US08844059B1
A computing device detects a command to perform a print screen operation. On detecting the command to perform the print screen operation, the computing device identifies a file associated with a displayed application window. The computing device determines whether the file contains confidential information. Upon determining that the file contains confidential information, the computing device performs an action to enforce a data loss prevention policy.
US08844055B2
Techniques for generating and enforcing document visibility rights associated with a document in use with an electronic signature service are described. Consistent with embodiments of the invention, document visibility rights can be established for each person designated to sign and/or receive a copy of a document, and on a per-page, per-document section, or per-source document basis. Additionally, visibility rights may be conditional, such that various events (including the singing of a document) may modify visibility rights making a previously un-viewable page or document section viewable to a particular person.
US08844054B2
A system, method, and device includes a platform data storage that stores a wrap that secures an executable controller, executable sensors, and a virtual operating system. The wrap is verified, optionally through a downloaded authentication driver. After verifying the wrap, the wrap is opened and a sister of the executable controller is installed into the platform memory to cooperate with the executable controller. Additionally or alternatively, the authentication driver may cooperate with the executable controller. The executable controller allows the platform processor to execute the virtual operating system, which gives the platform processor access to virtual operating system resources necessary to verify the platform and create a connection to a connection server.
US08844046B2
A method of static source code analysis is provided. A forward search of source code is performed from each of a plurality of source nodes. A backward search of source code is performed from each of a plurality of sink nodes, wherein the forward search and the backward search are performed in parallel simultaneously. The progress of the forward search and the backward search are monitored to determine if the searches intersect at a common node. A vulnerability alert is generated when the monitoring determines that a forward search and a backward search reach a common node.
US08844045B2
A vulnerability identification and resolution (VIR) computer device for identifying security vulnerabilities in a computer system is provided. The VIR computer device includes a memory device for storing data including data representing computing assets installed in the computer system and a processor in communication with the memory device. The VIR computer device is programmed to receive an asset identifier identifying a computing asset selected for evaluation and execute a query on at least one database storing security vulnerabilities, the query searching for security vulnerability data associated with the selected computing asset. The VIR computer device is further programmed to receive the security vulnerability data at the VIR computer device in response to the query.
US08844028B1
An integrated secured open database connectivity (ODBC) application programming interface (API) arrangement is provided. The arrangement includes a driver manager, which is configured for at least handling a function call from an application program. The arrangement also includes a set of drivers, which is configured for at least accessing a data source and applying the function call to the data source. The arrangement further includes a security module, which is configured for performing at least one of scanning the function call for malicious content and preventing an unauthorized user from accessing the data source.
US08844023B2
A semiconductor memory may be provided with a built-in test mode that is accessible through a password protection scheme. This enables access to a built-in test mode after manufacturing, if desired. At the same time, the password protection prevents use of the built-in test mode to bypass security features of the memory.
US08844021B2
In one embodiment, a processor can enforce a blacklist and validate, according to a multi-phase lockstep integrity protocol, a device coupled to the processor. Such enforcement may prevent the device from accessing one or more resources of a system prior to the validation. The blacklist may include a list of devices that have not been validated according to the multi-phase lockstep integrity protocol. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US08844009B2
A resilient device authentication system comprising: one or more verification authorities (VAs) including a memory loaded with a complete verification set that includes hardware part-specific data, and configured to create a limited verification set (LVS) therefrom; one or more provisioning entities (PEs) each connectable to at least one of the VAs, including a memory loaded with a LVS, and configured to select a subset of data therefrom so as to create an application limited verification set (ALVS); and one or more device management systems connectable to at least one of the PEs, including a memory loaded with an ALVS, and configured to manage device security-related applications through the performance of security-related functions on devices associated with the hardware part-specific data.
US08844003B1
Preference data is received. The received preference data is compared to stored preference data associated with a user with which the received preference data is associated. A determination is made whether to authorize an action based at least on the comparison. The preference data is received as a selection.
US08843999B1
A method for identifying a user of a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phone in a network, the VoIP phone connected to a computing device via a communication link, includes receiving a request for an authorization token from a computing system on the network; sending a request to the computing device to generate an authorization token in response to the request, the authorization token generated by the computing device based on authentication data associated with the user; receiving the authorization token from the computing device; sending a message containing the authorization token to the computing system for validating an identity of the user; and sending, in response to validating the identity, a subsequent message containing the authorization token to the computing system.
US08843991B2
Audiovisual reproduction system comprising a central unit managing a sound control circuit, and a telecommunications modem connected to a distribution network controlled by a host server, through a multitask operating system created around a tools and services library, characterized in that the operating system comprises a function that adjusts the sound control circuit to couple volumes in the various areas in which the loudspeakers in the audiovisual reproduction system are used, this function being accessible through a management mode of the multitask operating system, the coupling maintaining the ratios between the various volumes in each area when the volume in one area is modified.
US08843990B1
A system and method for masking/reducing the switch time from an analog or digital television channel to another digital television channel and back. Various optimizations which may be used individually or in combination to minimize the potential disruption to the viewer. This optimization is especially important when the channel switch is made automatically by the receiver, such as the case where the presentation of one television program is temporarily continued on another channel.
US08843983B2
Techniques are described for a server to decompose a source video data stream to generate a plurality of video data streams. The video data streams may be combinable with one another. In particular, the frames of each plurality of video data streams may be combinable with the frames of the other plurality of video data streams. The plurality of video data streams may be available for download by a client device. The client device may combine and recompose two or more of the plurality of video data streams for presentment. In particular, the client device may combine frames from two or more of the plurality of video data streams to generate combined frames for presentment.
US08843974B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a process for a user viewing a media item. The process comprises the user viewing the media item on a first device in a first format, and the user pausing the media item at a stop time. The stop time is saved in the first format and a second format. The process further comprises the user choosing to view the media item on a second device requiring the second format. The media item is resumed in the second format from the saved stop time.
US08843972B2
A method of requesting video data distributed across a plurality of video servers(210-21N) connected to a communications network (120) is disclosed. A request (e.g., 1000) is transmitted to one of the video servers (e.g., 210). The request (1000) includes at least time information about at least a first portion of the video data. The first portion of video data is received from the video server (210). A redirection message (e.g., 1008) is also received from the video server (210). The redirection message (1008) specifies a next one of the video servers (210) containing a temporally adjacent further portion of the video data.
US08843970B2
A video distribution system includes a local network interface operable to modulate video data to frequency blocks for communication via a local network. A first frequency block of the frequency blocks is associated with a first user. The video distribution system also includes a metrics engine operable to track at least one metric associated with the first user based on the video data modulated to the first frequency block.
US08843964B2
An interactive matrix tile transformation user interface is contemplated. The user interface may be configured to facilitate user navigation of a display or other interface through which services may be requested, including facilitating navigation of television related services. The user interface may be operable in a device having capabilities sufficient to control operation of an output device in response to user input.
US08843959B2
The method, system and computer program product generate online interactive maps linking tracked objects (in a live or pre-recorded video sequence) to multimedia content in real time. Specifically, an object tracking and link generation (OTLG) utility allows a user to access multimedia content by clicking on moving (or still) objects within the frames of a video (or image) sequence. The OTLG utility identifies and stores a clear image(s) of an object or of multiple objects to be tracked and initiates a mechanism to track the identified objects over a sequence of video or image frames. The OTLG utility utilizes the results of the tracking mechanism to generate, for each video frame, an interactive map frame with interactive links placed in the map frame at a location corresponding to the object's tracked location in each video frame.
US08843952B2
A computer-implemented method for clustering audio fingerprints from different set top boxes into groups based on their similarities is disclosed. The computer server receives audio fingerprints generated at different set top boxes and partitions them into multiple groups such that audio fingerprints within a group correspond to a respective TV program being played at the respective set top boxes. Upon receipt of an audio fingerprint from a set top box, the computer server identifies a group of audio fingerprints that are substantially similar to the audio fingerprint, determines TV program information for the audio fingerprint in accordance with the channel metadata associated with the identified group of audio fingerprints, and returns the TV program information to the requesting set top box.
US08843947B2
A system and method employs an online site for making stored digital video recordings available for selection and download to a wireless communications device. Upon receipt of a selection for a digital video recording, the system and method causes the selected digital video recording to be wirelessly transmitted to the wireless communications device. The selected digital video recording is also made available to a personal computer associated with the user who made the selection. At least a title of the selected digital video recording is stored in a personal storage account of the user.
US08843936B2
A method and associated systems for automatically identifying critical resources in an organization. An organization creates a model of the dependencies between pairs of resource instances, wherein that model describes how the organization's projects and services are affected when a resource instance becomes unavailable. This model may be represented as a system of directed graphs. This model may be used to automatically identify a resource instance as “critical” when excessive cost is required to resume all projects and services rendered infeasible by the disruption of that resource instance. This model may also be used to automatically identify a resource instance as “critical for a resource type” when disruption of the resource instance forces the capacity of the resource type available to the entire organization to fall below a threshold value.
US08843934B2
Provided is a resource management method in a system which individually limits a resource amount used by a software module (143) and adjusts the total of the maximum resource amounts used by respective software modules to be smaller than the entire system resource amount. When installing or executing a new software module, step 406 checks whether a software module group already installed or being executed is stably operating according to an execution history thereof; and step 407 checks whether to enable the installation or execution by including the maximum actual resource use value in the total from the execution history.
US08843930B2
Embodiments relate to systems and methods for thread control and scheduling. According to a particular embodiment, a daemon framework provides a uniform approach for scheduling and execution of inter-related processes. The daemon framework may comprise a main daemon configured to manage lifecycle, to manage status, and to control child daemon(s) responsible for functions such as scanning of folders and Persistent Staging Areas (PSAs) for delivery of new data threads. Embodiments may allow visualization of process status, as well as controlling each of these processes. Embodiments may provide for programmatical and/or manual intervention, including error correction. Particular embodiments may have self-correction capability in the case of external or internal errors.
US08843929B1
A computer-implemented method for assigning computing tasks to computers in a group is disclosed. The method includes determining, for each computer in a group of computers, an ability of the computer to execute tasks expected to be received by the group of computers; generating an ability indicator for each computer based on the ability determination for the computer; and assigning an incoming computing task to one of the computers using the ability indicator.
US08843928B2
A method and system of efficient use and programming of a multi-processing core device. The system includes a programming construct that is based on stream-domain code. A programmable core based computing device is disclosed. The computing device includes a plurality of processing cores coupled to each other. A memory stores stream-domain code including a stream defining a stream destination module and a stream source module. The stream source module places data values in the stream and the stream conveys data values from the stream source module to the stream destination module. A runtime system detects when the data values are available to the stream destination module and schedules the stream destination module for execution on one of the plurality of processing cores.
US08843924B2
A method for virtual machine management that includes establishing a first virtual machine on a hardware platform, performing a selected task on the first virtual machine and recording a first data set indicating a characteristic of the first virtual machine performing the selected task. The method also includes establishing a second virtual machine on the hardware platform, performing the selected task on the first and second virtual machines, recording a second data set indicating the characteristic of the first and second virtual machines performing the selected task and indicating acceptable data and unacceptable data within the first and second data sets. The method also includes creating and training a decision tree based on the acceptable and unacceptable data from the first and second data sets and inputting a third data set from a third virtual machine into the decision tree to determine if the third virtual machine is over-constrained.
US08843920B2
A software development method defers certain implementation details until load time. A programmer first annotates, in source code, a selected set of software components using metadata (such as Java-style annotations) that define one or more criteria—e.g., criteria relating to the state of the target hardware platform, the capabilities of the platform, or arbitrary user input. The annotated source code files are then compiled to create one or more intermediate code files (e.g., Java bytecode files). During load time of the resulting intermediate code files, one or more of the selected set of software components are loaded from the intermediate code files based on the criteria.
US08843916B2
A method, system and a non-transitory computer storage medium for obtaining a dynamic update in instant messaging software. The method includes obtaining update manner modification parameters and real-time user interaction data; generating a corresponding update manner according to the update manner modification parameters and the real-time user interaction data; and obtaining corresponding updated information according to the update manner. With the above-mentioned steps, according to the habit of a user, the update manner of the dynamic modification allows the updated information to be obtained in a timely manner and reduce the pressure on bandwidth. It results in a balance between the bandwidth cost and the timeliness, which greatly saves the network bandwidth and improves the experience of user.
US08843913B2
A computer system may generate a plurality of component kernels, which are to be linked during the runtime. The system may determine whether a combined kernel K is present in response to receiving a first request to retrieve the combined kernel K. The system may compose the combined kernel K from the selected component kernels of the plurality of component kernels during the runtime if the combined kernel is not already present.
US08843904B2
Architecture-dependent assets are automatically built and retargeted. An asset originally built for one architecture is downloaded and automatically retargeted on another architecture. This automatically retargeting may be performed on demand, at runtime.
US08843902B2
A method and corresponding tool for estimating program execution time. A higher-level structure is received as an input, representing control flow through an executable program. The higher-level structure comprises one or more levels of parent nodes, each parent node representing internal structure comprising a group of one or more child nodes and one or more associated edges between nodes. The levels of the higher-level structure are probed to extract a substructure representing a route through the program from a start instruction to an end instruction, by selectively extracting nodes of different levels of parent to represent different regions along the route in dependence on a location of the start and end instructions relative to the levels of parent nodes. An execution time for the route through the program is estimated based on the extracted substructure, and a modification affecting the execution time is made in dependence on the estimation.
US08843900B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for facilitating a serial debugging experience for programs running in a distributed, non-deterministic, out-of-order (i.e., parallel) fashion are disclosed. Such systems, methods, and computer program products provide a modified combination of breakpoints, stepping, and call stacks that facilitate the ability to improve the debugging experience for out-of-order program execution. In an embodiment, a task scheduler provides a distributed task graph. Then, the user may hit breakpoints sequentially within the graph's execution and use deterministic stepping (i.e., step-in, step-out, and step-over functions) to create a logical call stack from a distributed task graph. Such embodiments allow the program to execute in a distributed and parallel manner, while presenting the user a sequential execution experience in the debugger.
US08843895B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method that includes establishing a connection with one or more virtual machines using a debugger protocol configured to communicate debug commands to applications executed by the one or more virtual machines. The method also includes transmitting a request for a current state of the one or more virtual machines using the connection. Information associated with the current state includes state variables not controlled by an application receiving debug commands. The method includes outputting the current state of the one or more virtual machines for display to a user.
US08843892B2
A device can implement a stage view depicting a visual element for each of a plurality of components of an application under development. The device implements a code overlay showing whether code can be applied to the components and, for components to which code can be applied, a code status indicator. The status indicator may relate to procedural code or to a data member, such as an object or other variable. Different indicators can be used to show that code can be applied, code is applied correctly, incomplete code is applied, or code is applied but contains an error. Different colors or other visual effects can be used to indicate status. The indicators may be selectable to provide a code viewing or editing interface. A status indicator for code associated with a component can be positioned near the visual representation of the component, but may be repositionable.
US08843891B2
A system, method and computer readable medium to remotely control performance of a method including detecting an identifier of an object requested to run on a computer system via a kernel running on the computer system, comparing the identifier with a list of identifiers of custom created code objects, and taking an action as a function of whether or not the identifier of the requested object is on the list of identifiers of custom created code objects.
US08843886B2
Code review is performed by initiating a source code editing session associated with a first user, where the source code editing session is controlled by a computer-based source code editing tool that is configured to accept changes to source code of a computer-based software application during the source code editing session, displaying on a computer display, in the context of the source code editing session, a source code portion of the computer-based software application, and displaying on the computer display, in the context of the source code editing session, a visual indicator that is associated with the source code portion, and that indicates that the source code portion was added or modified by a second user.
US08843876B2
A method keeps a web session alive for an amount of time allowing to keep a limited amount of data on the Internet information server and manage individually the session timeout characteristics of the web session in the web application. The method automatically refreshes the web pages in the background without any further user interaction. Thereby, a portion of code added effectively creates a hidden postback that keeps alive the session's state. By a class library, the user is enabled at the engineering level to manage a session timeout state and to eliminate a premature timeout thereby eliminating any risk of possible data loss.
US08843866B2
A design support apparatus calculates a crosstalk noise value when a power line does not run parallel, for each of a plurality of sections. Moreover, the design support apparatus calculates a coefficient Fshield that becomes larger with decrease in the area of the power line included in an area between two signal lines based on a relative positional relationship between the two signal lines and the power line in a section, for each of the plurality of sections. Moreover, the design support apparatus corrects the crosstalk noise value corresponding to a section, using the coefficient Fshield corresponding to the section, for each of the plurality of sections. Moreover, the design support apparatus calculates a total of the corrected crosstalk noise values corresponding respectively to the plurality of sections as a crosstalk noise value between the two signal lines.
US08843855B2
A method, computer-readable medium, and apparatus are provided for browsing maps of events of various types that occurred on a piece of land on various dates. A map is displayed on a map interface that allows a user to navigate to other maps using different types of navigation that are triggered by different types of user input. A single instance of a first type of user input triggers display of another map of the same event type as a currently displayed map. A single instance of a second type of user input triggers display of another map that is chronologically adjacent to the currently displayed map, regardless of event type. Alternately, the second type of user input triggers skipping maps of the same event type to navigate to a map of a different event type. The maps each include a graphical representation of a measurement at a given location.
US08843848B2
An information processing apparatus displays a window screen based on screen information transmitted from a terminal device. Upon detection of a resize operation for the window screen, the information processing apparatus transmits a window size finally decided by the resize operation to the terminal device. The terminal device transmits screen information of a sharing-selected window screen to the information processing apparatus. Upon reception of the window size, the terminal device magnifies the sharing-selected window screen according to the received window size.
US08843842B2
Data indicative of membership of at least one of a plurality of content classes is made available for each one of a collection of content items. A method of selecting at least one item includes displaying a representation of sections of a geo-metrical construct occupying an at least one-dimensional space. The geometrical construct is partitioned into sections in accordance with a mapping between the at least one-dimensional space and a domain of the data indicative of class membership, such that each section represents a class. A signal defining a sub-space within the space is received, and the mapping is used to effect a selection of at least one item of content data commensurate with the defined sub-space.
US08843839B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for tracking, in at least one computing device, a presentation of a plurality of items for a user, each item being associated with at least one respective category of a plurality of categories, and determining a user histogram that is customized for a user. A visual symbol may be generated based at least upon the user histogram for each category, each visual symbol comprising a visual characteristic for associating the visual symbol to the category and a graphical dimension of the visual symbol, wherein the graphical dimension correlates with the respective degree of interest associated with the category. Each visual symbol may be appended to one another to form a graphic identifier and a user interface encoded for rendering, where the user interface comprises the graphic identifier.
US08843834B2
Method and apparatus for initiating and managing a chat session are described herein. According to one embodiment, user activities with respect to the data processing system are monitored, including user activities that are unrelated to chat services. In response to a request to initiate a chat session between a local user and a remote user, a first chat service account is selected from a list of chat service accounts associated with the remote user based on the monitored user activities. A chat session is initiated using the selected first chat service account of the remote user and a second chat service account selected for the local user. Certain information is displayed within a chat window indicating that the chat session is conducted between the first and second chat service accounts. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US08843828B2
Provided is a desktop navigation tool (DNT) for navigation across multiple web pages, including the original and the second web page described in the paragraph above. An “UP” button enables a user to navigate from the new web page back to a different window, opened from a particular window. A “DOWN” (DN) button enables the user to navigate back to a window from which a particular window was spawned. This functionality differs from that found in standard “FORWARD” and “BACK” navigation buttons, typically found in a browser window, which only enable a user to navigate through web pages within a particular window. The claimed subject matter enables a user to navigate more freely and efficiently among multiple windows.
US08843823B2
A document display system is provided which includes a first document display device, and a second document display device. The first document display device includes a display processing portion configured to display an electronic document, a settings update portion configured to update display settings information indicating latest display settings in response to operation for modifying settings by a user during a period in which the electronic document is displayed, and a document transmission portion configured to send out the electronic document and the display settings information. The second document display device includes a document obtaining portion configured to obtain the electronic document and the display settings information sent out from the first document display device, and a display setting portion configured to incorporate settings for display settings indicated in the display settings information into display settings to be applied at a start of display of the electronic document.
US08843815B2
A system and method for automatically extracting meta data from unstructured electronic documents is disclosed. In one embodiment, the unstructured electronic document is converted into a plain text document. Further, a document header of the unstructured electronic document is extracted from the plain text document using a rule-based document header extractor, where the rule-based document header extractor may be based on a rule that includes determining a ratio of a number of words with their initial letters capitalized in a text line over a total number of words in the text line in the plain text document. Moreover, meta data is extracted from the extracted document header using a heuristic approach.
US08843812B1
A plurality of metrics associated with a plurality of partially decoded codewords is obtained. The plurality of partially decoded codewords has been processed at least once by a first soft output decoder and a second soft output decoder and the plurality of partially decoded codewords is stored in a memory. At least one of the plurality of partially decoded codewords is selected based at least in part on the plurality of metrics; the memory is instructed to vacate the at least one selected codeword.
US08843811B2
An apparatus and a method for decoding bits of a received signal in a communication system are provided. The method includes determining path metrics of respective states in a trellis corresponding to the received signal, selecting a start state in the trellis for a traceback in a last window of the trellis, repeating the traceback at least twice within the last window, and when the repeating of the traceback is completed, determining the decoded bits of the received signal using a survived path of a last traceback.
US08843800B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit pertaining to the present invention comprises a plurality of storage elements for storing and holding an input signal, a majority circuit that outputs a result of a majority decision of outputs from the plurality of storage elements; an error detector circuit that detects a mismatch among the outputs of the plurality of storage elements and outputs error signals; and a monitor circuit that monitors the error signals from the error detector circuit, wherein the monitor circuit, based on the error signals, orders a refresh action that rewrites data for rectification to a storage element in which an output mismatch occurs out of the plurality of storage elements and, if rewrite and rectification by the refresh action are unsuccessful, sends a notification to an external unit or process.
US08843797B2
A method for detecting unstable signatures when testing a VLSI chip that includes adding to an LFSR one or more save and restore registers for storing an initial seed consisting of 0s and 1s; loading the initial seed into the LFSR and one or more save and restore registers; initializing a MISR and running test loops. Upon reaching a predetermined number of test loops, moving a signature of the MISR to a shadow register; then, performing a signature stability test by loading the initial seed to the LFSR; executing the predetermined number of BIST test loops, and comparing a resulting MISR signature for differences versus a previous signature stored in a MISR save and restore register, wherein unloading is performed by way of serial MISR unloads and single bit XORs.
US08843795B2
A reconfigurable device test scheme is provided for making a test of a reconfigurable device with configuration data which is loaded a smaller number of times. A reconfigurable device used herein holds a plurality of configuration data and is capable of instantaneously switching which configuration is implemented thereby. Specifically, one transfer configuration data and one or more test configuration data are previously loaded in a configuration memory of the reconfigurable device, and a test is made while sequentially switching the transfer configuration data and the test configuration data. In this way, the same configuration data need not be reloaded over and over, so that the test can be made with a smaller number of times of loading as compared with before.
US08843794B2
Techniques and mechanisms for evaluating I/O buffer circuits. In an embodiment, test rounds are performed for a device including the I/O buffer circuits, each of the test rounds comprising a respective loop-back test for each of the I/O buffer circuits. Each of the test rounds corresponds to a different respective delay between a transmit clock signal and a receive clock signal. In another embodiment, a first test round indicates a failure condition for at least one I/O buffer circuit and a second test round indicates the failure condition for each of the I/O buffer circuits. Evaluation of the I/O buffer circuits determines whether the device satisfies a test condition, where the determining is based on a difference between the delay corresponding to the first test round and the delay corresponding to the second test round.
US08843780B1
A main data center with first and second backup data centers also has a translator for assisting a failover module of a failed server at the main data center in implementing failover of the failed server to a corresponding server at the first backup data center. The translator intercepts a command from the failover module to a store of the main data center, where the command directs the store to disable writes to particular storage space in the store associated with the failed server, but does not identify with specificity which of a store of the first data center and a store of the second data center is enabled to write to such particular storage space. Thus, the translator determines an identification of the store of the first backup data center, and modifies the command from the failover module based on the determined identification.
US08843777B2
Multiple modules are connected to a signal output module via first and second busses. Different commands may be transmitted on the two busses. Both busses may be hierarchically constructed so that all units are connected one after the other in a chain like manner on the busses. The modules cooperate to transition an output signal between different duty cycles and activate and deactivate responsive to timer comparisons.
US08843776B2
Reporting electrical current to a processor. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are methods including providing operational power to a processor at a voltage indicated by the processor of a computer system, measuring electrical current actually drawn by the processor, and reporting to the processor a value of electrical current drawn by the processor. The value of electrical current reported different than the electrical current actually drawn by more than a measurement error of measuring the electrical current actually drawn.
US08843775B2
A computing platform may include components to determine performance loss values and energy savings values for each of the plurality of regions and/or the memory boundedness value of each of a plurality of regions within an application. The computing platform may provide a user interface for a user to provide a user input, which provides an indication of an acceptable performance loss. For the provided performance loss value, the frequency values may be determined and the processing element may be operated at the frequency values while processing each of the plurality of regions.
US08843770B2
Charging a device using a plurality of handshakes. A first device may provide a first handshake to a second device. A device of a first device type may be configured to charge its battery without further communication based on the first handshake. The first device may monitor a connection to the second device for a second handshake corresponding to a device of a second device type. In response to detecting the second handshake, the first device may provide a response to the second device. Accordingly, the second device of the second device type may be configured to charge its battery based on the second handshake.
US08843760B2
A biometric and cryptographic processing unit includes a biometric receiver receiving biometric information of a BCU user. A biometric unit of the BCU has a store of biometric information of an authorized BCU user and compares received biometric information with the stored biometric information to determine if the user is an authorized BCU user. A cryptographic unit generates/stores an asymmetric cryptographic public/private key pair associated with each authorized BCU user. An input/output port allows encrypted/unencrypted data to be input to/output from the BCU. The cryptographic unit operates in response to a specific authorized user giving permission to undertake a specific cryptographic operation on data input to the BCU only upon the specific authorized user being determined as an authorized BCU user, whereby a specific private key corresponding to the specific authorized user is enabled for use in the specific cryptographic operation after which the specific private key is disabled.
US08843754B2
This invention discloses a system for determining whether a purported or alleged authorized user is in fact the authorized user, by comparing new data on a real-time basis against probability distribution representations including an authorized user probability distribution representation and a global or wide population probability distribution representation, to provide a probability as to whether the purported authorized user is the authorized user. This invention may utilize keyboard dynamics or data, or X-Y device data, or other data from similar measurable characteristics, to determine the probability that the new data from the purported authorized user indicates or identifies that user as the authorized user. This invention identifies the user continuously as the user interacts with the system and to identify a change in situation in the environment of the user. This invention provides a means to identify an anonymous user by matching the continuous recorded behaviormetrics or a characteristic of the anonymous user with the behaviormetrics of known users.
US08843753B2
A method for erasing bootstrapping, at a device or a gateway in a Machine-to-Machine (M2M) service is provided. The method includes receiving an erase request containing a first M2M-Erase-Token from an M2M Authentication Server (MAS) or an M2M Service Bootstrapping Function (MSBF), processing the erase request based on the first M2M-Erase-Token or a local policy of the device or the gateway, and sending an erase response containing a second M2M-Erase-Token to the MAS or the MSBF.
US08843748B2
A method for establishing a secure network architecture, a method and system for secure communication are provided. The method for establishing a secure network architecture includes: 1) constructing the network architecture where the identities of nodes are legal, including: neighboring node discovery; performing identities certification and shared key negotiation between a node and the neighbor node; 2) constructing a secure switching device architecture, including: establishing a shared key between every two of the switch devices.
US08843746B2
In a method and arrangement for the secure transmission of at least one electronic message from a first terminal of a first user to at least one second terminal of a second user, the electronic message is generated by the first terminal. The electronic message is received by the second terminal. The electronic message is transmitted by an infrastructure for legally binding transmission of electronic messages from the first terminal to the second terminal. A first security module connected to the first terminal encrypts and/or signs the electronic message before the electronic message is transmitted by the infrastructure from the first terminal to the second terminal. A second security module, connected to the second terminal, decrypts the transmitted electronic message and/or verifies the signed electronic message.
US08843743B2
A method for transmitting an encrypted signal to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) such that decryption of the encrypted signal depends on a trust zone associated with the WTRU is disclosed. The encryption may be performed using hierarchical modulation, scrambling, authentication, location validation, or a combination thereof. The size of a trust zone may also be adjusted.
US08843737B2
A network element supports Transmission Control Protocol Authentication Option (TCP-AO) with a Key Management Protocol (KMP) to authenticate TCP segments over a TCP session. The network element negotiates multiple traffic keys to authenticate TCP segments over a TCP session with a peer network element, and protects the TCP session with the negotiated traffic keys.
US08843731B2
A memory device includes a serial interface buffer that receives a hardware-decodable command and an extended interface command. The memory device also includes a logic module that directs the hardware-decodable command to a register for execution by a microcontroller. The logic module additionally loads a command received following the extended interface command into a sub-op-code register, wherein the logic module remains passive after loading the command received following the extended interface command into the sub-op-code register. Also included is a microcontroller that interprets the command in the sub-op-code register.
US08843727B2
An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to enhance address translation performance. A register stores capability indicators to indicate capability supported by a circuit in a chipset for address translation of a guest physical address to a host physical address. A plurality of multi-level page tables is used for page walking in the address translation. Each of the page tables has page table entries. Each of the page table entries has at least an entry specifier corresponding to the capability indicated by the capability indicators.
US08843726B2
A cache is provided, including a data array having a plurality of entries configured to store a plurality of different types of data, and a tag array having a plurality of entries and configured to store a tag of the data stored at a corresponding entry in the data array and further configured to store an identification of the type of data stored in the corresponding entry in the data array.
US08843724B2
A computer system dynamically assigns the storage capacity from pool volumes to the access target in the higher-level system, and can immediately respond to the change of the status of the pool comprising the pool volumes. A control device sets the access target for the host computer to access, each time a write to the access target occurs from the host computer, from the pool assigned to the access target to the write area of the access target. The control device performs the processing of assigning the storage capacity from the logical volume in the pool. The control device defines the logical volumes in advance, compiles the same into a management group as a preliminary for the pool and, in accordance with the change of the pool status, adds the logical volumes from the management group to the pool.
US08843721B2
A data storage system comprises a controller, a first lower performance storage medium and a second higher performance storage medium. The controller is connected to the storage mediums and is arranged to control I/O access to the storage mediums. The controller is further arranged to store an image on the first storage medium, initiate a copy function from the first storage medium to the second storage medium, direct all I/O access for the image to the second storage medium, periodically age data from the second storage medium to the first storage medium, create a new empty bitmap for each period, and in response to an I/O access for data in the image, update the latest bitmap to indicate that the data has been accessed and update the previous bitmaps to indicate that the data has not been accessed.
US08843720B2
A method for addressing an out-of-space condition for a Virtual Storage Access Method (VSAM) Volume Data Set (VVDS) includes detecting an out-of-space condition in a VVDS on a volume. The method creates, in response to the out-of-space condition, a new VVDS on the volume without adding a record to the old VVDS (e.g., by bypassing “catalog services”). The new VVDS is assigned a temporary name. The method then copies records from the old VVDS to the new VVDS. The method may then rename the old VVDS to a temporary name and rename the new VVDS to the original name of the old VVDS. The old VVDS may then be deleted. Alternatively, instead of renaming the old VVDS to a temporary name, the old VVDS may be deleted. The new VVDS may then be renamed to the original name of the old VVDS. A corresponding apparatus and computer program product are also described.
US08843708B2
A system to load a plurality of converter pages of a datastore into a database cache, the plurality of converter pages comprising a plurality of converter inner pages, and a plurality of converter leaf pages, to allocate a control block in the database cache for each of the plurality of converter inner pages, the control block of a converter inner page comprising a pointer to a control block of a parent converter inner page and a pointer to a control block of each child converter page of the converter inner page, and to allocate a control block in the database cache for each of the plurality of converter leaf pages, the control block of a converter leaf page comprising a pointer to a control block of a parent converter inner page.
US08843702B2
Device, system, and method of memory allocation. For example, an apparatus includes: a Dual In-line Memory Module (DIMM) including a plurality of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) units to store data, wherein each DRAM unit includes a plurality of banks and each bank is divided into a plurality of sub-banks; and a memory management unit to allocate a set of interleaved sub-banks of said DIMM to a memory page of an Operating System, wherein a combined memory size of the set of interleaved sub-banks is equal to a size of the memory page of the Operating System.
US08843700B1
A system and method for storing infrequently accessed data with reduced power consumption. In one embodiment, a solid state drive (SSD) includes flash memory and environmental data logging circuitry. The SSD is shut off or operated in a sleep mode to reduce power consumption, and turned on or transitioned to an active mode as needed when data on the SSD is to be accessed, or when a calculation, based on a number of erase cycles previously performed in the flash memory and on a temperature history of the SSD indicates that a data refresh may be needed to prevent data corruption in the SSD, due to data retention limitation of the nonvolatile memory in the SSD.
US08843699B2
In one aspect, a method of writing data in a flash memory system is provided. The flash memory system forms an address mapping pattern according to a log block mapping scheme. The method includes determining a writing pattern of data to be written in a log block, and allocating one of SLC and MLC blocks to the log block in accordance with the writing pattern of the data.
US08843698B2
A flash memory apparatus that may include a plurality of memory portions, and a controller operative to reserve for data retention purposes, for at least a first duration of time, only certain memory portions; allocate data, during said first duration of time, only to said certain memory portions, thereby to define a retired memory portion for said first duration of time; determine to copy data from a certain memory portion to a retired memory portion based upon a relationship between effective cycle counts of the certain memory portion and the retired memory portion, an effective cycle count of any memory portion is responsive to a number of erase-write cycles and to an effective duration of time the memory portion had available to recover from erase-write cycles; and copy the data from the certain memory portion to the retired memory portion.
US08843696B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a nonvolatile memory in which data write or data read is executed in units of a plurality of cells, and a controller configured to control the memory and to manage a memory space of the memory by dividing the memory space into a plurality of partitions.
US08843689B2
Techniques are disclosed to perform an operation to facilitate concurrent repair of PCIe switch units in processing environments such as a tightly coupled, multi-switch, multi-adapter, multi-host distributed system. The operation, for an identified switch unit to be repaired, reconfigures all switch unit hardware in the switch fabric by removing all upstream to downstream connections utilizing the identified switch unit. Connections to hosts via the upstream ports are also removed by the operation. Once the switch unit is powered back on, the operation reconfigures all switch unit hardware in the switch fabric by adding all upstream to downstream connections utilizing the identified switch unit. The operation further restores connections to hosts via the upstream ports.
US08843687B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a storing section that stores a setting state that is one of a first connecting state in which another end of a first outbound system bus is connected to an outbound output terminal and another end of a first inbound system bus is connected to an inbound output terminal, and a second connecting state in which another end of a second outbound system bus is connected to the outbound output terminal and another end of a second inbound system bus is connected to the inbound output terminal; and a control section that controls an outbound path switching section and an inbound path switching section based on the setting state so as to assume one of the first connecting state and the second connecting state.
US08843677B2
An embodiment of the invention pertains to a method that includes an operating system, program components running on the operating system, and a file system associated with one or more files. Responsive to a write request sent from a specified program component to the operating system, in order to write specified data content to a given file, the method determines whether the write request meets a criterion, which is derived from the identity of at least one of the specified program component, and the given file. If the criterion is met, a message is immediately sent to release the specified program component from a wait state. Data portions of the specified data content are then selectively written to a storage buffer, and subsequently written from the buffer to the given file.
US08843672B2
An access method includes: obtaining, by a computer, a result of monitoring a busy rate and a number of access operations per unit time of a storage device, the storage device having a first storage area and a second storage area; calculating a characteristic of correlation between the busy rate and the number of access operations per unit time based on the result; calculating a second number of access operations per unit time based on the characteristic of the correlation such that a sum of a first busy rate corresponding to a first number of access operations per unit time and a second busy rate corresponding to a second number of access operations per unit time becomes equal to or lower than a given busy rate; and controlling a number of operations to access the second storage area per unit time based on the second number of access operations.
US08843671B1
Various embodiments of the invention provide resource management of available data bandwidth of a SAS system in a non-uniform way. In certain embodiments, arbitration wait time values are adaptively modified to achieve a specified performance quota for a link.
US08843665B2
A service processor communication method includes establishing a communication channel between a service processor and a central processor in a computing system, wherein communication on the communication channel is independent of processing by the central processor, monitoring an operating system that is under control by the central processor, defining a source designator associated with state information of the operating system, and that is passed via the communication channel between the service processor and the central processor; and announcing the state information to a resource external to the computing system.
US08843664B2
A host device can download a firmware update to a peripheral device having previously enumerated with the host device. The host device can perform link training with the peripheral device in response to a re-enumeration indication received from the peripheral device. The link training can include switching a Link Training and Status State Machine (LTSSM) in the host device from an active state (U0) to an RX.Detect state and synchronizing with the peripheral device in the RX.Detect state. The host device can re-enumerate with the peripheral device utilizing the firmware update after the host device completes link training with the peripheral device.
US08843663B2
A data transmission device and a command merging method for data transmission are provided. The data transmission device includes a command register and a command merging unit. The command register receives and temporary storages a plurality of original commands, wherein the original commands include a plurality of memory blocks. When the command merging unit judges these memory blocks of the original commands to be a continuous memory block, the command merging unit merges the original commands into a merging command, and transmits the merging command to a peripheral device. Thus, the multiple commands send by the host can be analyzed and merged by the data transmission device to decrease a number of the commands to be proceed by the peripheral device, so as to speed up a command processing time of the peripheral device efficiently.
US08843662B2
A system and method for allowing individual register access during system integration and test is disclosed. A Chip select is routed between an OMAP processor and a waveform FPGA and configured to allow individual register access during system integration and test. Logic is then added to the FPGA to support the single access to the FPGA's peripherals. This allows the user connected to the debug port to be able to send and receive individual commands to and from the waveform FPGA's peripherals. A Graphical User Interface (GUI) maybe developed to provide a graphical interface or scripts may be used to assemble multiple commands thereby increasing flexibility to configure the peripherals during integration and troubleshooting.
US08843660B1
The present disclosure relates to a simulator for performing a distributed simulation. The simulator comprises a simulation controller and a plurality of configurable modular cards. The simulation controller determines configuration and reconfiguration parameters of the cards, and exchanges configuration and reconfiguration messages with the cards. Each card comprises a configurable input/output unit comprising a plurality of configurable inputs and outputs, and a power supply comprising a plurality of configurable power supply circuits. The input/output unit exchanges configuration and reconfiguration messages with the simulation controller. Each card comprises a processor for configuring the plurality of inputs and outputs of the configurable input/output unit and the plurality of power circuits of the power supply, for reconfiguring the plurality of inputs and outputs of the configurable input/output unit and the plurality of power circuits of the power supply, and for executing a simulation code to implement a functionality of the simulator.
US08843651B2
A system, comprising a compute node and coupled network adapter (NA), that supports improved data transfer request buffering and a more efficient method of determining the completion status of data transfer requests. Transfer requests received by the NA are stored in a first buffer then transmitted on a network interface. When significant network delays are detected and the first buffer is full, the NA sets a flag to stop software issuing transfer requests. Compliant software checks this flag before sending requests and does not issue further requests. A second NA buffer stores additional received transfer requests that were perhaps in-transit. When conditions improve the flag is cleared and the first buffer used again. Completion status is efficiently determined by grouping network transfer requests. The NA counts received requests and completed network requests for each group. Software determines if a group of requests is complete by reading a count value.
US08843650B2
A system for trusted network booting of a server. The system may include a booting server that may contain a booting image and a network server that may boot with the booting image from the booting server. The network server may include a trust anchor that measures the booting image. The system may further include a network controller that controls access to a network. The network controller may verify the measurement of the booting image before allowing the network server to access the network.
US08843646B2
As described herein, a computer system receives a first indication that an interactive login session is to be established. The first indication includes user credentials for establishing the interactive login session. The computer system then establishes the interactive login session using the received user credentials. The interactive login session includes a data transfer endpoint for receiving data from other sessions. The computer system receives a second indication that a child session is to be established in parallel to the established interactive login session. The child session is configured to direct input and output data through a loopback connection to the data transfer endpoint of the interactive login session. The computer system also establishes the child session using the received user credentials. The child session then transfers at least a portion of data to the data transfer endpoint of the interactive login session using the loopback connection.
US08843641B2
A plug-in connector system for a data communication interface comprising a network connector and a network socket is equipped with an integrated authentication function that is independent of network communication. The authentication is undertaken independently of the data transmission or the data communication. The enabling is undertaken by a physical connection between the contacts of the network socket, where the network connector associated therewith is established after successful authentication.
US08843636B1
Digital certificates are distributed to WAN optimization modules in organization and content delivery networks to securely optimize network traffic. The content delivery network identifies edge WAN optimization modules for use with each combination of organizations and their cloud services and distributes digital certificates accordingly. Peering digital certificates for establishing inner connections between organization and edge WAN optimization modules are exchanged via one or more management portals. Shadow digital certificates for establishing outer connections between WAN optimization modules and clients are generated in the form of certificate signing requests. Configuration information identifies any additional cloud services associated with a given cloud service and generate corresponding additional certificate signing requests. Certificate signing requests are digitally signed by a certificate signing authority associated with the organization and then returned via the one or more management portals to the allocated edge WAN optimization modules. Digital certificates may be rotated for security purposes.
US08843635B2
Apparatus and method for providing a service through a sharing solution providing unit in a cloud computing environment. The apparatus may include a first service unit, a second service unit, and a solution managing unit. The first service unit may provide a first service requiring a first solution. The second service unit may provide a second service that is different from the first service and requires the first solution. The solution managing unit may provide the first solution to the first service unit and the second service unit by sharing at least one solution providing unit that generates the first solution.
US08843627B1
Embodiments of the invention provide a method, system, and computer readable medium for classifying network traffic based on application signatures generated during a training phase. The application signatures are generated using (a) seeding flows obtained from a network trace based on a pre-determined selection criterion, and (b) for each seeding flow, a seeded flow group that is obtained from the network trace based on a pre-determined seeding criterion associated with the seeding flow. Specifically, persistent data patterns frequently occurring across multiple seeded flow groups are analyzed to generate the signatures.
US08843626B2
Example methods and apparatus to determine impressions using distributed demographic information are disclosed. A disclosed example method to monitor media exposure involves receiving, at a first internet domain, a first request from a client computer, the first request indicative of access to the media at the client computer. The example method also involves determining if the client computer is known. If the client computer is not known, a response is sent from the first internet domain to the client computer, the response to instruct the client computer to send a second request to a second internet domain, the second request to be indicative of access to the media at the client computer. If the client computer is known, an impression of the media is logged.
US08843620B2
Apparatus for processing requests from a plurality of connected clients for data stored by a plurality of connected servers comprising a processor, memory, storage, a network interface, and a user input device is disclosed. The processor is configured to receive requests from the connected clients via the network interface, select a connected server to route each requests to, thereby defining a selected server per request, create a connection per request to its selected server using the network interface, route the requests to their selected servers using the connections, and monitor the connections while the selected servers service the requests, so as to create monitored connection data for each connection. The monitored connection data is stored in data structures that are referenced by a buffer, and upon creation of a data structure relating to the most recently created connection, reference to the oldest data structure in the buffer is removed.
US08843607B2
According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method for managing at least one network interface of a computer system is disclosed. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of executing of a boot loader to initialize a dedicated network interface and a side-band network interface, determining if a boot loader priority setting designates a preference to use one of a detected dedicated network interface or side-band network interface, determining if preferred network interface is available for use, then passing the priority setting to an operating system to use for network communications during run time.
US08843605B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed generally to data filtering methods, and combinations thereof, for reducing the quantity of non-actionable, redundant, or otherwise unnecessary data events reported to a network management system. According to an embodiment of the invention, a method for filtering event data in a network comprises: defining a plurality of discrete filtering rules, each of the plurality of rules performing at least one of a permit, deny, log, and rewrite function; assembling at least a first and second of the plurality of rules into an ordered sequence to form a first rule set; assembling at least a third and a fourth of the plurality of rules into an ordered sequence to form a second rule set; employing the first rule set in an appliance associated with a customer network; and employing the second rule set in a server associated with a network management system.
US08843603B1
A method may include receiving by a current computer a customization application, the customization application including a control panel to establish user preferences for a user account of the cloud-based service and/or system settings for the second computer; receiving by the current computer an input to the customization application to establish one or more user preferences for the user account and/or one or more system settings for the second computer; and transmitting from the current computer to a server associated with the cloud-based service the one or more user preferences and a username for the user account and/or the system settings for the second computer.
US08843600B1
Techniques are described for managing communications for a managed virtual computer network overlaid on a distinct substrate computer network. The techniques may be used in situations in which a configurable network service provides managed virtual computer networks for clients and also provides one or more network-accessible services that are available to the managed virtual computer networks, with particular managed virtual computer networks being configured to provide local private access to at least one of the provided network-accessible services, despite those provided network-accessible services being located externally to the particular managed virtual computer networks. In some situations, a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (“LDAP”) network-accessible service is provided, and a logical endpoint for the LDAP service is created within a managed virtual computer network to enable the multiple computing nodes of the managed virtual computer network to communicate with one or more LDAP computer servers from the LDAP service.
US08843598B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide middleware functionality integrated into a module of a network device, such as a router or switch, that is configured to provide application-oriented network (“AON”) services. Some preferred implementations of the invention provide policy-based application services for RFID data, such as conditional routing, security (encryption, identification, authentication and authorization), data translation and/or transformation, data compression, data caching, etc. Some preferred implementations can interpret an application request and route to an appropriate network address of an RFID reader. Preferably, ALE (application-level event) aggregation and filtering can also be performed on behalf of the application. Some methods of the invention allow event data to be sent to applications (including but not limited to business applications) as request-response messages. Other methods of the invention allow event data to be sent to applications in the form of asynchronous notifications.
US08843597B2
A system, method and device are disclosed for managing bandwidth in content delivery from a push content server to a wireless device. The system may include: a content server configurable to deliver content to the wireless device; a processor for controlling operation of the server; a communications subsystem coupled to the processor; a memory coupled to the processor; and a storage device coupled to the processor. The content server may include a module for managing bandwidth in content delivery from the content server to the wireless device, the module being configured to cause the content server to: record a policy for the delivery of content to the wireless device; initiate content delivery to the wireless device; evaluate the policy to determine whether new content for delivery is deliverable to the wireless device; deliver content when the policy is satisfied; and decline delivery of content when the policy is not satisfied.
US08843585B1
Methods and apparatus for generating a unique virtual item are disclosed. In some embodiments, an encoding specification for a unique virtual item is generated. One or more components of the encoding specification influence properties of the unique virtual item. The generating includes deriving a first set of the one or more components from a plurality of items of personalization information. One or more item characteristics for the unique virtual item are created from the encoding specification. The one or more item characteristics describe a unique feature set for the unique virtual item in terms customized for a type of a rendering client. The creating the one or more item characteristics further comprises selecting based on the one or more components the unique feature set from options offered by a rule set.
US08843583B2
An IP multimedia gateway (IMG) may be operable to identify a client device for which the IMG may not currently possess a capability to provide a particular service. The IMG may notify the client device that the IMG may not currently possess the capability to provide the particular service. The client device may be allowed to download and/or acquire information associated with the particular service. The client device may be allowed to receive the particular service based on the downloaded and/or acquired information. The client device may be local to the IMG and/or located remotely with respect to the IMG. The client device may be allowed to download stored content for the particular service when the IMG does not currently have an available channel or a channel of sufficient available bandwidth. The client device may be allowed to download an application to enable receiving of the particular service.
US08843575B2
A system and a method to provide a personalized feed to a user. Information regarding the user is obtained from the user via customization content. The customization content indicates various categories of content for the user to select from. In response to the user selecting his or her categories of interest, a feed personalization module selects content pieces whose associated categories match the user selected categories. The feed personalization module then provides a personalized feed including these content pieces to the user. The personalized feed is provided to the user via a unique identifier assigned to the user. Using the unique identifier, the user's actions with respect to the provided feed is tracked. The feed is further re-personalized according to the user's actions. The feed is also re-personalized based on an input from the user indicating the relevance of the feed to the user's interests.
US08843574B2
An electronic mail system includes plural user terminal apparatuses, a distribution apparatus, an information providing apparatus, and a storage device. The distribution apparatus distributes an electronic mail to a specified destination in response to a distribution request for distributing the electronic mail. The distribution request is sent from any of the plural user terminal apparatuses. Each of the plural user terminal apparatuses includes a display processing unit that performs a process to display a list of electronic mails, a detecting unit that detects a process, and a process detection information sending unit that sends process detection information. The information providing apparatus includes a registration unit that obtains and registers the process detection information, a history information generating unit that generates history information, and a history information sending unit that sends the generated history information.
US08843541B1
A multiplier circuit and method multiply a signed value by a constant. The signed value received at an input port is separable into two or more splices. A first splice is a most significant one of the splices, and a second splice is another one of the splices. One or more memories provide respective partial products for the splices, and these memories include a shared memory. The shared memory provides the respective partial products for the first and second splices from storage locations in the shared memory. The storage locations that are readable to provide the respective partial product for the second splice are a subset of the storage locations that are readable to provide the respective partial product for the first splice. An addition circuit sums the respective partial products for the splices.
US08843539B2
Two or more numerical samples are read from a storage location (or many storage locations) and the samples are compared to generate a single bit of entropy. This method is repeated to populate two arrays which are also compared to generate a single bit. Comparison of the arrays is also repeated to generate a sequence of bits which are formed into computer words. The words are combined with a shift register to generate a seed block array of any length. The seed block array is used to seed a pseudo random number generator. The storage location is a register, accumulator, buffer, clock, address, memory location, etc., that changes periodically. Comparison may be performed by counting the number of certain types of bits in the two values and returning a one or zero depending upon the count.
US08843537B2
An electronic calculator makes a display section display an input mathematical expression when receiving an input of the mathematical expression from a user. At that time, a color is given to a component related to a predetermined operation symbol among components of the mathematical expression, and the component is displayed. Also a cursor is displayed in the same color as that of the component to which the cursor belongs. Thus, even when the mathematical expression is displayed in an arithmetic manner, each component of the mathematical expression and a position of the cursor can be easily distinguished from each other.
US08843530B2
A method and apparatus for a configurable offline data store are described. For example, a method includes receiving a request for a first set of one or more records from a client application, wherein the first set is stored in a client data store and the client application also has access to a server data store unit of a server. The method further includes determining whether a first set of records in the client data store unit is valid; and upon determining the first set is valid, deleting those records of the first set in the client data store unit that are outdated. The method further includes upon determining the first set is not valid, deleting the first set; determining whether the record is in the client data store unit; and upon determining the record is in the client data store, transmitting a version of the record to the client application.
US08843529B2
A display information controlling apparatus and method are provided. The display information controlling apparatus may select at least one object from one or more objects based on a location of each of the one or more objects on a display and a location on the display corresponding to a user input signal. The display information controlling apparatus may perform a predetermined operation corresponding to the selected at least one object.
US08843527B2
An approach is provided in which a processor receives a scan request to scan data included in a data table. The processor selects a column in the data table corresponding to the scan request and retrieves column data entries from the selected column. In addition, the processor identifies the width of the selected column and selects a scan algorithm based upon the identified column width. In turn, the processor loads the column data entries into column data vectors and computes scan results from the column data vectors using the selected scan algorithm.
US08843526B2
Methods and systems are described that involve determining the memory consumption of a specific application. The memory analysis identifies the dynamic memory objects controlled by a particular application and the memory objects controlled by the framework running that application. A structured view of the memory objects of the framework with respect to the individual framework architecture is presented in combination with the application specific memory object graph. A resulting display, in the form of a dominator tree, allows detecting dependencies of the application to the framework and shows which part of the framework is responsible for keeping alive which part of the application. Moreover, the resulting structure shows memory consumption of a single element of the application including bound memory and object memory. Further, a user can identify the references and the dependencies among the memory objects.
US08843521B2
A method for analyzing data utilizing a weighted suffix tree includes receiving at least one original data sequence. An original data sequence ID is assigned to the original data sequence, and the original data sequence includes an original datums. A weighted suffix tree is constructed according to the original datums of the original data sequence. The weighted suffix tree includes several nodes, and each node includes a weight set which is formed by the original data sequence ID. Group information for classifying the original datums into several groups is received. The nodes of the weighted suffix tree belonging to a same group are merged according to the group information. Data is analyzed according to the weighted suffix tree after being merged.
US08843516B2
Redirection of user entered data to an unauthenticated website (“phishing”) is checked by, at redirection, detecting the presence of data entry fields in a user web page and, if any are present, authenticating the redirection address against lists of approved websites or the redirection web site certificate. If the new address is not authenticated, the user may still opt to be redirected.
US08843498B2
Provided are techniques for analyzing fields. Statistical metrics for each field in a data set are received. A general interestingness index is generated for each field using one or more combination functions that aggregate standardized interestingness sub-indexes. One or more fields are identified as interesting for further analysis using the general interestingness index. One or more expert recommendations for field transformations are constructed for the identified one or more fields.
US08843480B2
A server includes: an input information database 14 for storing input information in which position information indicating a geographical position and a user ID specifying a user having performed an input operation relating to the geographical position are associated with each other; and an association unit 18 for, when it is determined that the plurality of common users performed the input operation in the predetermined number or more of common geographical ranges, associating multiple pieces of input information, which correspond to the plurality of common users and respectively include pieces of position information indicating geographical positions included in a common geographical range, with each other by extracting the multiple pieces of input information and then allocating a common identifier to the extracted multiple pieces of input information, for each of the predetermined number or more of common geographical ranges.
US08843478B1
This specification relates to presenting image search results. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving an image query, the image query being a query for image search results; receiving ranked image search results responsive to the image query, the image search results each including an identification of a corresponding image resource; generating a similarity matrix for images identified by the image search results; generating a hierarchical grouping of the images using the similarity matrix; identifying a canonical image for each group in the hierarchical grouping using a ranking measure; and presenting a visual representation of the image search results based on the hierarchical grouping and the identified canonical images.
US08843475B2
A collaborative, semantic-based knowledge structure creation and management system and method are provided. The system and method may include knowledge structures which include concept based maps which may be linked according to topic, relationship types, conceptual equivalence, and temporally. The knowledge structures may be managed by users, wherein users may perform at least one of adding a new concept, creating a new relationship, confirming an existing relationship, and breaking an existing relationship.
US08843472B2
A mechanism is provided for efficiently searching a database for data associated with a key value that is unidentifiable in a set of nodes of the database. A request is received to retrieve data from the database, where the request specifies a searched-for key value that is unidentifiable in the set of nodes of the database. The data associated with the searched-for key value is identified in a lowest level node of the database between a current leftmost node and a current rightmost node. A key index is updated in at least one node of the database with the key index value associated with the data and identified from the lowest level node thereby making the searched-for key value identifiable within the at least one node. The data associated with the searched-for key value is then returned to a user.
US08843471B2
A method and apparatus for processing packets in a network are disclosed. For example, the method scans one or more packets representing a content that is being transferred via the network, where the scanning acquires one or more content elements. The method then builds a keyterm index from the one or more content elements, and stores the keyterm index in a repository. A query handler then responds to queries in accordance with the keyterm index.
US08843458B2
A method for automatically searching at least one information source accessible through a data network for contents that satisfy predefined criteria, which contents comprise useful information, such as stream of audio, video or news data, and metadata that characterizes the useful information, comprises: selecting an information source and receiving the metadata and analyzing it in respect of the predefined criteria. If the criteria are satisfied, the method includes processing the useful information received. If not, then for as long as the predefined criteria are not satisfied, generating a control signal and transmitting it to the information source to change the content supplied by the latter, and again receiving the metadata for the content supplied, and analyzing the metadata in respect of the predefined criteria.
US08843457B2
There is realized a data conversion device that performs generation of a hash value with improved analysis resistance and a high degree of safety. There are provided a stirring processing section performing a data stirring process on input data; and a compression processing section performing a data compression process on input data including data segments which are divisions of message data, the message data being a target of a data conversion. Part of multi-stage compression subsections is configured to perform a data compression process based on both of output of the stirring processing section and the data segments in the message data. There is provided such a configuration that the stirring process is executed at least on fixed timing of a compression processing round of plural rounds and thus, there is realized a data conversion device that performs generation of a hash value with improved analysis resistance and a high degree of safety.
US08843437B2
A device for managing a plurality of measurement data, each measurement data representing a value of a physical parameter, the device comprising a file database adapted for storing the plurality of measurement data in the form of data files each of which being assigned to a specific measurement, a relational database adapted for storing at least a part of the plurality of measurement data in the form of relational data being structured in accordance with individual measurement parameters assigned to different measurements, and a processing unit adapted for extracting the relational data from the data files.
US08843434B2
Systems and methods are described that facilitate exploration and mining of a corpus of documents using concepts and knowledge, rather than keywords and enable interactive visualization, management, monetization, and personalization of knowledge search results on a user interface. Underlying documents can be mapped into overlapping clusters of knowledge dimensions and the documents can be further partitioned into narrower knowledge dimensions, resulting in a hierarchical structure. Content of knowledge dimensions may be filtered using a knowledge dimension map. Knowledge may be personalized by a user and shared in collaborative and social networks. Knowledge-based advertisement systems and methods are described that associate products and services with knowledge dimensions and concepts. Advertisers can bid on concepts and KDs. Systems and methods are described that distribute a percentage of CPC revenue among content owners and provide revenue to content providers based on relevancy scores.
US08843433B2
An integrated search and adaptive discovery system and method integrates contents-based indexing and behavioral-based indexing of collections of computer-implemented objects to generate contextualized and/or personalized recommendations. The degree to which contextualization and/or personalization criteria are applied in generating recommendations can be tuned by the recommendation recipient. Personalization functions are applied that are informed by inferred interests and/or expertise, and personalization vectors can be transformed into a format executable by a search engine. Explanations may be provided to recommendation recipients as to why they received recommendations.
US08843422B2
Illustrated is a system and method for anomaly detection in data centers and across utility clouds using an Entropy-based Anomaly Testing (EbAT), the system and method including normalizing sample data through transforming the sample data into a normalized value that is based, in part, on an identified average value for the sample data. Further, the system and method includes binning the normalized value through transforming the normalized value into a binned value that is based, in part, on a predefined value range for a bin such that a bin value, within the predefined value range, exists for the sample data. Additionally, the system and method includes identifying at least one vector value from the binned value. The system and method also includes generating an entropy time series through transforming the at least one vector value into an entropy value to be displayed as part of a look-back window.
US08843416B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for measuring the supply of a consumable product/energy source, such as electrical power, to a facility over time and analyzing the measurements to determine the consumption or supply of the product by one or more loads and/or sources in the facility, and to determine induced and residual heat flow through the facility's envelope. Various aspects compare the measured supply of the consumable product to a database of consumption signatures, which characterize access to the consumable product by particular users. In doing so, costs for the product may be more accurately divided between different tenants of the facility without having to install individual services or measurement equipment for each individual tenant. Operating conditions and facility characteristics, such as temperatures, load factors, insulation factors, etc., may be further considered in determining a particular user's access of the consumable product. To aid in the controlling of energy use, thermal resistance factors of the building are determined, which are based on the induced and residual heat flow through the facility. Various algorithms are used including smart agents (e.g. neural networks) to determine the consumption of the consumable product by a particular user, to create the database of consumption signatures, and to determine the thermal resistance factors.
US08843411B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, computer program code and means for gathering, organizing and presenting on a real time basis information pertinent to Risks associated with subjects related to the Gaming Industry. Risks associated with the Gaming Industry can be managed by gathering data relevant to the Gaming Industry from multiple sources and aggregating the gathered data according to one or more risk variables. An inquiry relating to a risk subject can be received and portions of the aggregated data can be associated with the risk subject. The associated portions of the aggregated data can be transmitted to an entity placing the inquiry or other designated destination.
US08843408B2
A high speed technique for options pricing in the financial industry is disclosed that can provide both high throughput and low latency. Parallel/pipelined architectures are disclosed for computing an option's theoretical fair price. Preferably these parallel/pipelined architectures are deployed in hardware, and more preferably reconfigurable logic such as Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) to accelerate the options pricing operations relative to conventional software-based options pricing operations.
US08843395B2
A system for receiving data associated with a mobile content is configured to calculate an expected value of the mobile content based at least in part on the data received, and determine a bid amount for a sponsorship of the mobile content based at least in part on the expected value.
US08843392B2
A method and apparatus for recruiting, communicating with, and paying participants of interactive advertising are described. The present invention is a system through which advertisers car recruit, communicate with, and pay their potential customers for their time. The system achieves these functions without the advertiser or the customer having to be in the same location—all logistics are handled through the system's web site, database, and communications interfaces. The system enables advertisers to promote interactive seminars in which they try to sell products to potential customers. Most importantly, the advertisers are able to offer their potential customers financial rewards for their time, such as 25 cents per minute to reward a customer for listening to a sales pitch. The system then provides a real-time communications link between the advertiser and customer. The system automatically bills the advertiser and rewards the customer for the time that they interact.
US08843390B2
An electronic toll collection (ETC) system and an on board unit (OBU) thereof are provided. The ETC system includes a toll collection module and an identification module. The toll collection module provides a pre-pay service and a post-pay service such that the OBU on a vehicle can make a toll payment in response to one of the pre-pay service and the post-pay service. The identification module captures an image of the vehicle and provides an identification service to the OBU to obtain an identification information of the vehicle.
US08843389B2
A mobilized polling station is deployable for voting in remote locations. The mobilized polling station includes a mobile polling server that stores a voter registration depository identifying potential voters and a ballot repository of blank ballots for the potential voters. Various client devices, such as smart phones, tablets computers, connect to the mobile polling server for voters to enter their credentials, receive the appropriate ballots, and cast their votes. The cast votes are collected by the mobile polling server and then provided to an election center for counting. Versions of mobilized polling station can operate with limited or no power and communications infrastructure.
US08843388B1
A web-based employment application process is accessed by a candidate who browses, from a client terminal, to the website that hosts the process. From the website, maintained by a server, the candidate launches the program that executes and manages the process. During an online session, the candidate can navigate through the entire process, including the eligibility determination, resume submission and evaluation, and KSA assessment. Following the last stage of the process, an interview conducted by an interactive voice response system, the program evaluates the interview responses. If acceptable, the candidate is hired.
US08843377B2
The present disclosure relates to foreign language instruction and translation methods. A system is provided which utilizes tonal and rhythm visualization components to allow a person to “see” their words as they attempt to speak a foreign language or a specific regional dialect. The system is also applicable to foreign language translation systems and allows students to improve their pronunciation by responding to visual feedback which incorporates both color and shape. The system may comprise a step-by-step instruction method, along with recording and playback features. Certain embodiments incorporate statistical analysis of student progress, remote access for teacher consultation, and video games for enhancing student interest.
US08843374B2
A link table is generated, voice information is associated by dot patterns, and then, voice information associated with the dot pattern is reproduced from a speaker when the dot pattern is read by means of a scanner. In this manner, the dot pattern is printed on a surface of a material such as a picture book or a card, making it possible to play back voice information corresponding to a pattern or a story of a picture book and to play back voice information corresponding to a character described on the card. In addition, by means of a link table, new voice information can be associated with, dissociated from, or changed to, a new dot pattern.
US08843372B1
A system for analyzing conversations or speech, especially “turns” (a point in time in a person's or an animal's talk when another may or does speak) comprises a computer (100) with a memory (105), at least one microphone (115, 120), and software (110) running in the computer. The system is arranged to recognize and quantify utterances including spoken words, pauses between words, in-breaths, vowel extensions, and the like, and to recognize questions and sentences. The system rapidly and efficiently quantifies and qualifies speech and thus offers substantial improvement over prior-art computerized response systems that use traditional linguistic approaches that depend on single words or a small number of words in grammatical sentences as a basic unit of analysis. The system and method are useful in many applications, including teaching colloquial use of turn-taking, and in forensic linguistics.
US08843366B2
A framing method and apparatus are disclosed to overcome inconsistency of gains between sub-frames caused by simple average framing in the prior art. The method includes: obtaining the Linear Prediction Coding (LPC) order and the pitch of the signal; removing the samples inapplicable to Long-Term Prediction (LTP) synthesis according to the LPC prediction order and the pitch; and splitting the remaining samples of the signal into several sub-frames. The technical solution under the present invention is applicable to the multimedia speech coding field.
US08843356B2
A method for confirming the association of a query QTL or a query gene in the genome of a second species with a clinical trait T exhibited by the second species. A first QTL or a first gene in a first species that is linked to a trait T′ is found. The trait T′ is indicative of trait T. A region of the genome of the first species that comprises the first QTL or the first gene is mapped to a particular region of the genome of the second species. A query QTL or a query gene in the second species that is potentially associated with the trait T is found. The potential association of the query QTL or the query gene with the clinical trait T is confirmed when the query QTL or the query gene is in the particular region of the genome of the second species.
US08843336B2
A method of detecting a trigger event includes receiving an input signal for analysis. The received input signal is used to generate first data corresponding to sequential sets of spectral output data sets, at least some of the spectral output data sets corresponding to sample points in time acquired from the input signal as the input signal changes with time. At least part of the first data is then compared with second data, the second data corresponding to a predetermined sequential set of signature spectral data sets corresponding to a time-varying spectrum associated with a trigger event. A trigger signal is then generated in response to a change in a state of match between the at least part of first and second data.
US08843335B2
A method and apparatus are provided for the removal of significant broad-band noise from waveforms acquired for time domain network analysis. The method may include the steps of providing the noisy waveform as an input waveform, determining a frequency domain noise shape associated with the input waveform, calculating a wavelet domain noise shape from the frequency domain noise shape, calculating a discrete wavelet transform of the input waveform to form a wavelet domain waveform, and estimating the noise statistics from the wavelet domain waveform. A threshold may be calculated from the estimated noise statistics and the wavelet domain noise shape, and the threshold may be applied to the wavelet domain waveform to form a denoised wavelet domain waveform. Finally, an inverse discrete wavelet transform of the denoised wavelet domain waveform may be calculated to form a denoised waveform.
US08843334B2
An apparatus has an input section arranged to receive values representative of the total instantaneous supply of electrical current as a function of time from an alternating voltage supply. Current waveforms comprising sets of values representative of the cyclic waveform of the electric current supply are obtained. A delta waveform generator calculates the difference between a current waveform and an earlier current waveform. An edge detector is arranged to detect an edge or edges in the delta waveform. An analysis section is arranged to identify at least one appliance load based at least on information on the edge or edges detected by the edge detector, and to determine the electrical energy consumed by said appliance load.
US08843319B2
According to various embodiments, a method may include measuring a first capacitance of a sample at a first frequency using a measurement system, measuring a second capacitance of the sample at a second frequency using the measurement system, calculating a ratio of the first capacitance to the second capacitance, and determining a formation water resistivity or conductivity of the sample using the ratio.
US08843314B2
A method is provided for determining an Estimated Horizontal Position Error (EHPE) with respect to a navigation system onboard a telematics-equipped vehicle by utilizing a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) navigation system in combination with a dead reckoning (DR) navigation system. The method includes: receiving GNSS positioning information from the GNSS navigation system; receiving DR positioning information from the DR navigation system; applying, by a telematics unit, a Kalman filter to the GNSS positioning information and the DR positioning information; calculating, by the telematics unit, the EHPE corresponding to the navigation system onboard the telematics-equipped vehicle based on the GNSS positioning information, the DR positioning information, and the Kalman filter.
US08843305B1
A system and method for providing independent weapon launch or release control for an unmanned or autonomous vehicle by ensuring the vehicle is within its weapon launch area using geographic position information from a navigational source such as GPS, comparing the position of the vehicle to the weapon's launch boundaries, and arming or disarming the vehicle's weapon launch capability based on its location relative to the weapon launch area.
US08843302B2
A method of detecting conflicts between aircraft passing through managed airspace, and to resolving the detected conflicts strategically. Air traffic control apparatus arranged to manage airspace through which aircraft are flying is provided that comprises processing means configured to receive aircraft intent data describing an aircraft's intended flight path, to launch a conflict detection procedure in which it computes a user-preferred trajectory for each of the aircraft based on the aircraft intent and determines whether any conflicts will arise, to launch a conflict resolution procedure in which it calculates revisions of the aircraft intent of the conflicted aircraft to remove the conflicts, and to transmit to the aircraft the revised aircraft intent data.
US08843299B2
A control apparatus for controlling a starter used to start an engine mounted on a vehicle, the starter generating a torque and having a first gear mechanically engaged with a second gear of the engine to start the engine. The control apparatus includes a trigger circuit adapted to output a trigger signal in response to a start request; a detection circuit adapted to detect an electrical state and a mechanical state of the starter while the starter is powered on; and a controller adapted to control power on and off of the starter. The controller powers on the starter in response to the trigger signal outputted by the trigger circuit, and powers off the starter when the controller detects that a predetermined condition is satisfied based on the state of the starter.
US08843294B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for and a method of controlling a variable valve timing mechanism. The valve timing mechanism changes over between a first cam for which the closing timing IVC of the intake valve is after intake bottom dead center, and a second cam for which the closing timing IVC is closer to intake bottom dead center than the closing timing IVC with the first cam. Here at the time of stopping the internal combustion engine, the valve timing mechanism changes over to the first cam, and the initial intake stroke performs operation at low effective compression ratio. In the second and subsequent intake strokes, the valve timing mechanism changes from the first cam to the second cam.
US08843282B2
A machine such as a wheel loader includes a frame and ground engaging propulsion elements coupled with the frame. A hydraulically actuated implement system of the machine includes a linkage and an implement and is adjustable from a starting configuration to a second configuration according to a substrate collision avoiding pattern. In the second configuration, the implement hovers above a substrate beneath the machine. Related methodology and control logic is also disclosed.
US08843280B2
The invention relates to a construction machine, in particular a road finishing machine, which can be set to at least two different operating modes by the operator. With a control system, a determined position for a drive can be stored in a first operating mode to which the drive automatically moves during a change from a second operating mode back to the first operating mode. In case of a change of the operating mode from the second operating mode to the first operating mode, several drives can optionally also be simultaneously moved to the previously stored position.
US08843272B2
There is provided a vehicle driving support device including: a change amount calculating part 10 that calculates a first correlation value correlated to a change amount of acceleration of a vehicle; a jerk calculating part 11 that calculates a second correlation value correlated to a jerk of the vehicle; and an operation state determining part 13 that determines a driving operation state of the vehicle from a first correlation value calculated by a change amount calculating part 10, and a second correlation value calculated by a jerk calculating part 11, in accordance with a determination reference previously set from a ratio of a kinetic energy of a mass point to the change amount of the acceleration of the vehicle at an end point of change when the acceleration of the vehicle is changed, calculated using a vibration model showing a movement of the mass point in a passenger compartment.
US08843271B2
An inverted pendulum type vehicle prevents a travel operation unit from running at a high velocity when not in contact with the ground. A ground contact point velocity detector integrates a ground contact point horizontal acceleration calculated by a ground contact point horizontal acceleration calculator so as to calculate the acceleration at the ground contact point of a wheel. A determiner calculates a ground contact point velocity. The determiner sets a velocity threshold value on the basis of the velocity difference between the ground contact point velocity and a first desired velocity. If the first desired velocity reaches the velocity threshold value or more, then the determiner decides that the wheel of a first travel operation unit is idling and restricts the setting of the first desired velocity by a first control processor to the velocity threshold value or less.
US08843270B2
The present disclosure provides a wiper motor control system for a vehicle, which precisely controls the speed of the wiper motor to improve the wiper performance. The present disclosure implements a wiper motor control method in a new form, which precisely controls a speed of the wiper motor for each section through a scheme of improving a plate structure of the wiper motor and monitoring a state of a parking switch, and thus reduces a noise generated in an operation of a wiper device and increases the wiping performance through a differentiated speed for each section, which generally improves the wiper performance. More specifically, the present disclosure implements a smart ECW (Electric Control Wiper) control module inputting a remote control by a wireless transmitter, so that a driver can wirelessly control a wiper before getting into a vehicle, which makes the driver feel convenience and induces the driver to safely drive.
US08843260B2
An intermittent operation control is executed, wherein a hybrid vehicle is run with a running drive source while an internal combustion engine is intermittently operated in the intermittent operation control. When the internal combustion engine is restarted after a stop due to the intermittent operation control, a rapid warm-up control is executed in which a catalytic converter is rapidly warmed up by retarding the ignition timing of the internal combustion engine. In addition, when the internal combustion engine is restarted, the internal combustion engine is operated only by port injection until the pressure of fuel for in-cylinder injection reaches a reference set pressure. Subsequently, when the pressure of the fuel for in-cylinder injection reaches the reference set pressure, the in-cylinder injection is started.
US08843255B2
Methods are provided for presenting procedure information for an airport on a display device onboard an aircraft. A method comprises displaying a map on a display device and displaying a briefing panel overlying a portion the map. The briefing panel includes a plurality of segments, wherein each segment is associated with a type of procedure information for the airport.
US08843254B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for detection of dragging brakes for use in, for example, an aircraft. A method is provided comprising calculating, by a brake controller, a slip ratio based upon an aircraft speed and a speed of an aircraft wheel, determining, by the brake controller, that the slip ratio is above a threshold value, and sending, by the brake controller and in response to the slip ratio being above the threshold value, a dragging brake signal to an aircraft component.
US08843248B1
System and methods for managing boundaries of a vehicle being guided toward a target are provided. In some aspects, a system includes a first gate module configured to receive primary positional information of the vehicle and secondary positional information of the vehicle, to compare the primary positional information with the secondary positional information, and to generate a first pass indicator or a first fail indicator based on the comparison. The system also includes a first boundary module configured to confine navigation of the vehicle to within one of a plurality of termination boundaries based on which of the first pass indicator and the first fail indicator is generated. Each of the plurality of termination boundaries is confined within a range boundary of the vehicle and offset from the range boundary at a different magnitude.
US08843247B2
A method for producing designs involves receiving a request to create a design on the surface of an extraterrestrial body, transmitting a control signal to a device on a vehicle on the extraterrestrial body, the control signal causing the device to create the design, and receiving an image signal providing an image of the design created on the surface. A device for producing the designs includes a surface altering tool configured to rearrange material on the surface. The tool may be provided as a configurable-tread rover wheel that includes a wheel hub having radially-extending channels, and tread elements supported in the channels that are selectively articulatable under the control of a control module to form a tread pattern corresponding to a design intended to be produced. The tread elements may be selectively extended or retracted by operation of an array of solenoids controlled by the control module.
US08843245B2
A robot cleaner has a camera to generate an image of a cleaning area, a controller to prepare a cleaning map based on the image and to drive a robot cleaner, and a communicator to transmit the image and cleaning map to an external device and to receive a control command from the external device. The image and map may be transmitted over a local or wide area network, and the external device may be a computer, television, smart phone, portable phone, or other type of wireless access device.
US08843243B2
A method for determining protection limits at a future moment associated with navigation states of a bearer by estimating the navigation states of the bearer at the present moment, developing a statistic model of the estimation errors of navigation states of the bearer at the present moment in the form of a covariance matrix, extrapolating, for a future moment, the statistical model of the estimation errors, calculating protection limits at the future moment from the extrapolated statistical model, the extrapolation of the statistical model of the estimation errors implements the application of a constant and positive transition matrix to a standard deviation vector constructed from the square root of the elements of the diagonal of the covariance matrix, to propagate, up to the future moment, the standard deviations developed at the present moment. The invention also relates to a navigation system configured to implement the method.
US08843240B2
Systems and methods for loading a steam turbine are provided. A method may include: receiving a turbine loading factor; receiving a current steam turbine exhaust temperature; determining a steam flow ramping rate parameter and a steam temperature ramping rate parameter based at least in part on the turbine loading factor and the current steam turbine exhaust temperature, wherein the steam flow ramping rate parameter and the steam temperature ramping rate parameter are determined based at least in part on an inverse relationship between the steam flow ramping rate parameter and the steam temperature ramping rate parameter. The method may further include controlling at least one of: (a) steam flow to the steam turbine based at least in part on the steam flow ramping rate parameter; or (b) steam temperature to the steam turbine based at least in part on the steam temperature ramping rate parameter.
US08843236B2
A method for training a robot to execute a robotic task in a work environment includes moving the robot across its configuration space through multiple states of the task and recording motor schema describing a sequence of behavior of the robot. Sensory data describing performance and state values of the robot is recorded while moving the robot. The method includes detecting perceptual features of objects located in the environment, assigning virtual deictic markers to the detected perceptual features, and using the assigned markers and the recorded motor schema to subsequently control the robot in an automated execution of another robotic task. Markers may be combined to produce a generalized marker. A system includes the robot, a sensor array for detecting the performance and state values, a perceptual sensor for imaging objects in the environment, and an electronic control unit that executes the present method.
US08843211B2
A method and neurostimulation system for providing therapy to a patient is provided. A plurality of electrodes is placed adjacent to tissue of the patient. A plurality of first electrical pulses is delivered to a first set of the electrodes, at least a second electrical pulse is delivered to a second set of the electrodes during the deliverance of each of the first electrical pulses, and at least a third electrical pulse is delivered to a third set of the electrodes during the deliverance of each of the first electrical pulses. The first electrical pulses have a first polarity, and each of the second electrical pulse(s) and third electrical pulses(s) has a second a second polarity opposite to the first polarity. The second and third electrical pulses are temporarily offset from each other.
US08843210B2
Devices, systems and methods are disclosed for treating a variety of diseases and disorders that are primarily or at least partially driven by an imbalance in neurotransmitters in the brain, such as asthma, COPD, depression, anxiety, epilepsy, fibromyalgia, and the like. The invention involves the use of an energy source comprising magnetic and/or electrical energy that is transmitted non-invasively to, or in close proximity to, a selected nerve to temporarily stimulate, block and/or modulate the signals in the selected nerve such that neural pathways are activated to release inhibitory neurotransmitters in the patient's brain.
US08843206B2
In an embodiment, an antenna for a medical device, e.g., an implantable medical device (IMD), comprises an electrically conductive wire that spirals to form a three-dimensional shape of a rectangular cuboid. In another embodiment, the antenna comprises an electrically conductive wire that spirals to form a three-dimensional shape of an elliptical cylinder, an oval cylinder, an elongated pentagonal prism, an elongated hexagonal prism, or some other shape where the longitudinal diameter of the antenna is greater than the lateral diameter of the antenna. The antennas are sized to fit within a portion of a header of the medical device. Such antennas are designed to provide increased antenna gain and antenna bandwidth.
US08843204B2
A vestibular prosthesis system is described which includes an external movement sensor that is attachable a patient's head for generating an external movement signal. An internal movement sensor is implantable under the skin of the patient's head for generating an internal movement signal. A fail-safe sensor is configured to detect movement of the one or more external movement sensors relative to the head and generate a corresponding relative motion signal. And an implant processor also is implantable under the skin and in communication with the internal movement sensor and the external transmitter for generating an implant stimulation signal based on one of the movement signals and/or the relative motion signal to electrically stimulate target neural tissue for vestibular sensation by the patient.
US08843201B1
The present invention relates to a system and methods for noninvasively providing therapy for movement disorder symptoms. The present invention provides such a therapy system which provides trans-cranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in order to treat those symptoms and the disorders. The present invention further provides such tDCS therapy while the subject sleeps in order to minimize the time required and impact of the therapy on the subject's waking life. The system, methods, and devices of the present invention are intended to provide a low-dose electrical current, trans-cranially, to a specific area of the subject's brain while he or she sleeps in order to decrease the occurrence, severity, and duration of the symptoms of movement disorders. The present invention aims to reduce the amount of medication necessary, counteract the effects of medication wearing off during sleep, and to overall improve the quality of life of subjects suffering from movement disorders.
US08843192B2
A breast coil arrangement for magnetic resonance applications has a placement web that allows an examination subject to lie with her sternum on the placement web with each breast in a receptacle respectively on opposite sides of the placement web. The breast receptacles have limiting elements whose spacing from one another can be adjusted. Multiple array coils are respectively arranged in the limiting elements and are stationary relative to the limiting elements. Each breast receptacle is surrounded by a volume coil that is stationary relative to the placement web. The volume coils are arranged centrally and orthogonally relative to the array coils and surround the array coils. The volume coils are decoupled from the array coils. A spectroscopy phantom can be arranged in proximity to the placement web.
US08843186B2
Non-invasive apparatus and method for determining and monitoring glucose concentrations in human subjects. Glucose level is estimated through the effect of glucose on biological cells with glucose dependencies, e.g., red blood cells. The invention is based on the interaction of such cells with oscillating electric field gradients. The response of biological cells depends on factors including shape, size, and electrical charge distribution. The field gradient causes the cells to undergo characteristic motion which is detected by light beam scattering. The autocorrelation of the scattered light is computed, and the Fourier transform (FT) is performed to produce a characteristic velocity spectrum in which the peaks are characteristic of the cell “bio-electrical” states. The glucose level is estimated through measurements of changes of FT with changes in glucose levels after calibration with standard glucose methods.
US08843184B2
A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly communicate with at least one other terminal, a main body configured to receive a battery, and a cover body detachably covered to the main body. Further, the cover body includes a first cover part formed to cover the battery, a second cover part, and a sliding unit configured to slidably couple the second cover part to the first cover part and allow the second cover part to slide and tilt away from the first cover part.
US08843183B2
A mobile communication device and linkage mechanism are provided to enable an opened position of the device which is less than the total length of the lid and base members. In the opened position, a portion of the lid member overlaps the base member. The linkage mechanism may actuate translational movement of the lid member as the device is moved between the closed and opened positions.
US08843177B2
Some embodiments include one or more mobile electronic device accessories. Other embodiments of related mobile electronic device accessories and methods of providing the same are also disclosed.
US08843172B2
A method for determining an initial transmission power and a base station is provided. The method comprises: a base station acquiring a measurement result of a second cell reported by said user equipment, wherein a first cell in which a user equipment (UE) is located belongs to the base station, and said first cell and said second cell belong to different base stations; and determining an initial transmission power of said user equipment when initiating a random access in said second cell according to a reference signal power of said second cell, said measurement result and a random access initial received target power of said second cell. Success rate of handover of user equipment is improved.
US08843170B2
A method for characterizing interference in a radio communication system including a plurality of user equipment communicating with transceiver stations, includes: determining quantities indicative of interference (attenuation or power) experienced by a transceiver station interfered by interfering user equipment; and exchanging between transceiver stations information based on these quantities and concerning interference from the interfering user equipment. In particular, the user equipment is in communication with respective serving transceiver stations, and exchanging includes sending from the serving transceiver stations to the interfered transceiver stations information concerning interference from user equipment served by the serving transceiver stations and interfering with the interfered transceiver stations. The method further includes grouping, by the serving transceiver station, the interfering user equipment according to a given grouping criterion in order to form groups thereof.
US08843169B2
Described herein are various technologies pertaining to scheduling data transfer between a mobile computing device and a base station in a cellular network. A signal quality value for a signal over which data is to be transferred is computed, and transfer of data is scheduled based upon the signal quality value. If the signal quality value is above a threshold, a wireless radio of the mobile computing device is caused to commence data transfer or continue data transfer. If the signal quality value is below the threshold, and the data need not be immediately transferred, then the wireless radio is caused to transition to an idle state or remain in an idle state.
US08843167B2
A method for transmitting, at a user equipment having N (N being an integer greater than 1) transmission antennas, an uplink signal to a base station and a method for receiving, at the base station, an uplink signal from the user equipment are disclosed. The base station transmits reception capability information of the base station to the user equipment. Reception capability information includes information indicating that the base station may receive a signal transmitted through a maximum of M (M being an integer greater than 1) transmission antennas. The user equipment transmits the uplink signal using N transmission antennas if N is not greater than M and transmits the uplink signal using M transmission antennas if N is greater than M.
US08843166B2
A method for interference alignment in wireless network having 3 transmitters and 3 receivers which are equipped with M antennas is provided. The method comprising: transmitting, performed by each of the 3 transmitters, a pilot signal known to the 3 receivers; estimating, performed by each of the 3 receivers, each channel from transmitter; transmitting, performed by each of the 3 receivers, feedback information to target transmitter; and determining, performed by transmitter 2 and transmitter 3, a precoding vector; wherein a degree of freedom (DoF) of a transmitter 1 is (M/2−α), a DoF of the transmitter 2 or the transmitter 3 is M/2.
US08843164B2
A method for automatically creating a short message and a portable terminal using the same includes extracting at least one word expected to be input from a database provided in the portable terminal when a message creation menu is selected. At least one input expected word that has been extracted is then displayed. At least one word that is recognized is selected from among the displayed at least one input expected word; and inputting the selected word to a text message creation window. A user can create a short message without having to input words one-by-one through a keyboard.
US08843161B2
System and method to facilitate purchases through mobile communications on various types of mobile devices and platforms by reducing the number of steps it takes the user to complete the purchase with mobile in-app payments, and/or by enabling purchases to be made without the device being connected to the Internet and/or by automatic compilation of payment request. A set of user identifying details, including user's country, mobile carrier name and phone number, is required in order to process a mobile purchase. The advantages of the present invention from the user perspective is the ability to complete the purchase in fewer steps by automatic user details identification and the ability to complete the purchase in case there is no Internet connection by embedding a specially formatted database file with the application of mobile device.
US08843158B2
The disclosed implementations provide a system and method of predicting routes for mobile devices using wireless networks, including generating and sending content to a mobile device that is travelling on a predetermined route (e.g., a bus route determined by a transportation agency). The mobile device can scan for a wireless network that is installed on a vehicle travelling on a predetermined route. The system can predict which predetermined route the mobile device is travelling on by accessing a database that associates wireless networks with transportation vehicles. The system can confirm whether the mobile device is travelling on a predetermined route based on the device's sensor measurements, timestamps collected over a period of time and the identity of the wireless network that is connected to the device. The system can send content to the mobile device based on the mobile device's location and predicted future locations along the predetermined route.
US08843157B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for estimating travel behavior in a mobile network. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving event data indicative of user equipment location, pre-processing received event data to produce pre-processed data, performing straight line interpolation on pre-processed data of one or more individuals in the population to estimate intermediate positions of a trajectory of each of the one or more individuals from a first position to a second position, and counting a number of individuals in population at a given time and at a given area.
US08843152B2
The present invention provides for giving preference to a specific media gateway in the selection of the next circuit so that in a multi-media-gateway soft-switch where a call may take any of many possible paths, an outgoing circuit on the same media-gateway as the incoming circuit is preferably selected, so if one is available, the need for using more bearer ports on media gateways to bridge the two sides is eliminated. Instead of interconnection, the same facilities can be provisioned to the bearer interface between the soft-switch and the rest of the network. This invention maximizes the bearer capacity of a distributed media gateway for external network access.
US08843149B2
Consecutive subcarriers are reserved, and the reserved consecutive subcarriers are properly allocated to a terminal. The invention is a scheduling method that allocates, within an available band, a block composed of one or more subcarriers and used for signal transmission by a communication terminal being a destination of communication, and the method includes the steps of selecting (S208), with a higher priority, communication terminals having different number of the subcarriers composing the block as simultaneously communicating terminals that perform signal transmission simultaneously, and allocating (S214) the block for use by the simultaneously communicating terminals within the available band.
US08843143B2
A wireless base station in a wireless communication system includes a memory that stores a plurality of timing patterns that are set such that timings of using the resource are distributed for each of the mobile stations when the mobile stations change a timing of using the resource in accordance with a traveling speed and control unit that allocates one of the timing pattern to the mobile stations.
US08843137B2
A femtocell radio base station, which radio-communicates with one or more communication terminal units, includes a plurality of terminals that receive power from a power supply unit when connected to the power supply unit respectively; a measurement unit that measures total power supplied from one or more connection terminals connected to the power supply unit from among the plurality of terminals; and a control unit that controls radio communication with the one or more communication terminal units based on a measurement result of the measurement unit.
US08843131B2
A method for reducing frequent idle handoffs of a wireless communication device is described. A registration request is received by a base station or a femto access point from the wireless communication device. The number of registration requests received from the wireless communication device are counted while the registration timer is running. It is determined that frequent handoffs are happening when the number of registration requests received is greater than a registration threshold. A transmit power of a femto access point is adjusted if the number of registration requests received indicates that frequent handoffs are happening.
US08843130B1
Apparatus having corresponding methods and computer programs comprise: a plurality of antennas located in a first cellular telephone cell; an interference module to identify wireless cellular telephone signals received by the plurality of antennas from one or more cellular telephones located in one or more second cellular telephone cells; and a cell module to identify the one or more second cellular telephone cells based on the wireless cellular telephone signals received by the plurality of antennas from the one or more cellular telephones located in the one or more second cellular telephone cells.
US08843125B2
A method for provisioning a contactless card applet in a mobile device with a mobile wallet application, including activating the mobile wallet application, connecting to a Trusted Service Manager (TSM) system, synchronizing the mobile wallet application with the TSM system, displaying a contactless card applet based on attributes of the mobile device, receiving a selection of a contactless card applet, retrieving a widget and a wallet management applet (WMA) corresponding to the contactless card applet, and provisioning the selected contactless card applet, the widget, and the WMA. A wallet management system (WMS) in a non-transitory storage medium to store and manage mobile wallet account information including a wallet client management component, a widget management component, a device profile management component, and a rule engine.
US08843116B2
At a mobile communications device, a communication is received from a communication source. An indication of an environment type associated with the communication source is obtained, and a check is made as to whether the indication of the environment type associated with the communication source matches a current environment type of the mobile communications device. An initial notification (and optionally a leave-behind notification) of the communication is presented only if the indication of the environment type associated with the communication source matches the current environment type of the mobile communications device.
US08843112B2
A method and system for data session establishment from a mobile device in a multiple networks scenario, the method including, checking whether an identifier for an first network is on a blacklist on the mobile device; if the first network identifier is not on the blacklist, attempting to establish a data connection with the first network; and if the first network identifier is on the blacklist, establishing a data connection with a second network. The method and system for data session establishment include deriving and maintaining the blacklist.
US08843106B2
In some aspects, a method of the present disclosure includes collecting user activity data from a client device. The method also includes defining an activity-productivity map that defines a rule for determining a unit of productivity based on the activity data. A productivity metric may be determined using the user activity data and the rule for determining the unit of productivity. Upon determining the productivity metric, a visual representation of the productivity metric may be provided.
US08843103B2
A system and method for providing a message to a user of a device, such as a mobile cellular phone, which includes using a signal, such as a CMAS alert, to turn on one or more receivers of the device configured to receive the message, conserves battery power for the device until it is needed in order to receive and transmit the message.
US08843094B2
Aspects of a method and system for integrated blocker detection and automatic gain control are provided. In this regard, a communication device may generate one or more first signal strength indications based on a strength of a received signal at a first point in the analog front-end of the communication device. The communication device may generate one or more second signal strength indications based on a strength of the received signal at a second point in a digital processing module of the communication device. The first point in the analog front-end may be an input or an output of a down-conversion mixer. The second point in the digital processing module may be an output of an analog-to-digital converter or an output of a channel selection filter. The communication device may control, utilizing the first signal strength indication(s) and the second signal strength indication(s), a gain of one or more components of the communication device.
US08843083B2
Transmit modules typically constitute passive matching circuitry, harmonic trap filters and an antenna switch to provide isolation between the transmit bands as well as between transmit and receive functions. In complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes the switch function is difficult to implement as a large voltage swing may result in breakdown of the MOS oxide, drain diode, source diode as well as substrate diodes. Therefore a switching function is provided at a node that has low impedance during transmit that limits the voltage swing that the MOS switches experience. The approach is particularly useful, but not limited to, half duplex transmissions such as those used in global system for mobile (GSM) communication, enhanced data for GSM Evolution (EDGE), and time division synchronous code division multiple access (TDSCDMA).
US08843082B2
The disclosed invention relates to a transceiver system configured to cancel RF second-order intermodulation distortion (IMD2) within a differential reception path. In some embodiments, the transceiver system has one or more common-mode attenuation elements that attenuate common-mode interferer signals within the differential reception path. The common-mode attenuation elements detect a common-mode interferer from one or more nodes within a transceiver system front-end. One or more properties of the detected common-mode interferer are adjusted and then fed into the differential reception path, where the adjusted common-mode signal attenuates the common-mode interferers. In other embodiments, the differential reception path has a tunable amplifying stage. The tunable amplifying stage has first and second amplifier elements that are independently operated to intentionally introduce an operating parameter mismatch between the elements. The intentional mismatch may be tuned to account for different nonlinear responses of the amplifier elements to mitigate IMD2 within the differential reception path.
US08843081B2
A receiver with transmit (TX) signal cancellation is disclosed. In an exemplary design, an apparatus includes an adjustment circuit, a transformer (e.g., a balun), and a low noise amplifier (LNA). The adjustment circuit receives a version of a TX signal and provides an adjusted TX signal, which may have adjustable amplitude and/or phase. The transformer receives the adjusted TX signal and a receive (RX) signal including a leaked TX signal, attenuates the leaked TX signal in the RX signal based on the adjusted TX signal, and provides an output RX signal. The TX signal may be transmitted via a primary antenna, and the RX signal may be received via a diversity antenna. The LNA receives the output RX signal and provides an amplified RX signal. The adjustment circuit detects remaining TX signal in the amplified RX signal and adjusts the amplitude and/or phase of the adjusted TX signal to reduce the remaining TX signal.
US08843080B2
Radio-frequency (RF) apparatus includes receiver analog circuitry that receives an RF signal and provides at least one digital signal to receiver digital circuitry that functions in cooperation with the receiver analog circuitry. The receiver analog circuitry and the receiver digital circuitry are partitioned so that interference effects between the receiver analog circuitry and the receiver digital circuitry tend to be reduced.
US08843072B2
A sensing wireless terminal may include a sensor unit having at least two sensing modes, a wireless communication unit configured to wirelessly transmit sensing data corresponding to a signal sensed by the sensor unit to another terminal, the wireless communication unit receiving control data transmitted from the other terminal, and a control unit configured to determine whether or not to change a mode from a first mode to a second mode based on the signal sensed by the sensor unit, the control unit determining whether or not to change the mode from the second mode to the first mode based on the control data received by the wireless communication unit, wherein, comparing the two sensing modes of the sensor unit, a mode having a relatively long sensing interval is defined as the first mode and a mode having a relatively short sensing interval is defined as the second mode.
US08843056B2
A media device including a broadcast receiver that receives broadcast media from a plurality of broadcast sources where the broadcast receiver is tunable to a first broadcast source. The media device also includes a data store that stores a list of contact identifiers where each contact identifier is associated with a broadcast source. The media device includes a user interface that: i) provides a prompt to a user to enable the user to initiate contact with the first broadcast source, and ii) receives a user indication to initiate contact with the first broadcast source. The media device further includes a transceiver that initiates the contact with the first broadcast source by sending a communications session request via a communications network to the first broadcast source that includes a contact identifier associated with the first broadcast source.
US08843053B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus including: an image carrying unit on which a toner image is carried; a transfer unit that transfers a toner image carried by the image carrying unit onto a sheet at a transferring position; a sheet conveyor unit that conveys the sheet having the toner image transferred thereto by the transfer unit; a suction device that sucks the sheet to the sheet conveyor unit; and a controller that stops or reduces a sucking operation of the suction device where the toner image carried by the image carrying unit passes the transferring position without being transferred onto the sheet.
US08843051B2
A medium containing cassette includes: a container case for containing media; a stack plate movable in the container case and configured to stack the media thereon; a separator provided on the container case and configured to separate the media one by one; and a bias member configured to bias the stack plate toward the media stacked on the stack plate. The bias member is disposed to have a greater distance from the stack plate than the separator, in a direction from the stack plate to the separator, on a plane substantially perpendicular to a bias direction of the bias member.
US08843048B2
A device and a method for applying and fusing a toner image on a substrate is described. The device has at least one printing unit, a transport unit for transporting the substrate through a print area of the printing units and a fusing unit for fusing toner on the substrate. The transport unit has an endless transport belt which passes continuously around at least two rollers to form a transport side. The fusing unit is in a transport direction of the endless transport belt behind the at least one printing unit and has at least one microwave applicator arranged adjacently to the endless transport belt for introducing microwaves into the substrate while the latter is being transported through it. With the method, a substrate to be printed is held on an endless transport belt and moved thereon through a print area of at least one printing unit and then through a fusing unit. In the print area of the at least one printing unit, a toner image is applied to the substrate, and inside the fusing unit the toner image is fused on the substrate by heating up the toner image by use of microwaves.
US08843029B2
An image forming apparatus and a cartridge for use therewith are provided. The image forming apparatus includes a main body; a cartridge that stores a developer; a supporting member that receives the cartridge; and a side cover that covers the supporting member, where the supporting member is rotatably supported by the main body. The supporting member pivots between a reception position at which the cartridge is received into the main body and an exposure position at which the cartridge is exposed from the main body.
US08843019B2
A development device includes a development casing, a developer bearer disposed facing a latent image bearer through an opening in the development casing to carry developer, a magnetic field generator disposed inside the developer bearer, a developer regulator extending in an axial direction of the developer bearer to adjust an amount of developer carried on the developer bearer, and a first axial end seal provided in an axial end portion of the development device outside an image range, in contact with an upstream face of the developer regulator to reduce a size of a clearance between the developer regulator and the development casing.
US08843018B2
A cleaning module and a printer using the same is provided. The printer includes a roller module, a transfer belt, a toner cartridge assembly and the cleaning module. The transfer belt is looped around the roller module. The toner cartridge assembly is disposed beside the transfer belt and suitable for rotating to a standby position or a coloring position. The cleaning module includes a frame, a linking-up unit and a scraping unit. The frame is disposed at the roller module. The linking-up unit is pivotally connected to the frame and suitable for contacting the toner cartridge assembly. The scraping unit is connected to the linking-up unit. When the toner cartridge assembly is at the standby position, the scraping unit is contacted to the transfer belt. When the toner cartridge assembly is at the coloring position, the scraping unit is separated from the transfer belt.
US08843017B2
An image forming apparatus includes, a sheet feeding unit including a dehumidification heater, a humidity sensing element for sensing humidity, a dehumidification heater switching unit, a control unit for bringing the dehumidification heater switching unit into an ON state when a recognized humidity is equal to or greater than a predetermined reference value and bringing the dehumidification heater switching unit into an OFF state when the recognized humidity fails below the predetermined reference value, and a power supply unit for temporarily resuming the supply of power to the control unit in a power saving mode, in a longer cycle, after the supply of power to the control unit was stopped based on a predetermined large difference between the humidity recognized by the control unit and the predetermined reference value.
US08843010B2
A fixation unit which allows paper with a toner image formed thereon to be fed between a first roller and a second roller for fixing the toner image on the sheet. The fixation unit includes a drive controller. The drive controller rotates the first and second rollers on different driving conditions. The drive controller rotates the first roller at a constant circumferential speed at least in a state where the first and second rollers are in pressure contact with each other and rotates the second roller with a constant torque which is low enough for the second roller to stop rotating when the first roller stops rotating.
US08843008B2
An image forming apparatus includes a subjected-to-development member; a first developer-transporting unit; a regulator that regulates the thickness of a developer; a second developer-transporting unit; a density detecting unit that detects center density and edge density of a developed image formed on the subjected-to-development member by the first developer-transporting unit and the second developer-transporting unit; a reference-image forming controller that forms a reference developed image on the subjected-to-development member by forming an electrostatic latent image having a uniform image density at a center position and an edge position; and a speed controller that increases rotation speed of the second developer-transporting unit as compared to the case of forming the reference developed image if the center density of the reference developed image detected by the density detecting unit is lower than the edge density.
US08842997B2
Return To Zero (RZ) shaping is performed for a first I/Q modulator whose output corresponds to a first polarization component using a first two digital-to-analog convertors (DACs), each of which is sampled at approximately twice a modulation symbol rate or more and has an output with a first interleaving order that interleaves one of a first pair of intended drive signal patterns and zeros. RZ shaping is also performed for a second I/Q modulator whose output corresponds to a second polarization component using a second two DACs, each sampled at approximately twice the modulation symbol rate or more and having a second interleaving order that interleaves zeros and one of a second pair of intended drive signal patterns, the second interleaving order opposite the first interleaving order. The first polarization and the second polarization may be combined, thereby forming an Interleaved Return To Zero (IRZ) Polarization Division Multiplexed (PDM) signal.
US08842993B2
Methods, algorithms, architectures, circuits, and/or systems for determining the status of parameters associated with optical transceiver operation are disclosed. The optical transceiver can include an optical receiver to receive optical data; an optical transmitter to transmit optical data; one or more memories to store data (and, optionally, thresholds) for each of a plurality of parameters that are related to operation of at least one of the optical receiver and the optical transmitter; a microprocessor that compares the parametric data against the threshold(s) to calculate one or more flags to indicate whether a corresponding parameter has exceeded the first or second threshold; and an interface that receives a flag request from a host, and provides the one or more flags in response to the request. In the present disclosure, the microprocessor may calculate the one or more flags only in response to the flag request from the host.
US08842991B2
A method in a network device for providing end-to-end connection in a unified optical and coax network, comprising receiving at an integrated node device (IND) a frame from an optical line terminal (OLT), wherein the frame comprises a data frame and a logical link identifier (LLID), and placing the data in a one of a plurality of buffers based on the LLID, wherein the one of the plurality of buffers corresponds to a customer premises equipment (CPE) associated with the LLID, wherein the data frame stays intact in a media access control (MAC) layer.
US08842989B2
Methods and apparatus for providing enhanced optical networking service and performance which are particularly advantageous in terms of low cost and use of existing infrastructure, access control techniques, and components. In the exemplary embodiment, current widespread deployment and associated low cost of Ethernet-based systems are leveraged through use of an Ethernet CSMA/CD MAC in the optical domain on a passive optical network (PON) system. Additionally, local networking services are optionally provided to the network units on the PON since each local receiver can receive signals from all other users. An improved symmetric coupler arrangement provides the foregoing functionality at low cost. The improved system architecture also allows for fiber failure protection which is readily implemented at low cost and with minimal modification.
US08842987B2
An optical network including at least one optical network node that receives an optical signal for either transmission or reception. The optical network node analyzes the optical signal and applies communication protocols necessary for optical transmission or reception of the optical signal to or from the optical network. At least one communication module is coupled to the at least one optical network node either decodes or encodes the optical signal by identifying or adding at least one wavelength to the optical signal for security.
US08842982B2
A passive optical network is provided which uses existing GPON OAM functionality and standard routing protocol messages to solve the downstream routing problem between an access service provider and one or more other communication provider networks.
US08842975B2
A method for editing the playback speed of a partial sequence of video and a digital device therefor are disclosed. A video editing method includes providing a timeline interface corresponding to a video sequence, receiving a first user input for specifying a first location on the timeline interface and a second user input for specifying a second location on the timeline interface, setting an editing interval between the first location and the second location of the timeline interface, receiving a third user input with respect to the editing interval, adjusting at least one of the thickness and length of the editing interval in response to the third user input, and editing playback attributes of the partial sequence based on the adjusted thickness and length of the editing interval.
US08842969B2
An electronic device comprises an accelerometer, a video capture device, and logic to capture accelerometer data from the accelerometer and video content during an event, associate the accelerometer data with the video content in a time dimension, and store the accelerometer data and the video content in a storage medium. Other embodiments may be described.
US08842960B2
A duct for distributing one or more optical fiber communication lines. The duct comprises an elongated main body having a length and a conduit portion with a lengthwise bore formed therein. The conduit portion contains one or more optical fiber communications lines. The duct also includes a flange portion extending lengthwise adjacent the main body to mount the duct to a generally flat surface, wherein the duct further includes an additional fiber channel for distributing at least one additional optical fiber at least a portion of the length of the duct. The duct can also be formed as a two piece duct system. The duct can be utilized in a drop access location system for horizontal cabling in multi-dwelling unit (MDU) applications.
US08842957B2
According to some embodiments, a multimode optical fiber comprises a graded index glass core with refractive index Δ1, a maximum refractive index delta Δ1MAX, and a core radius between 10 and 40 microns; and cladding region surrounding the core comprising refractive index Δ4, wherein the fiber exhibits an overfilled bandwidth at an operating wavelength in a 900 to 1250 nm wavelength range of greater than 2.5 GHz-km. According to some embodiments the fiber exhibits an overfilled bandwidth at a wavelength between 950 and 1100 nm which is greater than 4 GHz-km. According to some embodiments the fiber exhibits an overfilled bandwidth at a wavelength between 950 and 1100 nm which is greater than 10 GHz-km.
US08842954B2
A hybrid cable assembly includes a hybrid cable, tether tubes, and an overmold. The hybrid cable includes both electrical-conductor and fiber-optic elements. The tethers receive a subset of the elements from the hybrid cable at a transition location in the form of a chamber, and the overmold surrounds the transition location. The overmold is elongate, flexible, and has a low profile configured to pass through narrow ducts.
US08842950B2
A component for an optical probe, the component comprising: a tubular body defining an internal channel and an opening; a mounting ring which is mounted within the internal channel and configured to define an aperture aligned with the opening; and a window disposed across the aperture and bonded to the mounting ring around the aperture, wherein the window is diamond, wherein the mounting ring comprises a material having a coefficient of linear thermal expansion a of 14×10−6 K−1 or less at 20° C. and a thermal conductivity of 60 Wm−1K−1 or more at 20° C., and wherein the tubular body is made of a chemically inert material.
US08842944B2
An optical fiber hydrogen sensor and a method of measuring a hydrogen concentration are provided. The optical fiber hydrogen sensor may include a light source, a polarization beam splitter connected to the light source to split light from the light source into two polarization beams, a high-birefringence optical fiber connected to the polarization beam splitter and coated with a hydrogen reactant, and an optical spectrum analyzer connected to the polarization beam splitter to measure interference spectrum generated at the high-birefringence optical fiber.
US08842943B2
An electro-optic modulator includes a substrate comprising a surface, a pair of transmission lines formed in the surface and extending substantially in parallel with each other, a pair of first strip electrodes formed on the surface and covering the respective transmission lines, and a pair of second strip electrodes positioned at two sides of the first strip electrodes and parallel with the first strip electrodes.
US08842940B1
The present invention includes an image processing system with several data compression processing units connected together with a communication bus. Each data compression processing unit includes a wavelet transform processing unit, a shared register file and an address computation processing unit. The wavelet transform processing unit decomposes data from one or more segments of an image into wavelets using a discrete wavelet transform. The shared register stores the intermediate wavelet coefficient computations. The address computation processing unit identifies addresses of wavelets to be decomposed by subsequent operation of the wavelet transform processing unit. The system also includes storage where the resultant wavelet coefficients from each segment may be stored. The present invention also includes methods of compressing image data using multiple processors where each processor operates on a segment of the image data.
US08842938B2
Methods and systems for performing resolution expansion with high quality edge enhancement capability utilizing an edge detector and a color estimator. An edge tag with respect to an input image can be detected via an edge detector and an edge detection approach. A resolution expansion can be separately applied to the edge tag and a binary output generated by other processing functions. Multiple output lines corresponding to the input image from the color estimator with different threshold array values for an edge pixel can be generated by a halftoning module. A binary domain resolution expansion can be applied for a non-edge pixel. A final output for each pixel can be selected from a resolution expanded result and/or from the result of the halftoning for the edge based on the edge tag with respect to that pixel.
US08842934B2
An image processing apparatus, which can automatically arrange a plurality of images, includes a rectangle generation unit configured to divide the plurality of images into two or more groups and generate, for each group, a rectangle in which images of the group can be arranged. The image processing apparatus includes a determination unit configured to generate a new rectangle by combining two of the rectangles generated by the rectangle generation unit, in which a rectangle composed of the plurality of groups is generated in such a way as to locate all frames of the plurality of images in the rectangle, and further configured to determine a layout of frames of the plurality of images. The image processing apparatus further includes an image generation unit configured to generate an image of the plurality of images disposed in one rectangle based on the layout of the frames of the plurality of images determined by the determination unit.
US08842924B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for encoding and decoding an image by skip encoding. The image-encoding method by skip encoding, which performs intra-prediction, comprises: performing a filtering operation on the signal which is reconstructed prior to an encoding object signal in an encoding object image; using the filtered reconstructed signal to generate a prediction signal for the encoding object signal; setting the generated prediction signal as a reconstruction signal for the encoding object signal; and not encoding the residual signal which can be generated on the basis of the difference between the encoding object signal and the prediction signal, thereby performing skip encoding on the encoding object signal.
US08842922B2
A method and apparatus for encoding an image is provided. An image coding unit, including a region that deviates from a boundary of a current picture, is divided to obtain a coding unit having a smaller size than the size of the image coding unit, and encoding is performed only in a region that does not deviate from the boundary of the current picture. A method and apparatus for decoding an image encoded by the method and apparatus for encoding an image is also provided.
US08842919B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for gesture recognition are disclosed. The systems include, for example, at least one processor that is configured to receive at least one image from at least one image sensor. The processor may also be configured to detect, in the image, data corresponding to an anatomical structure of a user. The processor may also be configured to identify, in the image, information corresponding to a suspected hand gesture by the user. In addition, the processor may also be configured to discount the information corresponding to the suspected hand gesture if the data corresponding to the anatomical structure of the user is not identified in the image.
US08842913B2
A first color component of a pixel or scene entity is modified using a color correction curve defined at least partly by a second color component of this pixel or entity. Each pixel or entity has its own separate color correction curve, independent of the color correction curves of other pixels or entities. The saturation value of a pixel or scene entity may be modified based on its luminance value. The luminance value determines a saturation gamma function curve, mapping the original saturation value of a pixel or entity to a new saturation value. The unilluminated color of a pixel or of an illuminated entity in a scene being rendered may also be taken into account. This output color may be stored in the appropriate pixel of an image or combined with colors from other portions of the scene being rendered.
US08842911B2
Some embodiments provide a computer program for performing a color matching operation. The computer program identifies first and second images. Each image includes several pixels. Each pixel includes a luma component value. Based on analysis of the luma component values of the pixels of the first and second images, the computer program determines a set of transforms to modify pixel values of the first image so that the pixel values of the first image are similar to pixel values of the second image. The computer program applies the set of transforms to the first image such that the pixel values of the first image are similar to the pixel values of the second image.
US08842909B2
The use of optical character recognition (OCR) in mobile devices is becoming prevalent with the increasing use of mobile devices. One important application for OCR in mobile devices is recognizing and translating the text to a language understandable by the user. Techniques are provided for replacing symbols in an image, while reducing the artifacts as a result of re-rendering of the background image.
US08842902B2
In a method for aligning a part of a product (moving object) with a reference object, triangle data of the moving object is acquired, and feature elements of the moving object is fitted according to the triangle data. Feature elements of the reference object which match the feature elements of the moving object are determined, and the moving object is moved from a position of a center point of the feature elements of the moving object to a position of a center point of the matched feature elements of the reference object. A moving-and-rotating matrix of the moving object is obtained according to Quasi-Newton methods, and the moving object and the reference object are aligned by moving and rotating the moving object according to the moving-and-rotating matrix.
US08842900B2
A specimen processing system comprising: a blood cell counting apparatus; and a blood cell image classifying apparatus, wherein the blood cell image classifying apparatus comprises a controller to carry out operations, comprising: receiving a plurality of first count results of a predetermined type of the blood cell by the blood cell counting apparatus; obtaining a plurality of second count results of the predetermined type of the blood cell on the basis of the blood cell image; storing the plurality of the first count results and the second count results; reading at least one of the first count results, and at least one of the second count results obtained from a blood specimen corresponding to the first count result; generating and outputting a quality control screen on the basis of the read first count result and the read second count result. A blood cell image classifying apparatus is also disclosed.
US08842896B2
A method of generating an image data set, describing an object, as the object moves in a scanning space, comprises: a) performing a plurality of scans of the scanning space each scan being arranged to generate a set of samples, each sample including a sample value of at least one parameter associated with a respective point in the scanning space, the plurality of scans generating sample sets relating to a plurality of different parameters; b) determining a mapping for each of the samples from the scanning space into an object space which is fixed relative to the object; and c) determining object space values for each of the parameters at each of a plurality of points in the object space.
US08842894B2
Tree structures corresponding to a first linear structure and a second linear structure are constructed from medical image data including the first linear structure and the second linear structure, each repeatedly branching from an origin and extending in directions away from the origin in such a manner to become wider. Each of a first root node corresponding to a root node in the first tree structure and a second root node corresponding to a root node in the second tree structure is connected to each node, based on the characteristic that each of the first and second linear structures repeatedly branches from the origin and extends in directions away from the origin in such a manner to become wider, by using, with respect to each node, a cost function that weights a cost representing a probability of connection of each of a plurality of edges connectable to each node.
US08842887B2
Biometric data, suitably transformed are obtained from a biometric input device contained within a stand-alone computing device and used in conjunction with a PIN to authenticate the user to the device. The biometric template and other data residing on the device are encrypted using hardware elements of the device, the PIN and Password hash. A stored obfuscated password is de-obfuscated and released to the device authentication mechanism in response to a successfully decrypted template and matching biometric sample and PIN. The de-obfuscated password is used to authenticate the user to device, the user to a remote computer, and to encrypt device data at rest on the device and in transit to and from the remote computer. This creates a trusted relationship between the stand-alone device and the remote computer. The system also eliminates the need for the user to remember and enter complex passwords on the device.
US08842886B2
A method for adaptively tuning a biometric engine comprises the step of generating a database having a plurality of enrollments. Each enrollment corresponds to one or more of a plurality of operation characteristics. The method further comprises the step of comparing, with the biometric engine, enrollments from the database to generate test results including, for each of a plurality of sets of operation characteristics, error rates for a plurality of sensitivity settings and/or confidence score threshold values. The method further comprises the step of analyzing the test results to determine optimized sensitivity settings and/or confidence score threshold values for each set of operation characteristics.
US08842885B2
The invention discloses a camera device that contains an image capture module for capturing image data including a user; an information processing module for obtaining human face image data from the image data, and obtaining a distance information between a human face corresponding to the human face image data and the camera device according to the human face image data; a decision module for determining whether the distance corresponding to said distance information is less than a predetermined value, and generating a prompt information while the distance corresponding to said distance information is less than a predetermined value; and a prompt output module for outputting said prompt information based on said distance information, said prompt information is configured to give a prompt to said user. The invention also discloses an information prompt method. The technical solution of the present invention can obtain and output a distance between a human face and the camera device, so as to prevent and prompt that a user is too close to a display screen, and thereby protect eyesight of the user.
US08842874B1
A method for determining an amount of a liquid energy commodity stored in a tank comprises the steps of: receiving, at a central processing facility, volume capacity information associated with the tank and storing the volume capacity information in a database; receiving, at the central processing facility, one or more images of the tank; analyzing the one or more images of the tank to determine a liquid level for the tank; calculating the amount of the liquid energy commodity in the tank based on the determined liquid level and the volume capacity information retrieved from the database; and communicating information about the amount of the liquid energy commodity in the tank to a third-party market participant.
US08842870B2
Audio apparatus comprising a housing and a piezoelectric transducer (12) mounted in the housing (10) so that the transducer is adjacent a user's pinna whereby the transducer excites vibration in the pinna to cause it to transmit an acoustic signal from the transducer to a user's inner ear characterised by comprising a coupler (14) coupling the transducer (12) to the housing (10) with the coupler (14) approximating to a simple support for the transducer (12).
US08842868B1
An improved structure for a passive radiation sound box comprises: a body, which is formed an inner room and a sound-guide tunnel through several clapboards, the surface of the body is disposed an outlet connecting with the tunnel; a passive radiation component, each of the two ends of a vibration film has an edge, the component is disposed between the clipboards, the edges are connected with the clipboards; and an amplifier unit, which is surrounded in the room by the clapboards and the component, a vibration film of the unit is disposed on a side surface of the room, the component is beneath the unit; wherein while the unit is vibrating and sounding, partial sound pressure in the room is through the room by way of the component, and is then released by the outlet along the tunnel.
US08842866B2
A loudspeaker system has a front loudspeaker enclosure (30) having at least one first loudspeaker (20) and a rear loudspeaker enclosure (50) having at least one second loudspeaker (60). The rear loudspeaker enclosure (50) is in the form of a bandpass enclosure.
US08842858B2
The present invention relates to an electret condenser microphone which comprises an exterior sidewall structure attached to a carrier. The exterior sidewall structure comprises a non-conductive base material carrying first and second electrical wiring patterns electrically connected to first and second electrical traces, respectively, of the carrier. A diaphragm holder, carrying a conductive microphone diaphragm is attached to the sidewall structure to establish electrical connection between a conductive microphone diaphragm and one of the first and second electrical wiring patterns of the sidewall structure. A conductive perforated backplate is arranged in spaced relationship to the conductive microphone diaphragm. The conductive perforated backplate is electrically connected to another one of the first and second wiring patterns of the sidewall structure. The sidewall structure may therefore be utilized to provide electrical connectivity from the conductive microphone diaphragm and from the backplate to a microphone preamplifier arranged on the carrier.
US08842854B1
Systems and methods for wirelessly recording multi-track audio files without the data corruption or loss of data that typically occurs with wireless data transmission. In some aspects, each performer is equipped with a local audio device capable of locally recording the respective performer's audio while also transmitting it to a master recorder. Functions of the local audio device may be adjusted remotely. The locally recorded audio may be used to repair or replace any audio lost or corrupted during transmission to the master recorder. Such repair or replacement may be performed electronically or via playback of the locally recorded audio. In other aspects, a master recorder is not required since all locally recorded audio may be combined or otherwise processed post-recording. Locally recorded audio may include identifiers to aid in post-recording identification of such audio. A multi-memory unit is also provided to facilitate manipulation and processing of audio files.
US08842848B2
An audio system that may be used in multiple modes or use scenarios, while still providing a user with a desirable level of audio quality and comfort. The inventive system may include multiple components or elements, with the components or elements capable of being used in different configurations depending upon the mode of use. The different configurations provide an optimized user audio experience for multiple modes of use without requiring a user to carry multiple devices or sacrifice the audio quality or features desired for a particular situation. The inventive audio system includes a use mode detection element that enables the system to detect the mode of use, and in response, to be automatically configured for optimal performance for a specific use scenario. This may include, for example, the use of one or more audio processing elements that perform signal processing on the audio signals to implement a variety of desired functions (e.g., noise reduction, echo cancellation, etc.).
US08842843B2
A signal correction apparatus receives an input audio signal (serving as a first sound reception means). The signal correction apparatus computes, at every frequency, first power that indicates magnitude of sound represented by the input audio signal (serving as a first power computation means). The signal correction apparatus estimates a correction function that is a continuous function defining a relation between each frequency and a correction coefficient used to approximate the first power computed at that frequency to the reference power predetermined for that frequency (serving as a correction function estimation means). The signal correction apparatus multiplies the computed first power by the correction coefficient acquired in accordance with the relation defined by the estimated correction function so as to correct the first power at every frequency (serving as a power correcting means).
US08842830B2
A method and an apparatus for sending a key on a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) is provided. In a scenario where an Access Server is separate from an Access Controller, the Access Controller may send a master key of a specified WLAN station to the AC and trigger the AC to agree with the station on a transient key. The method includes: when receiving the master key of the WLAN station sent from an AAA server, searching a station information table for an IP address of an AC associated with the station; sending a message to the AC to instruct the AC to perform a 4-way handshake with the station to agree on a transient key, where the third message carries the master key of the station, a 4-way handshake triggering bit, and a MAC address of the WLAN station.
US08842828B2
Systems and methods are disclosed to improve performance of a communications device receiving encrypted communications from multiple sources. The communications device is configured to increase the amount of decryption performed using a hardware-based process as compared to a software-based process by reprogramming the hardware to store a shared security key corresponding to a frame received from a source, allowing the hardware-based process to decrypt subsequent frames from that source.
US08842826B2
A method and apparatus are provided for performing information-theoretically secure cryptography using joint randomness not shared by others. Two valid communicating entities independently generate samples of a shared source that is not available to an illegitimate entity. The shared source may be a satellite signal, and each legitimate entity may generate uniformly distributed samples from a binary phase-shift keying signal received on an independent channel. Alternatively, the shared source may be a channel between the two legitimate entities, such that each legitimate entity generates samples of unknown distribution based on the channel impulse response of the channel. One legitimate entity generates an encryption key, a quantization error, and a syndrome from its samples. The quantization error and the syndrome are reported to the other legitimate entity. The other legitimate entity generates a matching encryption key using its samples, the quantization error, and the syndrome.
US08842818B2
In one embodiment, an enterprise network is provided that includes subscriber communication devices 120, 148, and 150, an archival server 128 to store representations of communications between subscribers and/or between subscribers and nonsubscribers, and a module 160, 168, and/or 174 that analyzes a communication by a subscriber for selected content and, when the selected content is present in the communication, determines a weighted value associated with the communication and/or subscriber. The value reflects timing information associated with the communication. The archival server subsequently uses the weighted value to locate the recorded communication and/or identify the subscriber as being fluent in the selected content.
US08842816B2
The present invention discloses a Softswitch and system for implementing the intelligent network in the next generation networks and a method for interconnecting the intelligent networks to the PSTN. The Softswitch comprises: a network adaptive device for implementing the communication between the Softswitch and other devices in said network, as well as receiving the call request; a call server for determining whether the call received by said network adaptive device is a common call or the call of the intelligent network and processing the common call; and an INAP adapter for responding the call of the intelligent network and encoding/decoding the INAP message.
US08842804B2
According to one embodiment, a position determination unit determines a top position at a projection data acquisition start time P by a user instruction. A first angle determination unit determines a first rotational angle at the time P by a user instruction. A second angle determination unit determines a second rotational angle at a top movement start time Q and a time interval from the time Q to the time P. A control unit controls a first driving unit to rotate the X-ray tube, controls a second driving unit to make a top start moving in response to arrival of the X-ray tube at the second rotational angle, and controls a DAS to start acquiring projection data in response to arrival of the top at the top position.
US08842797B2
A gamma scanning apparatus includes a moving and fixing mechanism which moves/fixes a housing to a definite position, and a rotating and moving mechanism which moves a fuel assembly vertically in addition to rotating the assembly. A gamma-ray counting circuit measures an output of a gamma-ray detector, and a data collecting/analyzing and controlling apparatus analyzes data output from the gamma-ray counting circuit, in association with data relating to the rotation and movement of the fuel assembly by the rotating and moving mechanism. The rotating and moving mechanism, after fixing the vertical position of the fuel assembly with the housing also fixed, rotates the fuel assembly through 360° with its height kept constant, and during the 360° rotation of the fuel assembly, the gamma-ray counting circuit measures either a time average of count values of the detector during the rotation or an integral value within a fixed time.
US08842788B2
An exemplary system comprises at least one antenna, first and second signal paths, and an N-plexer. The first antenna may be configured to receive first and second diversity received signals. The first signal path may have a first converter configured to convert the first diversity received signal to first carrier group. The second signal path may have a second converter configured to convert the second diversity received signal to a second carrier group. The N-plexer may be configured to provide the first and second diversity received signals to a first cable in communication with a first modem.
US08842783B2
A method of accelerated carrier signal acquisition for a digital communication receiver, the method comprising receiving a carrier signal by a receiver comprising a carrier recovery loop (CRL), setting the CRL to an open loop setting using a processor, setting a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) within the CRL at a center frequency of the NCO, determining, by the processor, one or more initial parameters of the CRL, calculating an estimate and polarity for a sign frequency detection frequency using a sign frequency detector while simultaneously estimating a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) frequency by running an FFT using the processor, comparing polarities of the estimates of the sign frequency detection frequency and FFT frequency and determining a frequency offset using the processor, and adjusting one or more parameters of the CRL based on the frequency offset using the processor.
US08842781B2
A device includes a delay profile estimator to estimate a delay profile of multiple paths of a radio signal, wherein the delay profile indicates signal powers of the multiple paths as a function of time delay. The device further includes a path selector to select a path from the delay profile if the path has a signal power higher than a threshold. The threshold has a first threshold value in a first section of the delay profile which is higher than a second threshold value in a second section of the delay profile.
US08842779B2
Embodiments of user equipment and methods for determining IQ imbalance parameters are described. In some embodiments, a method for determining in-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) imbalance (IQ imbalance) parameters based on a known signal in a dual-carrier receiver using at least one controllable frequency offset includes receiving a known signal modulated onto a first radio frequency (RF) carrier frequency and a second RF carrier frequency different than the first RF carrier frequency. The known signal is downconverted to a baseband signal for the carriers by conversion from the respective RF carrier frequencies to an intermediate frequency (IF) using a common RF local oscillator (LO) and by further conversion from IF to baseband using carrier specific IF LOs, where a controllable frequency offset is used. Any controllable frequency offset is removed from the baseband signal for the first and second carriers to produce representations of the received signals.
US08842777B2
Circuitry separates a modulation signal into digital sign and magnitude signal components. The digital magnitude signal is converted to an analog magnitude signal. The analog magnitude signal is the mixed with an in-phase or quadrature carrier signal under the influence of the digital sign signal and routed to a driver output stage.
US08842772B2
Disclosed is a transmission scheme for transmitting a first modulated signal and a second modulated signal over the same frequency at the same time. According to the transmission scheme, a precoding weight multiplying unit multiplies a baseband signal after a first mapping and a baseband signal after a second mapping by a precoding weight and outputs the first modulated signal and the second modulated signal. In the precoding weight multiplying unit, precoding weights are regularly hopped.
US08842752B2
A multiuser scheme allowing for a number of users, sets of user, or carriers to share one or more channels is provided. In the invention, the available channel bandwidth is subdivided into a number of equal-bandwidth subchannels according to standard OFDM practice. A transmitter transmits data on a set of OFDM subchannels that need not be contiguous in the spectrum or belong to the same OFDM channel. A receiver receives and decodes the data and detects errors on subchannels. The receiver then broadcasts the identity of those subchannels on which the error rate exceeds a specific threshold, and the transmitter may select different subchannels for transmission based on this information.
US08842742B2
A method of generating presentation time stamps, PTSs, for motion-compensated frame-rate conversion of a sequence of frames. In one aspect, the method comprises for each new frame: determining an average difference between the capture time-stamps of recent consecutive new frames; and generating the PTS based on the capture time-stamp of a previous new frame and the average difference. In another aspect, the method comprises detecting a first cadence and a second different cadence in the sequence of frames; and generating a PTS for each new frame defined by the first cadence, such that in each case the difference between the PTSs of consecutive new frames is intermediate between the true interval between those frames according to the first cadence and the true interval between them according to the second cadence.
US08842738B2
Disclosed herein is a signal processing apparatus and method based on multiple textures using video audio excitation signals. For this, an input signal that includes a video signal and an audio signal is divided into unit component signals, and one is selected from a plurality of frames of each unit component signal as a seed signal. A plurality of texture points are detected from the seed signal. The texture points are tracked from the frames of the unit component signal and then spatio-temporal location transform variables for the texture points are calculated. Texture signals are defined using texture points at which the spatio-temporal location transform variables correspond to one another. Each of the texture signals is defined as a sum of a plurality of texture blocks that are outputs of texture synthesis filters that receive video audio excitation signals as inputs.
US08842733B2
A method and apparatus for utilizing temporal prediction and motion compensated prediction to accomplish multiple description video coding is disclosed. An encoder receives a sequence of video frames and divides each frame into non-overlapping macroblocks. Each macroblock is then encoded using either an intraframe mode (I-mode) or a prediction mode (P-mode) technique. Both the I-mode and the P-mode encoding techniques produce an output for each of n channels used to transmit the encoded video data.
US08842728B2
A video processing system is provided with video encoding apparatus 1 and video decoding apparatus 2. The encoding apparatus 1 outputs a maximum delay time that is incurred by backward prediction, in addition to encoded data D1 resulting from encoding of video data D0. The decoding apparatus 2 effects input of the maximum delay time that is incurred by backward prediction, in addition to encoded data D1 from the encoding apparatus 1. Then the decoding apparatus 2 decodes the encoded data D1 with reference to the input maximum delay time to generate motion video data D2.
US08842717B2
A global positioning system (GPS) receiver that is configured to rapidly acquire GPS signals in space applications and a method for rapidly acquiring GPS signals in space applications is disclosed. In an embodiment, the GPS receiver includes, but is not limited to, a GPS signal acquisition component. The GPS signal acquisition component is adapted to acquire a GPS signal by receiving data from the GPS signal and processing the data to detect the GPS signal.
US08842714B2
An electronic device may contain clock circuits, transmitters, and other circuits that serve as sources of noise signals. The noise signals may be characterized by a noise spectrum. The noise spectrum produced by a noise source can be adjusted by adjusting spread spectrum clock circuitry in a clock circuit, by adjusting data scrambling circuitry in a transmitter circuit, or by making other dynamic adjustments to the circuitry of the electronic device. During operation of the electronic device, sensitive circuitry in the device such as wireless receiver circuitry may be adversely affected by the presence of noise from a noise source in the device. Based on information such as which receiver bands and/or channels are being actively received and target sensitivity levels for the receiver circuitry, control circuitry within the electronic device can determine in real time how to minimize interference between the noise source and the wireless receiver circuitry.
US08842712B2
A frequency-agile radio receiver controlled by a radio controller hops through a plurality of radio frequencies where discrete frequency-hopping spread spectrum digital transmissions may exist, where the transmitter's hopping sequence is not known, and where it is not necessary to receive every transmission of interest. The controller accumulates counters of the number of transmissions of interest it receives at each of a plurality of frequencies. It then creates a new frequency-hopping sequence consisting primarily of those frequencies whose received transmission counts exceed a certain threshold. The controller continues to tune the receiver in a hopping pattern, allocating more of the receiver's time to those frequencies where more transmissions have been received in the past. Doing so improves the likelihood that transmissions of interest will be received in the future.
US08842708B2
A light oscillation device has a self oscillation semiconductor laser that has a double quantum well separated confinement heterostructure made of GaInN/GaN/AlGaN materials and that includes a saturable absorber section which is applied with a negative bias voltage and a gain section into which a gain current is injected, a light separation unit that separates a portion of laser light beams from the self oscillation semiconductor laser, a light sensing element that senses the laser light beams separated by the light separation unit, and a current control circuit which controls a current injected into the gain section of the self oscillation semiconductor laser based on an amount of the laser light beams which are sensed by the light sensing element.
US08842700B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for a User Equipment (UE) to transmit a Sounding Reference Signal (SRS). A first Downlink Control Information (DCI) format with an aperiodic SRS request field indicating aperiodic SRS transmission with first values for aperiodic SRS transmission parameters, is received. A second DCI format with an aperiodic SRS request field indicating aperiodic SRS transmission with second values for the aperiodic SRS transmission parameters, is received. The first values for the aperiodic SRS transmission parameters are compared with the second values for the aperiodic SRS transmission parameters. An aperiodic SRS is transmitted when the first values are identical to the second values. Transmission of the aperiodic SRS is suspended when the first values are not identical to the second values.
US08842686B2
A communication system (1) has a relay server (S) assigned to a wide area IP network (net1) and having a SIP function, a transmitting terminal (C1) transmitting over the relay server (S), and a receiving terminal (C2) receiving over the relay server (S); the transmitting terminal (C1) and the receiving terminal (C2) have a first IP address (21A) for communicating over the wide area IP network (net1) and a second IP address (21B) for communicating over a short circuit (XD) in an Internet network using XMPP as a communication protocol; and the transmitting terminal (C1) switches to the short circuit (XD) and communicates after communication with the receiving terminal (C2) is established over the wide area IP network (net1).
US08842678B2
The invention discloses a mobile communication device and a communicative transmission method thereof. The mobile communication device includes a communication module and a control unit. The communication module is used for communicatively connecting to a communication server. The control unit is coupled to the communication module. The control unit utilizes the communication module to receive a one-to-one packet from the communication server according to a first period, and ignore a one-to-many packet on the communication server. The control unit utilizes the communication module to transmit a second one-to-many packet to the communication server according to a second period.
US08842673B2
A communication system includes a communication device controlling packet forwarding, and a controller setting a first table entry used for packet forwarding according to a request from the communication device. The communication device determines whether to forward a received packet according to the first table entry or forward the received packet according to a second table entry set by the communication device based on a rule for identifying a received packet. The load of the controller for controlling paths can be reduced.
US08842668B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for updating a binding relationship of an associated bidirectional label switched path (Bidi-LSP). The method includes: sending a request packet to a destination node, where the request packet carries a parameter for updating the binding relationship and is designed to request updating of the binding relationship; receiving a reply packet from the destination node, where the reply packet carries a binding updating processed result and is designed to respond to the request packet; and updating the binding relationship of the associated Bidi-LSP according to the binding updating processed result carried in the reply packet.
US08842664B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) for an Advanced Telecommunications Computing Architecture (ATCA) shelf. The ATCA shelf may include a backplane providing a payload power supply and a standby power supply. Additionally, the PCB may include a first shelf management controller (ShMC) and a multiport switch, the multiport switch electrically coupling the first ShMC with a second ShMC on a second PCB by way of the backplane, the first ShMC utilizing standby power provided by the backplane at least when payload power is not available.
US08842658B2
Disclosed are various embodiments for cancellation of a PSCH signal and/or SSCH signal from an RX input signal. A PSCH sequence and SSCH sequence are extracted a PSCH and SSCH signal. A relative gain associated with the PSCH signal and SSCH signal are determined relative to a CPICH signal. A reconstructed PSCH and SSCH signal are generated and cancelled from the RX input signal.
US08842649B2
The invention discloses a method for transmitting data between a radio equipment (RE) and a radio equipment control (REC) of a radio base station via Ethernet. The method comprises in adaptive physical layer, adapting data frames complying with a remote radio protocol to Ethernet data frames that are suitable for transmission over Ethernet physical layer, and transmitting the adapted Ethernet data frames over the Ethernet physical layer.
US08842631B2
Described herein are mechanisms and methods that facilitate seamless handoff of an access terminal between access points (transceiver modules). A first transceiver module can be providing forward link data services to an access terminal when it requests a handoff to a second transceiver module. In response, the first transceiver module can provide data that is desirably transmitted to the access terminal to the second transceiver module. A network module can inform a plurality of transceiver modules that the second transceiver module is servicing the access terminal, and can further provide data to the second transceiver module for transmittal to the access terminal.
US08842628B2
A method is provided for communication in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises transmitting an extended physical downlink control channel to a user equipment using transmit diversity from at least one demodulation reference signal port.
US08842625B2
The present solution provides a method in a base station (110) for selecting one or more user equipments (120) to be scheduled for a transmission. After receiving (201) channel state information from the respective one or more user equipments (120), the base station (110) estimates (202) the throughput of the transmission of the respective one or more user equipments (120). The throughput is based on the received channel state information. The base station (110) further estimates (203) the consumption of throughput that is expected for transmitting scheduling information to each of the respective one or more user equipments (120). The base station then selects (204) the respective one or more user equipments (120) to be scheduled for transmission based on a criterion. The criterion is based on the estimated throughput and the estimated consumption of throughput that is expected for transmitting the scheduling information to the respective one or more user equipments (120).
US08842622B2
A method and apparatus may be used to enable reception of a downlink (DL) shared channel in a cooperative multipoint transmission (CoMP). The method and apparatus may determine whether CoMP is applied to a transmission. The method and apparatus may acquire other CoMP related information. The method and apparatus may apply to non-transparent CoMP scenarios.
US08842620B2
The present application describes embodiments of methods and apparatuses that may be used to accommodate different reference symbol patterns. One embodiment of the method includes identifying overlapping resource element(s) in a resource block by comparing a first pattern of resource elements associated with first reference symbols to a second pattern of resource elements associated with second reference symbols. This embodiment also includes transmitting the first and second reference symbols in the overlapping resource element(s) when first and second antenna ports allocated for transmission of the first and second reference symbols in the overlapping resource element(s) are the same. Transmission of the first reference symbol in the overlapping resource elements is bypassed when the first and second antenna ports are different.
US08842603B2
A method (200) and apparatus for determining whether a network (111) associated with a foreign agent (104) is multiple IP address interface compatible in a mobile node (101) is provided. The foreign agent (104), upon detection of the mobile node (101), composes an agent advertisement (400) that includes one or more flag bits (405). The foreign agent (104) sets one of the one or more flag bits (405) to indicate multiple IP address interface compatibility. Upon receiving the agent advertisement (400), the mobile node (101) configures itself for multiple IP address interface datagram communication. Where the mobile node (101) has not already received a primary IP address (617) from the foreign agent (104), it requests one. The mobile node (101) then requests a secondary IP address (618) from a home agent (103) through the foreign agent (104).
US08842600B2
Disclosed is a method for relaying operation of a terminal using uplink resources. A method for receiving data using uplink resource in a method for receiving a communication service of a base station through a relay signal of an adjacent terminal present in a service area of the base station, includes: changing into an uplink resource reception mode to receive data from uplink resource; when the adjacent terminal delivers transmission data of the base station, receiving the data through the uplink resource; and decoding the received data.
US08842590B2
A mobile device with a port map maintaining a list of open ports for incoming data packets is provided. A first processor receives and demodulates inbound signals into data packets. A second processor processes at least one application bound to at least one open port. The second processor enters a sleep mode to reduce power consumption if no data packet is sent from the first processor to the second processor. When the first processor receives an inbound request signal, the first processor demodulates the inbound request signal into a first data packet targeted to a destination port, and looks up the port map to determine whether the destination port is listed in the port map. If the destination port is not listed in the port map, the first processor transmits a response signal to the sender of the inbound request signal or omits the inbound request signal without waking up the second processor.
US08842575B2
Various embodiments provide a method and apparatus of providing a non-overlapping ring-mesh network topology which reduces costs (e.g., the number of network links) while providing resiliency to failure and meeting QoS requirements (e.g., network delay attributed to traversing the network architecture). In particular, a set of target nodes belonging to a cluster are connected through N rings. Each node is member of all N rings and no link between nodes in a ring is duplicated in another ring.
US08842571B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus are described for processing a first field of a preamble of a data unit received by a communication device, the preamble including a second field that follows the first field in time. The embodiments described further include determining an estimated start of the second field of the preamble based on the processing of the first field, processing the second field of the preamble based on the estimated start of the second field, and determining an estimated time of arrival of the data unit at the communication device based on the processing of the second field of the preamble.
US08842570B2
Messages transmitted between a receiver and a transmitter are used to maximize a communication data rate. In particular, a multicarrier modulation system uses messages that are sent from the receiver to the transmitter to exchange one or more sets of optimized communication parameters. The transmitter then stores these communication parameters and when transmitting to that particular receiver, the transmitter utilizes the stored parameters in an effort to maximize the data rate to that receiver. Likewise, when the receiver receives packets from that particular transmitter, the receiver can utilize the stored communication parameters for reception.
US08842569B2
A method and device for accessing and obtaining user equipment (UE) context and UE identity are provided. The method for access includes: when a UE accesses a System Architecture Evolution (SAE) network, judging, by a network node, whether a Globally Unique Mobility Management Entity Identifier (GUMMEI) carried by the UE or a Mobility Management Entity Group Identity (MMEGI) in the GUMMEI is allocated or mapped by the SAE network; if the GUMMEI or MMEGI is allocated by the SAE network, selecting, by the network node, a Mobility Management Entity (MME) according to the GUMMEIA network device includes an identity attribute obtaining module and a network resource node allocation module. Therefore, the access of the UE is achieved.
US08842566B2
In order to enable to judge validity of a measurement result of a transmission rate, a speed estimation method transmits a data packet and probe packets before and after the data packet to a measured section which is a target for measurement of a transmission rate, estimates a transmission rate of a measured section based on a first receiving interval which is a receiving interval between the probe packets transmitted through the measured section just before and immediately after the data packet and a data volume of the data packet, and determines validity of a transmission rate by comparing a second receiving interval which is a receiving interval between the probe packets which have passed the measured section continuously in a state that a data packet does not exist in between them in a measured section and a first receiving interval.
US08842564B2
The present invention relates to a method and devices for allowing a communication terminal to configure a measurement gap pattern on a downlink carrier frequency for measurement on a target carrier frequency by said communication terminal, the communication terminal being capable of performing measurements on at least two downlink carrier frequencies without measurement gap, the method comprising: obtaining an indication that there is a need for the measurement gap pattern, for performing the measurement on the target carrier frequency; retrieving information about how to configure the measurement gap pattern; and determining, based on the retrieved information, the downlink carrier frequency on which the measurement gap pattern is to be configured.
US08842562B2
An information handling system includes a plurality of processors that each includes a cache memory, and a receive side scaling (RSS) indirection table with a plurality of pointers that each points to one of the processors. A network data packet received by the information handling system determines a pointer to a first processor. In response to determining the pointer, information associated with the network data packet is transferred to the cache memory of the first processor, The information handling system also includes a process scheduler that moves a process associated with the network data packet from a second processor to the first processor, and an RSS module that directs the process scheduler to move the process and associates the first pointer with the processor in response to directing the process scheduler.
US08842558B2
A method and apparatus for receiving and processing channel quality index (CQI) reporting. A wireless transmit receive unit is configured to receive CQI configuration information and transmit a CQI report based on the CQI configuration information.
US08842551B2
The present application discloses a method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving an HARQ failure indication. The method includes: a Node B receives an E-DCH payload from a primary carrier and fails to decode it; the Node B determines whether the condition of transmitting an HARQ failure indication is met, if so, the Node B sets the HARQ failure indication data frame on the primary carrier; and the Node B transmits the HARQ failure indication data frame to a service radio network controller on a transmission bearer corresponding to the primary carrier. The present application realizes a better control over the SIR target value through a carrier-based outer loop power control function.
US08842547B2
A communication control apparatus transfers received data from an external unit to a first memory unit, and at the same time transferring a header portion of the received data to a second memory unit, and performs addition operations the received data transferred to the first memory unit to obtain a checksum value of the received data. It analyzes the header portion transferred to the second memory unit in response to the completion of transferring the header portion to the second memory unit. Then, it acquires an addition value for the region except object regions of checksum for determining an error in the received data, and determines the error in the received data using the result of the addition operation for the received data by the adding unit and the addition value acquired by the acquiring unit.
US08842544B2
A method including receiving network graph information of a network, wherein the network graph information includes shared risk link group (SRLG) information; determining a maximum link-and-SRLG-disjoint flow value of the network based on the network graph information; selecting a value for a number of trap-free shortest link-and-SRLG-disjoint paths to find between a source node and a destination node based on the maximum link-and-SRLG-disjoint flow value; selecting a minimum remaining link-and-SRLG-disjoint flow value based on the value for the number of trap-free shortest link-and-SRLG-disjoint paths; and selecting a trap-free shortest link-and-SRLG-disjoint path in which a complementary part of the network supports at least the minimum remaining link-and-SRLG-disjoint-flow value.
US08842537B2
Disclosed herein are methods and calculators for configuring traffic allocations for service classes with different Quality of Service (QoS) in a router. Example embodiments involve setting allocations at a router based on traffic rate values and/or traffic weight values provided by a user. The router may monitor actual traffic rates to ensure that traffic is not being dropped due to improper rate allocations and to provide historical data for optimizing traffic allocations. In addition, the router may automatically adjust traffic allocations to avoid dropping high(er) priority traffic. The router may also transmit alarms to the user and/or to other network devices to prompt traffic re-routing and/or re-allocation of traffic rates. Example methods and apparatus ensure appropriate traffic allocation to meet certain QoS metrics.
US08842534B2
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for managing time-sensitive packetized data streams at a receiver includes receiving a time-sensitive packet of a data stream, analyzing an energy level of a payload signal of the packet, and determining whether to drop the packet based on the energy level of the payload signal.
US08842529B2
A method of operation of a network transport system includes: determining a congestion mode based on a total bandwidth request meeting or exceeding a bandwidth threshold, where the congestion mode indicates a level of network traffic and the total bandwidth request is a sum of all bandwidth requests for accessing the network; calculating a fixed information rate schedule grant based on a fixed information rate list to create a bandwidth grant for a fixed information rate request; calculating a low latency schedule grant based on a low latency list to create the bandwidth grant for a low latency request; calculating a main schedule grant for allocating an available bandwidth based on the congestion mode, where the main schedule grant is calculated using a weighted maximum-minimum fairness method when the congestion mode indicates congestion; and generating a grant packet for defining a transmission schedule of a first network unit.
US08842524B2
Methods and systems for automatically recovering from a failure event in one or more nodes of a redundant ring network are provided. An indication is received at a first ring of nodes that an associated second ring of nodes has failed. A probing token is circulated around the second ring of nodes while a probing timer is started. The injecting a probing token and starting a probing timer are repeated if the probing timer expires before the probing token circulates completely around the second ring of nodes. A recovery token is circulated around the second ring of nodes to enable each node of the second ring of nodes and to disable the probing timer if the probing token circulates completely around the second ring of nodes.
US08842519B2
A network interface apparatus is capable of bypassing an inoperable or failed network device. According to an exemplary embodiment, the network interface apparatus includes first and second transformers. A network input and a network output are respectively coupled to a first side of the first transformer and a first side of the second transformer. A terminal input and a terminal output are respectively coupled to a second side of the first transformer and a second side of the second transformer. A switch assembly is coupled to the second sides of the first and second transformers. When the switch assembly is in a first state, the second side of the first transformer is coupled to the terminal output, and when the switch assembly is in a second state, the second side of the first transformer is coupled to the first side of the second transformer bypassing the terminal output.
US08842507B1
A thermally-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) disk drive uses a thermal sensor to accurately monitor laser power during writing. The disk drive controller, or a separate processor, computes a prediction of the laser power from a history of laser power settings. This predicted value is compared with the measured value from the thermal sensor. If the difference is too large or too small, indicating that the laser power is too high or too low, an error signal is sent to the disk drive controller. The disk drive controller may adjust the laser power setting and initiate a re-write of the data. The predicted laser power is calculated from a convolution of a sequence of current and prior laser power settings with a sequence of coefficients. A calibration process generates the sequence of coefficients when the disk drive is idle or just after it is powered on.
US08842503B1
An apparatus comprises a write transducer, an energy source, and a controller. The write transducer is configured to write data to a magnetic recording medium, and the energy source is configured to heat the magnetic recording medium while it is being written to by the write transducer. The controller is coupled to the write transducer and configured to adjust at least an operating power of the energy source to selectably cause bits having variable bit aspect ratios to be written to the magnetic media.
US08842502B2
This watch movement part comprises a frame (1) bearing a striking work mechanism which comprises: a motor member (10) kinematically linked with a striking work wheel (20), a striking work hammer (40), an anchor (30) with two pallets (31, 32) engaged alternately with said striking work wheel (20) and cooperating with said striking work hammer (40) to make it oscillate between a first position striking a resonant member (50) and a second position, and a limiting spring (60) defining said second position, and wherein the anchor (30) and the striking work hammer (40) form a single striking work member mounted to pivot on the frame (1).
US08842499B2
Devices, systems, and methods for presenting date and time information are described. In some embodiments, a date and/or a time value is presented as a base-36 number. In some embodiments, an integral portion of the base-36 number represents a date value, and a fractional portion of the base-36 number represents a time value. Each base-36 digit may be represented by one of the numerals 0-9 and the letters A-Z. Both digital and analog clocks and a clock application displaying date and/or time information in which a day is broken into thirty-six increments are disclosed. A clock application displaying coordinates of a location based on a base-36 geo-positioning system is disclosed.
US08842485B2
A delay circuit of the present disclosure includes a first delay unit and a second delay unit which are connected in series and delay an input signal to generate a delayed signal. The first delay unit includes a first signaling pathway, and changes, based on a first delay control value, a first amount of delay to be provided to the input signal by switching signaling pathways for transmitting the input signal that are within the first pathway. The second delay unit includes a second signaling pathway, and changes, based on a second delay control value, a second amount of delay to be provided to the input signal without switching the second signaling pathway for transmitting the input signal.
US08842481B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a cell array including plural MATs (unit cell arrays) arranged in matrix, each MAT containing a plurality of first lines, a plurality of second lines intersecting the plurality of first lines, and a plurality of memory cells connected at intersections of the first and second lines between both lines, each memory cell containing an electrically erasable programmable variable resistive element of which resistance is nonvolatilely stored as data; and a plurality of write/erase circuits connected to the MATs and operative to execute data write or erase to the memory cells inside the MATs in accordance with input data. A part of the plurality of write/erase circuits writes data to memory cells inside a corresponding MAT while another part of the plurality of write/erase circuits erases data from memory cells inside a corresponding MAT at the same time.
US08842479B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in series in the semiconductor body, such as a NAND string, having a plurality of word lines. A selected memory cell is programmed by hot carrier injection. The program operation is based on metering a flow of carriers between a first semiconductor body region on a first side of the selected cell in the NAND string and a second semiconductor body region on a second side of the selected cell. A program potential higher than a hot carrier injection barrier level is applied to the selected cell, and then the drain to source voltage across the selected cell and the flow of carriers in the selected cell reach a level sufficient to support hot carrier injection, which is controlled by a combination of a switch cell adjacent the selected cell and modulation of a source side voltage applied to the NAND string.
US08842471B2
In non-volatile memory devices, a write typically consists of an alternating set of pulse and verify operations. At the end of a pulse, the device must be biased properly for an accurate verify, after which the device is re-biased for the next pulse. The intervals between the pulse and verify phases are considered. For the interval after a pulse, but before establishing the verify conditions, the source, bit line, and, optionally, the well levels can be equalized and then regulated at a desired DC level. After a verify phase, but before applying the biasing the memory for the next pulse, the source and bit line levels can be equalized to a DC level.
US08842469B2
A method is provided for programming a multi-state flash memory having a plurality of memory cells. A first programming pulse is provided to the flash array; determining a threshold voltage distribution for the plurality of memory cells after providing the first programming pulse. The plurality of memory cells is categorized into at least two bins based on a threshold voltage of each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells. A first voltage is selected for a second programming pulse for programming a first bin of memory cells of the at least two bins, the first voltage based on both a threshold voltage of the first bin and a first target threshold voltage. A second voltage is selected for a third programming pulse for programming a second bin of memory cells of the at least two bins, the second voltage based on both the threshold voltage of the second bin and on a second target threshold voltage.
US08842464B2
Integrated circuit memory devices include an array of static random access memory (SRAM) cells arranged as a plurality of columns of SRAM cells electrically coupled to corresponding plurality of pairs of bit lines and a plurality of rows of SRAM cells electrically coupled to a corresponding plurality of word lines. A word line driver and a column decoder are provided. The word line driver, which is electrically coupled to the plurality of word lines, is configured to drive a selected word line with a positive voltage and a plurality of unselected word lines with a negative voltage during an operation to write data into a selected one of the SRAM cells. The column decoder includes a plurality of pairs of selection switches therein, which are electrically coupled to corresponding ones of the plurality of pairs of bit lines. The column decoder is configured to drive control terminals of a first of the plurality of pairs of selection switches coupled to the selected one of the SRAM cells with positive voltages concurrently with driving control terminals of a second of the plurality of pairs of selection switches coupled to an unselected one of the SRAM cells with negative voltages during the operation to write data.
US08842462B2
A resistive random access memory (RRAM) device and operating method are disclosed herein. The RRAM device includes at least one RRAM cell and a control circuit. The RRAM cell includes a bottom electrode, an amorphous Indium-Gallium-Zinc-Oxide (a-IGZO) layer, a Ti layer and a top electrode. The a-IGZO layer is disposed on the bottom layer. The Ti layer is disposed on the a-IGZO layer. The top electrode is disposed on the Ti layer. The control circuit is configured to provide at least one electrical signal to the RRAM cell, so as to change the resistance value of the RRAM cell.
US08842458B2
According to one disclosed embodiment, a content-addressable memory (CAM) system configured for reduced power consumption includes a sensing circuit utilized to apply a sense voltage to a matchline of the CAM system, a valid bit cell coupled to the matchline, and a power cut-off circuit configured to isolate the sense voltage from the matchline when an invalid validity state is stored in the valid bit cell, thereby reducing power consumption by the CAM system. In one embodiment, the power cut-off circuit isolates the sense voltage from the matchline by decoupling the sensing circuit from a control signal when an invalid validity state is stored in the valid bit cell.
US08842453B2
A control method of a converter system includes: sampling a current of each three-phase winding to obtain a real-time current of each converter; obtaining a mean current by averaging the real-time current of each secondary converter and the real-time current of the primary converter, and transferring the mean current to each secondary converter; obtaining the differential-mode current corresponding to each secondary converter according to the mean current and the real-time current of each secondary converter; performing a circulation current control on the mean current and the differential-mode current of each secondary converter based on a d-q coordinate system to generate a mean-current conditioning signal and a differential-mode current conditioning signal, thereby controlling each secondary converter; and obtaining a sum of the differential-mode current conditioning signal of the secondary converters and negating the sum to obtain a differential-mode current conditioning signal of the primary converter, thereby controlling the primary converter.
US08842443B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) assembly includes a main PCB, a body PCB and a cover PCB. The main PCB has a first electronic component mounted thereon. The body PCB is mounted on the main PCB and includes a cavity therethrough. The first electronic component is positioned within the cavity when the body PCB is mounted on the main PCB. The cover PCB is aligned and mounted on the body PCB to cover the cavity. The cover PCB has a second electronic component mounted on a surface thereof. When the cover PCB is mounted on the body PCB, the second electronic component is positioned within the cavity and faces the main PCB. A method of fabricating the PCB assembly and a mobile terminal including the PCB assembly are also provided.
US08842437B2
A combinational chassis featuring heat dissipation comprises a chassis body, a base plane shell, and a first side shell and a second side shell, of which the two sides connect to each other in the same direction of the base plane shell. A heat dissipation device comprises a plurality of heat-sink parts on the outside surface of chassis body. The heat-sink part comprises a raised portion integrally connected to the inside, and a joint portion connected to the outside. The raised portion integrally protrudes outwards from the outside surface. The joint portion geometrically protrudes from the raised portion. A wedge groove is formed near the joint portions where an inlet groove is formed. The inlet groove connects and communicates with the wedge groove. The chassis may be connected vertically in stack and/or connected horizontally for expansion to expand the computer system for preferably flexible application and optimal heat dissipation.
US08842428B2
A docking station includes a housing, and an extending mechanism slidably received in the housing. The extending mechanism includes a connecting part. The extending mechanism moves from a first position exposed out of the housing to a second position received in the housing. When the extending mechanism moves to the first position, the connecting part is exposed out of the housing. When the extending mechanism moves to the second position, the connecting part is received in the housing.
US08842427B2
An electrical apparatus system includes a tool battery used as a power source for an electrical tool, and an electrical apparatus having a battery-connecting portion configured to allow the tool battery to be electrically and mechanically connected thereto or disconnected therefrom. In a state in which the tool battery is electrically and mechanically connected to the battery-connecting portion of the electrical apparatus, the tool battery is exposed on a lower side of the electrical apparatus so as to support the electrical apparatus on an installation surface thereof as a base.
US08842426B2
An adjustable buffer and a multi-media storage device module are provided. The module includes a multi-media storage device, multiple adjustable buffers and multiple fasteners. Each buffer including a supporting unit, a body having a second assembling portion pivoted to the first assembling portion and multiple extension units, a cover having an opening and multiple second locking structures and a fixing cap is installed at two opposite sidewalls of the device. The supporting unit has a main portion, a first assembling portion and multiple first locking structures disposed at the body surrounding the first assembling portion. The second locking structures pass through the body to lock the first locking structures and the first assembling portion in the opening contacts the extension units. The cap is assembled to the first assembling portion and presses the second assembling portion. The fasteners pass through the first assembling portion and are screwed into the device.
US08842422B2
A security apparatus is disclosed. The security apparatus is used with a lock interface member attached to a housing of a portable electronic device. The security apparatus may include an engagement element as well as a stabilizing element. The engagement element and the stabilizing element may secure the security apparatus to the lock interface member, and therefore to the housing of the portable electronic device.
US08842402B2
A control circuit for a protection circuit device includes first and second voltage boosters, a comparator coupled thereto, and a MOSFET for bypassing a direct current (DC) source. The control circuit may include a control logic circuit having a first input coupled to an output of the comparator, a second input receiving a disable command signal, a first output coupled to an enable input of the first voltage booster, and a second output, and a four terminal path inversion switch. The control circuit may include a supply voltage line, a sensor coupled to the second input of the control logic circuit, to generate the disable command signal, and to force the MOSFET into a conduction mode, and an external command terminal coupled to the second input of the control logic circuit, to receive the disable command signal, and to force the MOSFET into the conduction mode.
US08842395B2
A magnetic read sensor having an extended pinned layer structure and also having an extended free layer structure. The extended pinned layer structure and extended free layer structure both extend beyond the strip height of the free layer of the sensor to provide improved pinning strength as well as improved free layer biasing reliability and bias field strength.
US08842390B2
A magnetic element may be generally configured as a data writer constructed at least with a write pole within a box shield that consists of first and second side shields and first and second vertical shields. The write pole may be separated from the box shield by a multi-layer gap structure that consists of at least two gap layers of dissimilar materials.
US08842381B2
A micro-lens module including a first lens group and a second lens group is provided. The first lens group disposed between an object side and an image side has a first aspheric surface which is the surface closest to the object side and a second aspheric surface which is the surface closest to the image side. The second lens group disposed between the first lens group and the image side has a third aspheric surface which is the surface closest to the first lens group and a fourth aspheric surface which is the surface closest to the image side. An overall length of the micro-lens module is L, an effective focal length (EFL) of the micro-lens module is f, and an EFL of the second lens group is f2. The micro-lens module satisfies following conditions: 1.5>L/f>0.6, and −7>f2/f>−14.
US08842380B2
An imaging lens includes: a first lens group; a second lens group having positive refractive power; and a third lens group having negative refractive power, which are arranged in order from an object side, wherein the first lens group includes a former lens group having a negative lens in a most object side, a diaphragm, and a rear lens group, and wherein, when focusing is performed, the second lens group is moved in the optical axis direction.
US08842377B2
An imaging lens includes, in this order from an object side, an aperture stop ST, a positive first lens L1, a negative second lens L2 having a meniscus shape that directs a convex surface on the object side near an optical axis, a positive third lens L3, a positive fourth lens L4 having a meniscus shape that directs a concave surface on the object side near an optical axis, and a negative fifth lens L5 having a meniscus shape that directs a convex surface on the object side near an optical axis.
US08842370B2
The present invention relates to the optimization of human visual function by correcting and/or optimizing high-order optical aberrations in high performance optical devices. The optimization is particularly useful for high performance devices used under low light conditions such as binoculars, rifle scopes, telescopes, microscopes, night vision goggles and laser eye protection devices.
US08842361B1
A mode-locked laser amplifier utilizing free-space optical feedback is provided. The amplifier may tap a portion of the input laser signal and tap a portion of the output laser signal, combine the input and output samples in a free-space coupler to form a feedback laser signal, and couple the feedback laser signal back to the input laser signal. The free-space coupler suppresses higher order modes of the output laser signal. The free-space coupler can be tunable to permit selection of the operating mode of the amplifier. A plurality of amplifiers can be utilized to form a multi-stage mode-locked amplifier system. The composite feedback signal can be coupled back to each amplifier stage to lock the operating mode.
US08842357B2
A method for lithiating an electrochromic device comprise forming a first transparent conductive layer on a substrate, forming an electrochromic structure on the first transparent conductive layer, forming a second transparent conductive layer on the electrochromic structure, and lithiating the electrochromic structure through the second transparent conductive layer. In one exemplary embodiment lithiating the electrochromic structure comprises lithiating the electrochromic structure at a temperature range of between about room temperature and about 500 C for the duration of the lithiation process. In another exemplary embodiment, lithiating the electrochromic structure further comprises lithiating the electrochromic structure by using at least one of sputtering, evaporation, laser ablation and exposure to a lithium salt. The electrochromic device can be configured in either a “forward” or a “reverse” stack configuration.
US08842352B2
A method for improving the alignment of the bi-directional scan lines of a resonant mirror imaging system is disclosed. The method includes sensing the position of the mirror and selecting a portion of each scan line, such as the exact middle 50% and the start points of the scan lines in both directions for displaying the image. Determine the specific number of pixels used to modulate the scan lines and the clocking rate at which the pixels are inserted on the light beam so that the pixels completely fill the selected portion of the scan lines. The clock rate is then adjusted to the determined rate.
US08842347B2
An image scanning apparatus includes a scanning unit which scans paper, a paper transfer unit which transfers the paper to the scanning unit using a BLDC (Brushless DC) motor, a sensor unit which senses driving information of the BLDC motor, a scan controlling unit which controls operations of the scanning unit, and generates a control command including information regarding a driving direction of the BLDC motor, a driving signal unit which generates a driving signal for controlling the BLDC motor, and a digital controlling unit which controls operations of the driving signal unit in a digital method based on a generated control command, sensed driving information and a digital gain value according to a driving direction of the BLDC motor.
US08842344B2
An illumination device includes a light guide made of plastic, and a light source including a light emitting element whose dominant wavelength is a light emission wavelength in an infrared region, and identifies a banknote. White reference plates are provided at positions that are at opposite ends of a rod lens array and cover respective areas external to an image region across the banknote. A correction coefficient is acquired by calculation. The calculation is made by correcting an illuminance such that IR correction data is substantially identical to IR reference data preliminarily stored in a memory circuit in a signal processor on the basis of IR white reference data representing a white reference illuminance generated from light reflected from the white reference plates. The correction coefficient is used for correcting IR image data when the banknote is read.
US08842341B2
An apparatus for enhancing halftone image (204) appearance for imaging on a flexographic plate (108) includes a computer (130) adapted to receive a halftone image; an analysis element adapted to scan the previously produced halftone image and to detect areas (404) in the previously produced halftone image which are populated with dots which are smaller than a previously set minimal dot size value; an enhancement element adapted to replace the small dots with a reduced number of dots wherein each of the reduced number of dots are larger in size (504) than the small dots and wherein each of the reduced number of dots maintain original geometric characteristics of the small dots to create an enhanced halftone image; and an imaging head adapted to image the enhanced halftone image on an imaging system.
US08842340B2
A host computer groups a plurality of pixels to generate pseudo pixels, assigns representative values in an RGB format to the pseudo pixels, and transfers the representative values to a printer. Further, the host computer performs halftone processing and transfers generated dot data to the printer for pixels constituting the pseudo pixel which includes edges therein or of which boundary is the edge. The printer performs printing by using the transferred dot data and the representative values.
US08842328B2
An image processing device includes a storage unit capable of storing various kinds of images, a first drawing unit to write a source image after subjected to an image processing in the storage unit, a second drawing unit to generate an image and write the generated image in the storage unit, and an analyzing unit to analyze a page drawing command, so that the analyzing unit controls the first drawing unit in accordance with a first drawing command, if the analyzed command is the first drawing command to instruct the first drawing unit to write the image, and the analyzing unit controls the second drawing unit in accordance with a second drawing command, if the analyzed command is the second drawing command to instruct the second drawing unit to write the image.
US08842322B2
An image layout apparatus includes a cropping unit, a displaying unit, a checking unit, first and second computing units, a noticing unit, and a preventing unit. The cropping unit crops an image file image. The displaying unit displays and arranges cropped images on a page. The checking unit checks whether first and second image files are same. The first computing unit computes, in response to the first image file and the second image file being the same, an overlapping area between a first displayed image and a second displayed image. The second computing unit computes overlapping size ratio of the computed overlapping area. The noticing unit notices, in response to the first image file and the second image file being the same, information regarding duplication of image files. The preventing unit prevents, in response to the computed overlapping size ratio being smaller than a predetermined value, noticing the information.
US08842320B2
A print relay system includes a confirmation unit configured to check, in response to reception of a print instruction from a user apparatus, whether print information associated with second printer information that corresponds to a user who operates the user apparatus, of the second printer information included in printer management information, has been received from the print service, or whether a print job has been generated based on the print information. The print relay system further includes a transmission unit configured to transmit, in response to the confirmation unit confirming that the print job has been generated based on the print information associated with the second printer information that corresponds to the user, information including location information of the print job via the user apparatus to the image forming apparatus that executes the generated print job.
US08842312B2
A method for managing printer driver settings using application-based profiles, comprising: applying the print settings for the application using application-profile name table and print settings table, and applying selective lock-in print settings process based on the user's administrative privilege status. Profile generation by statistical tracking of use of printing features comprises recording application name and settings in effect for a print job into user's PC registry, the administrator collecting and analyzing this data for all relevant users, and specifying new profiles using this data. Methods also include the administrator's designating administrative status for users including registered unlockers, always locked and conditionally changeable settings, which are differentiated by special icons in GUI menus, password interface, merging of unlocking and change setting steps, monitoring of unlocking operations, administrator feedback and analysis for economical and efficient use of resources, special checkbox and list view GUI for aiding administrator analysis, and adding count tallies for application-settings combinations.
US08842307B2
Print data including a provisional registration command is received. When the print data including the provisional registration command is received, an authentication code is obtained. The authentication code is stored in a user information DB. Provisional registration data is obtained from the user information DB. Then, a list of provisional registration data is displayed. It is determined whether the provisional registration data is selectively input or not. If the provisional registration data is selectively input, user information in which IC card information or biological information and the authentication code are associated with each other is transmitted to an authentication server. The authentication server executes a process of registering the received user information.
US08842293B2
A level sensor arrangement is useable for measuring a height of a surface of a substrate in a lithographic apparatus. The level sensor arrangement is provided with a light source emitting detection radiation towards the substrate, and a detector unit for measuring radiation reflected from the substrate in operation. The light source is arranged to emit detection radiation in a wavelength range in which a resist to be used for processing the substrate in the lithographic apparatus is sensitive.
US08842288B2
Provided is a phase shift interferometer which comprises: a light source; an incident light path; a light circulation unit; a connection path; a light splitting/combining unit; a probe light path; a reference light path; a test sample measurement unit; a light terminal; a light-phase shifting unit which is provided in either the probe light path or the reference light path, and subjects light to phase shifting by a phase shift quantity of αi/2 (radian units, where αi is a real number, the range of values taken by αi is 0≦αi≦3π/2, and i is an integer where 3≦i), and periodically changes the phase shift quantity of αi/2; a light-emission path; a light detector which outputs an interference signal; and a controller for controlling the phase shift quantity in the light-phase shifting unit and the cycle at which the phase shift is controlled.
US08842287B2
A system, in one embodiment, includes an optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging system having a light source configured to emit light. The OCT imaging system further includes a beam splitter configured to receive the light from the light source, split the light into a first light portion directed along a sample arm comprising a sample and a second light portion directed along a reference arm comprising a reference mirror, receive a first reflected light portion from the sample arm and a second reflected light portion from the reference arm, combine the first and second reflected light portions to obtain an interference signal at a detector. Further, the OCT imaging system includes a controller having logic configured to perform an auto-focusing process to determine the optimal position for a lens in the sample arm in order to bring the sample into focus.
US08842281B2
A spectrometric system, including: a solid rocket fuel; an illuminating source including at least two wavelengths within a spectral range from 100 nm to 200,000 nm, a first wavelength or range of wavelengths having a distinguishably greater or lesser absorbance for the stabilizer than for components of the propellant, and a second wavelength or range of wavelengths having an absorbance for the stabilizer not distinguishably different than the absorbance for the components of the propellant, an illuminating fiber to illuminate a surface of a solid rocket fuel; a collecting fiber to collect back scattered, reflected or transmitted light being given off from the surface of the solid rocket fuel; and a spectrometer to determine the light intensities of the two wavelengths of the back scattered, reflected or transmitted light collected.
US08842267B2
A method for measuring particle size distributions of bulk materials such as cereals, cereal milling products, cereal products and the like, which is intended to enable the measurement of particle size distributions which vary by orders of magnitude. A sample of isolated particles is optically detected in an arrangement by at least two measurement methods. Preferably, detection of the contours of the particles and laser diffraction take place at the same time.
US08842257B2
A substrate treatment method of performing treatment on a substrate on which a pattern mask has been formed by exposure and developing treatment to improve roughness of the pattern mask includes the processes of: mounting the substrate on a stage in a treatment container; and repeating a plurality of times steps of supplying a solvent gas to a center portion of the substrate while exhausting the solvent gas from a periphery of the substrate to swell the pattern mask, and then supplying a drying gas for drying the solvent supplied to the substrate to the center portion of the substrate while exhausting the drying gas from the periphery of the substrate.
US08842255B2
Disclosed are a light source module and a lighting apparatus having the same. The light source module includes a body having a cavity, a plurality of lead frames in the cavity, a light emitting chip on at least one of the lead frames, a polymer layer disposed on the body to refract light emitted from the light emitting chip, a first electrode layer disposed on the polymer layer to emit incident light, and a second electrode layer interposed between the polymer layer and the body to transmit the light emitted from the light emitting chip.
US08842246B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first substrate including a first electrode and an insulating layer arranged so as to cover an edge of the first electrode, a second substrate including a second electrode facing the first electrode and a second slit from which the second electrode is removed, and a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first electrode includes a plurality of first slits extending inwardly from the edge of the first electrode. The insulating layer and the plurality of first slits are arranged such that a position of an end of the insulating layer and a position of a tip to which the first slit extends are apart from each other in a region between the edge of the first electrode and the second slit in a direction in which the first slit extends.
US08842243B2
An IPS or FFS-mode liquid-crystal display device includes an optical compensatory film having a first retardation region and a second retardation region adjacent to the first retardation region, wherein a slow axis of the first retardation region is parallel to a slow axis of the second retardation region, retardation in-plane at a wavelength of 550 nm, Re(550) of the second retardation region is equal to or less than 20 nm, and retardation along the thickness-direction at a wavelength of 550 nm, Rth(550) of the second retardation region is from 20 nm to 120 nm, the first retardation region includes a retardation layer containing a vertically-aligned discotic liquid-crystal compound, and Re thereof at a wavelength of 450 nm, 550 nm and 650 nm, Re(450), Re(550) and Re(650) satisfy Re(450)/Re(550) of from 1 to 1.13 and Re(650)/Re(550) of from 0.94 to 1.
US08842236B2
The present invention provides a backlight module includes a light source, a heatsink, and a front frame. The light source is arranged onto the heatsink, and the front frame is provided with at least a limiting arrangement pressing the light source intimately seated onto the heatsink. The present invention further discloses a liquid crystal display device incorporated with the backlight module described above. With the provision of the limiting arrangement installed on the front frame of the backlight module, the light source can be securely and closely in thermal contact with the heatsink. As a result, the heat generated by the light source can be readily and effectively dissipated by the heatsink. With the performance of the heat dissipation increased, the light source installed on the backlight module can also be upgraded with their power. Further, the liquid crystal display device incorporated with such backlight module is also benefited.
US08842235B2
Provided are a fixing structure and a liquid crystal display device. The fixing structure comprises: a front frame with a rectangle shape has four lateral sides, each lateral side includes a flat first extending part, and the four first extending part form four corners. Each corner is formed with a first mounting hole, and the first mounting hole is used for fixing the front frame from the corner by a fastening member passing through the first mounting hole The liquid crystal display device comprises a liquid crystal panel and the above fixing structure for installing the liquid crystal panel. The fixing structure and the liquid crystal display device reduce the influence of the fastening members on visible area, decrease the working hour for assemble the device, and lower the material cost.
US08842232B2
A thin film transistor includes a gate terminal, an insulation layer formed on the gate terminal, a first semiconductor silicon layer formed on the insulation layer, a source terminal formed on the first semiconductor silicon layer, and a drain terminal. The drain terminal is partially located on the insulation layer and the first semiconductor silicon layer. The drain terminal and the gate terminal overlap each other via the insulation layer to form a first overlap region and also overlap each other via the first semiconductor silicon layer and the insulation layer to form a second overlap region. The first and second overlap regions respectively generate first and second parasitic capacitances. The thin film transistor includes a compensation structure, whereby when the drain terminal is shifted with respect to the gate terminal, the compensation structure maintaining area of the first overlap region and area of the second overlap region unchanged.
US08842227B2
Liquid crystal display device having sensing capacitor for touch and method for fabricating the same
The liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate, a gate line and a data line on the first substrate to define a pixel region, a pixel transistor formed at the intersection of the gate line and the data line, a pixel electrode formed in the pixel region, a first storage capacitor connected to the pixel electrode, a switching line formed on the first substrate, a read out line formed on the first substrate, a second storage capacitor formed on the first substrate, a switching transistor including a gate electrode connected to the second storage capacitor, a drain electrode connected to the read out line, and a source electrode connected to a driving voltage line, a first column spacer formed on the second substrate, and a common electrode formed on the first column spacer thereby forming a sensing capacitor.
US08842221B2
A signal adjusting circuit and a video apparatus thereof are provided. The signal adjusting circuit includes a delay unit, a minimum value acquisition device, and a first operating unit. The delay unit receives a digital signal and delays the digital signal for N periods to serve as a delay signal. The minimum value acquisition device receives the digital signal and acquires a minimum value of the digital signal in every N periods. The first operating unit is coupled to the delay unit and the minimum value acquisition device for operating the delay signal with the minimum value to obtain an adjusting signal.
US08842220B2
This invention enables, for example, reduction of motion blur in a hold-type display device and reduce flicker in an impulse-type display device by a simple process. For this purpose, an LPF filters a frame of input image data (A[i]) to generate low-frequency image data (L). A subtractor and an adder generate high-frequency image data (SH). Another adder adds the low-frequency image data (L) from a delay circuit to subsequent low-frequency image data. A divider halves the sum to generate low-frequency averaged image data (SL). A switch alternately outputs the high-frequency image data (SH) and the low-frequency image data (SL) every time a frame of image data is input. As a result, the apparatus of this invention can generate output image data having a frame rate twice that of the input image data.
US08842219B2
Content comprising a sequence of original frames at a first frame rate is up-converted to a second, higher, frame rate. Intermediate frames are calculated for temporal positions spaced between temporal positions of the original frames. An output sequence at the second frame rate comprises a repeating pattern of frames and, within each repetition of the pattern, there is: at least one original frame; at least one intermediate frame which is repeated; and at least one frame which is not repeated. The method is suitable for applications where an up-conversion factor is required in the frame rate, such as an up-conversion factor of five to up-convert from the 24 Hz frame rate used for film-based content to the 120 Hz frame rate used by displays. The output sequence can use all of the original frames to reduce detail flicker.
US08842216B2
An optical imaging system and method including a movable pixelated filter array, a shutter mechanism to which the pixelated filter array is attached, and a controller configured to implement a data reduction algorithm. The shutter mechanism is configured to move the pixelated filter array into and out of the optical path, and the data reduction algorithm allows the controller to account for axial and/or lateral misalignment of the filter array relative to the imaging detector array or its conjugate. In certain examples, the controller is further configured to use the data reduction algorithms also to perform wavefront sensing, for example to estimate wavefront error.
US08842206B2
An imaging device includes: a pixel array section having an array of pixels, each of which has a photoelectric converting device and outputs an electric signal according to an input photon; a sense circuit section having a plurality of sensor circuits each of which makes binary decision on whether there is a photon input to a pixel in a predetermined period upon reception of the electric signal therefrom; and a decision result IC section which integrates decision results from the sense circuits, pixel by pixel or for each group of pixels, multiple times to generate imaged data with a gradation, the decision result IC section including a count circuit which performs a count process to integrate the decision results from the sense circuits, and a memory for storing a counting result for each pixel from the count circuit, the sense circuits sharing the count circuit for integrating the decision results.
US08842201B2
Disclosed herein is an image pickup apparatus, including: an image pickup lens; a lens array disposed on an image formation plane of the image pickup lens; an image pickup device adapted to receive a light ray passing through the image pickup lens and the lens array to acquire picked up image data; and an image processing section adapted to carry out an image process for the picked up image data; the image processing section including a viewpoint image production section adapted to produce a plurality of viewpoint images based on the picked up image data, and an image synthesis processing section adapted to synthesize two or more viewpoint images from among the viewpoint images.
US08842191B2
A method for generating a signal based on a visual image includes photographing a target object with a digital camera to obtain a target image; receiving the target image into a processor that is in communication with the camera; cross-correlating the target image with a structure having a variety of scales across the target image; and based on cross-correlating the target image, generating a signal for output on a device associated with the camera. A visual recognition system is also disclosed.
US08842190B2
Method and apparatus for determining sensor format factors from image metadata in which one of multiple techniques is applied to determine a sensor format factor for a camera from information in the metadata. Information from the metadata may be used to identify which of the multiple techniques to use. For example, the camera make and model may be used to determine a particular technique to use. As another example, the presence or absence of particular attributes or values for particular attributes may be used in determining a particular technique. In one embodiment, a profile database may be searched according to information in the metadata to determine if a sensor format factor for the camera is in the database. If the sensor format factor for the camera is not in the database, other information in the metadata may be examined to determine a particular technique from among the plurality of techniques.
US08842189B2
A moving image capture apparatus generates a data file to record, on a recording medium, an image signal output from an imaging unit, extracts character information from the image signal to be recorded on the recording medium, sets a parameter value used for selection as a file name according to a characteristic of appearance of the character information, calculates an evaluation value from the set parameter value, and sets character information based on the calculated evaluation value as a file name of the image signal. Furthermore, the moving image capture apparatus generates a thumbnail of the file based on an image signal from which character information for which the calculated evaluation value is relatively large has been extracted.
US08842186B2
An application control system and method is adapted for use with an entertainment system of a type including a display such as a monitor or TV and having display functions. The control device may be conveniently held by a user and employs an imager. The control system and method images the screen of the TV or other display to detect distinctive markers displayed on the screen. This information is transmitted to the entertainment system for control of an application or is used by the control device to control an application.
US08842184B2
Accurately estimating the image quality of video is still difficult, especially when there is no reference video available. A method for determining a quality measure for a video image comprises selecting a measuring point, such as a MB, determining a context area around the measuring point, calculating a variance of pixel values in the context area, calculating a variance of pixel values in the measuring point, calculating a relation between the two variances of pixel values, and averaging said relations for a plurality of measuring points, wherein a quality measure for a video image is obtained.
US08842182B2
The traffic detection system includes an optical unit having an emitter module emitting pulses; a receiver module having a field of view including a plurality of adjacent detection channels receiving pulses reflected by an object and acquiring and converting the received pulses into a corresponding plurality of a digital signal waveforms; an image sensing module providing an image. The method comprises providing a status overlay image including the image and a visual indication on the image of an outline of the plurality of adjacent detection channels; positioning the field of view to cover the detection zone using the status overlay image; obtaining the plurality of digital signal waveforms; detecting a signal echo caused by an object in one of the digital signal waveforms at a position within the field of view; determining a location for the object using the position; storing the location for the object.
US08842170B2
Active Space separates the Left Frame from the Right Frame in a frame packing format. A source device is expected to transmit a constant pixel value. A sink device is expected to ignore all data received during the Active space regardless of the value. Embodiments of the present invention involve the Source device to embed intelligent information in the Active Space in lieu of the recommended fixed pixel value. Then the Sink device may read the embedded information from the Active Space, and infer the transition between the left frame and the right frame which is useful, for example, to synchronize eyewear.
US08842168B2
A camera or camcorder with a multi-view three dimensional (3D) attachment enables acquisition of 3D images and video which are then able to be displayed to a user without the need for specialized glasses. The multi-view 3D attachment captures at least 3 views of the same image from different angles simultaneously on a sensor.
US08842167B2
A mobile terminal and controlling method thereof are disclosed, by which a 3D or stereoscopic image can be generated to considerably relive an observer from visual fatigue. The present invention includes a first camera and a second camera configured to take a 3D image, a display unit displaying an image taken by at least one of the first and second cameras, and a controller controlling the first camera, the second camera and the display unit, wherein the controller sets a plurality of divisional sections on a left eye image taken by the first camera and a right eye image taken by the second camera and then generates the 3D image based on a depth value of each of a plurality of the divisional sections.
US08842164B2
A light ray output from a subject is separated into left and right light rays by mirrors in an area in which a diverging light ray output from a point of the subject is converted into a parallel light ray. When a subject is looked at from the right side or the left side, the light rays are reflected by various mirrors. The light rays reflected by the mirrors are made incident on image forming lenses. These light rays form an image on a light receiving surface of an imaging device. In this way, a high-quality 3D image having an appropriate parallax level and a small chromatic aberration is captured.
US08842159B2
Optimization of conference call encoding processes is provided. A first client of a multi-party conference call may receive client capability data, including video scalability support, from each of the other clients to the conference call. Based on the client capability data and the transmission capabilities of the first client, including video scalability support, the first client may determine a total number of data streams and properties for each data stream, such that the total number of data streams and the plurality of properties for each data stream are optimized and supported by the respective client capability data and the transmission capabilities. Subsequently, the first client generates one or more data streams according to the total number of data streams and the properties that were determined for each data stream and transmits the one or more data streams to the other clients of the conference call.
US08842141B2
A method of uniform distribution for increasing a display rate. For data to be displayed, dividing a complete effective output enable (OE) time that is greater than one serial shift cycle into several unit serial shift cycles and uniformly distributing the effective OE time for display. The method implements the uniform distribution of the display time to the maximum extent by using an OE signal under the condition that the whole display time remains unchanged, thereby increasing effective output number of the uniform distribution, uniformly maintaining a display effect and steadily improving a refresh rate effect, so as to effectively increase a display quality and avoid a significant loss of brightness.
US08842136B2
A method for adaptively adjusting sizes of virtual keys and a display device using the same are provided. The display device displays a virtual keyboard, and the virtual keyboard is arranged with a plurality of virtual keys that can be chosen remotely by a plurality of direction keys of a remote controller. The method includes following: receiving cursor movement information and confirmation information transmitted by the remote controller; converting the cursor movement information and confirmation information into characters of virtual keys of a first key size configuration model of the virtual keyboard, and converting the characters into words; performing an operation on the words respectively by using a preset algorithm to generate a second key size configuration model of the virtual keyboard; and adjusting horizontal sizes of at least a part of the virtual keys of the virtual keyboard according to the second key size configuration model.
US08842130B1
Disclosed are various embodiments for performing automated color authoring for images of items having multiple color variations. A photographically captured source image of an item is obtained. The source image corresponds to one color variation of the item. A selection mask defining the item in the source image is obtained. A target image of the item corresponding to another color variation is generated by automatically transforming the item defined by the selection mask in the source image to the other color variation based at least in part on data obtained from multiple previous manual color variation transformations for multiple other items.
US08842129B2
Techniques for generating images with information windows including variable display priorities, the technique including selecting pixels of active windows at a given area of the image and reconstituting an image on the basis of the pixels of the selected windows. The techniques ensure mixing of the pixels and transparency between windows. The techniques apply to aircraft flight displays and any other image generating devices.
US08842124B2
A declarative user interface for testing graphics programs is associated with an API that, when used in a program executable on a general-purpose processor, specifies (i) a graphics program to be tested, where the graphics program is stored on a computer-readable medium and includes instructions executable on a graphics card, (ii) a test input to be applied to the graphics program, and (iii) an expected result of executing the graphics program on the graphics card when the test input is applied to the graphics program. A test code generator, when executed on the general-purpose processor, is configured to (i) process a test specification program that invokes the API to specify the graphics program, the test input, and the expected result, and (ii) automatically generate a test graphics program based on the specified graphics program to be executed on the graphics card to test the graphics program.
US08842123B2
A graphics program executable on a graphics card is automatically tested. The graphics program is received at a computing device, and a test graphics program is generated based on the received graphics program. The test graphics program includes one or more additional instructions. The test graphics program is configured to execute the instructions of the received graphics program to generate an execution result, compare the execution result to a test value to generate a test result, and output the test result via the graphics card, where the test result is indicative of the test result. The test graphics program is executed on the graphics card, and the test result is automatically processed to provide, via the computing device, a test run indication corresponding to the test result.
US08842118B1
A method which makes it possible to replace a reference pattern (aka texture) on a video of clothing is described. For example, a video of a T-shirt with the text “UCLA” could be edited to say “UC Berkeley” with minimal user intervention. The method is novel because it separates the problem into two parts: erasing the old texture (while properly accounting for lighting) and adding the new texture (properly deformed to appear on the shirt. This decomposition creates realistic images with simple tracking models of the cloth. It is believed that this method may be used for targeted audience sales techniques, with static or dynamic replacement images replacing images on warping or otherwise deforming surfaces, in addition to other perspective deformations. Potentially, real-time image replacements using the techniques taught here could be used for live activities or real-time video feeds.
US08842116B2
A system for rendering virtual terrain includes an Internet-connected server and software executing on the server from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing a first function for building a basic terrain from geometric blocks, a second function for analyzing surrounding terrain properties, a third function for adding or subtracting blocks from the terrain, and a fourth function for smoothing the final terrain surfaces.
US08842105B2
A controller driver for driving a display panel is provided. The controller driver comprises a timing control circuit, a data memory unit, a data selection unit and a data line driver circuit. The data memory unit stores image data. The data selection unit coupled to the data memory unit outputs the image data provided from the data memory unit as a display data, or generates the display data in accordance with a command or test patterns provided from an external processor. The data line driver circuit is coupled to the timing control circuit and the data selection unit. The data line driver circuit receives the display data from the data selection unit, and outputs corresponding grayscale voltages according to the control signal outputted from the timing control circuit.
US08842104B2
A bistable display and a method of driving a panel thereof are provided. The present invention would set the driving information lookup table (DLUT) and the corresponding reference information relating to each frame of the bistable display in advance, and look up the previous frame driving data and/or the current frame driving data of the panel according to the set reference information and thus obtaining information for driving each pixel of the panel. Accordingly, not only the memory space of the built-in DLUTs can be substantially reduced and thus saving the usage cost of memories, but also the time for download DLUTs from the external memory unit by the timing controller (T-con) can be reduced so as to promote the operation performance of the whole bistable display and thus further increasing the speed of the panel.
US08842100B2
In a pen-based computing system, a user-specific smart pen application is created from a template application using customer authoring tools. The template application contains computer program code that is to be executed by a processor of a smart pen. Application content and a representation for printed content are received. The application content, provided by user or customer, defines functional interactions between the printed content representation and a smart pen. The template application is combined with application content to generate a user-specific application comprising instructions for being executed on a processor of a smart pen. The user-specific application is stored on a storage medium.
US08842079B2
A method and device for determining a single touch or multiple touches is disclosed. A touch related sensing information with a single zero-crossing is used for determining a pair of values, and the locations of a pair of centroids are calculated depending on the pair of values. The distance between the locations of the pair of centroids can be used to determine whether the number of touches is one or more.
US08842076B2
The present invention relates to a multi-touch display system that supports both multi-touch human input as well as input from a digital pen. The display system has a display panel that is configured to allow human touches along a front surface to be detected and tracked. The display panel also includes a location pattern that preferably covers the viewable areas of the display panel. The location pattern is configured to allow any location within the location pattern to be detected by analyzing a portion of the display pattern that is associated with the particular location. The digital pen is used to “write” on the display panel, wherein such a writing function involves detecting the location where writing occurs and controlling display content that is displayed on the display panel to reflect what is being written.
US08842072B2
A keypad mouse computer peripheral device of the present disclosure includes a housing on top of which is located a keypad having a number keypad. The input device has at least one clicker button operable by a user's thumb while the user's hand rests on a provided palm rest or wrist rest. Force exerted by the base or palm portion of an operating hand moves the present input device which permits the index, middle and ring fingers to be located on the 4, 5, 6 key positions of the number keypad. This maintenance of the resting or home position even while the user is engaged in movement of the present keypad mouse permits easy and fast entry of numbers. A position sensor on the bottom surface of the housing of the disclosed keypad mouse detects relative location information for positional information input for a computer's graphical user interface.
US08842071B2
The portable communicating device with transparent display includes a control unit; a communication module is coupled to the control unit, and a memory is coupled to the control unit. At least one image sensor is coupled to the control unit; a transparent display without an opaque shell is coupled to the control unit and wherein the transparent display includes two transparent substrates, each of the two transparent substrates includes a transparent electrodes, light emitting substances provided between the two transparent substrates; wherein the transparent display allow a user to see through the transparent display at least when the transparent display is not displayed.
US08842068B2
A drive device that drives a display medium displaying an image includes a setting unit that sets a drive voltage of second particles responsive to a display density of the second particles with respect to the image, and sets threshold characteristics of first particles responsive to the set drive voltage of the second particles and a display density of the first particles, and a voltage application unit that applies between a display substrate and a back substrate an initial drive voltage responsive to the threshold characteristics of the first particles set by the setting unit, and thereafter applies between the display substrate and the back substrate the drive voltage of the second particles responsive to the display density of the second particles set by the setting unit.
US08842067B2
The present invention provides a backlight module and a display apparatus. The display apparatus comprises a backlight module and a display panel. The backlight module comprises a light guide plate and a plurality of light sources. The light guide plate has a bottom surface. The bottom surface is formed with a middle trench. The middle trench comprises dimming cants. The light sources are positioned at two opposite sides of the light guide plate in accordance with the dimming cants. The present invention can adjust a light intensity distribution and promote the central brightness of the screen.
US08842063B2
A LCD driving method is described. The driving method includes the steps of: (a) applying first scan voltage to first scan line for switching on first TFT, wherein data voltage of data line is transmitted to first pixel electrode via first drain electrode and first source electrode; (b) discharging first scan voltage, wherein first pixel voltage of first pixel electrode decreases first feed-through voltage; (c) applying second scan voltage to second scan line for switching on second TFT, wherein data voltage of data line is transmitted to second pixel electrode via second drain electrode and second source electrode for charging second LC capacitor in a second pixel voltage; and (d) discharging second scan voltage, wherein second pixel voltage of second pixel electrode decreases a second feed-through voltage, and first and second scan voltages are positively relative to the first and second feed-through voltages respectively.
US08842060B2
A display device includes: a pixel array unit with pixel circuits disposed in matrix form, the pixel circuit including a driving transistor, an electro-optic element, a storage-capacitor, and a sampling transistor, with the electro-optic element emitting light by generating a driving current based on information stored in the storage-capacitor at the driving transistor to be applied to the electro-optic element; and a control unit, of which the output stage includes a buffer transistor, to output a pulse signal for driving the pixel array unit from the buffer transistor; wherein the pixel array unit and the control unit are formed with long laser beam irradiation to be scanned in the vertical direction; and with the control unit, buffer transistors for outputting a pulse signal for sampling to an input video signal to each signal line are arrayed in a column in the longitudinal direction of the laser beam irradiation.
US08842057B2
A multi-display device is adapted to turn on and off certain device functionality based on one or more of device state and triggers. These triggers include a transition trigger, an open trigger and a closed trigger. Furthermore, and based on one or more of these triggers and device state, the device can provide feedback to a user, such as visual feedback, audio feedback and vibration feedback to assist a user with determining when the device is changing state. The operation of the primary screen, secondary screen, system and feedback options are also described relative to the beginning and endpoint of the device transition. Furthermore, the trigger corresponding to a transitional trigger where primary and secondary screens have a certain angle orientation and the trigger corresponding to a trigger point where the primary and secondary screens have a second angle orientation relative to one another are described.
US08842056B2
An electronically tuneable surface. The surface comprises: a conductive sheet comprising at least one opening; and a biasing circuit. The biasing circuit comprises first and second conductors, separated from the conductive sheet by a dielectric, and arranged at mutually opposing sides of the opening such that each conductor is capacitively coupled to the conductive sheet at the respective side of the opening. The conductors define a gap between them corresponding to the opening. The biasing circuit also comprises an electrical control element bridging the gap, connected to the first and second conductors. When the element is in a first state, the surface exhibits a first frequency transmission characteristic with respect to incident electromagnetic radiation, and when the element is in a second state, the surface exhibits a second, different characteristic.
US08842053B1
An electrically-shortened Yagi antenna includes a boom, a first electrically-shortened end element mounted on the boom, a second electrically-shortened end element mounted on the boom; and an electrically-shortened driven element mounted on the boom and electrically shortened less than the first and second electrically-shortened end elements.
US08842048B2
An antenna apparatus for a portable terminal having a main board is provided. The antenna apparatus includes a main antenna that electrically connects to a feed line of the main board. A metal frame is constructed as part of a case frame forming an exterior of the portable terminal. The metal frame is divided into first and second parts that are separated. The first part electrically connects to the main antenna or to the main board feed line, and is designed to radiate. The second part electrically connects to a ground surface of the main board. The metal frame enhances overall antenna performance rather than causing degradation through interference.
US08842040B1
A phased array antenna includes a plurality of subarrays, and each subarray includes a panel, a plurality of primary antenna elements positioned on the panel, and at least one pair of sensor antenna elements positioned along a perimeter of the panel. One of the sensor antenna elements is a transmitting sensor antenna element and the other sensor antenna element is a receiving sensor antenna element. Changes in the mutual coupling between the two high frequency sensor antenna elements as a function of deformation of the subarrays provides a calibration signal outside of the operational band of the array while the array is operated and without requiring external calibration sources.
US08842028B2
The present invention relates to Digital-to-Analog conversion in the optical or photonic domain. The present invention provides a digital-to-analog converter (DAC) (100) arranged to receive an N-bit digital optical signal (105) and to process the N-bit digital optical signal to generate an analog optical signal (110). The DAC comprises a photonic circuit (120a, 120b) arranged to adjust the amplitude of each bit of the N-bit digital optical signal dependent on the amplitudes of at least one of the other bits of the N-bit digital optical signal. The amplitudes are adjusted using a non-linear optical effect in order to generate respective outputs for each bit. The DAC also comprises a photonic combiner (145) arranged to combine the outputs for each bit to generate the analog output signal (110).
US08842018B2
Methods and/or devices are provided for monitoring life-expectancy and/or useful life of an optical transceiver module by tracking an insertion cycle count of an optical transceiver module. An alarm/warning indicator may be generated or the optical transceiver module can be disabled completely if the insertion cycle count exceeds a predefined threshold. The host device first detects the insertion of the optical transceiver module and then reads the cycle count along with an identifier value from the non-volatile memory of the optical transceiver module. The host device then increments the insertion cycle count by one, to account for the current insertion, and stores this new cycle count into a non-volatile memory of the optical transceiver module. The insertion cycle count value may be encrypted and/or the non-volatile memory of the optical transceiver module may be password-protected to avoid accidental and/or unauthorized access to the non-volatile memory of the optical transceiver module.
US08842013B2
An object locating, identifying, tracking, and surveillance system, denoted the Assets Locating, Tracking, and Surveillance System (ALTSS), is provided for managing physical objects and evidence in environments such as police departments, law offices, and the Courts. ALTSS employs radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, computer programming and database applications, networking technologies, and hardware elements. ALTSS may locate and track physical evidence, merchandise, information carriers like files, folders or individual pieces of paper, and people, under certain conditions, in near-real time. It may be configured as part of a local area network, a wide area network, or the Internet. ALTSS may employ exemplary components such as RFID transponders, scanners, strategically located antennas and computers to facilitate tracking of objects and people as needed. Any number of users having access privileges and connected to the network may access ALTSS directly or remotely via the Internet to locate and track evidence or objects.
US08842010B2
A method and apparatus is described to detect the physical approach. The method is useful for passively detecting the presence of people, pets, or robots in proximity to a sensor. It is portable, and functions while being carried or placed inside objects.
US08842008B2
A multi-modal load control system includes a sensor that operates as an occupancy sensor in a first mode of operation and operates as a vacancy sensor in a second mode of operation. The load control system comprises a load control circuit coupled in series between an AC power source and an electrical load for controlling the amount of power delivered to the load in response to sensor, which is operable to detect occupancy or vacancy conditions in a space in which the sensor is located. In the first mode, the load control circuit turns the load on when the sensor detects the occupancy condition and turns the load off when the sensor detects the vacancy condition. In the second mode, the load control circuit turns the load off when the sensor detects the vacancy condition and does not turn the load on when the sensor detects the occupancy condition.
US08841998B2
An on-vehicle display device includes a first display section provided in an area within a width of a steering wheel of a vehicle viewed from a driver sitting on a driver seat of the vehicle and which displays at least one piece of report information concerning a state of the vehicle, a second display section provided in an area outside the width of the steering wheel viewed from the driver and which displays an image, and a control section which controls displays of the first display section and the second display section respectively. When a piece of report information is displayed on the first display section, the control section controls to display an information image corresponding to the piece of report information on the second display section.
US08841996B2
A driving assistance device includes a display unit which displays an energy consumption rate map which shows a distribution of an energy consumption rate during travel of a vehicle, an icon which indicates a current energy consumption rate of the vehicle on the energy consumption rate map, the energy consumption rate being defined by a speed of the vehicle and an acceleration/deceleration of the vehicle, and a direction defining display portion which defines a moving direction of the icon, wherein the energy consumption rate map displays an eco region, which is a region in which the energy consumption rate is lower than a predetermined value, with a color different from those of the other regions of the energy consumption rate map in the display unit.
US08841995B2
Embodiments of a system and method for controlling illumination in a vehicle passenger compartment are disclosed. In one aspect, a display system for a motor vehicle passenger compartment, comprises: at least one indicia visible to an operator of the vehicle and configured to indicate a vehicle operating condition; an indicia light configured to illuminate the indicia; a display device visible to an operator of the vehicle; and a controller, in communication with the indicia light and the display device, programmed to: operate the display system in a first mode wherein the indicia light is activated to illuminate the indicia, and in response to a first control signal indicative of a change from the first mode to a second mode, reduce illumination of the indicia by the indicia light and control the display device to output information indicative of the vehicle operating condition.
US08841979B2
A relay includes two stators each having a fixed contact, and a movable element having movable contacts. Each of the stators includes a stator proximity plate portion adjacent to the movable element, and the movable element includes a movable element proximity plate portion adjacent to the stators. A direction of current flowing in the stator proximity plate portions is set to be same as a direction of current flowing in the movable element proximity plate portion to generate an inter-plate attraction force for attracting the movable element proximity plate portion onto the stator proximity plate portions. The movable element proximity plate portion is biased by the inter-plate attraction force toward a direction for bringing the movable contacts into contact with the fixed contacts.
US08841971B1
Systems and method that provide short circuit protection for a power amplifier are described. The system can include, for example, a sense network that receives an output current from the power amplifier that is to be protected. The sense network can include, for example, a first resistor and a second resistor in series. The sense amplifier has a first input and a second input in which the first input is coupled to a first end of the first resistor and in which second input is coupled to a second end of the first resistor. The sense amplifier amplifies a voltage across the first resistor of the sense network in which the voltage is based on the output current from the power amplifier. Based on the amplified voltage of the sense amplifier, the feedback network reduces the output current from the power amplifier to protect the power amplifier from damage due to a short circuit condition.
US08841963B2
Circuitry to remove switches from signal paths in integrated circuit programmable gain attenuators. Programmable gain attenuators and programmable gain amplifiers commonly switch between signal levels using semi-conductor switches. Such switches may introduce non-linearities in the signal. By isolating the switches from the signal path linearity of the PGA can be improved.
US08841957B2
Appliances with control panels and methods for operating the same are provided. The control panel includes a plurality of touch sensors. When an adjustment mechanism approaches the control panel, a sensitivity setting of the plurality of touch sensors is adjusted in order to assist with calculating a time interval or a velocity of the adjustment mechanism. With the velocity of the adjustment mechanism calculated, usage of the control panel can be improved.
US08841948B1
An apparatus relates generally to an injection-controlled-locked phase-locked loop (“ICL-PLL”) is disclosed. In this apparatus, a delay-locked loop is coupled to an injection-locked phase-locked loop. An injection-locked oscillator of the injection-locked phase-locked loop is in a feedback loop path of the delay-locked loop.
US08841947B2
A power on reset circuit is capable of changing logic level of reset signal at different threshold voltages.
US08841944B1
A symmetric frequency multiplier includes four non-linear devices configured to receive an input signal having a fundamental mode and to provide an output having one or more harmonics; and three collinear transmission lines, each having a length of about one quarter of an input wavelength, configured to receive the outputs of the non-linear devices and configured to combine bifurcated components of the signals from the non-linear devices into two frequency-multiplied output signals. Two of the signals from the non-linear devices are provided at respective ends of the collinear transmission lines and two of the signals from the non-linear devices are provided between transmission lines, such that each of the bifurcated components of a given signal passes through a different subset of the transmission lines.
US08841934B2
Hybrid frequency compensation is provided. Hybrid circuits are used to subtract the transmit signal from the receive signal in a full duplex communication system. Since the hybrid circuit and the main line driver are exposed to different loads, accurate subtraction is difficult to achieve. A frequency dependent network is used to match the loading seen by the driver and the hybrid. The compensation network can be based on active and/or passive components.
US08841919B1
A repairable waterproof connector assembly (200) provides an access port (212) within the connector housing (201) to support wire management required for removal and reinstallation of the electrical insert (202) which can be achieved without removing the connector assembly (200) from its cable. Adding this access capability greatly reduces the time required to repair a damaged connector assembly (200). Wire management within the connector assembly (200) includes manipulating a wiring service loop (207) via access provided by the access port (212). Wire management supports access to reposition, remove, test and repair the electrical insert (202) having electrical pins and contacts (211). In applications requiring waterproof connectors, having the ability to test and repair the connector assembly without removing or cutting it from its cable is a significant timesaver and reduces cost.
US08841910B2
A magnetic resonance device includes a measuring chamber, a high-frequency shield at least partially enclosing the measuring chamber and an antenna arrangement that includes a plurality of antenna elements disposed around the measuring chamber. The antenna elements have at least one component that is active in the manner of an antenna and extends, as viewed from the high-frequency shield, towards an interior of the measuring chamber.
US08841900B2
A combined measurement device for measuring current and/or voltage of an electrical conductor, comprising a supporting body, a current sensor housed inside the supporting body, and a voltage sensor located at least partially inside the supporting body. A shielding is positioned around the current sensor. The current sensor and the voltage sensor are mutually arranged so as the shielding shields at least partially both the current sensor and the voltage sensor against external electric field disturbances.
US08841894B1
An audio switching power amplifier having an output with controlled-slope transitions maintains efficiency while avoiding uncontrolled non-overlap intervals during switching transitions. A pair of transistors forming a half-bridge that supplies an output signal at an output terminal of the amplifier are operated so that neither transistor is fully on during an overlap time period. A current source provides an output current to the output terminal during the non-overlap time period to control the output voltage while changing the transistor that conducts the output current from a first one of the pair of transistors to a second one of the pair of transistors. The current source may be provided by operation of one of the transistors in a current source configuration. The voltage of a gate of one of the transistors can be compared with a threshold to provide an indication of the current.
US08841893B2
Dual-loop voltage regulator circuits and methods in which a dual-loop voltage regulation framework is implemented with a first inner loop having a bang-bang voltage regulator to achieve nearly instantaneous response time, and a second outer loop, which is slower in operating speed than the first inner loop, to controllably adjust a trip point of the bang-bang voltage regulator to achieve high DC accuracy.
US08841891B2
A multiple output DC-to-DC voltage converter using a new time-multiplexed-capacitor converter algorithm and related circuit topologies is herein disclosed. One embodiment of this invention includes a flying capacitor, a first output node, a second output node, and a switching network. The switching network configured to provide the following modes of circuit operation: 1) a first mode where the positive electrode of the flying capacitor is connected to an input voltage and the negative electrode of the flying capacitor is connected to ground; 2) a second mode where the negative electrode of the flying capacitor is connected to the input voltage and the positive electrode of the flying capacitor is connected to the first output node; and 3) a third mode where the positive electrode of the flying capacitor is connected to ground and the negative electrode of the flying capacitor is connected to the second output node.
US08841887B2
A power supply device capable of switching over semiconductor switches of a synchronous rectification means so as to efficiently charge up a battery in response to its charging status is provided. The device includes a switch control means for controlling the semiconductor switches in response to the battery charging status; a negative voltage detection means for detecting a negative voltage at each phase of three-phase AC voltages; and a voltage detection means for detecting the battery voltage being higher than a predetermined voltage, wherein when the negative voltage or the battery voltage higher than the predetermined voltage is detected, the switch control means controls the semiconductor switches. The device further includes an abnormality detection means for monitoring the negative voltage detected by the negative voltage detection means and thereby detecting an abnormality in at least one of the three phases, and when an abnormality is detected, the switch control means controls the semiconductor switch corresponding to the phase of the abnormality.
US08841886B2
A method is provided of charging a mobile device by a charger device, comprising transmitting and receiving a charging current via the Hot Plug Detect (HPD) pin of an HDMI cable connected between the mobile device and the charging device. The HDMI source device (the mobile device) and the HDMI sink device (the charger device) are also provided.
US08841882B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a display device with a display screen, a first wireless communication module, a second wireless communication module, first antennas for the first wireless communication module, and second antennas for the second wireless communication module. The display screen is exposed from a front surface of a housing. At least two of each of the first antennas and the second antennas are disposed in two perpendicular sides of the housing. The two perpendicular sides are peripheral parts of the display screen. One of the first antennas disposed in the two perpendicular sides and one of the second antennas disposed in the two perpendicular sides are disposed in respective center parts of the two perpendicular sides.
US08841879B2
A method of charging a battery at multiple charges rates includes determining a type of power source connected to a charging circuit and determining a voltage of a battery to be charged by the power source. A desired charging voltage is determined in response to the power source type and the battery voltage. A difference between the desired charging voltage and the battery voltage is determined. A digital potentiometer is selectively commanded to adjust the desired charging voltage to vary the difference and alter a charging rate of the battery, such that the difference is increased to increase the charging rate or is decreased to decrease the charging rate.
US08841876B2
A method of controlling an electrical machine that includes exciting a phase winding with a supply voltage, and freewheeling the phase winding when current in the phase winding exceeds a threshold. The threshold is then adjusted in response to changes in the supply voltage and/or the speed of the electrical machine. Additionally, a control system that implements the method and an electrical machine comprising the control system are described.
US08841864B2
A tunable LED lamp for producing biologically-adjusted light having a housing, a power circuit, a driver circuit disposed within the housing and electrically coupled with the power circuit, and a plurality of LED dies electrically coupled to and driven by the driver circuit. The driver circuit may drive the plurality of LED dies to emit a phase-shift light having a first spectral power distribution, a general illuminating light having a second spectral power distribution, and a pre-sleep light having a third spectral power distribution. The phase-shift light may be configured to affect a first biological effect in an observer, and the pre-sleep light may be configured to affect a second biological effect in an observer. The LED lamp may be configured to fit in a troffer fixture. The LED lamp may also be a troffer fixture.
US08841863B2
A lighting apparatus includes: a lighting circuit; a dimming signal circuit; and a feedforward control circuit. The lighting circuit receives an output which is rectified and smoothed commercial power, and supplies power to a light source Lamp. The dimming signal circuit sends a timing signal to the lighting circuit, wherein the timing signal is a signal for switching an output of the lighting circuit periodically to an ON state and either of an OFF state and a dimmed state. The feedforward control circuit detects either of an input voltage of the lighting circuit and an input voltage of the smoothing circuit, and sends a control signal to the dimming signal circuit, wherein the control signal is a signal for correcting a lighting time so that a light output of the light source can become a desired value.
US08841858B2
Technologies are described herein for an illumination device and a corresponding fixture device. The illumination device includes a luminary module for the emission of light and an identification circuit containing identifying data, while the fixture device includes a driver module for supplying power to the illumination device and a controller module. When the illumination device is connected to the fixture device, the controller module communicates with the identification circuit of the illumination device to retrieve the identifying data and causes the driver module to supply the appropriate power to the luminary module of the illumination device.
US08841852B2
An illumination apparatus is provided for outputting a light of mixed colors in a desired color temperature by controlling light outputs from light sources. The illumination apparatus includes a light output setting unit for outputting a set signal presenting a set value for adjusting an output of the light of mixed colors, and a first filter for smoothing the set signal from the light output setting unit. The illumination apparatus further includes a light output adjustment unit for adjusting the light outputs from the respective light sources based on the set signal smoothed by the first filter, and a plurality of second filters smoothing signals outputted from the light output adjustment unit to the light sources, respectively. Each of time constants of the second filters is lower than that of the first filter.
US08841851B2
A light emitting diode (LED) driving apparatus is disclosed. The LED driving apparatus includes a rectifier for rectifying an alternating current (AC) voltage to supply a ripple voltage, a light emitting unit partitioned into two or more groups, each of the groups including a plurality of LEDs, and a driving controller for selectively driving one or more of the groups of the light emitting unit depending on a level of the ripple voltage, the driving controller driving at least one of the groups of the light emitting unit using current discharged from a capacitor connected with the at least one group when the ripple voltage is lower than an operating voltage of the light emitting unit.
US08841846B2
In a light-installed area where a plurality of lights are installed, a light managing system senses a moving object that enters the light-installed area and predicts an predicted stop position of the moving object based on record information on a channel of movement corresponding to identification information on the moving object. The light managing system calculates a predicted channel of movement of the moving object based on the predicted stop position, and selects lights to be driven based on the calculated predicted channel of movement. The light managing system turns on the selected lights.
US08841837B2
A lighting portion is attached to a reflective liquid crystal display portion. A first transparent substrate and a second transparent substrate made of a glass substrate etc. are attached to each other with a sealing layer coated on those peripheral portions therebetween. The back surface of the first transparent substrate is attached to the reflective liquid crystal display portion, and an organic EL element is formed on the front surface of the first transparent substrate. The organic EL element is sealed in a space surrounded by the first transparent substrate, the second transparent substrate, and the sealing layer. The organic EL element is formed in a region corresponding to a pixel region of the reflective liquid crystal display portion. A desiccant layer is formed on the front surface of the second transparent substrate.
US08841835B2
There is a huge demand for increase in the luminance of electroluminescent elements and decrease in the electric power consumption. An objective of the present invention is to provide such an electroluminescent element as to satisfy the demand, as well as lightening equipment and display devices with high performance by utilizing the element. Provided is an electroluminescent element comprising a transparent substrate, and a first electrode layer, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode layer, which layers are layered on the substrate in this order, wherein a surface of the transparent substrate on the side of the first electrode layer has a light-directional structure. A lightening device and a display device including this electroluminescent element are also provided.
US08841829B2
A lamp holder (61) for a gas discharge lamp (5), having at least two receptacles (B1, B2) for at least two pins (P1, P2) of a gas discharge lamp (5), wherein at least one shielding conductor (S1a, S1b, S2a, S2b) is disposed in the vicinity of each receptacle (B1, B2).
US08841828B2
A spark plug has a center electrode having an electrode base member and a core material which is disposed in the electrode base member and which predominantly contains copper, and a noble metal tip disposed at a forward end of the center electrode, and a fusion portion formed between the noble metal tip, and the electrode base member and the core material. The fusion portion is in contact with the core material in a cross section which is parallel to the center axis of the center electrode and which passes through the center axis and the fusion portion. The fusion portion contains a component of the noble metal tip, a component of the electrode base member, and a copper component forming the core material.
US08841827B2
In a spark plug, a fusion zone where a ground electrode and a noble metal tip are fused together is formed in at least a portion of an interfacial region between the ground electrode and the noble metal tip. When the fusion zone is projected in the axial direction, the projected fusion zone overlaps 70% or more of the area of the noble metal tip. As viewed on a section which passes through the center of gravity of the noble metal tip and is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the ground electrode, the relational expression 1.3≦B/A is satisfied, where A is the greatest thickness of the fusion zone along the axial direction, and B is the length from a portion having the greatest thickness of the fusion zone to the inner end of the fusion zone.
US08841821B2
In an optical deflector including a mirror, a movable frame supporting the mirror, a support body surrounding the movable frame, and a first group of piezoelectric actuators and a second group of piezoelectric actuators alternating with the first group of piezoelectric actuators, a driver combines first and second original saw-tooth waves having the same waveform into first saw-tooth waves, and applies a first drive voltage having the first saw-tooth waves to the first group of piezoelectric actuators. The driver applies a second drive voltage having second saw-tooth waves opposite in phase with the first saw-tooth waves to the second group of piezoelectric actuators.
US08841820B2
A synthetic jet apparatus including a series of generally parallel spaced-apart bimorph piezoelectric plates defining first and second sets of fluid chambers. The chambers of the second set of fluid chambers are interleaved with the chambers of the first set of fluid chambers. The first and second sets of fluid chambers are in fluid communication with sources of first and second fluids, respectively, the source of the first fluid being separate from the source of the second fluid. The bimorph plates are operable to alternately draw the first fluid from its source into the first set of fluid chambers while expelling the second fluid from the second set of fluid chambers, and then expel the first fluid from the first set of fluid chambers back into its source while drawing the second fluid from its source into the second set of fluid chambers.
US08841818B2
An piezoelectric electromechanical transistor has first and second terminals formed in a semiconductor region, a gate and a piezoelectric region between the gate and the semiconductor region. The piezoelectric region may be configured to drive the semiconductor region to vibrate in response to a signal applied to the gate. The transistor may be configured to produce a signal at the first terminal at least partially based on vibration of the semiconductor region.
US08841815B2
A method for installing a rotor of an electrical machine is disclosed. The method comprises using axially directed guide bars (107-109) for keeping the rotor (102) centered with respect to a bore of a stator (101) during the installation of the rotor. The rotor has sliding surfaces so that it can be slid in the axial direction to its final position along the guide bars. The mechanical support structure (104) that supports bearings (105, 106) of the rotor are provided with supporting surfaces for being able to give mechanical support to the guide bars. The mechanical support structure (104) may comprise for example threaded holes to which threaded ends of the guide bars can be tightened. After the rotor has been moved to its final position and it is supported by the bearings, the guide bars are removed.
US08841812B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a squirrel-cage induction motor with high efficiency. In a squirrel-cage induction motor including a stator in which stator windings are wound in a number of stator slots arranged at intervals in the vicinity of the inner periphery of a stator core and a rotor in which rotor conductors are embedded in a number of rotor slots arranged at intervals in the vicinity of the outer periphery of a rotor core and end rings are provided at both ends of the rotor core, the rotor core is formed of a plurality of blocks, an annular short-circuit ring is provided between respective blocks of the rotor core to short-circuit the rotor conductors, and laminated thickness of the rotor core is made larger than laminated thickness of the stator core.
US08841800B2
Presented is a backup power system for a building that selectively provides power to particular circuits according to a power distribution priority profile. Power is applied sequentially to each particular circuit depending on the measured current loads of the particular circuits to which power has already been applied.
US08841794B2
COMPENSATED MOTOR TORQUE WIND TURBINE, constituted by a single blade (12) rotor (1) attached to a low speed shaft (3) with spindle (2) sustained in a nacelle (9), on gear bearing (7), at the end of the tower (8), being the power train elements: multiplier (5), generator (6) and brake (13) suspended from the nacelle (9) through a first bearing (4) aligned with the low speed shaft (3), forming a pendulum set (28) that allows them to rotate, compensating in its angular motion the rotor (1) torque, said pendulum set (28) accumulates potential energy when rising in its angular motion and releases it when the gust stops by descending and turning in the opposite direction of the rotation of the turbine's rotor (1) restituting turns to the generator's (6) rotor, being this effect a power regulator.
US08841792B2
A system for producing an output from wave energy for use on an offshore, nearshore or onshore facility includes a support structure having a columnar volume with a first opening and a second opening and a movable piston plate housed therein; and a buoyant system surrounding the support structure, wherein the buoyant system is coupled to the piston plate by a linkage system, wherein the piston plate shifts in response to an oscillation of water level causing the buoyant system to shift, wherein air flow within the columnar volume varies in response to the oscillation of water level, and wherein such oscillation is realized at a prescribed rate controlled by a variable tuning orifice.
US08841791B2
An access means for providing access to components within a stationary housing arrangement of an electrical machine with a stationary part and a rotatable part includes an arrangement of permanent fixtures arranged on the stationary housing arrangement of the electrical machine. Further, an electrical machine with a stationary part and a rotatable part is provided, which electrical machine includes such an access means arranged in a stationary housing arrangement of the electrical machine. Also, a wind turbine with such an electrical machine is provided.
US08841784B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor substrate having a main surface, a multilayer structure circuit formed over the main surface of the semiconductor substrate, a protective wall formed in the same layer as an uppermost layer of the multilayer structure circuit so as to surround the multilayer structure circuit in plan view, and an alignment mark formed in the same layer as the uppermost layer. The alignment mark is formed so as to contact at least part of the protective wall.
US08841783B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element; a pad electrode that is formed on the semiconductor element; an alignment mark that is formed on the semiconductor element; a connection electrode that is formed on the pad electrode; and an underfill resin that is formed to cover the connection electrode. The height of the alignment mark from the semiconductor element is greater than that of the connection electrode.
US08841774B2
A first wiring (1) has a bending portion (2), a first wiring region (1a) extending from the bending portion (2) in the X direction, and a second wiring region (1b) extending from the bending portion (2) in the Y direction. A via (3) is formed under the wiring (1). The via (3) is formed so as not to overlap with a region of the bending portion (2) in the first wiring region (1a). The length of the via (3) in the X direction (x) is longer than the length thereof in the Y direction (y) and both ends of the via (3) in the Y direction overlap with both ends of the first wiring region (1a) in the Y direction.
US08841762B2
A sensor module includes a support member having a first flat surface, a second flat surface orthogonally connected to the first flat surface, a third flat surface orthogonally connected to the first flat surface and the second flat surface, and a fourth flat surface opposed to the first flat surface as an attachment surface to an external member, the first flat surface having a support surface depressed from the first flat surface, IC chips having connection terminals on active surface sides with inactive surface sides along the active surfaces respectively attached to the respective surfaces of the support member, and vibration gyro elements having connection electrodes, and the vibration gyro elements are provided on the active surface sides of the IC chips and the connection electrodes are attached to the connection terminals of the IC chips so that principal surfaces are respectively along the respective surfaces of the support member.
US08841758B2
A structure and method to improve saw singulation quality and wettability of integrated circuit packages (140) assembled with lead frames (112) having half-etched recesses (134) in leads. A method of forming a semiconductor device package includes providing a lead frame strip (110) having a plurality of lead frames. Each of the lead frames includes a depression (130) that is at least partially filled with a material (400) prior to singulating the strip.
US08841754B2
A semiconductor device having a via structure in a stress relief layer is provided. The semiconductor device may include an isolation layer on the circuit region, a stress relief layer on the via region, and a via structure in the stress relief layer and the substrate. The stress relief layer may have a thickness larger than that of the isolation layer and a stepped cross section.
US08841748B2
A dielectric wafer has, on top of its front face, a front electrical connection including an electrical connection portion. A blind hole passes through from a rear face of the wafer to at least partially reveal a rear face of the electrical connection portion. A through capacitor is formed in the blind hole. The capacitor includes a first conductive layer covering the lateral wall and the electrical connection portion (forming an outer electrode), a dielectric intermediate layer covering the first conductive layer (forming a dielectric membrane), and a second conductive layer covering the dielectric intermediate layer (forming an inner electrode). A rear electrical connection is made to the inner electrode.
US08841745B2
A resistance-change memory device using stress engineering is described, including a first layer including a first conductive electrode, a second layer above the first layer including a resistive-switching element, a third layer above the second layer including a second conductive electrode, where a first stress is created in the switching element at a first interface between the first layer and the second layer upon heating the memory element, and where a second stress is created in the switching element at a second interface between the second layer and the third layer upon the heating. A stress gradient equal to a difference between the first stress and the second stress has an absolute value greater than 50 MPa, and a reset voltage of the memory element has a polarity relative to a common electrical potential that has a sign opposite the stress gradient when applied to the first conductive electrode.
US08841744B2
A semiconductor apparatus having a bootstrap-type driver circuit includes a cavity for a SON structure formed below a bootstrap diode Db, and a p-type floating region formed in a n− epitaxial layer between a bootstrap diode Db and a p-type GND region at the ground potential (GND). The p-type floating region extends to the cavity for suppressing the leakage current caused by the holes flowing to the p− substrate in charging an externally attached bootstrap capacitor C1. The semiconductor apparatus which includes a bootstrap-type driver circuit facilitates suppressing the leakage current caused by the holes flowing to the p− substrate, when the bootstrap diode is biased in forward.
US08841743B2
A back-illuminated type solid-state image pickup device (1041) includes read circuits (Tr1, Tr2) formed on one surface of a semiconductor substrate (1042) to read a signal from a photo-electric conversion element (PD) formed on the semiconductor substrate (1042), in which electric charges (e) generated in a photo-electric conversion region (1052c1) formed under at least one portion of the read circuits (Tr1, Tr2) are collected to an electric charge accumulation region (1052a) formed on one surface side of the semiconductor substrate (1042) of the photo-electric conversion element (PD) by electric field formed within the photo-electric conversion element (PD). Thus, the solid-state image pickup device and the camera are able to make the size of pixel become very small without lowering a saturation electric charge amount (Qs) and sensitivity.
US08841742B2
Methods of transferring a layer of semiconductor material from a first donor structure to a second structure include forming recesses in the donor structure, implanting ions into the donor structure to form a generally planar, inhomogeneous weakened zone therein, and providing material within the recesses. The first donor structure may be bonded to a second structure, and the first donor structure may be fractured along the generally planar weakened zone, leaving the layer of semiconductor material bonded to the second structure. Semiconductor devices may be fabricated by forming active device structures on the transferred layer of semiconductor material. Semiconductor structures are fabricated using the described methods.
US08841738B2
A MEMS microphone system suited for harsh environments. The system uses an integrated circuit package. A first, solid metal lid covers one face of a ceramic package base that includes a cavity, forming an acoustic chamber. The base includes an aperture through the opposing face of the base for receiving audio signals into the chamber. A MEMS microphone is attached within the chamber about the aperture. A filter covers the aperture opening in the opposing face of the base to prevent contaminants from entering the acoustic chamber. A second metal lid encloses the opposing face of the base and may attach the filter to this face of the base. The lids are electrically connected with vias forming a radio frequency interference shield. The ceramic base material is thermally matched to the silicon microphone material to allow operation over an extended temperature range.
US08841721B2
A step trench metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor comprises a drift layer, a first semiconductor region, a stepped gate and a floating region. The drift layer is of a first conductivity type. The first semiconductor region is of a second conductivity type and located on the drift layer, wherein the drift layer and the first semiconductor region have a stepped gate trench therein. The stepped gate trench at least comprises a first recess located in the first semiconductor region and extending into the drift layer and a second recess located below a bottom of the first recess, wherein a width of the second recess is smaller than a width of the first recess. A floating region is of the second conductivity type and located in the drift layer below the second recess.
US08841709B2
A disclosed semiconductor device includes a semiconductor deposition layer formed over an insulation structure and above a substrate. The device includes a gate formed over a contact region between first and second implant regions in the semiconductor deposition layer. The first and second implant regions both have a first conductivity type, and the gate has a second conductivity type. The device may further include a second gate formed beneath the semiconductor deposition layer.
US08841708B2
A semiconductor device includes a III-nitride substrate and a channel structure coupled to the III-nitride substrate. The channel structure comprises a first III-nitride epitaxial material and is characterized by one or more channel sidewalls. The semiconductor device also includes a source region coupled to the channel structure. The source region comprises a second III-nitride epitaxial material. The semiconductor device further includes a III-nitride gate structure coupled to the one or more channel sidewalls, a gate metal structure in electrical contact with the III-nitride gate structure, and a dielectric layer overlying at least a portion of the gate metal structure. A top surface of the dielectric layer is substantially co-planar with a top surface of the source region.
US08841703B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first III-V compound layer. A second III-V compound layer is disposed on the first III-V compound layer and is different from the first III-V compound layer in composition. A carrier channel is located between the first III-V compound layer and the second III-V compound layer. A source feature and a drain feature are disposed on the second III-V compound layer. A gate electrode is disposed over the second III-V compound layer between the source feature and the drain feature. A fluorine region is embedded in the second III-V compound layer under the gate electrode. A gate dielectric layer is disposed over the second III-V compound layer. The gate dielectric layer has a fluorine segment on the fluorine region and under at least a portion of the gate electrode.
US08841697B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device is disclosed. The method includes forming a first trench and a second trench in an n-type substrate surface, the first trenches being spaced apart from each other, the second trench surrounding the first trenches, the second trench being wider than the first trench. The method also includes forming a gate oxide film on the inner surfaces of the first and second trenches, and depositing an electrically conductive material to the thickness a half or more as large as the first trench width. The method further includes removing the electrically conductive material using the gate oxide film as a stopper layer, forming an insulator film thicker than the gate oxide film, and polishing the insulator film by CMP for exposing the n-type substrate and the electrically conductive material in the first trench.
US08841693B2
There is provided a light emitting device package including: a substrate having a cavity formed therein; a heat sink provided on a bottom surface of the cavity to be adjacent to an inner wall of the cavity; a light emitting device mounted on the heat sink; and a phosphor layer provided within the cavity and covering the heat sink and the light emitting device.
US08841689B2
Provided is a heat-curable silicone resin sheet that is able to easily uniformly disperse phosphors on an LED element surface, a method of producing a light emitting device utilizing the same and an encapsulated light emitting semiconductor device obtained by the method utilizing the same. The heat-curable silicone resin sheet includes at least the two layers of a layer 1 including a heat-curable silicone resin composition containing phosphors that is in a plastic solid state or a semi-solid state at room temperature, and a layer 2 including a transparent or a semi-transparent heat-curable silicone resin composition that is in a plastic solid state or a semi-solid state at room temperature.
US08841676B2
A vertically integrated semiconductor device includes multiple continuous single crystal silicon layers vertically separated from one another by a dielectric layer or layers. Semiconductor devices are disposed on an underlying single crystal silicon substrate and the continuous single crystal silicon layers. The individual devices are interconnected to one another using tungsten or doped polysilicon leads that extend through openings formed in the continuous single crystal silicon layers. The method for forming the structure includes forming a dielectric material over the single crystal silicon layer or substrate and forming an opening extending down to the surface of the single crystal silicon material to act as a seed layer. An epitaxial silicon growth process begins at the seed location and laterally overgrows the openings. Growth fronts from the various seed locations meet to form a continuous single crystal silicon layer which is then polished.
US08841675B2
A minute transistor and the method of manufacturing the minute transistor. A source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer are each formed in a corresponding opening formed in an insulating layer covering a semiconductor layer. The opening of the source electrode layer and the opening of the drain electrode layer are formed separately in two distinct steps. The source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer are formed by depositing a conductive layer over the insulating layer and in the openings, and subsequently removing the part located over the insulating layer by polishing. This manufacturing method allows for the source electrode later and the drain electrode layer to be formed close to each other and close to a channel forming region of the semiconductor layer. Such a structure leads to a transistor having high electrical characteristics and a high manufacturing yield even in the case of a minute structure.
US08841674B2
According to embodiments of the invention, a field transistor structure is provided. The field transistor structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a metal gate, a polycrystalline silicon (polysilicon) layer, and first and second metal portions. The polysilicon layer has first, second, third, and fourth sides and is disposed between the semiconductor substrate on the first side and the metal gate on the second side. The polysilicon layer is also disposed between the first and second metal portions on the third and fourth sides. According to some embodiments of the present invention, the field transistor structure may also include a thin metal layer disposed between the polysilicon layer and the semiconductor substrate. The thin metal layer may be electronically coupled to each of the first and second metal portions.
US08841673B2
A thin-film transistor device includes: a gate electrode above a substrate; a gate insulating film on the gate electrode; a crystalline silicon thin film above the gate insulating film; a first semiconductor film above the crystalline silicon thin film; a pair of second semiconductor films above the first semiconductor film; a source electrode over one of the second semiconductor films; and a drain electrode over an other one of the second semiconductor films. The first semiconductor film is provided on the crystalline silicon thin film. A relationship ECP
US08841666B2
In an aspect, a display device including: a substrate; a thin film transistor formed on the substrate, and comprising an active layer formed of an oxide semiconductor; a passivation layer formed on the thin film transistor; and a hydrogen blocking layer positioned between the active layer and the passivation layer is provided.
US08841653B2
A light-emitting element whose lifetime is improved. In addition, a light-emitting device, a lighting device, and an electronic appliance in which the light-emitting element is used. A light-emitting element including, between an anode and a cathode, a hole-transport layer and a layer containing a light-emitting substance provided to be in contact with a cathode side surface of the hole-transport layer, in which the hole-transport layer includes a first organic compound and an anti-reduction substance, and in which the layer containing a light-emitting substance includes a second organic compound and a light-emitting substance and has at least an electron-transport property is provided. In addition, a light-emitting device including the light-emitting element, or a lighting device or an electronic appliance including the light-emitting device is provided.
US08841651B2
A photoelectric conversion element is provided and includes: a conductive thin layer; an organic photoelectric conversion layer including a compound represented by formula (I); and a transparent conductive thin layer, in this order: In the formula (I), X represents O, S or N—R10; Rx and Ry each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, at least one of Rx and Ry is an electron-withdrawing group, and Rx and Ry may be connected to each other to form a ring, provided that Rx and Ry do not represent a cyano group at the same time; R7 to R10 each independently represents a hydrogen atom or a substituent, and R8 and R9 may be connected to each other to form a ring; L represents a linking group comprising a conjugated bond; and D1 represents a group of atoms.
US08841650B2
An electronic structure modulation transistor having two gates separated from a channel by corresponding dielectric layers, wherein the channel is formed of a material having an electronic structure that is modified by an electric field across the channel.
US08841644B2
Thermal isolation in memory cells is described herein. A number of embodiments include a storage element, a selector device formed in series with the storage element, and an electrode between the storage element and the selector device, wherein the electrode comprises an electrode material having a thermal conductivity of less than 0.15 Watts per Kelvin-centimeter (W/K-cm).
US08841640B1
A device that can sterilize material passing through it efficiently by utilizing an appropriate light source that can be powered by external sources (including use of an electromagnetic field to transmit energy) or by a power source that is contained within the device itself, which may include elements to create turbulence within the material passing through it, and elements to reflect the light source where useful but trap the light from escaping to ensure safety. The device may be rigid or flexible, possibly including a mechanism to fold or collapse the device for delivery through a port or lumen and expanded or unfolded prior to use.
US08841639B2
A control method for a target supply device may employ a target supply device, provided in an EUV light generation apparatus including an image sensor, that includes a target generator having a nozzle and configured to hold a target material and a pressure control unit configured to control a pressure within the target generator, and the method may include outputting the target material in the target generator from a nozzle hole in the nozzle by pressurizing the interior of the target generator using the pressure control unit, determining whether or not a difference between an output direction of the target material outputted from the nozzle hole that is detected by the image sensor and a set direction is within a predetermined range, and holding the pressure in the target generator using the pressure control unit until the difference falls within the predetermined range.
US08841632B1
A device having a vertical slot for sanitizing a dental appliance inserted in the device. The device comprises a removable tray for containing a dental appliance, the removable tray is suitable to be lifted in and out of the vertical slot of the sanitizing device. The device comprises vertically extending walls on opposing sides of the vertical slot between which the removable tray is inserted, wherein one of the vertically extending walls comprises an ultraviolet lamp for transmission of ultraviolet light.
US08841629B2
Devices and methods are provided for monitoring low-level microwave excursions from a UV curing system to determine if equipment is damaged, such as screen tears or improper assembly of UV lampheads. A radio frequency (RF) detector may be used to detect microwaves in a range of about 0.2-5 mW/cm2, wherein the RF detector comprises an antenna with a hoop shaped portion, a circuit board having a diode detector and an amplifier circuit, a housing, and a bracket coupled to the housing that is suitable for coupling the RF detector to the UV curing system. An alarm threshold may also be set, which can be correlated to microwave levels at or below levels that could cause damage to semiconductor devices being processed. A substrate processing system comprising an RF detector is also provided.
US08841626B2
The invention concerns a device (20) for UV-spectrometric analysis of gaseous Compounds, comprising: a measurement Channel (5) to accommodate a flow of sample gas, a window (16) transparent for ultraviolet radiation arranged at a first end (5a) of the measurement Channel (5), a radiation source (11) generating ultraviolet radiation arranged to emit radiation through the window (16) into the measurement Channel (5), and a spectrograph (3) for measuring ultraviolet radiation at a second, opposite, end (5b) of the measurement Channel (5). The invention is characterized in that the spectrograph (3) is provided with an opening (12) wherein the second end (5b) of the measurement Channel (5) is open towards the spectrograph (3) such that an inside of the spectrograph (3) and the measurement Channel (5) are in communication via said opening (12). The spectrograph (3) is filled with a protection gas which is allowed to flow through said opening (12) and into the measurement Channel (5).
US08841621B2
A radiographic imaging apparatus including: a scintillator that includes at least a columnar crystal and converts irradiated radiation into light; a light receiving element that receives light emitted from the scintillator; and a sensor substrate that comprises a light receiving element that receives light emitted from the scintillator and converts the received light into an electric signal, a cross-sectional diameter of the columnar crystal in a region located at a sensor substrate side being larger than that in a region located at a side opposite to the sensor substrate side.
US08841616B2
A terahertz wave detecting device includes a wavelength filter and a detection part. The wavelength filter is configured to convert terahertz waves to heat. The detection part is configured to detect the heat converted by the wavelength filter. The wavelength filter includes a wavelength selection layer and a terahertz wave absorption layer. The wavelength selection layer is configured to transmit terahertz waves of a prescribed wavelength among the terahertz waves. The terahertz wave absorption layer is provided in contact with the wavelength selection layer and the detection part, and contains a material for absorbing the terahertz waves of the prescribed wavelength.
US08841615B2
An electron microscope which utilizes a polarized electron beam and can obtain a high contrast image of a sample is provided. The microscope includes: a laser; a polarization apparatus that polarizes a laser beam into a circularly polarized laser beam; a semiconductor photocathode that is provided with a strained superlattice semiconductor layer and generates a polarized electron beam when irradiated with the circularly polarized laser beam; a transmission electron microscope that utilizes the polarized electron beam; an electron beam intensity distribution recording apparatus arranged at a face reached by the polarized electron beam that has transmitted through the sample. An electron beam intensity distribution recording apparatus records an intensity distribution before and after the polarization of the electron beam is reversed, and a difference acquisition apparatus calculates a difference therebetween.
US08841603B1
Optical scanning with an optical probe composed of an elongated cylinder of transparent material mounted upon an optical scanner body; one or more sources of scan illumination mounted in the probe distally or proximally with respect to the scanner body and projecting scan illumination longitudinally through the probe; a radially-reflecting optical element mounted in the probe having a conical mirror on a surface of the radially-reflecting optical element, the mirror oriented so as to project scan illumination radially away from a longitudinal axis of the probe with at least some of the scan illumination projected onto a scanned object; a lens mounted in the probe between the radially-reflecting optical element and the scanner body and disposed so as to conduct to an optical sensor scan illumination reflected from the scanned object.
US08841599B2
According to one embodiment, an optical sensor includes a photodetector and a substrate. The photodetector detects light. The substrate in which the photodetector is received includes at least three layers including a cover layer, a spacer layer, and a base layer. The substrate includes an electrical conductive portion for the photodetector.
US08841590B2
An article of cookware in the form of a cooking vessel exposes only a portion of a copper inner layer on the upper portion of the exterior sidewall. The layer does not change color or tarnish as it sufficiently distal from the bottom of the cooking vessel that it is not subject to direct heat and oxidation during normal use. The unique bright color of the native copper is further protected from tarnish caused by fingerprint by a protective coating that can withstand moderate heating.
US08841587B2
An image heating apparatus includes: an endless belt; a heater, contacted to a surface of the endless belt, provided so that a longitudinal direction thereof is parallel to a generating line direction of the endless belt; and a pressing member for forming a nip together with the endless belt. The heater includes: an elongated substrate; a first heat generating line, provided on the substrate along a longitudinal direction of the substrate, including first heat-generating resistors having a negative temperature coefficient of resistance and being electrically connected in series; and a second heat generating line, provided on the substrate along the longitudinal direction of the substrate, electrically connected to the first heat generating line in parallel. The second heat generating line includes a plurality of second heat-generating resistors having the negative temperature coefficient of resistance and being electrically connected in series.
US08841581B2
If a short circuit does not occur during deceleration of a wire feed speed in forward feed of a welding wire before the wire feed speed reaches a predetermined wire feed speed, a cyclic change is stopped and the wire feed speed is constantly controlled at the first feed speed. If a short circuit occurs during forward feed at the first feed speed, deceleration from the first feed speed starts, and the cyclic change is resumed for welding. This achieves uniform weld bead without increasing spatters even if any external disturbance such as change of distance between a tip and base material occurs.
US08841573B2
Apparatus and methods for assembling solar receiving tubes in the field are described. In one embodiment, a welder is provided having longitudinally adjustable clamps that permit the easy restraining and adjustment of tube position for welding. In another embodiment, a system for moving along the length of a solar collector and sequentially welding tubes is described.
US08841571B2
The present invention relates to a method for separating mineral impurities from calcium carbonate-containing rocks by comminuting the calcium carbonate-containing rocks to a particle size in the range of from 1 mm to 250 mm, separating the calcium carbonate particles by means of a dual energy X-ray transmission sorting device.
US08841569B2
A flat press button is provided. The press button includes a base plate, a link member, and a cap. The link member is disposed on the base plate. The cap, having an embossed strip and a flange, pivots at the link member, wherein the embossed strip and the flange are formed at the opposing sides of the cap, and the embossed strip and the flange are operated in a pivotal swinging manner around a pivot axis to abut the base plate alternatively.
US08841559B2
To prevent the breakage of the joint between a ceramic substrate and a glass epoxy substrate. The copper column is formed by a wiredrawing step for drawing a copper wire formed linearly to a predetermined diameter; a cutting step for cutting the copper wire, which has been drawn in the wire drawing step, in a predetermined length; a pressing step for pressing one end of the copper wire, which has been cut in the cutting step, in a longitudinal direction to form a copper column member; and an annealing step for annealing the copper column member, which has been formed in the pressing step, by maintaining a heating period of 60 minutes or longer at 600° C. or higher. Thereby, the Vickers hardness of the copper column becomes is 55 HV or less and the copper column is softened. Therefore, when joining the ceramic substrate and the glass epoxy substrate through the copper column, heat stress caused by a difference between the thermal expansion of the ceramic substrate and the thermal expansion of the glass epoxy substrate can be absorbed by the copper member. As a result, the breakage of the joint between the ceramic substrate and the glass epoxy substrate can be prevented.
US08841556B2
A cord management apparatus comprises one or more magnets, configurable to be coupled to an electronic cord. The apparatus comprises one or more sheaths configured to be coupled to at least a portion of the electronic cord, wherein the one or more sheaths are configured to be magnetically attached to the magnet. A cord management device comprising one or more pliable sheaths is described also.
US08841555B2
Various high speed shielded cables are used in combination with a connector assembly. The connector assembly includes a plurality of electrical terminations in electrical contact with the conductor sets of the cable at a first end of the cable, the electrical terminations configured to make electrical contact with corresponding mating electrical terminations of a mating connector and at least one housing configured to retain the plurality of electrical terminations in a planar, spaced apart configuration.
US08841551B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a compact sliding device having a simple structure configured to reduce the number of cut lines formed on a mat mounted on a cabin of a vehicle.A sliding device 1 for routing an electric wire 5 between a vehicle floor and a seat includes: a rail 9 having a supporting rail 7 to which a supporting body 11 of the seat is attached, and a receiving part 8 extended along the supporting rail 7; a corrugate tube 4 receiving the electric wire 5; a slider 10 configured to slide in conjunction with the supporting body 11 while holding the corrugate tube 4 extracted into an inside of the supporting rail 7; and a guiding member 12 for bending the corrugate tube 4 extracted out of the supporting rail 7 in a U-shape, and guiding the corrugate tube 4 into an inside of the receiving part 8, and for guiding the corrugate tube 4 onto an inner side wall 81 of the receiving part 8 away from the supporting rail 7. The corrugate tube 4 is further bent in a U-shape in the receiving part 8, and a folded back part of the corrugate tube 4 abuts on an inner side wall 82 of the receiving part 8 near the supporting wall 7 owing to an elastic restoring force of the corrugate tube 4.
US08841550B2
A photoelectric element provided with an electron transport layer having excellent electron transport property and sufficiently wide reaction interface, and that has excellent conversion efficiency.The photoelectric element has an electron transport layer 3 and a hole transport layer 4 sandwiched between a pair of electrodes 2 and 5. The electron transport layer 3 is formed of an organic compound having a redox moiety capable of being oxidized and reduced repeatedly. The organic compound contains an electrolyte solution which stabilizes the reduced state of the redox moiety, and forms a gel layer 6 containing a sensitizing dye. Thus, the organic compound and the electrolyte solution in the electron transport layer 3 constitute the gel layer 6, while at the same time, the sensitizing dye is present within the gel layer 6, whereby the reaction interface of the organic compound is enlarged, improving the conversion efficiency and the electron hand-over efficiency from the sensitizing dye to the organic compound in the electron transport layer 3, as a result of which the electron transport efficiency is improved.
US08841549B2
An organic spintronic photovoltaic device (100) having an organic electron active layer (102) functionally associated with a pair of electrodes (104, 106). The organic electron active layer (102) can include a spin active molecular radical distributed in the active layer (102) which increases spin-lattice relaxation rates within the active layer (102). The increased spin lattice relaxation rate can also influence the efficiency of OLED and charge mobility in FET devices.
US08841548B2
An optical system and method to overcome luminescent solar concentrator inefficiencies by resonance-shifting, in which sharply directed emission from a bi-layer cavity into a glass substrate returns to interact with the cavity off-resonance at each subsequent reflection, significantly reducing reabsorption loss en route to the edges. In one embodiment, the system comprises a luminescent solar concentrator comprising a transparent substrate, a luminescent film having a variable thickness; and a low refractive index layer disposed between the transparent substrate and the luminescent film.
US08841543B2
A photoelectric conversion element of the present invention includes: a first electrode being linear; a second electrode; and an electrolyte. The first electrode and the second electrode are disposed via the electrolyte. The first electrode includes a first linear material which includes a copper wire and a metal coating which coats the copper wire and a dye-carrying porous oxide semiconductor layer disposed on an outer circumference of the first linear material.
US08841532B2
A keyboard instrument having keys modified as compared to a standard piano keyboard, in which the central longitudinal axis of the D♯ key extends between the adjoining distal lateral sides of the D and E keys, and in which the C♯ and D♯ keys, F♯ and G♯ keys, and G♯ and A♯ keys are respectively 17 millimeters apart.
US08841531B2
A sheet music holder for a drum kit is described. The sheet music holder is suitable to provide sheet music to a drum head so that music may be read when the drum is played. The sheet music holder preserves the condition of the sheet music and is suitable to dampen the sound of the drum it is placed on.
US08841521B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV774130. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV774130, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV774130 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 CV774130 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 CV774130.
US08841518B1
A novel maize variety designated X80C998 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X80C998 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X80C998 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X80C998, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X80C998. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X80C998.
US08841517B1
A novel maize variety designated X95C376 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X95C376 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X95C376 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X95C376, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X95C376. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X95C376.
US08841508B2
The present invention provides a non-human mammalian animal model for type 2 diabetes, which spontaneously develops a pathological condition similar to human type 2 diabetes of a non-obese type seen in some Japanese people. The non-human mammalian animal model for type 2 diabetes according to the present invention is deficient in a Cdkal1 gene function on the chromosome of the β cell of the pancreas. More specifically, the non-human mammalian animal model for type 2 diabetes may be produced by interbreeding a non-human mammal carrying a site-specific recombination enzyme recognition sequence in the 3′-untranslated region and the 5′-untranslated region of a particular domain carrying one exon or more exons of the Cdkal1 gene with a non-human mammal in which a gene of a site-specific recombination enzyme capable of recognizing the site-specific recombination enzyme recognition sequence and splicing out the particular domain is inserted in such a manner as expressing specifically at a site downstream of a promoter of a gene expressing specifically in the pancreas.
US08841501B2
A group V metal/rhenium-modified molecular sieve catalyst can be used in hydrocarbon conversion reactions. Embodiments can provide a toluene conversion of at least 30 wt % with selectivity to benzene above 40 wt % and to xylenes above 40 wt % and non-aromatics selectivity of less than 2.0 wt %.
US08841481B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing unsaturated aldehydes or unsaturated carboxylic acids by heterogeneous catalytic gas phase oxidation of unsaturated or saturated hydrocarbons, comprising the process steps of: i) providing a gas mixture comprising a saturated hydrocarbon and catalytically dehydrogenating the saturated hydrocarbon in the gas phase to obtain a gas mixture comprising an unsaturated hydrocarbon in a dehydrogenation reactor having a dehydrogenation catalyst material; or ii) providing a gas mixture comprising oxygen and an unsaturated hydrocarbon; iii) catalytically oxidizing the unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained in process step i) or provided in process step ii) in the gas phase to obtain a gas mixture comprising an unsaturated aldehyde in a first oxidation reactor having a first oxidation catalyst material; wherein at least one of the reactors selected from the dehydrogenation reactor, the first oxidation reactor and the second oxidation reactor comprises at least one foam body.
