive circuit includes: a filter circuit to attenuate a frequency band including a resonance frequency of an actuator in a target-current signal, which is a digital signal indicating a target value of a driving current to be supplied to a voice-coil motor that drives the actuator; a digital-analog converter to convert an output signal of the filter circuit into an analog signal, to be outputted as a current-control signal; and a driving circuit to supply the driving current to the motor in accordance with the current-control signal, the filter circuit including: a digital-notch filter to attenuate a frequency band around the resonance frequency in the target-current signal; and a digital-low-pass filter to attenuate a frequency band greater than or equal to a predetermined frequency in the output signal of the digital-notch filter, the digital-low-pass filter having a sampling frequency higher than a sampling frequency of the digital-notch filter.
US08704477B2
A method of controlling a fan in a vehicle comprising: measuring a control input signal; measuring a continuous applied voltage to the fan; comparing the continuous applied voltage to a look up table; and activating the fan when the control input signal is open and the continuous applied voltage is greater than a system voltage by about 0.5 volts.
US08704472B2
An AC electric motor includes an annular A-phase winding WA wound in the circumferential direction of a stator, a stator pole group SPGA configured to generate magnetic flux φA to interlink with the A-phase winding WA, an annular B-phase winding WB wound in the circumferential direction, and a stator pole group SPGB configured to generate magnetic flux φB to interlink with the B-phase winding WB. The motor additionally includes a third stator pole group SPGC, N and S magnetic poles of the rotor, and X magnetic poles, which serve as third rotor poles, showing magnetic characteristics between the N and S magnetic poles of the rotor. DC currents are supplied to the A-phase and B-phase windings WA and WB to generate rotational torque.
US08704459B2
A dimmer switch for controlling the intensity of a dimmable screw-in compact fluorescent lamp provides smooth dimming of the fluorescent lamp and prevents flickering of the lamp due to multiple re-strikes. The dimmer switch prevents multiple re-strikes by avoiding multiple firings of a controllably conductive switching device of the dimmer circuit by limiting the high-end light intensity of the fluorescent lamp. Specifically, the dimmer switch limits the length of a conduction interval of the controllably conductive switching device to less than approximately 75% of each half-cycle. The dimmer switch may include a user-accessible adjustment actuator for changing the dimmer switch between an incandescent operating mode and a screw-in compact fluorescent mode. The dimmer switch may also be operable to automatically change the dimmer switch between the incandescent operating mode and the screw-in compact fluorescent mode by detecting the occurrence of the multiple firings of the controllably conductive switching device.
US08704455B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a transformer comprising a primary side and a secondary side. A switch is coupled to the primary side. A control signal circuit is configured to: sample a first current on the primary side of the transformer; estimate a second current value on the secondary side of the transformer using the sampling of the first current on the primary side and a turn ratio of the transformer; and output a signal to control a turn on time for the switch.
US08704450B2
The invention provides integrated power supplies, circuit drivers, and control methods for relatively high-current drivers, usable with common battery power sources. Preferred embodiments include one or more high series resistance super-capacitors electrically connected with a power. A low resistance driver circuit regulates power supplied from the super-capacitors to the load.
US08704445B2
A method for improving the uniformity of high-frequency discharge plasma by means of frequency modulation is disclosed. In a plasma discharge chamber, there is a pair of parallel electrodes. A high-frequency power supply is adopted to feed the electrodes. The frequency range of the electromagnetic field is 13.56 MHz˜160 MHz. Discharge gas is input to form plasma. The frequency of the fed-in high-frequency electromagnetic field is under automatic tuning control, and keeps changing cyclically without stop in the course of plasma discharge. The range of the frequency change may fall into either a portion of or the entire range of 13.56 MHz˜160 MHz and makes the locations with higher plasma density on the plane in parallel with the electrodes and in the plasma discharge space changed cyclically. In a time slot longer than one frequency change cycle, the average plasma density between the parallel electrodes is uniform.
US08704444B2
A Hall effect plasma thruster including an annular discharge channel around a main axis presenting an open downstream end and defined between an inner wall and an outer wall, at least one cathode, a magnetic circuit for creating a magnetic field in the channel, a pipe for feeding ionizable gas to the channel, an anode, and a manifold placed in the upstream end of the channel. The manifold is connected to the pipe and enables the ionizable gas to flow into the ionization zone of the channel in concentric manner around the main axis. The anode acts as a manifold, and the manifold includes a directional mechanism that gives rise at an outlet from the manifold to swirling motion of the gas around the main axis.
US08704442B2
A light emitting diode (LED) bulb configured to scatter certain wavelengths of light. The LED bulb includes a base having threads, a bulb shell, at least one LED, and a plurality of particles disposed within the bulb shell. The plurality of particles has a first and second set of particles. The first set of particles is configured to scatter short wavelength components of light emitted from the at least one LED and has particles with an effective diameter that is a fraction of the dominant wavelength of the light emitted from the at least one LED. The second set of particles is configured to scatter light emitted from the at least one LED, and has particles with an effective diameter equal to or greater than the dominant wavelength of the light emitted from the at least one LED.
US08704440B2
There is herein described a phosphor composition for converting the light emitted from LED dies. The phosphor composition has an emission dominant wavelength responsive to an excitation dominant wavelength. The phosphor composition includes a first phosphor, a second phosphor and a third phosphor. The phosphor composition has a first weight ratio of the first phosphor and the second phosphor, and a second weight ratio of the second phosphor and the third phosphor. The first and second weight ratios are arranged so that the emission dominant wavelength increases as the excitation dominant wavelength increases.
US08704429B2
Provided is a lead-free dielectric ceramics having a low leakage current value, and a bismuth iron oxide powder as a raw material thereof. The bismuth iron oxide powder includes at least: (A) grains including a bismuth iron oxide having a perovskite-type crystal structure; (B) grains including a bismuth iron oxide having a crystal structure classified to a space group Pbam; and (C) grains including a bismuth iron oxide or a bismuth oxide having a crystal structure that is classified to a space group I23. The dielectric ceramics are made of bismuth iron oxide in which the bismuth iron oxide crystals having the crystal structure classified to the space group Pbam are distributed at a grain boundary of crystal grains of the bismuth iron oxide crystals having the perovskite-type crystal structure.
US08704425B2
Various embodiments are directed to an apparatus, system, and method for driving an end effector coupled to an ultrasonic transducer. The method comprises generating a first ultrasonic drive signal by a generator coupled to an ultrasonic drive system, actuating the ultrasonic transducer with the first ultrasonic drive signal, generating a second ultrasonic drive signal by the generator, and actuating the ultrasonic transducer with the second ultrasonic drive signal. The first drive signal is different from the second drive signal. The first and second drive signals define a step function waveform. The apparatus comprises a generator configured to couple to an ultrasonic instrument. The system comprises a generator coupled to an ultrasonic instrument. The ultrasonic instrument comprises an ultrasonic drive system comprising an ultrasonic transducer coupled to a waveguide and an end effector coupled to the waveguide, and wherein the ultrasonic drive system resonates at a resonant frequency.
US08704421B2
A spool carrier has a winding body with a shell having a trapezoidal cross section with two substantially right angles and one acute angle, wherein the spool wire is guided on the obtuse angle edge of the winding body, beginning parallel to the front face edges of the winding body, along the side surface adjoining the obtuse angle edge, around the winding body, to the acute angle edge of the winding body, and guided on the front face from the acute to the obtuse angle edge at an angle to the front face edge, such that it comes to rest on the obtuse angle edge in one winding step directly adjacent to the winding wire of the previous winding, and in one winding step in the next adjacent groove between two windings of the previous layer, or optionally between the flange and the winding of the previous layer.
US08704412B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator in which windings are arranged around a plurality of main poles of a stator core, and a hybrid type rotor arranged with an air gap between the stator and the rotor has a step angle for the rotor of about 4.09° and uses metal bearings for supporting a rotor shaft of the rotor. Setting of the step angle for the rotor to be about 4.09° can make a rotation angle of the rotor caused by excitation of the windings by an input pulse signal larger as compared with a typical motor having a step angle of about 1.8°. With this unique arrangement, the rotor can be rotated at higher speeds, increasing the motor efficiency. Therefore, the motor output at approximately the same level as that of a conventional motor can be obtained without keeping the air gap high precision. Due to this, even if inexpensive slide bearings, i.e., metal bearings to support the rotor, are used, the performance equal to or higher than that of the conventional motor can be ensured, resulting in a large cost reduction.
US08704405B2
A parallel device comprises a battery module, a plurality of switching units and a control module being couplable to the battery module. The battery module includes a plurality of battery groups. The plurality of switching units includes a plurality of first switches. Each of the switching units is couplable to a respective battery group in series. Each series combination of the switching unit and the respective battery group is coupled in parallel with another series combination, and each of the switching unit includes a respective first switch coupled with a load in series. The control module is configured to receive values of measured voltages across at least two battery groups, calculate a voltage difference between the two received voltage values, compare an absolute value of the voltage difference to a reference voltage to obtain a voltage comparison result, and turn ON or OFF at least one of the first switches in accordance with the comparison result.
US08704400B2
A vehicle power converter including a plurality of switching elements having diodes connected thereto in parallel and constituting a multi-phase bridge circuit and a controller for conducting the switching element corresponding to each diode in synchronization with a conduction state of the diode concerned to perform synchronous rectification and is connected between a power generator-motor driven from the external to generate multi-phase AC power and DC equipment, further includes a load state detecting unit for detecting a load state of the power generator-motor when the multi-phase AC power occurs, wherein a shift from diode rectification to synchronous rectification or a shift from the synchronous rectification to the diode rectification is carried out in accordance with an output of the load state detecting unit.
US08704398B2
A generator having a rotor which comprises rotor excitation element-carrying modules, for example magnets, radially movable in relation to the generator shaft in such a manner, when in their retracted position, as to significantly ease generator transport and assembly. The use of these movable magnet-carrying modules is particularly useful in direct drive-type generators which do not require a multiplier. Another object of the invention is an assembly process which comprises a generator equipped with the radially movable magnet-carrying modules.
US08704397B2
A system for producing electricity from jet streams and tower therefor extending from a ground surface to an altitude wherein jet streams exist. The tower is self supporting, comprising a plurality of buoyant modules adapted to house a lighter than air gas or gas mixture. The system includes at least one generator for electricity production.
US08704396B2
The invention relates to a wave power unit having a submerged station anchored on the sea bottom, a floating body floating on the sea surface and flexible connection means (3) connecting these. The submerged station has a linear generator with a reciprocating translator. According to the invention, the station includes a guiding device (9) for the flexible connection means (3). The guiding device (9) has a plurality of rotatable rollers (15a-18c). The rollers (15a-18c) form a passage for the flexible connection means (3). The invention also relates to use of the wave power unit and to a method for producing electric power.
US08704386B2
A thermoelectric generator including a membrane maintained by lateral ends and capable of taking a first shape when its temperature reaches a first threshold and a second shape when its temperature reaches a second threshold greater than the first threshold; at least one electrically conductive element attached to with the membrane and connecting the lateral ends of the membrane; and circuitry capable of generating, at the level of the membrane, a magnetic field orthogonal to the membrane displacement direction, the lateral ends of the membrane being connected to output terminals of the generator.
US08704385B2
A semiconductor device has a semiconductor substrate, an insulating film disposed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate, and a porous metal film disposed on the insulating film and having a void region containing voids and a void-free region that does not contain any voids. A protective film is disposed on the porous metal film and has an opening portion defining a pad region having a pad opening end. An interface between the void region and the void-free region of the porous metal film is disposed at one of the pad opening end and a position outside of the pad opening end. A wire is wire-bonded to the porous metal film in the pad region.
US08704384B2
A stacked die assembly for an IC includes a first interposer; a second interposer; a first integrated circuit die, a second integrated circuit die, and a plurality of components. The first integrated circuit die is interconnected to the first interposer and the second interposer, and the second integrated circuit die is interconnected to the second interposer. The plurality of components interconnect the first integrated circuit die to the first interposer and the second interposer. The plurality of components that interconnect the first integrated circuit die to the first interposer and the second interposer are located outside an interconnect restricted area of the first interposer and the second interposer, and signals are routed between the first integrated circuit die and the second integrated circuit die via the first integrated circuit die avoiding the interconnect restricted area of the first interposer and the second interposer.
US08704373B2
For simplifying the dual-damascene formation steps of a multilevel Cu interconnect, a formation step of an antireflective film below a photoresist film is omitted. Described specifically, an interlayer insulating film is dry etched with a photoresist film formed thereover as a mask, and interconnect trenches are formed by terminating etching at the surface of a stopper film formed in the interlayer insulating film. The stopper film is made of an SiCN film having a low optical reflectance, thereby causing it to serve as an antireflective film when the photoresist film is exposed.
US08704360B1
The present invention relates to a surface mount package for a silicon condenser microphone and methods for manufacturing the surface mount package. The surface mount package uses a limited number of components which simplifies manufacturing and lowers costs, and features a substrate that performs functions for which multiple components were traditionally required, including providing an interior surface on which the silicon condenser die is mechanically attached, providing an interior surface for making electrical connections between the silicon condenser die and the package, and providing an exterior surface for surface mounting the package to a device's printed circuit board and for making electrical connections between package and the device's printed circuit board.
US08704358B2
A method for forming an integrated circuit including the steps of: a) forming openings in a front surface of a first semiconductor wafer, the depth of the openings being smaller than 10 μm, and filling them with a conductive material; b) forming doped areas of components in active areas of the front surface, forming interconnection levels on the front surface and leveling the surface supporting the interconnection levels; c) covering with an insulating layer a front surface of a second semiconductor wafer, and leveling the surface coated with an insulator; d) applying the front surface of the second wafer coated with insulator on the front surface of the first wafer supporting interconnection levels, to obtain a bonding between the two wafers; e) forming vias from the rear surface of the second wafer, to reach the interconnection levels of the first wafer; and f) thinning the first wafer to reach the openings filled with conductive material.
US08704345B2
A semiconductor package includes a lead frame, at least one chip and a molding compound. The lead frame comprises a plurality of leads, each lead comprises a first end portion and at least one coupling protrusion, wherein the first end portion comprises a first upper surface, the coupling protrusion comprises a ring surface and is integrally formed as one piece with the first upper surface. The chip disposed on top of the leads comprises a plurality of bumps and a plurality of solders, the coupling protrusions embed into the solders to make the ring surfaces of the coupling protrusions cladded with the solders. The solders cover the first upper surfaces. The chip and the leads are cladded with the molding compound.
US08704343B2
A metal layer is deposited on a planar surface on which top surfaces of underlying metal vias are exposed. The metal layer is patterned to form at least one metal block, which has a horizontal cross-sectional area of a metal line to be formed and at least one overlying metal via to be formed. Each upper portion of underlying metal vias is recessed outside of the area of a metal block located directly above. The upper portion of the at least one metal block is lithographically patterned to form an integrated line and via structure including a metal line having a substantially constant width and at least one overlying metal via having the same substantially constant width and borderlessly aligned to the metal line. An overlying-level dielectric material layer is deposited and planarized so that top surface(s) of the at least one overlying metal via is/are exposed.
US08704335B2
A bipolar transistor is fabricated having a collector (52) in a substrate (1) and a base (57, 58) and an emitter (59) formed over the substrate. The base has a stack region (57) which is laterally separated from the emitter (59) by an electrically insulating spacer (71). The insulating spacer (71) has a width dimension at its top end at least as large as the width dimension at its bottom end and forms a Γ-shape or an oblique shape. The profile reduces the risk of silicide bridging at the top of the spacer in subsequent processing, while maintaining the width of emitter window.
US08704334B2
A semiconductor device includes an internal circuit provided on a substrate, a plurality of external terminals connected to the internal circuit, a plurality of wires connecting the internal circuit and the external terminals, and a plurality of inductors communicating with an external device. Each of the inductors is connected to each of the wires. The external terminals are formed in a region not to interrupt communication between the inductors and the external device.
US08704330B2
The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a pair of injection elements; an active barrier structure; and a p-type ground region. The semiconductor substrate has a main surface and a p-type region formed therein. The active barrier structure is arranged in a region sandwiched between the pair of injection elements over the main surface. The p-type ground region is a ground potential-applicable region which is formed closer to an end side of the main surface than the pair of injection elements and the active barrier structure, bypassing a region sandwiched between the pair of injection elements over the main surface, and which is electrically coupled to the p-type region. The p-type ground region is divided by a region adjacent to the region sandwiched between the pair of injection elements.
US08704326B2
A thin-film photoelectric conversion device includes a crystalline germanium photoelectric conversion layer having improved open circuit voltage, fill factor, and photoelectric conversion efficiency for light having a longer wavelength. The photoelectric conversion device comprises a first electrode layer, one or more photoelectric conversion units, and a second electrode layer sequentially stacked on a substrate, wherein each of the photoelectric conversion units comprises a photoelectric conversion layer arranged between a p-type semiconductor layer and an n-type semiconductor layer. At least one of the photoelectric conversion units includes a crystalline germanium photoelectric conversion layer comprising a crystalline germanium semiconductor that is substantially intrinsic or weak n-type and is essentially free of silicon. A first interface layer which is a substantially intrinsic amorphous silicon semiconductor layer is arranged between the p-type semiconductor layer and the crystalline germanium photoelectric conversion layer.
US08704325B2
CMOS pixel sensors with multiple pixel sizes and methods of manufacturing the CMOS pixel sensors with implant dose control are provided. The method includes forming a plurality of pixel sensors in a same substrate and forming a masking pattern over at least one of the plurality of pixel sensors that has a pixel size larger than a non-masked pixel sensor of the plurality of pixel sensors. The method further includes providing a single dosage implant to the plurality of pixel sensors. The at least one of the plurality of pixel sensors with the masking pattern receives a lower dosage than the non-masked pixel sensor.
US08704321B2
Solid-state imaging device of the present invention is a backside-illumination-type solid-state imaging device including wiring layer formed on first surface side of semiconductor substrate; and light receiving section that photoelectrically converts light incident from second surface side that is opposite from first surface side, wherein spontaneous polarization film formed of a material having spontaneous polarization is formed on a light receiving surface of light receiving section. Accordingly, a hole accumulation layer can be formed on the light receiving surface of light receiving section, and a dark current can be suppressed.
US08704319B2
A method and system provide a magnetic junction usable in a magnetic device. The magnetic junction includes a pinned layer, a nonmagnetic spacer layer, a free layer, and at least one damping reduction layer. The free layer has an intrinsic damping constant. The nonmagnetic spacer layer is between the pinned layer and the free layer. The at least one damping reduction layer is adjacent to at least a portion of the free layer and configured to reduce the intrinsic damping constant of the free layer. The magnetic junction is configured such that the free layer is switchable between a plurality of stable magnetic states when a write current is passed through the magnetic junction.
US08704317B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) device includes a substrate and an oxide layer formed on the substrate. A cavity is etched in the oxide layer. A microstructure device layer is bonded to the oxide layer, over the cavity. The microstructure device layer includes a substantially solid microstructure MEMS device formed in the microstructure device layer and suspended over a portion of the cavity. An anchor is formed in the device layer and configured to support the microstructure device, the anchor having an undercut in the oxide layer. The undercut has a length along the anchor that is less than one-half a length of an outer boundary dimension of the microstructure MEMS device.
US08704315B2
The present invention is directed to a CMOS integrated micromechanical device fabricated in accordance with a standard CMOS foundry fabrication process. The standard CMOS foundry fabrication process is characterized by a predetermined layer map and a predetermined set of fabrication rules. The device includes a semiconductor substrate formed or provided in accordance with the predetermined layer map and the predetermined set of fabrication rules. A MEMS resonator device is fabricated in accordance with the predetermined layer map and the predetermined set of fabrication rules. The MEMS resonator device includes a micromechanical resonator structure having a surface area greater than or equal to approximately 20 square microns. At least one CMOS circuit is coupled to the MEMS resonator member. The at least one CMOS circuit is also fabricated in accordance with the predetermined layer map and the predetermined set of fabrication rules.
US08704306B2
A strained Ge-on-insulator structure is provided, comprising: a silicon substrate, in which an oxide insulating layer is formed on a surface of the silicon substrate; a Ge layer formed on the oxide insulating layer, in which a first passivation layer is formed between the Ge layer and the oxide insulating layer; a gate stack formed on the Ge layer; and a channel region formed below the gate stack, and a source and a drain formed on sides of the channel region, in which the source and the drain are a SixGe1-x:C source and a SixGe1-x:C drain respectively to produce a tensile strain in the channel region, in which x is within a range from 0 to 1 and a content of C is within a range from 0 to 7.5%. Further, a method for forming the strained Ge-on-insulator structure is also provided.
US08704305B2
A thin film transistor of the present invention comprises, an active layer formed on an insulating substrate and having a channel region and source/drain regions; a gate electrode formed corresponding to the channel region of the active region; a body contact region separately formed with the source/drain regions in the active layer; source/drain electrodes each connected to the source/drain regions; and a conductive wiring for connecting the body contact region and the gate electrode.
US08704304B1
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a dielectric layer, a dielectric structure and an electrode structure. The dielectric layer is on an upper substrate surface of the semiconductor substrate. The dielectric structure and the semiconductor substrate have opposing first and second interfaces therebetween. The electrode structure comprises an electrode truck portion and at least one electrode branch portion. The at least one electrode branch portion is extended from the electrode truck portion down into the dielectric structure. The at least one electrode branch portion and the first interface have the smallest gap distance substantially bigger than 300 Å therebetween.
US08704303B2
A dual channel trench LDMOS transistor includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type formed on a substrate; a first trench formed in the semiconductor layer where a trench gate is formed in an upper portion of the first trench; a body region of the second conductivity type formed in the semiconductor layer adjacent the first trench; a source region of the first conductivity type formed in the body region and adjacent the first trench; a planar gate overlying the body region; a drain drift region of the first conductivity type formed in the semiconductor layer and in electrical contact with a drain electrode. The planar gate forms a lateral channel in the body region, and the trench gate in the first trench forms a vertical channel in the body region of the LDMOS transistor.
US08704293B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor device includes a stacked structure including a plurality of conductive layers stacked on a substrate, a distance along a first direction between sidewalls of an upper conductive layer and a lower conductive layer being smaller than a distance along a second direction between sidewalls of the upper conductive layer and the lower conductive layer, the first and second directions crossing each other and defining a plane parallel to a surface supporting the substrate, and vertical channel structures penetrating the stacked structure.
US08704292B2
Vertical capacitive depletion field effect transistors (VCDFETs) and methods for fabricating VCDFETs are disclosed. An example VCDFET includes one or more interleaved drift and gate regions. The gate region(s) may be configured to capacitively deplete the drift region(s) though one or more insulators that separate the gate region(s) from the drift region(s). The drift region(s) may have graded/non-uniform doping profiles. In addition, one or more ohmic and/or Schottky contacts may be configured to couple one or more source electrodes to the drift region(s).
US08704291B2
A semiconductor device has an FET of a trench-gate structure obtained by disposing a conductive layer, which will be a gate, in a trench extended in the main surface of a semiconductor substrate, wherein the upper surface of the trench-gate conductive layer is formed equal to or higher than the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. The conductive layer of the trench gate is formed to have a substantially flat or concave upper surface and the upper surface is formed equal to or higher than the main surface of the semiconductor substrate. After etching of the semiconductor substrate to form the upper surface of the conductive layer of the trench gate, a channel region and a source region are formed by ion implantation so that the semiconductor device is free from occurrence of a source offset.
US08704279B2
A device includes a buried well region and a first HVW region of the first conductivity, and an insulation region over the first HVW region. A drain region of the first conductivity type is disposed on a first side of the insulation region and in a top surface region of the first HVW region. A first well region and a second well region of a second conductivity type opposite the first conductivity type are on the second side of the insulation region. A second HVW region of the first conductivity type is disposed between the first and the second well regions, wherein the second HVW region is connected to the buried well region. A source region of the first conductivity type is in a top surface region of the second HVW region, wherein the source region, the drain region, and the buried well region form a JFET.
US08704275B2
A die micro electro-mechanical switch management system and method facilitate power conservation by selectively preventing electrical current from flowing in designated components. A present invention semiconductor die comprises a block of transistors for performing switching operations, a bus (e.g., a power bus, a signal bus, etc.) for conveying electrical current and a micro electro-mechanical switch that couples and decouples the block of transistors to and from the bus. The micro electro-mechanical switch is opened and closed depending upon operations (e.g., switching operations) being performed by the block of transistors. Electrical current is prevented from flowing to the block of transistors when the micro electro-mechanical switch is open and the block of transistors is electrically isolated. The micro electro-mechanical switch can interrupt electrical current flow in a plurality of the bus lines and/or can be included in a relay array.
US08704257B2
A light-emitting element includes a light-emitting stack for emitting light and a substrate structure including: a first substrate disposed under the light-emitting stack and having a first surface facing the light-emitting stack; and a second substrate disposed under the light-emitting stack and having a second surface facing the light-emitting stack; and a reflective layer formed between the first substrate and the second substrate and having an inclined angle not perpendicular to the first surface.
US08704252B2
This invention discloses a light-emitting device comprising a semiconductor stack layer having an active layer of a multiple quantum well (MQW) structure comprising alternate stack layers of quantum well layers and barrier layers, wherein the barrier layers comprise at least one doped barrier layer and one undoped barrier layer. The doped barrier layer can improve the carrier mobility of the electron holes and increase the light-emitting area and the internal quantum efficiency of the active layer.
US08704249B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes: a first conductivity type semiconductor layer; a light emission layer; a second conductivity type semiconductor layer; a conductive portion of a first polarity electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layer; and a conductive portion of a second polarity electrically connected to the second conductivity type semiconductor layer. At least one of the conductive portion of the first polarity and the conductive portion of the second polarity includes a plurality of separated electrode portions arranged on a light emission surface. The closer the positions of the separated electrode portions are to a center point of the light emission surface, the separated electrode portions are provided sparsely, and the farther the positions of the separated electrode portions are from a center point of the light emission surface, the separated electrode portions are provided densely.
US08704238B2
A three-dimensional integrated circuit device includes a first substrate having a first crystal orientation comprising at least one or more PMOS devices thereon and a first dielectric layer overlying the one or more PMOS devices. The three-dimensional integrated circuit device also includes a second substrate having a second crystal orientation comprising at least one or more NMOS devices thereon; and a second dielectric layer overlying the one or more NMOS devices. An interface region couples the first dielectric layer to the second dielectric layer to form a hybrid structure including the first substrate overlying the second substrate.
US08704234B2
A light-emitting device includes a drive transistor for controlling the quantity of current supplied to a light-emitting element, a capacitor element electrically connected to a gate electrode of the drive transistor, and an electrical continuity portion for electrically connecting the drive transistor and the light-emitting element, these elements being disposed on a substrate. The electrical continuity portion is disposed on the side opposite to the capacitor element with the drive transistor disposed therebetween.
US08704233B2
The present invention improves the aperture ratio of a pixel of a reflection-type display device or a reflection type display device without increasing the number of masks and without using a blackmask. A pixel electrode (167) is arranged so as to partially overlap a source wiring (137) for shielding the gap between pixels from light, and a thin film transistor is arranged so as to partially overlap a gate wiring (166) for shielding a channel region of the thin film transistor from light, thereby realizing a high pixel aperture ratio.
US08704232B2
A transistor that may be used in electronic displays to selectively activate one or more pixels. The transistor includes a metal layer, a silicon layer deposited on at least a portion of the metal layer, the silicon layer includes an extension portion that extends a distance past the metal layer, and at least three lightly doped regions positioned in the silicon layer. The at least three lightly doped regions have a lower concentration of doping atoms than other portions of the silicon layer forming the transistor.
US08704228B2
An anti-fuse device includes a gate electrode on a semiconductor substrate, a gate insulating layer between the semiconductor substrate and the gate electrode, junction regions in the semiconductor substrate adjacent the gate electrode, and at least one anti-breakdown material layer between the junction regions, the gate insulating layer being between the gate electrode and the anti-breakdown material layer.
US08704215B2
A novel stilbene derivative is provided with motivation of providing a blue emissive material showing excellent color purity. The use of the stilbene derivative of the present invention allows the fabrication of a blue-emissive light-emitting element with excellent color purity. The invention also includes an electronic device equipped with a display portion in which the stilbene derivative is employed. The stilbene derivative of the present invention is represented by formula (1), in which Ar1 and Ar2 may form a 5-membered ring by being directly bonded to each other. In formula (1), A11 represents any one of substituents represented by general formulas (1-1) to (1-3). The variables shown in formula (1) and (1-1) to (1-3) are as defined in the specification.
US08704212B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a material having a high Tg and a wide energy gap. The present invention provides a spirofluorene derivative represented by General Formula 1. (In the formula, R1 is any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or a group represented by General Formula 2. Each of R2 and R3 is either hydrogen or an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms and may be identical or different. R4 is an aryl group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms. Each of R5 and R6 is any one of hydrogen, an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, or an aryl group having 6 to 15 carbon atoms and may be identical or different
US08704206B2
The present invention relates to memory devices incorporating therein a novel memory cell architecture which includes an array of selection transistors sharing a common channel and method for making the same. A memory device comprises a semiconductor substrate having a first type conductivity, a plurality of drain regions and a common source region separated by a common plate channel in the substrate, and a selection gate disposed on top of the plate channel with a gate dielectric layer interposed therebetween. The plurality of drain regions and the common source region have a second type conductivity opposite to the first type provided in the substrate.
US08704205B2
A semiconductor structure with improved capacitance of bit lines includes a substrate, a stacked memory structure, a plurality of bit lines, a first stair contact structure, a first group of transistor structures and a first conductive line. The first stair contact structure is formed on the substrate and includes conductive planes and insulating planes stacked alternately. The conductive planes are separated from each other by the insulating planes for connecting the bit lines to the stacked memory structure by stairs. The first group of transistor structures is formed in a first bulk area where the bit lines pass through and then connect to the conductive planes. The first group of transistor structures has a first gate around the first bulk area. The first conductive line is connected to the first gate to control the voltage applied to the first gate.
US08704201B2
An energy filter allows, particularly at lower beam energies, a determined spread of the beam energies in order to preserve the beam edges and to spread the Bragg peak at each individual beam energy. The energy filter behaves similarly to a ridge filter and spreads out the Bragg peak of a low energy proton beam (70-100 MeV) so that energy modulation of the beam can be done with steps of 5 mm in one go over the full range of 235-70 MeV. Due to its mechanical flexibility, the energy filter can be placed on the skin of the patient which minimizes the effect of scattering in the filter due to the short distance behind a layer of a plurality of metal particles within a flexible soft plastic sheet to the skin of the patient.
US08704197B2
A device operable to accelerate a particle beam to an energy for irradiating a target volume. The device includes a particle accelerator operable in a first working phase in which particles of the particle beam are accelerated to the energy and a second working phase in which the particles of the particle beam are provided and extracted for irradiating the target volume. The device further includes a control device operable to interrupt an irradiation of the target volume if the target volume assumes a predetermined state. The control device is also operable to control the particle accelerator as a function of a comparison between a residual particle number stored in the accelerator and a reference value.
US08704195B2
A method is provided for setting a position of a carrier element, arranged in a particle beam device, that holds an object. The particle beam device has a beam generator for generating a particle beam and an objective for focusing the particle beam. The carrier element is movable using a first stepper motor. A movement of the carrier element is started by actuating the first stepper motor using a first motor current in the form of an alternating current. The first motor current is set to a first frequency and a first amplitude. The movement of the carrier element is decelerated by reducing the first frequency and by reducing the first amplitude of the first motor current. The first frequency is reduced to zero during a first period of time. The first amplitude is reduced to an amplitude of a first holding current during the first period of time.
US08704179B2
The present invention provides thermal detectors having an optical cavity that is optimized to couple light into a sensor. Light that is on resonance is coupled with the sensor with as high as 100% efficiency, while light off resonance is substantially reflected away. Light that strikes the sensor from the sides (i.e. not on the optical cavity axis) only interacts minimally with sensor because of the reduced absorption characteristics of the sensor. Narrowband sensors in accordance with the present invention can gain as much as 100% of the signal from one direction and spectral band, while receiving only a fraction of the normal radiation noise, which originates from all spectral bands and directions.
US08704176B2
A method of examining a sample using a charged-particle microscope, comprising mounting the sample on a sample holder; using a particle-optical column to direct at least one beam of particulate radiation onto a surface S of the sample, thereby producing an interaction that causes emitted radiation to emanate from the sample; using a detector arrangement to detect at least a portion of said emitted radiation, the method of which comprises embodying the detector arrangement to detect electrons in the emitted radiation; recording an output On of said detector arrangement as a function of kinetic energy En of said electrons, thus compiling a measurement set M={(On, En)} for a plurality of values of En; using computer processing apparatus to automatically deconvolve the measurement set M and spatially resolve it into a result set R={(Vk, Lk)}, in which a spatial variable V demonstrates a value Vk at an associated discrete depth level Lk referenced to the surface S, whereby n and k are members of an integer sequence, and spatial variable V represents a physical property of the sample as a function of position in its bulk.
US08704170B2
The current invention involves a method and a device for generating and analyzing ions in order to analyze samples directly without sample preparation. The gaseous neutral molecules are desorbed under atmospheric pressure by a desorption method. The desorbed neutral molecules are then transferred into a low pressure region where they are post-ionized by a mist from an electrospray probe tip or by photons from a vacuum UV source. The generated ions are then focused in a time varying electric field in the low pressure chamber before they are transferred into a mass spectrometer or ion mobility spectrometer for further analysis.
US08704168B2
An ion trap for a mass spectrometer has a conductive central electrode with an aperture extending from a first open end to a second open end. A conductive first electrode end cap is disposed proximate to the first open end thereby forming a first intrinsic capacitance between the first end cap and the central electrode. A conductive second electrode end cap is disposed proximate to the second open end thereby forming a second intrinsic capacitance between the second end cap and the central electrode. A first circuit couples the second end cap to a reference potential. A signal source generating an AC trap signal is coupled to the central electrode. An excitation signal is impressed on the second end cap in response to a voltage division of the trap signal by the first intrinsic capacitance and the first circuit.
US08704162B1
In a mass spectrometer having an auto-tuning function for sequentially executing parameter adjustments for each part in accordance with a prescribed procedure, a long time is required to tune all of the sections. Therefore, sections which require parameter adjustments are divided into block units, and tuning is executed in a predetermined block order. In each block, tuning is first executed on a representative part of the block, and the result is compared with past tuning results. If the values of both results fall within a prescribed range, the tuning of other sections included in the block is omitted.
US08704161B2
Disclosed is a quadrupole mass spectrometer, which is capable of, during an SIM measurement, maximally reducing a settling time-period necessary for an operation of changing an input voltage to a quadrupole mass filter in a staircase pattern, and preventing unwanted ions from excessively entering a detector during a course of changing between a plurality of mass values. Under a condition that a response speed of a DC voltage U to be applied to quadrupole electrodes is less than that of an amplitude of a high-frequency voltage V, a control section 10 is operable to rearrange the mass values in descending order of mass value, and an optimal settling-time calculation sub-section 101 is operable to determine a settling time-period for each of the mass values, based on a mass-value difference and a post-change mass value.
US08704152B2
An apparatus includes a housing having a front surface, a rear surface, and at least one sidewall therebetween and a plurality of optical windows formed in the housing to allow light to pass through from multiple directions. The apparatus further includes a plurality of photo detectors to generate electrical signals based on received light, where each of the plurality of photo detectors is disposed within a respective one of the plurality of optical windows. The apparatus also includes a control circuit coupled to the plurality of photo detectors to receive the electrical signals, determine light variations from the electrical signals, and determine a change in position of an object based on variation ratios of the light variations received by at least one pair of photo detectors within the plurality of photo detectors in response to determining the light variations.
US08704149B2
An embodiment of present invention discloses an optoelectronic device package including a first auxiliary energy receiver having a first energy inlet and a side wall for substantially directing energy far away from the first energy inlet; an optical element optically coupled to the first auxiliary energy receiver and having a recess facing the first energy inlet; and an optoelectronic device optically coupled to the optical element and receiving the energy from the first energy inlet.
US08704148B2
According to an example embodiment, a light-sensing apparatus may include an array of light-sensing pixels, a first gate driver, and a signal output unit. Each of the light-sensing pixels may include a light sensor transistor configured to sense light, a switch transistor configured to output a light-sensing signal from the light sensor transistor, and a conductive light-shielding film on a light-incident surface of the switch transistor. The light sensor transistor and the switch transistor may have the same oxide semiconductor transistor structure. The first gate driver may be configured to provide a gate voltage and a negative bias voltage to each of the light-sensing pixels. The signal output unit may be configured to receive the light-sensing signal from each of the light-sensing pixels and output a data signal.
US08704147B2
A photoelectric conversion device has a first photoelectric converter which converts light into a current, a second photoelectric converter which converts light into a current, a first bipolar transistor which amplifies the current input to a base thereof from the first photoelectric converter, and outputs the amplified current from each of a plurality of emitters thereof, a second bipolar transistor which amplifies the current input to a base thereof from the second photoelectric converter, and outputs the amplified current from each of a plurality of emitters thereof, and a current adder which adds the current from one emitter of the plurality of emitters of the first bipolar transistor, and the current from one emitter of the plurality of emitters of the second bipolar transistor, thereby obtaining a sum current.
US08704140B2
A heating element includes a support made of flexible material and a flexible grid structure with an electrically conductive paste disposed on the support.
US08704138B2
An apparatus and method for cooking with steam in a cooking appliance by forming the steam from atomized particles of water.
US08704134B2
The present application relates to iron based glass forming alloys and their manufacture in powder, cored wire and stick electrode form to produce feedstock for a wide variety of weld overlay hardfacing application techniques. The alloys when welded form structures which are extremely hard and correspondingly extremely wear resistant. The novel approach of these alloys allow the replacement of conventional high hardness and wear resistant hardfacing alloys which are often composite materials made up of a binder and hard particles such as carbides, borides, borocarbides, nitrides, etc.
US08704125B2
A laser processing machine has an expanded operating space so that larger workpieces can be processed and/or the spatial requirement for the laser processing machine is reduced.
US08704122B2
A connecting piece for a tool of a multi-axis machining center has a support on the machining center side, a holder at the tool side and a pushing device which elastically pushes the holder into a defined position against the support. The pushing force of the pushing device can be varied during the operation of the machining center.
US08704120B2
A welding device for powder welding is described, which comprises a welding head for transportation of at least one welding electrode to a welding area, and a powder transportation device for transportation of powder from a container to the welding area. The powder transportation device comprises at least a first pipe which at a first end has an opening which is arranged to be placed in the container in order to transport fluxing agent from the container. The powder transportation device comprises at least a first ejector which is connected to the second end of the first pipe and which is arranged to transport powder from the container via the first pipe using pressurized gas.
US08704109B2
A carrier is provided for a control unit of a motor vehicle. The carrier includes, but is not limited to at least one material section for fastening to the body of a motor vehicle. It is provided that the carrier is designed for receiving at least two control units, which via an insertion region of the carrier can be mounted to the carrier from the same side. A control unit is also provided for installation in a carrier and a motor vehicle is provided with a carrier.
US08704088B2
An electrical connecting cable with a flexible electrical cable and with at least one electrical plug connector at one end of the cable, with the electrical cable including a bundle of conductors consisting of insulated stranded wires, a foil shield enclosing the bundle of conductors, and a protective sheath encasing the foil shield and serving as the outer surface of the cable. The plug connector includes a metallic plug connector housing, preferably a round housing, holding insulated contacts and a molded-on shield sleeve with which the stranded wires and the foil shield are connected in an electrically conductive manner. The foil shield includes at least one electrically conductive shield tape and the protective sheath includes at least one electrically non-conductive sheath tape that are both wrapped at an angle spiral-like with a lateral overlap along the stranded wires around the bundle of conductors and the shield sleeve.
US08704087B2
The invention is directed to a polymer thick film conductive composition comprising (a) a conductive silver-coated copper powder; and (b) an organic medium comprising two different resins and organic solvent, wherein the ratio of the weight of the conductive silver-coated copper powder to the total weight of the two different resins is between 5:1 and 45:1.The invention is further directed to a method of electrode grid and/or bus bar formation on thin-film photovoltaic cells using the composition and to cells formed from the method and the composition.
US08704086B2
An H-pattern solar cell structure includes at least one busbar disposed in a first direction on an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, and parallel gridlines formed on the semiconductor substrate such that each gridline extends over and contacts each busbar, wherein each gridline includes a central gridline portion and at least one endpoint structure disposed on at least one end thereof, the endpoint structure having a nominal width that is at least 1.5 times the width of the central gridline portion. The gridlines are co-extruded with a sacrificial material such that a base portion of each gridline forms a flattened structure with sacrificial material formed thereon. The endpoint structures are formed such that Each central gridline portion forms a raised vertex portion extending upward from the upper surface of each busbar.
US08704083B2
In a thin film photoelectric conversion deice fabricated by addition of a catalyst element with the use of a solid phase growth method, defects such as a short circuit or leakage of current are suppressed. A catalyst material which promotes crystallization of silicon is selectively added to a second silicon semiconductor layer formed over a first silicon semiconductor layer having one conductivity type, the second silicon semiconductor layer is partly crystallized by a heat treatment, a third silicon semiconductor layer having a conductivity type opposite to the one conductivity type is stacked, and element isolation is performed at a region in the second silicon semiconductor layer to which a catalyst material is not added, so that a left catalyst material is prevented from being diffused again, and defects such as a short circuit or leakage of current are suppressed.
US08704077B2
A heat recycling system for recycling heat from an electronic device includes a pipe with an inside tube and an outside tube coiled around the inside tube. The inside tube is connected to a first airduct to receive heated air from the electronic device. The outside tube is to receive cooling air from outside. A number of thermoelectric modules are formed in walls of the inside tube. A first end of each thermoelectric module is inserted into the outside tube, and a second end of each thermoelectric module is inserted into the inside tube. Therefore, the number of thermoelectric modules may generate current.
US08704066B2
The present invention is a device and method for teaching note locations, fretboard patterns, scales, and chords on the fingerboard of a fretted stringed instrument (“fretboard”), such as an electric or acoustic guitar. The invention comprises a set of independently affixable fretboard adhesive labels (“stickers”) that adhere to the surface of the stringed instrument, using a mild adhesive, so as not to damage the instrument, and a number of markings, which indicate musical indicia. The device is applied to the instrument by slipping the various individual stickers between the corresponding frets and strings of the stringed instrument and affixing the stickers directly to the fretboard.
US08704064B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV095080. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV095080, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV095080 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV095080 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV095080.
US08704046B2
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety WN0912893 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety WN0912893 and its progeny, and methods of making WN0912893.
US08704043B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of molecular biology and concerns a method for increasing various plant yield-related traits by increasing expression in a plant of a nucleic acid sequence encoding an ammonium transporter (AMT) polypeptide. The present invention also concerns plants having increased expression of a nucleic acid sequence encoding an AMT polypeptide, which plants have increased yield-related traits relative to control plants. The invention also provides constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
US08704040B2
Provided is an isolated polypeptide having triterpene methyltransferase activity. Also provided is an isolated nucleic acid molecule that encodes the triterpene methyltransferase polypeptides; a vector comprising the nucleic acid molecules that encode the triterpene methyltransferase polypeptides; and a host cell(s) transfected with the aforementioned nucleic acid molecule or vector. In another aspect, a method of producing a methylated triterpene is provided. The method comprises providing a metabolizable carbon source to a host cell transfected with a nucleic acid molecule that encodes a triterpene methyltransferase under conditions sufficient for production of a methylated triterpene. The method optionally further comprises isolating the methylated triterpene produced by the host cell.
US08704035B2
A dehydration sensor having a stable, printable, buffered-ink composition that enables one to miniaturize the detection zone and permits both buffer and indicator dye to be applied in the same area of a detection zone, without need for a conventional, large buffer pad region. The ink composition includes a weak polymeric base as its primary buffering agent.
US08704029B2
Processes for the conversion, under conditions and with a catalyst system effective for olefin metathesis, of hydrocarbon feedstocks comprising butylene, for example all or a large proportion of a single C4 olefin isomer such as butene-1, are described. Olefin products, and particularly propylene, are formed in the presence of a catalyst comprising a solid support and a tungsten hydride bonded to alumina present in the support. This occurs despite the expectation that the olefin metathesis reaction mechanism leads to the formation of olefin products having other carbon numbers.
US08704025B2
This disclosure relates to an EMM-12 molecular sieve having, in its as-synthesized form and in calcined form, an X-ray diffraction pattern including peaks having a d-spacing maximum in the range of 14.17 to 12.57 Angstroms, a d-spacing maximum in the range of 12.1 to 12.56 Angstroms, and non-discrete scattering between about 8.85 to 11.05 Angstroms or exhibit a valley in between the peaks having a d-spacing maximum in the range of 10.14 to 12.0 Angstroms and a d-spacing maximum in the range from 8.66 to 10.13 Angstroms with measured intensity corrected for background at the lowest point being not less than 50% of the point at the same XRD d-spacing on the line connecting maxima in the range of 10.14 to 12.0 Angstroms and in the range from 8.66 to 10.13 Angstroms.
US08704006B2
A process for preparing an alkylated hydroxyl aromatic compound comprising reacting(a) a hydroxyl aromatic compound (I), having the following structure; wherein n 1, 2 or 3; m is 0, 1, 2, or 3 and R1 is Hydrogen or hydrocarbyl group; and (b) at least one β-branched primary alcohol component in the presence of an alkylating catalyst thereby producing an alkylated hydroxyl aromatic compound.
US08704004B2
Disclosed is an energetic reactive plasticizer for a plastic bonded explosive (PBX), and specifically an energetic reactive plasticizer for PBX which has high performance and insensitiveness without a plasticizer leak by being bonded with a polymer binder for a plastic bonded explosive.
US08704002B2
Process for the preparation of substituted dimethyl-(3-aryl-butyl)-amine compounds. The process comprises dehydration by heterogeneous catalysis of substituted 4-dimethylamino-2-aryl-butan-2-ol compounds, to form substituted dimethyl-(3-aryl-but-3-enyl)-amine intermediates, which are then converted by hydrogenation with hydrogen to substituted dimethyl-(3-aryl-butyl)-amine compounds.
US08704000B2
PROBLEMThere is provided a melting method of (meth)acrylic acid crystal which is capable of providing a higher quality of (meth)acrylic acid without carrying out an additional purification treatment to (meth)acrylic acid obtained by a crystallization operation accompanied by melting of (meth)acrylic acid. In addition, there is provided a simple method for adjusting a content of polymerization inhibitor in a product (meth)acrylic acid.SOLUTIONIn the crystallization method melting (meth)acrylic acid crystal while wetting with the crystalline molten liquid, a polymerization inhibitor is added to a molten liquid melted after initiation of melting, and all of crystal is melted while circulating and feeding the molten liquid containing said polymerization inhibitor to the crystal. In addition, a content of polymerization inhibitor in product (meth)acrylic acid is adjusted by adding a predetermined amount of polymerization inhibitor corresponding to a product specification to the molten liquid melted after initiation of melting.
US08703999B2
Disclosed is a process for the production and purification of glycolic acid or glycolic acid derivatives by the carbonylation of methylene dipropionate in the presence of a solid acid catalyst and propionic acid. This invention discloses hydrocarboxylations and corresponding glycolic acid separations wherein the propionic acid stream is readily removed from the glycolic acid and the propionic acid is recycled.
US08703994B2
A process for preparing carboxylic acid derivatives of the formula H—(C═O)—R, R is OR1 or NR2R3, R1 is optionally substituted C1-C15-alkyl, C5-C10-cycloalkyl, C5-C10-heterocyclyl, C5-C10-aryl or C5-C10-heteroaryl, substituents are C1-C15-alkyl, C1-C6-alkoxy, C5-C10-cycloalkyl or C5-C10-aryl; R2 and R3 are independently hydrogen or optionally substituted C1-C15-alkyl, C5-C10 cycloalkyl, C5-C10-heterocyclyl, C5-C10-aryl or C5-C10-heteroaryl, substituents are selected from the group consisting of C1-C15-alkyl, C5-C10-cycloalkyl and C5-C10-aryl or R2 and R3 together with the nitrogen atom form a five- or six-membered ring which optionally comprises one or more heteroatoms selected from O, S and N and bearing the substituent R4, R4 is hydrogen or C1-C6-alkyl; by reacting a reaction mixture comprising carbon dioxide, hydrogen and an alcohol of the formula R1—OH or an amine of the formula NHR2R3 in the presence of a catalyst comprising gold at a pressure from 0.2 to 30 MPa and a temperature from 20 to 200° C. in a hydrogenation reactor.
US08703978B2
A naphthopyran compound represented by the formulae (I) to (II) wherein: —mi, Hi2, p, q are each an integer comprised from O to 4 or 5 inclusive; —Ri, R2 and R4, represent a group selected from halogen, H, —Ra, aryl, —OH, —ORa, —SH, —SRa, —NH2, —NR8RaI, —NRbRc, —NRal-CORa, —NRaiCO(aryl), —NRai aryl, —N-aryfe, —N(aryl)CO(aryl), —CO—R3, —CO2R3I, —OC(O)—Rd, and —X—(Re)—Y, and linear or branched (Ci-Ci8) perfluoroalkyl group, wherein R3, Rai, Rb, Rc, X, Y, Re, Rd are as defined into the description; —Zi re resent a group selected from: (formules).
US08703974B2
In the production of phthalic anhydride by the oxidation of ortho-xylene with air, the ortho-xylene loading is increased without increasing the likelihood of explosion by insulating the system to avoid cold spots to keep the ortho-xylene at a temperature above its dew point; in addition the system may be electrically interconnected and grounded to reduce the risk of spark initiated explosions or deflagrations.
US08703963B2
This invention describes the discovery and synthesis of N-thiolated 2-oxazolidinones as a new class of anti bacterial agents. These compounds can be synthesized from 2-oxazolidinones by Ndeprotection and N-sulfenylation. These new substances were found to exhibit potent anti-bacterial activity, including bacteriostatic properties against Staphylococcus spp., including methicillin resistant Staphylcoccus aureus (MRSA), and Bacillus spp., including Bacillus anthracis.
US08703962B2
The invention relates to compounds of formula I and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, compositions comprising an effective amount of a compound of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof, and methods for treating or preventing a condition such as pain, UI, an ulcer, IBD and IBS, comprising administering to an animal in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of formula I or a pharmaceutically acceptable derivative thereof.
US08703957B2
The present invention is directed to phosphonic acid compounds useful as serine protease inhibitors, compositions thereof and methods for treating inflammatory and serine protease mediated disorders.
US08703953B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to compounds which can inhibit AAK1 (adaptor associated kinase 1), compositions comprising such compounds, and methods for inhibiting AAK1.
US08703948B2
The present invention is directed to salts of 3-(3-amino-2-(R)-hydroxy-propyl)-1-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-8-(8-methyl-naphthalen-1-ylmethyl)-1,3,8-triaza-spiro[4.5]decan-4-one, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in the treatment of disorders and conditions modulated by NOP, for example depression, anxiety, alcohol abuse, etc. The present invention is further directed to process(es) for the preparation of 3-(3-amino-2-(R)-hydroxy-propyl)-1-(4-fluoro-phenyl)-8-(8-methyl-naphthalen-1-ylmethyl)-1,3,8-triaza-spiro[4.5]decan-4-one and its corresponding salts.
US08703927B2
In certain aspects, the present invention provides compositions and methods for increasing red blood cell and/or hemoglobin levels in vertebrates, including rodents and primates, and particularly in humans.
US08703921B2
The present invention features compositions and methods that make use of complexes comprising one or more inhibitory nucleic acids and a targeting polypeptide, wherein the targeting polypeptide consists of a cell surface receptor ligand. The compositions can be used in methods of silencing gene expression in a cell, in delivering agents to a target cell, and in treating or preventing a disease or disorder in a subject.
US08703920B2
The present application provides fully human antibodies against N-Cadherin for therapeutic and diagnostic methods in cancer.
US08703916B2
The invention provides novel B7-H3 and B7-H4 polypeptides useful for co-stimulating T cells, isolated nucleic acid molecules encoding them, vectors containing the nucleic acid molecules, and cells containing the vectors. Also included are methods of making and using these co-stimulatory polypeptides.
US08703914B2
Alternative and improved approaches to the heterologous expression of the proteins of Neisseria meningitidis and Neisseria gonorrhoeae. These approaches typically affect the level of expression, the ease of purification, the cellular localization, and/or the immunological properties of the expressed protein.
US08703908B2
A fusion protein of the invention comprises an immunoglobulin Fc region and a first target protein linked to the immunoglobulin Fc region. The first target protein comprises a collagen XVIII fragment, preferably endostatin. The immunoglobulin Fc region preferably comprises a hinge region, a CH2 region, and a CH3 region.
US08703898B2
A hyperbranched polyether polyol obtained by a ring-opening reaction between a hydroxyalkyloxetane (a1) and a monofunctional epoxy compound (a2), wherein the polyether polyol includes a primary hydroxyl group (H1) and a secondary hydroxyl group (H2) in the molecular structure thereof, and has a number average molecular weight (Mn) of 1,000 to 4,000 and a hydroxyl value of 150 to 350 mg·KOH/g.
US08703896B2
A two part non-sag polyurethane construction sealant or adhesive is provided with the properties of low modulus, high elongation, good paint adhesion, and primerless adhesion to concrete surfaces. The sealant or adhesive is prepared using a polyol, and optionally an epoxy silane and/or a melamine compound, in the base component of the formulation; and a prepolymer reaction product including the residues of xylenol or xylenol and an additional polyol, and a polymeric isocyanate, an aromatic diisocyanate, or a polymeric isocyanate and an aromatic diisocyanate, and optionally an epoxy silane and/or a melamine compound, in the activator component of the formulation.
US08703892B2
A curable composition for imprints, comprising a polymerizable monomer (Ax) represented by the following formula: wherein Ar represents a divalent or trivalent aromatic group, X represents a single bond or an organic linking group, R1 represents a hydrogen atom or an alkyl group, and n represents 2 or 3. The content of the polymerizable monomer (Ax) is 45% by mass or more, or the total content of solid polymerizable monomers and liquid polymerizable monomers with high viscosity is less than 50% by mass.
US08703890B2
This invention provides a polyfunctional polymer having high stereoregularity, in particular, isotacticity, and provides a production process thereof. The present invention relates to a polymer having, in a molecule, a repeating unit represented by General Formula (2): wherein R1 and R2 are different, and each represents a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group and an aryl group; * represents an asymmetrical carbon, the polymer containing meso diad (m) and racemo diad (r) at a proportion of 60:40 to 100:0 (m:r). The invention also relates to chemical modifications and a production process of the polymer.
US08703887B2
The invention is directed to a process for the production of high density polyethylene by polymerization of ethylene in the presence of a supported chromium oxide based catalyst and an activator characterized in that the activator comprises the reaction mixture of a boron compound and/or an alkyl aluminum compound and a nitrogen containing compound wherein the boron compound is a (C1-C10) alkyl boron compound or a (C5-C20) aromatic boron compound, wherein the alkyl aluminum compound is an organo aluminum compound having the formula AIR3 in which R is a hydrocarbon radical containing 1-10 carbon atom and wherein the nitrogen containing compound comprises —NH2, —NHR, —NR2, wherein R may be an alkyl or a substituted alkyl having from 1 to 40 carbon atoms.
US08703885B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a catalyst slurry blend suitable for polymerizing ethylene in an ethylene polymerization loop reactor for obtaining an at least trimodal polyethylene product, comprising the steps of: transferring a first ethylene polymerization catalyst at a first mass flow rate to a mixing vessel, simultaneously transferring a second ethylene polymerization catalyst at a second mass flow rate to said mixing vessel, thereby in situ providing a catalyst slurry blend, wherein said second ethylene polymerization catalyst is different from the first ethylene polymerization catalyst, adjusting and monitoring said first and second mass flow rates, thereby obtaining said catalyst slurry blend at a concentration suitable for polymerizing ethylene, and feeding said catalyst slurry blend to an ethylene polymerization double loop reactor producing said at least trimodal polyethylene product.
US08703882B2
Phosphorus-containing benzoxazine-based bisphenols and derivatives thereof are disclosed. The phosphorus-containing benzoxazine-based bisphenols are prepared by reacting DOPO with benzoxazine to form the phosphorus-containing benzoxazine-based bisphenols. The phosphorus-containing benzoxazine-based bisphenols can further to form advanced epoxy resins. The advanced epoxy resins can further be cured to form flame retardant epoxy thermosets.
US08703878B2
Enzymes in the body vary among different species, and also vary among individuals of the same species. Thus, it has been demanded to develop a novel steroid-containing pharmaceutical preparation which can release a drug in a manner independent of the enzymes present in the body, and which is expected to have an efficacious therapeutic effect.Disclosed is a high-molecular weight conjugate of a steroid, comprising a structure in which a carboxylic acid group of a polymer having a polyethylene glycol moiety and a succinic acid monoamide moiety having two or more succinic acid monoamide units is ester-bonded to a hydroxy group in the steroid.
US08703862B2
The present invention relates to thermoplastic molding compositions composed of the following components: (A) at least one polyarylene ether (A1) having an average of at most 0.1 phenolic end groups per polymer chain, and at least one polyarylene ether (A2) having an average of at least 1.5 phenolic end groups per polymer chain, (B) at least one fibrous or particulate filler, and (C) optionally further additives and/or processing aids. The present invention further relates to a process for producing the thermoplastic molding compositions of the invention, the use of these for producing moldings, fibers, foams, or films, and to the resultant moldings, fibers, foams, and films.
US08703857B2
The roller chain comprises inner link plates, a bush, outer link plates, a connecting pin, and a roller. Each of the chain components has a zinc-iron alloy ground film formed on an iron-based base material by impact zinc plating and a first coating film formed by using a water-based rust preventive paint including zinc, nitrate, and an organic compound having a mercapto group other than a mercapto group-containing silane coupling agent. Then a second coating film is formed on the first coating film by using the top coat paint comprising a pigment, sodium silicate, and an acrylic emulsion or a polyurethane water-based composition.
US08703850B2
The invention relates to a composition containing a particulate solid, an organic or aqueous medium, and a compound with a head group derived from phosphoric acid. The invention further relates to novel compounds, and the use of the compound as a dispersant.
US08703848B1
Disclosed herein is a blend comprising: (a) 5 to 50 percent by weight of the micronized poly(phenylene ether), wherein the mean particle size of the poly(phenylene ether) is 9 microns or less; (b) 50 to 95 percent by weight of a thermoplastic polyurethane; wherein the weight percents are based on the total weight of the blend. Also disclosed are processes for preparing such blends as well as articles derived therefrom.
US08703844B2
A two-component epoxy resin composition, including: a resin component which includes at least one epoxy resin and at least one aldehyde, and a hardener component which includes at least one polyamine having at least one primary amino group.
US08703836B2
A composition comprising the Components (A) at least one linear olefin polymer; (B) 0.05 to 2%, relative to the weight of Component (A), of at least one photoinitiator; and (C) 0.05 to 5%, relative to the weight of Component (A), of at least one co-additive containing one or more double bonds.
US08703828B2
In one aspect, compositions provide antimicrobial therapy as topical disinfectants. Particularly, one aspect relates to an alcohol containing antimicrobial composition that includes at least one paraben, a redox compound and an organic acid at a concentration of from about 1.5 percent to about 10 percent by weight, based on the total weight of the composition. In other aspects, antimicrobial compositions are used to topically sanitize wounds, skin areas and/or to disinfect surgical instruments or other surfaces. Still, in further aspects, methods, devices and kits relating to an antimicrobial composition are provided.
US08703823B2
Compositions, methods and kits are provided for the treatment of migraines. The compositions, methods and kits include an effective dose of trimethobenzamide and an ethanolamine antihistamine that, when administered to an individual suffering from migraine headaches, will alleviate symptoms associated with the migraine headaches. Compositions, methods, and kits for the treatment of migraines include pharmaceutical compositions of trimethobenzamide and diphenhydramine.
US08703821B2
The present invention provides dialkyl ether compounds and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, compositions containing the same and one or more active agents, and methods of administering active agents with the same.
US08703818B2
One embodiment described herein is related to methods and compositions, such as nutraceutical formulations and dietary supplements, comprising C16:1n7-palmitoleate or derivatives thereof. The methods and compositions comprising C16:1n7-palmitoleate, or derivatives thereof, safely and effectively prevent or mitigate manifestations of cardiovascular disease, including coronary artery disease and the accumulation of cholesterol or lipid deposits in the blood vessels of a subject.
US08703813B2
Provided is a compound having a spiro chiral carbon backbone, a stereoisomer thereof, an enantiomer thereof, an in vivo hydrolysable precursor thereof, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound having the spiro chiral carbon backbone has excellent osteoblast differentiation activity, mast cell inhibitory activity, and fatty acid synthesis inhibitory activity in the liver. Therefore, the compound can be expected to play an innovative role in treatment of osteoporosis, fatty liver, and obesity.
US08703812B2
The present invention provides methods of contacting a protein kinase C (PKC) activator with a PKC activator in a manner sufficient to stimulate the synthesis of proteins sufficient to consolidate long-term memory. The present invention also provides methods of contacting a protein kinase C (PKC) activator with a PKC activator in a manner sufficient to downregulate PKC.
US08703806B2
Compositions, methods and systems are provided for pulmonary or nasal delivery of two or more active agents via a metered dose inhaler. In one embodiment, the compositions include a suspension medium, active agent particles, and suspending particles, in which the active agent particles and suspending particles form a co-suspension within the suspension medium.
US08703803B2
Tris-quaternary ammonium salts and methods for modulating neuronal nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
Provided are tris-quaternary ammonium compounds which are modulators of nicotinic acetylocholine receptors. Also provided are methods of using the compounds for modulating the function of a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor, and for the prevention and/or treatment of central nervous system disorders, substance use and/or abuse and or gastrointestinal tract disorders.
US08703802B2
An improved process for the preparation of aryl substituted olefinic amines such as (2S)-(4E)-N-methyl-5-[3-(5-isopropoxypyridin)yl]-4-penten-2-amine and (2S)-(4E)-N-methyl-5-[3-(5-methoxypyridin)yl]-4-penten-2-amine and new intermediates used in said process.
US08703796B2
There are provided compounds of formula (I), wherein R1, R6, R8, Q2, Q3, Q3a, Q4, L and A have meanings given in the description, and pharmaceutically-acceptable salts thereof, which compounds are useful in the treatment of diseases in which inhibition of the activity of a member of the MAPEG family is desired and/or required, and particularly in the treatment of inflammation and/or cancer.
US08703792B2
The present application relates to novel C-1 substituted analogues of pancratistatin and 7-dexoypancratistatin of Formula (I), pharmaceutical compositions thereof and the use of said compounds of Formula (I) in the treatment of cancer The application also relates to processes for the preparation of said compound of Formula (I) and intermediates thereof.
US08703790B2
Novel compounds which are alkaloids related to bis [O-(14-Benzoylaconine-8-YL)]esters.
US08703788B2
The present invention provides a novel crystalline form of nilotinib hydrochloride, process for its preparation and pharmaceutical compositions comprising it.
US08703785B2
The present invention provides a compound which has an effect of inhibiting amyloid-β production and is useful as a therapeutic agent for diseases induced by production, secretion and/or deposition of amyloid-β proteins. The present invention relates to a compound represented by formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof: wherein A is optionally substituted carbocyclic diyl or optionally substituted heterocyclic diyl; B is an optionally substituted carbocyclic group or an optionally substituted heterocyclic group; R1 is a group such as optionally substituted lower alkyl; R2 is a group such as hydrogen; and R3a and R3b are each independently a group such as hydrogen, provided that the following compound is excluded.
US08703781B2
A novel combination comprising the MEK inhibitor N-{3-[3-cyclopropyl-5-(2-fluoro-4-iodo-phenylamino)6,8-dimethyl;-2,4,7-trioxo-3,4,6,7-tetrahydro-2H-pyrido[4,3-d]pyrimidin-1-yl]phenyl}acetamide, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or solvate thereof, with a B-Raf inhibitor, particularly N-{3-[5-(2-Amino-4-pyrimidinyl)-2-(1,1-dimethylethyl)-1,3-thiazol-4-yl]-2-fluorophen-}-2,6-difluorobenzenesulfonamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and methods of using such combinations and compositions in the treatment of conditions in which the inhibition of MEK and/or B-Raf is beneficial, eg. cancer.
US08703778B2
Provided herein are compounds of formula (I-A), (I-B), (I-C), or (I-D), pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of use thereof. The compounds provided herein modulate kinase activity, including PI3 kinase activity, and are useful for treating diseases and conditions associated with kinase activity, including diseases and conditions associated with PI3 kinase activity.
US08703772B2
The present invention provides low hygroscopic forms of aripiprazole and processes for the preparation thereof which will not convert to a hydrate or lose their original solubility even when a medicinal preparation containing the aripiprazole anhydride crystals is stored for an extended period.
US08703763B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I hetaryl I, hetaryl II, R1, R2, R3, Y, m, and o or to pharmaceutically active acid addition salts thereof. The present compounds of formula I are modulators for amyloid beta and thus, they may be useful for the treatment or prevention of a disease associated with the deposition of β-amyloid in the brain, in particular Alzheimer's disease, and other diseases such as cerebral amyloid angiopathy, hereditary cerebral hemorrhage with amyloidosis, Dutch-type (HCHWA-D), multi-infarct dementia, dementia pugilistica and Down syndrome.
US08703754B2
The present invention relates to a compound which is 6-amino-2-{[(1S)-1-methylbutyl]oxy}-9-[5-(1-piperidinyl)pentyl]-7,9-dihydro-8H-purin-8-one: in the form of a maleate salt, may be useful in the treatment of various disorders, for example the treatment of allergic diseases and other inflammatory conditions for example allergic rhinitis and asthma, the treatment of infectious diseases and cancer, and may also be useful as vaccine adjuvants.
US08703750B2
Mixtures are described comprising two or more compounds selected from at least two of the following groups: i) salicylic acid and/or its functional analogous products (ESA), ii) promoting compounds (PRO) and iii) modulating compounds (MOD), and their use for stimulating the natural defense systems of plants and for inducing resistance in plants. The use is also described, of two or more compounds selected from at least two of the following groups: one or more compounds belonging to the ESA group and/or one or more compounds belonging to the PRO group and/or one or more compounds belonging to the MOD group, individually adopted by means of application programs which envisage alternating application, to stimulate the natural defense systems of plants and inducing resistance in plants.
US08703749B2
A method of treating Friedreich's Ataxia with compounds of formula I including pharmaceutically acceptable salts, tautomers or stereoisomers of compounds of formula Lp.
