US09066568B2
A portable apparatus for the steam treatment of hair, comprising a housing including a liquid tank, and a means for supplying a steam generator with liquid having a vaporization chamber in thermal contact with an electric heating member, the vaporization chamber communicating with one or more openings for dispensing steam towards a lock of hair. The generator is supplied with liquid by an electric pump, and the flow rate of the steam thus generated is higher than 5 g/min, and preferably of between 10 g/min and 60 g/min.
US09066564B2
A decorative article comprises a substrate being primarily composed of at least any of Ti and stainless steel in at least part of a surface vicinity thereof; a first coat being formed on the substrate and being primarily composed of TiCN; a second coat being formed on a side of the first coat opposite a side facing the substrate and being composed of stainless steel; wherein a combined C content ratio and N content ratio in the first coat is equal to or more than 2.0 wt % and less than or equal to 19 wt %.
US09066561B2
An apparatus and a method for adapting a prefabricated item of footwear that is formed, at least in part, of hard thermoplastic material, to a user's foot and/or leg. A pressure-exerting element is provided that substantially encloses the item of footwear and that has an accommodating space into which the item of footwear can be placed. The accommodating space is bounded, at least in part, by a deformable material which forms an inner layer of the pressure-exerting element, which contains a cavity and has an inlet opening provided for the introduction of a pressure application fluid. The pressure-exerting element is formed with a portion into which the pressure application fluid cannot enter.
US09066559B2
A tri-layer energy return system is provided. The tri-layer energy return system includes a base; an orthotic; a platen directly or indirectly operably coupled to the base, the orthotic or both. A lever including a slide portion is movably received by said base. A tensioning member is coupled to said orthotic at an attachment point thereof.
US09066553B2
A headpiece that provides shade, which also includes one or more areas carrying readable information that is intended to be communicated to persons viewing the headpiece while it is being worn by a wearer.
US09066552B2
A head suspension includes a headband portion having a length and two transition arms. Each transition arm is coupled to the headband portion and extends away from the headband portion length at an angle greater than zero degrees. Each transition arm has a distal end and a pivot at the distal end. The pivot characterized by a pivot point and a rear support portion is pivotally connected to each pivot.
US09066540B2
A smokeless tobacco product includes smokeless tobacco and structural fibers. The structural fibers forming a network in which the smokeless tobacco is entangled. The structural fibers have a composition different from the smokeless tobacco. The tobacco-entangled fabric can have an overall oven volatiles content of at least 10 weight percent. In some embodiments, the structural fibers form a nonwoven network. In some embodiments, fibrous structures of the smokeless tobacco are entangled with the structural fibers.
US09066530B2
A process for manufacturing frozen aerated confectionery products is provided, the process comprising; providing two rollers wherein each roller has a multiplicity of open cavities on its surface and wherein the rollers are aligned so that the surfaces touch; providing filling means for filling said cavities with a frozen aerated confection at a temperature higher than the temperature of the rollers; filling two cavities, one on each roller, with a frozen aerated confection having an overrun of between 10% and 130%; allowing the frozen aerated confection to expand outside its cavity; and counter-rotating the rollers so that respective cavities in the two rollers lie opposite one another and the frozen aerated confection in a cavity of the first roller is pressed against the frozen aerated confection in an opposite cavity of the second roller; characterized in that the surfaces of the rollers in which the cavities are located are conical. An apparatus for operating the process is also provided.
US09066528B2
A method and machine for coating confectionary product cores, whereby a mass of cores for coating is loaded into a chamber of a rotary drum and coated to form a shell on each core; forming the shell including at least one step of spraying the cores with sweet syrup, followed by at least one step of drying the syrup sprayed onto the cores; the drying step being performed by reducing the pressure in the chamber to less than −0.2 bar, and heating the sprayed cores to a maximum of 35° C. using electromagnetic radiation, preferably microwaves.
US09066521B2
The present invention included compositions and methods for treating Listeria in foods. The compositions and methods include at least one first preservative, and a second preservative selected from the group consisting of a Carnobacterium species, Carnobacterium maltaromaticum, a fermentate, containing at least one bacteriocin, and combinations thereof.
US09066515B2
The present invention provides for, inter alia, novel topical formulations comprising at least one 1-N-arypyrazole derivative and amitraz and to methods for treating, controlling, or preventing parasite infestations on mammals or birds The inventive formulations include spot-on, pour-on or spray formulations and may include a further ectoparasiticide, such as an IGR compound, an avermectin or milbemycin derivative, or a pyrethroid insecticides, and anthelmintics, such as benzimidazoles and imidazothiazoles. The inventive formulation provides a larger duration of parasite control at a faster rate of control. The inventive formula remains effective up to three months from the first application. Moreover, the inventive formulations prevent tick attachment to the animal, thereby providing protection against tick borne diseases. The ectoparasites which may be controlled, treated or prevented by the present invention includes ticks, fleas, mites, mange, lice, mosquitoes, flies and cattle grubs.
US09066509B2
The present invention relates to a motorized fumigation system designed to promote the control of agricultural and urban pests in open spaces, more particularly among the systems that can carry out the fumigation process by creating a hot or a cold mist, and more specifically due the fact of both processes of the mist creation could be integrated into one light weight vehicle. The system of the present invention consists of three subsystems: a first subsystem designed to storage and pumping (S1); a second subsystem designed to hot fumigation (S2); and a third subsystem designed to cold fumigation (S3).
US09066506B2
In a specific example, the present invention provides a fishing rod apparatus configured with low profile guides and a tip top, which are prone to fewer or almost no line tangles.
US09066505B1
A fishing lure comprising at least one hook and a lure attachment element are assembled to a body. The body includes a lure bait receiving cavity extending inward from a mouth opening located at a lure leading region. A series of protrusions extend radially inward from the mouth, preferably formed to resemble teeth. The body additionally includes a series of spatially arranged gills along each side thereof. Each gill includes a gill opening providing a fluid passageway passing through a body sidewall, a gill cover extending outward from a body exterior surface, and a gill aerating blade extending inward from a body interior surface and terminating at an aerating blade edge. Water flows into the bait receiving cavity, passing across the agitating and/or aerating interior blade and respective distal edge, wherein the water aerates discharging bubbles. The bait and/or bubbles are provided to attract fish to the lure.
US09066502B2
Genetically modified mice are provided that express human λ variable (hVλ) sequences, including mice that express hVλ sequences from an endogenous mouse λ light chain locus, mice that express hVλ sequences from an endogenous mouse κ light chain locus, and mice that express hVλ sequences from a transgene or an episome wherein the hVλ sequence is linked to a mouse constant sequence. Mice are provided that are a source of somatically mutated human λ variable sequences useful for making antigen-binding proteins. Compositions and methods for making antigen-binding proteins that comprise human λ variable sequences, including human antibodies, are provided.
US09066496B2
The present invention provides a smart water flow apparatus capable of maintaining a desired level of water in a reservoir while having an override or shutoff feature that is programmable to address variations in water pressure or to prevent flooding.
US09066494B2
Provided are animal containment systems and components, including single-use animal containment cages and modular rack units. Also provided are methods for assembling and using components of the animal containment systems.
US09066485B2
The invention relates to the novel cotton variety designated 10R051B2R2. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants, plant parts and derivatives of the cotton variety 10R051B2R2. Also provided by the invention are methods of using cotton variety 10R051B2R2 and products derived therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing cotton plants by crossing the cotton variety 10R051B2R2 with itself or another cotton variety and plants and seeds produced by such methods.
US09066482B1
The invention provides seed and plants of the watermelon line designated TML-EJ09150. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of watermelon line TML-EJ09150, and to methods for producing a watermelon plant produced by crossing a plant of watermelon line TML-EJ09150 with itself or with another watermelon plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of watermelon line TML-EJ09150, including the fruits and gametes of such plants.
US09066474B2
A method for cultivating a plurality of young plants of different species or variety to form a group of young plants which can be handled as a unit. The method includes providing a plurality of propagation pots, each containing a substrate, which allow roots that form in a propagation pot to grow out at the sides, loading at least one growing container with the plurality of propagation pots such that the propagation pots arranged in each growing container contact one another along a portion of their lateral peripheral surface, introducing at least one cutting or seed into each propagation pot, and allowing roots to form in the propagation pots of each growing container until roots emerging from the sides of the propagation pots have formed a network of roots binding the propagation pots together as a cluster of propagation pots.
US09066471B1
A cart for collecting and unloading agricultural bales, the cart including a cart body; a hitch, wherein the hitch includes a first end that is configured to operatively connect to a baler and a second end that is configured to operatively connect to the cart body, wherein the hitch provides a pitch degree of freedom to the cart relative to the baler, and wherein the hitch provides a roll degree of freedom to the cart relative to the baler; an automated conveyor device operatively connected to the cart body and configured to move the agricultural bales to a back end of the cart body; and at least one swivel wheel operatively connected to the cart body. In some embodiments, the automated conveyor device includes an apron-chain conveyor powered by a hydraulic motor controlled by hydraulic valves in a cab of a tractor being used to pull the baler and cart.
US09066470B2
A harvester including, a spreader system configured to distribute an agricultural material onto a field, wherein the spreader system is configured to receive the agricultural material from a chopper, wherein the spreader system comprises a first panel or vane positioned on a first lateral side of the spreader system, and a second panel or vane positioned on a second lateral side of the spreader system, opposite the first lateral side, and wherein the spreader system is configured to detect a first force applied to the first panel or vane and a second force applied to the second panel or vane, and to adjust a position of the spreader system with respect to the chopper based on the first force, the second force, or a combination thereof.
US09066467B1
A portable lightweight low pressure soil treatment applicator for home, lawn or garden irrigation systems with predefined areas of soil to be irrigated using a pressurized water supply and pressurized water for irrigation. The portable lightweight low pressure soil treatment applicator uses a liquid soil treatment solution that can be a liquid herbicide, a liquid pesticide, a liquid fertilizer, and combinations thereof.
US09072200B2
An air containment system includes a plurality of panel assemblies configured to be arranged in side-to-side relation to form a ceiling. In one embodiment, each panel assembly includes a flexible panel having a first end, a second opposite end, a first side and a second opposite side, a first end connector configured to secure the first end of the flexible panel to one of a rack and a wall, and a second end connector configured to secure the second end of the flexible panel to one of a rack and a wall. Other embodiments of the air containment system and related methods are further disclosed.
US09072197B2
A cooling apparatus includes a case in which a refrigerant passage through which a refrigerant flows is formed inside, and an element module partially disposed within the refrigerant passage and including an element provided inside. A portion of the element module in contact with the refrigerant is formed of an insulating material.
US09072194B2
A cable management device includes a first cable management arm, a second cable management arm, a cable management seat pivotably connected between the first and second cable management arms, an extension board fixed to the cable management seat, a support seat, a first support member pivotably connected to the support seat, a second support member slidably connected to the first support member, a guide member connected to the second support member and extended between the first and second cable management arms, a first resilient member connected between the first and second support members and a slide pivotably connected to the extension board and slidably connected to the second support member. When the second cable management arm is retracted, the second cable management arm pushes the guide member and drives the first and second support member to swing relative to the support seat.
US09072190B2
A cable management arm includes a first arm, a second arm, a frame, an extension board, a support seat, a first support member, a second support member and a slide. The frame is pivotably connected between the first and second arms. The extension board is connected to the bottom of the frame. The first support member is pivotably connected to the support seat. The second support member is slidably connected to the first support member. The slide is pivotably connected to the extension board and the frame and slidably connected to the second support member. When the second arm is pulled relative to the first arm, the frame is moved from the support seat by sliding the slide along the second support member. The slide moves the second support member to extend relative to the first support member, so that the first support member swings relative to the support.
US09072178B2
There is provided a stacked-type multilayer ceramic electronic component including: a ceramic body, a plurality of first and second internal, and first and second external electrodes formed on both surfaces of the ceramic element opposing one another; and first and second metal frames disposed to face one another and allowing the first and second external electrodes of the ceramic body to be attached thereto, respectively, wherein two or more ceramic bodies are attached between the first and second metal frames in a length direction of the first and second metal frames with an interval therebetween, and the respective ceramic bodies have different levels of capacitance.
US09072176B2
An assembling structure of heat dissipation device is applied to a circuit board. A heat generation unit is disposed on one side of the circuit board. The assembling structure of the heat dissipation device includes a heat dissipation unit, at least one latch member and at least one retainer member. The heat dissipation unit is attached to one side of the heat generation unit, which side is distal from the circuit board. At least one latch section outward extends from an edge of the heat dissipation unit. The latch member is fixedly disposed on the circuit board and formed with at least one opening and at least one perforation. The latch section is correspondingly latched in the opening. An elastic member is fitted on the retainer member. The retainer member correspondingly passes through the perforation to fix the latch member on the circuit board.
US09072173B2
An RFPCB includes a reinforcement layer and at least two FPCBs spliced together to match the reinforcement layer in shape and size. The FPCBs are adhered onto the reinforcement layer. The reinforcement layer includes circuits connected with the FPCB and has portions removed to obtain a desired flexibility.
US09072170B2
The present invention is related to an adjustable battery box and an electronic device using the same. The battery box has a seat and a battery holder moving relative to the seat along an inclined direction. One electrode spring is mounted on an end of the seat to press against one end of the battery holder. When a battery is inserted in the seat, the battery holder is pushed up by the battery and then the battery holder moves along the inclined direction to compress the electrode spring, so a retaining space of the battery box is enlarged. After the battery is completely retained inside the seat, the electrode spring restores to press against the battery holder to mount the battery. Therefore the battery box is fit for batteries of different sizes.
US09072169B1
A pulse generator generates high voltage discharge pulses in a manner that may be controlled and monitored. Pulse generator operation may be monitored to measure characteristics associated with pulse generator operation and to produce pulse generator data representative of those characteristics. Pulse generator operation may be monitored by monitoring the discharge pulses produced by the pulse generator and/or the charging of energy storage elements within the pulse generator in preparation for a subsequent discharge pulse. The pulse generator data may be used, for example, to identify pulse generator wear or degradation, to identify problems with pulse generator operation, and/or to control pulse generator operation for improved performance. The pulse generator may also be configured and controlled to generate a high-voltage initiation pulse to initiate a subsequent discharge pulse while being contained within a relatively small form factor. The pulse generator may be used in spectroscopy systems or other systems using high voltage discharge pulses.
US09072165B2
Electronic devices may be provided with conductive structures such as displays and conductive housing walls. Conductive gaskets may be used to form electrical paths between opposing conductive structures in an electronic device. The conductive gaskets may be formed from conductive sheets of material such as conductive fabric sheets. The conductive fabric or other conductive sheets may form conductive gasket wall structures that extend around air-filled cavities in the conductive gaskets. A conductive gasket may have an elongated shape such as a tubular shape that is characterized by a longitudinal axis. The longitudinal axis may follow a straight path or a curved path. To facilitate bending of a hollow conductive gasket to follow a curved path, the wall structures of the gasket may be provided with openings. Cables may be held in place using flaps of gasket wall material and may run through interior portions of a hollow gasket.
US09072159B2
When RF power is supplied from an RF generator to a load via a power supply unit, (a) the internal impedance of the RF generator is made lower than the characteristic impedance of the power supply unit, and (b) the load-end voltage is increased by selecting the electrical length LE of the power supply unit, which connects between the RF generator and the load to supply RF power, so that the electrical length LE has a predetermined relation with the fundamental wavelength λ of the RF AC. More specifically, the electrical length LE of the power supply unit is selected in such a way that, when the load end, which is the input end of the load, is in an open state, the electrical length LE is (2n−1)·(λ/4)−k·λ≦LE≦(2n−1)·(λ/4)+k·λ (n is an integer, k is {π−2·cos−1(1/K)}/(4π)) with respect to the fundamental wavelength λ of the RF AC.
US09072155B2
A transformer network circuit utilizing multiple smaller transformer cores, instead of a single, relatively larger core, for transferring electrical power while maintaining a smaller overall core mass.
US09072153B2
An apparatus used with a laser apparatus may include a chamber, a target supply for supplying a target material to a region inside the chamber, a laser beam focusing optical system for focusing a laser beam from the laser apparatus in the region, and an optical system for controlling a beam intensity distribution of the laser beam.
US09072152B2
An apparatus used with a laser apparatus may include a chamber, a target supply for supplying a target material to a region inside the chamber, a laser beam focusing optical system for focusing a laser beam from the laser apparatus in the region, and an optical system for controlling a beam intensity distribution of the laser beam.
US09072150B2
A light emitting element includes a light emitting layer that is provided between an anode, a cathode, an anode, and a cathode, and the light emitting layer is configured to include the compound represented by Formula 1 below and the compound represented by Formula RH-1 below. (In Formula 1, A indicates an aryl group, an arylamino group, or triarylamine that may respectively independently include a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, and a substituent.) (In Formula IRH-1, n indicates a natural number between 1 and 12, and R represents a substituent or a functional group, and indicates an aryl group or an arylamino group that may respectively independently include a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, and a substituent.)
US09072148B2
A light emitting device includes multiple types of solid state light emitting elements having different peak wavelengths from each other; and a wavelength converter including phosphors that convert a wavelength of light emitted from each of the solid state light emitting elements. The phosphors include two or more of a first phosphor, a second phosphor, and a third phosphor. The first phosphor is excited by light emitted from a solid state light emitting element having a relatively long peak wavelength, and the second phosphor is excited by light emitted from a solid state light emitting element having a relatively short peak wavelength. The third phosphor is excited by light emitted from any of the solid state light emitting elements.
US09072147B2
In a method for controlling a current regulator for dimming an LED load, a dimming signal has a duty cycle that controls the LED ON-time and LED OFF time at a fixed frequency. The regulator is controlled by the dimming signal to only supply current to the LED load during the LED ON-time. The regulator includes an inductor. The inductor current at the end of an ON-time is detected and its value is stored. During the OFF-time, the inductor is pre-charged to the current level matching the stored value, while the regulator's feedback loop is frozen during the OFF-time to not change its feedback control signal. Upon the next ON-time, the regulator begins supplying current to the LED load with the pre-charged inductor current, so there is no initial decrease in the delivered LED current. Therefore, the current pulse magnitudes are constant even with very low duty cycles.
US09072132B2
A lighting control system includes lighting devices arranged along a road for a moving body. Each lighting device includes a sensor that detects a moving body approaching the lighting device, a light source that emits light, a sensor that detects the moving body, a control unit connected to the sensor and the light source, and a communication unit. The sensor of the one of the lighting devices located in at least at one outermost position of the lighting devices has a higher detection frequency than the sensors of the other lighting devices.
US09072118B2
The present invention provides a method for implementing WiFi communication, a wireless routing device and a user equipment. The method includes: receiving, by a wireless routing device and from a user equipment, a request including an authentication request parameter for authenticating the user equipment, sending the authentication request parameter to a subscriber identity module, obtaining an expected authentication result from the subscriber identity module, where the expected authentication result is generated by the subscriber identity module according to the authentication request parameter and an authentication key saved in the subscriber identity module; and sending a response to the request to the user equipment, where the response includes the expected authentication result.
US09072102B2
Interference that occurs during wireless communication may be managed by determination and application of an adaptive path loss adjustment. A method, apparatus and medium of communication determine a level of excess received interference based at least in part on out-of-cell interference (Ioc). The path loss is adjusted by an additional path loss on an uplink signal when the level of excess received interference exceeds an interference target that would cause a Rise-over-Thermal (RoT) metric to exceed stable communication.
US09072101B2
Techniques for MAC processing for efficient use of high throughput systems that may be backward compatible with various types of legacy systems are disclosed. In one aspect, a data frame is formed comprising a common portion for transmission in a format receivable by various stations, such as access points and remote stations. The data frame also comprises a dedicated portion, formatted for transmission to a specified remote station. In another aspect, the common portion is unsteered, and the dedicated portion is steered. In another aspect, an access point schedules an allocation in response to a data indication included in a common portion of a data frame transmitted from one remote station to another. In another aspect, a first station transmits a reference to a second station, which measures the reference and generates feedback therefrom.
US09072097B2
A communication device includes an calculation unit, a measuring unit, a setting unit, and a determination unit. The calculation unit calculates an index value according to each of the other communication devices for determining whether to let a wireless resource utilized for communications with the other communication device be a candidate allocated to the other communication device based on the quality of a channel to the other communication device. The measuring unit measures a congestion degree between itself and the other communication device. The setting unit calculates a threshold value for determining whether to let the wireless resource be the candidate allocated to the other communication device based on the measured congestion degree. The determination unit compares the index value with the threshold value to determine whether to let the wireless resource be the candidate allocated to the other communication device.
US09072085B2
A method for enhancing Slow Associated Control CHannel(SACCH)) erformance, which includes steps of: if a user that uses a half-rate Traffic CHannel(TCH) is contained in a coupled user group, a base station instructing the user on an Adaptive Multi-user channels on One Slot VAMOS sub-channel to use a half-rate sub-channel 0 and a half-rate sub-channel 1 alternately; if a current 26-multiframe is an even frame in an SACCH cycle, the user on the VAMOS sub-channel delivering a TCH frame and an SACCH frame over the originally allocated half-rate sub-channel; if the current 26-multiframe is an odd frame in an SACCH cycle, the user on the VAMOS sending the TCH frame and the SACCH frame after exchanging his/her own half-rate sub-channels; and a reception side performing demodulation and deciphering after receiving its own information. This invention also includes another method for enhancing SACCH performance, which can significantly improve the error tolerance of the SACCH using the method of retransmitting the SACCH when the TCH is in the DTX state and does not need to send any information. According to the present invention, the code error rate of the SACCH can be decreased and the SACCH performance can be enhanced, thus realizing the object of improving the system capacity.
US09072080B1
A computer-implemented technique includes initiating, at a first computing device including one or more processors, communication with a second computing device via a short-range wireless communication protocol. The technique includes receiving, at the first computing device, a set of information from the second computing device via the short-range wireless communication protocol, the set of information including a port address for communication with a first application currently executing in a foreground at the second computing device via another wireless communication protocol. The technique also includes automatically configuring, at the first computing device and in response to receiving the set of information from the second computing device via the short-range wireless communication protocol, communication between a second application at the first computing device and the first application executing at the second computing device via the other wireless communication protocol using the set of information.
US09072075B2
A method of handling an emergency bearer service for a mobile station in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method comprises receiving an attach rejection message with a back-off timer when a network node is applying a non-access stratum (NAS) level congestion control, wherein the attach rejection message is used for rejecting a normal attach procedure; and initiating a packet switch (PS) emergency attach procedure when a PS emergency bearer service is initiated during a time of the back-off timer being running.
US09072074B1
A method and apparatus for updating location information of a customer via a terminal adaptor that is used to access network services are disclosed. For example, the method receives a request from a customer for accessing at least one network service. The method then detects a change in an Internet Protocol (IP) address associated with the customer in the request. In response, the method requests the customer to provide input relating to location information of the customer.
US09072072B2
Techniques are provided for managing simultaneous unicast and multicast/broadcast services. For example, there is provided a method operable by a user equipment (UE) or the like, that involves transmitting, upon initial connection with a wireless communication system, a first message indicating one or more capabilities of the UE. The method may further involve transmitting a second message indicating that the UE is receiving or is about to receive a multicast/broadcast service. The method may also involve receiving, as a result of the second message, data scheduled in accordance with one or more predetermined rules.
US09072055B2
According to some embodiments, there is provided a base station system configured to, among other things, (a) detect whether a particular UE is using too much power to transmit uplink data and (b) in response, transmit a message to the UE instructing the UE to detect a power control RS (PCRS) that is intended only for the particular UE. In some embodiments, the PCRS is transmitted such that the power (actual or nominal) of the PCRS as received by the UE is higher than the power of the previous CRS detected by the UE, thereby leading the UE to calculate a lower PL value, which can lead to the UE lowering its output power.
US09072051B2
A method of monitoring a control channel in a wireless communication system includes monitoring a physical down-link control channel (PDCCH) during a monitored duration, wherein the monitored duration is a part of a discontinuous reception (DRX) period, the DRX period specifying the periodic repetition of the monitored duration followed by a non-monitored duration. By monitoring a control channel during a DRX period, battery consumption of a user equipment can be reduced and an operation time of the user equipment can be increased.
US09072046B2
A user equipment (UE) is provided that includes a processor configured to transmit a precoding matrix index (PMI) using one of an assigned periodic PMI reporting resource that precisely aligns with the start of an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE and a first assigned periodic PMI reporting after the start of an on-duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) operation mode of the UE.
US09072044B2
A push-pull amplifier has an input node and a series connection of two resistors. The series connection comprises a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal. A first resistor of the two resistors is connected between the first terminal and the second terminal. A second resistor is connected between the second and third terminals. The input node is connected to the second terminal. A first controllable current source is connected to the first terminal of the series connection for sourcing a first current to the series connection. A second controllable current source is connected to the third terminal of the series connection for sinking a second current from the series connection. A first transistor and a second transistor are connected in push-pull configuration, wherein a control input of the first transistor is connected to the first terminal of the series connection and a control input of the second transistor is connected to the third terminal of the series connection.
US09072035B2
A multiple-subscriber identity module (multi-SIM) multi-standby communication device includes a single operating system (OS) and a single radio resource unit that is shared by multiple virtual modems (VMs) within a virtual modem framework (VMF). The OS maps VM tasks of the multiple VM to OS resource spaces according to corresponding VM IDs. which may be embedded in global variables utilized in the single OS to access OS resources. The single OS may run the mapped VM tasks utilizing OS resources in the OS resource spaces. The OS may run VM tasks utilizing OS resources in OS resource spaces identified by corresponding VM IDs.
US09072031B2
A method and an apparatus for supporting multiple frequency assignments in a wireless communication system are provided. An operating method of a Mobile Station (MS) for supporting multicarrier transmission in a wireless communication system includes negotiating a multicarrier operation with a Base Station (BS) during a network entry procedure, when supporting a multicarrier operation mode with the BS, sending a first control message comprising information of every multicarrier configuration supported by the MS, to the BS, receiving a second control message comprising index information of one or more carriers assigned for the multicarrier operation from the BS, and searching for configuration information of carriers corresponding to indexes of the one or more carriers assigned from the BS for the multicarrier operation.
US09072020B2
For use in a wireless network, a femtocell base station in communication with at least one first mobile station is provided. The femtocell base station is configured adjust a resource of the femtocell base station to mitigate interference at a second mobile station. In certain embodiments, the femtocell base station is configured to coordinate a handover of the at least one first mobile station from the femtocell base station to a neighboring base station. In certain embodiments, the femtocell base station is configured to transmit a message regarding the resource adjustment to the at least one first mobile station.
US09072016B1
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to a method of processing a voice call from a mobile device to a customer care center, including placing, from a mobile device, a call to a customer care center. The method also includes displaying, on the mobile device, a first query about whether the call was completed to the satisfaction of the customer, analyzing, on a processor, a status of a first response by a customer to the first query, and displaying, on the mobile device, a first customer care message on the mobile device if the first response was negative.
US09072005B2
A network entity may dynamically control Quality-of-Service (QoS) for a multicast transmission in a wireless communications system, by initiating a multicast transmission having an initial QoS, and later during the multicast transmission, generating an updated QoS for the multicast transmission. The network entity may generate the updated QoS in response to a network load factor for a multicast area aggregated from base stations in the area. The network load factor may indicate a measure of aggregate available bandwidth in the multicast area. The network entity may provide the updated QoS to mobile entities receiving the multicast transmission, which may process a subsequent portion of multicast content according to the updated QoS.
US09072004B2
A method of discarding logged measurements in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment in a Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected mode receives a Minimization of Drive Tests (MDT) configuration from a base station and starts a validity timer upon receiving the MDT configuration. The user equipment in an RRC idle mode logs measurements based on the MDT configuration to collect logged measurements while the validity timer is running. When the validity timer is expired, the user equipment discards the MDT configuration and starts a conservation timer. When the conservation timer is expired, the logged measurements are discarded.
US09072002B1
Disclosed is a method and system for monitoring antenna deterioration. When a signal is transmitted by a base station antenna at a tower-top of a cellular base station, a measurement antenna positioned at the tower-top receives the signal. The signal is measured to determine the signal power and the actual gain of the base station antenna is determined by comparing the determined signal power to the input power of the signal before it was transmitted by the base station antenna.
US09071999B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe devices, methods, computer-readable media and systems configurations for handling user plane congestion in a wireless communications network. A packet data network gateway (PGW) and/or a serving gateway (SGW) may proactively transmit a congestion notification to a mobility management entity (MME) including a level of congestion of the PGW and/or SGW. The MME may receive congestion notifications from a plurality of PGWs and/or SGWs. The MME may receive a request for a packet data network (PDN) connection from a user equipment (UE), and may take an action in response to the request based on the reported levels of congestion. The action may include selecting a PGW and/or SGW for the PDN connection, notifying the UE that the PDN connection cannot be established, and/or negotiating with the UE to terminate or modify one or more existing PDN connections in exchange for establishing the new PDN connection.
US09071997B2
A method to adapt a set of multi-point channel estimation filters for use in wireless communications including measuring a plurality of reception values is provided. Each reception value included in the plurality of reception values is associated with one of the network nodes. The method includes sorting the plurality of reception values according to magnitude and determining a select reception value. The method includes selecting a particular network node from the set of network nodes based on the reception value. The reception value is within a threshold from the select reception value. The method includes adjusting the length of a multi-point channel estimation filter associated with the particular network node. The adjusting the length is based on a lookup table and on the reception value associated with the particular network node, according to some embodiments. User equipment in a wireless network adapted for the above method is also provided.
US09071995B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media for performing long term evolution (LTE) uplink data processing are disclosed. One method occurs at an LTE multi-UE simulator. The method includes receiving at least one transport data block containing uplink data to be transmitted to a device under test and dynamically assigning, using processing information associated with the at least one transport data block, at least one physical resource from a plurality of dynamically assignable physical resources for processing the at least one transport block includes receiving at least one transport data block containing uplink data to be transmitted to a device under test.
US09071994B2
An apparatus and method for transmitting and receiving control data and user data between multiple communication stations using multiple backhaul links in a communication system, in which a Multi-Link Relay Station (MLRS) generates multiple backhaul links for data transmission/reception between multiple communication stations, and provides a multi-homing service for mobile stations using the generated multiple backhaul links. The MLRS may also support a handover for mobile stations using the multiple backhaul links. The use of multiple backhaul links facilitates efficient transmission/reception of control data and/or user data between multiple base stations or multiple relay stations.
US09071993B1
A centralized wireless LAN load balancing mechanism is described herein. In one embodiment, in response to a request for entering a wireless network from a wireless station and forwarded from multiple access points (APs) of the wireless network, a network access device coupled to the multiple APs determines a load for each of the APs. The network access device then selects one of the APs based on the determined loads of the APs and instructs the selected AP to associate with the wireless station. The network access device further instructs the remaining APs to reject the request. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US09071987B2
A method of establishing communication links during a failure within a mobile communications network includes detecting disruptions in communications between a plurality of base stations and a plurality of mobile terminals. Survivability components are activated within the base station and the mobile terminal to operate in a survivability mode. The survivability mode enables communications and services to be provided by the surviving base stations to mobile terminals through activated survivability components. The alternate communication links may operate for as long as a disruption exists.
US09071985B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product for wireless communication are provided in connection with improving QoE in RAN congestion. In one example, a communications device is equipped to indicate a quality control indicator (QCI) for each of a plurality of applications that communicate with a RAN over a bearer, receive information regarding modification of the bearer or additional bearers based on the QCIs, and modify the bearer or additional bearers according to the information to achieve a desired QoE for at least one of the plurality of applications. In another example, a RAN is equipped to receive a QCI for each of a plurality of applications related to a bearer from a UE, and modify the bearer or adding additional bearers for communicating with the UE based on the QCI for each of the plurality of applications to improve QoE at the UE.
US09071972B1
An asynchronous access controller comprising a subscriber profiler, a piracy detector and a password injector. The subscriber profiler configured to aggregate both information about subscribers together with information about each associated WLAN. The piracy detector is configured to detect whether wireless communications usage of at least one of the WLANs exceeds at least one parameter specified in a service level agreement (SLA) with the associated subscriber. The password injector controller is configured to inject a new network access password into one or more of the nodes of the WLAN responsive to an affirmative determination by the piracy detector; whereby subsequent network access is selectively revoked on the WLAN in a manner which returns communications usage thereon into conformance with the SLA for the associated subscriber.
US09071971B2
A mobile device includes a transceiver for performing wireless communication; one or more secure elements which execute applications in a secure environment; a near field communication system for performing wireless communication independent of the transceiver and at a lower amount of power than said transceiver; and a contactless front end included in the near field communications system for receiving a data message from a near field communication device. The contactless front end includes a filter list for evaluating the data message and for controlling whether each data message is transmitted further into the mobile device.
US09071969B2
A method for confirming identity of a user of a mobile electronic device, the method including: receiving touch data from a touch-screen of the mobile electronic device; receiving acceleration data from an accelerometer of the mobile electronic device; correlating between the touch data and the acceleration data; based on the correlating, generating a user-specific trait indicative of said user. The method further includes storing a reference value of the user-specific trait, indicative of said user; in a subsequent usage session of the mobile electronic device, generating a current value of the user-specific trait correlating between touch data and acceleration data; and based on a comparison between the current value of the user-specific trait and the reference value of the user-specific trait, determining whether or not a current user of the mobile electronic device is an authorized user of the mobile electronic device.
US09071968B2
The present invention discloses a method, an apparatus, and a system for centralized 802.1X authentication in a wireless local area network, and the method includes: receiving, by the access point, an EAP authentication start message from the UE, where a destination address of the EAP authentication start message is a MAC address corresponding to an air interface of the access point, and its source address is a MAC address of the UE; modifying the destination address of the EAP authentication start message to be a multicast address of a port access entity or a MAC address of the authentication entity; and forwarding the EAP authentication start message whose destination address is modified.
US09071956B2
An apparatus operable in a communication system is described. The apparatus includes means for determining a set of wireless communication device functionalities. The apparatus determines the set of wireless communication device functionalities using a functionality table based on a network identifier. The apparatus also includes means for enabling the set of wireless communication device functionalities.
US09071955B2
A terminal apparatus that communicates with a mobile apparatus includes a near-field communication unit that receives time-of-day information from the mobile apparatus through near-field communication, a use history information generation unit that extracts operation information of the terminal apparatus, and generates use history information on the basis of the time-of-day information received by the near-field communication unit, the use history information including time-of-day information associated with the detected operation information and indicating the time of day at which the corresponding operation was performed, and a main memory that stores the generated use history information.
US09071954B2
A content delivery network of a communication system comprises a memory configured to store at least one secondary object for each of at least a subset of a plurality of primary objects accessible via a wireless network of the system. An associated processing device of the content delivery network is configured to receive a request from a user device for delivery of content comprising at least a given one of the primary objects, to select a particular object from the given primary object and its one or more corresponding secondary objects based on network congestion measurement information obtained for the wireless network, and to provide the selected particular object to the user device via the wireless network. A plurality of different secondary objects may be stored for the given primary object with each such primary or secondary object having a different level of resource requirements for delivery over the wireless network.
US09071950B2
A method of establishing a communications session for communication of data with respect to a telephony user device and at least one other user device in a data communications network. Communications are conducted with a server system. The communications comprise a client-server connection. Call party details of a telephone call are transmitted to the server system in the communications. The telephone call involves at least the telephony user device, as a first telephony user device involved in the call, and a second telephony user device involved in the call. The call party details including a first identity associated with the first telephony user device and a second identity associated with the second telephony user device.
US09071945B1
Caller feedback in mobile devices, in which, upon receiving a telephone call from a caller, a user selection of a control is detected, and a message associated with the selected control is determined and automatically transmitted to the caller.
US09071944B2
Methods are provided for managing media in a PoC box in an aggregation proxy server for sending media to a PoC UE in a PoC system. The aggregation proxy server receives a PoC session control data request message, which is associated with media information stored in the PoC box from the PoC UE. The PoC session control data request message for requesting the media information stored in the PoC box is sent to the PoC box. The media information is received in an XML form from the PoC box in response to the PoC session control data request message, and the media information received from the PoC box is sent to the PoC UE. The media information includes a parameter related to a stored position of media stored in the PoC box.
US09071930B2
A method of performing a location update. The method according to one embodiment includes receiving, by a mobile station, information related to a first paging group and a second paging group assigned for the mobile station, from at least one base station; starting, by the mobile station, a timer when the mobile station leaves the first paging group but stays within the second paging group; determining, by the mobile station, whether the mobile station is within the first paging group or the second paging group, before an expiration of the timer; and performing, by the mobile station, a location update before the expiration of the timer if the mobile station is determined to be not within the first paging group and the second paging group.
US09071929B2
A portable device and associated positioning method is provided. The portable device, signally connected to a tracking server, includes a transceiver, a positioning unit and a controller. The positioning method includes steps of: fetching a tracking parameter corresponding to the portable device from the tracking server when an activation condition is satisfied; generating at least one set of positioning information through a positioning system; storing the first positioning information to a positioning database; and selectively uploading contents of the positioning database to the tracking server according to the tracking parameter.
US09071926B2
First and second NFC devices both seek to determine whether the other device is present and available for communication across an NFC channel. The first NFC device modulates a load in its transceiver. The second NFC device transmits a waveform. If the first NFC device detects the waveform while modulating its load, and if the second NFC device detects the load modulation while transmitting the waveform, then the two NFC devices initiate communication in accordance with a communication protocol.
US09071919B2
An apparatus and method for encoding and decoding a spatial parameter are provided. A spatial parameter encoding apparatus may encode a spatial parameter using a correlation between spatial parameters indicating a characteristic relationship between channels of a multi-channel audio signal, so that the multi-channel audio signal may be efficiently encoded.
US09071896B2
Sound processor housings, sound processors and systems including sound processors are disclosed.
US09071892B2
A method of configuring an acoustics system of a convertible vehicle to receive speech from an occupant of the vehicle who is using hand-free technology. The position of the top of the convertible is first determined and based upon whether the top is up or down, an audio reception configuration is selected. The audio reception configuration includes a set of tuning parameters and a microphone arrangement. The acoustics system is then configured based upon the determination of whether the top is up or down.
US09071890B2
A sliding tray is configured to support one or more optical communications modules and includes a body portion having one or more mounting locations for the one or more optical communications modules, a trough projecting from the body portion and configured to support optical fibers connected to the one or more optical communications modules, and a cover pivotably connected to the tray for selectively covering the trough.
US09071883B2
A system and method for transmitting a plurality of video signals scalably coded into layers including a base layer and one or more enhancement layers and associated audio signals, if any, over a communication network for presentation to one or more end users. A layout to display the plurality of video signals is determined based on a set of criteria and only the data of the video signal layers that are necessary for displaying the video signals in the determined layout, and any associated audio signals, is selectively transmitted over the communication network.
US09071877B2
An interactive television application with mosaic browsing is provided. Selectable cells that may be associated with entities are used to display information corresponding to the entities. Information may include brand marks such as logos or any other suitable entity identifier. A cell may be in focus or it may not be in focus. When a cell is in focus the information displayed in the cell may be different than the information displayed when the cell is not in focus. Users may navigate among cells. The cells may be grouped into regions based on, for example, their association with similar entities.
US09071875B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media including instructions for processing and distributing video-on-demand (VOD) content items are disclosed. A particular method selects a group of electronic devices to receive a VOD content item. The selection is based on group-level information associated with the group of electronic devices and based on user-level information associated with individual electronic devices of the group of electronic devices. The VOD content item is transmitted to each electronic device of the group via multicast. The VOD content item has an associated validity time period, and the encrypted VOD content item is automatically made unplayable at each electronic device in the group when the validity time period has elapsed.
US09071862B2
A handheld electronic device and a remote control method are provided. The handheld electronic device comprises a display unit, an electronic compass and a processing unit. The reference locations are correlated with the controlled device. The processing unit constructs the coordinate system and calculates the reference location coordinates for the reference locations in the coordinate system. After the coordinate system is constructed, the electronic compass measures the current direction information directed towards the controlled device to be remote controlled from a current location. The processing unit controls the display unit to display a control interface of the controlled device to be remote controlled. The electronic compass measures origin direction information directed towards at least two reference locations from an origin location and measures move direction information directed towards the reference locations from a move location.
US09071861B1
Video loop apparatus and methods for use with digital television systems are disclosed. The methods and apparatus store a media file loop in a receiver and retrieve the media file loop to generate a video loop signal based on the media file loop. The video loop signal is output for display to a television, a video monitor or the like.
US09071860B2
Systems and methods are described for personal video recorders (PVRs) and other devices configured for recording and playing back media content from a data storage unit, preferably a random access unit such as a hard drive. A system is described having network connectivity, such as a power-line communications, with other PVRs or similar units, wherein media content can be automatically shifted from one unit to another over the network, such as in response to changes in available storage space. Content transfers and deletions within the system being intelligently performed based on content status, user preference settings, and user preference information such as received from a preference engine, toward optimizing the value to the user of the content which is retained network wide. An additional aspect provides content restoration after mistaken deletion by the user or automated deletion functions.
US09071849B2
A method and apparatus for generating video packets and a method and apparatus for restoring video are provided. The method of generating video packets includes: generating at least one pixel block consisting of at least one reference pixel and a plurality of neighboring pixels adjacent to the at least one reference pixel from pixels of a video frame; replacing pixel values of the neighboring pixels in the at least one pixel block with pixel difference values, which are difference values between a pixel value of one of pixels adjacent to the neighboring pixels and the pixel values of the neighboring pixels; generating packets so that a pixel value of the at least one reference pixel and the pixel difference values of the neighboring pixels are allocated to different packets according to positions of the pixels; and performing entropy coding of some of the packets including the pixel difference values of the neighboring pixels.
US09071845B2
Methods and arrangements in video encoding and decoding entities. The methods and arrangements relate to the joint encoding of reference information associated with encoded video. The method and arrangement in a decoding entity relate to obtaining (402) a single syntax element associated with an encoded block Be, and identifying (404) a reference mode and one or more reference pictures based on the obtained syntax element. The method and arrangement further relate to-decoding (406) of the block Be based on the identified reference mode and one or more reference pictures, thus providing a decoded block, B, of pixels.
US09071844B2
The MPEG motion estimation process is improved by the introduction of the motion vector penalty. The motion vector employed to encode a macroblock takes into consideration the number of bits needed to encode the macroblock with the selected motion vector. This consideration includes a sum of the residual error and the cost to encode the candidate motion vector. This provides an optimization of the bit allocation and vector type selection. This optimization results in a significantly improved picture quality.
US09071837B2
If the number of frames in a GOP of an input stream is not less than 15, the GOP is determined as a control unit time. If the number of frames in the GOP is less than 15, the following GOP is connected thereto until the number of frames becomes not less than 15 and the connected GOPs are determined as a control unit time. After correcting the control unit time, the average input bit rate Sn in each control unit time is obtained, and by using information on the input stream including the average input bit rate Sn, a quantization step value of an output stream is calculated.
US09071833B1
What is disclosed is an apparatus, method, and system for integrating supplemental information into one image of a three-dimensional image such that the integrated information is generally more clearly visible when viewing the three-dimensional image with only one eye.
US09071829B2
A method and a system are provided integrating inter-pose constraints, which are weighted in a step of “bundle adjustment” in a localization application (SLAM). The inertial data associated with a motion model serve to predict the pose of the system at the instant of a new image. This prediction is then used to construct an inter-pose constraint. A technique arising from learning theory selects the weighting coefficient (ratio of the noise of the covariance signals) in an efficient manner. The inter-pose constraint thus weighted is then integrated within the cost function of the bundle adjustment.
US09071828B2
An imaging apparatus includes: an image sensor having a plurality of light receiving elements arranged therein; a light shielding member disposed between an imaging optical system and the image sensor, the light shielding member configured to make only a light flux, which has passed through a predetermined area of the imaging optical system, incident on a first light receiving element which is a part of the plurality of light receiving elements; and an image generation device configured to generate an image of a subject from an imaging signal of the first light receiving element, in which the light shielding member is a plate-shaped member having a first light shielding material configured to shield a light flux, which has passed through an area other than the predetermined area, formed therein.
US09071827B1
Disclosed herein are methods, devices, and non-transitory computer readable media that relate to stereoscopic image creation. A camera captures an initial image at an initial position. A target displacement from the initial position is determined for a desired stereoscopic effect, and an instruction is provided that specifies a direction in which to move the camera from the initial position. While the camera is in motion, an estimated displacement from the initial position is calculated. When the estimated displacement corresponds to the target displacement, the camera automatically captures a candidate image. An acceptability analysis is performed to determine whether the candidate image has acceptable image quality and acceptable similarity to the initial image. If the candidate image passes the acceptability analysis, a stereoscopic image is created based on the initial and candidate images.
US09071826B2
A video encoder apparatus using a distributed video coding (DVC) includes a Wyner-Ziv frame encoder for forming a predictive image of a Wyner-Ziv frame on the basis of coded key frames, and determining, according to the fallibility of the transform coefficients of the predictive image with respect to the transform coefficients of an original image based on the Wyner-Ziv frame, the amount of error correction codes to be transmitted so as to transmit the error correction codes corresponding to the determined amount. When no errors are found between the transform coefficients of the original image of the Wyner-Ziv frame and the predictive image, information indicating that no errors are found is sent out instead of the error correction codes for the Wyner-Ziv frame in question.
US09071824B2
A method and device for encoding an image into a scalable bitstream, the method including acts of dividing the Image in image blocks; encoding each image block in accordance with one of a plurality of different encoding modes, to obtain corresponding block bitstreams comprising one or more types of data representative of said encoding mode; and forming the scalable bitstream by iteratively scanning the block bitstreams, each scan including acts of: selecting at least one of said types of data, including in the scalable bitstream data of the selected types from the block bitstreams, and including in the scalable bitstream flags indicating the selected types of data.
US09071817B2
The picture coding method of the present invention is a picture coding method for coding a picture on a block-by-block basis, comprising: a selection step of selecting one of at least two sizes as a size of a block on which orthogonal transformation should be performed; a transformation step of performing orthogonal transformation on a block having the selected size; a coding step of coding data of said block obtained in the transformation step; and a generation step of generating a coded stream that includes the coded data of the block and size information concerning the size selected in the selection step, wherein the size information indicates whether or not the size is a fixed block size within a predetermined section in the coded stream, and the predetermined section is one of a sequence, a group of pictures, a picture, a slice, and a macroblock.
US09071815B2
In accordance with an example embodiment a method, apparatus and computer program product are provided. The method comprises receiving a request for synchronization of a subtitle text data with multimedia content. The method also comprises accessing summarization data associated with at least a portion of the multimedia content. The summarization data comprises text data generated from at least the portion of the multimedia content. The text data is compared with at least a portion of the subtitle text data for determining presence of the text data in the subtitle text data. The subtitle text data is synchronized with the multimedia content based on the determination of the presence of the text data in at least the portion of the subtitle text data.
US09071808B2
A storage medium having stored an information processing program therein, an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system, which enable highly entertaining display in accordance with a user which performs an operation input, are provided. A characteristic of the face of a user currently using a game apparatus 10 is detected, and data indicating the detected characteristic is compared to already stored data indicating characteristics of the faces of users. If there is data indicating a closest characteristic, among the already stored data, the data is selected. When the data is selected, a motion of an object is set and controlled in accordance with a number of times which the data is selected.
US09071799B2
Various arrangements for television channel tuning are presented. Receiving equipment may receive an indication of a first television channel for tuning. The receiving equipment may determine the first television channel is not available. A second television channel that carries the same content as the first television channel may be identified. The second television channel may be available for tuning. The receiving equipment may tune to the second television channel.
US09071796B2
Media content is received through a plurality of inputs, each input being associated with one of a plurality of media content sources. Media content is provided to a media player for display in a first viewing frame based on a first one of the media content sources. A request is received for a second viewing frame. A list of available media content sources is provided. A source selection of a second one of the media content sources is received. Media content from the selected second one of the media content sources is provided in the second viewing frame.
US09071795B2
In a broadband communications system, e.g., a cable system, programming content can be readily reserved and accessed for viewing using an interactive program guide, a network home graphic user interface (GUI), Quick View Guide, etc., in accordance with the invention. Such programming content may include in-progress programs, future programs and previously broadcast programs which are recorded at a headend in the cable system, and which may or may not have overlapping broadcast times. In addition, the user may reserve programs at a set-top terminal, and may also do so remotely from the terminal through a communications network such as, the Internet, a public switched telephone network (PSTN), a wireless telephone network, etc.
US09071793B2
A display device including a display module; a first interface to transmit and receive a signal to and from a remote controller; a second interface to transmit and receive a signal to and from at least one external apparatus; and a processing unit to output processed data to the display module to display a video. Further, when the first interface wirelessly receives a remote control signal regarding a first external apparatus from the remote controller, the second interface wirelessly transmits the remote control signal to the first external apparatus. In addition, the first interface wirelessly transmits information on any external apparatus connected to the display device among a plurality of external apparatuses to the remote controller, such that the remote controller displays a changed key for a user's input depending on the information on the external apparatus.
US09071791B2
A receiving device provided with: a receiving unit for receiving image data from a transmitting device with which the receiving device has established wireless communication; a display unit for displaying setting data for a different transmitting device from the aforementioned transmitting device to establish wireless communication with the receiving device and the image data; and a display control unit for controlling the display of the display unit such that, in the frames displayed before and after a frame containing the setting data, the image data is displayed in the same display region as the display region for the display unit in which the setting data is displayed.
US09071786B2
A print data generating device includes an image orientation selecting portion and a print data generating portion. The image orientation selecting portion may select one image orientation of an image to be printed from several image orientations by using partial image data. The print data generating portion may generate print data for printing the image according to the one image orientation. Each image orientation may be with respect to a conveying direction. Each partial image data may correspond to a respective image orientation, a respective partial image, and a respective portion of the image to be printed. Each partial image may be printed in an area defined by a particular distance determined from a corresponding edge of the printing medium. The particular distance may be based on a distance between a location of a downstream roller and a location of a most-upstream nozzle for a printer in the conveying direction.
US09071780B2
A solid-state imaging device includes: a unit pixel including a photoelectric conversion section, an impurity-diffusion region capable of temporarily accumulating or holding electric charges generated by the photoelectric conversion section, and a reset transistor resetting the impurity-diffusion region by a voltage of a voltage-supply line, and having an impurity concentration such that at least the reset transistor side of the impurity-diffusion region becomes a depletion state; and a drive circuit changing the voltage of the voltage-supply line from a first voltage lower than a depletion potential of the reset transistor side of the impurity-diffusion region to a second voltage higher than the depletion potential while the reset transistor is on.
US09071776B2
In order to generate a two-dimensional image of a sample in a short time using THz waves, provided is a reflective imaging device including a sample holder, a THz wave light source, a THz wave camera, a rotation mechanism for rotating the holder and the camera, and a processing unit. A sample unit includes an incidence member, a sample, and a reflection member. The sample includes a first region of only a membrane and a second region including a biopolymer. The camera detects, with regard to respective incident angles, a THz wave in which interference occurs between a component reflected at an interface between the incidence member and the sample and a component reflected at an interface between the sample and the reflection member, of each portion of the sample unit, and outputs a signal. The processing unit specifies an incident angle at which a signal of a first THz wave that interferes in the first region is relatively small and a signal of a second THz that interferes in the second region is relatively large, and generates a two-dimensional image of the sample based on the signal from the camera with regard to the specified incident angle.
US09071772B2
The present invention is directed to display technologies. More specifically, various embodiments of the present invention provide projection display systems where one or more laser diodes are used as light source for illustrating images. In one set of embodiments, the present invention provides projector systems that utilize blue and/or green laser fabricated using gallium nitride containing material. In another set of embodiments, the present invention provides projection systems having digital lighting processing engines illuminated by blue and/or green laser devices. In one embodiment, the present invention provides a 3D display system. There are other embodiments as well.
US09071767B2
An omnidirectional camera comprises a camera mounting frame 5 of a cylindrical hollow body, two or more first mount blocks 8 which hold a first lens unit 9 in a horizontal posture and are installed to the camera mounting frame from a horizontal direction, and first circuit boards provided on inner end surfaces of the first mount blocks, and in the omnidirectional camera, the camera mounting frame and the first mount blocks are made of materials with good heat transfer properties, the first circuit board has a ground layer formed on an abutting surface with respect to the first mount block and a first image pickup element arranged on an optical axis of the first lens unit, and the heat generated from the first image pickup element is radiated from the first mount block and the camera mounting frame through the ground layer.
US09071764B2
A camera for enhanced color imaging in a low light environment including: one or more illuminators for illuminating a R, a G, and a B light at different time periods; an image sensor for capturing R G and B image frames; and a processor configured to generate an intermediate color frame from each of the R, G and B image frames; determine moving pixels in the each of the intermediate color frames; determine a true color for the moving pixels in each intermediate color frame; generate a true color frame for each intermediate color frame by substituting color of the moving pixels with respective true colors of the moving pixels, in intermediate color frame; calculate scene color metrics from the true color frame or intermediate color frame; and adaptively adjust illumination of one or more of the R, G, and B lights to enhance a next frame.
US09071757B2
The optical image stabilizer sets a movable amount of an image stabilizing element to a first movable amount when a detection signal from a shake detector does not exceed a first value. The stabilizer sets the movable amount to a second movable amount when the signal exceeds the first value and then exceeds, without exceeding a second value, a third value within a first period of time, sets the movable amount to a third movable amount when the signal exceeds the first value and then does not exceed the second and third values, sets the movable amount to the second movable amount when the signal exceeds the first value, then exceeds the second value and thereafter exceeds a fourth value, and sets the movable amount to the third movable amount when the signal exceeds the first value and then exceeds the second value without exceeding the fourth value.
US09071756B2
Systems and methods for digital video stabilization via constraint-based rotation smoothing are provided. Digital video data including a set of image frames having associated time stamps and a set of camera orientation data having associated time stamps may be provided. A smoothed set of camera orientation data may be generated by minimizing a rate of rotation between successive image frames while minimizing an amount of empty regions in a resulting set of smoothed image frames reoriented based on the smoothed set of camera orientation data.
US09071755B2
Disclosed is a sports camera, which comprises a main control unit, an image processing module, a motion parameter detection display module, a power supply module and a memory. The power supply module is connected with the main control unit and the image processing module. The image processing module comprises a digital signal processor and an image sensor, and the motion parameter detection display module comprises a GPS module and an acceleration sensor. The main control unit is connected with the digital signal processor, the memory, the GPS module and the acceleration sensor, and said digital signal processor is connected with the memory and the image sensor. The sports camera of the present invention can make sure that the image is normal and vertical when playing back the photo or video taken by the camera, thereby improving the image effect and increasing the ease of use of the sports camera.
US09071750B2
The present invention is provided to lessen load on a bus in the case of storing image data captured by a plurality of cameras into a semiconductor memory. To a semiconductor integrated circuit, a plurality of cameras and a semiconductor memory can be coupled. The semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of first interfaces, a second interface, a bus, and a plurality of image processing modules. The image processing modules include a process of performing distortion correction on image data in a pre-designated region, and writing the image data in the region subjected to the distortion correction into the semiconductor memory via the bus and the second interface. By excluding image data out of the pre-designated region from an object of distortion correction in the image processing modules, the amount of image data transferred to the semiconductor memory is reduced.
US09071749B2
An apparatus and method of recognizing an object by using a camera includes detecting feature information from a first preview image; comparing the feature information with a threshold condition; changing a camera setting parameter, when the feature information does not satisfy the threshold condition; and performing an object recognition for a second preview image generated based on the changed camera setting parameter.
US09071746B2
A multimedia device includes input ports dedicated to receiving a real-time media signal and a processor system dedicated to capturing the real-time media signal. The processor system defines an embedded environment. The input ports and the processor system are integrated into the multimedia capture device. The input ports include an audio input port and at least one of a visual-capture input port or a digital-image input port.
US09071745B2
Methods, devices, and systems for capturing documents are provided. A frame in a viewfinder is selected and is converted into a binary version. Segmentation of the binarized version of the frame is performed using computed horizontal and vertical histograms. At least one document is identified in the selected frame. The at least one document is captured upon determining that values of the one or more parameters associated with the document match predetermined values of corresponding one or more parameters.
US09071742B2
Selected described embodiments include an imager providing concurrent wide field of view (WFOV) and foveated images. The imager includes a frontend optic configured to receive light from a scene. Corrective optics reduces distortions, and transmits the light to a beam splitter. One portion of the light exiting the beam splitter is focused on a WFOV image detector. A second portion of the light falls on a scanning mirror that can be configured to target a selected field position in the field of view. From the scanning mirror, the light passes through a magnifier and is corrected by an adaptive wavefront corrector. The corrector may be configured to correct aberrations corresponding to the particular field of view selected by the scanning mirror. The light from the wavefront corrector is focused on a foveated image detector. The images captured by the image detectors may be stored, processed, and transmitted to other systems.
US09071732B2
A vehicle collects oblique imagery along an intercardinal nominal heading using rotated camera-groups with distortion correcting electronic image sensors that align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground, thereby improving collection quality, efficiency, and/or cost. In a first aspect, the camera-groups are rotated diagonal to the nominal heading. In a second aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors align projected pixel columns or rows with a pre-determined direction on the ground. In a third aspect, the distortion correcting electronic image sensors are rotated around the optical axis of the camera. In a fourth aspect, cameras collect images in strips and the strips from different cameras overlap, providing large-baseline, small-time difference stereopsis.
US09071728B2
A computer implemented method is disclosed, the method including but not limited to detecting an event of interest in video conference data for a plurality of video conference participants and notifying an end user of the event of interest. A computer readable medium is also disclosed for containing a computer program for performing the method. A computer implemented method is also disclosed for receiving at an end user device, a notification of an event of interest in a video teleconference, the method including but not limited to receiving at an end user device from a notification indicating a detection of the event of interest in video conference data from the video teleconference for a plurality of video conference participants; and sending data from the end user device to the server requesting a transcription of comments from the speaker in video teleconference.
US09071726B2
A videocast service may include at least one computing device configured to provide operations including: receiving an indication, from a videocast subscriber device connected to a communications network of network service provider, to begin providing a videocast from the videocast subscriber device according to selection of a videocast control from a user interface of the videocast subscriber device; validating the subscriber device as having opted into use of the videocast service by way of the network service provider; and if the subscriber device is opted in, initiating the videocast without requiring further user interface interaction from the videocast subscriber device.
US09071725B2
Systems and techniques for transferring electronic data between users of a communications system by receiving, at an instant messaging host, a video file from a sender and intended for a recipient; authenticating the video file; and sending the video file to the intended recipient.
US09071724B2
A method and an apparatus perform a video call service. A transmission communication device provides information on a rotation angle of a video call image transmitted during a video call to a reception communication device corresponding to a counterpart of the video call. Then, the reception communication device renders the received video call image by using the information on the rotation angle of the received video call image, and displays a rendered video call image. Accordingly, an image of a counterpart of the video call can be normally provided during the video call.
US09071718B2
An information processing apparatus includes an execution unit that executes a program, a main storage unit that includes a first non-volatile memory which is readable and writable and is capable of retaining stored information even when no power is supplied and is provided with a first storage area which stores the program executed by the execution unit and a second storage area which stores data generated by the execution of the program by the execution unit, a connection unit that connects the execution unit and the main storage unit, and a condition storage unit that includes a second non-volatile memory which is readable and writable and is capable of retaining stored information even when no power is supplied and stores conditions which are set by the connection unit to transmit and receive the program and the data between the execution unit and the main storage unit.
US09071716B2
A sheet carrying apparatus comprises a job executing portion that includes a sheet carrying portion for carrying a sheet, a power supply portion that performs usual power supply to the job executing portion in a usual mode and stops the power supply to the job executing portion in a power saving mode that restricts the power supply more than the usual mode; an ejecting portion into which the sheet carried by the sheet carrying portion is ejected, and an ejected sheet detecting portion that detects presence of the sheet ejected in the ejecting portion, and when there is no sheet in the ejecting portion after a job including ejecting of the sheet into the ejecting portion ends, the power supply portion shifts from the usual mode to the power saving mode.
US09071710B2
An image forming apparatus having a display section to display screens for setting a function; a control section to form an image where alternatives of a function to be set by transiting plural screens are aggregated and arranged on one page of sheet, and to form a composite image where a position detection code for identifying a position on the sheet is combined with the image; a memory section to store a table which correlates each of the alternatives with a position of each of the alternatives on the sheet; and a print section to print the composite image on the sheet, wherein in cases where the control section acquires position information having been identified by the position detection code on the sheet, the control section refers to the table to identify an alternative corresponding to the position information, and sets a function based on the identified alternative.
US09071703B2
An apparatus and method for telephony tone signal and character code generation for QWERTY keyboards includes a QWERTY style keyboard, a processor and a keyboard mode control software module. The QWERTY style keyboard has a plurality of letter keys, wherein each letter key is configured to generate a unique input signal. The processor is coupled to the keyboard and is configured to convert each unique input signal generated by the letter keys into a character code and/or a telephony tone signal. The keyboard mode control software module operates on the processor, and controls whether the processor converts the unique input signals from the letter keys into character codes or telephony tone signals.
US09071700B2
Disclosed is a communication system having two or more communication terminals. The communication system has: an attitude state detecting means which detects the attitude state of each of the communication terminals; a relationship calculating means which calculates the attitude state relationship between the communication terminals, on the basis of the communication terminal attitude states detected by the attitude state detecting means; and a communication policy determining means which determines, on the basis of the attitude state relationship between the communication terminals, a communication policy to be applied to between the communication terminals.
US09071698B2
The present invention provides a charging device (100) for a portable electronic device (200), the charging device (100) arranged to provide power to the portable electronic device (200) upon physical coupling with the portable electronic device (200), the charging device (100) comprising one or more charging couplings to provide physical coupling (110, 210, 120, 220) of the charging device (100) to a portable electronic device (200), wherein the charging device (100) is arranged to transmit power and data via one or more of the couplings.
US09071694B2
A hands-free accessory for a mobile device may include a microphone element, and a telecoil coupled with the microphone element in parallel. The microphone element and the telecoil are coupled with an output terminal of the hands-free device. The hands-free accessory may further include a capacitor coupled with the telecoil in series. The hands-free accessory may further include an ear speaker. The hands-free accessory may further include a first switch between the microphone element and the telecoil. Alternatively, the mobile device may include a second switch configured to control operation of the microphone element. When the first switch or the second switch is turned off/closed, the microphone element is not operated, and a signal corresponding to an electric current induced in the telecoil is input/transmitted to the mobile device.
US09071672B2
A cover is described that is magnetically attached to a tablet device. The cover includes at least as flap. In the described embodiment, the flap includes a plurality of segments where the first segment includes a first plurality of edge attach magnets arrayed along a first edge of the flap and where a second segment includes a second plurality of edge attach magnets arrayed along a second edge of the flap opposite the first edge.
US09071671B2
A cellular telephone case providing improved camera capabilities is provided. The camera enhancement case includes a housing having a front wall and four sidewalls sized for receipt of a cellular telephone. The case includes one or more camera lenses positioned to align with the camera lens of a cellular telephone to provide improved camera capabilities. Preferably, the case includes a malleable sleeve positioned between the cellular telephone and housing. Also preferably, the housing includes a handle projection for being held by a person.
US09071668B2
An apparatus for multi-bitrate content streaming includes a receiving module configured to capture media content, a streamlet module configured to segment the media content and generate a plurality of streamlets, and an encoding module configured to generate a set of streamlets. The system includes the apparatus, wherein the set of streamlets comprises a plurality of streamlets having identical time indices and durations, and each streamlet of the set of streamlets having a unique bitrate, and wherein the encoding module comprises a master module configured to assign an encoding job to one of a plurality of host computing modules in response to an encoding job completion bid. A method includes receiving media content, segmenting the media content and generating a plurality of streamlets, and generating a set of streamlets.
US09071664B2
Techniques for securely and adaptively delivering multimedia content are disclosed in which a set of alternate access units for each time slot is obtained. Then, the encryption stream index of each access unit from the set of alternate access units of the previous time slot are obtained. An encryption stream index is then assigned to each access unit in the set of alternate access units in the current time slot, such that the encryption index increases over time. Thus, the invention overcomes the problem of encrypting a multimedia stream that may have multiple access units for each time slot by selecting the encryption index for each access unit such that the encryption index increases, regardless of which access unit the delivery system (e.g., server) selects for transmission.
US09071656B2
A routing method, apparatus and system are disclosed. The method includes: receiving from a service provider a service registration request which carries a service logical address, a service physical address, and a message rule; registering routing information according to the service registration request; and routing a request message of a service requestor according to the routing information. The present invention enables routing of the request message of a service requestor according to the service logical address, service physical address, and message rule, so that routing is more flexible and more convenient.
US09071638B1
Systems and methods for malware containment on connection is provided. In exemplary embodiments, digital devices are quarantined for a predetermined period of time upon connection to the communication network. When a digital device is quarantined, all network data transmitted by the digital device is temporarily directed to a controller which then analyzes the network data to identify unauthorized activity and/or malware within the newly connected digital device. An exemplary method to contain malware comprises detecting a digital device upon connection with a communication network, temporarily redirecting network data from the digital device, and analyzing the network data to identify malware within the digital device.
US09071636B2
A system may be provided that comprises one or more servers to: receive information regarding known epitypes of malness, where the information includes malness scores and behaviors for the known epitypes of malness; store the information regarding the known epitypes of malness; generate rules for a model based on the information regarding the known epitypes of malness; input application data from an application on a device into the model; output a malness score from the model based on the application data; and allow the application and/or the device access to a network when the malness scores for the application is below a first threshold level, or block the application and/or the device access to the network when the malness score the application is above a second threshold level, where the first threshold level is less than the second threshold level.
US09071634B2
A fault prediction system comprises a processor, a data storage device and a network connection. The processor acts to commence monitoring of a newly notified device upon the network irrespective of whether details of the device are stored in a database on the data storage device or not.
US09071633B2
The subject matter described herein includes methods, systems, and computer program products for storing communication session information at a network interface module. One method described herein includes receiving a plurality of RTCP packets associated with a communication session at a network interface module. RTCP information is extracted from at least one of the packets. The extracted RTCP information is stored in memory local to the network interface module.
US09071630B2
Methods are provided for forwarding Fiber Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) frames over a TRILL network by a FCoE device interconnection apparatus (FIA). A FCoE frame is received from a FCoE device at the FIA. The frame includes at least destination Ethernet MAC address and source Ethernet MAC address fields. The destination Ethernet MAC address of the incoming frame is replaced with the MAC address of the remote FCoE device as determined by the Fiber Channel destination address identifier in the received FCoE frame. The source Ethernet MAC address of the incoming frame is replaced. The frame is encapsulated in a TRILL header. The frame is forwarded to an egress FCoE device interconnection apparatus (FIA). The frame is then decapsulated into a FCoE frame, which is forwarded to an attached FCoE device with the original destination and source Ethernet MAC addresses.
US09071627B2
Security is enhanced for a user of electronic devices by providing a method for providing an application to an electronic device. According to an embodiment, an application in a source electronic device can be cloned from the source electronic device to a target electronic device. According to an embodiment, when the application is selected, the source device can be configured to automatically collect the selected application and configuration information, state information and/or application data associated with the selected application. The collected information is referred to as “cloning data.” Once the cloning data is collected, the source device can be configured to transmit at least a portion of the cloning data to the target electronic device, which can utilize the cloning data to clone the application into the target electronic device.
US09071625B2
A mobile computing device with a mobile operating system and desktop operating system running concurrently and independently on a shared kernel without virtualization. The mobile operating system provides a user experience for the mobile computing device that suits the mobile environment. The desktop operating system provides a full desktop user experience when the mobile computing device is docked to a second user environment. Cross-environment notification and event handling allows the user to be notified of and respond to events occurring within the mobile operating system through the user environment associated with the desktop operating system. Events that may trigger cross-environment notification may be local events and/or remote events. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile operating system and a full desktop Linux distribution on a modified Android kernel.
US09071612B2
In a system with a terminal sending a request, when a load distributing unit distributes the request to many service providing apparatuses, the load distributing unit becomes a bottleneck of performance and/or a single point of failure. When the load is distributed to the service providing apparatuses without using the load distributing unit, a particular function is required on the terminal side to appropriately select one of apparatuses. A name resolution unit including an address group management table with IP addresses to select, for a request from a terminal, an address from the table to return the address to the terminal and a plurality of service providing apparatuses to which at least zero IP address selected from the table is allocated without duplication are arranged such that each service providing apparatus is allocated with IP addresses according to processing performance thereof, thereby conducting appropriate load distribution.
US09071611B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a communication from an endpoint device at a network access device located within a data path between the endpoint device and a network, identifying a network admission control policy for the endpoint device, enforcing at the network access device, the network admission control policy for traffic received from the endpoint device, and forwarding at the network access device, traffic from the endpoint device to the network in accordance with the network admission control policy. An apparatus is also disclosed.
US09071607B2
A method for network communications from a first device to a second device includes communicating data from the first device to the second device by spawning a first virtual machine for a first network connection that virtualizes network capabilities of the electronic device, and using the virtualized network capabilities of the first virtual machine, transmitting a plurality of packets for communication to a first network address and port combination associated with the second device. The method further includes repeatedly changing to a respective another network address and port combination by repeatedly spawning a respective another virtual machine for a respective another network connection that virtualizes network capabilities of the electronic device, and using the virtualized network capabilities of the spawned respective another virtual machine, transmitting a plurality of packets for communication to the respective another network address and port combination associated with the second device.
US09071605B2
A relay device includes an identification information acquisition unit, a privilege information acquisition unit, a memory, and a controller. The identification information acquisition unit acquires user identification information for allowing the relay device to identify a user. The privilege information acquisition unit acquires privilege information indicating that access to the service providing device is authorized from a service providing device which provides a service to a client device used by the user. The memory stores the user identification information and the privilege information in association with each other. Upon receiving a service processing request made to the service providing device and transmitted together with the user identification information from the client device, the controller controls the service providing device to perform communication processing corresponding to the service processing request using the privilege information stored in association with the user identification information.
US09071604B2
A trust evaluation may be obtained for a network element in a communication network. Based on this trust evaluation, one or more services may be invoked to address the risk that a potentially untrustworthy network element poses in the communication network. Application programming interfaces (APIs) may automate the invocation of trust-controlled services. An API for a trust-controlled service may be used to directly perform a function on one or more resources in the communication network or may be used to set up an ongoing function on one or more resources in the communication network that may continue until the API is used to terminate the function.
US09071603B1
Techniques are described for providing functionality to users of mobile devices, including coordinating the inter-connection of multiple mobile devices, such as for multiple mobile devices of multiple distinct types, and optionally using multiple different types of inter-connections. In some situations, the described techniques include performing matchmaking operations to determine whether and/or how a group of multiple inter-connected mobile devices will provide functionality to each other and/or will access functionality from one or more remote server computing systems, including to select a host mobile device for the group. In addition, in some situations, the described techniques include providing a distributed display canvas functionality, by using the displays of multiple inter-connected mobile devices of a group to display some or all of the graphical user interface (“GUI”) of an application, such as by displaying on each mobile device a distinct portion of the GUI specific to that mobile device.
US09071598B2
A server (120) uses a password (π) to construct a multiplicative group (ZN*) with a (hidden) smooth order subgroup (
US09071597B2
A secure instant messaging (IM) system integrates secure instant messaging into existing instant messaging systems. A certificate authority (CA) issues security certificates to users binding the user's IM screen name to a public key, used by sending users to encrypt messages and files for the user. The CA uses a subscriber database to keep track of valid users and associated information, e.g. user screen names, user subscription expiration dates, and enrollment agent information. A user sends his certificate to an instant messaging server which publishes the user's certificate to other users. Users encrypt instant messages and files using an encryption algorithm and the recipient's certificate. A sending user can sign instant messages using his private signing key. The security status of received messages is displayed to recipients.
US09071593B2
A system, method and computer program product for providing access to private digital content are disclosed. The private digital content is owned by an owner and installed on a content server and access is provided to a first client which is capable of rendering said digital content. Predetermined information required for gaining authorized access to said content server by said first client is generated by a second client. The predetermined information is transferred from said second client to said first client then used by said first client to get access to said private digital content.
US09071592B1
Interaction with a web site may be driven by a script. The script may be generated through automated analysis of a web site. A web site may be analyzed by evaluating labels associated with data entry fields, links, and/or other elements of the pages that make up the web site. Moreover, a web site may be analyzed by co-browsing the web site along with a human, and observing the actions that a human takes to operate the web site. The scripts that are generated may be used to perform a transaction at a web site on behalf of a principal, to gather information from a web site, or to perform any other type of action.
US09071587B2
A method, system and computer program product for optimizing virtual machine deployment. A cloud controller pre-generates and stores a virtual machine's first-boot metadata (e.g., a RSA key) prior to the deployment of the virtual machine so that the virtual machine does not need to generate such metadata at deployment time thereby reducing the deployment time of the virtual machine. Instead, after the deployment and activation of the virtual machine, an activation agent running on the virtual machine requests the pre-generated first-boot metadata from the cloud controller. The cloud controller retrieves the requested pre-generated first-boot metadata to be transmitted to the requesting virtual machine and implements public-key cryptography so that the requesting virtual machine can verify the authenticity of the transmitted first-boot metadata. By reducing the deployment time for the virtual machine, cloud resources can be used for other activities.
US09071584B2
Example apparatus and methods concern multi-tier bandwidth-centric deduplication. One example apparatus supports inline bandwidth-centric deduplication with post-processing space-centric deduplication to improve inline bandwidth-centric deduplication and thereby reduce bandwidth requirements. One example method may include determining whether a bandwidth-centric deduplication device can satisfy a deduplication request associated with a data communication and then deciding whether to engage a space-centric deduplication device to co-operate in attempting to satisfy the request. More generally, the method includes controlling a first deduplication device to participate in bandwidth reduction and selectively controlling a second deduplication device to also participate in the bandwidth reduction.
US09071563B2
A method in which a mail server for receiving mails manages sequence management information that records the sequence of mails stored in a data store server and the times at which a mail server sends the mails to a destination server, wherein the sequence management information is so managed as to satisfy the two conditions: one is to make not greater than a predetermined number the number of entries in any one of respective pieces of the divided sequence management information resulted by dividing the sequence management information into a plurality of pieces, each entry being included in each divided sequence management information piece and defined as a combination of key having the mail body of a certain mail as its value, and the time at which the certain mail is sent to the destination server.
US09071562B2
An embodiment of the present invention, a computer receives, on a first computer, a request to locate a topic. The computer determines a second computer to query for the topic. The computer queries the second computer for the topic. The computer receives identification information of participants of an instant messaging conversation corresponding to the topic. The computer stores, on the first computer, the identification information of the participants and indexing the stored identification information by the topic.
US09071559B1
Method and system for configuring a receive packet queue in a network device are provided. The method includes determining how many sub-ports of a port of the network device are configured; assigning memory to each of the configured sub-ports based on the determination of how many sub-ports are configured; determining a flow control scheme to be used for packet transmission; and dividing the receive packet queue based on the determination of the flow control scheme to be used.
US09071547B2
A system for optimized and distributed routing of interactions, comprising a plurality of media servers operating adapted to handle interactions of one or more specific media types, a statistics server, a routing database, and a routing server. Upon receiving or initiating an interaction of a specific media type, a first media server from the media servers sends a route request message comprising at least an interaction identifier and a collection of interaction-specific data to the routing server, the statistics server receives event notifications from the media servers and computes one or more statistics, and the routing server executes, using statistical data from the statistics server and data from the routing database, a routing script comprising a constraint-based optimization process in response to the route request message and sends a response to the first media server directing it to route the interaction to a specific target resource.
US09071544B2
A management request complying with a first protocol is generated by a management application executed by a computing system coupled to a network element. A processor executable agent encapsulates a management request using a second protocol. The encapsulated management request is transmitted using a third protocol via a link used by the computing system to send input/output requests for reading and writing data to a storage device. The management request is de-encapsulated to provide the management request complying with the first protocol to a management module of the network element. The management module of the network element prepares a response to the management request complying with the first protocol. A processor executable service at the network element encapsulates the response using the second protocol. The encapsulated response is transmitted to the computing system using the third protocol. The response complying with the first protocol is extracted from the encapsulated response. The response complying with the first protocol is provided to the management application.
US09071538B2
The disclosure provides a method for dynamically adjusting a switching loop. The method comprises the following steps: a network equipment in the switching loop determines current link costs of all links connected with the network equipment, wherein the network equipment determines the current link costs of the links according to initial link costs and link adjustment parameters of the links (S201); then the network equipment acquires the current link costs of all the links in the switching loop, and determines a main link of the switching loop, wherein the current link cost of the main link is less than or equal to a preset link cost (S203). The disclosure also provides a network equipment. With the solution of the disclosure, the link actually having an optimal link cost can be determined as the main link according to the current link cost, thus the problem in the related art that the transmission efficiency of the whole network is influenced by reason of determining the link having a worse current link cost as the main link is avoided, and the transmission efficiency and reliability of the main link and the whole network are improved.
US09071534B2
Estimates of a communication system configuration, such as a DSL system, are based on operational data collected from a network element management system, protocol and users. The operational data collected from the system can include performance-characterizing operational data that typically is available in the OSL system via element-management-system protocols. Generated estimates and/or approximations can be used in evaluating system performance and directly or indirectly dictating/requiring changes or recommending improvements in operation by transmitters and/or other parts of the indication system. Data and/or other information may be collected using internal means or using system elements and components via e-mail and/or other extra means. The likelihood of the models accuracy can be based on various data, information and/or indicators of system performance, such as observed normal operational data, test data and/or prompted operational data that shows operating performance based on stimulation signals.
US09071525B2
An apparatus includes: a receiver which receives a data sequence; a specifying unit which specifies a temporary buffer area in a data storage and specifies a destination buffer area in the data storage; a first identifying unit which identifies a destination number range depending on a size of the specified destination buffer area so that the range follows a range that was last identified; a writing unit which writes data that falls within one of the ranges in an area in the destination buffer area that corresponds to the sequence number of that data, and writes data that does not fall within it in the temporary buffer area; a copying unit which reads out data falling within the identified range from the temporary buffer area and writes the read-out data in an area in the destination buffer area that is associated with the sequence number of that data.
US09071523B2
A frame transmission system includes a frame transmitter and a frame receiver. The frame transmitter includes a frame fragmentation unit and a reproduction header appending unit. The frame fragmentation unit fragments an input frame and outputs transfer frames when the length of the input frame exceeds a predetermined fragmentation reference frame length, and does not fragment the input frame and outputs the input frame as a transfer frame when the length of the input frame is less than or equal to the fragmentation reference frame length. The reproduction header appending unit appends a reproduction header to the transfer frames outputted from the frame fragmentation unit. Here, the reproduction header being required when the transfer frames are reproduced at a receiving side. The reproduction header appending unit varies the header length of the reproduction header to be appended to the transfer frame, according to the length of the input frame.
US09071516B2
A method for configuring a client-side communications protocol stack includes a mapping to be consulted to determine a set of client-side protocol stack components which correspond to a set of protocol stack components in a server side protocol stack instance. Subsequently, a listing can be created of the determined set of client-side protocol stack components. Finally, the listing can be published for access by externally disposed client computing processes. The listing can be reversed. Also, the consulting step further can include determining at least one attribute to be applied to at least one of the client-side protocol stack components when enabling a client-side protocol stack to interoperate with the server-side protocol stack instance.
US09071504B2
Provided is a data communication technique in which overhead is reduced. A data processing apparatus includes a plurality of modules each of which executes data processing; a plurality of routers, which have input ports and output ports, for relaying data transmission among the plurality of modules; and a control unit for outputting a control signal to each of the plurality of routers to thereby control selection of router path. Each of the plurality of routers has a deciding unit for deciding an output port and output timing used in data transmission by utilizing a value of the control signal that has been input thereto.
US09071503B2
A method for enabling Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) routing in a transport network. The method comprises defining a network segment template; instantiating a respective network segment template for each node+link segment of the transport network; and connecting the link area of a first template instance to the node area of a second template instance using a remote ABR. The network segment template comprises a node area for enabling OSPF routing between addresses within a node of the transport network; a link area for enabling OSPF routing between the node and an adjacent neighbor node in the transport network; and a host Area Boarder Router (ABR) connected to the node area and the link area. The host ABR is configured to generate summary Link State Advertisement (LSA) messages containing a summary of addresses in the node area, and forward the summary LSA messages through the link area. The remote ABR is configured to generate summary LSA messages containing a summary of addresses reachable in the node area of the second template instance, and forward the summary LSAs through the link area of the first template instance.
US09071500B2
Control of a label switched path established in a network is transferred between a management plane and a control plane of the network. A node (e.g., node C) receives a message indicating a change in control of the label switched path, the message identifying the label switched path by a cross-connection identifier corresponding to an entry in the control data stored at the node which identifies data plane ingress and egress segments cross-connected at the node. Control data at the node is updated based on the identified label switched path. The message includes a list of cross-connection identifiers for nodes (e.g., nodes C, E, and F) along the label switched path. The cross-connection identifier can be an mplsXCIndex.
US09071496B2
The present disclosure is concerned with a digital transmitter using Delta-Sigma modulators (DMSs) that uses an up-sampler and modulator block that follows the DSMs to generate the RF equivalent of the baseband signal to be transmitted. The up-sampler and modulator block is simple to implement and contains only one or a few multiplexers implemented in high speed logic technology.
US09071487B2
Embodiments of the present invention may include power amplifier architectures and systems for use in wireless communication systems. The systems may include a first circuit path for receiving an input signal and decomposing the signal into two vector signals using an out-phasing generator, modifying the vectors based on predetermined value limit, amplifying the vectors using power amplifiers, and combining the vectors to provide an amplified output. The system may include a second circuit path for generating an estimate of an envelope of the input signal and using the envelope to modulate the voltage supplies of the power amplifiers when amplifying the vector signals. The system may also include a feedback path for sending information regarding the envelope of the input signal into the out-phasing generator, which may modify the vector signals in response thereto.
US09071482B2
A wireless communication device for a CDMA system is configured to generate power estimates with reduced estimation bias. The power estimates may be used for delay estimation, MMSE channel estimation, demodulation, or other purposes. The wireless communication device produces first set of power estimates for a first set of delays and generates a model of the signal powers at the first set of delays as a function of the power leakage from non-aligned signal images in the received signal into the first set of delays. The wireless communication device then computes a second set of power estimates with reduced estimation bias based on the first set of power estimates and the model of the signal powers.
US09071476B2
Systems and methods are described for transmitting data over physical channels to provide a high bandwidth, low latency interface between integrated circuit chips with low power utilization. Communication is performed using group signaling over multiple wires using a vector signaling code, where each wire carries a low-swing signal that may take on more than two signal values.
US09071473B2
A method and system for selecting an algorithm for channel estimation in a wireless communication system are disclosed. According a parameter indicative of an accuracy of a channel estimation algorithm is determined. A selection between a first channel estimation algorithm and a second channel estimation algorithm is made based on the determined parameter.
US09071469B2
A signal identification device identifies the carrier mode applied to a received signal that has control information embedded therein by extracting the control information from the received signal, generating multiple reference signals, each of the reference signals corresponding to one of multiple formulations of control information for one or more carrier transmission modes, performing a correlation operation on the control information against each of the reference signals, and determining the carrier mode based on results of the correlation operations.
US09071466B2
A method and apparatus for performing handover on a voice call between a packet network system and a circuit network system is provided. Considering a communication environment where a UE cannot simultaneously use radio resources of both the next generation mobile communication system (LTE) and the legacy mobile communication system (e.g., GSM/WCDMA), the present invention proposes an SCSE for performing signal translation between the packet switched network and the circuit switched network and anchoring a voice call in the application level, and supports a continuous voice call using the SCSE.
US09071462B2
A method for displaying a message in a mobile communication terminal in which includes: when a message is received (or transmitted), a keyword is extracted from received (or transmitted) message contents; a determination is made whether a counterpart's (or one's own) sender information of the received (or transmitted) message exists, wherein when the counterpart's (or one's own) sender information exists, a determination is made whether a representative photo image exists in the counterpart's (or one's own) sender information, and when the representative photo image exists, a face detection feature is extracted from the representative photo image, and a keyword is extracted from the received message contents, and wherein a photo image that meets at least one of the extracted face detection feature and the keyword is searched for from an internal device or an external device.
US09071458B2
Devices, methods and instructions encoded on computer readable medium for implementation of a dual-adjacency between edge devices of a network site. A first edge device comprises one or more local interfaces configured for communication, via a local network, with one or more network devices co-located in a first network site. The first edge device also comprises one or more overlay interfaces configured for communication, via a core network, with one or more network devices located in one or more other network sites connected to the core network. The first edge device comprises a processor configured to establish, via at least one of the local interfaces, a site communication channel with a second edge device co-located in the first network site. The processor is further configured to establish an overlay communication channel, via at least one of the overlay interfaces, with the second edge device.
US09071453B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products for identifying a presence of a plurality of mobile devices at a geographic location; determining an entertainment option to be played at the geographic location based on the identified plurality of mobile devices; and based on the determination, selecting an entertainment option to be played at the geographic location.
US09071451B2
Geocast-based situation awareness utilizing a scalable, distributed ad hoc geocast protocol as a communication primitive, may provide a field common operating picture (FCOP) for providing location tracking, movement history, telemetry, and messaging in near real time to all operators in a scenario. Information may be transferred using a query/response geocast message protocol. Caching on devices may be utilized to gain scalability. A query message may have a payload containing a type indication and a header containing a description of a geocast region of intended reception, which may comprise the monitored region, the location of the monitorer, or any appropriate combination thereof. Response messages may be sent from devices located in the monitored region to an area containing the location of the sender of a query. A response message may contain monitored information, such as current location, telemetry data, and/or recent movement history, or the like.
US09071443B2
Techniques for automated service platform prospecting are provided. A prospector process is sent out in advance to scout for potential network sites that provide computing infrastructure and computing services (platforms) to self-contained computing environments. The prospector process validates the potential network sites for use and gathers site characteristics that are used to configure the self-contained computing environments when they are to be installed and executed on those network sites.
US09071442B2
A signcryption is generated by a sender by using a first encryption algorithm to encrypt plaintext m with public key Epk to get ciphertext e, e=E.Encrypt(m); generating a key k and its encapsulation c using an encapsulation algorithm and public key Kpk, k,c=KD.Encapsulate( ); sign (e,c) using Ssk, s=S.sign(e,c); encrypt the signature s using a second encryption algorithm and the key k, e_d=D.Encrypt(s). The signcryption of m is formed by (e,c,e_d). The sender may also prove knowledge of the decryption of e, and that e_d encrypts a valid signature on the concatenation of c and e using the key of the encapsulation. Also provided are the corresponding signcryption verification device and method, and computer program products.
US09071441B2
A method implemented by a wearable wireless communication device (“WWCD”) includes detecting a connection between the WWCD and an accessory device. The WWCD accesses a memory location in the accessory device, the memory location being designated for storing brand data indicating a brand identity associated with the accessory device. The WWCD determines a brand status of the accessory device based on data, if any, accessed from the memory location in the accessory device. The WWCD also determines one or more interactions permitted between the WWCD and the accessory device based at least in part on the brand status of the accessory device.
US09071439B2
Techniques are disclosed for performing operations in an authentication token or other cryptographic device in a system comprising an authentication server. In one aspect, a code generated by the authentication server is received in the cryptographic device. The code may have associated therewith information specifying at least one operation to be performed by the cryptographic device. The cryptographic device authenticates the code, and responsive to authentication of the code, performs the specified operation. If the code is not authenticated, the operation is not performed. The code may be determined as a function of a one-time password generated by the authentication server. The function may also take as an input an identifier of the operation to be performed.
US09071433B2
The present disclosure presents an improved method and apparatus for re-transmission of reconfiguration messages. For example, the disclosure presents a method for detecting that a reconfiguration complete message is transmitted from a user equipment (UE) to a network and initiating a reconfiguration re-transmission timer upon the detection. In addition, such an example method, may include determining that the UE has not received a layer two acknowledgement (L2 ACK) message for the transmitted reconfiguration complete message from the network prior to expiration of the reconfiguration re-transmission timer and triggering a cell update message to the network in response to the determination that the UE has not received the L2 ACK message. As such, improved re-transmission of reconfiguration messages may be achieved.
US09071428B2
Provided are methods, systems, and devices for preventing hardware piracy.
US09071424B1
One embodiment is directed to a method performed by a computing device. The method includes (a) engaging in a handshake procedure with a remote second computing device to establish a secure channel, (b) generating a first encryption key using a first token having a secret seed, the first encryption key being the same as a second encryption key generated by the second computing device using a second token having the same secret seed, and (c) using the first encryption key to engage in encrypted communications with the second computing device. Other embodiments are directed to a computerized apparatus and a computer program product for performing a method similar to that described above.
US09071422B2
An access authentication method for multiple devices and platforms. Upon receipt of a multiple access request, a source device that has initially registered a user account to a subscribed site requests an authentication key for a target device to a server of the subscribed site, the target device receives an access authentication request together with an authentication key from the source device, when the source device receives the authentication key from an account authentication system, the authentication key being generated in response to an authentication key request from the subscribed site server by the account authentication system, the subscribed site server determines whether there is the registered user account and performs access authentication with the account authentication system, upon receipt of the authentication key from the target device, and the target device receives an access authentication completion notification from the subscribed site server, when the access authentication is completed.
US09071417B2
A method and system for packet synchronization may comprise receiving a plurality of bits from an incoming sample of data. The received plurality of bits may be sliced at a first sampling rate. A logic level of at least one of the received plurality of bits may be determined based on the slicing of the received plurality of bits. The received plurality of bits may be synchronized with a channel access code based on determining the logic level of at least one of the received plurality of bits. The channel access code may be sampled at a higher frequency, to increase the probability of detecting whether the incoming bit is LOGIC 1 or LOGIC 0.
US09071412B2
In a telecommunication system, a method of controlling and implementing uplink transmission schemes specifically for user equipment having multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) capability, including initializing said scheme at a network element; forwarding a message from said network element to said terminal indicating said scheme; transmitting uplink signals according to said scheme. It may include selecting a pre-coding arrangement such as a Transmitted Precoding Matrix Indicator or other scheduling grant information.
US09071410B2
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to simultaneous transmission of clock and bidirectional data over a communication channel. An embodiment of a transmitting device includes a modulator to generate a modulated signal including a clock signal and a data signal, the clock signal being modulated by a first signal edge of the modulated signal and the data signal being modulated by a position of a second signal edge of the modulated signal; a driver to drive the modulated signal on a communication channel; an echo canceller to subtract reflected signals on the communication channel; and a data recovery module to recover a signal received on the communication channel, the received signal being encoded by Return-to-Zero (RZ) encoding, the signal being received simultaneously with driving the modulated signal on the communication channel.
US09071409B2
An interpolation circuit includes: a first circuit that generates first interpolation data from a plurality of pieces of data among data inputted in time series; a second circuit that generates second interpolation data from the plurality of pieces of data in timing when a part of the data inputted in time series in the first circuit lacks; and a third circuit that adds the second interpolation data to a location in the first interpolation data where the part of the data inputted in time series has lacked.
US09071405B2
The invention discloses are an optical line terminal, an optical network unit, a passive optical network system, an upstream bandwidth allocation method and a rate adaptation method. The OLT comprises: an optical module, a clock and data recovery module, a media access control chip and a control module, wherein, the optical module is configured to receive upstream data sent by ONUs having different transmission rates; the clock and data recovery module is configured to receive the upstream data, recover a clock signal according to the upstream data, and send the upstream data and the clock signal to the media access control chip; the media access control chip is configured to save the upstream data and the clock signal; the control module is configured to, according to the clock signal, acquire an upstream rate of the upstream data, and allocate an upstream bandwidth to the ONU according to the upstream rate.
US09071397B2
Detection and characterization of laser clipping within communication devices. Identification of one or more harmonics associated with a fundamental frequency by which signaling is effectuated within the communication system for laser clipping identification. Appropriate spectral signal analysis is made to identify the presence of characteristic(s) (e.g., energy, amplitude, phase, and/or other characteristic(s)), if any, at one or more harmonic frequencies within a received signal. Appropriate time correlation is performed to distinguish whether or not characteristic(s) associated with at one or more of these harmonic bands is a result of laser clipping or from some other source (e.g., such as other signals within a communication system that happened to reside at those respective harmonic bands). Such appropriate identified correlation between characteristic(s) corresponding to a fundamental frequency band of the communication signal and characteristic(s) corresponding to one or more harmonics (e.g., of that fundamental frequency band) indicates laser clipping.
US09071393B2
An outdoor communication unit (ODU) for implementation within a dual channel microwave backhaul system, is provided. The ODU includes an radio frequency (RF) module, having digital capabilities, which is configured to utilize the digital capabilities to perform adaptive adjustments to correct errors in data in a digital domain, a conversion block configured to convert the data between an analog domain and the digital domain, and a processing module configured to adaptively adjust a characteristic of the data and a characteristic of a dual channel wireless link, and to facilitate a transmission of the data over the dual channel wireless link by performing mathematical manipulation techniques. In particular, the characteristic of the data and of the dual channel wireless link are adaptively adjusted, according to a detected condition, using a hitless adaptive coding modulation (ACM) technique to optimize the transmission of the data over the dual channel wireless link.
US09071390B2
A transmitting device may determine a physical layer transmission properties based upon an amount of data to transmit via a communications channel. The physical layer transmission properties may comprise a derated tone map that has a lower physical layer transmission throughput capability than an original tone map. An indication regarding the derated tone map may be included in a first message, a portion of a physical layer framing protocol, a physical layer control transmission (such as a frame control symbol), or other transmissions such that the receiving device can derive the derated tone map without significant added overhead.
US09071388B2
A switchable diplexer includes a plurality of bandpass filters having passbands for the frequency bands in which communication across a communication channel is desired. The bandpass filters can be arranged in groups of bandpass filters located adjacent to one another physically. Further, a group of bandpass filters can include a plurality of bandpass filters having a stop band in a common frequency range of interest. A plurality of switches can be provided to switch the desired bandpass filter into the circuit to allow communication on its corresponding band. The switches can therefore be electrically coupled to the passband filters and configured to select one of the plurality of bandpass filters for signal communication on the communication channel.
US09071384B2
A network design apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store network topology information indicating a connection relationship between a plurality of nodes in a network in which the plurality of nodes are connected to each other by a link and demand information indicating a demand including a starting point node, an ending point node, a route, and the number of the demands, and a control unit configured, based on the network topology information and the demand information, to take out a certain number of nodes from the sorted nodes having the higher rank and generate combination candidates of transmission paths in which the starting point node, the ending point node, and the certain number of nodes are set as terminal points with regard to the respective demands, and determine a combination of the transmission paths that accommodate the demand from the combination candidates of the transmission paths.
US09071382B2
Proposed is a method of optical data transmission. A first data signal and a second data signal are received at a same sampling rate. A third data signal and a fourth data signal are generated, using the first and the second data signal, wherein the two data signals are delayed to each other by a delay time that is varied over time. The phase of a first optical signal is modulated in dependence on the third data signal, and the phase of a second optical signal with a same wavelength is modulated in dependence on the fourth data signal. The first optical signal is transmitted in a first polarization plane into an optical fiber, and the second optical signal is transmitted in a second polarization plane orthogonal to the first polarization plane into the optical fiber.
US09071366B2
An information transmission system includes a message generation unit for creating a first message which contains specific information having information on a location and is to be transmitted to mobile phones and a database which is used for creating the first message and contains location information per mobile phone and safety information per user of the mobile phone. The first message has two or more hyperlinks to be used for sending a reply regarding safety of a user of a transmission-destination mobile phone. URL information associated with the hyperlink contains different parameters depending on a type of the reply regarding safety of the user of the mobile phone. The safety information in the database is updated based on the reply regarding safety using any one of the two or more hyperlinks.
US09071362B1
A method of transmitting data. The method comprises preliminarily providing a modulation scheme comprising an N-symbol constellation defined in an M-dimensional space, wherein N<2M, and a composite distance between a given pair of symbols within the constellation increases with increasing Hamming distance between data words encoded in each of those symbols. During run-time, a data signal to be transmitted is encoded as symbols of the constellation, and modulated onto at least M dimensions of a carrier light in accordance with the symbols.
US09071360B2
Methods to load control programs into an optical transceiver whose specifications follow the standards are disclosed. The standard transceiver, such as SFP transceiver and/or XFP transceiver, provides control terminals in addition to the serial interface to communicate with the host device. The control terminals are inactive when the transceiver is output of the host device. The loader to load the program utilizes those control terminals and the optical transceiver of the invention provides mechanisms to use those control terminals for downloading the program.
US09071357B1
An optical fiber data communications network in which an electro-optical transceiver couples a plurality of serial electrical data buses over a single bidirectional optical fiber link, and includes a controller that functions by oversampling the digital electrical signal on each of such buses, multiplexes them, and converts the signal into a high speed optical signal for transmission over an optical fiber.
US09071356B2
A method for nonlinearity compensation for an optical transmission link includes determining a dispersion effect of a transmission link; applying a phase conjugation to the transmission link, the phase conjugation responsive to an input wave over the transmission link and providing a conjugated version of the input wave; and configuring an optimum equivalent link responsive to the phase conjugation after the transmission link to compensate for a non-linear dispersion effect from said transmission link.
US09071353B2
An optical module includes a circuit board having flexibility, a photoelectric conversion element mounted on a mounting surface of the circuit board, a semiconductor circuit element mounted on the mounting surface of the circuit board and electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion element, a plate-shaped optical connection member having a groove into which an end part of an optical fiber is pushed so as to be housed and optically connecting the optical fiber and the photoelectric conversion element, and a supporting member arranged so as to sandwich the optical connection member between the circuit board. The groove is formed between the semiconductor circuit element and the supporting member so as to have an opening into which the optical fiber is pushed at the supporting member side. The semiconductor circuit element has a height from the mounting surface of the circuit board higher than the photoelectric conversion element.
US09071350B2
An optical receiver able to distinguish a failure occurred in one of multiplexed signals from a failure in the transmission medium is disclosed. The optical receiver includes an optical de-multiplexer, optical devices, a signal processor, and a controller. Each of the optical devices converts the de-multiplexed signal into an electrical signal. A clock is extracted from one of the electrical signals. The processor decides, based on the electrical signals and the clock, one of the multiplexed signals falls in a failure.
US09071339B2
A system for closed-circuit power line communication includes at least a first and second power line connected to at least one electrical device configured to receive a data signal. An auxiliary line is connected to the electrical devices to provide a ground connection, and at least one transmitter generates a first data signal for transmission over the first and second power lines, respectively, to the electrical device. A low-pass common-mode filter is connected to the first and second power lines to provide closed-circuit data communication between the transmitter and the electrical device, the filter comprising at least one coupling capacitor between said first and second power lines such that at least the polarities with respect to ground of said first data signals transmitted over the first and second power lines, respectively, are substantially similar.
US09071331B2
A communication apparatus detects a radio signal from another communication apparatus which performs radio communication in another apparatus station, estimates a producing period and signal timing of the another apparatus station using the detected radio signal, determines, based on the detected radio signal, a communication apparatus which has transmitted the signal, and stores, in association with each other, the determined communication apparatus and the producing period and signal timing of the another apparatus station, wherein at least one of the stored producing period and signal timing of the other apparatus station is updated using the detected radio signal.
US09071323B2
The present invention relates to a cooperative relaying system (1) and method (100) in which many different units in the network can be used in a common channel and time interval by way of repetition without requiring additional relay coordination in cases where the connection between the source and the destination is insufficient in wireless communication networks. The inventive system (1) and method (100) increases the probability of the transmission of the source data with the maximum diversity gain requiring no coordination thanks to determining the relays (3) without pre-selection and keeping the amount of band spent to a minimum.
US09071306B2
A communication apparatus, method, and system that reduce adverse effects caused by coupling between a transmission apparatus and a reception apparatus. The transmission apparatus includes a monitoring section that monitors an index value for a total amount of bias of a signal level in signals, a symbol identifying section that identifies a target symbol to be changed in a transmission symbol sequence comprising the signals, based on the index value for the total amount of bias of the signal level, a symbol position changing section that changes a position of the target symbol to a position of a signal point serving to reduce the bias of the signal level, and a transmission section that transmits signals included in the changed transmission symbol sequence to a reception apparatus.
US09071303B2
This specification discloses a level de-multiplexed DSM based transmitter and a method for providing the same. Broadly embodiments of the present specification enable wireless transmitters that are based on multi-level de-multiplexed DSM. A three-level de-multiplexed DSM based transmitter is disclosed as an example. More generally, the use of m-level de-multiplexed DSM is also taught, the specification thereby being enabling for broader applications to a person skilled in the art. At least one of the efficiency and linearity of transmitters can be enhanced as required for specific applications by a person of skill in the art in view of this specification and the teachings of its disclosed embodiments.
US09071302B2
Electronic devices with wireless communications capabilities are provided. The electronic device may include storage and processing circuitry, power amplifier circuitry, power supply circuitry, etc. The storage and processing circuitry may direct the power amplifier circuitry to operate using a desired power mode, in allocated resource blocks within a particular frequency channel, and at a given output power level. The power supply circuitry may bias the power amplifier circuitry with a power supply voltage. The electronic device may be subject to in-band emissions requirements and adjacent channel leakage requirements that restrict the power levels produced by the device on frequencies that are not allocated to the device. The electronic device may optimize the power amplifier supply voltage based on allocated resource blocks by minimizing the supply voltage to reduce power consumption while ensuring that emissions requirements are satisfied.
US09071287B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and method of initiating an educational application user interface. One example method of operation may include receiving a near field communication signal from a passive near field tag at an active near field communication device operating an educational application user interface. The passive tags may be used to provide educational segment triggers which offer educational content pertaining to the particular lesson being conducted.
US09071276B2
The present technology relates to a data-processing device and a data-processing method, which are capable of improving tolerance for an error of data.When an LDPC code having a code length of 16200 bits is mapped to 16 signal points, a demultiplexer performs exchanging such that when a (#i+1)-th bit from a most significant bit of code bits of 4×2 bits and a (#i+1)-th bit from a most significant bit of symbol bits of 4×2 bits of 2 consecutive symbols are represented by a bit b#i and a bit y#i, respectively, for LDPC codes having coding rates of 1/5, 4/15, and 1/3, b0 is allocated to y4, b1 is allocated to y3, b2 is allocated to y2, b3 is allocated to y1, b4 is allocated to y6, b5 is allocated to y5, b6 is allocated to y7, and b7 is allocated to y0. For example, the present invention can be applied to a transmission system that transmits an LDPC code or the like.
US09071275B2
The present invention relates to an error control technology in the communication system and discloses a method and an apparatus for implementing Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) codes to improve the operation performance of the system significantly and satisfy operation requirements when processing high-rate CRC data. The method includes: performing at least one XOR operation for information bits input in parallel to obtain a first result, where at least one pipeline is added during the XOR operation; performing an XOR operation for a previously obtained CRC code to obtain a second result; and performing an XOR operation for the second result and the first result to obtain a current CRC code. The present invention is applicable to any field that needs to implement CRC codes by means of hardware.
US09071274B2
Systems, methods, apparatus and computer program products provide highly reliable file delivery using a combination of packet-level FEC on source data packets which are arranged in matrices, where encoding is performed on both rows and columns or on rows, columns and diagonals.
US09071271B1
A digital radio frequency memory (DRFM) comprises a plurality of time interleaved analog to digital converters (ADCs) in cooperation with a plurality of time interleaved digital to analog converters (DACs) to provide an effective sampling rate which may be greater than the clock rate of the system. A higher sampling rate at the ADC increases instantaneous bandwidth, while a higher sampling rate at the DAC improves spectral purity. The ADCs and DACs are time interleaved by supplying a clock signal to each ADC/DAC which is skewed with respect to the previous and subsequent skewed signal. In order to process the higher effective sampling rate, a pre-computation of DAC values for each high rate sample is performed by an SDAC algorithm that pipelines the calculations of the processed sample values provided to the DAC. A DAC bias correction is provided to adjust for drift in the DACs.
US09071260B2
An embodiment of a circuit includes an input node, a generator, a combiner, a converter, and a filter. The input node is configured to receive an input signal in a first domain, and the generator is configured to generate a periodic signal in the first domain. The combiner is configured to combine the input and periodic signals into a resulting signal in the first domain, and the converter is configured to convert the resulting signal into a converted signal in a second domain. And the filter is configured to remove from the converted signal substantially all of a frequency component of the converted signal having substantially a same frequency as a frequency component of the periodic signal.
US09071258B1
A parallel-serial converter circuit has a frequency divider configured to generate a frequency-divided signal by dividing a frequency of a reference clock signal by a dividing ratio depending on a logic of a speed control signal, a timing pulse generator configured to generate a timing pulse signal based on the frequency-divided signal, a load signal generator configured to generate a load signal based on the speed control signal and the timing pulse signal, a bit clock generator configured to generate a bit clock signal based on the speed control signal and the timing pulse signal, and a parallel-serial converter configured to newly load the parallel data in synchronization with the load signal and convert the loaded parallel data into serial data in synchronization with the bit clock signal.
US09071254B2
An oscillator and a self-calibration method thereof are provided. The oscillator includes: an oscillation unit for generating an oscillation signal; a converting unit for converting frequency of the oscillation signal into a voltage signal; a comparison unit for comparing the voltage signal with a first voltage corresponding to a higher frequency and a second voltage corresponding to a lower frequency, and outputting a comparison result signal; an adjusting unit for storing a calibration value, adjusting the calibration value based on the comparison result signal and outputting a calibration signal corresponding to the adjusted calibration value; and a calibration unit for calibrating the frequency of the oscillation signal based on the calibration signal. Self-calibration for the frequency of the oscillation signal may be achieved, which may ensure the stability of the frequency of the oscillation signal.
US09071247B2
A semiconductor device includes: a main driving unit configured to receive an output data and to drive the received data to a data output pad; a pre-emphasis data generation unit configured to compare a delayed data obtained by delaying the output data by one data period with the output data, to delay the comparison result by one data period, and to output the delayed data as pre-emphasis data; and a pre-emphasis driving unit configured to receive the pre-emphasis data and to drive the received data to the data output pad.
US09071243B2
Embodiments of the invention are generally directed to a single-ended configurable multi-mode driver. An embodiment of an apparatus includes an input to receive an input signal, an output to transmit a driven signal generated from the input signal on a communication channel, a mechanism for independently configuring a termination resistance of the driver apparatus, and a mechanism for independently configuring a voltage swing of the driven signal without modifying a supply voltage for the apparatus.
US09071241B2
A semiconductor device includes a clock delay unit configured to delay a source clock by a given delay amount and generate a delayed source clock, a driving signal generation unit configured to decide logic levels of first and second driving signals based on a value of input data, to select one of the source clock and the delayed source clock based on current logic levels of the first and second driving signal's, which are detected based on the source clock, and to use a selected clock as a reference of an operation for determining next logic levels of the first and second driving signals, and an output pad driving unit configured to drive a data output pad with a first voltage in response to the first driving signal, and to drive the data output pad with a second voltage in response to the second driving signal.
US09071235B2
Apparatuses and methods for changing a signal path delay of a signal path responsive to changes in power provided to the signal path are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a signal path and signal path delay compensation circuit. The signal path includes a plurality of signal driver circuits coupled in series. The signal path delay compensation circuit includes an adjustable path delay circuit and a bias circuit. The adjustable path delay circuit is coupled to an output of a signal driver circuit of the plurality of signal driver circuits and includes a latch circuit. The bias circuit is configured to change a resistance to switching a latched signal level of the latch circuit responsive to changes in power provided to the signal path. Additional example apparatuses and methods are also disclosed.
US09071233B2
A flip-flop circuit may include a master latch and a slave latch. Each latch may have a transparent mode and a storage mode. The slave latch may be in storage mode when the master latch is in transparent mode; and vice-versa. A clock signal may control the mode of each latch through a pair of clock-gated pull-up transistors and a pair clock-gated of pull-down transistors, for a total of four clock-gated transistors. The clock-gated transistors may be shared by the master latch and the slave latch. Fewer clock-gated transistors may be required when they are shared, as opposed to not being shared. Clock-gated transistors may have parasitic capacitance and consume power when subjected to a varying clock signal, due to the charging and discharging of the parasitic capacitance. Having fewer clock-gated transistors thus may reduce the power consumed by the flip-flop circuit.
US09071230B2
A gate driving circuit and a display apparatus having the gate driving circuit, in which the gate driving circuit includes a voltage adjusting part using a low clock signal to increase the reliability of the gate driving circuit, thereby extending the lifetime of the gate driving circuit.
US09071228B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to the technical field of RF circuits, and in particular, to a balun. In an embodiment of the present invention, a balun is provided which comprises at least two coaxial cables, each of which is wound into at least one loop, and the inner and outer conductors of one end of all coaxial cables are connected respectively to each other and the inner and outer conductors of the other end are also connected to each other. The novel balun according to the embodiments of the present invention has a small size but a large power capacity and low cost, and can be used in a magnetic field environment.
US09071226B2
The invention relates to a temperature compensated micromechanical resonator and method of manufacturing thereof. The resonator comprises a resonator element comprising a semiconductor crystal structure, which is doped so as to reduce its temperature coefficient of frequency, transducer means for exciting to the resonator element a vibrational mode. According to the invention the crystal orientation and shape of the resonator element are chosen to allow for a shear mode having a saddle point to be excited to the resonator element, and said transducer means are adapted to excite said shear mode to the resonator element. Accurate micromechanical resonators with now temperature drift can be achieved by means of the invention.
US09071215B2
An audio signal processing device capable of separating audio signal components which enhance the sence of presense from two channels of audio signals and increasing or decreasing pressure for the components is provided. The audio signal processing device (illustrated as an audio signal processing portion 20) is provided with a signal extraction portion (illustrated as a signal separation and extraction portion 23) for extracting, from input audio signals of two channels, uncorrelated signals derived from the signals; an uncorrelated signal increase/decrease portion (illustrated as gain adjustment portions 25a and 25b) for increasing or decreasing signals extracted at the signal extraction portion; and an audio signal summing portion for summing the signals that have been increased or decreased at the uncorrelated signal increase/decrease portion and the input audio signal.
US09071213B2
There are provided a bias circuit and an amplifier having a current limit function, including: a control voltage generating unit generating a control voltage using a reference voltage; a bias voltage generating unit generating a bias voltage according to the control voltage; and a bias current limit unit controlling the control voltage according to a bias current of the bias voltage generating unit.
US09071207B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for effecting predistortion of a concurrent multi-band signal to compensate for power amplifier non-linearity. In general, the concurrent multi-band signal contains frequency components occupying multiple frequency bands with no frequency components between adjacent frequency bands. In one embodiment, a transmitter includes a power amplifier that amplifies a modulated concurrent multi-band signal to provide an amplified concurrent multi-band signal. A predistortion sub-system effects predistortion of the modulated concurrent multi-band signal prior to amplification in order to compensate for non-linearity of the power amplifier. The predistortion sub-system includes a number of predistorters each providing predistortion for a different one of the frequency bands of the modulated concurrent multi-band signal. At least one of the predistorters provides predistortion for the corresponding frequency band of the modulated concurrent multi-band signal based on carrier frequency information for the modulated concurrent multi-band signal.
US09071202B2
In one embodiment, a Doherty amplifier having a main amplifier branch and one or more peak amplifier branches, where at least one peak amplifier branch has RF conditioning applied to its peak branch input signal such that the peak amplifier branch is active only when the peak branch input signal is greater than a specified threshold level. In one implementation, a reverse-biased diode is configured between the peak branch input signal and a peak amplifier device, where the bias signal applied to the diode establishes the specified threshold level. Depending on the implementation, the bias signal may be static or dynamic, and multiple peak amplifier branches may have diodes with independently or dependently generated bias signals applied.
US09071198B2
An integrated Doherty amplifier circuit comprising a main input terminal, a peak input terminal and an output terminal, a main input conductor and a peak input conductor that are offset from one another in a first direction, the main and peak input conductors extend in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction, and wherein an input end of the main input conductor is coupled to the main input terminal and an input end of the peak input conductor is coupled to the peak input terminal, an output conductor that extends in the second direction, an output end of the output conductor is coupled to the output terminal, a main amplifier stage extends in the second direction and has a main stage input and a main stage output, a peak amplifier stage extends in the second direction and has a peak stage input and a peak stage output.
US09071197B2
Methods and apparatuses are presented for harmonic reject upconverting a baseband signal using at least one quadrature passive upconversion mixer. In some embodiments, an apparatus may include a first quadrature passive mixer configured to receive a first baseband input and a first LO input, and a second quadrature passive mixer configured to receive a second baseband input and a second LO input. A first output of said first passive mixer may be directly connected to a first output of said second passive mixer and together coupled to a first amplifier input. A second output of said first passive mixer may be directly connected to a second output of said second passive mixer and together coupled to a second amplifier input. The transmitter may be configured to output an upconverted signal with at least one rejected harmonic spurious mixing product based on the first and second amplifier inputs.
US09071195B2
The invention describes methods and systems for digital synthesis of electric signals. According to the invention, one or more bit-patterns are provided, each indicative of a rectangular waveform having a characteristic frequency. Further to determining a selected signal frequency to be synthesized, a selected bit-pattern associated therewith is obtained. Bits of the selected bit-pattern are cyclically serialized to generate a substantially rectangular waveform signal comprising the characteristic frequency. Then, the signal is filtered to suppress spurious frequencies outside a certain unfiltered frequency band which corresponds to the selected bit-pattern to thereby obtain a filtered signal with prominent frequency component corresponding to the selected signal frequency.
US09071191B2
In one embodiment, a solar array system is described. The example solar array system is prefabricated as a single unit. The solar array system includes a plurality of solar panels. The solar panels of the plurality of solar panels are configured to be electrically connected to one another. At least one solar panel of the plurality of solar panels is electrically connected to a mini-inverter. The mini-inverter is configured to perform maximum power point tracking (MPPT) and apply a load to at least one solar panel of the plurality of solar panels. The mini-inverter is also configured to convert direct current (DC) power generated by the plurality of solar panels to alternating current (AC) power. The solar array system further includes a plurality of locking hinges. The locking hinges are configured to allow the plurality of solar panels to be folded on top of one another.
US09071190B2
An actuation control, for electrical disconnectors, including a device for driving the actuation motor of a movable element of an electrical disconnector, elements for detecting operating parameters of the disconnector, a device for processing the operating and control parameters of the driving device, elements for storing the operating parameters, which are connected to the processing and control device in order to receive from it and store the processed operating parameters, and interface elements of the actuation control, for its activation for opening or closing the disconnector.
US09071185B2
There are provided a constant voltage circuit that outputs a stable constant voltage for an analog electronic clock, and an analog electronic clock featuring low current consumption and prolonged battery life. The constant voltage circuit has a first voltage holding circuit connected between the gate of an output transistor and an output terminal and a second voltage holding circuit connected between the gate of the output transistor and a ground terminal, and carries out control such that the second voltage holding circuit is enabled when the motor is operated.
US09071181B2
Back electromotive force (BEMF) of a brushless DC (BLDC) motor may be determined when using continuous sinusoidal drive by computing the voltage to common (ground) of each phase (3) thereof when a phase current is substantially zero. These phase voltages may be computed from the DC supply voltage and the duty cycle of the pulse width modulation (PWM) drive to each of the motor phases. From the three phase voltages computed at a zero phase current occurrence, each coil voltage may be calculated. The BEMF of that coil is substantially equal to the coil voltage when at zero current. The phase voltages, when computed at a zero current instance, may be used in determining the BEMF. Once the BEMF is determined it may further be used to regulate the motor speed using a K factor of the BLDC motor.
US09071176B2
There is provided an apparatus and a method for controlling a motor. The apparatus for controlling a motor includes a signal detection unit detecting a first signal, a sampling unit acquiring the number of pulses of the first signal included in a predetermined sampling period, and an operation unit dividing the sampling period into a predetermined number of, a plurality of sub periods, and computing a speed of a motor by allocating predetermined weights to the number of pulses of the first signal included in the plurality of respective sub periods, wherein the operation unit computes the speed of the motor by controlling at least one of the weights and the number of sub periods when the number of pulses of the first signal included in the plurality of respective sub periods is different.
US09071172B2
A pulse width modulated (PWM) trapezoidal commutation drive to a brushless direct current (BLDC) motor is sine modified so that the applied drive voltage substantially matches the induced voltage generated in the BLDC motor. The values of the cosine of the angles between −30 degrees and +30 degrees are used to modify the duty cycle of the PWM drive signal dependent upon the rotor angular positions determined from the times between the zero crossing BEMF voltages measured at the unconnected motor terminals.
US09071169B2
Controlling power switches with a programmable gate controller system proximate associated power switches and remote from the central controller including sensing at least one predetermined condition local to the associated power switches; reporting the sensed conditions to the remote programmable gate controller system; developing, in response to the sensed condition at least one control signal in the remote programmable gate controller system; and applying the control signal to the associated power switches.
US09071165B2
This system for converting a direct input voltage into an alternating output voltage comprises two input terminals, two voltage generators connected in series between the input terminals and connected to one another by a middle point, as well as, for each phase of the alternating voltage, an output terminal, two switching branches each connected between the output terminal and a respective input terminal, each switching branch comprising N first switching cells connected in series and N−1 intermediate points, the first switching cells successively being connected to one another by a corresponding intermediate point, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2, and control means for controlling the first switching cells. The system includes, for each phase of the alternating voltage, N−1 pair(s) of capacitors, each pair of capacitors being connected between intermediate points of one of the two switching branches and the other of the two switching branches.
US09071161B2
A single stage power factor correction power supply has two transformers: a main transformer and an auxiliary transformer (forward transformer). The main transformer transfers energy form the primary circuit to the secondary circuit. The auxiliary transformer is used to correct input current waveform. The advantage of this design over the two stage power supply is that the voltage across the storage capacitor can be designed to be only slightly higher than the peak value of the rectified input voltage. Therefore, it uses less energy to correct input current waveform and results in less of an Electromagnetic Compatibility problem because it has lower input current amplitude through the inductor than that of the two stage PFC power supply.
US09071149B2
A DC-DC converter generates PWM signals PWM1H, PWM1L on the basis of a reference signal CLK1 to drive switching elements connected in series. When generating a reset signal RST, the converter generates PWM signals PWM2H, PWM2L on the basis of the reset signal RST. When generating no reset signal, the converter generates the PWM signals PWM2H, PWM2L on the basis of a reference signal CLK2 in order to drive other switching elements connected in series. The converter generates the reset signal RST at an optional timing to the reference signal CLK1. The reference signal CLK2 is brought forward from the reference signal CLK1 by ΔT1. The PWM signals PWM1H, PWM1L are different in timing from the PWM signals PWM2H, PWM2L. This makes it possible to avoid the switching elements diagonally arranged from being simultaneously turned on and off, and suppress a switching loss, and to increase an efficiency of the converter.
US09071140B2
A current mode DC-DC controller operates with high efficiency even when the input and output voltages are close. Switches selectively connecting an input, ground and an output to inductor terminals are controlled in a buck/boost region to alternate between operation as a buck converter and operation as a boost converter. The number of switches repeatedly changing state is thus reduced, lowering switching losses and improving conversion efficiency. Current through the inductor during operation is sensed and compared to an error value to control switching from buck mode operation to boost mode operation and back.
US09071136B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for suppressing voltage peaking in a buck regulator. In one aspect, a buck regulator comprises: a pulse-width modulator (PWM) that generates a pulsed signal; a switch operable to selectively connect the regulator to a DC power supply in response to the pulsed signal and output a pulsed output DC signal; a filter for filtering out high frequency noise from the pulsed output DC signal and generating a regulated output signal; an integrator for comparing the pulsed output DC signal with a reference voltage signal and generating an error signal for input to the PWM; a subtractor operable to subtract the reference voltage signal from the filtered output signal to generate an error feedback signal; and an adder operable to add the error feedback signal to the error signal for input to the pulse-width modulator in order to suppress voltage peaks in the filtered output signal.
US09071130B2
According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a switching power supply device including an integrated body and a plurality of external terminals. In the integrated body, a first switching element, a constant current element, and a diode are connected in series. The plurality of external terminals include a first external terminal connected to a main terminal of an element disposed on one end side of the integrated body and a second external terminal connected to a main terminal of an element disposed on another end side of the integrated body.
US09071128B2
DC-DC converter, wherein in a case of positive voltage generation, the controlling circuit controls the first to fourth switch circuits with the first to fourth controlling signals, thereby permitting conduction between the first node and the first reference node and conduction between the eighth node and the fourth reference node, then permitting conduction between the fourth node and the second reference node and conduction between the sixth node and the third reference node, and then permitting conduction between the second node and the first reference node.
US09071125B2
A switching regulator configured to convert an input voltage input to an input terminal into a predetermined constant voltage by switching with at least two elements including a pair of switching elements or a switching element and a rectifying element, and output the converted voltage as an output voltage from an output terminal includes a comparison unit configured to compare a signal showing an oscillating frequency of the switching regulator with a signal showing a constant frequency, and a driver configured to delay a pulse signal generated by feeding-back a control signal and an output signal of the switching regulator according to the comparison result by the comparison unit with a predetermined time, and switch the input voltage by using the at least two elements based on the pulse signal after the delay.
US09071124B2
A mover, in which at each outer surface of a cornered tubular inner yoke, a flat plate magnet magnetized from inside to outside in a direction perpendicular to the outer surface, a flat plate magnet magnetized in an axial direction of the inner yoke, a flat plate magnet magnetized from outside to inside in the direction perpendicular to the outer surface, and a flat plate magnet magnetized in the axial direction of the inner yoke are alternately provided in this order, is passed through an armature in which a first single pole unit and a second single pole unit rotated by 90° with respect to the first single pole unit are alternately stacked, thus forming a linear motor. Windings are collectively wound around core portions of the first single pole unit. Positions of the magnets provided at the outer surfaces of the inner yoke are deviated from each other.
US09071121B2
A linear vibrator including: a fixing unit having a magnet in an inner space, the magnet generating magnetic force; a vibration unit including a coil disposed to face the magnet and generating electromagnetic force by interaction with the magnet, and a holder coupled with a surface of the coil and fixedly supporting a mass body which vibrates; and an elastic member coupled with the holder and the fixing unit and providing elastic force to the vibration unit.
US09071115B2
A stator which comprises a core, slots provided in the core and a coil comprising a plurality of windings, in which each winding consists of at least one conductor which is arranged in slots of the core associated with the winding, forming axial ripples and forming overall a spiral coaxial to axis A of the core which consists of a set of turns radially superimposed, wherein each conductor comprises a pair of electrical lead wires which are adjacent and which are arranged at the same radial dimension relative to one another, at each point of the conductor. The invention also proposes a method for constructing the stator.
US09071110B2
There is provided a system and method for detecting an abnormal operation of a motor controlling an operating parameter of a machine. Both a torque of the motor and the operating parameter are monitored. A memory stores a plurality of predetermined torque values indicative of a normal operation of the motor. A plurality of operating parameter values are also stored in the memory with each operating parameter value having a corresponding predetermined torque value associated therewith. The predetermined torque value corresponding to the monitored operating parameter is retrieved from the memory and compared to the monitored torque value to detect an abnormal operation of the motor.
US09071097B2
The invention relates to an electric generator, comprising a rotor; a stator enclosing the rotor; a housing; a water-operated cooling device, comprising a water inlet and a water outlet and channels in the rotor and stator for guiding cooling water through the same; the housing is enclosed; the water-operated cooling device is the only cooling device of the generator.
US09071092B2
The current diverter rings (CDRs), captured CDRs, bearing isolators, and explosion-proof CDRs serve to dissipate an electrical charge from a rotating piece of equipment to ground, such as from a motor shaft to a motor housing. One embodiment of the explosion-proof CDR includes a stator that may be mounted to the equipment housing and a rotor that may be mounted to a shaft. The rotor may rotate with the shaft may be encompassed by stator and a cap, which cap may be secured directly to the stator or the housing. A conductive assembly may be positioned in a radial channel formed in the stator such that the conductive assembly contacts the shaft to conduct electricity from the shaft to the housing. Another embodiment of an explosion-proof CDR does not require a rotor. The explosion-proof CDR may be configured to define a flame path to achieve various explosion-proof certifications.
US09071089B2
The invention relates to a bushing (30) for a drive unit, in particular an eccentric bushing (30) for a wiper drive of a windshield wiper, having an axial mounting section (32) and a radial flange section protruding therefrom, wherein the bushing (30) can be mounted having the mounting section (32) and having the flange section in/on a component, wherein the bushing (30) has a relief channel (322, 342) such that a fluid can flow through the relief channel (322, 342) upon mounting of the bushing (30) in/on the component and/or in a mounted state on/in the component. The invention furthermore relates to a drive unit, in particular a wiper drive for a windshield wiper of a motor vehicle, having a bushing (30) according to the invention.
US09071087B2
The invention relates to an electric drive device (10; 110; 210; 310; 410) comprising an electric motor (20) with a stator (24) and a rotor (22) arranged to rotate a drive shaft (26), a housing (30; 130; 230; 330; 430) in which the electric motor (20) is housed, which housing has an essentially ring shaped cross section with an imaginary center axle (X), wherein the electric motor (20) is eccentrically arranged in the housing (30; 130; 230; 330; 430) in such a way that the rotational center of the drive shaft (26) of the electric motor (20) runs essentially parallel to and at a distance from the center axle of the housing (30; 130; 230; 330; 430) so as to form a desired space (36) between the electric motor and said housing. The invention also relates to motor vehicle with an electric drive device.
US09071080B2
A power supply unit includes a communication unit and a control unit. The communication unit is capable of communicating with a different power supply unit. The control unit determines a number of processing units connected thereto, controls powers of the processing units connected thereto so that one of a turn-on operation and a turn-off operation is performed on the powers of the processing units in sequence, and controls the powers of the processing units connected thereto so that one of the turn-on operation and the turn-off operation is performed on the powers in a predetermined priority order in a relationship with processing units connected to the different power supply unit through communication with the different power supply unit.
US09071076B2
Vampire energy loss occurs when an electronic or mechanical machine consumes energy while not being utilized for any useful purpose. Vampire energy losses in consumer electronic devices are under intense scrutiny for needlessly wasting an estimated 20% of the electric power production in the United States. It is also estimated by the US Department of Energy that by 2015 vampire electronics could be responsible for nearly 30 percent of the total household power consumption in the United States. Smarter vampire proof technologies are needed to address this growing problem.
US09071061B2
A magnetic flux pad for receiving or generating magnetic flux. The pad includes two pole areas (11, 12) associated with a magnetically permeable core 14. Coils 17 define the pole areas. The pad allows useable flux to be generated at a significant height above a surface of the pad.
US09071056B2
An energy storage system which balances cell voltages and a method of balancing cell voltages are disclosed. The system and method use a temperature of balancing resistors to determine a time for the balancing resistors to be selectively connected across battery cells so as to balance the battery cells.
US09071046B2
Systems and methods for monitoring the moisture to which an electronic device is exposed may alter or vary operation of the electronic device. Operation of the electronic device may be altered or varied to provide a notification that the electronic device has been exposed to moisture. When an electronic device is exposed to moisture, an operational mode of the electronic device may be changed. A change in the operational mode of the electronic device may include termination of the supply of power to one or more components, which may protect those components. Programs or apps that provide a user of the electronic device with information regarding exposure of the electronic device to an amount of moisture that meets or exceeds a moisture response threshold are also disclosed.
US09071045B2
A terminal processing structure of a coaxial cable includes a core wire, an insulator with which an outer periphery of the core wire is covered, a braid with which an outer periphery of the insulator is covered, and an outer sheath with which an outer periphery of the braid is covered. The outer sheath is divided into a distal piece and a proximal piece by being notched along a circumferential direction in a cable distal end and the distal piece is held in a position separate from the proximal piece and thereby an exposed part of the braid to which a braid crimp part of a shield terminal is crimped is formed between the distal piece and the proximal piece and also a distal end of the braid is covered with the distal piece.
US09071043B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a docking station that prevents electrical cables (e.g., from a portable power generator or other temporary power source) from even being connected to connectors in the interior of the docking station while the building's electrical system (or other electrical load) is in electrical communication with the utility. The docking station can include a cabinet with two doors that swing in different directions and a locking mechanism that regulates the opening and closing of those doors. In preferred embodiments, the locking mechanism includes a trapped-key lock. Embodiments of the present invention can be used in applications other than docking stations.
US09071040B2
A partition is formed between an ion generating unit at the windward side and an ion generating unit at the leeward side, so that the amount of airflow to pass through the ion generating unit at the windward side will become more in comparison to the amount of airflow to pass through the ion generating unit at the leeward side.
US09071033B2
A laser system for generating optical pulses at an operating wavelength of the laser system. The system has an optical resonator comprising first and second reflectors, and a tapered optical fiber disposed between the first and second reflectors. The tapered optical fiber has a core which has a tapered input section which tapers from single mode to multimode at the laser operating wavelength, an inner section of substantially constant diameter capable of supporting multiple modes at the laser operating wavelength. The tapered optical fiber can include a tapered output section wherein the core tapers from a first diameter to a second diameter that is smaller than the first diameter.
US09071031B2
A radio frequency (RF) excited laser assembly includes a pair of opposed electrodes defining an inter-electrode gap and a conductive termination bridge in electrical contact with both electrodes. The termination bridge mechanically supports and positions the electrodes relative to each other and provides a termination impedance for an RF voltage applied to the electrodes. A conical spiral inductor includes one or more metals windings, and one or more concentric terminals, such that the conical spiral inductor defines an inter-winding spacing sufficient to mitigate ionization of a gas medium between windings. A radio frequency (RF) feed-through assembly configured to apply an RF voltage to a pair of opposing electrodes such that a conductor is isolated from a metal sleeve position around the conductor by ion sheath discharge barrier.
US09071014B2
A connector of the invention includes first and second conducting parts and a coupling part. The coupling part couples ends of the first and second conducting parts to allow the first and second conducting parts to turn from a closed position, in which the first and second conducting parts sandwich therebetween a conductor having flexibility, to an open position, in which the first and second conducting parts release the conductor. At least one of the first and second conducting parts includes a locking projection. The locking projection is configured to swing in accordance with the turning of the one of the conducting parts and pass through the conductor. The locking projection is of a curved form conforming to a swing track of the locking projection.
US09071007B2
A connector is configured so that a fitting part of a connector housing and a panel is sealed by bringing a lip part of a flange attachment part of a waterproof grommet for surrounding an outer periphery of a flange into pressing contact with the peripheral edge of an attachment hole when the peripheral edge of the attachment hole is held between a locking protrusion of a housing body and the flange provided at a rear end of the housing body. In the connector, the flange includes a plurality of flexible pieces which elastically displaces the lip part to the side of the locking protrusion so as to expand a proper plate thickness range of the panel capable of making close contact with the lip part.
US09071003B2
A so-called QSFP-plug-in connector is suggested for high performance-plug-in connections in data centers, which comprises a one-piece metallic exterior housing and in which a one-piece locking device is embodied, which via a latch attached thereat can be released from an appropriately embodied cage-like counter connector.Here, a circuit board is provided for the direct plug-in connection in copper-based twin-axial cable connections which is connected inside the exterior housing with electric conductors arranged therein. The electric conductors are held in axially aligned grooves via a fixing clip encompassing them.
US09071002B2
Multi-outlet socket boxes for providing power and, optionally, data connection. The sockets are mounted in oppositely directed inclined flanks of a socket support structure. The socket includes a casing containing the support structure, with an opening in the casing and a cover which, in its closed position conceals the structure and in its open position permits access to the sockets. The cover may be in two parts which move towards and away from one another during closing and opening movements. The cover could include several slats hinged together, guides for guiding the slats, and a locking mechanism.
US09071000B2
An input/output module comprises a module body, a circuit board, and an input/output port. The circuit board is coupled to the module body and has a first surface and a second surface. A second connection portion is disposed on the second surface and electrically connected to a mobile electronic device body. The input/output port is disposed on the first surface and electrically connected to the second connection portion. The input/output port has an insertion end corresponding in position to an opening of the module body and connected to an external transmission connector. Further provided is a mobile electronic device having an input/output module, wherein the input/output module is replaceable such that the mobile electronic device has a transmission interface function and is expandable in applicability.
US09070997B2
A mining cable coupler includes a hollow body with an entrance fitting for an electrical cable at the a end of the body and an electrical connector mounting member having a plurality of electrical connector receiving apertures adjacent a second end of the body with electrical connectors mounted in corresponding ones of the receiving apertures. At least one of the electrical connector includes an elongate electrical conductor that has an exposed face at an end of the hollow body. An insulating material surrounds the electrical conductor. The insulating material defines a radiussed region on the exposed end face of the electrical connector that provides electrical stress relief at the exposed end face. The end of the electrical conductor with the exposed face includes either an electrically conductive pin portion protruding from the end face or a mating electrically conductive socket portion having an opening in the end face.
US09070995B2
A connector unit which prevents a user from contacting a first terminal fitting when fitting a first connector and a second connector together is provided. A connector unit 20 includes a first connector 1 having a first housing 4 receiving a first terminal fitting 3 and a contact-preventive housing 51 disposed between the first terminal fitting and the first housing, and a second housing to be fitted to the first housing. The contact-preventive housing includes a tension spring 6 having one end fixed at an outer circumference of the contact-preventive housing and the other end being a free-end arranged to engage to the first housing to restrict the contact-preventive housing from sliding. The second housing includes an entering portion 12 which enters between the tension spring and the first housing and pushes the tension spring to disengage the tension spring to permit the contact-preventive housing to slide.
US09070989B2
A terminal block includes a terminal portion having an end surface formed with a screw hole and a peripheral surface, a terminal connection joint including a tubular portion having an inner peripheral surface which faces the peripheral surface of the terminal portion, a contact portion having a first contact surface which comes into contact with the end surface of the terminal portion and a second contact surface which comes into contact with a plate-like terminal and a clamping portion for clamping the plate-like terminal between the contact portion and the clamping portion, a fixing bolt including an externally threaded portion to be threadably engaged with the screw hole and a head portion for pressing the clamping portion in a direction to press the plate-like terminal. The contact portion is configured to press the plate-like terminal by being elastically supported on the tubular portion.
US09070974B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus for antenna switching for simultaneous communication. One apparatus embodiment includes a plurality of antennas including a first antenna, a second antenna, and a third antenna. The wireless communication apparatus further includes a plurality of receive circuits including a first receive circuit, at least two of the plurality of receive circuits each configured to simultaneously receive, with respect to the other, wireless communications from a different one of at least two networks relating to different radio access technologies. The wireless communication apparatus further includes a controller configured to selectively switch the first receive circuit from receiving wireless communications via the first antenna to receive wireless communications via the second antenna based on one or more performance characteristics of at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US09070970B2
This disclosure provides an antenna device and a mobile terminal equipped with the antenna device. The antenna device includes a coil conductor spirally wound to have a conductor opening portion at the center of winding and is formed on a flexible substrate. A magnetic sheet is disposed near, or proximal to the flexible substrate and between the coil conductor and a flat conductor of a circuit board. A side of the antenna coil that is near an edge of the flat conductor is bent toward the circuit board.
US09070966B2
Disclosed herein are various exemplary embodiments of multi-band, wide-band antennas. In exemplary embodiments, the antenna generally includes an upper portion and a lower portion. The upper portion includes two or more upper radiating elements and one or more slots disposed between the two or more upper radiating elements. The lower portion includes three or more lower radiating elements and one or more slots disposed between the three or more lower radiating elements. A gap is between the upper and lower portions such that the upper radiating elements are separated and spaced apart from the lower radiating elements. The antenna may be configured such that coupling of the gap and the upper and lower radiating elements enable multi-band, wide-band operation of the antenna within at least a first frequency range and a second frequency range, with the upper radiating elements operable as a radiating portion of the antenna, the lower radiating elements operable as a ground portion, and the gap operable for impedance matching.
US09070960B2
The present invention relates to a resonator and discloses a transverse magnetic mode dielectric resonator, a transverse magnetic mode dielectric filter, and a base station. By using the present invention, good contact between contact surfaces and convenient assembly can be achieved. Moreover, the transverse magnetic mode dielectric resonator according to the embodiments of the present invention has good structure stability, convenient assembly, and strong realizability, thereby being suitable for mass production and having good mass production consistency.
US09070946B2
In an electrolyte-electrode joined assembly (MEA), a cathode is formed on an intermediate layer stacked on a solid electrolyte. The cathode is a laminate containing at least a first layer facing the intermediate layer and a second layer disposed on the first layer. The first layer contains a perovskite-type composite oxide represented by BaxSr1-xCoyFe1-yO3 or LaxSr1-xCoyFe1-yO3. The intermediate layer has an open pore on a surface thereof facing the first layer, and the pore is filled with the first layer.
US09070939B2
A battery module including: a plurality of rechargeable batteries including a first terminal and a second terminal; and a connecting member electrically connecting rechargeable batteries of the plurality of rechargeable batteries through the first and second terminals, the connecting member including an access protrusion protruded toward the first terminal, and the first terminal includes a pressurizer configured to press the access protrusion toward a part of the first terminal.
US09070925B2
Provided are a battery charger, which is a different body from a vehicle and the durability, performance, etc., of which are maintained, and a battery charger attaching structure. The battery charger attaching structure comprises: a battery; a battery charger being a different body from a vehicle and charging the battery; an electric motor for generating driving force on the basis of the power supplied from the battery; vehicle covers for covering the vehicle; and an attachment portion provided on the vehicle covers and used for attaching the battery charger on the side of the vehicle. The attachment portion is provided at an upper part on a leg shield.
US09070916B2
A method includes: determining whether or not an elapsed time since stopping of power generation of a fuel cell until an operation start instruction to start a fuel cell system is detected is shorter than a specified time, if the operation start instruction to start the fuel cell system is detected after the power generation of the fuel cell is stopped; setting, as a first amount, an amount of replacement of a fuel gas on an anode side, if it is determined that the elapsed time is shorter than the specified time; and setting, as a second amount, an amount of replacement of the fuel gas on the anode side, if it is determined that the elapsed time is longer than the specified time. The first amount is larger than the second amount.
US09070914B2
The present invention is to properly adjust a water content in a cell of a fuel cell in response to a wide variety of conditions. A method of controlling a water content in a cell of a fuel cell, wherein a flow rate and pressure of a hydrogen gas supplied to an anode electrode of the cell of the fuel cell are adjusted so as to satisfy a restrictive condition in order to control a water content in the cell of the fuel cell. A water content state in the cell is detected and, based on the detection result, a flow rate and pressure of the hydrogen gas are adjusted so that a water content in the cell equals a target water content.
US09070908B2
A battery system includes a rack having a plurality of battery tray positions, a battery tray in a corresponding battery tray position among the battery tray positions, and a system management unit electrically coupled to the battery tray. Each of the battery tray positions is associated with position information, and the battery tray has an identifier. The system management unit is configured to receive and store the position information and the identifier, and to determine the corresponding battery tray position of the battery tray in accordance with the identifier and the position information.
US09070904B2
An OLED display includes a first polysilicon layer pattern on a substrate having a first gate electrode, a second gate electrode, and a first capacitor electrode, a gate insulating layer pattern, a second polysilicon layer pattern including a first active layer, a second active layer, and a capacitor polycrystalline dummy layer, a third amorphous silicon layer pattern including first source and drain resistant contact layers on a predetermined region of the first active layer, second source and drain resistant contact layers on a predetermined region of the second active layer, and a capacitor amorphous dummy layer on the capacitor polycrystalline dummy layer, and a data metal layer pattern including first source/drain electrodes, second source/drain electrodes, and a second capacitor electrode.
US09070892B2
An organic electroluminescent device includes at least two light-emissive units provided between a cathode electrode and an anode electrode opposed to the cathode electrode, each of the light-emissive units including at least one light-emissive layer. The light-emissive units are partitioned from each other by at least one charge generation layer, the charge generation layer being an electrically insulating layer having a resistivity of not less than 1.0×102 Ωcm.
US09070885B2
Provided is an organic electroluminescence element having superior element service life. An anthracene compound in which an aryl group having C10 or greater is bonded to the 9-position and a naphthyl group is bonded to the 10-position, wherein a compound in which a specific aryl group has been substituted, in particular, at the 7-position of the naphthyl group (which is bonded at the 2-position thereof to the anthracene) is used as a material for a luminescence layer to produce the organic electroluminescence element.
US09070874B2
The present disclosure includes memory cell structures and method of forming the same. One such memory cell includes a first electrode having sidewalls angled less than 90 degrees in relation to a bottom surface of the first electrode, a second electrode, including an electrode contact portion of the second electrode, having sidewalls angled less than 90 degrees in relation to the bottom surface of the first electrode, wherein the second electrode is over the first electrode, and a storage element between the first electrode and the electrode contact portion of the second electrode.
US09070870B2
Partial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PPMA) type magnetic random access memory cells are constructed using processes and structural configurations that induce a directed static strain/stress on an MTJ to increase the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Consequently, reduced switching current of the MTJ results. The directed static strain/stress on the MTJ is induced in a controlled direction and/or with a controlled magnitude during fabrication. The MTJ is permanently subject to a predetermined directed stress and permanently includes the directed static strain/strain that provides reduced switching current.
US09070866B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetoresistive effect element includes a first ferromagnetic layer, a tunnel barrier formed on the first ferromagnetic layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer formed on the tunnel barrier layer. The tunnel barrier includes a nonmagnetic oxide having a spinel structure. Oxides forming the spinel structure are combined such that a single phase is formed by a solid phase in a component ratio region including a component ratio corresponding to the spinel structure and having a width of not less than 2%.
US09070865B1
A transducer is disclosed that includes a multiply resonant composite, the composite having a resonator bar of a piezoelectric single crystal configured in a d32 transverse length-extensional resonance mode having a crystallographic orientation set such that the thickness axis is in the <110> family and resonance direction is the <001> family.
US09070854B2
A method of patterning a substrate includes providing a layer stack comprising a plurality of layers on a base portion of the substrate, where the layer stack includes an electrically conductive layer and a magnetic layer. The method further includes forming a first mask feature on an outer surface of the layer stack above a first protected region and a second mask feature on the outer surface of the layer stack above a second protected region, and directing ions towards the layer stack to magnetically isolate and electrically isolate the first protected region from the second protected region.
US09070848B2
An array substrate, comprising a substrate and a data line and a gate line formed on the substrate. The data line and gate line cross each other to define a pixel region and the pixel region comprises a reflective region and a transparent region. The pixel region further comprises: a pixel electrode, formed with a transparent conductive film on the substrate and provided at least in the transparent region; a thin film transistor, formed on the substrate, the transparent conductive film being retained below the gate line and a gate electrode of the thin film transistor; a planarization film, covering the thin film transistor on the substrate; and a reflective layer, formed on the planarization film and disposed in the reflective region of the pixel region. A method of manufacturing the array substrate is provided.
US09070836B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a lamination of semiconductor layers including a first layer of a first conductivity type, an active layer, and a second layer of a second conductivity type; a transparent conductive film formed on a principal surface of the lamination and having an opening; a pad electrode formed on part the opening; and a wiring electrode connected with the pad electrode, formed on another part of the opening while partially overlapping the transparent conductive film; wherein contact resistance between the transparent conductive film and the lamination is larger than contact resistance between the wiring electrode and the lamination. Field concentration at the wiring electrode upon application of high voltage is mitigated by the overlapping transparent conductive film.
US09070832B2
Disclosed is a light-emitting device including a conductive support substrate, a reflective layer arranged on the conductive support substrate, a first electrode layer arranged on the reflective layer and provided with a step in at least one region of the edge thereof, a protective layer arranged on the step, and a light-emitting structure arranged on the first electrode layer and the protective layer, the light-emitting structure including a first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer and an active layer interposed between the first conductive semiconductor layer and the second conductive semiconductor layer, wherein at least one region of the reflective layer and the first electrode layer vertically overlaps the protective layer. Based on this configuration, the light-emitting device can exhibit improved adhesion between the electrode layer and the reflective layer and be provided with a wider reflective layer, thus improving brightness.
US09070831B2
A light-emitting device including: a substrate; LEDs arranged on the substrate in a row; electrode pad pairs each including electrode pads at opposite sides of a corresponding LED in a row direction; Zener diodes (protective elements) in one-to-one correspondence to circuits (groups) U1 to U8 each including nine consecutive LEDs, each protective element being located between adjacent electrode pads; and a sealing member sealing the LEDs, the electrode pad pairs, and the Zener diodes, wherein, in each circuit, a distance between electrode pads included in an electrode pad pair corresponding to an LED located closest to the Zener diode is the shortest, and a distance between electrode pads varies between two electrode pad pairs other than the electrode pad pair corresponding to the closest LED.
US09070819B2
To manufacture a thin film compound solar cell which can improve the adhesive property of electrodes even when being provided with a base material, and which prevents the base material from being separated. A cell main body configured by laminating a plurality of compound semiconductor layers is formed on a substrate. A rear surface electrode 7 is formed on the cell main body, and a rear surface film 8 as the base material is formed on the rear surface electrode 7. A reinforcing material 9 is attached on the rear surface film 8. The substrate is separated from the cell main body, and the cell main body is mesa-etched. A surface electrode 13 is formed on a contact layer 3 after the etching. The reinforcing material 9 is separated, and the surface electrode 13 is annealed. The formed thin film compound solar cell is separated into a plurality of solar cell elements.
US09070816B2
A thermoelectric conversion material in which the electron spatial distribution assumes a wire structure or a quasi-one-dimensional structure is fabricated. A mode of the present invention provides a thermoelectric conversion structure 100 of a single crystal 10 of SrTiO3 having a (210) plane surface or interface, and having, in the surface or interface, a concave-convex structure including terrace portions 12, 14 in (100) planes and step portions 16 extending along the surface in-plane [001] axis.
US09070810B2
A multi-junction solar cell having a Ge or GaAs substrate, as well as a solar cell structure having several subcells deposited on the substrate, the substrate having peripheral side faces, and the solar cell structure having a peripheral circumferential surface, which runs spaced apart from the side faces. To prevent oxidation and penetration of moisture, the circumferential surface of the solar cell structure is coated with a protective, electrically insulating first coating under essential exclusion of the upper surface facing the rays, or that without encroaching on the solar cell structure, the side faces of the substrate are coated with a protective, electrically insulating second coating or that both the side faces of the substrate as well as the circumferential surface of the solar cell structure are coated with a third coating by essential exclusion of the upper surface facing the rays.
US09070787B2
A package-on-package (PoP) assembly is provided. The package-on-package (PoP) assembly includes a first integrated circuit package and an anisotropic conductive film (ACF) disposed on a top surface of the first integrated circuit package, wherein the anisotropic conductive film comprises a plurality of conductive particles. The package-on-package (PoP) assembly also includes a second integrated circuit package disposed on a top surface of the anisotropic conductive film.
US09070778B2
A highly reliable semiconductor device that includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor is provided. In a semiconductor device which includes a bottom-gate transistor including an oxide semiconductor film, the spin density of the oxide semiconductor film is lower than or equal to 1×1018 spins/cm3, preferably lower than or equal to 1×1017 spins/cm3, further preferably lower than or equal to 1×1016 spins/cm3. The conductivity of the oxide semiconductor film is lower than or equal to 1×103 S/cm, preferably lower than or equal to 1×102 S/cm, further preferably lower than or equal to 1×101 S/cm.
US09070772B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose an array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof. The method comprises forming a patterned active layer on a gate insulating layer, the active layer covering a part of the gate insulating layer; forming a source/drain electrode material layer on the active layer and the gate insulating layer; forming a patterned insulating layer on the source/drain electrode material layer; conducting an etching process by using the insulating layer as a mask, so as to etch the source/drain electrode material layer to form a source electrode and a drain electrode, etch a part of the insulating layer to form a via hole in the insulating layer over the drain electrode, and etch a part of the active layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode to form a channel.
US09070769B2
According to embodiments, a semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and an element isolation insulating film which isolates a element formation region in a surface portion of the semiconductor substrate. A depletion-type channel region of a first conductivity type is formed in an inner region which is in the element formation region of the semiconductor substrate and is a predetermined distance or more away from the element isolation insulating film. A gate electrode is formed above the element formation region with a gate insulating film located in between in such a manner as to traverse over the channel region and to overlap with portions of the element isolation insulating film which are located on both sides of the element formation region. Source/drain regions of the first conductivity type are formed in the channel region respectively on both sides of the gate electrode.
US09070763B1
A semiconductor device layout structure is provided. The semiconductor device layout structure includes an active region having a first conductivity type over a semiconductor substrate. The active region is provided with semiconductor devices formed thereon. A first super junction layout unit in the active region includes a first trench. A first doped region having a first conductivity type is formed surrounding the first trench. A second trench is formed surrounding the first doped region. A second doped region having a second conductivity type is formed surrounding the second trench. The first trench is laterally separated from the second trench through the first doped region and the second doped region in a plan view.
US09070760B2
The present invention provides a method for plasma dicing a substrate. The method comprising providing a process chamber having a wall; providing a plasma source adjacent to the wall of the process chamber; providing a work piece support within the process chamber; placing the substrate onto a support film on a frame to form a work piece work piece; loading the work piece onto the work piece support; providing a clamping electrode for electrostatically clamping the work piece to the work piece support; providing a mechanical partition between the plasma source and the work piece; generating a plasma through the plasma source; and etching the work piece through the generated plasma.
US09070758B2
A method for manufacturing a III-nitride HEMT having a gate electrode and source and drain ohmic contacts is provided, comprising providing a substrate; forming a stack of III-nitride layers on the substrate; forming a first passivation layer comprising silicon nitride overlying and in contact with an upper layer of the stack of III-nitride layers, wherein the first passivation layer is deposited in-situ with the stack of III-nitride layers; forming a dielectric layer overlying and in contact with the first passivation layer; forming a second passivation layer comprising silicon nitride overlying and in contact with the dielectric layer wherein the second passivation layer is deposited at a temperature higher than 450° C. by LPCVD or MOCVD or any equivalent technique; and thereafter forming the source and drain ohmic contacts and the gate electrode.
US09070752B2
Provided are methods of fabricating a semiconductor device and semiconductor devices fabricated thereby. In the methods, dummy recess regions may be formed between cell recess regions and a peripheral circuit region. Due to the presence of the dummy recess regions, it may be possible to reduce a concentration gradient of a suppressor contained in a plating solution near the dummy pattern region, to make the concentration of the suppressor more uniform in the cell pattern region, and to supply an electric current more effectively to the cell pattern region. As a result, a plating layer can be more uniformly formed in the cell pattern region, without void formation therein.
US09070748B2
A conductive via of a semiconductor device is provided extending in a vertical direction through a substrate, a first end of the conductive via extending through a first surface of the substrate, so that the first end protrudes in the vertical direction relative to the first surface of the substrate. An insulating layer is provided on the first end of the conductive via and on the first surface of the substrate. An upper portion of a mask layer pattern is removed so that a capping portion of the insulating layer that is on the first end of the conductive via is exposed. A portion of the insulating layer at a side of, and spaced apart from, the conductive via, is removed, to form a recess in the insulating layer. The capping portion of the insulating layer on the first end of the conductive via is simultaneously removed.
US09070736B2
A p-type thin-layer along a side wall surface of a V-shaped groove reaching the bottom portion of a p-type isolation layer from the back surface of an n− semiconductor substrate, couples a p-type collector layer with the p-type isolation layer. A collector electrode contacts the surfaces of the p-type collector layer and the p-type thin-layer. The collector electrode is formed by laminating an Al—Si film, a barrier layer, a nickel-based metal film, and a gold-based metal film in sequence from the n− semiconductor substrate side. The Al—Si film contacting the surface of the p-type collector layer is in a range of 1.1 to 3.0 μm in thickness. The Al—Si film contacting the surface of the p-type thin-layer is in a range of 0.55 to 1.5 μm in thickness. A rise in leak current caused by aluminum spiking is eliminated or suppressed, and solder joining including tin is made easier.
US09070732B2
This disclosure relates to bipolar transistors, such as heterojunction bipolar transistors, having at a doping spike in the collector. The doping spike can be disposed relatively near an interface between the collector and the base. For instance, the doping spike can be disposed within half of the thickness of the collector from the interface between the collector and the base. Such bipolar transistors can be implemented, for example, in power amplifiers.
US09070731B2
A coating film forming apparatus includes a substrate holding unit, a ring-shaped member annularly installed along a circumferential direction of the substrate so as to cover an upper side of a peripheral edge portion of the substrate, and a control unit that outputs a control signal so as to perform: positioning the ring-shaped member at a processing position where an air flow flowing above the peripheral edge portion of the substrate is straightened; rotating the substrate at a first revolution number such that a coating liquid supplied to a central portion of the substrate is diffused toward the peripheral edge portion by a centrifugal force; bringing the ring-shaped member to a retreated position where an air flow flowing near a front surface of the substrate is prevented from becoming turbulent; and reducing the revolution number of the substrate to a second revolution number lower than the first revolution number.
US09070728B2
A method of lowering a temperature of a substrate table uses a substrate W processing system including a first substrate table 2b; one or more processing chambers 1b, in each of which the first substrate table 2b is disposed, the processing chamber being configured to perform a predetermined process, with the substrate being placed on the first substrate table 2b; a substrate transfer apparatus 31 configured to transfer the substrate to the processing chamber 1b; a transfer chamber in which the substrate transfer apparatus 31 is disposed; and a second substrate table configured to cool the substrate. The method of lowering a temperature of a substrate table comprises the steps of first transfer in which the substrate W placed on the first substrate table 2b is transferred to the second substrate table by the substrate transfer apparatus 31, and second transfer in which the substrate placed on the second substrate table is transferred to the first substrate table 2b. By repeating the step of first transfer and the step of second transfer, a heat of the first substrate table 2b is absorbed by the substrate W placed on the first substrate table 2b, so that a temperature of the first substrate table 2b is lowered.
US09070725B2
Provided a measuring apparatus includes a wavelength dispersion device which dispersed light reflected by one surface of an examination target having a thickness D and light reflected by a rear surface of the examination target, as incident light, a detector in which a plurality of photodetection elements receiving light dispersed by the wavelength dispersion device and detecting a power of the received light in are provided in an array shape, and a piezoelectric device which is attached to the detector to convert an applied voltage into a mechanical power, wherein the detector detects the power of the received light when the detector is shifted by the mechanical power converted by the piezoelectric device as much as d/m, where d is a width of each of the photodetection elements in an array direction and m is an integer equal to or greater than 2.
US09070722B2
The present invention is directed to sonic-assisted systems mid methods of processing of substrates utilizing a sonic-treated liquid. In one embodiment, the sonic-treated liquid can be created by subjecting a desired processing liquid to sonic energy generated by a first sonic energy source prior to being applied So the substrate, The sonic-treated liquid is applied to the substrate where a second source of sonic energy applies sonic energy to the substrate. The sonic-treated liquid can be used as the coupling fluid between the second source of sonic energy and the substrate.
US09070720B2
A Tunnel Field Effect Transistor device (TFET) made of at least following layers: a highly doped drain layer, a highly doped source layer, a channel layer, a gate dielectric layer and a gate electrode layer, the gate dielectric layer extending along the source layer, and a highly doped pocket layer extending in between and along the gate dielectric layer and the source layer, characterized in that the pocket layer extends to between and along the source layer and the channel layer.
US09070704B2
A semiconductor device including a gate electrode disposed on a semiconductor substrate and source/drain regions disposed at both sides of the gate electrode, the source/drain regions being formed by implanting impurities. The source/drain regions include an epitaxial layer formed by epitaxially growing a semiconductor material having a different lattice constant from that of the semiconductor substrate in a recessed position at a side of the gate electrode, and a diffusion layer disposed in a surface layer of the semiconductor substrate.
US09070702B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing three-dimensional actin structures having a well-defined shape and displaying improved mechanical rigidity. This method comprises the steps of (a) providing a polymerization solution comprising actin monomers, a branching agent and a capping agent, (b) providing at least one surface having thereon a pattern which is coated with a nucleating agent, and (c) contacting the at least one surface of step (b) with the polymerization solution of step (a) so as to induce the polymerization of actin and obtain the said desired three-dimensional actin structure. Applications of the present invention in various technological fields such as microelectronics are also provided.
US09070698B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a substrate structure including a silicon substrate layer, a conductive through-substrate via extending through the silicon substrate layer. The apparatus further includes a semiconductor device located in the substrate structure and a conductive wall located between the through-substrate via and the semiconductor device. The conductive wall is in electrical contact with the silicon substrate layer.
US09070694B2
A method for integrating a set of electronic devices on a wafer (100; 200a; 200b) of semiconductor material having a main surface includes forming a plurality of trenches extending into the wafer from the main surface. At least one layer of electrically insulating material is formed within each trench. At least one layer of electrically conductive material is formed within each trench superimposed on the at least one layer of insulating material. The formation of the plurality of trenches includes forming the trenches partitioned into sub-sets of trenches. The trenches of a first sub-set are oriented along a first common direction that is different from the orientation of the trenches of a second sub-set.
US09070689B2
The present invention belongs to the technical field of semiconductor devices, and discloses a structure for interconnecting a medium of low dielectric constant with copper and the integration method thereof. It includes: using a combination of copper interconnections and air gaps to reduce capacity, and a special structure to support copper conductors so as to maintain the shape of copper conductors after removing the medium. The advantage of the present invention is that it can realize the complete air gap structure without short circuit or disconnection of copper conductors as well as the complete air gap structure with long conductors, thus reducing RC delay.
US09070671B2
Processes of assembling microelectronic packages with lead frames and/or other suitable substrates are described herein. In one embodiment, a method for fabricating a semiconductor assembly includes forming an attachment area and a non-attachment area on a lead finger of a lead frame. The attachment area is more wettable to the solder ball than the non-attachment area during reflow. The method also includes contacting a solder ball carried by a semiconductor die with the attachment area of the lead finger, reflowing the solder ball while the solder ball is in contact with the attachment area of the lead finger, and controllably collapsing the solder ball to establish an electrical connection between the semiconductor die and the lead finger of the lead frame.
US09070670B2
According to example configurations herein, an apparatus comprises a die and a host substrate. The die can include a first transistor and a second transistor. A surface of the die includes multiple conductive elements disposed thereon. The multiple conductive elements on the surface are electrically coupled to respective nodes of the first transistor and the second transistor. Prior to assembly, the first transistor and second transistor are electrically isolated from each other. During assembly, the surface of the die including the respective conductive elements is mounted on a facing of the host substrate. Accordingly, a die including multiple independent transistors can be flipped and mounted to a respective host substrate such as printed circuit board, lead frame, etc.
US09070654B2
A smoothing method for semiconductor material and semiconductor wafers produced by the method are disclosed. Semiconductor wafers with reduced atomic steps, as well with reduced scratches and subsurface defects can be produced. Such wafers feature an improved growth surface that can provide for the growth of an epilayer with reduced macroscopic defects and defect densities. A method of smoothing the surface of a wafer according to example embodiments of the invention includes planarizing the surface of a semiconductor wafer, and then oxidizing the wafer to achieve a specified thickness of oxide on the surface of the wafer. The oxide can then be stripped from the surface of the semiconductor wafer.
US09070648B2
An electronic device is provided with a display and a display-integrated light sensor. The display includes a transparent cover layer, light-generating layers, and a touch-sensitive layer. The display-integrated light sensor is interposed between the transparent cover layer and a display layer such as the touch-sensitive layer or a thin-film transistor layer of the light-generating layers. The light-generating layers include a layer of organic light-emitting material. The display-integrated light sensor can be implemented as an ambient light sensor or a proximity sensor. The display-integrated light sensor may be a packaged light sensor that is integrated into the display layers of the display or may be formed from light-sensor components formed directly on a display circuitry layer such as the touch-sensitive layer or the thin-film transistor layer.
US09070636B2
A cleaning agent for a semiconductor substrate, which is capable of exerting cleaning power equivalent to that of an SPM cleaning agent, greatly improving damage of a semiconductor substrate by the SPM cleaning agent, and efficiently stripping and removing impurities adhered to the surface of the semiconductor substrate, particularly attached substances such as an ion-implanted resist, a cleaning method using the cleaning agent, and a method for producing a semiconductor element are provided. The cleaning agent for a semiconductor substrate comprises sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide and an alkylene carbonate. The method for cleaning a semiconductor substrate comprises cleaning the semiconductor substrate with sulfuric acid, hydrogen peroxide and an alkylene carbonate in combination.
US09070634B1
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device is provided. A substrate is provided. Thereafter, a dielectric layer is formed on the substrate, wherein the dielectric layer includes a first portion adjacent to the substrate and a second portion adjacent to the first portion. Afterwards, the dielectric layer is treated with nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) to remove the second portion of the dielectric layer and therefore expose the first portion of the dielectric layer. A semiconductor device is also provided.
US09070630B2
The present disclosure provides a method for forming patterns in a semiconductor device. In accordance with some embodiments, the method includes providing a substrate and a patterning-target layer over the substrate; forming one or more mandrel patterns over the patterning-target layer; forming an opening in a resist layer by removing a first mandrel pattern and removing a portion of the resist layer that covers the first mandrel pattern; forming spacers adjacent to sidewalls of a second mandrel pattern; removing the second mandrel pattern to expose the spacers; forming a patch pattern over the spacers and aligned with the opening; etching the patterning-target layer using the patch pattern and the spacers as mask elements to form final patterns; and removing the patch pattern and the spacers to expose the final patterns.
US09070626B2
Embodiments of an ohmic contact structure for a Group III nitride semiconductor device and methods of fabrication thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, the ohmic contact structure has less than or equal to 5%, more preferably less than or equal to 2%, more preferably less than or equal to 1.5%, and even more preferably less than or equal to 1% degradation for 1000 hours High Temperature Soak (HTS) at 300 degrees Celsius. In another embodiment, the ohmic contact structure additionally or alternatively has less than or equal to 10% degradation, more preferably less than or equal to 7.5% degradation, more preferably less than or equal to 6% degradation, more preferably less than or equal to 5% degradation, and even more preferably less than 3% degradation for 1000 hours High Temperature operating Life (HToL) at 225 degrees Celsius and 50 milliamps (mA) per millimeter (mm).
US09070622B2
The present disclosure provides methods and systems for providing a similarity index in semiconductor process control. One of the methods disclosed herein is a method for semiconductor fabrication process control. The method includes steps of receiving a first semiconductor device wafer and receiving a second semiconductor device wafer. The method also includes a step of collecting metrology data from the first and second semiconductor device wafers. The metrology data includes a first set of vectors associated with the first semiconductor device wafer and a second set of vectors associated with the second semiconductor device wafer. The method includes determining a similarity index based in part on a similarity index value between a first vector from the first set of vectors and a second vector from the second set of vectors and continuing to process additional wafers under current parameters when the similarity index is above a threshold value.
US09070616B2
A packaging substrate includes a first dielectric layer; a plurality of first conductive pads embedded in and exposed from a first surface of the first dielectric layer; a first circuit layer embedded in and exposed from a second surface of the first dielectric layer; a plurality of first metal bumps disposed in the first dielectric layer, each of the first metal bumps having a first end embedded in the first circuit layer and a second end opposing the first end and disposed on one of the first conductive pads, a conductive seedlayer being disposed between the first circuit layer and the first dielectric layer and between the first circuit layer and the first metal bump; a built-up structure disposed on the first circuit layer and the first dielectric layer; and a plurality of second conductive pads disposed on the built-up structure. The packaging substrate has an over-warpage problem improved.
US09070607B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using an electron beam lithography apparatus configured to emit an electron beam to perform lithography of a pattern, processing including pattern formation with the electron beam lithography apparatus is performed on a wafer, and an electric characteristic of the thus manufactured semiconductor devices is measured by a semiconductor testing apparatus. Then, electron beam lithography data to be used by the electron beam lithography apparatus is adjusted based on a result of measurement of the electric characteristic so as to reduce a variation in the electric characteristic of the semiconductor device within a surface of the wafer.
US09070606B2
The present invention relates to a terminal structure comprising: a base material 10; an external electrode 20 formed on the base material; an insulating coating layer 30 formed on the base material and on the electrode and having an opening exposing at least part of the electrode; an under-bump metal layer 70 filling the opening and covering part of the insulating coating layer; and a dome-shaped bump 85 covering the under-bump metal layer, wherein in a cross section along a lamination direction, a height Hbm at which the bump has a maximum diameter (Lbm) is lower than a maximum height Hu of the under-bump metal layer.
US09070605B2
A display apparatus includes a base substrate and a buffer layer disposed on the base substrate. The display apparatus further includes an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the buffer layer and including a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a channel portion. The display apparatus further includes a gate insulating layer disposed on the channel portion, a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer, and a protective layer disposed on the gate electrode and the buffer layer and having a contact hole. The display apparatus further includes a transparent electrode overlapping a portion of the protective layer and electrically connected to one of the source electrode and the drain electrode through the contact hole. The transparent electrode includes a transparent metal layer and a transparent conductive oxide layer overlapping the transparent metal layer.
US09070600B2
A drain electrode (17) includes (i) a lower drain electrode (17a) stacked on a semiconductor layer (14) so as to partially cover an upper surface of the semiconductor layer (14) and (ii) an upper drain electrode (17b). The semiconductor layer (14), the lower drain electrode (17a), and the upper drain electrode (17b) form steps. In a step part where the steps are formed, a distance between a periphery of the lower drain electrode (17a) and a periphery of the upper drain electrode (17b) is more than 0.4 μm but less than 1.5 μm.
US09070596B2
One object is to provide a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film which is used for the pixel portion of a display device and has high reliability. A display device has a first gate electrode; a first gate insulating film over the first gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor film over the first gate insulating film; a source electrode and a drain electrode over the oxide semiconductor film; a second gate insulating film over the source electrode, the drain electrode and the oxide semiconductor film; a second gate electrode over the second gate insulating film; an organic resin film having flatness over the second gate insulating film; a pixel electrode over the organic resin film having flatness, wherein the concentration of hydrogen atoms contained in the oxide semiconductor film and measured by secondary ion mass spectrometry is less than 1×1016 cm−3.
US09070594B2
There is provided a display device comprising a display panel, wherein the display panel comprises pixels, data lines, thin film transistors including first electrodes electrically connected with the data lines, second electrodes disposed to be spaced apart from the first electrodes in a first direction, semiconductor layers overlapping the first electrodes and the second electrodes, and gate electrodes overlapping the semiconductor layers and pads electrically connected with the second electrodes, wherein the thin film transistors includes first thin film transistors and second thin film transistors, which are alternately disposed, the semiconductor layers are divided into first semiconductor layers included in the first thin film transistors and second semiconductor layers included in the second thin film transistors, which are alternately disposed, and a length of the first semiconductor layer in the first direction is larger than a length of the second semiconductor layer in the first direction.
US09070590B2
Methods and apparatus for heat-treating a workpiece are disclosed. An illustrative method includes measuring deformation of a workpiece during heat-treating thereof, and taking an action in relation to the heat-treating of the workpiece, in response to the measuring of the deformation of the workpiece. The workpiece may include a semiconductor wafer. Taking an action may include applying a deformation correction to a temperature or reflectivity measurement of the wafer during thermal processing, or may include modifying the heat-treating of the wafer, for example.
US09070589B2
According to one embodiment, a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device comprises a semiconductor substrate, a first layer formed above the semiconductor substrate, a first conductive layer, an inter-electrode insulating layer, and a second conductive layer sequentially stacked above the first layer, a memory film formed on an inner surface of each of a pair of through holes provided in the first conductive layer, the inter-electrode insulating layer, and the second conductive layer and extending in a stacking direction, a semiconductor layer formed on the memory film in the pair of through holes, and a metal layer formed in part of the pair of through holes and/or in part of a connection hole that is provided in the first layer and connects lower end portions of the pair of through holes, the metal layer being in contact with the semiconductor layer.
US09070580B2
A super junction structure is formed in a semiconductor portion of a super junction semiconductor device. The super junction structure includes a compensation structure with a first compensation layer of a first conductivity type and a second compensation layer of a complementary second conductivity type. The compensation structure lines at least sidewall portions of compensation trenches that extend between semiconductor mesas along a vertical direction perpendicular to a first surface of the semiconductor portion. Within the super junction structure and a pedestal layer that may adjoin the super junction structure, a sign of a lateral compensation rate changes along the vertical direction resulting in a local peak of a vertical electric field gradient and to improved avalanche ruggedness.
US09070575B2
Ferroelectric capacitor structures for integrated decoupling capacitors and the like. The ferroelectric capacitor structure includes two or more ferroelectric capacitors connected in series with one another between voltage nodes. The series connection of the ferroelectric capacitors reduces the applied voltage across each, enabling the use of rough ferroelectric dielectric material, such as PZT deposited by MOCVD. Matched construction of the series-connected capacitors, as well as uniform polarity of the applied voltage across each, is beneficial in reducing the maximum voltage across any one of the capacitors, reducing the vulnerability to dielectric breakdown.
US09070572B2
A memory module is provided which includes a printed circuit board; first semiconductor packages provided on one surface of the printed circuit board; and second semiconductor packages provided on the other surface of the printed circuit board, the first semiconductor packages and the second semiconductor packages having semiconductor dies that form ranks. A number of the ranks formed by the first semiconductor packages being different from a number of the ranks formed by the second semiconductor packages. Semiconductor packages forming a same one of the ranks receive a chip selection signal in common and semiconductor packages forming other ranks receive a different chip selection signal.
US09070571B2
A power switching module includes a three-terminal power semiconductor device designed for a rated current and a freewheeling unit. The freewheeling unit includes a pn-diode integrated in a first semiconductor material having a first band-gap, and a Schottky-diode integrated in a second semiconductor material having a second band-gap that is larger than the first band-gap. The Schottky-diode is electrically connected in parallel to the pn-diode.
US09070570B2
Stack packages are provided. The stack package includes a substrate having first and second bond fingers and a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked on the substrate. Each of the plurality of semiconductor chips has an input bonding pad and an output bonding pad. A first interconnection electrically connects the first bond finger to the input bonding pad of a lowermost semiconductor chip of the plurality of semiconductor chips. A second interconnection electrically connects the output bonding pad of a lower semiconductor chip of the plurality of semiconductor chips to the input bonding pad of an upper semiconductor chip stacked on the lower semiconductor chip. A third interconnection electrically connects the output bonding pad of an uppermost semiconductor chip of the plurality of semiconductor chips to the second bond finger.
US09070567B2
A SiC substrate includes a first orientation flat parallel to the <11-20> direction, and a second orientation flat being in a direction intersecting the first orientation flat and being different from the first orientation flat in length. An alternative SiC substrate has a rectangular plane shape, and a main surface of the substrate includes a first side parallel to the <11-20> direction, a second side in a direction perpendicular to the first side, and a third side connecting the first side to the second side. A length of the third side projected in a direction in which the first side extends is different from a length of the third side projected in a direction in which the second side extends.
US09070565B2
A power transistor circuit uses first and second power transistors in differential mode. An inductor arrangement of inductors is formed by wire bonds between the drains. The transistors are in a mirrored configuration, and the inductor arrangement comprises wire bonds which extend between the drain connections across the space between the mirrored transistors.
US09070562B2
A circuit can include a pair of switching elements that have terminals electrically connected to terminals of a power supply and have other terminals electrically connected to an output terminal. The circuit can include rectifying elements and one or more charge storage elements. The circuit may be used as a Buck converter. The rectifying element(s) and charge storage element(s) may help to reduce ringing at an output terminal of the circuit during normal operation and reduce the likelihood of exceeding a breakdown voltage between current-carrying electrodes of a switching element within the circuit during a switching operation.
US09070558B2
A bundled memory includes a substrate, a first memory die, a second memory die, a scribe line, and an electrical connection. The first memory die has a first input/output bus, and the second memory die has a second input/output bus, where the first memory die and the second memory die are formed over the substrate. The scribe line is formed between the first memory die and the second memory die. The electrical connection is formed over the scribe line for electrically connecting to the first input/output bus and the second input/output bus, where the electrical connection is electrically connected to an external input/output bus, where a size of the external input/output bus of the bundled memory is larger than or equal to a size of the first input/output bus and a size of the second input/output bus.
US09070553B2
Embodiments of the invention provide dielectric films and low-k dielectric films and methods for making dielectric and low-k dielectric films. Dielectric films are made from carbosilane-containing precursors. In embodiments of the invention, dielectric film precursors comprise attached porogen molecules. In further embodiments, dielectric films have nanometer-dimensioned pores.
US09070549B2
A drying gas is supplied into a drying chamber in a substantially horizontal direction, an obliquely downward direction descendent from the substantially horizontal direction, or a vertically downward direction under a state where a wafer is immersed in a cleaning liquid in a cleaning tank. The wafer is moved from the cleaning tank into the drying chamber, with the drying gas being supplied into the drying chamber. At this time, the supply of the drying gas into the drying chamber is stopped, under a condition where a part of the wafer is immersed in the cleaning liquid stored in the cleaning tank. After the movement of the wafer into the drying chamber has been finished, a drying gas is supplied into the drying chamber in an obliquely upward direction ascendant from the substantially horizontal direction or a vertically upward direction.
US09070548B2
The invention provides a composition comprising at least the following A and B: A) a polymer comprising, in polymerized from, at least one “monomer that comprises at least one hydroxyl group;” and B) an organometal compound comprising at least one metal selected from Ti, Zr, Hf, Co, Mn, Zn, or combinations thereof, and wherein the organometal compound is present in an amount greater than 5 weight percent, based on the sum weight of A and B.
US09070544B1
An installation and removal tool for light bulbs and similar items comprising modular and interchangeable attachment heads, a pole, an articulating joint, and an extraction head. Attachment heads comprise a gripping unit and a handle and are each configured to cooperate with one or more light bulb shapes and/or sizes and further comprises an adhesive system. Several embodiments of the gripping unit comprise a bulb cavity with an engagement surface and a release lip and an adhesive system mounted on the engagement surface such that an air channel is created surrounding the adhesive system. The adhesive system comprises pressure sensitive adhesive and preferably defines an opening in fluid communication with a bore defined by the handle to accommodate extended and oddly shaped bulbs. A protective liner that cooperates with the adhesive component to preserve the functionality of the adhesive when it is not in use.
US09070537B2
In an RF power supply for supplying RF power to a plasma load, reflected wave power control is performed in which the reflected wave power of an RF generator is detected and the RF generator is controlled. For a short-time variation in reflected wave power, control is performed based on a peak value variation in the detection value of reflected wave power. For a long-time variation in reflected wave power, control is performed based on a variation in a smoothed value obtained by smoothing detection values of reflected wave power. A reflected wave power control loop system includes a reflected wave power peak value dropping loop system and an arc blocking system that perform control based on a peak variation in reflected wave power and a reflected wave power amount dropping loop system that performs control based on a smoothed power amount of reflected wave power.
US09070535B2
A proximity mask for ion implantation that is configured to resist thermal deformation in a direction normal to an ion beam projected on and through the mask. The mask may include a frame defining a central aperture and a plurality of ribs disposed within the aperture. The ribs may define a doping pattern and may be configured to deform in a direction normal to an ion beam projected thereon and to resist deformation in a direction orthogonal to an ion beam projected thereon upon being heated. Particularly, at least one of the ribs may include a bridge member, first and second perpendicular support legs extending perpendicularly from the bridge member, and first and second parallel support legs that extend perpendicularly from the first and second perpendicular support legs, respectively. The first and second parallel support legs may be attached to the frame.
US09070533B2
A gas injection system provides a local region at the sample surface that has sufficient gas concentration to be ionized by secondary electrons to neutralize charged on the sample surface. In some embodiments, a gas concentration structure concentrates the gas near the surface. An optional hole in the gas concentration structure allows the charged particle beam to impact the interior of a shrouded region. In some embodiments, an anode near the surface increases the number of ions that return to the work piece surface for charge neutralization, the anode in some embodiments being a part of the gas injection system and in some embodiments being a separate structure.
US09070532B2
The disclosed invention provides a sample holder capable of reducing or preventing the influence of a charged particle beam deflected by applying a magnetic field to a sample and provided with means for simply switching between a mode of observing a sample while applying a magnetic field to the sample, and a mode free of a magnetic field in which a magnetic field becomes zero completely. The sample holder includes a magnetic field generating element including three or more magnetic gaps for applying a magnetic field to a sample, a cantilever-beam-shaped sample holding element that holds a sample on one end thereof, and a moving mechanism that adjusts a relative position between a sample and a magnetic gap. The magnetic gaps can be placed along an optical axis of a charged particle beam.
US09070528B2
An X-ray generator and an X-ray photographing apparatus including the X-ray generator generate characteristic X-rays. The X-ray generator includes an electron beam emission unit that emits electron beams; an electron beam guide unit, in which the electron beam emission unit is disposed, for condensing the electron beams and causing the electron beams to travel in a predetermined direction; and a target unit disposed to face the electron beam guide unit, and discharging X-rays when the electron beams collide with the target unit.
US09070527B2
An electron gun cathode (104) is column shaped, and emits electrons by being heated. A holder (103), which covers the bottom and sides of the electron gun cathode, has electrical conductivity and holds the electron gun cathode, and is composed of a material that does not easily react with the electron gun cathode when in a heated state, is provided. The tip of the electron gun cathode (104) protrudes from the holder (103) so as to be exposed, and electrons are emitted from the tip toward the front by applying an electric field to the tip.
US09070523B2
Disclosed herein is a relay module for a vehicle battery system. The relay module includes a movable unit configured to be moved by a magnetic field generated by a coil and a return spring within a relay. This movable unit controls a state of an electrical connection between relay electrodes. A microsensor installed between the movable unit and a fixed unit maintains a fixed location relative to the movable unit and is configured to induce a variation in an electrical physical quantity depending on a variation in a location of the movable unit relative to the fixed unit.
US09070521B2
A circuit breaker according to the present disclosure includes a cradle having an accommodation space therein, the cradle having a plurality of terminals and a breaker main body having a plurality of terminal connectors contactable with the terminals, respectively, and a plurality of vacuum interrupters connected to the terminal connectors, respectively, the breaker main body being installed within the cradle to be movable between a connected position where the terminal connectors are connected to the terminals and a disconnected position where the terminal connectors are separated from the terminals. Each of the terminal connectors includes a plurality of segment conductors each having one end connected to the vacuum interrupter and the other end facing the terminal. According to the configuration, an amount of heat radiated may increase without an increase in an amount of copper used, thereby facilitating for cooling the terminal connectors.
US09070505B2
A coil apparatus and a non-contact power transmission apparatus having improved power transmission efficiency are provided.A power transmission side coil apparatus comprises: an excitation coil (second winding section) which transmits AC power supplied from a power source to a transmission coil; a resonance circuit (first resonance circuit) which is formed by a capacitor (first capacitance element) and a transmission coil (first winding section) which is connected to this capacitor and which transmits AC power from the excitation coil to a power receive side coil apparatus; and a resonance circuit (second resonance circuit) which is formed by a variable capacitor (second capacitance element) and a control coil (third winding section) which is connected to this variable capacitor and which resonates with the transmission coil.
US09070504B2
A transformer and a fabricating method for transformer. The transformer includes a stand, two primary-sides, a secondary-side and multiple pins. The stand has a top-portion, a bottom-portion and a middle-portion connecting the top-portion and the bottom-portion. The primary-sides are disposed on the middle-portion and the secondary-side is disposed on the middle-portion between and insulated from the two primary-sides. The pins are plugged under the bottom-portion and electrically connected to the primary-sides and the secondary-side, wherein each of the primary-sides and secondary-side has multiple thread-ends respectively connecting one pin. The bottom-portion has multiple slots corresponding to the pins. The slot length is greater than a safety-standard distance, no insulating sleeve is disposed on the thread-ends, and the thread-ends are electrically connected to the pins along the slots so that a distance between the electrical connection joint and the primary-sides or the secondary-side on the middle-portion is greater than the safety-standard distance.
US09070501B2
The present invention provides an electromagnet device which can obtain a desirable attraction force (retention force) between an iron core and a movable iron piece, a method of assembling the electromagnet device and an electromagnetic relay using the electromagnet device, the electromagnet device including an electromagnet block having the iron core being wound by a coil and an auxiliary yoke fixed to one end portion of the iron core, a yoke connected to the one end portion of the iron core via a permanent magnet, the movable iron piece pivotably supported on a pivoting shaft center (serving as a fulcrum) located in an end face edge portion of the yoke so that the movable iron piece pivots on a basis of magnetization and demagnetization of the electromagnet block, where the permanent magnet is located on an extension line of an axial center of the iron core and is interposed between the auxiliary yoke and the yoke.
US09070485B2
In a reactor vessel (20) covered by cooling water (2), a tubular frame (10) with a bottom is hung within the cooling water (2) while still having an air environment in the interior, and the bottom section of the frame (10) is disposed within the reactor vessel (20), thereby achieving an air environment within the reactor vessel (20). Furthermore, since repairs to the reactor vessel (20) are performed by using the frame (10) while still having the air environment in the interior, this leads to the prevention of contamination and achieves improvements in working conditions such as preventing the generation of dust and reducing decontamination work. Accordingly, repairs can be performed in an air environment without draining the cooling water (2) within the reactor vessel (20), even in a state in which the reactor vessel (20) is covered by the cooling water (2).
US09070483B2
A data storage system has a memory circuit that comprises memory cells and a control circuit that receives data bits provided for storage in the memory cells. The control circuit encodes the data bits to generate a first set of redundant bits and encoded data bits, such that the encoded data bits selected for storage in a first subset of the memory cells with first stuck-at faults have digital values of corresponding ones of the first stuck-at faults. The control circuit encodes the first set of redundant bits to generate a second set of redundant bits. The control circuit performs logic functions on the second set of redundant bits and the encoded data bits to generate a third set of redundant bits, such that redundant bits in the third set of redundant bits selected for storage in a second subset of the memory cells with second stuck-at faults have digital values of corresponding ones of the second stuck-at faults.
US09070479B2
A method includes, in a data storage device that includes a non-volatile memory, reading data from the non-volatile memory using a first read voltage. The method includes determining a first count of errors in the data having a first error type and a second count of errors in the data having a second error type. A value of the first read voltage is selectively updated based on a comparison of the first count to the second count.
US09070456B2
A magnetic memory device that comprises a substrate, a memory cell including a magnetic tunnel junction which comprises a free ferromagnetic layer having a reversible magnetization direction directed perpendicular to the substrate, a pinned ferromagnetic layer having a fixed magnetization direction directed perpendicular to the substrate, and an insulating tunnel barrier layer disposed between the pinned and free layers, a first electrical circuit for applying a first current to a first conductor electrically coupled to the free layer to produce a bias magnetic field along a hard axis of the free layer, a second electrical circuit for applying a second current to a second conductor electrically coupled to the pinned layer to cause a spin momentum transfer in the free layer, wherein magnitudes of the bias magnetic field and spin momentum transfer in combination exceed a threshold and thus reverse the magnetization direction of the free layer.
US09070455B2
A device with adjustable resistance includes two magnetic elements separated by an insulating or semi-conductor element. The resistance of the device depends on the position of a magnetic wall in one of the magnetic elements, the magnetic wall separating two areas of said magnetic element each having a separate homogeneous direction of magnetization. The device comprises means for moving the magnetic wall in the magnetic element by applying a spin-polarized electric current, such that the resistance of the device is adjustable in a continuous range of values. The invention is useful in neuromimetic circuits, neural networks and bio-inspired computers.
US09070443B2
A Solid State Disk (SSD) includes a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices storing data, and an embedded solid state disk controlling the plurality of nonvolatile memory devices. The SSD uses an embedded SSD (eSSD) as a controller. Thus, the SSD can be embodied in a small area. Also, since the SSD does not need an additional process for manufacturing a controller, manufacturing cost per unit may be reduced.
US09070442B2
In an embodiment, a memory device includes a stack of tiers of memory cells, a tier of local devices at a level above the stack of tiers of memory cells, and a tier of global devices at substantially a same level as the tier of local devices. A local device may provide selective access to a data line. A global device may provide selective access to a global access line. A tier of memory cells may be selectively coupled to a global access line by the global device of the tier of global devices.
US09070431B2
Memory circuitry is provided with write assist circuitry for generating a lower power supply voltage during write operations. The write assist circuitry includes a plurality of series connected switches including a header switch and a footer switch. Header bias circuitry generates a header bias voltage and footer bias circuitry generates a footer bias voltage. The header bias voltage is an analog signal with a voltage level intermediate between the power supply voltage level and the ground voltage level. The footer bias voltage is an analog signal with a voltage level intermediate between the power supply voltage level and the ground voltage level. During write operation target bit cells to be written are supplied with the power via a current path through the header switch while these are respectively controlled by the header bias voltage and the footer bias voltage.
US09070429B2
A data input circuit includes a clock sampling unit, a final clock generation unit, and a write latch signal generation unit. The sampling unit is configured to generate a shifting signal including a pulse generated after a write latency is elapsed, and generate a sampling clock by sampling an internal clock during a burst period from substantially a time when the pulse of the shifting signal is generated. The final clock generation unit is configured to generate a level signal by latching the shifting signal in synchronization with the sampling clock and generate a final clock from the level signal in response to a burst signal. The write latch signal generation unit is configured to generate an enable signal by latching the final clock and generate a write latch signal for latching and outputting aligned data in response to the enable signal.
US09070427B2
Data storage devices and methods to encode and decode data using divisions of memory cell states are disclosed. A method includes dividing data bits into disjoint multiple groups of data bits and storing the data bits into a plurality of memory cells. The storing is done by setting each of the plurality of memory cells to a corresponding state selected from at least three ordered states. For each of the multiple groups of data bits, when a request is received for reading a particular group of the data bits, the request is serviced by selecting a disjoint division of the at least three ordered states of the memory cells into a first set of states and a second set of states. Each of the states in the first set of states has a higher position than any of the states in the second set of states according to the order of the states. For each cell of the plurality of memory cells, a determination is made whether the cell is in the first set of states or the second set of states. Based on the determination, the particular group of the data bits is generated in response to the request for reading the particular group of the data bits without use of additional data that depends upon a state of one of the memory cells.
US09070425B2
Some embodiments include apparatuses and methods having a first data line, a second data line, a first transistor, a sense amplifier, and a circuit. The first transistor can operate to couple the first data line to a first node during a first stage of an operation of obtaining information from a memory cell associated with the first data line. The second transistor can operate to couple the second data line to a second node during the first stage. The circuit can operate to apply a first signal to a gate of the first transistor during the operation and to apply a second signal to a gate of the second transistor during the operation. The sense amplifier can operate to perform a sense function on the first and second data lines during a second stage of the operation. Additional apparatus and methods are described.
US09070424B2
Example embodiments include a resistive type memory sense amplifier circuit including differential output terminals, first and second input terminals, a pre-charge section, and other components arranged so that current is re-used during at least a “set” or “amplification” stage of the sense amplifier circuit, thereby reducing overall current consumption of the circuit, and improving noise immunity. A voltage level of a high-impedance output terminal is caused to swing in response to a delta average current between a reference line current and a bit line current. During a “go” or “latch” stage of operation, a logical value “0” or “1” is latched at the differential output terminals based on positive feedback of a latch circuit. Also disclosed is a current mirror circuit, which can be used in conjunction with the disclosed sense amplifier circuit. In yet another embodiment, a sense amplifier circuit includes the capability of read/re-write operation.
US09070403B2
Accessing only the lower bandwidth data in video data stored in a scalable format requires skipping around within a data file to locate the desired data for a specified progression dimension for each image. This causes seek and rotational latency to occur for each image, increasing access time per image and lowering the available bandwidth for reading motion video from the storage system. Such increases in access time significantly degrade performance of local and shared storage systems, particularly for video editing and other video playback systems used in production, post-production and broadcast operations. To improve the performance of such systems, motion video data stored in a scalable format is processed so as to copy the lower bandwidth data into a separate file. These separate files can be accessed by video editing systems, media management systems and other devices or computer programs that use the lower bandwidth data.
US09070401B2
Dynamic reconfiguration-switching of motor windings in a disk drive is optimized between winding-configurations by selectively lowering resistance of a constantly used portion of one of the motor windings. Acceleration is traded off in favor of higher velocity upon detecting the electric motor in the electric vehicle is at an optimal angular-velocity for switching to an optimal lower torque constant and voltage constant. The total back electromotive force (BEMF) is prohibited from inhibiting further acceleration to a higher angular-velocity.
US09070399B2
There is provided a polishing composition for a magnetic disk substrate that can reduce scratches, nanoprotrusion defects, and substrate surface waviness after polishing. The polishing composition for a magnetic disk substrate that contains: a copolymer that has a constituent unit derived from a monomer having a solubility of 2 g or less in 100 g of water at 20° C. and a constituent unit having a sulfonic acid group, and has a saturated hydrocarbon chain as the main chain thereof, or a salt of the copolymer; an abrasive; and water.
US09070382B2
Various embodiments may be generally directed to a magnetic element capable of reading magnetic data bits. Such a magnetic element may have at least a magnetic stack laterally adjacent a side shield and non-magnetic pedestal on an air bearing surface (ABS). The non-magnetic pedestal can be configured to have a greater stripe height from the ABS than the side shield.
US09070381B1
A method and system provide a magnetic transducer including a first shield, a read sensor, and a second shield. The read sensor is between the first shield and the second shield. The read sensor has a free layer including a plurality of ferromagnetic layers interleaved with and sandwiching at least one additional layer. Each of the ferromagnetic layers includes at least one of Fe, Co and B and has a first corrosion resistance. The additional layer(s) have a second corrosion resistance greater than the first corrosion resistance.
US09070377B1
Polarity transitions of a write signal applied to a write coil correspond to first bit boundaries written to a magnetic recording media. A heat signal is applied to heat the magnetic recording media via a heat source while bits are being written. The heat signal includes negative pulses that de-energize the heat source during cooling periods corresponding to the writing of the first bit boundaries. The negative pulses are offset from the polarity transitions by a predetermined time.
US09070374B2
The used condition of a simplex communication apparatus is notified with a light-emitting device attached to the communication apparatus. It is determined whether a communication mode of the simplex communication apparatus is a transmission mode or a standby mode. A sound pick-up state of a sound carried by a speech signal to be transmitted is determined if the communication mode is the transmission mode. The light-emitting device is controlled so that it is turned off, turned on or repeatedly turned on and off based on determination results of the communication-mode determination and the sound pick-up state determination.
US09070366B1
Features are disclosed for processing a user utterance with respect to multiple subject matters or domains, and for selecting a likely result from a particular domain with which to respond to the utterance or otherwise take action. A user utterance may be transcribed by an automatic speech recognition (“ASR”) module, and the results may be provided to a multi-domain natural language understanding (“NLU”) engine. The multi-domain NLU engine may process the transcription(s) in multiple individual domains rather than in a single domain. In some cases, the transcription(s) may be processed in multiple individual domains in parallel or substantially simultaneously. In addition, hints may be generated based on previous user interactions and other data. The ASR module, multi-domain NLU engine, and other components of a spoken language processing system may use the hints to more efficiently process input or more accurately generate output.
US09070353B2
The Advanced Pickup Switch is a lever-style switch that will allow any guitarist, with a minimal amount of technical skill, to alter the pickup wiring configuration of their electric guitar for altering the tonal choices available without the need to manually hard-wire each connection. The tonal alterations are effected via rotationally and axially displaceable multi-layer printed circuit board (PCB) discs that contain pre-determined tracings for specific pickup coil configurations. These are attached to the outboard sides of the switch with a single screw, thereby allowing for complex wiring alterations with the use of a screwdriver alone. The lateral movement of the switch and corresponding axial displacement of the PCB's allows for the expansion of the number of combinations without the use of a secondary switch. A robust two-pronged resilient detent arm cooperates with gearage for providing a switch with the tactile feedback that is familiar and comfortable to guitarists worldwide.
US09070343B2
A method for driving a display panel includes generating a plurality of gate signals, providing the plurality of gate signals to a plurality of switching elements connected to a plurality of gate lines, respectively, providing the plurality of gate signals to a monitoring element, and restoring the plurality of switching elements based on an output signal from the monitoring element.
US09070337B2
Provided is a display device including a driver circuit for controlling supply of charges to an array of cells capable of storing the charges. In the driver circuit, a preceding electrically connecting part (SW221) controlled by a clock signal (CLK1) electrically connects an output signal line of a first circuit (211) having a positive polarity which is a potential higher than a reference potential and an output signal line of a second circuit (212) having a negative polarity which is a potential lower than the reference potential. After a predetermined time period has elapsed, a subsequent electrically connecting part (SW222) controlled by a clock signal (CLK2) electrically connects an output signal line of a third circuit (213) having the positive polarity and an output signal line of a fourth circuit (214) having the negative polarity.
US09070336B2
A liquid crystal display includes a date line for transmitting a data signal, a first gate line for transmitting a first gate signal, a second gate line for transmitting a second gate signal, a first sub-pixel unit for being written to by a first sub-pixel voltage according to the data signal and the first gate signal, a second sub-pixel unit for being written to by a second sub-pixel voltage according to the data signal and the first gate signal, a third sub-pixel unit for being written to by a third sub-pixel voltage according to the data signal and the first gate signal, and a charge sharing control unit. The charge sharing control unit is utilized for controlling a charge sharing operation over the first and third sub-pixel units according to the second gate signal, thereby adjusting the first and third sub-pixel voltages.
US09070328B2
A drive circuit for a capacitive device that comprises a first operational state and a second operational state. The drive circuit comprises a capacitor and preferably two or more transistors. The capacitive device is caused to transition from a first operational state to a second operational state by a row pulse being asserted on a row line and a column pulse asserted on a column enable signal commensurate with the assertion of the row pulse. If the column pulse is deasserted before the row pulse is deasserted, the capacitive device is caused to transition from the first operational state to the second operational upon deassertion of the row pulse. In some embodiments, a precisely controlled variable voltage can be applied to the capacitive device.
US09070319B1
Method, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for selective transformation of overlapping image objects. One method includes identifying, in a computer graphics illustration, an overlapping region formed by a region of an overlapping image object having transparency positioned over a region of an overlapped image object, wherein the overlapping image object and the overlapped image object are resolution independent image objects, combining the region of the overlapping image object and the region of the overlapped image object to form a transformed region that is resolution independent, and storing the transformed region and other regions of the computer graphics illustration, which other regions are not combined to form the transformed region to provide for further processing.
US09070318B2
A display device includes a display panel, a timing controller, a data driver, a gate driver and a backlight unit. The gate driver sequentially outputs gate signals to gate lines. The backlight unit performs an on-operation during a high section of a backlight control signal and an off-operation during a low section of the backlight control signal. The gate signals includes first gate signals that are output during the high section of the backlight control signal and have a first pulse width and second gate signals that are output during the low section of the backlight control signal and have a second pulse width greater than the first pulse width.
US09070309B2
A flag mounting system provides a compact flagpole that may be mounted on a vertical surface or the like. A sliding tubular sleeve on the flagpole supports the flag and in a half-mast position exposes a distal end of the flagpole which is painted black. When the sliding tubular sleeve is extended to a full extension position, this black portion is covered.
US09070308B2
Flexible indicia bearing labels are placed on armored electrical cable at spaced apart intervals while the cable is being moving continuously from an armoring station to a takeup reel or accumulator. A label dispenser places labels in a U shaped recess of a body which is moveable toward engagement with the cable. Opposed rollers fold one edge of the label over into engagement with the surface of the cable and the other edge of the label over onto itself in overlapping relationship. The cable is passed through a heat tunnel to shrink the labels into tight engagement with the cable. A controller monitors movement of the cable and controls actuators for applying and folding labels onto the cable at spaced apart intervals.
US09070306B2
A system comprising: an apparatus for training microsurgical suturing on simulated tissue; an imaging system for capturing an image and/or video of the suture; and a suture training recommendation engine configured to determine the suture quality.
US09070299B2
An arrangement including a supporting structure and a reproduction of an aircraft passenger cabin, arranged inside the supporting structure. The aircraft passenger cabin is on a 1:1 scale for receiving components of cabin systems. The supporting structure is composed of standardized elements, for receiving components of the cabin system. The cabin fittings including standardized supports and connections so that the components of the cabin system can be tested under operating conditions.
US09070297B1
A device and method of use for carrying out addition and/or subtraction problems is disclosed. The device has two circular dials rotatable with respect to one another. Each dial has at least one set of sequential numbers, and at least one selector allows for selection of a number on at least one of the dials. By rotating the circular dials in position, and selecting a number to be added or subtracted, one then is able to see correct mathematical equations around the entire circle.
US09070280B2
A system and method for automatically pairing wireless remotes to the control components of automated furniture items is provided. In embodiments, a pairing mode selection indication is received, indicating a universal mode selection or a normal mode selection. In universal mode, the control component and the remote device are automatically paired based on commands received from the remote device. In normal mode, the control component and the remote component are automatically paired upon confirmation that the unique ID of the remote device corresponds to an ID database. Having paired the control component with the remote device, the control component may execute commands received from at least one remote device. In embodiments, the pairing method includes applying priority rules for particular remote devices. Further, the automatic pairing of remote devices may include varying levels of authorization for different users.
US09070274B2
A method of detecting cooling-loss event early is provided. The method includes defining a relative humidity limit and change threshold for a given space, measuring relative humidity in the given space, determining, with a processing unit, whether the measured relative humidity is within the defined relative humidity limit, generating a warning in an event the measured relative humidity is outside the defined relative humidity limit and determining whether a change in the measured relative humidity is less than the defined change threshold for the given space and generating an alarm in an event the change is greater than the defined change threshold.
US09070267B2
Medication management and reporting technology, in which output from at least one sensor configured to sense physical activity in a building in which medication of a patient is located is monitored and a determination is made to capture one or more images of the medication based on the monitoring. A camera is used to capture an image of the medication and the captured image is analyzed to detect a state of the medication. Information regarding a schedule by which the medication should be taken by the patient is accessed and an expected state of the medication is determined. The detected state is compared with the expected state and a determination is made that the patient has departed from the schedule based on the comparison revealing that the detected state does not match the expected state. A message indicating the departure from the schedule is sent based on the determination.
US09070264B2
A system and method for detecting a security breach of an electronic device are provided. The system includes a sensor assembly having at least one IR LED which outputs IR light, and an IR sensor which detects the IR light output by the IR LED and outputs corresponding IR detection signals. The system further includes a processor which generates an IR profile of an interior of the enclosure with reference to the IR detection signals output by the IR sensor. The processor determines that there has been a security breach of the enclosure at least in response to detecting IR activity in the enclosure from the IR detection signals that does not correspond to the IR profile. Output signals from a various other sensors may be used to confirm whether the security breach has occurred.
US09070257B1
Various embodiments described herein provide systems and methods that establish a betting pool associated with a plurality of pool participants and associated with a plurality of real-life events scheduled to occur over a time period. For a first participant of the plurality of pool participants, the systems and methods may receive a first points wager on a first predicted outcome of a first real-life event of the plurality of real-life events, update the points balance in the points account based on the first points wager and on a first actual outcome of the first real-life event, receive a second points wager on a second predicted outcome of a second real-life event of the plurality of real-life events, and update the points balance in the points account based on the second points wager and on a second actual outcome of the second real-life event.
US09070246B2
Wagering game terminal and method of operating same are disclosed where the player characters or avatars learn from the experiences of previous games. Thus, the player characters or avatars in effect remember the paths they have taken and/or the choices they have selected previously. This learning or remembrance may occur across multiple games and may be manifested by visual and/or audio reminders, including removal of the previously taken paths/choices. Other indicators such as audio or text messages may also be used. The player characters or avatars may also refuse or be reluctant to repeat a particular path/choice. In this way, the player may retain the benefits of his earlier efforts, thereby increasing player excitement and enjoyment.
US09070241B2
The present invention is characterized in that at least a first bill storage unit and a second bill storage unit are stacked and arranged in the stated sequence from a bill insert/discharge port side provided to the upper surface of the bill storage box; a door for loading and removing bills inside the bill storage units, and an opening and closing part for removing bills retained in an internal conveyance path between the first bill storage unit and the internal conveyance path are included; and the opening and closing direction of the door for loading and removing bills in the first bill storage unit and the opening and closing direction of the opening and closing part are substantially the same.
US09070227B2
Multivariate data that includes data records may be obtained, each of the data records represented as data values of data attribute variables. A cardinality of the data records is substantially large. A display layout template representing a collectivized visualization of dataset points is obtained, the collectivized visualization logically associated with a set of the data attribute variables, from a perspective of a user viewer. An individualized particulate display representation for each of the data records is determined, based on a portion of the data values associated with each respective data record. The individualized particulate display representation includes a discrete, individually selectable particulate shape and a display location relative to geometric bounds logically associated with the template. Display of the individualized particulate display representations is initiated in accordance with the template.
US09070224B1
In one aspect, the subject disclosure can be embodied in a method for rendering glyphs using circular arcs. A first Bezier curve defining a portion of a glyph outline is approximated using a second Bezier curve that represents a Bezier approximation of a circular arc. An upper bound for the approximation error is estimated based on a maximum distance between the two Bezier curves within a two-dimensional coordinate space. The first Bezier curve is converted to the circular arc approximated using the second Bezier curve for the portion of the glyph outline within the two-dimensional coordinate space, based on the estimated upper bound of the approximation error. The portion of the glyph outline is then displayed within an area of the display.
US09070220B2
A method is provided for depicting on a display, an object within a simulated environment having clothing. In this method, the clothing is represented as a series of vertices that include vertices that are attached to the object and vertices that are not attached to the object. The method improves upon position based dynamics algorithm by constraining unattached vertices to be a predefined distance away from attached vertices that are connected thereto to compensate for overstretching in the simulated clothing.
US09070219B2
A method of presenting a scene to a user according to a preferred embodiment includes determining a real orientation of a device relative to a projection matrix and determining a user orientation of the device relative to a nodal point. The method of the preferred embodiment can further include orienting a scene displayable on the device to the user in response to the real orientation and the user orientation; and displaying the scene on the device. The method of the preferred embodiment can be performed by an apparatus and/or embodied in computer program product including machine-readable code.
US09070217B2
A contextual local image recognition module of a device retrieves a primary content dataset from a server and then generates and updates a contextual content dataset based on an image captured with the device. The device stores the primary content dataset and the contextual content dataset. The primary content dataset comprises a first set of images and corresponding virtual object models. The contextual content dataset comprises a second set of images and corresponding virtual object models retrieved from the server.
US09070216B2
A method for monitoring construction progress may include storing in memory multiple unordered images obtained from photographs taken at a site; melding the multiple images to reconstruct a dense three-dimensional (3D) as-built point cloud model including merged pixels from the multiple images in 3D space of the site; rectifying and transforming the 3D as-built model to a site coordinate system existing within a 3D as-planned building information model (“as-planned model”); and overlaying the 3D as-built model with the 3D as-planned model for joint visualization thereof to display progress towards completion of a structure shown in the 3D as-planned model. The processor may further link a project schedule to the 3D as-planned model to generate a 4D chronological as-planned model that, when visualized with the 3D as-built point cloud, provides clash detection and schedule quality control during construction.
US09070212B2
There is provided an imaging slice setting technique capable of reducing the burden on the operator and having high accuracy and a high degree of freedom. In order to do so, a standard imaging slice is registered in the system in advance, and a GUI allowing the operator to appropriately adjust the standard imaging slice is provided. The standard imaging slice is displayed on a standard image configured to include two-dimensional images in three directions similar to a positioning image, and can be adjusted on the image. At the time of main imaging, the standard image is fitted to the positioning image to specify an imaging slice on the positioning image.
US09070210B1
The present disclosure relates to navigating around geographic maps within a map viewport display. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to navigating around a surface of a 3D, geographic coordinate system representation of a body using a pan feature while North is locked. In response to a user activating a pan feature of a navigation interface, a spin angle and, or a swing angle is calculated and the globe is revolved around a spin-axis and/or a swing-axis while revolution around a rotate-axis is locked.
US09070206B2
Some embodiments provide a three dimensional (3D) compositing application that provides a set of lighting tools for the user to better visualize the effects of a light in a 3D space by allowing a user to incorporate interactive visible light sources into a 3D scene that may be a part of a 3D project. The visible light source can be incorporated along each one of three axes independently of the other two of the three axes. The light tools allow the visible light sources that are incorporated into the 3D scene to be rendered for the final composited project, or to be rendered and displayed only during the 3D scene's compositing process to assist the user's visualization. Interactive rendering of the objects, including visible light sources, allow for any adjustments to the 3D scene to be displayed with minimal user-perceivable delay.
US09070198B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable media embodiments for reducing or eliminating display artifacts caused by on-the-fly changing of the display clock are disclosed. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a method includes, changing a rate of a display clock, and adapting a display data processing pipeline clocked by the display clock to prevent a substantial change in a pixel output rate from the display data processing pipeline based upon the changing.
US09070193B2
A cell phone is disclosed for acquiring information to be transmitted to a receiving facility and for transmitting such thereto. A capture device captures information from an external source. A stamping device is provided for associating with the captured information a representation of the date and time of the capture of the information, such that the representation of the date and time information in association with the captured information forms augmented captured information. A data processing unit places the augmented captured information in association with subscriber information in a transmission of the augmented captured information to a receiving facility requiring such subscriber information. A transmitter transmits the transmission including the augmented captured information and the subscriber information to the receiving facility. The data processing unit encrypts the augmented captured information with a symmetrical encryption algorithm to provide encrypted augmented captured information in the transmission with the subscriber information.
US09070185B2
Provided herein are an apparatus and a method of performing image noise filtering with respect to an image obtained from an image sensor, the method including: applying a noise deviation with respect to a temporal difference between a previous pixel value and a current pixel value when obtaining a temporal weight value to be used in temporal filtering. The noise deviation is obtained according to an intensity level of the current pixel value. Temporal filtering and spatial filtering may be performed, and blending filtering may be selectively performed by blending an output value of the temporal filtering and an output value of the spatial filtering.
US09070184B2
A color flow gain adjustment method and device, and a color ultrasound imaging system using the device are disclosed.
US09070183B2
Embodiments herein provide computer-implemented techniques for allowing a user computing device to extract financial card information using optical character recognition (“OCR”). Extracting financial card information may be improved by applying various classifiers and other transformations to the image data. For example, applying a linear classifier to the image to determine digit locations before applying the OCR algorithm allows the user computing device to use less processing capacity to extract accurate card data. The OCR application may train a classifier to use the wear patterns of a card to improve OCR algorithm performance. The OCR application may apply a linear classifier and then a nonlinear classifier to improve the performance and the accuracy of the OCR algorithm. The OCR application uses the known digit patterns used by typical credit and debit cards to improve the accuracy of the OCR algorithm.
US09070182B1
An image cropping technique includes detecting, at a computer system including one or more processors, faces within an image and evaluating, at the computer system, the faces to determine if any of the faces correspond to people within a user's online social network. The technique additionally includes defining, at the computer system, a first crop region including a subset of the faces when at least one face within the subset of the faces corresponds to a first person in the user's online social network and cropping, at the computer system, the image based on the first crop region.
US09070171B2
A client-server social-network for providing automated clothing suggestions. Fashion interested users form social networks, upload records of their respective wardrobes and fashion preferences, and display their wardrobe items and outfits other members of the network, often displaying entire outfits using customizable virtual mannequins. The social network members can evaluate the fashion merits of both their outfits and their friend's outfits, and the system will further store data pertaining to the social network group's fashion assessments. The system may also make statistical inferences as to what types of clothing may be favored and disfavored by the user's social network group, and present these recommendations to the user. Other factors, such as weather, event type, and user's recent history of wearing various wardrobe items can also be considered. The system can additionally assist in shopping and gift giving, provide fashion related games, spot fashion trends, and provide advanced data for fashion suppliers.
US09070169B2
A user can author content, and submit such content to be posted within a social networking context, from an external service such that the user can undo the posting of such content without such content ever having been posted in the social networking context. Additionally, once such user-authored content is posted in the social networking context, the user is provided with a single action that can remove all relevant manifestations of such content. The submission of user-authored content, to a social networking service, from an external service is delayed while, simultaneously, such external service presents the user with an interface indicating that such user-authored content has already been submitted to the social networking service and posted thereon. Should the user select to undo the posting of such content prior to the expiration of the delay, the submission can simply never be performed.
US09070163B2
Check processing involves detecting a check; scanning a back of the check having no printed authorization data to capture a back image; scanning a front of the check to capture a front image; reading magnetic ink characters on the front of the check; generating authorization data indicating that the check is valid based on the magnetic ink characters, the authorization data being generated electronically; generating an electronic merged image by electronically combining the back image with the authorization data in a predetermined area, the electronic merged image being generated such that at least a portion of the authorization data overlaps the back image. The operations are performed as the check is conveyed through a transportation path in one direction, one time. The check processing can be embodied in a method, apparatus, or instructions embodied on a machine-readable medium.
US09070160B2
A method of making an article of footwear is disclosed. The method includes the steps of providing a customer with a pre-selected set of graphics, allowing a customer to choose a set of input graphics, and generating a set of morphed graphics based on a set of input graphics. The user can select a morphed graphic and apply it to an article. The method may further include the step of limiting the number of times a customized graphic may be selected and applied to an article.
US09070154B2
A method for provisioning subscribers, products, and services in a broadband network includes establishing a directory system for storing information about a plurality of subscribers. The directory system includes a subscriber namespace and a device namespace. A subscriber is added by instantiating a subscriber object for the subscriber in the subscriber namespace. Each available service has its own state in the directory system to provide a multi-state provisioning system that permits granular management services.
US09070153B2
A digital proof of delivery for digital goods items purchased online includes methods and systems for authenticating online purchases for helping to prevent and mitigate fraud. A unique download identification (ID) is created and associated with the digital goods download and purchase. Additionally, third parties may readily be allowed to view the download status of a digital goods item by providing the unique download ID of the item, which may be useful for aiding third party fraud investigations. In response to an item of digital goods purchased by a customer for download from a merchant having reached a specific stage of downloading, but the download is not complete, download is suspended and a dialog box is sent over a network for presentation to a customer, and, in response to a confirmation received via the dialog box, the download is completed with a download ID unique to the completed download.
US09070147B2
Purchase order information associated with an item from a first user may be stored initially without completing a purchase transaction. In one aspect, the first user may be enabled to select one or more second users with whom to share the purchase. In another aspect, one or more second users may be given an opportunity to purchase the same instance of an item and share it. In response to determining that a minimum subset of the selected one or more users have indicated to purchase the item, the purchase transaction may be processed and completed. Completion of the purchase may be contingent on the selected one or more second users also purchasing the same item or the same instance of the item. An event may be optionally added to the users' calendars wherein they share the use of the item(s).
US09070137B2
Methods and systems for compiling marketing information for a client are provided. Data can be obtained from a plurality of social media websites, where each of the social media websites includes a universal resource identifier that points to a client website. A plurality of insights can be extracted from the obtained data, resulting in extracted insights. Each of the extracted insights comprises text elements that denote product approval for at least one product available for sale at the client website. Measurements of traffic to the client website can be collected, the traffic being referred to the client website by the plurality of social media websites. A referred traffic dynamics summary table can then be generated based on the extracted insights and the measurements of traffic. The referred traffic dynamics summary table aggregates the extracted insights across the plurality of social media websites to rank the extracted insights.
US09070136B2
A method executed at least in part in a computing device for providing cloud based skip tracing is provided. The method includes providing a cloud based service enabling data interchange with a plurality of vendors providing skip tracing services and receiving at the cloud based service and from a user a file of records for skip tracing. The method further includes applying a waterfall process to the records using the computing device wherein the waterfall process includes at least a subset of the plurality of vendors and returning to the user a results file containing skip tracing results corresponding to the records. The method may further include generating a waterfall score card and sending the waterfall score card to the user, the waterfall score card summarizing performance of the subset of the plurality of vendors.
US09070127B2
Methods and systems are provided for supporting electronic transactions, including transactions that are provided with per-user, per-device and per-domain security across domains of multiple service providers.
US09070123B2
A device may include a transaction web server. The transaction server may be configured to receive a hypertext markup language HTTP message that includes information sent from a transaction device, determine whether the message is a request to authorize a transaction or a request to settle a transaction, route a first portion of the HTTP message to a customer device to obtain an authorization from the customer device when the HTTP message is a request to authorize the transaction, and route a second portion of the HTTP message to the customer device to settle the transaction when the HTTP message is a request to settle a transaction.
US09070119B2
Time tracking technology, in which a time tracking tool tracks time spent in completing one or more tasks. The time tracking tool may perform operations related to tracking time based on activity of a computer operating the time tracking tool relative to status of the time tracking tool. In addition, the time tracking tool may track a continuous time an issue has been in need of resolution, track a working time that indicates an amount of time spent working on resolving the issue, and provide alerts based on application of one or more alert trigger rules to the tracked continuous time and the tracked working time. Further, the time tracking tool may provide reports that include category and sub-category information for tracked timing data.
US09070118B2
Managing instant messages may include receiving instant messages created by or on behalf of one or more message sources for delivery to an intended recipient. From among the received instant messages, qualifying instant messages may be identified that satisfy a capture rule, and two or more of the qualifying instant messages may be captured. The intended recipient may be informed of the captured instant messages unobtrusively, and also may be enabled to manage the captured instant messages.
US09070110B2
Identification of rogue social media assets is provided. In some embodiments, identification of rogue social media assets includes identifying a plurality of social media assets; comparing the plurality of social media assets with known social media assets to identify previously unknown social media assets; and displaying the identified previously unknown social media assets.
US09070109B2
Systems and methods for dynamic user profile presentation in a large-scale network are provided. Individuals may request to retrieve user profiles of other users in the network. Commonalities between the requesting individual and the owner of the user profile are identified. The commonalities may include non-public information associated with the owner of the user profile. Connection strength associated with each commonality is determined and the commonalities are prioritized according to the connection strength. The commonalities between the requesting individual and the owner of the user profile are presented to the requesting individual based on the prioritization.
US09070106B2
A plurality of base templates is generated. Each of the base templates models a corresponding process. A plurality of instances of each of the base templates is instantiated. Each of the plurality of instances corresponds to an application of the corresponding process to a particular environment. Each of the instances of each of the base templates is annotated, based, in each case, upon observation of functioning of the instance in the particular environment.
US09070095B2
A method, a system and a computer program product are disclosed for providing information concerning scheduled procedure steps and/or information concerning performed procedure steps within a taskflow which includes a plurality of tasks for processing medical image data. Each taskflow is associated with a taskflow specific context folder. In at least one embodiment, a publisher task is adapted to select selected data out of the medical image data. For these selected data, meta-information is updated by incorporating additional information concerning scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps. This is done by maintaining referential integrity between image data, scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps.
US09070087B2
Methods and systems are given for investigation of compositions of ontological subjects in accordance with various aspects of significance. Accordingly, the present invention provide a unified method and process of investigating the compositions of ontological subjects, modeling an unknown system, and obtaining as much worthwhile information and knowledge as possible about the system or the composition or the body of knowledge along with exemplary services utilizing such investigations.
US09070086B2
Various technologies and techniques are disclosed for observing the real-world performance of components and using the collected data to improve other user experiences. Configuration data, usage data, and user experience data are collected for components on observed solution instances. The configuration data, usage data, and user experience data are analyzed to generate component diagnostic data that can be used to make recommendations to one or more advised solution instances as to how to correct a problem being experienced on the one or more advised solution instances. In one implementation, the component diagnostic data generated includes a reputation rating for each of the components.
US09070079B2
A printer 3 with a paper consumption output function resets the count of a paper consumption counter 32 (ST22) when a start measuring command C1 is received from the host computer 2 side, and measures the paper consumption 32A from a specific start measurement time to a specific stop measurement time using a paper consumption counter 32 (ST23b to ST27b). When a fetch paper consumption command C2 is received (ST41), the printer 3 outputs the paper consumption 32A, which is the count of the paper consumption counter 32, to the host computer 2 (ST43).
US09070078B2
A controller transfers first data to a first control circuit in correspondence with a single data line at a rising edge of a clock pulse on a single clock line, and transfers second data to a second control circuit in correspondence with the single data line at a falling edge of the clock pulse.
US09070068B2
A radio frequency identification seal comprises an antenna including a main antenna portion and at least one break-away portion and an RFID tag coupled and tuned to the antenna. The RFID tag outputs a signature in response to a scanning signal when tuned to the antenna.
US09070067B2
A smart card module for use in a smart card includes a microchip and a contact zone for making contact with the microchip by means of a reader. The microchip can be enclosed by an encapsulation which can enclose the microchip completely from all sides.
US09070060B2
The present invention relates to a RFID tag having sensing capabilities. The RFID device includes an antenna section and a sensor patch section. The antenna is coupled to a chip. The sensor patch section upon exposure to an environmental condition causes the RFID device to change from a first operating condition to a second operating condition.
US09070051B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first designation unit configured to designate a power-off task of shutting down the image forming apparatus in a designated period, a second designation unit configured to designate a setting task of executing a setting process for setting a setting item of the image forming apparatus in a designated period and a restart process for restarting the image forming apparatus after the setting process, and a task control unit configured to control execution of the designated power-off task and the designated setting task. The task control unit is configured to, if the power-off task is designated, perform control to change processing of the power-off task and the setting task according to which of the processes of the setting task a period that an end of the designated period of the power-off task reaches corresponds to.
US09070047B2
A tractable model solves certain labeling problems by providing potential functions having arbitrary dependencies upon an observed dataset (e.g., image data). The model uses decision trees corresponding to various factors to map dataset content to a set of parameters used to define the potential functions in the model. Some factors define relationships among multiple variable nodes. When making label predictions on a new dataset, the leaf nodes of the decision tree determine the effective weightings for such potential functions. In this manner, decision trees define non-parametric dependencies and can represent rich, arbitrary functional relationships if sufficient training data is available. Decision trees training is scalable, both in the training set size and by parallelization. Maximum pseudolikelihood learning can provide for joint training of aspects of the model, including feature test selection and ordering, factor weights, and the scope of the interacting variable nodes used in the graph.
US09070042B2
To enhance the accuracy of image alignment performed to reduce a vertical disparity between a first image and a second image that are images of the same object captured from different viewpoints, an image processing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a division unit which divides each of the first image and the second image into a plurality of sub-regions; and an extraction unit which performs feature point extraction on each of the sub-regions, wherein the extraction unit performs the feature point extraction in such a manner that a value indicating a degree of variation among the sub-regions in total number of extracted feature points is less than or equal to a predetermined value.
US09070037B2
Disclosed are a magnetic ink character recognition method, apparatus and system. The method includes: reading a magnetic signal of a magnetic ink character on a medium to be recognized; acquiring the amplitude characteristic data of the magnetic ink character according to the magnetic signal thereof; and performing spectral angle cosine match processing on the amplitude characteristic data of the magnetic ink character to obtain the recognition result of the magnetic ink character. The present method can reduce the stability requirements on the magnetic signal and improve the recognition rate of the magnetic signal.
US09070034B2
Method and system for correcting a QR code image is provided. An initial coordination system and a correction coordination system are determined at first. Conversion coefficients are obtained according to the coordinates of the central point of each detection pattern, the coordinates of the locating point in the initial coordinate system, the correction coordinate system. For each point in the correction coordinate system, its corresponding module in the initial coordinate system is found out, and the grayscale value of that module is assigned to the point to realize the correction of the QR code image. Coordinates of the three detection patterns, the locating point in the initial coordination system, and the correction coordinate system may be readily obtained according to different version numbers. At the same time, shortcomings caused by edge detection may be avoided, and a favorable correction effect may be obtained.
US09070031B2
Systems and methods provide an illumination assembly for a mark reader. A light transmitter is arranged in a surrounding relationship to an interior area, with the light transmitter having a proximal end and a distal end. An illumination source provides a light for transmission into the light transmitter. The light transmitter distal end allows the light from within the light transmitter to pass through and out of the distal end to provide bright field illumination and dark field illumination. The light transmitter distal end may include a first portion and a second portion, where light from within the light transmitter passes through and out of the first portion to provide bright field illumination, and light from within the light transmitter passes through and out of the second portion to provide dark field illumination.
US09070030B2
A management system for a container data center (CDC) includes at least one radio frequency identification (RFID) tag, a reader, a processor, an antenna module, and a wireless communication device. The RFID tag pre-stores data as to a manager of the CDC or electronic devices received in the CDC. The reader reads the data from the RFID tag, and outputs the data to the processor. The processor outputs a processing result according to the data, to the antenna module. The antenna module sends the processing result to the wireless communication device via a wireless communication system.
US09070027B2
A method using integrated software and algorithms for measuring, modeling, benchmarking and validating any Enterprise Content management system, forms processing data capture system or data entry system, including, at the user's option, ingest of special engineered test materials such as a Digital Test Deck®, applying data quality scoring algorithms, use of cost models, validation of downstream business processes, and implementing statistical process control.
US09070023B2
A pedestrian perception alert system configured to issue a warning during real-time when a driver's visual detection of a pedestrian is difficult, and a method thereof is provided. The system includes a video camera, an alert for issuing a warning, a processor, and a Pedestrian Detection Unit (“PDU”). The PDU analyzes the video camera image to detect a pedestrian. A Global Clutter Analysis Unit (“GCAU”) generates a global clutter score. A Local Pedestrian Clutter Analysis Unit (“LPCAU”) generates a local pedestrian clutter score. The processer processes the global clutter score and local pedestrian clutter score so as to generate a pedestrian detection score. The alert is actuated when the pedestrian detection score is outside of a predetermined threshold so as to notify the driver that perception of a pedestrian is difficult at that time.
US09070022B2
Provided is a route change determination system and method using image recognition information, which is capable of extracting position information having high precision similar to that of a high-precision DGPS device, while using a low-precision GPS device, in order to determine a change of a traveling route.The route change determination system using image recognition system includes: a GPS module; an image recognition module having a line recognition function; a road map storage module configured to store road map information and route change possible section information for changing a route of a vehicle; a road map receiving module configured to receive the road map information; and an information processing module configured to determine whether the route is changed or not, based on line recognition information acquired through the image recognition module and the route change possible section information.
US09070021B2
A method and a system is provided for monitoring an area by a monitoring camera (1). A protected zone (5) is defined within the monitored area (2) and a suspicious object (9a, 9b) is detected as an object present both inside and outside the protected zone. A key position of the suspicious object is determined, and it is determined if the key position is inside or outside the protected zone (5). If the key position is outside the protected zone a first action is triggered.
US09070016B2
A plurality of pieces of information related to the iris pattern of an eye can be checked against each other in a short time. Characteristic curves (S(1)-S(8)), which are in accordance with eight ring areas (A1-A8) formed by dividing an image of an iris, are generated. The polarities of the gradients of these characteristic curves are then arranged, thereby generating codes (1-8) to be checked. Each of these codes (1-8) to be checked consists of a ternary combination of +, − and zero, whereby the amount of data to be handled during the checking process can be reduced. As a result, checking the codes to be checked can be performed in a short time.
US09070015B2
A system and a method for iris detection in a face region of a digital image are disclosed. In one embodiment, iris is detected in the face region of the digital image using eye features, such as a shape of the iris and/or luminance values of a sclera region.
US09070014B2
A defect detection system for computerized detection of defects, the system including: an interface for receiving inspection image data including information of an analyzed pixel and of a plurality of reference pixels; and a processor, including: a differences analysis module, configured to: (a) calculate differences based on an inspected value representative of the analyzed pixel and on multiple reference values, each of which is representative of a reference pixel among the plurality of reference pixels; wherein the differences analysis module is configured to calculate for each of the reference pixels a difference between the reference value of the reference pixel and the inspected value; and (b) compute a representative difference value based on a plurality of the differences; and a defect analysis module, configured to determine a presence of a defect in the analyzed pixel based on the representative difference value.
US09070011B2
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for automatically segmenting input document images into regions of black text, white space, and image content. A set of scanned training documents representing the range of text and images to be processed is coarsely tagged to classify regions by content type. The training images are divided into bricks, parameters describing individual brick features are evaluated, and the bricks are classified according to the parameter values. A classification map that relates parameter values to classification codes describing content type is constructed by generating linear equations separating a parameter space into parameter regions along classification boundaries. After training, input documents are scanned and divided into bricks, and brick parameters are converted into an index into the classification map, to classify document regions by content.
US09070006B2
Components, e.g., background, cytoplasm, nucleus and nucleolus, of a biological specimen are identified using multi-wavelength analysis. Specimen components, such as nucleoli, are selected, and a determination is made whether cells having nucleoli are cancer cells or regular repair cells based on one or more physical characteristics of the identified component. The physical characteristics can be one or more of a shape, size, texture and gray value.
US09070005B2
An image processing apparatus includes an obtaining unit, a first extraction unit, a second extraction unit, a setting unit, a filter setting unit, a generating unit, and a determination unit. The obtaining unit obtains a captured image of a test piece including a target cell having a nucleus. The first extraction unit extracts pixels which are candidates for the nucleus from pixels included in the captured image. The second extraction unit extracts a connected-pixel group which is a candidate for the target cell. The setting unit sets rectangular regions in the captured image. The filter setting unit sets a filter including regions. When the filter is disposed in each of the rectangular regions, the generating unit generates an image feature value. The determination unit determines, on the basis of whether the image feature value satisfies a condition, whether the target cell is included in the rectangular region.
US09070004B2
The present techniques provide for the evaluation of cellular motion and/or cellular properties based on an analysis of motion for cluster of cells. In an exemplary technique, images of cells are acquired and the image is segmented into clusters. Motion data for each respective cluster is derived from the segmented data. The properties of each cluster can be used to evaluate cellular properties and/or cellular motion properties.
US09069998B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to estimating an electrical property of tissue using MR images. Complex values having real components and imaginary components are generated and are associated with pixels in one or more MR images that corresponding to a region of tissue for which the electrical property is constant. An estimated value of the electrical property for the region of tissue is determined based on a least squared error estimation applied to the complex values.
US09069991B2
An exemplary flat panel display includes a micro processing unit, a display signal input socket defining a safeguarding terminal, an input interface configured for a user to input a user code, a first storage unit storing a security code, and a second storage unit storing a safeguarding mark. The micro processing unit is configured to monitor a voltage applied to the safeguarding terminal, detect a status of the safeguarding mark, compare the user code with the security code according to the status of the safeguarding mark, and output a control signal according to a result of the comparison.
US09069988B2
Corruption in a key stored in a memory is detected by reading a key from a key memory and determining if detection bits of the key read from the key memory correspond to an expected value. The expected value is a value of the detection bits of the key when the key is written to the key memory.
US09069982B2
Described herein are systems and methods for managing electronic documents. In particular, embodiments of the present invention are focussed on managing ingestion of documents into an information system, such as ingestion of documents generated by a device having scanning functionality. Embodiments include devices, software (defined by computer executable code), carrier media, and methodologies. In overview, a document is received from an ingestion source, such as a Multi Function Device (MFD) having a scanner. For example, the document is a scanned into an electronic form from a paper form. This electronic form is subjected to additional processing thereby to implement a predefined security protocol prior to the document (or a modified version thereof) being released into an information system.
US09069979B2
A multi-tenant identity management (IDM) system enables IDM functions to be performed relative to various different customers' domains within a shared cloud computing environment and without replicating a separate IDM system for each separate domain. The IDM system can provide IDM functionality to service instances located within various different customers' domains while enforcing isolation between those domains. A cloud-wide identity store implemented as a single LDAP directory can contain identity information for multiple customers' domains. This single LDAP directory can store identities for entities for all tenants, in separate partitions or subtrees of the LDAP directory, each such partition or subtree being dedicated to a separate identity domain for a tenant. Components of the cloud computing environment ensure that LDAP entries within a particular subtree are accessible only to service instances that have been deployed to the identity domain that corresponds to that particular subtree.
US09069972B2
A Secure Digital (SD) card, and an system and an operating method for the SD card are disclosed. The disclosed SD card has a Flash memory and a controller. The Flash memory contains a data storage space and a Content Protection Recorded Media (CPRM) support space. The controller executes a firmware of the SD card, such that read/write commands provided from a host for the CPRM support space are regarded and executed as security commands and a CPRM mechanism is operated over the data storage space.
US09069970B2
Systems and methods for protection from buffer overflow vulnerability due to placement new constructs in C++ are provided. A system for protecting from buffer overflow vulnerability due to placement new constructs, comprises a compiler which is capable of receiving a program including a placement new instruction, and runtime which is capable of receiving binary code from the compiler and determining whether the program includes the placement new instruction and whether the placement new instruction would lead to buffer overflow, wherein the runtime is linked to a library including methods for preventing the buffer overflow, and selects a method for preventing the buffer overflow if the runtime determines that the placement new instruction would lead to the buffer overflow.
US09069968B2
A method operates, during development of an application program intended to be run on a mobile user device, to perform a computer assisted analysis of the application program to determine at least one user privacy-related aspect of the application program; and to present the determined at least one user privacy-related aspect. The determined at least one user privacy-related aspect may be presented to a developer of the application program An apparatus and system for performing the method are also disclosed.
US09069962B2
A method and computer product are presented for identifying Internet worm propagation based upon changes in packet arrival rates at a network connection. First, unsolicited (i.e., packets that were not requested by the receiver) traffic is separated from solicited traffic at the network connection. The unsolicited traffic arrival patterns are monitored and analyzed for any changes. Once changes in the unsolicited traffic arrival patterns are detected, the changes are mathematically analyzed to detect growth trends. The presence of growth trends that follow certain key characteristics indicate whether the changes are due to worm propagation.
US09069959B2
According to an example embodiment, a device provides cryptographic processing functions using secret data. The device can include protection from differential power analysis (DPA). The encryption processing circuit and its memory can be decoupled from external power source(s) during encryption-related computations. A local power storage element, such as a capacitive element, can provide power while the encryption processing circuit is decoupled from the external power source(s). The local power storage element can then be reconnected and charged once the encryption-related computations are completed or paused.
US09069956B2
A method for scanning files includes enumerating unscanned files; obtaining attributions of the unscanned files from the enumerated files one by one, and transmitting to a server the attributions; comparing the attributions with features that are stored in the server; obtaining the features that are consistent with the attributions and types that the features belong to; and generating a mapping relationship between the unscanned files, the attributions and the types according to the features that are consistent with the attributions and the types of the features, and recording the mapping relationship in a first scanning result. The above method uploads the attributions of the files to the server; and makes the safety and risky recognition of the file through comparing with the features and the corresponding types.
US09069950B2
A computer device includes a download unit which downloads one or more files into a storage device. A file logging unit records a resource locator identifying a source network location of the file, when the file is downloaded, and associates the resource locator with a first fingerprint of the file. A system policy unit stores the resource locator associated with a process control policy relevant to the file. A process control unit is arranged to obtain a second fingerprint of the file upon launching a process in a runtime execution environment, retrieve the resource locator from the file logging unit by matching the second fingerprint with the first fingerprint, retrieve the process control policy from the system policy unit according to the retrieved resource locator, and selectively apply process execution privileges which determine execution of the process in the runtime execution environment according to the retrieved process control policy.
US09069947B2
Techniques for managing accounts are provided. An access management system may check out credentials for accessing target systems. For example a user may receive a password for a period of time or until checked back in. Access to the target system may be logged during this time. Upon the password being checked in, a security account may modify the password so that the user may not log back in without checking out a new password. Additionally, in some examples, password policies for the security account may be managed. As such, when a password policy changes, the security account password may be dynamically updated. Additionally, in some examples, hierarchical viewing perspectives may be determined and/or selected for visualizing one or more managed accounts. Further, accounts may be organized into groups based on roles, and grants for the accounts may be dynamically updated as changes occur or new accounts are managed.
US09069944B2
Disclosed embodiments include a method for receiving, at a configuration information server, an encrypted password associated with a configuration item, where the encrypted password is encrypted using an encryption key. The method further includes encrypting a decrypted password to generate a reencrypted password, where the decrypted password is derived from the encrypted password. The method further includes transmitting the reencrypted password to the configuration item and removing the decrypted password from the configuration information collection server.
US09069941B2
A facility for receiving an embedded policy is provided. The facility checks an application program image for the presence of an embedded policy. If an embedded policy is detected, the facility extracts the policy from within the application program image. The facility may then apply the extracted policy to the application program image before the application program image is loaded and/or executed. Moreover, the facility may check the application program image's integrity prior to extracting the embedded policy.
US09069940B2
Methods of securely authenticating a host to a storage system are provided. A series of authentication sessions are illustratively performed. Each of the authentication sessions includes the host transmitting an authentication request to the storage system. The storage system authenticates the host based at least in part upon a content of the authentication request. After each successful authentication of the host to the storage system, an encryption key that was utilized in encrypting the authentication request that was transmitted to the storage system is deleted. After each encryption key deletion, a new encryption key that is different than the previous key is optionally stored and is utilized in the next authentication session.
US09069937B2
Techniques are provided for converting a node-locked licensing scheme to a cloud-based management of licenses to use computer products. In one example, a license manager device of a vendor receives a request to upgrade a computer product that is associated with a node-locked certificate that configures the computer product to be node-locked to a particular device. The request includes an identifier of the computer product. The license manager device registers the product identifier to a license pool of a customer account associated with the computer product. The license pool includes entitlements to use the computer product. The license manager device searches for node-locked entitlements that are associated with the node-locked certificate. The license manager device moves the node-locked entitlements to the license pool.
US09069936B2
Techniques involving detection of misuse of digital licenses pertaining to application use. An identification of unsigned applications or other use-protected applications enabled for use at a user device is obtained. The identification of such applications is directed to a licensing authority to seek digital license renewal for using the applications. A renewed digital license is received if the provided identification of use-protected applications corresponds to what is authorized by the licensing authority for use at the user device. In other embodiments, verification information may be provided to protect the identification of unsigned applications from tampering, such as information indicative of whether the identification of unsigned applications originated at the user device in which the use-protected applications are used, and indicative of whether the identification of the unsigned applications is a copy of a previous identification of the unsigned applications.
US09069934B1
A method and system for providing a user with digital content includes a user interface provided to a user for allowing the user to be presented with the digital content. The method and system includes receiving authentication information from the user and authenticating the user if the authentication method correctly corresponds with previously stored information of the user. As a result, the user has access to the digital content, wherein the digital content is information from a third party, e.g., a vendor of goods or services or information provider, based on a user profile which comprises user preferences. The digital content is then presented to the user interface.
US09069930B1
A security information and event management (SIEM) system includes a data storage sub-system that stores (1) security data pertaining to security-related events and states of a production computer system, (2) security business objects (SBOs) as an abstraction layer over the security data, and (3) workflows which each include a set of the SBOs organized in a workflow-specific manner. Each SBO represents a security-related aspect of the production system and includes data queries to generate output data pertaining to the security-related aspect. Each workflow embodies a complex multi-step security analysis operation. In operation, security users of the SIEM system execute the workflows including the respective security business objects, resulting in a set of result data which identifies security threats and vulnerabilities of the production computer system. A workflow can provide additional contextualization for detected events, including asset data regarding the configuration of hosts in the data processing system which can be used to generate recommendations for remedial action, such as applying certain software patches to address a threat.
US09069927B2
A method of monitoring advanced separation and/or ion exchange processes through the collection of localized data. The data is manipulated to generate preconfigured performance, maintenance, quality assurance, quality control, regulatory, cost reports, performance graphing and historical trends. The data is collected from sensors located at an equipment site and transferred to a remote located by use of the Internet, further all data received and used for generation of reports is also accessible by Internet connection.
US09069918B2
A system and method for writing simulation acceleration data from a host workstation to a hardware emulation system without considerably sacrificing emulation speed or sacrificing the emulation capacity available for a user's logic design. According to one embodiment, a system comprises a logic software simulator running on a host workstation; a hardware emulation system having a system bus and an emulator chip, the emulator chip includes: an emulation processor that generates emulation data, and a data array connected to the system bus; and a high-speed interface connecting the host workstation to the system bus of the hardware emulator, wherein simulation acceleration data from the host workstation are written to the data array of the emulator chip using the system bus.
US09069908B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide various communication techniques for communication between a mobile computing device and an accessory. An accessory protocol that is generic to the mobile computing device can be used for some communication. An application executing at the mobile computing device can communicate with the accessory using an application communication protocol. In some embodiments, the application communication protocol can be different from the accessory communication protocol. In other embodiments the application protocol may only be recognized by the application and the accessory. In some embodiments, messages conforming to an application protocol can be communicated between the application and the accessory by packaging the messages inside a message conforming to the accessory communication protocol.
US09069905B2
Tool-based testing of composited systems indirectly tests properties of a dynamic linked library for a desktop compositor such as DWMCore.dll via an algebraic structure of tools that define composition and rendering properties and derive equivalent resource models. The system tests for undesired side effects by examining characteristics of pixels from complicated render operations and employs a framework to test the composition and rendering of Desktop Windows Manager directly on the DWMCore.dll Application Programming Interface. The process includes mimicking uDWM.dll behavior by using resources with test patterns to take controlled measurements and validate primitives. The framework includes an infrastructure, a resource model, and tools. Each tool exposes a different composition or rendering property. A tool combinator exposes high level composition properties, including correct overlapping of transparent content and visual transformation (translation, scale, color transforms, etc.) by taking tools as input and using visual tree constructs to combine them.
US09069900B2
A method for determining whether a machine code instruction of a machine code program is executed in the machine code program may include: replacing at least a part of a first machine code instruction of a plurality of first machine code instructions with a second machine code instruction, the second machine code instruction configured to generate a code exception; executing the machine code program including the second machine code instruction; and determining whether the second machine code instruction is executed based on the code exception.
US09069894B2
Described are techniques for detecting data collisions between a first portion and a second portion of an application executing on a computer, the first portion and the second portions executing concurrently with respect to each other. While the first portion and second portion are executing, before the first portion accesses a memory location shared by the first portion and the second portion, a value stored in the memory location is captured and the first portion is delayed. While the second portion continues to execute the first portion is delayed. After a period of the first portion having been paused or slowed, the current content of the memory location is compared with the captured content to determine if there is a data collision. The first and second portions may be threads, and the capturing, delaying, and determining may be performed by code inserted to the application after it has been compiled.
US09069893B2
Automatic verification of determinism in structured parallel programs includes sequentially establishing whether code for each of a plurality of tasks of the structured parallel program is independent, outputting sequential proofs corresponding to the independence of the code for each of the plurality of tasks and determining whether all memory locations accessed by parallel tasks of the plurality of tasks are independent based on the sequential proofs.
US09069890B2
Performance test data of a plurality of virtualization computing equipment configurations is collected and stored for each of a plurality of virtualization computing performance categories. At a computing device, data is received that describes requirements for virtualization computing services. Virtualization computing equipment configurations among the plurality of virtualization computing equipment configurations are identified that are capable of satisfying the requirements. For each identified virtualization computing equipment configuration, a measure of efficiency is determined for each of the plurality of performance categories based on the requirements and the virtualization computing performance test data. From the efficiency measure computed for the plurality of performance categories, a score is generated that represents the overall performance efficiency for each identified virtualization computing equipment configuration.
US09069884B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for processing special attributes within a file are provided. The method includes accessing the file with a hierarchical tree structure of file elements, and retrieving special attributes associated with the file elements. The special attributes are selectively assigned to the file elements. The method also includes interpreting the special attributes using hierarchical inheritance to pass the special attributes from subordinate file elements to higher-level file elements. The method further includes creating a file-level representation of the interpreted special attributes.
US09069874B2
An information locating method and system. The method includes presenting by a computer processor, a Webpage to a user. The computer processor receives a search command for performing a search function associated with the Webpage. In response, the computer processor: analyzes source code of the Webpage; downloads and analyzes files associated with the Webpage; and analyzes viewable information of the Webpage. The computer processor locates specified information associated with the Webpage.
US09069872B2
Web page change may be related to revisitation patterns to support web interaction. In an example embodiment, a method involves analyzing change and revisitation data for a web page, determining a relationship between the data, inferring consumption intent by a user for the web page, and utilizing the inferred consumption intent. More specifically, change data is analyzed to produce a change characterization, with the change data reflecting differences between content of a web page at different times. Revisitation data is analyzed to produce a revisitation characterization, with the revisitation data including visit times to the web page by a user. A relationship is determined between the change and the revisitation data based on the change and the revisitation characterizations. Consumption intent of the user for the content of the web page is inferred responsive to the relationship. The inferred consumption intent is utilized to support interaction with the web page.
US09069865B2
A computer-implemented method for generating geocoded user information is disclosed. The method comprises searching user data across multiple different data corpuses for entries having location-related information and determining locations for the location-related information. The method further comprises generating a map showing a current location of a mobile device along with representations of the entries having location-related information, at the determined locations, for entries from the multiple different data corpuses.
US09069864B2
The disclosed subject matter relates to methods for prioritizing a content item for a user. In one aspect, a method includes receiving user authentication events corresponding to a user account. A user is associated with the user account. The method further includes determining a time distribution of the received user authentication events. The method further includes constructing, based on the determination, a content prioritization user model corresponding to the user associated with the user account. The method further includes receiving a content item associated with the user. The method further includes associating, based on the content prioritization user model, a content priority value with the content item. The content priority value corresponds to a predicted aspect of the user.
US09069860B2
Computer-aided extraction of semantics from keywords to confirm match of buyer offers to seller bids
One embodiment involves a method and apparatus for mapping lexical keywords into entity description semantics in order to create unambiguous buyer-confirmed descriptions of entities. The method described herein relies on a computer program and some mechanism for computer data storage.
US09069858B1
The technology disclosed relates to identifying entity reflections that refer to a same real-world entity. In particular, it relates to using statistical functions to make probabilistic deductions about entity attributes, which are used to construct optimal combinations of entity attributes. These optimal combinations of entity attributes are further used to generate search queries that return more precise search results with greater recall.
US09069850B2
An apparatus, method, system and computer-readable medium are provided for generating one or more descriptors that may be associated with content. A teaser for the content may be identified based on contextual similarity between words and/or phrases in the segment and one or more other segments, such as a previous segment. An optical character recognition (OCR) technique may be applied to the content, such as banners or graphics associated with the content in order to generate or identify OCR'd text or characters. The text/characters may serve as a candidate descriptor(s). One or more strings of characters or words may be compared with (pre-assigned) tags associated with the content, and if it is determined that the one or more strings or words match the tags within a threshold, the one or more strings or words may serve as a candidate descriptor(s). One or more candidate descriptor identification techniques may be combined.
US09069848B2
Techniques for enriching a taxonomy using one or more additional taxonomies are provided. The techniques include receiving two or more taxonomies, wherein the two or more taxonomies comprise a destination taxonomy and one or more additional taxonomies, determining one or more relevant portions of the two or more taxonomies by identifying one or more common terms between the two or more taxonomies, importing one or more relevant portions from the one or more additional taxonomies into the destination taxonomy, and using the one or more imported taxonomy portions to enrich the destination taxonomy.
