US08862362B2
A disclosed control system for a gas turbine engine includes a controller configured to set a position of the variable area fan nozzle according to a predetermined schedule of variable area fan nozzle positions corresponding to a flight operating condition. The schedule is determined in view of a relationship between a position of the variable area nozzle and a performance level of the engine at current flight conditions.
US08862354B2
A method for determining initial or starting temperatures for a dry dual clutch mechanism at vehicle start-up includes as determining a time lapse from shut-down to start-up. The method determines a housing air start temperature of the housing air within a bell housing case of the dry dual clutch mechanism at vehicle start-up, reads a first clutch stop temperature of a first clutch at vehicle shut-down, reads a housing air stop temperature of the housing air at vehicle shut-down, and determines a heat transfer coefficient between the first clutch and the housing air. The method includes determining a first clutch start temperature from, at least: the heat transfer coefficient between the first clutch and the housing air; a temperature differential between the first clutch stop temperature and the housing air stop temperature; and the housing air start temperature.
US08862353B2
The invention relates to a process for detecting tuning measures through which the actual output power of an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle is increased relative to design output power value, whereby, to detect the tuning measures, deviations of actual output power value from a nominal output power value are evaluated, the latter being provided by a control device.The invention is distinguished in that measures are initiated to protect a clutch device from overload as soon as torque to be transmitted by the clutch device exceeds a critical value.
US08862351B2
A method of controlling a transmission (100) for a machine is disclosed. The transmission includes a variator (104). The transmission is operated in a first operating range (301). It is determined whether a current speed ratio is within a first predetermined range of a speed ratio associated with a first synchronous point (304) lying between the first operating range (301) and the second operating range (302). A desired speed ratio is determined and it is determined if the desired speed ratio is within a second predetermined range of the speed ratio. A shift between the first and second operating ranges (301, 302) is prevented and the variator (104) is controlled to hold the current speed ratio if the desired speed ratio is within the second predetermined range or the rate of acceleration of the machine is below the threshold acceleration.
US08862349B2
A powertrain of a vehicle has a drive unit, a transmission and an auxiliary gearbox. Operation of the transmission and the auxiliary gearbox is controlled by a transmission control unit. The transmission control unit controls shifting of the auxiliary gearbox and the transmission while the vehicle is in operation. The auxiliary gearbox may be electronically shifted, independently of activity of the vehicle operator.
US08862344B2
A clutch actuator and to a method for the control thereof. The actuator actuates a multi-disk clutch, and to do so has actuator modules. The number of which corresponds to the number of the friction clutches. The modules have separate control units and electric motors, which are controlled by the control units and act on the friction clutches by a disengaging mechanism. In order to counter block the partial drive trains disposed downstream of the friction clutches, particularly automatically closed friction clutches during a malfunction of an actuator module, the actuator modules are connected among each other to a data line, which allows monitoring of the actuator modules and counter-measures.
US08862343B2
A turning control apparatus for a hybrid construction machine may include an engine, an oil hydraulic pump, an electric energy storage device, an engine assistant motor, a turning motor, a power converter, a battery, an HCU, an SMPS configured to apply electric power to the HCU by being supplied with electric power from the battery, a Key1 configured to switch a VKey_On path which supplies electric power from the battery to the SMPS when a key on signal of a driver is inputted, and a Key2 configured to switch a VKey_Out path which allows electric power to be supplied from the battery to the SMPS when an operation of the Key1 is stopped, in which the Key2 is switched when it is confirmed that the turning motor is being driven in a state in which an operation of the Key1 is stopped.
US08862342B2
An object of the driving assistance device is to provide a driving assistance device capable of preventing the driver from experiencing discomfort. The driving assistance device includes a target deceleration pattern generating unit that generates a target deceleration pattern for deceleration driving and a start position determining unit that determines a deceleration start point where the deceleration driving starts on the basis of the target deceleration pattern. The target deceleration pattern unit generates the target deceleration pattern including a first deceleration pattern in which deceleration in a section from a predetermined position to a target stop position is set and a second deceleration pattern in which deceleration in a section to the predetermined position is set. The deceleration in the first deceleration pattern is more than the deceleration in the second deceleration pattern.
US08862329B2
In a material handling vehicle such as an electric forklift, a depression amount of an accelerator pedal that provides an instruction on a control amount of a drive motor for driving a drive wheel is detected. When the depression amount of the accelerator pedal is equal to or larger than a predetermined value and a forward-backward switching signal that indicates that a shift lever is operated is received, a drive current for a steered system motor is set to a value smaller than a normal drive current within a predetermined time period that starts upon reception of the forward-backward switching signal.
US08862326B2
In a vehicle travel assisting device, a vehicle speed, a yaw rate, a traveling lane of an own vehicle, and a position of a leading vehicle are detected. Target travel coordinates of the own vehicle are calculated, based on the traveling lane and the position of the leading vehicle A travel path curvature of a target travel coordinate group is estimated, based on information related to the target travel coordinate group. A steering quantity to be steered in advance by the own vehicle is calculated, based on the currently estimated travel path curvature. A weight for each of the target travel coordinates for estimating the travel path curvature is adjusted based on the vehicle speed, the yaw rate and the previously estimated travel path curvature. Steering control is performed such that the own vehicle travels so as to follow the estimated travel path curvature, based on the calculated steering quantity.
US08862321B2
A method of guiding a vehicle to a region for initiating a parallel parking maneuver. A region of feasible starting locations for successfully performing a parallel parking maneuver is determined by a processor. A position of the vehicle relative to the region of feasible starting locations is determined. A determination is made whether the vehicle is in a zero heading position. The vehicle is guided along an initial target path by controlling a steering actuator until the vehicle is in a zero heading position relative to the road of travel in response to the vehicle is not in the zero heading position. A planned path is generated that includes two arc-shaped trajectories extending between the vehicle at the zero heading position and a position within the region of feasible starting locations as determined by the processor. The steering actuator is controlled to follow the planned path to the feasible region.
US08862318B2
A method for teaching an aftermarket accessory component how to actuate a vehicle function is disclosed herein. The aftermarket accessory component is configured to monitor communications across a vehicle bus. The method includes, but is not limited to, sampling message traffic transmitted across the vehicle bus while the vehicle function is not actuated. The method further includes setting filters in the aftermarket accessory component based on the sampled message traffic. The method further includes prompting a user to actuate the vehicle function in a first manner. The method further includes collecting filtered message traffic from the vehicle bus while the vehicle function is actuated in the first manner. The method further includes parsing the filtered message traffic to identify a command associated with actuation of the vehicle function. The method further includes testing the command to confirm that the command actuates the vehicle function.
US08862316B2
The invention relates to a method for diagnosing the operational state of a fuel supply system of an automobile internal combustion engine, said fuel being stored in a tank of the vehicle and having a variable alcohol content, wherein said method includes a step of diagnosing (S6) the operational state of the fuel supply system, a step of detecting the addition of alcohol into the tank (S2), a step of determining the alcohol content (S2bis) in the fuel, and a checking step (S4) in which the diagnosis step (S6) is triggered if the step of determining the alcohol content (S2bis) in the fuel is completed.
US08862298B2
In a drive control device of a hybrid vehicle including a power dividing mechanism which has a sun roller, a carrier, and a first disc with which a rotating shaft of a first motor/generator, an output shaft of an engine, and a rotating shaft of a second motor/generator which also functions as an output shaft directed toward drive wheel sides are coupled, respectively and by which differential rotating operations between the sun roller, the carrier, and the first disc are controlled using an alignment chart on which rotation speeds of the sun roller, the carrier, and the first disc are disposed in the sequence of the sun roller, the carrier, the first disc and shown by straight lines.
US08862292B2
A method includes obtaining motive outputs demanded by a trip plan for a vehicle system having interconnected propulsion-generating vehicles, determining motive output capabilities of the propulsion-generating vehicles, and identifying segments of the trip where the motive output capabilities of the propulsion-generating vehicles exceed motive outputs demanded by the trip plan over the segments. The method further includes selecting one or more of the propulsion-generating vehicles for turning at least one of off or to idle in the one or more segments while one or more remaining propulsion-generating vehicles in the vehicle system remain on. The propulsion-generating vehicles are selected such that a total motive output capability of the one or more remaining propulsion-generating vehicles remains at least as great as the motive outputs demanded by the trip plan over the one or more segments.
US08862282B2
An energy supply system includes: an energy supply device configured to supply electric power and/or heat; and a controller configured to set a first maximum operation time of a first specified period including a plurality of second specified periods, the first maximum operation time being an upper limit of an operation time of the energy supply device in the first specified period; calculate and set a second target maximum operation time of each of the second specified periods of the first specified period such that the operation time of the energy supply device in the first specified period does not exceed the first maximum operation time, the second target maximum operation time being a target value of an upper limit of the operation time of the energy supply device in the second specified period; and reconfigure the second target maximum operation time of a future second specified period of a certain first specified period based on a time in which the energy supply device has been actually operated in a past second specified period of the certain first specified period.
US08862281B2
A power distribution system includes: a remote electricity monitoring device which is provided at each power supply destination, and remotely reads, via communication means, an consumed power amount and an surplus power amount stored in a power storage device at each supply destination; and a management server which manages the power supply of each supply destination while collecting, via the communication means, the consumed power information and the surplus power information, both of which are read by the remote electricity monitoring device. The management server distributes the power among the supply destinations in line with the relationship between the power amounts based on the consumed power information and surplus power information.
US08862276B2
A method for the automatic irrigation of plants, wherein the temporal progression of soil moisture is determined from measured soil moisture values, and said progression is used for the calculation of an optimized irrigation time duration, such that both water excess in the soil and soil drying are avoided as much as possible. Preferably, the time duration of irrigation is constantly evaluated and optimized using comparisons of measured values with prespecified moisture- and dryness threshold values (GWmoist, GWdry), and automatically adjusted to changing environmental conditions and/or plant requirements.
US08862275B2
The invention provides a regulator system for regulating the operation of an irrigation system which is responsive to user programmed information. It has a control element for issuing watering control signals to an irrigation system, having at least one of (i) a duration programming device for programming a minimum amount of time and a maximum amount of time for the suspension of watering by the irrigation system, and (ii) a user adjustable temperature programming device for programming a minimum allowed temperature for initiating a watering period by the irrigation system. It further has an irrigation system interface for connecting said control element with the irrigation system. It also has a switch for conveying the control signals from the control element to the irrigation system via the irrigation system interface, for either permitting or prohibiting watering by the irrigation system, responsive to the control signals generated by and received from the control element.
US08862273B2
Technologies are generally described for automatically managing noise profile in a predefined area by determining a desired noise profile within the predefined area, monitoring noise levels and/or frequencies within the predefined area, and adjusting operational aspects of one or more noise emitting devices in order to achieve the desired noise profile within the predefined area. A noise management system according to embodiments may be centrally controlled or organized in a distributed manner with control modules on individual noise emitting devices interacting through wired or wireless media. Furthermore, the adjustment of the operations of the noise emitting devices in order to achieve the desired noise profile may be accomplished through computing an acoustic transfer function or measuring actual noise levels/frequencies.
US08862264B2
In a supplying system using containers for supplying groups of filter elements to smoking article assembling equipment, each container has a unique source of information that travels with the container. An unloader receives and unloads the containers. An automated data reader is proximate the unloader for reading the source of information for each container before it is unloaded. A computerized controller uses the information read by the automated data reader to obtain information from a database. The information from the database is compared to information from another source to verify that the proper filter elements are being supplied. The computerized controller allows, or instructs, the unloader to unload correctly supplied filter elements, and stops the unloader from unloading incorrectly supplied filter elements.
US08862259B2
A processing data managing system includes: a processing device 11 (such as a sputtering device for manufacturing a magnetic disc) for repeating the same process for each cycle; a sampling unit 30 for collecting raw data on a processing condition in the processing device (such as a discharge condition); a calculation unit 100 for receiving the raw data, calculating the raw data according to a predetermined rule, and processing it as summary data expressing a characteristic point for each cycle (characteristic value: for example, average value, maximum value, minimum value, standard deviation, discharge time, and the like); a data storage unit 40 for storing the processed summary data in storage means; and a display/output unit 50 for chart-displaying the summary data stored in the storage means.
US08862254B2
Some embodiments provide a media-editing application for identifying a set of background audio segments of a composite presentation, generating additional background audio segments based on several identified background audio segments, detecting regions of the composite presentation that lack background audio, and inserting generated background audio into the detected regions of the composite presentation.
US08862253B2
A gain control module includes an amplifier, a least significant bit (LSB) gain stage, and a most significant bit (MSB) gain stage. The amplifier includes a first input, a second input, and an output. The LSB gain stage produces a LSB gain based on an LSB portion of a gain control signal, wherein the LSB gain stage receives an input signal. The MSB gain stage produces an MSB gain based on an MSB portion of the gain control signal, wherein the MSB gain stage is coupled to the LSB gain stage, the first input of the amplifier, and the output of the amplifier, wherein the gain control module amplifies the input signal in accordance with the gain control signal.
US08862251B2
A machining-related data processing system has a configuration in which a controller for machine tool comprising an NC device and an assisting device is connected to a data processing device via a telecommunication line. The assisting device has a cooperative-processing instructing section transmitting a cooperative processing signal to the data processing device and thereby remotely operating the data processing device to cause it to perform data processing, and receiving the result of the data processing performed in the data processing device, and the data processing device has an automatic program generation section, a machining simulation section and a cooperative-processing executing section receiving the cooperative processing signal from the controller and causing the automatic program generation section and the machining simulation section to perform data processing related to workpiece machining and corresponding to a data processing request accepted in the controller, and transmitting the data processing result to the controller.
US08862237B2
A tool for assisting in the planning or performing of electrical neuromodulation of a patient's spinal cord. The tool may have various functions and capabilities, including calculating a volume of activation, registering an electrode(s) shown in a radiologic image, constructing functional images of the patient's spinal anatomy, targeting of neuromodulation, finding a functional midline between multiple electrodes, determining the three-dimensional position of multiple electrodes, and/or accommodating for electrode migration. In certain embodiments, the tool can be embodied as computer software or a computer system.
US08862226B2
An embodiment uses an accelerometer to sense heart sounds, and determines heart rate information using the sensed heart sounds. An embodiment uses an accelerometer to sense respiratory activity. An embodiment delivers a programmed neural stimulation therapy with a programmed duty cycle, where the programmed duty cycle includes a stimulation ON portion followed by a stimulation OFF portion. An electrode electrically connected to the implanted neural stimulation device is used to remotely detect cardiac activity. The remotely detected cardiac activity is used to detect heart rate information during the stimulation ON portion and to detect heart rate information during the stimulation OFF portion. The detected heart rate information and/or the detected respiration information are used to control a neural stimulation therapy performed by the neural stimulator device and/or are used to provide diagnostic information for the patient's condition.
US08862215B2
The present document discloses an apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including a computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured, with the at least one processor, to cause the apparatus to: trigger a start of a physical exercise; in response to said triggering, start a measurement mode in which the apparatus receives measurement data of the physical exercise wirelessly from at least one sensor device and analyzes the received measurement data; detect a predetermined event in the received measurement data during the physical exercise; and in response to detecting said predetermined event, cause transmission of a reconfiguration message to at least one of the at least one sensor device to reconfigure at least one parameter of said at least one of the at least one sensor device.
US08862211B2
Detecting cardiac ischemia by detecting local changes in high frequency ECG parameters. Local changes may be, for example, local reduction in RMS of high frequency components, for example, during a stress test.
US08862209B2
A surgical imaging device includes at least one light source for illuminating an object, at least two image sensors configured to generate image data corresponding to the object in the form of an image frame, and a video processor configured to receive from each image sensor the image data corresponding to the image frames and to process the image data so as to generate a composite image. The video processor may be configured to normalize, stabilize, orient and/or stitch the image data received from each image sensor so as to generate the composite image. Preferably, the video processor stitches the image data received from each image sensor by processing a portion of image data received from one image sensor that overlaps with a portion of image data received from another image sensor.
US08862201B2
Investigation of in vivo models of disease requires imaging studies involving single subjects in single imaging sessions, serial imaging of individuals or groups of subjects, and integration of data across diverse and heterogeneous experimental methodologies. Each type of experiment is preferably supported by various feature sets that can be rigorously applied to produce quantitative, reproducible results. Current imaging scanners are not equipped with standardized capability that supports an automated and scientifically rigorous workflow suited to hypothesis testing. An imaging system includes a research workstation at which a user can design, execute, study, and report imaging plans. Flexibility that comes along with a modular design of the system allows the user to customize workflow parameters for more robust hypothesis testing.
US08862199B2
An electrode member for a body is provided. The electrode member includes a first sheet member having at least one hole formed therein, at least one second sheet member respectively disposed in the at least one hole, at least one metal contact point disposed on the first sheet member, and at least one electrode respectively disposed on the at least one second sheet member.
US08862193B2
A connector assembly of a superconducting fault current limiter includes a first superconducting tape element, an electrical connector electrically coupled to the first superconducting element at a first region of the electrical conductor, and a second superconducting tape element electrically coupled to the electrical connector in a second region of the electrical connector. The electrical connector comprises a unitary structure. The first superconducting tape element, the electrical connector, and the second superconducting tape element comprise may comprise a layer.
US08862192B2
Narrow band-pass filter having resonators grouped into primary and secondary sets of different order
A narrowband filter tuned at a center frequency. The filter comprises an input terminal, an output terminal, and a plurality of resonators coupled in cascade between the input terminal and the output terminal. Each of the resonators is tuned at a resonant frequency substantially equal to the center frequency. The resonant frequencies of a primary set of the resonators and a secondary set of the resonators are of different orders.
US08862186B2
A shoulder mounted lapel microphone housing that encloses a microdisplay, a computer, and other communication system components. A microdisplay element is located on or in the microphone housing. Other electronic circuits, such as a microcomputer, one or more wired and wireless interfaces, associated memory or storage devices, auxiliary device mounts and the like are packaged in the microphone housing and/or in an optional pager sized gateway device having a belt clip. Motion, gesture, and/or audio processing circuits in the system provide a way for the user to input commands to the system without a keyboard or mouse. The system provides connectivity to other computing devices such as cellular phones, smartphones, laptop computers, or the like.
US08862184B2
Communication from enterprise servers to handheld devices in the field supports dispatch, data synchronization, logistics and personnel. Bi-directional data delivery from enterprise-based servers over wireless data networks is enabled using wireless capabilities resident in handheld personal computing devices. Real time communications facilitates real-time access to remote programs, assistance and/or information related to the field operations and asset (personnel and inventory) resource management. Management is facilitated for at least one of: construction industry project analysis, HVAC system analysis, project management, equipment readiness inspection, troubleshooting, inventory tracking, inventory ordering, sales (e.g., providing cost estimates to customers), customer invoicing, conducting legal investigations, field data collection, and multi-user remote function coordination.
US08862182B2
A portable electronic device comprises an electromechanical module having an actuator for positioning a mechanical element between first and second positions, and a controller coupled to the electromechanical module. The controller is configured to detect a mechanical event coupling to the electromechanical module, select an actuation signal to position the mechanical element in a safe position between the first and second positions, and transmit the selected signal, such that the mechanical element is positioned in the safe position during the event.
US08862174B2
A method, device and system for reporting power headroom are provided, and the method includes the following steps: a user equipment determines whether it triggers power headroom reporting (PHR) (101); if triggering PHR, the user equipment reports power headroom independently or associatively basing on a component carrier (CC) or a power amplifier (PA) (102). The technical solution realizes power headroom reporting in a multi-carrier system by reporting power headroom independently or associatively basing on the CC or the PA, and can make a base station equipment process uplink scheduling better according to the power headroom coming from the user equipment.
US08862173B2
A media selection and insertion control device implements a method for selecting media for delivery to a plurality of users at an incident. The media selection and insertion control device: receives a plurality of media inputs from multiple media sources; receives capabilities of devices of users at an incident; receives resource capabilities of a set of networks to which the users are communicatively coupled; receives a set of incident-based rules and applies these rules to the plurality of media inputs to select media inputs to deliver to the users; and determines a mode of delivering the selected media inputs to the users based at least on the capabilities of the users' devices and on the resource capabilities of the set of networks to which the users are communicatively coupled.
US08862170B2
Cloud communication center system and method for processing data in a cloud communication system. An apparatus for supporting a cloud communication system may include at least one remote unit and a centralized unit. The at least one remote unit may be configured to process one of radio signals received from a user equipment or radio signals to be transmitted to a user equipment according to at least one sub-layer of an open system interconnection reference model. The centralized unit may be configured to receive the processed signal from the remote unit and to process the received signal based on the remaining sub-layers of the open system interconnection reference model.
US08862160B2
Techniques for paging terminals in a wireless (e.g., OFDMA) communication system to achieve both fast paging response and low power consumption for the terminals are described. A terminal receives paging indicator from a base station. If the paging indicator indicates that the terminal is potentially being paged, then the terminal receives at least one paging message from a paging channel. The terminal determines whether any one of the at least one paging message is for the terminal e.g., based on identification information included in each paging message. If a paging message indicates that the terminal is paged, then the terminal sends an acknowledgement for the paging message. The base station may estimate the timing of the terminal based on the acknowledgement and may send timing adjustment to the terminal. The terminal may adjust its timing based on the timing adjustment and may be able to quickly access the system with no contention.
US08862154B2
A method and apparatus for measuring a location of a communication terminal using an access point for a wireless local area network service is provided. The method includes storing access point information collected at each location, extracting information of nearby access points collected together at a location, where information of a reference access point is collected, from the access point information, calculating a barycentric coordinate using location coordinates of the extracted nearby access points, and determining the calculated barycentric coordinate as a final location of the communication terminal.
US08862147B2
In order to manage a neighbor list of neighboring base stations based on the location of a terminal communicating with a base station of a macrocell with femtocell deployments, the base station divides the macrocell in accordance with a predetermined standard of division, and generates a mobile neighbor advertisement message so as to periodically transmit the generated message to the terminal. At this time, the terminal identifies the current location thereof in the macrocell upon receipt of the pilot signals periodically transmitted from the base station of the macrocell. The terminal obtains information regarding the location of the terminal from the information regarding the femtocells deployed within the respective divided regions and information regarding macrocells neighboring the macrocell through using the mobile neighbor advertisement message to scan base stations.
US08862145B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure propose techniques and apparatus for improving idle mode power consumption of a mobile station with multiple Universal Subscriber Identity Modules (USIMs).
US08862143B2
When enabled with common reference signal interference cancelation, a user equipment (UE) may still compute a channel state feedback value with consideration of any canceled interfering neighboring signals. When the neighboring cells are determined to be transmitting data during the time for which the channel state feedback value is being computed, the UE is able to derive the channel state feedback value considering those canceled interfering signals. The UE determines whether each neighboring cell is transmitting during the designated time either by obtaining signals that indicate the transmission schedule of the neighboring cells or by detecting the transmission schedule, such as based on the power class of the neighboring cells. If the UE determines that the neighboring cells are transmitting data during this time period, the UE will compute the channel state feedback value including consideration of the canceled interfering signals.
US08862137B2
The present invention provides a method for implementation in user equipment that is configured to communicate with a wireless communication system that includes at least one macro-cell and a plurality of femtocells. The method includes providing a call connection request from the user equipment to one of the plurality of femtocells and receiving information indicating a location of the femtocell and information indicating the femto cell is a premier femtocell associated with the user equipment. The call connection request is received at the user equipment from the premier femtocell in response to providing the call connection request. The method further includes storing the information indicating the location of the premier femtocell in the user equipment.
US08862115B2
Techniques and systems for providing services to a mobile device allow settings on the mobile device to be provisioned over the air. In response to a request for mobile service subscription options received from the mobile device, data relating to mobile service subscription options, for selection by a user of the mobile device, may be sent to the mobile device over a wireless communication path. A selection of one or more subscription options may be received from the mobile device over the wireless communication path, and a service corresponding to the selected subscription options may be activated in response to the selection. Settings associated with the selected subscription options may be downloaded over the air to the mobile device, which may store the settings to enable the mobile device to access the subscription.
US08862111B2
A mobile terminal and a method of controlling the same are provided. The mobile terminal includes: a body; a sensing unit for acquiring a motion of the body; a camera provided in at least one side of the body to photograph an image; at least one display provided in at least one side of the body; and a controller for forming information related to at least one object included in the photographed image into a group according to the acquired motion and for controlling to display the information in the at least one display. Therefore, information is formed into a group and displayed according to a motion of a body and thus a state that can easily select necessary information can be provided.
US08862102B2
A mobile social networking platform including a system and method for cellular communications and accessing services using cellular communications. The system and method enable any mobile device user having a mobile station (MS) with minimal functionality to SMS to access a social network without installing any additional software on the MS. The system and method also enable the mobile user to access Location Based Services even if the network provides location information, without specifically requiring a GPS/GPRS enabled MS.
US08862100B2
In a network having a plurality of subscriber devices, a plurality of base stations and a server, a system and method of modifying policy settings are provided. Each base station transmits wirelessly across a geographic region. A subscriber device, capable of roaming between regions, establishes a wireless link with the server via the base stations. The network contains a communication policy determining from which other communication devices a subscriber device can receive voice calls. The server updates the policy based on requests from subscriber devices. The determination of whether to update the policy can be based on a record of rejections respective to the caller requested to be blocked. Alternatively, the policy can be updated according to a trust policy maintained on the server respective to the subscriber device making the request; the trust policy represents the procedure to follow when a request is received from that subscriber device.
US08862095B2
In an embodiment, a care-of address associated with a first node coupled to a communications network via an access node is received. The care-of address may be contained in a notification message sent by a home agent associated with the first node or by a binding update message sent by the first agent. The access node is identified using the care-of address. A request to tap communications associated with the first node at the access node is generated and the request is forwarded to the access node to cause communications associated with the first node to be tapped at the access node.
US08862092B2
An emergency notification system for a mobile device. The system includes a mobile device application that is adapted to be stored in memory on the mobile device. The application, upon activation during an emergency, determines the GPS coordinates of the mobile device, records digital images over a period of time, sends a preset message from the mobile device to at least one recipient, preferably a emergency responder, and sends the GPS coordinates and the digital images. The coordinates and images may be sent to a remote server for storage and which can be accessed by the emergency provider. The coordinates and images are periodically updated and sent while the program is activated. The application can be hidden during operation.
US08862086B2
A mixer is configured to sample a received input signal at a predefined oscillator frequency to generate a sampled input signal, and to switch a polarity of the sampled input signal at a predefined polarity switching frequency to generate a polarity switched sampled input signal.
US08862084B2
Radio receiver test methods and apparatus are based on known relationships between the quality of a receiver that is measured based on signals before they enter a receiver decoder and the quality that is measured based on signals after the decoder. Thus, a signal generator can be set to transmit a known signal in a predetermined radio scenario (e.g., channel frequency, amplitude, etc.), and samples can be obtained of the receiver-processed known signal before the receiver's decoder. Tests in radio scenarios where noise is the dominant signal disturbance and/or tests in radio scenarios where receiver distortion is the dominant signal disturbance can be performed.
US08862078B2
A method for communication in a communication terminal having a single communication module and at least two Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards is provided. The method includes performing a first call mode when a call is connected through a first base station in a standby mode by using the communication module and a first SIM card through a first time slot in each frame allocated by the first base station, and performing, when a second call is connected through a second base station while performing the first call mode, a second call mode using the communication module and a second SIM card through a second time slot in each frame allocated by the second base station, the second time slot being spaced apart from the first time slot.
US08862074B2
The present invention refers to operating of power amplifiers of base stations in a communications network, wherein each power amplifier is assigned to a corresponding antenna of a base station and enables receiving and/or transmitting of information signals in an area of the communications network covered by the corresponding antenna. The operating includes switching off of a number of power amplifiers of a base station so that at least one power amplifier of the base station is left on, if level of load in the communications network is detected as being low; and switching of a signal of the at least one power amplifier to antennas, to which power amplifiers of the number of power amplifiers are assigned.
US08862070B2
A Mobile Station (MS) is operable to select a precoding matrix in a multi-antenna wireless communication system. The method includes receiving, from a serving Base Station (BS), information on a precoding matrix of which use is prohibited and a precoding matrix to be used by a neighbor BS, estimating an interference signal for the precoding matrix to be used by the neighbor BS, and selecting a precoding matrix to be used by the serving BS by considering the estimated interference signal from the remaining precoding matrixes except for the precoding matrix of which use is prohibited among precoding matrixes used by the serving BS.
US08862066B2
In order to settle a problem of suppressing degradation of a throughput of a communication system, a communication device is provided with a reception means which receives and accumulates a first datum which a first device transmits addressing a second device and a second datum which the second device transmits, a transmission means which transmits the first datum to the second device, a quality index acquisition means which acquires a first index which is a quality of communication between the first device and the second device and a second index which is a quality of communication between the communication device and the second device, and a judgment means which forces to transmit the accumulated first datum to the second device using the transmission means in the case of judging that the second index is better than the first index and a reception condition of the second datum shows that the second device does not receive normally the first datum.
US08862054B2
The present invention provides a radio power converter and a radio communication apparatus in which an environmental electromagnetic wave is efficiently converted into an operation power of a semiconductor integrated circuit by using a coil antenna configured within the semiconductor integrated circuit. The radio communication apparatus converts the received environmental electromagnetic wave into a direct-current voltage and charges a decoupling capacitor with an electric power so as to increase the direct-current voltage. A resonance frequencies of an antenna are changed depending upon a value of the increased direct-current voltages. The antenna sequentially receives environmental electromagnetic waves having different resonance frequencies for thereby increasing the direct-current voltage to a desired direct-current voltage.
US08862053B2
An object of the present invention to provide a semiconductor device including a battery that can be wirelessly charged, in which the battery can be charged even when the semiconductor device is not put close to a power feeder. Such a semiconductor device has a structure including an antenna circuit, a communication control circuit to conduct wireless communication via the antenna circuit, a battery to be charged with electric power which is externally wirelessly fed via the antenna circuit, and an oscillator circuit to wirelessly feed electric power via the antenna circuit. In addition, the battery in the semiconductor device is wirelessly charged and the semiconductor device externally feeds electric power wirelessly to a chargeable battery in another semiconductor device.
US08862049B2
An emission/reception installation of satellite signals including a reflector to receive and emit radio signals, a unit integrating an LNB to transform radio signals into electrical signals in a first frequency band, to amplify the electrical signals in the first frequency band and to lower the first frequency band towards a first intermediate frequency band. The unit includes an emitter to amplify electrical signals in a second intermediate band having no common frequency with the first intermediate band, to raise the second intermediate band towards a second frequency band, to transform into radio signals the electrical signals in the second frequency band and to transmit these radio signals towards the reflector. The installation includes a box including a modulator to modulate electrical signals in the second intermediate band, an output to transmit electrical signals in the first intermediate band and a coaxial cable connecting the unit and the box.
US08862044B2
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a chassis having an opening, a cover, photosensitive members, an intermediate transfer belt, a primary-transfer member, a secondary-transfer roller, a cleaner device, a waste toner container, which is movable along a predetermined direction to be removably installed in the chassis through the opening and stores residual toner, a connector, and a feed roller, which is arranged within the feeding path to feed the recording sheet in the feeding path. The feed roller is arranged in a position to at least partially fall within a vertical range of the waste toner container and to be aligned with the waste toner container along an axial direction of the second feed roller.
US08862043B2
A toner transporting device includes a screw that includes a spiral fin wound around a shaft portion and transports toner in the axial direction, and a toner crushing member that is disposed along the transport direction of the toner and crushes accumulated toner, wherein the toner crushing member includes a base portion that extends along the shaft portion of the screw, and a flexible plate member which is disposed at a position in which the flexible plate member bumps into and contacts the fin, and in which the downstream side in the transport direction of the toner in the screw is fixed to the base portion and the upstream side is separated from the base portion.
US08862039B2
An image forming apparatus, which is configured to form an image on a sheet, includes an image forming unit configured to form an unfixed toner image on the sheet, and a fixing unit configured to fix the unfixed toner image to the sheet by heating the sheet bearing the unfixed toner image while conveying the sheet by a fixing nip portion. The image forming apparatus can perform a cleaning mode for cleaning the fixing unit by conveying a sheet with an unfixed toner image for cleaning formed thereon by the fixing nip portion. At a time of the cleaning mode, the image forming unit forms the unfixed toner image for cleaning on a sheet surface opposite from a sheet surface where the unfixed toner image is formed at a time of image formation.
US08862038B2
A fixing device includes a rotary fuser member, a rotary pressure member, a first media stripper, and a second media stripper. The rotary fuser member is subjected to heating. The rotary pressure member is pressed against the fuser member to form a fixing nip therebetween through which a recording medium is passed in a media conveyance direction under heat and pressure as the fuser and pressure members rotate together. The first media stripper includes at least one pneumatic nozzle disposed adjacent to the fuser member to direct compressed gas toward the fixing nip along the fuser member for stripping the recording medium from the fuser member. The second media stripper includes at least one contact finger disposed in contact with the pressure member to slide against the pressure member during rotation for stripping the recording medium from the pressure member.
US08862037B2
A transfer device is provided, which includes a transfer roller that is provided with a conductive rotational shaft, opposed to an external image-carrying body, and configured to transfer onto an image-transferred member a developer image carried by the image-carrying body, and a bearing rotatably supporting the rotational shaft of the transfer roller, the bearing including a conductive section that is disposed in a position around the rotational shaft of the transfer roller and configured to bear the rotational shaft from an opposite side of the image-carrying body with respect to the rotational shaft and to be supplied with electricity from an external power supply, and an insulated section that is disposed in a position around the rotational shaft and configured to cover the image-carrying body from a side of the image-carrying body.
US08862035B2
A process cartridge includes a first cartridge and a second cartridge. The first cartridge includes a first wall having a first opening, a first shutter configured to open and close the first opening, and a first operating portion configured to operate together with the first shutter. The second cartridge is mountable onto and demountable from the first cartridge and contains a developer. The second cartridge includes a. second wall facing the first wall and having a second opening corresponding to the first opening, a second shutter configured to open and close the second opening, and a second operating portion configured to operate together with the second shutter. The first cartridge further includes a third operating portion. When the second cartridge is mounted onto the first cartridge, the first operating portion and the third operating portion operate together through the second operating portion.
US08862031B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotation driving source, a black developing unit, a color developing unit, a first gear, a second gear, a development drive transmission mechanism and a switching mechanism. The development drive transmission mechanism includes a first intermediate gear and a second intermediate gear. The switching mechanism includes a linear cam member configured to move linearly and to move the first intermediate gear and the second intermediate gear such that: in the first mode, the first gear engages the first intermediate gear and the second gear engages the second intermediate gear; in the second mode, the first gear engages the first intermediate gear and the second gear is disengaged from the second intermediate gear; in the third mode, the first gear is disengaged from the first intermediate gear.
US08862028B2
An image formation unit includes a developer container containing developer therein, an image formation device configured to form a developer image using the developer, a first engagement part provided at the image formation device, a second engagement part movably provided at the developer container, and a regulation member. The second engagement part is movable between an unengaged position and an engaged position with respect to the first engagement part. The regulation member regulates movement of the second engagement part in the state where the second engagement part is in the engaged position.
US08862027B2
A developing cartridge includes: a housing having first and second sidewalls through which respective end portions of a developing roller shaft are rotatably inserted; a developing gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which is fixed to the end portion of the developing roller shaft; a transmission gear, which is arranged outside of the first sidewall, and which transmits driving force to the developing gear; a first cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the transmission gear; and a second cover member, which is attached to the first sidewall, and which covers the developing gear from an outer side in the axis line direction. The second cover member is formed separately from the first cover member and is arranged side by side with the first cover member outside of the first sidewall.
US08862025B2
A process cartridge is configured to be mounted in an apparatus main body along a predetermined mounting direction. The process cartridge may include a photosensitive drum; a drum drive input member into which a driving force for rotating the photosensitive drum is configured to be inputted; and a frame which holds the photosensitive drum and the drum drive input member. The frame includes a substantially cylindrical first protecting member which is formed on the frame. The first protecting member is configured to accommodate the drum drive input member, and project in a rotational axis direction of the photosensitive drum, wherein a projecting amount of a portion of the first protecting member which lies at a downstream side in the mounting direction is smaller than a projecting amount of a portion of the first protecting member which lies at an upstream side in the mounting direction.
US08862019B2
A cleaning device includes at least one first cleaning member that removes residual substances that remain on a surface of an endless belt by being in contact with the surface of the endless belt while rotating in a direction that is opposite to a movement direction in which the endless belt moves; a second cleaning member that is brought into contact with and separated from the surface of the endless belt at a predetermined timing and removes the residual substances that remain on the surface of the endless belt; and a switching unit that switches a rotation direction of the first cleaning member to a direction the same as the movement direction of the endless belt when the second cleaning member is brought into contact with the surface of the endless belt and cleans the surface.
US08862017B2
An acoustic cavity conditions the air flowing from a blower to reduce noise in the airflow. The air flowing directly out of the blower exhibits pulses produced by each impeller blade or fan blade. The airflow noise is thereby induced at certain frequencies. Printing operations inside a printer can also occur at specific frequencies. Introducing the airflow directly into certain areas of a printer can result in the noise frequencies and printing frequencies to combine and produce noticeable printing artifacts. An acoustic cavity tuned to dampen the airflow noise can condition the airflow and eradicate the printing artifacts.
US08862011B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member configured to bear an image with a toner, a transfer unit configured to transfer the image from the image bearing member onto a recording material, a conveying unit configured to convey the recording material having the image on a first side thereof to transfer the image onto a second side of the recording material, and a control unit configured to control an operation for forming a test image in an interval region between a first image, formed on the image bearing member, and a second image formed subsequently to the first image on the image bearing member. The control unit is configured to permit formation of the test image in the image interval region when the second image is an image to be transferred onto a first side of the recording material and configured to prevent formation of the test image in the image interval region when the second image is an image to be transferred onto a second side of the recording material.
US08862006B2
A wet-type image forming apparatus forms a toner image on an image carrier using liquid developer containing carrier liquid and toner dispersed therein. The apparatus includes: a developing member carrying the liquid developer to develop a latent image thereby forming the toner image on the image carrier; a charger for charging the liquid developer on the developing member according to a current applied on the charger; a measuring member for measuring a potential of the liquid developer charged by the charger; and a controller for controlling an amount of the liquid developer on the developing member, before the toner image is formed on the image carrier, by setting plural values of the current to be applied on the charger and controlling the amount of the liquid developer based on results of measurement of potentials of the liquid developer charged by the charger with the plural values of the applied current.
US08861997B2
A rotary driving apparatus that is capable of controlling a rotational speed correctly even when an anomaly occurs. A drive unit rotates a rotating member. A rotating body is rotated with the rotating member. A detection unit detects scales formed on the rotating body. A calculation unit calculates rotation information about the rotating member based on the detection result by the detection unit. A control value setting unit sets a control value to a predetermined value when the rotation information falls outside a predetermined range and a count of determinations that the rotation information falls outside the predetermined range is smaller than a predetermined count, and sets the control value based on the rotation information when the rotation information falls outside the predetermined range and the count of determinations is larger than the predetermined count. A control unit controls the drive unit based on the set control value.
US08861996B2
An image forming apparatus includes first and second rotation members which are a plurality of rotation members for performing image formation and rotate in contact with each other. A first driving motor drives the first rotation member. A second driving motor drives the second rotation member. The obtaining unit obtains pieces of motor driving information about driving states of the first or second driving motor at respective relative driving speeds when the relative driving speed of the second driving motor with respect to the driving speed of the first driving motor is changed to a plurality of relative driving speeds. The control unit controls the driving speed of at least either the first or second driving motor in image formation to reduce the relative speed difference between the circumferential velocities of the first and second rotation members based on the pieces of motor driving information obtained by the obtaining unit.
US08861980B2
A loop filter include: a register that stores a result of arithmetic operation performed on a complex signal and outputs the stored complex signal; a first multiplier that multiplies the complex signal output from the register and a predetermined coefficient; an absolute value judging unit that outputs a multiplier coefficient used to control such that the amplitude of the complex signal output from the register is held in a predetermined range; a multiplier that multiplies an output from the first multiplier and the multiplier coefficient; a second multiplier that multiplies an input signal and a value (1−the predetermined coefficient); and an adder that adds an output from the multiplier to an output from the second multiplier and inputs a result of addition into the register.
US08861973B2
A railway monitoring system firstly includes an optical fiber. A first part of the fiber is attachable to one of a pair of tracks of a rail, and a characteristic of the first part of the fiber is variable in correspondence to variance of a characteristic of said one track where the first part of fiber is attached. The system also includes an optical signal emitter connected to the fiber for emitting an optical signal into the fiber, and the fiber generates at least a first altered optical signal, which contains information relating to the variance of the characteristic of the part of the fiber. The system further includes an optical signal analyzer connected to the fiber for receiving and analyzing the first altered optical signal so as to ascertain the variance of said characteristic of said one track based upon the information contained in the first altered optical signal.
US08861972B2
Exemplary embodiments of the invention relate to an optical transceiver in which the base portion is made of a light permeable material and configured to emit light representative of the status of certain transceiver parameters. The transceiver includes a housing which at least partially encloses the base portion. The base portion connects to a printed circuit board on which a light-emitting diode is mounted. Light from the light-emitting diode is conducted to front portion of the base, which is light permeable, through a light-pipe assembly, thereby illuminating the entire front portion of the base. Because the front portion of the base is not enclosed within the housing the light emitted is clearly visible from a distance even when fiber connectors are plugged into the transceiver receptacles.
US08861970B2
A bidirectional optoelectronic device comprises a photodetector, a light source, and a drive circuit for the light source. The light source has first and second electrical leads for receiving an input electrical signal, and the drive circuit can be arranged to apply first and second portions of the input electrical signal to the first and second electrical leads, respectively, wherein the second portion of the input electrical signal is a scaled, inverted substantial replica of the first portion of the input electrical signal. A protective encapsulant can be applied that includes hollow dielectric microspheres to reduce electrical cross-talk, and that can further include an optical absorber to reduce optical cross-talk. A waveguide substrate of the device can include light collector(s) or trap(s) for redirecting and attenuating portions of optical signals propagating in waveguide layers on the substrate but not guided by a waveguide.
US08861969B2
A laser source is configured for all-optical AM-FM up-conversion. In one exemplary embodiment, an amplitude modulated (AM) optical input signal containing a baseband signal at a sub-microwave frequency, is injected into the laser source. The amplitude of the AM optical input signal and the optical carrier frequency are adjusted so as to place the laser source in a period-one dynamical state characterized by a transitioning of the laser source from a free-running optical frequency to at least two optical frequencies having a separation distance equal to a period-one microwave frequency. As a result of the period-one dynamical state, a frequency modulated (FM) optical output signal containing the baseband signal carried at the period-one microwave frequency, is propagated out of the laser source. The period-one microwave frequency is operative as a sub-carrier signal.
US08861968B2
The present invention provides a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing device for enabling a totally inresistant colorless, wherein a dropping unit is configured to separate multi-wavelength optical signals which are among direction 1˜X and are broadcast inputted in a circuit direction, switch the multi-wavelength optical signals among the direction 1˜X to any corresponding output port through multiple N×N optical switches, and send the optical signals to a corresponding Receiver (RX) after combining the received optical signals by a corresponding K×1 coupler/optical switch; an adding unit is configured to broadcast the optical signals sent by a Transmitter (TX) to the multiple N×N optical switches through N 1×K couplers/optical switches, switch the optical signals to any corresponding output port by each optical switch, and output the corresponding optical signals in the direction 1˜X to the circuit direction after the optical signals are implemented with optical multiplexing; wherein, X is an integer which is greater than or equal to 2, and K and N are both integers. The present invention can enable the totally inresistant colorless in adding and dropping units.
US08861967B2
A reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer and a reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing method are provided. The reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer comprises: an optical processing unit for receiving a first optical signal containing a plurality of optical channels, processing the first optical signal to generate a second optical signal which is a part of the first optical signal, and outputting the second optical signal; and a coherent detection unit for performing a coherent detection on the second optical signal so as to separate from the second optical signal an optical channel contained therein, and outputting the optical channel. With the reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexer and the reconfigurable optical add/drop multiplexing method, any number of degrees can be supported, and adding/dropping of an optical channel with any wavelength and any bandwidth to/from any direction can be achieved, so that requirements of being colorless, directionless, contentionless and gridless can be satisfied.
US08861963B2
An optical power distributor is coupled to a high-intensity broadband light source to distribute in a shared manner an output of the high-intensity broadband light source to a plurality of optical line terminals. A depolarizer is also described having an input coupled to an output of a polarized broadband light source. A first integrated module has optical transmitters and an optical wavelength router for a first band. A second integrated module has optical receivers and an optical wavelength router for a second band.
US08861942B2
A unit that includes a docking station and a tablet. The docking station includes a base having first and second docking recesses defined therein and docking station contacts positioned in at least the first docking recess. The tablet includes a housing having a video screen, a memory, at least one switch, and a power source positioned therein. The video screen, memory, at least one switch, and power source are in electrical communication and the housing includes first and second docking portions. At least the first docking portion includes tablet contacts thereon. The first and second docking portions of the tablet are positioned in the first and second docking recesses and the tablet contacts are in electrical communication with the docking station contacts. The tablet is removable from the docking station.
US08861937B2
Methods, apparatus, and articles of manufacture to share media are disclosed. An example method involves receiving from a mobile device a representation of media content detected at the mobile device. The example method also involves receiving from the mobile device a first user identifier of a first user of the mobile device and a second user identifier of a second user different from the first user. In addition, the media content is identified based on the representation of the media content. The second user is selectively provided with access to the media content based on the second user identifier.
US08861927B2
Described techniques and tools include techniques and tools for mapping digital media data (e.g., audio, video, still images, and/or text, among others) in a given format to a transport or file container format useful for encoding the data on optical disks such as digital video disks (DVDs). A digital media universal elementary stream can be used to map digital media streams (e.g., an audio stream, video stream or an image) into any arbitrary transport or file container, including optical disk formats, and other transports, such as broadcast streams, wireless transmissions, etc. The information to decode any given frame of the digital media in the stream can be carried in each coded frame. A digital media universal elementary stream includes stream components called chunks. An implementation of a digital media universal elementary stream arranges data for a media stream in frames, the frames having one or more chunks.
US08861922B2
Watermark data is effectively placed in at least one of the bit positions, e.g., of the integer portion, of the average value of at least a selected one of the chrominance portions of up to each block, on up to a frame-by-frame basis. Values of the selected chrominance portion of individual pixels in a block may be adjusted if necessary in order to cause the resulting substitution of the selected bit of the average. The bit position replaced may be a function of the block's busyness. A “margin” value may also be added to the average value in order to better ensure that the bit of watermark data survives any MPEG encoding, while minimizing resulting artifacts. A receiver extracts the bit of watermark data from the selected bit position of the average value of the chrominance portion.
US08861920B2
An optical fiber holder includes a holder main body and cord receiving groove. The holder main body has a fiber receiving groove and a first cord receiving groove. The fiber receiving groove receives and positions a coated optical fiber of an optical fiber cord with a cord jacket removed at the tip of the optical fiber cord. The cord receiving groove receives the cord jacket. A cord holding cover and a fiber pressing cover 13 are attached to the holder main body 6 for movement between respective open closed positions. The cord holder cover includes a second cord receiving groove that cooperates with the first cord receiving groove to form an insertion through hole having a circular cross-section that allows for insertion of the optical fiber. The fiber pressing cover presses the coated optical fiber against the holder main body with the coated optical fiber in the fiber receiving groove.
US08861919B2
A component for a closure is disclosed herein. The component includes a collar extending around a central axis. The component also includes a first expansion housing positioned outside the collar in a radial direction relative to the central axis. The first expansion housing has an interior region in communication with an interior of the collar. The first expansion housing also includes a first adapter mounting wall defining a plurality of first adapter mounting openings in which a plurality of first fiber optic adapters are mounted. The first fiber optic adapters include first connector ports adapted for receiving connectors from outside the first expansion housing.
US08861917B2
Disclosed are an opto-electric circuit board including a metal-slotted optical waveguide and an opto-electric simultaneous communication system. The opto-electric circuit board includes a lower metal thin film; a dielectric substance formed above the lower metal thin film; an upper metal thin film formed above the dielectric substance; and intermediate metal thin films that form optical waveguides at a predetermined interval on the same plane in the dielectric substance.
US08861914B2
The present invention relates to an optical fiber cable incorporating a multi-core fiber provided with a plurality of cores and a cladding region. The optical fiber cable has a jacket covering the multi-core fiber. The multi-core fiber is arranged so that a hold wrap holds the cores in a state in which they are provided with a bend of not more than a fixed radius of curvature, in order to reduce crosstalk between the cores.
US08861909B2
A silicon photonic photodetector structure, a method for fabricating the silicon photonic photodetector structure and a method for operating a silicon photonic photodetector device that results from the photonic photodetector structure each use a strip waveguide optically coupled with a polysilicon material photodetector layer that may be contiguous with a semiconductor material slab to which is located and formed a pair of electrical contacts separated by the polysilicon material photodetector layer. Within the foregoing silicon photonic photodetector structure and related methods the polysilicon material photodetector layer includes defect states suitable for absorbing an optical signal from the strip waveguide and generating an electrical output signal using at least one of the electrical contacts when the optical signal includes a photon energy less than a band gap energy of a polysilicon material from which is comprised the polysilicon material photodetector layer.
US08861894B2
Methods and apparatus for deinterlacing an interlaced image or for upsampling an image. In one embodiment, an Edge Aware Deinterlacing system may identify edge areas and non-edge areas of an image in order to apply one interpolation method to pixels within the edge areas and a different interpolation method to pixels within the non-edge areas.
US08861893B2
A method and apparatus for processing images. A portion of a selected image in which a moving object is present is identified. The selected image is one of a sequence of images. Pixels in a region of interest are identified in the selected image. First values are identified for a first portion of the pixels using the images and first transformations. The first portion of the pixels corresponds to the background in the selected image. A first transformation is configured to align features of the background between one image in the images and the selected image. Second values are identified for a second portion of the pixels using the images and second transformations. The second portion of the pixels corresponds to the moving object in the selected image. A second transformation is configured to align features of the moving object between one image in the images and the selected image.
US08861891B2
A method for segmenting an image includes registering an annotated template image to an acquired reference image using only rigid transformations to define a transformation function relating the annotated template image to the acquired reference image. The defined transformation function is refined by registering the annotated template image to the acquired reference image using only affine transformations. The refined transformation function is further refined by registering the annotated template image to the acquired reference image using only multi-affine transformations. The twice refined transformation function is further refined by registering the annotated template image to the acquired reference image using deformation transformations.
US08861884B1
A classifier training system trains a classifier for evaluating image deblurring quality using a set of scored deblurred images. In some embodiments, the classifier training system trains the classifier based on a number of sub-images extracted from the scored deblurred images. An image deblurring system applies a number of different deblurring transformations to a given blurry reference image and uses the classifier trained by the classifier training system to evaluate deblurring quality, thereby finding a highest-quality deblurred image. In some embodiments, the classifier training system trains the classifier in the frequency domain, and the image deblurring system uses the classifier trained by the classifier training system to evaluate deblurring quality in the frequency domain. In some embodiments, the image deblurring system applies the different deblurring transformations iteratively.
US08861883B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a recognition unit that performs character recognition on an image including at least one character and that obtains a score indicating a recognition accuracy of at least one character region extracted through the character recognition; a local blurring-degree computation unit that computes a first degree of blurring of the at least one character region; and a blurring-degree computation unit that computes a second degree of blurring of the image by using the score and the first degree of blurring of the at least one character region.
US08861881B2
An image processing apparatus stores model information representing a subject model belonging to a specific category, detects the subject from an input image by referring to the model information, determines a region for which an image correction is to be performed within a region occupied by the detected subject in the input image, stores, for a local region of the image, a plurality of correction data sets representing correspondence between a feature vector representing a feature before correction and a feature vector representing a feature after correction, selects at least one of the correction data sets to be used to correct a local region included in the region determined to undergo the image correction, and corrects the region determined to undergo the image correction using the selected correction data sets.
US08861878B2
Image processing method and device for performing grayscale conversion, and image processing program
Disclosed are an image processing method and device and an image processing program that are able to perform gradation conversion—that achieves a favorable saturation reproduction when exchanging and reproducing images between devices or between color spaces having different dynamic ranges—by element of having: a first gradation conversion that, when converting gradation characteristics of image data of an image, converts first gradation characteristics using a one-dimensional first lookup table corresponding to the RGB pixel data of the image; and a second gradation conversion that converts the RGB pixel data of the image to chromaticity data and luminescence data or lightness data, and that converts second gradation characteristics of the converted luminescence data or lightness data using a one-dimensional second lookup table corresponding to the luminescence data or lightness data; and then weighting the first gradation conversion and the second gradation conversion.
US08861872B2
Distributional information for a set of α vectors is determined using a sparse basis selection approach to representing an input image or video. In some examples, this distributional information is used for a classification task.
US08861866B2
Examples disclose a method executed on a computing device to locate a clothing region within an image to segment into a region of related clothing. Further, the examples provide detecting a feature of the related clothing. Additionally, the examples also disclose determining a style of the related clothing in the region based on the detection of the feature.
US08861864B2
In a particular embodiment, a method includes applying a first feature detector to a portion of an image to detect a first set of features. The first set of features is used to locate a region of interest, and a boundary corresponding to the region of interest is determined. The method also includes displaying the boundary at a display. In response to receiving user input to accept the displayed boundary, a second feature detector is applied to an area of the image encapsulated by the boundary.
US08861860B2
A device is configured to capture an image of a monitoring device display, perform optical character recognition to identify alphanumeric data in the image, apply a device profile to map each identified alphanumeric datum to a parameter associated with the monitoring device; and store each datum along with its associated parameter.
US08861856B2
The invention relates to methods for determining a logical structure of a document. The system stores a collection of models, each of which describes one or more possible logical structures. At least one document hypothesis is generated for the whole document. For each document hypothesis, the system verifies the document hypothesis on each page, for example, by generating at least one block hypothesis for each block in the document based on the document hypothesis, selecting a best block hypothesis for each block, selecting the model that corresponds to a best document hypothesis the document hypothesis that has a best degree of correspondence with the selected best block hypotheses for the document, and forming a representation of the document based on the best document hypothesis described.
US08861852B2
Image processing method for image restoration, image processing apparatus and image pickup apparatus
The image processing method includes a filter preparation step of preparing an image restoration filter to be commonly used for plural optical apparatuses having mutually different optical characteristics, and a correction information preparation step of preparing correction information varying by the optical characteristic of each of the plural optical apparatuses. The method further includes a processing step of performing an image restoration process, on an input image produced by image capturing through a specific optical apparatus of the plural optical apparatuses, using the image restoration filter and the correction information for the specific optical apparatus.
US08861846B2
An image processing apparatus includes a superimposition processing unit that performs a blending process for a plurality of continuously captured images, wherein the superimposition processing unit is configured to selectively input luminance signal information of a RAW image or a full color image as a processing target image and perform a superimposition process, and performs a process for sequentially updating data that is stored in a memory for storing two image frames so as to enable superimposition of any desired number of images.
US08861841B2
The capture and alignment of multiple 3D scenes is disclosed. Three dimensional capture device data from different locations is received thereby allowing for different perspectives of 3D scenes. An algorithm uses the data to determine potential alignments between different 3D scenes via coordinate transformations. Potential alignments are evaluated for quality and subsequently aligned subject to the existence of sufficiently high relative or absolute quality. A global alignment of all or most of the input 3D scenes into a single coordinate frame may be achieved. The presentation of areas around a particular hole or holes takes place thereby allowing the user to capture the requisite 3D scene containing areas within the hole or holes as well as part of the surrounding area using, for example, the 3D capture device. The new 3D captured scene is aligned with existing 3D scenes and/or 3D composite scenes.
US08861835B2
An optical measuring apparatus for measuring optical characteristics of a stereoscopic display device includes a test image supplier for generating a 3D test signal, a 3D display for displaying left-eye image and/or right-eye image based on the 3D test signal supplied from the test image supplier, a image selection member for selectively transmitting the left-eye image and right-eye image to be displayed on the 3D display, and a light measuring device for measuring intensity or color information of the image transmitted via the image selection member.
US08861833B2
A system for simultaneous real-time three-dimensional geometry and color texture acquisition. The system includes a system processor for generating at least three phase shifted black and white fringe patterns with a phase shift of 2 π/3, a light projector adapted to project the fringe patterns onto an object, the projector being electrically connected with the system processor, and a color camera for capturing the fringe patterns to generate at least three raw fringe images. The fringe images are used to calculate a black and white texture image which is further converted to a color image by employing a demosaicing algorithm. The fringe images are also used to calculate a wrapped phase map that is further processed to generate a continuous unwrapped phase map by employing a phase unwrapping algorithm and the unwrapped phase map is converted to co-ordinates using calibrated system parameters for point-by-point three-dimensional shape measurement.
US08861828B2
The invention relates to a method for positionally correlating, with computer assistance, patient image information included in image data generated by a magnetic resonance scanner and fiducial patient markers represented in the image data, wherein a positional relationship between the patient image information and the fiducial markers is determined by taking into consideration at least the following parameters: a) the material properties of the fiducial markers; b) image generation data included in the image data or provided with the image data; c) the resonance frequency recording mode of the magnetic resonance scanner; and d) any relative positional shift between the patient data and the fiducial markers resulting from the combination of the parameters a) to c). The invention also relates to the use of such a positional correlation in a method for registering patient image data and in a method for navigationally assisting a medical procedure.
US08861827B2
A method for determining confidence values for volume units includes acquiring real projections of an object in a tomography system, reconstructing an image of the object from the real projections, generating artificial projections, for each volume unit comparing the real projections with the artificial projections and generating a confidence measure for each of the volume units.
US08861820B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for assessing the quality of medical images of at least a portion of a patient's anatomy, using a computer system. One method includes receiving one or more images of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy; determining, using a processor of the computer system, one or more image properties of the received images; performing, using a processor of the computer system, anatomic localization or modeling of at least a portion of the patient's anatomy based on the received images; obtaining an identification of one or more image characteristics associated with an anatomic feature of the patient's anatomy based on the anatomic localization or modeling; and calculating, using a processor of the computer system, an image quality score based on the one or more image properties and the one or more image characteristics.
US08861814B2
A system and method for multi-phase segmentation of noisy 3D x-ray tomography images representative of porous material minimizing data smoothing which processes 3D x-ray tomography images to obtain a standardized intensity image, segments the standardized intensity image into at least 3 phases, calculates volumetric fractions and spatial distributions of the segmented phases and compares them with target values, and if the calculated fractions are not close enough to the target values, repeats the necessary segmentation steps until the calculated volumetric fractions are within a given tolerance to the target values. The segmentation steps include computing a median/mean-filtered-gradient image of the standardized intensity image, creating an intensity vs. gradient graph from the median/mean-filtered-gradient image and the standardized intensity image, partitioning the intensity vs. gradient graph into at least 3 regions, using thresholds defining the regions to segment the standardized grey scale image to create a segmented image, and applying a despeckler filter to remove noise in the segmented image.
US08861806B2
A method of tracking a face in a reference image stream using a digital image acquisition device includes acquiring a full resolution main image and an image stream of relatively low resolution reference images each including one or more face regions. One or more face regions are identified within two or more of the reference images. A relative movement is determined between the two or more reference images. A size and location are determined of the one or more face regions within each of the two or more reference images. Concentrated face detection is applied to at least a portion of the full resolution main image in a predicted location for candidate face regions having a predicted size as a function of the determined relative movement and the size and location of the one or more face regions within the reference images, to provide a set of candidate face regions for the main image.
US08861800B2
Creating a 3D face reconstruction model using a single 2D image and a generic facial depth map that provides depth information. In one example, the generic facial depth map is selected based on gender and ethnicity/race. In one embodiment, a set of facial features of the 2D image is mapped to create a facial-feature map, and a 2D mesh is created using the map. The same set of facial features is also mapped onto a generic facial depth map, and a 3D mesh is created therefrom. The 2D image is then warped by transposing depth information from the 3D mesh of the generic facial depth map onto the 2D mesh of the 2D image so as to create a reconstructed 3D model of the face. The reconstructed 3D model can be used, for example, to create one or more synthetic off-angle-pose images of the subject of the original 2D image.
US08861797B2
Methods, systems, and computer program calibrate a vision system. An image of a human gesture is received that frames a display device. A boundary defined by the human gesture is computed, and gesture area defined by the boundary is also computed. The gesture area is then mapped to pixels in the display device.
US08861796B1
A patent analyzing system for efficiently reviewing and analyzing a patent document (e.g. patent application, published patent document or patent). The patent analyzing system includes identifying the element names within a patent document and modifying patent drawing sheets to include element names and figure descriptions.
US08861794B2
Methods and apparatus for facilitating detection of a presence or an absence of at least one underground facility within a dig area. Source data representing one or more input images of a geographic area including the dig area is electronically received at a first user location, which may be remote from the dig area. The source data is processed so as to display at least a portion of the input image(s) on a display device at the first user location. One or more indicators are added to the displayed input image(s), via a user input device associated with the display device, to provide at least one indication of the dig area and thereby generate a marked-up digital image. In one example, the indicator(s) is/are added to the displayed input image(s) without acquiring geographic coordinates corresponding to the indicator(s).
US08861792B2
A method of estimating a time to collision (TTC) of a vehicle with an object comprising: acquiring a plurality of images of the object; and determining a TTC from the images that is responsive to a relative velocity and relative acceleration between the vehicle and the object.
US08861790B2
A method, apparatus and system for guiding a number of mobile devices. An image of a portion of an environment around a mobile device in the number of mobile devices is received from a sensor system associated with the mobile device. A set of pixels in the image that meets a standard is identified. A centroid for the set of pixels that meets the standard is identified. A number of commands for guiding the mobile device within the environment is generated based on the centroid.
US08861785B2
An information processing device, including: a three-dimensional information generating section for obtaining position and attitude of a moving camera or three-dimensional positions of feature points by successively receiving captured images from different viewpoints, and updating status data using observation information which includes tracking information of the feature points, the status data including three-dimensional positions of the feature points within the images and position and attitude information of the camera; and a submap generating section for generating submaps by dividing an area for which the three-dimensional position is to be calculated. The three-dimensional information generating section obtains position and attitude of the camera or three-dimensional positions of the feature points by generating status data corresponding to the submaps not including information about feature points outside of a submap area for each of the generated submaps and updating the generated status data corresponding to the submaps.
US08861774B2
A sound reproduction device includes a superdirective speaker having a first surface, and an attachment part having a second surface opposed to the first surface. The first surface has a convex face, and the second surface has a concave face which can come into contact with the convex face. A curvature of the convex face is set larger than that of the concave face. A direction of emitting a sound wave of the superdirective speaker can be adjusted by making the convex face move along the concave face.
US08861772B2
An earphone receiving assembly for receiving an earphone includes a main body surrounding an accommodating space for receiving the earphone and defining an opening communicating with the accommodating space, a cover releasably locked in the opening, and a releasing assembly. The releasing assembly includes a fastening member secured to the main body and a rotating member rotatably assembled to the fastening member. The cover is slidably assembled to the rotating member. When the cover is released from being locked within the opening, the rotating member rotates and lifts the cover from the opening to expose the earphone.
US08861768B2
A frame has an interior side and an exterior side. The frame is configured to extend around the back of a user's head. A first membrane is coupled to at least a portion of the interior side of the frame. In one embodiment, a second membrane is coupled to the first membrane. The first membrane and the second membrane define a receptacle and an opening that communicates with the receptacle. In one embodiment, a speaker is disposed in the receptacle. A first electrical wire has a first end electrically coupled to the speaker and a second end including a connector. The connector can be disposed proximate to the opening of the receptacle. The connector is configured to be electrically coupled to a second electrical wire.
US08861767B2
Audio headphones for personalizing a wearer's headphones by inserting a variety of interchangeable décor strips onto a headband of the headphones. The interchangeable décor strips may include many different designs, colors and materials.
US08861756B2
A method and system for enhancing a target sound signal from multiple sound signals is provided. An array of an arbitrary number of sound sensors positioned in an arbitrary configuration receives the sound signals from multiple disparate sources. The sound signals comprise the target sound signal from a target sound source, and ambient noise signals. A sound source localization unit, an adaptive beamforming unit, and a noise reduction unit are in operative communication with the array of sound sensors. The sound source localization unit estimates a spatial location of the target sound signal from the received sound signals. The adaptive beamforming unit performs adaptive beamforming by steering a directivity pattern of the array of sound sensors in a direction of the spatial location of the target sound signal, thereby enhancing the target sound signal and partially suppressing the ambient noise signals, which are further suppressed by the noise reduction unit.
US08861748B2
Disclosed is a class D amplifier comprising a modulation stage having a first input for receiving an input signal and an output for producing a modulated version of the input signal; a plurality of power stages, each power stage being responsive to said modulation stage and comprising a first switch and a second switch coupled in series between a first voltage source and a second voltage source, each power stage comprising an output node between the first switch and the second switch; and a power stage control circuit for measuring the input signal level and enabling a selected number of the power stages as a function of the measured input signal level. A method for controlling such a class D amplifier is also disclosed.
US08861744B1
One or more wireless speaker units can be distributed through a room, such as a classroom. One or more instructor units can communicate with the speaker unit via base station. Audio pathways can selectively be provided between speaker units, between speaker units and instructor units and between instructor units. A remote control can be used to control the available audio pathways.
US08861738B2
A multi-channel signal decoding method is provided. A down-mixed signal representative of a multi-channel signal is decoded, and parameters representing characteristic relations between channels of the multi-channel signal are decoded. An additional parameter is estimated by using the decoded parameters, and the decoded down-mixed signal is up-mixed by using the decoded parameters and the estimated parameter so as to decode the multi-channel signal.
US08861724B2
This disclosure is directed for improved techniques for configuring a device to generate a secondary password based at least in part on a secure authentication key. The techniques of this disclosure may, in some examples, provide for capturing, by a computing device, an image of a display of another computing device. The captured image includes at least one encoded graphical image, such as a barcode, that includes an indication of the content of a secure authentication key. The computing device may use the secure authentication key to generate a secondary password to be used in conjunction with a primary password to gain access to a password-protected web service.
US08861721B2
The system and method for securing scalar multiplication against simple power attacks (SPAs) delays required point additions in elliptic curve cryptosystem scalar multiplication. A buffer is used to store the points that will be added later until the buffer is full or the last bit of a multiplier k is inspected, Then, the stored points in the buffer are added to the accumulation point. The same procedure is repeated whenever the buffer is full again. This makes the power trace appears as a repeated sequence of consecutive point doubling followed by consecutive point additions. This makes it very difficult for an attacker to know the exact value of the inspected bit during the scalar multiplication process.
US08861719B2
Generating a random permutation by arranging a sequence N numbers in a matrix, performing random arrangement operations on the rows of the matrix to generate an intermediary matrix, performing random arrangement operations on the columns of the intermediary matrix to generate a second intermediary matrix, and arranging the N numbers of the second intermediary matrix as a rearranged sequence of the N numbers.
US08861717B2
A verification device, upon the input of any k items of shared information among n items of shared information and “t”: generates as subsets all combinations that select r items of shared information among the k items of shared information received as input where r satisfies r≧t+2; for each of the subsets, uses the cheater-identification information belonging to the subset to judge whether dishonest shared information is included in the subset; and based on the judgment results, generates and supplies as output a cheater set indicating dishonest shared information among the k items of shared information.
US08861709B2
A method for informing a caller of the availability of a call-center agent who can assist the caller without some of the disadvantages of the prior art is disclosed. In accordance with the illustrative embodiment of the present invention, when a caller accesses the address book in the memory of his or her telecommunications terminal (such as a telephone) the caller will see both the contact information for the call center and the availability of a call-center agent.
US08861708B2
The invention relates to a system and a method for real-time monitoring and analyses of a conversation of an agent by capturing and processing a plurality of features of the speech of the agent during the conversation with the caller. The system and method further provides a monitoring device for detecting a variation in the conversation, detecting location of the caller and suggesting location specific vocabulary. The system and method also provides an alert engine for transmitting an alert in real-time at the agent console.
US08861707B2
Systems and methods for monitoring computer user screen an telephone activity from a remote location are provided. The method includes the steps of recording data corresponding to two actual sequential screen changes at the monitored workstation and storing the screen change-related data; recording data corresponding to audio telephone conversation occurring at the monitored workstation during the sequential screen changes and storing the audio telephone conversion-related data; subsequent to steps “a” and “b”, playing back, with the use of the screen change-related data and the audio telephone conversation-related data, the audio telephone conversation with the sequential screen changes as they both happened in real time at the monitored workstation, to allow a monitoring workstation to view and hear on-screen and telephone activities as they occurred at the monitored workstation; and, providing training to an agent at the monitored workstation based upon the played back audio and sequential screen changes.
US08861705B1
A communication control system receives a call request indentifying a priority level of a calling party to establish a call from the calling party to a called party through a plurality of resources. The communication control system transfers a call setup request to setup the call the called party and receives a call rejection indicating that one of the resources is unavailable. The communication control system determines a call queue for the call based on which call queue of a plurality of call queues corresponds to the one resource and determines if the call should be placed in the call queue based on the priority level of the calling party. The plurality of call queues each correspond to a unique resource of the plurality of resources. If the call should be placed in the call queue, the communication control system places the call in the call queue.
US08861704B2
Various embodiments of systems, methods, and computer programs are disclosed for transitioning from a phone-only mode to a web conference mode. One embodiment is a method for participating in an audio conference comprising: a conferencing system establishing an audio conference between a plurality of participants via a communication network, at least one of the participants participating in the audio conference in a phone-only mode; and a server in communication with the conferencing system presenting to the phone-only participant, via a user interface on a computing device, a phone-only control menu for enabling the phone-only participant to selectively transition from the phone-only mode to a web conferencing mode.
US08861698B1
Caller Name Identification, or CNAM Caller ID, is a telecommunication end-user feature that appeared for PSTN landline customers in the late 1980s. The rapid development of cellular mobile and VOIP telephony systems lead to the frequent omission of the CNAM Caller ID feature. Described is an independent end-user system that obtains the CNAM Caller ID after the call page transmission. The system operates on the user's smartphone or on a TCP/IP connected computer. A user with multiple telephone devices (i.e. a smartphone, landline, and VOIP line) may share use of this system between all devices.
US08861688B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided to send an alert to a called party communications device during a call setup phase and to present the alert to a called party during an alert portion of the call setup phase. Other devices, systems, and methods are provided that allow a calling party to remotely and securely access at least one host computer by sending a security phrase during a call setup phase and presenting the security phrase to the host computer to determine if by way of comparison to a voice print if the calling party is a valid user.
US08861687B2
An integrated hybrid circuit includes a transmission unit, a transceiver coil, a transceiver circuit, a hybrid matching circuit, and a receiving circuit. The transmission unit generates a pair of upstream signals according to a user transmission signal. The transceiver coil transmits the pair of upstream signals to a central office through a pair of twisted pair, and receiving a pair of downstream signals from the central office through the pair of twisted pair. The hybrid matching circuit receives an adjustment signal to adjust selective impedances. The receiving circuit receives the pair of downstream signals from the central office, and generates the adjustment signal according to downstream and upstream rates and signals from the hybrid matching circuit. The transmission unit adjusts transmission power and bandwidth of the transmission unit and the receiving unit adjusts filter bandwidth of the receiving unit according to the adjustment signal for optimizing upstream and downstream rates.
US08861681B2
Methods and systems for active resonant voltage switching are provided. One active resonant switching system includes a voltage switching system having one or more active resonant modules to provide a switching voltage output. Each of the resonant modules includes a plurality of switching devices configured to operate in open and closed states to produce first and second voltage level outputs from a voltage input. The resonant modules also include a capacitor connected to the switching devices and configured to receive a discharge energy during a resonant operating cycle when switching an output voltage from the first voltage level to the second voltage level, wherein the capacitor is further configured to restore system energy when switching from the second to first voltage level. The resonant modules further include a resonant inductor configured to transfer energy to and from the capacitor.
US08861678B2
A system for eliminating image artifacts caused by electromagnetic interference (EMI) on a portable digital x-ray detector that is capable of non-contact wireless inductively coupled power transfer and capacitively coupled communication and data transfer. An X-ray imaging system comprising a portable digital X-ray detector inductively and capacitively coupled to a power source and communication device that is coupled to a detector receptacle of the X-ray imaging system when the portable digital X-ray detector is located within the detector receptacle to transfer power from a power supply of the power source and communication device to the portable digital X-ray detector and transfer communication and data between the power source and communication device and the portable digital X-ray detector.
US08861677B2
A syringe inspection device and method for determining the position of a cannula in a cannula shield attached to a syringe. An electromagnetic radiation emitter is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation having a propagation axis. An electromagnetic radiation detector has an inspection window defined by a beam restrictor. A mount is configured to releasably retain the syringe between the emitter and the detector such that a longitudinal axis of the syringe is substantially coincident with the propagation axis. An image analyzer is operatively coupled to the detector. The image analyzer is configured to produce a syringe rejection signal when the cannula is irradiated and an electromagnetic image in the inspection window has two or less distinctly separate objects based on a contiguity of pixels having substantially like-valued intensity.
US08861663B1
A method of operation in an ethernet receiver circuit is disclosed. The method comprises sampling an input signal to generate a sampled signal having a sampled noise component and a sampled data component. The sampled signal is sliced, and a slicer error determined based on the slicing of the sampled signal. A subsequently sampled noise component is filtered based on the slicer error.
US08861627B2
In one embodiment, a circuit comprises a first pair of elements, a second pair of elements, a combiner, and a signal output. Each element in the first and second pair of elements comprises an amplitude-control input for receiving an amplitude-control bit, a phase-control input for receiving a phase-control bit, a signal input for receiving an input signal, a modulator for producing an output signal based on the amplitude-control bit, the phase-control bit, and the input signal, and an signal output for transmitting the output signal to the combiner. The combiner combines the two output signals from the first and second pair of elements to produce an output signal for the circuit to be transmitted by the signal output of the circuit.
US08861622B2
A transmitting apparatus transmits signals in a digital telecommunication system and a synchronising method is used for synchronizing such signals at a receiving apparatus. The transmitting apparatus prepares for transmission a reference symbol having at least two repetition patterns, whereby one of the at least two repetition patterns is phase-shifted in relation to the other repetition pattern, and a synchronizing mechanism in the digital telecommunication system uses the reference symbol once received for synchronization. The synchronizing mechanism uses a cross-correlation mechanism to cross-correlate at least one of the two repetition patterns within a correlation window having a predetermined length.
US08861615B2
A picture (1) with multiple slices (2-5) is encoded by determining a hierarchical granularity for the picture (1) defining a hierarchical level for slice border alignments. Address information allowing identification for a respective slice start is determined for at least a portion of the slices (2-5) based on the hierarchical granularity. The pixel values of the slices are encoded to generate coded slice representations (56). These coded slice representations (56) are included together with the address information into a coded picture representation (50) to which information of the hierarchical granularity is associated. The hierarchical granularity provides a flexible way of defining at which coding unit level slice borders can be present in the picture (1).
US08861609B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for encoding and decoding a motion vector. The method of encoding a motion vector includes: selecting a mode from among a first mode in which information indicating a motion vector predictor of at least one motion vector predictor is encoded and a second mode in which information indicating generation of a motion vector predictor based on pixels included in a previously encoded area adjacent to a current block is encoded; determining a motion vector predictor of the current block according to the selected mode and encoding information about the motion vector predictor of the current block; and encoding a difference vector between a motion vector of the current block and the motion vector predictor of the current block.
US08861605B2
A method for processing a video image sequence with a number of successive images and an image processing device for processing a video image sequence are described. The method comprises: generation of at least one scaled image sequence (F11, F12) from the video image sequence (F); generation of a motion-compensated scaled image sequence (F40) from the scaled image sequence (F50); generation of a motion-compensated output image sequence (F′) from the scaled image sequence (F40); wherein the generation of the motion-compensated scaled image sequence (F40) comprises the determination of a motion vector field based on at least two images (F11n−1; F11n) of the scaled image sequence (F11, F12) and the interpolation of an image using the at least two images and the motion vector field, and wherein the at least one input scaling factor (S11, S12) is dependent on motion information that is represented by at least one motion vector field that was determined for the temporally preceding images of the at least one scaled image sequence (F11, F12).
US08861602B2
Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for motion vector reconstruction in an entropy decoder. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is presented a method for decoding a bitstream. The method comprises reconstructing at least one motion vector from the bitstream at a first stage in a pipeline; and entropy decoding the bitstream with the at least one reconstructed motion vector at the first stage.
US08861600B2
In a video processing system, a method and system for dynamically configurable DCT/IDCT module in a wireless handset are provided. A processor may be used to configure a quantization scheme and video format mode of operation and to configure a processing network in a DCT/IDCT module. The mode of operation may depend on whether the received video signal is in JPEG, MPEG, and/or H.263 format. The processing network may be configured into a DCT processing network configuration or an IDCT processing network configuration based on whether the received video signal is to be encoded or decoded respectively. The DCT/IDCT module may comprise a FIFO, an adder/subtractor, a multiplier/accumulator, a plurality of digital dividers, and a de-quantizer. The plurality of digital dividers may comprise a 12-bit divider and an 7-bit divider. The mode and configuration modifications may be dynamically performed during operation of the wireless handset.
US08861598B2
Particular embodiments generally relate to video compression. In one embodiment, a store of reference frames is provided in memory. The reference frames may be classified based on a plurality of classifiers. The classifiers may correspond to features that are found in the reference frame. A frame to encode is then received. The frame is analyzed to determine features found in the frame. As macroblocks in the frame are encoded, a macroblock is analyzed to determine which feature may be included in the macroblock. The feature is used to determine a classifier, which is used to determine a subset of the reference frames. The subset is then searched to determine a reference frame for the macroblock.
US08861596B2
An image encoding device includes: a first encoding unit for calculating a generated code amount when encoding image data using a fixed quantizing parameter, and block distinction regarding whether a macro block is a block for performing temporal prediction or block for performing spatial prediction regarding a picture for predicting a temporal direction; a code amount control unit for setting the offset amount of a quantizing parameter so as to have great code amount to be assigned to a picture including many images to be referenced according to a percentage between the block for temporal prediction, and the block for spatial prediction based on the results of the block distinction, and determining a quantizing parameter based on the generated code amount calculated at the first encoding unit; and a second encoding unit for encoding the image data using the offset quantizing parameter for realizing a target generated code amount.
US08861580B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining one or more channel compensation parameters based on data eye monitoring. According to one aspect of the invention, a method is provided for evaluating the quality of a data eye associated with a signal. The received signal is sampled for a plurality of different phases, for example, using at least two latches, and the samples are evaluated to identify when the signal crosses a predefined amplitude value, such as a zero crossing. It is determined whether the points of predefined amplitude crossing satisfy one or more predefined criteria. One or more parameters of one or more channel compensation techniques can optionally be adjusted based on a result of the determining step. One or more parameters of an adjacent transmitter can also be adjusted to reduce near end cross talk based on a result of the determining step.
US08861560B2
In one embodiment, a driver circuit of a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) includes bias current sources, modulation current sources, and a switch component connected to the bias current sources at a first node and to the modulation current sources at second nodes; the switch component is configured to modulate a current from the bias and modulation current sources based on an input signal to the switch component; and the switch component is also configured to provide the modulated current to the VCSEL through a folded cascode transistor.
US08861559B2
A method or algorithm to control a driving current supplied to a semiconductor laser diode (LD) is disclosed. the method first prepares the look-up-table (LUT) that stores a set of parameters, α and β, for evaluating the modulation current Im by the equation of Im=α×Ib+β, where Ib is determined by the auto-power-control (APC) loop. In a practical operation of the LD, the APC loop determines Ib, while, Im is calculated according to the equation above by reading above two parameters corresponding to the current temperature of the LD from the LUT.
US08861551B2
Provided is a method of generating a pilot pattern capable of perform adaptive channel estimation, and a method and apparatus of a base station and a method and apparatus of a terminal using the pilot pattern.The pilot pattern selects pilot symbol positions based on distances from pilots of previous orthogonal frequency division multiple access (OFDMA) symbols to a subcarrier position of a current OFDMA symbol in the frequency domain and the time domain, so that a low pilot density is maintained so as to effectively transmit data, and stable channel estimation performance can be obtained even in a bad channel environment.In addition, the minimum burst allocation size is determined according to the channel environment between the base station and the terminal, guaranteeing channel estimation performance suitable for the channel environment, and improving granularity, channel estimation latency, and channel estimation memory size.
US08861548B2
Disclosed herein are a method and an apparatus for transmitting data in a cable network. The transmitter generates upper layer data including multiplexed data of a plurality of subscriber terminals, dividing the upper layer data into a plurality of segment data, performs channel coding on each segment data, extracts information on at least one subscriber terminal included in each segment data to generate subscriber identification signals, inserts the subscriber identification signals into each channel-coded segment data, and modulates and transmits each segment data into which the subscriber identification signals are inserted.
US08861546B2
In one example, a Cable Modem Termination System (CMTS) determines target Radio Frequency (RF) bandwidth amounts for Data Over Cable System Interface Specification (DOCSIS) bonding groups according to the DOCSIS priority of active flows within the bonding groups. The CMTS then tunes bandwidth allocation amongst the DOCSIS bonding groups according to the target bandwidth amounts. The target bandwidth amounts can be recalculated at intervals, and the bandwidth allocation re-tuned at the intervals, to account for changes in flow activity or DOCSIS priority assignment.
US08861542B2
A communication system, that includes a base station and a terminal, whereby the base station includes, a transmitting unit that transmits a control channel to the terminal with use of a control channel format selected from among a plurality of control channel formats, each including modulation scheme information, according to whether Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transmission is applied or not, and wherein the terminal includes, a receiving unit that receives the control channel transmitted from the base station, wherein a number of bits indicating a modulation scheme included in a control channel format to be selected when the MIMO transmission is applied is greater than that included in a control channel format to be selected when the MIMO transmission is not applied.
US08861540B2
A system includes a client device and a server including a communication module configured to be accessed by the client device through which a user of the client device connects to another user via one of a plurality of communication services connected to the server, wherein one of the plurality of communication services is telephony.
US08861538B2
A fast send method may be selectively implemented for certain data packets received from an application for transmission through a network interface. When the fast send method is triggered for a data packet, the application requesting transmission of the data packet may be provided a completion notice nearly immediately after the data packet is received. The fast send method may be used for data packets similar to previously-transmitted data packets for which the information in the data packet is already vetted. For example, a data packet with a similar source address, destination address, source port, destination port, application identifier, and/or activity identifier may have already been vetted. Data packets sent through the fast send method may be throttled to prevent one communication stream from blocking out other communication streams. For example, every nth data packet queued for the fast send method may be transmitted by a slow send method.
US08861528B2
A base station for use in a wireless network that communicates with mobile stations according to the IEEE 802.16m standard. The base station transmits unicast data and E-MBS data in the downlink to mobile stations using physical resource units (PRUs) that are partitioned into a plurality of frequency partitions. The base station transmits E-MBS data using a first set of PRUs in at least a first common frequency partition, wherein the first set of PRUs are also used by at least a second base station to transmit E-MBS data. The base station further transmits unicast data using a second set of PRUs, wherein the second set of PRUs are randomized with respect to PRUs used by the at least a second base station to transmit unicast data.
US08861524B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing TCAM lookups in multi-threaded packet processors is presented. A Ternary Content Addressable Memory (TCAM) key is constructed for a packet and a Packet Reference Number (PRN) is generated. The TCAM key and the packet are tagged with the PRN. The TCAM key and the PRN are sent to a TCAM and in parallel the packet and the PRN are sent to a packet processing thread. The PRN is used to read the TCAM result when it is ready.
US08861523B2
Messages from a network are processed so that each received message is received in one of a plurality of message formats, the content of each message is determined, and a network destination to which the message will be directed is selected, based on the determined message content. The message can be transformed to encompass a variety of format changes. Once content of the message is determined, if image data is detected in the message, then image analysis on the image data can be performed to detect message content that is used in selecting a destination. It can be determined if the message has been received for greater than a predetermined time limit without being directed to a selected destination and, if so, a notification action can be performed if the predetermined time limit has been exceeded.
US08861518B2
Disclosed herein are a system and method for providing content to a plurality of end terminals, a service server, a content relay method, an application server, a content provision method, and a mobile communication terminal. The system includes a plurality of end terminals connected to a mobile communication terminal via a Local Area Network (LAN), and configured to execute content received from an application server, a mobile communication terminal connected to a service server via a mobile communication network, and configured to transfer content between the end terminals and the-service server, the service server connected to the application server, and configured to authenticate the end terminals and the mobile communication terminal and to request content, requested by authenticated end terminals, from the application server, and the terminal application server for providing the content, requested by the end terminals, to the service server.
US08861517B2
Disclosed is a method and system for performing operations on at least one input data vector in order to produce at least one output vector to permit easy, scalable and fast programming of a petascale equivalent supercomputer. A PetaFlops Router may comprise one or more PetaFlops Nodes, which may be connected to each other and/or external data provider/consumers via a programmable crossbar switch external to the PetaFlops Node. Each PetaFlops Node has a FPGA and a programmable intra-FPGA crossbar switch that permits input and output variables to be configurably connected to various physical operators contained in the FPGA as desired by a user. This allows a user to specify the instruction set of the system on a per-application basis. Further, the intra-FPGA crossbar switch permits the output of one operation to be delivered as an input to a second operation. By configuring the external crossbar switch, the output of a first operation on a first PetaFlops Node may be used as the input for a second operation on a second PetaFlops Node. An embodiment may provide an ability for the system to recognize and generate pipelined functions. Streaming operators may be connected together at run-time and appropriately staged to allow data to flow through a series of functions. This allows the system to provide high throughput and parallelism when possible. The PetaFlops Router may implement the user desired instructions by appropriately configuring the intra-FPGA crossbar switch on each PetaFlops Node and the external crossbar switch.
US08861506B2
A computer-implemented method and system are provided for determining the shortest path between two nodes in a network comprising a plurality of nodes. A non-transitory computer-readable medium is also provided that includes a plurality of instructions that, when executed by at least one electronic device, at least cause the at least one electronic device to determine the shortest path between two nodes in a network comprising a plurality of nodes.
US08861498B2
A high-frequency switch module includes a first diplexer arranged to receive a GPS signal and to send/receive a GSM 1800 communication signal and a GSM 1900 communication signal, and a switch element arranged to switch between the sending/receiving of the GSM 1800 and the sending/receiving of the GSM 1900 communication signal. A SAW filter having a passage band corresponding to the frequency band of the GSM 1900 communication signal and a SAW filter having a passage band corresponding to the frequency band of the GSM 1800 communication signal are connected to the switch element. A line length of a transmission line for connection to the SAW filter which provides a reflection phase closer to the open side for the GPS signal as viewed from the switch element is greater than that of a transmission line for connection to the other SAW filter.
US08861496B2
A method and device for detaching a user equipment (UE) are disclosed in the present invention. The UE is registered with a mobility management entity (MME) in a packet switched (PS) network and a mobile switching center (MSC) in a circuit switched (CS) network. When the UE needs to detach from the PS network, the MSC receives a Detach Request with a Detach Type indicating the detaching from the PS network only; after receiving the Detach Request, the MSC deletes the context of the PS core network entity and clears the connection between the MSC and the MME. An MME for performing UE detachment is also disclosed in the present invention. The present invention helps reduce the time delay during the subsequent handover and quickly provide users with communications services, so as to improve user's experience and meet the carriers' requirements.
US08861489B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a message in a wireless network environment are provided. The method of computing an interval of message transmission in an access point located in a specific subnet, includes determining whether the access point is an edge access point located at a boundary between the specific subnet and a neighboring subnet, and computing an interval of transmission of a router advertisement (RA) message containing information regarding the specific subnet based on the determination result.
US08861484B2
A method for transmitting and receiving system information, wherein the method for transmitting the system information includes that a sub-frame used to transmit other system information and a sub-frame used to transmit system information 1 are arranged in different time domain. With the present invention, the influence caused by the re-transmission of the system information 1 on the other system information can be reduced.
US08861477B1
Described are various approaches for considering inter-base-station link congestion levels in connection with handoff of a mobile station when the source base station (or another entity) is able to select a target base station for handoff from among a plurality of base stations. In one aspect, the plurality of base stations are each communicatively linked via a respective inter-base-station link with the source base station serving the mobile station. The source base station (or another entity) selects the target base station from among the plurality of base stations based at least in part on a congestion level of each base station's respective inter-base-station link. The source base station then hands off the mobile station to the target base station.
US08861476B2
A path setting apparatus sets wireless paths fixed by a wireless network formed by a wireless connection device and a plurality of wireless devices. The path setting apparatus may include an editing unit that edits and sets positions of the wireless connection device and the wireless devices and wireless paths between the wireless connection device and the wireless devices and between the wireless devices, and edits and sets communication timings of the wireless connection device and the wireless devices where the wireless paths are set, based on an input instruction, a storage unit that stores power performance information of the wireless devices, and calculating unit that calculates at least one of transmission delays between the wireless devices and the wireless connection device, transmission delays between the wireless devices, consumption power of the wireless devices, and battery life of batteries used as power supplies of the wireless devices.
US08861475B2
An empty GRE packet along with a sequence number provides in-order delivery of data packets for a session to a UE during inter-RAT handover. In particular, an empty GRE packet sent from a source gateway in a source RAN (Radio Access Network) to a target gateway in a target RAN includes a sequence number to indicate to the target gateway the end of forwarded data packets from the source gateway. The target gateway sends data packets received from the source gateway to the UE until the empty GRE packet with the expected sequence number is received. Upon receipt of the empty GRE packet containing the expected sequence number, the target gateway begins sending data packets received directly from a home network gateway to the UE.
US08861462B2
The present invention relates to a method for transmitting an uplink or downlink grant in a wireless communication system that supports uplink and downlink multiple input multiple output (MIMO) schemes. The method comprises: determining a downlink control information (DCI) format for an uplink or downlink grant to generate control information: attaching a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) for detecting an error in the created control information; and channel-coding the CRC-attached control information, wherein the control information comprises a bit flag for distinguishing whether the grant is an uplink grant or a downlink grant.
US08861449B2
A method is described for data transmission by user equipments adapted to transmit data using resource blocks allocated by a radio network. The radio network is adapted to allocate resource blocks to a dedicated one of the user equipments or to a plurality of the user equipments. The method comprises the step of allocating at least one of the resource blocks that is not allocated to any dedicated user equipment to a first plurality of the user equipments. The allocation is signaled to the user equipments. A first user equipment of said first plurality obtains data for transmission. At least a first part of the data is transmitted by the first user equipment using said at least one resource block. Devices embodying the invention and methods of operating the devices are also described. Contention based data transmission in uplink is enabled without previous scheduling request and scheduling grant.
US08861443B2
Wireless-device-to-wireless device (WD-WD) interference in a full-duplex wireless network is managed by an uplink transmit power control technique that minimizes interference experienced in downlink signals at other wireless devices in the wireless network. In one exemplary embodiment, an instantaneous antenna gain of the wireless device and a target uplink Signal-to-Interference-plus-Noise Ratio (SINR) of an uplink signal of the wireless device to the home base station are determined at the wireless device. A Noise plus Interference level at the home base station is received by either a closed-loop or an open-loop feedback technique. The uplink power level for an uplink signal of the wireless device is determined based on the determined antenna gain, the determined target uplink SINR and the received Noise plus Interference level at the home base station.
US08861441B2
There is provided a method and apparatus for transmitting a frame which is performed by a transmission STA in a WLAN system. The method of transmitting a frame includes generating an MAC Protocol Data Unit (MPDU) to be transmitted to a target station, generating a PLCP Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) by attaching a Physical Layer Convergence Procedure (PLCP) header to the MPDU, and transmitting the PPDU to the target station. The PLCP header comprises a partial Association ID (AID) of the target station.
US08861438B2
A set of different communication flows (270-272) can be established between a set of end-user devices (210) and remote devices (265) through an intermediary node (225). For each communication flow (270-272), a flow-specific bearer (250) can be generated between the intermediary node (225) and a corresponding one of the remote devices (265). Each bearer (250) can have quality of service attributes that correspond to flow-specific quality of service attributes of the flow (270-272) to which the flow-specific bearer (250) corresponds. Communication can occur between each of the proximate end-user devices (210) and the remote devices (265) in accordance with the flow-specific quality of service attributes. The intermediate node (225) can direct the exchanged data between unique local communication links and corresponding ones of the flow-specific bearers (250).
US08861433B2
In an access device associated with a first network cell, a method for enabling user equipment (UE) to obtain a service unavailable through the first network cell includes receiving a request for the UE to access the service, and identifying, in a message to the UE, a plurality of second network cells providing the service.
US08861430B2
Procedures for point association as well as measurement and feedback required to enable point association for CoMP deployment scenario 4 are proposed. In a first novel aspect, a serving eNB configures a first higher-layer configuration for RSRP measurement to be used by a UE for serving point selection. The higher-layer configuration contains multiple CSI-RS configurations, and each CSI-RS configuration indicates a set of resource elements (REs) or subcarriers in both frequency domain and time domain as one CSI-RS resource with non-zero transmission power. The UE then performs RSRP measurements based on the multiple CSI-RS configurations and reports RSRP measurement results to the serving eNB. In a second novel aspect, the serving eNB configures a second higher-layer configuration for CSI reporting based on the reported RSRP measurement results. In a third novel aspect, the serving eNB sends CSI-RS information to the UE for uplink power control.
US08861425B2
By deciding positions of frequencies used via a relay station by a system in advance for assignment of boundary frequencies, frequencies of a central frequency more likely to be affected by the relay station are also mapped by avoiding a signal thereof. Alternatively, an adjacent cell whose central frequency is affected changes depending on a position of the relay station and thus, locations set to be highly likely to interfere with the central frequency of the adjacent cell is reduced by setting a region of the boundary frequencies permitted to the relay station in accordance with the position of the relay station.
US08861423B2
Briefly, in accordance with one or more embodiments in a wireless network, a station may overhear one or more packets that are not necessarily destined for those stations. The overhearing station may decode the data of the packet, and may utilizes the decoded packet to remove a retransmission of that packet in a subsequent time slot and occurring at the same time as the transmission of a packet destined for that station in the same time slot. Such a retransmission of packets may occur for example in relay systems and/or in hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) systems. The retransmitted packet may be treated as an interference signal in the total received signal, so that the previously received and decoded packet may be subtracted from the total signal, allowing the desired packet to be decoded from the intended signal.
US08861419B2
A 3GPP compliant system includes a radio access network (RAN) partitioned into a plurality MBMS services areas, wherein each MBMS service area has a plurality of MBMS bearers established a priori for transporting media streams. An infrastructure device: receives a request to transmit a media stream to a communication group, wherein the request to transmit is received after the MBMS bearers were established; determines a MBMS bearer in a MBMS service area to assign to transport the media stream; generates a MBMS connect message that binds the communication group to the assigned MBMS bearer, wherein the MBMS connect message includes an identifier for the communication group and an identifier for the assigned MBMS bearer; and sends the MBMS connect message to members of the communication group.
US08861413B2
There are provided measures for enabling power control for inter-band multi-carrier capable devices, such as e.g. inter-band carrier aggregation capable devices. Such measures may exemplarily include calculating at least one output power restriction value for a cumulative output power for a combination of at least two uplink carriers of a terminal device, said two uplink carriers operating on different bands, signaling the calculated at least one output power restriction value to the terminal device, and performing power control for the at least two uplink carriers using the acquired at least one output power restriction value at the terminal device.
US08861412B2
The specification and drawings present a new method, apparatus and software related product for avoiding UL interference in a victim LPN such as femtocell using DRX by the LPN coordinated with the UL DTX of UEs to the LPN and to one or more HPNs such as NBs (or Home NB), e.g., in HSPA systems. The victim LPN may start DRX having ON and OFF periods. Then the LPN sends information about DRX to its UEs (LUEs) communicating with the LPN, and to one or more network elements such as aggressor HPNs' RNCs. The network element(s) are adapted to identify and configure aggressor UEs (HUEs) communicating with one or more HPNs of the network for coordinating ON and OFF periods of the DRX by the LPN with transmissions of the LUEs and the HUEs to avoid interference during the OFF periods of the DRX in the LPN.
US08861411B2
An apparatus and a method manage power of a small base station. Whether a notify message indicating that a subscribed terminal enters a macro base station that includes an off-small base station is received from the macro base station under a closed access mode is determined. When the notify message is received, whether a service is providable to the subscribed terminal is determined. When the service is providable to the subscribed terminal, the small base station is turned on. During the closed access mode or when a load of a macro cell is large during an open access mode, when a terminal that should be serviced does not exist in the neighborhood of a small base station, an interference and power consumption unnecessarily generated may be reduced by turning off the small base station.
US08861410B2
A transaction request passes from an initiator through interconnect paths and a routing ID indicating the interconnect paths is prepended. A temporary ID is assigned to the routing ID, the transaction request with the temporary ID is sent to a target device, and a response having the temporary ID is received. The routing ID is retrieved using the target ID, and the response with the retrieved routing ID is sent to the initiator.
US08861403B2
In one embodiment, a layer-2 network that includes a cloud switch is partitioned into a plurality of segments, each segment including one or more cloud switch domains that are coupled via a logical port to a corresponding one of a plurality of internal logical shared media links. One of the internal logical shared media links is provisioned as a hub. One or more remaining internal logical shared media links are defaulted to be spokes. A spanning tree protocol (STP) is executed within each segment. The logical port of each cloud switch domain advertises a pseudo root bridge identifier (ID) to cause the internal logical shared media link to appear attached to a Root. The advertised pseudo root bridge ID of the hub is chosen to have a higher priority than the pseudo root bridge ID of the spokes to establish a hub and spoke relationship among the segments.
US08861401B2
In one embodiment, a system includes at least one processor which includes logic configured for receiving a request to assign a media access control (MAC) address to a device on a port, logic configured for determining the MAC address to assign to the device based at least partially on the port, and logic configured for sending a response to the request with the MAC address. In another embodiment, a computer program product for assigning a MAC address includes a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program code embodied therewith, the computer readable program code including computer readable program code configured for determining, without using a look-up table, a MAC address to assign to a device and computer readable program code configured for sending the MAC address to the device. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are presented according to more embodiments.
US08861399B2
A network node is arranged to provide an end user of a network terminal in a network with an access link to an external network including at least one external network interface, a control unit, and at least one internal network interface, the network node being arranged to be connected between the network and the external network. The network node is characterized in that the control unit is arranged to deactivate and re-activate the at least one internal network interface towards the network terminal in the network in order to trigger a dynamic host configuration protocol request from the network terminal such that a new Internet Protocol configuration can be established for the network terminal. A method for use in a network node and a computer program product are also disclosed herein.
US08861373B2
When a voice over Internet protocol (VOIP) telephone call is being conducted by a mobile telephony device, measurements of at least one condition that exists for the mobile telephone device during the VOIP telephone call are taken during the duration of the telephone call. The measurements could be taken periodically as the VOIP telephone call progresses. The measured condition is one that could affect the perceived quality of the VOIP telephone call. The measurements of the at least one condition are recorded against the telephone call for later use and analysis. The recorded information may be analyzed to determine how to modify a setting of the mobile telephony device to improve the quality of VOIP telephone calls conducted with the mobile telephony device.
US08861366B1
Various methods, systems, and apparatuses can be used to control flow in an ethernet environment. In some implementations, methods can include receiving a flow of ethernet frames at a first device via an ethernet switch, determining that a buffer at the first device exceeds a threshold for an incoming flow, generating an initial pause frame operable to pause only a second device, and transmitting the initial pause frame to the ethernet switch.
US08861365B2
A method for increasing wireless networking speed is for use between an electronic device equipped with a wireless networking device and a wireless network having a group of wireless network base stations. The method includes the steps of: (A) providing the wireless network apparatus with two medium access control (MAC) addresses so as to simulate two wireless network cards; (B) selecting, from among the group of wireless network base stations, two wireless network base stations respectively for the wireless network cards; and (C) making the electronic device simultaneously communicate with the two wireless network base stations using the wireless network cards.
US08861358B2
In one embodiment, a router that accesses a cable network through a cable modem receives, from the cable modem, a plurality of service-flow classifications utilized by the cable modem to describe service flows on the cable network. Based on the received service-flow classifications from the cable modem, the router determines traffic destined for the cable network that corresponds to each service-flow on the cable network. The router receives, from the cable modem, an indication of network backpressure for a particular service-flow on the cable network. The indication of network backpressure is received when a threshold of network backpressure has been surpassed for the particular service-flow on the cable network. The router controls particular traffic that corresponds to the particular service-flow on the cable network based on the indication of network backpressure for the particular service-flow on the cable network.
US08861355B2
A method of providing multicast rate control in a wireless communication device can include transmitting data frames to a plurality of stations in a multicast group with a first data rate. Acknowledgements (ACKs) can then be requested from a first subset of the plurality of stations. Frame losses can be determined using the ACKs from the first subset. A second data rate can be determined based on the frame losses with the first subset. A second subset of the plurality of stations can be selected based on the frame losses with the first subset. Data frames can be transmitted to the plurality of stations with the second data rate. Notably, ACKs only from the second subset of the plurality of stations are requested. Frame losses for the second subset can be determined using those ACKs. A current data rate can be adjusted based on the frame losses for the subset and at least one predetermined threshold. Data frames can be transmitted to the plurality of stations using the adjusted data rate.
US08861351B2
Data bundling and fast dormancy can be controlled based on user interaction with a user equipment (UE). Moreover, the subject system provides a balance between saving battery power of the UE and reducing signaling and processing load in a radio resource controller (RRC). Specifically, the system observes user inputs and data flow requests to identify “interactive” and “non-interactive” data flows. On receiving a data flow request, the system determines whether the data flow can be bundled together and transmitted over a single connection with disparate data flows, based on the classification of the data flow. Additionally, on completion of a data flow, the system determines whether a fast dormancy timer can be disabled/delayed to transmit a next data flow over the current connection, based on the classification of the data flow.
US08861350B2
A network of switches that employ Registered State Change Notifications (RSCNs) with enhanced payloads is disclosed. In one embodiment, the network comprises multiple switches coupled together, and multiple node devices each directly-coupled to at least one other switch. Each of the switches preferably provides RSCNs to other switches when a node device state change is detected. One or more of the RSCNs preferably includes a device entry having more than four properties associated with the node device undergoing the state change. The switches receiving the enhanced RSCNs preferably maintain caches of remote node device entries copied from the RSCN device entries. The device entries preferably include one or more of the following: Owner Identifier, Port Type, Port Identifier, Port Name, Node Name, Initial Process Associator, Node IP Address, Class of Service, FC-4 Types, Port IP Address, Fabric Port Name, and Hard Address. Traffic overhead may advantageously be reduced.
US08861349B2
The Residential Communications Gateway (RCG) is a broadband communications device that combines all voice, data and video communications to and from a typical residence or small business for transmission over a single, or a plurality of Plain Old Telephone Service (POTS) lines separately or in conjunction with, a wireless broadband backbone. The RCG does this by employing packetized data with Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) technologies combined with RF communications technologies. A key consideration to the design of the RCG is that no additional or special transmission equipment must be installed at the Central Office or anywhere else in the network to enable new calling features provided by the RCG as is the case with DSL and Cable systems. By eliminating the requirement for costly infrastructure enhancements, ubiquitous high speed communications and services can be deployed to every POTS subscriber.
US08861348B2
In accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention there is at least a method and an apparatus to perform operations in accordance with the exemplary embodiments of the invention including identifying an access class of a plurality of access classes to access a wireless network, the identified access class having an access service class of 0; determining a persistence value of the identified access class, wherein the persistence value is determined based on a persistence formula; and using the determined persistence value of the identified access class to enable the access to the wireless network, wherein the determined persistence value of the identified access class is a value other than 1.
US08861345B2
A method for performing an automatic join and leave function for either a host or network using Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) signaling, the method comprising, sending a BGP join request that indicates a request to join a virtual network, receiving a BGP join response that indicates either an acceptance or a rejection of the BGP join request, adding the host to the virtual network when the BGP join response accepts the BGP join request, sending a BGP leave request that indicates a request to leave the virtual network, receiving a BGP leave response that indicates either an acceptance or a rejection of the BGP leave request, and removing the host from the virtual network when the BGP leave response accepts the BGP leave request, wherein the BGP join request comprises a quality of service (QoS) requirement and a bandwidth requirement.
US08861342B2
To protect a multicast data stream for a multicast group, two P2MP pseudowires are established to deliver multicast data for the particular multicast group to an aggregation node. The two P2MP pseudowires are defined such that the pseudowires have no transport nodes in common other than the aggregation node. The aggregation node replicates data received via a primary pseudowire of the two P2MP pseudowires to subscribers of the multicast group. The aggregation node monitors the data from the primary pseudowire to detect failures in the data flow. When a failure is detected in the primary data stream, the aggregation node replicates data received via a secondary pseudowire of the two P2MP pseudowires for delivery to the multicast group subscribers.
US08861331B2
The least movement WSAN topology repair method features an algorithm utilized in wireless sensor actor networks (WSAN) to maintain and restore connectivity following network node failure. The method is distributed throughout the WSAN nodes and relies on nodes' local view about the network. The method uses Path discovery activities in the network to determine the structure of the network topology. Upon failure of a node, the method replaces the faulty node by selecting a neighbor node belonging to the smallest disjointed block. The method is applied further recursively in case the node replacing the faulty node gets disconnected from its children, i.e., neighbors within the block, while imposing no constraints to sustain the path length between any pair of nodes at pre-failure. In this manner, the method minimizes the number of nodes relocated while also reducing message travel distance and complexity.
US08861330B2
A method of transmitting control signals in a wireless communication system includes multiplexing a first control signal with a second control signal in a slot, the slot comprising a plurality of orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbols in time domain, the plurality of OFDM symbols being divided into a plurality of data OFDM symbols and a plurality of reference signal (RS) OFDM symbols, wherein the first control signal is mapped to the plurality of data OFDM symbols after the first control signal is spread by a base sequence in the frequency domain, the RS is mapped to the plurality of RS OFDM symbols, the second control signal is mapped to at least one of the plurality of RS OFDM symbols, and transmitting the first control signal and the second control signal in the slot.
US08861328B2
The present invention relates to a method for antenna calibration in a communication system having a Bandwidth divided into multiple frequency intervals M with multiple communication units 40; 50, each comprising communication circuitry 21, 24: 31, 34; 41, 42; 51, 52, 54 connected to an antenna arrangement 22, 25; 32, 35; 44, 45; 55, 49, communicating with each other over multiple communication channels. The method comprises: establishing a calibration sequence to perform antenna calibration for at least one of said multiple frequency intervals; converting the calibration sequence from the frequency domain to the time domain; transmitting a part of said calibration sequence in the time domain from a first communication circuitry 21; 34; 41; 51, 54 to a second communication circuitry 24; 31; 42; 52, 54 over the multiple communication channels; receiving the part of said calibration sequence in the second communication circuitry 24; 31; 42; 52, 54 for each communication channel; performing antenna calibration based on the received part of the calibration sequence.
US08861324B1
A system, according to one embodiment, includes a tape drive configured to detect a telescoping condition of a magnetic recording tape and output an error alert when the telescoping condition is detected. Furthermore, a method, according to another embodiment, includes detecting a telescoping condition of a magnetic recording tape in use in a tape drive, and outputting an error alert when the telescoping condition is detected.
US08861320B2
Provided is a lens driving unit for an optical pickup and an optical disc drive that employs the lens driving unit. The lens driving unit includes a lens frame in which an object lens and a plurality of driving coils are installed, and a plurality of suspension wires connected to the driving coils. The lens frame also includes a plurality of winding posts disposed on opposing sides of the lens frame and extending in a direction in which the suspension wires extend. According to various examples, coil ends of the driving coils are wound around the winding posts to electrically connect the driving coils to the suspension wires.
US08861318B1
A thermally assisted magnetic write head includes a waveguide having a first end surface included in an air bearing surface; a magnetic pole having a second end surface included in the air bearing surface; a plasmon generator having a third end surface included in the air bearing surface; a first protective film directly covering a part of the second end surface of the magnetic pole at least; and a second protective film directly covering the first end surface of the waveguide and the third end surface of the plasmon generator. The configuration can reduce recording density and improve thermal stability, furthermore increase the producing yield.
US08861307B2
The subject disclosure relates to sonic logging while drilling. A transmitter and at least one receiver are mounted on a drill collar for performing sonic investigations of the formation traversing a borehole.
US08861302B2
A decoder for decoding an address having a plurality of bits ranging from a first address bit a1 to a last address bit aN, each address bit being either true or false is provided that includes a pre-charge circuit adapted to pre-charge a dynamic NOR node and a dynamic OR node and then allow the pre-charged dynamic NOR node and pre-charged dynamic OR node to float; a plurality of switches coupled between the dynamic NOR node and ground, each switch corresponding uniquely to the address bits such that the switches range from a first switch corresponding to a1 to an nth switch corresponding to aN, wherein any switch corresponding to a true address bit is configured to turn on only if its corresponding address bit is false, and wherein any switch corresponding to a false address bit is configured to turn on only if its corresponding address bit is true.
US08861299B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first pair of signal lines and a first control circuit. The first control circuit precharges each of the first pair of signal lines to a first voltage in response to a precharge signal, and changes the voltage level of each of the first pair of signal lines to a second voltage different from the first voltage when a deep power down signal is input.
US08861298B2
According to one embodiment, in a semiconductor storage system, the power supply wiring is connected to a first semiconductor storage device, and second semiconductor storage device as a common connection, and supplies power to the first and second semiconductor storage devices. A voltage detection circuit is provided in each of the first and second semiconductor storage devices. Each of the voltage detection circuits detects a power supply voltage of the power supply wiring. A control circuit is provided in each of the first and second semiconductor storage devices. When lowering of the power supply voltage is detected by a corresponding voltage detection circuit, each of the control circuits does not shift the operation of the first or second semiconductor storage device to the next operation until the power supply voltage is restored.
US08861293B2
Disturb from the reset to the set state may be reduced by creating an amorphous phase that is substantially free of crystal nuclei when programming the reset state in a phase change memory. In some embodiments, this can be achieved by using a current or a voltage to program that exceeds the threshold voltage of the phase change memory element, but does not exceed a safe current voltage which would cause a disturb.
US08861286B2
A semiconductor device and a method for operating the same are provided relating to a nonvolatile memory device for sensing data using resistance change. The semiconductor device comprises a verification read control unit configured to sequentially output verification read data received from a sense amplifier into a global input/output line in response to a test signal, and a read data latch unit configured to store sequentially the verification read data received from the global input output line in response to a latch enable signal in activation of the test signal.
US08861285B2
Apparatuses and methods for charge sharing between signal lines are disclosed. An example apparatus may include first and second lines and a charge sharing circuit. The charge sharing circuit may be coupled to the first line and the second line and configured to receive a first data signal and a second data signal. The charge sharing circuit may be further configured to cause charge to be shared between the first line and the second line responsive, at least in part, to the first data signal and the second data signal having different logic levels.
US08861284B2
A memory apparatus includes a plurality of memory arrays, each memory array including a plurality of memory cells. The apparatus includes a plurality of global bit lines and each one of the global bit lines is connected to a plurality of local bit lines, which are in turn connected to a plurality of memory cells. The apparatus includes a plurality of global bit line (GBL) latches and each GBL latch is located along a separate global bit line to latch a signal along the respective global bit line. The apparatus further includes a plurality of solar bit lines configured to connect the global bit lines to an output latch via a plurality of logic gates.
US08861283B1
Disclosed are apparatus and devices for programming and operating a programmable memory array portion coupled with a leakage reduction circuit. At the leakage reduction circuit, a frame bias signal that indicates a majority state of the memory array portion can be received. During idle states of the programmable memory array portion, at least one shared bit line of the memory array portion can be selectively biased based on the received frame bias signal. In one aspect, a first one of two bit lines is biased to a first state, while the second one of the two bits lines is biased to a second state that is opposite the first state. In a further aspect, the first state is a same state as the majority state of the memory array portion.
US08861281B2
A method of programming a memory is provided. The memory has a first cell, having a first S/D region and a second S/D region shared with a second cell. The second cell has a third S/D region opposite to the second S/D region. When programming the first cell, a first voltage is applied to a control gate of the first cell, a second voltage is applied to a control gate of the second cell to slightly turn on a channel of the second cell, a third and a fourth voltage are respectively applied to the first and the third S/D regions, and the second S/D region is floating. A carrier flows from the third S/D region to the first S/D region, and is injected into a charge storage layer of the first cell by source-side injection.
US08861279B2
A semiconductor storage device has a nonvolatile storage region, a voltage generating circuit that generates an operational voltage for the storage region, and a control circuit that sends the voltage generated by the voltage generating circuit to the storage region. The voltage generating circuit has a transistor, a first resistance element, a second resistance element, and a comparator. The first resistance element and the second resistance element have wiring structure for resistance. The resistance wiring in the wiring structure has the same line width as the finest line width in the wiring formed in the storage region.
US08861278B2
A cache programming method for a non-volatile memory device includes programming data for a current programming operation into a memory cell array, determining whether the current programming operation has been performed to a threshold point of program completion, and receiving a data for a next programming operation when the current programming operation has been performed to the threshold point of program completion.
US08861276B2
A method of operating a nonvolatile memory device comprises receiving a read command from a memory controller, determining a read mode of the nonvolatile memory device, selecting a read voltage based on the read mode, and performing a read operation on memory cells of a selected page of the nonvolatile memory device using the selected read voltage.
US08861270B2
The present technology relaxes the precision (or full data-correctness-guarantees) requirements in memory operations, such as writing or reading, of MLC memories so that an application may write and read a digital data value as an approximate value. Types of MLCs include Flash MLC and MLC Phase Change Memory (PCM) as well as other resistive technologies. Many software applications may not need the accuracy or precision typically used to store and read data values. For example, an application may render an image on a relatively low resolution display and may not need an accurate data value for each pixel. By relaxing the precision or correctness requirements is a memory operation, MLC memories may have increased performance, lifetime, density, and/or energy efficiency.
US08861267B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes a memory cell array having multiple memory blocks. Each memory block includes memory cells arranged at intersections of multiple word lines and multiple bit lines. At least one word line of the multiple word lines is included in an upper word line group and at least one other word line of the multiple word lines is included in a lower word line group. The number of data bits stored in memory cells connected to the at least one word line included in the upper word line group is different from the number of data bits stored in memory cells connected to the at least one other word line included in the lower word line group.
US08861263B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell unit including a plurality of memory cells coupled between a plurality of word lines and a plurality of bit lines, and configured to provide a read value in response to an activated word line, a reference value generating unit including a plurality of reference value generating cells coupled between the plurality of word lines and a reference bit line, and configured to provide a single reference value in response to the activated word line, and a sense circuit configured to provide a sense output signal based on the single reference value and the read value.
US08861262B2
A spin-current switchable magnetic memory element includes a plurality of magnetic layers including a perpendicular magnetic anisotropy component, at least one of the plurality of magnetic layers including an alloy of a rare-earth metal and a transition metal, and at least one barrier layer formed adjacent to at least one of the plurality of magnetic layers.
US08861250B1
A novel mask read-only memory is provided. After the mask read-only memory leaves the factory, the mask read-only memory has two types of cell structures. The first type cell structure records a first storing state (e.g. the logic state “1”), and the second type cell structure records a second storing state (the logic state “0”).
US08861249B2
A low density One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory is disclosed to achieve low gate count and low overhead in the peripheral circuits to save the cost. A maximum-length Linear Feedback Shift Register (LFSR) can be used to generate 2n−1 address spaces from an n-bit address. The registers used in the address generator can have two latches. Each latch has two cross-coupled inverters with two outputs coupled to the drains of two MOS input devices, respectively. The inputs of the latch are coupled to the gates of the MOS input devices, respectively. The sources of the MOS input devices are coupled to the drains of at least one MOS device(s), whose gate(s) are coupled to a clock signal and whose source(s) are coupled to a supply voltage. The two latches can be constructed in serial with the outputs of the first latch coupled to the inputs of the second latch.
US08861239B2
A static energy supply unit has an energy store connected to an ac supply network by a power converter. A unit controller for the static energy supply unit includes an amplitude controller, a phase controller and a frequency controller. These measure and record characteristics of the supply network and provide output signals indicative of the voltage characteristics for an operating condition of the supply network. A signal generator for generating a simulated output voltage signal for each phase of the supply network is provided. A comparator is used to compare the simulated output voltage signal for each phase and a measured voltage for a corresponding phase of the supply network. The controller controls the operation of the power converter to vary the amount of power that is supplied to the supply network from the energy store based on the comparison of the simulated output voltage signal(s) and the measured voltage(s).
US08861232B2
The current-sensing circuit (1) includes a shunt resistor (R1) connected in series with a path of current from an inverter (106), an operational amplifier (12) amplifying voltage across both ends of this shunt resistor (R1) with a predetermined gain, a low-pass filter (18) averaging output voltage of this operational amplifier (12), and an arithmetic unit (50) calculating the current flowing through the path based on output voltage of the low-pass filter (18). The supply voltage of the operational amplifier (12) is set higher than the supply voltage of the arithmetic unit (50). The output voltage of the operational amplifier (12) is averaged at the low-pass filter (18) to a lower value than the supply voltage of the arithmetic unit (50).
US08861228B2
A high voltage controller configured to drive a high voltage generator. The high voltage controller includes a voltage select input and a current select input, an actual voltage input and an actual current input. First circuitry is configured to generate an alternating current (AC) drive signal. Second circuitry configured to generate a direct current (DC) drive signal. Closed loop control circuitry is configured to adjust the DC drive signal based on at least one of the voltage select and current select inputs and at least one of the actual voltage and actual current inputs. The first circuitry may include a push-pull circuit. The second circuitry may include a pulse width modulation (PWM) controller. A high voltage generator may be coupled to the AC and DC drive signals. The high voltage generator may include a high voltage transformer having a pair of primary windings and center tap. The AC drive signal may be coupled to the primary windings and the DC drive signal may be coupled to the center tap.
US08861226B2
A power filter output architecture of a power supply includes a power conversion circuit board, a filter inductor, and a power output port. The power conversion circuit board includes a conversion circuit which converts an input power into at least one converted power, a power output circuit arranged at an edge of the power conversion circuit board, and a ground circuit arranged between the conversion circuit and the power output circuit. The filter inductor includes a first pin which obtains the converted power, an inductor body which receives the converted power and induces it to produce a filtered power, and a second pin which crosses the ground circuit to connect to the power output circuit. The power output port includes a plurality of power output terminals disposed on the power output circuit to obtain the filtered power, and a plurality of ground terminals connected to the ground circuit.
US08861196B2
A heat dissipation structure includes a circuit board that is disposed inside an outer casing having a chassis formed with air inlet holes, and in which a first electronic component generating heat when driven and a second electronic component not generating heat when driven are mounted on one surface of a base plate, and a heat sink that releases the heat generated in the first electronic component. Here, in the heat sink, a heat dissipation unit positioned facing the base plate, an eaves portion protruding from the heat dissipation unit, and a pair of enclosing portions protruding from ends of the eaves portion in a direction perpendicular to a protruding direction from the heat dissipation unit, and at least one of the air inlet holes is formed in a position facing the eaves portion.
US08861187B2
A computer system and an attached input unit are provided for a user to input data. A computer system may comprise a linking member, a display housing, and an input unit. The linking member may have a first hinge and a second hinge. The display housing may be pivotally attached to the first hinge of the linking member. The input unit may be attached to the second hinge of the linking member.
US08861186B2
A power supply apparatus includes a first electronic device, a second electronic device, and plural power modules. The first electronic device includes a first compartment. The first compartment has a first width. The second electronic device includes a second compartment. The second compartment has a second width. Each of the power modules has a third width. The third width is determined according to the first width and the second width, so that a specified number of power modules are selectively accommodated within the first compartment or the second compartment.
US08861183B2
An electric double layer capacitor includes an anode and a cathode. The anode includes an anode current collector, and a conductive layer and an anode active material layer, on the anode current collector. The cathode includes a cathode current collector and a cathode active material layer on the cathode current collector. The conductive layer includes a conductive material with electrical conductivity of 10−2 to 10−3 S/cm.
US08861179B2
Capacitors and methods of forming capacitors are disclosed, and which include an inner conductive metal capacitor electrode and an outer conductive metal capacitor electrode. A capacitor dielectric region is received between the inner and the outer conductive metal capacitor electrodes and has a thickness no greater than 150 Angstroms. Various combinations of materials of thicknesses and relationships relative one another are disclosed which enables and results in the dielectric region having a dielectric constant k of at least 35 yet leakage current no greater than 1×10−7 amps/cm2 at from −1.1V to +1.1V.
US08861174B2
A device for quick closing of an electric circuit having a main spark gap with main electrodes and a triggering device. The triggering device has an auxiliary spark gap with auxiliary electrodes for igniting an arc in the main spark gap. The auxiliary electrodes are shielded from the main spark gap by a shielding unit having channel means extending therethrough from an auxiliary spark gap facing side to a main spark gap facing side of the shielding unit. The device further includes a nozzle with a first end being most close to the auxiliary spark gap and a second end most close to the main spark gap. The first end has an inlet opening that is in connection with the channel means and the second end has an outlet opening. The invention also relates to a corresponding method and to a use of the device.
US08861167B2
The present invention provides methods and systems for a bipolar ionization device that includes an electrically insulated base, a power input terminal, an anode engaged to the base and the power input terminal, a cathode that partially circumscribes the anode, and plurality of tines extending perpendicularly from the anode having a lower portion and a top portion, wherein the lower portion is engaged to the anode and is wider than the top portion.
US08861166B2
An ionization system for a predefined area includes a plurality of emitter modules spaced around the area, a system controller for individually addressing and monitoring the emitter modules and communication lines for electrically connecting the plurality of emitter modules with the system controller. Each emitter module has an individual address and including at least one electrical ionizer.
US08861165B2
An insulator housing suitable for electrical products for high voltage, for example, surge arresters, breakers or bushings. The insulator housing includes a first cylindrical end and a second cylindrical end having a hollow insulator body. The first end and/or second end is provided with a cylindrical flange for attaching the insulator housing to an external device at a first end of the flange. A strengthening element is arranged at a second end of the flange.
US08861152B2
To prevent an electrostatic damage on a display device formed with a driving circuit. Protective circuits are provided not only at input terminal parts, but also at intermediate parts of a circuit or at the ends of wiring lines. Otherwise, the protective circuits are provided at the ends of the wiring lines and at the places immediately before and after the input terminals, respectively, and then the circuit is interposed therebetween. Further, the protective circuits are provided around a circuit with a large current consumption.
US08861149B2
The present disclosure provides a circuit that has an electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection device and a protected circuit in communication with the ESD protection device. The ESD protection device has a first inductor between a signal input terminal and a complimentary power line. The first inductor has a length less than ¼ of a normal operating wavelength of the protected circuit. The ESD protection device also has a first capacitor between the signal input terminal and the protected circuit.
US08861140B1
A slider supporting apparatus of includes a base portion; a flexure supported by the base portion; a contact portion being provided on a leading portion of the flexure for urging a trailing edge of the slider to contact with pads on the trailing edge; a support plate attached beneath a tongue; and a clamp comprising a mounting portion fixed on the support plate, two spring arms downward extended from the mounting portion to pass through a hole of the flexure slantwise, and a connection bar connected with two ends of the spring arms for urging a leading edge of the slider to provide a downward component force to the slider. The apparatus provides a larger spring stroke with long lifetime to reduce cost, and avoid pitch and roll static torque to generate so as to prevent the slider popping out the suspension during slider testing process.
US08861125B2
One embodiment includes a preamplifier system. The system includes a reference stage configured to set a magnitude of a clamping voltage for a reference node based on a reference current generated in an adjustable reference current path. The system also includes an output stage comprising an adjustable slew current source that is configured to provide an activation current to the reference node in response to at least one activation signal, the output stage to generate an output current at an output of the output stage with a magnitude that is based on the clamping voltage.
US08861116B2
In one embodiment, a method includes spiral writing a DC pattern onto a magnetic disk medium using a writer of a magnetic head while moving the magnetic head in a direction about parallel to a radial direction of the magnetic disk medium while rotating the magnetic disk medium, reading the magnetic disk medium while moving the magnetic head in the direction about parallel to the radial direction of the magnetic disk medium while rotating the magnetic disk medium, and calculating a track pitch interval between data tracks of the magnetic disk medium based on the reading of the magnetic disk medium. In another embodiment, a magnetic disk medium includes a DC spiral pattern in a radial region further outward and/or a radial region further inward than a radial region where data is recorded.
US08861109B1
A data processing circuit includes a long magnet identification circuit operable to identify long magnet bits in data to be processed, the long magnet bits comprising bits having a same value as a number of preceding and subsequent bits, an error calculation circuit operable to subtract an ideal version of the long magnet bits from the long magnet bits to yield an error signal, an adjacent track interference metric calculation circuit operable to calculate an adjacent track interference metric based on the error signal, and a comparator circuit operable to compare the adjacent track interference metric with a threshold value and to assert a refresh signal when the adjacent track interference metric is greater than the threshold value.
US08861105B2
A corner reflector of an armored vehicle includes a housing having a look-in aperture of a subregion extending into a vehicle interior, a look-out aperture of a subregion extending out of the vehicle and at least one prism body or deflection mirrors disposed in the housing, to provide effective shielding against sources of electromagnetic interference. Providing the corner reflector on all sides with a shield made of electrically conductive material ensures that vehicles equipped therewith or individual electronic components thereof cannot be influenced or rendered unusable by sources of electromagnetic interference.
US08861101B2
A lens-mounting structure according to the present invention is a lens mounting structure that glues a lens and a mounting surface of a support portion that supports the lens using an adhesive agent applied there between, to mount the lens to the support portion, characterized by setting a gluing surface area of the mounting surface of the support portion and the adhesive agent to be smaller than a gluing surface area of the lens and the adhesive agent.
US08861097B2
Optical lens attachments and cameras are disclosed. The attachment comprises a coupling mechanism for mating engagement with at least one of a camera and an optical lens. A barrel is coupled at one end to the coupling mechanism. A negative lens unit is coupled to the other end of elongated barrel. A diopter lens is disposed between the barrel and the coupling mechanism. The coupling mechanism, the diopter lens, and the barrel are aligned with an optical axis. Also disclosed is a double swivel optical system, comprising a negative lens unit, a mirror oriented at an angle to the optical axis of the negative lens unit, a roof prism for rotating incident light rays by 90 degrees and inverting an image, a rotation mechanism permitting rotation of the negative lens unit about a vertical axis, an image rotator comprising a prism that can invert an image, the prism disposed within the image rotator, and another rotation mechanism permitting rotation of the roof prism about an optical axis of the image rotator.
US08861094B2
A lens barrel includes a rotational drive source, a lead screw that is provided parallel with an optical axis, and rotates by rotation of the drive source, a lens frame that moves in an optical axis direction, a distance ring that rotates around the optical axis by receiving a manual operation, a guide spur gear that rotates by receiving the rotation of the distance ring, and a nut that is screwed onto the lead screw, wherein when the distance ring is rotated, the nut rotates on the lead screw by being linked with the rotation of the guide spur gear, and moves on the lead screw to press the lens frame in the optical axis direction. When the lead screw rotates by the rotation of the rotational drive source, the nut moves on the lead screw to press the lens frame in the optical axis direction.
US08861088B2
An optical filter 13 is provided with a quartz plate 2 and a filter group 3. The filter group 3 is constituted by combining a first filter 33 having transmission characteristics in the visible region and one preset band of the infrared region that is contiguous with the visible region, and a second filter 35 and a third filter 36 each having transmission characteristics in the visible region and another preset band of the infrared region that is removed from the visible region and having blocking characteristics in a band between the visible region and the other band of the infrared region. In the second filter 35 and the third filter 36, each of the bands in which blocking characteristics are obtained is approximately 150 nm or less, and the bands in which blocking characteristics are obtained overlap.
US08861070B2
By forming a corresponding colored layer under the pixel electrode having a predetermined pattern of the electronic paper display substrate, the pattern displayed in the region where the pixel electrode and the colored layer is disposed has the color of the colored layer when displaying. Compared with the transparency color, the color of the colored layer can make the contrast of the pixel region to the non-pixel region high and display colorful pattern.
US08861067B2
A method for modulating light using a micro-electro-mechanical structure includes providing a plurality of deformable mirror elements (30) having an L-shaped cross section. Each of the deformable mirror elements is comprised of a pedestal (32) and an elongated ribbon (33). Each of the ribbons has a reflective surface (35). A beam of light is directed on the deformable mirror elements. The deformable mirror elements is flexed about an axis parallel to a long dimension of the ribbons to vary a curvature of at least one of the reflective ribbons.
US08861063B2
An optical control apparatus includes: an optical input/output port to which light is input from outside or from which light is output outside; a spatial optical modulator that emits light having entered from the optical input/output port towards the optical input/output port and has polarization dependence; a condensing element that is disposed between the optical input/output port and the spatial optical modulator and optically couples the optical input/output port and the spatial optical modulator; and a polarization control element that is disposed between the condensing element and the spatial optical modulator, controls a polarization state of input light to cause the input light to have only a single polarization direction, and outputs the input light controlled.
US08861051B1
A roller assembly includes a roller shaft, a roller base and at least one roller. The roller shaft defines at least one clipping slot. The roller shaft passes rearward through the roller base to rotatably mount the roller base to the roller shaft. An inside of the roller base extends forward to form an elastic arm. A free end of the elastic arm projects beyond a front surface of the roller base. The free end of the elastic arm defines a hook portion hooked in the clipping slot to restrain the roller base on the roller shaft. The roller is set around the roller base. When the roller assembly is disassembled, press down upon the free end of the elastic arm to make the hook portion project out of the clipping slot, so that the roller base together with the rollers is disassembled from the roller shaft.
US08861045B2
An illuminator, a scanner module and an image scanning apparatus are provided. The scanner module includes an illuminator that includes a light source, a light guide extending in a main scanning direction to change a direction of the light from the light source, a guide holder recessed with a light guide mounting portion in which the light guide is mounted, and at least one supporting protrusion protruding from an entrance of the light guide mounting portion into the light guide mounting portion to support the light guide received in the light guide mounting portion. As the light guide is supported by the supporting protrusion formed at the entrance of the light guide mounting portion, it is possible to reduce deformation of the light guide and/or to prevent the light guide from being falling out of the light guide mounting portion when subjected to, e.g., a shock.
US08861040B2
An image-reading device may include a conveyor, a reading unit, and a control device. The control device may be configured to extract feature points from an area between a first edge and a line, obtain the density of the extracted feature points, and compare the density to a threshold. The control device may be further configured to identify the first edge as a document leading edge or a document trailing edge based on the comparison result.
US08861036B2
An image forming apparatus having density correction characteristic data and a section to execute density conversion on input image data includes a section to generate detecting patterns with multiple area ratios, a section to create images of the patterns on an image bearing member, a section to detect the images of the patterns created on the image bearing member, a section to hold detected values corresponding to the images of the patterns detected from the image bearing member, a section to obtain fixed values or previously detected values as target values for correction, and correction coefficients, a section to calculate a correction characteristic corresponding to the detecting patterns from the obtained target values, the detected values, and correction coefficients, and a section to synthesize new density correction characteristic data from the density correction characteristic data and the correction characteristic corresponding to the patterns.
US08861032B2
The present invention provides stereoscopic prints with enhanced resolution and reduced image coarseness. A stereoscopic print comprises a lenticular lens sheet and a dot image print that is glued to the back surface of the lenticular lens sheet. The order of printing dots for the pixels of tone-representing smallest units with the use of a color plate is set at random. The dot printing order is the same among a given number of image strips forming an image strip group that are continuously arranged in a direction perpendicular to a longitudinal direction of half-cylindrical lenses so that dot printing is performed continuously on an area in which pixels to be printed are continuous.
US08861030B2
A method of managing at least one print media database server for print media attributes of print media is disclosed, the method includes hosting print media attributes for a plurality of image forming apparatuses on the at least one print media database server, and wherein the at least one print media database server contains print media attributes for a plurality of print media from one or more manufacturers; receiving, by the at least one print media database server, additional print media attributes from either of the one or more manufacturers and one of the plurality of image forming apparatuses; confirming accuracy of the additional print media attributes; and enabling, by the at least one print media database server, access to the additional print media attributes in the print media database from the plurality of image forming apparatuses, after the accuracy of the additional print media attributes is confirmed.
US08861029B2
An image data acquiring unit 32 acquires image data of a chart sheet and a reference chart and image data of the white sheet from the external imaging device. A shading correcting unit 34 generates shading correction data on the basis of a white sheet, and performs shading correction for the image data of the chart sheet and the reference chart using the shading correction data. A projective transforming unit performs a projective transformation for the image data of the chart sheet and the reference chart. A color value identifying unit identifies color values of patches in a test chart printed on the chart sheet and color values of patches in the reference chart after the shading correction and the projective transformation. A correction data generating unit generates image correction data on the basis of the identified color values of patches in the test chart and the reference chart.
US08861028B2
Provided are a color-adjusting method and a non-transitory computer readable medium storing a color-adjusting program. The color-adjusting method is used in converting colors of a first device into colors of a second device. The method includes: using a processor of a color-conversion device to perform: representing the gamut of the second device on a lightness-chroma plane for a hue in a color system; obtaining a limiting value of a total quantity of color material; dividing a region outside the gamut into a high-lightness region and a low-lightness region, and further dividing the low-lightness region into a low-chroma region and a medium-high-chroma region based on a reference point defined according to the limiting value; defining a gamut-mapping angle for each of the resulting divided regions; and mapping out-gamut colors within the gamut of the second device by using the gamut-mapping angle.
US08861024B2
Color management conditions concerning management of color accuracy in a printing apparatus are set, and colorimetric values of color patches printed as color specimens by the printing apparatus are acquired in association with a printing time of the color patches. An execution period for a calibration process on the printing apparatus is determined based on a plurality of colorimetric values, which are acquired at a plurality of printing times, and the color management conditions, which have been set.
US08861019B2
Standard positional information is acquired about a plurality of regions of interest to be quantified, which are designated in a standard image region. An image magnification which represents a size ratio of measurement image region represented by the image data to the standard image region is calculated. Positional information of a plurality of regions of interest depending on the measurement image region is calculated based on the acquired standard positional information and the calculated image magnification.
US08861017B2
A method for formatting website content for printing includes providing a web widget to a user's computer. Content from a website viewable on the user's computer can be analyzed and extracted via an application server engaged by the web widget. The extracted content can be transformed into a desired format on the application server.
US08861016B2
Various kinds of value can be easily added to print data output from an existing application without modifying the existing application program. A value-adding method executes a process of adding value to print data output from an application on a computer that has one or more communication ports and executes a specific process by means of an application, and includes a data acquisition step of acquiring the print data at the operating system kernel layer before the print data is received at the communication port, and a data processing step that applies at the application layer a process of adding and/or deleting print content in the print data based on previously registered information, and outputs the data after processing to the specified communication port.
US08861004B2
A reading system includes a reading apparatus and a terminal apparatus. The reading apparatus includes following components. An identification unit identifies a first user. A reading unit reads an original document. A reception unit receives, from the terminal apparatus, authentication information of a second user and an instruction. An authentication unit performs authentication using the authentication information. A permission unit permits, if authentication is successful, the reading unit to read an original document in accordance with the instruction. The terminal apparatus includes following components. A first acquisition unit acquires, from the reading apparatus, identification information of the first user. The acceptance unit accepts an operation of the second user. The second acquisition unit acquires identification information of the second user. The transmission unit transmits, if the pieces of identification information satisfy a certain condition, an instruction corresponding to the accepted operation and the authentication information to the reading apparatus.
US08860999B2
A control device includes a binarization processing unit which executes binarization processing on original image data using first and second types of binarization processing methods, and a compression processing unit which executes compression processing on the binary image data using one of a first type of compression processing method appropriate for compression of the binary image data generated using the first type of binarization processing method, and a second type of compression processing method appropriate for compression of the binary image data generated using the second type of binarization processing method. When the binary image data is generated using the first and second types of binarization processing methods, the compression processing unit selects the compression processing method according to a number of using times of the first type of binarization processing method and a number of using times of the second type of binarization processing method.
US08860994B2
A method is disclosed. The method includes receiving an input print job file including a form definition (formdef), determining whether the formdef is an N-up formdef and generating an output print job file by inserting a forms overlay into the input print job file as a pre-printed form if the formdef is an N-up formdef.
US08860993B2
A system and method for generating automated autographs on a computer with a memory and a processor, including a scanner for inputting handwritten writing samples and a content management system stored on a computer readable medium adapted to perform the steps of reading the handwritten samples, converting each into a type font, wherein each fonts identically resembles the corresponding handwritten sample, inputting an autograph including a message created in a font, and creating an electronic file corresponding to a photograph with an autograph, wherein the autograph appears to have been written by the person who submitted the handwritten sample. The content management system is customized by one or more coding language databases, and is adapted to read and process multiple different writing samples simultaneously, whether sent synchronously or asynchronously, to allow a user to select from a plurality of fonts to include in an autograph.
US08860987B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a driver program for an image forming apparatus. The driver program causes the computer to perform the steps of: (a) causing a display device of the computer to display a driver screen that transmits a job request to the image forming apparatus in accordance with a user operation of a user; and (b) if a predetermined user interface element in the driver screen is operated, causing the image forming apparatus to transmit user setting information on the user to the computer and causing the display device of the computer to display a user setting information page that includes the user setting information.
US08860986B2
An image forming system to print contents of a widget application executed in a terminal, including: the terminal to display a widget screen by executing the widget application, to display content of which a preview is requested in the displayed widget screen, and to request printing of the displayed content; a widget server to receive raw data of the content from the outside and to process the received raw data to preview data or print data; and an image forming device to print the content in response to a print request of the content.
US08860983B2
An information processing apparatus is used in a network environment including a plurality of printing apparatuses and a plurality of client devices which form printing data for realizing a printing processing in the plurality of printing apparatuses. Regarding an association between printing apparatus and driver constituting a selection unit at the time of distributing drivers corresponding to the printing apparatuses, from the information processing apparatus to the client devices, it is possible to prepare and select associations of [N:1], [1:N], and [N:N]. As a result, it is possible to mitigate erroneous association selection and to achieve further simplification in procedures at the time of selection, which leads to a reduction in total cost of ownership (TCO).
US08860980B2
An administrator terminal connected to an image forming apparatus and a client, an image forming system including the same, and a method to remotely an install a driver. The method to remotely an install a driver in an administrator terminal connecting with at least one image forming apparatus and at least one client includes searching for at least one image forming apparatus connected to the administrator terminal, selecting at least one client sharing and using the searched image forming apparatus, selecting an image forming apparatus server according to a network connection type of the image forming apparatus, and installing the driver of the image forming apparatus on the at least one selected client through the selected image forming apparatus server. Thus, at least one client is selected among clients where the driver is installed, and the driver is simultaneously installed according to the selected clients, thereby saving time and cost and providing a convenience to a user.
US08860974B2
A print control apparatus includes a communication unit which communicates with a server, a print instruction acceptance unit which accepts a print instruction to make a printing apparatus execute printing, a judgment unit which judges whether or not the printing apparatus is a registered printing apparatus, a permission unit which permits the printing apparatus to execute printing based on the print instruction when the printing apparatus has been judged to be the registered printing apparatus, a restriction unit which inhibits the printing apparatus from executing printing based on the print instruction when the printing apparatus has not been judged to be the registered printing apparatus, and a notification unit which makes a notification for prompting a user to register the printing apparatus on the server as the registered printing apparatus when the printing apparatus has not been judged to be the registered printing apparatus.
US08860973B2
An image processing unit performs an image processing operation and further performs a setting operation causing a power load as a power load operation. A first control unit controls the image processing unit. A second control unit controls an operation of the first control unit by communicating with the first control unit. An interrupting unit interrupts the power load operation at a first timing after the first control unit is activated when the image processing apparatus is turned on. A resuming unit resumes the power load operation interrupted by the interrupting unit at a second timing.
US08860966B2
An operation apparatus includes a touch panel, a help unit, a shortcut inquiry unit, and a shortcut acceptance unit. The shortcut inquiry unit, upon detection, by the touch panel, of an input operation of the setting condition in a state in which the setting condition input window, which has been switched by the help unit, is being displayed, inquires about whether registration of a shortcut key used for directly switching to the setting condition input window corresponding to the setting item is desired or not, and accepts the registration of the shortcut key used for directly switching to the setting condition input window corresponding to the setting item, if the input operation for registration of the shortcut key is accepted by way of the touch panel.
US08860964B2
A computer is disclosed that performs a print control process. The computer sets a process performed for a job stored in a first folder into a setting storage area. The computer monitors storing the job into the first folder, and stores the job stored in the first folder and a job ticket indicating the process performed for the job stored in the first folder set in the setting storage area into a second folder. Also, the computer monitors storing the job and the job ticket into the second folder, and activates a job edit program to have an operator edit the job after the process indicated by the job ticket is performed for the job stored in the second folder.
US08860961B2
An information processing apparatus includes: a plurality of labels; a plurality of pieces of setting information which is associated with the respective labels, and each piece of setting information including a setting item related to processing of a device and setting content corresponding to the setting item; an identification section that, when the processing of the device is executed, acquires information for identifying one of the plurality of labels, and identifies the one of the plurality of labels from the information; and an application section that applies setting information associated with the one of the plurality of labels identified by the identification section.
US08860959B2
An apparatus stores a setting value for each print setting item as a basic print setting for a print job according to an instruction of operation from an operator entered via a print setting screen, and sets a setting value for one specific print setting item as exception setting, according to an instruction of operation from the operator entered via an exception page setting screen for designating a setting value for the exception setting different from the setting value for the basic print setting of the print job, with respect to the print setting item, which is entered according to the operation instruction to the one specific print setting item of plural print setting items displayed on the print setting screen. The apparatus defines switching of the print setting for the print job, according to the basic print setting and the exception setting.
US08860954B2
A measurement device comprises a carrier 20 adapted to be supported, in use, at least partially within a tubular body, a laser metrology unit 28 including means mounted on the carrier 20 whereby a laser beam 32 can be transmitted radially from the carrier 20 and whereby reflected light can be received, the carrier 20 being movable relative to the tubular body to adjust the position of the said means relative to the body, and a scale arrangement whereby the position of the carrier can be determined.
US08860938B2
According to an embodiment of the invention, an apparatus to detect fluorescence from a sample is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a sample plane onto which the sample is arranged, an excitation light unit including at least a light source to illuminate the sample, and a detection unit comprising at least a detector having at least 100,000 active detection elements to detect a fluorescence signal from the sample.
US08860927B2
A dual-stage exchange system for a lithographic apparatus comprises a silicon chip stage (13) operating in an exposure workstation (3) and a silicon chip (14) stage operating in a pre-processing workstation (4). The two silicon chip stages (13, 14) are provided on the same base stage (1), and suspended on an upper surface (2) of the base stage by air bearings. The two silicon chip stages (13, 14) can move along guide rails (15, 16) in the Y direction. One end of each guide rail (15, 16) is connected to a main driving unit (11, 12), and the other end of each guide rail (15, 16) is butt-jointed with an X-direction single-freedom auxiliary driving unit (7, 8). The silicon chip stages (13, 14) are driven by the single-freedom auxiliary driving units (7, 8) cooperated with the main driving units (11, 12) to move along the X direction. The single-freedom auxiliary driving units (7, 8) can be separated from or precisely butt-jointed with the Y-direction guide rails (15, 16), thereby achieving the position exchange of the two silicon chip stages (13, 14).
US08860922B2
Liquid is supplied to a space between the projection system of a lithographic apparatus and a substrate. A flow of gas towards a vacuum inlet prevents the humid gas from escaping to other parts of the lithographic apparatus. This may help to protect intricate parts of the lithographic apparatus from being damaged by the presence of humid gas.
US08860920B2
A method of producing a liquid crystal display device according to the present invention includes: a step of providing a liquid crystal panel (110); a step of, through light irradiation while applying a voltage to a mixture via a check terminal (174) and a check line (172) on a rear substrate (130), forming from the mixture a liquid crystal layer (140) containing a liquid crystal compound and an alignment sustaining layer (150, 160) resulting through polymerization of a photopolymerizable compound; and a step of, after forming the liquid crystal layer (140) and the alignment sustaining layer (150, 160), applying a voltage across the liquid crystal layer (140) from the check terminal (172) to check the liquid crystal panel (110).
US08860917B2
The present invention discloses a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel and method for forming the same. In the LCD panel, the TFT includes a source and a drain formed by a transparent conducting layer, and a gate formed by a metal layer. The source is electrically connected with a data line through a via hole over the data line. The source connects to the drain via an active layer. Whatever the number of data lines are, each pixel corresponds to an associated via hole, so the number of via holes does not increase, and not reduce the aperture ratio. Therefore, the present invention is very proper to a design using more data lines and working in a high frequency. Moreover, the matrix circuitry of LCD of the present invention is well applied in a display which not only increases a density of data lines to raise the frame rate, but also maintains the aperture ratio and brightness.
US08860912B2
There is provided a liquid crystal display device capable of preventing a decrease in voltage holding ratio (VHR) of a liquid crystal layer and an increase in ion density (ID) and resolving the problem of display defects such as white spots, alignment unevenness, image sticking, and the like. The liquid crystal display device prevents a decrease in voltage holding ratio (VHR) of a liquid crystal layer and an increase in ion density (ID) and suppressing the occurrence of display defects such as image sticking and the like. The liquid crystal display device is thus useful for a VA-mode or PSVA-mode liquid crystal display device for active matrix driving. The application of the device includes liquid crystal display devices such as liquid crystal TVs, monitors, cellular phones, and smart phones.
US08860907B2
There are provided light-emitting layer provided on transparent substrate and emitting light of a specific wavelength, first reflecting layer formed on a light exit side relative to light-emitting layer and including a function of reflecting light emitted from light-emitting layer, second reflecting layer provided on a side of substrate in a manner to interpose light-emitting layer between first reflecting layer and second reflecting layer; light diffusion layer that diffuses light emitted from light-emitting layer is disposed between first reflecting layer and second reflecting layer; and second reflecting layer is formed of a high reflective metallic layer formed of a metallic film having a high reflectivity, a low refractive index layer formed of a material film having a low refractive index, and a multilayer-film reflective layer formed by laminating films made of materials having different reflectivity.
US08860903B2
The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device, which includes a backlight module, a backlight module, a mold frame arranged on the backlight module, a liquid crystal display panel arranged on the mold frame, and a front enclosure arranged on the liquid crystal display panel. The backlight module includes a backplane, a backlight source mounted in the backplane, and a light guide plate received in the backplane. The backplane is made of a conductive material and has a bottom board and side boards connected to the bottom board. At least one of the side boards forms protrusions projecting outward from an outside surface thereof. The front enclosure has an inside surface opposing said one of the side boards and including a conductive film mounted thereto and having an end in contact engagement with the liquid crystal display panel and an opposite end in contact engagement with the protrusions.
US08860900B2
A liquid crystal display includes a first substrate including pixels, each having a transmissive area and a reflective area, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates. Each of the pixels includes first and second thin film transistors which output a data signal in response to a first gate signal, a transmissive pixel electrode disposed in the transmissive area and electrically connected to the first thin film transistor to charge a first pixel voltage based on the data signal, a reflective pixel electrode disposed in the reflective area and electrically connected to the second thin film transistor to charge a second pixel voltage based on the data signal, and a voltage controller which controls the first pixel voltage and the second pixel voltage in response to a second gate signal, which is generated after the first gate signal.
US08860880B2
Apparatus for interpolating images generates motion vectors having a vector confidence value and has a motion compensated interpolation to use the motion vectors to interpolate a new image from two input images at a position determined by a phase control signal. The vector confidence values are used to generate an interpolation confidence measure. The phase control signal is then modified to offset the position at which the new image is interpolated toward the position of the closer of the two input images, if said interpolation confidence measure reduces.
US08860878B2
A camera module includes an imaging sensor, a power feed electrode, a first conductive member, and a first sealing member. The imaging sensor includes a light-receiving surface receiving light gathered by a lens. The power feed electrode is formed to a surface including the light receiving-surface of the imaging sensor, and the power feed electrode is configured to make a power feed. The first conductive member is configured to electrically connect the power feed electrode and a drive electrode. The drive electrode is provided to a drive section configured to drive the lens in accordance with the power feed. The first sealing member is formed by sealing the first conductive member.
US08860870B2
An imaging method includes setting a manual focus mode for moving a focus lens according to an operation of an operation unit, generating a contrast image, which is an image in which an edge of a taken image is enhanced or extracted, and superimposing and displaying, in the case of the manual focus mode, the contrast image on an optical image of the object in an optical finder.
US08860868B2
A digital video camera that includes a photo sensor having a plurality of pixels, each pixel being arranged to obtain and output pixel data, a focusing device to set a focus of the digital video camera, a processing unit to process pixel data from a first subset of the pixels such that image frames of said video image stream are rendered based on pixel data in said first subset of pixels, and an array of micro lenses covering a second subset of the pixels, each of said micro lenses covering a number of pixels. The first subset of pixels is confined within an area and the second subset of pixels is arranged outside and adjacent to said first subset of pixels such that a frame of pixels of said second subset is formed around said first subset of pixels.
US08860867B2
The present invention provides a display apparatus and a display method for realizing control for display operations by a user precisely reflecting the user's status, i.e., the user's intentions, visual state and physical conditions. Worn as an eyeglass-like or head-mount wearable unit for example, the display apparatus of the present invention enables the user to recognize visibly various images on the display unit positioned in front of the user's eyes thereby providing the picked up images, reproduced images, and received images. As control for various display operations such as switching between the display state and the see-through state, display operation mode and selecting sources, the display apparatus of the present invention acquires information about either behavior or physical status of the user, and determines either intention or status of the user in accordance with the acquired information, thereby controlling the display operation appropriately on the basis of the determination result.
US08860863B2
An image pickup method using an image pickup apparatus having a charge coupled device (CCD) image pickup device, the method includes: acquiring an effective pixel signal from effective pixels of a light-receiving face of the CCD image pickup device; acquiring a signal outputted from shaded pixels of the light-receiving face to calculate a representative value of the signal; controlling a variable gain amplification above a vertical period of the effective pixel signal in plus correlation with an average above the vertical period of the representative value; and controlling a variable gain amplification of a horizontal period of the effective pixel signal in minus correlation with a ratio between a value of a horizontal period of the representative value or a recursive average in screens of the representative value and an average above a vertical period of the representative value.
US08860861B2
A pixel is provided with a photodiode region which includes a photoelectric conversion portion for receiving light and generating electrons, and a charge storage portion for storing electric charge. The pixel is configured in such a manner that an electron exclusion region is provided in the photodiode region with the diameter of a circle having the maximum diameter among circles that can exist in the surface of a region through which electrons can pass in the photodiode region as the width of an electron passage region in the photodiode region, and the width of the electron passage region is smaller than when the electron exclusion region is not provided.
US08860853B2
An image signal correcting device (15) has at least a color mixing corrector (151) that receives an image signal arising from photoelectric conversion by a color imaging element (12), and corrects a color mixing component included in this image signal, and a storage unit (153) that stores a color mixing correction coefficient set in advance for each of a plurality of areas segmented in matching with the imaging plane of the imaging element (12). The color mixing corrector (151) approximates the color mixing correction coefficient read out from the storage unit (153) by interpolation to acquire a color mixing rate at the necessary pixel position in color mixing correction, and corrects the color mixing component by using the acquired color mixing rate.
US08860851B2
A technique for processing at least one bad pixel occurring in an image sensing system is provided. Dynamic bad pixel detection is performed on a plurality of streaming pixels taking from at least one controlled image and value and coordinate information for each bad pixel is subsequently stored as stored bad pixel information. Thereafter, static bad pixel correction may be performed based on the stored bad pixel information. The stored bad pixel information may be verified based on histogram analysis performed on the plurality of streaming pixels. The technique for processing bad pixels in accordance with the present invention may be embodied in suitable circuitry or, more broadly, within devices incorporating image sensing systems.
US08860850B1
A method for low-light imaging may include, but is not limited to: detecting one or more photons via the least one photon-counting sensor; determining an orientation of at least one photon-counting sensor; and correlating data associated with the at least one photon-counting sensor with the orientation of the at least one photon-counting sensor. A system for low-light imaging may include, but is not limited to: one or more photon-counting sensors configured for detecting one or more photons via the least one photon-counting sensor; one or more inertial sensors; and at least one processing unit configured for: determining an orientation of at least one photon-counting sensor and correlating data associated with the at least one photon-counting sensor with the orientation of the at least one photon-counting sensor.
US08860847B2
In an exemplary capturing apparatus, a first captured image captured by a capturing section is acquired. Then, it is determined whether or not a face image is included in the first captured image. When it is determined that a face image is included, any one type of image processing is selected from a plurality of types of image processing including a type of image processing using the face image, and the selected type of image processing is performed on the first captured image.
US08860845B2
An imaging apparatus includes an optical wavefront coding element that performs a dispersion of a light flux emitted from a subject into three or more directions, an imaging element that receives the light flux dispersed by the optical wavefront coding element to acquire a subject preimage, and a generation unit that generates an image of the subject by applying a process corresponding to the dispersion to the subject preimage.
US08860843B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided for facilitating the capture of an image of an illuminated area of interest. A method, apparatus and computer program product may tailor the operation of the illumination source based upon the illumination conditions of one or more regions within the area of interest. Additionally, the method, apparatus and computer program product may coordinate the operation of the illumination sources and one or more image sensors to facilitate improved image capture.
US08860841B2
A camera control apparatus comprises a processor adapted to control a display to display a plurality of sensed images respectively obtained from a plurality of cameras and a transmitter adapted to transmit a command to control another camera to execute color adjustment based on an image signal of a reference region of an image of a reference camera of the images displayed as a list by the processor.
US08860834B2
The present invention refers to a modular apparatus for a mobile control room, realized in a flexible manner and such that to be advantageously assembled, continuously modified and provided according to needs and requirements of for example, a client. An important improvement for rendering the directing apparatus modular consists in that several modules are provided and there are inserted inside thereof almost the whole of the apparatuses which are needed for the control of the videocameras (or other functions in the case of different kind of modules); Therefore, the most of the investment is flexible since is moved and incorporated to the same modules.
US08860833B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer-readable storage media for rendering focused plenoptic camera data. A rendering with blending technique is described that blends values from positions in multiple microimages and assigns the blended value to a given point in the output image. A rendering technique that combines depth-based rendering and rendering with blending is also described. Depth-based rendering estimates depth at each microimage and then applies that depth to determine a position in the input flat from which to read a value to be assigned to a given point in the output image. The techniques may be implemented according to parallel processing technology that renders multiple points of the output image in parallel. In at least some embodiments, the parallel processing technology is graphical processing unit (GPU) technology.
US08860832B2
An application for a device that includes an image sensor, an orientation sensor and image capture capabilities. Operation of the device is based upon a detected orientation of the device by the orientation sensor. In one embodiment, when the device is in a horizontal orientation, the image capture operates as a digital still image camera and when the device is in a vertical orientation, the image capture operates as a digital video camera. Other orientations are anticipated including upside down as well as other operating modes such as flash enabled and flash disabled. Optionally, a control is provided to lock the operation in one of the modes irrespective of changes in the orientation of the device.
US08860825B2
Methods and systems for rolling shutter removal are described. A computing device may be configured to determine, in a frame of a video, distinguishable features. The frame may include sets of pixels captured asynchronously. The computing device may be configured to determine for a pixel representing a feature in the frame, a corresponding pixel representing the feature in a consecutive frame; and determine, for a set of pixels including the pixel in the frame, a projective transform that may represent motion of the camera. The computing device may be configured to determine, for the set of pixels in the frame, a mixture transform based on a combination of the projective transform and respective projective transforms determined for other sets of pixels. Accordingly, the computing device may be configured to estimate a motion path of the camera to account for distortion associated with the asynchronous capturing of the sets of pixels.
US08860824B2
The present disclosure includes motion blur modeling methods and systems for image formation. One motion blur modeling method for image formation includes obtaining image data utilized to form a particular image taken by a camera of a subject, obtaining velocity vector data for the subject at the time the image was taken, defining a convolution kernel for use formation of the particular image and based upon the velocity vector data, and applying the convolution kernel to the image data to produce a de-blurred set of image data utilized to form the particular image.
US08860816B2
A technique of enhancing a scene containing one or more off-center peripheral regions within an initial distorted image captured with a large field of view includes determining and extracting an off-center region of interest (hereinafter “ROI”) within the image. Geometric correction is applied to reconstruct the off-center ROI into a rectangular or otherwise undistorted or less distorted frame of reference as a reconstructed ROI. A quality of reconstructed pixels is determined within the constructed ROI. Image analysis is selectively applied to the reconstructed ROI based on the quality of the reconstructed pixels.
US08860811B2
A system and method for the capture and storage of data relating to the movements of objects, in a specified area and enables this data to be displayed in a graphically meaningful and useful manner. Video data is collected and video metadata is generated relating to objects (persons) appearing in the video data and their movements over time. The movements of the objects are then analyzed to detect the movements within a region of interest. This detection of movement allows a user, such as a manager of a store, to make informed decisions as to the infrastructure and operation of the store. One detection method relates to the number of people that are present in a region of interest for a specified time period. A second detection method relates to the number of people that remain or dwell in a particular area for a particular time period. A third detection method determines the flow of people and the direction they take within a region of interest. A fourth detection method relates to the number of people that enter a certain area by crossing a virtual line, a tripwire.
US08860807B2
A surveillance system monitors a monitored vessel containing hidden resources. When activity is determined as occurring within a vicinity of the monitored vessel, an alert is issued to monitoring personnel. Personnel can then obtain a current image of the hidden resource within the monitored vessel. Upon receiving the current image of the hidden resource, a previous image of the hidden resource is retrieved and discrepancies between the current image and the previous image are determined. Responsive to determining that discrepancies between the current image and the previous image exist, an alarm is issued to personnel to further investigate the discrepancy.
US08860802B2
An inspection station identifies defects such as artifacts (e.g., dust, hair, particles) in the sealing areas of sealed sterile packages. A multi-head optical scanner can include at least two fiber optic sensors each comprised of a bundle of optical fibers arranged into a linear face coupled to an image processing module and oriented towards a scanning area of sealed packages moving through a conveyance system. An image processing module can analyze input from the at least two fiber optic sensor arrangements to identify artifacts in the sealing areas of the sealed packages.
US08860794B2
An endoscope system includes an imaging apparatus that outputs, as image information, an electrical signal photoelectrically converted from a plurality of pixels, outside the imaging apparatus, and a processing apparatus that is connected to the imaging apparatus so as to bi-directionally communicate with the imaging apparatus. The imaging apparatus includes a first recording unit that records identification information for identifying the imaging apparatus. The processing apparatus includes a second recording unit that records correction information for correcting characteristics of the imaging apparatus in association with the identification information, and a control unit that acquires, from the second recording unit, the correction information corresponding to the identification information received from the imaging apparatus and transmits the correction information to the imaging apparatus.
US08860783B2
A system for showing scenes that benefit from three-dimensional or quasi-three-dimensional display. In some embodiments, a generally-spherical section of a refracting material is provided in a light diverging layer of finite thickness that can be placed over a substrate display device (such as a LCD or similar flat monitor or display screen) and the refracting element and light diverging layer then spread at least a portion of the scene outwardly from the system in a three-dimensional or quasi-three-dimensional manner. The result is a more accurate, entertaining, interesting, and realistic depiction of scenes having three-dimensional features (e.g., globes, spheres, planets, other objects) shown by the display. The images may be static or animated.
US08860780B1
A system and method for automatically rotating a view of a wide-angle video camera. Preferred embodiments include automatic rotating of a stereographically projected view using a transformation engine which is capable of extracting a plurality of views under a remote pan tilt zoom (PTZ) control. In one example embodiment, when the center point of a video image of a selected view or region of interest is tilted through a direction which is perpendicular to the plane of the camera mounting (i.e., vertical when the camera is mounted on a ceiling) then the output image is automatically rotated 180 degrees about the pan axis. In preferred embodiments, the control circuitry then temporarily reverses interpretation of the tilt axis controls (for example, from PTZ controls), thereby allowing the view to tilt uninterrupted in the same direction past the auto-pivoting point.
US08860775B2
A remote presenting system, includes: a plurality of displays, configured to display a remote image; an audio output apparatus, configured to output remote audio information; a multimedia communication terminal, configured to process and control audio/video information obtained by a local end and audio/video information sent by a remote end; a plurality of video cameras, configured to shoot a local video image and send the shot video image to the multimedia communication terminal to be processed; an audio collection apparatus, configured to collect local audio information, and send the collected audio information to the multimedia communication terminal; and a plurality of user locations, corresponding to the plurality of video cameras respectively, and respectively being in an approximately perpendicular relationship with optic axes of camera lenses of the plurality of video cameras.
US08860767B2
A gamma reference voltage generation circuit and a flat panel display using the same are provided. The gamma reference voltage generation circuit includes R, G and B gamma reference voltage generators each having a plurality of digital-to-analog converters (DACs) that generate a plurality of R, G and B gamma reference voltages. In the DACs of each of the R, G and B gamma reference voltage generators, a high potential bias voltage input terminal of an uppermost DAC used to generate a gamma reference voltage of a maximum gray level is connected to a high potential voltage source. A high potential bias voltage input terminal of each of remaining DACs except the uppermost DAC is cascade-connected to an output terminal of an upper DAC next to each of the remaining DACs.
US08860765B2
A method is disclosed that includes detecting a change in an inclination at a panel of an electronic device. The panel has a display surface. The method also includes detecting a rotation of the panel from a first orientation to a second orientation. The method also includes automatically redrawing an image displayed at the display surface responsive to the rotation when the change in the inclination of the panel does not exceed a threshold during the rotation.
US08860761B2
An image processing device includes a pierced earring image acquisition unit that acquires a pierced earring image showing a pierced earring including a hook part, a head image acquisition unit that acquires a head image at least including a region where an ear is shown, a pierced earring image specifying unit that specifies an end direction of the hook part in the pierced earring image, a head image specifying unit that specifies a rear of a head in the head image, a superimposition unit that superimposes the pierced earring image onto the head image so that the end direction in the pierced earring image faces to the rear of the head in the head image, and an output unit that outputs the image on which the pierced earring image is superimposed. An image closer to the state where the pierced earring is actually worn in the ear is thereby output.
US08860754B2
A computer-implemented method of generating marks in a graphical view includes receiving a first user request to associate a first set of data samples with a first visual mark property. In response to the first user request, area marks are displayed in a graphical view. Respective area marks correspond to respective data samples in the first set. A second user request is received to associate the first set of data samples with a second visual mark property. In response to the second user request, point marks are displayed in the graphical view. Respective point marks correspond to respective data samples in the first set.
US08860753B2
A virtual surgical system receives an image, such as a computer tomography (CT) scan, of an area of the patient in need of surgical reconstruction prior to an incision being made in a surgery. Bone fragments that are to be reduced are automatically selected using the virtual surgical system. The system performs surface matching techniques using surface data representing the contour of the end surfaces of the fragments to determine how the corresponding fragments should be oriented to perform the reduction. At least one of the fragments may then be transformed (e.g. via translation and/or rotation) to join the surfaces based on the matched surfaces. An image may be generated of the reconstructed area providing a virtual representation of a reconstructed object. Thus, before actual dissection of the area, and the subsequent physical surgical reduction of the bones, an image of the reconstructed object may be displayed such that a prosthesis may be determined and/or manufactured.
US08860738B2
An object is to provide an image processing circuit adaptable to displays having a variety of pixel numbers. The image processing circuit includes a data adjustment circuit, a first line memory and a second line memory capable of storing K pieces of data, an output timing control circuit, and an arithmetic circuit. To the data adjustment circuit, (X×Y) pieces of pixel data are input. Y pieces of pixel data are transmitted to the first line memory. When Y is less than K, (K−Y) pieces of dummy data are added to fill the first line memory. Then, the K pieces of data are output from the first line memory to the second line memory and a new set of K data is input to the first line memory. The arithmetic circuit stores the data input from the line memories and performs filtering.
US08860734B2
An outcome of a dice throw and an orientation of the dice can be randomly determined. Based on knowledge of the outcome of the dice throw and the orientation of the dice, die faces that face the player at a beginning time instant of the animated motion can be back calculated. The dice can then be accordingly constrained to a selected one of a number of predefined animations for the dice to efficiently generate a more realistic and accurate graphical representation of the dice throw on the wagering game machine. Such a technique for generating the graphical representation of the dice throw based on 3D modeling and physics of the dice throw precludes managing and maintaining texture maps. Also, the graphical representation of the dice throw can be presented without texture swapping and with less computation because the pre-modeled dice are constrained to the selected animation of the dice.
US08860733B2
In order to reduce the amount of computation required for ray tracing and facilitate simulating of changes in workpiece shape even on an inexpensive, low-performance computer, a device for displaying a cutting simulation includes: a rendered workpiece image update section for updating by ray tracing a portion of a rendered workpiece image buffer and a rendered workpiece depth buffer, the portion being associated with a rendering region corresponding to a change in the shape of the workpiece; a rendered tool image creation section for rendering a tool image by ray tracing for the current tool rendering region; and an image transfer section for transferring a partial image of the previous tool rendering region and the current workpiece rendering region to be updated from the rendered workpiece image buffer to a display frame buffer as well as transferring the current tool rendering image to the display frame buffer.
US08860712B2
Embodiments use point clouds to form a three dimensional image of an object. The point cloud of the object may be formed from analysis of two dimensional images of the object. Various techniques may be used on the point cloud to form a three dimensional model of the object which is then used to create a stereoscopic representation of the object.
US08860703B2
A 2-dimensional (2D)/3-dimensional (3D) image display device generates 2D or 3D image data according to an input image signal and displays them on a display unit. The display unit includes a display panel for displaying an image in response to the 2D or 3D image data and an optical element layer operative during first and second driving modes in accordance with the 3D and 2D image data. A controller converts the optical element layer to be in the first driving mode in a first period before a 3D image signal is displayed when the input image signal changes from a 2D image signal to the 3D image signal, and converts the optical element layer to be in the second driving mode in a second period after the 2D image signal is displayed when the input image signal changes from the 3D image signal to the 2D image signal.
US08860700B2
A driving circuit of an LCD device and related driving method is provided. The driving circuit includes a thermal sensor and a power IC. The thermal sensor is configured to detect the operational temperature of the LCD device, thereby generating a corresponding thermal signal. The power IC is configured to provide a plurality of clock signals for driving a gate driver of the LCD device, and adjust the effective pulse widths of the plurality of clock signals according to the thermal signal.
US08860688B2
A three-dimensional (3D) interactive input system comprises a holographic image generator defining an enclosed space to accommodate a 3D object and configured to generate a holographic image of the 3D object that appears adjacent an input region of the holographic image generator. A projection unit is configured to project image data onto the 3D object, the image data projected onto the 3D object appearing on the holographic image. A sensing unit is configured to detect user proximity to the input region. Processing structure is configured to process sensing unit output and in response, update image data projected by the projection unit.
US08860684B1
Touch sensor methods, devices and systems are disclosed. One embodiment of the present invention pertains to a touch sensing system comprising a touch screen having an array of multiple conductive nodes. A shape of each conductive node is designed such that a touch to a target conductive node generates a low capacitance on one or more neighboring conductive nodes of the target conductive node and a high capacitance generated on the target conductive node. The touch sensing system further may comprise a processor coupled to the touch screen for locating the touch by processing the low capacitance and the high capacitance, where the conductive nodes are coupled to their respective input/output (I/O) pins associated with the processor. Additionally, within the array, each target conductive node coupled to the same I/O pin may comprise a different neighboring conductive node.
US08860683B2
Apparatuses and methods for coupling a group of sensor elements together in one mode to collectively measure a capacitance on the group of sensor elements, in addition to individually measuring a capacitance on each of the sensor elements in another mode. The touch-sensor buttons may be used individually for button-activation sensing, and the touch-sensor buttons may be used collectively for proximity detection. The touch-sensor buttons and a ground conductor that surrounds the touch-sensor buttons may also be collectively used for proximity detection. The apparatus may include a processing device, and a plurality of sensor elements that are individually coupled in a first mode for button-activation sensing and collectively coupled in a second mode for proximity sensing.
US08860682B1
Apparatuses and methods of hardware de-convolution for multi-phase scanning of a touch arrays are described. One apparatus includes a memory device configured to store a capacitance map including convolved capacitance data. The convolved data are results of multi-phase transmit (TX) scanning of a sense array with multiple TX patterns. The apparatus further comprises a de-convolution circuit block coupled to the memory device. The de-convolution circuit block is configured to de-convolve the convolved capacitance data with inverses of the multiple TX patterns to obtain capacitance data for a de-convolved capacitance map.
US08860676B2
The display control device is a display control device which receives a signal from the operating device having a touchpad and generates screen data to be displayed on a screen, the display control device including: a touch information detecting unit (201) which detects touch information including position information about a position on the touchpad that is touched with a finger of a user during operation of the touchpad; a direction determining unit (203) which determines a direction intended by the user, using a characteristic which is indicated by the touch information detected by the touch information detecting unit (201) and which results from the operation on the touchpad with the finger; and a screen data generating unit (205) which generates the screen data depending on the direction determined by the direction determining unit (203).
US08860674B2
A mobile terminal having a circle type display and a method for controlling the same is disclosed herein. A scroll bar is provided at an edge of the circle type display in response to a user input. The user may control the mobile terminal and the circle type display through touch inputs on the scroll bar.
US08860658B2
An electrophoretic display unit is presented that comprises an electrophoretic display panel (1). A medium (5) having embedded therein a plurality of electrophoretic display elements (7) is controlled by a first and a second pixel electrode (22b, 6). In addition a sensor constructed to generate a signal (ST) indicative for a temperature of the display panel and a driver (15) for driving the display panel (1) is provided. The sensor (250) includes a resistance sensor constructed to detect a resistance of the medium (5) between a first (22c) and a second sensor electrode (6), and the driver is controllable according to the resistance detected by the resistance sensor.
US08860656B1
Disclosed is a portable device having a flexible display unit and a control method for the same. The device provides a dimming mode for dimming the display unit when lack of user input for a preset dimming time is sensed. The dimming mode includes a first dimming mode having a first dimming time and a second dimming mode having a second dimming time. The display unit has a first state before the display unit is expanded, and a second state after the display unit is expanded. A processor of the device converts the device from the first dimming mode to the second dimming mode when the display unit is retracted from the second state to the first state, reverts the device into the first dimming mode when preset user input is sensed, and performs dimming of the display unit when lack of the preset user input is sensed.
US08860655B2
The present invention provides an edge-lit backlight module containing 2n+1 sequentially and equally separated backlight partitions where the 2n+1 backlight partitions are lit or turned off individually under a time-sequence control; a LCD panel scanned by the edge-lit backlight module is correspondingly separated into 2n+1 display partitions; the signal to the LCD panel is loaded into the LCD panel frame by frame and display partition by display partition under a time-sequence control; the time sequences to the signal to the LCD panel and the signal to the backlight partitions are controlled so that, whenever the signal loaded into the 2n+1 display partitions of the LCD panel constitutes a complete frame, the n+1 backlight partition in the middle of the edge-lit backlight module is always lit. The present invention also provides a scanning method of an edge-lit backlight module.
US08860648B2
A driving circuit including a shift register is presented, as well as a display device incorporating the driving circuit. The shift register has multiple stages, at least of which includes a first output circuit that generates an output signal O(i) according to a potential at Node Q; a second output circuit that generates a carry signal Cr(i) according to the potential at the Node Q; a controller circuit that controls the potential at the Node Q and the output signal O(i); a first holding circuit that maintains the output signal and the carry signal at low voltage states in response to a Node A reaching a predetermined potential; and a second holding circuit that controls a potential at the Node A, the second holding circuit including a first transistor that lowers the potential at the Node A in response to the carry signal Cr(i).
US08860639B2
Disclosed are a timing controller and an OLED display device using the same. The timing controller includes a reception unit, an image signal generation unit, and a control signal generation unit. The reception unit receives a plurality of video signals and a timing signal which are transferred from a system. The image signal generation unit realigns the video signals to generate a plurality of image signals. The control signal generation unit analyzes the video signals to determine whether a current input image is a static image or a moving image, and generates a plurality of control signals according to the determined result. When the current input image is determined as the static image, the control signal generation unit generates a plurality of control signals which allow a panel to be driven at a change frame driving frequency lower than a reference frame driving frequency necessary for driving the moving image.
US08860635B2
Various embodiments of methods and systems for designing and constructing displays from multiple light-modulating elements are disclosed. Display elements having different light-modulating and self-assembling characteristics may be used during display assembly and operation.
US08860634B2
A head-mountable display (HMD) comprises a frame for mounting on a user's head, a camera mounted on the frame for capturing a view of the user's eyes, a motion detector for detecting motion of the HMD and for generating a motion signal representing a movement of the HMD with respect to time, and a controller. The controller estimates a distance between the user's eyes by capturing a relative separation of the user's eyes from an image of the user's eyes captured by the camera at a start position. The controller processes a motion period of the motion signal, and estimates a displacement of the user's eyes with respect to the frame. The HMD can adjust a relative position at which a first image is displayed to one eye and position at which a second image is displayed to the other eye for an improved viewing experience.
US08860627B2
A reconfigurable reflector for electromagnetic waves, comprising: a rigid support element (10) having a front surface (13); an elastically deformable reflective membrane (30) lying over the front surface of said rigid support element; and a plurality of linear actuators (20) for deforming said reflective membrane by operating on predetermined points thereof; wherein said linear actuators are embedded within said rigid support element, and have shafts (22) protruding by the front surface thereof for operating on predetermined points of said elastically deformable reflective membrane.Preferably, the rigid support element comprises a reflector dish having a sandwich structure having a honeycomb core (11) made of CFRP or aluminum, in which the linear actuators are embedded by conventional potting techniques.Antenna system comprising such a reconfigurable reflector, possibly operating as a subreflector (SR), and spacecraft telecommunication.
US08860624B2
A wireless explosion-proof apparatus includes an antenna, an explosion-proof chamber, a communication module disposed in the explosion-proof chamber, the communication module configured to transmit and receive a wireless signal through the antenna, a connector portion having a central conductor, to which the antenna is electrically connected, the central conductor having one end connected to the communication module through a connection line and the other end exposed to the outside of the explosion-proof chamber, and a short stub module disposed in the explosion-proof chamber and disposed on the connection line, the short stub module configured to secure electric conduction between the one end of the central conductor and a ground so as to keep potential of the central conductor at certain potential.
US08860617B1
A multiband antenna includes one or more first antennas embedded within a second antenna. The one or more first antennas can include a folded dipole, and the second antenna can include a monopole. The folded dipole and the monopole may operate at different resonant frequencies. Because the folded dipole is embedded in the monopole, rather than being a separate antenna, near-field coupling between the antennas may be reduced, resulting in enhanced radiation patterns by one or both antennas. More complex antenna structures can also be constructed having multiple antennas embedded within one or more antennas.
US08860615B2
Disclosed is a type of antenna for vehicles that is protected by having a cap fitted-onto an antenna cover that covers an antenna element thereof, wherein coming-off of the cap is prevented from happening. The antenna for vehicles, which is comprised by having an antenna rod mounted onto an antenna base, is provided with: a conductive rod element that is formed within the antenna rod, and connected to the antenna base; a joint section that covers at least the side face of the rod element in the axis direction thereof, and that comprises an inner-side cylinder that is formed in the vicinity of an end section at the opposite side of the antenna base and further comprises a joint engaging section, and an outer-side cylinder that is formed at the outer side of the inner-side cylinder; and a rod cap that comprises a cop engaging section for engaging with the joint engaging section.
US08860614B2
An antenna system for reception and transmission of radio frequency (RF) signals and a method for tuning the antenna system are provided. The antenna system includes a ground plane, a first element and a second element. The first element includes a driven unbalanced antenna element that resonates within at least one predetermined first frequency band to transmit and receive radio frequency (RF) signals modulated at one or more frequencies within the at least one predetermined first frequency band. The second element is non-resonating within the at least one predetermined first frequency band and is located within an antenna volume of the first element to create a partial loop response within the antenna volume of the first element by capacitively coupling to the first element when connected to the ground plane.
US08860608B2
A photonic-assisted digital radar system comprising an active electronically-scanned antenna; a transmitting section comprising a waveform generator to generate a modulating signal; and a modulator to receive a transmission carrier and the modulating signal and to modulate the transmission carrier by means of the modulating signal; and a receiving section comprising a photonic-assisted analog-to-digital converter to convert electric analog signals into electric digital signals; and a digital signal processor to receive and process the electric digital signals. The photonic-assisted analog-to-digital converter comprises a mode-locked laser to generate an optical clock signal; and an electronic analog-to-digital converter; wherein the electronic analog-to-digital converter, the waveform generator, the modulator and the digital signal processor are configured to operate based on electric clock signals generated based on the optical clock signal.
US08860598B2
A converter system, including a first converter that digitizes the a first portion of an input signal, the first converter including a comparator, a timer having a circuit structure that emulates a circuit structure of a comparator in the first converter, the timer receiving an input signal indicating commencement of operations in the comparator, a second converter that digitizes a second portion of the input signal remaining from the first portion in response to an output from the timer, and a combiner having inputs to generate a digital code from the digitized first and second portions.
US08860597B2
Digital-to-analog converter circuitry is described. The digital-to-analog converter circuitry includes a plurality of weighted resistance elements. A first weighted resistance element includes a switch coupled to a reference voltage. The first weighted resistance element also includes a T-network coupled to the switch. The T-network approximately equalizes a first response speed of the first weighted resistance element with a response speed of a differently weighted resistance element.
US08860585B2
A vehicle approach warning apparatus has a failure determining section and a monitor voltage output circuit connected to a potential change terminal. During a sound emit period where a warning signal is being outputted to an sound emitter for emitting a warning sound, the output circuit outputs a monitor voltage from an output terminal by half-wave rectifying and integrating the warning signal upon a change of a potential of the potential change terminal to a high level. When a short-circuit failure occurs in the sound emitter, the output circuit keeps a potential of the output terminal to a low level during the sound emit period. During the sound emit period, the failure determining section sets the potential of the potential change terminal to a high level and determines whether the short-circuit failure occurs based on the monitor voltage.
US08860580B1
Apparatus and method for protecting against theft of wiring or other object formed of electrically conductive material in which the object is connected to a source of electrical power. The voltage of the object is sensed by a voltage sensor and a transmitter actuated when the voltage sensor detects a voltage change in the object.
US08860569B2
Automatically detecting a wireless data logger with a multi-network wireless mobile gateway via low energy radio network-based proximity detection enables automatically transferring data logger sensed data that includes a portion of previously logged data from the wireless data logger via the low energy network to the multi-network mobile wireless gateway for further transfer from the multi-network wireless mobile gateway to a host via a second network.
US08860552B2
The present invention relates to a strap device for a curtain or a flexible door, said straps having embedded RFID reader antenna modules and different MEMS and MOEMS sensors that make it possible to detect the direction of the objects passing through the gate and also detect the size of the objects so as to modulate the switching of the radiating elements of antennas on the basis of the position of the objects being read. The device also has embedded biosensors that measure in parallel the presence of toxic substances or materials. The device according to the invention has an LED or OLED and PHOLED display means embedded in the strap, more specifically, in a flexible material of the strap. The invention is particularly intended for the qualitative and quantitative traceability of materials passing through a logistical check gate. The device is intended for all places already having curtains with flexible straps, into which it is easily embedded. The device is suitable for all existing RFID readers.
US08860543B2
A wire-less inductive device and methods of manufacturing and use are disclosed. In one embodiment, the inductive device comprises a plurality of through-hole vias which act to replace windings disposed around a magnetically permeable core. In another embodiment, the inductive device comprises a plurality of connection elements disposed or formed within channels which act as windings disposed around a magnetically permeable core. In a second aspect of the invention, a method of manufacturing the aforementioned inductive devices is disclosed. In a third aspect of the invention, an electronics assembly and circuit comprising the wire-less inductive devices are disclosed.
US08860536B2
Some embodiments include a starter system with an electronic control unit controllable starter that includes a motor coupled to a circuit, and a plunger moveably coupled to a pinion. The system can include a first switch coupled to the circuit that includes two contacts, and a solenoid assembly that includes a first and second solenoid winding that can reversibly move the plunger to couple and decouple from the two contacts. A secondary solenoid assembly includes a third solenoid winding that can electrically couple with secondary solenoid assembly contacts, and two power isolation switches including a second switch and a third switch. The third switch can enable current to flow through the third solenoid winding and in the second solenoid winding after movement of the plunger has coupled the two contacts of the first switch, and the second switch is can enable current to flow to the first solenoid winding.
US08860523B2
The frequency characteristic of a voltage-feedback class-D amplifier circuit for driving an output load is improved. A triangular-wave correction circuit which compensates a gradient of a triangular wave is provided to a triangular-wave signal generator which supplies a triangular wave signal used as a PWM carrier to a comparison circuit for performing PWM modulation of an input signal. In an area where a duty of a command value for an output circuit drive becomes about 50%, a slew rate (gradient) of the triangular wave is decreased.
US08860510B2
An amplification stage comprising: a combiner to generate a sum input signal by combining a voltage signal with a DC bias voltage; a subtractor to generate a difference input signal by subtracting the voltage signal from the DC bias voltage; a first transistor for generating a first part of an amplifier output signal from the sum input signal; a second transistor for generating a second part of an amplifier output signal from the difference input signal; a combiner for combining the first and second parts of the amplifier output signal; a sensing circuit arranged to sense a current flowing in each of the first and second transistors; a control circuit arranged to determine the quiescent current of the first and second transistors in dependence on the sensed currents; and an adjustment circuit arranged to adjust the DC bias voltage in order to minimize variation in the quiescent current.
US08860507B2
An amplifier includes a transformer and a first stage gain circuit. The transformer includes a primary coil and a secondary coil. The primary coil is utilized for receiving an input signal. The first stage gain circuit has a first input port, which is coupled to the primary coil. The first stage gain circuit is utilized for gaining the input signal so as to generate a first output.
US08860506B2
There is provided an amplifying apparatus which can prevent characteristic deterioration while reducing costs. The amplifying apparatus includes a first amplifier connected between an input terminal to which a high-frequency signal is input and an output terminal through which the high-frequency signal is output, including a bipolar transistor, and amplifying the high-frequency signal input from the input terminal; a second amplifier including a bipolar transistor, amplifying the high-frequency signal input from the input terminal, and having a lower maximum output power than that of the first amplifier; and a switching unit connected between the second amplifier and the output terminal, and selectively outputting the high-frequency signal amplified by the second amplifier through the output terminal.
US08860502B2
An apparatus for monitoring timing of a plurality of critical paths of a functional circuit includes a plurality of canary circuits, each configured to be coupled to a critical path of a functional circuit for detecting and outputting critical timing events. Each canary circuit includes an adjustable delay element and an analyzer circuit for receiving a count of the critical timing event output from at least one of the plurality of canary circuits for a predetermined time interval for a plurality of delay values of the adjustable delay elements and for determining a probability distribution of critical timing events of the at least one of the plurality of critical paths for the predetermined time interval for the plurality of delay values.
US08860495B2
An electronic component includes a depletion-mode transistor, an enhancement-mode transistor, and a resistor. The depletion-mode transistor has a higher breakdown voltage than the enhancement-mode transistor. A first terminal of the resistor is electrically connected to a source of the enhancement-mode transistor, and a second terminal of the resistor and a source of the depletion-mode transistor are each electrically connected to a drain of the enhancement-mode transistor. A gate of the depletion-mode transistor can be electrically connected to a source of the enhancement-mode transistor.
US08860493B2
A semiconductor apparatus is provided herein for reducing power when transmitting data between a first device and a second device in the semiconductor apparatus. Additional circuitry is added to the semiconductor apparatus to create a communication system that decreases a number of state changes for each signal line of a data bus between the first device and the second device for all communications. The additional circuitry includes a decoder coupled to receive and convert a value from the first device for transmission over the data bus to an encoder that provides a recovered (i.e., re-encoded) version of the value to the second device. One or more multiplexers may also be included in the additional circuitry to support any number of devices.
US08860488B2
Apparatuses and methods, such as those for shifting a voltage level are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a level shifter configured to provide output signals based on a logical value of an input signal, where the level shifter is precharged to a precharge voltage prior to providing the output signals. An example method includes precharging an output node of a level shifter to a precharge voltage responsive to a precharge signal via a precharge circuit. A transition of the input signal from a first logical value to a second logical value is received at the level shifter and an output signal is provided at the output node based on the second logical value of the input signal.
US08860484B2
Embodiments of a logic path are disclosed that may allow for a reduction in switching power. The logic path may include a storage circuit, a comparison circuit, and a clock gating circuit. The storage circuit may be configured to store received data responsive to a local clock signal. The comparison circuit may be operable to compare the received data to data previously stored in the storage circuit. The clock gating circuit may be configured to generate the local clock signal dependent on a global clock signal, and de-activate the local clock signal dependent upon the results of the comparison performed by the comparison circuit.
US08860483B2
Pulse width modulation signal generation circuit and pulse width modulation signal generation method
The present invention discloses a PWM signal generation circuit and a PWM signal generation method. The PWM signal generation circuit includes: a reference signal generation circuit for generating a reference signal according to an input voltage; a variable ramp signal generation circuit for generating a variable ramp signal; and a comparator circuit for comparing the reference signal with the variable ramp signal to generate a PWM signal. A rising slope and/or a falling slope of the variable ramp signal is variable.
US08860482B1
A phase-locked loop circuit includes an oscillator circuit that generates a clock signal. The oscillator circuit has gears. Each of the gears of the oscillator circuit corresponds to a respective frequency range of the clock signal. A gear control circuit includes a regulator circuit that provides a supply voltage to the oscillator circuit. Each of the gears of the oscillator circuit corresponds to a different supply voltage provided by the regulator circuit. The regulator circuit varies the supply voltage to change a selected one of the gears of the oscillator circuit. The gear control circuit varies the supply voltage for one of the gears of the oscillator circuit to adjust a frequency range of that gear of the oscillator circuit.
US08860472B2
In one embodiment, a power switch driving circuit can include: (i) a first circuit configured receiving a control signal, and controlling a first transistor gate, where a first transistor source is coupled to a power supply, and a first transistor drain is coupled to a driving signal configured to control a power switch; (ii) a second circuit configured to receive the control signal, and to control a second transistor gate, where a second transistor source is coupled to ground, and a second transistor drain is coupled to the driving signal; and (iii) a driving enhancement circuit having a third transistor and a first inverter that is configured to invert an output of the first circuit to control a third transistor gate, where a third transistor source is coupled to the driving signal, and a third transistor drain is coupled to the power supply.
US08860469B1
Disclosed are apparatus and methods to advantageously calibrate a transmitter output swing. One embodiment relates to a method for calibrating the output swing voltage of a transmitter. A fixed value is provided as the data input, and output swing calibration circuitry is connected to the transmitter buffer circuit. A transmitter current is set to an initial level, and the transmitter current is adjusted until the output swing of the transmitter buffer circuit is calibrated. Another embodiment relates to an integrated circuit which includes a transmitter buffer circuit, output swing calibration circuitry, and switches arranged to electrically connect the transmitter buffer circuit to the output swing calibration circuitry during an output swing calibration mode. Another embodiment relates to an output swing calibration circuit which includes comparison circuitry and logic and control circuitry.
US08860464B2
A zero keeper circuit includes a dynamic input PFET connected to a source, an output, and a dynamic input. The circuit also includes a clock input NFET connected to the output, a pull-down node, and a clock input. The circuit also includes a dynamic input NFET connected to the pull-down node, a reference voltage, and the dynamic input. The circuit also includes a feedback PFET and a clock input PFET connected in series between the source and the output. The feedback PFET receives a feedback signal and the clock input PFET receives the clock input. The circuit also includes a feedback NFET connected to the output and the node. The feedback NFET is configured to couple the output to the node based on the feedback signal. The circuit also includes a NOR gate configured to provide the feedback signal based on the output and a bypass input.
US08860455B2
Methods and systems to measure a signal on an integrated circuit die. An on-die measurement circuit may measure an on-die signal relative to an off-die generated reference signal, which may include a series of increasing voltage steps. The on-die measurement circuit may continuously compare voltages of the on-die signal and the off-die generated reference signal, and may generate an indication when the off-die reference signal exceeds the on-die signal. The measurement circuit may generate the indication from a voltage source other than the on-die signal to be measured, and/or may generate the indication with a relatively large voltage swing. The indication may be output off-die for evaluation, such as for testing, debugging, characterization, and/or operational monitoring. A unity gain analog buffer may be provided to tap the on-die signal proximate to a node of interest, which may be implemented within the on-die measurement circuit.
US08860454B2
A connector includes a first terminal. The first terminal includes a movable portion, and the movable portion has, on its tip side, a contact portion located on a course C of a case assembly. Further, the first terminal includes a fixed portion restricted from moving and located on a base side of the movable portion. The movable portion is elastically deformable to incline toward a side surface of an insertion hole while using the fixed portion as a fixed point. Further, the movable portion includes a hit portion between the contact portion and the fixed portion. The hit portion is located apart from the side surface of the insertion hole, and the hit portion is provided capable of hitting, midway during inclining of the movable portion toward the side surface of the insertion hole, against the side surface of the insertion hole.
US08860453B2
The invention provides a base plate for a test adapter for use in testing devices in a production line. The base plate comprises a first interface configured to connect to a product-specific part configured to receive and test a specific type of device under test, and a second interface configured to connect to a common part comprising testing elements common to various devices under test. The base plate is a printed wiring board arranged to couple signals from the common part to the device under test.
US08860452B2
Provided are a tester configured to test a semiconductor device and a test system including the same. The tester may include at least one contact unit and at least one memory controller. The contact unit is in contact with the semiconductor device. The memory controller is connected to the contact unit. The memory controller controls data input/output (I/O) operations of the semiconductor device and tests the semiconductor device.
US08860443B1
The device that has been invented senses moisture contact of round bales as they are formed in the chamber of a round baler, by supplying voltage to a sensor located on one of the side walls of the baler and reading the voltage on a second sensor located on the opposing side wall of the baler.
US08860442B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method of determining or adjusting the sensitivity of a biosensor arrangement comprising at least one field effect biosensor is provided, each of the at least one field effect biosensor comprising: a semiconductor substrate comprising a source region, a drain region and a channel region disposed between the source region and the drain region; a gate isolation layer covering the channel region; and a reference electrode disposed over the gate isolation layer such that a electrolytic solution to be sensed can be provided between the reference electrode and the gate isolation layer. The method comprises the following processes carried out for each field effect biosensor: providing an electrolytic solution between the reference electrode and the gate isolation layer; applying a source/drain voltage between the source region and the drain region; varying a reference voltage supplied to the reference electrode over a voltage range; measuring a resulting drain current while varying the reference voltage in order to obtain a corresponding drain current function; and determining the sensitivity of the field effect biosensor based on the reference voltage supplied to the reference electrode and the corresponding drain current function.
US08860439B2
A particulate matter detection element includes a capacitance component disposed in parallel with a detected resistance RSEN. A direct current-power source that supplies a direct current (IDC) for particulate matter detection, and an alternating-current power source that supplies an alternating current (IAC) for disconnection detection are provided.
US08860434B2
A method of measuring scattering parameters (S-parameters) of a device under test (DUT) is provided in the present disclosure. The S-parameters of the DUT with two connectors of different standards may be obtained without performing a full two-port calibration using an adapter kit. Two one-port calibrations are performed in the present disclosure to build two error models, the first one of which includes the characteristics of one-port of a network analyzer and a cable, the second one of which further includes the characteristics of the DUT. Therefore, the characteristics of the DUT may be obtained by removing the characteristics of the first error model from the second error model.
US08860421B2
A cell voltage measuring apparatus of a battery pack comprises a plurality of multiplexers connected corresponding to each cell group of the battery pack and operated to output a voltage signal of each cell in each cell group based on a reference potential applied from a corresponding cell group; a plurality of floating capacitors connected corresponding to each cell in each cell group and on which the voltage of each cell is charged and held; a switching means for enabling the voltage of each cell to be charged and held on each corresponding floating capacitor; and a controller for controlling the switching means per each cell group to enable the voltage of each cell to be charged and held on each corresponding floating capacitor and controlling each multiplexer to measure the cell voltage held on each floating capacitor of each cell group connected to each corresponding multiplexer.
US08860416B2
A drill string can include at least one transmit antenna and at least one receive antenna. The transmit antenna transmits at least one electromagnetic signal into a region of an earth formation. The receive antenna receives the signal from the region of the earth formation. The transmit antenna comprises one of a magnetic dipole and an electric dipole, and the receive antenna comprises the other of the magnetic dipole and the electric dipole. At least one characteristic of the region of the earth formation is determined, based at least partially on a first signal as received by the receive antenna at a first time, a second signal as received by the receive antenna at a second time, and a distance traveled by the drill string between the first and the second times. A homogeneous part of the electromagnetic signal may be reduced, to thereby increase a depth of detection of the characteristic.
US08860414B2
A gradient coil arrangement for use in a magnetic imaging system, the imaging system being for generating a magnetic imaging field in an imaging region provided in a bore. The coil arrangement includes a first portion having a substantially cylindrical shape for positioning in the bore, a second portion extending outwardly from an end of the first portion, the second portion being for positioning outside the bore and at least one coil for generating a gradient magnetic field in the imaging region, the at least one coil having a first part provided on the first portion and a second part provided on the second portion.
US08860413B2
Methods and systems are provided that enable logging while drilling NMR measurements to be made with a tool having magnets with positions adjustable or movable relative to each other. Such movement can affect the depth of investigation of the NMR tool. A variety of moving assemblies can be used to effectuate the movement, which can be performed either at the surface or downhole. The tool also can include a magnetically permeable member to control the magnetic field gradient.
US08860410B2
Circuits and methods use a feedback arrangement to select one or more measuring devices from a plurality of measuring devices in order to rapidly identify a direction of a sensed parameter. In some embodiments, the plurality of measuring devices corresponds to a plurality of magnetic field sensing elements and the sensed parameter is a magnetic field.
US08860399B2
A monitoring device is for monitoring physical characteristics of a building material. The monitoring device is buried inside a block of the building material, and has a sensor to sense physical characteristics thereof. The sensor transmits a signal representative of the physical characteristics.
US08860397B2
A power control circuit and method of formation is provided, which in one embodiment includes a low voltage detection circuit to process a rectified input voltage from at least one alternating current (AC) voltage source and to output a low voltage indication signal upon detection of an initiation of an increase in the rectified input voltage; and a driver circuit configured to receive a signal representative of the low voltage indication signal and, in response, to output a drive signal to the switch control input of the power switch to turn on the power switch.
US08860396B2
An apparatus for electric power conversion includes a converter having a regulating circuit and switching network. The regulating circuit has magnetic storage elements, and switches connected to the magnetic storage elements and controllable to switch between switching configurations. The regulating circuit maintains an average DC current through a magnetic storage element. The switching network includes charge storage elements connected to switches that are controllable to switch between plural switch configurations. In one configuration, the switches forms an arrangement of charge storage elements in which at least one charge storage element is charged using the magnetic storage element through the network input or output port. In another, the switches form an arrangement of charge storage elements in which an element discharges using the magnetic storage element through one of the input port and output port of the switching network.
US08860391B2
A DC-DC converter converts an input voltage input from an input terminal to a predetermined voltage and outputs the converted voltage from an output terminal, the DC-DC converter including an output control transistor and an operation control circuit that has an error amplifying circuit, whereby the error amplifying circuit includes an output circuit configured to output an error voltage and include an output transistor of a source follower connection, a series circuit configured to include a resistor for phase compensation and a capacitor for phase compensation and be connected between a control electrode of the output circuit and a grounding voltage terminal, and an amplifying circuit configured to be positioned on a side more distant from a side outputting the error voltage relative to the output circuit in the error amplifying circuit, and include a voltage generating element as a load of the amplifying circuit.
US08860386B2
A converter circuit may include: a first node receiving an input voltage; a second node providing an output voltage; a first inductor between the first node and a third node; a capacitor between the third node and a first terminal of a diode, the other terminal of the diode providing said output voltage; a second inductor between the first terminal of the diode and common; an electronic switch acting between the third node and common; a first current generator acting between the first node and the switch to drive the switch to the conductive condition; and a second current generator sensitive to the current through the switch in the “on” condition and/or the output voltage on the second node, the second current generator to draw current from the first current generator to drive the switch to the non-conductive condition.
US08860376B2
A charging control circuit for a secondary battery includes a temperature detection terminal for detecting the temperature of a secondary battery from an input detected voltage; a temperature comparison part having four threshold voltages corresponding to four reference temperatures, the temperature comparison part being configured to compare the four threshold voltages with the detected voltage input to the temperature detection terminal and to output a temperature range signal indicating the temperature range of the detected voltage; and a control part configured to control a charging current and/or a charging voltage based on the temperature range signal output from the temperature comparison part.
US08860374B2
A control circuit for a secondary battery is disclosed. The control circuit comprising a measuring unit electrically connected with a single connection to a current carrying line for charging and discharging the battery, wherein the measuring unit is configured to generate a voltage value corresponding to current in the current carrying line.
US08860373B2
A protective circuit includes a smoothing circuit in which a pulse-like charging output permitting signal is input in a normal charging state and the pulse-like charging output permitting signal is not input in an abnormal charging state, and a charging output control element that is controlled so as to permit or stop a charging output with respect to an electric storage device, permits the charging output by an output signal in which the charging output permitting signal is smoothened by the smoothing circuit, and stops the charging output when an abnormal charging state is detected.
US08860370B2
Systems and methods of dynamic current limit are disclosed herein. A current is sensed a wireless charging circuit, for example. When the current sense reaches a reference current level while a communication is active, the current limit is enabled for the next packet. The current limit signal may be cleared for the next packet.
US08860369B2
An apparatus includes multiple taps coupled to a power line segment. The apparatus also includes circuitry coupled to a charging station and coupled to the multiple taps, with the circuitry being configured to discriminate between communication signals propagating on a power line segment in the direction from the first end to a second end of the power line segment and communication signals propagating on the power line segment in the direction from the second end to the first end. The circuitry includes a signal processing unit in communication with each of the taps, wherein the signal processing unit is configured to control a phase for at least a portion of a signal for at least a first of the taps relative to a phase for a corresponding portion of the signal for at least a second of the taps.
US08860368B2
In an electric charging system (and electric vehicle), Electric-charger-side data Ds are calculated by subjecting an electric-charger-side supplied voltage Vs to filter processing, and electric-vehicle-side data Dr are calculated by subjecting an electric-vehicle-side received voltage Vr to filter processing. A reference point α1 is set for the electric-charger-side data Ds on the basis of the variation in the rise rate of the electric-charger-side data Ds. Likewise, a reference point α2 is set for the electric-vehicle-side data Dr based on variation in the rise rate of the electric-vehicle-side data Dr. When an insulation failure between the electric charger and the electric vehicle is determined, a time lag T between the electric-charger-side data Ds and the electric-vehicle-side data Dr is calculated based on the reference points α1 and α2, and the electric-charger-side data Ds and the electric-vehicle-side data Dr that are synchronized based on the time lag T are compared.
US08860363B2
A charge device converting electric power from an external power supply into a charging electric power for a power storage device is configured to allow power conversion bidirectionally. An AC/DC converter of an external charging system converts AC power of a power line into a charging electric power for an auxiliary battery. A DC/DC converter of the vehicle running system converts the electric power from the power storage device into the charging power for the auxiliary battery. When charging of the auxiliary battery is requested, a control device selectively executes a first charge of converting the electric power of the power storage device by the DC/DC converter to charge the auxiliary battery, and a second charge of converting the electric power of the power storage device by a charge device and the AC/DC converter to charge the auxiliary battery, according to an output state of the auxiliary battery.
US08860361B2
A vehicle power supply system includes a power monitor device that detects supply power from a battery and a generator to a home electrical appliance and a control unit that performs a supply power excess determination and a supply power variance determination using a detection value of the power monitor device when a driving of a vehicle is stopped to control a rotational speed of an engine according to determination results.
US08860357B1
A universal power generating system, having a rechargeable battery bank with a plurality of rechargeable batteries; a computer; and an outside power source. The outside power source has a shaft, propellers are fixedly mounted onto the shaft. The shaft extends through electromagnetic generator systems. The universal power generating system also has at least one ultracapacitor and electrical circuitry. Fixedly mounted onto the shaft are hubs, each of the hubs have fan blades mounted thereon and permanent magnetic elements. The fan blades are shaped to cause the hubs, and therefore the shaft to rotate by wind force. The electromagnetic generator systems convert mechanical energy generated from rotation of the shaft to electrical energy that flows to a rotary alternative inverter, to a transformer and a power supply through electrical wiring and to the rechargeable battery bank. The at least one ultracapacitor provides power for electrical components of a vehicle.
US08860356B2
A variable magnetic flux motor drive system includes: a variable magnetic flux motor having a variable magnet which is a low-coercive permanent magnet; an inverter that drives the variable magnetic flux motor 1; an inverter as a magnetization unit which supplies a magnetization current for controlling a magnetic flux of the variable magnet; and a boosting unit boosting an input DC voltage to a predetermined target value to output it to the inverter. The variable magnetic flux motor drive system makes it possible to achieve size reduction and high efficiency, while securing a voltage required for supplying a magnetization current when controlling the magnetic flux of the variable magnet.
US08860352B2
A method controls an operation of an actuator. A first control signal is determined to change a position of a moving element of the actuator according to a trajectory of the moving element. A second control signal is determined to compensate for a first component of an error of the operation due to uncertainty of a model of the actuator. A third control signal is determined to compensate for a second component of the error of the operation due to an external disturbance on the actuator. The operation of the actuator is controlled based on a combination of the first control signal, the second control signal, and the third control signal.
US08860343B2
A rotary electric machine includes: a stator having a stator winding and a stator core; a rotor having a first magnetic pole section and a second magnetic pole section, where the second magnetic pole section rotates respective to the first magnetic pole section; a shaft provided for the rotor; and a rotary mechanism configured to rotate the second magnetic pole section about the shaft. The rotary mechanism includes: a moving member configured to be movable along the shaft; a lead screw mechanism configured to move the moving member along the shaft; and a rotary member configured to rotate respective to the shaft along with the second magnetic pole section, where the rotary member engages the moving member and the second magnetic pole section.
US08860337B2
The current application is directed to various types of linear vibrational modules, including linear-resonant vibration modules, that can be incorporated in a wide variety of appliances, devices, and systems to provide vibrational forces. The vibrational forces are produced by linear oscillation of a weight or member, in turn produced by rapidly alternating the polarity of one or more driving electromagnets. Feedback control is used to maintain the vibrational frequency of linear-resonant vibration module at or near the resonant frequency for the linear-resonant vibration module. Both linear vibration modules and linear-resonant vibration modules can be designed to produce vibrational amplitude/frequency combinations throughout a large region of amplitude/frequency space.
US08860333B2
A method for using a directional switch on a portable light where the switch input is interpreted according to the switch position relative to gravity.
US08860331B2
Disclosed is an improved light-emitting device for an AC power operation. An AC light-emitting device according to the present invention employs a variety of means by which light emission time is prolonged during a ½ cycle in response to a phase change of an AC power source and a flicker effect can be reduced. For example, the means may be switching blocks respectively connected to nodes between the light emitting cells, switching blocks connected to a plurality of arrays, or a delay phosphor. Further, there is provided an AC light-emitting device, wherein a plurality of arrays having the different numbers of light emitting cells are employed to increase light emission time and to reduce a flicker effect.
US08860325B2
The present invention relates to a high efficiency LED driver and driving method thereof. In one embodiment, a high efficiency LED driving method configured for a LED device can include: (i) receiving a DC bus voltage and generating a driving voltage for the LED device through a power switch; (ii) comparing the DC bus voltage against a sum of the driving voltage and a first reference voltage; (iii) where when the DC bus voltage is greater than the sum of the driving voltage and the first reference voltage, generating a first output current; (iv) where when the DC bus voltage is greater than the driving voltage and less than the sum of the driving voltage and the first reference voltage, generating a second output current; and (v) matching an average current of the first output current and the second output current with a corresponding driving current.
US08860319B2
A lighting device includes: a series circuit of an inductor and a switching element; a diode which regenerates and supplies an energy of the inductor; and a control circuit which controls on/off of the switching element. The control circuit includes a drive signal generator which outputs a high frequency pulse drive signal; and a drive control section which turns on and off the switching element based on the high frequency drive signal and a PWM signal. The drive signal generator changes an ON time of the high frequency drive signal such that, after the PWM signal is changed from OFF to ON, a peak value of the load current gradually drops along an envelope of a specific slope, and the specific slope of the envelope is changed based on a duty ratio of the PWM signal.
US08860305B2
A method for forming a fritted cover sheet for sealing a glass package includes providing a transparent substrate having a sealing surface and a backing surface and forming at least one mask on one of the sealing surface of the substrate or the backing surface of the substrate. A sealing frit may be formed on the sealing surface of the substrate such that the at least one mask is positioned adjacent a perimeter defined by the sealing frit.
US08860303B2
The organic light-emitting display device includes: a substrate including a transistor region; and a thin-film transistor formed over the transistor region of the substrate and having a planarization film which is disposed over a source/drain electrode and a pixel defining layer which includes an aperture exposing a portion of a first electrode electrically connected to the source/drain electrode and defining a pixel region, wherein an outgassing hole is formed in a region of the pixel defining layer other than the aperture to expose the planarization film.
US08860296B2
The present disclosure is generally directed to illumination devices, and methods for making the same. The device, in particular, includes a first conductor layer, a first insulator layer disposed on the first conductor layer and having at least one first aperture defined therein through the first insulator layer, a second conductor layer disposed on the first insulator layer and having at least one second aperture defined therein through the second conductor layer and positioned to align with the at least one first aperture, and a light manipulation layer disposed on the second conductor layer and having at least one pair of apertures defined therein through the light manipulation layer including a third aperture and a fourth aperture, where the third aperture is positioned to align with the at least one second and first apertures.
US08860295B2
A display device includes a substrate having a pixel region and a peripheral circuit region, peripheral circuits disposed in the peripheral circuit region, an insulation layer covering the peripheral circuits, a first electrode disposed on the insulation layer in the pixel region, at least one protection structure disposed on the insulation layer in the peripheral circuit region, and a light emitting structure or a liquid crystal layer disposed on the first electrode. The protection structure can prevent damage to the peripheral circuits caused by static electricity generated in manufacturing processes, so that the display device can have improved reliability while reducing defects of pixels in the display device.
US08860286B2
Disclosed are a piezoelectric thin film element and a piezoelectric thin film device which have improved piezoelectric properties and high performance and can be produced in improved yields. The piezoelectric thin film element (1) comprises: a substrate (10), and a piezoelectric thin film (40) which is arranged on the substrate (10), has at least one crystal structure represented by general formula (NaxKyLiz)NbO3 (0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1, 0≦z≦0.2, x+y+z=1) and selected from the group consisting of pseudo-cubic crystal, a hexagonal crystal, and an orthorhombic crystal, and contains an inert gas element at a ratio of 80 ppm or less by mass.
US08860280B2
A rotor includes a rotor core comprised of steel sheets that are laminated in the axial direction of the rotor core and a rotating component configured to rotate together with the rotor core. Each of the steel sheets has a positioning portion for circumferentially positioning the steel sheet with respect to the rotating component and is formed of a rolled steel material. For each of the steel sheets, the direction of rolling of the steel sheet is circumferentially offset from both imaginary lines X and Y by predetermined angles. Each of the steel sheets is shaped so that the circumferential position of the positioning portion thereof remains unchanged when the steel sheet is front-back inverted about the imaginary line X. When viewed along the axial direction, at least one of the steel sheets is front-back inverted with respect to and thus forms a mirror image of the other steel sheets.
US08860278B2
A stator assembly comprises a stator defining S slots. First and second windings are arranged in each of the S slots. The two windings have a width in a radial direction and a thickness in a direction perpendicular to the radial direction. A ratio of the width to the thickness is between 3.0:1 and 4.5:1.
US08860274B2
In a double-stator motor has a rotary shaft, an annular rotor is coupled with a rotary shaft. First and second three-phase stators are arranged inside and outside to the rotor in the radial direction and formed to generate first and second rotating magnetic fields in response to three-phase currents, respectively. The rotor has an even number of segment poles made of soft magnetic material and arranged mutually separately at positions of the rotor. The positions are equally distanced apart from the rotary shaft in the radial direction and in the circumferential direction. Each of the first and second three-phase stators has magnetic poles which are the same in the number of poles as the segment poles and the magnetic poles are positioned such that magnetomotive forces from the magnetic poles are faced to each other between the magnetic poles of the first and second three-phase stators.
US08860264B2
There is provided a linear vibrator, including a fixed part having an inner space of a predetermined size formed therein; at least one magnet disposed in the inner space and generating magnetic force; a vibration part including a coil disposed to face the magnet to generate electromagnetic force through interaction therewith, and a mass body; a substrate having one end connected to the vibration part to serve as a free end, and the other end connected to the fixed part to serve as a fixed end; and a connection protrusion formed on the fixed part and inserted into a connection hole formed in the substrate so as to allow the substrate to be fixed to the fixed part.
US08860256B2
A domestic appliance having a control device to control device components of the domestic appliance during execution of a program, wherein the device components have electrical loads. The domestic appliance also has a switch to at least partly de-energize the control device after the program has finished executing.
US08860254B2
Disclosed herein is a power feeding apparatus, including: a power feeding portion adapted to feed an electric power in a wireless manner; and a storage body storing therein the power feeding portion. The storage body includes a main body, a first storage portion formed within the main body and storing therein the power feeding portion, and at least one second storage portion formed so as to be adapted to store or retrieve a power receiving apparatus as a storage object in or from the main body, the electric power of the power feeding portion stored in the first storage portion being adapted to be fed from the at least one second storage portion. At least a magnetically shielding portion is formed in an outer peripheral portion, and the at least one second storage portion forms a magnetically closed space in a state of being stored in the main body.
US08860252B2
A power storage system for supplying power to a load by coupling a power generation system, a battery, and a grid, the power storage system includes a battery management system (BMS) for controlling charging and discharging of the battery and a power supply circuit for supplying power to the BMS, wherein the power supply circuit is configured to supply external power to the BMS as an operating power of the BMS in a first state in which the external power is applied, and the power supply circuit is configured to supply power of the battery to the BMS as the operating power of the BMS in a second state in which the external power is not applied.
US08860251B2
A power supply system with an automatic transfer function includes a main-power-loop apparatus, a backup-power-loop apparatus, and a control unit. The main-power-loop apparatus has a first primary relay switch and a first SCR switch. The backup-power-loop apparatus has a second primary relay switch and a second SCR switch. The control unit turns on the first primary relay switch and the first SCR switch when a main power source can normally supply power, thus supplying power to a load via the main-power-loop apparatus by the main power source. The control unit turns on the second primary relay switch and the second SCR switch when the main power source cannot normally supply power, thus supplying power to the load via the backup-power-loop apparatus by a backup power source.
US08860246B2
Systems and methods to balance currents among a plurality of photovoltaic units connected in series. In aspect, a management unit is coupled between a photovoltaic energy production unit and a string of energy production units. The management unit has an energy storage element (e.g., a capacitor) connected to the photovoltaic energy production unit. The management unit further has a switch to selectively couple to the energy storage element and the photovoltaic energy production unit to the string. The management unit allows the current in the string to be larger than the current in the photovoltaic energy production unit.
US08860245B2
A method and system for utilization of power converters in an aircraft engine start system includes measurement of power converter operation data that is utilized with a mathematical model of the power converter thermal characteristics to calculate operation limits for subsequent start duty cycles. A warning indicator is utilized in the event the start duty cycle limits are exceeded. This invention can be extended for any More Electric Vehicle applications, which utilizes an electric engine start system.
US08860244B2
There is provided a vehicle power supply apparatus which includes a battery charged by a generator and supplies, to a plurality of loads, electric power discharged by the battery and electric power generated by the generator. The apparatus includes an electric double layer capacitor connected in parallel to the battery, and a connection circuit for switching connection and disconnection between respective homopolar terminals of the battery and the electric double layer capacitor. The connection circuit is connected to charge the electric double layer capacitor based on a potential difference between terminals of the connection circuit. The plurality of loads include loads each of which generates a rush current of a predetermined value or more and each of which is fed electric power outputted by the electric double layer capacitor.
US08860237B2
In one aspect, a method of selecting wind turbine generators in a wind park for curtailment of output power to provide a wind reserve comprises providing a wind park comprised of a plurality n of wind turbines each having an individual possible power output and the wind park has a combined possible power output of X, where X comprises a summation of the individual possible power output of the n wind turbines; setting a power setpoint Y for the wind park, wherein Y≦X and X−Y comprises a wind reserve; selecting, on a non-spatial basis, n−1 or fewer wind turbines from the wind park for power output curtailment; and curtailing power output of one or more of the selected n−1 or fewer wind turbines such that a total power output of the wind park comprises Y.
US08860235B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a starter machine control system including an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit can be in communication with one or more sensors. The control system can include a starter machine that is in communication with the electronic control unit. The starter machine can comprise a solenoid assembly that includes a plurality of biasing members and a motor that is coupled to a pinion. In some embodiments, the motor can be electrically coupled to at least one of the first coil winding and the second coil winding. In some embodiments, the electronic control unit can be capable of being configured and arranged to circulate a priming current from a power source to the motor through at least one of the first coil winding and the second coil winding.
US08860233B2
A resin composition for encapsulation, which contains 100 parts by weight of a synthetic resin, 10 to 500 parts by weight of a carbon precursor having a volume resistivity of 102 to 1010 Ω·cm, 0 to 60 parts by weight of a conductive filler having a volume resistivity lower than 102 Ω·cm and 100 to 1,500 parts by weight of an other inorganic filler.
US08860222B2
Semiconductor package device, such as wafer-level package semiconductor devices, are described that have pillars for providing electrical interconnectivity. In an implementation, the wafer-level package devices include an integrated circuit chip having at least one pillar formed over the integrated circuit chip. The pillar is configured to provide electrical interconnectivity with the integrated circuit chip. The wafer-level package device also includes an encapsulation structure configured to support the pillar.
US08860221B2
Provided are electrode-connecting structures or semiconductor devices, including a lower device including a lower substrate, a lower insulating layer formed on the lower substrate, and a lower electrode structure formed in the lower insulating layer, wherein the lower electrode structure includes a lower electrode barrier layer and a lower metal electrode formed on the lower electrode barrier layer, and an upper device including an upper substrate, an upper insulating layer formed under the upper substrate, and an upper electrode structure formed in the upper insulating layer, wherein the upper electrode structure includes an upper electrode barrier layer extending from the inside of the upper insulating layer under a bottom surface thereof and an upper metal electrode formed on the upper electrode barrier layer. The lower metal electrode is in direct contact with the upper metal electrode.
US08860203B2
A stretchable organic light-emitting display device includes a stretchable base plate including a stretchable substrate, first metal electrodes that are separated from each other and located in a plurality of rows on a the stretchable substrate, and first power wirings electrically coupling respective ones of the metal electrodes of each row, a light-emitting layer on the stretchable base plate, second metal electrodes located in a plurality of rows on the light-emitting layer and corresponding to the first metal electrodes, second power wirings for electrically coupling respective ones of the second metal electrodes of each row, and an encapsulation substrate covering the second power wiring.
US08860201B1
An integrated circuit (IC) package including a substrate, a first IC, and a second IC adjacent to the first IC. The substrate includes first and second surfaces respectively having first and second bond pads, and an opening offset relative to a center of the substrate and extending from the first surface to the second surface. The first IC includes a third surface having third bond pads accessible through the opening. The second IC includes fourth and fifth surfaces respectively having fourth and fifth bond pads. The third and fifth surfaces are attached to the second surface. At least one of the third bond pads is connected to at least one of the first bond pads using one or more bond wires extending through the opening. At least one of the fourth bond pads is connected to at least one of the second bond pads using one or more bond wires.
US08860195B2
An apparatus and method for incorporating discrete passive components into an integrated circuit package. A first surface of a substrate is coated with a material to mechanically protect the first surface. A first metal layer and then an insulating layer are formed on a second surface of the substrate. Selected areas are removed from the insulating and a second metal layer is formed over the insulating layer and the exposed metal layer. Selected areas of the second metal layer are removed to form a plurality of structures, including at least one of a wirebonding pad, a solder-bonding pad, a device interconnect circuit, or an attach pad to which an electronic component may be attached. An electronic component may be attached to at least one of the structures. The resulting integrated circuit die may be incorporated into an electronic package.
US08860190B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a circuit substrate, a semiconductor element, a sealing resin layer, and a conductive shielding layer. The circuit substrate includes an insulating layer, a plurality of interconnections forming first interconnection layers provided on an upper surface side of the insulating layer, a plurality of interconnections forming second interconnection layers provided on a lower surface side of the insulating layer, and a plurality of vias penetrating from the upper surface to the lower surface of the insulating layer. The semiconductor element is mounted on the upper surface side of the circuit substrate. The conductive shielding layer covers the sealing resin layer and part of an end portion of the circuit substrate. Any of the plurality of vias and the conductive shielding layer are electrically connected.
US08860171B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device has a first region formed of semiconductor and a second region formed of semiconductor which borders the first region. An electrode is formed to be in ohmic-connection with the first region. A third region is formed to sandwich the first region. A first potential difference is produced between the first and the second regions in a thermal equilibrium state, according to a second potential difference between the third region and the first region.
US08860153B2
In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, a semiconductor package includes a current rail comprising a first contact area and a second contact area, a first groove and a second groove, and a magnetic field generating portion. Along a current flow direction, the first groove is disposed between the first contact area and the magnetic field generating portion and the second groove is disposed between the magnetic field generating portion and the second contact area. The thickness of the current rail at the first groove is smaller than the thickness of the current rail at the first contact area.
US08860145B2
A semiconductor device incorporates a resistor on a structure that uses diffusion layers for sustaining the breakdown voltage thereof to realizes a very resistive element that exhibits a high breakdown voltage and high electrical resistance, includes a spiral very resistive element buried in an interlayer insulator film. A first end of the very resistive element is connected to a drain electrode wiring and the second end of the very resistive element is grounded. An intermediate point of the very resistive element is connected to ae voltage comparator of a control IC. The semiconductor device according to the invention facilitates reducing the components parts costs, assembly costs and size of a switching power supply that includes a very resistive element.
US08860139B2
In an aspect of the present invention, an ESD (Electrostatic Discharge) protection element includes a bipolar transistor comprising a collector diffusion layer connected with a first terminal and an emitter diffusion layer; and current control resistances provided for a plurality of current paths from a second terminal to the collector diffusion layer through the emitter diffusion layer, respectively. The bipolar transistor further includes a base diffusion region connected with the second terminal through a first resistance which is different from the current control resistances.
US08860122B1
A nonvolatile charge trap memory device is described. The device includes a substrate having a channel region and a pair of source and drain regions. A gate stack is above the substrate over the channel region and between the pair of source and drain regions. The gate stack includes a high dielectric constant blocking region.
US08860109B2
Provided is a capacitorless memory device. The device includes a semiconductor substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor substrate, a storage region disposed on a partial region of the insulating layer, a channel region disposed on the storage region to provide a valence band energy offset between the channel region and the storage region, a gate insulating layer and a gate electrode sequentially disposed on the channel region, and source and drain regions connected to the channel region and disposed at both sides of the gate electrode. A storage region having different valence band energy from a channel region is disposed under the channel region unit so that charges trapped in the storage region unit cannot be easily drained. Thus, a charge retention time may be increased to improve data storage capability.
US08860101B2
A system and method for reducing cross-talk between photosensitive diodes is provided. In an embodiment an isolation region comprising a first concentration of dopants is located between the photosensitive diodes. The photosensitive diodes have a second concentration of dopants that is less than the first concentration of dopants, which helps to prevent diffusion from the photosensitive diodes to form a potential path for undesired cross-talk between the photosensitive diodes.
US08860086B2
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming the same are provided. The semiconductor structure comprises: a Si substrate (1100); a plurality of convex structures (1200) formed on the Si substrate (1100), in which every two adjacent convex structures (1200) are separated by a cavity in a predetermined pattern, and the cavity between every two adjacent convex structures (1200) is less than 50 nm in width; a first semiconductor film (1300), in which the first semiconductor film (1300) is formed between the every two adjacent convex structures (1200) and connected with tops of the every two adjacent convex structures (1200); a buffer layer (2100) formed on the first semiconductor film (1300); and a high-mobility III-V compound semiconductor layer (2000) formed on the buffer layer (2100).
US08860082B2
The present invention discloses a transient voltage suppressor (TVS) circuit, and a diode device therefor and a manufacturing method thereof. The TVS circuit is for coupling to a protected circuit to limit amplitude of a transient voltage which is inputted to the protected circuit. The TVS circuit includes a suppressor device and at least a diode device. The diode device is formed in a substrate, which includes: a well formed in the substrate; a separation region formed beneath the upper surface; a anode region and a cathode region, which are formed at two sides of the separation region beneath the upper surface respectively, wherein the anode region and the cathode region are separated by the separation region; and a buried layer, which is formed in the substrate below the well with a higher impurity density and a same conductive type as the well.
US08860077B2
Provided are a light emitting device and a light emitting device package comprising the same. The light emitting device comprises a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a second conductive type semiconductor layer, and an active layer. The active layer is formed between the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer. Here, at least one of the first conductive type semiconductor layer and the second conductive type semiconductor layer has current spreading structures comprising a pair of a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer and is disposed in a sequence of the second conductive layer and the first conductive layer from the active layer.
US08860076B2
There are provided an optical semiconductor sealing curable composition that provides a cured material having excellent transparency, and an optical semiconductor apparatus having an optical semiconductor device sealed using the cured material obtained by curing the optical semiconductor sealing curable composition. There is provided an optical semiconductor sealing curable composition containing: (A) a linear polyfluoro compound; (B) cyclic organosiloxane having an SiH group and a fluorine-containing organic group; (C) a platinum group metal catalyst; (D) cyclic organosiloxane having an SiH group, fluorine-containing organic group, and an epoxy group; and (E) cyclic organosiloxane having an SiH group, a fluorine-containing organic group, and a cyclic carboxylic acid anhydride residue.
US08860067B2
A semiconductor light emitting device having an n-electrode and a p-electrode provided on the same surface side of a semiconductor film, wherein current spread in the semiconductor film is promoted, so that the improvements in luminous efficiency and reliability, the emission intensity uniformalization across the surface, and a reduction in the forward voltage, can be achieved. The semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor film including an n-type semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a p-type semiconductor layer; the n-electrode formed on an exposed surface of the n-type semiconductor layer exposed by removing parts of the p-type semiconductor layer, of the active layer, and of the n-type semiconductor layer with accessing from the surface side of the p-type semiconductor layer; and the p-electrode. A current guide portion having conductivity higher than that of the n-type semiconductor layer is provided on or in the n-type semiconductor layer over the p-type electrode.
US08860065B2
An embodiment of the invention discloses an optoelectronic semiconductor device. The optoelectronic semiconductor comprises a unit having a plurality of electrical connectors with top surfaces; an insulating material surrounding each of the plurality of electrical connectors, wherein each of the top surfaces are exposed through the insulating material; a semiconductor system, having a side surface directly covered by the insulation material, electrically connected to the plurality of electrical connectors and being narrower in width than both of the unit and the insulating material; an electrode formed on the semiconductor system at a position not corresponding to the plurality of electrical connectors; and a layer provided on the semiconductor system at a side opposite to the electrode and configured to laterally exceed outside more than one outermost boundary of the plurality of electrical connectors.
US08860059B2
A light emitting device includes: a substrate; an n layer; an active light emitting region, a p layer; and a support portion configured to provide both mechanical support and improve light transmission disposed over a light emitting side of the device.
US08860050B2
Provided is a hybrid light emitting device. The hybrid light emitting device may include the first light emitting part on the substrate, the capping layer, and the second light emitting part. The first light emitting part may emit light having a first wavelength, and the first light emitting part may include a first electrode, an organic emitting layer, and a second electrode sequentially disposed. A second light emitting part may generate light having a second wavelength. A capping layer may be disposed between the organic emitting layer and the second light emitting part. The capping layer may reflect light having the first wavelength and transmit light having the second wavelength.
US08860048B2
A flexible layered structure is disclosed having a flexible top conductive layer, a flexible bottom heat sink layer and a flexible dielectric middle layer. The combination has a longitudinal axis and a plurality of defined positions spaced along the longitudinal axis. The defined positions can be used for aligning a circuit and/or for the placement of LED lights. The flexible layered structure can be easily bent to form a LED substrate for shining light in more than one direction while efficiently removing heat arising from the LEDs.
US08860040B2
4H SiC epiwafers with thickness of 50-100 μm are grown on 4° off-axis substrates. Surface morphological defect density in the range of 2-6 cm−2 is obtained from inspection of the epiwafers. Consistent carrier lifetime in the range of 2-3 μs has been obtained on these epiwafers. Very low BPD density has been confirmed in the epiwafers with BPD density down to below 10 cm−2. Epitaxial wafers with thickness of 50-100 μm have been used to fabricate diodes. High voltage testing has demonstrated blocking voltages near the theoretical values for 4H-SiC. Blocking voltage as high as 8 kV has been achieved in devices fabricated on 50 μm thick epitaxial films, and blocking voltage as high as 10 kV has been obtained in devices fabricated on 80 μm thick films. Failure analysis confirmed triangle defects, which form from surface damage or particles present during epitaxy, are killer defects and cause the device to fail in reverse bias operation. In addition, the leakage current at the high blocking voltages of the JBS diodes showed no correlation with the screw dislocation density. It is also observed that the main source of basal plane dislocations in the epilayer originates in the crystal growth process.
US08860037B2
A thin-film transistor device includes a gate electrode formed above a substrate, a gate insulating film formed on the gate electrode, a crystalline silicon thin film that is formed above the gate insulating film and has a channel region, an amorphous silicon thin film formed on the crystalline silicon thin film, and a source electrode and a drain electrode that are formed above the channel region, and the crystalline silicon thin film has a half-width of a Raman band corresponding to a phonon mode specific to the crystalline silicon thin film of 5.0 or more and less than 6.0 cm−1, and an average crystal grain size of about 50 nm or more and 300 nm or less.
US08860035B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode display including: a substrate including a display area configured to display an image and a peripheral area surrounding the display area; a plurality of pad wires at the peripheral area of the substrate; and an inspection wire having a zigzag form on the plurality of pad wires.
US08860025B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor diode. The semiconductor diode includes a drift region and a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type formed in or on the drift region. The first semiconductor region is electrically coupled to a first terminal via a first surface of a semiconductor body. The semiconductor diode includes a channel region of a second conductivity type electrically coupled to the first terminal, wherein a bottom of the channel region adjoins the first semiconductor region. A first side of the channel region adjoins the first semiconductor region.
US08860019B2
The present invention provides a light-emitting element inducing an electron-transporting layer and a hole-transporting layer between a first electrode and a second electrode; and a first layer and a second layer between the electron-transporting layer and the hole-transporting layer, wherein the first layer includes a first organic compound and an organic compound having a hole-transporting property, the second layer includes a second organic compound and an organic compound having an electron-transporting property, the first layer is formed in contact with the first electrode side of the second layer, the first organic compound and the second organic compound are the same compound, and a voltage is applied to the first electrode and the second electrode, so that both of the first organic compound and the second organic compound emit light.
US08860013B2
An organic EL element (11) includes a light emitting layer (15) which has a two-layer structure, and a first light-emitting layer (15a) is made from a host material which includes LUMO shallower than (i) LUMO (19) of a phosphorescent light emitting material and (ii) LUMO of a host material, from which a second light-emitting layer (15b) is made. Further, the second light-emitting layer (15b) is made from a host material which includes HOMO deeper than (i) HOMO (18) of the phosphorescent light emitting material and (ii) HOMO of the host material, from which the first light-emitting layer (15a) is made. This makes it possible (i) to block holes from moving to the second light-emitting layer (15b) and (ii) to block electrons from moving to the first light-emitting layer (15a). As a result, a probability that the holes and the respective electrons recombine with each other is increased. It is therefore possible to reduce a driving voltage of an organic EL element (11). This improves light emitting efficiency.
US08860004B2
A device that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a memory array having a first array of nanotubes, a second array of nanotubes, and a state changing material located between the first and second array of nanotubes. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08859996B2
Embodiments of the computer-implemented methods, storage mediums, and systems may be configured to determine locations of particles within a first image of the particles. The particles may have fluorescence-material associated therewith. The embodiments may include calculating a transform parameter, and the transform parameter may define an estimated movement in the locations of the particles between the first image of the particles and a second image of the particles. The embodiments may further including applying the transform parameter to the locations of the particles within the first image to determine movement locations of the particles within the second image.
US08859993B2
A sample holder to be disposed between an electrostatic chuck and a sample smaller than the upper surface of the electrostatic chuck is provided, the sample holder including: a base plate formed in the same size as the upper surface of the electrostatic chuck; a sample placement portion located on the upper surface of the base plate, and designed to place the sample thereon; and a circumferential portion being a portion of the upper surface of the base plate other than the sample placement portion, and having a conductive material exposed to the outside.
US08859988B1
Reliable coupling of a high-power laser beam into a liquid-jet in a liquid-jet guided laser system can be achieved with high lifetime performance of the nozzle and the protection window, through setting the parameters of the liquid-jet guided laser system according to an optimum relationship that links the focus point of the laser, the focus cone angle, the laser beam energy distribution profile and the nozzle geometry.
US08859987B2
A sensor housing (10) in which a radiation sensor can be inserted through a sensor aperture (28) has blocking means (30, 32) that can move between an open position and a closed position. When the blocking means (30, 32) are in the closed position they prevent radiation from passing out of the sensor aperture (28). The blocking means may take the form of shutters that that close when the radiation sensor is removed, thus stopping radiation from passing through the housing (10).
US08859977B2
A wavefront measuring apparatus includes an optical element forming a periodic pattern by light, a detector having pixels to detect the light, and a computer computing, based on detection results of the detector, wavefront information at positions in a wavefront of the light transmitted through or reflected by a specimen. The detector detects a first periodic pattern formed by the light, and a second periodic pattern formed by the light and shifted in phase from the first periodic pattern. The computer computes the wavefront information at one of the positions by using a result detected in a first pixel of the pixels when detecting the first periodic pattern, a result detected in a second pixel of the pixels when detecting the first periodic pattern, the second pixel being positioned within three pixels from the first pixel, and a result detected in the first pixel when detecting the second periodic pattern.
US08859972B2
Occlusion sensor systems and methods of using the occlusion sensor systems are provided. In a general embodiment, the present disclosure provides a sensor device includes a tube and an infra-red reflective sensor comprising an infra-red light emitter and an infra-red phototransistor receiver or photo-diode. The infra-red reflective sensor and the infra-red phototransistor receiver or photo-diode are positioned at or near the tube so that an infra-red light can be transmitted to a portion of the tube and at least a portion of the infra-red light reflected off the portion of the tube can be detected by the infra-red phototransistor receiver or photo-diode.
US08859970B2
A terahertz wave generating device includes a first light source, a second light source and an antenna. The first light source and a second light source are configured and arranged to generate pulsed lights. The antenna is configured and arranged to generate terahertz waves when irradiated by the pulsed lights generated by the first light source and the second light source. The antenna has a pair of electrodes arranged opposite each other with a gap being formed therebetween. The first light source and the second light source are configured and arranged to irradiate the pulsed lights between the electrodes at timings that are offset from each other.
US08859957B2
The invention generally relates to improved sensitivity and flexibility for mass spectrometers with limited pumping capacity, particularly mass spectrometers that are coupled with a Discontinuous Atmospheric Pressure Interface (DAPI).
US08859951B2
A photosensor gain detection apparatus that includes a detector including a photosensor configured to output a signal. Also included in the apparatus is an after-pulse/dark-pulse detector device that detects an after-pulse or a dark-pulse in the signal output by the photosensor, and outputs an indication signal when the after-pulse or the dark-pulse is detected, the after-pulse and the dark-pulse representing after-events in the photosensor triggered from a previous photon generating event. The apparatus additionally includes an integrator device that integrates the signal output by the photosensor and to output an integrated signal, a histogram device connected to the integrator and the after-pulse/dark-pulse detector device, and that generates a histogram from the integrated signal and the indication signal, a gain determination device that determines a gain of the photosensor based on the generated histogram, and a memory configured to store the determined gain.
US08859945B2
A data processing circuit includes a data processing unit including two signal-conversion circuits and controlled switches connected to inputs and outputs of the conversion circuits. The data processing unit further includes a binary signal inlet, a binary signal outlet, and a memory unit. The memory unit includes capacitors each storing a binary piece of data. The capacitors are connected to a memory bus via switches. The bus is connected to the processing unit. In response to control signals provided to the controlled switches, the data processing unit performs at least the following operations: writing a binary datum in a capacitor, reading from a capacitor a binary datum stored therein and applying the datum to an output, and logically combining binary data stored in at least two capacitors.
US08859939B2
A carrier, in particular a plastic film, comprising an electrical heating layer is described. The heating layer is applied to at least a portion of a carrier surface. The heating layer is electrically divided by one or more first separating zones, each of which is designed such that a current path changes the direction of flow thereof at the free zone ends, and one or more second separating zones, which are designed such that the current path changing the direction of flow thereof at the free zone ends is divided in at least some sections into a plurality of electrically parallel current sub-paths. One or more second separating zones are associated with at least one free zone end of a first separating zone, with the second separating zones arranged in an aligned extension to the first separating zone.
US08859912B2
A coreless package substrate is provided, including: a circuit buildup structure including at least a dielectric layer, at least a circuit layer and conductive elements; first electrical contact pads embedded in the lowermost dielectric layer of the circuit buildup structure; a plurality of metal bumps formed on the uppermost circuit layer of the circuit buildup structure; a dielectric passivation layer disposed on a top surface of the circuit buildup structure and the metal bumps; and second electrical contact pads embedded in the dielectric passivation layer and electrically connected to the metal bumps. With the second electrical contact pads being engaged with the metal bumps and having top surfaces thereof completely exposed, the bonding strength between the second electrical contact pads and a chip to be mounted thereon and between the second electrical contact pads and the metal bumps can be enhanced.
US08859909B2
A flexible cable with a substrate divided into at least two sections is disclosed. The first section includes a first electrically conductive track and a first attach pad, while the section includes a second and third electrically conductive tracks, as well as a second attach pad. The first section is disposed on the second section to align the attach pads and connect the first electrically conductive track to the third electrically conductive track. The resulting flexible cable can be used with a low profile electrical device.
US08859905B2
A wildlife guard assembly for use with an electrical insulator body includes first and second guard members and an actuator member. The first and second guard members define a seat to receive the insulator body and are connected to one another to permit relative movement between an open position. The first and second guard members define a sideward opening to laterally receive the insulator body into the seat, and a closed position, wherein the first and second guard members at least partially encircle the insulator body to capture the insulator body in the seat. The actuator member is configured to be inserted between the first and second guard members in the open position and, when forcibly displaced radially to an installed position, to force the first and second guard members to move from the open position to the closed position.
US08859903B2
A fire-resistant safety cable may include at least two electrical conductors, an insulating layer around each of the at least two electrical conductors in order to obtain at least two insulated elements, and an outer jacket surrounding the at least two insulated elements. The cable may have, in cross-section, an external outline including at least two substantially plane faces that are substantially parallel to each other. The insulating layer may be formed from at least one polymeric material being adapted to be converted, at least on a surface of the at least one polymeric material, into a ceramic state at high temperatures in a fire. The at least two insulated elements may be mutually adjacent, side by side, with axes of the at least two insulated elements lying in a plane between the at least two substantially plane faces.
US08859902B2
A multi-core cable in which skew occurs less and attenuation characteristics of all core cables are uniform comprises: a core unit; an insulation tape spirally wrapped around the outer circumference of the core unit; and a metal coated resin tape wrapped over the insulation tape, wherein a plurality of core cables each consisting of two insulated wires arranged in parallel are stranded together to form the core unit, and wherein the metal coated resin tape is wrapped in the same direction as the stranding direction of the core cables.
US08859898B2
A power transmission line cover includes an elongate, flexible panel and first and second elongate, integral edge portions. The first edge portion includes an elongate first latch feature and the second edge portion includes an elongate second latch feature. The cover includes an elongate inner creepage extender wall forming a part of one of the first and second edge portions, and an elongate outer creepage extender wall forming a part of one of the first and second edge portions. The flexible panel is wrapped about a power line and the edge portions are joined together to form a longitudinally extending closure seam wherein the latch features are coupled and the edge portions form an electrical creepage path extending from the chamber to an exterior boundary of the cover along the inner creepage extender wall, between the first and second latch features, and along the outer creepage extender wall.
US08859897B2
A flexible busbar includes a central conductor (generally of rectangular cross section comprising multiple layers of thin aluminum, copper or other alloys with good electrical properties (conductivity)) and a sleeve having a shape on the internal surface to reduce the adhesion between the two conductors and the sleeve when the flexible busbar is bent, folded, or twisted. This increases the flexibility of the flexible busbar.
US08859893B2
A light collection module and a solar energy device are provided. The light collection module includes a light guiding material and a solar energy receiving element. The light guiding material has a first surface and a second surface opposite thereto. The first surface includes a first light guiding structure and a second light guiding structure. The first light guiding structure includes a first light guiding surface and a first auxiliary surface connected to each other and intersected in a first angle. The second light guiding structure includes a second light guiding surface and a second auxiliary surface connected to each other and intersected in a second angle. The inclination directions of the first and the second light guiding surfaces are opposite to each other. The solar energy receiving element is disposed on the first surface or the second surface.
US08859889B2
A solar cell element is disclosed. The solar cell element comprises a semiconductor substrate, a first electrode, a second electrode, a first wiring member and a second wiring member. The semiconductor substrate with a first surface and a second surface comprises a plurality of through-holes. The first electrode comprises a plurality of conduction portions and at least one first output extracting portion. The second electrode has a resistivity of less than 2.5×10-8 Ωm (ohm-meter). The first wiring member comprises a first end face in a long direction thereof. The second wiring member comprises a second end face in a long direction thereof facing the first end face.
US08859875B2
Methods, systems and computer readable media for musical score presentation conversion are described. For example, in some implementations the method can include receiving a musical notation file, and formatting the musical notation file according to predetermined parameters. The method can also include exporting formatted notation images, and importing the formatted notation images into a converter. The method can further include converting the formatted notation images into a presentation, and providing the presentation for display.
US08859871B2
A drumstick weight adjustment structure includes a plastic stick holder and at least one weight block. The plastic stick holder has at least one hole. The weight block can be inserted into the hole and tightly held therein, and also can be removed therefrom. Users can adjust the number of the weight block held in the hole according to requirements to change the weight of the plastic stick holder, thereby change the force of the plastic stick holder striking a drum to generate desired timbre to meet use requirements.
US08859862B2
A cotton cultivar, designated UA222, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of cotton cultivar UA222, to the plants of cotton UA222 and to methods for producing a cotton plant produced by crossing the cultivar UA222 with itself or another cotton variety. The invention further relates to hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar UA222 with another cotton cultivar.
US08859860B2
The invention provides seed and plants of the watermelon line designated WAS-45-2158S. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S, and to methods for producing a watermelon plant produced by crossing a plant of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S with itself or with another watermelon plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of watermelon line WAS-45-2158S, including the fruits and gametes of such plants.
US08859858B1
A novel canola variety designated NS6265 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a canola plant that comprise crossing canola variety NS6265 with another canola plant. Methods for producing a canola plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into NS6265 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the canola seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid canola seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the canola variety NS6265 or a locus conversion of NS6265 with another canola variety.
US08859853B2
Artificial seeds formed of a seamless soft capsule are provided herein. The artificial seed contains a meristematic plant cell or tissue. The artificial seed has a structure of three or more layers containing an innermost layer, an inner layer covering the innermost layer, and an outer layer covering the inner layer. The innermost layer can contain an aqueous liquid, the inner layer can be formed by an inner membrane containing hardened oil, and the outer layer can be formed of a biodegradable outer membrane.
US08859851B2
Disclosed are chill- or cold-tolerant plants and methods of making the plants. Also disclosed are methods for identifying a plant that is tolerant to chill.
US08859843B2
An absorbent article comprising a chassis comprising a topsheet, a backsheet, an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet, and a pair of longitudinal barrier cuffs attached to the chassis. Each longitudinal cuff is formed of a web of material having first and second opposing surfaces and comprising a nonwoven component layer comprising fibers having a number-average diameter of less than about 1 micron, a mass-average diameter of less than about 1.5 microns, and a ratio of the mass-average diameter to the number-average diameter less than about 2. The absorbent article further comprises a hydrophobic coating disposed on at least one surface of the web of material.
US08859837B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing lower olefinic hydrocarbons by oxidative dehydrogenation of paraffinic lower hydrocarbons. More particularly the present invention provides a process for converting a feedstream comprising a paraffinic lower hydrocarbon and carbon dioxide to a product stream comprising an olefinic lower hydrocarbon and synthesis gas in the presence of the catalyst composition La—Mn/inert support, wherein said catalyst composition comprises 1-10 mass % lanthanum and 1-10 mass % manganese and optionally 0.3-3 mass % alkali metal.
US08859834B2
The present invention describes a process for the parallel selective hydrogenation of branched and unbranched multiply unsaturated C4-C6-hydrocarbons in olefin-containing hydrocarbon mixtures with minimization of hydrogenation and isomerization of the olefins present in the stream.
US08859830B2
Methods and assemblies for improving the reaction kinetics of, conserving reactants utilized in, and/or producing a more pure reaction product of, liquid-phase reactions that involve volatile reactants and products are provided. The methods and assemblies herein provide for a feed of reaction liquid to two or more absorption zones, wherein the temperature and/or feed rate of the liquid is independently adjusted prior to introduction into at least one of the two or more absorption zones. More particularly, the temperature and feed rate of the liquid as delivered to each absorption zone can be adjusted independently to optimize the absorption of at least a portion of any gaseous reactants and byproducts from the gaseous product stream and/or to optimize reaction zone conditions. Reaction kinetics may thus be improved, or substantially maintained.
US08859824B2
Compounds are provided herein which are coordination complexes of the formula, AxByCit2Fz.mH2O, wherein A is a cation selected from certain IA or IIA metal ions in the Periodic Table; B is a cation selected from certain IIA metal ions and certain divalent d-block transition metal ions; A and B are different; “Cit” is tribasic citric acid anion; the stoichiometric ratio of x to y is equal or higher than 1.0 but lower than 8.0; m is 0-12; and z is selected such that electroneutrality is preserved. Compounds provided herein are useful to treat dietary deficiencies, osteoporosis, osteopenia, bone loss, and risk of bone loss, as well as other medical conditions involving the need for administration of the various ions. In addition, the compounds can be used as fluoride sources for dental use and to fluoridate water systems.
US08859812B2
Described herein are compounds of formula (I), related compositions, and their use, for example in the formation of α-amino acids or a precursor thereof such as an α-aminonitrile.
US08859808B2
The present invention describes a process for obtaining lactic acid with a high degree of purity from a fermentative liquor (1) containing sodium lactate, with a view to the production of polylactic acid. The process comprises the unitary operations of centrifugation (101), centrifugal decantation (102), microfiltration (103), ultrafiltration (104), primary filtration in an activated charcoal bed (105), conventional electrodialysis (201), ion exchange columns in a chelating resin bed (202), bipolar electrodialysis (203), ion exchange columns (204), primary evaporation under vacuum (302), secondary filtration in an activated charcoal bed (304), liquid-liquid extraction from the aqueous phase to the organic phase (305), back extraction from the organic phase to the aqueous phase (306), and secondary, atmospheric evaporation (402).
US08859805B2
The invention relates to a multistage process for the continuous preparation of organic, distillable polyisocyanates, preferably diisocyanates, particularly preferably aliphatic or cycloaliphatic diisocyanates, by reaction of the corresponding organic polyamines with carbonic acid derivatives and alcohols to form low molecular weight monomeric polyurethanes and thermal dissociation of the latter, in which the polyisocyanates produced and unusable residues are separated off at particular stages of the reaction and reusable by-products and intermediates are recirculated to preceding stages.
US08859801B2
The present invention relates to the 3,4-Dicarboalkoxybiphenyl-3′,4′-dicarboxylic acid (including the corresponding acid anhydride) represented by the general formula (1): wherein R11 and R12 each represents an alkyl group having 1 to 4 carbon atoms, and n represents the number of waters of hydration that is 0 or 1.
US08859794B2
Methods to convert fatty acids to highly functionalized esters, ester polyols, amides, and amide polyols. The products can be used to make polyurethane and polyester films and foams.
US08859790B2
Apparatus and processes are provided for forming epoxide compounds. In one embodiment, a process for the manufacture of an epoxide is provided including adding an oxidant, a water-soluble manganese complex and a terminal olefin to form a multiphasic reaction mixture, reacting the terminal olefin with the oxidant in the multiphasic reaction mixture having at least one organic phase in the presence of the water-soluble manganese complex, separating the reaction mixture into the at least one organic phase and an aqueous phase, and reusing at least part of the aqueous phase. The invention is also related to a device for performing the above process.
US08859770B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing a compound of formula (I).
US08859759B2
Particulate β-glucan is solubilized at elevated pressure and temperature to form particulate-soluble β-glucan. The particulate-soluble β-glucan is capable of being dried to a powder form and subsequently re-solubilized.
US08859751B2
The invention relates to siRNA compounds comprising one non-nucleotide moiety covalently attached to at least one of the sense or antisense strands to down-regulate the expression of human genes. The invention also relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier and to methods of treating and/or preventing the incidence or severity of various diseases or conditions associated with the target genes and/or symptoms associated with such diseases or conditions.
US08859750B2
The present invention is based on the in vivo demonstration that RSV can be inhibited through intranasal administration of iRNA agents as well as by parenteral administration of such agents. Further, it is shown that effective viral reduction can be achieved with more than one virus being treated concurrently. Based on these findings, the present invention provides general and specific compositions and methods that are useful in reducing RSV mRNA levels, RSV protein levels and viral titers in a subject, e.g., a mammal, such as a human. These findings can be applied to other respiratory viruses.
US08859747B2
An isolated polynucleotide functional as a promoter in eukaryotic cells is disclosed. The isolated polynucleotide includes an endothelial specific enhancer element as detailed herein. Further disclosed is a method of expressing a nucleic acid sequence of interest in endothelial cells.
US08859741B2
Antigen binding proteins that interact with Proprotein Convertase Subtilisin Kexin Type 9 (PCSK9) are described. Methods of treating hypercholesterolemia and other disorders by administering a pharmaceutically effective amount of an antigen binding protein to PCSK9 are described. Methods of detecting the amount of PCSK9 in a sample using an antigen binding protein to PCSK9 are described.
