US08977947B2
A reading list panel is displayed as a sidebar window with respect to a main window of a content viewing application. In response to a first input, a first article representation of a first article associated with a presentation page displayed in the main window is listed in the reading list panel, where the first article representation includes information identifying the first article. In response to a selection of a second article representation from the reading list panel, content of a second article represented by the second article representation is presented in a reader mode within the main window.
US08977940B1
Circuitry and methods can be provided to correct errors in decision bits. A plurality of error event syndromes can be computed for a first plurality of error events. For each of a plurality of error event syndromes, two best error events can be selected. A cross-syndrome second best error event can be selected from among the first plurality of error events. A global second best error event can be selected from among the cross-syndrome second best error event and the second best per-syndrome error events. A second plurality of error events can be selected from among the global second best error event and the best per-syndrome error events. The second plurality of error events can be used for data post-processing.
US08977939B2
A method for finding a valid codeword based on a near codeword trapping in a low-density parity-check decoding process includes identifying trapping set configurations and applying corrections to produce trapping sets with a limited number of invalid checks. Trapping set configurations are corrected in order to produce a trapping set in a table of trapping sets, the table associating each corrected trapping set with a valid codeword.
US08977938B2
Systems, methods, apparatus, and techniques are presented for processing a codeword. A Reed-Solomon mother codeword n symbols in length and having k check symbols is received, and the n symbols of the received Reed-Solomon mother codeword are separated into v Reed-Solomon daughter codewords, where v is a decomposition factor associated with the Reed-Solomon mother codeword. The v Reed-Solomon daughter codewords are processed in a respective set of v parallel processes to output v decoded codewords.
US08977937B2
The present inventions are related to systems and methods for data processing, and more particularly to systems and methods for variable rate encoding and/or decoding in a data processing system. In some cases, embodiments include a variable length data decoder circuit that is operable to apply a decode algorithm to the encoded input based upon a first selected H-Matrix to yield a first decoded output and apply the decode algorithm to the encoded input based upon a second selected H-Matrix to yield a second decoded output.
US08977936B2
The invention provides WOM coding methods and electronic devices with error correcting codes that provide single, double and triple error correction. In one coding, if the code corrects two/three errors, it has two/three parts of redundancy bits. For double error correction, if only one part of the redundancy bit has no errors then it is possible to correct one error. For triple error correction, if only one/two parts of the redundancy bits have no errors then it is possible to correct one/two errors. Codes that correct/detect a single, two and three cell-erasures are provided. A code that has three roots, α1, α2, α3, each of which is a primitive element and where every pair of roots generates a double error correcting code, is provided. Codes and coding utilizing a triple error correcting WOM code that can correct an arbitrary number of errors are provided.
US08977924B2
A layered LDPC decoder architecture includes a single MUX and a single shifter element for processing an optimized LDPC parity check matrix. The optimized LDPC parity check matrix may be a K×L sub-matrix having zero elements, non-zero elements defined by a circulant matrix or zero matrices, and identity matrixes.
US08977919B2
A test control port (TCP) includes a state machine SM, an instruction register IR, data registers DRs, a gating circuit and a TDO MX. The SM inputs TCI signals and outputs control signals to the IR and to the DR. During instruction or data scans, the IR or DRs are enabled to input data from TDI and output data to the TDO MX and the top surface TDO signal. The bottom surface TCI inputs may be coupled to the top surface TCO signals via the gating circuit. The top surface TDI signal may be coupled to the bottom surface TDO signal via TDO MX. This allows concatenating or daisy-chaining the IR and DR of a TCP of a lower die with an IR and DR of a TCP of a die stacked on top of the lower die.
US08977909B2
An information handling system (IHS) diagnostic system includes a user IHS that is coupled to a network and operable to generate a log file that is associated with a user IHS error. A distributed processing IHS is coupled to the user IHS through the network and operable to receive the log file generated by the user IHS over the network. That log file is then stored on a plurality of node IHS's in the distributed processing IHS. When a job request is received from the user IHS over the network, a job associated with the job request is performed on the log file using the plurality of node IHS's to create a job result. The job result that includes at least one cause of the user IHS error is then provided to the user IHS.
US08977907B2
The present disclosure is directed to a control system for a machine. The control system has an electronic module containing at least one programmable controller. The at least one programmable controller stores a plurality of code modules, and be configured to identify from the plurality of code modules a module that contains a code fault. The at least one programmable controller identifies the code fault by executing, with the at least one programmable controller, the code module, writing a code execution status to a designated memory location on the electronic module, and identifying, based on the code module execution status, the code module that contains the code fault.
US08977904B2
A method for generating a replayable testing script for iterative use by an automated testing utility may include recording a plurality of scripts, each script relating to a separate iteration of a transaction between a user and a tested application performed by an operator. The method may also include comparing the recorded scripts to identify a location of a data item by finding different values in a pair of corresponding locations in the recorded scripts, indicative of a dynamic data item. The method may further include generating the replayable testing script comprising one of the recorded scripts and having a variable parameter at the identified location of the dynamic data item.
US08977899B1
A system for assisted device recovery is provided. The system includes a CMTS connected to a cable modem over a network. The system also includes database including a plurality of cable modem fingerprints and associated recovery actions and an assisted device recovery module. The assisted device recovery module includes one or more processors and a memory. The assisted device recovery module also includes a cable modem identifier configured to identify the make and model of the cable modem using a fingerprint, wherein the fingerprint includes a hardware version and a software version of the cable modem, a recovery determiner configured to query the database with the cable modem fingerprint and determine an associated recovery action, and a recovery performer configured to perform the associated recovery action on the cable modem.
US08977895B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to an apparatus that comprises a first core susceptible to an error condition, and a second core configured to perform a diagnostic on the first core to identify a cause of the error condition and an action to remedy the error condition in order to recover the first core.
US08977889B2
A method for decreasing the risk of monitoring data failing to be stored includes periodically sending a test message from the monitoring device to a Networked Storage Device, NSD, generating an NSD fail signal in the monitoring device if events following the sending of the test message indicates that the NSD is not operating properly, and sending, in response to the NSD fail signal, a fail message from the monitoring device for detection outside housing of monitoring device.
US08977881B2
A system and method for efficiently synchronizing multiple processing cores on a system-on-a-chip (SOC). A SOC includes an interrupt controller and multiple processing cores. The interrupt controller includes a main time base counter. The SOC includes multiple local time base counters, each coupled to a respective one of the processing cores. Synchronization logic blocks are used to update the local counters. These blocks receive a subset of bits from the interrupt controller. The subset of bits represents a number of least significant bits of the main counter less than a total number of bits for the main counter. The logic blocks update an associated local counter according to changes to the received subset of bits. A difference may exist between values of the main counter in the interrupt controller and the local counter in the processing core. However, this difference may be a constant value.
US08977880B2
A multi-core processor system, a dynamic power management method thereof and a control apparatus thereof are provided. In the method, a workload of a multi-core processor during a runtime stage is obtained. Next, a hot-plug operation is respectively performed on a plurality of slave cores according to the workload and a working state of each slave core. Then, a bus master status and the working state of a boot core are monitored to determine whether to power off the boot core, in which the bus master status is generated by combining a plurality of device statuses reflected by a plurality of peripheral devices. Finally, when the bus master status is determined as idle, the boot core is powered off.
US08977877B2
An image processing apparatus being configured to support a power-saving mode which allows achieving low power consumption while keeping an idle connection without communication between the image processing apparatus and a communication device in a network environment, comprises: a first judgment portion which judges whether or not the communication device supports the power-saving mode; and a communicator which establishes a connection to the communication device at a first communication rate if the first judgment portion judges that the communication device does not support the power-saving mode, at a second communication rate which is faster than the first communication rate if the first judgment portion judges that the communication device supports the power-saving mode.
US08977868B2
It is an object of this invention to provide an FPC capable of improving tamper resistance. An FPC (1) of this invention includes: a signal line pattern (2) for inputting a communication signal; and signal protective line patterns (3, 4) provided to be opposed to an upper surface and a lower surface of the signal line pattern and having the same width as a width of the signal line pattern (2) or a larger width than the width of the signal line pattern (2). The signal protective line patterns are provided along the signal line pattern within a region that requires tamper resistance.
US08977865B2
The re-encryption of data can be performed with independent cryptographic agents that can automatically encrypt and decrypt data in accordance with cryptographic regions, such that data within a single cryptographic region is encrypted and decrypted with the same cryptographic key. An “in-place” re-encryption can be performed by reading data from a chunk in an existing cryptographic region, shrinking the existing cryptographic region past the chunk, expanding a replacement cryptographic region over the chunk, and then writing the data back to the same location, which is now part of the replacement cryptographic region. An “out-of-place” re-encryption can be performed by reading data from a chunk in an existing cryptographic region and then writing the data back to a location immediately adjacent that is part of a replacement cryptographic region. After the re-encrypted data is “shifted”, the cryptographic regions can be expanded and contracted appropriately, and another chunk can be selected.
US08977863B1
Various embodiments describe methods and systems for dynamic IP protection in electronic circuit designs. The methods or systems determine one or more levels of access or encryption and identify design data that should be made available for each level. For each level, a pcell instance is created to hide actual design data, and the design data that should be made available are moved to an instance of the corresponding sub-master in memory. The design data in this instance are encrypted in memory and are persisted in a side file in a non-volatile computer accessible storage medium. An authorized user is provided with a key, the side file, and a decrypting scheme to retrieve the actual design data with an appropriate level of details from the side file during a pcell evaluation process.
US08977860B2
A method and apparatus for maintaining a tamper proof device log are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises maintaining an embedded log in the device, the embedded log being a chain of log entries. In one embodiment, the method may also comprise publishing at least one log entry to a location external to the device.
US08977858B1
A file is received. Contents of the file are transformed using a space-filling curve. One example of a space-filling curve that can be used for the transformation is a Hilbert curve. The result of the transformation is down-sampled. One example way of down-sampling is using a blur operation with anti-aliasing. A hashing operation is performed on the down-sampled result. One example of a hashing operation is locality sensitive hashing.
US08977853B2
The invention disclosed here is aimed at enabling a trusted third party to manage user opt-ins which would enable growth of personalized information services, that is, enabling trusted business relationships between three types of entities—an end-user, an information source/provider, and an application service provider/developer—so that they can have a controlled, secure and private exchange of sensitive and/or confidential information. The inventive system has modes of operation recommended based on various conditions, enabling a secure exchange of private information between personal information repository owners and application services providers to enable deliver of personalized services. One mode is Durable Subscription Management, which is used when per transaction approval is not needed, that is, when an end-user has given permission to access data for a given or predefined period of time. A second mode is Per-Transaction Subscription Management Without Logs and a third mode is Per-Transaction Subscription Management With Logs.
US08977850B2
A transmitting apparatus comprises an initialization vector generating unit for generating an initialization vector, an encryption unit for initializing a stream encryption module using the generated initialization vector and performing stream encryption on stream data using the initialized stream encryption module, an encryption packet generating unit for generating an encryption packet containing encrypted stream-encrypted data, an initialization packet generating unit for generating an initialization packet containing an initialization vector and time information indicating when a next initialization vector subsequent to the initialization vector will be sent, and a transmission unit for transmitting the initialization packet and the encryption packet by broadcast/multicast.
US08977847B1
A distributed challenge-response protocol is carried out between a verifier and a prover. The verifier comprises servers storing respective shares of a set of challenge-response pairs. A particular challenge of one of the challenge-response pairs is sent to the prover, and a response to the challenge is received from the prover. The received response is authenticated as an appropriate response to the particular challenge based on indications from respective ones of at least a subset of the servers as to whether or not the received response matches respective reconstructed responses computed by those servers. A given one of the servers may be configured to reconstruct the particular challenge using information associated with the share stored in the given server and information associated with at least one other share stored in at least one other server, with the reconstructed challenge being to be sent to the prover as the particular challenge.
US08977838B1
A nested hierarchical plurality of microcoded compute engines where each successive compute engine is coupled to a source bus and a sink bus of another microcoded computed engine at a different hierarchical level, where one microcoded compute engine may be a replacement of a scratchpad memory or FIFO from a pre-existing design. A communication scheme for communicating between and within various hierarchical layers of microcoded compute engines and a piano roll of bitmapped barrier objects for synchronizing activities of various microcomputer engines.
US08977809B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods for configuring a plurality of stacked semiconductor dice with unique identifiers and identifying a die in the stack using the unique identifier are provided. Additional apparatus and methods are disclosed.
US08977805B2
In a system that includes a host and a memory controller that is separate from the host and stores data for the host in a non-volatile memory, a method for data storage includes transferring from the memory controller to the host one or more source blocks from the non-volatile memory for compaction. The source blocks are compacted in the host by copying valid data from the source blocks into one or more destination blocks. The destination blocks are transferred from the host to the memory controller, and the destination blocks are stored by the memory controller in the non-volatile memory.
US08977804B1
A disk drive is disclosed that varies its data redundancy policy for caching data in non-volatile solid-state memory as the memory degrades. As the non-volatile memory degrades, the redundancy of data stored in the non-volatile memory can be increased to counteract the effects of such degradation. Redundant data can be used to recover data stored in the non-volatile memory in case of a data corruption. Performance improvements and reduced costs of disk drives can thereby be attained.
US08977796B2
Disclosed is a disinfecting docking station for at least one portable electronic device, such as a medical technician's tablet computer, that has at least one recharging connector. An enclosure is adapted to receive the at least one portable electronic device therein through an openable side that includes a selectively closable door. Each electronic device is exposed to a disinfecting wavelength of light, such as UV light, to disinfect the surface of the device. The enclosure includes supports that minimally contact each device so that the device will be substantially exposed to the UV light. A control circuit monitors the exposure time and level, and is programmable to activate the UV light based on pre-set criteria. The enclosures may be stacked and provide power and network connectivity to each device while docked therein.
US08977794B2
The disclosure provides an HVAC data processing and communication network and a method of manufacturing the same. In an embodiment, the network includes a first subnet controller and a system device. The first subnet controller is coupled to a data bus and configured to arbitrate with a second subnet controller for control of the subnet. The system device is configured to transition from a reset state to a first state that includes pre-startup tasks, and transition from the first state to a second state that includes waiting for the subnet controller to provide configuration parameters to the system device.
US08977790B2
An embodiment of an electronic system includes a processing element, a bus controller, and a peripheral module. The processing element executes machine readable code for performing a data transfer of an x-bit wide data value between the processing element and the peripheral module. Performing the data transfer includes providing a processing element-provided address corresponding to a y-bit wide data register of the peripheral module, where y is less than x. The bus controller receives the processing element-provided address, and in response, performs a series of multiple data transfers with the peripheral module. This includes providing a first peripheral address for a first data transfer of the series, and providing at least one different peripheral address for at least one other data transfer of the series. The peripheral module maps the first peripheral address and the at least one different peripheral address to the y-bit wide data register.
US08977787B1
A host computer accesses a storage volume via multiple paths and maintains path mode information identifying either an active or standby operating mode. An active-mode path is generally usable, and a standby-mode path is usable under exceptional conditions such as non-availability of an active-mode path. A reason identifier identifies a first operating condition causing the path to be placed in the standby mode. Upon a path-activating event for a standby-mode path, if there is a second operating condition indicating that the path should be maintained in the standby operating mode, then the path is maintained in the standby operating mode and the path mode information is set to identify the second operating condition, and otherwise the operating mode is set to active. A path-activating event can be a manual action by a user or automatic action such as expiration of an aging timer to re-attempt use of a standby path.
US08977777B2
An information distribution method includes: gathering all-hazards information into an information exchange from a first information source; gathering all-hazards information into the information exchange from a second information source; distributing the all-hazards information from the information exchange to a first independently-controlled alert network; distributing the all-hazards information from the information exchange to a second independently-controlled alert network.
US08977773B2
A system and method for controlling rates for a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) over MQSeries (LoM) server. The system includes a health metrics engine that calculates an actual delay value, a LoM server that asynchronously obtains the actual delay value from the health metrics engine and place the delay value between one or more requests, and a LDAP master that accepts the one or more requests and send information in the one or more requests to a LDAP replica.
US08977761B2
A comprehensive platform for developing digital products. A standardized process is applied to a product development effort and an online portal provides tools to aid the product development, assessment, funding and commercializing products. Project management, workflow and data security functionality enable consistent, efficient and secure interactions between users. Business rules, workflows, valuation models and rating methods may be user defined or based upon marketplace, industry or technology standards.
US08977760B2
System and method for routing SUPL proxy-mode traffice when multiple nodes are deployed in a network
A system and method for connecting a mobile device to a node in a wireless network. A query may be received for a mobile device from a location based application. In response to the query a first message may be transmitted to the mobile device from a first node, the first message being populated with at least one predetermined parameter. At a second node, it may then be determined whether to forward a second message from the mobile device to the first node via the second node as a function of the availability of the first node or the at least one predetermined parameter.
US08977756B2
Greater network utilization is implemented through dynamic network reconfiguration and allocation of network services and resources based on the data to be transferred and the consumer transferring it. A hierarchical system is utilized whereby requests from lower layers are aggregated before being provided to upper layers, and allocations received from upper layers are distributed to lower layers. To maximize network utilization, paths through the network are reconfigured by identifying specific types of packets that are to be flagged in a specific manner, and then by further identifying specific routing rules to be applied in the transmission of such packets. Network reconfiguration is performed on an incremental basis to avoid overloading a path, and capacity can be reserved along one or more paths to prevent such overloading. Background data is agnostic as to specific transmission times and is utilized to prevent overloading due to reconfiguration.
US08977745B2
A communication network is operated by determining whether a network element can be trusted and monitoring traffic associated with the network element based on whether the network element can be trusted. At least some of the monitored traffic may be selected for examination based on the degree of trust for the network element. At least some of the monitored and/or examined traffic is selected to be blocked based on the degree of trust for the network element.
US08977739B2
The present invention features methods, computer program products and apparatuses for measuring client-side computer system performance that features identifying one of a plurality of uniform resource locator addresses contained on a server computing system, with each of the uniform resource locator addresses being associated with computing resources. The computing the computing resources associated with any one of the plurality of uniform resource locator addresses being different from the computer resource corresponding to the remaining uniform resource locator addresses. The computing resources are accessible through a web-browser that accesses the same the computing resources associated with the one of the plurality of uniform resource locator addresses. Measured are metrics of the interactions between the web-browser and the computing resources associated with the one of the plurality of uniform resource locator addresses. It is determined whether the metrics satisfy pre-determined operational requirements.
US08977735B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a system with multiple computing hosts each having a hypervisor to provide a virtual environment for the host and one or more containers each including a database instance and at least one database. These databases, and the database instance can be provided as a service to a user of a multi-tenant environment.
US08977734B2
In a method for transmitting data of various traffic types an xDSL modem is utilized. Detectors are used to detect the traffic types of the data which are to be transmitted and the detected traffic types are taken as a basis for dynamically adjusting a data transmission rate for the xDSL modem.
US08977732B2
A communication control section according to the invention receives communication data on a transport layer from a service providing terminal which provides service in a higher layer than the transport layer, and a CPU performs a stopping process of a session layer relating to the service, when the communication data on the transport layer which is received by the communication control section relates to a stop request of the service. The CPU receives a trigger relating to the stop of the service, and the communication control section transmits the communication data on the transport layer including a request to the higher layer relating to the stop request of the service, to the service providing terminal, when the CPU receives the trigger.
US08977727B2
A distribution server for distributing updates for medical devices is disclosed. The distribution server can provide an update to a configuration device which configures a device to be updated. The distribution server includes a portal that allows an update provider to provide an update package including an update file and update package data relating to the update file. The update package data includes dependency data indicating a condition that must be satisfied by the configuration device or a second device so that the update file can be installed on the device to be updated. The distribution server further includes a database that is configured to store package data of a plurality of update packages and locations of update files of the plurality of update packages. The server further includes a distribution module that receives an inquiry on behalf of a medical device and provides a list of available update packages.
US08977718B2
Existing network-based services can be reused by a new network service providing an updated interface to the existing services. A client request directed to the new network service triggers a back-end request from the new network service to the existing network service. The back-end request comprises aspects of the client's request and additional formatting rules and other information to override specific aspects of the existing network service. The existing network service generates a back-end response with its existing functionality that is being reused, and applies the specified overrides. Additional information to be utilized by the new network service in responding to the client can be added to the back-end response. The new network service can then form and transmit a response to the client by utilizing the central portion of the back-end response and appending additional information to it, including the information specified by the existing network-service.
US08977713B2
A system, method, and computer program product for accessing web pages on a network are provided. In use, different users are provided access to a plurality of sections of a file selected by the different users based on a community value for at least one community dimension assigned to each section of the file selected by the different users. In particular, a user is conditionally provided access to a section of a the selected by the user, based on a comparison of a user value indicating a community with which the user is associated to the community value for the at least one community dimension assigned to the section of the file selected by the user.
US08977711B2
A system and method for implementing functionality within a network on behalf of first and second devices communicating with each other through the network. A front-end device is provided within the network that communicates data traffic with the first device. A back-end device is also implemented within the network and communicates data traffic with the second device. A communication channel couples the front-end device and the back-end device. Data traffic may be encoded into a different type or protocol for transport through the communication channel by the front-end device and back-end device. The front-end device and back-end device exchange quality of service information and may alter characteristics of the data traffic through the communication channel according to the quality of service information.
US08977706B2
Disclosed are a system and a method for playing back contents based on a smart card, and a smart card applied to the same. A browser of a user terminal using a smart card queries a multimedia source of a user existing within the smart card and the multimedia source is played back in real time through the user terminal. A streaming or downloading playback service is provided to provide the user terminal with the multimedia source in real time.
US08977702B2
Selecting a master node in a group of computing nodes. Computing nodes exchange suitability messages, candidate messages, and master messages to indicate the state of each node. A deterministic algorithm based on scores and timings is executed by each computing node to encourage each node to select the same master node.
US08977692B1
Automated handling of a notification from a federal court is provided in which its disposition is determined responsively to data contained in the notification, or to data that relates to a matter referred to in the notification. In an illustrative example, an email application identifies an email as a bankruptcy notification. An automated notification handling system enhances the data in the notification email by supplementing the notification email data with related data that is matched from a case management system database, and further follows links in the notification email to download documents that are filed with the court. The documents are copied to storage or appended to the enhanced notification email data. The disposition of the notification is determined by invoking rules responsively to the enhanced notification email data which is then sent, using rules-based routing, to an appropriate destination to be handled, stored or deleted as required.
US08977688B2
Presented are systems and methods for presenting, creating, and pausing a meeting session. The systems and methods create meeting-session data based at least in pan on one or more applications running on one or more devices connected to a meeting session. The systems and methods store muting-session data in a database. The systems and methods pause a meeting session such that the one or more devices are disconnected from the meeting session. The systems and methods resume a meeting session by configuring devices to run at least one of the one or more applications using the meeting-session data and joining configured devices to the resumed meeting session.
US08977687B2
Disclosed in some examples is a method of providing a bookmarking service on a social networking service, the method including receiving, over a network, an indication that a member of the social networking service interacted with an item of content; associating the item of content with a skill using a computer processor; and storing an indication in a storage device that the member interacted with the item of content and the skill associated with the item of content.
US08977686B2
Application programming interface (API) for starting and accessing distributed routing table (DRT) functionality. The API facilitates bootstrapping into the DRT by one or more devices of a group of devices (a mesh) seeking to collaborate over a serverless connection, establishing a node of the DRT, where each node is an instance of an application that is participating in the mesh, and node participation by allowing the application to search for keys published by other nodes in the mesh, or by becoming part of the mesh by publishing a key. The API facilitates optimization of the routing table for quickly finding a root of a specific key in the mesh by finding the key directly in a cache or by asking a root node of the key that is in the local routing table that is closest numerically to the key being searched.
US08977684B2
A new approach is proposed that contemplates systems and methods to support canceling audio streams leaked from a speaker to a microphone so that a clean audio stream of a presenter or viewer speaking at a conference call is transmitted. Here, the audio streams being canceled includes the computer audio stream of an application being run or a material being presented online during a web conference and/or the audio stream received from the rest of the group of participants at the conference call. The computer audio stream is then transmitted in addition to the presenter or viewer audio stream, and separate from any other audio stream captured by the hosting device during the conference call.
US08977680B2
A web server provides a host website to receive user profile and financial information to establish user gaming accounts that are shared by a plurality of on-line gaming venues. Each gaming venue, operated by different entities, provides gaming activities on a respective website. The host website provides a plurality of links to the participating on-line gaming venues and each gaming venue has shared access to the same user gaming account to facilitate user participation.
US08977678B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for conducting surveys of panelists via mobile devices without requiring persistent network connectivity with the mobile devices. A survey application is downloaded to a user's processor-based device, and executes locally on the device. A survey definition file is generated that specifies various information defining a given survey, such as specific questions to be asked, etc. The survey definition file is downloaded to the user's device. Once downloaded to the user's processor-based device, the survey definition file is interpreted by the survey application executing on the user's processor-based device in order to present a user interface on the user's processor-based device with which a user can interact to take the survey, as defined by the downloaded survey definition file. The survey definition file may be generated by a tool as a result of processing a predefined survey definition file.
US08977673B2
A request pertaining to a category of service is received from a client by an enterprise service bus. One or more status updates are received from a publish-subscribe service by the enterprise service bus, the status updates identifying services of the requested category that are available, wherein each service of the requested class publishes a status update to a syndication feed that is associated with at least one of the service or the category of service. Information concerning at least one service from the requested category is sent to the client.
US08977671B2
A divider circuit includes: a register which is configured of an even number of bits and in which a dividend data is stored. A shift operation section is configured to acquire a data stored in an upper bit portion of the register when the even number of bits of the register is equally divided to the upper bit portion and a lower bit portion, as a quotient data when the dividend data is divided by a maximum of a divisor data which can be expressed by a half of the even number of bits of the register.
US08977670B2
Implementing an unfused multiply-add instruction within a fused multiply-add pipeline. The system may include an aligner having an input for receiving an addition term, a multiplier tree having two inputs for receiving a first value and a second value for multiplication, and a first carry save adder (CSA), wherein the first CSA may receive partial products from the multiplier tree and an aligned addition term from the aligner. The system may include a fused/unfused multiply add (FUMA) block which may receive the first partial product, the second partial product, and the aligned addition term, wherein the first partial product and the second partial product are not truncated. The FUMA block may perform an unfused multiply add operation or a fused multiply add operation using the first partial product, the second partial product, and the aligned addition term, e.g., depending on an opcode or mode bit.
US08977669B2
To add floating point numbers in a parallel computing system, a collective logic device receives the floating point numbers from computing nodes. The collective logic devices converts the floating point numbers to integer numbers. The collective logic device adds the integer numbers and generating a summation of the integer numbers. The collective logic device converts the summation to a floating point number. The collective logic device performs the receiving, the converting the floating point numbers, the adding, the generating and the converting the summation in one pass. One pass indicates that the computing nodes send inputs only once to the collective logic device and receive outputs only once from the collective logic device.
US08977664B2
A method is disclosed for encoding and decoding integer values ranging over a known gamut of values used by a data system. By noting that a data system may store and/or transmit integer values over a predefined gamut having a minimum and a maximum limit, integer values at or near the maximum may be compressed to a greater degree than in conventional systems without any loss of data resolution.
US08977660B1
An improved technique for distributed data storage employs multiple DHT (distributed hash table) rings provided at different levels of a network hierarchy. A computing node is identified for data storage by performing multiple hashing operations, one for each DHT ring. The hashing operations for the different rings are distinct in that they are performed using different hashing functions and/or are performed on different data sources. In one example, a 2-level DHT is formed from a group of LANs forming a first DHT ring and a group of computing nodes, within each LAN, forming a second DHT ring.
US08977658B2
The invention provides a Smartcard file system and its method for selecting file. Said file system, including MF as well as a variety of DFs and Efs in the MF, wherein application root directory (ADF) is added in the MF; the tile attributes of said ADF, DF and EF of the tile system include the Application Identifier (AID); when visiting with HTTP protocol, the AID is understood as a long file name. External entities accessing said file system with the HTTP protocol, namely locating the application and file managed with CWS via URL; in URL, AID of directory or file identities its long file name, so that Smartcard file system also can support long file system and the way of selecting file of URL, which makes Smartcard to support the WEB services easier and more accepted by the user.
US08977648B2
A specific item within an item class is identified by defining sets of descriptor data from a training library. The collected descriptor data is grouped and organized into a hierarchical tree, where each leaf node is defined by relations between corresponding parts of the descriptor data. Registrable sets of descriptor data are then identified from a collection of registrable samples. The registrable sets of descriptors are sorted into the hierarchical tree. When an input sample to be identified is received, a test set of descriptor data is generated from the input sample. The test set is then sorted into the hierarchical tree. Each leaf node that receives a part of the test set provides a vote for the registered samples it contains. The registered sample with the most votes is deemed a match for the input sample.
US08977641B1
Techniques include: receiving a first search query from a user; determining a topic associated with the first search query; sending a second search query to the user, where the second search query is associated with the topic and is different from the first search query; receiving a selection of the second search query from the user; and, when the second search query has been received from other users more than a specified number of times within a time window, sending an invitation to the user. The invitation may be for inviting participation in an online social group that includes others who have sent the second query to the server system within the time window. The invitation can be for inviting participation in an online social group including other users (e.g., members of a social network) who have sent the second query to the server system within the time window.
US08977640B2
A method of processing a supply query is described. The method includes receiving a first supply query comprising a first set of attributes. A size of the first set of attributes is compared to a threshold value. A second supply query comprising a second set of attributes is generated when the comparison indicates that the size of the first set of attributes is greater than the threshold value.
US08977632B2
A location extraction component analyzes a set of travelogues to identify all of the locations mentioned therein. A co-occurrence extraction component computes co-occurrence values for the identified locations. When the identity of a specified location is received, suggested locations for the specified location are identified through the use of the co-occurrence values. A map is displayed that encompasses an area including the specified location and the suggested locations. The map might include indicators for the specified location and for each of the suggested locations. Attributes of the indicators, such as their size or color, can be modified based upon the co-occurrence value associated with the corresponding suggested location.
US08977618B2
A job searching and matching system and method is disclosed that gathers job seeker information in the form of job seeker parameters from one or more job seekers, gathers job information in the form of job parameters from prospective employers and/or recruiters, correlates the information with past job seeker behavior, parameters and behavior from other job seekers, and job parameters and, in response to a job seeker's query, provides matching job results based on common parameters between the job seeker and jobs along with suggested alternative jobs based on the co-relationships. In addition, the system correlates employer/recruiter behavior information with past employer/recruiter behavior, parameters and information concerning other job seekers, which are candidates to the employer, and resume parameters, and, in response to a Employer's query, provides matching job seeker results based on common parameters between the job seeker resumes and jobs along with suggested alternative job seeker candidates based on the identified co-relationships.
US08977612B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying one or more second documents related to one or more first documents. Strength of relationship scores between candidate documents in a group of candidate documents and each first document are determined by aggregating user selection data for users, the user selection data indicating, for each user, whether the user viewed the candidate document during a window of time after the first document is presented to the user on a search results web page in response to a query. An aggregate strength of relationship score is calculated for each candidate document from the strength of relationship scores for the candidate document. Second documents are selected from the candidate documents according to the aggregate strength of relationship scores for the candidate documents.
US08977611B2
In one embodiment, a system includes one or more computing systems that implement a social networking environment and are operable to access stored information including a plurality of nodes including a first set of user nodes that each correspond to a respective user and a second set of concept nodes that each correspond to a respective concept. The system may generate a match coefficient for the user and concept, representing the degree of relevance of a particular concept node to a particular user node.
US08977606B2
A method and apparatus for generating an extended page snippet in a search engine. The method includes: retrieving and returning an associated table webpage having a table related to an inquired keyword; obtaining a parsed result of the table in the associated table webpage, and extracting column names and respective row instances on the basis of the parsed result; determining the row instances related to the inquired keyword; and generating a page snippet in a table style in accordance with the column names and the relative row instances. The page snippet in the table style can be generated by using a solution of the present invention.
US08977604B1
A unique (or nearly unique) set of search terms (called a “Search Resource Locator,” or SRL) is used to locate information on a web page. An SRL can be used like a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) as a navigational element that finds and brings up a corresponding web site. Unlike a URL, however, an SRL is not a static address for the web site, but is instead a representation of a collection of search terms that can be used to find the site or a substantially similar site. A provided tool generates SRLs for web pages.
US08977601B2
A disappearing index allows faster processing of a database query without the startup time of a prior art sparse index. The disappearing index starts as a full index but is trimmed of index values that point to a row in the table that is not selected by the query. Thus the traditional index disappears as it becomes a sparse index tailored to the query. The query is able to execute faster using the now sparse index since the target database table is not accessed for duplicate values in the base table of the query. The query optimizer may determine to use a disappearing index based on estimates of the number of duplicate values in the base table. When the query is complete, the created disappearing table may be discarded or used for other queries that match the selection of the query that created the disappearing index.
US08977594B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for state consistent replication of client data set on a client computer by generating a snapshot of the client data set on a local volume; synchronizing with a remote server volume corresponding to the local volume to create a copy of the client data set on the remote server; performing a master to slave replication of the data set; and taking a snapshot of the server data set to create a mirror of the snapshot of the client data set on the server.
US08977591B1
A database is replicated to other systems using multisite table(s) and associated replication trigger logic. Each system includes a main table, multisite table(s) and replication trigger logic. A multisite table corresponds to a main table of another system. When a main table of a system is changed, in response to an input, the system generates and sends replication transactions to the other systems for changing main tables in the other systems. In accordance with the change specified in the replication transaction, the multisite tables are modified. In each system, the replication trigger logic determines whether or not to replicate the change specified in the replication transaction to the main table of the each system, upon application of the replication trigger logic to the replication transaction. The change specified in the replication transaction may relate to inserting, deleting, or updating a record in the main table.
US08977587B2
A log file contains operation records, each operation record is of a certain type, and each operation record is associated with a transaction. A plurality of operation records is read from the log file into a record store. Records of the plurality of operation records of each operation record type are sampled at a predefined sampling rate. Operation records in the plurality of operations records are identified that are associated with completed transactions of which the sampled operation records are associated. The identified operation records are then extracted from the record store into a data store.
US08977585B2
A simulation system is proposed that makes use of historical and live data sensed for one or more objects (e.g., people, cars, balls, rackets, etc.). An event will include one or more decision points. A choice of an action to take at a decision point is made. That chosen action will be simulated based on the historical and live data. The simulation can be compared to the actual action taken in the event as a way to judge the choice. Although the choice of action to take at the decision point is simulated, the real event is not altered by the choice.
US08977574B2
An apparatus, device, methods, computer program product, and system are described that provide a graphical illustration of a first possible outcome of a use of a treatment parameter with respect to at least one body portion, based on a first dataset associated with a first predictive basis, and that modify the graphical illustration to illustrate a second possible outcome of the use of the treatment parameter, based on a second dataset associated with a second predictive basis.
US08977570B2
Present embodiments are directed to a server computer. The server computer establishes a first channel of communication to receive payment device data in a first format (e.g., chip type) and establishes a second channel to receive the payment device data in a second format (e.g., legacy type). The server computer receives an authorization request message in the second format from a merchant and generates a new authorization request message in the first format. The server computer then forwards the new authorization request to the issuer for approval.
US08977568B1
Anonymous mobile payments enable a user to make and/or receive payments without disclosing personal or private information to another party. In some aspects, a provider of a payment may request an anonymous payment for a specified value from a host. In response, the host may transmit to the provider a code that is available for redemption. The provider may then relay the code to a recipient, who may redeem the code from the host. In other aspects, a recipient may request a temporary identifier (special code) from a host. The recipient may relay the temporary identifier to a provider, who may in turn transmit a payment, via the host, using the temporary identifier. The recipient may then claim the payment from the host. In additional aspects, the codes of the anonymous payments may include expiration times and/or restrictions on a number of uses of the code.
US08977555B2
Features are disclosed for generating markers for elements or other portions of an audio presentation so that a speech processing system may determine which portion of the audio presentation a user utterance refers to. For example, an utterance may include a pronoun with no explicit antecedent. The marker may be used to associate the utterance with the corresponding content portion for processing. The markers can be provided to a client device with a text-to-speech (“TTS”) presentation. The markers may then be provided to a speech processing system along with a user utterance captured by the client device. The speech processing system, which may include automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) modules and/or natural language understanding (“NLU”) modules, can generate hints based on the marker. The hints can be provided to the ASR and/or NLU modules in order to aid in processing the meaning or intent of a user utterance.
US08977543B2
A quantizing apparatus is provided that includes a quantization path determiner that determines a path from a first path not using inter-frame prediction and a second path using the inter-frame prediction, as a quantization path of an input signal, based on a criterion before quantization of the input signal; a first quantizer that quantizes the input signal, if the first path is determined as the quantization path of the input signal; and a second quantizer that quantizes the input signal, if the second path is determined as the quantization path of the input signal.
US08977540B2
Advance Machine Learning or Unsupervized Machine Learning Techniques are provided that relate to Self-learning processes by which a machine generates a sensible automated summary, extracts knowledge, and extracts contextually related Topics along with the justification that explains “why they are related” automatically without any human intervention or guidance (backed ontology's) during the process. Such processes also relate to generating a 360-Degree Contextual Result (360-DCR) using Auto-summary, Knowledge Extraction and Contextual Mapping.
US08977532B2
Techniques for estimating time remaining for an operation are described. Examples operations include file operations, such as file move operations, file copy operations, and so on. A wide variety of different operations may be considered in accordance with the claimed embodiments, further examples of which are discussed below. In at least some embodiments, estimating a time remaining for an operation can be based on a state of the operation. A state of an operation, for example, can be based on events related to the operation itself, such as the operation being initiated, paused, resumed, and so on. A state of an operation can also be based on events related to other operations.
US08977530B2
Provided is a method for improving useful substance-producing organisms using metabolic flux analysis, and more particularly a method for improving a host organism producing a useful substance, the method including: calculating a maximum flux value corresponding to the theoretical maximum yield of the useful substance in the metabolic network model of the host organism for producing useful substance, and calculating the optimum value of metabolic flux associated with useful substance production in the metabolic network when the value of cell growth-associated metabolic flux is the maximum under the condition where fermentation data are applied or not applied; selecting metabolic fluxes whose absolute values increase from the range between the maximum value and the optimum value; screening genes associated with the selected metabolic fluxes; and introducing and/or amplifying the selected genes in the host organism. Production of the useful substance can be effectively improved by using the method.
US08977529B2
On-board diagnostics for fleet maintenance is improved by embedding a microprocessor programmed with a prognostication algorithm on a vehicle.
US08977522B2
A system for observing a walking activity of a person comprises a device (DISP) adapted for delivering at output, for a footstep of the person, a first difference of angular speeds of the corresponding tibia between the instant at which the heel of the foot is planted and the instant at which the foot is laid flat, a second difference of angular speeds of the corresponding tibia between the instant at which the heel of the foot is planted and the instant at which the last toe of the foot is lifted, and an angular speed of the corresponding tibia at the instant at which the foot is laid flat. The system comprises analysis means (AN) for analyzing the signals delivered by the device and adapted for determining a type of walking of the user as a function of time by using a hidden Markov model with N states corresponding respectively to N types of walking.
US08977517B2
System and methods to evaluate and administer drugs. The present invention instantaneously identifies the effects that drugs, including appetite-affecting agents, have on animals. Data is collected automatically and analyzed and further organized to identify feeding patterns and the effect an appetite-affecting agent has on those feeding patterns. The present invention includes a system for data management, including a program with a data acquisition phase and a data analyzing phase to determine the feeding patterns of animals to aid in the evaluation of appetite-affecting drug efficacy.
US08977516B2
An encoder system includes: a first single-rotation absolute encoder that outputs a first signal corresponding to an angular position of a first rotatable shaft; a power transmission device that transmits the power of the first shaft to a second rotatable shaft with a predetermined transmission ratio; a second single-rotation absolute encoder that outputs a second signal corresponding to an angular position of the second shaft; and a signal processing section that generates data related to the rotation count of the first shaft based on at least the first signal and the second signal.
US08977494B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to a system and method for identification of points of interest within a predefined area. Location estimates for substantially stationary mobile devices may be utilized to determine locations of one or more points of interest. Location estimates for mobile devices in motion may be utilized to determine locations of one or more corridors.
US08977478B2
A method of verifying a default state of a control parameter in an automobile engine includes checking engine controller performance with the control parameter in both a default state and an alternate state. The results of the tests are then compared to verify which state is the appropriate state for the particular engine being tested. A third engine controller performance check can be made to ensure that the controller and engine perform in a repeatable manner prior to setting the state of the control parameter.
US08977476B2
A system for automatically shutting down an engine of a motor vehicle includes a plurality of status indicators, each providing status data in response to an operational parameter of the vehicle, wherein the status data from each of the status indicators has a predetermined status value. A controller is responsive to the status data and is configured to (1) sum the status values of the status data received by the controller to determine an aggregated status value, (2) compare the aggregated status value to a predetermined shutdown threshold value, and (3) provide a shutdown signal if the aggregated status value is at least equal to the shutdown threshold value for a predetermined time interval. An engine control unit in signal communication with the controller is operable to shut down the engine in response to the shutdown signal.
US08977472B2
In an engine of a direct-injection type, a split injection (a fuel injection in an intake stroke and a fuel injection in a compression stroke) is carried out. A compression-stroke injection amount is gradually decreased or increased when the split injection is carried out. Engine rotational speed, which varies by combustion of such injected fuel, is detected for respective fuel injection amounts, which are varied (decreased or increased) as above. Such a fuel injection amount, with which the engine rotational speed becomes maximum, is calculated and set as a basic injection amount for the compression-stroke injection. The fuel injection in the compression stroke is then controlled based on the basic injection amount.
US08977471B2
A multicylinder engine is provided with a fuel injector for each cylinder. An ECU defines a fuel injection condition of the fuel injector based on an engine driving condition and executes a fuel injection control for each cylinder based on the defined fuel injection condition. The ECU computes an engine speed with respect to each cylinder. While the engine is running, the fuel injection condition is operated in an operation cylinder. A fuel property is determined based on the engine speed of the operation cylinder and an engine speed of a non-operation cylinder.
US08977458B2
A twin clutch controlling apparatus wherein a clutch lever is operated during a deceleration operation in which an auto mode (Auto) is selected, then a shift down action from a gear position “N-2” at which a driving force can be transmitted only by one of an odd number stage side clutch CL1 and an even number stage side clutch CL2 to another position “1-2” at which the transmission gear for transmitting a driving force is switched in response to switching control of the clutch is carried out in response to the operation of the clutch lever. After the shift down action, if re-connection of the clutch is to be carried out by the clutch lever, then the clutch (CL1, CL2) on the side to be driven in response to a manual operation clutch capacity arithmetic operation value (tqc1tmt) is determined in response to a vehicle speed V.
US08977457B2
A vehicle powertrain includes an engine, transmission, torque converter assembly, and controller. The controller includes recorded lumped inertia models of the powertrain and instructions for executing a clutch-to-clutch shift using these models. The models collectively reduce powertrain dynamics to two or three degrees of freedom. The controller executes a method to estimate clutch torques using the models. The models may include a first primary inertia block describing engine inertia and inertia of a torque converter pump, and a second primary inertia model describing the inertia of the turbine and transmission as reflected to the input member. The second primary inertia model includes bulk inertia models for each fixed gear state and each possible shift maneuver. The controller derives a required output torque value as a closed-loop target value using the lumped inertia models and a requested input torque, and uses the estimated clutch torque to achieve the target value.
US08977456B2
A method predicts transfer torque of a dry clutch in a vehicle, in which a characteristic of transfer torque of the dry clutch caused by a stroke of a clutch actuator is accurately detected in a process of detecting a characteristic of a transmission when the vehicle is finished in an assembly line, and is applied to the control of the dry clutch using the clutch actuator, thereby previously preventing a phenomenon in which an excessive slip and an impact occur at the dry clutch and thus improving shift performance, for instance, securing durability of the dry clutch, or obtaining smooth shift feeling.
US08977449B2
Systems and methods for improving operation of a hybrid vehicle are presented. In one example, a holding force of a vehicle parked on a hill is adjusted depending on a grade of the hill.
US08977447B2
When estimating a torque ratio, which is the ratio of an actually transmitted torque relative to the maximum transmittable torque of a continuously variable transmission, based on the transmission characteristics for transmitting a given variable component of an input shaft element to an output shaft element via a frictional element, since the torque ratio is estimated from a slip identifier, an indicator for difference in amplitude of a variable component between the two elements, or a phase lag, an indicator for difference in phase of the variable component between the two elements, it is possible to estimate the torque ratio, which is closely related to the power transmission efficiency of the continuously variable transmission, with good precision, thus improving the power transmission efficiency. Moreover, since the torque ratio is estimated from the slip identifier or the phase lag, it is possible to minimize the number of sensors necessary for estimation.
US08977446B2
Provided is a driving support device that allows a driver to confirm the travelling routes of the wheels of a vehicle from an image indicating the circumference of the vehicle.The driving support device includes: an imaging unit which takes a travelling direction image by shooting in the travelling direction of a vehicle; a steering angle detection unit which detects the steering angle of the vehicle; a route image generation unit which predicts travelling routes of wheels provided on the travelling direction side of the vehicle, and generates a route image that indicates the travelling routes of the wheels as seen from the viewpoint of the imaging unit; a superimposed image generation unit which generates a superimposed image by superimposing the route image on the travelling direction image; and an image display unit which displays the superimposed image.
US08977444B2
A work vehicle includes an engine, a travel device, a hydraulic pump, a work implement, a torque converter device, and a controller. The torque converter includes a torque converter and a lockup clutch. The controller is configured to switch the lockup clutch between a connected state and a non-connected state in accordance with a travel state of the work vehicle. The controller is configured to determine whether load increase conditions associated with an increase in load on the work implement are satisfied, and to control the lockup clutch so that the lockup clutch is in the non-connected state when the load increase conditions are satisfied.
US08977443B2
[Object] When total power required by a hybrid construction machine increases above output power available from a driving source, power supplied to a rotation motor is restricted.[Means to Realize Object] Driving power from an engine 2 is distributed to a hydraulic pump 6 and a generator 4. Electric power generated by the generator 4 is used to drive a rotation motor 12, and pressurized oil provided by the hydraulic pump 6 is used to drive a hydraulic machine 14. When both of the hydraulic machine 14 and the rotation motor 12 are simultaneously manipulated, the output power outputted by the engine 2 and the required power required by the hydraulic machine 14 and the rotation motor 12 are detected. When the required power exceeds the output power, the torque or acceleration of the rotation motor 12 is restricted to preferentially provide output power to the hydraulic machine 14.
US08977435B2
A determination processing ECU of a vehicle control apparatus which stops a vehicle regardless of whether a driver operates a brake pedal operation stops the vehicle while changing the steering angle of the vehicle based on an environment surrounding a vehicle stop position.
US08977426B2
A method and apparatus in a vehicular telemetry system for determining accelerometer thresholds based upon decoding a vehicle identification number (VIN).
US08977409B2
An unmanned surveillance device includes a robot control terminal configured to be loaded within a remote control robot under a surveillance environment, collect state information and surrounding circumstance information, operate the remote control robot in driving mode or surveillance mode according to a remote control command corresponding to the state information and surrounding circumstance information. Further, the unmanned surveillance device includes a remote control system configured to receive the state information and the surrounding circumstance information of the remote control robot from the robot control terminal, output the received state information and surrounding circumstance information of the remote control robot, and provide the remote control command to the robot control terminal.
US08977408B1
A system for transferring driver profile settings has a communication interface, processor, storage device, and program in the storage device. The communication interface allows for network communications. The processor couples to the interface. Execution of the program from storage by the processor configures the system to perform functions. The system allows for transfer of a driver profile from the storage device to a vehicle for application on the vehicle. The driver profile specifies one or more preference settings for one or more configurable components of a vehicle.
US08977406B2
A power supply system includes: a plurality of power supply devices; a battery device; an abnormal state detection unit that detects a state of a first power supply device is an abnormal state; and a switching control unit that, when it is detected the state of the first power supply device is the abnormal state, switches a state from an electric power input forbidding state in which electric power is not inputted into a second power supply device to an electric power input permitting state in which electric power is inputted into the second power supply device, and switches the state from an electric power supply forbidding state of not supplying the electric power stored by the battery device to the external load to an electric power supply permitting state of supplying the electric power stored by the battery device to the external load.
US08977405B2
The invention provides a method for optimizing energy usage in commercial buildings. Energy consumption data is used, along with occupant data, to determine appropriate adjustments in energy, and for ongoing monitoring and reporting of energy savings. According to the inventive method, the building of interest is characterized, including calculation of lag parameters—temperature lag, solar gain lag, solar strength lag, and, in some instances, humidity lag, which inform a thermal energy equation particular to the building of interest. Mechanical heating lag and mechanical cooling lag are used for on-going energy use optimization. An outside temperature index may also be used. The resulting accuracy of the thermal energy equation is over 90% for both heat and chilling input, once the building has been optimized according to the inventive method.
US08977401B2
A wind turbine and a method for controlling the temperature of a wind turbine generator are disclosed, the wind turbine comprising a generator, generator temperature control means and means for providing input representative of at least one temperature of the generator to the generator temperature control means, the generator temperature control means including a closed-loop regulation arranged to determine a deviation of the input from at least one desired value, compute the magnitude of at least one control output in dependency of the determined deviation, and feed the control output to at least one controller of the wind turbine in order to reduce the deviation, the controller comprising control means for controlling the operation of the wind turbine in response to the at least one control output by changing one or more operational parameters of the wind turbine, which parameters influence the at least one temperature of the generator.
US08977399B2
An HVAC controller, a method of starting a HVAC unit and a HVAC system are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, the HVAC controller includes: (1) an interface configured to receive a delay originating signal and (2) a processor configured to automatically generate an offset delay value for the HVAC unit upon receipt of the delay originating signal and delay starting identified components of the HVAC unit based on the offset delay value.
US08977386B1
Method and systems for sorting are described. In one embodiment, a container is released into a pocket section, with the pocket section being at a first alignment stage. The pocket section is rotated with the container away from the first alignment stage to a second alignment stage. Attributes of the container are acquired at the second alignment stage. An order to which the container belongs is identified with the acquired attributes. The pocket section with the container is rotated to a third alignment stage. The location of the third alignment stage is selected based on the identified order. The container is received to group with one or more containers in the identified order. Additional methods and systems are disclosed.
US08977384B2
The invention relates to a method for crane control and stock management, the method includes attaching to the goods to be stored an identifier associated with a code, such as number or name, given to the goods in stock accounting or the like; reading the identifier with a reader, when the goods are being transferred by a crane; transmitting the identifier information from the reader to the memory of the crane control; transferring the goods with the crane to a selected location in the warehouse; and storing the coordinates of the goods to the memory of the crane control so that they are associated with the identifier; and when the goods are removed from the warehouse, reading with the reader from a work order or the like the identifier information associated with the goods; and transmitting the identifier information from the reader to the memory of the crane control; and activating the crane control with the identifier information, whereby the crane moves to the location of the earlier stored goods.
US08977382B2
Methods and devices for milling a channel-shaped cavity by a five-axis computer numerical control (CNC) machine by selecting a workpiece to be machined, determining cutting tool flow along the channel-shaped cavity, determining cutting tool in-depth penetration, determining a trochoid path, and determining auxiliary movements.
US08977372B2
The embodiments described herein include a system and a method. In one embodiment, an industrial process control system includes a processor and a link active scheduler. The link active scheduler is configured to schedule execution of a macrocycle. The macrocycle includes an application timeslot and an asynchronous timeslot. The link active scheduler is further configured to schedule execution of scheduled instructions for a plurality of field devices of the industrial process control system in the application timeslot. The link active scheduler is further configured to schedule execution of unscheduled instructions for the plurality of field devices of the industrial process control system in the asynchronous timeslot. The industrial process control system further includes a macrocycle viewer executable by the processor. The macrocycle viewer is configured to display the macrocycle in a visual format.
US08977370B2
A handheld treatment device is for applying electrical impulses to a living body through the surface of the body, for treating a variety of clinical conditions. The device comprises first and second electrodes for contact with the skin; a waveform generator for repeatedly generating an AC waveform for applying electrical impulses through the electrodes to the skin; a detector for detecting changes in the skin impedance and for generating output signals representing the skin impedance; means responsive to the output signals from the detector for monitoring the responsivity of the skin; and indicator means for generating a first indication when a predetermined level of responsivity is reached and a second indication when a pre-determined treatment has been administered. The device is characterised by a treatment patch comprising a flexible sheet having on one surface said first and second electrodes separated by insulation; a pair of leads connected respectively to said first and second electrodes; and a connection arrangement attached to the first and second leads for connecting the electrodes with said waveform generator. Each electrode comprises at least one elongate strip, with the, or each, strip of the first electrode being separated from the, or each adjacent, strip of the second electrode by a, or a respective, line of said insulation.
US08977368B2
An implantable medical device having at least one first and one second longitudinally extended electrical functional conductor to transmit therapeutic signals or diagnostic signals or both. The implantable medical device includes one electrode pole connected to the functional conductor, wherein electrical current is delivered to the surrounded bodily tissue using the electrode pole. Electrical potentials may be sensed in the surrounding tissue using the electrode pole, such that the two electrical functional conductors are inductively coupled for defined resonant frequencies and such that RF energy of a first functional conductor is diverted to the second functional conductor. The RF energy is delivered to the surrounding tissue via the second functional conductor and via an electrode pole connected to the second functional conductor.
US08977364B2
An external, head worn electrical nerve stimulation device, including a power source and a head band configured to fit around a patient's head, the patient's head including a front portion, a rear portion opposite the front portion, a first lateral side, and a second lateral side opposite the first lateral side. The device further includes a plurality of electrical electrodes circumferentially disposed along the head band, wherein the plurality of electrodes contacts each of the front portion, the rear portion, the first lateral side, and the second lateral side. The plurality of electrical electrodes is configured to stimulate, with electrical current, at least one of the greater occipital nerve, the lesser occipital nerve, the supraorbital nerve, the supratrochlear nerve, zygomatotemporal nerve, and the auriculotemporal nerve when the electrodes are energized by the power source.
US08977361B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for the treatment of a brain affection, which comprises at least one implantable generator (4) made of non-ferromagnetic material comprising a casing (7), an ultrasound generating treating device (11) positioned into said casing to induce brain affection treatment by emission of ultrasound waves, and means for fastening the implantable casing into the skull. The apparatus further comprises a power controller (PwC) to supply electricity to the treating device of the implantable generator and to set and control its working parameters, and connecting means (6) to connect the power controller and the treating device of the implantable generator. A method for treating a brain affection with such an apparatus is also disclosed.
US08977344B2
An injection catheter for infusing therapeutic and diagnostic agents into the heart comprises a catheter body and a tip section mounted at the distal end of the catheter body. A needle control handle is provided at the proximal end of the catheter body. An injection needle extends through the tip section, catheter body, and needle control handle. The injection needle is longitudinally slidable within the tip section so that its distal end can extend beyond the distal end of the tip section upon suitable manipulation of the needle control handle. The catheter further comprises an electrode lead wire having a first end electrically connected to the injection needle and a second end electrically connected to a suitable monitoring apparatus or to a source of ablation energy. The injection needle can thus be used for mapping or ablation in addition to introducing therapeutic and diagnostic agents into the heart.
US08977332B1
A retractor device has an oximeter sensor at its tip, which allows measuring of oxygen saturation of a tissue being retracted by the retractor. The retractor device also has a force sensor which can measure an amount of force that is applied to the retracted tissue by the tip of the retractor device. The tip includes one or more openings for at least one source and detector. A specific implementation is a spinal nerve root retractor with an oximeter sensor and a force sensor.
US08977326B2
Devices and methods are disclosed which relate to an electronic device having a human stimulus receptor which, when activated, suspends activation of a screensaver. The screensaver is activated to conserve the power and life of the electronic device. When latently viewing the electronic device, however, the human stimulus receptor is activated. A countdown starts counting down a pre-determined amount of time once the human stimulus receptor is inactive. At the expiration of the countdown, the screensaver is activated. The human stimulus receptor responds to skin conductivity, natural muscular twitch, pulse, skin temperature, and/or eye movement. Only when the electronic device no longer detects any of these human stimuli will the countdown begin. A user may set the predetermined amount of time.
US08977325B2
The present invention provides a method and a system for processing cell sleeping. The method comprises: a cell sending a sleeping request message to a neighbor cell (S102); according to the sleeping request message, the neighbor cell sends a corresponding sleeping response message to the cell (S104); according to the sleeping response message, the cell decides to perform sleeping or not (S106). The present invention ensures the continuity of user communication.
US08977317B2
A method of configuring modules for identifying users of a telecommunication network able to cover a service area, each identification module including an identification code stored in the identification module, the identification code including: an operator identifier; a user identification number; the method includes assigning a same operator identifier to a plurality of modules for identifying users belonging to a same organization or international mission.
US08977310B2
A method for coordinating wireless coverage between a first wireless network and a second wireless network for a communication device, wherein the communication device performs the method, which includes: detecting wireless coverage by the first wireless network; affiliating to a communication group to become a member of the communication group; receiving, from an infrastructure device coupled to the first wireless network, a set of channels on the second wireless network for the communication group, wherein the set of channels is determined based on the location of members of the communication group; detecting a loss of coverage in the first wireless network of at least one member of the communication group; and, responsive to detecting the loss of coverage, switching to a channel in the set of channels on the second wireless network for communications for the communication group.
US08977303B2
Techniques, apparatuses, and systems include mechanisms for interworking circuit service fallback. In one implementation, a system for wireless communications can include one or more first base stations forming a first radio access network to provide wireless communications based on a first wireless technology; one or more second base stations forming a second radio access network to provide wireless communications based on a second wireless technology which is different from the first wireless technology, and an interworking service (IWS) module that is configured to provide the interworking between the first and second radio access networks for communications to a wireless device served by the system via either the first wireless technology or the second wireless technology, and uses a signal adaptation protocol to encapsulate messages in communicating with a wireless device served by the system. Other implementations are also provided in this document.
US08977301B2
A system by which paging can be performed to support global reachability in a heterogeneous multi-access environment independently on a particular radio access network architecture. Various embodiments of the present invention provide methods for performing generic paging in heterogeneous multi-access networks based on incoming traffic and its characteristics, producing a topology-based coverage map of dynamic access networks. The framework of the various embodiments of the present invention supports the use of user preferences in the selective paging process; i.e. the most optimal radio access is activated according to user preferences and the current networking environment.
US08977299B2
A mobile terminal device includes: a memory that stores a restriction on a predetermined function or a release condition of the restriction as initial setting information; a determining unit that determines whether a condition of the setting information of the memory is satisfied; a generation unit that generates a restriction change request signal, which changes the initial setting information by a setting information change signal under a condition to change the initial setting information of the memory, and which requests the restriction on a function stored in the memory or the change of the release condition of the restriction when the determining unit determines that the condition of the changed setting information is satisfied; and a restriction release unit which, when detecting the restriction change request signal generated by the generation unit, performs the use restriction on the function or the restriction release based on the changed setting information.
US08977298B2
Methods, program products, and systems for using a location fingerprint database to determine a location of a mobile device are described. A mobile device can use a location fingerprint database to determine the location where GPS signals are unavailable. A server can generate location fingerprint data for the database. The server can generate the location fingerprint data using crowd sourcing, using known locations of signal sources, or both. The server can receive, from a sampling device, measurements of environment variables, e.g., signals from a signal source at one or more sampling points. The server can extrapolate, from the received measurements, estimated measurements at one or more locations in a venue. The server can store the extrapolated measurements as location fingerprint data. The server can send the location fingerprint data to a mobile device for determining a location of the mobile device when the mobile device is at the venue.
US08977297B2
An information processing apparatus that detects a first location of the information processing apparatus; receives information representing a target location from a target information processing apparatus; detects a target direction from the first location toward the target location; detects an orientation of a casing of the information processing apparatus; calculates an angular difference between the target direction and the orientation of the casing; determines a perceptual strength of each of a plurality of active elements disposed in different locations on or within the casing based on the angular difference; and controls each of the plurality of active elements based on the perceptual strengths.
US08977293B2
A smart phone senses audio and/or imagery from a surrounding environment, and acts to provide graphical user interfaces and toggling discovery modes. In one arrangement, a smart phone comprises: a wireless communications interface; a touch screen display; a camera for capturing imagery; a microphone for capturing audio; a physical discovery button for initiating a discovery mode, in which the discovery mode includes processing smart phone sensor-captured imagery or sensor-captured audio to obtain identification of an object depicted in sensor-captured imagery or of captured audio, the identification obtained through the wireless communications interface; one or more processors; and memory storing software instructions for configuring said one or more processors for: responsive to a request received via the physical discovery button, initiating a discovery mode including processing imagery captured with said camera; causing a sensor pane to be displayed on the touch screen display, in which captured imagery is displayed along with augmented reality graphics within the sensor pane, and causing user-selectable graphic icons to be displayed within a first area of the touch screen display; highlighting an object represented in captured imagery that is displayed within the sensor pane; and causing a user-selectable graphic icon to be displayed on the touch screen display to facilitate switching discovery modes from image to audio. A great number of other features and arrangements are also detailed.
US08977290B2
A process for consolidating location-dependent information in a two-way radio system includes determining a geographic location of each subscriber unit in a group of subscriber units active within a radio frequency (RF) coverage area of a base station (BS), determining a single representative geographic location for the group of subscriber units based on their geographic locations, requesting location-dependent information from a content provider using the representative geographic location, and causing the location-dependent information to be broadcast within the RF coverage area.
US08977288B2
A geo-fence capable device is disclosed that is capable of performing an accurate geo-fence operation while minimizing power consumption. The device includes sensors, Wi-Fi connectability and GNSS. Sensors intermittently detect whether the device is in motion. When determined to be in motion, Wi-Fi is used to acquire a wireless access point list and to compare the access point list to previously-stored access points in order to determine whether the device is still within a particular region. GNSS is used to confirm exit from a region and to intermittently monitor whether the device has entered a new region. GNSS and application processor use can be minimized by utilizing sensor and Wi-Fi functionality as preliminary region monitors.
US08977286B2
Process for geographical location of a cellular terminal (101) within a cellular land mobile network (110) for finding a certain base station (100), each cell (102, 103, 104) of the land mobile network (110) an identifier sent [sic], the combination of the identifiers of the identifiers which have been received at a certain geographical position delivering a unique configuration (130, 140), the cellular terminal (101) being suited to storing these configurations (130, 140), when agreement of the current configuration (130, 140) with the configuration (130, 140) stored in the cellular terminal (101) is established a search of the cellular terminal (101) for the base station (100) being triggered, by means of the base station (100) the configuration (130, 140) being checked at the geographical position of the base station (100) and when the identifier of the cell (102, 103, 104) is modified, a new identifier and/or the new configuration (140) for transmission to the cellular terminal (101) being made available, and the new identifiers and/or the new configuration (140) being stored in the cellular terminal (101).
US08977282B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a protocol to allow for load balancing between multiple frequency channels in a wireless communications system.
US08977280B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining link adaptation parameters for a wireless device. The method is performed in a first radio network node of a wireless communication system. The first radio network node hosts a first cell serving the wireless device. The wireless device is interfered by a second cell. The method comprises predicting (410) a future position of the wireless device. The method also comprises estimating (420) a first radio channel quality value for the wireless device in the predicted future position, based on: pathloss values related to the wireless device in the predicted future position for the first and the second cell respectively; and a transmission power of the second cell. The method further comprises determining (430) link adaptation parameters for the scheduling of the wireless device in the future position using the estimated first radio channel quality value.
US08977278B2
A method of signaling to enable tethering among wireless devices may include receiving, at a master wireless device, assignment information from a wireless communication access point. The assignment information may indicate that the master wireless device is designated as a hotspot for a slave wireless device. The method also may include determining an availability of an open frequency band for wireless communications, communicating an enabling signal to the slave wireless and receiving a confirmation of receipt of the enabling signal. Further, the method may include determining an allocation of a wireless communication resource over the open frequency band for the master wireless device to act as the hotspot for the slave wireless device. The allocation may be based on the confirmation of receipt of the enabling signal and on a parameter requirement associated with the master wireless device acting as the hotspot for the slave wireless device.
US08977277B2
A method at a network node for obtaining spectrum sensing information, the method communicating to at least one of a user equipment and a sensing node at least one event condition for spectrum sensing; providing to the at least one of the user equipment and the sensing node channel descriptors for reporting; and receiving a report from the at least one of the user equipment and the sensing node utilizing the channel descriptors, the report indicating the at least one event condition has been met.
US08977274B2
There lies a challenge to develop a technique of accurately and efficiently determining an available communication channel. In accordance with some embodiments disclosed herein, techniques for sensing a primary user of a particular communication channel are performed more efficiently. In some implementations, a geo-location of a communication device is combined with a sensing algorithm in order to more efficiently perform spectrum sensing. In some implementations, a geo-location and an accuracy determination may be used to determine all required sample regions in order to ensure that a primary user is not present in a particular location.
US08977269B2
Extending cellular telecommunication service from a first UE to another device. The first UE may register for cellular telecommunication service with a cellular network using a first cellular service account, using a cellular communication link via a cellular radio. A second device may be discovered and a communication link may be established between the first UE and the second device. The second device may be registered to use cellular telecommunication capability provided by the first UE. Communications between the second device and the cellular network may be conveyed via the communication link between the first UE and the second device and the cellular communication link. Conveying communications between the second device and the cellular network may provide use of the first cellular service account for cellular telecommunication service to the second device.
US08977266B2
A radio base station includes a mobile communication system, a relay node and a radio base station connected via a radio bearer. A mobile station is configured to perform a handover process between a state in which a radio bearer is set with the relay node so as to communicate via the relay node and the radio base station, and a state in which a radio bearer is set with the radio base station so as to communicate via the radio base station. The handover process is configured such that a data signal is transferred via the radio bearer between the relay node and the radio base station.
US08977263B2
Overall system selection for user equipment with multiple international mobile subscriber identities
Wireless communication in a radio access network may be implemented in a manner where a user equipment (UE) with multiple Universal Subscriber Identity Modules (USIMs) selects a system based on the system's preference status among the USIMs of the UE. A system that is home to all the UE's USIMs is selected over one that is home to some USIMs but roaming for others. A system that is home to some USIMs but not provisioned for other USIMs is selected over one that is roaming to all USIMs. A system that is roaming to all USIMs is selected over one that is roaming to some USIMs but not provisioned for other USIMs. Ranking of systems may be done independently by USIM or may be done using a combined ranking method that considers other USIMs prior to an individual USIM indicating a system priority. Manual system selection may also be used.
US08977262B2
An apparatus for providing closed subscriber group access control may include a processor. The processor may be configured to maintain a non-access register including an identifier of a communication cell associated with a closed subscriber group to which a communication device associated with the non-access register does not have access rights, and enable subsequent communication with another communication cell based on the other communication cell not being identified in the non-access register. A corresponding method and computer program product are also provided.
US08977261B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a method for hardware activation of dual USIM TD-SCDMA multimode mobile terminals. The technique effectively provides for efficient power consumption. In one aspect, a mobile terminal may register dual mobile identifiers on a first radio access technology (RAT) using a first hardware module. If a call is set up, the mobile terminal activates a second hardware module and registers the unused mobile identifier with the second RAT.
US08977255B2
Methods and systems in which a portable electronic device can be voice activated are disclosed. The portable electronic device can be a multi-function electronic device. The voice activation can be robust and context sensitive. The voice activation can also be utilized without any preparatory user action with respect to the portable electronic device. The portable electronic device can also interact with a media system.
US08977248B1
Systems and methods that can be utilized to convert a voice communication received over a telecommunication network to text are described. In an illustrative embodiment, a call processing system coupled to a telecommunications network receives a call from a caller intended for a first party, wherein the call is associated with call signaling information. At least a portion of the call signaling information is stored in a computer readable medium. A greeting is played the caller, and a voice communication from the caller is recorded. At least a portion of the voice communication is converted to text, which is analyzed to identify portions that are inferred to be relatively more important to communicate to the first party. A text communication is generated including at least some of the identified portions and including fewer words than the recorded voice communication. At least a portion of the text communication is made available to the first party over a data network.
US08977247B2
Application developers can request to have their applications registered for use with a content delivery platform. The operator of the content delivery platform establishes perimeters defining geographic areas, and maintains records reserving particular areas for delivery of content associated with particular sponsors. Registered applications running on mobile devices can request content from the content delivery platform. Based at least in part on the request, the content delivery platform can identify a target location, which may be the location of the mobile device, or some other location indicated in the request. A mobile device can be provided content based on the relationship of the target location to the geographic areas, so that a registered application running on a mobile device with a target location contained within a geographic area assigned to a particular sponsor will receive content related to that sponsor.
US08977240B2
A method for controlling and evaluating message traffic of a communication unit uses a first network unit within a mobile radio system for forwarding all the messages of the message traffic. The first network unit decides, using one or more useful information items of the communication unit, whether one or more messages are forwarded to a second network unit for processing or whether they are blocked. The first network unit is also used to determine, using one or more useful information items of the communication unit, whether the respective message of the message traffic is logged by the first network unit in a logfile.
US08977236B2
A GPS signal is converted into motion and idle indicator data. A task database includes task situs-location data, assignment and person data. Determining an idle mode generates idle ON indicia. Determining a movement ON status generates movement tracking indicia with location and time-based tracking over a subject time period. A map over a geographic region encompasses the idle and movement locations and overlays, on proximal locations on the map, the idle mode ON indicia and the movement tracking indicia. The marked map is published. Enhancements define the subject time period as the present plus a predetermined time; a historic period; a selectable time; and sequential historic time. Further, the subject time period is selectable over the location or path of the movement tracking indicia. A privacy event masks the publication of idle and movement indicia during a privacy block.
US08977233B2
Systems and methods that generate a partial Charging Data Record (CDR) when charging transfers from a primary charging function to a secondary charging function due to a failure. In one embodiment, the system receives an interim accounting request for a session from a secondary charging function after charging was transferred from the primary charging function. The system then opens a new partial CDR for the session based on the interim accounting request. The system receives a prior partial CDR for the session from the primary charging function, parses the prior partial CDR to identify a CDR timestamp, and records a start time in the new partial CDR based on the CDR timestamp. The system parses the interim accounting request to identify an accounting timestamp for the session, records an end time in the new partial CDR based on the accounting timestamp, and closes the new partial CDR.
US08977229B2
Enhanced services, such as call restriction, call forwarding, anonymous call rejection, and proprietary services, may interfere with an emergency callback potentially preventing the callback from reaching the intended destination. Systems and methods for processing emergency calls to eliminate emergency callback failure in response to an emergency call being disconnected are provided herein.
US08977227B2
A method of handling signaling in a congested core network for a mobile device is disclosed. The method comprises initiating a first service request procedure for an emergency bearer service when a back-off timer is running on the mobile device; and not deactivating non-emergency Evolved Packet System (EPS) context locally and keeping the non-emergency EPS context during the first service request procedure for the emergency bearer service, wherein the non-emergency EPS context corresponds to user plane radio bearers which was not established, locally or with signaling.
US08977221B2
A selecting apparatus for receiving antennas of a Multiple Input Multiple Output wireless system and a method thereof are disclosed. The method for selecting antennas includes the following steps. Select a set of receiving antenna sequentially by a selective and control unit so as to receive an input data. Then a signal processing module deals with the input data to generate output data sets. An operation unit processes at least one of the multiple sets of output data for generating a detection data that is sent to a determining unit. According to the detection data, the determining unit generates a control signal that is sent to the selective and control unit for driving the selective and control unit to select a set of antenna to be used.
US08977220B2
A preference related to the broadcast of a work, for example a song or advertisement, is obtained from a subscriber. The work is associated with one of a plurality of unique identifiers, and the particular identifier with which the work is associated can be identified in some instances by using information included with the subscriber preference. In response to determining which unique identifier is associated with the work, content associated with that identifier can be delivered to the subscriber according to his preference.
US08977215B2
A frequency translation device includes a transmit circuit including a first frequency converter configured to convert a signal at a first frequency into a signal at a second frequency. A receive circuit includes a second frequency converter configured to convert a signal at the second frequency into a signal at the first frequency. A detector circuit is configured to determine when the frequency translation device is receiving a signal, and to route the signal to the transmit circuit or to the receive circuit.
US08977212B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated identification of baseline data and changes in state in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and determining information about the baseline data and changes in state based upon the measured and analyzed data in near real time, which is stored on each apparatus or device units and/or on a remote server computer that aggregates data from each of the units, wherein the data is accessible via remote computer devices.
US08977199B2
A communication partner appliance is implemented within a near field communication system. The communication partner appliance includes a receiver, a detector, and a processor. The receiver receives a NFC command signal from another communication partner appliance. The detector detects whether a carrier signal from the other communication partner appliance is present at the receiver at a time other than during a transmission of the NFC command signal from the other communication partner appliance to the receiver. The processor controls a power supply element based on a determination by the detector whether the carrier signal from the other communication partner appliance is present at the receiver. The power supply element is configured to establish a connection to either a first power supply or a second power supply. The first power supply is dependent on the carrier signal, and the second power supply is independent of the carrier signal.
US08977188B2
A radio communication system whereby a range is enabled and communication control and quality can be ideally maintained even if the communication distance changes. The transmitting apparatus has a transmitting unit that repeatedly transmits one data packet; a receiving unit that repeatedly receives a response packet; an integrating unit that integrates a repeatedly received response packet; and a determining unit that determines, by use of a result of the integration, whether the received response packet is correct. The receiving apparatus has a receiving unit that repeatedly receives a data packet; an integrating unit that integrates a repeatedly received data packet; a determining unit that determines, by use of a result of the integration, whether the received data packet is correct; and a transmitting unit that repeatedly transmits the response packet when determination is made that the received data packet is correct.
US08977182B2
Fiber bundle forms loops protruding beyond a surface side of a base member with constant spaces therebetween, in at least one of opposite ends located in a direction perpendicular to a weaving direction (W) of a ribbon brush, a weft extending between neighboring loops passes under a warp, and a weft extending through the loop passes above the warp.
US08977180B2
A fixing device includes a curved member that supports a recording medium on which an image is formed by an image forming material that absorbs light and is fixed, and an irradiating portion that irradiates the curved member with light from the recording medium side, wherein the light axis of the light does not intersect with a center axis of the curved member, and is substantially perpendicular to a tangential line in a middle point in a transporting direction of the recording medium in a region of the curved member supporting the recording medium.
US08977165B2
A multi-pass type image forming apparatus allows driving-couplings to couple with and separate from an image-carrier and developing units simultaneously. The apparatus includes a main body, a cover to open or close the main body, an image-carrier unit including an image-carrier and first driven-coupling connected to the image-carrier, developing units including a developing roller and a second driven-coupling connected to the developing roller, first and second driving-couplings to transmit drive power to the first and second driven-couplings, a link unit to move in a first direction in linkage with opening/closing operations of the cover, and a guide unit to be rotatable about the first driving-coupling in linkage with the link unit, the guide unit being moved when rotated about the first driving-coupling so as to couple or separate the first and second driving-couplings to or from the first and second driven-couplings.
US08977153B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller and a transfer device including a power source to output a superimposed bias in which an AC voltage is superimposed on a DC voltage, a first electrode, a second electrode disposed opposite the first electrode with an image bearing member interposed therebetween to form a transfer electric field to transfer a toner image on the image bearing member to a recording medium. The controller including a CPU adjusts the transfer electric field and a transfer speed. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is connected to the power source, and the other is grounded. The controller adjusts the transfer speed such that in a case in which an oscillating electric field of the transfer electric field is strong, a maximum transfer speed is slower than the maximum transfer speed in a case in which the oscillating electric field is weak.
US08977147B2
An image forming apparatus capable of accurately computing power consumption thereof. First power consumption consumed by a fixing device of the image forming apparatus until the fixing device becomes a state capable of fixing a toner image onto a sheet is computed, second power consumption that includes power consumption consumed by the fixing device to fix the toner image onto the sheet and power consumption consumed by conveyance of the sheet is computed according to at least a sheet type, and third power consumption consumed by an exposure unit of the image forming apparatus to expose a photosensitive member of the image forming apparatus to light is computed according to an image to be formed. Then, a sum of the first to third power consumptions is computed.
US08977146B2
A printing apparatus includes: a conveyor configured to convey a sheet along a conveyance path; a driving device configured to drive the conveyor; a printing device configured to print an image on the sheet conveyed by the conveyor; and a controller. The controller executes a first processing in which, when a first indicator reaches a preset first value, the controller suppresses rise of a temperature in the printing apparatus. The first indicator is a value that changes based on an increase in the number of sheets printed by the printing device. The controller further executes a second processing in which the controller reduces frequency of execution of the first processing when the number of printings performed by the printing device within a set specific period is equal to or greater than a set reference number.
US08977141B2
A parameter of an adaptive filter is optimized so that inter-symbol interference having an amount corresponding to an inserted fixed filter remains. A digital signal processing apparatus which is included in an optical signal receiver and processes a digital signal converted from an optical signal is provided with: a linear adaptive filter which applies a dynamically controllable linear transfer function to the digital signal; a maximum likelihood sequence decoder which applies a transfer function of a transmission-path model to a plurality of signal sequence candidates to generate a plurality of reference signals, and decodes a reception signal using maximum likelihood sequence estimation which evaluates the differences between an output signal of the linear adaptive filter and the reference signals to estimate the most likely transmission time sequence; a signal regenerator which generates a signal corresponding to decoded data from the maximum likelihood sequence decoder; a feedback distortion adding filter which adds distortion that is equivalent to the transmission-path model used in the maximum likelihood sequence decoder to an output signal of the signal regenerator; and an adaptive equalization filter control block which updates a tap coefficient of the linear adaptive filter in accordance with an LMS algorithm using the difference between a target signal that is an output signal of the feedback distortion adding filter and the digital signal as an error signal.
US08977132B2
An RF hardline coaxial cable plant to facilitate voice and/or data services to subscriber premises in one or more neighborhood nodes of a cable communication system by conveying upstream information over an upstream path bandwidth. One or more upstream radio frequency (RF) signals have a carrier frequency of between approximately 5 MHz and 19.6 MHz and are modulated using quadrature amplitude modulation (QAM) with voice and/or data information constituting at least some of the upstream information. An example RF signal defines a channel having an average channel power, and a highest value for an average noise power between 5 MHz and 19.6 MHz in the upstream path bandwidth of a given neighborhood node, as measured over at least a 24 hour period, is at least 25 decibels (dB) below the average channel power and/or less than 20 decibels (dB) above a noise floor associated with the neighborhood node.
US08977129B2
Various architectures of a multi-degree reconfigurable optical add-drop multiplexer with reduced contention are provided. These architectures allow the degree of contention reduction to be managed in a flexible and modular way. The degree of the node and the amount of add/drop at the node can also be managed in a flexible and modular way. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.
US08977127B2
A system comprising a first optical line terminal (OLT) comprising a first integrated optical network unit (ONU), and a first OLT transceiver, and a second OLT coupled to the first OLT, wherein the second OLT comprises a second integrated ONU, and a second OLT transceiver. Included is a first OLT comprising an optical transceiver, at least one processor coupled to the optical transceiver, wherein the processor working in conjunction with the optical transceiver is configured to determine an upstream wavelength corresponding to a second OLT, join, via a first ONU in the first OLT, the second OLT using the upstream wavelength corresponding to the second OLT, and transmit data to the second OLT by the first OLT via the first ONU, wherein the second OLT comprises a second ONU.
US08977123B2
The inventive 2-step-optimization procedure that addresses the generalized routing and wavelength assignment problem with variable number of combined 1+1 dedicated and shared connections for the first time. The proposed procedure results a solution in time that is polynomial of the input size. Thus, the time complexity of the 2-step-optimization procedure is significantly less than that of existing methods.
US08977108B2
An approach provides editing of digital media. A platform, as maintained by a service provider, provides a remote proxy editing capability of a plurality of media streams. A first one of the media streams is transmitted to a player of a first customer of the service provider. Further, the method comprises transmitting a second one of the media streams to a player of a second customer of the service provider.
US08977102B2
Systems and methods for routing audio for audio-video recordings allow a user to record desired audio with captured video at the time the video is being captured. Audio from one or more sources may be routed to the video capture application and recorded with the video. In one or more examples, audio may be routed from another application, e.g., an audio playback application, running on the same device as the video capture application. In another example, audio may be received from a remote device through a wireless connection. Multiple streams of audio content may be mixed together prior to storing with video. The audio, upon reception, may then be routed to the video capture application for recordation. An audio progression bar may also be provided to indicate duration and elapsed time information associated with the audio being recorded.
US08977099B2
Provided is a production apparatus that can produce a distribution content that offers an even richer color tone expression during playback of video. The production apparatus for producing a distribution content including distribution video data is constituted by an original acquisition unit that acquires original video data; a distribution video acquisition unit that acquires the distribution video data, the distribution video data having been generated by conversion of the original video data to a lower gradation; a difference generation unit that generates difference data between the original video data and the distribution video data; and an output unit that outputs the difference data. A playback apparatus plays back the distribution content.
US08977097B2
A planar waveguide with a glass core and a crystalline cladding. In a specific embodiment, the core is doped preferably with Neodymium, Ytterbium, or Erbium. In the best mode, the core is athermal glass with a refractive index uniformity 10−6 or better and the crystalline cladding has a refractive index lower than that of the core by 10−4 to 10−3 with a refractive index uniformity of 10−4. The cladding has high transparency at pump and lasing wavelengths. The coefficient of thermal expansion of the cladding is close to that of the core. In illustrative embodiments, the cladding is Sapphire and the core is aluminate glass. In an alternative embodiment, the cladding is crystal quartz and the core—is phosphate glass. By utilizing different materials for the core and cladding, the properties of each are optimized. Use of glass for the core allows much more flexibility in tailoring the properties of the core and the PWG geometry readily accommodates the low thermal conductivity of a glass core because the overall thermal performance is dominated by the higher thermal conductivity of the crystalline cladding.
US08977094B2
An optical fiber comprising a first core, a second core, a third core, and a cladding, wherein with a refractive index of the cladding as a reference, Δ1 is a maximum value of a relative refractive index difference of the first core, Δ2 is a maximum value of a relative refractive index difference of the second core, Δ3 is a minimum value of a relative refractive index difference of the third core, “a” is a half-value radial width for the relative refractive index difference (Δ1−Δ2) of the first core, “b” is a radius of a second core/third core boundary, and “c” is a radius of a third core/cladding boundary, the expressions 0.30%≦Δ1≦0.45%, −0.05%≦Δ2≦0.05%, −0.6%≦Δ3≦−0.3%, 2.85≦b/a, 10 μm≦b≦15 μm, and 3 μm≦c−b≦5.5 μm are satisfied, and transmission loss for a wavelength of 1550 nm when the optical fiber is wound around a mandrel with a diameter of 10 mm is no greater than 0.2 dB/turn.
US08977090B2
A contoured display that includes a faceplate configured to propagate an image in a collimated manner from an interface surface of the faceplate configured to receive the image from a display device to a display surface of the faceplate. The display surface is contoured to provide a three-dimensional (3D) contoured surface that provides designers with artistic freedom when designing a display shape, and a convenient way to contour a display surface to reduce the effects of glare on the display surface.
US08977084B2
An optical antenna and methods for optical beam steering are provided. One optical planar antenna includes a linear waveguide within a substrate and having a fiber interface. The optical planar antenna also includes a planar waveguide within the substrate, a first diffractive optical element configured to couple the linear waveguide to the planar waveguide and a second diffractive optical element configured to couple the planar waveguide to free space.
US08977083B2
The photo module is provided with an incident light fiber guiding light, a gradient index lens having an optical axis different from the incident light fiber, having a period length larger than a ¼ period length and smaller than a ½ period length with respect to the wavelength of the incident light, joined to the incident light fiber on a surface forming a finite angle with a surface vertical to the optical axis, and having, as a light exit surface of emitting light, a surface substantially vertical to the optical axis, and a light receiving element disposed at a position where the emitting light is collected and measuring the strength of the emitting light.
US08977082B2
A filter and fabrication process for a thin film filter that is based on frustrated total internal reflection and multiple waveguide layers, in which the waveguide modes are resonantly coupled. The physics of the design is related to prism coupling of light into planar waveguides, and waveguide coupling between planar waveguides in close proximity. Embodiments include a filter that acts as a bandpass filter and polarizer, a filter that acts as a bandpass filter, polarizer and angle filter (spatial filter), a filter that is widely tunable, and a filter that is widely tunable in both peak transmission wavelength and width. Methods of fabrication are disclosed, and methods to correct for manufacturing errors in thin film deposition are described. The filter embodiments can also be used in reflection as notch filters in wavelength and angle, for a particular polarization component.
US08977077B2
Techniques for generating a preview image in an image editing application in response to detecting user input that changes the value of an adjustable parameter of a digital image undergoing adjustment. According to one technique, instead of processing the digital image through a filter chain to generate an updated preview image, a blended image is generated through interpolation of two previously generated versions of the digital image. The previously generated versions may be generated through the filter chain. The blended image may be generated in a shorter amount of time in response to the user's adjustment than the time needed to process the digital image through the filter chain. Thus, the current preview image may be updated with the blended image sooner than is possible if the current preview image is updated by processing the digital image through the filter chain.
US08977076B2
An input image (7) having a first pixel resolution is acquired from an image capture system (2). A respective characterization of each of at least one visual quality feature of the input image (7) is determined. An output thumbnail image (9) is produced from the input image (7). The output thumbnail image (9) reflects the respective characterization of each visual quality feature. The output thumbnail image (9) has a second pixel resolution lower than the first pixel resolution. The output thumbnail image (9) is output in association with operation of the image capture system (2).
US08977062B2
The classification and segmentation system of the current invention makes use of information from pixels of an image, namely the magnitude of the pixels, to run specific analytics to classify and segment the image pixels into different groups. This invention includes a system for processing an image, the system including an input device, a processor, a memory and a monitor. The input device is configured to receive image data, where the image data includes pixels and each pixel has a magnitude. The memory has instructions stored in it that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to run calculations. The calculations include: calculating the log-magnitudes from the magnitudes of at least a plurality of the pixels, calculating standard deviations of the log-magnitudes for subsets of the plurality of pixels and compute an integral of the standard deviations over a desired range. The pixels are classified into different groups based on a value of the integral relative to one or more integral values. In one embodiment, a monitor is configured to display a threshold image, wherein the threshold image includes the different groups of pixels.
US08977057B1
A system and method of assigning diacritics in an electronic image using optical character recognition (OCR) is disclosed. In one example, the method comprises analyzing, by a computer system, the electronic image to generate a plurality of bounding blocks associated with text lines within the electronic image. The method further comprises establishing a plurality of bounding boxes for diacritics and base text with the electronic image. The method also comprises determining a distance from a diacritic to a nearest base text character and a nearest text line. The method also comprises evaluating a base box distance and the nearest text line distance to assign the diacritic to a correct text line in the electronic image.
US08977054B2
Candidate identification utilizing fingerprint identification is disclosed. The method includes receiving a candidate image comprising a plurality of constituent elements arranged in a content pattern, compensating for rotation variation in the content pattern of the received candidate, analyzing each of the plurality of constituent elements comprising the content pattern of the received candidate image to define a bounded area about each of the plurality of constituent elements, building a candidate fingerprint representative of the content pattern wherein the candidate fingerprint is based on the defined bounded area, comparing the candidate fingerprint to a plurality of fingerprints wherein each of the plurality of fingerprints represents one of a plurality of exemplars, identifying one of the plurality of fingerprints that corresponds to the candidate fingerprint, and evaluating the candidate and one or more identified exemplars to determine the best match there between, wherein the identified exemplar corresponds to the one of the plurality of fingerprints.
US08977049B2
A method for estimating signal-dependent noise includes defining a plurality of pixel groups from among the image pixels. The method further includes computing, for one or more signal levels of the image, a difference value between two pixel groups, whereby a respective one or more difference values are computed collectively. The method determines an estimated noise response of the image as a function of the one or more computed difference values.
US08977047B2
Techniques for creating and manipulating software notes representative of physical notes are described. A note management system comprises a note recognition module configured to receive image data capturing a note having a plurality of color segments, wherein the note recognition module is further configured to generate a plurality of indicators, each indicator indicative of a color class of a pixel or group of pixels within the image data and based on color values of the pixel or group of pixels; and a note extraction module configured to determine general boundaries of the color segments of the note based on the plurality of indicators and extract content using the general boundaries, the content comprising a plurality of content pieces, each of the content pieces corresponding to one of the color segments of the note.
US08977043B2
A method and an apparatus of image depth estimation are provided. The method includes the following steps. First, a hue value of each pixel in an image is calculated by comparing all color components of each pixel in the image. The hue value of each pixel in the image is associated with a corresponding value, wherein the corresponding value is a first numerical value or a second numerical value. Then, according to the corresponding value of each pixel in the image, a depth value of each pixel in the image is calculated, in which the depth value is used to convert the image into a three-dimensional (3D) image to be displayed on a 3D display apparatus.
US08977042B2
A character recognition system receives an unknown character and recognizes the character based on a pre-trained recognition model. Prior to recognizing the character, the character recognition system may pre-process the character to rotate the character to a normalized orientation. By rotating the character to a normalized orientation in both training and recognition stages, the character recognition system releases the pre-trained recognition model from considering character prototypes in different orientations and thereby speeds up recognition of the unknown character. In one example, the character recognition system rotates the character to the normalized orientation by aligning a line between a sum of coordinates of starting points and a sum of coordinates of ending points of each stroke of the character with a normalized direction.
US08977036B2
An apparatus and method for converting a two-dimensional (2D) input image into a three-dimensional (3D) image, and a storage medium thereof are provided, the method being implemented by the 3D-image conversion apparatus including receiving an input image including a plurality of frames; selecting a first frame corresponding to a preset condition among the plurality of frames; extracting a first object from the selected first frame; inputting selection for one depth information setting mode among a plurality of depth information setting modes with regard to the first object; generating first depth information corresponding to the selected setting mode with regard to the first object; and rendering the input image based on the generated first depth information.
US08977034B2
An image of the joint portion of circuit patterns manufactured using a design pattern for double patterning is read out. Target boundary lines and evaluation regions are set on the image. In the evaluation regions, image processing is performed along the directions of the target boundary lines. Furthermore, binarization processing is performed. A decision is made based on an image obtained in this way as to whether the patterns have defects.
US08977031B2
A method and device achieves identification on whether a colony on a cultivation container is differentiated or undifferentiated on an occasion of cultivation of multipotent stem cell, and a method and device achieves a rapid culture of undifferentiated multipotent stem cells. Undifferentiated colony containing only undifferentiated multipotent stem cells is identified from other types of colonies by means of the circularity C of the colony in an image-processed taken image of the inside of cultivation container of a multipotent stem cell. More specifically, when a first threshold of the circularity of the colony is C1, and a second predetermined threshold is C2 (C1
US08977027B2
An anatomical image data set and an emission image data set are acquired for a subject. An attenuation map is generated from the anatomical image data set. The emission image data set is reconstructed to generate an emission image. The reconstructing includes correcting for attenuation of emission radiation in the subject using the attenuation map. A value is calculated for a quality assurance (QA) metric quantifying alignment of the attenuation map with the emission image. The emission image is displayed or printed together with the calculated quality assurance metric. In some embodiments, prior to the reconstructing the attenuation map is registered with the emission image data set by performing a global rigid registration followed by a local non-rigid registration of a region of interest.
US08977020B2
An image processing device 100 divides a hollow organ 50 extracted from a volume image 40 using a plurality of planes 20 including an arbitrary eye vector 23 or a plurality of planes along the centerline of the hollow organ 50, transforms the coordinates of a point inside the hollow organ 50 along a predetermined convex surface set outside the hollow organ 50 on each plane 20, and gives a pixel value of an original position to a corresponding point after the coordinate transformation. Then, a folded volume image is generated by combining the respective planes 20 in a reverse procedure of the division procedure, and a shaded folded three-dimensional image 90 is generated by projecting the folded volume image to a projection surface from the arbitrary viewing direction and is displayed on a display device 107.
US08977018B2
A system for multi-modality breast imaging comprises a first shape model constructing sub-system (1) for constructing a first shape model of the breast as represented in a first image (9), in which the breast has its natural shape, a second shape model constructing sub-system (2) for constructing a second shape model of the breast as represented in a second image (10), in which the breast is compressed by using a compression paddle, and a deformation estimating sub-system (3) for estimating a volumetric deformation field (12) defining a mapping between the first image (9) and the second image (10) on the basis of the shape models and an elastic deformation model (11) of the breast, the deformation estimating sub-system (3) being arranged to estimate the volumetric deformation field (12) on the basis of a first tissue surface of the breast in the first image (9) and a second tissue surface of the breast in the second image (10).
US08977016B2
A system and a method are provided that may be used to determine the suitability of a client for use in medical diagnosis. Multimedia content may be presented on the client and used to elicit responses from a user indicative of the suitability of the client for use in medical diagnosis. The elicited responses may be used to determine the suitability of the client for medical diagnosis.
US08977015B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a position for at least one semi-transparent diaphragm during a radiological observation of a body region of a patient by means of a radiological facility, in particular during an observation accompanying an interventional measure, comprising: producing at least one radiological image recording and/or a sequence of image recordings by means of the radiological facility; analyzing the image recording and/or the sequence of image recordings by means of automatic image processing by a computing facility for identifying less absorbent image regions which may be present; and automatically determining the position for the at least one semi-transparent diaphragm as a function of the image analysis result by means of the computing facility.
US08977006B2
A target recognition system operatively connected to a stereo imaging device to capture a stereo image of an area ahead of the target recognition system, includes a parallax calculator to calculate parallax of the stereo image including two captured images; a target candidate detector to detect a candidate set of recognition target areas based on a luminance image of one of the captured images; and a target recognition processor to limit the candidate set of recognition target areas detected by the target candidate detector within a range of threshold values of characteristics in the candidate set of recognition target areas set in advance based on the parallax calculated by the parallax calculator to extract and output the one or more recognition targets.
US08976992B2
A system for porting a speaker through a keyboard module and a backlight module is provided. The system includes an enclosure, the enclosure configured to mount the keyboard module, the backlight module, and the speaker thereto, wherein the speaker is disposed under a portion of the keyboard module and the backlight module. The system also includes a port path for porting the speaker through the keyboard module and the backlight module, the port path extending from the speaker to an outer surface of the keyboard module, wherein a first portion of the port path includes a passage in the enclosure, the passage disposed adjacent to an edge of the keyboard module and the backlight module, and wherein a second portion of the port path includes a periphery of a key of the keyboard module.
US08976989B2
A method operates a hearing apparatus in which an operating parameter of the hearing apparatus is determined and smoothed by a filter. The smoothing includes, for each input value, to classify the input value in accordance with its association with a plurality of predetermined classes and increase a counter assigned to the respective class which is associated with the input value. The counter with the greatest counter value is determined and the operating parameter value assigned to the counter with the greatest counter value is output as an output variable of the filter.
US08976958B2
A conference device receives and transmits at least one of images and voice via a communication network. The conference device includes a housing having an upper wall; and an operating unit installed on the upper wall. The operating unit includes a first operating member group made up of a plurality of operating members, and at least one different operating member that has a lower frequency of usage as compared to each of the plurality of operating members of the first operating member group. The plurality of operating members of the first operating member group are arranged in a first direction along a top face of the upper wall. The at least one different operating member is disposed, along with one of the plurality of operating members of the first operating member group, in a second direction that runs along the top face and that intersects with the first direction.
US08976957B2
The present arrangements relate to a microphone boom assembly. A first microphone can be positioned proximate to a first aperture defined in a first side of the microphone boom through which acoustic signals propagate to the first microphone, and a second microphone can be positioned proximate to a second aperture defined in a second side of the microphone through which the acoustic signals propagate to the second microphone. The first microphone can be connected to a first side of a flexible printed circuit at a first location and the second microphone connected to a second side of the flexible printed circuit at a second location, the flexible printed circuit mounted into the microphone boom with a bend in the flexible printed circuit positioned between the first location and the second location.
US08976955B2
A device, system and method is provided for monitoring a user's interactions with Internet-based programs or documents. Content may be extracted from Internet server traffic according to predefined rules. Extracted content may be associated with a user's Internet interaction. The user's Internet interaction may be stored and indexed. The user's Internet interaction may be analyzed to generate a recommendation provided to a contact center agent while the contact center agent is communicating with said user for guiding the user's interaction, for example, in real-time. Traffic other than Internet server traffic may also be used.
US08976952B2
Systems and methods for intelligent presence management in a communication routing system are provided. In exemplary embodiments, an inbound communication may be received for a user. The user's presence status is determined and a profile associated with the user is reviewed. Based on rules contained within the profile, appropriate instructions may be generated for routing the inbound communication in accordance with some embodiments. In other embodiments, instructions may be generated to log the user in or out with the communication routing system.
US08976951B1
The present invention provides flexible call processing. In one embodiment, a first call from a calling party intended for a called party is received at a call processing system. The call processing system places a second call to a telephonic device associated with the called party. The calling party and called party communicate via the first and second calls. A determination is made that the first call has been terminated. A call-back instruction is received from the called party while the second call is still in place. At least partly in response to receiving the call-back instruction, a third call is placed to a terminal associated with the calling party. The calling party and the called party can communicate via the second call and the third call.
US08976949B2
A system and method for providing telephone services to a secure facility from an external, centralized call platform. An embodiment of the system includes a call processing center that is external to the facility and includes a plurality of computer clusters, and is configured to route communications to and from a router located at the secure facility. Having a majority of the system located outside the facility reduces equipment requirements at each individual facility, improves security and uptime, and provides more efficient management and expansion of the call platform.
US08976943B2
Provided is a method and a telephone-based system with voice-verification capabilities that enable a user to safely and securely conduct transactions with his or her online financial transaction program account over the phone in a convenient and user-friendly fashion, without having to depend on an internet connection.
US08976941B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for reporting speech recognition failures. The method includes detecting pure speech data from input speech data and outputting the detected pure speech data; checking at least one speech recognition failure for the pure speech data; and ascertaining speech recognition failure reasons from a check-result for the speech recognition failures and outputting the ascertained speech recognition failure reasons.
US08976940B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for visually indicating an occurrence of an event. A spatial visual indicator system comprises a spatial visual indicator including a plurality of illuminatable elements configured in at least a two-dimensional arrangement. The spatial visual indicator displays a visual indicator pattern corresponding to a detected event. A control circuit is configured to detect an event, and cause a transceiver to send a communication indicating a visual indicator pattern corresponding to the event to the spatial visual indicator. The spatial visual indicator is configured to display the visual indicator pattern. The spatial visual indicator is located remote to the transceiver. A method of indicating an occurrence of an event comprises receiving a communication indicating one of a plurality of visual indicator patterns that is associated with a detected event. The method also includes displaying the one of the plurality of visual indicator patterns.
US08976939B1
Systems and methods to prioritize emergency calls being placed to an emergency call center are based on geographical information, context information, and/or historical information associated with the emergency calls.
US08976938B2
An emergency notification system is provided including a switching unit, a plurality of communications devices communicatively in communication with the switching unit, an emergency response unit in communication with the switching unit, a plurality of receiving units in communication with the switching unit. Each of the communications devices is configured to transmit an emergency notification to the switching unit which includes a message and at least one receiving unit address. Further, the switching unit is configured to receive the emergency notification from at least one of the plurality of communication devices and to rebroadcast the emergency notification contained in the message to the emergency response unit and to the receiving unit corresponding to the receiving unit address.
US08976937B2
A method for providing communications between a system control panel at a premises and a central monitoring center comprises transmitting an event code from the control panel to the monitoring center utilizing a first communications format and a network protocol, and causing the control panel to enter a call-back mode. The control panel is enabled to receive in-bound calls utilizing a second communications format. A two-way voice session is established utilizing the second communications format between the monitoring center and the control panel. The two-way voice session is initiated by the monitoring center.
US08976936B1
The collimator for backscattered radiation imaging has a plurality of parallel, arrayed passages formed therethrough. The collimator is positioned in front of a radiographic imaging device, such as a radiographic plate, radiographic film or the like, such that the plurality of parallel, arrayed passages are positioned orthogonal to a plane of the radiographic imaging device. An object, such as a wall of an insulated pipe, for example, is then exposed to gamma or X-ray radiation, and image exposures are made on the radiographic imaging device of backscattered radiation from the wall of the insulated pipe or other object. The collimator is shifted in between each of the exposures. The collimator may have a parallelepiped body, or, alternatively, may have a cylindrical body. The parallelepiped collimator is shifted linearly in front of the radiographic imaging device, and the cylindrical collimator is rotated in front of the radiographic imaging device.
US08976928B2
This invention has one object to provide radiographic apparatus with a compensating filter that allows simple and accurate estimation of direct radiation to acquire a radioscopic image or a sectional image of excellent contrast. This invention includes a direct-ray attenuation-rate acquiring section for acquiring a direct-ray attenuation rate from a dose of direct radiation entering into a subject and a dose of direct radiation emitted from the subject. In this invention, a direct-ray attenuation rate is acquired on an assumption that a primary indirect-ray attenuation rate is equal to the direct-ray attenuation rate, the primary indirect-ray attenuation rate being a rate of decreasing a primary indirect-ray generated with the compensating filter that transmits the subject. Such configuration may achieve provision of X-ray apparatus that allows more simple acquisition of a fluoroscopic X-ray image or a sectional image without performing complicated calculations conventionally.
US08976927B2
Substrates suitable for mirrors which are used at wavelengths in the EUV wavelength range have a main body (2) and a polishing layer (3). The polishing layer (3) has a thickness of less than 10 μm and a root-mean-square roughness of less than 0.5 nm and the main body (2) is produced from an aluminum alloy. Moreover, a highly reflective layer (6) is provided on the polishing layer (3) of the substrate (1) of the EUV mirror (5).
US08976922B2
The present invention provides a shift register unit, a shift register circuit, an array substrate and a display device, and relates to the area of display manufacturing. The time of the bias working on the de-noising transistor can be reduced without affecting the circuit stability, so that the operational lifespan of the device can be extended. A shift register comprises: a capacitor, a first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor, a fifth transistor, a sixth transistor, a de-noising control model. The present invention is used for manufacturing displays.
US08976921B2
A fuel bundle flow limiter according to a non-limiting embodiment of the present invention may include a plurality of base sections, wherein each of the plurality of base sections has at least one opening. A plurality of channels may separate the plurality of base sections. A plurality of vertical webs may extend from the plurality of base sections. A locking tab may be disposed in at least one of the plurality of vertical webs. By using the flow limiter, the moisture carry over (MCO) level at the exit of the fuel bundle may be decreased, thereby reducing radiation exposure to plant operators and reducing damage to reactor equipment.
US08976919B2
A device communicating with a node, includes a communication unit configured to transmit a transmitting data segment to the node, and receive a receiving data segment from the node. The device further includes a phase locked loop (PLL) configured to generate an operating frequency for the communication unit. The device further includes a PLL controller configured to control a hold time and a lock time, of the PLL, that are shared between the node and the device. The device further includes a scheduler configured to schedule the transmitting data segment and the receiving data segment based on the controlled hold time and lock time.
US08976912B1
A decoding apparatus including an operation unit to calculate a branch metric between first and second instants of time based on receiving likelihood data and an anterior likelihood, and to use, in a state transition in a butterfly represented by first and second states at the first instant of time and third and fourth states at the second instant of time, a first anterior cumulative metric for the first state, a second anterior cumulative metric for the second state and a first difference based on the branch metric between the first state and the third state and on a second difference between the first anterior cumulative metric and the second anterior cumulative metric to calculate a third anterior cumulative metric for the third state and a fourth anterior cumulative metric for each butterfly and at each instant of time, and a storage unit to store the second difference.
US08976911B2
A method and system for a sequence estimation in a receiver, such as for use when receiving a sample of a received inter-symbol correlated (ISC) signal corresponding to a transmitted vector of L symbols, with L being a integer greater than 1, and with symbol L being a most-recent symbol and symbol 1 being least recent symbol of the vector. A plurality of candidate vectors may be generated, wherein element L−m of each candidate vector holding one of a plurality of possible values of the symbol L−m, with m is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and elements L−m+1 through L of each candidate vectors holding determined filler values. A plurality of metrics may be generated based on the plurality of candidate vectors, and based on the generated plurality of metrics, a best one of the possible values of the symbol L−m may be selected.
US08976907B2
A communications device includes an input that receives a communications signal having in-phase (I) and Quadrature (Q) signal components. A bit synchronization circuit detects the symbol timing error in the communications signal and includes a symbol mapper circuit configured to receive I and Q signal components and determine transition samples of vectors within the signal constellation. A rotation generator circuit is coupled to the symbol mapper circuit and configured to rotate the trajectory of the transition samples at their midpoints to determine the symbol timing error.
US08976902B2
A method and an apparatus for encoding, transmitting, and receiving signaling information in a broadcasting/communication system are provided. The method includes generating the signaling information which comprises a plurality of pieces; determining a number of coded blocks to which the signaling information is to be encoded, based on a number of bits of the signaling information and a number of encoder input information bit; segmenting each piece of the signaling information based on the number of the coded blocks; constructing input information bits of each coded block to include segmented parts of each piece of the signaling information; encoding the input information bits to each coded block; and transmitting each coded block.
US08976899B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting/receiving data in consideration of carrier frequency in the mobile communication system using multiple transmission antennas for increasing data rate and system throughput. A number of antennas and a plurality of symbols are determined via an in-phase domain and a quadrature-phase domain. The symbols are mapped according to the number of antennas and the in-phase domain and the quadrature-phase domain. The mapped symbols are transmitted through corresponding antennas.
US08976893B2
Embodiments include a method for predistorting an input signal at a predistorter to compensate for distortion introduced by a non-linear electronic device operating on the input signal to produce an output signal. The method entails generating first and second signal samples for each of a plurality of sampling time instances. The first and second signal samples represent the input and output signals, and are spaced at unit-delay intervals. The method further entails calculating, from the first and second signal samples, parameters for an ANN-based model. The ANN-based model includes a tapped delay line configured to dynamically model memory effects of the distortion introduced by the device, or of the response of the predistorter, with a multi-unit delay interval between at least one pair of adjacent delays. The method also includes predistorting the input signal according to the ANN-based model, to produce a predistorted input signal for input to the device.
US08976892B2
A beamforming method and apparatus for using a rate splitting scheme in a multi-cell multi-antenna system, are provided. The multi-cell multi-antenna system determines transmission and reception beamforming vectors, thereby being divided into a plurality of pairs of single input and single output (SISO) interference channels. A rate splitting scheme may be applied to each of the plurality of pairs.
US08976891B2
Techniques for controlling a power spectrum of a navigation transmission signal in a navigation system are disclosed. In one particular embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method of controlling a power spectrum of a navigation transmission signal in a navigation system, the navigation transmission signal comprising a carrier signal, a ranging code, a data signal, and at least one stepped subcarrier modulation signal. The method may comprise modulating the canier signal by the at least one stepped subcarrier modulation signal, the data signal, and the ranging code to generate the navigation transmission ranging signal, wherein the at least one stepped subcarrier modulation signal may comprise a number, m, of amplitude levels, where m>2. The amplitude levels may be arranged to constrain the power spectrum of the navigation transmission signal in a predetermined manner.
US08976885B2
A method of calculating combining weight vectors associated with a received composite information signal comprising at least one data stream transmitted from at least a first antenna and a second antenna is disclosed. The method starts with computing a parametric estimate of an impairment covariance matrix including at least a first impairment term associated with common pilots deployed by the first antenna and the second antenna respectively. The first impairment term captures effects of interferences between the common pilots, in addition to effects of interferences caused by each common pilot singly. The impairment covariance matrix further includes a data covariance term capturing effects of the at least one data stream and an interference term caused at least partially by contribution of thermal noise of receiver branches. Then the method computes the combining weight vector using the computed impairment covariance matrix.
US08976881B2
A data signal component output from a reference signal demultiplexer and channel state information obtained by using DM-RS output from a channel estimating unit are input into a modulo estimating unit. In a channel compensator, a first provisional decision value sequence is calculated on the basis of the channel state information. The first provisional decision value sequence is input into a modulo calculator, and modulo calculations are performed on the first provisional decision value sequence to obtain a second provisional decision value sequence. A decision-feedback channel estimating section finds a first channel estimation value based on the first provisional decision value sequence and a second channel estimation value based on the second provisional decision value sequence. A modulo decision section decides whether or not a perturbation term has been added to a code, and uses a decision result for the selection of a demodulation method.
US08976866B2
In one embodiment, the method includes determining a motion vector of a current image block equal to a motion vector of an image block based on a reference picture index indicating a reference picture for the image block. For example, the motion vector of the current image block may be equal to the motion vector of the image block if the reference picture index indicates a long-term reference picture for the image block.
US08976863B2
A method and an apparatus for encoding a motion vector, and a method and an apparatus for encoding/decoding an image using the same are disclosed. The apparatus includes: a prediction candidate selector for selecting one or more motion vector prediction candidates; a predicted motion vector determiner for determining a PMV among the one or more motion vector prediction candidates; and a differential motion vector encoder for calculating a differential motion vector encoder for calculating a DMV by subtracting the predicted motion vector having been determined, from the current motion vector, and encoding the d having been calculated. The apparatus encodes a motion vector by using the prediction motion vector which is more accurately predicted, and reduces an amount of bits required for encoding information of the predicted motion vector, thereby improving the compression efficiency.
US08976853B2
A receiver may receive a signal that was generated by passage of symbols through a non-linear circuit. An equalizer of the receiver may equalize the received signal based on a first non-linearity compensated, inter-symbol correlated (ISC) feedback signal to generate an equalized signal. The receiver may correct a phase error of the equalized signal to generate a phase-corrected equalized signal. The phase correction may be based on a second, non-linearity compensated, inter-symbol correlated (ISC) feedback signal.
US08976852B2
The present disclosure relates to a receiving node, and to a related method for determining when to apply a turbo equalization mode to compensate for Inter-Symbol Interference in a radio signal received over a radio channel from a transmitting node. The method comprises decoding the received radio signal into a decoded signal, determining a current error level in the decoded signal, predicting a turbo equalization gain based on instantaneous channel information of the radio channel and deciding whether to apply the turbo equalization mode depending on the predicted turbo equalization gain and the determined current error level in the decoded signal.
US08976847B2
A communications system provides a first communications device, which is connected via a bidirectional transmission channel to a second communications device, wherein the communications devices each comprise a data reconstruction unit. Each communications device comprises a control unit, which is provided for a configuration of various transmission parameters such as modulation type and/or code rate and/or transmitter power and/or size of data packets dependent upon a reliability value evaluated within the control unit. The reliability value indicates a probability for a reliability or a quality of a data reconstruction, which reconstructs transmitted data from received signals within the data reconstruction unit.
US08976837B1
A system and method for generating a low probability of detection (LPD) waveform is presented. The method modulates pre-modulated symbols using pulse-position modulation (PPM) to produce PPM modulated signals with a modulated in-phase (I) component and a modulated quadrature (Q) component. Next, frequency hopping is used to transmit the modulated I component at a randomized start time within a time slot and to transmit the modulated Q component at the randomized start time within the same slot. The modulated Q component does not overlap with the modulated I component. The method can also overlay transmission security (TRANSEC) pseudorandom (PN) overlay on the modulated Q component and the modulated I component before the modulated Q component and the modulated I component are transmitted.
US08976834B2
A method of generating intra-resonator laser light (1) comprises the steps of coupling input laser light (2), e. g. laser pulse or continuous-wave light, into an enhancement resonator (20), which comprises at least two curved resonator mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) and which is free of a laser light amplifying medium, said at least two curved resonator mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) being consecutively arranged and spanning at least one resonator path with a predetermined resonator length (Lres), wherein said at least two curved resonator mirrors (21, 22, 23, 24) providing at least two pairs of consecutive curved resonator mirrors which are serially coupled along said at least one resonator path, and coherent addition of the input laser light (2) in the enhancement resonator so that the intra-resonator laser light (1) is formed, wherein said at least two pairs of consecutive curved resonator mirrors each have a detuned concentric configuration, which deviates from a concentric configuration with regard to at least one of a distance between the curved mirrors. and an angle of incidence on the curved mirror surfaces. Furthermore, an enhancement resonator (20), in particular being configured for generating intra-resonator laser light (1), a laser device (100) including the enhancement resonator device (20) and applications of the enhancement resonator device (20) are described.
US08976825B1
A heat sink mount for a laser diode comprises three main components, a diode ring, a diode bed and a diode container. The diode ring comprises an inner hole that matches a metal stem part of the laser diode. The diode bed comprises a first part and a second part. The diode ring is fitted into the first part of the diode bed. The inner surface of the first part is tightly contacting the outer surface of the diode ring. The diode container comprises a part a and a part b. The diode bed is fitted into the part a of the diode container, via the gripping contact between the thread on the inner surface of the part a and the thread on the outer surface of the second part of diode bed. This heat sink mount has lower costs and higher heat dissipation efficiency.
US08976823B2
In at least one embodiment a laser system includes a fiber laser source, a polarization controller and a wavelength converter. The relative power distribution between a pump wavelength and a signal wavelength is controllable using the polarization controller. An optional phase compensator is used to control polarization state of the output laser beam. In various embodiments the relative power distribution among multiple wavelengths may be controlled over a range of at least about 100:1.
US08976822B2
Opto-electronic oscillator (OEO) devices include an optical resonator filter to block the strong laser light at the laser carrier frequency from entering the optical resonator filter and to select one of the weak modulation sidebands, which is in resonance with the optical resonator filter, to be coupled into the optical resonator filter. The laser light at the laser carrier frequency and other modulation sidebands bypass the optical resonator filter to reach a fast photodetector. The laser light in the selected modulation sideband in the optical resonator filter is then coupled out to mix with the laser light at the laser carrier frequency and other modulation sidebands at the fast photodetector to produce the detector output as the input to the electrical part of the opto-electronic loop to produce the OEO oscillation.
US08976815B2
A method and apparatus for shortening a time for a contents receiving device to reproduce contents provided from a contents providing device. The method includes receiving headers of respective contents in advance from a contents providing device, verifying whether a header of selected contents is already received when the corresponding contents are selected, receiving contents data of the selected contents from the contents providing device when the header of the selected contents is already received, and reproducing the selected contents using the received corresponding header and contents data.
US08976813B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for communicating a flow of packets with a requested quality of service. An exemplary method involves receiving a first packet of a flow, determining a first reference value for the packet flow identification field of the first packet using a key value, and facilitating the requested quality of service for the first packet when the received value of the packet flow identification field of the first packet matches the first reference value. The method continues by receiving a second packet of the flow, determining a second reference value for the packet flow identification field using the key value, and facilitating the requested quality of service for the second packet when the received value of the packet flow identification field of the second packet matches the second reference value.
US08976809B2
A communication system includes a plurality of communication devices forming a ring network and a monitoring device. Each of the plurality of communication devices appends, to a frame that the communication device relays, an ID tag indicating the number of communication devices relaying that frame in the ring network. The monitoring device refers to frames received by a predetermined communication device and having the ID appended thereto, and tallies an amount of data for frames for each number of relaying communication devices.
US08976806B2
Methods and apparatus are described for providing compatible mapping for backhaul control channels, frequency first mapping of control channel elements (CCEs) to avoid relay-physical control format indicator channel (R-PCFICH) and a tree based relay resource allocation to minimize the resource allocation map bits. Methods and apparatus (e.g., relay node (RN)/evolved Node-B (eNB)) for mapping of the Un downlink (DL) control signals, Un DL positive acknowledgement (ACK)/negative acknowledgement (NACK) and/or relay-physical downlink control channel (R-PDCCH) (or similar) in the eNB to RN (Un interface) DL direction are described. This includes time/frequency mapping of above-mentioned control signals into resource blocks (RBs) of multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMS) single frequency network (MBSFN)-reserved sub-frames in the RN cell and encoding procedures for these. Also described are methods and apparatus for optimizing signaling overheads by avoiding R-PCFICH and minimizing bits needs for resource allocation.
US08976805B2
The present invention relates to a method for enabling a terminal to communicate with data by modifying an association relationship among component carriers in a mobile communication system supporting carrier aggregation and an apparatus therefor. The method in accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: receiving a message including identifier information for modifying an association relationship among at least one downlink component carrier and at least one uplink component carrier from a base station; receiving predetermined data through at least one downlink component carrier from the base station; and transmitting feedback data to the base station for data received through the uplink component carrier modified according to the identifier information.
US08976803B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to monitoring resources of a network processor to detect a condition of exhaustion in one or more of the resources over a predetermined time interval and to provide an indication of the condition. Some embodiments periodically sample various resources of a network processor and from the samples calculate utilization of the network processor's memory bus and core processor, and determine if an interworking FIFO packet queue error has occurred. Such information may help network operators and/or support engineers to quickly zero in on the root cause and take corrective actions for network failures which previously could have been attributed to many different causes and that would have required significant time and effort to troubleshoot.
US08976802B2
An arbitration technique for determining mappings for a switch is described. During a given arbitration decision cycle, an arbitration mechanism maintains, until expiration, a set of mappings from a subset of the input ports to a subset of the output ports of the switch. This set of mappings was determined during an arbitration decision cycle up to K cycles preceding the given arbitration decision cycle. Because the set of mappings are maintained, it is easier for the arbitration mechanism to determine mappings from a remainder of the input ports to the remainder of the output ports without collisions.
US08976796B2
A network component comprising a processor configured to implement a method comprising promoting the communication of a frame within a synchronization window, wherein the frame comprises a plurality of data types carried in a plurality of timeslots, and wherein each timeslot is assigned to carry one of the data types, identifying an idle timeslot that is assigned to carry a first data type, and inserting a second data type into the idle timeslot. Also disclosed is a method comprising receiving a data stream comprising a plurality of timeslots, wherein each timeslot is assigned to carry one of a plurality of data types, and determining whether one of the timeslots assigned to carry a first data type contains a second data type.
US08976792B2
Techniques for providing an extended layer 2 network. Embodiments receive, at a first network device in a first layer 2 network within the extended layer 2 network, a data packet specifying a destination Media Access Control (MAC) address. Upon determining that the destination MAC address is a site virtual MAC (S-VMAC) address, the data packet is forwarded to a second network device in a second layer 2 network within the extended layer 2 network and associated with the S-VMAC address, where the second network device is configured to determine a second destination MAC address for the data packet based on an Internet Protocol (IP) address specified in the data packet, and is further configured to forward the data packet to a destination device associated with the determined second destination MAC address.
US08976790B2
A method comprises transmitting a plurality of copies of a message from each of a first transmission node and a second transmission node, each copy having a respective identification and forwarding each of the plurality of copies of the message among other nodes in the network based, at least in part, on the respective identification of each copy such that each copy of the message traverses a predetermined communication path among the other nodes. A respective first received copy is compared to a respective second received copy at each of the other nodes. The integrity of the respective first and second copies is validated at each of the other nodes if the copies match and the copies traversed disjoint communication paths.
US08976789B2
A communication protocol in a layer two (L2) network switch comprises, in response to a service request by a source node, registering the source node for packet communication service. The protocol further comprises forwarding one or more packets from the registered source node to one or more destination nodes. The protocol further comprises receiving packets from one or more destination nodes and forwarding each received packet to a corresponding registered node.
US08976784B2
A method that incorporates teachings of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining at a first directory server of a first regional call processing system whether a new name authority pointer associated with a telephone number is within a first geographic region of the first regional call processing system, transmitting the new name authority pointer to a first name server of the first regional call processing system for provisioning the name authority pointer to the first name server responsive to determining that the telephone number is located within the first geographic region, and transmitting the new name authority pointer to a second directory server for provisioning the new name authority pointer to a second name server of a second regional call processing system responsive to determining that the telephone number is not located within the first geographic region. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US08976781B1
A system including a component of a transceiver, a comparator, a counter, and a calibration circuit. The component receives an input signal comprising packets and based on the input signal, generates output signals to transmit the packets. The comparator compares the output signals to generate a comparison signal. The counter counts cycles of a clock signal to provide a count value. The control device, based on the comparison signal, transitions the counter between incrementing the count value and decrementing the count value. The calibration circuit operates in first and second calibration modes; during the first calibration mode, calibrates the component until the counter transitions a predetermined number of times between incrementing the count value and decrementing the count value; and during the second calibration mode, calibrates the component until (i) the counter transitions between incrementing and decrementing the count value, or (ii) counts a predetermined number of cycles.
US08976777B2
The invention relates to the field of radio communication devices and, more specifically, gateways connected firstly to a cellular radio communication network via a packet data communication network, such as an IP network, and secondly to cellular mobile communication terminals. The invention proposes to use the same oscillator to provide both the reference clock of the radio subsystem and the reference clock of the general processor of the device. The fact that the same oscillator is used for these two components also allows embodiments in which some of the functions that have hitherto been devolved to a hardware control component, itself operating by means of a clock derived from the radio oscillator and being involved in the control of said oscillator, can now be devolved to a software component that is executed on the general processor of the gateway.
US08976776B2
In operation, a transmitting device selects a synchronization pattern associated with the desired timeslot that is at least mutually exclusive from synchronization patterns associated with other timeslots on the same frequency in the system. Once selected, the transmitting device transmits a burst embedding the synchronization pattern that was selected, where appropriate. If the receiving device detects the synchronization pattern, it immediately synchronizes with the timeslot with confidence that it is synchronizing to the desired timeslot by using sets of synchronization patterns associated with the desired timeslot that are at least mutually exclusive from synchronization patterns associated with the other timeslots on the same frequency.
US08976773B2
In an embodiment, a wireless communication system (100, FIG. 1) includes one or more nodes (102-108) and one or more user equipments (UE) (110). A node may apply (502, FIG. 5) a cell-specific spreading code to a cell identifier, which indicates an identity of a cell (113, FIG. 1) serviced by the node. The node may insert (504, FIG. 5), into a frame (200, FIG. 2), at least one synchronization channel symbol, which corresponds to the spread cell identifier, and the node may transmit (506, FIG. 5) the frame over an air interface. A UE may receive (702, FIG. 7) a frame from the air interface. The UE may despread (708) the spread cell identifier, and acquire (712) a cell identifier corresponding to a particular cell.
US08976757B2
A method is provided of transferring a call connection with a mobile terminal from a first network to a second network. The first network is capable of handling both circuit-switched and packet-switched modes of connection. The second network is capable of handling one of the packet-switched or circuit-switched modes of connection but not both. The terminal is capable of both packet-switched and circuit-switched call modes of connection. The method comprises the first network: identifying the location of the mobile terminal with respect to at least one of the networks, identifying the mobile terminal as being in a mode of connection not usable in the second network, instructing the mobile terminal to transfer the call connection to the other mode of connection, and transferring the call connection to the second network.
US08976755B2
A method of controlling connection between nodes in a digital interface whereby a first node that is a master node determines a second node to be the master and controls a point-to-point connection or a broadcast connection to another node. The first node having the display device determines the second node to be the master in accordance with a user selection, and transmits a connection command of a predetermined format for transmitting a data stream to the second node. The second node determined as the master in accordance with the transmitted connection command of the predetermined format is allocated with a channel and a bandwidth from an isochronous resource manager (IRM), and performs a point-to-point connection between the second node and the first node to transit the data stream. Thus, the transmission/reception, reproduction, and control of the data stream of the program can be smoothly performed.
US08976750B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for precision time protocol (PTP) frequency and phase synchronization to unanchored sites over non on-path supported networks are provided. In embodiments, the method includes continuously measuring one-way delay (OWD) and delay offset from a host site to an anchored site to determine a dynamic corrective offset (DCO). One of a plurality of unanchored sites is identified. In embodiments, the DCO is applied to PTP sync or PTP follow-up messages communicated from the host site to the identified unanchored site. The clocks associated with the unanchored sites are synchronized to the host clock.
US08976742B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a system for increasing aggregate throughput in a wireless network array comprising a first node and a second node. The first node comprises a first plurality of wireless radios, a scheduling module, and an adaptive carrier sensing module. The second node can comprise a second plurality of wireless radios. The first node can be configured to simultaneously wirelessly transmit a first data packet from the first wireless radio in the first plurality of wireless radios to a first wireless radio in the second plurality of wireless radios at a first frequency and wirelessly transmit a second data packet from a second wireless radio in the first plurality of wireless radios to a second wireless radio in the second plurality of wireless radios at a second frequency, wherein the first frequency and second frequency are in a predetermined frequency band.
US08976739B2
An item of network information pertaining to available resources, which are available for transmitting radio communication data in a multi-radio link communications system, is transmitted to network devices and/or subscriber stations by a coordination device. The item of network information assigns the available resources to groups, and the resources of different groups are assigned according to at least one common group feature.
US08976737B2
A method and apparatus for dynamic acknowledgement repetition for a downlink medium access control packet data unit transmission ‘MAC PDU’ requiring multiple acknowledgements, the method having the steps of: receiving the downlink MAC PDU requiring multiple acknowledgements; and utilizing a differentiating factor and acknowledgement scheme, sending the multiple acknowledgements.
US08976735B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for channel scanning. In one aspect, a method includes, while maintaining an association with a first access point on a first channel during first, second, and third consecutive time slices: (i) monitoring, by a client device, a single second channel during the first time slice and the third time slice, and (ii) monitoring, by the client device, the first channel during the second time slice; receiving a beacon from a second access point during the first time slice or the third time slice; and determining a property of the client device or the second access point using the beacon, without using the beacon to determine whether to establish an association with the second access point.
US08976732B2
A control unit, in cooperation with an interface (IF) unit, a modulation unit and a baseband processing unit, produces a packet signal composed of a plurality of streams. While using as a reference a first known signal assigned to one of the plurality of streams and performing a cyclic timing shift within the first known signal on a first known signal assigned to another stream, the control unit performs a timing shift also on an extensional known signal assigned to a stream where no data is assigned. The amounts of timing shift are given degrees of priority beforehand and for the stream where data signals are assigned the control unit uses the amounts of timing shift in descending degree of priority. For the stream where no data signal is assigned, the control unit uses the amounts of timing shift also in descending degree of priority.
US08976722B2
Apparatuses and methods for managing transmission protocols for group communications are disclosed. In an example, an access network receives a forward link packet having a first transmission protocol, the forward link packet associated with a given group communication session. The access network determines whether the first transmission protocol is acceptable. The access network selects a second transmission protocol, if the determining step determines the first transmission protocol is not acceptable. The access network transmits the forward link packet in accordance with the second transmission protocol (e.g., by mapping the packet between transmission protocols at the access network).
US08976712B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and devices for improved audio, video, and data conferencing. The present invention provides a conferencing system comprising a plurality of endpoints communicating data including audio data and control data according to a communication protocol. A local conference endpoint may control or be controlled by a remote conference endpoint. Data comprising control signals may be exchanged between the local endpoint and remote endpoint via various communication protocols. In other embodiments, the present invention provides for improved bridge architecture for controlling functions of conference endpoints including controlling functions of the bridge.
US08976704B2
Method for switching to an appropriate network topology type in a telecommunication network including of a node (b) sending to a further node a message (M1) including of a discovery request, receiving from further nodes of the telecommunication network messages (M3, M11) including of discovery results, thereafter, sending a message (M5) including of a proposal of a network topology type and switching to an appropriate network topology type.
US08976701B2
Apparatus and a method are described for handling inter-radio access technology measurement reports in a radio telecommunications device, the device being operable with a first cellular radio access technology (e.g. UTRAN, E-UTRAN), GERAN and Generic Access Network, the radio telecommunications device being capable of adopting a cellular preferred mode. The method comprises, in the radio telecommunications device, when the radio telecommunications device is in cellular preferred mode and operating with the first cellular radio access technology and the radio telecommunications device is registered with a Generic Access Network Controller that operates as a GERAN network component, and a quality of a signal from the first cellular radio access technology is below a certain threshold and a quality of a signal from the GAN is above a certain threshold and a request has been received to send an inter-RAT measurement report, generating inter-radio access technology measurements and, when there is at least one GERAN cell that satisfies a triggering condition, transmitting a measurement report in respect of the GERAN cell(s) and a measurement report in respect of the generic access network.
US08976692B2
A combination of a phase shifter, a measurement receiver, and an offset estimator enable the d.c. offset in the transmit path of a quadrature transmitter to be distinguished from the d.c. offset in the measurement receiver. The measurement receiver performs a first measurement on the transmit path output with a “normal” phase shift of 0 degrees and 90 degrees for in-phase (I) and quadrature (Q) components, and a second measurement with a “special” phase shift for the I and Q components. In one embodiment, the “special” phase shift for the I and Q components is 180 degrees and 270 degrees, respectively.
US08976680B2
A network includes an egress node connected to an ingress node via a network path. The egress node is configured to receive, from the ingress node, a group of packets via the network path, where each packet includes an operations, administration, and management (OAM) field appended to the packet, and where the OAM field stores OAM information. The egress node is further configured to read the OAM information from the packets; analyze the OAM information, associated with one or more of the packets, to determine that a network condition exists on the network path; and notify the ingress node that the network condition exists to permit the ingress node to perform a rerouting operation.
US08976679B2
The present solution relates to enabling improved performance for a user equipment UE (205) in a communication network (200). A network node (210) detects (301, 401) that wireless performance between the UE (205) and a base station (201) is poor. Then, it identifies (302,402) a location of the UE (205) where the poor performance is detected, obtains (303,403) an identity associated with the UE (205), obtains (304,404) an address associated with the UE (205) and identifies (305,405) that the location of the UE (205) is residential and that the address corresponds to the location. The node (210) searches (306,406) for a wireline connection (219) located within a distance from the UE (205). The node (210) establishes (307,407) whether the performance for the UE (205) would be improved by providing services from a core network (209) to the UE (205) via the wireline connection (219) using the home base station (215).
US08976673B2
A method is implemented in a network element that functions as one of a plurality of controllers for one of a plurality of areas of a split architecture network. The controller provides a control plane for the area of the split architecture network where the controller is remote from a plurality of switches providing a data plane for the area of split architecture network. The controller facilitates optimized routing across the plurality of areas of the split architecture network by providing limited intra-area link cost data to other controllers of other areas of the split architecture network and to traditional routers of a network including the split architecture network. The limited intra-area link cost data provides costs of each possible shortest path traversal of the area of the controller without providing all internal link cost data.
US08976671B2
A TCP node stores a congestion window size before congestion is detected, the congestion window size limiting the amount of data to be transmitted. If congestion is detected, the TCP node reduces a current congestion window size to a predetermined size. If path switching subsequently occurs after congestion is detected, the TCP node uses a round-trip time or bandwidth information of a path after switching to correct the congestion window size before congestion detection. The TCP node then changes the reduced congestion window size to the corrected size.
US08976669B2
Aspects of a switch fabric end-to-end congestion avoidance mechanism are presented. Aspects of a system for end-to-end congestion avoidance in a switch fabric may include at least one circuit that enables reception of a congestion notification message that specifies a traffic flow identifier. The circuitry may enable increase or decrease of a current rate for transmission of data link layer (DLL) protocol data units (PDU) associated with the specified traffic flow identifier as a response to the reception of the congestion notification message.
US08976668B2
A method and an apparatus for optimizing a user plan operation in a wireless communication system based on carrier aggregation are provided in the present invention. Firstly, a user equipment receives a downlink carrier component removal signaling from a base station, the downlink carrier component removal signaling is used to indicate a removed downlink carrier component; then, the user equipment, according to the received downlink carrier component removal signaling, stops the pending HARQ procedures of the removed downlink carrier component and flushes the HARQ receiving buffer related to the removed downlink carrier component and/or stops a re-ordering procedure and/or generates a status report and sends the status report to the base station, wherein the status report is used to indicate the base station to perform retransmission and inform the base station of the data needed to be retransmitted. By applying the technology scheme of the present invention, the user plan operation at the user equipment side can be optimized, when a downlink carrier component is de-activated or de-configured.
US08976664B2
In various embodiments, a system includes a switch comprising a resource that is shared between multiple objects. The switch comprises circuitry that determines a congestion metric for the switch in response to an amount of used of the resource by the objects. The circuitry determines a feedback parameter that is responsive to the congestion metric. The circuitry generates a congestion notification message that comprises a congestion feedback value responsive to the feedback parameter.In further embodiments, a system includes a switch that processes data for a first data link layer access network. The switch includes circuitry that identifies whether a received packet originated from a source device that shares the same network layer access layer as the switch. If the source device shares the same network layer access network as the switch, the circuitry generates a congestion notification message comprising a congestion feedback value for the switch.
US08976650B2
A communication control apparatus in which, when requested to transmit (transmission) terminal information from information processing means, a transmission timing controller obtains past own terminal communication band information from an information storage, and determines whether or not to control a transmission timing. Moreover, the transmission timing controller calculates a back-off parameter for the control based on a past reception power information history that is obtained from the information storage, and sets a back-off parameter to a transmission device.
US08976649B2
A Packet Control Function (PCF) may not have enough knowledge about packet data arriving on a bearer path via a Packet Data Serving Node (PDSN) to appropriately decide how best to handle the packet data. Thus, the PDSN may provide bearer-specific information by encapsulating the packet data within the payload of a Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) frame, and for a requested feature, setting a protocol-type field in the header of the GRE frame indicating that the packet includes an attribute field, and adding an attribute field to the payload of the GRE packet to provide attribute data corresponding to the requested feature. The PCF may send an A-11 request to the PDSN indicating which features the PDSN is requested to enable. For example, for short data indication, the PCF may request the PDSN add to the GRE frame an attribute field containing attribute data indicating when a Short Data Burst is suitable.
US08976642B2
A decoding device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a first frequency signal including a narrowband signal and a wideband signal, a direct inverse orthogonal transform unit configured to perform a direct matrix operation with respect to the narrowband signal of the first frequency signal so as to perform inverse orthogonal transform, and a high-speed inverse orthogonal transform unit configured to perform inverse orthogonal transform employing a high-speed operation method with respect to the wideband signal of the first frequency signal.
US08976641B2
A system and method for non-linear digital self-interference cancellation including a pre-processor that generates a first pre-processed digital transmit signal from a digital transmit signal of a full-duplex radio, a non-linear transformer that transforms the first pre-processed digital transmit signal into a non-linear self-interference signal according to a transform configuration, a transform adaptor that sets the transform configuration of the non-linear transformer, and a post-processor that combines the non-linear self-interference signal with a digital receive signal of the full-duplex radio.
US08976637B2
In an optical information storage medium reproduction apparatus reproducing an optical information storage medium including a plurality of information recording layers each including a recording mark having a length shorter than an optical system resolution limit, reproduction laser power reading an information recording layer closest to a reproduction-laser-incident surface of the optical information storage medium is set to be lower than reproduction laser power reading an information recording layer farthest from the reproduction-laser-incident surface but not lower than minimum reproduction laser power that satisfies a reproduction signal characteristic that the optical information storage medium reproduction apparatus requires.
US08976636B1
Described are techniques for storing data on disk drives. Each disk drive platter of each of the disk drives is partitioned into two separate regions whereby a pivot point denoting a radial distance from the center of each disk drive platter is a boundary partitioning each disk drive platter into the two separate regions. A data portion is classified in accordance with an expected activity level of the data portion. Storage is allocated for the data portion in one of the two separate regions of one of the disk drive platters of one of the disk drives in accordance with the expected activity level of the data portion and a defined allocation flow.
US08976635B1
An apparatus includes dielectric waveguide cores operating in transverse electric (TE) mode configured to receive incident light energy from an energy source and direct the incident light energy to a target. A near field transducer (NFT) is configured to focus the light energy received from the waveguide cores and to transmit the focused light energy onto a storage disk surface to generate a heating spot. The NFT includes propagating surface plasmon polariton (PSPP) elements that are energized by the light energy from the waveguide cores. Each PSPP element has a plasmonic metal bar disposed above a surface of a single waveguide core in a longitudinal alignment with the waveguide core, a first end that receives the light energy from the waveguide core, and a second end exposed to the air bearing surface. The width of each metal bar tapers toward the first end.
US08976632B2
presenting A timepiece faceplate includes a plate-shaped member provided on one surface with a ridge having a function for reflecting and scattering incident light, which is made of a material having optical transmission properties; and a layer in which numerous powder particles having a function for reflecting light are dispersed and which faces a surface opposite from the surface on which the ridge of the plate-shaped member is provided. The plate-shaped member and the layer of the timepiece faceplate are superimposed when viewed from above.
US08976630B2
A dial assembly held within a timepiece case together with a movement for which the hour hand and minute hand are supported to be able to rotate is provided. The movement supports at least one miniature hand to be able to rotate at a position different from the hour hand and minute hand. The dial assembly comprising includes a first dial that is light transmissive, a second dial arranged on the back surface side of the first dial, and at last one spacer forming a ring shape arranged between the first dial and the second dial. The miniature hand rotates within a space enclosed by the first dial, the second dial, and the spacer.
US08976618B1
Decoded 2n-bit bitcells in memory for storing decoded bits, and related systems and methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a decoded 2n-bit bitcell containing 2n state nodes is provided. Each state node includes storage node to store decoded bit. Storage node provides bit to read bitline, coupled to decoded word output. Each state node includes active decoded bit input coupled to storage node that receives decoded bit from decoded word to store in storage node in response to write wordline. State node comprised of 2n−1 passive decoded bit inputs, each coupled to one of 2n−1 remaining storage nodes. 2n−1 passive decoded bit inputs receive 2n−1 decoded bits not received by active decoded bit input. State node includes logic that receives 2n−1 decoded bits. Logic retains decoded bit, provides it to passive decoded bit output. Passive decoded word output is coupled to storage node to store decoded bit in storage node.
US08976611B2
A sensing amplifier for a memory device includes first and second nodes, an input device and an output device. The memory device includes first and second bit lines, and at least one memory cell coupled to the bit lines. The first and second nodes are coupled to the first and second bit lines, respectively. The input device is coupled to the first and second nodes and generates a first current pulling the first node toward a predetermined voltage in response to a first datum read out from the memory cell, and to generate a second current pulling the second node toward the predetermined voltage in response to a second datum read out from the memory cell. The output device is coupled to the first node to output the first or second datum read out from the memory cell. The first current is greater than the second current.
US08976609B1
The various embodiments described herein include systems, methods and/or devices used to packaging non-volatile memory. In one aspect, the method includes, selecting, from a set of non-volatile memory die, a plurality of non-volatile memory die on which predefined die-level and sub-die level tests have been deferred until after packaging, in accordance with predefined criteria and predefined statistical die performance information corresponding to the set of non-volatile memory die. The method further includes packaging the selected plurality of non-volatile memory die into a memory device. After said packaging, the method further includes performing a set of tests on the plurality of non-volatile memory die in the memory device to identify respective units of memory within the non-volatile memory die in the memory device that meet predefined validity criteria, wherein the set of tests performed include the deferred predefined die-level and sub-die level tests.
US08976607B2
Various aspects of a fast, energy efficient write driver capable of efficient operation in a dual-voltage domain memory architecture are provided herein. Specifically, various aspects of the write driver described herein combine a high speed driver with voltage level shifting capabilities that may be implemented efficiently in reducing use of silicon area while using lower power. The write driver circuit shifts or adjusts voltage levels between a first voltage domain to a second voltage domain. In one example, the write driver circuit is coupled to a global write bitline and a local write bitline that is coupled to one or more bitcells (of SRAM memory). The write driver circuit converts a first voltage level at the global write bitline to a second voltage level at the local write bitline during a write operation.
US08976603B2
A control circuit is configured to, during an erase operation, set a voltage of a first line connected to a selected cell unit to a voltage larger than a voltage of a gate of a first transistor included in the selected cell unit by an amount of a first voltage. The control circuit is configured to, during the erase operation, set a voltage difference between a voltage of a first line connected to an unselected cell unit and a voltage of a gate of a first transistor included in the unselected cell unit to a second voltage, the second voltage differing from the first voltage. In addition, the control circuit is configured to, during the erase operation, apply in the selected cell unit and the unselected cell unit a third voltage to a gate of at least one of dummy memory transistors in a dummy memory string, and apply a fourth voltage to a gate of another one of the dummy memory transistors in the dummy memory string, the fourth voltage being lower than the third voltage.
US08976599B2
A method of programming a nonvolatile memory device comprises programming target memory cells among a plurality of memory cells connected to a wordline, performing a first sensing operation on the plurality of memory cells, and selectively performing a second sensing operation on the target memory cells based on a result of the first sensing operation.
US08976590B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory block as a code storage memory area which has a large memory capacity and in which the number of bits to be written at once is large, and a memory block as a work memory area which has a small memory capacity and in which the number of bits to be written at once is small, in which in writing to the code storage memory area a first voltage is supplied to a source line of this memory block, and in writing to the work memory area a second voltage higher than the first voltage is supplied to a source line of this memory block.
US08976583B2
Provided are a semiconductor memory device has improved read disturbance characteristics as well as improved retention characteristics at a high temperature, and a reading method thereof. The non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes at least one bit line; and a cell string configured to be coupled with the bit line respectively, and include normal memory cells and dummy memory cells that are alternately coupled with each other, where normal data are programmed and read to and from the normal memory cells, and dummy memory cells are programmed with dummy data.
US08976581B2
A non-volatile memory system includes a bit line and a plurality of memory cells associated with the bit line and coupled in a serial manner. The system further has a control circuitry in communication with the memory cells, wherein the control circuitry programs a target cell selected from the memory cells by applying a bit line voltage on the bit line in order to promote hot carrier injection into the target cell. The circuit also applies a programming voltage on the target cell under a hot carrier injection mechanism. Moreover, the circuit also applies a control voltage on a control cell, which is adjacent to the target cell when programming the target cell, wherein the control voltage is dependent on the threshold voltage of the control cell and the control voltage is less than the programming voltage.
US08976580B2
A memory system comprises a nonvolatile memory and a phase change memory. The memory system can be operated by reading operation information of the nonvolatile memory from the phase change memory, adjusting voltage parameters of the nonvolatile memory based on the read operation information, and performing an operation of the nonvolatile memory based on the adjusted voltage parameters.
US08976570B2
Embodiments disclosed herein may include depositing a storage component material over and/or in a trench in a dielectric material, including depositing the storage component material on approximately vertical walls of the trench and a bottom of the trench. Embodiments may also include etching the storage component material so that at least a portion of the storage component material remains on the approximately vertical walls and the bottom of the trench, wherein the trench is contacting an electrode and a selector such that storage component material on the bottom of the trench contacts the electrode.
US08976569B2
A programmable crossbar array includes a layer of row conductors and a layer of column conductors with the row conductors crossing over the column conductors to form junctions. Programmable crosspoint devices are sandwiched between a row conductor and a column conductor at a junction. Each programmable crosspoint device includes a data element with a first programming threshold and a control element with a second programming threshold, in which the second programming threshold is greater than the first programming threshold. A method for mitigating shorts in a programmable crossbar array is also provided.
US08976567B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes: a first bank group comprising a plurality of first banks; a second bank group comprising a plurality of second banks arranged adjacent to the first bank group; a write operation controller arranged between the first and second bank groups so as to be adjacent to the first and second bank groups, and configured to control write operations of the first and second bank groups; and a read operation controller arranged adjacent to any one of the first and second bank groups and configured to control read operations of the first and second bank groups.
US08976541B2
An electrical power and data distribution apparatus comprises an enclosure having a rear connector configured to connect to a first cable including electrical power and data conductors, a front connector configured to connect to a second cable including electrical and data conductors, at least one electrical power outlet configured to connect to a power plug and at least one data input/output connector configured to connect to a device having a predetermined connection configuration. A power hub is connected to the rear connector to receive electrical power, and to the front connector and the power outlet to supply electrical power. The data conductors of the front and rear connectors are connected to a network interface of a controller for sending and receiving data with a first protocol, and the data input/output connector is connected to an input/output section of the controller for sending and receiving data with a second protocol.
US08976538B2
Disclosed herein is a printed circuit board, including a base substrate; and a circuit pattern formed on the base substrate and including a first metal layer having an inclined surface on both upper sides thereof and a second metal layer formed on the inclined part.
US08976529B2
In a package structure, a stiffener ring is over and bonded to a top surface of a first package component. A second package component is over and bonded to the top surface of the first package component, and is encircled by the stiffener ring. A metal lid is over and bonded to the stiffener ring. The metal lid has a through-opening.
US08976527B2
The described embodiment relates generally to the manufacture of display assemblies. More particularly the use of alternative back plates for a display assembly is discussed. By using a printed circuit board (PCB) in lieu of a metal backer heat can be evenly spread across the backer by applying a layer of copper configured to normalize a spread of heat across the printed circuit board. The configuration of the copper layer can be configured based on a tested or simulated heat map that accounts for proximate heat producing elements. The PCB can also advantageously act as an interconnection layer between other electrical components disposed within the electronic device.
US08976526B2
In an embodiment, a medium voltage drive system includes a transformer, multiple power cubes each coupled to the transformer, and a manifold assembly. Each power cube includes cold plates each coupled to a corresponding switching device of the cube, an inlet port in communication with a first one of the cold plates and an outlet port in communication with a last one of the cold plates. The manifold assembly can support an inlet conduit and an outlet conduit and further support first and second connection members to enable blind mating of each of the first connection members to the inlet port of one of the power cubes and each of the second connection members to the outlet port of one of the power cubes to enable two phase cooling of the plurality of power cubes.
US08976522B2
A docking device for connection to a touch display device is provided. The docking device includes a docking body, a pivot unit and a frame. The pivot unit is connected to the docking body. The frame is connected to the pivot unit and pivoted relative to the docking body, wherein the touch display device is detachably disposed on the frame.
US08976520B2
A removable hard disk drive holder made of a plastic unit enveloping a metallic unit comprises a bracket, a plate and a handle. The bracket has a front panel and two side plates. The two side plates extend toward the same direction perpendicularly from the opposite edge of the front panel. The front panel has a front panel pivot portion arranged over one edge thereof. The plate slidably engages with the front panel and has a latch fastening portion. The handle has a handle pivot portion and the handle fastening portion conforming to the latch fastening portion. The handle pivot portion is arranged over one edge of the handle and pivotally connected to the front panel pivot portion. The removable hard disk drive is structurally firm, light and thin and minimizing associated members.
US08976515B2
In accordance with the present disclosure, a system and method for an optimizable rack solution is presented. The system and method is directed to an optimizable rack that includes a frame. The frame has both a primary portion and a detachable portion. The primary portion may contain a primary enclosure and the detachable portion may container a secondary enclosure. Each of the primary enclosure and secondary enclosure are sized to hold a plurality of computing systems. Detaching the detachable portion of the frame both reduces the size and computing systems capacity of the frame.
US08976510B2
An electronic device including an electronic unit and a cable assembly is provided. The cable assembly includes a first connector module, a second connector module, and a cable connecting between the first and the second connector modules. The first connector module detachably connected to the electronic device includes a serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) connector and a connector with at least four terminals.
US08976509B2
An aluminum material, a dielectric layer and an interposing layer formed in at least one part of a region of the surface of the aluminum material between the aluminum material and the dielectric layer and includes aluminum and carbon, wherein the dielectric layer includes dielectric particles including a valve metal, and an organic substance layer formed on at least one part of a surface of the dielectric particle.
US08976505B2
A method for controlling a glow plug in a diesel engine, in particular in the preheating phase, is described. According to the invention, it is provided that the time gradient of an electrical variable which varies according to the temperature of the glow plug is measured and compared with a threshold value, and when said time gradient exceeds or drops below the threshold value, the electric supply voltage of the glow plug is changed.
US08976485B1
A rotating device includes a retained assembly including a spherical retained member with a spherical encircled face, and an encircling member that includes an annular end face which encircles the spherical retained member and which extends outwardly in a radial direction, a retainer assembly including a retainer member which includes an encircling face encircling the encircled face and which retains thereinside a part of the spherical retained member, and a facing member that faces the encircling member in an axial direction, the retainer assembly supporting the retained assembly in a freely and relatively rotatable manner, and forming a fluid dynamic bearing mechanism, and a thrust dynamic pressure generating groove formed in at least either one of a surface of the encircling member and a surface of the facing member, which surfaces face with each other in the axial direction.
US08976482B2
A tape head includes a set of one or more segments, wherein each segment of the set is individually movable with respect to a frame; each segment of the set comprising at least one of a write element configured to write data to a tape and a read element configured to read data from the tape; and each segment of the set comprising a further read element having a width transverse to a motion direction of the tape being at least a width of the write element of the segment or, in the event that no write element is comprised in the segment, of a write element of a different segment.
US08976481B1
Methods are provided for determining the heater power level of a dynamic flying height (DFH) type write head at which a touch down (TD) occurs. Each method makes use of the DC component of a head-disk interference (HDI) sensor and the determination of the TD heater energy is deduced from certain characteristics of the function relating heater power to HDI DC signal strength. Characteristics that provide reliable indication of a TD include points of minimum slope, structure of the slope's slope and the properties of a linear fit to the slope if the slope does not converge to a consistent value. It is found that the use of all methods in combination allow a reliable TD determination under virtually all conditions.
US08976462B2
An image pickup optical system made of five lenses, includes in order from an object side, an aperture stop, a first lens L1 having a positive refracting power, a second lens L2 having a negative refracting power, a third lens L3 having a positive refracting power, a fourth lens L4 having a positive refracting power, and a fifth lens L5 having a negative refracting power. Moreover, an image pickup apparatus includes this image pickup optical system.
US08976453B2
An image display device includes an image generating device, a light guide unit which includes a light guide plate and first and second deflection sections, and a light beam extension device which extends light incident from the image generating device, along a Z direction when an incident direction of light incident on the light guide plate is set to be an X direction and a direction of propagation of light in the light guide plate is set to be a Y direction, and emits the light to the light guide unit, wherein the light beam extension device includes a first reflecting mirror on which light from the image generating device is incident, and a second reflecting mirror which emits light incident from the first reflecting mirror to the light guide unit, and each of the first and second reflecting mirrors has a light reflecting surface having a sawtooth-shaped cross-sectional shape.
US08976452B2
A virtual image display device has a light guide device in which the half mirror layer (the semi-transmissive reflecting film) of the light guide member is formed on the partial area of the first junction surface, and the second junction surface of the light transmitting member is bonded to the first junction surface in at least the exceptional area. Therefore, it is possible to increase the bonding strength of the first junction surface and the second junction surface, namely the strength of the light guide device composed of the light guide member and the light transmitting member combined with each other even in the case in which the attachment force of the half mirror layer (the semi-transmissive reflecting film) with respect to the first junction surface is not sufficiently strong.
US08976448B1
A method of producing an optical film laminate includes: stretching and dyeing a laminate including a resin substrate and a polyvinyl alcohol-based resin layer formed on one side of the resin substrate to produce a polarizing film on the resin substrate; laminating a first protective film on the polarizing film on an opposite side to the resin substrate; and peeling the resin substrate, followed by laminating a second protective film on the polarizing film on a side from which the resin substrate has been peeled. The first protective film is a protective film to be placed on an optical cell side when the optical film laminate is attached to the optical cell, the second protective film is a protective film to be placed on an opposite side to the optical cell when the optical film laminate is attached to the optical cell.
US08976447B2
A substantially dispersion-free optical filter cavity includes a first multilayer mirror and a second multilayer mirror, wherein each mirror includes layers of a less-refractive material and layers of a more-refractive material, the more-refractive material having a higher index of refraction than the less-refractive material. The mirrors are separated by a spacing, and the thickness of a plurality of the layers in the second multilayer mirror differ from corresponding layers in the first multilayer mirror to provide the cavity with complementary group-delay dispersion across the cavity with a phase difference within, e.g., ±0.015 rad across a range of wavelengths spanning at least, e.g., 50 nm.
US08976443B2
The present invention is directed to a method of utilizing a digital micromirror device (DMD) to spectrally matching a standard or device-independent color. DMD can be fitted on an integrated chip and can provide more than one thousand (1,000) color primary channels for low metameric color matching producing a spectrally matched batch color. This represents a two orders of magnitude improvement in color matching.
US08976440B2
This disclosure describes system and methods for creating an autonomous electrochromic assembly, and systems and methods for use of the autonomous electrochromic assembly in combination with a window. Embodiments described herein include an electrochromic assembly that has an electrochromic device, an energy storage device, an energy collection device, and an electrochromic controller device. These devices may be combined into a unitary electrochromic insert assembly. The electrochromic assembly may have the capability of generating power sufficient to operate and control an electrochromic device. This control may occur through the application of a voltage to an electrochromic device to change its opacity state. The electrochromic assembly may be used in combination with a window.
US08976437B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is disclosed a transflective electrochromic liquid crystal display device, comprising a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer and an electrochromic layer and a liquid crystal layer, wherein the electrochromic layer is located between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The present invention can achieve a good display effect in each of a reflective mode and a transmissive mode; and production costs are low, and resolution and aperture ratio can be increased.
US08976435B2
A light quantity adjustment apparatus includes a pair of substrates having a light-path aperture; a plurality of diaphragm blades disposed between the pair of substrates; a driving ring that opens and closes the plurality of diaphragm blades; and a driving device. The plurality of diaphragm blades is supported by the substrate via a first guide plate made of a resin film. The substrate and the first guide plate are provided with guide grooves fitted into protrusions formed in the plurality of diaphragm blades to guide the blades. Guide grooves of the substrate are formed of concave grooves. Guide grooves of the first guide plate are formed of through holes. The through holes of the first guide plate have a narrower width than the concave grooves of the substrate to engage in the protrusions of the diaphragm blades and to guide the diaphragm blades in the open and close direction.
US08976434B2
A collimator can be made of a compound holographic optical element made of three holographic optical elements. The first reflection holographic optical element will have recorded within it continuous lens configured to receive light from a diffuse light beam and diffract the received light as a first collimated light beam. The second reflection holographic optical element will have recorded within it a regular hologram that is configured to permit the light from the diffuse light source to transmit through it to reach the first reflection holographic element, the second reflection holographic element having within it a second holographically reflective structure configured to receive the first collimated light beam and diffract the first collimated light beam as a second collimated light beam. The third transmission holographic optical element is configured to receive the second collimated light beam and diffract it as a third holographic light beam.
US08976433B2
An apparatus includes a low-coherent light source configured to emit an electromagnetic wave; a spatial light modulator configured to modulate a wavefront of the electromagnetic wave; an interferometer including a movable mirror to set a depth of a medium to be irradiated by the electromagnetic wave and a beam splitter configured to the electromagnetic wave into a reference beam and an object beam; a detector to detect information about an interference pattern formed by the object beam coming from the medium via the beam splitter and the reference beam reflected by the movable mirror; and a controller configured to control the spatial light modulator, based on the information, to form a modulated wavefront for irradiating the medium.
US08976423B2
A scanning system includes a scanning member having at least one reflective surface and at least one light source for emitting at least one light beam to be incident on the at least one reflective surface of the scanning member during a scanning operation. At least one curved synchronization mirror deflects and focuses at least a portion of the at least one light beam that is deflected by the scanning member to indicate at least one of a start and an end of a scan line operation of the scanning operation. A sensor receives the at least one light beam deflected and focused by the at least one curved synchronization mirror.
US08976412B2
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer readable code embodied therein for displaying one or more sets of tab sheets on a graphical user interface, the computer readable program code configured to execute a process, which includes inputting attributes of one or more sets of tab sheets into an image forming apparatus. The attributes of the one or more sets of tab sheets are converted into a thumbnail image. Upon selecting tab paper in a paper media menu on a graphical user interface, the thumbnail image of the one or more sets of tab sheets is displayed. A set of tab sheets is then selected for insertion into a print job, and the print job is sent to the image forming apparatus for printing.
US08976411B2
An image processing device includes a first and a second image processing module including an image processing unit, and a connection module that is connected to the first and second image processing modules, and moves an image data from one image processing module to the other image processing module. At least one of the image processing modules includes a weighted average processing unit that calculates, based on a weighting coefficient included in an attribute value, a weighted average of a pixel value of the input image data and a image processed pixel value, and an output unit which outputs at least one of the image processed pixel value and the weighted-averaged pixel value.
US08976402B2
In a communication system including an image processing apparatus having a VNC server and a Web client, a terminal device having a VNC viewer and a Web client and an information processing apparatus having a Web server, the Web client of the image processing apparatus establishes a first connection with the Web server of the information processing apparatus, and the Web client of the terminal device establishes a second connection with the Web server of the information processing apparatus. The image processing apparatus transmits screen information of an operation panel of the image processing apparatus to the terminal device via the information processing apparatus, and the VNC viewer of the terminal device displays the screen information on a display unit of the terminal device.
US08976394B2
The present invention provides a printing system provided with a printing apparatus and a post-processing apparatus, and a control method thereof, wherein, when an instruction is given to execute an off-line job in which a post-process by the post-processing apparatus is performed without printing by the printing apparatus (S11), a screen for selecting an off-line job using the post-processing apparatus can be displayed by the second user interface of the post-processing apparatus and the off-line job can be selected (S12), and, in response to an instruction to start the off-line job from the first user interface of the printing apparatus (S16), the off-line process is executed (S17 and S18).
US08976393B2
An image forming apparatus to support a near field communication (NFC) function receives address book information stored in a user terminal by tagging the user terminal, and generates a quick menu in which image forming functions related to the received address book information are listed and displays the quick menu on a user interface unit.
US08976391B2
A mobile terminal is connected to a server and an image forming device that store image forming device information in such a manner that the mobile terminal can communicate with the server and the image forming device. The mobile terminal acquires image forming device information from the selected server and/or image forming device. When the acquired image forming device information includes duplication of an image forming device, an image forming device list is generated by removing the duplication. Information of an image forming device to be used is displayed on a user interface of the mobile terminal. A usable image forming device is selected and presented to a user.
US08976384B1
A print release environment includes a client computing device, an imaging device and an active directory. The client stores an imaging job on a local hard disk. The client registers itself with the active directory indicating an existence of the job. Upon a user logging in to the imaging device to retrieve an imaged media corresponding to the imaging job, the imaging device queries the active directory for possible clients. The imaging device contacts client(s) and retrieves a list of jobs available to the user. The user selects their job and the client releases it direct to the imaging device. The client deletes the imaging job upon successful imaging of the media and undoes its registration with the active directory, unless further imaging jobs exist for the user. Encryption techniques are contemplated to secure the data of the imaging job end-to-end from the client to the imaging device.
US08976379B2
A method to automatically convert a format of a file through an image forming apparatus, the method including displaying list of tasks executable by the image forming apparatus and a list of files stored in the image forming apparatus, selecting a task to be executed from the list of tasks and a file from one or more files stored in the image forming apparatus that is an object of the selected task, converting a format of data of the selected file into a bitmap format and converting the bitmap format of the data into a format that is compatible with the selected task, and executing the selected task using the converted file.
US08976374B2
A method used in first and second information processing apparatuses in communication with an image forming apparatus. The method includes a transfer step of transferring print setting information for controlling the image forming apparatus from the image forming apparatus to the second information processing apparatus, an acquisition step of acquiring the print setting information transferred in the transfer step from the second information processing apparatus, an input step of inputting the print setting information acquired in the acquisition step into a printer driver in a form that can be identified by the printer driver; and a print control step of controlling a printing operation by using the print setting information inputted in the input step.
US08976372B2
On a touch-panel display of an image forming apparatus, pieces of information are displayed divided into five areas, that is, a system area , a function selecting area, a preview area, an action panel area and a task trigger area, of which arrangement is kept unchanged even when operational modes are switched. With such an arrangement, the same or similar pieces of information are displayed on an area arranged at the same position even in different operational modes.
US08976371B2
The present disclosure includes a pair of cursor members movable in a width direction, and guide grooves configured to guide the cursor member to move in the width direction. The cursor member includes a cursor base, a cursor rising portion being in contact with or in proximity to an end of the sheet, and a connecting portion. The cursor base has a cursor plane extending in parallel to a sheet loading face with a difference of step with respect to the sheet loading face. An edge in the width direction of the cursor base extends linearly. The connecting portion extends from the sheet loading face side to a reverse side via the guide groove at a portion in the feeding direction of the inside edge of the cursor base. The connecting portion has a face connecting portion which connects the sheet loading face with the cursor plane smoothly.
US08976368B2
Methods for performing a scheme that results in a refined measurement pattern within an optical grid are provided. Physically adjusting spacing of elements within an optical grid to achieve enhanced resolution is historically unfeasible, as reduction of the spacing causes light sensors of the optical grid to pick up false signals when reading light beams. Technology introduced by the present invention generates a virtual reduced spacing of the elements within the optical grid by using two signals that are slightly different. These slightly different signals can accomplish, at least, quarter-grid spacing resolution within the optical grid. Additionally, the enhanced resolution derived from the virtual reduced spacing is employed to govern movement of a motor. The motor movement is in response to one or more changes of direction such that the motor is operating in its linear range. Advantageously, the virtual reduced spacing allows for substantial movement in a non-linear phase, while only limited movement in a linear phase is necessary to locate accurately a target within the optical grid.
US08976367B2
A surface measurement module for 3-D triangulation-based image acquisition of a subject-under-inspection and under observation by at least one camera. The module having: (a) casing housing an optical system comprising a plurality of lens elements positioned between a fixed-pattern optic and a light source; (b) an output of said fixed-pattern optic comprising a multi-frequency pattern comprising a plurality of pixels representing at least a first and second superimposed sinusoid projected simultaneously, each of the sinusoids represented by the pixels having a unique temporal frequency and each of the pixels projected to satisfy I n p = A p + ∑ k = 1 K B k p cos ( 2 π f k y p + 2 π kn N ) Eq . ( 1.1 ) (c) the subject-under-inspection and fixed-pattern optic in relative linear motion during projection onto the subject-under-inspection of the output of the fixed-pattern optic; and (d) plurality of images captured of this output during projection onto the subject-under-inspection are used for the image acquisition.
US08976366B2
A measurement system for monitoring an LED chip surface roughening process is described. A reflective illuminator can run reflectance measurements. A vertical positioning means can adjust a distance between an objective lens and an industrial sample. A horizontal positioning means can move objects in XY plane, and is specifically configured to hold the industrial sample and a reference sample. An optical sensor can acquire images of the industrial sample. A spectrometer can acquire reflectance spectrums of the industrial sample and the reference sample. A processor can control these components. The processor can perform deskew, and calculate an average reflectance and an oscillation amplitude from the reflectance spectrums of the industrial sample.
US08976353B2
A lid for multiwell plates, allowing improved optical measurement of liquid samples within its wells, while mitigating evaporation from said samples, is disclosed. A surface element protrudes from the bottom of the lid into the fluid within a well. The protruding element may be hollow or solid such that light directed into the element may act to capture or direct the beam while preventing backscatter from reaching one or more detectors. The protruding element may direct the beam from the well without requiring the beam to pass through a fluid/air interface. The angle and shape of the lid surfaces and/or light absorbing/blocking colorization may be employed to minimize or eliminate back reflection. Evaporation is controlled by physically capping the well with the lid, either sealing against the face at the top of the well or the inside surface of the well.
US08976352B2
A microparticle analysis apparatus includes at least: a detecting unit having one or a plurality of light sources and a plurality of photodetectors, configured to emit excitation light from the light sources, and to detect light emitted from microparticles on which the excitation light is irradiated, at the photodetectors; a first storage unit configured to store, for each microparticle, data detected at the photodetectors of the detecting unit based on detected time; and a second storage unit configured to store data relating to a particular microparticle of detected data stored in the first storage unit.
US08976345B2
A fitting tip of fiber-optic connector endface inspection microscope for inspecting angled connector endfaces includes a relay lens fixed inside its internal channel and is designed such that when it is received in an intended connector adapter and mounted to the inspection microscope, the normal line to the connector endface forms an acute angle γ with the optical axis of the relay lens; the ray exiting from the relay lens and conjugate to the ray along the normal line is aligned with the optical axis of the inspection microscope; and as a result the connector endface is imaged on an imaging plane within the focusing adjustment range of the inspection microscope. The best image of the connector endface is obtained when the angle γ is half of the inclined angle of the angled connector endface.
US08976342B2
A method for estimating the transverse component Vtrans of the velocity of the air comprises the following steps: emitting a focused laser beam; acquiring an electrical signal resulting from the transit of a particle across the beam at a point of transit; analyzing the signal so as to obtain a spectrogram revealing an elongate mark representative of the transit; estimating the duration of traversal of the laser beam by the particle and the slope of the mark; deducing from the duration and from the slope the distance between the point of traversal of the beam and the focusing point; determining the radius of the beam at the point of transit; deducing the transverse component from the radius and from the duration.
US08976336B2
A lithographic apparatus is described that comprises a support structure to hold an object. The object may be a patterning device or a substrate to be exposed. The support structure comprises a chuck, on which the object is supported, and an array of shear-compliant elongated elements normal to the chuck and the stage, such that first ends of the elongated elements contact a surface of the chuck and second ends of the elongated elements contact a stage. Through using the array of elongated elements, a transfer of stress between the stage and the chuck is substantially uniform, resulting in minimization of slippage of the object relative to the surface of the chuck during a deformation of the chuck due to the stress.
US08976334B2
A liquid supply system for an immersion lithographic apparatus provides a laminar flow of immersion liquid between a final element of the projection system and a substrate. A control system minimizes the chances of overflowing and an extractor includes an array of outlets configured to minimize vibrations.
US08976330B2
The present disclosure provides a transparent liquid crystal display panel and a transparent liquid crystal display. The transparent liquid crystal display panel includes a backlight module, a color filter substrate and a TFT array substrate which are cell-assembled. Liquid crystal is filled between the color filter substrate and the TFT array substrate. Each pixel unit of the color filter substrate includes a sub-pixel unit and a transparent pixel unit. A region on the TFT array substrate that corresponds to the transparent pixel unit is transparent. A region between the color filter substrate and the TFT array substrate that corresponds to the transparent pixel unit is provided with a transparent resin spacer. A region in the backlight module that corresponds to the transparent pixel unit is a transparent region.
US08976322B2
An Active Matrix Organic Light Emitting Diode (AMOLED) display and a method of controlling a display thereof are provided. The AMOLED display includes an input unit, a controller, a display unit for displaying a low power mode screen, by enabling the controller to turn off an AMOLED and to turn on a cholesteric Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) in a low power mode, and for displaying a high picture quality mode screen, by enabling the controller to turn on the AMOLED and to turn off the cholesteric LCD in a high picture quality mode. When used in an indoor environment, the AMOLED display can operate in the high picture quality mode, and when used in an outdoor environment or as an e-book reader, the AMOLED display can operate in the low power mode.
US08976321B2
The present invention relates to a fluorescent powder mixture, a manufacturing method for the same, and a corresponding liquid crystal display device. The fluorescent powder mixture is a mixture of a conductive powder and a fluorescent powder, wherein the conductive powder is aluminum zinc oxide, gallium zinc oxide, or indium tin oxide. The fluorescent powder mixture, the manufacturing method for the same, and the corresponding liquid crystal display device of the present invention increase the conductivity of the fluorescent powder, and further weaken the electron enrichment phenomenon on the surface of the fluorescent powder, so as to increase the illumination performance of the fluorescent powder.
US08976320B2
A backlight module includes a back frame, a light guide plate disposed in the back frame, a plurality of semiconductor light sources, a plurality of light source circuit boards, and a plurality of attachment members. Part of each of the light source circuit boards is disposed between the back frame and the light guide plate, and the other part of each of the light source circuit boards is exposed outside the side edge of the light guide plate, and each of the semiconductor light sources is disposed on the light source circuit boards which are exposed outside the side edge of the light guide plate. The number of the light source circuit boards, the semiconductor light sources, and the attachment members are all at least two. Besides, an LCD device including the backlight module and a manufacturing method for the backlight module are also disclosed.
US08976316B2
A lighting device configured to produce light in a substantially uniform overall color includes a plurality of light source boards and a plurality of point light sources. The point light sources are mounted on the light source boards. An average color of the point light sources is in an equivalent color range. The equivalent color range is defined by a square with two sides that are opposed sides each having an X-axis coordinate length of 0.015 and two sides that are opposed sides each having a Y-axis coordinate length of 0.015 in the CIE 1931 color space chromaticity diagram.
US08976305B2
A display apparatus includes a light generating part and a display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate, and a second substrate facing the first substrate. The second substrate includes a plurality of pixel units including a sensor sensing the light generated from the light generating part and reflected from an object disposed on the display panel, and a pixel. The display panel further includes a light blocking member which is positioned at a position corresponding to an area in which the sensor is disposed and prevents the light generated from the light generating part from being directly incident to the sensor. The light blocking member is disposed on the first substrate.
US08976303B2
A system includes a controlled device presenting on a device display an image including a native user interface (UI) and a remote commander (RC) communicating with the controlled device to receive the image and present it on an RC display, so that a user may manipulate the RC looking at the RC display to control the controlled device using the native UI even if the user cannot see the display of the controlled device.
US08976302B2
A radio frequency front end for a television band receiver and spectrum sensor includes a low noise amplifier that amplifies a received signal output of a radio frequency antenna connected to the radio frequency front end, a pin diode attenuator circuit that selectively attenuates an output of the low noise amplifier, and a buffer amplifier that amplifies an output of the pin diode attenuator.
US08976301B2
The invention provides a digital television tuner having at least two branches that receive a radio frequency signal, wherein the radio frequency signal carries M channels (M is a positive integer). A target image data is generated in real time since at least one of the branches pre-extracts the image compression data of the next channel to be switched to.
US08976294B2
Each of a first and second image acquisition device includes: a circuit for providing a primary clock signal and a frequency synthesizing circuit capable of generating at least one secondary clock signal from said primary clock signal. The frequency synthesizing circuit in each image acquisition device has a fractional phase-locked loop configuration. A synchronization comparison circuit in each image acquisition device functions to compare sync between an external sync signal and an internal sync signal. An adjustment of the fraction phase lock loop operation is made in response to the sync comparison.
US08976293B2
One embodiment provides an electronic apparatus, including: a first detector configured to attempt to detect a telop and a warning sound from a received video content at a first image reading interval and a first sound reading interval, respectively; and a second detector configured to attempt, upon a detection of at least one of a telop and a warning sound by the first detector, to detect a telop and a warning sound from the video content at a second image reading interval and a second sound reading interval which are shorter than the first image reading interval and the first sound reading interval, respectively.
US08976289B2
An imaging device of an aspect of the invention, when reading, as voltage signals, signal charges output from a first pixel receiving a light on a partial area biased to a predetermined direction from a light axis of a light flux passing an exit pupil of an imaging optical system and a second pixel arranged so as to be adjacent to the first pixel and receiving a light on a partial area biased to an opposite direction to the predetermined direction from the light axis, combines and reads the signal charges of adjacent first-number pixels with respect to the first pixel and the second pixel, and calculates an arithmetic mean of adjacent second-number voltage signals with respect to the combined and read voltage signals of the first pixel and the second pixel.
US08976281B2
An image pickup device may include an image capturing unit that includes a solid-state image pickup device having a plurality of pixels arrayed in a matrix form, the image capturing unit sequentially outputting a plurality of image capturing signals each of which corresponds to one of a plurality of pixel signals output from the solid-state image pickup device, and an evaluation value generating unit to which the plurality of image capturing signals output from the image capturing unit are sequentially input, the evaluation value generating unit generating an evaluation value based on the input image capturing signals. The evaluation value generating unit may include a horizontal decimation unit, a vertical decimation unit, a vertical evaluation value generating unit, and a horizontal evaluation value generating unit.
US08976277B2
Provided is an image sensor having a depth sensor. The image sensor includes a substrate including a visible light region and a non-visible light region, a first well and a second well having a first conductivity type and in the non-visible light perception region, and a first gate and a second gate configured to receive voltages of opposite phases, respectively, and apply voltages to the first well and the second well, respectively.
US08976275B2
A single-plate color imaging element, where a basic array pattern in which the color filters are arrayed according to an array pattern corresponding to M×N (M and N are even numbers equal to or more than 6) pixels in horizontal and vertical directions is formed, the basic array pattern includes two each of two types of a first sub array and a second sub array in which the color filters are arrayed according to an array pattern corresponding to (M/2)×(N/2) pixels, the color filters include first filters corresponding to a first color and second filters corresponding to a second color whose contribution rates are lower than a contribution rate of the first color, a ratio of a number of pixels of the first color being greater than a ratio of a number of pixels of each color of the second color.
US08976269B2
A CMOS imager integrated circuit using compressive sensing and bio-inspired detection is presented which integrates novel functions and algorithms within a novel hardware architecture enabling efficient on-chip implementation.
US08976256B2
An apparatus and method are provided for creating an indirect image of an object. The apparatus includes a light source and an imaging system. Light emitted from the light source is reflected by a first non-specular surface toward the object. Light reflected by the object is further reflected by a second non-specular surface toward the imaging system. The imaging system is configured to create the indirect image from the reflected light.
US08976251B2
Methods and systems for analyzing camera lenses and presenting information regarding camera lenses performance are described. An interactive user interface is provided over a network for display on a user terminal by a computer system. A user request is received at the computer system from the user terminal for lens data from a first lens. Lens data, including test data obtained via a first digital image captured using the first lens at the first focal length setting and the first aperture setting is accessed from memory and transmitted to interactive user interface. The interactive user interface is configured to display an identification of the first camera body, an identification of the first lens, the first focal length setting used to capture the image, and the first aperture setting used to capture the image. Using the lens test data, the interactive user interface generates and displays sharpness graph data.
US08976250B2
A lens testing system may have a test pattern source that generates a test pattern of light. A lens may have a lens surface that reflects the test pattern of light. A digital camera system may capture an image of the reflected test pattern of light. Computing equipment may perform image processing operations to evaluate the captured image of the reflected test pattern. The test pattern may contain a known pattern of test elements such as a rectangular array of spots or test elements of other configurations. During image processing operations, the computing equipment may analyze the reflected version of the spots or other test elements to measure characteristics of the lens such as radius of curvature, whether the lens contains flat regions, pits, or bumps, lens placement in a support structure, and other lens performance data. The computing equipment may compare the measured lens data to predetermined criteria.
US08976238B2
An optical observation apparatus has an optical image channel for viewing optical field-of-view images, a processing unit to generate a first electronic insertion image via a first electronic image channel, and a data insertion image projector for generating an optical insertion image from the first electronic insertion image and inserting that image into the optical field-of-view image. An acquisition device acquires the optical field-of-view image without the optical insertion image inserted by the data insertion image projector. A second electronic image channel has a superimposition module, that superimposes the electronic field-of-view image with an electronic insertion image and provides the superimposed images via the second electronic image channel. The processing unit generates a second electronic insertion image, provides available display data elements, and makes it possible to assemble the electronic insertion images and assign them to different electronic image channels.
US08976232B2
A distance determining section increases a convergence point distance by a distance proportionate to an operation of an up key. The distance determining section reduces the convergence point distance by a distance proportionate to an operation of a down key. A target convergence point distance is incremented by 1 m per pressing operation of the up key. The target convergence point distance is decremented by 1 m per pressing operation of the down key. A shift amount setting section converts the target convergence point distance into a shift amount that corresponds to the target convergence point distance. The shift amount is set to an image shifting section. The image shifting section shifts each cut out region by the shift amount from a reference position and cuts out viewpoint images with the cut out regions from original left and right viewpoint images. Thus, the parallax-adjusted viewpoint images are produced.
US08976223B1
A method, computer program product, and computer system for sending, by a first computing device, a video feed with a pre-determined quality level to a second computing device. The first computing device determines that a volume level associated with the video feed reaches a threshold. The first computing device sends the video feed with a higher quality level to the second computing device based upon, at least in part, determining that the volume level associated with the video feed reaches the threshold.
US08976203B2
A wavelength conversion device includes an excitation light source that generates excitation light, a laser medium that generates fundamental light by means of the excitation light, two resonator mirrors that are disposed with the laser medium being interposed therebetween and resonate the fundamental light, a wavelength conversion element that is disposed between the two resonator mirrors and wavelength-converts the fundamental light to harmonic light, and a drive unit that generates a pulse modulation signal to pulse-drive the excitation light source. The laser medium is formed of a material having a thermo-optical effect and a positive thermo-optical constant. The pulse modulation signal generated by the drive unit has an initial interval including a rising edge of a pulse and a remaining interval subsequent to the initial interval. An average signal intensity during the initial interval is higher than an average signal intensity during the remaining interval.
US08976202B2
The present document describes a method for controlling an output presented on a visual display of a portable computing device having an orientation, the portable computing device comprising a memory on which is stored visual content comprising at least one of graphics data, photo data and video data, and text content substantially comprising text data, the text content further comprising a visual content indicator indicative of the existence of the visual content, the method comprising: detecting the orientation of the portable computing device as corresponding to one of a first display mode and a second display mode; in the orientation corresponding to the first display mode, presenting the text content on the visual display in the first display mode; in the presence of the visual content indicator, detecting a change of the orientation corresponding to the first display mode to the orientation corresponding to the second display mode; and in the orientation corresponding to the second display mode, presenting the visual content in the second display mode on the visual display.
US08976187B2
A system aids composited graphics rendering. A script and corresponding virtual machine engine code may be stored in memory. An off-screen buffer is generated in the memory by the script. The off-screen buffer includes an extended stage having first a buffer portion. The buffer portion may include pre-rendered graphical object. An on-screen buffer may include a composition of the pre-rendered graphical objects of the extended stage. The script renders a graphical change to the on-screen buffer using independent block copying, from the extended stage to corresponding target areas in the on-screen buffer, of one or more of the pre-rendered graphics of the extended stage area affected by the graphical changes.
US08976170B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for displaying stereoscopic images. The apparatus for displaying stereoscopic images includes a stereoscopic image-generating part, a main display part, a sub-display part, and a translucent reflective structure part. The stereoscopic image-generating part splits a single image to generate a first stereoscopic image to be directly viewed by a user and a second stereoscopic image to be reflected and viewed by the user. The main display part directly displays the first stereoscopic image to a gaze of a user. The sub-display part displays the second stereoscopic image. The translucent reflective structure part reflects the second stereoscopic image displayed on the sub-display part.
US08976161B2
The present disclosure relates generally systems and methods for image data processing. In certain embodiments, a method for transferring the image data may include processing the image data in an image sensor by correcting one or more defective pixels in the image data based on a one-dimensional defective pixel correction algorithm; horizontally demosaicing the image data based on a one-dimensional horizontal demosaic algorithm; or a combination thereof. After processing the image data, the method may include horizontally downscaling the processed image data in the image sensor and vertically downscaling the horizontally downscaled image data in an image signal processor to be displayed for viewing on a display device.
US08976159B2
In a variable size sensing system and a method for redefining the size of a sensing area thereof, the sensing system includes four elements, a mark and two image sensing devices. The four elements are consecutively connected and thereby forming a frame. Two of the four elements have variable lengths so as to adjust the size of the frame. The inner edge of the frame defines a sensing area of a parallelogram shape. The sensing system has a first and a second working mode. The sensing area has a first size and a second size when the sensing system is in the first working mode and the second working mode respectively, wherein the first size is predetermined and smaller than the second size. The mark is used to mark a fixed length. When the sensing system is changed from the first working mode to the second working mode, the mark sensed by the image sensing devices can be utilized to redefine the size of the sensing area in the sensing system.
US08976158B2
A touch sensor including a housing, a light guide mounted in the housing the light guide featuring an aperture through which light exits and enters the light guide, and an inner surface facing the interior of the housing, the sensor further includes two light emitters mounted in the housing for emitting light beams into the light guide that exit the aperture at diverging angles and a light receiver mounted in the housing for receiving reflected light beams entering the aperture at an angle of incidence different than the diverging angles.
US08976153B2
A touch panel device includes: an electrostatic capacitance touch panel of mutual capacitance type which includes transmission-side electrodes and reception-side electrodes; a detecting unit which detects a contact with the electrostatic touch panel and outputs contact information; and a detection signal variation calculating unit which calculates and outputs detection signal variations of the transmission-side electrodes and the reception-side electrodes based on the contact information. The touch panel device further includes: a variation distribution calculating unit which calculates and outputs a variation distribution of the detection signals based on the detection signal variations; and a determining unit which determines that an object contacting the electrostatic touch panel is a drop of water when a peak value of the variation distribution of the detection signals is a predetermined negative threshold or less.
US08976152B2
The present disclosure provides a conductive film of a touch panel. The conductive film has a film and a plurality of a plurality of hydrophobic units. The film is used for sensing touch signals, and the hydrophobic units are disposed in the film with intervals. Conductive material of the conductive film of the touch panel is distributed outside the region of the hydrophobic units, and as the hydrophobic units have good light transmittance, the touch panel of the present disclosure has a characteristic of high light transmittance.
US08976151B2
Capacitance sensing circuits and methods are provided. A dual mode capacitance sensing circuit includes a capacitance-to-voltage converter having an amplifier and an integration capacitance coupled between an output and an inverting input of the amplifier, and a dual mode switching circuit responsive to mutual mode control signals for a controlling signal supplied from a capacitive touch matrix to the capacitance-to-voltage converter in a mutual capacitance sensing mode and responsive to self mode control signals for controlling signals supplied from the capacitive touch matrix to the capacitance-to-voltage converter in a self capacitance sensing mode, wherein the capacitance sensing circuit is configurable for operation in the mutual capacitance sensing mode or the self capacitance sensing mode.
US08976149B2
There is provided a capacitance sensing apparatus including: a driving circuit unit sequentially applying a driving signal to each of a plurality of first electrodes; a sensing circuit unit including a first integrating circuit detecting a first change in capacitance generated in a plurality of second electrodes by the driving signal and a second integrating circuit connected to another first electrode adjacent to the first electrode to which the driving signal is applied; and an operating unit connected to the sensing circuit unit to determine a touch input, wherein the second integrating circuit detects a second change in capacitance generated due to noise in the another first electrode, and the operating unit determines the touch input based on the first and second changes in capacitance.
US08976129B2
A method is provided for an electronic device with a processor and a touch-sensitive display, the touch-sensitive display including a display area and a non-display area. The method includes providing a boundary based on the display area and the non-display area.
US08976127B2
A method for determining a touch point during a special touch object contacting with a touch screen, and a touch screen operating tool, in particular a touch pen. The method includes: installing a sensor on the special touch object, comparing the data of the special touch object obtained by the sensor with the corresponding data of the contact point on the screen, determining the corresponding touch point of the special touch object.
US08976124B1
An apparatus and method of measuring a collective capacitance on a group of capacitive sense elements from at least one of rows or columns of a capacitance sense array when in a first mode, and individually measuring capacitances on each of the rows and columns when in a second mode.
US08976121B2
A capacitive touch system uses two or more integrated circuits to simultaneously scan a touch panel in such a manner that each of the integrated circuits scans only a portion of the touch panel to retrieve a respective detected data by itself. All the detected data are used for computation by one of the integrated circuits or one other than the integrated circuits to determine a touch information. This approach enables axis intersect projected capacitance touch integrated circuits applicable to a large scale touch panel, without degrading the frame rate of a capacitive touch system.
US08976120B2
A portable electronic device includes a housing with a front frame; a moveable touch-screen display framed by the front frame of the housing, the moveable touch-screen display including a touch-sensitive input surface overlying a display device, the front frame including corners curved outwardly away from the surface of the touchscreen display; a mechanical switch disposed between a back surface of the touchscreen display and a base of the housing; and operational components including a processor within the housing and connected to the touchscreen display. The touchscreen display moves or pivots relative to the housing about a pivot axis in response to application of sufficient force on the touchscreen. This movement or pivoting results in the actuation of the single mechanical switch and the pivot axis depending on the location of application of the force.
US08976108B2
Described herein is a computer-implemented system and method for processing one or more alternate symbols associated or linked to a base symbol. A base symbol is a symbol to which at least one alternate symbol is linked. A base symbol commonly appears on a key of a keyboard or a display of a keyboard, or is a handwritten symbol recognized by handwriting entry software. Examples of alternate symbols are accented characters and punctuation marks that do not appear on a keyboard or are not commonly recognized by a handwriting entry program, and short symbol sequences. An example of a common short symbol sequence is an emoticon used in e-mail messages to convey tone or feelings. An example of a computer device that may embody the system or method is a hand-held computing device.
US08976107B2
A display element (10) includes an upper substrate (first substrate) (2), a lower substrate (second substrate) (3), and a conductive liquid (16) that is sealed in a display space (S) formed between the upper substrate (2) and the lower substrate (3) so as to be moved toward an effective display region (P1) or a non-effective display region (P2). The conductive liquid (16) is colored black. The non-effective display (P2) is defined by a black matrix (light-shielding layer) (11s) provided on the upper substrate (2), and the effective display region (P1) is defined by a color filter (aperture) (11r) formed in the black matrix (11s). The size of the black matrix (11s) is determined based on the size of each of ribs (14a, 14b) and a gap size (H) between the upper substrate (2) and the lower substrate (3).
US08976106B2
An LCD panel being driven in an overlapping drive mode by applying a gate high voltage during n horizontal synchronous intervals is disclosed. The LCD panel includes: a plurality of gate lines; and a gate driver configured to include a plurality of stages connected to the plurality of gate lines. The plurality of stages are grouped in a plurality of stage groups each including n stages. Odd-numbered stage groups each allows the n stages to be arranged in a Z shape with having a display area therebetween. Even-number stage groups each allows the n states to be arranged in an inverse-Z shape with having the display area therebetween.
US08976099B2
A charge storage circuit for a pixel comprises a charge storage node. First and second series-connected transistors (8,10) are provided for selectively isolating the charge storage node from a first voltage input (9,SL) for supplying a data voltage. The circuit is provided with a voltage follower circuit for replicating a voltage at the charge storage node (12) at another node in the circuit thereby to reduce the drain-source voltage across the second transistor (10). The first transistor forms part of the voltage follower circuit.
US08976094B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to liquid crystal displays (LCDs) and electronic devices incorporating LCDs having an organic passivation layer positioned between edge-sealed two substrates. Specifically, embodiments of the present disclosure employ lithographic techniques (e.g., a half-tone mask, diffractive exposure mask, etc.) to remove or not deposit a portion of the organic passivation layer near the edges of the substrates prior to sealing the substrates along these edges. As described herein, this reduction in the thickness of the organic layer near the edges of the device may improve the strength of the edge seal due to reduced strain in the organic layer.
US08976093B2
An interactive card or the like employs a piezoelectric charge generator (piezo-strip) for temporarily driving an indicator. The piezo-strip may be displaced (bent) in order to generate charge to drive the indicator. Printed electronic processes are utilized to produce the indicator and/or the piezoelectric charge generator The need for a printed battery or supplemental power source is obviated. The card may carry printed indicia which corresponds to the states of the indicator (e.g., indication of a test answer selection). Multiple display elements and selector switches may provide multiple indicator states. Multiple piezo-strips may provide a selection function as well as a rest function. Applications include business cards, greeting cards and novelty items, toys and games, advertising and promotions, testing and education, sensors, and so forth.
US08976086B2
A method and apparatus of displaying an electronic video image using a head-worn near-to-eye display in a non-immersive fashion, such that the wearer can choose, through simple adjustments of their neck and eye angles, to either look at the displayed video image or their natural environment. The invention also relates to the incorporation of prescription lenses into the optical chain of the near-to-eye display. The invention also relates to the use of motion and position sensors incorporated into the head-worn device to enable automatic stabilization of the video image. The invention also relates to the use of motion and position sensors incorporated into the head-worn device to automatically adjust the vertical angle of either the camera or the electronic display or both, by sensing the vertical angular position of the user's head.
US08976085B2
An electronic device includes a band configured to be worn on the head of a user. The band has a central portion and first and second temple portions extending therefrom. The central portion is configured to contact a portion of the face of a user, and the temple portions are configured to contact portions of the head of the user near ears thereof. An operational unit having a display element is affixed to the first temple portion and includes a housing having an arm defining a longitudinal axis. The housing also includes an elbow portion defining a display end that supports the display element such that it extends along a display axis angled with respect to the longitudinal axis and such that the display element is positionable over an eye of the user. Image generating means are disposed within the housing for generating an image presentable on the display element.
US08976083B2
A three-dimensional (3D) image display device includes data lines, gate lines crossing the data lines, sub-pixels arranged in areas between the data lines and the gate lines, a data driver that drives the data lines, a first gate driver that drives first gate lines from among the gate lines, a second gate driver that drives second gate lines from among the gate lines, and a timing controller that controls the data driver, the first gate driver, and the second gate drivers according to an image signal and a control signal. The second gate driver does not drive the second gate lines during a 3D display mode.
US08976073B2
In the field of wideband directional antennas employing linear polarization, and in particular in the context of amplitude goniometry systems, polarization purity defects lead to deformation of the radiation diagrams that increases with the elevation, inducing degraded detection system location performance. An antenna is provided operating with linear polarization and having radiating elements of “sinuous” shape inscribed within a circle, and includes radiating elements printed on the two faces of a support, the elements of the first face being deduced from those of the other face by a rotation.
US08976069B2
An apparatus includes an internal, multiband antenna element concealed within a portable communication device. The antenna element operates in at least three frequency bands and includes geometric elements arranged to define empty spaces in the antenna element to provide at least three winding current paths through the antenna element which circumvent the empty spaces, the at least three winding current paths respectively corresponding to the at least three frequency bands to provide the antenna element with multi-band behavior, wherein each of two or more of the geometric elements is traversed by the at least three winding current paths. The apparatus further includes a ground plane, with the antenna element being electrically coupled to the ground plane. The geometric elements are arranged such that the antenna element does not comprise a group of single band antennas that respectively operate in the at least three frequency bands.
US08976068B2
An antenna element is connected to a feeder circuit, and an antenna element is connected to a feeder circuit. The grounding terminal of the feeder circuit is grounded by being connected to a grounding conductor. The grounding terminal of the feeder circuit is grounded by being connected to a grounding conductor. Grounding conductors interpose therebetween the first portion of the antenna element, and grounding conductors interpose therebetween the third portion of the antenna element. The grounding conductors are mutually electrically connected by jumper conductors.
US08976064B2
A navigation system includes first receiver receiving satellite signals, second receiver receiving differential correction data from ground receivers, and processing device coupled to receivers. Processing device determines correction data for satellite signals based on differential correction; determines position solution based on satellite signals and corresponding differential correction data; determines first position sub-solutions based on satellite signals from all but one satellite (different for each first position sub-solution) and corresponding differential correction data; calculates first separations as function of first differences between position solution and first position sub-solutions; determines second position sub-solutions for mobile object based on satellite signals and corresponding differential correction data from all but one block of ground receivers (different for each second position sub-solution); calculates second separations as function of second differences between position solution and second position sub-solutions; detects error in position solution when one of first separations or second separations exceed corresponding separation limit.
US08976054B2
A time-to-digital conversion circuit for converting a time difference between two input signals to a 1-bit digital value, and adjusting the time difference between the two input signals to generate two output signals includes: a phase comparator configured to compare phases of the two input signals with each other to generate the digital value; a phase selector configured to output one of the two input signals which has a leading phase as a first signal, and the other of the two input signals which has a lagging phase as a second signal; and a delay unit configured to output the first signal with a delay, wherein the time-to-digital conversion circuit outputs the signal output from the delay unit and the second signal as the two output signals.
US08976053B1
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for a Vernier ring time to digital converter having a single clock input and an all digital circuit that calculates a fixed delay relationship between a set of slow buffers and fast buffers. A method for calibrating a Vernier Delay Line of a TDC, comprising the steps of inputting a reference clock to a slow buffer and to a fast buffer, determining a delay ratio of the slow buffer and fast buffer; and adjusting the delay ratio of the slow buffer and fast buffer to a fixed delay ratio value wherein an up-down accumulator generates control signals to adjust the slow buffer.
US08976043B2
A system and method for illuminating one or more sidestick controllers within a cockpit of an aircraft is described. In some embodiments, the system includes a sidestick controller having lighting components that display lighting behaviors representing the movement and/or control of an aircraft. In some embodiments, the system illuminates various different lighting components on a sidestick controller based on information received from aircraft control systems, cockpit lighting systems, and other systems associated with an aircraft.
US08976038B2
A security device for detecting the position of a manhole cover includes a pinger device, such as an acoustic pinger, that transmits a signal in the direction of the expected position of the manhole cover. The device takes energy samples to determine if the signal has been reflected back by the manhole cover. If the device determines the signal has not been reflected, it determines that the manhole cover has been moved from the expected position. In response, the device captures an image of an area around the expected position of the manhole cover. In addition, the device can notify a remote security station via a network that the manhole cover has been moved.
US08976035B2
Embodiments of systems and methods include a sensor subsystem (e.g., within a container-mounted device) that produces a sensor output, and a processing system that implements a state machine. Upon entry into a first state, the processing system starts a timer, and while in a second state, the processing system waits for a specific sensor output value to be received. The processing system transitions from the first state to the second state upon expiration of the timer, and the processing system transitions from the second state to the first state when the sensor output corresponds to the specific sensor output value. When the state machine is in the second state, the output device produces a human-perceptible indicia configured to prompt a human user to perform an action that is likely to cause the sensor to produce the sensor output that corresponds to the specific sensor output value.
US08976026B2
The invention relates to an electronic system for anti-theft protection of goods. The system comprises: a unit for detecting a metallic material in a first detection zone; a unit for detecting a magnetic or magnetizable material in a second detection zone; and a control unit. The control unit is capable of receiving information from the units for detecting metallic and magnetic material when the one or both of these units detect(s) a metallic or a magnetic material, respectively, in the respective detection zones. The control unit is further programmable to the effect that the control unit can be programmed to emit a signal which depends on whether it receives information about the detection of metallic and/or magnetic material.
US08976025B2
A system may include a set-top box configured to receive a television signal and provide the television signal to a media playing device, and a home monitoring device configured to obtain a video recording using a security camera, provide the video recording to a media manager device across a network, and provide information about the video recording to the set-top box. The set-top box may be further configured to provide the information about the video recording upon activation of the set-top box by a customer, receive a request to view the video recording from the customer, retrieve the video recording from the media manager device, and provide the video recording to a media playing device.
US08976017B1
A method for inspecting down hole drilling systems for identifying indications of flaws in material. The method can include removing particulate, disposing a wave coupling medium on an area of interest, attaching a probe to a sound carrying wedge, engaging the sound carrying wedge over the wave coupling medium, transmitting inspection signals to the area of interest, manipulating the probe to produce detection signals, transmitting the detection signals to a data storage, presenting the detection signals and a known reference level to a user, and comparing the detection signals to the known reference level to determine if the detection signals are within a standard deviation of the known reference level. The method can include adapting a sound carrying wedge to form-fittingly couple to an area of interest of a down hole drilling system.
US08976006B2
Disclosed are alternate embodiments of various components of a barrier operator system. and methods of operation, including of the mechanical drive subsystem with segmented and self-locking rail unit, rail mounting supports, belt and chain drive tensioning, and drive assembly carriage and interface; the electronics and software routines for controlled operation of the various barrier operator functions; wall console communications with the barrier operator; encryption and decryption of access codes; establishment and monitoring of travel limits and barrier speed and force profiles; thermal protection of barrier operator drive motors; and establishment and control of communications from the barrier operator to accessories by way of a wireless adapter.
US08976004B2
An onboard apparatus control system is disclosed. The onboard apparatus control system includes a portable apparatus and an in-vehicle apparatus which controls an onboard apparatus according to position of the portable apparatus. From multiple transmitting antennae, the in-vehicle apparatus transmits pulse pattern signals with different transmission frequencies at an overlapping timing, so that the pulse pattern signals are radio waves whose intensities are changed stepwise according to different patterns. The portable apparatus receives the radio waves transmitted from the multiple transmitting antennae. The position of the portable apparatus with respect to the vehicle is determined based on a combined pattern of the received pulse pattern signals, which a receiving unit is to receive at location with respect to the vehicle.
US08976000B2
A blade fuse includes a first terminal includes an outer edge and an inner edge, the inner edge includes a first portion notched away from the inner edge beneath the first portion; a second terminal includes an outer edge and an inner edge, the inner edge include a second portion notched away from the inner edge beneath the second portion; an element extending from the first portion of the inner edge of the first terminal to the second portion of the inner edge of the second terminal; and a housing covering the element.
US08975983B2
A capacitor of a certain LC resonator, among multiple LC resonators in a band-pass filter, is arranged at a side of one main surface in a stacking direction of a multilayer body of the band-pass filter and the capacitors of the remaining LC resonators are arranged at a side of the other main surface in the stacking direction of the multilayer body. One of a pair of capacitor electrodes of the capacitor of the certain LC resonator is grounded. The one capacitor electrode that is grounded covers at least the plurality of LC resonators, as viewed from the stacking direction of the multilayer body.
US08975980B2
A band-pass filter has a plurality of frequency band channels each including a first inductor having a first terminal coupled to a first balanced port and a second terminal coupled to a second balanced port. A first capacitor is coupled between the first and second terminals of the first inductor. A second inductor has a first terminal coupled to a first unbalanced port and a second terminal coupled to a second unbalanced port. The second inductor is disposed within a first distance of the first inductor to induce magnetic coupling. A second capacitor is coupled between the first and second terminals of the second inductor. A third inductor is disposed within a second distance of the first inductor and within a third distance of the second inductor to induce magnetic coupling. A second capacitor is coupled between first and second terminals of the third inductor.
US08975978B2
Provided is an interconnect substrate that includes a laminated body including an electric conductor and an insulator, over which an electronic element (141) is disposed, wherein the laminated body includes a first layer (130) having at least one first conductor (131) separated in an island shape, a first connecting member (142) which is buried in the laminated body in order to electrically connect the electronic element (141) and the first conductor (131), a second layer (110) having a third conductor (111) which is provided opposite to at least a partial region of the first conductor (131), a second conductor (122) which is provided opposite to at least one of the first conductor (131) and the third conductor (111) with a layer of an insulator interposed therebetween, wherein when the laminated body is seen in a plan view, the second conductor (122) is located at a region less than a quarter of a wavelength occurring at a frequency of noise propagated from the electronic element (141) to the first conductor (131), from an end of the first conductor (131).
US08975975B2
According to some embodiments, a method and apparatus are provided to vary a clock signal frequency for a first time period between a lower limit of a range of problematic frequencies and a frequency lower than the lower limit, and vary the clock signal frequency for a second period of time between an upper limit of the range of problematic frequencies and a frequency greater than the upper limit.
US08975973B2
A voltage controlled oscillation circuit oscillates at an oscillation frequency corresponding to a control voltage. Injection locked oscillation circuits oscillate at an oscillation frequency corresponding to an output signal from the voltage controlled oscillation circuit. A mixer circuit performs a frequency conversion based on output signals from the injection locked oscillation circuits. A synchronization determiner determines the synchronous status between the injection locked oscillation circuits in accordance with an output signal from the mixer circuit. The injection locked oscillation circuits synchronize with each other at a frequency that is an integral multiple of the oscillation frequency of the voltage controlled oscillation circuit.
US08975966B2
A receiver is described. The receiver includes a first amplifier on an integrated circuit. The receiver also includes a second amplifier on the integrated circuit. The receiver further includes a first inductor coupled to the first amplifier. The receiver also includes a second inductor coupled to the second amplifier. The receiver further includes a first capacitor coupled to the first inductor, the second inductor, and to ground. The first capacitor is shared between a first matching network for the first amplifier and a second matching network for the second amplifier.
US08975965B2
A differential signal correction circuit is disclosed. The differential signal correction circuit may comprise a first single-ended-to-differential converter and a second single-ended-to-differential converter. Each one of the two converters may comprise an input port and two output ports. The converters may be configured to perform a first phase correction for a pair of differential signals and output a first output signal and a second output signal. The first output signal is fed back to the first converter through one of the output ports of the first converter, and the second output signal is fed back to the second converter through one of the output ports of the second converter so as to perform phase correction and amplitude correction for the first output signal and the second output signal.
US08975955B2
An analysis technique for (Doherty) amplifiers having a main amplifier branch and at least one peak amplifier branch. For a given input power level and assumed amplifier impedance levels, an output power level and phase response are obtained for each active device using appropriate load-pull data based on the impedance levels. The performance of the amplifier is analyzed based on the impedance levels, output power levels, and phase responses to generate updated impedance levels. The analysis is repeated until the updated impedance levels converge on steady state values. The analysis can be repeated for different input power levels. Main and peak output matching networks for the amplifier can be designed by iteratively adjusting impedance levels for the networks using appropriate load-pull contours. For the design and analysis phases, the load-pull contours include Class-AB data for the main amplifier device and Class-C data for the peak amplifier device.
US08975954B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes an adaptive voltage scaling (AVS) controller configured to control a voltage supplied to a portion of the IC and at least one sensor configured to sense at least one state of the IC and to provide an output signal indicative of the at least one sensed state to the AVS controller, the IC having a first setting and a second setting, the AVS controller being configured to use the output signal to control the voltage in the first setting and the AVS controller being configured to control the voltage independently of the output signal in the second setting. Also a method of performing AVS is provided.
US08975952B2
This disclosure is directed to devices, integrated circuits, systems, and methods for implementing an internal body tie bias circuit in a CMOS logic circuit. In one example, a CMOS logic circuit is formed in an integrated circuit. The CMOS logic circuit includes a PMOS transistor, an NMOS transistor; and a body tie bias circuit formed in the integrated circuit. The body tie bias circuit is coupled between a body tie connection terminal of the PMOS transistor and a body tie connection terminal of the NMOS transistor.
US08975949B2
Inventive aspects include an integrated clock gater (ICG) circuit having clocked complimentary voltage switched logic (CICG) that delivers high performance while maintaining low power consumption characteristics. The CICG circuit provides a small enable setup time and a small clock-to-enabled-clock delay. A significant reduction in clock power consumption is achieved in both enabled and disabled modes, but particularly in the disabled mode. Complimentary latches work in tandem to latch different voltage levels at different nodes depending on the voltage level of the received clock signal and whether or not an enable signal is asserted. An inverter takes the voltage level from one of the nodes, inverts it, and outputs a gated clock signal. The gated clock signal may be active or quiescent depending on the various voltage levels. Time is “borrowed” from an evaluation window and added to a setup time to provide greater tolerances for receiving the enable signal.
US08975946B2
A mixer includes a first node to which an intermediate frequency (IF) signal is input; first and second transistors that respectively have control terminals supplied with local signals having mutually opposite phases and output terminals connected to the first node; a first filter that is connected between the output terminal of the second transistor and the first node and suppresses passage of the IF signal; a second node to which the IF signal is input; third and fourth transistors that respectively have control terminals supplied with local signals having mutually opposite phases and output terminals connected to the second node; a second filter that is connected between the output terminal of the fourth transistor and the second node and suppresses passage of the IF signal; and a combiner combining a signal output from the first node and a signal output from the second node.
US08975940B2
The semiconductor device includes a power transistor that is disposed between a first signal line, which is coupled to a first external terminal, and a second signal line, which is coupled to a second external terminal. A gate electrode of the power transistor is coupled to a third signal line. The semiconductor device further includes a clamp circuit that clamps a voltage between the first signal line and the third signal line, a first resistive element that is disposed between the third signal line and the second signal line, and a monitoring section that monitors a voltage between the third signal line and the second signal line. The clamp circuit is configured so that a clamp voltage can be changed. The monitoring section exercises control to decrease the clamp voltage when the voltage between the third signal line and the second signal line exceeds a predefined threshold value.
US08975936B2
An integrated circuit includes a plurality of resonant clock domains of a resonant clock network. Each resonant clock domain has at least one clock driver that supplies a portion of clock signal to an associated resonant clock domain. The resonant clock network operates in a resonant mode with inductors connected to pairs of resonant clock domains at boundaries between the resonant clock domains. Each inductor forms an LC circuit with clock load capacitance in the pair of resonant clock domains to which the inductor is connected.
US08975932B2
The present invention relates to a pulse signal generation circuit for changing a pulse width of an input pulse signal and outputting an output pulse signal having the changed pulse width. In an aspect, the pulse signal generation circuit may include a control signal generator configured to generate at least one control signal according to a pulse width of a input pulse signal and a pulse signal generator configured to control a pulse width of an input pulse signal in response to a control signal and to generate an output pulse signal with the controlled pulse width. The control signal controls the pulse width of the output pulse signal.
US08975925B2
An electronic safety device for a protection barrier includes a transponder, a transceiver device for receiving a return signal from the transponder, the transponder being movable with respect to the transceiver and adapted to be placed at a current distance, an electric circuit which is switched when the distance is lower or higher than a reference distance and a control and switching system. The transceiver device processes the return signal to generate a control signal with an electric parameter variable in function of the distance. The control signal is a periodic signal with a frequency and has a first spectrum with a middle interval and a second spectrum with lateral intervals shifted with respect the middle interval when the distance is higher than the reference distance, the parameter being associated to a frequency value that comprises either into the middle interval or into one of the lateral intervals.
US08975924B2
A phase-frequency detector (PFD) circuit is disclosed. The PFD circuit includes a PFD portion adapted to detect frequency and phase difference of two input signals and to generate control signals according to the detected frequency and phase difference and a delay and reset portion adapted to delay the generated control signals, to generate reset signals for resetting the PFD portion based on a combination of the control signals and the delayed control signals, and to provide the generated reset signals to the PFD portion.
US08975916B1
A self-modulated voltage reference circuit may generate a reference voltage by receiving an internal reference voltage of a programmable device at a first input of a comparator block of the programmable device, receiving a feedback voltage at a second input of the comparator block, generating a pulse density modulated (PDM) signal based on a difference between the reference voltage and the feedback voltage, outputting the PDM signal at a digital output pin of the programmable device, and filtering the PDM signal to generate the output reference voltage.
US08975907B2
A photodetector array includes a plurality of photodetector cells such as avalanche photodiodes and readout circuits. An array self-tester tests a dark count or other performance characteristic of the cells. The test is performed in connection with the manufacture of the array or following the installation of the array in a detection system.
US08975903B2
A vehicle proximity switch and method are provided having learned sensitivity control. The switch includes a proximity sensor, such as a capacitive sensor, installed in a vehicle and providing a sense activation field. Also included is sense control circuitry processing the activation field to sense user activation of the switch by comparing the activation field to a threshold. The switch further includes sensitivity control circuitry learning a user sensitivity based on user activation of a sensor and controlling the sensitivity of one or more proximity switches.
US08975893B2
In a method for optimization of a flow coding with switching of an additional bipolar dephasing gradient pair, used in a magnetic resonance (MR) phase contrast angiography, the strength of the flow coding is selected depending on the flow velocity in the vessels that should be depicted. MR signals of an examination region are acquired with continuously running overview measurements, with an operator-selected flow coding strength. After the selected flow coding strength is adopted automatically for the next measurement of the continuously running overview measurements, and two partial measurements with different flow codings are implemented for each selected strength and a phase difference image from the two partial measurements is calculated and depicted in real time, and the selected flow coding strength is automatically adopted for the MR phase contrast angiography.
US08975892B2
A method (100) that automates the process of selecting parameters for MR imaging acquisition to provide imaging with optimal image contrast.
US08975884B2
Various embodiments provide two-phase boost converters. One two-phase boost converter includes a node configured to be coupled to an input voltage and a transformer coupled to the node. The transformer includes primary and secondary windings, an inductor coupled in series with the primary winding, and an inductor coupled in series with the secondary winding. Another two-phase boost converter includes an inductor configured to be coupled to an input voltage, a node coupled to the inductor, and a transformer coupled to the node. The transformer includes primary and secondary windings, an inductor coupled in series with the primary winding, and an inductor coupled in series with the secondary winding. Yet another two-phase boost converter includes a transformer coupled to first and second external inductors. The transformer includes primary and secondary windings, an inductor coupled in series with the primary winding, and an inductor coupled in series with the secondary winding.
US08975868B2
A charging station for a portable X-ray detector is described. In one embodiment, the charging station includes one or more biasing members that act to guide and align a portable detector when inserted into the charging station. In certain embodiments, a physical, pin-type connector for connecting to an inserted portable detector is present, while in other embodiments no pin-type connector is present.
US08975860B2
An electromagnetic touch input pen having a USB interface, used to provide touch input to an information processing device, the pen including: an electromagnetic touch input pen, having a battery module; and a USB plug, coupled with the battery module, wherein the battery module can access a charging power with the USB plug inserted into a USB socket of the information processing device.
US08975854B1
A stepper motor may be controlled by a controller to provide extended revolution of a motor shaft while operating in a first mode and to allow a user to manually intervene with an intended position or rotation of the motor shaft while operating in a second mode. In some embodiments, the controller may adjust a torque applied to the stepper mode during operation of the stepper motor. The controller may reduce a torque applied by the stepper motor to a lower torque while the user intervenes with the intended position or rotation of the motor and increase the torque to a holding torque after the user intervention has ended. Thus, the controller may dynamically adjust a torque of the stepper motor in response to detection of the user intervention.
US08975852B2
An electric motor (100) having a motor control system (400) including: —a current measuring means (402) for directly or indirectly measuring the electric current in the rotor windings (7) providing a rotor current value/s, —an ambient temperature measuring/estimation means (404) for measuring or estimating the ambient air temperature providing an air temperature value/s, —a rotor temperature estimation means (406, 407, 408, 409, 410, 411) for estimating a rotor temperature at least based on the rotor current value/s and the air temperature value/s, and—a current limiting means (405) for preventing overheating/burning of the rotor assembly (3) by limiting the electric current to the rotor windings (7) when the estimated rotor temperature exceeds a predetermined overheating threshold (412).
US08975851B2
A temperature estimating unit includes an energy calculating unit that calculates a heat generation energy rate of a motor on the basis of a difference between power input to the motor and power output from the motor, a heat radiation energy calculating unit that calculates a heat radiation energy rate from a target member on the basis of a difference between a previous temperature estimation value Tm of the target member and an ambient temperature, and a thermal coefficient of the target member, and an amount calculating unit that calculates a temperature increase rate of the target member on the basis of a difference between the heat generation energy rate and the heat radiation energy rate, and an estimation value calculating unit that calculates a current temperature estimation value of the target member on the basis of the temperature increase rate and the previous temperature estimation value.
US08975847B2
A power conversion device includes a first capacitor connected in parallel to a direct-current power supply, plural power converters that drive plural synchronous machines, a second capacitor connected in parallel to a direct-current side of power converters, a switching circuit inserted between the first and second capacitors, a switch-start instruction unit that controls starting of an operation of the power converters, and a control unit that controls the power converters based on a motor velocity and a voltage of the first capacitor. The switch-start instruction unit turns off the switching circuit while the power converters stop, turns off the switching circuit until a terminal voltage of each of the synchronous machines becomes equal to a predetermined value when each of the power converters starts operating, and turns on the switching circuit when the terminal voltage of each synchronous machine becomes equal to or smaller than the predetermined value.
US08975816B2
A RF generator includes a structure having an input section, an output section, and an opening extending between the input section and the output section, wherein the output section has a first cavity and a second cavity, and wherein the first and second cavities are spaced apart from each other so that they are electromagnetically uncoupled from each other. A method of providing RF energy, includes receiving an electron beam, providing a first RF energy through a first cavity, wherein the first RF energy is generated using the electron beam, and providing a second RF energy through a second cavity, wherein the second RF energy is generated using the electron beam, wherein the first cavity and the second cavity are spaced apart from each other so that they are electromagnetically uncoupled from each other.
US08975813B2
The luminance of different colors of light emitted from EL elements in a pixel portion of a light emitting device is equalized and the luminance of light emitted from the EL elements is raised. The pixel portion of the light emitting device has EL elements whose EL layers contain triplet compounds and EL elements whose EL layers contain singlet compounds in combination. The luminance of light emitted from the plural EL elements is thus equalized. Furthermore, a hole transporting layer has a laminate structure to thereby cause the EL elements to emit light of higher luminance.
US08975800B2
A rotor (100) for an electric motor (1000). The rotor (100) has a rotor shaft (10) and a rotor core (20) attached onto the rotor shaft (10). The rotor core has a plurality of core laminations (40, 140) arranged along an axis (A) of the rotor core (20), and has a plurality of poles of at least one pole pair, the core lamination (40, 140) having:a central recess (70, 170) through which the rotor shaft (10) passes and which has a contour (71, 171) as well as adjacent areas (AF), and a plurality of receiving structures arranged at peripheral angular positions in order to each form a receiving element for a pole-forming element on the rotor core (20). In this context, it is provided according to the invention that the rotor core has a surface (OF) facing the rotor shaft (10) that is formed together with the adjacent areas (AF) of the central recess (70, 170) of the plurality of core laminations (40, 140), and that has uneven areas crosswise to the axis (A) of the rotor core (20) that are formed by the contours (71, 171) of the central recesses (70) of the plurality of core laminations (40, 140). The contours (71, 171) of the central recesses (70, 170) of at least a first core lamination and a second core lamination of the plurality of core laminations (40, 140) are arranged so as not to be congruent with each other.
US08975797B2
A disk-rotating motor includes a rotor section including a rotor magnet attached to a rotor frame and a shaft fixed to a center of the rotor frame, and a stator section including a shaft-bearing which bears the shaft, wherein the stator section includes the shaft-bearing, a shaft-bearing housing which holds the shaft-bearing, a thrust plate which bears the shaft in an axis direction, a stator core which is arranged to face the rotor magnet and provided with wire-winding, a core holder which holds the stator core, and a bracket which holds the shaft-bearing housing. The bracket has a projecting part which fixes the shaft-bearing at a central part thereof, an inner diameter part of the shaft-bearing is press-fitted to be tightened to the projecting part, and an outer diameter part of the shaft-bearing housing is adhered to be tightened to an inner diameter part of the core holder.
US08975796B2
A motor includes a stator integrally molded together with a stator member, which includes a stator iron-core wound with a winding, by insulating resin, a rotor mounted on a shaft as a center and confronting the stator, two bearings supporting the shaft rotatably, brackets fixing the bearings, and a drive circuit board including a drive circuit which supplies an electric current to the winding and drives the rotor. Either one of the two bearings includes an outer ring and an inner ring both of which are electrically insulated from each other.
US08975795B2
Electric generator is disclosed having a stator and a rotor. The rotor being rotatable around a center axis and relatively to the stator and the stator includes a number of stator windings extending in freely exposed end windings. The stator and/or the rotor is provided with at least one barrier means which barrier means axially extends to such a manner that at least the end windings of the stator are at least partially covered.
US08975792B2
Embodiments of the invention provide an electric machine module. The module can include a housing, which can define a machine cavity. In some embodiments, a coolant jacket can be at least partially positioned within the housing. In some embodiments, a plurality of coolant apertures can be disposed through at least a portion of the housing to fluidly connect the coolant jacket and the machine cavity. The coolant apertures can include a first group configured and arranged to direct a first volume from the coolant jacket. The coolant apertures can include a second group configured and arranged to direct a second volume from the coolant jacket. In some embodiments, the first volume can be greater than the second volume.
US08975789B2
A system for providing an electrical interface across a sealed boundary may include a frame in sealed engagement with at least a portion of a substrate. The substrate may be in communication with an electrochromic device. The system may further include first and second conduits. The first conduit may be on a first side of the substrate and a second conduit may be on a second side of the substrate. The second conduit may be in communication with the first conduit through at least one of the seal, a space between the seal and the frame, and a space between the seal and the substrate.
US08975775B2
A power distribution system comprises a power supply, a plurality of loads connected to one of the power supply and ground and a plurality of pulse generators, each pulse generator connected to each of the plurality of loads, configured to generate pulses to connect the plurality of loads to the other one of the power supply and ground at predetermined frequencies.
US08975773B2
A charging system for an electric vehicle is disclosed in the present invention. It includes a rechargeable battery module, a motor driver, a power switch, and a control circuit. The motor driver stops outputting electric power from the rechargeable battery when the control signal from the control circuit is received and keeps outputting electric power from the rechargeable battery when the control signal doesn't exit. The design of the present invention is in a series connection. It can not only be charged simultaneously, but also control the drive motor to stop running. Danger of hard acceleration of the motor due to charge can be avoided.
US08975769B2
An electromagnetic field and electrical current inducing surfboard and associated methodology for inducing an electromagnetic field in the area surrounding a surfboard. The surfboard includes at least one induction unit having a magnet and coil winding section. The magnet is arranged such that it is surrounded by the coil winding section and such that it is permitted to move freely within an area inside the coil winding section. Relative motion between the magnet and coil windings is caused by rotating the surfboard about any axis. The relative motion between the magnet and coil windings results in an induced electromagnetic field. Additionally, connecting the induction unit to an electrical circuit results in an induced current flowing from the induction unit.
US08975765B2
A system which generates electricity from the movement of at least a portion of a seat in an arena and, preferably, combines electricity generated by the movement of a plurality of seats to create usable quantities of electrical energy.
US08975763B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes an electrical terminal disposed in a first side; a first surface including a first part, a second part, and a third part, a mark of the semiconductor memory device being printed in the first part, the second part being disposed in a second side, the second side being opposite side of the first side, the third part being disposed around the first part, a first surface roughness of the first part being higher than a second surface roughness of the third part.
US08975754B2
A chip package is described. This chip package includes a substrate having a side at an angle relative to the top and bottom surfaces of the substrate that is between that of a direction parallel to the top and bottom surfaces and that of a direction perpendicular to the top and bottom surfaces (i.e., between 0° and 90°). This side may be configured to couple to a stack of semiconductor dies in which the semiconductor dies are offset from each other in a direction parallel to the top and bottom surfaces so that one side of the stack defines a stepped terrace. For example, the side may include electrical pads. These electrical pads may be coupled to electrical pads on the top surface by through-substrate vias (TSVs) in the substrate. Moreover, the electrical pads on the top surface may be configured to couple to an integrated circuit.
US08975751B2
A microelectronic unit can include a substrate having front and rear surfaces and active semiconductor devices therein, the substrate having a plurality of openings arranged in a symmetric or asymmetric distribution across an area of the rear surface, first and second conductive vias connected to first and second pads exposed at the front surface, pluralities of first and second conductive interconnects extending within respective ones of the openings, and first and second conductive contacts exposed for interconnection with an external element. The plurality of first conductive interconnects can be separated from the plurality of second conductive interconnects by at least one of the plurality of openings, the at least one opening at least partially filled with an insulating material. The distribution of the openings can include at least m openings spaced apart in a first direction and n openings spaced apart in a second direction transverse to the first direction.
US08975750B2
In a conventional electronic device and a method of manufacturing the same, reduction in cost of the electronic device is hindered because resin used in an interconnect layer on the solder ball side is limited. The electronic device includes an interconnect layer (a first interconnect layer) and an interconnect layer (a second interconnect layer). The second interconnect layer is formed on the undersurface of the first interconnect layer. The second interconnect layer is larger in area seen from the top than the first interconnect layer and is extended to the outside from the first interconnect layer.
US08975748B1
An electronic device includes: a base layer; a first layer located at least partially over the base layer; a second layer located at least partially over the first layer; a first metal layer located at least partially over the second layer, wherein one or more signal outputs of the electronic device are formed in the first metal layer; and a second metal layer located at least partially over the first metal layer, wherein one or more gate connection is formed in the second metal layer, wherein removing a portion of the second metal layer disrupts at least one gate connection and deactivates the device.
US08975747B2
There is provided a wiring material including a core layer made of metal and a clad layer made of metal and a fiber in which the core layer is copper or an alloy containing copper and the clad layer is formed of copper or the alloy containing copper and the fiber having a thermal expansion coefficient lower than that of copper, the wiring material having a stacked structure in which at least one surface of the core layer is closely adhered to the clad layer, and the fiber in the clad layer is arranged so as to be parallel to the surface of the core layer.
US08975742B2
A printed wiring board includes a substrate, a first buildup formed on a first surface of the substrate and including the outermost conductive layer, and a second buildup layer formed on a second surface of the substrate and including the outermost conductive layer. The outermost layer of the first buildup has pads positioned to connect a semiconductor component, the first buildup has a component mounting region directly under the component such that the outermost layer of the first buildup has a portion in the region, the outermost layer of the second buildup has a portion directly under the region, and the portions satisfy the ratio in the range of from 1.1 to 1.35, where the ratio is obtained by dividing a planar area of the portion of the second buildup by a planar area of the portion of the first buildup.
US08975735B2
A redistribution board includes a first conductive layer including a redistribution structure for low voltage signals, a second conductive layer including a redistribution structure for high voltage signals, and a non-conductive layer. The second conductive layer is spaced apart from the first conductive layer by the non-conductive layer. The redistribution board further includes a conductive connector extending from a mounting surface of the redistribution board to the second conductive layer. The conductive connector is surrounded by a low voltage trace of the first conductive layer.
US08975724B2
An electrically programmable gate oxide anti-fuse device includes an anti-fuse aperture having anti-fuse links that include metallic and/or semiconductor electrodes with a dielectric layer in between. The dielectric layer may be an interlayer dielectric (ILD), an intermetal dielectric (IMD) or an etch stop layer. The anti-fuse device may includes a semiconductor substrate having a conductive gate (e.g., a high K metal gate) disposed on a surface of the substrate, and a dielectric layer disposed on the conductive gate. A stacked contact can be disposed on the dielectric layer and a gate contact is disposed on an exposed portion of the gate.
US08975723B2
An integrated device includes: a semiconductor body having a first, depressed, portion and second portions which project from the first portion; a STI structure, extending on the first portion of the semiconductor body, which delimits laterally the second portions and has a face adjacent to a surface of the first portion; low-voltage CMOS components, housed in the second portions, in a first region of the semiconductor body; and a power component, in a second region of the semiconductor body. The power component has at least one conduction region, formed in the first portion of the semiconductor body, and a conduction contact, coupled to the conduction region and traversing the STI structure in a direction perpendicular to the surface of the first portion of the semiconductor body.
US08975714B2
A capacitive pressure sensor includes: a semiconductor substrate having a reference pressure chamber formed therein; a diaphragm which is formed in a front surface of the semiconductor substrate and has a ring-like peripheral through hole penetrating between the front surface of the semiconductor substrate and the reference pressure chamber and defining an upper electrode and a plurality of central through holes; a peripheral insulating layer which fills the peripheral through hole and electrically isolates the upper electrode from other portions of the semiconductor substrate; and a central insulating layer which fills the central through holes.
US08975708B2
A method (and semiconductor device) of fabricating a semiconductor device provides a filed effect transistor (FET) with reduced contact resistance (and series resistance) for improved device performance. An impurity is implanted in the source/drain (S/D) regions after contact silicide formation and a spike anneal process is performed that lowers the schottky barrier height (SBH) of the interface between the silicide and the lower junction region of the S/D regions. This results in lower contact resistance and reduces the thickness (and Rs) of the region at the silicide-semiconductor interface.
US08975701B2
An antifuse of a semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the same capable of causing an antifuse to stably operate by rupturing the antifuse at a specific point and stabilizing a current level when rupturing the antifuse are provided. The antifuse may include: a device isolation layer defining a first active region in a semiconductor substrate; a first and second junction regions provided in the first active region; a second active region formed over the first junction region; a gate insulating layer formed over the first active region and the second active region; and a gate electrode formed over the gate insulating layer.
US08975690B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type, a second semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, a third semiconductor region of a second conductivity type, a fourth semiconductor region of the first conductivity type, a fifth semiconductor region of the second conductivity type, a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The first electrode is provided together with the first region in a first direction, provided together with the third region in a second direction, and has an end portion of the first region side located nearer to the first semiconductor side than a boundary between the second region and the third region. The second electrode is provided between the first electrode and the first region and is in electrical continuity with the fourth region. The third electrode contacts with the fourth region.
US08975689B1
A semiconductor apparatus and a method of fabricating the same are provided. The method includes sequentially depositing a gate electrode material and a sacrificial insulating layer on a semiconductor substrate, patterning the gate electrode material and the sacrificial insulating layer to form one or more holes exposing a surface of the semiconductor substrate, forming a gate insulating layer on an inner sidewall of the hole, forming one or more pillar patterns each filled in the hole and recessed on a top thereof, forming a contact unit and an electrode unit on the pillar pattern, removing a patterned sacrificial insulating layer and forming a spacer nitride material on the semiconductor substrate from which the patterned sacrificial insulating layer is removed, and removing portions of the spacer nitride material and a patterned gate electrode material between the pillar patterns.
US08975686B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer with a trench dug downward from its surface, a source region formed on a surface layer portion adjacent to a first side of the trench in a prescribed direction, a drain region formed on the surface layer portion, adjacent to a second side of the trench opposite to the first side in the prescribed direction, a first insulating film on the bottom surface and the side surface of the trench, a floating gate stacked on the first insulating film and opposed to the bottom surface and the side surface of the trench through the first insulating film, a second insulating film formed on the floating gate, and a control gate at least partially embedded in the trench so that the portion embedded in the trench is opposed to the floating gate through the second insulating film.
US08975676B2
An object is to provide a solid state image pickup device and a camera which do not worsen a sensor performance in terms of an optical property, a saturated charge amount and the like. A solid state image sensor including a pixel region having a plurality of pixels includes at least a photodiode and an amplifying portion amplifying photocharges outputted from the photodiode in the pixel region, and further includes a well electrode for taking well potential of a well region in which the amplifying portion is arranged. Between the well electrode and the photodiode, no element isolation regions by an insulation film are arranged. Moreover, on the surface of a first semiconductor region in which the photodiode stores the charges, a second semiconductor layer of a conductivity type reverse to that of the first semiconductor region is arranged.
US08975675B2
A semiconductor device includes a bulk substrate having a plurality of trenches formed therein. The trenches define a plurality of semiconductor fins that are integral with the bulk semiconductor substrate. A local dielectric material is disposed in each trench and between each pair of semiconductor fins among the plurality of semiconductor fins. The semiconductor device further includes an etch resistant layer formed on the local dielectric material.
US08975674B2
A bridge structure for use in a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a semiconductor structure layer. The semiconductor structure layer is formed on a surface of the semiconductor substrate and a lattice difference is formed between the semiconductor structure layer and the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor structure layer includes at least a first block, at least a second block and at least a third block, wherein the first block and the third block are bonded on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, the second block is floated over the semiconductor substrate and connected with the first block and the third block.
US08975668B2
A structure and method of manufacture is disclosed for a backside thinned imager that incorporates a conformal, Al2O3, low thermal budget, surface passivation. This passivation approach facilitates fabrication of backside thinned, backside illuminated, silicon image sensors with thick silicon absorber layer patterned with vertical trenches that are formed by etching the exposed back surface of a backside-thinned image sensor to control photo-carrier diffusion and optical crosstalk. A method of manufacture employing conformal, Al2O3, surface passivation approach is shown to provide high quantum efficiency and low dark current while meeting the thermal budget constraints of a finished standard foundry-produced CMOS imager.
US08975661B2
An asymmetrical bidirectional protection component formed in a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, including: a first implanted area of the first conductivity type; a first epitaxial layer of the second conductivity type on the substrate and the first implanted area; a second epitaxial layer of the second conductivity type on the first epitaxial layer, the second layer having a doping level different from that of the first layer; a second area of the first conductivity type on the outer surface of the epitaxial layer, opposite to the first area; a first metallization covering the entire lower surface of the substrate; and a second metallization covering the second area.
US08975660B2
An organic light emitting diode (OLED) display includes: a substrate; an organic light emitting diode formed on the substrate; a first inorganic layer formed on the substrate and covering the organic light emitting diode; an intermediate layer formed on the first inorganic layer and covering an area relatively smaller than the first inorganic layer; and a second inorganic layer formed on the first inorganic layer and the intermediate layer, and contacting the first inorganic layer at an edge thereof while covering a relatively larger area than the intermediate layer. A third inorganic layer may be formed on the second inorganic layer so as to contact the second inorganic layer at an edge thereof. At least one of the first, second and third inorganic layers is formed by an atomic layer deposition (ALD) method.
US08975651B2
An LED package includes a lens, an LED chip securely received and engaged in the lens, and a base with an electrode assembly thereon. A bottom surface of the LED chip is bare. The lens is mounted on the base and the bottom surface of the LED chip electrically and mechanically connects with the electrode assembly.
US08975649B2
The inventive concept provides light emitting devices and methods of manufacturing a light emitting device. The light emitting device may include a transparent substrate including a first region and a second region, a first transparent electrode disposed on a first surface of the transparent substrate, a second transparent electrode facing and spaced apart from the first transparent electrode, an organic light emitting layer disposed between the first and second transparent electrodes, an assistant electrode disposed between the first and second transparent electrodes and selectively masking the second region, and a light path changing structure disposed on a second surface of the transparent substrate and selectively masking the second region.
US08975648B2
A light emitting device includes a first resin layer which is made of transparent resin and provided outside a solid-state light-emitting element mounted on a mounting substrate; and a second resin layer which is provided outside the first resin layer and made of transparent resin that contains a phosphor which is excited with a luminescence wavelength of the solid-state light-emitting element, wherein when the refractive index of the solid-state light-emitting element is set to be N1, the refractive index of the first resin layer is set to be N2, and the refractive index of the second resin layer is set to be N3, the relationship of N1≧N2≧N3≧1 is established.
US08975647B2
For integration of light-emitting elements and for suppression of a voltage drop, plural stages of light-emitting element units provided over a substrate having an insulating surface and each including a plurality of light-emitting elements which is connected in parallel are connected in series. Further, besides a lead wiring with a large thickness, a plurality of auxiliary wirings with different widths and different thicknesses is used, and the arrangement of the wirings, electrodes of the light-emitting elements, and the like is optimized. Note that in the lighting device, light emitted from the light-emitting element passes through the substrate having an insulating surface and then is extracted.
US08975643B2
A silicon carbide single-crystal substrate includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a peripheral edge portion sandwiched between the first surface and the second surface. A plurality of grinding traces are formed in a surface of the peripheral edge portion. A chamfer width as a distance from an outermost peripheral end portion of the peripheral edge portion to one of the plurality of grinding traces which is located on an innermost peripheral side of the peripheral edge portion in a direction parallel to the first surface is not less than 50 μm and not more than 400 μm. Thereby, a silicon carbide single-crystal substrate capable of suppressing occurrence of a crack, and a method for manufacturing the same can be provided.
US08975635B2
First and second template epitaxial semiconductor material portions including different semiconductor materials are formed within a dielectric template material layer on a single crystalline substrate. Heteroepitaxy is performed to form first and second epitaxial semiconductor portions on the first and second template epitaxial semiconductor material portions, respectively. At least one dielectric bonding material layer is deposited, and a handle substrate is bonded to the at least one dielectric bonding material layer. The single crystalline substrate, the dielectric template material layer, and the first and second template epitaxial semiconductor material portions are subsequently removed. Elemental semiconductor devices and compound semiconductor devices can be formed on the first and second semiconductor portions, which are embedded within the at least one dielectric bonding material layer on the handle substrate.
US08975634B2
An object is to suppress occurrence of oxygen deficiency. An oxide semiconductor film is formed using germanium (Ge) instead of part of or all of gallium (Ga) or tin (Sn). At least one of bonds between a germanium (Ge) atom and oxygen (O) atoms has a bond energy higher than at least one of bonds between a tin (Sn) atom and oxygen (O) atoms or a gallium (Ga) atom and oxygen (O) atoms. Thus, a crystal of an oxide semiconductor formed using germanium (Ge) has a low possibility of occurrence of oxygen deficiency. Accordingly, an oxide semiconductor film is formed using germanium (Ge) in order to suppress occurrence of oxygen deficiency.
US08975632B2
Semiconductor elements deteriorate or are destroyed due to electrostatic discharge damage. The present invention provides a semiconductor device in which a protecting means is formed in each pixel. The protecting means is provided with one or a plurality of elements selected from the group consisting of resistor elements, capacitor elements, and rectifying elements. Sudden changes in the electric potential of a source electrode or a drain electrode of a transistor due to electric charge that builds up in a pixel electrode is relieved by disposing the protecting means between the pixel electrode of the light-emitting element and the source electrode or the drain electrode of the transistor. Deterioration or destruction of the semiconductor element due to electrostatic discharge damage is thus prevented.
US08975616B2
Improved quantum efficiency of multiple quantum wells. In accordance with an embodiment of the present invention, an article of manufacture includes a p side for supplying holes and an n side for supplying electrons. The article of manufacture also includes a plurality of quantum well periods between the p side and the n side, each of the quantum well periods includes a quantum well layer and a barrier layer, with each of the barrier layers having a barrier height. The plurality of quantum well periods include different barrier heights.
US08975607B2
A confocal optical detector including a light source generating a first optical beam along an axis; an optoelectronic sensor; an optical focusing device, which receives and focuses the first optical beam; and a hole, which receives the first optical beam and is arranged between the optoelectronic sensor and the optical focusing device. The optoelectronic sensor is arranged between the light source and the hole. In addition, the optoelectronic sensor and the optical focusing device are aligned along the axis.
US08975604B2
An infrared (IR) source apparatus that includes a desired infrared source element coupled to an insulating housing so to minimize overall source inefficiency at desired optical bandwidths is introduced. The insulation itself is machined or configured in a way so that the infrared source element is in contact with a designed cavity in the insulation so that the IR source image becomes the average of the insulation material and the infrared element. Such an arrangement of the present invention increases the emissivity of the IR source below about 1500 wave numbers, more often, below about 1100 wave numbers, and even more particularly, at about 1079 wave numbers. Accordingly, the combined emissivity of the infrared source and the insulation substantially enhances spectral emission and eliminates or reduces spectral artifacts from the formation of oxides on the infrared source surfaces.
US08975588B2
An optical device (102) configured for concentrating light towards a target element (104) is provided. The optical device (102) comprises a waveguide element (106) configured for guiding light towards the target element (104), and a wavelength conversion element (108) configured for converting incoming light of a first wavelength into outgoing light of a second wavelength. The wavelength conversion element (108) extends adjacent to the waveguide element (106). An interface (114) between the waveguide element (106) and the wavelength conversion element (108) comprises a surface roughness. The latter may provide for an in creased efficiency and low manufacturing costs of the optical device (102).
US08975585B2
A method for tracking a moving target object, in particular a vehicle. The method involves identification the target object, marking the target object with a marking invisible in the visible spectrum but retro-reflective in a selected wavelength range of the invisible spectrum of light, tracking the marked moving target object with an image capture device provided on a moving platform, which image capture device is sensitive in the selected wavelength range of the invisible spectrum.
US08975582B2
A method of inspecting defects of a sample on a movable table includes a first step for, on a basis of position information of the defects which is previously detected by an other inspection system, driving the table so that the defects come into a viewing field of an optical microscope having a focus which is adjusted, a second step for re-detecting the defects to obtain a first detection result, a third step for correcting the position information of defects on a basis of position information of the re-detected defects, and a fourth step for reviewing the defects whose position information is corrected to obtain a second detection result. At the second step, re-detecting is performed using reflection light or scattered light from the sample which passes an optical filter which includes a light shielding portion and a light transmitting portion.
US08975578B2
A linear ion trap is disclosed wherein an asymmetric voltage waveform is applied to electrodes forming the ion trap which causes ions to become radially separated according to their differential ion mobility. An axial potential barrier is arranged at the exit of the ion trap such that ions having a first differential ion mobility and a first radial displacement are retained axially within the ion trap but ions having a second differential ion mobility and a second radial displacement are ejected axially from the ion trap.
US08975574B2
A well-logging tool may be positioned within a borehole of a subterranean formation. The well-logging tool may include a housing having an interior defining a dual-detector receiving chamber extending longitudinally, and having first and second portions, and a first azimuthal radiation detector carried by the first portion of the dual-detector receiving chamber. The first azimuthal radiation detector may include a first gamma-ray detector and a first photodetector associated with the first gamma-ray detector. The well-logging tool may include a second spectral radiation detector carried by the second portion of the dual-detector receiving chamber. The second spectral radiation detector may include a second gamma-ray detector and a second photodetector associated with the second gamma-ray detector.
US08975565B2
An interceptor is provided with an integrated propulsion and attitude control system (ACS) in which propellant burn forms a common pressure vessel for high-pressure gas. An aft port in the rocket motor directs gas through one or more main nozzles that expel high-velocity gas in a generally axial direction to propel the interceptor. A forward port directs gas through one or more attitude control nozzles that expel high-velocity gas in a generally radial direction to control the attitude of the interceptor. The main nozzle(s) and stabilization fins are fixed, there is no servo control to the main nozzles or fins to affect attitude control. The use of a common pressure vessel enables an integrated propulsion and ACS that can be compact, lightweight and inexpensive.
US08975560B2
A lip assembly of a turbojet engine nacelle is equipped with at least one electric de-icing system. The lip assembly includes at least one electric heating member, electrically powered through at least one power conductor. Each power-supply conductor is associated with a neutral conductor or “ground” arranged in a regrouped manner adjacent to a corresponding power-supply conductor.
US08975556B2
A coordinate detecting device includes a resistive film formed on a substrate and a common electrode for applying a voltage to the resistive film, wherein a potential distribution is created in the resistive film, an electric potential of the resistive film at a contact position is detected, and a position of the contact position of the resistive film is detected. In a manufacturing apparatus, a laser light source irradiates laser light to remove a part of the resistive film to form a resistive film removed part, an optical system converges the laser light, a plurality of probes measure electric potentials of a surface of the resistive film with the common electrode providing the voltage to the resistive film, an X-Y table moves the substrate at least two-dimensionally, and a control part controls the X-Y table and the laser light source.
US08975548B2
Linkage structure is connected between an operating mechanism and an actuating assembly of a circuit breaker for opening and closing an electrical contact of a pole assembly. The linkage assembly includes a lever to connect with the actuating assembly. A connection rod is coupled to one end of the lever and is associated with a close spring for closing the electrical contact. A spring structure is coupled to another end of the lever. The spring structure includes an open spring providing a spring force on the lever for opening the electrical contact. The open spring places the connection rod in tension. Retaining structure is associated with the lever and the spring structure to ensure that the spring force of the open spring, exerted on the lever, is directed to the retaining structure so that tension on the connection rod is removed, enabling the connection rod to be serviced.
US08975547B2
A keyswitch, disposed on a base plate, includes a keycap and a scissors-like supporting structure. The scissors-like supporting structure is disposed on the base plate and supports the keycap. The scissors-like supporting structure includes a first supporting member and a second supporting member. The first supporting member includes a first engaging shaft and a second engaging shaft respectively engaged with the base plate and the keycap. The second supporting member is pivotally connected to the first supporting member and includes a third engaging shaft and a fourth engaging shaft respectively engaged with the base plate and the keycap. A line connected between the centers of gravity of the first and second engaging shaft is not perpendicular to the first and second engaging shaft. A line connected between the centers of gravity of the third and fourth engaging shaft is not perpendicular to the third and fourth engaging shaft.
US08975541B2
A weight-measuring device (1) for vehicle lifting platforms, which can be arranged between a height-adjustable supporting element (15) and a vehicle which is to be lifted, wherein an upper part (2) and a lower part (3) form a cavity (12) which is filled with a hydraulic fluid (13) and/or with a gas and generates in the cavity (12), by means of a load (19, 20) lying on top, a hydraulic or gas pressure which is measured and/or indicated with a pressure gauge and/or indicator device (4) which is at least partially integrated in the upper part (2) and/or in the lower part (3), with the upper part (2) being composed of rubber and/or of plastic and/or of some other elastic material.
US08975538B2
A wall-mounted housing apparatus includes: a rear case (10); a front cover (20); and a retaining mechanism including a fixed engagement portion (41) and a movable engagement portion (46). The movable engagement portion (46) includes a slidable slide bar (462). The slide bar (462) includes a bar main body (462a) slidable in an apparatus height direction (H), which is the direction when the front cover (20) is closed, and a portion (462b) to be supported. When the front cover (20) is opened upward at an angle larger than 90°, the slide bar (462) slides down due to its weight, and then, when the front cover (20) is closed at 90°, the portion (462b) to be supported is supported by a support surface (412b) of the fixed engagement portion (41). In such a way, the front cover (20) is retained in a state of being opened at 90°.
US08975537B2
A circuit substrate includes a resin layer; and an inorganic insulating layer including a groove portion penetrating the inorganic insulating layer in a thickness direction thereof. A part of the resin layer is in the groove portion.
US08975533B2
A printed wiring board has a solder-land group for placing a quad flat package IC, and the solder-land group consists of front solder-land groups and rear solder-land groups. The printed wiring board includes rear solder-drawing lands that are positioned adjacent to rear solder-land groups, that have front edges each of which is substantially parallel to a longitudinal direction of rear solder lands constituting the rear solder-land group and has a length approximately equal to or longer than that of the solder lands in the longitudinal direction, that are separated into two parts in a horizontal direction with respect to a traveling direction of solder flow such that a gap between the respective two separate lands is made wider in its rearward portion than that in its frontward portion, and that have a slit substantially parallel to the longitudinal direction near the front edge.
US08975515B2
A tubular tower (11), of a wind energy plant (10) with a current conduction means system (25, 35) for transmitting electrical power from a generator on the tower (11), to a power module at the base of the tower. The current conduction means system (25, 35) has three electrical conductors (27.1, 27.2, 27.3; 37.1, 37.2, 37.3; 45.1, 45.2, 45.3) arranged next to one another. A housing (26, 36, 46) is connected to the inner tower wall at predetermined distances using connecting devices which have electrical cross-sections conducting with the tower wall. The distances between the connecting devices in the longitudinal extent of the tower (11) and the cross-sections of the connecting devices between the housing (26, 36, 46) and the tower wall are dimensioned such that during a fault, the voltage drop between the tower wall and the housing (26, 36, 46) does not exceed a predetermined touch voltage.
US08975495B2
The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated WB9518. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar WB9518. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar WB9518 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar WB9518 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
US08975493B1
A novel maize variety designated X18A635 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing hybrid maize variety X18A635 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X18A635 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X18A635, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X18A635. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X18A635.
US08975490B1
A novel maize variety designated X7H246 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing maize variety X7H246 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X7H246 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X7H246, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X7H246. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X7H246.
US08975483B2
The soybean variety DLL1143 is disclosed. The invention relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue, harvested products and soybean lint as well as to hybrid soybean plants and seeds obtained by repeatedly crossing plants of variety DLL1143 with other plants. The invention also relates to plants and varieties produced by the method of essential derivation from plants of DLL1143 and to plants of DLL1143 reproduced by vegetative methods, including but not limited to tissue culture of regenerable cells or tissue from DLL1143.
US08975481B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XBP22005 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XBP22005, cells from soybean variety XBP22005, plants of soybean XBP22005, and plant parts of soybean variety XBP22005. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XBP22005 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XBP22005, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XBP22005, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XBP22005. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XBP22005 are further provided.
US08975480B2
A novel soybean variety, designated XB26AU13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB26AU13, cells from soybean variety XB26AU13, plants of soybean XB26AU13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB26AU13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB26AU13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB26AU13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB26AU13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB26AU13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB26AU13 are further provided.
US08975479B1
A novel soybean variety, designated XB34F13 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety XB34F13, cells from soybean variety XB34F13, plants of soybean XB34F13, and plant parts of soybean variety XB34F13. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety XB34F13 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety XB34F13, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety XB34F13, and methods of characterizing soybean variety XB34F13. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety XB34F13 are further provided.
US08975476B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated A1026329. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety A1026329. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety A1026329 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety A1026329 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US08975472B2
Preparation and use of isolated nucleic acids useful in altering the oil phenotype of plants are described. Isolated nucleic acids and their encoded polypeptides are described that alter the content of alpha-tocotrienol, beta-tocotrienol, or both, in transformed seeds and oil obtained from the transformed seeds. Expression cassettes, host cells and transformed plants are described that contain the foregoing nucleic acids.
US08975467B2
The present invention relates to transgenic green ornamental fish, as well as methods of making such fish by in vitro fertilization techniques. Also disclosed are methods of establishing a population of such transgenic fish and methods of providing them to the ornamental fish industry for the purpose of marketing.
