US09118700B2
A method of operating a computing device that allows inspecting data that the device attempts to transmit over a network in an encrypted form for presence of malware, viruses or confidential information. The method includes intercepting a request from an application to an encryption component of an operating system to encrypt the data and acquiring encrypted data generated by the encryption component in response to the request. SSL or TLS protocol may be used for encryption. The request may be intercepted using API hooking. The data in an unencrypted form and an identifier of the encrypted data may be provided to a data inspection facility for establishing a correspondence between the unencrypted and encrypted data, using the identifier. The data inspection facility performs inspection of the unencrypted data to determine whether to allow transmission of the encrypted data over the network.
US09118695B1
Embodiments relate to a computer-based method of checking a network to determine whether a certain number of copies of data are backed up onto the peer devices of the network. If the certain number of copies of the data are not backed up on the peer device on the network, then backing up the data on one or more network devices. If the certain number of copies of the data are backed up on the peer device of the network, then not backing up the data on the one or more network devices.
US09118690B2
An apparatus, method, and machine-readable medium are described for establishing peer-to-peer (“P2P”) communication channels. In particular, in one embodiment, a matchmaker service performs a series of operations to service match requests received from a group of mobile devices. In one embodiment, the matchmaker service groups the match requests into matchable sets based on the application for which the requests are received and one or more variables associated with the application. Match requests within each match set can then be matched based on variables such as the NAT type, connection type and language associated with each of the mobile devices. Other variables such as geographical location, experience level, and age of the match requests may also be used to render match decisions.
US09118682B2
A computer implemented method handles service requests for HTTP-based services via IP ports that are located on HTTP servers. These HTTP servers are logically coupled to a port sharing mechanism that handles service requests from clients, and each of the multiple HTTP servers provides the same HTTP-based service. A request for the HTTP-based service is sent to an IP port in a first HTTP server. However, this IP port has a current number of active IP connections that exceeds a soft cap. Nonetheless, this IP port is directed to accept and execute the request, and then to terminate its connection with the client. Any subsequent request for this same HTTP-based service is directed to another of the multiple HTTP servers.
US09118680B1
When a client requests content from a Content Delivery Network (or other system), a first portion of the content is transmitted to the client from a source capable of providing high performance to that client. When the client has a sufficient amount of the content to perform its function, then additional portions of the content can be transmitted to the client from a source that provides a lower performance to that client with a minimal or no performance penalty to the user of the client.
US09118679B2
A method, an apparatus, and a computer program product which capture and use analytics data relating to the internal activity of software programs executing in a message-passing runtime environment, such as that provided by Objective-C. The invention exploits the well documented interfaces of these environments together with their dynamic runtime capabilities to insert data collection and analysis code into an application without modification of the target application.
US09118678B2
A method for indirectly measuring the clock rate of a media rendering subsystem, in a media rendering device that has a separate hardware clock for rendering the media, by using the rate at which data requests are made of the CPU in the media rendering device and using the CPU clock to provide additional accuracy in measuring the clock rate.
US09118672B2
A client can communicate with a middle tier, which can then, in turn, communicate with a back end tier to access information and resources on behalf of the client within the context of a system that can scale well. Each individual back end can establish a policy that defines which computing device can delegate to that back end. That policy can be enforced by a domain controller within the same administrative domain as the particular back end. When a middle tier requests to delegate to a back end, the domain controller to which that request was directed can either apply the policy, or, if the domain controller is in a different domain than the targeted back end, it can direct the middle tier to a domain controller in a different domain and can sign relevant information that the middle tier can utilize when communicating with that different domain controller.
US09118671B2
A request from a party is received by a receiver from a remote system. The request from the party is received when the party attempts to obtain a service using the remote system. A selective determination is made to request, over a network, authentication of the party by a remote biometric system. A request is sent to the remote system for the party to provide a biometric sample responsive to determining to request authentication of the party. The service is provided contingent upon authentication of the party by the remote biometric system.
US09118658B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided for access credential provisioning. A method may include causing a trusted device identity for a mobile apparatus to be provided to an intermediary apparatus. The intermediary apparatus may serve as an intermediary between the mobile apparatus and a provisioning apparatus for a network. The method may further include receiving, from the intermediary apparatus, network access credential information for the network. The network access credential information may be provisioned to the mobile apparatus by the provisioning apparatus based at least in part on the trusted device identity. Corresponding apparatuses are also provided.
US09118647B1
A video device and a remote control function for a video device that can be carried out over a remote device such as a phone. The phone connects to the video device over a network.
US09118634B2
A system including a computer and a computer readable hardware storage device containing instructions which, upon being executed by the computer, implements a method for restricting access to information transmitted over a computing network. A resource request for a resource to be located is received. The resource request contains a universal resource locator (URL). The URL is evaluated to determine whether encryption of none, part, or all of the URL is required. It is determined that the requested resource is available and in response, the requested resource contained in the resource request is located. It is determined whether encryption is required for none, part, or all of a return URL of the requested resource that is to be returned to a location of the resource request.
US09118633B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for securing a message published to a topic by a publisher in a publish-subscriber messaging system with a topic policy for the topic. In a step, an exemplary embodiment establishes a topic policy for a topic. In another step, an exemplary embodiment associates a message published to the topic with a topic policy. In another step, an exemplary embodiment signs a message published to the topic by a publisher with a private key of the publisher if the topic policy directs. In another step, an exemplary embodiment provides a public key of a subscriber if the topic policy directs that the subscriber receive a message in encrypted form. In another step, an exemplary embodiment encrypts a message for a subscriber specified in a topic policy to receive the message encrypted with a public key of the subscriber.
US09118624B2
An agent presence application for monitoring target agent resources and rendering agent states to subscribing applications is provided. The presence application has at least one first portion for collecting data regarding states of activity of the target agent resources, and at least one second portion for integrating the data and rendering the agent states to the subscribing applications.
US09118605B2
Multiple RSVP messages are used to separately signal components of co-routed VCAT to enable the separate components to be implemented on different physical fibers of a link bundle. To enable the PATH messages to be handled as a group, the multiple PATH messages are grouped together and sent out in a RSVP bundle message. When a RSVP bundle message containing multiple PATH messages is received at a network element, such as an ENNI, where the route for the PATH messages needs to be expanded, the route is expanded collectively and the expanded route is inserted into each individual PATH message. The modified PATH messages are then passed through the RSVP finite state machine one at a time to enable resources to be reserved for the connections of the VCAT. Thus, a single LSP may be created for each channel, and channels may be co-routed even where route expansion is required.
US09118593B2
A system determines, in real-time, the routing of communication services from origination to destination based on a number of selected criteria used to determine an optimal path. Best value routing enables carriers and service providers to route a session/call by using an advanced intelligent network solution to generate optimal routes/service providers for servicing a request.
US09118590B2
The two types of virtual local area networks (VLANs) may be defined: p-bits-Inferred-scheduling class VLAN (p-VLAN); and VLAN-10-Only-Inferred-scheduling class VLANs (v-VLAN). As such, upon receipt of an Ethernet frame, the type of VLAN associated with the Ethernet frame may be determined. The type of VLAN provides the receiving node with an indication of a method of determining a scheduling class. A p-VLAN supports multiple scheduling classes. For a p-VLAN, the scheduling class and drop precedence for the received Ethernet frame may be determined based on a “service map” that describes the relationship between the p-bits and forwarding treatment. A v-VLAN supports a single scheduling class. As such, the scheduling class for a received Ethernet frame may be determined based on the VLAN-10 of the received Ethernet frame. The described VLAN QoS information may be configured or signaled across the network. Advantageously, the methods may be applied in connectionless, connection-oriented and path-oriented Ethernet networks.
US09118582B1
A first request is received from a device over a network. It is determined that the first request should be redirected, based at least in part on information included in the first request. A redirect message is sent to the device over the network. A second request is received that includes the address and the port number. Responsive to determining that the port number is on the predetermined list of port numbers, modifying the second request by removing the port number. The modified second request is sent to the address.
US09118581B2
A traffic manager (121-124) for, and a method of, routing network traffic to a plurality of server computers (131-138). The traffic manager includes a network interface (204) and a processor (201). The processor is configured to receive network traffic comprising a request (701, 702) from a client computer (102-105) via the network interface. The processor is configured to then identify, based on attributes of the request, a server computer that is responsible for servicing the request (a responsible server). The processor is configured to then route the request to the responsible server using the network interface.
US09118579B2
A geographic management system (GMS) comprises a web server, a database server, and a map server. A user browser connected to the GMS transmits a search criteria to the web server. The web server transmits the search criteria to the map server. The map server geocodes the search criteria, obtains network data and geospatial data from the database server corresponding to the geocode, and transmits the geocode, the network data, and the geospatial data to the web server. The web server transmits the geocode, the network data, and the geospatial data to the user browser. The network data and the geospatial data are displayed on the user browser as a map displaying network elements of a telecommunication network relative to other network elements, geographic elements, and customers. One or more of the network elements have associated performance elements or sectored performance elements that display performance characteristics or sectored performance characteristics that signify performance attributes associated with the network element. The user browser can navigate through other network data and geospatial data by selecting network elements on the map or by selecting navigation tools or navigation tabs displayed in conjunction with the map.
US09118572B2
In one embodiment, a particular autonomous system border router (ASBR), in a control-plane media access control (MAC) learning (CPML) network, discovers other ASBRs in the CPML network, the particular ASBR and other ASBRs interconnected with respective ASBRs of a data-plane MAC learning (DPML) network. The particular ASBR calculates one or more internal shortest path first (SPF) trees rooted respectively at each of the other ASBRs in the CPML network, and upon receiving a MAC advertisement route for a given MAC address with a given next-hop IP address, it may determine a distance from the particular and each other ASBR in the CPML network to the given IP address based on the internal SPF trees. In response to the distance from the particular ASBR being shorter than the distance from each other ASBR, the particular ASBR is designated as a designated forwarder (DF) for traffic sourced from the given MAC address.
US09118569B2
Methods and systems for providing congestion control to a transport control protocol implementation are described. A device detects that there is a congestion event on a transport control protocol (TCP) connection of the device. The device determines that a bandwidth estimate is lower than half a current value of a slow start threshold for the TCP connection. In response to the determination, the device changes the slow start threshold to half of the current value of the slow start threshold for the TCP connection. The bandwidth estimate can be the product of the eligible rate estimate and the minimum round trip time. In some implementations, the transport control protocol implementation is a TCP Westwood implementation.
US09118568B2
The present invention relates to a automotive partial networking apparatus and method, which operate or terminate only a specific electronic control unit corresponding to a service currently being provided in a vehicle network composed of a plurality of electronic control units. In the automotive partial networking method, a automotive partial networking apparatus receives a partial networking-only Controller Area Network (CAN) frame from outside of the apparatus. A partial network table is searched based on the CAN frame, and then a CAN identification (ID) is searched for. A partial networking-only CAN frame is generated using the CAN ID. Partial networking is performed by transferring the generated partial networking-only CAN frame to at least one electronic control unit corresponding to a vehicle service.
US09118562B2
The present invention relates to the field of video stream transport. The invention specifically relates to a method for generating a clock signal controlling the transmission rate of an output signal device transmitting a stream from an input stream.The invention describes a method for generating the clock of the output stream from a measurement of the clock of the input stream. Said measurement is permanently adjusted in order to increase the accuracy of the measurement as well as to monitor possible drifts of the input stream clock. Said decorrelation between the clock of the input stream generates a regular output clock, even when the clock of the input stream is irregular.
US09118555B1
A networking apparatus is used in connection with a virtual local area network (VLAN). The networking apparatus includes a control circuit and a policy circuit. The control circuit is configured to dynamically determine a count of network devices presently belonging to the VLAN. The policy circuit is configured to calculate a first data rate in proportion to the count. The first data rate is less than a total data rate of a physical network including the VLAN. The policy circuit is configured to update the first data rate in response to changes in the count. The policy circuit is configured to limit an aggregate data rate of the VLAN to the first data rate. The policy circuit is configured to update the limiting of the aggregate data rate of the VLAN in response to changes in the first data rate.
US09118550B2
A method for notifying a first device of a status of an application includes transmitting an application state transition notification message from a second device to the first device when a state transition of the application has occurred, wherein the application state transition notification message comprises information regarding at least a current state of the application and a reason of the state transition; and transmitting an application state transition response message from the first device to the second device in response to the application state transition notification message.
US09118541B2
In one example embodiment, a system and method is illustrated that includes receiving connectivity data for at least one network device, the connectivity data describing a connection to the at least one network device within an area. The system and method further includes processing the connectivity data to obtain a routing update for distribution to another network device outside the area. Additionally, the system and method includes a routing summary in the routing update, the routing summary including an address prefix. Further, the system and method includes reachability information in the routing update, the reachability information including an address for the at least one network device.
US09118538B1
Systems and methods are provided for automatically configuring resources of a deployment environment so that the resources can be monitored by a resource monitoring program. In an implementation, a blueprint having a representation of a deployment topology of the environment is received. A resource template that specifies an inventory model of the resource monitoring program is received. Resources listed in the blueprint are configured according the inventory model specified in the template, thereby allowing the resources to be monitored by the resource monitoring program.
US09118537B2
A reception apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive a packet including a label and quality information indicating communication quality for the packet. The reception apparatus also includes a processor configured to allocate a priority to the received packet based on a combination of the label and the quality information included in the received packet and a transmitter configured to supply the packet to which the priority is allocated to a switch that performs transfer control to a packet based on its priority.
US09118530B2
In a method for generating a PHY data unit for transmission via a communication channel, a modulation scheme is selected from a plurality of modulation schemes, information bits are encoded to generate encoded data using one or more encoders, and an interleaving parameter NCOL is selected using the selected modulation scheme. NCOL varies for different modulation schemes. The encoded data is interleaved, which includes entering the encoded data into NROW rows and reading the encoded data out in NCOL columns. The payload information of the PHY data unit is modulated according to the modulation scheme, and a plurality of OFDM symbols is formed based on the modulated payload information.
US09118507B2
Techniques and systems for inter-working between different protocols are disclosed. In one embodiment, a protocol inter-working system can include: (i) a first server that can connect to a first gateway, where the first server and the first gateway can operate in a first protocol; (ii) a second server that can connect to a second gateway, where the second server and the second can operate in a second protocol; and (iii) a controller that can connect to the first and second gateways, where the controller can translate a first indicator in the first protocol to a second indicator in the second protocol. The first and second protocols can include H.323 and session initiation protocol (SIP), for example. The first and second indicators can each include a message waiting indicator (MWI), for example.
US09118504B2
The invention relates to a method for generating a load sharing vector indicating a plurality of communication targets for load sharing in a communication network. The method comprises providing (101) a target distribution vector comprising a first number of entries indicating a first communication target, and comprising a second number of entries indicating a second communication target, and generating (103) the load sharing vector upon the basis of active entries of the target distribution vector, the active entries indicating the communication target of the first or the second communication target which is available for load sharing in the communication network.
US09118498B2
A home system is provided. In a method of executing an application, information for executing the application is received from a device when accessing of the device is sensed, and the application is executed based on the received information. Accordingly, when a user merely brings a wireless guest device near to or in contact with an access point or a wired home device, it is possible to allow the wireless guest device to simultaneously automatically set an optimum security environment for a wireless network and execute an application that the user desires.
US09118490B2
The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for establishing a price for communicating over a communications network. In one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of network nodes configured to communicate over the communications network and a primary network edge node configured to provide network access to a plurality of end user devices. The primary network edge node is configured to initiate a bandwidth occupancy query message to at least one of said network nodes along a traffic path to which an end user device is communicating, determine a highest bandwidth occupancy of said network nodes along the traffic path, and compute a current price for the end user device communicating over the traffic path based on the highest bandwidth occupancy.
US09118483B2
A communication system includes a first relay device connected to a first network accessible by any user, and a second relay device connected to a second network accessible by a specific user. The first relay device includes a first receiver, a first authentication information acquisition unit, and a first transmitter. The first receiver receives an electronic certificate from a terminal device of the specific user. The first authentication information acquisition unit acquires authentication information. The first transmitter transmits the authentication information to a service device connected to the first network, and transmits the electronic certificate to the second relay device. The second relay device includes a second receiver, a second authentication information acquisition unit, and a second transmitter. The second receiver receives the electronic certificate. The second authentication information acquisition unit acquires authentication information. The second transmitter transmits the authentication information to a service device connected to the second network.
US09118482B2
A fault tolerant apparatus and method for elliptic curve cryptography. For example, one embodiment of a processor includes one or more cores to execute instructions and process data; and fault attack logic to ensure that the execution of the instructions and processing of the data is not vulnerable to memory safe-error attacks after a fault is injected by hiding any correlation between processor behavior and secret bits in a secret key.
US09118475B2
Aspects of a method and system for detecting enhanced relative grants in a wireless communications system may include measuring a signal power level of an Enhanced Hybrid ARQ Indicator Channel (E-HICH) and estimating a HOLD signal level of an Enhanced Dedicated Channel (E-DCH) Relative Grant Channel (E-RGCH), based on the measured E-HICH signal power level, wherein the E-RGCH is associated with the E-HICH. The signal power level of the E-HICH in Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) associated with the E-HICH may be measured. The HOLD signal level may be measured by compensating the measured signal power level of the E-HICH based on whether the E-HICH signal comprises an acknowledgment (ACK), a discontinuous transmission (DTX), or a negative acknowledgment (NACK). The measured signal power level may be compensated by an offset. An UP signal level of the E-RGCH signal may be estimated based on the estimated HOLD signal level.
US09118457B2
System, methods and apparatus are described that facilitate transmission of data over a multi-wire data communications link, particularly between two devices within an electronic apparatus. A sequence of data bits is converted into M transition numbers, which are then converted into a sequence of symbols. The sequence of symbols is transmitted received over N wires. A clock signal may be effectively embedded in the transmission of the sequence of symbols. Each of the sequence of symbols may be selected based on a corresponding one of the M transition numbers and a value of a preceding one of the sequence of symbols.
US09118456B2
The present invention discloses a method and system for transmitting multi-carrier uplink data at a network side. The method comprises: whenever setting up or adding a multi-carrier enhanced dedicated channel cell, a radio network controller notifying a NodeB dominating the multi-carrier enhanced dedicated channel cell of carrier identifier information of a carrier corresponding to the multi-carrier enhanced dedicated channel cell; and whenever receiving data transmitted by a terminal using a multi-carrier high-speed uplink packet access technique in the multi-carrier enhanced dedicated channel cell via the carrier, the NodeB carrying the carrier identifier information of the carrier bearing the data in enhanced dedicated channel uplink data frames when constructing the enhanced dedicated channel uplink data frames, and transmitting the constructed enhanced dedicated channel uplink data frames to the radio network controller. The present invention can avoid the problem of confusion of the received data from different carriers.
US09118453B2
Provided are a base station and a transmission method whereby, even in a case where a cross carrier scheduling is employed, the increase in the number of blind decodings on a PDCCH receiving side can be suppressed without need of signaling of an upper layer at the time of changing PDCCH CC. In the base station (100), a CC setting unit (101) sets, from among a plurality of downstream unit carriers included in a UE CC set, a control channel unit carrier (PDCCH CC) used for transmitting allocation information related to a data transmission resource of each downstream unit carrier included in the UE CC set.
US09118442B2
A UE receives HSDPA traffic comprising legacy HSDPA traffic and HS-SCCH-less HSDPA traffic. The UE concurrently processes the received legacy HSDPA traffic and the received HS-SCCH-less HSDPA traffic. The received HSDPA traffic is concurrently buffered into a first storage and a second storage to support simultaneously receiving legacy HSDPA traffic and HS-SCCH-less HSDPA traffic. A HARQ process is performed on the buffered HSDPA traffic in the first storage or the second storage according to a corresponding HS-SCCH CRC test. The resulting HARQ processed HSDPA traffic is Turbo decoded. Turbo decoding on the previously HARQ processed HSDPA traffic is performed simultaneously with HARQ processing on the buffered HSDPA traffic in the first storage or the second storage. The buffered HS-SCCH-less HSDPA traffic is processed via HARQ processing and Turbo decoding for each of the four pre-determined transport formats.
US09118438B2
A communication quality managing unit acquires or calculates a communication quality of a received signal at a different counterpart communication apparatus. A terminal model identifying unit identifies a model of the different counterpart communication apparatus. A switchover table storing unit stores a table, in which a communication quality corresponding to a requirement for switchover of a communication mode is set, for each model of the different counterpart communication apparatus. A switching unit refers to the table on the basis of the communication quality and the model of the different counterpart communication apparatus to switch a setting of a communication mode for a transmitting signal from a non-spatial multiplexing mode to a spatial multiplexing mode or from the spatial multiplexing mode to the non-spatial multiplexing mode. A transmitting unit processes the transmitting signal to output the processed signal to a plurality of antennas, on the basis of the set communication mode.
US09118436B2
A PON (Passive Optical Network) system, which modulates multiple subcarriers with data of multiple users to output an optical multiplexed signal from a station device, splits the optical multiplexed signal to transmit the split signals to multiple subscriber devices that are provided for each of the users, and demodulates the data of the users at the respective subscriber devices, includes: an obtaining section configured to obtain a transmission characteristic for each of the subcarriers at each of the subscriber devices, by receiving a test signal at the subscriber devices, which is transmitted from the station device; and an assigning section configured to assign one or more of the subcarriers for each of the subscriber devices suited to the transmission characteristics of the assigned subcarriers at each of the subscriber devices.
US09118427B2
A method for receiving and processing a digital radio broadcasting signal includes: receiving a digital radio broadcasting signal including encoded content in a first format; processing the encoded content to convert the encoded content into a second format; storing the encoded content in a second format; and decoding the stored encoded content to recover decoded content. A receiver that implements the method is also provided.
US09118426B2
A method for simultaneously transmitting packets to one or more users in a wireless communication system includes: generating the packets which include length information and are to be transmitted to the one or more users; and simultaneously transmitting the generated packets to the one or more users. The length information includes information representing a unit of the length information and information representing lengths of the packets according to the unit.
US09118424B2
An optical network unit (ONU) includes an optical interface, a detector producing an output signal based on a characteristic of an optical input received via the optical interface, a radio-frequency (RF) interface, an opto-electrical (O/E) converter in a first path from the optical interface to the RF interface, an electro-optical (E/O) converter in a second path from RF interface to the optical interface and a controller operatively connected to the detector, the controller being configured to adjust an optical output of the ONU based on the characteristic, where the characteristic may be a level of the received signal. Also a method of adjusting an optical output of an ONU based on a characteristic of a received signal.
US09118423B1
A photonic processor can include a first input for an amplitude-modulated optical pulse signal, a second input for an optical reference signal, and a plurality of stages. Each stage is configured to receive the amplitude-modulated optical pulse signal and a version of the optical reference signal. The version is amplitude attenuated in accordance with a position of the stage. Each stage is comprised of a reference path, a signal path, two couplers and a balanced photo detector. The first coupler receives the pulse signal and provides as stage pulse signal to the signal path coupled to a first input of the detector. The second coupler receives the version and provides a stage optical reference signal to the reference path coupled to a second input of the detector. The detector provides an electronic output signal corresponding to an amplitude relationship.
US09118420B2
An optical communication apparatus includes an optical signal transmitting unit to output an optical signal; an optical signal receiving unit to receive an optical signal; a retro-reflector to retro-reflect the received optical signal in a direction opposite to an incident angle of the received optical signal; and a control unit to direct the retro-reflector to receive the optical signal and to retro-reflect a response signal, which includes the received optical signal and data to be transmitted, in response to the received optical signal.
US09118410B2
A limited feedback method and apparatus for two-way relay channels with physical network coding are disclosed. An embodiment of the invention provides a method of providing parameters as feedback to two terminals according to channel conditions by a relay for two-way communication in a two-way relaying system using PNC (physical network coding). This method includes: (a) quantizing phase difference information of two-way channels of the two terminals in consideration of whether or not a ratio of a minimum distance between constellation points is periodic according to modulation level; and (b) transmitting feedback information, which contains at least one of the phase difference information and the power control information of the two terminals, as a limited number of bits to the two terminals. Here, the number of bits for the phase difference information or the number of bits for the power control information is determined according to the modulation level.
US09118402B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for transmitting data in a frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) wireless communication system. A multi-channel receiver is configured to receive data from one or more channels simultaneously. The multi-channel receiver enables efficient implementation of a transmission protocol in which multiple candidate nodes within a wireless mesh network are polled for availability to receive a packet of data. The packet of data is transmitted to one or more available nodes based on prevailing link conditions, thereby increasing the likelihood of successful delivery. Data flooding may be selectively implemented to further increase the likelihood of successful delivery.
US09118400B2
An interference cancelling receiver combines data from multiple paths after aligning to transmitter timing, and uses either an equalizer or a Rake receiver to compute symbol estimates. Interference estimates are generated from the symbol estimates, and multiple interference estimates are combined after re-aligning the interference estimates to receiver timing. At least two segments of symbol estimates are computed for each segment of interference cancelled data.Various techniques may be employed for controlling the latency and sequencing of these operations, and the subsystems within the canceller may use different processing clock speeds.
US09118393B2
A peer-to-peer communication system (1) capable of operating in push-to-talk mode comprises terminals (2, 2A, 6) capable of push-to-talk, peer-to-peer radio communication, and an enhancing device (3) arranged for coupling with the terminal. The enhancing device (3) comprises: • an antenna (31) for transmitting and receiving radio signals, • a band-pass filter (32) for selecting a frequency band of the radio signals, • a bidirectional amplifier (33) for amplifying radio signals alternatingly in a transmitting and in a receiving direction, • a control unit (34) for controlling the bidirectional amplifier (32) in response to a sensor signal, and • a sensor (35) for detecting whether the terminal (2A; 6) is transmitting or receiving and for producing the sensor signal in response thereto, which sensor is galvanically isolated from the terminal. The communication system (1) may be a Terrestrial Trunked Radio system, commonly known as TETRA system, more in particular a TETRA system operating in Direct Mode. The antenna (31) may be a can antenna or a loop-fed antenna. Lighting device with a wind-powered cleaning member.
US09118381B2
A base station apparatus includes a first generating unit that generates first broadcast information for use in processing by a mobile communication apparatus that connects to the base station apparatus and in processing by another mobile communication apparatus that connects to a radio relay apparatus, and a first transmitting unit that transmits the first broadcast information. The radio relay apparatus includes a second generating unit that generates second broadcast information for use in processing by the other mobile communication apparatus, and a second transmitting unit that transmits the second broadcast information. The other mobile communication apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives the first broadcast information and the second broadcast information, and a control unit that controls radio communication performed via the radio relay apparatus, using the received first and second broadcast information.
US09118378B2
A communications receiver includes a noise analyzer to characterize the composition of the interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communications signal in the presence of one or more time-varying conditions. The noise analyzer may provide a selection signal indicating the composition of the interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communications signal in the presence of one or more time-varying conditions to be used by the communications receiver. In an exemplary embodiment, the communications receiver selects at least one set of filter coefficients to compensate for the interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communications signal in the presence of a particular time-varying interference and/or distortion condition. In another exemplary embodiment, the communications receiver selects a corresponding interference cancellation filter bank to compensate for the interference and/or distortion impressed onto a transmitted communications signal in the presence of the particular time-varying interference and/or distortion condition.
US09118376B2
Radio frequency (RF) front end circuitry includes a notch diplexer. The notch diplexer includes a high pass filter coupled between a high band port and an antenna port, and a low pass notch filter coupled between a low band port and the antenna port. The high pass filter is adapted to receive a high band receive signal having a high band carrier frequency at the antenna port, and pass the high band receive signal to the high band port. The low pass notch filter is adapted to receive a low band transmit signal having a low band carrier frequency at the low band port, and attenuate distortion in the low band transmit signal about a notch stop band before passing the low band transmit signal to the antenna port. According to one embodiment, the notch stop band includes the high band carrier frequency.
US09118372B2
A base station transmits to a number of relay stations in a wireless network using a beamforming matrix. The beamforming matrix is generated by first obtaining a column vector from a beamforming matrix associated with each of the relay stations. An intermediate matrix is then generated using these column vectors. A zero-forcing procedure is then utilized to process the intermediate network to generate the final beamforming matrix.
US09118365B2
Disclosed is a method for transmitting from a transmitter device having M transmit antennas to a receiver device having N+C receive antennas, where M, N, and C are integers greater than or equal to 1. In one embodiment, the method comprises a process of spatial frequency multiplexing a block of N data symbols D1, D2, . . . , DN resulting in a block of N payload spatial symbols Su,1, Su,2, . . . , Su,N, using an inverse discrete Fourier transform (IDFT), a process of adding C redundancy spatial symbols to the block of N payload spatial symbols, resulting in a block of N+C spatial symbols S1, S2, . . . , SN+C, and a process of precoding the block of N+C spatial symbols S1, S2, . . . , SN+C with the help of a focusing matrix of dimensions M×(N+C), delivering M precoded spatial symbols X1, X2, . . . , XM, each precoded spatial symbol being transmitted over a distinct transmit antenna.
US09118358B2
Receivers accommodating carrier frequency selection methods in wireless communications systems employing multiple carrier frequencies are described. Although the receiver is tuned to a single band, an estimate of the channel quality corresponding to the currently used carrier and an alternative carrier is generated without switching between carriers. Transmitters of different cells and/or different sectors primarily use different carrier frequencies but periodically transmit using a neighboring sector's carrier frequency. Mobile node receivers use a single RF chain with a controllable RF filter to receive and process a signal within a first selected carrier band including two components, a first signal component identified with the first currently selected band and a second signal component identified with a second alternative band. Separate quality indicator values are obtained from the first and second signal components, compared, and a determination is made as to whether the receiver's RF filter should be switched to the second band.
US09118352B2
In a DTV transmitter the bits of shortened BCH codewords that exhibit undesirably low densities of ONEs are ONEs' complemented before being further coded, and used to modulate carrier waves. In a DTV receiver the further coding is decoded after demodulation. The results of such decoding are processed to recover successive shortened BCH codewords, some of which are in TRUE form and others of which have had their bits ONEs' complemented. Each shortened BCH codeword is extended to full length with ZEROs, and decoding is attempted. Successful decoding confirms that the shortened BCH codeword was received in TRUE form. If decoding is unsuccessful, the bits of the shortened BCH codeword as received are ONEs' complemented, extended to full length with ZEROs, and decoding is attempted. Successful decoding confirms that the shortened BCH codeword was received in ONEs' complemented form and has subsequently been converted to TRUE form.
US09118333B1
Integrated circuit devices include programmable dividers, such as fractional-N dividers, which can utilize multi-modulus dividers (MMD) therein. A multi-modulus divider includes a cascaded chain of div2/3 cells configured to support a chain length control operation that precludes generation of an intermediate divisor in response to a change in value of a chain length control byte P
US09118328B2
An electronic circuit contains a flip-flop, a switch, a photodiode and a mode-locked laser. The mode-locked laser generates light pulses, which generate a photocurrent in the photodiode the switch transfers the photocurrent to one of two inputs of the flip-flop. The flip-flop outputs its status to at least one output.
US09118324B2
Provided is a driver IC chip of a liquid crystal display (LCD). The driver IC chip has a layout of power pads, which may uniformly apply an adhesive force on the entire adhesion surface of the driver IC chip, when the driver IC chip is mounted on a display panel according to a chip-on-glass (COG) technique.
US09118320B2
An input buffer includes a first driving circuit, a second driving circuit, a pull up circuit, and a pull down circuit. The first driving circuit is arranged for driving a first input signal to generate an output signal. The second driving circuit is arranged for driving the output signal. The pull up circuit is arranged for selectively controlling the second driving circuit to pull up the output signal according to the first input signal and a second input signal. The pull down circuit is arranged for selectively controlling the second driving circuit to pull down the output signal according to the first input signal and the second input signal.
US09118318B2
A driving circuit includes a first driving module, configured to operate at a first operating voltage in a first mode and configured to be deactivated in a second mode; and a second driving module, wherein at least part of the second driving module operates at a protection voltage in the first mode and operates at a second operating voltage in the second mode, wherein the second operating voltage and the protection voltage are lower than the first operating voltage.
US09118309B2
A shifter that can avoid utilizing a partial pulse, comprising: at least one shifting stage, for receiving an external clock signal or a command triggering clock signal to generate sampling signals according a command signal; and a command triggering clock signal generating circuit, for generating the command triggering clock signal according to the command signal. The shifting stage utilizes the external clock signal to generate the sampling signal but does not utilize the command triggering clock signal to generate the sampling signal, if the command triggering clock signal may have a partial pulse for a cycle that the shifting stage generates the sampling signal.
US09118305B2
In one example implementation, the present disclosure provides a direct current (DC) restoration circuit for restoring the DC component of a synchronization signal provided over an alternating current (AC) coupled link from a transmitting circuit to a receiving circuit. During a period of inactivity in the synchronization signal, the synchronization signal may experience a drift towards the common mode, and may affect the ability for the synchronization signal to properly trigger the receiving circuit. The DC restoration circuit is configured to hold the synchronization signal steady during the period of inactivity, and allow the AC component of the synchronization signal pass through to the receiving circuit during the period of activity to alleviate the problem of baseline drift in the synchronization signal.
US09118301B2
An impedance matching circuit is provided. The present impedance matching circuit is able to match impedance using a transformer which is arranged inside a dielectric substrate and arranged to overlap with a bonding pad area and an end of a transmission line, thereby enabling transmitting signals at a desired frequency with a minimum insertion loss without using a very thin transmission line which is several to dozens of μm wide or specially designed antennas in order to compensate for inductance. Thus, the present impedance matching circuit may be applied to various millimeter bands.
US09118298B2
A multilayered high frequency module includes inductor conductor patterns each defined by a linear conductor having a coiled shape on intermediate insulator layers of a multilayer body. A first spiral inductor with its axis extending in the stacking direction is defined by the inductor conductor patterns on respective layers connected through conductive via holes. Overlapped portions of inner regions of the individual inductor conductor patterns within the coiled shape define an air core portion of the first inductor. A capacitor conductor pattern is provided on one layer lower than the insulator layers on which the inductor conductor patterns are provided. The capacitor conductor pattern is a flat plate and located at a position not overlapping with the air core portion when looking at the multilayer body in a plan view.
US09118297B2
A balanced-unbalanced conversion-type elastic wave device includes an unbalanced signal terminal, first and second balanced signal terminals, and first to fifth interdigital transducers disposed along an elastic wave propagation direction. One end of each of the first, third, and fifth interdigital transducers is connected in common to the unbalanced signal terminal, one end of each of the second interdigital transducer and the fourth interdigital transducer is connected to the first and second balanced signal terminals respectively, a first inductance is connected between the first interdigital transducer and a ground potential, and a second inductance is connected between the fifth interdigital transducer and the ground potential. First and second inductance values of the first and second inductances, respectively, are different.
US09118284B1
An amplifier for amplifying signals is presented. A cascode power amplifier includes two or more adjacent cascode amplifiers and at least one remote cascode amplifier. The adjacent cascode amplifiers are lined up adjacent each other with inputs of the adjacent cascode amplifiers connected to a common input line and outputs of the of adjacent cascode amplifiers connected to a common output line. The adjacent cascode amplifiers generally operate in parallel. The remote cascode amplifier is spaced apart from the adjacent cascode amplifiers. An input transmission line connects an input of the remote cascode amplifier to the common input line. An output transmission line connects an output of the remote cascode amplifier to the common output line. Amplified outputs of the adjacent cascode amplifiers and amplified outputs of the remote cascode amplifier are power combined and summed into a coherent amplified output signal that is output on the output transmission line.
US09118279B2
A device includes an amplifier having a first path and a second path and a first variable attenuator connected to the first path. The device includes a controller coupled to the first variable attenuator. The controller is configured to determine a magnitude of an input signal to the amplifier. When the magnitude of the input signal is below a threshold, the controller is configured to set an attenuation of the first variable attenuator to a first attenuation value. When the magnitude of the input signal is above the threshold, the controller is configured to set the attenuation of the first variable attenuator to a second attenuation value. The second attenuation value is less than the first attenuation value.
US09118278B2
A radio frequency amplification stage comprising: an amplifier for receiving an input signal to be amplified and a power supply voltage; and a power supply voltage stage for supplying said power supply voltage, comprising: means for providing a reference signal representing the envelope of the input signal; means for selecting one of a plurality of supply voltage levels in dependence on the reference signal; and means for generating an adjusted selected power supply voltage, comprising an ac amplifier for amplifying a difference between the reference signal and one of the selected supply voltage level or the adjusted selected supply voltage level, and a summer for summing the amplified difference with the selected supply voltage to thereby generate the adjusted supply voltage.
US09118274B2
A relaxation oscillator includes a first amplifier having a first input terminal receiving an output voltage signal, a second input terminal receiving a reference voltage signal, and an output terminal comparing the output voltage signal and the reference voltage signal and in response thereto outputting a control signal; a second amplifier having a first input terminal receiving the output voltage signal, a second input terminal connected to the output terminal of the first amplifier for receiving the control signal, and an output terminal connected to the first input terminal of the first amplifier and the first input terminal of the second amplifier for comparing the control signal and the output voltage signal and in response thereto outputting the output voltage signal; and a sensing capacitor for generating the output voltage signal by charging/discharging operations by the output terminal of the second amplifier.
US09118268B2
In an electronic commutation method in direct current electric motors which are controlled by pulse width modulation of the energization which takes place periodically with positive and negative current values and intermediate energization pauses, the counter-induction voltage is measured, wherein the zero crossing of the counter-induction voltage is determined by means of the point of intersection of the envelope to the counter-induction voltage with the zero line. The pulse width modulation of the energization is changed if the zero crossing is covered by positive or negative current values of the energization.
US09118267B2
A fan control circuit includes a hardware controller, a rectifier circuit, first to third electronic switches, and a fan. When the hardware controller outputs a pulse width modulation (PWM) signal to the rectifier circuit and the fan, the rectifier circuit transforms the PWM signal into a direct current (DC) voltage and outputs the DC voltage to the first electronic switch. The first electronic switch is turned on, and the second and third electronic switches are turned off. A rotation speed of the fan is controlled by the PWM signal received from the hardware controller. When the hardware controller does not output the PWM signal, the first electronic switch is turned off, the second and third electronic switches are turned on, a DC power supply supplies power to the fan through the third electronic switch, and the fan rotates at full speed.
US09118265B2
Pulsed plasma engine and method in which a noncombustible gas is introduced into an explosion chamber, the gas is ionized to form a plasma within the chamber, an electrical pulse is applied to the plasma to heat the plasma, the pulse is turned off to produce an explosive pressure pulse in the plasma, and the plasma is confined in the chamber by a magnetic field that directs the pressure pulse toward an output member which is driven by the pressure pulse.
US09118262B2
A method for controlling a displacement in the thickness direction of the contraction-type gel actuator having an effect of contraction in the thickness direction by applying a voltage between an anode and a cathode between which a gel which includes a dielectric polymeric material is interposed, which includes performing feedback control of an applied voltage, with a sampled value of a displacement when the applied voltage acts on the contraction-type gel actuator, according to the following equation (1): E=kp(xd−x)+Ed (1) In the equation, xd represents a target displacement of the contraction-type gel actuator; Ed represents an applied voltage with respect to the target displacement xd obtained by the linear approximation of the applied voltage and the displacement from a measured result of the displacement in accordance with the applied voltage of the contraction-type gel actuator; and kp represents a proportional gain.
US09118248B2
The present disclosure provides a naturally freewheeling alternating (AC) current chopping main circuit structure. The naturally freewheeling AC chopping main circuit structure includes an AC chopping main circuit (1) and inductive load (2). The AC chopping main circuit includes a chopping switch element assembly (3), two inductance coils (L1 and L2), two diodes (D1 and D2), and a capacitor (C). The two inductance coils and the two diodes are connected to form a closed circulatory circuit while the circulatory circuit implements natural freewheeling of a chopping current in the two induction coils when the chopping switch element assembly is switched off.
US09118245B2
Systems and methods for digital voltage compensation in a power supply integrated circuit are provided. In at least one embodiment, a method includes receiving a digital voltage code, the digital voltage code corresponding to an output voltage value; setting an output count on a first counter to change from a present first digital count corresponding to a present voltage code value toward a target first digital count corresponding to a new voltage code value; and setting a second count to an offset count value on a second counter when the new voltage code value is received. The method also includes combining the second count with the output count to form a combined count value; and decrementing the second count value from the offset count value to zero when the first counter reaches the target first digital count.
US09118244B2
A power supply apparatus controls an output voltage based on a difference between a predetermined reference voltage and a feedback voltage obtained from the output voltage. The power supply apparatus includes a feedback voltage adjustment circuit. The feedback voltage adjustment circuit is configured to gradually reduce or increase the feedback voltage by a predetermined amount, when a condition for increasing or reducing the output voltage to a target value is satisfied.
US09118239B2
A digital power supply and power supply controller are presented, including a voltage control loop and a current control loop, with a controller for pulse width modulating a switching power supply according to a voltage control loop duty cycle output or a current control loop duty cycle output, in which the controller selectively presets the voltage control loop duty cycle output to a predetermined value before switching from current loop control to voltage loop control and/or inhibits increase in a voltage loop integrator value during current loop control to mitigate voltage overshoot.
US09118236B2
Provided is a motor for electric power steering, which prevents a foreign substance from entering the interior of a controller. The motor for electric power steering includes a resolver structure provided between a housing for separating the controller and a resolver from each other and an insulator opposed to the housing so as to surround a fixing portion for fixing base end portions of terminals electrically connected to distal end portions of conductors of coils, the resolver structure preventing a foreign substance from passing between the housing and the insulator to enter the interior of the controller.
US09118235B2
A permanent magnet motor has a rotor and a stator. The rotor has a shaft, a rotor core fixed to the shaft, a commutator fixed to the shaft adjacent to the rotor core, and rotor windings wound about poles of the rotor core and electrically connected to the commutator. The stator includes a magnetically conductive round housing, permanent magnets fixed to an inner surface of the housing, and brushes for making sliding contact with the commutator. The ratio of an outer diameter of the rotor core to an outer diameter of the housing is between 66% to 84%.
US09118233B2
The electric machine has a stator with windings connected to phase connections. An insulating cap protects the reciprocally connected portions of the phase connections and windings. The insulating cap has a box-shaped body with an opening for the introduction of a winding within it. The body defines a seat housing the phase connection. The seat is formed in one piece with the body.
US09118232B2
A cooling system for an electric machine is provided. The cooling system includes an airflow restriction feature configured to provide airflow to a radial air channel of the electric machine.
US09118231B2
A stator of rotating electrical machine includes a stator core and stator coils. The stator coils have n number (where n≧6) unit coils, a first coil group and a second coil group. The unit coils of the first coil group include a first unit coil located nearest the first power supply terminal. The unit coils of the first coil group include a second unit coil. The unit coils of the first coil group include a third unit coil located third nearest the first power supply terminal and adjacent to the second unit coil of the second coil group. The unit coils of the second coil group include a third unit coil located third nearest the second power supply terminal and adjacent to the second unit coil of the first coil group.
US09118226B2
Aspects of the invention disclosed herein generally provide heat engine systems and methods for generating electricity. In one configuration, a heat engine system contains a working fluid circuit having high and low pressure sides and containing a working fluid (e.g., sc-CO2). The system further contains a power turbine configured to convert thermal energy to mechanical energy, a motor-generator configured to convert the mechanical energy into electricity, and a pump configured to circulate the working fluid within the working fluid circuit. The system further contains a heat exchanger configured to transfer thermal energy from a heat source stream to the working fluid, a recuperator configured to transfer thermal energy from the low pressure side to the high pressure side of the working fluid circuit, and a condenser (e.g., air- or fluid-cooled) configured to remove thermal energy from the working fluid within the low pressure side of the working fluid circuit.
US09118225B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator having an open slot configuration and a plurality of stator poles with a coil positioned about each stator pole. Each coil has a plurality of electrically conductive wires defining a group of wires and the group of wires is wrapped generally around a stator pole to define a plurality of turns. At least a portion of the group of wires is twisted, and the portion of the group of wires has between approximately 1 and 5 twists per turn. A method of fabricating a stator assembly is also disclosed.
US09118223B2
A DC electric motor has a stack of laminations defining a rotor with at least two pairs of poles and an even number of slots at least equal to 8. The rotor also has a commutator with an even number of segments and a closed distributed rotor winding. The winding extends in the slots and is connected in a predetermined manner to the segments of the commutator. The rotor winding has a winding section of the lap type, connected to two consecutive segments of the commutator and, in series with this, a plurality of winding sections of the wave type. These winding sections all span an identical number of slots.
US09118220B2
A method and apparatus is described for providing energy system status information. A status indication device may be mounted near an entry door for determining when an individual is about to leave an area. When the status indication device determines that an individual is about to leave an area, it displays an energy status to the individual, so that the individual can decide whether to place energy-consuming devices in a conservation mode of operation.
US09118219B2
Determining the number of loads associated with each phase in a three-phase electric power system. The loads can be associated with the consumption of electric power at a node, such as a metering device located at a facility. In one implementation, a central device that is connected to such nodes via a smart grid and a radio frequency mesh network can be leveraged to determine a phase in real time. For example, the central device can include a processor that executes one or more computer program modules which can cause a load tap changer having access to a distribution feeder in the smart grid to vary a voltage level supplied across each phase of the power system. Additionally, the central device can communicate with nodes in the mesh network to cause the nodes to perform voltage measurements and collect information related to such measurements.
US09118213B2
A modular portal system and method for harvesting energy from distributed power sources. The distributed power sources include renewable and nonrenewable energy sources, which are coupled to a backplane. The backplane receives modular preconditioner modules and inverter modules, which are inserted into module slots. The preconditioner modules receive power from the distributed power sources via backplane connections and output conditioned DC power to a DC bus on the backplane. The inverters are coupled to the DC bus, receive the DC power, and convert the DC power to AC power. The backplane also includes a controller for selectively coupling the energy harvesting system to a power grid. The AC power generated by the inverter is selectively applied to the power grid and to local loads.
US09118212B2
An inverter system (1) for a photovoltaic solar installation for generating an AC voltage from a DC voltage of a solar generator (2) is provided which includes an additional energy storage device (38) which is arranged in an energy transfer path that can be activated when needed. A control arrangement (31, 39) for monitoring and controlling the operation of the inverter system (1) is designed to detect short-term energy peaks of the insolation at the solar generator and, upon a presence of insolation peaks, to activate the energy transfer path (36) in order to cause a transfer of energy from the solar generator (2) to the energy storage device (38). Also a method for the operation of an inverter system for a photovoltaic solar installation for the utilization of insolation peaks at the solar generator is disclosed.
US09118195B2
A portable electronic device carrier includes a charging system. The carrier is configured to at least partially house a portable electronic device such as a cell phone, PDA or the like. The carrier may comprise a pouch or have other configurations. The charging system comprises at least one battery. The battery may be configured to be charged by an external source via at least one external port or connector, or a source associated with the carrier, such as at least one photovoltaic cell. The charging port may comprise contacts which are engaged by an interface of the portable electronic device. In accordance with the invention, a portable electronic device is charged using a portable charging system associated with a carrier for the device.
US09118190B2
A charging balancing system and method thereof based on a battery operating process and are disclosed. This is done by detecting a state of all cells in a detecting battery assembly to generate detection parameters, analyzing the detection parameters to produce an operating process, selecting at least one of residual power estimation methods according to the operating process, so as to calculate a residual power of each cell, and adjusting the charging current and charging time for each cell according to the residual power. As such, the efficiency of charging balancing is promoted.
US09118188B2
A wireless charging system includes a microelectronic package (110) containing a system on chip (120) (an SoC), an energy transfer unit (140), and a software protocol (127). The SoC includes a processing device (121), a memory device (122) coupled to the processing device, and a communications device (123) coupled to the processing device and the memory device. The communications device is capable of communicating wirelessly with an external electronic device (130). The energy transfer unit is capable of transferring energy to the external electronic device. The software protocol is implemented in the memory device and is capable of detecting a charging profile of the external electronic device and capable of adjusting a parameter of the energy transfer unit according to a requirement of the charging profile.
US09118184B2
An energy power converter system is provided. According to one embodiment, the system includes a plurality of parallel converters; a main transformer with a separate magnetic path for magnetic fields are generated in the transformer by a summation of currents coming from the plurality of parallel converters electrically coupled to the main transformer; and a converter control device electrically coupled to the plurality of parallel converters and the main transformer. The converter control device may be configured to discontinue electrical flow in the system based at least in part on detection of an electrical fault condition.
US09118183B2
Apparatus and methods for discerning information about a vehicle (e.g., an electric vehicle's make, model, and/or year of manufacturer) being charged by an electric vehicle supply equipment (“EVSE”). Vehicle make, model, and model year can be discerned by measuring charging current supplied to the electric vehicle over time and comparing this profile to stored profiles of known electric vehicles. Vehicle information can also be discerned by monitoring a pilot signal sent to the electric vehicle by the EVSE. When the EVSE is ready to charge the electric vehicle, the pilot signal sends a charge-ready indication. When the electric vehicle is ready to be charged, it sends an acknowledgement. The time between the EVSE indicating it is ready to charge and the electric vehicle acknowledging that it is ready to be charged is measurable and can used to identify an electric vehicle make, model, and model year.
US09118181B2
The present invention is concerned with a method for faulted phase selection and fault type determination in electric power lines applicable both to series compensated and uncompensated power lines. The method comprising a fault inception detection and an estimation of fault phase current signals, pre-fault current signals and zero-sequence current in order to receive the absolute value of incremental current signals and their maximum value from which real value indicators for phase to phase faults, real value indicators for 3-phase fault and a real value indicator for ground fault are determined. The method further comprises calculating the maximum of the value of all fault type indicators (Fflt), determining the fault type, which determines the fault type on the basis that the index (flt) means the specific type of fault indicated by the value of flt; and presenting the real fault type indicator (Fmax).
US09118174B2
A circuit interrupting device having an auto-monitoring circuit for automatically testing various functions and structures of the device. The auto-monitoring circuit initiates an auto-monitoring routine which, among other things, establishes a self-test fault during either the positive or negative half-wave, or both, of an AC power cycle and determines whether the detection mechanisms within the device properly detect the self-test fault. An early detection signal indicates that the self-test fault was properly detected without interfering with the normal operation of the detection circuitry and without causing a false trip within the device. Additional functionality of the auto-monitoring circuit permits automatic verification that the device is properly wired, that is, not miswired, and determines whether the device has reached the end of its useful life.
US09118172B2
The present invention is directed to a circuit interrupting device including an actuator that provides an actuator stimulus upon the occurrence of the fault actuation signal. A circuit interrupter is positioned to electrically disconnect the first, second and third electrical conductors from each other upon the occurrence of the actuator stimulus. An automated test circuit is coupled to the circuit interrupting assembly. The automated test circuit is configured to automatically produce the simulated fault condition during a predetermined portion of an AC line cycle to determine whether the fault detection assembly is operational such that the fault detection assembly provides a fault detection signal without the circuit interrupter electrically disconnecting the first, second and third electrical conductors from each other. The automated test circuit is further configured to provide a device failure mode signal such that a plurality of the first, second or third electrical conductors are disconnected from each other if the fault detection signal is not detected within a predetermined time frame.
US09118170B2
Described is a distribution panel for electrical switchgear, in particular for medium-voltage distribution switchgear. The distribution panel is provided, in at least one embodiment, with at least one bus bar and at least one transfer rail, wherein the bus bar is connected via a circuit breaker to an outlet terminal and wherein the transfer rail is also connected to the outlet terminal. The circuit breaker, in at least one embodiment, is housed inside a circuit breaker housing and the transfer rail and the electrical connection from the transfer rail to the outlet terminal are arranged so as to bypass the circuit breaker housing.
US09118154B2
A card edge connector includes an insulative housing, first terminals and a terminal module embedded with second terminals. The housing defines a front face and a rear face, and a card receiving slot recessed from the front face to divided the housing to a first side wall and a second side wall. The first terminals are inserted in the first side wall from the rear face, the first terminals include retaining portions fixed in the first side wall, contacting portions protruding into the card receiving slot and board connecting portions. The second terminals include retained portions embedded in the terminal module, contacting portions and board connecting portions. The terminal module is assembled to the front face of the housing, the contacting portions of the second terminals are arranged along the second side wall and project in the card receiving slot.
US09118151B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to an interconnect cable including a edge finger connector, and associated configurations and methods. The edge finger connector may be disposed at a first end of the interconnect cable and may connect the interconnect cable to an edge finger included in or coupled to a package substrate. The package substrate may be included in a processor package assembly, and a processor may be mounted on the substrate. The interconnect cable may include one or more elongate conductors, with contacts directly coupled to respective conductors. A second connector may be disposed at a second end of the interconnect cable, and may couple the interconnect cable to a small form-factor pluggable (SFP) case that is configured to connect the interconnect cable to an SFP cable. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US09118147B1
An electrical connector includes a housing holding an array of contacts. The housing has opposite first and second sides and opposite first and second ends. The housing has a base. The housing has side walls extending from the base at the first and second sides of the housing with a cavity defined between the side walls. The contacts are arranged in the cavity. The cavity is configured to receive a mating connector along a mating axis in a vertical direction. The housing includes a first end wall at the first end of the housing extending between the opposite side walls. The housing includes a second wall at the second end of the housing extending between the opposite side walls. The second end wall may be vertically offset with respect to the first end wall.
US09118144B2
An improved electrical connector for connecting bus lines to a card such as a memory card or media card, including a multi-level connector comprising a latching device having a plurality of insertable latch positions that advantageously allows for selectively connecting or isolating an electrical path to an adjoining connector. The connectors of unpopulated DIMM slots are disconnected from the network along with the traces that would normally form a stub with associated undesirable signal reflections that would otherwise disturb the signal transmitted to the receiving end if not properly terminated. The contacts of the edge connector itself are used as a means to selectively connect or disconnect adjacent/downstream cards in a serially cascaded architecture. The burden of the stubs due to unpopulated card slots and the need to place one card at the far end of the network are thus eliminated.
US09118141B2
A retention device (2) for positioning a heat sink (3) includes a base (21), a lever (22) and a pressing tab (23), the pressing tab (23) includes a first pushing portion (233) and a second pushing portion (232) for pressing the heat sink (3), the first pushing portion (233) includes an upper surface (2330) and a lower surface opposite (2331) to the upper surface (2330), the second pushing portion (232) includes a top surface (2320) and a bottom surface (2321) opposite to the top surface (2320), the distance between the upper surface (2330) and the lower surface (2331) is smaller than the distance between the top surface (2320) and the bottom surface (2321).
US09118138B2
An electrical connector includes a shell with a chamber and an insert assembly received in the chamber. The insert assembly has cavities therethrough that are configured to receive contacts. The contacts are configured for electrical connection to mating contacts of a mating connector. The insert assembly has resilient latches extending from an outer periphery of the insert assembly that engage the shell to hold the insert assembly in the chamber.
US09118132B2
A vacuum compatible high-density electrical interconnect system for use in a vacuum environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the vacuum compatible high-density electrical interconnect system includes a vacuum compatible base plate, a vacuum compatible printed wiring board (PWB) disposed on the vacuum compatible base plate and a vacuum compatible interposer module disposed in the vacuum compatible base plate. Further, the vacuum compatible PWB includes a plurality of components on a front side of the vacuum compatible PWB and a plurality of associated pads on a back side of the vacuum compatible PWB. In one exemplary embodiment, the vacuum compatible interposer module is disposed in the vacuum compatible base plate such that it operatively connects to the plurality of associated pads on the back side of the vacuum compatible PWB and further operatively connects to a plurality of pads of an external device that is disposed outside the vacuum environment.
US09118131B2
An electric terminal (1) made of sheet metal having a contact portion (3) including a top wall (7), a bottom wall (8), a first side wall (9) and a second side wall (10) and a contact spring arm (6) having: a contact beam (14) for achieving an electric contact with a complementary contact element and being integrally connected to the top wall (7) and a reinforcement beam (15), wherein the contact beam (14) and the reinforcement beam (15) together form an L-shaped cross-section, wherein the reinforcement beam (15) is only connected to the contact beam (14).
US09118122B2
An assembly includes an electrical connector, a cable unit, and adapter terminals. The electrical connector includes an insulator body and conductive terminals disposed at the insulator body. Each conductive terminal includes an insert arm positioned outside the insulator body. The cable unit includes a plug connector and cables connected to the plug connector. Each of the adapter terminals is connected to a core wire of a corresponding cable and is sleeved on the insert arm of a corresponding conductive terminal. Each adapter terminal is electrically connected between the core wire of the corresponding cable and the insert arm of the corresponding conductive terminal.
US09118119B2
The present invention discloses a wireless communication device including a slot antenna, a radio-frequency (RF) signal processing module for processing an RF signal transmitted or received by the slot antenna, and an RF signal diplexer coupled between the slot antenna and the RF signal processing module for splitting up the RF signal into a first frequency component and a second frequency component during transmission, and synthesizing the RF signal corresponding to the first frequency component and the second frequency component during reception.
US09118112B1
Systems and methods for use in a vehicle are provided. A vehicle can be an aircraft, truck, ship, automobile, locomotive, etc. A system includes a housing having an exterior surface for housing sensor or communication equipment and interior surface for housing electronics associated with the equipment. The sensor or communication equipment can include a radar antenna mounted on or adjacent to the exterior surface, and at least one of a Satcom antenna, altimeter antenna, vision sensor or any communication link antenna.
US09118111B2
Calibration for a transmit chain of a device transmitting information to multiple devices over wireless links includes selecting from between two or more calibration determination techniques. In certain aspects the techniques include phase only calibration and phase and amplitude calibration.
US09118106B2
An antenna platform may include a support structure having a plurality of junctions configured to receive and connect at least two of a plurality of supports. At least one inner support may extend inwardly with respect to the support structure from one of the junctions to a center support. The center support may have a post and a base wherein the post may be configured to receive the at least one inner support extending from the support structure. The base may include a first portion and a second portion, the first portion being fixed to the post and rotatable with respect to the second portion. Upon rotating the first portion, the support structure may also be rotated via the at least one inner support connected to the post.
US09118102B2
A non-reciprocal circuit element, such as an isolator or a circulator, which is incorporated in various microwave devices and rotationally changes a transmission path for microwaves by a gyromagnetic effect. The non-reciprocal circuit element has a simple structure and superiority in assembly and allows easy achievement of height reduction and size reduction while preventing fracture of a ferrite plate.
US09118100B2
This disclosure relates to radio frequency (RF) front-end circuitry. In one embodiment, the RF front-end circuitry is arranged to provide antenna switching functionality for a Worldphone or a World tablet. The RF front-end circuitry may include front-end switching circuitry, a multiple throw microelectromechanical switch (MTMEMS), a first antenna port, a second antenna port, and a third antenna port. The front-end switching circuitry of the RF front-end circuitry is configured to selectively couple one or more RF ports to either the first antenna port or the second antenna port. The MTMEMS is configured to selectively couple a pole port coupled to the third antenna port to any one of a set of throw ports, which may be RF ports or may be coupled to RF ports. As such, the RF front-end circuitry is capable of providing antenna switching functionality between three antennas for a Worldphone or World tablet.
US09118082B2
An oxygen-consuming electrode is described, more particularly for use in chloralkali electrolysis, comprising a novel catalyst coating based on silver and a finely divided silver oxide, as is an electrolysis apparatus. Also described is a production process for the oxygen-consuming electrode and the use thereof in chloralkali electrolysis or fuel cell technology.
US09118079B2
A nonaqueous electrolytic solution secondary battery includes an electrode body that contains a positive electrode and a negative electrode. An upper limit operating potential of the positive electrode is 4.5 V or more based on metallic lithium. The positive electrode includes a current collector and an active material layer formed on the current collector. The current collector includes a base material and a surface layer disposed on a surface of the base material. The surface layer is disposed at least in a region where the active material layer is not formed on the surface of the base material. The surface layer is formed of an aluminum material having an aluminum content of 99.85% by mass or more. The base material is formed of a conductive material having strength larger than strength of the surface layer.
US09118072B2
The present invention describes a component for a secondary battery and a manufacturing method thereof, and a secondary battery manufactured by using the component. The component for a secondary battery according to the present invention comprises a metal plate in which at least one recess line is formed; and a soldering pattern joined in the recess line. According to the present invention, when an over-current flows through the component for a secondary battery, breakage occurs at the portion where soldering pattern is joined in the recess line, thereby efficiently interrupting the flow of an over-current.
US09118071B2
A rechargeable battery configured to stably and easily interrupt a current includes: an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; a case containing the electrode assembly therein and having a first opening at one end thereof; and a first plate coupled to the case and sealing the first opening, the first plate electrically connected to the electrode assembly, wherein the first plate includes a wrinkle portion configured to deform for disconnecting the first plate from the electrode assembly when an internal pressure of the case is greater than a reference pressure.
US09118063B2
Embodiments of the invention provide batteries, electrodes, and methods of making the same. According to one embodiment, a battery may include a positive plate having a grid pasted with a lead oxide material, a negative plate having a grid pasted with a lead based material, a separator separating the positive plate and the negative plate, and an electrolyte. A nonwoven glass mat may be in contact with a surface of either or both the positive plate or the negative plate to reinforce the plate. The nonwoven glass mat may include a plurality of first coarse fibers having fiber diameters between about 6 μm and 11 μm and a plurality of second coarse fibers having fiber diameters between about 10 μm and 20 μm.
US09118058B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a battery pack including a plurality of bare cells each having a cap assembly and a bottom positioned to correspond to the cap assembly; a protection circuit module mounted on the bare cells; a cover frame covering the bare cells and composed of a first frame and two second frames; and an enclosure member covering the bare cells.
US09118047B2
Provided is a separator/cathode assembly for use in an electric current producing cell, wherein the assembly comprises a cathode current collector layer interposed between a first cathode layer and a second cathode layer and a porous separator layer on the side of the first cathode layer opposite to the cathode current collector layer, wherein the first cathode layer is coated directly on the separator layer. Also provided are methods of preparing such separator/cathode assemblies.
US09118041B2
A direct liquid feed fuel cell system that includes a housing, a fuel cell stack in which air flow channels are formed, in the housing; and a fan that supplies air between the housing and a part of the air flow channels, wherein the fuel cell stack is obliquely mounted toward the fan. The fuel cell system can be arranged so that the airflow channels are substantially vertical, in order for air to be supplied between the housing and an upper part of the airflow channels, with the fuel cell stack downwardly obliquely mounted toward the fan. Furthermore, an outlet in the housing on an opposite side of the fuel cell stack from the fan can allow air that has passed through the air flow channels to be exhausted from the fuel cell system after passing through a space between a part of the fuel cell stack and the housing.
US09118030B2
Disclosed is an organic light-emitting device. The organic light-emitting device includes a first pixel electrode that is disposed on a substrate, a first conductive film that is formed on the substrate to cover the first pixel electrode, a second conductive pattern and an insulating layer that are sequentially formed on the first conductive film and include an opening which exposes a portion of a top of the first conductive film, a hole injection layer that is formed on the opening and the insulating layer to cover the exposed first conductive film, a hole transport layer that is formed in a partial region of the hole injection layer and the opening, and an emissive layer that is formed on the hole transport layer.
US09118027B1
Nanoplasmonic cavities for photovoltaic applications include at least one transparent conductive substrate. The nanoplasmonic cavities comprising a sandwich of layers incorporating a first plasmonic electrically conductive nanostructure layer, at least one photoabsorber layer and a at least one electron transfer layer and a second plasmonic electrically conductive nanostructure layer.
US09118023B2
The present invention provides a novel compound that is capable of largely improving a life time, efficiency, electrochemical stability, and thermal stability of an organic electronic device, and an organic electronic device that comprises an organic material layer comprising the compound.
US09118019B2
The present invention relates to heterocyclic radicals or diradicals, the dimers, oligomers, polymers, dispiro compounds and polycycles thereof, to the use thereof, to organic semiconductive materials and to electronic and optoelectronic components.
US09118009B2
A method of fabricating a memory device includes defining a cell region on a substrate and defining a dummy region around the cell region, forming bit lines on a top surface of the substrate, the bit lines extending in one direction, forming cell vertical structures on top surfaces of the bit lines corresponding to the cell region, each cell vertical structure including a cell diode and a variable resistive element, forming dummy vertical structures on top surfaces of the bit lines corresponding to the dummy region, each dummy vertical structure including a dummy diode and a variable resistive element, and forming word lines in contact with top surfaces of the cell vertical structures and dummy vertical structures, the word lines intersecting the bit lines at right angles. The cell diode includes a first impurity pattern and a second impurity pattern, the dummy diode includes a first lightly doped impurity pattern and a second impurity pattern, and the variable resistive element includes a first electrode, a variable resistor, and a second electrode.
US09117997B2
An actuator body, including a plurality of piezoceramic layers, separated from each other by a positive or negative internal electrode in alternation, positive and negative collecting electrodes, which are arranged on two outer faces of the actuator body and are conductively connected to the associated positive or negative internal electrodes, wherein the actuator body of the multilayer actuator has at least one positive and one negative contacting electrode, by which the multilayer actuator is electrically contacted and is conductively connected to the associated positive or negative collecting electrode, and the contacting electrodes are arranged in areas of the actuator body that are provided with a base metallization. The areas of the actuator body with a base metallization are spaced apart from each other and distances from the internal electrodes, wherein the distances are not less than the thickness of the piezoceramic layers in the active area of the multilayer actuator.
US09117994B2
Provided is an electronic device including: a base; a panel; a support for supporting the panel with respect to the base; and a vibrator for causing the panel to vibrate at a given frequency. The support includes a first region located at a part corresponding to a node of vibration of the panel, and a second region located at a part other than the node of the vibration of the panel. The support has a rigidity that is smaller in the first region than in the second region.
US09117987B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate; a light emitting element flip-chip mounted on the substrate; a phosphor-containing member provided at least above the light emitting element and separated from the light emitting element; and a first reflecting member configured to cover the phosphor-containing member, at least one of a side faces of the light emitting device having an opening for extracting light emitted from the light emitting element and light wavelength-converted by the phosphor-containing member.
US09117984B2
A method for producing an encapsulating layer-covered optical semiconductor element includes a disposing step of disposing an encapsulating layer at one side in a thickness direction of a support and a covering step of, after the disposing step, covering an optical semiconductor element with the encapsulating layer so as to expose one surface thereof to obtain an encapsulating layer-covered optical semiconductor element.
US09117981B2
A silicate phosphor having a coating layer comprising a fluorine-containing compound on its surface which is obtained by a method of heating a mixture of 100 weight parts of a silicate phosphor and 0.5-15 weight parts of ammonium fluoride at a temperature in the range of 200 to 600° C. exhibits high light emission intensity and high moisture resistance.
US09117976B2
It is an object to provide a flexible light-emitting device with long lifetime in a simple way and to provide an inexpensive electronic device with long lifetime using the flexible light-emitting device. A flexible light-emitting device is provided, which includes a substrate having flexibility and a light-transmitting property with respect to visible light; a first adhesive layer over the substrate; an insulating film containing nitrogen and silicon over the first adhesive layer; a light-emitting element including a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an EL layer between the first electrode and the second electrode; a second adhesive layer over the second electrode; and a metal substrate over the second adhesive layer, wherein the thickness of the metal substrate is 10 μm to 200 μm inclusive. Further, an electronic device using the flexible light-emitting device is provided.
US09117975B2
Disclosed is a light emitting device including a conductive substrate, a first electrode layer disposed on the conductive substrate, a light emitting structure disposed on the first electrode layer, the light emitting structure including a first semiconductor layer, a second semiconductor layer, and an active layer disposed between the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, a second electrode layer electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer, and an anti-crack layer disposed on a boundary on which the light emitting structure is segmented on a chip basis, wherein the anti-crack layer is disposed under the light emitting structure and includes a metal material contacting the light emitting structure.
US09117972B2
The light-emitting device has a semiconductor layer including a p-layer, a light-emitting layer, and an n-layer, which are formed of a Group III nitride semiconductor, and an n-electrode on the n-layer. The device also has a device isolation trench which runs along the outer periphery of the semiconductor layer and which provides the semiconductor layer with a mesa shape; and an insulation film continuously provided on first to third regions, the first region being an outer peripheral region of the n-layer, the second region being the side surface of the trench, and the third region being the bottom surface of the device isolation trench. The n-electrode consists of two pad portions and a wire trace portion. The outer peripheral wire trace portion is formed as a frame completely contouring the periphery of the device.
US09117970B2
A light emitting device (10) comprises a body (11) comprising a substrate (12) of a p-type semiconductor material. The substrate has an upper surface (14) and having formed therein on one side of the upper surface and according to a bulk semi-conductor fabrication process utilizing lateral active area isolation techniques: a first n+-type island (16) to form a first junction (24) between the first island and the substrate; and a second n+-type island (18) spaced laterally from the first island (16). The substrate provides a laterally extending link (20) between the islands having an upper surface. The upper surface of the link, an upper surface of the island (16) and an upper surface of the island (18) collectively form a planar interface (21) between the body (11) and an isolation layer (19) of the device. The device comprises a terminal arrangement to apply a reverse bias to the first junction, to cause the device to emit light. The device is configured to facilitate the transmission of the emitted light.
US09117964B2
The invention relates to a preparation process for thin semiconducting inorganic films comprising various metals (Cu/In/Zn/Ga/Sn), selenium and/or sulfur. The process uses molecular precursors comprising metal complexes with oximato ligands. Copper-based chalcopyrites of the I-III-IV2-type are prepared with high purity at low temperatures under ambient conditions. The thin films can be used in photovoltaic panels (solar cells).
US09117961B2
A nitride-based semiconductor light-emitting element includes a substrate and a nitride semiconductor multilayer structure. The nitride semiconductor multilayer structure includes a nitride semiconductor active layer which emits polarized light. Angle θ, which is formed by at least one of the plurality of lateral surfaces of the substrate with respect to the principal surface of the substrate, is greater than 90°. Angle θ2 (mod 180°), which is an absolute value of an angle which is formed by an intersecting line of at least one of the plurality of lateral surfaces of the substrate and the principal surface of the substrate with respect to a polarization direction in the principal surface of the polarized light, is an angle which does not include 0° or 90°.
US09117960B2
An ion implantation method includes: placing, in an atmosphere, a mask, which is used in conjunction with a tray for accommodating a substrate for a solar cell, at a first position covering a partial area on a surface of the substrate while maintaining the mask aligned relative to the substrate or at a second position distanced from the surface of the substrate; implanting, in a vacuum, ions in a first area on the surface of the substrate while the mask is placed at the first position; and implanting, in a vacuum, ions in a second area on the surface of the substrate while the mask is placed at the second position.
US09117959B2
A light emitting diode structure is provided. The light emitting diode structure includes a substrate, a light emitting multi-layer structure, a first current blocking layer, a first current spreading layer, a second current blocking layer and a second current spreading layer. The light emitting multi-layer structure is formed on the substrate by way of stacking. The first current blocking layer is formed on part of the light emitting multi-layer structure. The first current spreading layer covers the first current blocking layer and the light emitting multi-layer structure. The second current blocking layer is formed on part of the first current spreading layer. An orthogonal projection of the second current blocking layer is disposed in an orthogonal projection of the first current blocking layer. The second current spreading layer covers the second current blocking layer and the first current spreading layer.
US09117956B2
Methods for preparing an exposed surface of a p-type absorber layer of a p-n junction for coupling to a back contact in the manufacture of a thin film photovoltaic device are provided. The method can include: applying a treatment solution onto the exposed surface defined by the p-type absorber layer of cadmium telluride; and annealing the device with the p-type absorber layer in contact with the treatment solution to form a tellurium-enriched region in the p-type absorber layer at the exposed surface. The treatment solution comprises a chlorinated compound component that is substantially free from copper, a copper-containing metal salt, and a solvent.
US09117951B2
The present invention provides a solar cell module support structure comprising: a first support for a solar cell module to be received and supported; a connecting portion connected to the first support; a main frame connected to the connecting portion so as to support the solar cell module and the first support, having the connection portion mounted thereon and having a mounting groove formed along the length thereof so that the location of the connecting portion can be adjusted along the length thereof; second supports which are provided on the lower side of the main frame, support the main frame from the ground surface, are provided in a plurality, and are arranged in a separated manner from each other; and a connection wire for mutually connecting any one of the second supports with another second support.
US09117947B2
A detector apparatus is configured to receive light and generate electrical signals. The detector apparatus includes a housing, a detector disposed in the housing and a cooling component disposed in the housing. The cooling component electrically insulates the detector with respect to the housing or is part of an insulator electrically that insulates the detector with respect to the housing.
US09117938B2
A semiconductor device includes a via electrode penetrating a substrate and a back-side molding layer covering a back-side surface of the substrate. The back-side molding layer contacts a sidewall of a back-side end portion of the via electrode, which is a portion of the via electrode that protrudes from the back-side surface of the substrate.
US09117935B2
A diode and a method of making same has a cathode an anode and one or more semiconductor layers disposed between the cathode and the anode. A dielectric layer is disposed between at least one of the one or more semiconductor layers and at least one of the cathode or anode, the dielectric layer having one or more openings or trenches formed therein through which the at least one of said cathode or anode projects into the at least one of the one or more semiconductor layers, wherein a ratio of a total surface area of the one or more openings or trenches formed in the dielectric layer at the at least one of the one or more semiconductor layers to a total surface area of the dielectric layer at the at least one of the one or more semiconductor layers is no greater than 0.25.
US09117934B2
A fabricated electromechanical device is disclosed herein. An exemplary device includes, a substrate, at least one layer of a high-transconductance material separated from the substrate by a dielectric medium, a first electrode in electrical contact with the at least one layer of a high-transconductance material and separated from the substrate by at least one first supporting member, a second electrode in electrical contact with the layer of a high-transconductance material and separated from the substrate by at least one second supporting member, where the first electrode is electrically separate from the second electrode, and a third electrode separated from the at least one layer of high-transconductance material by a dielectric medium and separated from each of the first electrode and the second electrode by a dielectric medium.
US09117932B2
At a pressure sensor region, a pressure sensor including a fixed electrode, a void and a movable electrode is formed. At a CMOS region, a memory cell transistor and a field effect transistor are formed. An etching hole communicating with the void is closed by a first sealing film. The void is formed by removing a region of a film identical to the film of a gate electrode of the memory cell transistor. The movable electrode is formed of a film identical to the film of a gate electrode.
US09117927B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed. A high-k/metal gate (HK/MG) and a conductive feature are disposed over a substrate, separated by a first dielectric layer. A global hard mask (GHM) layer is formed over the HK/MG, the conductive feature and the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is then formed over the GHM layer. The second dielectric layer is etched to form a first opening to expose a portion of the HK/MG and a second opening to expose a portion of the conductive feature, by using the GHM layer as an etch stop layer. The GHM layer in the first opening and the second opening is then removed.
US09117926B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same is disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises forming a first MOSFET having a first gate length in a semiconductor substrate, and forming a second MOSFET having a second gate length in the semiconductor substrate. Furthermore, the second gate length is less than the first gate length, and wherein the second MOSFET has a gate stack in the form of a spacer having a gate conductor and a gate dielectric isolating the gate conductor from the semiconductor substrate.
US09117923B2
A method of forming a semiconductor memory device includes stacking a plurality of alternating first insulating layers and first sacrificial layers on a substrate to form a first multilayer structure, forming a first hole through the first multilayer structure, forming a first semiconductor pattern in the first hole, stacking a plurality of alternating second insulating layers and second sacrificial layers on the first multilayer structure to form a second multilayer structure, forming a second hole through the second multilayer structure to be aligned with the first hole, forming a second semiconductor pattern in the second hole, forming a trench to expose sidewalls of the first and second insulating layers at a side of the first and second semiconductor patterns, removing at least some portions of the first and second sacrificial layers to form a plurality of recess regions, forming an information storage layer, and forming a conductive pattern.
US09117914B1
A transistor includes a polymeric material post on a substrate. An inorganic material cap, covering the post, extends beyond an edge of the post to define a reentrant profile. A conformal conductive material gate layer is over the edge of the post in the reentrant profile. A conformal insulating material layer is on the gate layer in the reentrant profile. A conformal semiconductor material layer is on the insulating material layer in the reentrant profile. A first electrode is in contact with a first portion of the semiconductor layer over the cap. A second electrode is in contact with a second portion of the semiconductor layer over the substrate and not over the post, and adjacent to the edge of the post in the reentrant profile such that a distance between the first electrode and second electrode is greater than zero when measured orthogonally to the substrate surface.
US09117913B2
A current storing circuit capable of having a small area, a simple structure with the small number of devices, a low consumption current operation and high yield in manufacturing is provided. Applying the current storing circuit to the current-driving type of display device such as an OLED display device can improve the aperture rate of pixels and reliability of the display device as well as highly functionalize the display device. The invention is characterized by using a new semiconductor element in a shape of a transistor having plural drains or sources. When the semiconductor elements is used for both of a writing element and a driving element, reading in and storing a current value and outputting the current can be performed by only the two semiconductor elements, so that the area occupied by the devices would be easily reduced significantly.
US09117912B2
The present invention provides an IGZO transistor and a manufacturing method for the same. Wherein, the method comprises forming a source electrode, a drain electrode, and an IGZO layer on a substrate; forming a protect layer at a channel of the IGZO layer; performing N-type doping to a contact region of the source/drain electrodes and the IGZO layer to form a n+IGZO region through plasma treatment; and forming a gate insulation layer and a gate electrode. The IGZO transistor structure and method for the same provided by the present invention can prevent the channel of the IGZO layer from damage during N-type doping through the plasma treatment. It can improve the ohmic contact and increase device characteristics.
US09117908B2
One method disclosed includes, forming a sacrificial gate structure trench in a stack of sacrificial material layers, forming a sacrificial gate structure within the trench, performing at least one process operation to remove at least portions of the stack of sacrificial material layers and thereby expose sidewalls of the sacrificial gate structure, forming a sidewall spacer adjacent the exposed sidewalls of the sacrificial gate structure, removing the sacrificial gate structure so as to define a replacement gate cavity between the spacers, forming a replacement gate structure in the replacement gate cavity, and forming a gate cap above the replacement gate structure within the replacement gate cavity.
US09117898B2
A processing method for a package substrate composed of a substrate, a plurality of device chips mounted on the substrate in a plurality of separate device regions defined by a plurality of crossing division lines, and a sealing layer for sealing the device chips. The processing method includes a cut mark forming step of moving a cutting blade to cut into the package substrate from the side of the substrate in the regions other than the device regions to the depth passing through the sealing layer, thereby forming a cut mark having a predetermined positional relation to the division lines, and a cutting step of cutting the package substrate from the side of the sealing layer along the division lines by using the cutting blade according to the cut mark after performing the cut mark forming step.
US09117890B2
According to example embodiments, a HEMT includes a channel supply layer on a channel layer, a p-type semiconductor structure on the channel supply layer, a gate electrode on the p-type semiconductor structure, and source and drain electrodes spaced apart from two sides of the gate electrode respectively. The channel supply layer may have a higher energy bandgap than the channel layer. The p-type semiconductor structure may have an energy bandgap that is different than the channel supply layer. The p-type semiconductor structure may include a hole injection layer (HIL) on the channel supply layer and be configured to inject holes into at least one of the channel layer and the channel supply in an on state. The p-type semiconductor structure may include a depletion forming layer on part of the HIL. The depletion forming layer may have a dopant concentration that is different than the dopant concentration of the HIL.
US09117887B2
A semiconductor device and its fabrication method are provided. A first dielectric layer is provided to cover a substrate. The first dielectric layer contains a plurality of first conductive layers. A portion of each first conductive layer is removed to form a plurality of first openings in the first dielectric layer. A second dielectric layer is formed in each first opening. A third dielectric layer having second-openings are formed on the first dielectric layer and on the second dielectric layers. Each second-opening exposes at least two adjacent second dielectric layers. Second dielectric layers exposed by a first second-opening are removed to form third openings to expose corresponding first conductive layers. Second conductive layers are formed in the third opening and the second-openings including the first second-opening. Stable electrical interconnections with high quality electrical isolations can be provided.
US09117885B2
According to one embodiment, a graphene interconnection includes a first insulating film, a first catalyst film, and a first graphene layer. A first insulating film includes an interconnection trench. A first catalyst film is formed on the first insulating film on both side surfaces of the interconnection trench. A first graphene layer is formed on the first catalyst film on the both side surfaces of the interconnection trench, and including graphene sheets stacked in a direction perpendicularly to the both side surfaces.
US09117875B2
Forming a plurality of initial trenches that extend through a layer of silicon-germanium and into a substrate to define an initial fin structure comprised of a portion of the layer of germanium-containing material and a first portion of the substrate, forming sidewall spacers adjacent the initial fin structure, performing an etching process to extend the initial depth of the initial trenches, thereby forming a plurality of final trenches having a final depth that is greater than the initial depth and defining a second portion of the substrate positioned under the first portion of the substrate, forming a layer of insulating material over-filling the final trenches and performing a thermal anneal process to convert at least a portion of the first or second portions of the substrate into a silicon dioxide isolation material that extends laterally under an entire width of the portion of the germanium-containing material.
US09117872B2
A semiconductor device includes a p-type collector region, a drift region arranged on the collector region, a base region arranged on the drift region, an emitter region arranged on the base region, a gate oxide film arranged on the bottom surface and side surface of a trench which penetrates the emitter region and the base region, and a gate electrode embedded in the inside of the trench so as to be opposed to the base region while interposing the gate oxide film therebetween, wherein the position of the lower surface of the base region is shallower in the region brought into contact with the gate oxide film than in the region spaced apart from the gate oxide film.
US09117867B2
Embodiments of electrostatic chucks for substrate processing are provided herein. In some embodiments, an electrostatic chuck may include a puck for supporting a substrate, the puck formed from a dielectric material and having a chucking electrode disposed within the puck proximate a support surface of the puck to electrostatically retain the substrate when disposed on the puck; a base having a ring extending from the base to support the puck; and a spacer disposed between the base and the puck to support the puck above the base such that a gap is formed between the puck and the base, wherein the spacer supports the puck proximate a peripheral edge of the puck.
US09117862B2
There is provided a substrate processing apparatus 101, comprising: a substrate holder 217 that holds a plurality of substrates (wafers) 200 in a state of being arranged in a lateral direction (approximately in a horizontal direction) approximately in a vertical posture; a processing tube 205 that houses the substrate holder 217; a throat side sealing part (throat side mechanical flange part) 2190 that air-tightly closes an opening part of the processing tube 205; a rotation part 255 that rotates the substrate holder 217 in a peripheral direction of the substrates, with an arrangement direction (a direction in which the substrates 200 are held) of the plurality of substrates 200 as a rotation axis, wherein the substrate holder 217 includes a fixing part (movable holding part 217c) and a fixture holding part 217a for fixing the substrates 200 approximately in a vertical posture.
US09117857B2
In a plasma processing apparatus, a ceiling electrode plate provided to face a substrate holding stage via a process space contacts and is supported by an electrode support by interposing a cooling plate, and a heat-transfer sheet is provided in a contact surface between the ceiling electrode plate and the cooling plate. The heat-transfer sheet has thermal conductivity of 0.5 to 2.0 W/m·K. The heat-transfer sheet is provided of a heat-resistant adhesive agent or a rubber including silicon, or the heat-transfer sheet is formed of a ceramic filler including oxide, nitride, or carbide. The ceramic filler of 25 to 60 volume % is contained in the heat-resistant adhesive agent or the rubber. A thickness of the heat-transfer sheet is in a range between 30 and 80 μm, and the heat-transfer sheet is not provided in a predetermined area around gas holes of the ceiling electrode plate.
US09117843B2
An engineered epitaxial region compensates for short channel effects of a MOS device by providing a blocking layer to reduce or prevent dopant diffusion while at the same time reducing or eliminating the side effects of the blocking layer such as increased leakage current of a BJT device and/or decreased breakdown voltage of a rectifier. These side effects are reduced or eliminated by a non-conformal dopant-rich layer between the blocking layer and the substrate, which lessens the abruptness of the junction, thus lower the electric field at the junction region. Such a scheme is particularly advantageous for system on chip applications where it is desirable to manufacture MOS, BJT, and rectifier devices simultaneously with common process steps.
US09117842B2
In one example, the method disclosed herein includes forming at least one fin for a FinFET device in a semiconducting substrate, performing at least one process operation to form a region in the at least one fin that contains a metal diffusion inhibiting material, depositing a layer of metal on the region in the at least one fin and forming a metal silicide region on the at least one fin.
US09117829B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a peripheral edge, a first surface, and a second surface opposite to the first surface, an inter-layer insulator including a guard ring formed on the first surface, adjacent to the peripheral edge of the semiconductor substrate, a first groove formed on the second surface, adjacent to the peripheral edge of the semiconductor substrate, and a through electrode penetrating the second surface to the inter-layer insulator near the groove and on an opposite side of the groove with respect to the peripheral edge.
US09117821B2
Interconnects for semiconductors formed of materials that exhibit crystallographic anisotropy of the resistivity size effect such that line resistivity in one crystallographic orientation becomes lower than the resistivity in the other directions and methods of fabrication and use thereof are described. A wire having a dimension that results in an increase in the electrical resistivity of the wire can be formed of a material with a conductive anisotropy due to crystallographic orientation relative to the direction of current flow that minimizes the increase in the electrical resistivity as compared to the other orientations at that dimension.
US09117819B2
Various embodiments provide electrostatic discharge protection structures and methods for forming the same. An exemplary structure can include a semiconductor chip including a through hole. The structure can further include a through silicon via (TSV) structure disposed within the through hole and passing through the semiconductor chip. The TSV structure can have a first surface and a second surface. The structure can further include a tunneling dielectric layer disposed on the first surface of the TSV structure. The tunneling dielectric layer can have a surface area covering a top view surface area of the TSV structure and a surface portion of the semiconductor chip surrounding the TSV structure. Yet further, the structure can include a metal material discretely dispersed in the tunneling dielectric layer, a first electrode disposed on the tunneling dielectric layer, and a second electrode disposed on the second surface of the TSV structure.
US09117818B2
Techniques related to nanocomposite dielectric materials are generally described herein. These techniques may be embodied in apparatuses, systems, methods and/or processes for making and using such material. An example process may include: providing a film having a plurality of nanoparticles and an organic medium; comminuting the film to form a particulate; and applying the particulate to a substrate. The example process may also include providing a nanoparticle film having nanoparticles and voids located between the nanoparticles; contacting the film with a vapor containing an organic material; and curing the organic material to form the nanocomposite dielectric film. Various described techniques may provide nanocomposite dielectric materials with superior nanoparticle dispersion which may result in improved dielectric properties.
US09117806B2
A mount includes a terminal, and a resin portion. The terminal includes a first surface, a second surface, and an end surface having first and second recessed areas that are extend from the first and second surfaces, respectively. The resin portion is integrally formed with the terminal, and at least partially covers the end surface so that the first and second surfaces are at least partially exposed. The resin portion forms a recessed part to accommodate the light emitting device. The second recessed area includes a closest point that is positioned closest to the first surface, and an extension part that extends outward of the closest point and toward the second surface side. The extension part is formed at least on opposing end surfaces of the pair of positive and negative lead terminal. The first recessed area is arranged on the exterior side relative to the closest point.
US09117804B2
An interposer structure including a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of shallow trenches, a plurality of deep trenches and a plurality of metal damascene structures is provided. The semiconductor substrate has a first surface and a second surface opposite to each other. The shallow trenches are formed on the first surface in both of a first area and a second area of the semiconductor substrate and correspondingly a plurality of respective openings are formed on the first surface. The deep trenches extend from at least one of the shallow trenches toward the second surface in the second area and correspondingly a plurality of respective openings are formed on the second surface. The metal damascene structures are filled in both of the shallow trenches and the deep trenches. A manufacturing method for the aforementioned interposer structure is also provided.
US09117800B2
A switching device according to the present invention is a switching device for switching a load by on-off control of voltage, and includes an SiC semiconductor layer where a current path is formed by on-control of the voltage, a first electrode arranged to be in contact with the SiC semiconductor layer, and a second electrode arranged to be in contact with the SiC semiconductor layer for conducting with the first electrode due to the formation of the current path, while the first electrode has a variable resistance portion made of a material whose resistance value increases under a prescribed high-temperature condition for limiting current density of overcurrent to not more than a prescribed value when the overcurrent flows to the current path.
US09117799B2
In a method of manufacturing semiconductor device, an insulating film is provided on a surface of a semiconductor substrate, a porous metal film containing numerous voids is formed on a region of the insulating film, and a protective film is provided on the porous metal film. The protective film is provided with an opening portion on the porous metal film, with the opening portion defining a pad region. A wire is wire-bonded to the porous metal film in the pad region.
US09117798B2
A thin film transistor, a method of fabricating the same, and an organic light emitting diode (OLED) display device including the same. The thin film transistor includes a substrate; a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate and including a channel region; source/drain regions including ions and an offset region; a gate insulating layer disposed on the semiconductor layer; a gate electrode disposed on the gate insulating layer; a first insulating layer disposed on the gate electrode; a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer; and source/drain electrodes disposed on the second insulating layer, and electrically connected to the source/drain regions of the semiconductor layer, respectively. The sum of thicknesses of the gate insulating layer and the first insulating layer that are on the source/drain regions is less than the vertical dispersion depth of the ions included in the source/drain regions.
US09117790B2
In an embodiment, there is provided a packaging arrangement comprising a substrate; a multi-memory die coupled to the substrate, wherein the multi-memory die comprises multiple individual memory dies, and each of the multiple individual memory dies is defined as an individual memory die within a wafer of semiconductor material during production of memory dies, and the multi-memory die is created by singulating the wafer of semiconductor material into memory dies, where at least one of the memory dies is the multi-memory die that includes the multiple individual memory dies that are still physically connected together; and a semiconductor die coupled to the multi-memory die and the substrate, wherein the semiconductor die is configured as a system on a chip, wherein at least one of the multi-memory die and the semiconductor die is attached to the substrate.
US09117788B2
A method of repairing a semiconductor device includes turning a press member to apply pressure on an electronic component which is mounted on a substrate. A heat sink which is provided on the electronic component via a bonding layer is thus displaced with respect to the electronic component in a transverse direction. The heat sink is removed from the electronic component by shearing the bonding layer with the press member.
US09117771B2
The invention relates to the fields of microelectronics and materials sciences and concerns an insulation layer material for integrated circuits in microelectronics, which can be used, for example, in integrated circuits as insulation material in semiconductor components. The object of the present invention is to disclose an insulation material for integrated circuits, which has dielectric constants of k≦2 with good mechanical properties at the same time. The object is attained with an insulation material for integrated circuits, containing at least MOFs and/or COFs.
US09117770B2
A semiconductor device includes a first base material having a first surface; a second base material having a coefficient of linear expansion different from that of the first base material, being in contact with the first base material, and having a second surface being adjacent to the first surface; and a first interconnect formed over the first and second surfaces to straddle a borderline between the first and second base materials. The cross-sectional area of the first interconnect along the borderline is greater than the cross-sectional area of at least part of a portion of the first interconnect on the first surface along a width of the first interconnect, or the cross-sectional area of at least part of a portion of the first interconnect on the second surface along the width of the first interconnect.
US09117768B2
In a method for manufacturing a display substrate, a thin film transistor is formed on a base substrate. The thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, an active pattern, a source electrode and a drain electrode. A first passivation layer is formed to cover the thin film transistor. A second passivation layer is formed on the first passivation layer. A photoresist pattern is formed to partially expose the second passivation layer. The first passivation layer and the second passivation layer are partially removed to form a contact hole exposing the drain electrode. A pixel electrode layer is formed on the second passivation layer, the drain electrode and the photoresist pattern. A portion of the pixel electrode layer and the second photoresist pattern are removed to form a pixel electrode. The portion of the pixel electrode layer is disposed on a top surface and a sidewall of the photoresist pattern.
US09117759B2
A method of creating a trench having a portion of a bulb-shaped cross-section in silicon is disclosed. The method comprises forming at least one trench in silicon and forming a liner in the at least one trench. The liner is removed from a bottom surface of the at least one trench to expose the underlying silicon. A portion of the underlying exposed silicon is removed to form a cavity in the silicon. At least one removal cycle is conducted to remove exposed silicon in the cavity to form a bulb-shaped cross-sectional profile, with each removal cycle comprising subjecting the silicon in the cavity to ozonated water to oxidize the silicon and subjecting the oxidized silicon to a hydrogen fluoride solution to remove the oxidized silicon. A semiconductor device structure comprising the at least one trench comprising a cavity with a bulb-shaped cross-sectional profile is also disclosed.
US09117758B2
A substrate capable of achieving a lowered probability of defects produced in a step of forming an epitaxial film or a semiconductor element, a semiconductor device including the substrate, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device are provided. A substrate is a substrate having a front surface and a back surface, in which at least a part of the front surface is composed of single crystal silicon carbide, the substrate having an average value of surface roughness Ra at the front surface not greater than 0.5 nm, a standard deviation σ of that surface roughness Ra not greater than 0.2 nm, an average value of surface roughness Ra at the back surface not smaller than 0.3 nm and not greater than 10 nm, standard deviation σ of that surface roughness Ra not greater than 3 nm, and a diameter D of the front surface not smaller than 110 mm.
US09117753B2
According to one aspect of the inventive concept there is provided a process for manufacturing a semiconductor device, comprising: providing a channel layer (104), providing a mask (106) on the channel layer, epitaxially growing a contact layer (108) in contact with the channel layer, epitaxially growing a support layer (110) on the contact layer, wherein the support layer is arranged to be etched at a higher rate than the contact layer, forming a trench extending through the support layer by removing the mask, and providing a conductor (118) in the trench. There is also provided an intermediate product for the manufacture of a semiconductor device.
US09117752B2
A memory cell having a kinked polysilicon layer structure, or a polysilicon layer structure with a top portion being narrower than a bottom portion, may greatly reduce random single bit (RSB) failures and may improve high density plasma (HDP) oxide layer fill-in by reducing defects caused by various impurities and/or a polysilicon layer short path. A kinked polysilicon layer structure may also be applied to floating gate memory cells either at the floating gate structure or the control gate structure.
US09117749B1
A semiconductor device, including: a first transistor sharing a first diffusion with a second transistor; a third transistor sharing a second diffusion with the second transistor; and at least one programmable resistor; wherein the at least one programmable resistor is connected to the first diffusion and the second diffusion, wherein the at least one programmable resistor includes one of the following: memristor, transition metal oxides, polymeric memristor, ferroelectric memristor, spintronic memristor, spin transfer torque, phase-change structure, programmable metallization structure, conductive-bridging structure, magnetoresistive structure, chalcogenide structure.
US09117748B2
A semiconductor device includes a transistor including a plurality of transistor cells in a semiconductor body, each transistor cell including a control terminal and first and second load terminals. The semiconductor device further includes a first electrical connection electrically connecting the first load terminals. The semiconductor device further includes a second electrical connection electrically connecting the second load terminals. The transistor further includes a phase change material exhibiting a solid-solid phase change at a phase transition temperature Tc between 150° C. and 400° C.
US09117742B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a buffer layer of GaN containing at least one of Fe and C and disposed on the substrate, a channel layer of GaN disposed on the buffer layer and through which electrons travel, an electron supply layer disposed on the channel layer and producing a two-dimensional electron gas in the channel layer, a gate electrode, a drain electrode, and a source electrode. Recovery time of a drain current of the semiconductor device is no more than 5 seconds, where the recovery time is defined as the period of time after the semiconductor device is stopped from outputting high frequency power until the change in the drain current, after the stopping of the semiconductor device, reaches 95% of the change in the drain current occurring during the first 10 seconds after the stopping of the semiconductor device.
US09117739B2
An electronic device includes a silicon carbide layer including an n-type drift region therein, a contact forming a junction, such as a Schottky junction, with the drift region, and a p-type junction barrier region on the silicon carbide layer. The p-type junction barrier region includes a p-type polysilicon region forming a P-N heterojunction with the drift region, and the p-type junction barrier region is electrically connected to the contact. Related methods are also disclosed.
US09117736B2
A structure having: a substrate and a diamond layer on the substrate having diamond nanoparticles. The diamond nanoparticles are formed by colliding diamond particles with the substrate. A method of: directing an aerosol of submicron diamond particles toward a substrate, and forming on the substrate a diamond layer of diamond nanoparticles formed by the diamond particles colliding with the substrate.
US09117735B2
A hybrid circuit includes a high-voltage circuit and a low-voltage circuit having different power supply voltages, respectively, a board on which a connecting terminal for connecting an external element outside of the hybrid circuit is mounted; and a hybrid integrated circuit mounted on the board. The low-voltage circuit includes a control unit for controlling an operation of the high-voltage circuit. The control unit and the high-voltage circuit are integrated in the hybrid integrated circuit.
US09117734B2
An integrated circuit including a die of the integrated circuit, the die including an insulating layer, light emitting diodes, a semiconductor layer, and a control module. The insulating layer includes a first side and a second side. The second side is opposite to the first side. The light emitting diodes are arranged on the first side of the insulating layer. The semiconductor layer is arranged adjacent to the second side of the insulating layer. The light emitting diodes are connected to the semiconductor layer using connections from the first side of the insulating layer to the second side of the insulating layer. The control module is arranged on the semiconductor layer. The control module is configured to output pulse width modulated pulses to the light emitting diodes via the connections.
US09117733B2
A light emitting module according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a printed circuit board (PCB) and first through m-th lighting blocks (‘m’ is an integer greater than one). The PCB has wiring patterns electrically connecting optical semiconductor devices. The first through the m-th lighting blocks are disposed on the PCB and configured to generate light. Each of the first through the m-th lighting blocks includes first through n-th lighting groups (each block includes at least one group), each of which includes optical semiconductor devices disposed on the PCB, and an electric currents configured to flow through each lighting group is substantially the same.
US09117730B2
A printed wiring board includes a core substrate, a first conductive pattern formed on the substrate, an insulation structure having a first insulation layer and formed on the substrate such that the first insulation layer covers the first pattern, a second conductive pattern formed on the structure, and a second insulation layer formed on the structure such that the second insulation layer covers the second pattern. The structure has a via conductor connecting the first and second patterns through the first insulation layer, the first insulation layer includes a first layer containing a reinforcing fiber material and a second layer formed on the first layer such that the first layer is on the substrate side and a second layer is on the second insulation layer side, and the second layer is made of an insulating material which is the same material as an insulating material forming the second insulation layer.
US09117729B2
In various embodiments, a charge-coupled device includes channel stops laterally spaced away from the channel by fully depleted regions.
US09117726B2
A IDCA system with internal nBn photo-detector comprising: a photo-absorbing layer comprising an n-doped semiconductor exhibiting valence band energy level; a barrier layer, a first side of the barrier layer adjacent a first side of the photo-absorbing layer, the barrier layer exhibiting a valence band energy level substantially equal to the valence band energy level of the doped semiconductor of the photo absorbing layer; and a contact area comprising a doped semiconductor, the contact area being adjacent a second side of the barrier layer opposing the first side, the barrier layer exhibiting a thickness and conductance band gap sufficient to prevent tunneling of majority carriers from the photo-absorbing layer to the contact area, blocking the flow of thermalized majority carriers from the photo-absorbing layer to the contact area. Alternatively, a p-doped semiconductor is utilized, equalizing barrier conductance band energy levels and photo-absorbing layers.
US09117723B2
An image sensor includes a high concentration well region in contact with a device isolation layer extending along a periphery of a photoelectric converting part, which can improve dark current properties of the image sensor. The image sensor also includes a low concentration well region in contact with a sidewall of the device isolation layer overlapped with a transfer gate, which can improve image lag properties of the image sensor. Related fabrication methods are also discussed.
US09117715B2
The present invention relates to a semiconductor device packaged at the wafer level such that an entire packaged device is formed prior to separation of individual devices. The semiconductor device package includes a semiconductor chip having one or more bonding pads associated with the chip and a protective layer bonded over the semiconductor chip. An insulation layer is positioned on at least side edges and a lower surface of the semiconductor chip. Interconnection/bump metallization is positioned adjacent one or more side edges of the semiconductor chip and is electrically connected to at least one bonding pad. A compact image sensor package can be formed that is vertically integrated with a digital signal processor and memory chip along with lenses and a protective cover.
US09117709B2
Improvement of key electrical specifications of vertical semiconductor devices, usually found in the class of devices known as discrete semiconductors, has a direct impact on the performance achievement and power efficiency of the systems in which these devices are used. Imprecise vertical device specifications cause system builders to either screen incoming devices for their required specification targets or to design their system with lower performance or lower efficiency than desired. Disclosed is an architecture and method for achieving a desired target specification for a vertical semiconductor device. Precise trimming of threshold voltage improves targeting of both on-resistance and switching time. Precise trimming of gate resistance also improves targeting of switching time. Precise trimming of a device's effective width improves targeting of both on-resistance and current-carrying capability. Device parametrics are trimmed to improve a single device, or a parametric specification is targeted to match specifications on two or more devices.
US09117705B2
The present invention relates to a thin-film transistor (TFT) active device. The TFT active device includes: a gate electrode; a gate insulation layer covering the gate electrode; an oxide semiconductor layer formed on the gate insulation layer; a first protection layer formed on the oxide semiconductor layer; a source/drain electrode electrically connected with the oxide semiconductor layer; and a second protection layer covering the source/drain electrode. At least one of the gate insulation layer, the first protection layer, and the second protection layer is made of a nitride of silicon and has a refractive index between 2.0-3.0. The TFT active device according to the present invention helps suppressing diffusion of metal ions from a metal electrode and reducing hydrogen content of the GI layer, the ES layer, or the PV layer so as to effectively improve the stability of the manufacture operation of TFT.
US09117704B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention includes an n-channel first thin film transistor and a p-channel second thin film transistor on one and the same substrate. The first thin film transistor has a first semiconductor layer (27), and the second thin film transistor has a second semiconductor layer (22). The first semiconductor layer (27) and the second semiconductor layer (22) are formed from one and the same film. Each of the first semiconductor layer (27) and the second semiconductor layer (22) has a slope portion (27e, 22e) positioned in the periphery and a main portion (27m, 22m) which is a portion excluding the slope portion. A p-type impurity is introduced into only a part of the slope portion (27e) of the first semiconductor layer with higher density than the main portion (27m) of the first semiconductor layer, the main portion (22m) of the second semiconductor layer, and the slope portion (22e) of the second semiconductor layer. Accordingly, a driving voltage of the semiconductor device provided with the n-type TFT and the p-type TFT can be reduced.
US09117701B2
Noise generated on a word line is reduced without increasing a load on the word line. A semiconductor device is provided in which a plurality of storage elements each including at least one switching element are provided in matrix; each of the plurality of storage elements is electrically connected to a word line and a bit line; the word line is connected to a gate (or a source and a drain) of a transistor in which minority carriers do not exist substantially; and capacitance of the transistor in which minority carriers do not exist substantially can be controlled by controlling a potential of a source and a drain (or a gate) the transistor in which minority carriers do not exist substantially. The transistor in which minority carriers do not exist substantially may include a wide band gap semiconductor.
US09117698B2
A semiconductor package includes: a dielectric layer having opposite first and second surfaces; a semiconductor chip embedded in the dielectric layer and having a plurality of electrode pads; a plurality of first metal posts disposed on the electrode pads of the semiconductor chip, respectively, such that top ends of the first metal posts are exposed from the first surface; at least a second metal post penetrating the dielectric layer such that two opposite ends of the second metal post are exposed from the first and second surfaces, respectively; a first circuit layer formed on the first surface for electrically connecting the first and second metal posts; and a second circuit layer formed on the second surface for electrically connecting the second metal post. The semiconductor package dispenses with conventional laser ablation and electroplating processes for forming conductive posts in a molding compound, thereby saving fabrication time and cost.
US09117694B2
A super junction semiconductor device includes strip structures between mesa regions that protrude from a base section in a cell area. Each strip structure includes a compensation structure with a first and a second section inversely provided on opposing sides of a fill structure. Each section includes a first compensation layer of a first conductivity type and a second compensation layer of a complementary second conductivity type. The strip structures extend into an edge area surrounding the cell area. In the edge area the strip structures include end sections. The end sections may be modified to enhance break down voltage characteristics, avalanche ruggedness and commutation behavior.
US09117692B2
A semiconductor device is manufactured using dual metal silicide layers. The semiconductor device includes a substrate having first and second regions, a first metal gate electrode on the substrate in the first region, a second metal gate electrode on the substrate in the second region, a first epitaxial layer on and in the substrate at both sides of the first metal gate electrode, a second epitaxial layer on and in the substrate at both sides of the second metal gate electrode, a first metal silicide layer on the first epitaxial layer, a second metal silicide layer on the second epitaxial layer, an interlayer dielectric layer on the first and second metal silicide layers, contact plugs passing through the interlayer dielectric layer and electrically connected to the first and second metal silicide layers.
US09117690B2
A SGT production method includes a step of forming first and second fin-shaped silicon layers, forming a first insulating film, and forming first and second pillar-shaped silicon layers; a step of forming diffusion layers by implanting an impurity into upper portions of the first and second pillar-shaped silicon layers, upper portions of the first and second fin-shaped silicon layers, and lower portions of the first and second pillar-shaped silicon layers; a step of forming a gate insulating film and first and second polysilicon gate electrodes; a step of forming a silicide in upper portions of the diffusion layers formed in the upper portions of the first and second fin-shaped silicon layers; and a step of depositing an interlayer insulating film, exposing and etching the first and second polysilicon gate electrodes, then depositing a metal, and forming first and second metal gate electrodes.
US09117688B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including: a first MOS-FET (21) joined to a first base plate (11) via solder (61); a second MOS-FET (22) joined to a second base plate (12) via solder (64); a first lead (31) joining the first base plate (11) and the second MOS-FET (22); and a second lead (32) joining the second MOS-FET (22) and a current path member (13) that gives and receives current flowing through the MOS-FETs (21, 22) to and from the outside. The second base plate (12) is more rigid than both the leads (31, 32), a boundary line (D-D) intersects the second base plate (12) without intersecting both the leads (31, 32), the boundary line including a gap portion (52) along which both the MOS-FETs (21, 22) are opposed to each other, extending in the direction in which both the MOS-FETs (21, 22) are not opposed to each other.
US09117685B2
Through silicon vias (TSVs) in a stacked multi-die integrated circuit package are controlled to assume different connection configurations as desired during field operation of the package in its normal mission mode. TSV connections may be reconfigured to connect an affected die in a manner different from, for example, a factory default connection of that die. TSV connections to the inputs and/or outputs of a die's native circuitry may be changed. A die may be disconnected altogether from an interface that interconnects dice in the stack, or a die that was originally disconnected from such an interface may be connected to the interface.
US09117684B1
Methods and apparatus for a semiconductor package having a plurality of input/output members are disclosed and may include a first laminate circuit board; with electrically conductive patterns formed thereon; a first semiconductor die coupled to the conductive patterns; a second laminate circuit board with electrically conductive patterns formed thereon; a second semiconductor die coupled to the conductive patterns and to the first semiconductor die; a flexible circuit board coupling the first and second laminate circuit boards; and contacts coupled to a bottom surface of the first laminate circuit board. The first and second laminate circuit boards each may comprise an insulative layer where the electrically conductive patterns are formed on one side of the insulative layer; a plating layer formed on predetermined parts of the electrically conductive patterns; and a protective layer formed on the electrically conductive patterns not covered by the plating layer.
US09117680B2
A biocompatible, implantable electrode for electrically active medical devices. The implantable medical electrode has a surface geometry which optimizes the electrical performance of the electrode, while mitigating the undesirable effects associated with prior art porous surfaces. The electrode has an optimized surface topography for improved electrical performance. Such a electrode is suitable for devices which may be permanently implanted in the human body as stimulation electrodes, such as pacemakers, or as sensors of medical conditions. Such is achieved by the application of ultrafast high energy pulses to the surface of a solid, monolithic electrode material for the purpose of increasing the surface area and thereby decreasing its after-potential polarization.
US09117675B2
A semiconductor device production method includes: forming a protection film on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first resist pattern on the protection film; implanting a first impurity ion into the semiconductor substrate using the first resist pattern as a mask; removing the first resist pattern; forming on the surface of the semiconductor substrate a chemical reaction layer that takes in surface atoms from the semiconductor substrate through chemical reaction, after the removing of the first resist pattern; removing the chemical reaction layer formed on the semiconductor substrate and removing the surface of the semiconductor substrate, after the forming of the chemical reaction layer; and growing a semiconductor layer epitaxially on the surface of the semiconductor substrate, after the removing of the surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US09117670B2
A system for depositing a layer on a substrate includes a processing chamber, a gas injecting port for introducing gas into the system, a gas distribution plate disposed between the gas injecting port and the processing chamber, the gas distribution plate including holes therein, and an inject insert liner assembly received within the system adjacent to the gas distribution plate and upstream from the processing chamber. The inject insert liner assembly defines gas flow channels therein extending along a lengthwise direction of the system, wherein each channel includes an inlet and an outlet, and at least one channel is tapered along the lengthwise direction of the system in at least one of a vertical or horizontal direction. The inject insert liner assembly has the same number of gas flow channels as the number of holes in the gas distribution plate.
US09117668B2
Smooth silicon films having low compressive stress and smooth tensile silicon films are deposited by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) using a process gas comprising a silicon-containing precursor (e.g., silane), argon, and a second gas, such as helium, hydrogen, or a combination of helium and hydrogen. Doped smooth silicon films and smooth silicon germanium films can be obtained by adding a source of dopant or a germanium-containing precursor to the process gas. In some embodiments dual frequency plasma comprising high frequency (HF) and low frequency (LF) components is used during deposition, resulting in improved film roughness. The films are characterized by roughness (Ra) of less than about 7 Å, such as less than about 5 Å as measured by atomic force microscopy (AFM), and a compressive stress of less than about 500 MPa in absolute value. In some embodiments smooth tensile silicon films are obtained.
US09117662B2
To improve productivity of a transistor that includes an oxide semiconductor and has good electrical characteristics. In a top-gate transistor including a gate insulating film and a gate electrode over an oxide semiconductor film, a metal film is formed over the oxide semiconductor film, oxygen is added to the metal film to form a metal oxide film, and the metal oxide film is used as a gate insulating film. After an oxide insulating film is formed over the oxide semiconductor film, a metal film may be formed over the oxide insulating film. Oxygen is added to the metal film to form a metal oxide film and added also to the oxide semiconductor film or the oxide insulating film.
US09117660B2
A nitride film manufacturing apparatus forms a nitride film on a substrate provided in a chamber by a plasma CVD technique. Specifically, the nitride film manufacturing apparatus includes a controller for calculating a first period for applying first high-frequency power having a relatively high frequency and a second period for applying second high-frequency power having a relatively low frequency in order to obtain desired compressive stress or tensile stress of the nitride film, based on distribution of a refractive index of the nitride film and/or distribution of a deposition rate of the nitride film, the distribution falling within a predetermined numerical range and being obtained using the first high-frequency power and/or the second high-frequency power applied independently for forming the nitride film.
US09117656B2
A semiconductor cleaning device includes an external electrode opposed to a side surface of the semiconductor device; a base configured to allow arrangement of the semiconductor device, and having an opening positioned between the side surface of the semiconductor device in the arranged state and the external electrode, and located below the side surface of the semiconductor device; a frame having an electrically insulating property, being in contact with the external electrode, arranged on the base and opposed to the side surface of the semiconductor device; and suction means connected to the opening in the base and being capable of taking in the foreign matter through the opening. Thereby, the semiconductor cleaning device and a semiconductor cleaning method that can remove the foreign matter adhered to the side surface of the semiconductor device and can prevent re-adhesion of the removed foreign matter can be obtained.
US09117651B2
An integrated circuit includes a node coupled between a terminal of the integrated circuit and a transmitter circuit. The integrated circuit includes a switch circuit coupled between the node and a receiver circuit. The switch circuit includes a bias circuit coupled to the node. The bias circuit is configured to provide a first bias voltage to the node in response to an indication of a transmit mode of the terminal. The bias circuit is configured to provide a second bias voltage to the node in response to an indication of a receive mode of the terminal. The switch circuit may include a plurality of n-type devices coupled in series. Each of the plurality of n-type devices may include a triple-well, doubly-floating n-type device. The plurality of n-type devices may include a resistively-biased bulk terminal and a resistively-biased n-well.
US09117650B2
A coating system for a fluorescent lamp, and fluorescent lamps provided therewith. The coating system includes a phosphor-containing coating containing a mixture of phosphors that contain less than 10% weight rare earth phosphors. The phosphor-containing coating emits visible light having a color rendering index of at least 87 when excited by UV radiation.
US09117648B2
A method of applying a Faraday cage to a lucent resonator, the resonator having a void containing microwave-excitable material and being adapted for microwave resonance in the resonator and within the Faraday cage for driving a light emitting plasma in the void, the method consisting in the steps of: deposition of a conductive material onto the lucent resonator; applying, patterning and developing a photoresist material over the conductive material to leave the conductive material exposed where it is not required; removing the conductive material where not required and the photoresist material from the required conductive material, leaving a reticular network of conductive material providing a Faraday cage and depositing a layer of protective material over the cage of conductive material.
US09117641B2
Certain embodiments described herein are directed to adapters for use in coupling a direct sample analysis device to an analytical instrument such as, for example, a mass spectrometer. In some examples, the adapter can include an internal coupler separated from an external coupler through an insulator.
US09117627B2
An ion implantation apparatus includes an implantation processing chamber, a high voltage unit, and a high-voltage power supply system. In the implantation processing chamber ions are implanted into a workpiece. The high voltage unit includes an ion source unit for generating the ions, and a beam transport unit provided between the ion source unit and the implantation processing chamber. The high-voltage power supply system applies a potential to the high voltage unit under any one of a plurality of energy settings. The high-voltage power supply system includes a plurality of current paths formed such that a beam current flowing into the workpiece is returned to the ion source unit, and each of the plurality of energy settings is associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of current paths.
US09117618B2
A discharge electrode 5 for generating ions and a high-voltage generating circuit unit 2 that supplies the discharge electrode 5 with a high voltage are housed in a housing 3. A discharge opening 12 for discharging the generated ions is formed in the housing 3. The housing 3 is covered by an exterior case 15. The exterior case 15 is connected to the high-voltage generating circuit unit 2 and functions as an induction electrode. A passage opening 33 leading to the discharge opening 12 is formed in the exterior case 15. An insulating sheet 36 covers the periphery of the passage opening 33 in the exterior case 15 facing a space into which the ions are discharged so that the discharged ions do not attach to the exterior case 15. Decrease in the amount of discharged ions can be prevented while using a peripheral component of the discharge electrode 5 as the induction electrode.
US09117613B2
A short circuit indicator module is disclosed for an electrical switching device, in particular for a circuit breaker. The electrical switching device is configured to interrupt a current flow in the event of a short circuit and/or an overload in a subordinate power circuit. The module includes a housing, a display facility for indicating tripping of the electrical switching device in the event of a short circuit and a movable unlatching element, it being possible for the display facility to be activated by a movement of the unlatching element and the unlatching element being configured to form a functional connection between the short circuit indicator module and the electrical switching device. The module is configured to test the activatability of the display facility of the short circuit indicator module and/or to test the functional connection between the short circuit indicator module and the electrical switching device.
US09117607B2
A muffler for enhanced arc protection is described. In the case of an internal arc event in an electrical enclosure, the muffler exhausts arc gas and plasma parallel to the enclosure surface, instead of directly forward where persons may be located. The muffler includes perforated plates and baffle plates in its interior space. The perforated plates have offset perforation patterns from one another, and the baffle plates are provided on opposing walls, causing the plasma and gas to make multiple directional changes. The perforated plates also filter the arc gas and plasma. These directional changes and filtering result in an energy reduction from the exhaust, which provides an increased margin of safety. In addition, the muffler provides an adequate level of ventilation in the enclosure, thus keeping the components cool.
US09117596B2
Electrodes, which may be composite capacitor electrodes, include carbon fibers, illustratively chopped carbon fibers having an aspect ratio of from about 100-5000, have been treated with a non-ionic surfactant, specifically the polyoxyethyleneglycol octophenyl ether, Triton X-100, to increase the hydrophilicity of the fibers. The capacitive electrodes prepared with the surface-modified carbon fibers exhibit increased charge acceptance.
US09117593B2
A MEMS device includes a substrate, one or more anchors formed on a first surface of the substrate, and a piezoelectric layer suspended over the first surface of the substrate by the one or more anchors. Notably, the piezoelectric layer is a bimorph including a first bimorph layer and a second bimorph layer. A first electrode may be provided on a first surface of the piezoelectric layer facing the first surface of the substrate, such that the first electrode is in contact with the first bimorph layer of the piezoelectric layer. A second electrode may be provided on a second surface of the piezoelectric layer opposite the substrate, such that the second electrode is in contact with the second bimorph layer of the piezoelectric layer. The second electrode may include a first conducting section and a second conducting section, which are inter-digitally dispersed on the second surface.
US09117589B2
A capacitor structure is provided, which includes a conductive substrate, a first dielectric layer, and a first metal layer. The conductive substrate includes a first surface and at least one first concave located on the first surface. The first dielectric layer covers the first surface and the first concave. The first metal layer covers the first dielectric layer, wherein the first dielectric layer and the first metal layer respectively have concave structures corresponding to the first concave. A stack-type capacitor structure is also provided.
US09117588B2
A combination converter arrangement and a switching device including such a combination converter arrangement are disclosed. The combination of a current transformer with a core made of ferromagnetic material and a Rogowski coil is referred to as a combination converter, the current transformer being used to supply energy to the electronic tripping unit of the switching device, and the Rogowski coil being used to measure current. In order to make use of the installation space available in the switching device for installing combination converters, a plurality of combination converters are arranged in a common housing to thereby provide a multi-pole combination converter module.
US09117582B2
The present invention provides a material which can be used for low pressure molding, and which has a low core loss while maintaining the characteristic of an amorphous powder that is the high coercive force. It provides a magnetic powder material containing, relative to the weight thereof, amorphous powders of 45 to 80 wt %, crystalline powders of 55 to 20 wt %, and a bonding agent. The magnetic powder material contains, relative to the mass thereof, Si of 4.605 to 6.60 mass %, Cr of 2.64 to 3.80 mass %, C of 0.225 to 0.806 mass %, Mn of 0.018 to 0.432 mass %, B of 0.99 to 2.24 mass %, P of equal to or less than 0.0248 mass %, S of equal to or less than 0.0165 mass %, Co of equal to or less than 0.0165 mass %, and a balance of Fe and inevitable impurities.
US09117579B2
A system and methods for redundant current-sum feedback control of an actuator system is presented. An actuator comprises actuation coils configured to actuate the actuator, and an actuation coil current sensor senses a measured total coil current comprising a sum of coil currents of each of the actuation coils. Actuator coil controllers control the actuation coils based on a commanded total coil current and the measured total coil current.
US09117575B2
An electric power resistor has a stack of a plurality of resistor plates of metal. Each resistor plate has at least one meandering structure which is formed by a plurality of alternately mutually connected transverse webs. Resistor plates following one another in the stack direction are rotated by 90° with respect to one another.
US09117573B2
A single machine configured to manufacture a wire cable assembly including an twisted wire pair and a drain wire having a conductive tape and an insulative tape spirally wrapped about said wire pair. The machine includes a first clamp that secures an end of the wire pair and a second clamp that secures the other end of the wire pair. The second clamp rotates while the first clamp is fixed thereby twisting the wires of the wire pair one about the other. The second clamp can also rotate synchronously with the first clamp thereby rotating the wire pair without twisting. The machine also has a tape reel configured to move parallel to the clamps as they rotate, wrapping tape around the wire pair. The apparatus can be configured to apply the tapes simultaneously to electromagnetically shield and insulate the cable assembly. A method of operating the apparatus is also provided.
US09117567B2
Electrically conductive thin film metallizations having continuous operating temperatures of 300° C. and more are of considerable practical interest for a number of technical applications, such as surface wave elements. Technical reasons and high production costs are a bar to the use of standard films. In order to remedy this, films including a mixture of a high-melting conductive metal and aluminum oxides, wherein in particular aluminum-rich non-stoichiometric aluminum oxides are used. The aluminum oxides act as components thermally stabilizing the conductive metal film; an optional proportion of chemically available aluminum can additionally alloy with the conductive metal and thereby enables essential film properties, such as the electrical conductivity to be specifically influenced. It is thus possible, using standard materials and methods of thin film deposition, in a cost-effective manner to produce highly electrically conductive, thermally resistant films having good structurability and comparatively low density for a wide range of different applications.
US09117564B2
A system for producing a controllable beam of radiation is controllable electronically, and includes no parts that must move relative to one another while in operation to form the beam. The direction and cross-section of the beam may be controlled electronically by controlling an electron beam. Various embodiments provide an X-ray collimator that allows forming a scanning X-ray beam of desired size and flux independently of the aperture material thickness without requiring movement of the aperture or physical components that create the aperture. Some embodiments provide an X-ray collimator that allows forming a scanning X-ray beam of desired size and flux independently of the beam angle.
US09117562B2
The steps of the method to make the scintillator panel are providing a first support having thereon a phosphor layer; dividing the first support the phosphor layer into a plurality of scintillator panel sections each having a first support section and a phosphor layer section thereon; providing an adhesive member between a side of the first support section of each of the plurality of the scintillator panel sections and a side of a second support; adhering the plurality of the scintillator panel sections onto the second support; forming a protective layer on a whole surface of the plurality of the scintillator panel sections except a portion of the scintillator panel sections which is contacted with the adhesive member; and separating the scintillator panel sections with their protective layer thereon from the second support. The separated scintillator panel sections with their protective layer are then adhered to light receiving element to form the flat panel detector.
US09117553B2
If a memory block in a flash memory device is found to have a defect, a memory block quality indication is generated in response to the type of memory defect. This indication is stored in the memory device. In one embodiment, the quality indication is stored in a predetermined location of the defective memory block. Using the quality indication, it can be determined if a system's error correction code scheme is capable of correcting data errors resulting from the defect.
US09117550B2
An apparatus includes a first array of transistor elements; a second array of carbon nano-elements formed above or below the first array of transistor elements; and a circuit coupled to the first array to access the carbon nano elements.
US09117547B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention disclose a method and system for asserting a voltage transition from a low voltage to a high voltage with a voltage difference between the low and high voltages on a word line with a word line driver logic that is composed of thin-oxide MOS transistors, wherein the thin-oxide MOS transistors experience less than the voltage difference on the word line between any two of a source, a drain, and a gate. In a step, charging the word line from the low voltage to an intermediate voltage level. In another step, charging the word line to the high voltage from the intermediate voltage level.
US09117545B1
A semiconductor device includes a sense-amplifier driving device. The sense-amplifier driving device includes a sense-amplifier driver configured to provide a first pull-up voltage and a first pull-down voltage to a pull-up power line and a pull-down power line, respectively, during a first over-driving time period, provide the second pull-up voltage and the first pull-down voltage to the pull-up power line and the pull-down power line, respectively, during an active time period, and provide a third pull-up voltage and a second pull-down voltage to the pull-up power line and the pull-down power line, respectively, during a second over-driving time period, and a drive-signal generator configured to generate a plurality of drive signals, which is selectively activated during the first over-driving time period, the active time period, and the second over-driving time period, to control an operation of the sense-amplifier driver.
US09117535B2
A memory circuit to reduce active power is disclosed (FIG. 7). The circuit includes a sense amplifier (600). A first bit line (BL) is coupled to a memory array. A second bit line (BLB) that is a complementary bit line to the first bit line is also coupled to the memory array. A first transistor (TG) is coupled between the first bit line (BL) and the sense amplifier. A second transistor (TG) is coupled between the second bit line (BLB) and the sense amplifier. A first drive circuit (700) is coupled between the sense amplifier and the first bit line and is operable to drive a first data signal from the sense amplifier onto the first bit line when the second transistor is off.
US09117520B2
A data storage device includes a memory and a controller. Mapping circuitry is configured to apply a mapping to received data to generate mapped data to be stored in storage elements. The mapping is configured to reduce average write time by mapping at least one incoming data value into a mapped value such that no transitions of storage elements from a second state to a first state are used for storing the mapped value into the storage elements. The mapping of the received data to the mapped data does not depend on the states of the storage elements prior to the writing of the mapped data.
US09117512B2
Discussed are a gate shift register and a flat panel display using the same. The flat panel display includes a display panel for displaying an image, a gate driver for driving a plurality of gate lines of the display panel, and a timing controller for outputting a gate start pulse and a plurality of clock pulses each having first to third voltages, to control the gate driver. The gate driver includes a gate shift register for generating scan pulses each having the first to third voltages, using the clock pulses, and supplying the generated scan pulses to the gate lines, respectively.
US09117509B2
The invention provides an electronic apparatus. The electronic apparatus includes a Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) and a DRAM controller. The DRAM receives at least one control and address signal and a clock signal, delays the clock signal by a predetermined value to obtain a delayed clock signal, samples the control and address signal according to the clock signal to obtain a first sample signal, samples the control and address signal according to the delayed clock signal to obtain a second sample signal, and compares the first sample signal with the second sample signal to obtain a status signal. The DRAM controller sends the control and address signal and the clock signal to the DRAM, receives the status signal from the DRAM, and adjusts a phase difference between the clock signal and the control and address signal according to the status signal.
US09117503B2
Memory arrays and methods of forming the same are provided. An example memory array can include at least one plane having a plurality of memory cells arranged in a matrix and a plurality of plane selection devices. Groups of the plurality of memory cells are communicatively coupled to a respective one of a plurality of plane selection devices. A decode logic having elements is formed in a substrate material and communicatively coupled to the plurality of plane selection devices. The plurality of memory cells and the plurality of plane selection devices are not formed in the substrate material.
US09117492B2
The storage layer such as a nitride layer of a nonvolatile memory cell has two storage parts storing separately addressable data, typically respectively proximate to the source terminal and the drain terminal. The applied drain voltage while sensing the data of one of the storage parts depends on the data stored at the other storage part. If the data stored at the other storage part is represented by a threshold voltage exceeding a minimum threshold voltage, then the applied drain voltage is raised. This technology is useful in read operations and program verify operations to widen the threshold voltage window.
US09117488B1
A novel symmetrical band is disclosed, which may be used in connection with shingled magnetic recording (SMR) in order to reduce write amplification (read-modify-write). Depending on the embodiment, overlapping data tracks diverge from, or converge to the center of each symmetrical band. Associated guard regions may be located at the center, or at the band boundaries, and are shared such that the excess width of a write element is caught by the guard regions from both sides. A symmetrical band may reduce the maximum write amplification by more than half. A hard disk controller may maintain the number of taken or empty tracks on both sides of each symmetrical band substantially equal at every fill level.
US09117484B2
An audio medium for a Q pen includes a recording area arranged on a side of the medium body and having multiple recording ID codes to associate with the Q pen and a completion area arranged on the side of the medium body and having multiple completion ID codes to associate with the Q pen as well.
US09117482B1
A hybrid drive is disclosed comprising a disk channel including a head actuated over a disk, the disk comprising a plurality of data sectors, and a non-volatile semiconductor memory (NVSM) comprising a plurality of memory segments. Write commands are received from a host, wherein the write commands comprise write data. When a frequency of the write data exceeds a threshold, an operating mode of the disk channel is changed to change a power consumption rate of the disk channel.
US09117481B1
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk, a head, and a ramp located near an outer periphery of the disk. The disk drive further comprises control circuitry operable to load the head off the ramp over the disk, receive an unload command to perform an unload operation, evaluate a number of unloads relative to an unload limit that varies over time, and when the number of unloads exceeds the unload limit, delay the unload operation.
US09117479B1
A data storage device is disclosed comprising a head actuated over a disk, wherein the head comprises a laser configured to heat the disk during write operations. A first test pattern written at a first laser power is read to generate a first track width metric and a first peak amplitude. A second test pattern written at second laser power is read to generate a second track width metric and a second peak amplitude. The first track width metric, the first peak amplitude, the second track width metric, and the second peak amplitude are processed to estimate a coefficient C of an error function. An operating write power for the laser is calibrated based on the estimated coefficient C of the error function.
US09117471B1
An apparatus includes a controller configured to be coupled to a read/write head. The controller is configured to perform various operations including detecting a change in a time interval difference between servo sectors of a servo marked recording medium, converting the change to an offset signal that compensates for the change, and positioning the read/write head relative to the servo mark recording medium in response to the offset signal. The change in the time interval difference is representative of disk slip.
US09117455B2
Systems and methods for adaptively processing speech to improve voice intelligibility are described. These systems and methods can adaptively identify and track formant locations, thereby enabling formants to be emphasized as they change. As a result, these systems and methods can improve near-end intelligibility, even in noisy environments. The systems and methods can be implemented in Voice-over IP (VoIP) applications, telephone and/or video conference applications (including on cellular phones, smart phones, and the like), laptop and tablet communications, and the like. The systems and methods can also enhance non-voiced speech, which can include speech generated without the vocal track, such as transient speech.
US09117453B2
A method of and system for accurately determining a caller response by processing speech-recognition results and returning that result to a directed-dialog application for further interaction with the caller. Multiple speech-recognition engines are provided that process the caller response in parallel. Returned speech-recognition results comprising confidence-score values and word-score values from each of the speech-recognition engines may be modified based on context information provided by the directed-dialog application and grammars associated with each speech-recognition engine. A context database is used to further reduce or add weight to confidence-score values and word-score values, remove phrases and/or words, and add phrases and/or words to the speech-recognition engine results. In situations where a predefined threshold-confidence-score value is not exceeded, a new dynamic grammar may be created. A set of n-best hypotheses of what the caller uttered is returned to the directed-dialog application.
US09117447B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable storage medium related to operating an intelligent digital assistant are disclosed. An event alert is detected, where the event alert includes context data. A representation of an intent is derived based at least in part on the context data. At least one domain, at least one task, and at least one parameter for the task are identified based at least in part on the representation of the intent. The identified task is performed using the at least one parameter. An output is provided to the user, where the output is related to the performance of the first task.
US09117446B2
A method and system for achieving emotional text to speech. The method includes: receiving text data; generating emotion tag for the text data by a rhythm piece; and achieving TTS to the text data corresponding to the emotion tag, where the emotion tags are expressed as a set of emotion vectors; where each emotion vector includes a plurality of emotion scores given based on a plurality of emotion categories. A system for the same includes: a text data receiving module; an emotion tag generating module; and a TTS module for achieving TTS, wherein the emotion tag is expressed as a set of emotion vectors; and wherein emotion vector includes a plurality of emotion scores given based on a plurality of emotion categories.
US09117444B2
Some aspects include transforming data, at least a portion of which has been processed to determine at least one representative vector associated with each of a plurality of classifications associated with the data to obtain a plurality of representative vectors. Techniques comprise determining a first transformation based, at least in part, on the plurality of representative vectors, applying at least the first transformation to the data to obtain transformed data, and fitting a plurality of clusters to the transformed data to obtain a plurality of established clusters. Some aspects include classifying input data by transforming the input data using at least the first transformation and comparing the transformed input data to the established clusters.
US09117442B2
Methods and apparatus for audio watermarking a substantially silent media content presentation are disclosed. An example method to audio watermark a media content presentation disclosed herein comprises obtaining a watermarked noise signal comprising a watermark and a noise signal having energy substantially concentrated in an audible frequency band, the watermarked noise signal attenuated to be substantially inaudible without combining with a separate audio signal, associating the watermarked noise signal with a substantially silent content component of the media content presentation, the media content presentation comprising one or more media content components, and outputting the watermarked noise signal during presentation of the substantially silent content component.
US09117439B2
A method for ultrasound imaging is provided. The method includes at least a transmission step, a coherence enhancing step, and a beamforming step. In the transmission step, a plurality of ultrasonic waves are transmitted into an imaged region and a set of raw data is acquired by an array of transducers in response to each ultrasonic wave. The ultrasonic waves have different spatial frequency content. In the coherence enhancing step, for each of a plurality of virtual transmit focal zones in the imaged region, at least one set of coherent data is synthesized from the sets of raw data. In the beamforming step, for each of a plurality of locations included in each of the virtual transmit focal zones, an image pixel is computed by beamforming, using the set of coherent data.
US09117438B2
The present invention relates to a pre-collapsed capacitive micro-machined transducer cell (10) comprising a substrate (12), and a membrane (14) disposed above a total membrane area ((Atotal), wherein a cavity (20) is formed between the membrane (14) and the substrate (12), the membrane (14) comprising a hole (15) and an edge portion (14a) surrounding the hole (15), the edge portion (14a) of the membrane (14) being collapsed to the substrate (12). The cell further comprises a plug (30) arranged in the hole (15) of the membrane (14), the plug (30) being located only in a subarea (Asub) of the total membrane area (Atotal). The present invention further relates to a method of manufacturing such pre-collapsed capacitive micro-machined transducer cell (10).
US09117423B2
A string for a musical stringed instrument includes (a) a core wire and (b) a wrap wire coiled tightly around the core wire. The wrap wire is an aluminum-copper alloy having between about 2 wt % and about 10 wt % aluminum.
US09117421B2
Disclosed herein are exemplary embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus for improving pianos and like musical instruments. For example, in certain embodiments, the improvements are in the structures of the piano (or like musical instruments) that affect the vibratory relationships between the struck string and other segments of said string. The improvements affect how these vibratory relationships of the string segments interact with the bridge, soundboard, the plate of a piano, the string rests, and/or the string terminations. For example, in embodiments of the disclosed technology, the vibratory relationships of the string segments involve transient transverse (T) and longitudinal (L) frequencies as well as sustained transverse, longitudinal, and horizontal (H) modes carried by said string segments and their support structures. Embodiments of the disclosed technology also affect how these relationships are defined across the compass of the standard piano keyboard.
US09117418B2
The present invention provides a gate driver on array (GOA) circuit and a display panel with the GOA circuit. The driver circuit includes multiple stages of gate driver units and multiple stages of supplementary gate driver units connected in cascade, in which the nth stage gate driver unit includes a driving unit (42) and a pull-down unit (44) and the mth stage supplementary gate driver unit includes a supplementary driving unit (52) and a supplementary pull-down unit (54). The GOA circuit according to the present invention adopts a dual-pull-down architecture so that thin-film transistors contained in pull-down units and supplementary pull-down units of the circuit can be set in an operation environment featuring dual polarity electrical biasing to effectively suppress threshold voltage drifting of the thin-film transistors of the pull-down units and the supplementary pull-down units and extend the lifespan of circuit thereby making the circuit better meet the needs of large- and medium-sized display panels. Further, the circuit has a simple structure and reduced power consumption and is also fit to low temperature and high temperature operations.
US09117417B2
A system for powering and controlling an LED-backlit liquid crystal display (LCD) where redundancy is used to provide two independent paths from a pair of power supplies to the LED backlight. Further, two independent paths are also used from a pair of power supplies to the LCD. If any one of the paths were to fail or begin to degrade in performance, the system contains monitoring circuits which can direct another path to be used by the system. Two separate control circuits for the LCD may be used so that either one may be used to control the LCD if one were to fail. Two separate temperature sensors and luminance sensors may also be used to increase the durability of the system.
US09117407B2
Pixel circuit, method of driving the same, and organic light emitting display device having the same
A method of driving a pixel circuit includes initializing a driving transistor and a storage capacitor by simultaneously applying an initialization voltage and a first power voltage to a gate electrode of the driving transistor and the storage capacitor, respectively, diode-coupling the driving transistor, applying a data voltage to the storage capacitor, applying the data voltage to the gate electrode of the driving transistor by a coupling of a compensation capacitor coupled between the gate electrode of the driving transistor and the storage capacitor, and applying a current corresponding to the first power voltage and the data voltage to an organic light emitting diode that is coupled to the driving transistor.
US09117405B2
An organic light emitting device is provided. The organic light emitting device includes an organic light emitting panel, a drive unit receiving image data and image luminance discrimination signal that includes information on a maximum luminance of the image and providing a data voltage corresponding to the image luminance discrimination signal to the organic light emitting panel, and a power supply unit providing a common voltage to the organic light emitting panel. The common voltage is varied to correspond to the image luminance discrimination signal.
US09117401B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting diode display, including a first substrate including an organic light emitting diode and a driving circuit part for driving the light emitting diode, a second substrate facing the first substrate and covering the light emitting diode and the driving circuit part, a connection unit connected to the driving circuit part and extending from the first substrate along a rear side thereof, an electronic device disposed between the connection unit and the first substrate and transmitting a signal to the driving circuit part via the connection unit, and an electromagnetic wave-shielding sheet disposed on one side of the first substrate to directly face the electronic device and including a first conductive material layer, a buffer layer formed on one side of the first conductive material layer, and a first adhesive layer formed on the other side of the first conductive material layer.
US09117400B2
A system for maintaining a substantially constant display white point over an extended period of operation of a color display formed by an array of multiple pixels in which each of the pixels includes multiple subpixels having different colors, and each of the subpixels includes a light emissive device. The display is generated by energizing the subpixels of successively selected pixels, and the color of each selected pixel is controlled by the relatives levels of energization of the subpixels in the selected pixel. The degradation behavior of the subpixels in each pixel is determined, and the relative levels of energization of the subpixels in each pixel are adjusted to adjust the brightness shares of the subpixels to compensate for the degradation behavior of the subpixels. The brightness shares are preferably adjusted to maintain a substantially constant display white point.
US09117398B2
A method for rendering input data into target data includes: applying a pattern detecting window to the input data about an input pixel to detect a green light emitting pattern within the window; determining whether the detected green light emitting pattern belongs to a threshold pattern in which at least two green subpixels that are contiguously arranged emit light; and rendering the target data for a red or blue target subpixel having a first color by: applying a first filter to the input data of the first color red or blue input subpixels that are near the input pixel when the detected green light emitting pattern does not belong to the threshold pattern; and applying a second filter that is different from the first filter to the input data of the first color red or blue input subpixels when the detected green light emitting pattern belongs to the threshold pattern.
US09117396B2
When the video images to be played back are three-dimensional (3D) images each including a first parallax image and a second parallax image obtained when an object in a 3D space is viewed from different viewpoints, a video attribute determining unit determines whether or not the frame rate of the images is within a predetermined frame rate range at which a flicker is likely to occur. When the frame rate of the 3D images is within the predetermined frame rate range, a frame rate converter raises the frame rate of the 3D images until the frame rate exceeds the predetermined frame rate range.
US09117395B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for defining an overlay region for an application in a user interface control region on a screen of a display in a mobile device. The application queries a platform about an overlay region desired to be generated based on a basic resolution set in the application. The platform calculates an approximate region satisfying an overlay region condition for the queried overlay region and informs the application of the approximate region. Thereafter, the application generates an overlay region corresponding to the approximate region, and the platform displays the generated overlay region on the screen.
US09117384B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are described for displaying visual information on a deformable display device, and for compensating for distortion of images of the visual information that results from the deformation of the display device and the viewing orientation of a viewer of the display device, or for improving or enhancing the displayed visual information in response to the deformation of the display device and the viewing position of the viewer.
US09117383B1
A multi-panel display includes at least one anchoring platform, a plurality of display panels, vibration mechanisms, and control logic. The anchoring platform(s) are to be secured to a fixed surface. The plurality of display panels is aligned to form the multi-panel display and the display panels are substantially rectangular. The vibration mechanisms are configured to vibrate the plurality of display panels along a vibration axis. The vibration mechanisms are coupled to the anchoring platform(s), and the vibration axis is common to each of the display panels in the plurality of display panels. The control logic is coupled to drive the vibration mechanisms and configured to drive the plurality of display panels to display images corresponding with positions along the vibration axis to disguise seams between the plurality of display panels.
US09117368B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for transmitting re-routing options to a plurality of in-flight aircraft in accordance with preconfigured pilot preferences. The apparatus comprises a data store module containing data sets against which the pilot preferences are evaluated during flight, including weather, airspace and flight restrictions, ground delay programs, and air traffic information. The apparatus further includes a flight path module containing route and position information for each aircraft. An incursion alert processing module evaluates the flight path, data store, and pilot preferences and generates incursion alerts which are transmitted to each aircraft during flight. Upon receipt of an incursion alert or, alternatively, independent of an incursion alert, the pilot may request re-routing options. Once received and reviewed, the pilot selects the optimum re-routing option, and an associated micro flight plan is uplinked and loaded into the FMS (Flight Management System).
US09117363B2
Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable media for communicating via an electronic device for use in a mouth environment of an animal and resistant to damage from bodily fluids and pressure. The device can be pierced through a tongue, a lip, or a cheek, anchored to a tooth or a teeth of the mandible, or implanted in (or attached to an implant in) the maxilla or mandible. The device includes: a power device, which can power the apparatus, a memory storage device, which can store and recall data; a communications subsystem, which communicates with one or more remote devices; an output device, which creates stimulus directly or indirectly observable in the mouth environment; an input device, which can create signals according to activity in the mouth environment and can send them to the memory storage device and/or processor; and a processor coupled to the memory storage device, the communication subsystem, the output device and the input device.
US09117359B2
A photoelectric smoke detector 1 for detecting smoke particles 4 is disclosed, the smoke detector 1 comprising: a light emitting element 5, a light receiving element 6 for receiving light 8 emitted by the light emitting element 5 and scattered by the smoke particles 4 and for outputting a detection signal 12 obtained by photoelectrical converting the received light 10, 11, an amplifier circuit 13 for amplifying the detection signal 12 and providing an amplified output signal 14, wherein the amplified output signal 14 may be divided into an offset-signal 20 and an amplified detection signal 21, whereby the photoelectric smoke detector 1 is adapted to operate in a pulsed mode, so that the detection signal 12 comprises high-frequency components, whereby the amplified detection signal 21 is determined by high-frequency components of the detection signal 12 and that the offset-signal 20 is determined by low-frequency components of the detection signal 12 and/or by low-frequency components of at least an intermediate signal based on the detection signal 12, and whereby the amplifier circuit 13 is adapted to transfer the high-frequency components with a higher gain and to transfer the low-frequency components with a lower gain in order to improve the signal ratio between the amplified detection signal 21 and the offset-signal 20.
US09117358B2
The present invention generally relates to a method for improving the reliability of a portion of physiological data from an image sensor monitoring an operator positioned in an operator compartment of a vehicle. An embodiment of the method includes receiving, from the image sensor, physiological data including information relating to at least one of eye, face, head, arms and body motion of the operator, identifying an indication of at least an eyelid closure, eye movement or head movement of the operator based on the physiological data; comparing at least one of the physiological data and a lighting condition within the operator compartment with a set of rules for a current operator status; and classifying the type of eyelid closure, eye movement and/or head movement by correlating the identified eyelid closure, eye movement and/or head movement and a result of the comparison.
US09117355B2
Systems and methods for operating a security tag of an Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) system. The methods involve providing a unique identifier from the security tag to an application installed on a mobile communication device via a first short-range communication when the security tag is attached to an article for sale. A second short-range communication is received by the security tag from the mobile communication device that comprises a detachment command. The detachment command is received by the security tag exclusively after the article has been successfully purchased. Thereafter, the security tag verifies that the second short-range communication is intended to be processed thereby. Next, the security tag performs operations to actuate a detachment mechanism in response to the detachment command so that the security tag can be detached from the article for sale.
US09117353B2
A method of monitoring an object of value to optimize energy consumption, the object of value being equipped with an event detection device including: a circuit configured to provide contactless communication with a remote entity; a sensor configured to detect an event related to the monitoring of an object of value; a unit configured to collect energy; the method including a first step of collecting energy by the detection device; a second step, started following the detection of an event by the detection device, in the course of which energy collected during the first step is restored such that: the detection device activates at least one contactless communication circuit of a remote entity or searches for one; the detection device transmits to the contactless communication circuit of the remote entity information related to the detected event.
US09117348B2
An exemplary apparatus includes a sensor array configured to sense a gas stream temperature, pressure, and humidity. The sensor array includes a plurality of sensors, each configured to sense at least one of the gas stream conditions. The apparatus further includes an electronic control unit comprising a memory storage device, a condition evaluation module, a display module, and a wireless transmission module. The memory storage device stores a plurality of condition parameters, each condition parameter corresponding to one of the gas stream conditions. The condition evaluation module is configured to determine if one of the sensed conditions violates one of the corresponding parameters, and is further configured to output a warning command in response to the determining. The display module is configured to display information relating to at least one of a sensed condition and a condition parameter. The wireless transmission module is configured to wirelessly transmit data relating to at least one of the warning command and one of the sensed conditions.
US09117342B2
A system, method and apparatus for a gaming system is provided. The gaming system includes a rewards server and a separate gaming or slot accounting server. The system may further include a separate player tracking server. The system further includes one or more game machines. The game machines may include a base game, rewards tracking module, and a game management module. Further details will be apparent from the description, drawings and claims.
US09117332B2
A method for use with a gaming system that provides a game in which a plurality of symbols are selected and presented on a display to form one or more combinations includes: providing a base game, providing a feature game on the occurrence of a first event during play of the base game, awarding a jackpot on the occurrence of a second event during play of the feature game, and varying the probability of both the first and the second events dependent on at least an aspect of a wager placed by a player to play the base game, wherein said variation maintains at least an approximately constant probability of the jackpot being won despite variations in said aspect of the wager.
US09117328B2
In an example embodiment, an automated banking machine is provided which may comprise a trusted platform (TP) including a trusted platform module (TPM) in a computer of the machine. Through use of the TP, the machine may perform cryptographic functions for use in enabling the machine to perform transaction functions for users. The machine may be operative to use the TP to securely store secret keys, or other critical information in sealed storage on a data store of the machine. The TP may also be used to measure, attest, and verify transaction function devices, hardware devices, firmware, software, and/or other components of the machine prior to enabling the machine to function in an enabled mode. The TP may also be used to establish secure communication between components of the machine. The TP may also be used to perform key transfers between the machine and a host banking system.
US09117317B2
A method for creating an intelligent physical mailpiece includes looking up a mailpiece preference of an addressee concerning mail received by the addressee. A physical mailpiece to the addressee is prepared and includes on the mailpiece the addressee preference. The mailpiece is scanned to determine the addressee preference. The mailpiece may also be processed to link the owner of a meter employed to imprint an indicia on the mailpiece to the mailpiece.The intelligent physical mailpiece system may include a database of recipient preferences. A sender mail creation means is coupled to the recipient preference database. A processor is coupled to a scanner. A communications means is coupled between the processor and the sender mail creation means for communicating recipient preferences to the sender mail creation means for storage in the database of recipient preferences.
US09117303B2
This invention is a system and method for defining a location-specific augmented reality capability for use in portable devices having a camera. The system and method uses recent photographs or digital drawings of a particular location to help the user of the system or method position the portable device in a specific place. Once aligned, a digital scene is displayed to the user transposed over (and combined with) the camera view of the current, real-world environment at that location, creating an augmented reality experience for the user.
US09117293B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a high-pass filter that extracts a high-frequency component of an input image; an edge judgment unit that judges whether there is an edge based on the high-frequency component and estimates an edge position when there is an edge; a coordinate conversion unit that obtains an edge position in an enlarged image corresponding to the estimated edge position; an interpolation unit that obtains, regarding a position where an edge position of the high-frequency component and the edge position of the enlarged image overlap, a pixel value at each pixel position of an edge circumference of the enlarged image using a pixel value of the high-frequency component; a first enlargement processing unit that generates the enlarged image by enlarging by a desired enlargement factor; and a synthesis unit that synthesizes the interpolated pixel value of the high-frequency component and the pixel value of the enlarged image.
US09117286B2
Analyzing an application executing on a target device. An application may be executed on a target device. Low cost measurement may be gathered regarding the application executing on the target device. In response to a trigger, high cost measurement data may be gathered regarding the application executing on the target device. The high cost measurement data may include graphics commands provided by the application. The graphics commands and related information may be stored and provided to a host. The host may modify the graphics commands to perform experiments to determine performance issues of the application executing on the target device. The host may determine whether the performance is limited by the CPU or the GPU and may determine specific operations that are causing performance issues. The host may provide suggestions for overcoming the performance issues.
US09117284B2
An asynchronous computing and rendering system includes a data storage unit that provides storage for processing a large-scale data set organized in accordance to data subregions and a computing cluster containing a parallel plurality of asynchronous computing machines that provide compute results based on the data subregions. The asynchronous computing and rendering system also includes a rendering cluster containing a parallel multiplicity of asynchronous rendering machines coupled to the asynchronous computing machines, wherein each rendering machine renders a subset of the data subregions. Additionally, the asynchronous computing and rendering system includes a data interpretation platform coupled to the asynchronous rendering machines that provides user interaction and rendered viewing capabilities for the large-scale data set. An asynchronous computing and rendering method is also provided.
US09117278B2
A system and a method for modeling a predefined space including at least one three-dimensional physical surface, referred to hereinafter as a “measuring space”. The system and method use a scanning system enabling to acquire three-dimensional (3D) data of the measuring space and at least one two-dimensional (2D) sensor enabling to acquire 2D data of the measuring space. The system and method may enable generating a combined compound reconstructed data (CRD), which is a 3D geometrical model of the measuring space, by combining the acquired 2D data with the acquired 3D data, by reconstructing additional 3D points, from the combined 3D and 2D data thereby generating the CRD model. The generated CRD model includes a point cloud including a substantially higher density of points than that of its corresponding acquired 3D data point cloud from which the CRD was generated.
US09117275B2
Attribute information is extracted from content stored by users. A product expression model indicating a product display method is corrected using reference information pertaining to content characteristics suitable for the product expression model and using attribute information. Processing information is then determined for making the content suit the corrected product expression model. The content is processed according to the determined processing information and a product is generated using the corrected product expression model.
US09117272B2
A method and device determine the change in pitch angle of a camera of a vehicle. At least three images, each reproducing a detection area in front of the vehicle, are sequentially recorded and corresponding image data are generated. A position of a first reproduction of a stationary object in the first image is determined as a first image position. A position of a second reproduction of the stationary object in the second image is determined as a second image position. On the basis of at least the first image position and the second image position, the course of a straight line is determined. A position of a third reproduction of the stationary object in the third image is determined as a third image position. On the basis of the distance between the third image position and the straight line, the change in the pitch angle is determined.
US09117271B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a placement information acquisition section which acquires, for each image sensor, placement information of the image sensors with respect to the imaging section; a movement information acquisition section which acquires movement information of the imaging device; and an output area acquisition section which acquires, for every image sensor, position information of a second output area within the second frame image which corresponds to a first output area within the first frame image. The output area acquisition section acquires: a second output area of a base image sensor based on position information of a first output area determined by the placement information and based on the movement information; and a second output area of another image sensor based on the placement information of the base image sensor, the placement information of the other image sensor, and the movement information.
US09117268B2
The present invention relate generally to digital watermarking. One claim recites a method including: obtaining first data representing a first chrominance channel of a color image or video, where the first data comprises a watermark signal embedded therein; obtaining second data representing a second chrominance channel of the color image or video, the second data comprising the watermark signal embedded therein but with a signal polarity that is inversely related to the polarity of the watermark signal in the first data; combining the second data with the first data in a manner that reduces image or video interference relative to the watermark signal, said act of combining yielding third data; using at least a processor or electronic processing circuitry, processing the third data to obtain the watermark signal; and once obtained, providing information associated with the watermark signal. Of course, additional combinations and claims are provided as well.
US09117266B2
A method and apparatus of presenting a collection of images in the form of a collage is provided. The method dynamically visualizes the collection of images in the form of a collage. The method includes receiving the image from the collection of the images; adjusting parameters of dynamic visualization; analyzing distribution of colors in local areas of the images and the collage; modifying the image by adding the decorative elements of which the appearance depends on the distribution of colors in the local areas of the images and the local areas of the collage; modifying the collage by changing an appearance of decorative elements in the image; determining a position of the modified image on the modified collage; and generating a sequence of frames showing an occurrence of the modified image in the collage.
US09117259B2
A method and system for automatically detecting liver lesions in medical image data, such as 3D CT images, is disclosed. A liver region is segmented in a 3D image. Liver lesion center candidates are detected in the segmented liver region. Lesion candidates are segmented corresponding to the liver lesion center candidates, and lesions are detected from the segmented lesion candidates using learning based verification.
US09117258B2
Methods for registering a three-dimensional model of a body volume to a real-time indication of a sensor position that involve analyzing scanned and sensed voxels and using parameters or thresholds to identify said voxels as being either tissue or intraluminal fluid. Those voxels identified as fluid are then used to construct a real-time sensed three-dimensional model of the lumen which is then compared to a similarly constructed, but previously scanned model to establish and update registration.
US09117256B2
A portion of imagery data is obtained from a digital slide and a protocol of image analysis/diagnostic tasks is performed on the portion of imagery data by a pathologist or an image analysis module. The result of each task (e.g., success or no success) is recorded and a score is determined for the portion of the imagery data. Multiple portions of imagery data from the digital slide are analyzed and scored and the various scores from the multiple portions of imagery data are calculated to determine an overall score for the digital slide. Regions of the digital slide can be scored separately. Multiple rounds of scoring (by different pathologists and/or different image analysis algorithms) may be employed to increase the accuracy of the score for a digital slide or region thereof.
US09117251B2
The present invention is directed to methods and systems for control of loads that are connected to plugs. Through the use of various embodiments of the present invention one may allow a plurality of users to control the use of power by individual loads and dynamically configurable sets of loads with ease, on both small and large scales. Users may select from energy savings plans to generate compiled device power state schedules that automatically cause devices to enter power savings modes as pre-determined times. Consequently, one can efficiently manage plug load electricity usage in a plurality of buildings.
US09117245B1
Systems and methods are provided to perform credit valuation adjustment analyses.
US09117243B2
A system and method of providing payment information for a lease of a specific vehicle in a vehicle dealer's inventory to a consumer via an Internet website of a dealer service is disclosed. A lease service obtains data via the Internet from the dealer service. The data is stored in a database associated with an Internet website and includes vehicle data, lease data, and consumer data. The lease service determines a residual value of the vehicle and obtains lease funding information from one or more third parties. The lease service then determines lease payment information and generates a disclosure webpage of the lease payment information. The disclosure webpage is formatted to comply with the Regulation “M” disclosure notice for vehicle lease payments. The consumer is allowed to view the disclosure webpage from the Internet website before committing to the lease.
US09117238B2
Systems and methods to provide a prioritized shopping system are discussed. For example, a method can include receiving a list of target items, receiving busyness data for a plurality of local merchants, developing a prioritized shopping plan, and communicating the prioritized shopping plan to a mobile device. Each target item in the list of target items can represents a product or service that a user has indicated an interest in purchasing. The prioritized shopping plan is based at least in part on the busyness data and the list of target items. Busyness data provides an indication of traffic levels within at least a portion of the plurality of local merchants.
US09117232B2
A page update handler, which may be loaded by a web browser as part of a web page, adds functionality for dynamically updating the web page with content supplied by a content server. The content may be related to a particular item detected on the web page by the page update handler, such as a link that matches a link signature. The content server may operate in a different Internet domain from the server that servers the original web page, and may supply content for display on web pages of many different independent web sites. In one embodiment, an operator of a web site that is separate from the content server can enable the display of content from the content server on the site's web pages by adding an update handler tag to one or more corresponding HTML documents.
US09117228B1
Methods, systems, and articles of manufacture consistent with the present invention provide an electronic marketplace that matches units of content from secondary content providers with suitable vacancies from primary content providers. Vacancies may constitute, or be included in, any digital transmission containers, such as a television or radio programming, web pages, and the like. Specifically, the electronic marketplace automatically matches content offered by secondary content providers with vacancies offered by primary content providers thus filling the vacancies in these containers through a real-time content trading, placement, and distribution system. To do so, attributes associated with the vacancies and with units of secondary content are used to trade and match suitable vacancies with suitable content. This invention enables both secondary content owners and vacancy owners (primary content providers) to obtain the full commercial benefit of their secondary content and containers.
US09117227B1
A real-time messaging platform allows advertiser accounts to pay to insert candidate messages into the message streams requested by account holders. To accommodate multiple advertisers, the messaging platform controls an auction process that determines which candidate messages are selected for inclusion in a requested account holder's message stream. Selection is based on a bid for the candidate message, the message stream that is requested, and a variety of other factors that vary depending upon the implementation. The process for selection of candidate messages generally includes the following steps, though any given step may be omitted or combined into another step in a different implementation: targeting, filtering, prediction, ranking, and selection.
US09117226B2
A system and method for delivering an authorized in-store promotion to a consumer includes storing in an offer database a plurality of offer data items for use in creating an in-store promotion. The method further includes storing in an authorization database an authorization parameter. In response to receiving a request from a consumer device to present the in-store promotion, the server uses the authorization parameter to verify that the request is authorized without requesting additional information from a consumer operating the consumer device. When the request is authorized, the server dynamically generates the in-store promotion using at least one of the plurality of data items stored in the offer database. Once generated, the server transmits the in-store promotion to the consumer device without any system-specific client software to be stored by the consumer device.
US09117216B1
An Internet use profile is created by a parent or guardian of an Internet user via a client-side software application at the user's computer. The use profile is submitted via the Internet to an intelligent network component. The use profile sets the duration for Internet use in general and sets the duration for access to particular Internet sites such as chat rooms, shopping sites, etc. The use profile is stored locally on the user's computer and remotely at the intelligent network component. When the user attempts to log on to the Internet via her Internet service provider, the client-side application verifies that the user computer has not already exceeded allowed Internet connection time in a previous Internet connection. If not, the connection to the Internet is allowed. After the connection is established, an Internet usage monitoring and controlling application at the intelligent network component monitors the time of connection between the user computer and the Internet. Once the allowed time of connection expires, the monitoring and controlling application instructs the client-side application to disconnect the user computer from the Internet service provider. Prior to disconnection from the Internet service provider, the client-side computer requests a password from the user. If the password equals a password included in the Internet use profile, then the user is allowed to continue the Internet connection. Also, the user is allowed to modify the use profile with the entry of a correct password to include adding additional access time.
US09117214B2
System, for selecting and purchasing products or services from a predetermined manufacturer or retailer, including a first device, in the form of a physical receptacle, for containing a plurality of second devices for presentation of a product or service from an assortment of products and/or services from a predetermined manufacturer, provider and/or retailer, each product or service for which a second presentation device is contained by the first device being selected from the assortment, and wherein the system also includes a voucher of a nominal value to be used for purchasing a product and/or service chosen from the assortment.
US09117213B2
A method of detecting unauthorized activity in an electronic message transfer system comprising a plurality of devices, each device being configured to generate and receive cryptographically secured transfer messages for exchanging content with other devices in the system. In each device, audit information is accumulated in a memory of the device. The device periodically forwards at least part of its accumulated audit information to a secure server.
US09117210B2
Systems and methods for improving security in mobile payment systems are described. A user device may be operated to request temporary account data for an account. No actual account number may be stored on the device. A remote system may correlate temporary account data to actual account data and transmit temporary account data to the user device, which use the data to make a purchase or generate a temporary account number than may be used to make a purchase. Temporary account data may be automatically erased or expire. A purchase authorization request may be sent by a merchant with temporary account data to a provider of temporary account data. The provider may transmit a request for purchase authorization using actual account data to a payment processor, sending a response to the merchant that does not include actual account data based on a response from the payment processor.
US09117205B2
An apparatus for receiving waste contained in a container. The apparatus including a housing and a receiving mechanism coupled to the housing. The receiving mechanism is configured to receive the container. The apparatus further includes an analysis mechanism coupled to the housing; the analysis mechanism is configured to analyze the container.
US09117198B1
Embodiments provide on-line non-downloadable software for use by others to access media content, such as musical selections, songs, song hooks, videos, video hooks, audio media, visual media, websites, website content, etc. to solicit listener or viewer participation in surveys to determine listener or viewer approval of the content, musical selections, songs, song hooks, videos, video hooks, audio media, visual media, websites, website content, etc. and to assist in planning future content, musical selection, songs, song hooks, videos, video hooks, audio media, visual media, websites, website content, etc. to be presented on radio, television, movies, websites, released to the public or other media outlets in International Class 042. Time stamping is generally used in conjunction with display of the media content and surveys, allowing for better recordation of user interactions with the media.
US09117196B2
A business networking system and method for groups of people within a variety of business types to organize themselves into specific and relevant categories in order to maximize the exchange of relevant information and further development of relevant business contacts. The method and system offer tools for registering members and sub-dividing those registered members into smaller relevant groups. The method matches members of similar backgrounds and business experiences and provides communications, messaging and meetings for relevant. The system provides tools to encourage reciprocal relevant communications, both online and in the real world, between members. All activity is tracked and grouped into a plurality of statistics that are then ranked and shared with members. The statistics are used by the TBS system as a scorecard or as punishment in the form of expulsion from the categorized group.
US09117195B2
An e-book system receives and stores different versions of an e-book supporting different consumption modes. Additionally, the e-book system stores signposts for the e-book. The signposts include corresponding locations in different versions of the e-book. When a user switches from a first version to a second version, the e-book system determines based on the signposts a location in the second version of the e-book that corresponds to the current location in the first version. The e-book system then presents the content in the second version from the determined location.
US09117187B2
For each of a plurality of the work items, at least a first parameter to be associated with the work item can be received and associated with the work item. Each of the plurality of work items can be compiled in a work item list. In response to receiving a request to present the work item list to the user, the work item list can be filtered, via a processor, based on the first parameter and at least a second parameter associated with the user that corresponds to the first parameter. The filtered work item list can be presented to the user.
US09117183B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media are provided for generating simulation graphs using real-time clinical data. A user may indicate one or more scenario variables to apply to an area of interest. A simulation graph is then generated that includes at least an indication of a scenario status. The scenario status indicates an expected result based on the one or more scenario variables selected by the user. The simulation graph may also include a baseline status indicating an expected result should no changes be made to a current environment. Multiple simulation graphs for varying areas of interest may be generated and compared to one another such that a user is able to quickly identify efficient solutions.
US09117174B2
This disclosure provides a computer-program product, system, method and apparatus for accessing a representation of a category or item and accessing a set of multiple transactions. The transactions are processed to identify items found amongst the transactions, and the items are ordered based on an information-gain heuristic. A depth-first search for a group of best association rules is then conducted using a best-first heuristic and constraints that make the search efficient. The best rules found during the search can then be displayed to a user, along with accompanying statistics. The user can then select rules that appear to be most relevant, and further analytics can be applied to the selected rules to obtain further information about the information provided by these rules.
US09117165B2
An image processing system includes a reception unit configured to receive an input of authentication information from a user, an authentication unit configured to authenticate the user based on the authentication information received by the reception unit, a setting unit configured to set a destination of image data, an operation key configured to set a folder of the user as a destination of the image data, and a transmission unit configured to send the image data to a destination set by the setting unit. The image processing system performs control not to allow a destination setting using the operation key, in the case where a destination to be set by the setting unit is limited to a destination to be set using the operation key and a folder to be set in response to an operation of the operation key is the one to be registered by the user.
US09117160B2
Provided is a color conversion table creation method for creating a color conversion table for an image forming apparatus which forms an image by performing, on an input color value with total use amount of color material exceeding set amount, a process for reducing the total use amount of color material, the table presenting correspondence between the input color value input to the image forming apparatus and an output color value in a device-independent color space. The method includes: acquiring an input color value of a patch image for creating the table; when the total use amount of color material defined by the acquired input color value is around the set amount, adjusting the input color value to have a smaller difference between the total use amount and the set amount; and creating the color conversion table using the patch image with the adjusted input color value.
US09117159B2
According to one example of the present invention there is provided apparatus for generating control data to control an ink jet printer to print a double-sided image on a single side of a substantially transparent substrate. The apparatus comprises a processor for receiving image data of a first and a second image, a printhead control data generator to generate, from the first image, first image printhead control data, and to generate, from the second image, second image printhead control data, and a covering layer printhead control data generator to generate covering layer printhead control data.
US09117158B2
An image forming apparatus includes a print request combining unit and a reduced-size image display unit. The print request combining unit combines multiple print requests to generate one print request. The reduced-size image display unit reduces sizes of images of to-be-displayed pages among pages to be formed in accordance with the one print request generated by the print request combining unit, and displays reduced-size images of the to-be-displayed pages. The reduced-size image display unit extracts at least one to-be-displayed page from each set of to-be-printed pages specified in a corresponding one of the multiple print requests having been combined by the print request combining unit, and displays reduced-size images of the extracted to-be-displayed pages.
US09117154B2
The invention described herein generally pertains to a system and method for managing a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system by employing a switching means to at least a portion of at least one RFID tag in order to activate or deactivate such RFID tag. The switching means allows the transmission of data between an RFID tag and RFID reader to be controlled.
US09117152B2
An RFID card includes a smartcard controller that receives power from a host device. The RFID card also includes a small inductive device capable of inductive coupling with an RFID reader. The small inductive device is small enough to fit in the form factor of a memory card or SIM card. Enhancement circuits enhance the usable read and write distance of the RFID card.
US09117148B2
An information processing apparatus includes a detection unit, a data acquisition unit, and a communication unit. The detection unit is configured to detect whether or not print target data based on a print job has been created in a format suitable for printing on a predetermined image forming apparatus. The data acquisition unit is configured to acquire, when the detection unit detects that the print target data has been created, the created print target data and accompanying print information extracted from the print job. The communication unit is configured to transmit print data containing the acquired print target data and accompanying print information to the image forming apparatus using a predetermined protocol applicable to the image forming apparatus.
US09117133B2
An apparatus for analyzing a subject including a hyperspectral image module is provided. It is used to identify a suspect region of a subject by using a hyperspectral sensor (for obtaining a hyperspectral image of the subject), a control computer including a processor unit (PU) and a computer readable memory (CRM) (for controlling and is in electronic communication with the sensor), a control software module including instructions stored in the CRM and executed by the PU (for controlling said at least one operating parameter of the sensor), a spectral calibrator module including instructions stored in the CRM and executed by the PU (for applying a wavelength dependent spectral calibration standard constructed for the sensor to a hyperspectral image), and a light source for illuminating the subject. An optional contact probe module is used to collect a signal of the suspect region for medical diagnosis.
US09117128B2
In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for an RFID tag comprising a radio frequency (RF) network node and a communication facility, the RF network node comprising a data processing and controller block for digital information processing, a memory store, and a power management block for managing power requirements of the RFID tag, wherein an external computing device accesses the memory store through a communications bus.
US09117123B2
A vehicular display system having a camera for producing a video signal and a display device for displaying the video signal. The display device includes an integrity check to detect a defective video signal and alert the driver if a defective video signal has been detected.
US09117118B1
Systems and methods for processing documents involve directing an imager at a document and automatically capturing the document when predetermined criteria are satisfied. The captured document can then be subjected to image processing, including separating the document into individual data field images and performing optical character recognition (OCR) processing on the individual data fields so extract data that can then be used to determine eligibility for benefits.
US09117102B2
The invention provides a method for the magnified depiction of samples, wherein at least two sections from a sample, which are present on at least one sample carrier, are depicted in magnified form using an apparatus for the magnified depiction of samples, wherein the sample carrier is connected to the apparatus via a sample carrier holder, wherein the position of the depicted sample carrier regions in relation to the apparatus and the magnification stage used are recorded, at least one selected feature contained in the image information from the sections depicted in magnified form, particularly at least one suitable contour and/or structure, is/are used to define local coordinate systems, which are specific to the respective section, for the at least two sections depicted in magnified form, at least one region within at least one of the sections depicted in magnified form is/are selected (selection region) and the relative position of this at least one selection region in relation to the local coordinate system defined for the respective section, and the position of said selection region in relation to the apparatus, are ascertained, the relative position of this at least one selection region is transmitted to the local coordinate system of the at least one further section depicted in magnified form in order to stipulate at least one corresponding adjacent region on this section, the position of the adjacent region in relation to the apparatus is ascertained, and the at least one previously stipulated selection region and/or the at least one corresponding adjacent region is/are approached by the apparatus and depicted in magnified form, preferably at high magnification. In addition, the invention provides an apparatus—that is set up to carry out the method—for the magnified depiction of samples and also a computer program product which prompts an apparatus for the magnified depiction of samples to carry out the method.
US09117100B2
Techniques described herein relate to mobile computing device technologies, such as systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for tracking an object from a plurality of objects. In one aspect, the plurality of objects may be similar. Techniques discussed herein propose dynamically learning information associated with each of the objects and discriminating between objects based on their differentiating features. In one implementation, this may be done by maintaining a database associated with each object and updating the dynamic database transferred while the objects are tracked. The tracker uses algorithmic means for differentiating objects by focusing on the differences amongst the objects. For example, in one implementation, the method may weigh the differences between different fingers higher than their associated similarities to facilitate differentiating the fingers.
US09117090B2
The system may provide for the collection of data in a heterogeneous network, long term secure storage of the data, and secure transfer of the data to an environment that may be secure and controlled for the purpose of controlled and secure selected viewing of all or parts of the data. The data stored may include core data of interest as well as any data that is associated with the core data. The core data and associated data may be stored. To do so, the system may identify and collect associated data at the point of release of all or part of the data. Further, the system may provide secure and controlled transfer of the data to a permanent and secure media. Lastly, the system may provide secure transfer of all or parts of the data from the media to a controlled and secure environment suitably constructed to provide for secure viewing of all or parts of the data under the control of the owner of the data.
US09117085B2
An electronic device comprises an outer case, a wireless card reader and a signal processing device. The outer case comprises a door and a metal wall. The metal wall is disposed on a lateral side of the outer case and has an opening. The door is disposed on the metal wall and capable of covering the opening. The wireless card reader is inside the door and capable of transmitting wireless signals. The signal processing device has a case, a data storage device and a safety mechanism. The signal processing device is inside the outer case and is electrically connected to the wireless card reader. The signal processing device is capable of processing the data of wireless signals from the wireless card reader. When the case is dissembled, the safety mechanism destroys at least part of the data stored in the data storage device.
US09117078B1
Creating a policy to be used by a malware prevention system uses multiple events triggered by malware. A sample of malicious computer code or malware is executed in a computer system having a kernel space and a user space. Event data relating to multiple events caused by the malicious code executing on the computer system are captured and stored. The event data is configured using a specific property that facilitates malware behavior analysis. A behavior list is then created utilizing the multiple events and associated event data. The behavior list, together with data in a malware behavior database, is used to derive a policy for use in a malware prevention system. The computer system is free of any malicious code, including viruses, Trojan horses, or any other unwanted software code. The malicious computer code executes without any constraints so that the execution behavior of the malicious code may be observed and captured. Critical events are selected based on the user's expertise and experience in dealing with malware and a sequential stream including the event as the events occur is created.
US09117076B2
A system and method is provided to monitor user and system behavior associated with computer and network activity to determine deviations from normal behavior that represent a potential cyber threat or cyber malicious activity. The system and method uses a multi-factor behavioral and activity analysis approach to determine when a trusted insider might be exhibiting threatening behavior or when a user's computer or network credentials have been compromised and are in use by a third-party. As a result, changes in insider behavior that could be indicative of malicious intent can be detected, or an external entity masquerading as a legitimate user can be detected.
US09117075B1
A computer network of an enterprise includes a central management computer linking at least one trusted host computer with at least one user computer. The trusted host computer is not used for normal day-to-day activities within the enterprise, and may also not be used for reading electronic mail nor for accessing the Internet and downloading Web site content. Antivirus software on the user computer screens for suspect activity or features and, if found, the suspect activity or features are compared to rules database. If a determination of malware cannot be made, then these unresolved activities or features are sent to the central management computer to be compared to the trusted, known activities and features of the trusted computer. The suspect activities may be deemed acceptable if activities are shared amongst a certain number of user computers all configured to perform the same function. A user computer may be compared against itself over time.
US09117073B1
In systems and methods of network path generation, instructions are transferred from a first network node to a second network node instructing the second network node to establish a first secure communication link with the first network node. According to the instructions, instructions are transferred from the second network node to a third network node instructing the third network node to establish a second secure communication link with the second network node. Within the first secure communication link and the second communication link, a third secure communication link between the first network node and the third network node is established.
US09117071B2
A method and an apparatus that provide secure executable codes generated during run time via a trusted compiler server are described. An application can send a service request to the compiler server to request executable codes. The compiler server can determine whether the service request is permitted to be served based on a security policy imposed and the security settings associated with the service request. Availability of certain compilers can be allowed if the application is authorized according to the service request.
US09117069B2
A security information management system is described, wherein client-side devices preferably collect and monitor information describing the operating system, software, and patches installed on the device(s), as well as configuration thereof A database of this information is maintained, along with data describing vulnerabilities of available software and associated remediation techniques available for it. The system exposes an API to support security-related decisions by other applications. For example, an intrusion detection system (IDS) accesses the database to determine whether an actual threat exists and should be (or has been) blocked.
US09117068B1
A user creates a pattern in a two-dimensional grid by entering a password and enters a user name. This user name, password and pattern are stored locally on a computing device or are transmitted to a remote computer server for later authentication. Upon authentication, a choice of input grids is displayed. The user chooses a grid, enters the password into the grid in the form of the pattern, and also enters the user name. The computer retrieves the previously stored pattern and password with the user name. A match with the stored password indicates authentication. Each cell of the input grid may contain more than one symbol of the password. The input grid may also be filled with random characters to improve security. A grid may be a rectangular matrix, a circular region, an asymmetrical region, or other.
US09117065B2
An identity authentication system includes a storage unit, a display character set generation unit, a display unit and a password authentication unit. An identity authentication method includes the following steps: generating the dynamic display character sets; inputting a dynamic input code; and comparing the dynamic input code with the user password. This invention can improve the security of identity authentication and is convenient to use.
US09117056B2
A method and system for secure distribution of digital content, using a disintegration tool under control of a distributor of the digital content to divide the digital content into protected and unprotected segments, delivering the unprotected segments to the customer along with installation software and identification information. The segments to be protected are modified using the identification information on the distribution medium and hardware information unique to a particular customer device. Upon communication of this information from the customer device, the modified segments are sent to the customer device for integration with the unprotected segments to generate a modified digital content operable only on the particular customer device.
US09117049B2
A capacitor arrangement assisting method wherein data entered by a user, such as the width w of a power supply wiring, the thickness h of a dielectric between the power supply wiring and a ground plane, the ESLcap of a capacitor, and a target frequency fT and a target impedance ZT of an IC, are received, the maximum allowable wiring length lmax of the power supply wiring is calculated on the basis of the received width w of the power supply wiring, the thickness h of the dielectric, the ESLcap of the capacitor, and the target impedance ZT of the IC at the target frequency fT, and the calculated maximum allowable wiring length lmax is displayed.
US09117045B2
A method for predicting and controlling leakage wherein an IDDQ prediction macro is placed in a plurality of design topographies and data is collected using the IDDQ prediction macro. The IDDQ prediction macro is configured to measure subthreshold leakage and gate leakage for at least one device type in a semiconductor test site and in scribe lines using the IDDQ prediction macro and establish a leakage model. The method correlates the semiconductor test site measurements and the scribe line measurements to establish scribe line control limits, predicts product leakage; and sets subthreshold leakage limits and gate leakage limits for each product using the leakage model.
US09117044B2
The invention provides for the hierarchical verification of clock domain crossings. In various implementations of the invention, a device design is partitioned into blocks. Subsequently, a block level clock domain crossing verification process is performed on selected ones of the blocks. Verification interface files are generated by the block level clock domain crossing process. After which, a top level clock domain crossing verification process is performed over the entire design. In various implementations, the top level clock domain crossing verification process utilizes the verification interface files to verify clock domain crossing signals between blocks. Additionally, in some implementations, blocks not verified during block level verification are verified during top level verification. With some implementations of the invention, the device design is partitioned based input from a user of the implementation. Furthermore, in various implementations, the specific clock domain crossing verification checks employed during block level verification and top level verification are specified by a user of the implementation.
US09117021B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to manage concurrent predicate expressions. An example method discloses inserting a first condition hook into a first thread, the first condition hook associated with a first condition, inserting a second condition hook into a second thread, the second condition hook associated with a second condition, preventing the second thread from executing until the first condition is satisfied, and identifying a concurrency violation when the second condition is satisfied.
US09117014B2
In an open environment, a consensus building means for maintaining dependability throughout the entire life cycle of a target system between stakeholders is provided, thereby appropriately operating the target system in accordance with the content of an agreement between the stakeholders.A consensus building support tool provides a support for consensus building through an argument regarding an ordinary operation state of a target system. History obtained in the process of the consensus building is recorded in a database layer as an agreement graph. A monitoring node tool detects deviation from the ordinary operation state of the target system based on an actual operation state of the target system and the agreement graph. A contract generating tool extracts information data regarding the consensus building from the agreement graph when the deviation from the ordinary operation state is detected in the target system.
US09117009B2
In an apparatus configured to generate a report based on diagnosis target images, image characteristic conditions to identify a plurality of diagnosis target images specified by a user as a group are derived, search conditions of images similar to the diagnosis target images by using the obtained image characteristic conditions are determined, a database is searched for one or more similar images satisfying the search conditions; and image findings satisfying predetermined conditions is extracted from image findings attached to one or more obtained similar images.
US09117005B2
A method, system, and computer readable medium for collecting statistics associated with data in a database are disclosed. The computer readable medium implements the method comprises determining an amount of memory needed to collect statistics for data associated with a defined data type in a relational database. The defined data type is based upon a mark-up language using a tree structure with one or more root-to-node paths therein. The amount of memory is allocated as determined for collecting the statistics for the data of the defined data type. A statistics collection is performed for the data of the defined data type in a single pass through the database and within the amount of memory which has been allocated. The performing includes at least determining a total number of instances of at least one path-identifier associated with a given value within a given set of documents.
US09116993B2
A system embodiment receives a query from the user. The query is processed by a search infrastructure which may return a set of results. Results may then be estimated for quality by a quality estimator. The quality estimator may determine an initial quality estimation of the search result(s). A query re-issuer generates re-issued query information based on the initial quality estimation of the search result(s) for the initial query. A query modifier then receives the re-issued query information and generates a modified re-issued query in accordance with the query re-issue information. A method embodiment modifies and re-issues a query to the search infrastructure. The method includes determining an initial quality estimation of the search result, generating re-issued query information based on at least an initial quality estimation of the search result for the initial query, receiving the re-issued query information and generating a modified re-issued query.
US09116991B2
An e-book server creates index information for encrypted e-book content. The index information is used by a reader module to efficiently search the encrypted content. To create the index information, the e-book server identifies logical partitions of an e-book that include phrases, and creates encrypted segments including a portion of the e-book content that is not necessarily aligned with the logical partitions of the e-book. The e-book server then stores index information including a mapping between the encrypted segments and the phrases located in the logical partitions.
US09116987B2
The present invention relates generally to the field of telecommunications systems and methods. More specifically, the present invention is directed to systems and methods for identifying and/or distributing music and other types of useful information for users in a very simple and convenient manner. A variety of systems and methods are disclosed which provide users with quick and convenient access to various forms of information, such as, for example, audio information including music and news items as well as coupons and other information. The systems and methods allow users to store data representative of a time of transmission and preferably a source of transmission so that data of interest may be identified for ordering an/or downloading.
US09116979B2
Profiling systems and methods of creating and using user interest profiles are described. In some example embodiments, the method includes: creating a topic set which includes topics which are organized in a hierarchical structure which includes a plurality of topic levels including an upper topic level and a lower topic level, each topic in the lower topic level being a subtopic of at least one of the topics in the upper topic level; monitoring interest in a plurality of documents for a user to identify one or more documents-of-interest to the user; and based on the monitored interest for the user, creating an interest profile for the user by determining a measure of topical interest for the user for at least one of the topics at the upper topic level and for a subtopic of that topic, the subtopic being at the lower topic level.
US09116978B2
A computer-implemented system for facilitating cross-subsystem queries of a plurality of building automation subsystems includes a first database storing a logical model for a building automation system. The system further includes a second database storing information for the plurality of building automation subsystems. The second database relates information for the plurality of building automation subsystems based on the logical model of the first database. The system also includes a query engine configured to decompose a cross-subsystem query received from an application into a plurality of subsystem queries using the information of the second database.
US09116974B2
A method of clustering a plurality of documents having input and output space data is disclosed that uses both input and output space criteria. The method can include aggregating documents into clusters based on input and/or output space similarity measures, and then refining the clusters based on further input and/or output space similarity measures. Aggregating the documents into clusters can include forming a hierarchical tree based on the input and/or output space similarity measures where the hierarchical tree has a root node, branching into intermediate nodes, and branching into leaf nodes covering individual documents, where the hierarchical tree includes a leaf node for each document of the plurality of documents. The method can then include forming a forest of sub-trees of the hierarchical tree based on cluster criteria. Textual and numeric similarity measures can be used depending on the type and distribution of data in the input and output spaces.
US09116971B2
A method can include: calculating a maximum sync anchor change number; and creating a sync action entry, the sync action entry having a sync action change number and a composite change clock number, the composite change clock number set: to the maximum sync anchor change number when the sync action change number of the sync action entry is less than the maximum sync anchor change number, and to the sync action change number of the sync action entry when the sync action change number of the sync action entry is less than a sync action change number of a subsequent sync action entry and the sync action change number of the sync action entry is greater than the maximum sync anchor change number.
US09116969B2
A pedigree data processing system receives a first item from an upstream partner and generates a receive native event for the first item. The mechanism receives pedigree data for the first item from the upstream partner, generates at least one synthetic event based on the pedigree data and stores the receive native event and the at least one synthetic event in a pedigree data repository. The pedigree data processing system determines whether to send electronic pedigree information for the first item to downstream partners using push data exchange or pull data exchange. The pedigree data processing system generates an electronic pedigree for the first item using pull data exchange based on the receive native event and the at least one synthetic event and provides the electronic pedigree to a first downstream partner pedigree system.
US09116966B2
Website search results obtained from searching multiple electronic information stores may be displayed transparently without distinguishing the electronic information store. The search may be performed by a web host and may include receiving at least one search term that then is compared with first electronic information within a first electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the first electronic information includes content provided by an internal source. The search term also is compared with second electronic information within a second electronic information store to determine whether matches exist, where the second electronic information includes content provided by an external source. Results are displayed based on matches that are determined to exist with the first electronic information and the second electronic information. The results are combined in a single list of results.
US09116964B2
A vehicle identification number (VIN) decoder (VDC) implementing a unique VIN decoding method may, for a given VIN, shorten the VIN and form a stem and a leaf therefrom. Utilizing the stem, the VDC may operate to find matching leaf values, if any, from a set of look up tables. Depending upon a match outcome, one or more trim identification code (TIC) values can be assigned to the VIN and a candidate list can be constructed utilizing the assigned TIC value(s). The candidate list, which can be optimized, may contain one or more candidate trims for the VIN. For each candidate trim, a confidence score and a match probability can be generated. The VDC may provide decoded information containing trim data associated with at least one of the one or more candidate trims for the VIN to a client device over a network connection.
US09116963B2
A method is performed at a server system having one or more processors and memory. The server receives a search query from a user and identifies a list of search results associated with the search query. Each search result has an initial position in the list. The server identifies a set of user-preferred search results that comprises search results in a search history of the user. Each of the user-preferred search results has been previously selected by the user for at least a predefined minimum number of times. The server identifies in the list of search results, one or more search results that are associated with at least one of the user-preferred search results and reorders the list of search results by moving each of the identified search results from its initial position by a non-zero offset. The server then provides the reordered list of search results to the user.
US09116954B1
Database report generation technology for handling a single logical query that requires data that is physically located in two different sources. The system uses intelligent push-down joins, which move data from one source to the other and join data within that source. The system dynamically determines which direction to move data depending on how the data is used in a query.
US09116953B2
A query is received by a database server from a remote application server. The query is associated with a calculation model that defines a data flow model that includes a plurality of calculation nodes that each define one or more operations to execute on the database server. Thereafter, the database server dynamically determine, using at least one attribute of at least one dataset responsive to the query, that intermediate results provided by at least one of the operations specified by at least one of the nodes of the calculation model require partitioning. The database server then modifies the calculation model to partition operations on the at least one dataset based on the dynamic determination. The database server subsequently instantiates the modified calculation model so that it can be executed to generate at least one result set.
US09116946B2
System and method for interacting with a plurality of data sources are provided. A request may be parsed and an identification parameter identifying a data set may be determined. A field included in the request may be designated as a distribution key. At least one data source may be selected based on a value associated with the distribution key. At least a portion of the request may be sent to a selected data source. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US09116945B1
A statistical model may be created that relates human ratings of documents to objective signals generated from the documents, search queries, and/or other information (e.g., query logs). The model can then be used to predict human ratings/rankings for new documents/search query pairs. These predicted ratings can be used to, for example, refine rankings from a search engine or assist in evaluating or monitoring the efficacy of a search engine system.
US09116944B1
Techniques for selecting content may include determining that a URL was historically visited, determining an interest associated with the URL, and selecting content associated with the interest. Selected illustrative applications for displaying relevant content, subscribing to relevant content sources, displaying relevant advertisements, and offering and/or applying relevant promotions are disclosed.
US09116943B2
Mitigating problems related to the Halloween problem including where update operations potentially allow the record to be visited more than once during the operation. A method includes accessing an instance of a data store operation statement. The instance of the data store operation statement is executed causing an update or delete to an old version of data store record or creation of a data store record resulting in a new version of the data store record in the case of an update or creation of a data store record and a deleted version of the data store record in the case of a delete in the data store. The instance of the data store operation statement is correlated with the new version of the data store record or the deleted version of the data store record.
US09116933B2
Embodiments relate to interfaces allowing a user to optimize a model which references and manipulates volumes of information present in an underlying database. An interface engine of an application layer, may communicate with the database engine of an underlying database layer, to provide a user with indicia of modeling performance. Thus for every modeling step, an interface engine could display performance indicia such as a number of database rows that are being referenced, and/or an amount of time consumed in retrieving the data from the database. This performance indicia, together with a structure of the model itself, can be processed by the interface engine through a repository of optimization recommendations. Recommendations from the repository may be published to the user, who is free to accept or reject them. Particular embodiments may leverage processing capacity of an in-memory database engine, to analyze database information gathered during modeling.
US09116931B2
An integrated, configurable, analytical, temporal, visual, electronic plan system includes one or more row descriptors that each include a plurality of row descriptor properties, column descriptors each including a plurality of column descriptor properties, cells mapped to one of the row descriptors by a unique row descriptor identifier and to one of the column descriptors by a unique column descriptor identifier, and each of the cells including a numeric formula or a user-defined formula that references other cells. The user-defined formula includes the unique row descriptor identifier and/or the unique column descriptor identifier from other cells initially expressed by an abbreviation associated with a row descriptor and/or an abbreviation associated with a column descriptor. Using the unique identifiers, changes to the natural language descriptions and/or abbreviations are automatically rendered to any formulas that reference them without having to reconfigure and/or persist new versions of those formulas.
US09116925B2
In response to a query of discernable facial attributes, the locations of distinct and different facial regions are estimated from face image data, each relevant to different attributes. Different features are extracted from the estimated facial regions from database facial images, which are ranked in base layer rankings as a function of relevance of extracted features to attributes relevant to the estimated regions, and in second-layer rankings as a function of combinations of the base layer rankings and relevance of the extracted features to common ones of the attributes relevant to the estimated regions. The images are ranked in relevance to the query as a function of the second-layer rankings.
US09116921B2
This specification relates to presenting image search results. In general, one aspect of the subject matter described in this specification can be embodied in methods that include the actions of receiving an image query, the image query being a query for image search results; receiving ranked image search results responsive to the image query, the image search results each including an identification of a corresponding image resource; generating a similarity matrix for images identified by the image search results; generating a hierarchical grouping of the images using the similarity matrix; identifying a canonical image for each group in the hierarchical grouping using a ranking measure; and presenting a visual representation of the image search results based on the hierarchical grouping and the identified canonical images.
US09116918B1
Mechanisms for interpreting queries are provided. In some implementations, a method for interpreting queries is provided, comprising: receiving a search query in a search domain; determining search terms based on the search query; determining, for each of the search terms, whether a search term corresponds to an entity name, wherein the entity name is derived from metadata associated with the search domain; in response to determining that entity names correspond to a portion of the search terms, determining an entity type and an entity score associated with each of the corresponding entity names; determining a remaining portion of the entity names by removing at least one of the matching entity names based on the entity score and contextual information in the search query; and performing a search in the search domain with the remaining portion of entity names, wherein each entity name in the remaining portion of entity names is searched corresponding to the associated entity type.
US09116909B2
Methods and apparatus for uploading data from a sender to a receiver. A data deduplication technique is described that may reduce the bandwidth used in uploading data from the sender to the receiver. In the technique, the receiver, rather than the sender, maintains a fingerprint dictionary for previously uploaded data. When a sender has additional data to be uploaded, the sender extracts fingerprints for units of the data and sends the fingerprints to the receiver. The receiver checks its fingerprint dictionary to determine the data units to be uploaded and notifies the sender of the identified units, which then sends the identified units of data to the receiver. The technique may, for example, be applied in virtualized data store systems to reduce bandwidth usage in uploading data.
US09116903B2
Methods and system for adding a data record to a file comprise maintaining a data structure to track locations of data records within the file, wherein each entry in the data structure is a Bloom filter that corresponds to a different portion of the file that includes a plurality of data records. When an instruction to write data to the file is received, a data record is generated to append to the file, wherein the data record comprises a randomized unique id and the data from the received instruction. A Bloom filter bit pattern is extracted from the randomized unique id and bits in a current Bloom filter entry of the data structure are set, wherein the set bits correspond to the same bit positions as the Bloom filter bit pattern. The data record is thus able to be added to the file.
US09116896B2
A proxy-based, non-linear editing system is provided having simplified source file ingestion. The system includes a source file repository that stores media source files copied from a plurality of memory cards from video cameras; a proxy file generator that generates and stores a compressed low-resolution proxy of media source files copied into the source file repository; both an editing station and an ingestion station including a web browser having a display screen, and at least one interactive digital processor that coordinates the interaction between the source file repository, proxy file generator, and editing and ingestion stations. In operation, the digital processor automatically generates a proxy file and a thumbnail of each media source file copied into one of the card folders, and makes the proxy file and thumbnail immediately ready for editing on the web browser of the editing station.
US09116895B1
A computer-implemented method comprises storing a plurality of construction project specification documents in a data storage system. The method further comprises, for each of the plurality of construction project specification documents, extracting a plurality of blocks of text from the document, extracting formatting information for the document based on the extracted text blocks, generating a location descriptor for each of the text blocks based on the formatting information, the location descriptor indicating the location of the text block within the document, determining the type of text contained in each of the text blocks, and storing the location descriptor and the type of text contained in the text block for each of the text blocks.
US09116894B2
A method and system is disclosed for tagging a latent object with selected tag recommendations, including a set of content objects wherein each object is characterized by an associated set of content features. An annotation relationship is determined between the features and a pre-determined tag for the each object, the relationship being defined by a graph construction representative of an affinity relationship between each pre-selected tag and content object to a selected query. A plurality of the annotation relationships are ranked based upon a relevance of the preselected tags to the content features in response to a new query for assigning a new tag to the each object, so that a suggested tag is made from the ranking whereby the suggested tag is determined as a most likely tag for annotating the content object.
US09116893B2
A network traffic managing node of a local area network, such as a router or gateway, can implement a network discovery and remote access mechanism for the local area network. A catalog of a plurality of files stored in a plurality of network devices of the local area network is created at the network traffic managing node based, at least in part, on information associated with the plurality of files determined using a network discovery procedure. The catalog of the plurality of files is provide to a remote network node of a wide area network in response to receiving a message from the remote network node requesting access to the plurality of files. One or more files are provided to the remote network node in response to receiving a message from the remote network node requesting the one or more files from the catalog of the plurality of files.
US09116885B2
A computer-implemented technique can receive a first input from a user including one or more characters of a first language, which is a transliteration of a second language. The technique can determine a coefficient indicative of a gender of the recipient. The technique can determine and display potential translations of the first input to the second language based on the coefficient. The technique can receive a selection by the user of one of the potential translations to obtain a selected character. The technique can adjust the coefficient based on the selected character to obtain a modified coefficient. The technique can determine and display potential translations of second input from the user to the second language based on the modified coefficient.
US09116882B1
Determining relative relationships among a plurality of individuals, comprising: accessing user-specified genealogical information of at least some of the plurality of individuals and genetic information of recombinable deoxyribonucleic acids (DNAs) of at least some of the plurality of individuals; determining, using one or more computer processors and among the plurality of individuals, one or more related individuals who are relatives of a target individual, and information pertaining to the one or more related individuals, and presenting information pertaining to at least one of the one or more related individuals, including to present an indication of whether the at least one of the one or more related individuals is a matrilineal relative or a patrilineal relative of the target individual.
US09116874B2
An objective of the present invention is to efficiently perform a platform level test on a computer system comprising virtual machines that are automatically built according to predefined templates. A virtual machine test system according to the present invention creates a virtual machine according to a system template defining a combination of a network topology type of virtual machines and a role of each of the virtual machines, and performs a platform level test according to a test item defined for each of the combination (refer to FIG. 1).
US09116867B2
Various embodiments provide an interface between a Web browser's layout engine and a scripting engine. The interface enables objects from the layout engine to be recognized by a memory manager in the scripting engine and interact in a streamlined, efficient manner. In accordance with one or more embodiments, the interface allows browser layout engine objects to be created as objects that are native to the scripting engine. Alternately or additionally, in some embodiments, the native objects are further configured to proxy functionality between the layout engine and the scripting engine.
US09116858B1
The transfer data amount between a server and storage is effectively reduced, and the broadband of an effective band between the server and the storage is realized. An interface device is located in a server module, and, when receiving a read request issued by a server processor, transmits a read command based on the read request to a storage processor. In a case where a reverse-conversion instruction to cause the interface device to perform reverse conversion of post-conversion object data acquired by converting object data of the read request is received from the storage processor, DMA to transfer post-conversion object data stored in the transfer source address on a storage memory to the transfer destination address on the server memory while reverse-converting the post-conversion object data is performed.
US09116856B2
Various embodiments include systems, methods, and devices configured to reduce the amount of information communicated via system buses/fabrics when transferring data to and from one or more memories. A system master component may send a source address and a destination address to a direct memory access controller inside of, or adjacent to, a memory controller. The direct memory access controller and/or the memory controller may determine whether the source and destination addresses are inside relevant portions of the memory. When both the source and destination are inside the relevant portion of the memory, the memory controller may perform a memory-to-memory data transfer without accessing the system bus.
US09116855B2
A client (300) acquires a user function symbol name, acquires a pointer to a wrapper function, which is defined as a template function and internally executes the user function by designating the types of argument and return value of the user function as a template argument, and acquires a wrapper function symbol name of the wrapper function using the pointer to the wrapper function. A server (310) acquires, from the client, the user function symbol name, data corresponding to the arguments of the user function, the wrapper function symbol name, and a shared library user program in which the user program and the wrapper function are compiled as a shared library. The server executes the wrapper function within the shared library user program, which is specified by the pointer to the wrapper function, using the user function symbol name and the data corresponding to the arguments of the user function as arguments.
US09116852B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for processing a copy command indicating a source set comprising a subset of source logical addresses to copy to an indicated target set comprising a subset of target logical addresses. Complete is expected to be returned to the copy command in response to completing the copying of the source set to the target set. A point-in-time (PiT) copy establish command is generated in response to receiving the copy command, indicating the source and target sets in the copy command, The generated PiT copy command is executed to generate copy information indicating the source and target sets of source logical addresses and whether they have been copied to the target set. Complete is returned to the copy command after generating the copy information and before copying all the source logical addresses to the target logical addresses.
US09116851B2
System and method embodiments are provided herein to enable VTL backup and retrieval over S3 storage technology. An embodiment method includes mapping a plurality of data blocks for VTL storage into a plurality of S3 objects for S3 storage, and storing the S3 objects at one or more locations for S3 storage over one or more networks, wherein the mapping enables stateless backup and restore of the data blocks. An embodiment network component includes a Small Computer System Interface configured to receive a plurality of data blocks form one or more servers, a data library storage including tape storage, disk storage, or both that is configured to store the data blocks, a blocks-to-objects mapping engine configured to map the data blocks into a plurality of S3 objects, and a S3 interface configured to transfer the S3 objects to one or more locations for S3 storage over one or more networks.
US09116850B2
A storage system according to certain embodiments includes a client-side repository (CSR). The CSR may communicate with a client at a higher data transfer rate than the rate used for communication between the client and secondary storage. During copy operations, for instance, some or all of the data being backed up or otherwise copied to secondary storage is stored in the CSR. During restore operations, copies of the data stored in the CSR is accessed from the CSR instead of from secondary storage, improving performance. Remaining data blocks not stored in the CSR can be restored from secondary storage.
US09116842B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, a system avoids restart on an error in a data integration process. The system processes data received from a data source in accordance with a parallel processing pipeline and partitioning scheme and submits said processed data to a destination. In response to an indication of an error, the system pauses receiving of data and saves unprocessed data received from the source. After correction of the error, the system resumes processing of the received and saved data in an order of the parallel processing pipeline and partitioning scheme. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for avoiding restart on an error in a data integration process in substantially the same manners described above.
US09116835B1
Methods and apparatuses for estimating activation of cerebral cortical sources from scalp site measurements of electroencephalograms (EEG) from a human subject are provided. In an exemplary embodiment, a method comprises: specifying cortical neural sources within the brain of the subject; simulating activation potentials for the specified cortical neural sources; projecting the simulated cortical neural source voltage activations to scalp site measurements locations for the subject; simulating scalp voltage potentials for one or more extra-cranial sources outside the brain; constructing simulated scalp site voltage potentials from the projected simulated modeled cortical neural source voltage activations and the simulated extra-cranial scalp voltage potentials; comparing the simulated scalp site voltage potentials and the electroencephalograms scalp site measurements for the subject; and adjusting parameters for simulating the cortical neural source voltage activations until the simulated scalp site voltage potentials generally correspond to the electroencephalograms scalp site measurements based on the comparison.
US09116834B2
Algorithm for reconstructing grating profile in a metrology application is disclosed to numerically solve a volume integral equation for a current density. It employs implicit construction of a vector field that is related to electric field and a current density by a selection of continuous components of vector field being continuous at one or more material boundaries, so as to determine an approximate solution of a current density. The vector field is represented by a finite Fourier series with respect to at least one direction, x, y. Numerically solving volume integral equation comprises determining a component of a current density by convolution of the vector field with a convolution operator, which comprises material and geometric properties of structure in the x, y directions. The current density is represented by a finite Fourier series with respect to x, y directions. Continuous components are extracted using convolution operators acting on electric field and current density.
US09116831B2
A method begins by a processing module decoding a set of encoded data slices to produce a decoded data segment and determining whether the decoded data segment includes an error. When the decoded data segments includes the error, the processing module identifies one or more errant encoded data slices by decoding another set of encoded data slices to produce another decoded data segment. The method continues with the processing module determining whether the other decoded data segment includes the error. When the other decoded data segment does not include the error, the processing module identifies the one or more errant encoded data slices and corrects the one or more errant encoded data slices. When the other decoded data segment includes the error, the processing module repeats, for yet another set of encoded data slices, the decoding step, the determining step, and the identifying and correcting step or the repeating steps.
US09116815B2
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for throttling prefetch requests for a cache. One embodiment of the method includes selecting a sequence of relative addresses for prefetching data from a memory into lines of a cache in response to detecting a cache miss to a first address. The sequence of relative addresses is determined relative to the first address. This embodiment of the method also includes issuing a prefetch request for data from a memory address indicated by one of the sequence of relative addresses when at least one previous prefetch stream accessed prefetched data associated with this one of the sequence of relative addresses.
US09116811B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for providing an option to a user of a cache system to have a copy of at least one IO operation directed toward the cache system redundantly provided to a remote device. If the user selects to have the copy of at least one IO operation redundantly provided, the copy of the at least one IO operation directed toward the cache system is provided to the remote device.
US09116797B2
A flash memory controller is provided. The flash memory controller includes a read/write unit, a state machine, a processing unit, and a reserve unit. The read/write unit is coupled to a flash memory. The read/write unit is configured to perform a write command or a read command. The state machine is configured to determine a state of the flash memory controller. The processing unit is coupled to the read/write unit and the state machine. The processing unit is configured to control the read/write unit. The reserve unit is coupled to a first data line, a second data line, and the read/write unit. When the flash memory controller is operating abnormally, the reserve unit receives an external signal via the first data line and the second data line and controls the read/write unit according to the external signal.
US09116786B2
The present disclosure describes a microprocessor executable remote control module operable to receive, via a remote node, a command from a vehicle owner to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of a selected vehicle component and, when the vehicle owner is authenticated successfully by the remote control module, to configure and/or alter and/or determine a state of the selected vehicle component.
US09116785B2
A tester on a device under test to test component circuitry of the device under test, the tester comprising: logic configured with firmware to implement test circuitry comprising: protocol generators that are configurable to generate protocols; pattern generators that are configurable to provide test patterns that are drivable according to one or more of the protocols; and a system controller to select, in response to a program input, a test pattern and a protocol with which to test the component circuitry.
US09116784B2
The present invention proposes a system and method for preventing a vehicle from rolling over in curved lane. The road images captured by the image capture devices are used to calculate road information. The road information together with the vehicular dynamic information, such as the speed and acceleration of the vehicle are used to predict the rollover angle and lateral acceleration of the vehicle moving on the curved lane. The height of the gravity center and critical rollover speed of the vehicle moving on the curved lane are worked out and used to define a vehicular rollover index. If the vehicular rollover index exceeds a preset value, the system warns the driver or directly controls the speed of the vehicle to prevent the vehicle from rolling over in the curved lane.
US09116780B2
A system and method for modeling code segments that do not have a location is disclosed. Source code may be indexed and modeled in a data graph with nodes representing code elements and edges representing relationships between nodes. However, some code elements may be hidden or implicit and therefore may lack location information. In these cases, code figments are created and represented as nodes in the graph. Figment nodes may be specially designated so that the figment nodes may be easily distinguished from real source code nodes. The graph is then updated to include location information for the code figments in the nodes that interact with the hidden or implicit code. The data graph may then be provided to a user or as a service to be used by coding tools.
US09116772B2
Downloadable pluggable services and methods of distributing the same are described. The downloadable pluggable services may correspond to communication services that can be downloaded to upgrade a communication system. The downloadable pluggable services may include a number of component parts that can be distributed among various servers in the communication system being upgraded along with instructions that enable the component parts to instruct each server in the communication system to operate in a coordinated fashion so as to provide the downloaded service.
US09116764B2
Disclosed is a method for producing, in an electronic circuit, a varying digital output in response to edges of a received clock signal. The method includes generating, within circuitry of the electronic circuit, an unbalanced, pseudo-random binary output of the circuitry. The method also includes generating, within the electronic circuit and from the received clock, a sub-rate clock version of the received clock. The method also includes carrying out, within the electronic circuit, an exclusive OR operation between the sub-rate clock and the pseudo-random binary output of the circuitry to produce a balanced, pseudo-random binary output.
US09116759B2
Techniques are disclosed that include a computer-implemented method including transmitting a message in response to a predetermined event through a process stage including at least first and second processes being executed as one or more tasks, the message instructing the abortion of the executing of the one or more tasks, and initiating abortion of execution of the one or more tasks by the one or more of the processes on receiving the messages.
US09116753B2
A method includes, on a virtualization platform, creating a first runtime instance of a virtual appliance. The virtual appliance includes a solution stack of software components selected from a reference architecture. The method further includes, responsive to satisfaction of at least one performance criterion, dynamically scaling-out the solution stack to one or more additional runtime instances of the virtual appliance. The dynamically scaling-out includes distributing a subset of the solution stack to each of the first runtime instance and the one or more additional runtime instances.
US09116752B1
A variety of methods, systems, devices and arrangements are implemented for controlling server load-distributions. According to one such computer-implemented method, a desired server load-distribution is assigned for a plurality of computer servers that collectively provide services to computer clients. In response to a computer client request for service, a subset of computer servers is selected from the plurality of computer servers. Weight factors for servers of the selected subset of servers are determined as a function of the overall server load-distribution-profile and the selected subset.
US09116751B2
According to the present invention, in changing the circuit configuration of a reconfigurable device, a circuit configuration change period is shortened while avoiding a dependency on processing contents without increasing the size of a circuit due to addition of a mechanism. Considering an execution order relation between a plurality of data flows, a setting change count necessary for changing the circuit configuration in changing processing is decreased within a constraint range, thereby shortening the circuit configuration change period.
US09116749B2
An apparatus comprising a processor configured to startup a new process on a peer processor to off-load a load of a local process on the processor in a dynamic manner based on monitoring an amount of resources used by the processor, wherein the startup of the new process on the peer processor is initiated when the amount of resources used by the local process reaches a threshold.
US09116745B2
A resource allocation method and a resource allocation device for foreground switch of a J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition) application are provided in the present invention. A JAVA application program receives a first message from a JAVA virtual machine when switching to background from foreground, wherein the first message carries information indicating that the JAVA application program needs to release partial resources; and the JAVA application program returns a first response message to the JAVA virtual machine so as to realize release of the resources, wherein the first response message carries information of resources to be released and/or information of resources to be reserved for restoring to an executing state. The user experience can be improved and the normal use of local applications can be ensured according to the technical solution provided by the present invention.
US09116744B2
A system and method manages resources within a process by identifying a first resource threshold associated with available resources. The method receives a resource request from a resource requesting participant requiring the available resources. The method determines that an estimated resource usage, associated with the resource request, approaches the first resource threshold. The method negotiates with at least one resource consuming participant to voluntarily release resources until the estimated resource usage approaches a second resource threshold associated with the available resources within the process.
US09116739B2
This disclosure is directed to a fast and scalable concurrent queuing system. A device may comprise, for example, at least a memory module and a processing module. The memory module may be to store a queue comprising at least a head and a tail. The processing module may be to execute at least one thread desiring to enqueue at least one new node to the queue, enqueue the at least one new node to the queue, a first state being observed based on information in the tail identifying a predecessor node when the at least one new node is enqueued, observe a second state based on the predecessor node, determine if the predecessor node has changed based on comparing the first state to the second state, and set ordering in the queue based on the determination.
US09116737B2
A framework for converting between copy-on-write (COW) and redo-based technologies is disclosed. To take a virtual disk snapshot, disk descriptor files, which include metadata information about data stored in virtual volumes (vvols), are “swizzled” such that the descriptor file for a latest redo log, to which IOs are currently performed, points to the base vvol of a COW-based vvol hierarchy. A disk descriptor file previously associated with the base vvol may also be updated to point to the vvol newly created by the snapshot operation. To revert to an earlier disk state, a snapshot may be taken before copying contents of a snapshot vvol of the COW-based vvol hierarchy to a base vvol of the hierarchy, thereby ensuring that the reversion can be rolled back if it is unsuccessful. Reference counting is performed to ensure that vvols in the vvol hierarchy are not orphaned in delete and revert use cases. Differences between vvols in the COW-based vvol hierarchy are used to clone the hierarchy and to migrate the hierarchy to a redo-based disk hierarchy.
US09116736B2
In one embodiment, a method comprises detecting an initiation of a movement process of a virtual machine executed by a first physical host to a destination physical host; initiating a transfer of a stateful process executed by a first network entity and providing enhanced network services for the virtual machine executed in the first physical host, including causing execution parameters for the enhanced network services to be sent to a second network entity; and completing the movement process of the virtual machine to the destination physical host in response to detecting the stateful process is executing in the second network entity and is ready to provide the enhanced network services for execution of the virtual machine in the destination physical host.
US09116733B2
Approaches for executing untrusted software on a client without compromising the client using micro-virtualization to execute untrusted software in isolated contexts. A template for instantiating a virtual machine on a client is identified in response to receiving a request to execute an application. After the template is identified, without human intervention, a virtual machine is instantiated, using the template, in which the application is to be executed. The template may be selected from a plurality of templates based on the nature of the request, as each template describe characteristics of a virtual machine suitable for a different type of activity. When the client determines that the application has ceased to execute, the client ceases execution of the virtual machine without human intervention.
US09116729B2
A processor includes a processor core to execute a first translated instruction translated from a first instruction stored in first page of a memory. The processor also includes a translation indicator agent (XTBA) to store a first translation indicator that is read from a physical map (PhysMap) in the memory. In an embodiment, the first translation indicator is to indicate whether the first page has been modified after the first instruction is translated. Other embodiments are described as claimed.
US09116721B2
An icon line is displayed on a screen so as to align icons laterally. When a user slides a stick laterally based on an originating point corresponding to a point on an icon of the icon line, it is possible to scroll the icon line laterally in accordance with the stick being moved, and when a user slides a stick vertically based on an originating point corresponding to a point on an icon of the icon line, it is possible to move only the icon of the icon line in accordance with the stick being moved. Therefore, a user is allowed to easily change the display order in which a plurality of objects are displayed on the screen.
US09116720B2
In one embodiment, a decision tree is evaluated in interpreted mode while statistics are collected. The decision tree is then represented as source code, and each decision in the decision tree is annotated with instructions determined based on the collected statistics. The source code is compiled into machine code, and the machine code is optimized based on the instructions annotating each decision in the decision tree.
US09116712B2
Compiler based obfuscation is described. To protect portions of a code project with obfuscations, the code is modified within a compiler to produce one or more modifications that obfuscate the code as part of a compilation process. A compiled version of the code is generated having the modifications that are produced within the compiler. In one approach, the compiler is configured to consume an obfuscation description that indicates portions of the code to protect and specifies the modifications to make to the indicated portions. Various different modifications of code may be performed during the compilation process to implement corresponding obfuscation features. For example, the modifications made within a compiler may include, but are not limited to, modifications designed to enable tamper detection, anti-debugging, and/or encryption of the code.
US09116708B2
A program creation support apparatus (100) includes: a table storage unit (110) which stores a basic program management table (112) that manages a basic program, an individual requirement management table (114) that manages individual requirements of users, and a user management table (116) that manages individual requirements in association with the users; a template storage unit (122) that stores model forms of aspects; a program editing unit (130) that presents an editing target program to a program developer, receives editing operations of inserting individual requirements of each user, and edits the program; an individual requirement management unit (128) that registers the received individual requirements in the respective management tables in association with corresponding sets of program strings of the basic program with respect to each target user; and an aspect synthesizing unit (140) that synthesizes the aspect using the model forms in accordance with each management table.
US09116703B2
A device may receive information that identifies a first task to be processed, may determine a performance metric value indicative of a behavior of a processor while processing a second task, and may assign, based on the performance metric value, the first task to a bin for processing the first task, the bin including a set of processors that operate based on a power characteristic.
US09116697B2
Techniques are described to monitor a level of graphics processing activity and control power usage based on the level. When no graphics processing activity is detected for a period of time, then a timing controller for a display device is instructed to capture a current image and repeatedly display the captured image. The graphics processing devices can be powered down. When graphics processing activity is detected, the graphics processing devices are powered up and the components used to capture an image and display the captured image are powered down.
US09116694B2
Embodiments of the invention describe methods, apparatuses and systems for providing an efficient low power exit sequence for peripheral devices. In embodiments of the invention, a signal from a host device is transmitted to a SATA peripheral device for exiting a low-power state. An initialization time for OOB transmission and reception logic of the SATA peripheral device is tracked, and a reference time value based on the tracked initialization time is stored. In subsequent transitions from said low-power state, the reference time value for waking a host physical layer is utilized, thereby improving the efficiency of the management and use of said low power state. In some embodiments, the above described tracked initialization comprises a time from a transmission of an OOB signal (from the host to the peripheral device) to receiving an OOB response at the host device from the SATA peripheral device.
US09116689B2
An information processing unit includes a processing unit including a plurality of processor cores; and a power consumption reduction device configured to reduce power consumption of the processing unit. The power consumption reduction device measures the loads on threads that are running in the plurality of cores; checks the number of high load threads which are threads in a high load state and the number of low load threads which are threads in a low load state for each core, on the basis of the measuring results; selects, when there exists a core having high load threads whose number is less than a preset threshold on the number of high load threads, the core as a candidate core; and replaces the high load threads existing in the candidate core with the low load threads existing in other cores when the total number of the low load threads in a core other than the candidate core is not less than the number of the high load threads in the candidate core.
US09116687B2
An apparatus includes an instruction decoder, first and second source registers and a circuit coupled to the decoder to receive packed data from the source registers and to unpack the packed data responsive to an unpack instruction received by the decoder. A first packed data element and a third packed data element are received from the first source register. A second packed data element and a fourth packed data element are received from the second source register. The circuit copies the packed data elements into a destination register resulting with the second packed data element adjacent to the first packed data element, the third packed data element adjacent to the second packed data element, and the fourth packed data element adjacent to the third packed data element.
US09116677B2
A method and system for managing a thermal policy of a receiving device that couples to a portable computing device (PCD) includes automatically detecting a presence of the PCD. After detecting the presence of the PCD, a command to deactivate a thermal sensor and to deactivate a power supply within the PCD may be issued. The thermal policy manager module of the receiving device may issue a command to adjust an operating condition of a processor within the PCD if a temperature value reaches a predetermined value. The thermal policy manager module may also adjust operation of an active cooling device if the temperature value sensed by a sensor within the PCD reaches a predetermined value. The receiving device may include at least one of a docking station, a tablet personal computer, a laptop personal computer, a desktop personal computer, a portable media player, a portable television, and a printer.
US09116665B2
A protective cover for a portable electronic device that includes a main body portion that is adapted to at least partially surround and enclose a portable electronic device. The main body portion includes a rear section that has an accessory slot defined therein. The accessory slot removably receives an accessory assembly that includes a base having an accessory mounted thereto.
US09116650B2
In an image processing apparatus, a communication device is configured to communicate with a server. A memory stores computer executable instructions that, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the image processing apparatus to: acquire sign-in data from a storing device; automatically sign-in to the server based on the sign-in data; and execute at least one of a scanning process and a printing process. In the scanning process, the at least one processor acquires image data by controlling the image processing device to scan an image, and controls the communication device to transmit the image data to the server. In the printing process, the at least one processor receives print data from the server via the communication device, and controls the image processing device to print an image based on the print data.
US09116649B2
A CPU of an image forming apparatus acquires a transmission instruction for a log, destination information on a WebDAV server, authentication information, and the like from a management server in accordance with a schedule set by the management server, determines whether or not special log information is to be transmitted to the WebDAV server in accordance with a link speed with respect to the WebDAV server, and notifies the management server of an error when it is determined that the special log information is not to be transmitted. Further, when it is determined that the special log information is to be transmitted, the CPU transmits the special log information to the WebDAV server by using the destination information and the authentication information.
US09116647B2
An image forming apparatus A adds a user ID of a user, who has requested a job, to job information about the job to be processed in linkage to store it. The image forming apparatus A receives a user's linkage instruction together with the user ID of the user. When the received user ID matches the user ID added to the job information, the image forming apparatus A transmits a request message including the user ID and for establishing linkage with other image forming apparatuses B and C. The image forming apparatus B receives the request message, and receives a user's linkage instruction together with the user ID of the user. When the user ID included in the received request message and the user ID received from the user match each other, the image forming apparatus B transmits a reply message permitting linkage to the image forming apparatus A.
US09116637B2
A control device controlling a plurality of disk devices to which a physical storage area is assigned in response to a logical storage area accessed from an upper device includes a processor, and the processor assigns an assignment start location of the logical storage area of the plurality disk devices to respectively different physical locations.
US09116630B2
Described herein are methods, systems and machine-readable media for migrating data between storage devices of a storage array. A metric is used to measure the optimality of candidate data migrations, the metric taking into account capacity balance and proper data striping. Candidate migrations are evaluated against the metric. The candidate migration that ranks as the best migration according to the metric may be carried out. This process of evaluating candidate migrations and carrying out the best candidate migration may be iterated until data is properly distributed among the storage devices of the storage array.
US09116627B2
A data size characteristic of contents of a related unit of data to be written to a storage by an input/output module of a data storage application can be determined, and a storage page size consistent with the data size can be selected from a plurality of storage page sizes. The related unit of data can be assigned to a storage page having the selected storage page size, and the storage page can be passed to the input/output module so that the input/output module physically clusters the contents of the related unit of data when the input/output module writes the contents of the related unit of data to the storage. Related methods, systems, and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US09116622B2
Storage system having nonvolatile semiconductor storage device with nonvolatile semiconductor memory
A storage system coupled to a host has a nonvolatile semiconductor storage device that includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory configured by a plurality of pages, and a storage controller coupled to the semiconductor storage device. In the case where data stored in the plurality of pages become unnecessary, with this plurality of pages being the basis of a region of a logical volume based on the nonvolatile semiconductor storage device, the storage controller transmits, to the nonvolatile semiconductor storage device, an unnecessary reduction request for reducing the number of pages that are the basis of the region having the unnecessary data stored therein. On the basis of the unnecessary reduction request, the nonvolatile semiconductor storage device invalidates the plurality of pages that are the basis of the region having the unnecessary data stored therein.
US09116620B2
A controller and method for memory aliasing for different flash memory types are presented. In one embodiment, a controller is presented having one or more interfaces through which to communicate with a plurality of memory dies, wherein at least one of the memory dies is of a different memory type than the other memory dies. The controller also has an interface through which to communicate with a host, wherein the interface only supports commands for a single memory types. The controller further contains a processor that is configured to receive a logical address and a command from the host, determine which memory die is associated with the logical address, and translate the command received from the host to a form suitable for the memory type of the memory die associated with the logical address.
US09116610B2
A screen ST1 of an LCD with which a digital camera is provided displays an icon of a folder F1 indicating that the folder F1 has been selected. Image files P11 and P12 are captured reproduced images. A display frame SC displays a currently captured picture of an object, files P11 and P12, and the icon of the folder F1. To switch the folder F1 to a folder F2, the user presses a down button of a cross key 27. When the user presses the down button on the screen ST1, the screen ST1 is switched to a screen ST3 through a screen ST2. On the screen ST2, the number denoted in the icon is changed. The screen ST2 displays a state of which the folders are being switched. An icon displayed on the screen ST3 indicates that the folder F1 was switched to the folder F2.
US09116600B2
A computer-implemented method for automatically personalizing applications includes: receiving, in a computer system, user behavior data for multiple users of at least one application program, the application program having a user interface with multiple input controls displayed on multiple different panes, and the user behavior data reflecting actions performed using the input controls on the panes; identifying, using the computer system, at least one usage pattern in the user behavior data as meeting a usage pattern criterion; storing a personalization record based on identifying the usage pattern, the personalization record specifying the usage pattern as a sequence of activating at least some of the input controls on at least some of the panes; and automatically generating, using the computer system and based on the personalization record, a modified user interface according to the identified usage pattern.
US09116594B2
A mobile terminal is provided that includes a display unit configured to display one or more windows at a time, and a controller configured to generate a first window and a second window separate from the first window when an event occurs in the first window. The controller is configured to control the display unit to display at least one of the first window and the second window. Methods for controlling the mobile terminal are also provided.
US09116589B2
A single-layer projected capacitive touch panel has a glass cover, a touch sensing circuit layer, an insulating ink layer, a conductive wire layer, an insulator layer, a conductive glue layer and a flexible printed circuit (FPC) board. The touch sensing circuit layer, the insulating ink layer, the conductive wire layer, the insulator layer and the conductive glue layer are mounted on a circuit surface of the glass cover in sequence. The insulating ink layer covers the touch sensing circuit layer and has multiple through slots. Each through slot is filled with an electric conductor. The FPC is fastened on the conductive wire layer by a conductive glue layer. Therefore, the touch panel of the present invention is thinner, provides better penetrability and costs less than conventional projected capacitive touch panels.
US09116577B2
A sensing method of optical touch, adapted for providing and sensing a sensing beam through at least one optical sensing module, is provided. The sensing method of optical touch includes the following steps. A plurality of sensing pixel zones of the optical sensing module is selected, and a main incident angle is chosen in an incident angle range according to light intensity sensed by each of the selected sensing pixel zones, wherein the sensing beam entering the optical sensing module at the main incident angle has a maximum light intensity. Main incident angles corresponding to the unselected sensing pixel zones are computed according to the main incident angles corresponding to the selected sensing pixel zones.
US09116576B2
A photosensitive pixel circuit of a touch module including an output transistor and a light detection unit is provided. The output transistor receives a reference signal and provides a touch voltage controlled by a light detection voltage. The light detection unit is electrically connected to the output transistor, and receives a touch scan signal. The light detection unit detects an intensity of a light according to the touch scan signal so as to correspondingly provide the light detection voltage.
US09116575B2
A capacitance sensing circuit, comprising: a first voltage source; a first switch, wherein the first voltage source charges a sensing capacitor to a first voltage when the first switch is conductive; a base capacitor; a second voltage source; a second switch, wherein the second voltage source charges the base capacitor to a second voltage when the second switch is conductive, where the first switch and the second switch are simultaneously conductive via a control signal; a first comparator, for outputting a first comparing result according to a voltage difference between a sensing voltage on the sensing capacitor and a base voltage on the base capacitor, and a voltage difference between the first voltage and the second voltage; and a voltage holding circuit, for keeping the base voltage at a reference voltage.
US09116570B2
A touch display device is provided which includes a display panel for displaying an image, and a touch screen panel disposed on the display panel and configured to sense at least one touch. The touch screen panel includes a touch substrate at which the touch can be generated; sensing electrodes provided on the touch substrate and spaced apart from one another, each of the sensing electrodes being formed of a piezoresistive material having a resistance value that varies according to an applied force; and a touch processor electrically connected to the sensing electrodes. The touch processor extracts a touch coordinate based on time constants of sensing signals applied to the sensing electrodes, and calculates a touch force of the touch based on resistance values of the sensing electrodes.
US09116565B2
A mobile terminal including a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with a content provision server over a network; a touch screen display unit configured to display a first image object associated with first content downloading from the content provision server and a second image object associated with second content that can be downloaded next from the content provision server; and a controller configured to receive a first input indicating the second image object is moved to be adjacent to the first image object, and download the second content corresponding to the second image object as soon as the first content corresponding to the first image object is downloaded.
US09116555B2
A controller for interfacing with an interactive application is provided, including: a housing defined by a main body, a first extension extending from a first end of the main body, and a second extension extending from a second end of the main body, the first extension and the second extension for holding by a first hand and a second hand of a user, respectively; an input device positioned along a top surface of the main body; a touch-sensitive panel defined along the top surface of the main body.
US09116549B2
An electronic device having an input control application is disclosed. The input control application is used for enabling the electronic device to execute the following actions: obtaining a member group comprising members lined up orderly and a member as a selection member; pressing a key to generate a first signal for excluding members after the selection member, then determining if only one member left in the member group, if “No”, determining the member of the member group in the middle as the new selection member, if “Yes”, executing the input operation; pressing another key to generate a second signal for excluding the members before the current selection member, then determining if only one last member in the current member group, if No”, determining the member of the member group in the middle as the new selection member, if “Yes”, executing the input operation.
US09116543B2
For a user having a user input actuator, a virtual interface device, such as for a gaming machine, for determining actuation of a virtual input by the input actuator is disclosed. The device comprises a position sensing device for determining a location of the user input actuator and a controller coupled to the position sensing device, the controller determining whether a portion of the user input actuator is within a virtual input location in space defining the virtual input.
US09116539B1
An electrolarynx includes a case and a thumbwheel component within its hollow interior that includes a wheel with a peripheral edge. A wheel-receiving slot extends from the exterior surface of the case to the hollow interior, and the wheel is disposed partially within that slot so that the peripheral edge of the wheel is accessible with a finger of a user from the exterior of the case for purposes of engaging and turning the wheel. The case includes a radially outward protruding wheel-protecting structure next to the wheel-receiving slot that shields (i.e., protects) the wheel from an impact directed parallel to the rotational axis of the wheel, without the radially outward protruding wheel-protecting structure preventing the user from engaging and turning the wheel with a finger of the user.
US09116533B2
The invention provides a cascode transistor circuit with a depletion mode transistor and a switching device. A gate bias circuit is connected between the gate of the depletion mode transistor and the low power line. The gate bias circuit is adapted to compensate the forward voltage of a diode function of the switching device. The depletion mode transistor and the gate bias circuit are formed as part of an integrated circuit.
US09116524B1
A system and method for achieving vertical navigation by using a satellite based navigation system exemplified by a GPS system and implementing the vertical navigation features in an autopilot unit interfaced to the satellite based navigation system. The autopilot reads waypoint information output from the satellite navigation system and receives VNAV altitudes and other commands from the pilot. The autopilot then performs VNAV calculations and guidance in accordance with the VNAV program. VNAV setup and progressive status are displayed on an economical small screen autopilot display. Modes are disclosed for exemplary GPS direct to waypoint VNAV, waypoint transition VNAV, multiple waypoint VNAV and other VNAV modes. Safety limits may be imposed on the VNAV program.
US09116520B2
Embodiments of the disclosure include methods and devices in which a flight parameter vector for an aircraft is automatically estimated and then compared to a threshold to determine whether the flight parameter vector is accurate. The detection device estimates a coefficient vector in an observation window, calculates an estimated flight parameter value, and minimizes an error associated with the observation window when calculating the estimated flight parameter value of the flight parameter vector. Comparisons may be performed by a failure detector or a flight control computer to determine failures impacting the flight parameter vector.
US09116514B2
A configurable process control device, which includes a field device, such as a valve position controller, that can be configured by a user to emulate any one of a plurality of different types of process control devices, is provided with an electronic display assembly. The electronic display assembly is operatively connected with a control circuit that is arranged to respond to the specific configuration of the field device to cause the electronic display assembly to display information relevant to the specific type of control device the field device has been configured to emulate. The information may include safety certification information specific to each of the different types of process control devices that the field device can be configured to emulate.
US09116511B2
The present invention makes it possible to measure a precision event time in such a way to make a reference data in accordance with a standard time reference frequency signal and to make a measurement data by using an apparatus with the same structure as a reference data with respect to a signal to be measured and to compare the measurement data with a reference data, whereby temperature effects can be minimized by making the time changes due to temperature changes occurring between two apparatuses happen equally, by providing the same structure and parts to a reference signal circuit apparatus for an event time measurement and a signal circuit apparatus to be measured, and the zero point adjustment is performed during the real time operation, so the system is not needed to stop.
US09116510B1
A chip scale atomic clock (CSAC) accelerometer incorporates a case in which a cesium vapor resonance cell is carried. An optical laser is mounted in the case and emits a laser beam through the resonance cell. The laser is modulated by a microwave signal generator. A photon detector mounted in the case receives photons emitted by cesium atoms in the resonance cell and provides a frequency output representative of interference of energy levels of the emitted photons including momentum changes due to acceleration.
US09116509B2
Methods and systems for training cognitive skills are disclosed. The methods and systems include: providing, via a computing device and user interface display, musical rhythm training comprising at least one trial comprising: displaying on the user interface display, via the user computing device, a rhythm track comprising at least one stationary beat timing mark and at least one moving beat timing mark repeatedly moving along the rhythm track at a uniform speed; receiving via a user interface input an indication from the user that the user perceives a moving beat timing mark to be coincident with a stationary beat timing mark; and providing, via the user interface, an indicator that the user is correct or not correct.
US09116503B2
A developing unit for an electrophotographic image forming apparatus includes a developing roller, having a shaft member, for developing an electrostatic latent image formed on an electrophotographic photosensitive drum using a developer; and a bearing for rotatably supporting the shaft member, the bearing including a bearing base portion of a first resin molded material and a bearing portion of a second resin molded material different from the first resin molded material, the bearing portion having a through-hole, wherein the bearing portion includes a contact portion contacting a stepped abutting portion of the shaft member, and a retaining portion overlapping with the bearing base portion in a direction crossing with an axial direction of the shaft member.
US09116499B1
A customer replaceable unit for a printer includes a toner reclaim system that has a spring-like wire attached to and surrounding the bottom half of a toner agitator. As the agitator is rotated by a cleaner auger through a crankshaft connection, the spring compresses and relaxes with every revolution. This creates small vibrations which help move toner in a downward direction with the assistance of gravity into a developer sump.
US09116497B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing section, a low voltage detection circuit, an arithmetic control section, and a storage section. The fixing section has a heater and fixes a toner image on recording paper with heat of the heater. The low voltage detection circuit detects a drop in an input voltage from a power source. The arithmetic control section determines, when a drop in the input voltage is detected by the low voltage detection circuit, whether the drop in the input voltage is linked to working of the heater. The arithmetic control section lowers the temperature of the heater when the drop in the input voltage is linked to the working of the heater, and causes the storage section to store a result of the detection by the low voltage detection circuit when the drop in the input voltage is not linked to the working of the heater.
US09116493B2
To facilitate replacing photosensitive drums and/or developing devices in an image forming apparatus, a photosensitive member unit including a plurality of photosensitive members is loaded in a main casing. A developing device unit including a plurality of developing devices is also loaded in the main casing. Both an intermediate transfer belt and the photosensitive member unit are configured to be movable toward and away from the developing device unit. Further, when the photosensitive member unit is separated from the developing device unit, the intermediate transfer belt and the plurality of photosensitive members are also separated from each other.
US09116480B2
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing portion, including: a heating member and a back-up member forming a nip; and an air feeding portion for feeding air to a non-sheet-passing area of at least one of the heating member and the back-up member, the air feeding portion including a fan for feeding the air, a duct, including an opening, for guiding the air fed from the fan through the opening to the non-sheet-passing area, and an adjusting member for adjusting an opening amount of the opening. The apparatus executes a first air feeding operation with a first opening amount and a first rotational frequency of the fan and a second air feeding operation with a second opening amount and a second rotational frequency, when the fixing portion fixes the images on sheets having the same widths.
US09116479B2
A fixing control device includes an image detection unit that determines presence of an image in each of areas obtained by division of an image formation region in which the image is formed, a heater selection unit that selects from heaters of a fixing device heaters at positions corresponding to areas in which the presence of the image is determined, a heating amount computation unit that computes a heating amount of a heating area heated by each of the selected heaters in a fixing region corresponding to the image formation region, a change amount computation unit that computes an amount of change of the heating amount between adjoining ones of the heating areas, and a heating amount correction unit that corrects one of the heating amounts of the adjoining heating areas so that the amount of change after the correction is less than a predetermined threshold.
US09116476B2
A fixing device, including a fixing member; an opposing member contacting the fixing member to form a fixing nip; plural separation assisting members; a contact direction biasing member contacting an end of the auxiliary separation members to the surface of the fixing member; a contact and release switching member switching contacting the end of the auxiliary separation members to the surface of the fixing member and releasing the end of the auxiliary separation members therefrom; a fixing exit guide member guiding a recording medium to a discharge direction and separated from the fixing member by the separation assisting member; a first rotating member near the auxiliary separation members downstream from an end thereof; and a second rotating member guiding a recording medium guided by the fixing exit guide member in the recording medium conveyance direction while rotating.
US09116471B2
A control part provided in an image forming apparatus controls a moving unit so as to cause a secondary transfer rotary member to move from an intermediate position to an abutment position at a first moving speed in the case of bringing the secondary transfer rotary member into abutment against an intermediate transfer member during an exposure period or a primary transfer period, and to cause the secondary transfer rotary member to move from a separation position to the abutment position at a second moving speed higher than the first moving speed in the case of bringing the secondary transfer rotary member into abutment against the intermediate transfer member during a period other than the exposure period and the primary transfer period. Thus, the productivity can be prevented from being degraded while a load change at a time of the abutment of the secondary transfer rotary member is reduced.
US09116470B2
An image forming apparatus configures a normal transfer potential in a yellow primary transfer unit, and configures a transfer potential which does not cause any retransfer phenomenon of a yellow measurement image in image carriers located on the downstream side of the yellow primary transfer unit. When a color difference obtained from a reference density and a density of a measurement image on an intermediate transfer belt becomes equal to or larger than a prescribed value, the image forming apparatus determines that multinary-color density adjustment is required.
US09116467B2
A developing apparatus used in an image forming apparatus, including: a developer carrying member configured to carry a developer; and a control member configured to control the amount of a developer carried on the developer carrying member, wherein the control member is manufactured by cutting a supporting member covered with a covering member in a cutting direction intersecting a surface of the supporting member so as to be a predetermined length in the longitudinal direction thereof, and the covering member provided on the upstream side of the control member in the cutting direction comes into contact with the developer carrying member.
US09116465B2
Provided is an electrophotographic image forming apparatus including: a toner buffer unit arranged between a toner cartridge and a developing unit to receive toner from the toner cartridge and supply the toner to the developing unit; and a toner level detection unit. The toner buffer unit includes a first buffer unit connected to the toner cartridge. A first conveyance member including a rotation shaft and a conveyance wing provided in the rotation shaft and transporting the toner in a radial direction is provided in the first buffer unit. The toner buffer unit includes an elevation plate provided in the first buffer unit and elevated according to a toner level, and a sensor unit detecting a location of the elevation of the elevation plate. The elevation plate is located to be spaced apart from the conveyance wing in an axial direction of the rotation shaft.
US09116462B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image holding member, a charging unit, an electrostatic charge image forming unit, a developing unit that accommodates an electrostatic charge image developer containing flake shape toner particles, a transfer unit, an arranging unit that causes transfer residual toner to rise from the surface of the image holding member, a cleaning unit, and a fixing unit.
US09116461B2
A developing device is provided. The developing device includes a housing, a developer carrier which is rotatably supported by the housing, and a layer thickness regulating member which includes a blade configured to contact the developer carrier along a rotational axial direction of the developer carrier, a support member supporting the blade, and a reinforcement member provided at an opposite side to the support member with respect to the blade and reinforcing the blade. The support member includes a first part which contacts the blade, and to which the blade is fixed, a second part which is connected to the reinforcement member, and a third part which is attached to the housing. As viewed from the rotational axial direction, the first part and the third part are provided on a same first plane, and the second part is provided on a second plane intersecting with the first plane.
US09116458B2
A light scanning device of the invention includes a scan deflection range of each of the light fluxes deflected by the deflecting part in a scan period of the scan object with the respective light fluxes is divided into a first deflection range where a reflection angle of each of the light fluxes with respect to the deflecting part is small and a second deflection range where the reflection angle is large. A polarization direction of each of the light fluxes is set such that a reflectivity of the reflective mirror when each of the light fluxes deflected in the second deflection range is reflected becomes larger than a reflectivity of the reflective mirror when each of the light fluxes deflected in the first deflection range is reflected.
US09116455B2
A grid of a charging device is cleaned without causing the grid to contact a member to be charged. In this structure, to suppress non-uniform charging due to wear of the grid, which is pulled toward a discharge electrode, for a long time, first and second protective layers are provided. The first protective layer is provided on a surface of a base member of the grid that faces the cleaning member. The second protective layer is provided on a surface of the base member that faces the pressing member. The second protective layer is thicker than the first protective layer.
US09116451B2
A doped protective coating for extending a lifetime of an organic photoconductor is provided. The coating includes an in-situ cross-linked polymer matrix and a substantially uniformly distributed dopant therein. The dopant comprises a charge transport molecular species. A process for coating the organic photoconductor and a coated organic photoconductor are also disclosed.
US09116444B2
In a case where a substrate is exposed to exposure light of a first wavelength band, an exposure coefficient, which is defined as an amount of fluctuation of an imaging characteristic of a projection optical system per unit of exposure energy, for the first wavelength band is calculated using data of the amount of fluctuation of the optical characteristic of the projection optical system. An exposure coefficient for a second wavelength band that is different from the first wavelength band is calculated using the exposure coefficient for the first wavelength band. In a case where the substrate is exposed to exposure light of the second wavelength band, the amount of fluctuation of the imaging characteristic of the projection optical system is calculated using the exposure coefficient for the second wavelength band.
US09116443B2
In a single or multiple stage lithography apparatus, a table provides a confining surface to a liquid supply system during, for example, substrate table exchange and/or substrate loading and unloading. In an embodiment, the table has a sensor to make a measurement of the projection beam during, for example, substrate table exchange and/or substrate loading and unloading.
US09116442B2
A method and apparatus for process control in a lithographic process are described. Metrology may be performed on a substrate either before or after performing a patterning process on the substrate. One or more correctables to the lithographic patterning process may be generated based on the metrology. The patterning process performed on the substrate (or a subsequent substrate) may be adjusted with the correctables.
US09116440B2
An optical module includes a chamber capable of being evacuated and a mirror in the chamber. The mirror includes a plurality of individual mirrors. Each individual mirror includes: a mirror body including a reflection face; a support structure; and a thermally conductive portion that mechanically connects the support structure to the mirror body. For at least one individual mirror, the thermally conductive portion includes a plurality of thermally conductive strips arranged radially, adjacent thermally conductive strips being separated from each other, and each of the plurality of thermally conductive strips connecting the mirror body to the support structure. For at least one individual mirror, an actuator is associated with the mirror body, the actuator being configured to displace the mirror body relative to the support structure in at least one degree of freedom.
US09116439B2
An illumination system is disclosed having a polarization member that includes first and second polarization modifiers movable into at least partial intersection with a radiation beam such that the respective polarization modifier applies a modified polarization to at least part of the beam. The illumination system further includes an array of individually controllable reflective elements positioned to receive the radiation beam after it has passed the polarization member, and a controller configured to control movement of the first and second polarization modifiers such that the first and second polarization modifiers intersect with different portions of the radiation beam.
US09116434B2
An electron beam exposure method includes the steps of: preparing an exposure mask having a plurality of opening patterns formed by dividing a drawing object pattern into exposable regions; and drawing the drawing object pattern by performing exposure with an electron beam passing through the opening patterns of the exposure mask. Each end portion serving as a joint in each opening pattern of the exposure mask is provided with a joining portion tapered in a width of the opening pattern. The exposure is performed in such a way that portions drawn through adjacent joining portions overlap each other.
US09116431B2
According to one embodiment, a development processing apparatus including a film reduction amount calculation unit configured to calculate a film reduction amount of a to-be-exposed portion of the photosensitive film, a dimension prediction unit configured to calculate predicted pattern dimension when the developing process is performed in a standard development condition, a dimension correction amount calculation unit configured to calculate a pattern dimension correction amount, a corrected development condition derivation unit configured to derive a corrected development condition based on the calculated pattern dimension correction amount, and a developing mechanism configured to develop the photosensitive film in the derived corrected development condition.
US09116420B2
A centrifugal fan introducing air via an inlet port in a direction of a rotation axis and discharging the air via an outlet port in the a direction of a centrifugal force produced by rotation includes: an impeller having a plurality of vanes around the rotation axis; and a housing including the inlet port and supporting the impeller such that the impeller is allowed to freely rotate in the housing. An inclined portion is formed at least at a part of edge portion of the inlet port, the inclined portion widening to the side that the impeller is disposed.
US09116415B2
A pop up prism camera (10) having a pop up prism lens assembly (11). A first lens assembly (14), a second lens assembly (18), and a prism assembly (21) are moved in relationship to a camera housing (12) controlled by a cam tube (20). The prism assembly (21) projects outside the camera housing (12) when the pop up prism camera (10) is in an operational configuration. A prism (100) of the prism assembly (21) redirects an optical path (48). A non-angled portion (44) of a first cam groove (30) causes the prism assembly (21) to remain fixed relative to the camera housing (12) while continued rotation of the cam tube (20) allows the first lens assembly (14) and the second lens assembly (18) to continue to move to accomplish a lens zoom function.
US09116409B1
The present invention generally relates to electrochemical devices, such as electrochromic (EC) devices and thin film batteries (TFB), and in particular to anodes of electrochemical devices with improved intercalation and/or transport properties. Some embodiments of the invention include anodes, such as nickel oxide, doped with Si, Sn, SiO2 and/or SnO2, which may be in the form of nanoparticles or even substituted atoms/molecules. These nanoparticles/substituted atoms, which have higher lithium intercalation capability, distort the lattice of the anode, improving movement and intercalation of Li ions. In some other embodiments, the anode may be formed of silicon oxide and/or tin oxide, which materials have good transport and intercalation of Li ions.
US09116406B2
A pixel structure and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The pixel structure is formed on a substrate. The substrate includes at least two scan lines and at least one data line formed thereon. The pixel structure includes a main pixel, a first subpixel, and a second subpixel. The main pixel is electrically coupled to one of the two scan lines and the data line. The first subpixel is electrically coupled to the two scan lines and the data line. The second subpixel is electrically coupled to the two scan lines and the first subpixel. The present invention is capable of solving the color shift problem without a high frequency driving method and a large number of scan lines.
US09116405B2
A display device according to the present invention includes a first substrate, a driving portion formed on the first substrate, a plurality of signal lines formed on the first substrate to transmit signals to the driving portion, a second substrate facing the first substrate, and a conductive member formed on the second substrate, wherein the driving portion overlaps with the conductive member, and the signal lines are disposed at a position outside a region of overlap of the conductive member. Accordingly, the capacitances between the signal lines may be substantially the same.
US09116404B2
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display includes an array substrate provided with pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode aligning in a first direction, a first gate line placed on one side of the pixel electrodes in a second direction, a second gate line placed on the other side of the pixel electrodes, a source line extending along the second direction, a first pixel switch for switching connection of the source line with the first pixel electrode by a gate signal provided through the first gate line, and a second pixel switch for switching connection of the source line with the second pixel electrode by another gate signal provided through the second gate line, an counter-substrate provided with an common electrode, and a liquid crystal layer held between the substrates.
US09116398B2
The present invention discloses an array substrate, which includes a thin-film transistor, a data line, a gate line, and a pixel electrode. The array substrate further includes a common electrode. The common electrode has a first region, a second region, and at least one opening. The first region is defined on the common electrode, and the first region is a projection of the pixel electrode on a plane where the common electrode is located. The second region is defined on the common electrode, and the second region is close to at least one edge of the first region. The at least one opening is disposed on the second region of the common electrode.
US09116394B2
A display panel includes a pair of substrates, a pixel structure, and a display medium layer disposed between the pair of substrates. The pixel structure is disposed on one of the substrates, and includes first and second sub-pixels. The first sub-pixel includes a first pixel electrode, wherein the first pixel electrode has a first spacing in a first main region and has a second spacing in a first minor region, wherein the second spacing is smaller than the first spacing. The second sub-pixel includes a second pixel electrode, wherein the second pixel electrode has a third spacing in a second main region and has a fourth spacing in a second minor region, wherein the fourth spacing is larger than or equal to the third spacing, and wherein the first spacing is larger than the third spacing.
US09116388B2
A backlight module and a liquid crystal display are provided. The backlight module includes an optical film, a reflection member and a light-emitting unit. A reflection surface of the reflection member includes multiple side edges. The light-emitting unit is disposed on one intersection position formed by the side edges of the reflection surface, and a light-emitting direction of the light-emitting unit faces the reflection surface. The reflection surface has a default track, whereby the lights emitted from the light-emitting unit can be projected to the reflection surface, and then uniformly entering into the optical film after being reflected by the reflection surface.
US09116386B2
A lens includes an upper flat surface having a first outer diameter, a bottom surface having a second outer diameter and a third inner diameter, an external curved surface which connects the upper flat surface and the bottom surface, and an inner curved surface which protrudes toward the upper flat surface from the bottom surface at the third inner diameter.
US09116383B2
A manufacturing method of a light barrier glass sheet, comprising: farming a metal layer (2) on a glass substrate (1); coating a first photoresist layer (3) on the metal layer (2), performing first exposure on the first photoresist layer (3) through a half tone mask, then performing first development on the first photoresist layer (3); removing partial region of the metal layer (2) through a first etching process; removing a partial thickness and a partial region of the first photoresist layer (3) through an ashing process; forming an insulating layer (4) on the exposed glass substrate (1), the exposed metal layer (2), the first photoresist layer (3) after the ashing process, and sidewalls of the photoresist layer (3) after the ashing process; removing the first photoresist layer (3), the insulating layer (4) on the first photoresist layer (3), and the insulating layer (4) on the sidewalls of the first photoresist layer (3) by a photoresist lifting-off process so as to form a via hole (7); forming a transparent pixel electrode pattern (5) in the via hole (7), on sidewalls of the via hole (7) and on the insulating layer (4). With the method, one mask process can be omitted, thus the manufacturing process can be simplified, the production efficiency can be improved and the production cost can be reduced.
US09116381B2
An electro-optical device includes an electro-optical panel and a retaining member. The retaining member includes a first retaining portion that extends along a first side of the electro-optical panel and a second retaining portion that extends along a second side, the first side intersects a direction in which cooling air flows, the first retaining portion is formed to be flush with a panel face of at least one of a light incident side and a light emitting side of the electro-optical panel, and the second retaining portion is formed to protrude from at least one of the panel faces.
US09116375B2
The present invention provides a connection structure for panel and frame and holding member thereof. The connection structure includes a panel and a frame supporting the panel. The panel and the frame use a plurality of holding members to fix and hold. The holding member includes a presser and a connection part extending from one side of the presser. The connection part includes a first extension part and a second extension part. The first extension part and the second extension part connect a corresponding connection element on the side of the frame. As such, the present invention saves the front frame and fixes a liquid crystal panel and a frame of a liquid crystal module to reduce the transportation risk, protect the liquid crystal panel from damage, simplify the overall assembly structure of the liquid crystal module and reduce the assembly cost.
US09116368B2
An optical modulation device including: bias power supplies that output a signal having a bias voltage corresponding to the null point of an optical modulation unit to the optical modulation unit; and synchronous detection circuits that determine whether an intensity of a QAM signal at a drift non-occurrence time where no drift occurs in the bias voltage becomes larger or smaller than the intensity of the QAM signal at a drift occurrence time where a drift occurs in the bias voltage, adjust the bias voltage to maximize the intensity of the QAM signal when determining that the intensity of the QAM signal at the drift non-occurrence time becomes larger than the intensity of the QAM signal at the drift occurrence time, and adjust the bias voltage to minimize the intensity of the QAM signal when determining that the intensity of the QAM signal at the drift non-occurrence time becomes smaller than the intensity of the QAM signal at the drift occurrence time.
US09116366B2
A tunable Radio Frequency (RF) filter device includes a tunable optical source generating an optical carrier signal, and a modulator coupled to the tunable optical source and modulating the optical carrier signal with an RF input signal. The tunable RF filter device may include first and second optical waveguide paths coupled to the modulator and having first and second dispersion slopes of opposite sign from each other, one or more of the first and second optical waveguide paths comprising an optical splitter and combiner pair therein, and an optical-to-electrical converter coupled to the first and second optical waveguide paths and generating an RF output signal with a frequency notch therein based upon the tunable optical source.
US09116362B2
An eyeglass frame includes an outer frame (20), an inner frame (50) provided with a pair of eyeglass lenses (60), and temples (31) connected to the outer frame (20). The inner frame (50) is attached to the outer frame (20) through connection members (55).
US09116359B2
To enable a viewer to recognize a stereoscopic image even when a posture of the viewer is changed in front of a display device by providing a stereoscopic image display apparatus including: a lens sheet which is adjacent to a display surface of a display device, and is configured by arranging a plurality of plano convex lenses along an arrangement direction of display elements, consecutively side by side while varying a distance from the display surface; a storage unit storing stereoscopic display images corresponding to parallax points with respect to a display object at a plurality of viewing points; a sensing unit which senses a posture changing amount of a visual organ of a human body; a selection unit selecting the stereoscopic display images for the respective viewing points according to the posture changing amount sensed; and a display controller allowing the stereoscopic display images on the display device.
US09116358B2
A 3D display is provided, at least comprising a display module, a backlight module disposed beneath the display module, and a barrier module disposed above the display module. The barrier module comprises a bottom substrate having a bottom electrode layer, an upper substrate having an upper electrode layer, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the bottom substrate and the upper substrate. At least one of the bottom electrode layer and the upper electrode layer comprises at least two finger electrodes interlaced to each other, and voltages with opposite direction are applied on the two finger electrodes at the same time interval in a 3D driving mode.
US09116357B2
A hybrid multiplexed 3D display including a light source, an image splitter, and an image display is provided. The light source is used for sequentially providing a plurality of groups of light emitting toward different emitting directions. The image splitter is disposed above the light source for imaging each of the groups of light at a view group comprising a plurality of views. The image display is disposed above the light source for providing image data. The groups of light are sequentially transmitted through the image display and the image splitter to respectively generate a plurality of view images at the views such that an image viewed by a user includes at least two of the view images to achieve a stereoscopic visual effect.
US09116353B2
With a microscope device according to the invention, it is possible to acquire information on a deeper part of a living organism than that in the case of a conventional microscope device. The microscope device according to a first invention comprises an illumination optical system for irradiating an object with illumination rays in a line-like form, a detection optical system for receiving light rays generated by the illumination rays. The second invention relates to a microscope device wherein an objective lens of an illumination optical system, and an objective lens of a detection optical system are at respective positions. The third invention relates to a microscope device wherein a separation filter is structured such that a laser beam can pass through only a part (a region) thereof. The fourth invention relates to a microscope device wherein illumination rays having coherence are separated into two portions.
US09116352B2
A method for manufacturing an optical element includes forming a functional layer (half mirror layer) on a first face of a first translucency member that is made of cyclo olefin polymer or cyclo olefin copolymer, and forming an inorganic coating layer having translucency (silicon oxide layer) on a second face of a second translucency member that is made of cyclo olefin polymer or cyclo olefin copolymer. The method for manufacturing an optical element further includes bonding the first face side of the first translucency member to the second face side of the second translucency member by an adhesive layer.
US09116347B2
An illuminating system for transmitted-light microscopes has a illuminator unit seated on a bracket. A condenser is mounted on the bracket by way of a condenser holder and is rotatable with respect to the bracket. The condenser has an integrated modulator slider that slidably extends through the condenser. The bracket has an upright portion with a window through which the modulator slider may be fed in the direction facing away from the operator. the bracket may be provided with a stand mount.
US09116346B2
To optionally forming a multilevel light intensity distribution on an illumination pupil plane, the illumination apparatus implements Köhler illumination on an illumination target surface, using as a light source the light intensity distribution formed on the illumination pupil plane on the basis of light from a light source. The illumination apparatus has a spatial light modulator, a condensing optical system, and a control unit. The spatial light modulator has a plurality of reflecting surfaces which are two-dimensionally arranged and postures of which can be controlled independently of each other. The condensing optical system condenses light from the reflecting surfaces to form a predetermined light intensity distribution on the illumination pupil plane. The control unit controls the number of reflecting surfaces contributing to arriving light, for each of points on the illumination pupil plane forming the light intensity distribution, according to a light intensity distribution to be formed on the illumination pupil plane.
US09116328B2
Present embodiments provide for a mobile device and an optical imaging lens thereof. The optical imaging lens comprises five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. Though controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces, the refracting power of the lens elements and/or equations between parameters, the optical imaging lens shows better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens is shortened.
US09116327B2
An imaging lens system includes, sequentially from an object side to an image side: a first lens having a positive refractive power; a second lens having a negative refractive power; and a third lens having a negative refractive power, wherein a viewing angle θ satisfies following condition, 0.3<|tan θ|<0.8.
US09116326B2
An optical distributor (10) is formed as a reflector with one or more sloping surfaces. The sloping surfaces have varying angles of inclination from a bottom edge (20) to a top edge of the reflector. The sloping surfaces may form a substantially pyramidal or conical frustum-shaped surface. The sloping surfaces may additionally or alternatively form a band of adjacent or contiguous faceted surfaces. The reflector is configured to receive light rays through an opening (32) in a first plane (30) and reflect light rays radially outward and upward at varying angles of reflection (8B) to a bottom surface of the first plane (30) in a manner that illuminates both the bottom surface of the first plane (30) and an area (40) below the first plane (30). The reflected light may illuminate the first plane (30) and the area (40) below in a substantially uniform manner.
US09116325B2
An imaging lens system includes, from the object side, an aperture stop, a positive first lens convex to the object side, a negative second lens, a positive third lens convex to the object side, a positive meniscus fourth lens convex to the image side, and a negative biconcave fifth lens, and fulfills the conditional formulae 0.8
US09116323B2
A pressure-balanced enclosure for subsea use, and in particular for use as a submersible junction box in which subsea cables can be joined. The apparatus maintains a balanced pressure within the termination chamber; it is field installable, testable, and repairable. The termination chamber is not oil-filled; instead, it is substantially filled with a solid particulate fill material which includes a portion of elastomeric material.
