US07665147B2
An apparatus such as an HTTP proxy server compares information of a request by HTTP client logic with a known pattern of information for the client logic. When the information of the request matches the known pattern, the HTTP proxy server causes content and/or software to be communicated to the client in response to the request. Depending upon the results of the comparison, the HTTP proxy may also validate or invalidate the request before communicating it to the server.
US07665144B2
A method of managing content, the method being performed by a device including an analyzing unit and a control unit. The method includes judging, via the analyzing unit, whether the content can be moved to an external entity based on moving control information, the moving control information being different from copy control information indicating whether the copy of the content is permitted, determining whether an authentication with the external entity is needed in order to move the content to the external entity, if the judging step judges that the content can be moved, and controlling, via the control unit, a moving operation of the content to the external entity such that the content can be moved to the external entity without the authentication if the determining step determines the authentication is not needed.
US07665132B2
A mediating apparatus is provided on an IP network, and stores an access control list (ACL) retained in a VPN gateway unit. The mediating apparatus: receives a retrieval request from a VPN client unit; acquires a private IP address of a communication unit by reference to ACL; searches DNS to acquire therefrom an IP address of the VPN gateway unit; generates a common key that is used for authentication between the VPN client unit and the VPN gateway unit and for encrypted communication therebetween; sends the IP address of the VPN gateway unit, the private IP address of the communication unit, and the common key to the VPN client unit; and sends the IP address of the VPN client unit and the common key to the VPN gateway unit.
US07665128B2
A method and apparatus for reducing obsolete firewall rules are disclosed. The present invention addresses the issue by using existing network routing information as well as firewall rule configuration information to help analyze firewall access logs to identify obsolete and unused firewall rules so that these obsolete firewall rules can be removed. In one embodiment, the present invention is capable of periodically identifying the unused rule set for each external partner network and removing these obsolete rules with no impact to the current operation.
US07665124B2
An authentication device, an authentication method and an authentication program of the present invention reduce a load occurred when registering digest information of a file in an authentication server and a load occurred when demanding authentication, and thus facilitates the authentication. Address information of a registration object file is received, the file on the basis of the address information is acquired, timestamp information of the file is acquired, digest information of the file acquired by a file acquisition module is generated, the digest information and the timestamp information are registered in a file registration module in a way that associates the digest information and the timestamp information with each other, the file is authenticated in response to a demand for authentication by comparing the digest information of the authentication object file with the digest information registered in said file information registration module, and, when authenticated by said authentication module, the timestamp information of the file is outputted.
US07665123B1
In one embodiment an IO request packet (IRP) attempting to access a computer disk is evaluated to determine if the request identifies an area of a computer disk to be accessed that is marked as bad in a file system. When the request identifies an area of the computer disk to be accessed that is marked as bad in a file system, the request is assumed to be indicative of a rootkit. In another embodiment an IO request packet is evaluated to determine if the request identifies an area of the computer disk to be accessed that was not identified in requests detected in the file system level of the kernel. When the stalled request identifies an area of the computer disk to be accessed not detected in requests detected in the file system level of the kernel, the request is assumed to be indicative of a rootkit.
US07665119B2
A method, of automatically determining one or more remediations for a device that includes a processor, may include: receiving values of a plurality of parameters which collectively characterize an operational state of the device, there being at least one policy associated with at least a given one of the plurality of parameters, policy defining as a condition thereof one or more potential values of, or based upon, the given parameter, satisfaction of the condition potentially being indicative of unauthorized activity or manipulation of the device; automatically determining, from the received parameter values, whether the conditions for any policies are satisfied, respectively; and automatically selecting one or more remediations for the device according to the satisfied policies, respectively.
US07665108B2
A broadcasting program viewing system using an electronic program guide and a method for the same, includes the steps of storing the EPG for guiding broadcasting programs and a tag for downloading the broadcasting programs guided to the EPG from the corresponding broadcasting program, displaying the stored EPG on the screen according to a request of a viewer and displaying the broadcasting program selected from the corresponding broadcasting station server on a screen on the basis of the tag corresponding to the selected broadcasting program when the viewer selects a specific broadcasting program from the EPG displayed on the screen and therefore, viewers can watch the preferred broadcasting programs by easily selecting them.
US07665106B2
A terrestrial digital television receiver includes a tuner, a microcomputer, and a demodulator. The microcomputer initially determines whether the DTV receiver is on, a power-on or power-off mode. If the DTV receiver is on the power-off mode, the microcomputer, control operation of the tuner to tune to a predefined emergency alert channel to receive a master guide table. The demodulator parses the master guide table. If the parsed master guide table indicates that a new emergency alert message is being received, the microcomputer automatically sets the DTV receiver on the power-on mode and controls operation of the tuner to tune to the emergency alert channel.
US07665105B2
The invention relates to a computerized method for a user to create an advertisement by displaying a plurality of advertising formats for selection by a user; displaying a template corresponding to a selected advertising format; displaying a plurality of product references for selection by the user; displaying on the template a selected product reference to create a proposed advertisement; and creating a preview of the proposed advertisement, all of which may be implemented using the Internet. The invention further relates to a computerized system for creating an advertisement that comprises a template database for storing advertising formats; a product database for storing product references; and a computer to access the databases. Preferably, the user has a network interface such as Internet access that permits access via a remote location, software to permit a user to specify specifications such as quantity, printing information, ship date, paper type, pricing information, and payment information, and may be configured to receive images and text for new products.
US07665103B2
A photosensitive recording medium comprising a substrate in a shape of disc having a center hole in a center part, and a holographic recording layer made from a photosensitive material, said photosensitive recording medium including a clamp area provided near an edge of said center hole and extending over 360 degree so as to surround said center hole, and a recording area provided at a distance from said clamp area and extending over 360 degree so as to surround said clamp area, wherein an RFID is embedded in a region between said clamp area and said recording area, or an RFID is embedded in an unrecordable region between said recording area and an outer circumferential edge of said recording medium.
US07665099B2
A loading device for a disk driver includes a transporting unit and a guide unit. The transporting unit includes one roller or two rollers, and the guide unit includes two symmetric or asymmetric cones. When loading a disc, two sides of the disc are individually supported on two cones of the guide unit. Two cones have different cone angles, equal cone angles but unequal lengths, or the same shape but different rotation velocities. The guide unit utilizes different arc speeds on two ends to obliquely convey the disc with any guide rails. The loading device reduces the cost of production and prevents the disc from generating collision and noisy.
US07665097B2
A method for assigning an event to a device on a network is described by using a topology editor as user-controlled interface. The event is represented as a labeled graphic indication. Other devices on a data network, also represented graphically, are to be assigned to the event by using the user-controlled interface. A rule is then defined and associated with the event. When a condition, as defined by the rule is met by an application or device on the network, all of the devices assigned to the event are notified of the condition met by the rule in accordance with such graphically defined relationships.
US07665093B2
Workflow management for maintaining consistency of persisted state across communicating components via batching of uncommitted work. A workflow component defines a workflow containing work items to be performed by service provider components. The workflow component assigns the work items to the service provider components, and the service provider components acknowledge the assigned work items. The workflow component appends the assigned work items to a work batch. The workflow component creates a transaction containing the batched work items. The workflow component commits to the workflow by requesting the service provider components to perform the work items. The workflow component checks the state of the execution of the work items and stores the state in a persistent storage.
US07665092B1
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that performs load balancing between task queues in a multiprocessor system. During operation, the system conditionally requests load information from a number of neighboring CPUs in a neighborhood of a requesting CPU. In response to the request, the system receives load information from one or more neighboring CPUs. Next, the system conditionally requests one or more neighboring CPUs to transfer tasks to the requesting CPU based on the received load information, thereby balancing load between the CPUs in the neighborhood.
US07665090B1
A system, method and computer program product for managing computer resources in a computer system running an operating system and a plurality of processes grouped into at least two groups. A set of resource limits corresponds to the processes. A scheduler of resource allocation allocates resources to each process such that total resource allocation to a group to which that process belongs remains constant. The resources comprise, e.g., network bandwidth, number of network connections, I/O bandwidth for peripheral devices, number of operations in a period of time for service operation with countable requests for service, number of operations in a period of time for a daemon with countable requests for service, permission for execution of operation, number of security descriptors, and number of terminals. The scheduler reallocates the resources based on a predictive algorithm, or based on process priority, or based on relative weighting of the processes. The scheduler can adjust an increase and a decrease of the resources available to a particular process. The scheduler is capable of increasing a resource allocation restriction to one process by and by waiting for that resource to become available. The scheduler is capable of increasing a resource allocation to one process by reducing allocation restriction to other processes in the same group on a basis proportional to their current use of that resource. The scheduler can reduce a resource allocation to a particular process based on a history of consumption of the resource by that process and a history of consumption of other resources by that process.
US07665085B2
A system and method for deploying software is disclosed. In one embodiment, information regarding software components and their interactions, deliverables and deployment descriptors, hardware topology, layer information, and database information are all captured in a model. The model in then used to install the software on a particular machine. In another embodiment, an organizational structure is used to create an access map, and access rights to the installed software are generated and enforced.
US07665084B2
In order to enable an user to uninstall multiple device drivers that are required by a single multifunction device all at once, an uninstall system creates during installation an installer registry for the multifunction device that is different from a system registry. Data specifying the multiple related device drivers, such as a scanner driver, printer driver, and fax driver, is stored in association with each other in this installer registry, enabling the multiple device drivers to be easily identified and uninstalled together. Further, by displaying a list dialog box, the user can indicate specific device(s) for which the multiple device drivers are to be uninstalled.
US07665065B2
A software system terminates software modules in the reverse order of startup defined in a bundle start order list. Additionally, the software modules can be terminated in the order obtained by representing a static or dynamic reference relationship among the software modules as a tree structure and by searching the tree structure on a depth-first basis.
US07665053B2
It is an aspect of the embodiments discussed herein to provide a semiconductor device layout method and a semiconductor device layout program that enable the minimum necessary decoupling capacitances to be placed efficiently according to a circuit configuration, placement positions, operation timings, and clock tree of functional circuits.
US07665051B2
A method and a device can be used for checking the layout of an electronic circuit of a semiconductor component. For example, the method includes an automatic classification of cells in at least one layout into a cell database, and an automatic layout checker comparing the cell database to a layout to be checked.
US07665050B2
A semiconductor device verification system capable of verifying operation with great accuracy. A pattern matching verification system outputs interference pattern information. A physical verification system compiles the interference pattern information and a design rule and extracts a design rule applied to the interference pattern information. The physical verification system then refers to the design rule to verify a compared cell list and the interference pattern information. As a result, the physical verification system can perform physical verification of layout data without skipping data regarding the compared cell list.
US07665047B2
Two methods for post-synthesis circuit optimization are disclosed. In both methods, the underlying variability in process parameters is captured through a robust linear program. The robust linear program is then reformulated as a second order conic program that possesses special structural properties to allow for a computationally efficient solution by using interior point optimization methods. The first method treats gate delays as uncertain quantities and obtains the optimal sizes for gates in a circuit under a probabilistically specified circuit timing target. The second method optimizes total circuit power by using a combination of dual threshold voltage assignment and gate sizing. Both circuit power and timing are treated probabilistically.
US07665042B2
An input apparatus enables a user to input information selected by the user as the user intends by using a comparatively small input surface area. The input apparatus comprises an indicating position detecting part detecting an indicating position, a candidate input information replacing part replacing a candidate of the input information based on a shift of the indicating position, and an input information determining part determining the input information from the candidate of the input information.
US07665033B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that uses a zooming effect to provide additional display space to manage applications. In one mode of operation, the system presents an image of a computer desktop to the user on a display device. When the system receives a request from a user to provide additional display space in a display device for application management purposes, the system decreases the size of the computer desktop in the display device to provide an extended display area. The system then facilitates application management by displaying items useful for application management in this extended display area. By providing the extended display area, the system allows the user to access such items easily and efficiently without losing the context of the computer desktop.
US07665026B2
A system for marketing applications having a computer processor, a display and a user interface for receiving instructions from a user. The user interface is operably connected to the computer processor. The computer processor is programmed to display an application menu on the display for selection of an application from the application menu by the user and further programmed to maintain a list of user-selected applications and further programmed to display a depiction of a predetermined environment on the display. The depiction includes images of applications included in the list of user-selected applications shown applied in the predetermined environment. The computer processor is further programmed to update the depiction of the predetermined environment by adding an image of the application, as applied in the predetermined environment to the depiction of the predetermined environment on the display, in response to a selection of the application by the user.
US07665024B1
Methods and apparatus for modifying a user interface as a function of the detected emotional state of a system user are described. In one embodiment, stress analysis is performed on received speech to generate an emotional state indicator value, e.g., a stress level indicator value. The stress level indicator value is compared to one or more thresholds. If a first threshold is exceeded the user interface is modified, e.g., the presentation rate of speech is slowed. If a second threshold is not exceeded, another modification to the user interface is made, e.g., the speech presentation rate is accelerated. If the stress level indicator value is between first and second thresholds, user interface operation continues unchanged. The user interface modification techniques of the present invention may be used in combination with known knowledge or expertise based user interface adaptation features.
US07665023B1
A system for providing directory information is disclosed. The system includes a computer and a directory device connected to the computer. The directory device includes a memory storage device for storing directory information and telecommunications information obtained from the computer. The telecommunications services information includes information on establishing telephone service.
US07665006B2
A block code error correcting system is used in a compact disk reading system to increase the decoding capability of the compact disk reading system. The system includes a data slicer, a data bit to channel bit modulation pulse width determinator, a demodulator, an erase address detector and an error correction code (ECC) decoder. A pulse width of an eight-to-sixteen modulation (EFM+) signal is detected to thereby produce an erase control signal when the pulse width of the EFM+ signal is in a predefined window or is an illegal pulse width. A codeword corresponding to the EFM+ signal is set as an erasure, and accordingly an erase address is produced.
US07665001B2
A scan cell is described for testing an integrated circuit. The scan cell may include circuitry adapted to operate in a non-test mode as a storage element and adapted to operate as a static random access memory (SRAM) cell in a test mode. For example, the circuitry may include one or more pass transistors and a flip flop. The scan cell may be one of a plurality of addressable scan cells in one or more grids for testing the integrated circuit. For example, the scan cells may be arranged in a single grid or may be partitioned into two or more grids. The scan cell may be used for reliability testing or for performance testing. The PRAS cell for performance testing may be staged, with a first pattern applied and then a second pattern applied. For example, one section of the scan cell may operate using a clock cycle of Φ1 and another section of the PRAS cell may operate using a clock cycle of Φ2 which is different from Φ1.
US07665000B2
An apparatus associated with identifying a critical thread based on information gathered during meeting point processing is provided. One embodiment of the apparatus may include logic to selectively update meeting point counts for threads upon determining that they have arrived at a meeting point. The embodiment may also include logic to periodically identify which thread in a set of threads is a critical thread. The critical thread may be the slowest thread and criticality may be determined by examining meeting point counts. The embodiment may also include logic to selectively manipulate a configurable attribute of the critical thread and/or core upon which the critical thread will run.
US07664998B2
A modification of a predetermined, memory-size-dependant number of nonvolatile memory cells turns them into ROM cells with a fixed content pattern. Since these additional ROM cells do not require much effort during manufacturing and use only small additional space on the memory chip or the integrated circuit, but provide significant advantage for testing. When using pairs of essentially symmetrical non-volatile memory cells, each pair having a common bit line, the removal or interruption of this bitline contact may serve to impress a fixed value, e.g. a ‘0’, into this pair and vice versa. During test, a simple and therefore only minimal time requiring pattern, preferably a checkerboard pattern, is written into and read from the non-volatile memory, allowing a quick determination of the decoders' correct function.
US07664992B2
A method of operating a supercomputer having a plurality of computing elements each connected to a fast communications link is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of: scheduling specified elements to perform computing tasks in specified cycles of a computing operation; in the event of failure of a fast communications link in a given cycle, transferring state from a disabled element no longer able to communicate as a result of the failure to an idle element not scheduled to perform a task in the given cycle; operating the idle element to perform any uncompleted tasks scheduled for the disabled element remaining in the cycle.
US07664989B2
A software testing architecture can comprise a three-level framework. The three-level framework can comprise a first level (comprising a first data source), a second level (comprising a second data source), and a third level (comprising a third data source). The framework can further comprise an intermediate entity data source. The first data source can specify test pages, the second test cases for the test pages, and the third test data for the test cases. Each of the three levels can be associated with respective scripts. A method for testing multi-staged scenarios can select test pages and, for the test pages, determine and execute test cases and save intermediate entities. A method for testing multi-staged scenarios using a three-level framework can execute a first test case for a first test page, save an intermediate entity, and execute a second test case for a second test page using the saved intermediate entity.
US07664988B2
An information processing device and associated methodology are provided for inspecting a program fault. A first memory stores a boot program executed when the information processing device is initiated for operation. A second memory device is provided for storing an application program. A control device executes a fault inspection program to inspect whether or not a fault has occurred in the second memory device. The fault inspection program is stored in the first memory device and is initiated upon initialization of the information processing device.
US07664985B2
In a method and a device for monitoring and reestablishment of a number of processes in a distributed application environment, wherein each process is associated with a process group and all processes of a process group are functionally dependent on one another, a process can be automatically excepted from the monitoring and automatically admitted again into the monitoring. All processes of a process group are automatically monitored and, in the event that a termination is identified, all processes in the process group are automatically restarted.
US07664983B2
The present invention provides an exemplary system and method for event driven recovery management. One or more data blocks that are generated from a computing device are continually copied. At least one event marker is associated with the copies of the one or more data blocks. Access to the copies of the one or more data blocks according to the at least one event marker is allowed in order to provide event driven recovery.
US07664982B2
Methods and systems for storing recovery related information on a computer memory are described. One exemplary method comprises accessing a user input relating to a user selection of applications to be restored upon executing a recovery of the memory and storing on a recovery partition of the memory a recovery image corresponding to a user image on a user partition of the memory. The user image comprises the user selection of applications. Upon executing a recovery, the recovery image is copied to the user partition such that the user image is configured to correspond to the recovery image. The recovery image is derived from a set of applications that includes at least one un-installed application.
US07664981B2
A method of restoring source data if the source data written in a system region of a hard disk drive and mirror data, which is a copy of the source data, are both damaged, in which the source data is read on a sector basis and error-free sectors and error-generated sectors are determined. The mirror data is read on a sector basis in such a way that sectors corresponding to the error-generated sectors are read. Source data is restored by merging source data read from the error-free sectors and mirror data read from the sectors corresponding to the error-generated sectors.
US07664975B2
An apparatus and method for controlling the power of a monitor where the monitor can be automatically powered on and off according to the state of power of a PC. The apparatus includes a computer outputting a predetermined signal indicating whether the computer is powered on or off; and a monitor receiving the predetermined signal and powering on and off according to the predetermined signal.
US07664973B2
An integrated circuit that operates with application of an external power source supplying a first source voltage, the circuit comprising: a source voltage monitoring unit that monitors the level of the first source voltage supplied from the external power source, and that determines whether the first source voltage is supplied from the external power source; a clock selecting unit that is supplied with a first clock of a first frequency and a second clock of a second frequency lower than the first frequency, and that selects and outputs the first clock when it is determined by the source voltage monitoring unit that the first source voltage is supplied and the second clock when it is determined by the source voltage monitoring unit that the first source voltage is not supplied; and a processor that operates with supply of either one of the first clock and the second clock output by the clock selecting unit and controls the operation of the integrated circuit.
US07664972B2
System and method for controlling power delivered to a powered device based on cable characteristics
A system and method for discovering a cable type and resistance for Power over Ethernet (PoE) applications. Cabling power loss in PoE applications is related to the resistance of the cable itself. A PHY can be designed to measure electrical characteristics (e.g., insertion loss, cross talk, length, etc.) of the Ethernet cable to enable determination of the cable resistance. The determined resistance can be used in powering decisions and in adjusting power budgets allocated to power source equipment ports.
US07664952B2
An object is to provide a service providing method capable of curbing rise of cost. A service providing method according to the present invention is one for providing services A and B, which authenticates a user of an authentication requesting terminal in order to make service A available to the user and which determines whether service B is available to the user, in a state in which the user is authenticated about service A. When service B is determined to be available, a permission message is stored and a permission response based on the permission message for utilization of service B is transmitted to the authentication requesting terminal. Then the permission message on which a utilization request message from a service utilizing terminal is based, is verified, and, if it is in an available status, the service utilizing terminal is permitted to utilize service B. The use of the authentication result on service A obviates a need for provision of new authentication means for service B, so as to lead to reduction of cost.
US07664943B2
In one embodiment a computer system comprises a user interface and a component disable module including logic to initiate boot operations, and present, on a user interface, a component disable feature when at least one of an active management technology or an alert standard format are disabled on the computer system.
US07664939B2
A program to be executed by a computer is divided into a plurality of code blocks, and, a unique code block ID is allotted to each code block. At the moment when the execution of the program is started, the code block ID corresponding to the execution start address is written in a memory, and in the case when the control transits from the code block to other code block, by use of code block operation values obtained beforehand from these two code block IDs thereof, the code block ID in the memory is updated, and it is judged whether the updated code block ID in the memory and the code block ID allotted to the code block as the execution objective are identical or not so that a control flow error is detected.
US07664938B1
A system including a CPU including logic for executing code from a location and at a time determined by an external entity, a data cache and a CPU management entity (CME) including logic for receiving data one unit at a time from an external data feeder. The data unit being arbitrarily defined mutually between the data feeder and the CME. The CME being coupled to the CPU. The CME including logic to provide the received data unit, a corresponding context information and a corresponding code address to the CPU, wherein the CPU includes logic for notifying the CME of a completed execution.
US07664930B2
Methods and apparatus for calculating Single-Instruction-Multiple-Data (SIMD) complex arithmetic. A coprocessor instruction has a format identifying a multiply and subtract instruction to generate real components for complex multiplication of first operand complex data and corresponding second operand complex data, a cross multiply and add instruction to generate imaginary components for complex multiplication of the first operand complex data and the corresponding second operand complex data, an add-subtract instruction to add real components of the first operand to imaginary components of the second operand and to subtract real components of the second operand from imaginary components of the first operand, and a subtract-add instruction to subtract the imaginary components of the second operand from the real components of the first operand and to add the real components of the second operand to the imaginary components of the first operand.
US07664926B2
A storage apparatus is provided with a storage area for storing data sent from a host computer, and a virtual/logical volume to which a dynamically variable storage area is allocated from within the storage area, the volume being provided to the host computer, and this storage apparatus is configured to include: a pool area generation unit for generating a plurality of pool areas composed from the storage area; a setting unit for setting, for each of the plurality of pool areas generated by the pool area generation unit, an allocation unit size for allocating a storage area from within the storage area provided by the pool area to the virtual/logical volume; a selecting unit for selecting, when data to be stored in the storage area is sent from the host computer, a pool area from among the plurality of pool areas having the allocation unit size set by the setting unit, in accordance with the size of the sent data; and an allocation unit for allocating a storage area from within the storage area provided by the pool area selected by the selecting unit to the virtual/logical volume.
US07664925B2
Access control unit sends to the access judging unit an access judging check request signal asking whether the requested address falls within one of the access-permitted areas registered in the access judging unit, the access judging unit checks whether the requested address falls within one of the access-permitted areas registered in it and returns to the access control unit an access judging check result signal indicating whether the access request is to be honored or rejected, and the access control unit permits access to the internal bus if the access judging check result signal indicates that the access request is to be honored, or rejects the access request otherwise.
US07664921B2
A method for accessing shared memory cards from each of plural processor cards is disclosed. The shared memory cards are composed of a shared memory card of an operating system and a shared memory card of a standby system in a redundant configuration, and each of plural processor cards individually access the shared memory cards. Each of the plural processor cards is connected to the shared memory card of the operating system and the shared memory card of the standby system in a point-to-point structure via corresponding serial buses and executes data transmission on a one to one basis to/from the shared memory card of the operating system and the shared memory card of the standby system.
US07664917B2
A caching control device that controls caching of data stored in a storage device, includes a storing unit that stores information concerning memory allocated to the storage device as its cache memory, where the storing unit is installed in a first computer connected to a second computer via a network, and the second computer manages reading and writing of data to the storage device; and a controller that controls the caching of the data that uses a memory installed in the first computer as cache memory, based on the information stored in the storing unit.
US07664913B2
A query-based spares management technique enables a storage operating system of a storage system to select disks to be added to one or more RAID groups of a volume. The spares management technique includes an attributes-based disk selection procedure that is performed by the storage operating system in response to an operator-initiated request to add disks to the volume or in response to a demand-driven request resulting from a requirement imposed by the system to add disks to the volume. The disks that are added to the RAID groups of the volume are retrieved from one or more spare pools of disks maintained by the storage system.
US07664903B2
Use of a control unit with PCI bus and SCSI bus with program equipment for the electronic semiconductor disk of a computing system. The electronic semiconductor disk includes a processor and semiconductor memory, selected from a group comprising dynamic memory, synchronous dynamic memory, static memory and flash type memory. A computing system with electronic semiconductor disk with processor, where this processor is connected by a PCI bus to a PCI adapter, which is linked through the PCI bus to a semiconductor memory, connected by the local bus to a processor. The PCI adapter comprises a unit of the programmable SCSI control unit, connected both to the interface of the PCI bus for communicating with the electronic semiconductor disk, and to the interface of the SCSI bus for communicating with the external computing system with the SCSI control unit.
US07664895B2
A semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip stacked on the first semiconductor chip. The second semiconductor chip includes a high-speed serial I/F circuit which transfers serial data between the high-speed serial I/F circuit and an external device through a serial bus, and transfers parallel data between the high-speed serial I/F circuit and an internal circuit included in the first semiconductor chip. A physical layer circuit of the high-speed serial I/F circuit is disposed on a first side of the second semiconductor chip which is the short side, and a logic circuit is disposed on a third side opposite to the first side.
US07664886B2
There is provided a method, system, and computer program product for extracting information related to a monitored device communicatively coupled to a network using an HTTP communication protocol. The method includes: retrieving, from a first memory, vendor and model information of the monitored device; determining vendor and model through the web page from the monitored device; obtaining the device state information; and storing, in a second memory, the device information obtained in the accessing step, in association with the vendor and model information.
US07664883B2
A network interface device connected to a host provides hardware and processing mechanisms for accelerating data transfers between the host and a network. Some data transfers are processed using a dedicated fast-path whereby the protocol stack of the host performs no network layer or transport layer processing. Other data transfers are, however, handled in a slow-path by the host protocol stack. In one embodiment, the host protocol stack has an ISCSI layer, but a response to a solicited ISCSI read request command is nevertheless processed by the network interface device in fast-path. In another embodiment, an initial portion of a response to a solicited command is handled using the dedicated fast-path and then after an error condition occurs a subsequent portion of the response is handled using the slow-path. The interface device uses a command status message to communicate status to the host.
US07664881B2
Header compression system for compressing the header of the data packets of a flow transmitted from an ingress node to an egress node through a data transmission network comprising template creating means, in both ingress node and egress node, adapted for creating the same compression template from a predetermined number of uncompressed data packets at the beginning of the flow respectively transmitted by the ingress node and received by the egress node, and header compression means, in the ingress node, adapted for compressing the header of each packet following the predetermined number of uncompressed data packets before transmitting it through the data transmission network, the compression being achieved by using the compression template.
US07664870B2
A method for providing a low fidelity alternative until a high fidelity experience becomes available is provided. Upon detecting a need to download data, a download manager determines a download priority for downloading the data. The download priority specifies an amount of a low fidelity representation of data to download prior to downloading a high fidelity representation of the same data and any remaining low fidelity representation of the data simultaneously. The download manager then downloads, for example, from a content server, the low fidelity representation of the data and the high fidelity representation of the data according to the determined download priority, thus allowing the low fidelity representation of the data to be used until the high fidelity representation of the data is downloaded and becomes available.
US07664864B2
A method for responding to a request for a file, comprising receiving a request for a file at a selection server for the selection server to select one of a plurality of content distribution networks based upon predetermined selection criteria, the request by a client system to a file server, the selection server, file server client system, and content distribution networks all connected to an Internet; and responding to the request by providing the file from the selected content distribution network to the client system.
US07664837B2
There is provided a data transmitting system for transmitting data to be processed through a TCP/IP-based network. The data transmitting system includes a first device having an identification information obtaining system that transmits first data through the network using a first multicast address, and a data transmitting system that transmits the data to be processed through the network using a second multicast address. The data transmitting system further includes a second device having an identification information transmitting system that transmits second data containing the identification information of the second device through the network using a third multicast address, and a data receiving system that receives the data to be processed.
US07664834B2
A system and method are provided for a distributed operating system manager. In one example, the method includes retrieving an internet protocol address of a boot server connected to a client computer via a network; determining whether the boot server is available via the network; transferring to the boot server a description of an operating system on the client computer; validating hardware credentials of the client computer; and determining whether to perform a remote boot process.
US07664815B2
A method to provide technical information from a marine vessel to a remote location by means of a computer connected and logged in to a communication means of the marine vessel. The technical information concerns an equipment or system associated with, or installed on, the marine vessel. A communication session on the logged in computer is initiated. An address is selected from an address list of one or more technical specialists associated with the equipment. A message is sent to a remote address. A communication session on a remote computer system is initiated at the remote address with the logged in computer.
US07664809B2
A method for calculating a modulo operation a mod p uses a table (1) containing the values n*p for n=1, 2, . . . . In this case, a and p are positive integers where a mod p=a−n*p. An integral hypothesis nH is calculated for the unknown value n. Afterwards, the values nH*p and also at least one adjacent value (nH+1)*p and/or (nH−1)*p are looked up in the table (1). The expressions a−nH*p and also a−(nH+1)*p and/or a−(nH−1)*p are calculated and at least one of these expressions is compared with the value 0. n is thereupon determined.
US07664808B2
Systems and methods for determining coefficients of an Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filter are disclosed. The FIR filter coefficients are computed by determining a sine of an input value and an inverse of the input value. The sine of the input signal and the inverse of the input signal are multiplied together to form a sinc value of the input value. The sinc value is employed to determine the coefficient. The system and method can be repeated to compute any number of FIR filter coefficients in real-time. The sine of the input signal is computed utilizing a memory lookup table. The memory lookup table includes pairs of uniformly distributed values for the sine and cosine functions in the range of 0 to π. The inverse of the input value is computed using an inverse memory lookup table, a most significant digit and a remainder. The coefficient is then computed from a product of the sine of the input signal and the inverse of the input signal. Thus, the coefficient is computable in real-time without the use of previously computed and stored coefficients.
US07664807B2
An apparatus for providing a random bit stream includings a first provider for providing a clock signal, a second provider for providing a sample signal, an activator for activating the first and second providers such that a sampling edge of the sample signal is aligned to an edge of the clock signal. The apparatus further includes a sampler for sampling the clock signal responsive to the sampling edge of the sample signal and for generating a random bit dependent on the sampled state of the clock signal. Further, the apparatus includes a deactivator for deactivating the first and second providers. Successive random bits form a random bit stream.
US07664805B2
A system and method for modifying the output of a computer program without source code modification. A computer program reads in two files, an input data file and a recipe text file. The data input file contains name/value pairs to be rendered to an output device and the recipe text file contains the formatting descriptions. The name/value pairs of the data input file need not be arranged according to a required structure. During the execution of the program, the formatting descriptions of the recipe text file are converted into a sequence of executable objects and the name/value pairs from the data input file are rendered in a format according to these formatting descriptions. A coordinated alteration of the input text file and the recipe text file will result in a modification to the output format.
US07664802B2
A method of recording allocation of resources in response to a request for a data item to be transmitted to a device in the network where the request comprises data indicative of one or more requested items. The device is typically a mobile device and the requested items can be key words making up a search request or can be web site names indicating web sites of interest to the user. In response to the request, data listings having items generating a match with the requested data item are identified and data indicative of a network location corresponding to the or each matched data item are retrieved. In addition data indicative of an amount of data and a resource allocation associated with the set of data accessible via the network location are retrieved and these data, together with a network subscription associated with device and the amount of data, are used to evaluate actual usage of network resources when accessing the set of data. If data are subsequently requested from the network location the evaluated actual usage is offset against the resource allocation so as to identify an amount of usage of network resources to be charged to the network subscription, and a record associated with said data listing is updated so as to log said resource allocation event.
US07664800B2
Provided are an apparatus for managing resources in a Java environment and a method of managing the same, in which in confirming finalized states of a plurality of reference objects and finalizable objects classified according to accessibility from a program to be currently executed, an order confirming whether the respective objects are finalized is changed. The apparatus includes an accessibility confirming unit confirming whether an object to which a memory resource is allocated is accessible through a route set, an access path confirming unit confirming access paths to the object according to the confirmed result by the accessibility confirming unit, a control unit determining an order of the access paths, and a resource releasing unit releasing the memory resource allocated to the object according to the order of the access paths.
US07664792B2
A system and method for performing database recovery operations. A mainframe computer may include multiple databases stored on a storage unit. A processing unit may be configured to receive and schedule jobs submitted for execution. An electronic display may be in communication with the processing unit. A software program may be executed by the processing unit and be configured to cause the processing unit to (i) display a menu of selectable database recovery operations on the electronic display, (ii) receive a selection of a database of the databases on which to perform a database recovery operation, (iii) display a list of valid database recovery timestamps, (iv) display a database recovery parameter entry screen in response to receiving a database recovery operation selection, and (v) generate information including parameters entered in the database recovery parameter entry screen for use in performing the selected database recovery operation on the selected database.
US07664791B1
A storage server maintains multiple file systems in a storage subsystem. A read-only, persistent, point-in-time image of all of the file systems is generated in one atomic operation.
US07664776B1
A system provides a form manager that defines an electronic form comprising a field to populate with a data object. The form manager further defines a schema associated to the form. The schema describes the data object. The form manager further defines a variation rule for the electronic form. The variation rule describes a variation that may occur in the data object. The variation rule represents variation processing to be dynamically applied to the electronic form in response to detecting the variation.
US07664775B2
A database search system that retrieves multimedia information in a flexible, user friendly system. The search system uses a multimedia database consisting of text, picture, audio and animated data. That database is searched through multiple graphical and textual entry paths. Those entry paths include an idea search, a title finder search, a topic tree search, a picture explorer search, a history timeline search, a world atlas search, a researcher's assistant search, and a feature articles search.
US07664768B2
An object type translator (OTT) determines one or more database object types. The one or more database object types are mapped to a first structural language type definition code. After being generated, the user may add user code to the first structural language type definition code. During regeneration of these files, the first structural language type definition code is then parsed to determine the user code that has been added, based on the start and end markers that the user code segments have been marked with. OTT maps these user-code segments to the corresponding database types and keeps track of the mapping and the user code. When the OTT starts generating the second structural language code, the OTT determines a position where the user code should be inserted into the second structural language type definition code using that mapping. The user code is then inserted in the second structural language code in the position determined. Accordingly, the user code that was added is not lost when the structural language type definition code is regenerated from the one or more database object types.
US07664763B1
A method involves: performing a first process on a unit of data, where the first process belongs to a class of processes; storing information that identifies a result of performing the first process on the unit of data; and, based on the information, determining whether to subsequently perform a process belonging to the class of processes on the unit of data. For example, the first process can be a compression process used to compress a file before the file is transferred across a network. The information can identify a compression ratio obtained by performing the first process on the file and can be used to determine whether the same compression process (or any compression process in a class of compression processes) should be used to compress the file the next time that the file is to be transferred.
US07664760B2
A tagged content inference system and method is provided. The system facilitates browsing of content with a pseudo-hierarchical feel using algorithmically-deduced relationships between items based on user applied tags. Based, at least in part, upon tagged content, an inference component can infer relationships between items (e.g., creating a pseudo-hierarchy) in order to facilitate browsing of the items.The system can further include a relationship display component that can provide a visual representation of tagged items based on relationship(s) inferred by the inference component. The visual representation can further be based, at least in part, upon user input (e.g., threshold quantity of tags to be displayed, threshold strength of relationship, color setting(s), etc.)
US07664758B1
An integrated database system comprises a plurality of database systems connected to one another through a network, each of the plurality of database systems managing its own stored data independently of the other database systems and accessing the stored data in accordance with an access request, and an integrated database unit connected to the network. The integrated database unit includes a directory database which stores a correspondence between each of the data stored in the plurality of database systems and a database system in which each of the data is stored, a directory control unit which acquires, by using the directory database, directory information corresponding to target data of the accepted access request, a database identifying unit which identifies a database system, and a database control unit which issues, on the basis of the acquired directory information, an access request to the database system having the target data of the accepted access request. The database system includes a database server unit which accesses a database in accordance with the access request issued by the integrated database unit.
US07664754B2
In an anti-virus scanning system for computer files being transferred between computers, the number of files requiring detailed scanning is first reduced by identifying files which are instances of programs which are known and deemed to be safe. This is done by reference to a database of known executables which records characteristics which can be used as the basis for identifying a file as an unchanged instance of a known executable. Secondly, these characteristics can then also be used to identify files which are changed instances of known executables. These are extremely suspicious, since the most likely cause of change is infection by a file infecting virus, so these files are classed as likely to be malware.
US07664747B2
A system for automatically creating and maintaining a database of information utilizing user opinions about subjects, particularly exceptional experiences. Described is an Internet system assisting/motivating a population of users interested in information about certain categories of subjects to automatically maintain the database content and to improve the usefulness and quality of the database information without any substantial management by the website owner-manager. The user opinions are primarily in the form of both comments and ratings about which natural-language terms best describe a particular subject, enabling user searches of the subject database to be by way of preferred such descriptive natural-language terms, which terms are further preferred to be evaluative and approving.
US07664746B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or a method that facilitates providing a personalized set of available content. An interface can receive a content vector associated with available content and a profile vector associated with a user preference. Additionally, a personalization component can generate a personalized set of available content by correlating the content vector and the profile vector.
US07664741B2
A method comprises obtaining data from a source system. Further, the obtained data is pre-processed by a stepwise operation to generate pre-processed data. The last operated upon data is recorded. In addition, the pre-processed data is transformed into subject-oriented data by utilizing reusable primary keys and Relational Database Management System dates in the source system to link related pre-processed data. Additionally, the subject-oriented data is stored in a data warehouse. The Relational Database Management System dates are utilized for distinctly characterizing the subject-oriented data when a plurality of tables containing data with duplicate primary keys are combined in the data warehouse.
US07664738B2
In a search system in which a plurality of first devices which store multimedia contents, a plurality of second devices which store attribute information on multimedia contents and have a search function of searching for the multimedia contents on the basis of the attribute information, and a third device which stores information on the respective second devices and selects, from the plurality of second devices, a device caused to execute search based on a search instruction received from the user terminal are connected to each other via a network, the third device receives a search instruction from the user terminal, and selects, from the plurality of second devices on the basis of the search instruction, a device caused to execute search based on the search instruction. The third device collects and integrates search results based on the search instruction, from the selected second device. The third device transmits the integrated search result to the user terminal.
US07664733B2
Recorded information is accessed. A source document is determined using the recorded information. If a criterion is satisfied based on the recorded information and the source document, an action to be performed is determined. The action is then performed if it is determined that the criterion is satisfied.
US07664731B2
A method and system for storing and retrieving data using hash-accessed multiple data stores, provides data protection while requiring low computational overhead and further provides storage and retrieval access based on only a single piece of access information, which is generally public. The algorithms provide high security against data-mining and other examination of the data stores. The access information is hashed and is split into offset fields used as indices into a plurality of data stores, generating a quasi-random relationship between the access information and the location of portions of a stored data element. Further protection may be provided by striping the data across the data stores in conformity with a striping order selected by a field of the hashed access information.
US07664727B2
Disclosed is a method of constructing at least one data structure from at least one data source. A representation is constructed of the data source and at least one previous view of the data source. From the representations, at least one compulsory entity (eg. “branch”) is then identified. This may generally be performed by a user selection. The method then constructs the data structure comprising the compulsory entity and one or more context entities, where the context entities are obtained from the representation and context data obtained from the previous view. Typically the data source is hierarchical and the data structure is hierarchical.
US07664724B2
A schema-based service for Internet access to per-user services data, wherein access to data is based on each user's identity. The service includes a schema that defines rules and a structure for each user's data, and also includes methods that provide access to the data in a defined way. The services schema thus corresponds to a logical document containing the data for each user. The user manipulates (e.g., reads or writes) data in the logical document by data access requests through defined methods. In one implementation, the services schemas are arranged as XML documents, and the services provide methods that control access to the data based on the requesting user's identification, defined role and scope for that role. In this way, data can be accessed by its owner, and shared to an extent determined by the owner.
US07664716B2
Provided are a method and system for providing member-specific information, which are capable of building a digital neural network by improving negative functions of the current Internet, applying a paradigm of sound home- and lifestyle-oriented opened electronic home, and utilizing a closed groupware. The method for providing member-specific information in a digital neural network based on electronic home including My Rooms, Our Homes, and towns includes the steps of: setting an initial value of a variable; extracting a priority while changing a weight of the variable; targeting members using the extracted priority information; grouping the targeted members; and pushing information to the member group or interoperating the information.
US07664692B2
A method and system for creating a stock index for a group of investment management companies is disclosed. The method may include obtaining first trade information for each security representative of the group of investment management companies during a first time period, aggregating the first trade information for a predetermined time period, storing the aggregated first trade information, calculating from the aggregated first trade information an index for the group of investment management companies, determining a standardized measure of the index based on the aggregated first trade information obtained in the first time period, and periodically recalculating the index based on second trade information for each security representative of the group of investment management companies during a second time period.
US07664691B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that enables a guardian to monitor a financial account on behalf of an account owner, such as a senior citizen. During operation, the system receives a request from the guardian to access the financial account. In response to this request, the system determines whether the guardian is authorized to access the financial account. If so, the system provides the guardian with read-only access to the financial account, whereby the guardian can monitor activity in the financial account, but cannot perform operations that modify the financial account.
US07664689B1
Systems or methods for managing transactions within a controlled environment facility provide an information management engine integrating transaction functionality and telephone calling functionality, establish an account associated with a resident of the controlled environment facility, and use the information management engine to conduct transactions associated with residents of the controlled environment facility. The transactions include at least requests, by the resident, for deposits into the account by a party outside of the controlled environment facility. The systems or methods accept requests from the resident and utilize the telephone calling services of the information management engine to facilitate the request for deposit. The systems or methods may place calls to the individuals outside the controlled environment facility to interact with the individual, request the deposit and accept such deposits.
US07664687B1
The invention involves a system and a method of determining collectability of a check writer from a database including negative information of a plurality of check writers for check writing approval or denial. The invention provides for an improvement of determining collectability of a check writer in order to more effectively distinguish between collectible check writers and non-collectible check writers. The invention includes receiving the information of the check writer, processing the information to determine a score of the check writer, classifying the check writer within a predetermined category, and removing or retaining the check writer information from the database, depending on the category within which the check writer is classified.
US07664678B1
A system having a client, a host server, a sponsor server, and a video server, and authoring toolkit, which are all interconnected via the Internet, which operate seamlessly together in order to provide video content to an end user at the client allowing the end user at the client to purchase products and/or services from the sponsor that are featured in the video content provided by the video server. As the user views video content on their computer or mobile device, images associated with segments of the content are periodically provided in conjunction with the video content. Each image contains an image map, which defines areas in the image. Each defined area, associated with a product which is displayed in that area of the image, is anchored to a hyperlink which links to web content from a sponsor server allowing for purchase via web connected computer or mobile device.
US07664670B1
The present invention discloses a method, program product and system for conducting product assessment and development. One preferred embodiment relates to a concept and product development technique. An exemplary system and method relates to a web-based survey technique that facilitates developing and testing new products, business investments, and value propositions, as well as testing existing products, businesses, and value propositions. This technique includes systematic solicitation of potential customers or other targeted respondents, eliciting data from customers, automatic processing, interpretation, and scoring of the data, and automatic report generation. The disclosed technique advantageously makes use of continuous metric scales to enable respondents to rate new or existing products. Using an on-line system, this embodiment of the invention provides a fast, engaging, and inexpensive way to gauge customer acceptance and use.
US07664666B2
A system for deploying to a client accounting installation a general procurement and accounts payable application specifically configured for the client by an enterprise includes a database server for (1) maintaining on a storage device a database of templates describing procedures for assessing, preparing, developing, deploying and supporting the application, and for (2) serving these templates to team members operating web-enabled terminals for coordinating, recording and tracking team activities with respect to the application while generating a description for adapting a front end server and an accounting system server to the requirements of the client.
US07664664B2
Computer implemented methods provide a unified framework for the creation, evaluation and selection of requests for funding, of proposed projects and of proposed products within an enterprise. Processes enable the systematic gathering of assumptions that form the basis for generating proposals and project or product scenarios based upon changes in the assumptions. The generated scenarios may be evaluated against predefined criteria and predefined strategic objectives for the enterprise.
US07664662B1
The development and use of a model to estimate disability insurance exposure for a group of individuals to be underwritten for a coverage period is disclosed. The development of the model includes the use of medical claim data having a plurality % of medical claims made by a first model population having at least a respective plurality of first model population members and a disability insurance claim data having a plurality of disability insurance claims made by a second model population having at least a respective plurality of second model population members, which optionally may partially or wholly overlap with the first model population. A clinical medical condition classification system assigns corresponding medical condition causes to the disability insurance claims and the medical claims based on medical condition information.Development then categorizes the disability insurance claims and medical claims classified by medical condition, where each morbidity category comprises one or more medical conditions, to form a plurality of morbidity categories of disability insurance claims. Then, the proportions of the two types of claims are calculated for each morbidity category. Then, for each of the morbidity categories, a probability of having a disability claim during the coverage period is calculated using at least one conditional probability, the conditional probability being based on at least the proportion of disability insurance claims and the proportion of medical claims for each of the morbidity categories. From that, for each of the morbidity categories, an estimated the disability claim duration or cost is calculated.
US07664660B2
An apparatus for communicating health care data from a sender to a receiver is provided. The apparatus has a first computer system, a second computer system, and a rules engine. The first computer system has health care data stored therein. The second computer system is in operable communication with, and is configured to extract the health care data from, the first computer system. The rules engine normalizes the extracted health care data to a predefined format.
US07664657B1
A communications and documentation system is disclosed that improves staff communication, education, and/or documentation. This system is interactive and integrates speech recognition, telephony, wireless, and/or database technologies, and innovative algorithms in a novel way that allows for assigning staff, scheduling staff activities, and data collection and reporting. The system also incorporates features that promote ease of use by persons who are not skilled at using technology.
US07664638B2
In general, the present invention converts speech, preferably recorded on a portable recorder, to text, analyzes the text, and determines voice commands and times when the voice commands occurred. Task names are associated with voice commands and time segments. These time segments and tasks may be packaged as time increments and stored (e.g., in a file or database) for further processing. Preferably, phrase grammar rules are used when analyzing the text, as this helps to determine voice commands. Using phrase grammar rules also allows the text to contain a variety of topics, only some of which are pertinent to tracking time.
US07664636B1
The invention provides a system and method for indexing and organizing voice mail message by the speaker of the message. One or more speaker models are created from voice mail messages received. As additional messages are left, each of the new messages are compared with existing speaker models to determine the identity of the callers of each of the new messages. The voice mail messages are organized within a user's mailbox by caller. Unknown callers may be identified and tagged by the user and then used to create new speaker models and/or update existing speaker models.
US07664635B2
A system for detecting a voice signal includes: a first integrator for receiving an input signal and for providing a first integrator output signal, wherein the first integrator includes a first attack time; a second integrator for receiving the input signal and for providing a second integrator output signal, the second integrator including a second attack time that is substantially slower than the first attack time; and a comparator configured for receiving the first and second integrator output signals and for providing a comparator output signal indicating detection of a voice signal when the first integrator output signal exceeds the second integrator output signal by at least a threshold amount.
US07664634B2
A Voice User Interface (VUI) or Interactive Voice Response (IVR) system utilizes three levels of navigation (e.g. Main Menu, Services, and Helper Commands) in presenting information units arranged in sets. The units are “spoken” by a system in a group to a human user and the group of information at each level is preceded by a tone that is unique to the level. When navigating the levels, the tones of the levels are in a musical progression, e.g. the three-note blues progression I, IV, V, for preceding the groups of information, respectively. The musical progression returns to the tonic of the musical key when the navigation returns to the level one of the first group of information.
US07664631B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, a language processing device has a text input section and an anaphora analysis section. The text input section acquires text data. The anaphora analysis section analyzes whether a correct anaphora relation is included in the text data acquired by the text input section. The correct anaphora relation has an anaphor and an antecedent corresponding to the anaphor.
US07664627B2
An inspiration model device according to the invention is provided with a spontaneous emotion unit, a knowledge database, and a conception unit. The spontaneous emotion unit prepares, as data, plural emotion states in advance, which are obtained by modeling human emotions, and causes state transitions to occur repeatedly between the emotion states according a stochastic model of the Schrödinger equation. The knowledge database simulates a human inspiration source that is influenced by sensibility by classifying externally collected knowledge data depending on the degrees of correlation with the emotion states, and accumulates the knowledge data. When receiving an external input, the conception unit simulates human conception by combining the external input with an emotion state of the spontaneous emotion unit and searching the knowledge database for related knowledge data using, as a search key, the combination or the like.
US07664614B2
A method of inspecting defect of a mask is provided. In this method, a database for storing a plurality of virtual simulation models is created. The virtual simulation models are determined by a plurality of factors including an optical effect and a chemical effect during the transferring the pattern of a mask to the photoresist layer on a wafer. A mask defect image is acquired. A simulation contour of the mask defect image is generated from at least one virtual simulation model in the database. Next, the acceptability of the mask is determined.
US07664608B2
A pattern inspection apparatus which compares images of regions, corresponding to each other, of patterns that are formed so as to be identical and judges that non-coincident portions in the images are defects. The pattern inspection apparatus is equipped with an image comparing section which plots individual pixels of an inspection subject image in a feature space and detects excessively deviated points in the feature space as defects. Defects can be detected correctly even when the same patterns in images have a brightness difference due to a difference in the thickness of a film formed on a wafer.
US07664594B2
In a starting system of an internal combustion engine, an injector for injecting fuel directly into a combustion chamber and an ignition plug for igniting an air/fuel mixture in the combustion chamber are provided, and a throttle device is provided in an intake pipe. During stopping of the engine, the starting system operates the throttle device to open a throttle valve to a predetermined throttle opening at a throttle opening speed that is set based on the intake pressure. Upon a start of the engine, the starting system actuates the injector to inject the fuel into a cylinder that is in the expansion stroke, and actuates the ignition plug to ignite the mixture in the combustion chamber.
US07664590B2
A method of operating a gas turbine engine is provided. The method includes introducing a fuel into a combustor, detecting a failure of ignition of the fuel, and preventing ignition until the introduced fuel is substantially removed from the gas turbine engine.
US07664583B2
An electric power assisted steering apparatus for a vehicle, comprises a steering mechanism, which operatively connects a steering wheel to the road wheels of the vehicle, an electric motor operatively connected to the steering mechanism, a torque sensing means adapted to produce a first output signal indicative of the torque carried by a portion of the steering mechanism, a vehicle speed sensing means for producing a second output signal indicative of the speed of the vehicle, a signal processing unit adapted to receive the first and second signals and to produce a torque demand signal representative of a torque to be applied to the steering mechanism by the motor; and a motor drive stage adapted to provide a drive current to the motor responsive to the torque demand signal. The apparatus includes torque limiting means, arranged to limit the magnitude of the torque to be applied to the steering mechanism to a maximum of a value that increases in time from a first value to a second value at a rate that is dependent on the second signal. Additionally or alternatively, it may be arranged to limit the maximum torque to a value that increases from a first to a second value at a rate that varies with time.
US07664574B2
A method of displaying information regarding a building includes a step of storing a model of a building system in a memory, the model comprising a plurality of building objects. The building objects include building space objects and building automation device objects. Each object has a first field referencing at least one related object. The method also includes generating display information regarding a first object. The method further includes identifying a second object referenced in the first field of the first object and generating display information regarding the second object.
US07664567B2
When an article is taken out from an automatic warehouse (6), value information is written in an unmodifiable manner into an ID tag fitted to the article. When the value information is needed to know, the value information is read from the ID tag (30) of the article (28) by an ID reader (24). The amount of refund when an article is returned and the amount of compensation when an article is broken can be objectively known.
US07664565B2
The invention is a method of creating greater accuracies for wear compensation of a finishing tool during the finishing of workpieces, in which a reference surface is ablated by initially traversing the finishing tool over the reference surface and determining the actual wear of the finishing tool as a result of this initial feed motion of the finishing tool controlled by an NC feed program of an NC machine. The actual measured wear of the finishing tool as a result of the initial traversing feed motion over the reference surface is compared to a known empirical wear trend line for the workpiece and the feed motion of the NC feed program for the next workpiece is recalculated as a function of the comparative actual wear of the finish tool with respect to the known empirical wear trend line.
US07664562B2
The invention proposes a system that interrupts a processing associated with an ADC having low priority when an ADC processing cannot catch up with ADR by an ADC alone that is not under execution but uses an ADC for an ADR having high priority. To preferentially execute ADR/ADC having high priority, the invention employs an algorithm for serially selecting ADR/ADC in the order of higher processing capacity (in the order of greater numerical values in the expression by a DPH unit) from among ADR/ADCs that have the lowest priority, no matter whether the ADR/DC is now under execution or not.
US07664556B2
A control object model generation device of this invention includes a simulation computing unit (5) which executes simulation of a control system including a controlled system represented by a mathematical model and a controller represented by a controller algorithm, a model control feature amount computing unit (8) which computes a model control feature amount from the simulation result, an evaluation function computing unit (9) which computes an evaluation function value indicating the similarity between a real control feature amount obtained from a control result on an actual controlled system and a model control feature amount, and a controlled system model parameter search computing unit (10) which executes simulation while sequentially changing the values of controlled system model parameters set in the mathematical model, and obtains controlled system model parameters which optimize the evaluation function value.
US07664546B2
A posture detection system includes an implantable device and a patient-external respiratory therapy device coupled via a communications channel. At least one of the implantable device and the patient-external respiratory therapy devices includes a posture detector. Posture information is transferred between the implantable device and the patient-external respiratory therapy device. The posture information may be used in connection with sleep detection or to modify therapy delivered by the implantable cardiac device and/or the patient-external respiratory therapy device.
US07664545B2
The present invention relates to a modular electrode system, and its use, for facilitating the introduction of a macromolecule into cells of a selected tissue in a body or plant. The modular electrode system comprises a non-symmetrically arranged plurality of needle electrodes; a hypodermic needle; an electrical connector that provides a conductive link from a programmable constant-current pulse controller to the plurality of needle electrodes; and a power source. In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an operator can grasp the plurality of needle electrodes that are mounted on a support structure and firmly insert the them into the selected tissue in a body or plant. The macromolecules are then delivered via the hypodermic needle into the selected tissue. The programmable constant-current pulse controller is activated and constant-current electrical pulse is applied to the plurality of needle electrodes. The applied constant-current electrical pulse facilitates the introduction of the macromolecule into the cell between the plurality of electrodes. Cell death due to overheating of cells is minimized by limiting the power dissipation in the tissue by virtue of constant-current pulses.
US07664534B1
In a communications system, one or more remote antenna systems communicate with one another and with associated base stations using a millimeter band microwave link, such as an E-band communications link. The remote antennas may be daisy-chained together to communicate with a plurality of base stations located at a base station hotel. Remote antennas may be positioned in cells having different peak traffic times to enable load balancing between base stations that share a common backhaul communications link with a mobile switching center.
US07664532B2
A system for managing the simultaneous operation of a plurality of radio modems in a single wireless communication device (WCD). The multiradio control may be integrated into the WCD as a subsystem responsible for scheduling wireless communications by temporarily enabling or disabling the plurality of radio modems within the device. The multiradio control system may comprise a multiradio controller (MRC) and a plurality dedicated radio interfaces. The radio interfaces are dedicated to quickly conveying delay sensitive information to and from the radio modems. The modems may further include control features that take information from the MRC as an input in determining the priority of messages to be sent out to a receiving device.
US07664518B2
An object of the present invention is to be able to rejoin a group call by spontaneous operation from the terminal side at an optional timing.The group call server provides a plurality of mobile communications terminals with a function of a group call between the terminals through a communications network, and comprises: an ID granting unit that grants the group call to be established a call ID that identifies the group call; an ID notification unit that gives the terminals participating in the group call to be established the call ID granted to the group call by the ID granting unit; a rejoin request receiving unit that receives requests to rejoin the group call that have been transmitted from a terminal disconnected from the group call and that include the call ID; and a rejoin control unit that allows the terminal that transmitted the request to rejoin the group call related to the call ID included in the rejoin request received by the rejoin request receiving unit.
US07664516B2
Disclosed are a method and system for peer-to-peer advertising between mobile communication devices. A subsidy program is set up based on a profile of an advertiser having at least one advertising media. A qualified subscriber is identified for the advertiser based on a profile of a subscriber. One or more advertisers and subsidy programs for the qualified subscriber is selected. In addition, when a communication transmission is received from a source communication device, at least one advertising media is associated with the communication transmission and the communication transmission is transmitted from a source communication device to a destination communication device.
US07664512B2
A geolocation system (10) includes an emitter (12), a plurality of collection nodes (14,16,18), and a control station (20). Each collection node includes a receiver (24) that is operable to receive signals transmitted from the emitter (12), generate a reduced data stream that includes only signal data, and communicate the reduced data stream to the control station (20) along with navigation data. The receiver (24) identifies signal data by detecting an energy level of the raw collection data. More specifically, the receiver (24) determines a bandwidth and a signal-to-noise ratio of each portion of the collection data, and identifies each portion as including signal data if both the bandwidth and the signal-to-noise ratio exceed predetermined threshold amounts. The receiver (24) includes a digital signal processing component (36) for performing calculations used by the receiver (24) to determine the bandwidth and the signal-to-noise ratio.
US07664506B2
A communication system includes a plurality of channels, a first service that utilizes at least a first channel for transmission, and a second service that utilizes at least a second channel for transmission. Operating means are provided for operating the first service in connection with the second service, so that the first service can utilize the second channel. Adjusting means are provided for adjusting the utilization of the second channel by the second service at least during the connected operation of the first and the second service. The utilization of a channel whose capacity is essentially dynamically adjustable is facilitated by a service that, according to the pre-defined protocols, is directed to use a channel whose capacity is more statically adjustable.
US07664500B2
A network service control method detects whether a mobile node communicating with a corresponding node is trending to a second local area network from a first local area network and forks and transmits a user agent and a server agent to a proxy when the mobile node is trending to the second local area network. After that, the user agent registers onto the proxy according to a result obtained by the handshaking. Finally, when the mobile node moves into the second local area network, the mobile node communicates with the user agent for obtaining a connection tunnel reserved by the user agent to communicate with the corresponding node.
US07664498B2
The present invention relates to registration of read out information corresponding to written information and is intended to improve operationality of the registration or deletion of the written information and the read out information. The present invention relates to a read out information registration apparatus (e.g., cellular phone) that registers the read out information corresponding to the written information, and the registration (or deletion) of the read out information is performed in conjunction with the registration (or deletion) of the written information such as telephone directory information of a name of an opposite party, etc., a word used in e-mail, etc., and address descriptions to centralize the operation and process. A user is constrained from performing processes such as edition and deletion of the registration contents of the read out information, and the written information and the read out information are managed in a centralized manner.
US07664496B1
A mobility management analysis architecture for call management. Systems and methods are provided for routing of a landline-mobile and mobile-mobile call using a switching network (landline or mobile originating) to serve effectively as the “GMSC/tandem” switching layer for the mobile network, as well as for mobile-mobile calls using an originating switch. When a landline switch issues an local number portability (LNP) query, the response to the query can be intercepted by a preliminary mobility management platform that determines a location routing number (LRN) for a visited mobile switching center (V-MSC) to which a destination mobile handset is currently attached. The LRN for that V-MSC is returned in the LNP response to the switch, which then routes the call to the serving V-MSC based on the LRN. The V-MSC then performs the GMSC (gateway mobile switching center) functionality, for example, for that particular call.
US07664486B2
The server which provides at least one of an image and additional information of the image via a network to a mobile terminal of an access source when access is received from the mobile terminal via the network using access information recorded together with the image on a prescribed print medium, the server comprises: an encrypting device which encrypts identification information corresponding to the image; an access information generating device which generates the access information containing a plain text URL required for access to the server and the encrypted identification information; a print instruction information creating device which creates instruction information that the access information is recorded together with the image onto a print medium by a prescribed printer; a receiving device which receives the encrypted identification information contained in the access information from the mobile terminal when the access information recorded on the print medium is inputted to the mobile terminal; a decrypting device which decrypts the encrypted identification information that is received; and a transmitting device which transmits at least one of the image and the additional information of the image that correspond to the decrypted identification information to the mobile terminal.
US07664480B2
The primitives between an upper management layer and the MAC layer within a mobile station and a base station are defined in order to specify and clarify the operations within the protocol stack layers in a broadband wireless access system to allow a mobile station to perform a method of connecting to the network. Media Independent Handover (MIH) procedures can be achieved because the NCMS and MIH layer can communicate through use of these primitives.
US07664479B2
A method for receiving first signals and further signals using a receiver, the first and further signals differing in at least one of the transmission parameters data rate, modulation type, wake-up criterion, synchronization and threshold value, comprises the steps of: in a first step, in a quiescent mode of the receiver, receiving and searching for a wake-up criterion (A) is performed intermittently using a first preset adjustable configuration of transmission parameters, and when no signal is received and no wake-up criterion (A) is found, the system switches to at least one further configuration and a search is made for a wake-up criterion (B).
US07664464B2
A method for exchange of data between a mobile communications unit carried by a user and at least one of a first communications unit, a second communications unit and a computer unit positioned at different locations in an environment such as a building. When the first communications unit and the mobile communications unit are spaced at a predetermined distance, a near-field radio connection is generated within this distance. After data exchange between the mobile communications unit and the first communications unit, the data are communicated by the first communications unit to the computer unit. When the second communications unit and the mobile communications unit are spaced from one another at the predetermined distance, a near-field radio connection is generated within this distance. A data exchange takes place between the mobile communications unit and the second communications unit by the near-field radio connection.
US07664460B2
A space-based component, such as a satellite, is configured to receive wireless communications from radiotelephones in a satellite footprint over an uplink satellite radiotelephone frequency, and to transmit wireless communications to the radiotelephones over a downlink radiotelephone frequency. An ancillary terrestrial network, that may include one or more ancillary terrestrial components, is configured to transmit wireless communications to, and receive wireless communications from, the radiotelephones over the uplink satellite radiotelephone frequency in a time-division duplex mode. An interference reducer is configured to reduce interference from the wireless communications that are received by the space-based component from the second radiotelephone and/or from the ancillary terrestrial network over the uplink satellite radiotelephone frequency, using the wireless communications that are transmitted by the ancillary terrestrial to, and/or received by the ancillary terrestrial network from, the second radiotelephone over the uplink satellite radiotelephone frequency.
US07664458B2
A table identifying a correspondence between a cell and a main base station accommodating the cell is prepared in a node (wireless network control apparatus or main base station) within a radio access network. When a terminal is moved and enters an overlapped area of cells (a) and (b) from an original cell (a), where a main base station (to which the terminal was connected in the cell (a) can accommodate the cell (b) that the terminal has entered, the sub base station is connected to the main base station, and site diversity is performed in the main base station. When site diversity is performed between main base stations in a radio access network using a base station in which a baseband processing section is separated from a radio transmission/reception section, traffic flowing between the wireless network control apparatus and the base station is reduced.
US07664452B2
A fixing device includes: a fixing roller; a support roller arranged apart from the fixing roller; an endless fixing belt wound around the fixing roller and the support roller; a pressing roller for applying a pressure force to the fixing roller while the fixing belt being sandwiched between the fixing roller and the pressing roller; a nip extending member arranged on an upstream of the fixing roller and on an inner side of the fixing belt and having a pressing surface for pressing the fixing belt; and a variable mechanism for changing a state of a pressure applied to the fixing belt by the nip extending member.
US07664450B2
An image fixing apparatus stably maintains high efficiency in heat generation and reduces excessive heat and loss of electric power consumption for fixing image. In at least one embodiment, the image fixing apparatus includes a magnetic flux generating member to generate a magnetic flux, and a heat member to generate heat with the magnetic flux. The heat member includes a first heat layer and a second heat layer having a relatively higher volume resistivity than the first heat layer, and having different thickness and/or different volume resistivity depending on a position in the width direction of the second heat layer. Portions of the magnetic flux generating member face different sides of the heat member.
US07664447B2
A fixing device includes a fixing member of which surface is deformable, a heating unit that heats the fixing member, a pressurizing unit having an endless member and a pressurizing member. The pressurizing member includes an elastic layer and presses the endless member against the fixing member to bring the endless member into pressure contact with the fixing member. The elastic layer has an apparent hardness (ASKER-C) which is larger than that at a point where an apparent hardness starts to change rapidly with respect to a rubber thickness in a load application direction.
US07664440B2
A developing device and an image forming apparatus capable of restraining density irregularity and restraining a decline in image quality caused by adherence of carrier to a photoreceptor, are provided. An angle α is in a range of no less than 45 degrees nor more than 57 degrees, which is formed between a plane comprising a central line of magnetic pole formed by a regulating pole in a magnet roller and a rotating central axis of a developing sleeve and a plane comprising a central line of magnetic pole formed by a pumping pole and a rotating central axis of the developing sleeve. Further, an absolute value of the maximum value of strength of the magnetic pole formed by a main pole is in a range of no less than 120 mT nor more than 140 mT.
US07664429B2
A transfer mechanism includes: a transfer unit having a transfer belt; and a belt contact and separation assembly for bringing the transfer belt into, and separating it away from, an electrostatic latent image support by shifting the position of the transfer unit. The belt contact and separation assembly includes: a multiple number of transfer unit shifters that abut the transfer unit and shift the position of the transfer unit; a multiple number of linkage members that link with the plural transfer unit shifters, correspondingly; an elastic member for coupling the plural linkage members; and a driver for actuating the transfer unit shifters through the linkage members.
US07664426B2
A method of reusing a developing device that can be detachably mounted in a body of an image-forming device includes: preparing a used developing device that includes a developer-carrying member that carries a developer thereon, and a gear mechanism having a plurality of gears that transfer a driving force inputted from the image-forming device to the developer-carrying member; and replacing at least one gear in the gear mechanism with at least one replacement gear that has stronger gear teeth, gear teeth that have a larger module, or gear teeth that have a greater working depth than the at least one original gear.
US07664420B2
An image forming apparatus of the present invention includes a first identification section for identifying whether a print target page in a print target document is color or monochrome and its page attribute, a second identification section for identifying a system speed during printing of an immediately preceding page of the print target page, a third identification section for identifying a presence of a subsequent page of the print target page and its page attribute, and a system speed determination section for selecting a print mode in conformity to a monochrome/color discrimination result based on an identification result in the first identification section and determining a system speed of the print target page based on the page attribute identified by the first identification section and identification results in the second and third identification sections.
US07664418B2
A fusing roller in an image forming apparatus heats and fuses a developed image transferred to a recording medium. A heat generator is controlled to maintain a detected temperature of the fusing roller at a reference fusing temperature until a predetermined time period is elapsed from when a trigger signal for starting preheating provided prior to entry of a print command is entered, and is stopped when the predetermined time period elapses. The fusing roller is rotated while being heated until the detected temperature once reaches the reference fusing temperature, and thereafter the detected temperature is maintained at the reference fusing temperature until the predetermined time period elapses by heating but not rotating the fusing roller.
US07664411B2
A technique of shortening the adjustment time of image forming conditions in accordance with the use status of each apparatus without degrading the image quality is disclosed. In a color image forming apparatus which has an adjustment unit that adjusts image forming parameters for setting image forming conditions, and which forms an image on a printing medium using the adjusted image forming parameters, the use log of the color image forming apparatus is collected, and at least one image forming parameter is selected in correspondence with the collected use log as an image forming parameter to be adjusted by the adjustment unit in next adjustment, by referring to a storage unit which stores, in correspondence with the use log, at least one image forming parameter to be adjusted by the adjustment unit.
US07664409B2
A control device executes toner concentration control that controls an operation of a developing device such that a value of detection output detected by a concentration detecting device falls within a predetermined range. Moreover, when controlling drive of a first driving device, which drives at least an image carrier, and drive of a second driving device, which drives at least a fuser device, the control device executes operation control that starts the drive of the first driving device before the drive of the second driving device.
US07664407B2
A color image forming apparatus including a plurality of image forming devices, a transfer device including a transfer belt, a test pattern forming device configured to form, on the transfer belt, a test pattern including a plurality of marks formed by the image forming devices, an optical sensor configured to read the plurality of marks, and a checking device configured to determine whether reading by the optical sensor is performed correctly or not.
US07664403B2
Attenuation caused by dispersion in an optical fiber communications system is compensated. A number of low-speed channels is to be transmitted across an optical fiber. Each low-speed channel is allocated a different frequency band for transmission. The attenuation caused by dispersion is estimated for each of the frequency bands. The power of each low-speed channel is adjusted to compensate for the estimated attenuation. The power-adjusted low-speed channels are frequency division multiplexed together to produce an electrical high-speed channel suitable for transmission across the communications system.
US07664402B2
An information communication system for use in a robot communicates a full-color light flux between a transmitting device and a receiving device separated from each other. The transmitting device receives a sensor signal to generate an optical information signal including a color signal based on a sensor identifying information and a brightness signal based on an output level of the sensor signal, and irradiates a light flux (an optical signal) enabling a user to recognize it through the optical information signal from a color LED. The receiving device is arranged away from the transmitting device, in which an analysis unit generates an identifying signal and an output level of a sensor on the basis of color information and brightness information extracted from an image processor from image data including the optical information signal imaged by an imaging unit.
US07664394B2
A receiver for a communications link includes a receiver module and a host receiver. These two components can be tested independently. In one embodiment, the receiver module is characterized with respect to noise and distortion. The noise performance can be determined by comparing input and output signals of the receiver module, to determine the relative noise of the receiver module. The distortion performance can be determined by comparing the distortion of input and output signals of the receiver module, using a reference host receiver that includes an equalizer. The host receiver can be tested by using a reference receiver module.
US07664390B2
A camera module package comprises a housing having a lens section mounted therein; a circuit board having a window through which light transmitted through the lens section of the housing passes; an image sensor that is flip-chip bonded to a lower surface of the circuit board; and an impact absorbing member attached to an upper surface of the circuit board, of which the side surface serves as a coupling guide which is coupled to an inner periphery of the housing.
US07664382B2
In an electronic blur correction device, imaging for a time-division exposure time is repeated m times (m is an integer of 2 or more), captured images are amplified by a factor of m to obtain a plurality of time-divided images, and an image for which blur is corrected is generated from the plurality of time-divided images. Here, the time-division exposure time is an exposure time that is obtained by dividing a proper exposure time by m and is shorter than a blur tolerable limit exposure time.
US07664379B2
A fan heater including a housing through which air is able to flow in a longitudinal direction, a blower to propel the air and at least one heating element mounted elastically in the housing by means of a fixing element. Moreover the heating element is a PTC element and the blower is mounted separately from the PTC element in the housing. An assembly is also disclosed, which includes a fan heater as aforesaid, wherein at least two adapter plates, each exhibiting at least one fastening element for fixing the fan heater to a location intended for it and devices for fixing optionally one of the adapter plates to a housing in the fan heater, are provided.
US07664377B2
A driving apparatus for a DC brushless motor of a ceiling fan is provided. By setting at least one coder and one sensor outside the DC brushless motor, the driving apparatus can sense the position of magnetic poles of the motor for driving the motor. Meanwhile, a controller set with the motor stores the rotation speed of the motor before being turned off by detecting the turn-off time of a turn-on/off signal.
US07664376B2
An information signal processing apparatus includes a data playback unit for playing back data from a recording medium on which featured data is recorded according to the setting of a first parameter series. An information file playback unit plays back the video/audio information files by selecting from the recording medium. A parameter setting unit selects one of the played back information files and sets parameter data corresponding to both the information file and the first or second parameter series. A playback period processing unit determines the playback period of the video/audio data recorded on the recording medium according to the featured data and either an initialization parameter data set in advance in accordance with the first and second parameter series, or the parameter data adjusted by the parameter setting unit. A playback control unit then performs playback control according to the signal from the playback period processing unit.
US07664365B2
A rectangular beam having the energy density distribution homogenized in its short-side direction is formed in a beam homogenizer wherein two light reflection surfaces are parallel-provided in a beam progression optical waveguide with a predetermined space so as to face each other at surfaces along the beam progression direction and a course change reflection surface for changing the beam progression direction is formed at a surface in the direction intersected with the light reflection surfaces. The beam enters a cylindrical lens array and a cylindrical lens sequentially to homogenize the energy density distribution in its long-side direction. Then, the irradiation laser from the cylindrical lens is projected onto a non-single crystalline semiconductor film to perform annealing.
US07664360B2
There is provided fiber drop terminal (“FDT”) assemblies for providing selective connections between optical fibers of distribution cables and optical fibers of drop cables, such as in multiple dwelling units. The FDT assemblies include a mounting plate that enables the FDT to be conveniently and securely mounted to a generally vertical surface, such as a wall. The mounting plate is structured such that the base of the FDT must be removed before the mounting plate can be removed, and the cover of the FDT is structured that neither the base nor the mounting plate can be removed without first removing the cover. The cover may be selectively locked to the base and/or mounting plate with a locking fastener; therefore, only technicians able to remove the locking fastener may remove the cover, base, and/or mounting plate of the FDT assembly.
US07664357B2
Provided are a photonic-crystal plate that forms an optical waveguide and an optical device assembly using the same, and more particularly, a vertical-type photonic-crystal plate and an optical device assembly configured to be easily integrated with surface-emitting light source devices and surface-receiving light detector devices. The photonic-crystal plate includes a plurality of cylindrical through holes formed in a thickness direction and arranged in a periodic crystal lattice structure. The plate further includes: a main crystal lattice defect that forms a main optical waveguide for passing lights in a direction perpendicular to the photonic-crystal plate; and a sub-crystal lattice defect that forms a sub-optical waveguide for causing light in a specific wavelength band among the lights passing through the main optical waveguide to be optically coupled and passing the coupled light in the direction perpendicular to the photonic-crystal plate.
US07664355B2
An all-optical logic gates comprises a nonlinear element such as an optical resonator configured to receive optical input signals, at least one of which is amplitude-modulated to include data. The nonlinear element is configured in relation to the carrier frequency of the optical input signals to perform a logic operation based on the resonant frequency of the nonlinear element in relation to the carrier frequency. Based on the optical input signals, the nonlinear element generates an optical output signal having a binary logic level. A combining medium can be used to combine the optical input signals for discrimination by the nonlinear element to generate the optical output signal. Various embodiments include all-optical AND, NOT, NAND, NOR, OR, XOR, and XNOR gates and memory latch.
US07664354B2
A fiber cable having at least one fiber optic element, a water swellable powder, disposed on the fiber optic element and a tube surrounding the fiber element and the water swellable powder. The fiber optic element is in a loose non-coupled arrangement with respect to the inside of the tube such that during installation, mechanical installation stresses applied to the cable and the tube are not imparted to the fiber optic element therein.
US07664353B2
The present invention disclosed is an optical waveguide structure that has a first waveguide provided with the opposite ends A and B, a second waveguide with the opposite ends C and D, a third waveguide with the opposite ends E and F, and a coupling waveguide having its first beam incoming/outgoing end connected to the end B of the first waveguide and its second beam incoming/outgoing end connected to the end C of the second waveguide and the end E of the third waveguide. The optical waveguide is characterized in that the first waveguide and the coupling waveguide are longitudinally dimensioned so that light beam at its peak of light intensity can transit the point of axial mal-alignment at the end A of the first waveguide and further transit the axial zone at the second beam incoming/outgoing end of the coupling waveguide.
US07664352B1
A spot size converter has a first core, a larger second core, and a clad disposed on a substrate. The first core has a rectilinear cross-sectional shape and is embedded in the clad, except at its ends. One of these ends has a sloping surface along which the thickness of the first core tapers gradually to zero. The second core, which has a refractive index intermediate between the refractive indexes of the first core and clad, sits on the clad and covers the sloping end surface of the first core. Light propagates through the first core, then through the second core into an external optical device, or propagates from an external optical device through the second core into the first core. This arrangement provides a spot size converter having an easily manufacturable structure and no polarization dependency.
US07664349B2
An all-optical cross-connect switching system provides optical switching that may reduce processing requirements by three orders of magnitude over conventional techniques by associating at least one optical detector with an optical beam steering element. In one embodiment, a first beam steering element, having a reflective surface in optical association with a first optical fiber array, and a second beam steering element, having a reflective surface in optical association with a second optical fiber array, are optically arranged to direct an optical beam from a first optical fiber in the first optical fiber array to a second optical fiber in the second optical fiber array. The optical detector provides information about a first position of the optical beam on the second beam steering element. Based on this information, the angle of the first beam steering element may be adjusted to cause the optical beam to change to a second position on the second beam steering element.
US07664347B2
A multi-core optical fiber sensor is described, which sensor includes an optical fiber having at least two cores, wherein the cores have collocated measurement portions, for example in-fiber interferometers or Bragg grating portions. In an exemplary embodiment, the fiber is provided with collocated measurement portions during fiberization to eliminate drift factors and to provide temperature corrected parameter measurement capabilities.
US07664344B2
An electro-optic modulator includes a substrate made of a material which has an electro-optic effect and a pyroelectric effect. In the substrate, an optical waveguide is formed to have at least a pair of optical paths. On the substrate and on the optical waveguide, a transparent buffer layer is formed to cover the optical waveguide. On the buffer layer, first and second electrodes are formed so that the first and the second electrodes are arranged to cause refractive index changes in the pair of optical paths in response to electrical fields surrounding the electro-optic modulator. The buffer layer is a mutual diffusion layer. The mutual diffusion layer is made from laminated films having at least one transparent insulator film and at least one transparent conductor film but has no clear boundary between the transparent insulator film and the transparent conductor film.
US07664342B2
An information processing system, an information processing apparatus and method for transmitting image data from a portable terminal apparatus, to a different apparatus through a network so that the image data may be managed by the different apparatus. A camcorder image station has a folder for each user of a camcorder and has, in each of the folders, 10 sub folders of album 1 to album 10 to each of which a name is applied in advance. The user of the camcorder transmits images picked up by the user to the camcorder image station so that the images are registered into a predetermined album. The camcorder has an album list of 10 albums of album 1 to album 10 in advance and selects an album of one of the names from within the list to designate an album into which image data should be uploaded.
US07664339B2
Provided is a method for digital image representation based upon Discrete Projective Fourier Transform (DPFT) constructed in the noncompact (DNPFT) and compact (DCPFT) realizations of geometric Fourier analysis on SL(2,C) groups. Novel characteristics are that the model is well adapted to perspective image transformations and well adapted to the retinotopic (conformal) mapping of the biological visual system. To compute the DPFT of a digital image by Fast Fourier transform (FFT), an image is re-sampled with a non-uniform log-polar sampling geometry. A “deconformalization” procedure corrects the “conformal lens optics” of the conformal camera to render image perspective transformations. DNPFT computes the convolution in the noncompact realization defined over 2-dimensional rotations in the image plane and dilations while the DCPFT computes the convolution in the compact realization (which is defines over all 3-dimensional rotations) and therefore provides basis for developing projectively invariant under all rotations object matching.
US07664338B2
One aspect of the disclosure is directed to an embedded device. The embedded device comprises an image of interest selecting mechanism and a transformation mechanism. The transformation mechanism applies perspective transformation functions to the image of interest such that the image of interest varies from a greater width at a foreground viewpoint of the image of interest to a lesser width toward a vanishing point of the image of interest and such that the image of interest varies from a greater amount of expansion and lesser amount of compression at the foreground viewpoint of the image of interest to a lesser amount of expansion and a greater amount of compression towards the vanishing point of the image of interest.
US07664336B2
A video clip is processed by selecting a plurality of video frames of the video clip. A plurality of the pixels of the selected video frames are modified to form modified video frames. The modification to each of the plurality of the pixels is based on the intensity of the pixel, a change in the intensity of the pixel from the corresponding pixel in at least one related video frame, and the intensity of the corresponding pixel. A second video clip is formed that comprises the modified video clips.
US07664335B2
An automatic image correction circuit is provided which automatically performs image correction on received image data and includes a resolution detection unit that detects resolutions of the image data; a set value calculation unit that calculates a set value to be used in the image correction based on the resolutions; and an image correction unit that performs the image correction on the image data based on the set value.
US07664329B2
A method for the detection of motion in video data is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method uses a background technique for the motion detection. In another embodiment, a Gaussian Mixture Model is applied to a neighborhood or block of pixels within an image frame, thereby identifying background and foreground in the image based on said blocks.
US07664327B2
A method of representing an object appearing in a still or video image, by processing signals corresponding to the image, comprises deriving a curvature scale space (CSS) representation of the object outline by smoothing the object outline, deriving at least one additional parameter reflecting the shape or mass distribution of a smoothed version of the original curve, and associating the CSS representation and the additional parameter as a shape descriptor of the object.
US07664326B2
A method for detecting and enhancing edges in an ultrasound image includes the steps of applying an edge detection filter to at least one of a plurality of pixels of an ultrasound image to compute an edge detection value having a magnitude and a direction; and applying either a directional edge enhancement filter or a non-directional smoothing filter to at least one of the plurality of pixels of the ultrasound image.
US07664325B2
Computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions and apparatuses detect a structured handwritten object is detected in a handwritten document. A primitive structure, which is associated with a set of component objects, is formed. A candidate handwritten object is identified by detecting a corresponding logical structure. A classifier for the candidate handwritten object is determined. Consequently, the candidate handwritten object is validated from the classifier.
US07664323B2
The subject invention leverages a scalable character glyph hash table to provide an efficient means to identify print characters where the character glyphs are identical over independent presentation. The hash table allows for quick determinations of glyph meta data as, for example, a pre-filter to traditional OCR techniques. The hash table can be trained for a particular environment, user, language, character set (e.g., alphabet), document type, and/or specific document and the like. This permits substantial flexibility and increases in speed in identifying unknown glyphs. The hash table itself can be composed of single or multiple tables that have a specific optimization purpose. In one instance of the subject invention, traditional OCR techniques can be utilized to update the hash tables as needed based on glyph frequency. This keeps the hash tables from growing by limiting updates that reduce its performance, while adding frequently determined glyphs to increase the pre-filter performance.
US07664317B1
A method is provided including capturing a frame from a first video device, the frame representing a test pattern and determination is made of at least one captured color for at least one pixel of the captured frame. A reference pixel is provided including at least one reference color, the reference pixel being determined by statistical analysis of the first signals from a population of second video devices that have received the test pattern. A relation is determined between the captured color value and said reference color and the relation is compared with a threshold value. The relation is stored.
US07664305B2
In a method and apparatus for an object using a representational image, positioning the object at a predetermined position relative to the representational image, illuminating the representational image, presenting information from the representational image to an operator, at least one of controlling the illuminating of the representational image and presenting of information from the representational image to an operator, using a processing arrangement, and processing the object using the information obtained from the representational image.
US07664304B2
Methods and systems are provided for analyzing and assessing documents using a profile for documents, such as a payment instrument. In one embodiment, the profile may include variable machine-printed writing. In other embodiments, the profile may include pre-printed information. A method may include providing a document to a computer system. In one embodiment, profile representations may be determined for information fields of the document. The determination may use variable machine-printed writing and/or pre-printed information from at least one of the information fields of the documents. In one embodiment, the method may further include comparing machine-printed writing and/or pre-printed information in information fields of the document to at least profile representation from at least one information field of at least one other document. In some embodiments, the method may include assessing fraud in the document using at least one of the comparisons.
US07664303B2
A method for imaging includes directing a plurality of radio frequency (RF) beams toward a target organ from a plurality of angles. The RF beams include one or more first pairs of the RF beams, each first pair including two of the RF beams that impinge on the target organ from opposite directions. RF signals reflected from the target organ are received responsively to the RF beams, the RF signals including one or more second pairs of the RF signals engendered respectively by the one or more first pairs of the RF beams. Local tissue parameters at multiple points in the target organ are extracted by jointly processing the RF signals in each of the second pairs. Images of the target organ are produced using the extracted local tissue parameters. Other embodiments described herein include methods for passive imaging, motion vector analysis, ablation, local heating and application of electromagnetic pressure.
US07664300B2
Uterine cervical cancer Computer-Aided-Diagnosis (CAD) according to this invention consists of a core processing system that automatically analyses data acquired from the uterine cervix and provides tissue and patient diagnosis, as well as adequacy of the examination. The data can include, but is not limited to, color still images or video, reflectance and fluorescence multi-spectral or hyper-spectral imagery, coherent optical tomography imagery, and impedance measurements, taken with and without the use of contrast agents like 3-5% acetic acid, Lugol's iodine, or 5-aminolevulinic acid. The core processing system is based on an open, modular, and feature-based architecture, designed for multi-data, multi-sensor, and multi-feature fusion. The core processing system can be embedded in different CAD system realizations. For example: A CAD system for cervical cancer screening could in a very simple version consist of a hand-held device that only acquires one digital RGB image of the uterine cervix after application of 3-5% acetic acid and provides automatically a patient diagnosis. A CAD system used as a colposcopy adjunct could provide all functions that are related to colposcopy and that can be provided by a computer, from automation of the clinical workflow to automated patient diagnosis and treatment recommendation.
US07664295B2
An iris region of an eye is detected from an original image (S1) and image conversion is performed to the detected iris region so that feature data unique to the person can not be extracted (S2). For example, the iris region is divided into a plurality of portions and respective images of divided portions are re-arranged in a predetermined order or at random.
US07664293B2
An image sensing apparatus includes a selector, an image sensing unit, a memory unit, an image combining unit and a recording unit. The selector is used to select a main object. The image sensing unit senses a plurality of images including the main object. The memory unit stores the plurality of images. The image combining unit combines the plurality of images stored in the memory unit to generate a combined image in which the main object appears to be stopped and an object other than the main object appears to be flowing. The recording unit compresses the combined image and records the compressed combined image on a recording medium.
US07664292B2
Output from a video camera is monitored. Input data is analyzed to produce a model of a background image and incoming image data is compared with said background model to identify images having a high level of activity created by the introduction of a foreground object. A period of activity, composed of a plurality of consecutive images having a high level of activity, is identified, and an exemplar image is generated.
US07664284B2
An electronic device includes a circuit board, a first microphone module, and a second microphone module. The first microphone module includes a first omnidirectional microphone connected to the circuit board, a first boot also connected to the circuit board, and a first tube extending from the first boot. The second microphone module includes a second omnidirectional microphone connected to the circuit board, a second boot also connected to the circuit board, and a second tube extending from the second boot. The first and second omnidirectional microphones are identical, and the first and second boots are identical.
US07664269B2
A system, apparatus, and method are provided for enhancing entropy in a pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) using remote sources. According to one embodiment of the present invention, first, the PRNG's internal state is initialized. Local seeding information is then obtained from a local host. For added security, additional seeding information is obtained from one or more remote entropy servers operating independently to each maintain a constantly updated state pool. Finally, the PRNG is stirred based upon the local seeding information, and the additional seeding information.
US07664268B1
A method for providing conditional access (i.e., managing access) to a received scrambled audio/visual (A/V) signal from a variety of sources by utilizing secret sharing for key recovery. Secret sharing eliminates the necessity to protect and transfer the complete descrambling keys between devices, because a portion of the key is stored in the device or a smart card coupled thereto.
US07664266B2
Systems and methods for compressing data, particularly for use in manufacturing and verifying certificates of authenticity (COA), are described herein. Data elements obtained from a COA are ordered based on an iterative selection process. First, one or more data ranges are defined. Having defined the ranges, a data element from within each of the ranges is selected. The selected data elements are then encoded. The encoding of each data element is based on a position of that data element within a range from which the data element was selected.
US07664251B2
An abbreviated dialing feature over a Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) platform facilitates abbreviated dialing between a first phone system that serves a first customer location and a second phone system that serves a second customer location. The first and second phone systems may comprise two Centrex groups, two PBXs or a Centrex group and a PBX.
US07664247B1
Methods and apparatus for providing automatic route selection (ARS) services through the use of advanced intelligent network (AIN) functionality are described. AIN based ARS services are provided through the use of a route selection table implemented outside a switch, e.g., at the service control point (SCP). Alternatively, ARS functionality is provided using conditional logic at the SCP or a combination of conditional logic and an ARS table. The AIN based ARS service can be provided in addition to switch based ARS services. Methods for selecting the ARS method to be used based on switch type and/or the complexity of the ARS service to be provided are also described. The ARS functionality identifies the route, e.g., physical trunk or other line, over which a call is to be routed. The selection may be between trunks corresponding to different telecommunications carriers, services or privately owned lines.
US07664246B2
Systems, methods, and/or techniques (“tools”) are described that sort speakers in a network-enabled conference. In some cases, this sorted list of speakers indicates which speaker is dominant. With this sorted list, a participant's communication device may provide context about the speakers. In some cases a participant's communication device has a display that presents real-time video of the speakers or other visual indicia, such as each or the most dominant speaker's name, picture, title, or location. These and other context about speakers may help participants better understand discussions in network-enabled conferences.
US07664244B2
A system and method for restoring the original calling number in a call routed through an out-of-network enhanced service provider to a forwarding destination. The system comprises a service control point, a service switching point in communication with the service control point, and an enhanced service provider service node in communication with the service switching point, wherein the service node is located outside of a network while the remaining components reside within the network, and wherein the service switching point is provisioned with two triggers: an incoming trigger for calls to the service node and an outgoing trigger for calls from the service node. According to the method, the service control point, in response to the incoming trigger, removes and stores the private call information of a call exiting the network and, in response to the outgoing trigger, restores that private call information to the call once the call re-enters the network.
US07664234B2
Certain exemplary embodiments comprise a method comprising receiving, from a user-operated telecommunications device, a user-initiated communication to a non-911 communications address. The method can comprise automatically providing a user with a current location of a user-associated telecommunications device. The method can comprise requesting, from the user, verification of the current location of the user-associated telecommunications device.
US07664233B1
Methods and systems for providing electronic notifications are described. A server is configured to serve an interface, such as a Web page, to a terminal that requests from a user a first set of user contacts to be used to provide notifications to the user by a telephonic notification system in response to a notification process initiated by an organization associated with the user. The interface further requests a first set of priorities corresponding to the first set of user contacts, wherein the notification system will attempt to provide notifications to the first set user contracts in an order based at least in part on the first set of priorities. A database is configured to store the first set of user contacts and the first set of priorities. A voice interface circuit is configured to transmit a voice notification to at least one of the first set of user contacts.
US07664232B2
A method and a system for impairment line testing are provided. The method includes electrically connecting a first terminal of a measurement device, which may be a time domain reflectometer, to both wires of a twisted wire pair of a telephone line, which interconnects a telephone line card with a subscriber. The second terminal of the measurement device is electrically connected to a common reference, which may be the ground reference. Then, the method includes performing an impairment testing on the telephone line from the measurement device toward the subscriber.
US07664227B2
A method and an arrangement for an intelligent adaptive x-ray imaging system, in which the exposure conditions of the object to x-rays is dynamically controlled and optimized in real-time in order to provide the optimum diagnostic information. The arrangement splits the imaging beam into two separate fan beams that scan over the object in a single pass, where the first beam (scout) collects information from the object, that is analyzed to control the intensity or spectral quality or spatial distribution of the second beam (I-ImaS). The CMOS image sensors deployed in the arrangement are able to process detected information either on-chip or within a field programmable gate array, so as to compute a measure related to the diagnostic value of the information.
US07664213B2
A data communications system is disclosed. The data communications system comprises two clock domains. Each of the clock domains are coupled to receive a source clock signal. The first clock domain includes a first clock signal and the second clock domain includes a second clock signal, each of the first clock signal and the second clock signal are derived from the source clock signal. The first clock signal has a frequency which is different from that of the second clock signal, and which is not an integer multiple of the frequency of the second clock signal. The first clock domain includes circuitry which is configured to generate both the first clock signal and a reference clock signal derived from the source clock signal. The first clock domain is further configured to utilize the first clock signal to sample the reference clock signal, and assert an aligned signal responsive to detecting an edge of the reference clock signal, wherein the aligned signal indicates an edge of the first clock signal is aligned with an edge of the second clock signal.
US07664204B1
Circuits and methods are provided for adjusting a frequency of a local clock signal in approximating a frequency of a host clock signal. A phase locked loop generates a local clock signal having a first phase and a first frequency. An offset adjustment circuit receives timing information relating the local clock signal to an incoming data signal and calculates a phase offset and a frequency offset indicative of adjustments to be made to the local clock signal. A first phase interpolator generates a receive clock signal from the local clock signal, the receive clock signal having a second phase and a second frequency responsive to the phase and frequency offsets. A second phase interpolator generates a transmit clock signal from the local clock signal having a third frequency responsive to the frequency offset.
US07664200B2
Aspects of a method and system for minimizing effects of transmitter impairments in multiple input multiple output (MIMO) beamforming communication systems are presented. In one aspect of a system for minimizing effects of transmitter impairments, a MIMO transmitter may enable nulling of transmitter-induced noise by adjusting at least a portion of a plurality of signals transmitted based on a transmitter error vector magnitude (EVM). The transmitter may enable transmission of the plurality of signals subsequent to the nulling. In another aspect of a system for minimizing effects of transmitter impairments a MIMO receiver may enable nulling of transmitter-induced noise contained in a plurality of received signals based on a transmitter EVM. Each of the plurality of received signals may include information contained in a plurality of spatial streams. The receiver may enable detecting estimated values for the information contained in the plurality of spatial streams based on the nulling.
US07664192B2
A transmitter for minimizing a PAPR in OFDM communication system. The transmitter includes: a precoder for coding input symbols so that a signal rotation is generated, and generating a complex vector including the coded symbols; an encoder for performing a frequency-space mapping for the symbols generated as the complex vector according to a predetermined scheme; a random mapper for randomly mapping the symbols for which the frequency-space mapping has been performed on a frequency plane through at least one transmit antenna; an Inverse Fast Fourier Transform (IFFT) unit for performing an IFFT for the symbols for which the frequency-space mapping has been performed; and a gradient algorithm unit for receiving IFFTed signals from the IFFT unit and reducing the PAPR.
US07664187B2
An input random access memory (RAM) module of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) engine of a DVB receiver is used to store, during a first time period, delayed versions of an input signal that includes a first orthogonal frequency division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol and a cyclic prefix therefor received at the receiver, and samples for a second OFDM symbol to be demodulated using the FFT engine during a second time period. Delayed versions of the input signal are stored in the input RAM module of the FFT engine in a first-in-first-out (FIFO) fashion for signal acquisition and for FFT processing. Similarly, an output RAM module of the FFT engine is used to store moving averages of an autocorrelation of the input signal with its cyclic prefix computed over presumed guard intervals and over multiple symbols.
US07664179B2
A moving picture coding apparatus (10a) according to the present invention includes a level analyzer (100a) that decides the maximum number of intra frame pixels which can be coded (Nfpx) and the maximum number of storage pixels which can be stored in a picture memory of a decoding apparatus (Nspx) on the basis of a level identifier (Lst) indicating a coding level that is designated by the user, thereby judging whether coding of an input image is possible or not and calculating the maximum number of reference pictures (Nrpn) as the number of reference candidate pictures which can be referred to at inter picture prediction coding, on the basis of the maximum number of intra frame pixels (Nfpx) and the input image size (the number of vertical pixels (Nhpx) and the number of horizontal pixels (Nwpx)). A decoding apparatus to which a bit stream from the moving picture coding apparatus (10a) is supplied can always decode the bit stream satisfactorily, and perform inter picture prediction decoding corresponding to the inter picture prediction coding on the coding end. Consequently, memory areas of a coding apparatus and a decoding apparatus that are adapted to a coding method in which there is no restraint on the capacity of the memory area can be designed.
US07664174B2
A device, system and method may enable the obtaining of in vivo images from within body lumens or cavities, such as images the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, where the data such as image data is typically transmitted or otherwise sent to a receiving system in compressed or diluted form. The image may be reconstructed and for example displayed to a user.
US07664170B2
A high-speed bit stream interface module interfaces a high-speed communication media to a communication Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) via a Printed Circuit Board (PCB). The high-speed bit stream interface includes a line side interface, a board side interface, and a signal conditioning circuit. The signal conditioning circuit services each of an RX path and a TX path and includes a limiting amplifier and a clock and data recovery circuit. The signal conditioning circuit includes an AGC loop, an equalizer, and an equalizer feedback loop. The AGC loop includes a gain path and a feedback path that couples to the output of the equalizer. The equalizer feedback loop couples to the output of the equalizer and produces spectral shaping control settings that the equalizer uses to produce an equalized high-speed serial bit stream at an equalizer output.
US07664168B2
The present invention has an object enabling stable data communication hard to perform a malfunction in a simple circuit configuration which can miniaturize a system and does not need any strict accuracy by executing data communication in a connection using two terminals or less. The present invention is featured by being related to a data carrier device including a signal terminal for performing signal input from a data carrier driving device. The data carrier device includes a data communication circuit receiving an input of a pulse having a part having a different duty ratio and a pulse frequency constant on the whole from the data carrier driving device through the signal terminal to generate a data signal.
US07664159B2
A laser mirror assembly is disclosed with improved pointing stability. An elongated mirror includes a concave reflecting portion. A pair of elongated planar portions extend parallel to the concave reflecting portion on either side thereof. The planar portions are stepped down from the reflecting portion. The mirror is formed from copper. A pair of stainless steel strips are connected to planar portions. The bimetallic effect between the copper mirror and the stainless steel strips operates to counteract the warping of the mirror due to differential heating effects which arise during operation. In an alternate embodiment, a pair of aluminum strips are mounted on the rear surface of the mirror.
US07664157B2
A tunable laser has a multiple ring resonator comprising a plurality of ring resonators having respective ring-shaped waveguides and respective different optical path lengths, an input/output side optical waveguide coupled to the multiple ring resonator, an optical input/output device such as a laser diode coupled to the input/output side optical waveguide, a reflection side optical waveguide coupled to the multiple ring resonator, an optical reflector coupled to the reflection side optical waveguide for removing light at an unwanted wavelength and reflecting light at a required wavelength, and a wavelength varying mechanism for changing the resonant wavelength of the multiple ring resonator.
US07664155B2
A gas laser oscillating unit having a gas junction part where gas flow may be stable, whereby a stable laser beam output and/or a laser beam that does not fluctuate very much may be achieved. The laser gas, flowing through first and second excitation parts, is introduced into the first and second tapered gas flow passages. After that, the two gas flows are mixed at or near the center point of a gas junction part and the mixed gas flows in a next flow passage. Then, one of the gas flows from the first excitation part is biased toward the −X direction by a first biasing member arranged in the first gas flow passage, and the other gas flow from the second excitation part is biased toward the +X direction by a second biasing member arranged in the second gas flow passage.
US07664146B1
An alignment circuit comprises a plurality of inputs that receive corresponding data signals, wherein each of the corresponding data signals includes a training pattern. A plurality of delay lines correspond to each of the plurality of inputs, receive the corresponding data signals, receive a plurality of corresponding delay signals, and delay each of the data signals according to the corresponding delay signals. A controller receives the corresponding data signals and generates the plurality of corresponding delay signals based on the training patterns of respective ones of the data signals.
US07664142B2
A system for transmitting subchannel data over the same media as high speed data, especially DC balanced high speed data. A digital transmitter receives subchannel data and modulates it onto a subchannel carrier as the host signal in the preferred embodiment using frequency shift keying. The FSK subchannel carrier is added by superposition to the high speed data signal. Because of the ability to have very narrow bandwidths for the passbands of digital IF filters, the receiver is more sensitive and less susceptible to the need for tuning to accommodate manufacturing variations in the rise times of the high speed data signals.
US07664136B2
A power sourcing equipment-powered device (PSE-PD) combination unit requests inline power from a connected PSE or other PSE-PD combination unit by having the PD portion of the PD-PSE combination unit adapt its electrical characteristics, if necessary, to obtain the maximum power available. The PD-PSE combination device keeps track of available power less power consumed locally with a summation unit. A PSE manager unit grants PD power requests from downstream devices based upon the available power left (e.g., original PSE power less losses less local consumption).
US07664129B2
A wireless communication apparatus includes a carrier sense device which determines whether or not the first channel satisfies a specific condition of the determination of an idle state, and an occupation/release control device which performs control to make the first physical layer protocol processing device generate and transmit a first frame which declares that the first channel will be occupied for a first predetermined period by virtual carrier sense, when the specific condition of the determination of the idle state is satisfied, and perform control to make the second physical layer protocol processing device generate and transmit a second frame which declares that the second channel will be occupied for a second predetermined period by virtual carrier sense.
US07664123B2
A generalized virtual router is disclosed. A routing and switching apparatus includes a switching fabric and a matrix of switching and routing elements. At least some of the elements are interconnected by the switching fabric. A router control provides control for the switching fabric. The apparatus has both cross-connect and routing functionality.
US07664122B1
A system for monitoring quality of calls in a network. A server receives information concerning calls which begin or end in a network and at the same time receives measurements of a quality parameter such as bandwidth. This measurement data is provided by a probe, so that the server is able to correlate calls which are placed through the network with the quality of service in the network at that time. When the quality falls below a desired level, the server notifies the customer or the network operator so that appropriate action may be taken.
US07664115B1
A method and apparatus for merging a plurality of virtual connections to form a merged virtual connection is presented. As cells for each of the plurality of virtual connections are received, they are buffered into a corresponding plurality of cell buffers, where each virtual connection has a corresponding cell buffer. When enough cells to constitute a complete packet are buffered for a particular virtual connection in its corresponding cell buffer, the identity of that virtual connection is queued into a queue, which may take the form of a linked list. A plurality of linked lists may be included such that differentiation between various virtual connections based on class is possible, where the class division may be based on a number of different factors. Prioritization information for the merged virtual connection is then obtained, where in the case where a plurality of classes are supported, the prioritization information includes class prioritization information. A cell stream for the merged virtual circuit is then generated based on the prioritization information and the virtual connection identities currently stored in the queue structure. The cell stream is generated such that entire packets are included in the cell stream in a continuous manner and no intermingling of cells corresponding to different packets occurs.
US07664105B2
In packet-oriented data streams, structural information which is needed, for example, for searching or for forwarding or reversing is contained only in specific packets. According to the invention, while a data stream is being stored, an information file is produced which contains references to the starts of all those packets which contain this information. The information file contains data blocks, and each data block identifies the position of a data packet with structural information, as well as the distance to the next or previous such data packet, and additional information relating to the respective data packet.
US07664101B1
A method and apparatus for establishing multiple application sessions, such as video, audio, voice, and data sessions, and displaying them on a video display device such as a television are disclosed. These sessions can be independent of each other or the user can request the network to join these sessions so that a single session is created. For example, a user can request the network to create a video session and a music session and combine them into one session, so the audio portion of the video session is replaced by the user specified music contents and so on.
US07664099B1
The present invention enables an overlay capability to be invoked on network systems and elements that are designed to support multiple customer bases. Depending on the registered identification of the user, screens and other user interfaces that provide access to functions can be overlaid on the network component and segmented along customer classifications.
US07664098B2
The present invention relates to systems and methods for recording usage of real-time audio, video and data communication services over packet-based networks. The present invention can collect call detail record information from a network gatekeeper and analyze the call detail record information to determine its validity. After checking validity, the invention can combine the call data with information retrieved from a customer database and store the combined record in billing database. The billing database can be accessed by modular billing modules to generate a customized invoice.
US07664094B1
A Path Generator connects to a communication network and uses genetic algorithms to assign flows to paths. Genotypes encode flow to path assignments for working and protection paths. Genotype fitness functions are computed as a weighted sum of constraint fitness functions. Each constraint fitness function evaluates the degrees to which the genotype is a satisfactory solution. The system can be used for network modeling. It can also receive requests for on-demand assignment of flows and on-demand rerouting of flows.
US07664088B2
Provided is a QoS providing method using a flow label in providing multimedia service in an IPv6 network and a system applying the same. According to the method, a signal connection server extracts session information from a communication request response signal transmitted from a destination in response to a communication request signal of a source, and transmits the extracted session information to a QoS provisioning server. The QoS provisioning server receives the session information, and generates a session key including flow label, and sets QOS information corresponding to the session key. The QoS provisioning server transmits the session key and the QoS information to an IPv6 node, and transmits QoS provisioning completion information to the signal connection server. When the signal connection server receives the QoS provisioning completion information, the signal connection server transmits the received communication request response signal to the source. The IPv6 node forwards an introduced packet on the basis of the transmitted session key and the QoS information.
US07664086B2
Disclosed is a migration communication control device constructed to control a continuous communication between a mobile node and a node unaffected the mobile node's migration. The migration communication control device comprises a first migration control unit, a second migration control unit on the mobile node, and a third migration control unit on the partner node. The first migration control unit comprises a packet transfer unit and an address post unit. The packet transfer unit receives a packet which was destined for an outdated address of the mobile node, generates a conversion packet which holds an updated address instead of the outdated address, and then transmits the conversion packet, while an address post unit transmits an address post message which indicates the updated address to the third migration control unit. The second migration control unit comprises a migration post unit and a packet resumption unit. The migration post unit transmits to the first migration control unit a migration post message which indicates the updated address when the mobile node migrates to another network while a packet resumption unit receives the conversion packet from both the first migration control unit and the third migration control unit and resumes an original packet from the conversion packet. The third migration control unit comprises a packet conversion unit which converts a destination address of a packet into the updated address, then transmits it to the mobile node.
US07664081B2
A portable gateway apparatus communicates with devices coupled to a first network and devices coupled to at least a second network. The gateway provides an interface to a mobile phone to discover services/devices within both the first and the at least second networks and interacts with them. The mobile phone includes a service/content directory enabling a user to select preferred services. The gateway conducts service discovery to identify services and devices responsive to the user request. The services and description are provided to the user for selection, after which a service-specific interface is displayed to enable the mobile phone to control the execution of the discovered services.
US07664074B2
Disclosed herein is a mobile communication terminal and handover method therefor. In the mobile communication system, a Gateway GPRS Support Node (GGSN) of the asynchronous network is connected to a Packet Data Service Node (PDSN) of the synchronous network. Accordingly, as a mobile communication terminal, using packet data service in the asynchronous mobile communication system, moves into an area of a synchronous mobile communication system, the synchronous mobile communication system sets control signals and traffic to transmit packet data in response to a request from the asynchronous mobile communication system. Further, if forward and reverse channels are assigned between the mobile communication terminal and the synchronous mobile communication system, call setup is performed to provide the packet data service, and then a node B of the asynchronous mobile communication system releases the connection to the mobile communication terminal.
US07664065B2
A multicast system is provided. The multicast system includes a multicast processing module and a multicast service module. The multicast processing module is for subscribing to the multicast service module. The multicast service module is for sending a subscribe response to the multicast processing module, and for transmitting data to the multicast processing module via a unicast frame. The multicast processing module is also for identifying a data initiator according to the subscribe response, and for receiving the data from the multicast service module in a multicast mode. A multicast method utilized in the multicast system is also provided.
US07664064B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for providing at least one user equipment (UE) with a point-to-multipoint multimedia service through two or more common physical channels in a mobile communications system. A radio network transmits a point-to-multipoint multimedia service through a plurality of physical channels using multiple codes. A user equipment (UE) receives multiple channel code information through a control channel from the radio network, configures a plurality of physical channels using the received multiple channel code information and receives the point-to-multipoint multimedia service through the configured physical channels.
US07664059B2
A method for detecting an erroneous sequence number in a status report in a wireless communications system includes receiving a status report sent from a receiver of the wireless communications system, detecting whether a negatively acknowledged sequence number is within a range that is larger than or equal to the sequence number following the sequence number of the last in-sequence acknowledged packet and smaller than the sequence number of the next packet to be transmitted for the first time, and detecting that the status report includes an erroneous sequence number when a negatively acknowledged sequence number is not within the abovementioned range.
US07664037B2
Nodes of a multichannel mesh network generate channel-metric matrices for routing packets to destinations based on a bottleneck channel identified for the source-destination pair. The identification of bottleneck channels increases the diversity among the different communication channels used along a route. This link-state routing approach may allow better paths to be found.
US07664035B2
Method and apparatus for controlling data transmission rate in a wireless communication system during handoff comprises a terminal recognizing an active set comprising a serving base station and at least one non-serving base station with respect to the terminal communicating with the network at a first data transmission rate, receiving a first rate control parameter from the serving base station and a second rate control parameter from the at least one non-serving base station, wherein the first and second rate control parameters are associated with determination of a second data transmission rate of the terminal during the handoff and determining the second data transmission rate in response to the first and the second rate control parameters, wherein the second data transmission rate is one of increased rate, decreased rate and same rate from the first data transmission rate.
US07664026B2
A reliable method for inter-computer packet transport in multi-process and multi-computer environments includes acknowledgments of received packets. To enhance the reliability and fast recovery of lost packets, a bit-mapped message is used for selective acknowledgments by which individual messages may be selected for retransmission. Further functionalities cover the cases where packets may have been received out-of-order, or an acknowledgment was lost.
US07664022B2
A policy-based management mechanism is provided, whereby the mechanism provides for at least the controlling of access to network resources, the integration of different frameworks into a common open standard, and modular components for assembling integrated date and voice services. The mechanism accomplishes this by using an access management component that checks for access credentials, a service management component that identifies which resources are available to a requester of resources, and a resource management component that manages the requested resources. In one exemplary implementation, a fourth component, the policy management component links the first three components such that a resource request gains access to resources based on policy decisions determined by the fourth component for the first three components.
US07664021B2
A recording and reproducing apparatus includes a file recorder, an interface, and controller which, upon receipt of content file with copy control information, records the content file in the recorder by adding thereto identification information M requesting transfer upon confirmation that a round-trip response time to a destination is not longer than a predetermined time, so that upon receipt of an instruction for transfer of the content file to an external device on the network, the controller determines whether the external device has a function of measuring and determining the round-trip response time to the destination, and in the case where the external device has function of measuring and determining the round-trip response time to the destination, transfers the content file to storage area of the external device, after measuring the round-trip response time and confirming that the measurement is not longer than predetermined time.
US07664017B2
A method of managing a data packet queue in a buffer associated with the radio layers of a wireless network, the buffer storing packets prior to their transmission over the radio interface. The method comprises defining minimum and maximum threshold levels for the packet queue, and for a data packet received by the buffer 1) performing a congestion avoidance procedure if the buffer queue exceeds said maximum threshold level, or 2) not performing said procedure if the buffer queue is less than said minimum threshold level, or 3) if the buffer queue lies between said maximum and minimum thresholds, performing said congestion avoidance procedure for said packet, and not performing the procedure for at least one or more subsequent packets.
US07664012B2
A solid-state Ethernet by-pass switch includes a first connection that accepts transmit and receive lines from a first Ethernet device, a second connection that accepts transmit and receive lines from a second Ethernet device, a third connection that accepts transmit and receive lines from a third Ethernet device and a solid-state switching device having a normal state and a by-pass state. When configured in the normal state, the solid-state switching device couples the transmit and receive lines from the first connection to the transmit and receive lines from the second connection. When configured in the by-pass state, the solid-state switching device couples the transmit and receive lines from the first connection to the transmit and receive lines from the third connection.
US07664011B2
The invention performs orthogonal frequency division multiplex processing on a transmission signal to form an OFDM modulation signal (daubed in FIG.) and performs orthogonal frequency division multiplex processing and code division multiple access processing on a transmission signal to form an OFDM-CDM modulation signal (shaded in FIG.) to transmit the OFDM modulation signal and the OFDM-CDM modulation signal, which makes it possible to transmit data in a very high rate using the OFDM modulation signal while making it possible to transmit data in a higher quality using the OFDM-CDM modulation signal than using the OFDM-modulation signal, although it is slightly inferior to OFDM modulation in terms of high rate transmission.
US07664010B2
A method for combining a reference signal with a data signal is disclosed. A multiplexed data signal is received. A demultiplexer is applied to the data signal. The data signal is encoded. A linear transformation is applied to the data signal which projects the data signal into a null-space of a plurality of reference signals. The encoded data signal is summed with the reference signal. The summation of the data signal and the reference signal is orthogonally modulated. The combined reference signal and data signal is transmitted to a receiver.
US07664005B2
The adverse influence of reflected light from adjacent layers as stray light on a control signal or data signal is reduced when tracking a multilayered optical disc using differential push-pull method. The reflected light from the optical disc including stray light from an adjacent layer is once condensed with a condenser lens having little aberration and is then reflected by a reflecting mirror having a partial reflecting region. The resultant reflected light, which has the influence of stray light reduced, passes through a polarization beam splitter and becomes incident on a four-quadrant detector (for main beam) and a split detector (for sub beam) via a condenser lens having astigmatic aberration.
US07664000B2
For an optical recording medium having a phase change type recording layer on its a substrate and having as read only area and a writable area in a recording area, a data recording method is provided which records data in the writable area. This data recording method comprises a transfer step of transferring program data recorded in the read only area in a practical form to an external computer, and an execution step (step A10) of automatically executing the program data in the external computer to record data in the writable area, which can facilitate manufacturing and reduce the possible of destruction or falsification of ROM data.
US07663997B2
A write once optical recording medium and a method and apparatus for storing and recovering defect management information to and from the write once optical recording medium are provided. The recording medium includes at least one recording layer, and a data area on the recording layer. The data area includes at least one spare area and a user data area. The spare area contains at least one replacement cluster, each of the replacement clusters storing therein address information of a corresponding defective cluster.
US07663991B2
A method of reproducing a recording medium having finalized recorded data. Data is read from the recording medium and a determination is made whether the recording medium is further recordable based on whether a temporary defect management area includes repetitions of a predetermined value or based on whether another predetermined value is recorded in response to a finalization command previously recorded.
US07663986B2
A servo control signal generation device for discriminating a kind of an optical disk, changing over between top and bottom envelope signals of an RF signal, and generating a defect signal and a mirror signal includes an RF generator for generating the RF signal from reflected light of an optical disk, a disk discriminator for discriminating a kind of the optical disk from the RF signal, and a top envelope generator and a bottom envelope generator respectively for generating the top and bottom envelope signals of the RF signal. If the disk has reflectance after recording which is lower than that before recording, the defect and mirror signals are generated respectively from the top and bottom envelope signals. If the disk has reflectance after recording which is higher than that before recording, the defect and mirror signals are generated respectively from the bottom and top envelope signals.
US07663981B2
The present invention provides a magnetooptic device, a magnetooptic head, and a magnetic disk drive each capable of performing optically assisted magnetic recording and each having a small size, improved recording density, and a higher transfer rate. In a magnetooptic device, a magnetic circuit including a magnetic gap and a thin film magnetic transducer having a coil portion are stacked on the surface of a semiconductor laser. By the arrangement, optically assisted magnetic recording can be performed, small size and light weight are achieved, and higher transfer rate can be implemented.
US07663977B1
A timer assembly mounted removably on a personal soap dispenser of a type having a pump operated by a soap dispensing plunger with a handle and spout. The timer assembly has a housing capsule with a timer for measuring a preselected time interval; LEDs and a music generating chip for signaling the time interval to the user, and a pressure switch for starting the timer. The housing capsule is received in a flexible hood/cover mounted on the top of the handle so that pressure switch is actuated to start the time by pressure of the user's hand during depression of the handle to dispense soap.
US07663975B2
An underwater detection apparatus for detecting a target by transmitting and receiving an ultrasound signal is provided. The apparatus includes a replica memory module for storing the typical amplitude evolution of a seawall echo during a predetermined time period as a template-replica beforehand, a correlator module for determining a correlation between the amplitude evolution of an echo signal reflected from the target and the template-replica, a seawall detector module for detecting a seawall position based on the correlation, and a seawall display processor module for displaying the seawall on its position in an indicator.
US07663972B2
A method for estimating seismic velocities in vertically transversely isotropic media includes generating an initial estimate of vertical interval velocity and interval normal moveout velocity with respect to depth from seismic data. An initial estimate is generated of a first anisotropy parameter with respect to depth. The first anisotropy parameter is related to the interval normal moveout velocity and the interval vertical velocity. An initial estimate is generated with respect to depth of a second anisotropy parameter. The second anisotropy parameter is related to the first anisotropy parameter and an interval anelliptic parameter. A first tomographic inversion is performed with respect to the interval normal moveout velocity and the second anisotropy parameter at a constant value of the first anisotropy parameter until travel time differentials reach minimum values. Layer depths are adjusted with the initial estimate of vertical interval velocity. Using values of the second anisotropy parameter determined in the first tomographic inversion, a second tomographic inversion is performed of interval normal moveout velocity and the first anisotropy parameter with respect to depth. The adjusted layer depths, interval normal moveout velocities and interval vertical velocities are again adjusted and interval anelliptic parameters are calculated from the second tomographic inversion.
US07663967B2
One package contains a plurality of memory chips. Each memory chip has an I/O terminal which generates a busy signal. The busy signal enables a busy state when a power supply voltage value reaches a specified and guaranteed range after a power-on sequence. The busy signal maintains the busy state until completion of initialization operations for the plurality of memory chips. The busy signal releases the busy state after completion of all initialization operations for the plurality of memory chips.
US07663964B2
A memory device including a memory cell array; an input circuit providing drive signals to the memory cell array dependent on externally received command data; an output buffer buffering data read out from the memory cell array; and a timer driving the output buffer such that the buffered data are provided at an output after an adjustable time interval has elapsed, the adjustable time interval beginning with the provision of the drive signals.
US07663961B1
A reduced-power memory (such as for a cache memory system of a processor or a microprocessor) provides per-sector power/ground control and early address to advantageously reduce power consumption. Selective power control of sectors comprised in the reduced-power memory is responsive to a subset of address bits used to access the memory. The selective power control individually powers-up a selected one of the sectors in response to an access, and then powers-down the selected sector when the access is complete. The power-up is via an increase of differential between power and ground levels from a retention differential to an access differential. Time needed to vary the differential is masked by providing address information used by the selective power control in advance of providing other address information. For example, in a cache, a tag access is overlapped with power-up of a selected sector, thus masking latency of powering up the selected sector.
US07663955B2
Methods and circuit arrangements are provided for improving equalization of sense nodes of a sense amplifier in a semiconductor memory device. When a memory array segment on a side a sense amplifier has a bitline leakage anomaly for which the sense amplifier is to be isolated when that memory is in an unselected state, isolation of the sense amplifier from the memory array segment is delayed when transitioning from a selected state of the memory array segment to an unselected state of the memory array segment. The duration of the delay is sufficient to allow time for equalization of the sense nodes of the sense amplifier before isolating the sense amplifier from the memory array segment.
US07663952B2
Circuits and methods are provided for precharging pairs of memory digit lines. The final precharge voltage of the digit lines is different from the average of the digit line voltages prior to precharging. The final precharge voltage can be set by appropriately selecting the size of a capacitor in the precharge circuit.
US07663947B2
A semiconductor device is disclosed which increases the data transfer rate in transferring data output from an input/output sense amplifier via a global data bus line by reducing the swing width of the data placed on the global data bus line. The semiconductor device may include a data transfer unit which receives first data, and outputs second data obtained by driving the first data to a predetermined level to a data transfer line; a data receiver which receives the second data transferred via the data transfer line; a delay which outputs a plurality of delay signals respectively obtained by delaying the second data outputted from the data transfer unit by different delay periods; a delay controller which selects one of the delay signals in accordance with an operation mode of the semiconductor device, and outputs at least one adjustment signal for adjusting a driving period of the data transfer unit for the first data based on the delay period of the selected delay signal; and a transfer controller which receives the first data and the at least one adjustment signal, and outputs at least one transfer control signal for controlling the operation of the data transfer unit, based on the received first data and adjustment signal.
US07663944B2
A semiconductor memory device includes an input data delay time adjustor for varying an input delay time, selecting one bit of a n-bit input data, delaying the selected one bit by the input delay time and outputting the delayed bit, in response to a control signal during an input data delay test operation; and an output data delay time adjustor for varying an output delay time, selecting one bit of a m-bit output data, delaying the selected one bit by the output delay time and outputting the delayed bit, in response to the control signal during an output data delay test operation, wherein the input data delay time adjustor is arranged for n-bit input data, and wherein the output data delay time adjustor is arranged for m-bit output data.
US07663941B2
This disclosure concerns a semiconductor memory device comprising memory cells including floating bodies storing data; word lines connected to gates of the memory cells; a pair of bit lines connected to the memory cells, and transmitting data of the memory cells; a pair of sense nodes connected to the bit lines, and transmitting the data of the memory cells; transfer gates connected between the bit lines and the sense nodes; a latch circuit latching a first high level potential to one of the pair of sense nodes, and latching a low level potential to the other sense node of the pair of sense nodes; and a level shifter applying a second high level potential higher than the first high level potential to one of the pair of bit lines according to the potentials latched to the pair of sense nodes during a data write operation or a data write-back operation.
US07663939B2
A memory module is disclosed. The memory module comprises a voltage supply; a memory interface coupled to the voltage supply; a plurality of memory components; and a voltage stabilizer converter (VSC) coupled to the memory interface and to the plurality of memory components, the VSC for ensuring that the plurality of memory components operate at their optimum performance level. A voltage stabilizer memory module (VSMM) in accordance with the present invention includes a printed circuit board (PCB) that contains memory chips, discrete components, a voltage stabilizer converter, and other related components. The voltage stabilizer converter uses system voltage supply as its input and its output is the voltage supply for the DRAM components. Accordingly, the VSSM is more adaptable, more stable and has better performance than conventional memory modules.
US07663935B2
A semiconductor memory device with adjustable I/O bandwidth includes a plurality of data I/O buffers connected one by one to a plurality of I/O ports, a switch array including a plurality of switches for connecting the plurality of data I/O buffers to a plurality of sense amplifier arrays, and a switch control unit for receiving external control signals to control the data I/O buffer and the plurality of switches.
US07663926B2
Memory devices and methods adapted to process and generate analog data signals representative of data values of two or more bits of information facilitate increases in data transfer rates relative to devices processing and generating only binary data signals indicative of individual bits. Programming of such memory devices includes programming to a target threshold voltage range representative of the desired bit pattern. Reading such memory devices includes generating an analog data signal indicative of a threshold voltage of a target memory cell. Warning of cell deterioration can be performed using reference cells programmed in accordance with a known pattern such as to approximate deterioration of non-volatile memory cells of the device.
US07663924B2
Methods of programming a non-volatile memory device having at least one memory block with a plurality of memory cells located at intersections of rows and columns is disclosed. Pursuant to these methods, at least two addresses that select corresponding rows of the memory block may be received and temporarily stored. Then, the rows selected by the temporarily stored addresses may be simultaneously activated, and at least some of the memory cells in the activated rows are simultaneously programmed. Corresponding non-volatile memory devices are also provided.
US07663915B2
A memory cell for storing 1-bit data is formed by using at least two memory elements in the OTP type nonvolatile memory using a memory element that have two states and can transit only in one direction. In the OTP type nonvolatile memory using a memory element that has two states of an H state (a first state) and an L (a second state) state (hereinafter simply referred to as H and L) and can electrically transit only in one direction from L to H, a memory cell for storing 1-bit data is formed by using two or more memory elements.
US07663911B2
Nanotube-based switching elements and logic circuits. Under one embodiment of the invention, a switching element includes an input node, an output node, a nanotube channel element having at least one electrically conductive nanotube, and a control electrode. The control electrode is disposed in relation to the nanotube channel element to controllably form an electrically conductive channel between the input node and the output node. The channel at least includes said nanotube channel element. The output node is constructed and arranged so that channel formation is substantially unaffected by the electrical state of the output node.
US07663905B2
A ferroelectric memory device includes a memory cell, read circuit, temperature sensing circuit, and read controller. The memory cell includes a ferroelectric capacitor. The read circuit is configured to read data from the memory cell. The temperature sensing circuit is configured to sense the ambient temperature of the memory cell. The read controller is configured to receive a temperature sensing signal from the temperature sensing circuit, and inhibit a data read operation by the read circuit when the temperature sensed by the temperature sensing circuit is higher than a preset temperature.
US07663904B2
The present invention provides a method of operating a one-time programmable read only memory (OTPROM). The OTPROM includes at least a select transistor, an electrode and a dielectric layer disposed on a substrate, wherein the electrode is set up on the source region of the select transistor and the dielectric layer is set up between the electrode and the source region. The method of operating the one-time programmable read only memory includes performing a programming operation to write a digital data value of ‘1’ into the memory and performing a programming operation to write a digital data value of ‘0’ into the memory.
US07663897B2
Occurrence of power supply noise arising in connection with a step-down action at the time of turning on power supply is to be restrained. A step-down unit is provided with a switched capacitor type step-down circuit and a series regulator type step-down circuit, and stepped-down voltage output terminals of the step-down circuits are connected in common. The common connection of the stepped-down voltage output terminals of both step-down circuits makes possible parallel driving of both, selective driving of either or consecutive driving of the two. In the consecutive driving, even if the switched capacitor type step-down circuit is driven after driving the series regulator type step-down circuit first to supply a stepped-down voltage to loads, the switched capacitor type step-down circuit will need only to be compensated for a discharge due to the loads, and a peak of a charge current for capacitors can be kept low. When operation of the switched capacitor type step-down circuit is started, no large rush current arises, and occurrence of noise is restrained.
US07663894B2
Provided is a multilayer printed wiring board in which power supply patterns are shortened to decrease an impedance and electromagnetic radiation noise. The multilayer printed wiring board includes: a power supply layer (1) having at least two power supply patterns (5) with different voltages formed thereon; and a conductor layer (2) overlaid on the power supply layer (1) via an insulator, and at least one of the power supply patterns (5) has a first pattern portion (10) and a second pattern portion (11) formed in a non-contact manner with each other, and the first pattern portion (10) and the second pattern portion (11) are electrically connected to each other via a relay portion (14) including a relay pattern (12) formed on the conductor layer (2) and through holes (13) for connecting the power supply layer (1) and the conductor layer (2) at both ends of the relay pattern (12).
US07663885B2
The IC fixing component includes a locking case accommodating the IC in such a manner that a side of the IC out of a face-to-face contact with the heat dissipation plate is brought into a face-to-face contact with the locking case so as to be covered and a through hole and a rotation stop protrusion inserted into a rotation limiting hole. After the IC has been accommodated in the locking case, the screw member inserted through the through hole is screwed into a screw hole of the heat dissipation plate so that the side of the IC out of face-to-face contact with the locking case is pressed by the locking case thereby to be brought into a face-to-face contact with the heat dissipation plate.
US07663882B2
A heat dissipating assembly for dissipating heat from a graphic card and a hard disk driver (30), includes a heat sink (10) for contacting the graphic card and a fan duct (20) fixed on the heat sink. The fan duct is made by bending a planar metal plate and has a first portion soldered to a top face of the heat sink and a second portion slantwise and upwardly extending from the first portion. When a fan (40) generates an airflow towards the heat sink, a part of the airflow flows through the heat sink to remove heat in the heat sink, and another part of the airflow is guided slantwise and upwardly by the second portion of the fan duct to flow through the hard disk driver, thereby to cool the hard driver.
US07663869B2
The display unit of the present invention includes a metal reinforcing component that reinforces a handle portion that is formed integrally with a rear surface side of a synthetic resin housing and has a finger insertion space provided on a bottom side thereof. As a result, strength can be secured without the thickness of the handle plate portion being made thicker.
US07663860B2
An electrostatic chuck for attracting and holding a substrate by using an electrostatic force includes a plurality of protrusion portions to be brought into contact with the substrate. The protrusion portions are formed of a ceramic dielectric including grains each having a specified particle diameter, and contact surfaces of the protrusion portions with the substrate are formed to have a surface roughness depending on the particle diameter.
US07663854B1
A laser diode control system is configured to limit cascade failure of a series of laser diodes. The laser diode series is coupled to an output filter of a power supply. The power supply is a switch-mode power supply and the output filter includes an LC circuit. The laser diode control system includes a protection circuit coupled to the laser diode series. The protection circuit includes a post regulator circuit and an inductor coupled in series to the laser diode series. The post regulator includes a transistor and two amplifiers configured to regulate a voltage across the transistor. In the event of a failure within the laser diode series, a current spike across the laser diode series is prevented by regulating the voltage across resistor.
US07663852B2
A switched mode controller for properly handling an under-voltage condition in a power line which includes a current mirror for receiving current from the power line; a reference current source coupled to the current mirror for supplying a reference current; and a power transistor coupled to the reference current source, the power transistor generating a pulse width modulated signal when current from the power line exceeds the reference current, the power transistor being disabled when current from the power line is less than the reference current.
US07663850B2
A method in connection with a frequency converter, which frequency converter comprises output phases and switches of the output phases, the output phases being switched to feed a load, and the main circuit of the frequency converter being provided with common-mode inductance. The method comprises a step where, in case of earth fault, switches of the output phase having an earth fault are modulated in such a way that the average potential of this phase corresponds to the ground potential.
US07663845B2
A current-perpendicular-to-plane magneto-resistive element includes a magneto-resistive film and a pair of upper and lower magnetic shielding films holding the magneto-resistive film therebetween for current feeding. The lower magnetic shielding film has an at least two-layer structure including a crystalline material layer and an amorphous material layer disposed below the crystalline material layer.
US07663836B2
A base plate and a cover plate for a hard disk drive. At least one of the base plate and the cover plate is formed with a push pin hole extended in a slot shape in a predetermined length through which a push pin passes to implement a servo track write. The push pin hole is provided with an enlarged portion to prevent collision of the push pin, when the push pin enters into the push pin hole.
US07663829B2
A method of testing a performance of a HGA including a magnetic head and a micro-actuator for precisely positioning the magnetic head with respect to a magnetic medium is disclosed. The key of the method is to obtain three track center values under conditions of no driving the micro-actuator, driving the micro-actuator in a positive direction using an operating DC voltage, and driving the micro-actuator in a negative direction using the operating DC voltage respectively, and finally do calculation of the three track center values, thus successfully obtains the displacement performance of the micro-actuator in a simple way. The method is capable of testing the HGA's performance under lower operating voltage by moving the slider by a predetermined distance toward an off-track direction, which accordingly assists to identify three track center values and thereby ensures the method an accurate measurement.
US07663828B2
Embodiments of the present invention pertain to determining the reliability of a disk drive. According to one embodiment, values for a parameter associated with a particular type of component of the disk drive are detected while simulating customer usage of the disk drive. The values are stored to enable analyzing the values for statistical variations to determine the reliability of the disk drive.
US07663823B2
A voice coil type lens drive assembly for adjusting the focus of a lens is provided which can prevent the occurrence of trouble in the event of exertion on an external force on the lens not only in a completed state of assembly but also during assembly or during disassembly for repair and is applicable also to a downsized lens drive assembly.
US07663821B2
A device for assembling a lens into a lens barrel is provided. The device includes a pressing rod and a sensing module positioned above the pressing rod. The pressing rod includes a first end and a second end opposite to the first end. The first end defines a first surface for pressing against the lens. The second end defines a second planar end surface. The sensing module includes a pressing surface for facing toward the second planar end surface, a number of force sensors mounted on the pressing surface, each force sensor being configured for sensing a counterforce applied thereto when the force sensors are pressed against the second planar end surface of the pressing rod.
US07663820B2
Provided is a position sensing device including a sensing unit that is mounted on one side of a lens barrel, which is inserted into a lens housing portion of a base so as to be vertically driven, and includes a light receiving section and a light emitting section which are provided to face each other; a driven grid that has a plurality of slits formed therein and is mounted on the lens barrel; and a fixed grid that has a plurality of slits formed therein and is fixed and coupled to the inside of the sensing unit.
US07663817B1
An optical system for a miniature camera is disclosed. The optical system can have a lens holder including mounting features to position a plurality of lenses. The mounting features can include mounting features that are configured to position a first plastic lens proximate an aperture end portion of the lens holder and/or mounting features that are configured to position a glass plano-convex lens along an optical path through an interior of the lens holder with a substantially planar surface of the glass plano-convex lens positioned toward the aperture end portion of the lens holder.
US07663814B2
The imaging lens system includes a negative first lens disposed on a most object side, having a concave surface directed toward the object side and having a meniscus shape, a cemented lens LC disposed on a most image side and having a convex surface on its most object side, and an aperture diaphragm disposed just in front of the object side of the cemented lens. The system satisfies the following conditional expressions: 0.05<(R2−R1)/(R1+R2)<0.25 vd1 −vd2 >15 where R1 and R2 denote radius of curvatures of object side and image side surfaces of the first lens, respectively, and vd1 and vd2 denote Abbe numbers of lenses, which are located on the most object side and on the most image side among lenses constituting the cemented lens, at the d-line, respectively.
US07663810B2
To provide a lens barrel having an improved assembly accuracy. The lens barrel is provided with: a stationary part; a movable part provided movably relative to the stationary part, its movement moving a lens relative to the stationary part; a rotary member to transfer to the movable part a driving force for moving the movable part relative to the stationary part; and a supporting part provided integrally with the stationary part to support a rotary axis of the rotary member.
US07663803B2
A multi-layered diffraction optical element, comprises a transparent substrate, a first layer having a diffraction grating shape at least on one face and comprised of a relatively high refractive index and low dispersion material, and a second layer having a diffraction grating shape at least on one face and comprised of a relatively low refractive index and high dispersion material, wherein the first and second layers are laminated on the transparent substrate so that the respective diffraction grating shapes are mutually opposed to each other with no space therebetween, and, the first layer is comprised of a first organic resin including a first inorganic fine particle, and the second layer is comprised of a second organic resin including a second inorganic fine particle different from the first inorganic fine particle.
US07663799B2
A movable particle display (such as an electrophoretic display) in which a plurality of closed spaces are two-dimensionally disposed along a surface of the substrate, a plurality of particles contained in each of the closed spaces, and a reflection surface for reflecting light which enters each of the closed particles are moved inside a closed space, between a position at which they cover a reflecting surface and a position at which they are collected to expose the reflecting surface. At least a part of the reflecting surface diffusely reflects incident light with an intensity distribution having directional properties (i.e. non-isotropically). The intensity of the diffusely reflected light has an angular distribution such that: (1) the amount of light reflected toward the position at which the particles are collected is smaller than in the case when the distribution of diffusely reflected light is isotropic, and (2) the amount of light reflected away from the position at which the particles are collected is larger than that of light reflected towards that position.
US07663797B2
Multicolor display elements are disclosed that are adapted to full color electric papers, which comprises a display electrode, counter electrode, electrolyte, and display layer, wherein the counter electrode is disposed oppositely to the display electrode, the electrolyte is filled into a space provided between the display electrode and the counter electrode, the display layer is disposed on the surface, which faces the counter electrode, of the display electrode, the display layer contains plural electrochromic compositions in a condition that the plural electrochromic compositions are separated into plural layers within the display layer or are mixed together within the display layer, and at least one of threshold voltage for coloring condition and threshold voltage for decoloring condition, or at least one of charge amount required for coloring into a sufficient color density and charge amount required for sufficiently decoloring, are substantially different each other between the plural electrochromic compositions.
US07663790B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an optical multi-beam scanning device and an image forming apparatus which adopt a horizontal synchronization sensor and can suppress displacement in a horizontal scanning direction even when latent images are written on a surface to be scanned by a plurality of light beams tilting with respect to the surface to be scanned. In the optical multi-beams scanning device of the present invention, when the light beams are assumed to reach the surface to be scanned with the light beams not being folded, the horizontal synchronization sensor is tilted so as to output a horizontal synchronized signal when the light beams come to the same position on the surface to be scanned in the horizontal scanning direction. In another method, the horizontal synchronization sensor is not tilted, and the similar function is executed by setting a boundary position between a shielding portion and a non-shielding portion of a light shielding member provided on an upper stream side. The image forming apparatus of the present invention adopts the optical multi-beam scanning device of the present invention.
US07663784B2
A method of storing and displaying photos on a digital photo frame is provided. The digital photo frame has a photo-sized display screen rotatably mounted on a support such that the display screen is configurable in landscape-viewing or portrait-viewing orientations by rotation of the screen. The method comprises the steps of: (i) storing photo image files tagged as either landscape orientation or portrait orientation in an internal memory of the digital photo frame; (ii) receiving an instruction to display photos stored in the internal memory; (iii) determining an orientation of the display screen; (iv) retrieving only photo image files from the internal memory that are tagged with an orientation corresponding to the orientation of the display screen; and (v) displaying the retrieved photo image files as photos on the display screen.
US07663776B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a document processing apparatus capable of extracting written-in notes on a paper document and printing a document only of written-in notes or a document with a part of written-in notes by a writer left behind, and setting a limit on printing on each written-in note. The above object is achieved by apparatus for processing a document by providing a paper document to print with information for identifying an electronic document as the origin of printing, comprising: written-in notes extracting means for extracting a difference (written-in notes) between the paper document and an electronic document and storing written-notes as image information; text conversion means for converting extracted written-in notes into text as character information, and storing the text; and means for generating a print document by laying out image information of written-in notes and written-in information in text form.
US07663769B2
A sheet thickness measuring device includes: an illumination unit that outputs a light that is illuminated into a stack of sheets from a first area defined on one of faces including a top face, a bottom face, and side faces of the stack of sheets; a detection unit that detects a light amount distribution of light entered into the stack of sheets and propagated to a second area through the stack of sheets, the second area defined on one of the side faces of the stack of sheets; and a calculation unit that calculates a thickness of a sheet in the stack of sheets based on the light amount distribution detected by the detection unit.
US07663765B2
A refractive-index measurement system includes a light source, a first beam splitter, a first reflective mirror, a second reflective mirror, a second beam splitter, a container, a first polarizer, and a second polarizer. The first beam splitter splits light emitted from the light source into first and second light beams. The first light beam and the second light beam are reflected by the first reflective mirror and the second reflective mirror, respectively, incident into the second light beam splitter. The container is positioned along an optical pathway of first light beam. The container accommodates a lens and is filled with a medium having a refractive index substantially the same as a theoretical refractive index of the lens. The first polarizer is positioned along the optical pathway of the first light beam. The second polarizer is positioned along an optical pathway of the second light beam.
US07663764B2
A measuring device for the optic measuring of an object 13a is provided, in particular for measuring a motion of the object. The device includes an interferometer 20 with a measuring beam exit 12, a reflection beam entry 14, an interfering beam exit 15, and a light source 1 for creating a light beam 8, an optic detector 16, which is arranged at the interfering beam exit 15 of the interferometer 20 such that a light beam exiting the interfering beam exit 15 impinges the detector and a signal processing unit 17 connected to the detector 16 being embodied such that they can measure measuring signals of the detector 16. The interferometer (20) is provided with a switched beam entry (18) and is embodied such that dependent on a switching signal connected to a switched beam entry (18) a light beam exits the measuring beam exit (12) essentially with a predetermined light intensity and at a predetermined angle, and that the signal processing unit (17) is provided with a switched beam exit, which is connected to the switched beam entry (18) of the interferometer, with the signal processing unit (17) controlling the interferometer such that a light beam exits the measuring beam exit (12) only during the measuring of measuring signals essentially with a predetermined light intensity and at a predetermined angle.
US07663763B2
A laser gyro includes a semiconductor medium and assembled discrete elements, thus offering the possibility of producing large cavities for achieving the desired precision. More precisely, the laser gyro includes an optical ring cavity and a semiconductor amplifying medium with an external cavity having a vertical structure. The semiconductor amplifying medium which is used in reflection includes a stack of plane gain regions that are mutually parallel, and the dimensions of the cavity being substantially are larger than those of the amplifying medium.
US07663762B2
This invention generally relates to an optical filter for a fiber optic communication system. A coupled multi-cavity optical filter may be used, following a directly modulated laser source, and converts a partially frequency modulated signal into a substantially amplitude modulated signal. The optical filter may compensate for the dispersion in the fiber optic transmission medium and may also lock the wavelength of the laser source.
US07663760B2
An optical constant calculation method capable of calculating an accurate optical constant of an underlayer film to accurately identify a substrate surface structure. After each of films is layered on a wafer, there are measured the reflectivity of an oxide film under which an organic insulation film is formed and the reflectivity of an organic insulation film exposed after removal by plasma of the oxide film. Based on the measured reflectivities, the optical constant of the organic insulation film after being altered by heat treatment and the optical constant of the organic insulation film after being altered by plasma are calculated.
US07663756B2
Devices and method for photo acoustically detecting a gas are disclosed. In one illustrative embodiment, a gas sensor includes an optical cavity defined by one or more optical segments separating at least two mirrors. A photo acoustic cell, configured to receive a gas from the surrounding environment, is provided at least partially within one or more of the optical segments of the optical cavity. One of the at least two mirrors is configured to couple electromagnetic radiation into the optical cavity and to interact with the gas. A detector is acoustically coupled to the photo acoustic cell to detect absorption of the electromagnetic radiation by the gas.
US07663753B2
Disclosed are techniques, apparatus, and targets for determining overlay error between two layers of a sample. Target A is designed to have an offset Xa between its first and second structures portions; target B is designed to have an offset Xb; target C is designed to have an offset Xc; and target D is designed to have an offset Xd. Each of the offsets Xa, Xb, Xc and Xd is preferably different from zero; Xa is an opposite sign and differ from Xb; and Xc is an opposite sign and differs from Xd. The targets A, B, C and D are illuminated with electromagnetic radiation to obtain spectra SA, SB, SC, and SD from targets A, B, C, and D, respectively. Any overlay error between the first structures and the second structures is then determined using a linear approximation based on the obtained spectra SA, SB, SC, and SD.
US07663750B2
Systems, including methods, apparatus, and algorithms, for spectrally imaging a two-dimensional array of samples.
US07663747B2
A technique is provided for monitoring and controlling surface contaminants on optical elements contained within the optical path (or sub-path) of an optical metrology instrument. The technique may be utilized in one embodiment in such a manner as to not require that additional components and/or instrumentation be coupled to, or integrated into, existing metrology equipment. Surface contaminants on optical elements within an optical metrology instrument are monitored so that cleaning procedures can be performed as deemed necessary. The cleaning procedures may include the use of exposing the optical elements to optical radiation. The optical metrology instrument may be an instrument which operates at wavelengths that include vacuum ultra-violet (VUV) wavelengths.
US07663744B2
A mirror is provided with a light source window and an illumination window each establishing communicative connection between an inner face side and an outer side of a hemispherical unit. The light source window is an opening to which a light source OBJ to be measured is attached mainly. The illumination window is an opening for guiding a flux of light from a correcting light source used for measurement of self-absorption toward the inner face of the hemispherical unit. A self-absorption correcting coefficient of the light source OBJ is calculated based on an illuminance by a correcting flux of light in a case where the light source to be measured OBJ in a non-light emitting state is attached to the light source window and an illuminance by a correcting flux of light in a case where a calibration mirror is attached to the light source window.
US07663741B2
Lithographic apparatus, device manufacturing method, calibration method and computer program product
To calibrate a lithographic apparatus contrast in the aerial image is measured for a plurality of different settings of available manipulators of the projection system. Appropriate settings of the manipulators are determined as those giving the maximum contrast values.
US07663730B2
Disclosed is a heat radiator which is provided in a transmissive display unit in which a plurality of rows of light emitting arrays constituted by arranging a plurality of light emitting units including a plurality of LEDs mounted on a wiring substrate are arranged on the back surface side of a transmissive display panel, and illuminating light emitted from the LEDs is irradiated onto the display panel. In the heat radiator, a radiation plate (28) supporting LEDs (18) and a heat sink (37) constitute an overlap area (57) with a back panel (13) interposed therebetween and are integrated with each other through the back panel by a fixing member in the overlap area. The back panel, radiation plate, and heat sink are firmly mounted to each other, achieving effective heat radiation.
US07663728B2
A system for providing conducting pads of a display panel has a base layer on a substrate, a first insulator on the base layer having a plurality of grooves, a second conductive layer inside the grooves, and a patterned third conductive layer covering the second conductive layer. The first insulator serves as a barricade for fixing the second conductive layer in the grooves.
US07663721B2
A multi-domain vertical alignment liquid crystal display panel comprising a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a plurality of phase-compensating protrusions is provided. The second substrate is configured above the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is formed between first substrate and the second substrate. The phase-compensating domain regulating protrusions are formed on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate. The phase-compensating domain regulating protrusions have a plurality of anisotropic birefringence molecules. The slow-axes of the anisotropic birefringence molecules are in a different direction from the slow-axes of the liquid crystal molecules near the phase-compensating protrusions. Therefore, the plurality of anisotropic birefringence molecules can compensate for the phase retardation here, thereby improving the light leakage in the dark state.
US07663712B2
This invention relates to a display apparatus comprising: a) a light source; b) a light guiding plate for transmitting light from the light source outward from a two-dimensional light-providing surface, one dimension of the light-providing surface defined in a width direction orthogonal to the path of incident light from the light source defined in a width direction orthogonal to the path of incident light from the light source and the other dimension of the light-providing surface defined in a length direction, orthogonal to the width direction; c) a linear divergence reduction surface for reducing the divergence of light from the light providing surface predominantly with respect to the width direction, to provide a linearly divergence-reduced illumination, whereby divergence along the width direction at full-width half-maximum is less than about 50% of divergence at full-width half-maximum along the length direction; d) a liquid crystal display component for modulating the linearly divergence-reduced light to form a modulated light according to image data, and, e) a diffusing surface in the path of the modulated light.
US07663710B2
A liquid crystal display device of horizontal electric field type and a fabricating method thereof is provided.The liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of gate lines. Data lines cross in such a manner to insulate with the gate lines to define a pixel area. A first short preventive hole is arranged between a (n−1)th gate line and a (n)th gate line of the plurality of gate lines. And a bifarious pixel area is arranged between the (n)th gate line and a (n+1)th gate line of the plurality of gate lines.
US07663706B2
An in-wall type multi-functional television set being embedded in the wall of home, accommodated and withdrawn from the wall. The in-wall type multi-functional television set includes a main body having an accommodating part provided at a front side of the main body, an input part with a plurality of input keys provided at a side of the main body, a television signal receiving circuit for receiving and outputting a broadcast television signal, speakers for outputting an audio signal received from the television signal receiving circuit, and a controller for controlling the in-wall type multi-functional television set, a monitor, accommodated in and withdrawn from the accommodating part of the main body, for displaying the video signal received from the television signal receiving circuit, and a connecting part having an end portion connected to the accommodating part and the other end portion connected to the monitor.
US07663697B2
An apparatus, system, and method for determining an operational threshold level for distinguishing between video data and synchronization data in a video signal, are described herein.
US07663687B2
A digital cinema camera includes a plurality of imagers and a plurality of shutters mounted radially on a frame. A beam splitter disposed at a center of the frame rotates to provide an input optical beam sequentially to the plurality of imagers. When the input optical beam is aligned with a particular one of the imagers, a corresponding one of the shutters is triggered to apply the optical beam on the particular one of the imagers. The electrical signals generated by the imagers are first stored in RAM, and then transferred to a hard disk drive disposed in a removable magazine. This way, the magazine can be replaced with a new magazine, and the latent image data can be downloaded out of the removed magazine for post-processing while new image data is being stored in the new magazine.
US07663683B2
A solid state image sensing device includes an MOS transistor T2 that has a source thereof connected to a drain of an MOS transistor T1 being provided with a transfer gate which is connected to an embedded photodiode PD; an MOS transistor T5 that has a gate thereof connected to the drain of the MOS transistor T1; and a condenser that has a source thereof connected to the MOS transistor T5. When a linear conversion operation is performed in an entire range of luminance, the MOS transistor T2 works, serving as a switch for resetting, and at least when a logarithmic conversion operation is performed in a part of the range of luminance, the MOS transistor T2 works in a sub-threshold region.
US07663682B2
A variable sensitivity imaging device comprises: a substrate; a photosensitive layer which is stacked above the substrate, and which is interposed between a pixel electrode layer and an opposing electrode layer; a signal reading section, formed on said substrate, that reads a signal corresponding to photo-charges which are generated by incidence of light into the photosensitive layer; and a voltage applying section that applies a voltage for making a sensitivity variable between the pixel electrode layer and the opposing electrode layer.
US07663679B2
An imaging apparatus is provided and includes a solid-state imaging device including a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements; and a image data-generation unit that generates image data represented by a first luminance signal and a color-difference signal, based on signals from the plurality of the photoelectric conversion elements. The plurality of photoelectric conversion elements include a photoelectric conversion element for obtaining a second luminance signal. In the image data-generation unit, a signal in each pixel position of image data to be generated is interpolated, a third luminance signal is generated in the each pixel position from the interpolated signal, and the first luminance signal in the each pixel position is generated by synthesizing the second and third luminance signals.
US07663677B2
An imaging apparatus of the present invention includes an optical lens unit of a photographic optical system; an imaging device for converting light received through the optical lens to electrical signals; a zooming device for changing a focal length of the photographic optical system; a zooming position detector for detecting a current zooming position; an A/D converter for converting analog image signals outputted from the imaging device to digital image signals; and a gradation sequence converter which converts a gradation sequence characteristic of the digital image signals by referring to a gradation sequence conversion table for converting the gradation sequence characteristic, wherein converting amounts of the gradation sequence conversion table are changed based on a current zooming position detected by the zooming position detector.
US07663670B1
The present invention is related to providing, in association with an image, information related to the image capture device used to capture the image. In one embodiment, information related to a first static camera characteristic and camera setting information related to a first captured digitized image is embedded in the first captured digitized image using a watermark. The watermarked information may be used to identify the source or owner of the picture, and/or to aid in the more accurate reproduction of the image.
US07663668B2
An imaging device has color signal generating means (20) for outputting first color signals (R5, G5, B5) corresponding to incident light, and matrix operation means (67) for performing a matrix calculation including multiplication of the first color signals, color signals obtained by raising the first color signals to a power with a first constant (i) as an exponent, color signals obtained by raising the first color signals to a power with a second constant (j) as an exponent, and corresponding matrix coefficients to obtain second color signals (R6, G6, B6). The first and second constants and the matrix coefficients are determined so that the total characteristics of the color signal generating means and the spectral sensitivity characteristic correction means (6) approximate human chromatic curves or spectral sensitivity curves obtained by a linear transformation thereof. Good color reproducibility can be obtained without the use of an infrared cut filter for chromatic correction in the imaging device, and high-sensitivity imaging can be performed under dark conditions.
US07663658B2
An image forming apparatus includes a plurality of image carrier units and a position determining unit. The image carrier units form toner images in a sequential manner, and each of the plurality of image carrier units includes an image carrier and a supporting member to support the image carrier. The position determining unit includes a holding member having a plurality of openings for receiving the supporting members of the respective image carriers and a pressure mechanism. Each of the plurality of openings has a predetermined shape to sustain a weight of a corresponding one of the plurality of image carrier units through a corresponding one of the supporting members in a vertical direction and to grip the corresponding one of the supporting members in a horizontal direction. The pressure mechanism presses the supporting members held through the plurality of openings of the holding member to fix the image carriers at respective specific positions.
US07663657B2
An optical scanning device includes a light source having light emitting points for emitting light beams, a coupling optical element that couples the light beams, a deflecting unit that deflects and scans the light beams, and a scanning optical system that focus the light beams to form an image. The optical scanning device satisfies the following condition: F tan(θ/2)+A
US07663653B2
An optical head is adapted to form an electrostatic latent image on an image carrier. A transparent substrate has a first face adapted to oppose the image carrier and a second face opposing the first face. An organic EL photo emitter is disposed so as to oppose the second face of the substrate. In the photo emitter, a light emitting layer is adapted to emit light irradiating the image carrier to form the electrostatic latent image. An electrode layer is laminated on the light emitting layer. A reflection reducer eliminates stray light generated when the light emitted from the light emitting layer is reflected by at least the electrode layer.
US07663652B1
The method is implemented using a control program shown in FIG. 1 running on a host-based or a Local Area Network server which receives incoming electronic mail (e-mail) messages over a network, which is connected at least periodically to a Wide Area Network or Internet, and stores the e-mail messages in a recipient's private mail box. The server is responsive to a send list signal from the recipient for sending a summary list of brief headers of the e-mail messages to the recipient so that the recipient can select a specific e-mail message to read. The recipient selects the specific e-mail message to read by sending a selection signal to the server which then makes a decision to determine whether the recipient is an opt-in customer who has given approval to receive e-mail messages with advertisements introduced within the e-mail messages. Assuming that the recipient is an opt-in customer, the server selects from the e-mail messages the specific e-mail message which relates to the selection signal received from the recipient, selects from a plurality of advertisements stored in an associate database an advertisement which corresponds to the recipient's name in the selected e-mail message header and which is aligned with the personal interests of the recipient, and sends the selected e-mail message to the recipient and introduces the selected advertisement within the selected e-mail message as it is sent to the recipient.
US07663651B2
An image has pixels arranged in ((M lines)×(N columns)) each pixel having color information. A display has elements arranged in ((P lines)×(Q columns), 1
US07663647B2
Digitally compositing an object from an input image onto a destination image is disclosed. The object is composited from an image having an arbitrary or non-uniform colored background containing some non-static elements onto a destination image with reduced effects from shadows cast by the object and with reduced gaps or holes within the object. The effect of shadows emanating from the object is reduced so that the composited object in the destination image contains only the object clearly outlined by the object's physical boundaries without the effect of shadows cast by the object.
US07663645B1
An image display device for providing an image to an observer; the invention comprises: a display module configured to display an image and an image transducer module. The image transducer module includes a visual information receiver module coupled to the display module to receive visual information. A control module in communication with the visual information receiver module and with the display module configured to deliver visual information to the display module for display; wherein the display module displays a non-mirror image of the analog visual information. A mounting device coupled to a back of the display module and configured to mount the display module to a surface. Wherein the control module includes an image modification module configured to enable a user to selectively modify a displayed image. Wherein the display module includes a LCD display sized to provide a life-sized full body image of an average person.
US07663633B1
A multiple GPU (graphics processor unit) graphics system is disclosed. The multiple GPU graphics system includes a plurality of GPUs configured to execute graphics instructions from a computer system. A GPU output multiplexer and a controller unit are coupled to the GPUs. The controller unit is configured to control the GPUs and the output multiplexer such that the GPUs cooperatively execute the graphics instructions from the computer system.
US07663628B2
An apparatus for animating a moving and speaking enhanced-believability, character in real time, comprising a plurality of behavior generators, each for defining a respective aspect of facial behavior, a unifying scripter, associated with the behavior generators, the scripter operable to combine the behaviors into a unified animation script, and a renderer, associated with the unifying scripter, the renderer operable to render the character in accordance with the script, thereby to enhance believability of the character.
US07663620B2
Providing axonometric views of layers containing objects while preserving the visual attributes of the objects is disclosed. A group of objects, e.g., overlapping objects, is determined. Layer dimensions are calculated such that each object in the group is encompassed by a layer. Objects are placed in the layers and the layers are displayed in axonometric views. Visual cues to indicate selected layers are provided. Controls to adjust the depth of the layers and to enable moving objects in the selected layer are also provided.
US07663618B2
Power-efficient, pulsed driving of capacitive loads to controllable voltage levels, with particular applicability to LCDs. Energy stored in a portion of the capacitive load is recovered during a recovery phase. Time-varying signals are used to drive the load and to recover the stored energy, thus minimizing power losses, using processes named adiabatic charging and adiabatic discharging.
US07663616B2
A data driving circuit for displaying an image with a desired brightness comprises: a current digital-analog converter for generating a gradation current corresponding to external data, and for receiving a first current corresponding to the gradation current from a pixel via a data line; a current control unit for receiving a pixel current from the pixel via the data line, and for selectively increasing and decreasing a level of the first current in accordance with the received pixel current; and a selection unit for selectively connecting the data line to either the current digital-analog converter or the current control unit. An organic light emitting diode and a method of driving same are similarly configured. With these configurations, an image is displayed with desired brightness.
US07663614B2
A method is provided for creating a quadrant array by using two consecutive points in an array of x, y coordinate values generated by movements of a computer mouse or a digitizer tablet. The quadrant array is then saved in computer storage for later verification with a sample quadrant array by using a comparison function.
US07663609B2
A touch input device for use with a display that shows a plurality of items. The touch input device is operated by a user to select an item shown on the display. The touch input device includes a sensor having an operation plane for touching by the user with a finger. The sensor generates a sensor signal indicating contact area of the finger with the operation plane. The operation plane is pressed by the finger when the user selects an item from the display. When an increase rate of the finger contact area over a predetermined time period becomes greater than an increase rate threshold, the touch input device determines that the operation plane of the sensor has been pressed by the user to select an item.
US07663608B2
A handwriting input apparatus comprises a position-encoding layer and a pen. The position-encoding layer comprises a plurality of position-encoding pattern. The position-encoding layer is transparent to visible light and is reflective to light of predetermined wavelengths. Each position-encoding pattern represents a specific code. The pen has a projector and a camera at one end. The projector is adapted to generate a light beam of the predetermined wavelengths toward the position-encoding layer. The camera is adapted to capture images of the plurality of position-encoding pattern.
US07663606B2
In a method for determining an operating frequency of a touch screen unit a first set of sinusoidal signals may be provided to a plurality of electrodes of a touch screen, each sinusoidal signal in the first set of sinusoidal signals having a first frequency, and a first value indicative of the amount of current flowing from the plurality of electrodes when the touch screen is not being touched by a person and when the first set of sinusoidal signals is provided to the plurality of the electrodes may be determined. A second set of sinusoidal signals may be provided to the plurality of electrodes of the touch screen, each sinusoidal signal in the second set of sinusoidal signals having a second frequency, and a second value indicative of the amount of current flowing from the plurality of electrodes when the touch screen is not being touched by the person and when the second set of sinusoidal signals is provided to the plurality of the electrodes may be determined. An operating frequency of sinusoidal signals to be provided to the plurality of electrodes may be determined based on the first value and the second value.
US07663603B2
A mobile telephone handset (MS1) capable of sending and receiving text message. The handset contains disambiguation software (20) operable to disambiguate inputted text with reference to a dictionary (19) stored in memory (10). When receiving new text messages, the dictionary is updated with words contained in the message.
US07663601B1
Operating a pointing device in a low power manner by receiving first tracking information from a first tracking device, de-activating the first tracking device when the accuracy of the first tracking information is determined to be inadequate, activating a second tracking device in order to acquire second tracking information when the first tracking device is deactivated, wherein the first tracking device is substantially lower power device that the second tracking device.
US07663595B2
A common voltage adjusting circuit (200) includes a delta adder (21), a sigma adder (22), a sigma latch (23), and a quantization circuit (24). The delta adder includes a first input terminal configured for receiving a binary signal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. The sigma adder includes a first input terminal connected to the output terminal of the delta adder, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. The sigma latch includes a first input terminal connected to the output terminal of the sigma adder, and an output terminal connected to the second input terminal of the delta adder and the second input terminal of the sigma adder. The quantization circuit includes a first input terminal connected to the output of the sigma latch, and an output terminal connected to a common electrode of a TFT-LCD.
US07663588B2
A circuit for driving a liquid crystal display device, as embodied, includes: a gray level voltage generator for generating a plurality of gray level voltages; and an intermediate gray level voltage generator for receiving a first gray level voltage and a second gray level voltage among the plurality of gray level voltages and for selectively outputting one of the first gray level voltage and a third gray level voltage through a plurality of capacitors, a value of the third gray level voltage being between the first and second gray level voltage and set by the plurality of capacitors, the intermediate gray level voltage generator including: an operational amplifier for pre-charging the plurality of capacitors using a current outputted from the operational amplifier and for selectively outputting one of the first gray level voltage and the third gray level voltage.
US07663587B2
A liquid crystal display device has a gradation display function of at least an n-number of gray levels and has a viewing angle characteristic of Mi/Mj≦1.3 in a case where a display luminance range in a normal direction to a display surface in a gradation range of predetermined gray levels i to j is Li to Lj and a display luminance range in an oblique viewing-angle direction of 30° or more is Mi to Mj (where n, i and j are real numbers, and n≧i>j≧0). The liquid crystal display device has a display mode in which a display image is displayed with a display luminance range of the display image being limited to Li to Lj.
US07663583B2
An IPS mode LCD device is disclosed in which a common voltage drop and delay is decreased. The LCD includes gate and data lines crossing each other to define pixel regions. Thin film transistors are formed at crossing portions of the gate and data lines. Common lines are parallel with the gate lines and common electrodes project from the common lines parallel with the data lines. Pixel electrodes connected with drain electrodes of the thin film transistors are formed in the pixel regions between the parallel common electrodes. A first common voltage supplying line applies a first common voltage or a second common voltage to a closed circuit formed by grouping the adjacent odd numbered common lines. A second common voltage supplying line applies the second common voltage or the first common voltage to a closed circuit formed by grouping the adjacent even numbered common lines.
US07663569B2
An image display apparatus includes a memory for holding in advance, of the one or more information terminal apparatuses connected via a network, information of information terminal apparatuses whose connection to the network is desired, a controller for reading out the information of the information terminal apparatuses stored in the memory, and display section for displaying a list of the information of the information terminal apparatuses. In this case, the image display apparatus further includes selector for selecting one information terminal apparatus from the list displayed on the display section, it is able to change the connection of the information terminal apparatus to desired information terminal apparatus by manipulation of the selector on a display screen.
US07663558B2
A mobile device includes a housing having a transceiver configured to transmit and/or receive a signal. A stand attachable to the housing has a profile that increases stability of the housing in a resting position. The stand may also be attachable to a further housing such as an interface device configured for connection or attachment to the housing of the mobile device. The stand may include a first portion connectable to the wireless mobile device, a second portion, and an antenna having holes and being sandwiched between the first portion and the second portion. The antenna holes may be configured for allowing passage of liquid material during molding together the first portion, the second portion and the antenna to form a molded stand. The antenna may be operationally coupled to the transceiver. A base plate having hole(s) and connector(s) may also be sandwiched between the first portion and the antenna.
US07663555B2
An antenna for a communications device having configurable elements controlled to modify an antenna impedance and/or an antenna resonant frequency to improve performance of the communications device. The antenna impedance is controlled to substantially match to an output impedance of a power amplifier that supplies the antenna with a signal for transmission. The antenna resonant frequency is controlled to overcome the effects of various operating conditions that can detune the antenna or in response to an operable frequency band.
US07663553B2
The present invention relates to a dielectric resonator antenna (DRA) with a transverse-rectangle well. The DRA comprising a substrate, a ground plane, a feed conductor, and a dielectric resonator. The resonator further includes a main body and a well penetrating the main body to enhance the electric field, to increase the radiation efficiency, to broaden the bandwidth, and to create new resonant mode. The DRA has the radiation pattern of broad beamwidth with vertical polarization. Accordingly, the invention can also be adjusted as WLAN 802.11a antenna.
US07663551B2
A multiband antenna, and component for implementing a multiband antenna for, e.g., a small-sized radio device. In one embodiment, the antenna component comprises a simple and reliable dielectric substrate, the conductive coating of which forms a radiating element. This has a plurality (e.g., two) resonances for forming separate operating bands. The lower resonance is based on the entire element, and the upper resonance on the head part of the element. The conductive coating has a pattern, which functions as a parallel resonance circuit between the head part and the tail part of the element. The natural frequency of this parallel resonance circuit is in the range of the upper operating band of the antenna. The resonance frequencies of the antenna and thus its operating bands can be tuned independently of each other so that the tuning cycle need not be repeated.
US07663549B2
An incoming direction estimation apparatus estimates an incoming direction of a radar wave using three or more sensors or antennas simultaneously. An arithmetic expression for estimating an incoming direction of a radar wave is configured as sin−1((1/2πa)*tan−1b). The “a” is d/λ determined by an antenna interval and by a wavelength λ of a carrier, or such, carrying the radar wave. A simultaneous use of three antennas makes it possible to set the a as a value depending on a value d0=a0λ based on the interval between first antennas and value d1=a1λ based on the interval between second antennas. Therefore, if a wide field of vision of an incoming direction is needed, it is only necessary to adjust (d1−d0)/λ=(a1−a0), in place of the absolute interval of antennas a=d/λ, thereby making it possible to lessen a limitation on the design of antennas and set a field of vision of the incoming direction appropriately.
US07663547B2
Determining a geolocation solution of an emitter on earth based on weighted least-squares estimation
Embodiments provide systems and methods for determining the geolocation of an emitter on earth based on weighted least-squares estimation based on two TDOA and two FDOA measurements, none of which need to be acquired at the same time. The four TDOA and FDOA measurements and the errors in each of the measurements are determined. Weights for the errors in the TDOA and FDOA measurements are determined, and the weights are applied in a weighted errors function. The weights account for the errors in the measurements and the errors in the satellite positions and velocities, and are dependent on the localization geometry. The weighted errors function is minimized to determine the location estimate of the unknown emitter.
US07663540B2
A calculation server estimates a position of a mobile terminal that communicates with a base station incorporated with received global positioning system satellite signals. The calculation server includes a positioning information analyzer configured to select one of the positioning modes to be used out of a cell/sector positioning mode and a hybrid positioning mode on the basis of a distance between a cellular base station and the mobile terminal, and a position detector configured to calculate the position of the mobile terminal in the positioning mode selected by the positioning information analyzer.
US07663537B2
A target detecting apparatus mounted on a vehicle has an electronically agile radar detecting a beat signal indicating a difference in frequency between transmission and reception signals and producing a time series of N reception data from the beat signal, a determining unit determining search areas placed at different ranges of distance from the vehicle while considering a running state of the vehicle and determining a data length for each search area, an extracting unit extracting (N−M+1) time series of short time data, respectively, having the data length corresponding to M reception data from the N reception data for each search area, a producing unit producing phase information from the short time data for each search area, and a detecting unit determining a target distance and a target bearing from the phase information and detecting a target from the target distance and the target bearing.
US07663535B2
A system is disclosed for position registration and phase synchronization of monitors in a monitor network. Each monitor includes a transceiver having a transponder circuit with a calibrated transponder delay. To measure a distance between monitors, an oscillator at a first monitor generates a measurement signal which is transponded by a second monitor for receipt by the first monitor. A phase difference between the received signal and the first monitor oscillator is determined and used with the signal velocity and transponder delay to calculate the distance between monitors. The measured distances are combined with other data (e.g. monitor elevations) to calculate monitor locations. A phase delay is then measured by transmitting a signal from the first to the second monitor for comparison with the second monitor oscillator. A phase difference between oscillators (for use in synchronizing the monitors) is then calculated using the phase delay, separation distance and signal velocity.
US07663529B2
Provided are two-dimensional autofocus methods in a synthetic aperture radar (SAR) system which include: (1) two-dimensional pulse pair product algorithm including shear PGA, eigenvector phase history (“EPH”), shear PGA/EPH); (2) two-dimensional optimization algorithms including parametric one-dimensional estimate/two-dimensional correction, parametric two dimensional estimate/two-dimensional correction, unconstrained two-dimensional nonparametric and constrained two-dimensional nonparametric methods; (3) a two-dimensional geometry filter algorithm; (4) a two-dimensional prominent point processing algorithm; (5) a one-dimensional phase estimate of higher order two dimensional phase errors; and, (6) a fast SHARP parametric autofocus algorithm.
US07663528B1
A hostile missile engager senses the missile and supplies kinematic data to an interceptor missile fire control processor, which predicts the target's future location with the aid of a powered/unpowered identifier. The identifier passes the kinematic data through filters having lags for powered and unpowered operation, to produce residuals and residual covariances. The probabilities of powered and unpowered motion are determined, and thresholded. If the probability of powered motion or unpowered motion exceeds its threshold, the motion is deemed known. If the target is deemed to be powered, a set of the three-dimensional kinematic features is applied to a nine-state Kalman filter to produce an optimal state. If the target missile is unpowered, a set of the three-dimensional kinematic features corresponding to the second lag is applied to a six-state Kalman filter to produce an optimal state for the unpowered motion. The optimal states control the interceptor toward the target.
US07663520B2
An A/D conversion apparatus performs motor current detection in an A/D conversion period corresponding to two phases out of three phases of a sinusoidal drive motor, using reduced register resources while minimizing the number of A/D converters. The A/D conversion apparatus includes: a selection unit selecting one of a plurality of input channels; an A/D converter converting an analog signal from the selected input channel to a digital signal; a start register holding a start channel number of sequential conversion; an end register holding an end channel number of the sequential conversion; a prohibition information holding unit holding prohibition information indicating an input channel to be excluded from the sequential conversion; and a control unit causing the selection unit to select, in channel number order, input channels corresponding to channel numbers from the start channel number to the end channel number except the input channel indicated by the prohibition information.
US07663518B2
An analog to digital converter comprising a conversion engine having redundancy therein; and a dither device for applying a dither to the conversion engine; and a controller adapted to operate the conversion engine to perform a successive approximation conversion of the analog input, and wherein the dither is removed prior to completion of the analog to digital conversion.
US07663515B2
A high-speed serial interface circuit includes a data receiver circuit, a clock signal receiver circuit, a logic circuit block that includes at least a serial/parallel conversion circuit, a free-running clock signal generation circuit, a clock signal detection circuit, and an output mask circuit. The clock signal detection circuit compares a received clock signal from the clock signal receiver circuit with a free-running clock signal from the free-running clock signal generation circuit to detect whether or not clock signals are transferred through differential clock signal lines. When the clock signal detection circuit has detected that the clock signals are not transferred through the differential clock signal lines, the output mask circuit masks an output signal from the logic circuit block so that the output signal is not transmitted to a circuit in the subsequent stage. The present invention can prevent a partial characteristic variation by NBTI by inputting a free-running clock into a logic block, and operating it.
US07663514B2
An encoding processing apparatus includes a first storing section for storing first encoded information and second encoded information, a second storing section for storing a table indicating association relation between the first encoded information and the second encoded information, an arithmetic section for calculating the second encoded information by reading the first encoded information stored in the first storing section and searching the table stored in the second storing section, a third storing section for storing by associating the first encoded information previously read from the first storing section and the second encoded information, a first control section for reading the second encoded information associated with the first encoded information from the third storing section, and a second control section for storing by associating the first encoded information with the second encoded information in the third storing section. The arithmetic section performs processing of searching the table stored in the second storing section and calculating the second encoded information.
US07663510B2
A physical keyboard for a handheld mobile communication device having a plurality of keys with corresponding indicia including keys simultaneously presenting associated alphabetic indicia and associated numeric indicia. The alphabetic indicia correspond to letters A-Z that are arranged in a QWERTY pattern and the numeric indicia correspond to at least numerals 1-9 that are arranged in an ITU Standard E.161 phone keypad pattern. At least some of the numerals and at least some of the letters are presented on the same keys thereby establishing an overlaid relationship. The keys that present alphabetic indicia number fewer than 26.
US07663504B2
An emergency vehicle transmits a Vehicle Present Signal when in transit on public roads responding to an emergency. The signal can include information relating to the type of emergency vehicle, local highway and terrain data, and the location, speed and direction of travel of the emergency vehicle. When the Vehicle Present Signal is detected by a first vehicle, a functional circuit within the first vehicle calculates the distance between the emergency vehicle and the first vehicle. If the vehicles are within a predetermined distance, a warning signal activates one or more warning systems, thereby notifying the driver of the first vehicle that an emergency vehicle is in the vicinity. A dead-band defined by first and second predetermined distances can be incorporated to prevent rapid cycling of the warning signal.
US07663491B2
Disclosed is a substrate damage detection mechanism using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag including a substrate, at least one RFID tag with a RFID chip, a RFID transmitter and at least one data input/output port and at least one conducting circuit loop arranged to cover the substrate and provided with a first end that is electrically connected to a reference voltage and a second end that is electrically connected to the data input/output port of the RFID tag. The RFID chip generates a conductive code when the conducting circuit loop is originally conducting and generates a open-circuit code when the conducting circuit loop becomes open circuit resulting from the damage of the substrate in which both the conductive code and the open-circuit code are transmitted by the RFID transmitter and received by a RFID reader to determine the damage of the substrate.
US07663490B2
A wearable data processing system includes a high power radio module and a low power radio module. The high power radio module may retrieve data from radio frequency identifier (RFID) tags. The low power radio module may transmit data to a base station data pertaining to the detected RFID tags. The low power radio module may also receive a power management signal from a gate radio. The gate radio may have an adjustable range. A power management engine in the wearable data processing system may determine whether the low power radio module is receiving the power management signal from the gate radio. The power management engine may also activate and deactivate the high power radio module, depending on whether the low power radio module is receiving the power management signal from the gate radio. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07663486B2
A system and method in a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag for writing and erasing user memory. A write command is received at the tag to write data into user memory of the tag. Based on receipt of the write command, a user memory flag in a first memory bank of the tag is set, and the data is written into a second memory bank of the tag. An erase command is received at the tag to erase data stored in the user memory of the tag. Based on receipt of the command to erase, the user memory flag in the first memory bank is cleared, and data stored in the second memory bank is erased.
US07663484B1
A method for reporting at least one detected active threat to the homeland security (HS). Each threat is either hidden inside at least one cargo container before transit, or is placed inside at least one cargo container while in transit. Each threat while interacting with its surrounding generates a unique threat signature. The method comprises; (A) substantially continuously probing each cargo container; (B) detecting at least one threat signature;—(C) processing each detected threat signature to determine a likelihood of at least one threat to become a threat to HS;—(D) identifying at least one said container that includes such threat to HS;—(E) reporting to at least one Homeland Security Monitoring Center (HSMC) that at least one container includes at least one such threat to HS; and receiving instructions from at least one Homeland Security Monitoring Center (HSMC) how to eliminate at least one such reported threat to HS while in transit; and—(F) using robotic means to eliminate at least one such detected threat to HS.
US07663469B2
A thermistor device includes a thermistor element unit with a lead conductor and a terminal plate welded outside a plate portion thereof to a distal end of the lead conductor.
US07663468B2
An electric device 1 is an organic positive thermistor in which, between two plate electrodes 2a and 2b constituting an electrode couple 2, a conductive member 41 is disposed in a state being in a close contact with the plate electrodes 2a and 2b. The conductive member 41 is formed of many piled up resin particles each having its surface formed with a conductive layer of a residual material (fullerene residual), which is the soot including fullerenes generated via, for example, an arc discharging method, from which at least a part of fullerenes is removed. Such conductive layers are joined to each other to structure the conductive path and the conduction of the electric device 1 is ensured in a normal state. When an inrush current flows, the conductive path is readily shut off by a small inflation of the resin particles due to the temperature rise.
US07663467B2
A manually resettable thermostat has several individual resettable thermostats which have respective calibration temperature, stacked one above the other and formed as an integral assembly. The thermostat may be utilized in the thermostatic system that need several different manually resettable thermostats with different calibration temperatures so the space of the system is saved and the operation of the thermostat is simplified.
US07663454B2
A discrete resonator is provided, including a dielectric base having a dielectric constant. A metal contact formed on a major surface of the dielectric base has a predetermined area and is positioned at a predetermined location on the dielectric base to provide a predetermined loaded Q for the resonator. A metal ground coating is formed on the outer surface of the dielectric base with the exception of an isolation region surrounding the metal contact that is free of the metal ground coating. The area of the isolation region is sufficient to prevent significant coupling between the metal contact and the metal ground coating. The dielectric constant of the material used for the base, and the width and length of the dielectric base are each selected such that the resonator resonates at least at one predetermined resonant frequency in the GHz frequency range.
US07663451B2
RF telemetry for an active medical device such as active implant or programmer for such implant. The device includes at least one RF antenna (14), and at least one RF telemetry transmitter/receiver (44) with, for coupling to the antenna, an associated band rejection filter (54). The band rejection filter (54) comprises at least one volume acoustic wave BAW resonator (40) of the SMR type with insulation by Bragg acoustic reflector (42). The device can be a multi-band device comprising a plurality of RF transmitters/receivers (12, 44) operating in respective distinct bands of frequencies such as the 402˜405-MHz, 863˜870-MHz, 902˜928-MHz and 2.4-GHz bands or by UWB transmission.
US07663437B2
A low flicker noise operational amplifier comprises two circuit branches of the same topology and a plurality of current source pairs. For each current source pair, the two current sources are commutatively steered into the two circuit branches via two sets of differential pair in a manner controlled by a pair of complementary logical signal.
US07663435B2
A Doherty power amplifying apparatus includes a harmonic-controlled Doherty amplifier; and an input matching unit and an output matching unit for input matching and output matching the harmonic-controlled Doherty amplifier, respectively. The harmonic-controlled Doherty amplifier includes a carrier amplifier; a peaking amplifier arranged in parallel to the carrier amplifier; and a harmonic control circuit, arranged in front of the output matching unit, for controlling a harmonic component of an output of the Doherty amplifier to enable the Doherty amplifier to perform a switching or saturation operation.
US07663434B2
The present invention relates to the construction of output stage of the Doherty amplifier and comprises a main amplifying unit, an auxiliary amplifying unit and a compact λ/4 line connecting two amplifying units. The compact λ/4 line connecting two amplifying units includes a first parallel capacitor grounded by being connected to the main amplifying unit in parallel; a second parallel capacitor grounded by being connected to the auxiliary amplifying unit in parallel; and an inductor or a microstrip transmission line connecting the main amplifying unit and the auxiliary amplifying unit. The Doherty amplifier in accordance with the present invention further comprises a matching network unit connecting to a final output by connecting the main amplifying unit and the auxiliary amplifying unit and; and a λ/4 line used as the voltage inputs of the main amplifying unit and the auxiliary amplifying unit.
US07663432B2
A demodulator includes input terminals, for receiving an input signal, and an amplifier stage having a gain. The input signal is amplitude-modulated and is defined by a carrier signal at a carrier frequency and by a modulating signal. The demodulator includes, moreover, a gain-control stage, coupled to the amplifier stage for varying the gain of the amplifier stage according to a sinusoid of a frequency equal to the carrier frequency, on the basis of the carrier signal.
US07663413B2
A line driver circuit for stabilizing a signal that is output through a transmission line, wherein the line driver circuit receives a first signal having a first swing width corresponding to a difference between a first voltage and a second voltage, creates a second signal having a second swing width less than the first swing width, and outputs the second signal through a transmission line. The line driver circuit includes: a pull-up circuit that pulls up the second signal to a high level; a pull-down circuit that is connected to the pull-up circuit and pulls down the second signal to a low level; and an initializing circuit that is connected to a node of the transmission line, outputs a signal having a voltage of the low level or the high level to the node of the transmission line, and initializes the voltage at the node of the transmission line to the low level or the high level.
US07663410B2
A current-mode differential transmitter, receiving a single-end input voltage signal and accordingly generating a differential output current signal, is provided. The transmitter includes a first switch, a second switch and a current mirror. The first switch is coupled in a first current path and controlled by the single-end input voltage signal. The second switch is coupled in a second current path and controlled by an inverted signal of the single-end input voltage signal. The current mirror mirrors a reference current to the first current path when the first switch is turned on, and mirrors the reference current to the second current path when the second switch is turned on. The differential output current signal is derived from the currents on the first and second current paths.
US07663409B2
A voltage/current converter circuit includes a bridge configuration having a first current path with a first resistor, a first transistor, and an input node to receive a ramp voltage to be converted, and a second current path with a second resistor and a second transistor. A current passes through the second current path. An amplifier arrangement balances the bridge configuration by providing an output signal to a control terminal of the first transistor and/or to a control terminal of the second transistor.
US07663407B2
A semiconductor device includes a pre-buffer for transferring a data signal on the basis of a first power supply voltage, a main buffer for amplifying and outputting the data signal transferred by the pre-buffer on the basis of a second power supply voltage different from the first power supply voltage, a switch unit for controlling a conductive state between the pre-buffer and the main buffer on the basis of a switch control signal, and a control circuit for generating the switch control signal for controlling the pre-buffer to set an output level of the pre-buffer to ground potential in accordance with transition of logical level of the switch control signal.
US07663398B1
A circuit including control logic; and configurable impedance logic, operatively coupled to the control logic, comprising a configurable transistor structure operative to selectively change from a high impedance mode where the configurable transistor structure is configurable as a plurality of series connected diodes having their cathodes coupled together, and a low impedance mode where the configurable transistor structure is configurable to include a plurality of cascoded transistors. The circuit may further include at least one control signal line from the control logic to the configurable impedance logic, where the control signal line is operative to provide a control signal for configuring the configurable impedance logic.
US07663395B2
A display panel is provided, which includes: a plurality of gate lines; a plurality of data lines intersecting the gate lines; a plurality of switching elements connected to the gate lines and the data lines; a plurality of pixel electrodes connected to the switching elements; a plurality of driving signal lines transmitting a plurality of driving signals; a plurality of test pads for test signals disposed near an edge of the panel; and a gate driver generating and applying gate signals to the gate lines responsive to the driving signals transmitted from the driving signal lines.
US07663393B2
A method and device for determining the quality of the interface surface between a layer of a dielectric material and the top surface of the semiconductor substrate are disclosed. In one aspect, the method comprises providing a semiconductor substrate with a top surface whereon a layer of a dielectric material is deposited thereby forming an interface surface, the surface of the layer of the dielectric material being or not in direct contact with the semiconductor substrate defining a top surface. A charge is then applied on a dedicated area of the top surface. A voltage Vs is measured on the top surface. The dedicated area is illuminated to define an illuminated spot. The photovoltage is measured inside and outside the determined illuminated spot during the illumination of the area.
US07663386B2
It is an object of the present invention to realize sure electrical connection between a contactor and an object to be inspected without influenced by heat, a reduction in the pre-heating time, and an enhanced throughput.A probe card of the present invention includes a contactor, a printed wiring board, an interposer provided between the contactor and the printed wiring board to have the both in elastic and electrical contact with each other, a coupling member integrating these, and a reinforcing member reinforcing the printed wiring board integrated via the coupling member.
US07663371B2
A portable locator and method for establishing the location of the cable line in a region which includes at least one generally straight electrically conductive cable line extending across the region from which cable line a locating signal includes a first arrangement for measuring a local flux intensity of the locating signal at a first above ground point within the region with the portable locator in a particular orientation at the first above ground point. A second arrangement uses the local flux intensity to establish a cable line angular orientation which limits the possible directions to the cable line relative to the particular orientation of the portable locator at the above ground point. A third arrangement uses the measured local flux intensity to establish an actual direction of the cable line that is selected from the possible directions based on certain characteristics of the locating signal.
US07663368B2
An arrangement for radiation of a radio-frequency field into an examination subject has a local coil unit with a housing. An insulating dielectric material is embodied at least at one part of the housing in order to passively compensate an inhomogeneity of the B1 field that occurs in the examination subject. An adjustment arrangement allows for fixed but detachable provision of the insulating dielectric material at the housing part.
US07663367B2
An MRI rf coil array is comprised of a large number of separate coil elements that are supported on a substrate that is shaped to the contour of the anatomy being imaged. The coil elements overlap each other to reduce mutual inductance and their location is determined by tiling the surface of the substrate with regular, substantially same sized polygons. The center of each coil element is aligned with the center of a polygon. By using a mixture of different polygons, such as hexagons and pentagons, an arrangement of coil elements may be formed that cover a surface with non-zero Gaussian curvature where each coil is overlapped with its neighbors such that their mutual inductance is nulled.
US07663366B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprising: a magnet configured to form a static magnetic field in an imaging area; a cylindrical structure having a guide; a radio frequency coil configured to receive a nuclear magnetic resonance signal generated by transmitting a radio frequency signal into a object set in the static magnetic field; and a radio frequency coil drive structure configured to adjust a distance between the radio frequency coil and a body surface of the object by using a moving structure configured to move along with the guide, a wire configured to move the moving structure and a motor connected to the wire.
US07663351B2
Synchronization circuitry and synchronization system for synchronizing converters/controllers that are electrically-coupled to a common synchronization node. The synchronization system includes synchronization circuitry, oscillation circuitry, and a leading edge detector and pulse generator. The synchronization circuitry includes pull-up circuitry and pull-down circuitry for generating a voltage pulse-train at the synchronization node. The oscillation circuitry controls which of the pull-up and the pull-down circuitry is driven ON and which is driven OFF.
US07663350B2
A field-device electronics for a field device. The field device electronics is supplied from an external electrical energy supply providing a supply voltage and delivering a variable supply current driven by the supply voltage. The field-device electronics includes an internal control unit for controlling the field device, as well as at least one internal supply circuit feeding the internal control unit. The supply current is a mixed current formed by superimposing and/or modulation of an alternating current portion onto a direct current portion. The internal supply circuit uses, at least at times and/or at least in part, also the alternating current portion of the mixed current for covering an instantaneous energy requirement of the control unit.
US07663347B2
An efficiency improving device includes a phase compensating circuit, a filter circuit, a first diode in a forward direction, and a second diode in a reverse direction; the phase compensating circuit includes two wires, and several parallel capacitors connected to the wires; the wires are connected to the battery of a car; the filter circuit includes a resistor, and capacitors connected in series with the resistor, and it is connected the phase compensating circuit; the first and the second diodes, and the resistor of the filter circuit are connected in parallel; the filter circuit is used for filtering off impure signals produced by the circuits of the car, thus improving performance of electronic equipments and sensitivity of the acceleration pedal and the automatic gearshift; the first and the second diodes are used to control charging and discharging of the capacitors, thus preventing the capacitors from making instantaneous and massive discharge.
US07663319B2
A strongly-ionized plasma generator includes a chamber for confining a feed gas. An anode is positioned inside the chamber. A cathode assembly is positioned adjacent to the anode inside the chamber. An output of a pulsed power supply is electrically connected between the anode and the cathode assembly. The pulsed power supply comprising solid state switches that are controlled by micropulses generated by drivers. At least one of a pulse width and a duty cycle of the micropulses is varied so that the power supply generates a multi-step voltage waveform at the output having a low-power stage including a peak voltage and a rise time that is sufficient to generate a plasma from the feed gas and a transient stage including a peak voltage and a rise time that is sufficient to generate a more strongly-ionized plasma.
US07663299B2
A full-color organic electroluminescence (OEL) display panel includes a substrate and a plurality of full-color OEL pixel devices in a matrix form as a display frame. Each of the pixel devices is composed of a plurality of sub-pixel regions, corresponding to R, G or B colors. Each of the specific color sub-pixel regions in the pixel device abuts the same specific color sub-pixel region of the adjacent pixel device thereof to form a double-sized emission area. With this arrangement of sub-pixel regions, it is easier to manufacture (a) high-resolution full-color OLED panels by a metal-mask alignment process, and (b) high-resolution full-color PLED panels by an ink-jet printing process.
US07663290B2
A sensor includes a substrate, a medium on which a surface acoustic wave propagates, a reference electrode, an antenna, a transducer that includes a first electrode connected to the antenna and a second electrode connected to the reference electrode and arranged opposite to the first electrode, and that has a function of converting a signal received by the antenna into a surface acoustic wave propagating on the medium, and a function of converting a surface acoustic wave propagating on the medium and reaching the transducer into a signal and outputting the signal to the antenna, a reflector that throws back a surface acoustic wave generated by the transducer, propagating on the medium, and reaching the reflector, toward the transducer, and an impedance converter connected to the reference electrode, impedance of which changes in response to a change in circumstances surrounding the sensor.
US07663287B2
A motor includes a stator and a bus bar supported axially above the stator. The bus bar includes a concave portion arranged in a lower surface thereof facing toward coils of the stator. In a gap defined between the coil and the concave portion, a portion of the wire extracted from the coil and wound in the circumferential direction (i.e., a crossover wire portion) is accommodated. The bus bar includes a wire-positioning hole through which the wire is led to a terminal to be connected with the wire.
US07663284B2
A bobbin includes a bobbin body, two top sidewalls, two bottom sidewalls, four top tabs and four bottom tabs. The bobbin body includes a top surface formed at one end of the bobbin body, a bottom surface formed at an opposite end of the bobbin body and a side surface located between the top surface and the bottom surface. The top sidewalls extend radially outward from the top surface of the bobbin body. The bottom sidewalls extend radially outward from the bottom surface of the bobbin body. The bottom sidewalls are staggered so that there is no overlap area between the top sidewall and the bottom sidewall along an axial direction of the bobbin body. Four top tabs extend away from the top surface at a position where there is no top sidewall. Four bottom tabs extend away from the bottom at a position where there is no bottom sidewall.
US07663283B2
According to one embodiment of the present invention, an electric machine comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator has at least one stator pole with a first leg and a second leg. The rotor has at least one rotor pole. The rotor rotates relate to the stator. The at least one rotor is configured to rotate between the first leg and the second leg of the at least one stator pole.
US07663280B2
A spindle motor and a disk drive device are provided that have a high operation efficiency of the motor, that does not leak oil, and that has an improved stability by decreasing a runout component in the direction of the rotation axis. The spindle motor includes a rotor hub (20) composed of a disk-like flange (201) and a cylinder-shaped shaft (203); a ring-shaped rotating magnet (16) fastened on one main surface of the flange (201); an armature (14) facing the rotating magnet (16); a sleeve (80) rotatably supporting the shaft (203); and a chassis (15) fixing the armature (14) and the sleeve (80). The flange (201) and the shaft (203) are integrally formed with magnetic material; a protrusion is not provided between a mounting surface (204) for mounting the rotating magnet (16) thereon and a counter-face surface (205) facing the end surface of the sleeve; and the mounting surface (204) and the counter-face surface (205) are orthogonal to the direction of the central axis (A-A′) of the shaft (203), and in a level plane; or the mounting surface (204) is recessed stepwise from the counter-face surface (205) toward the disk mounting portion (202).
US07663276B2
A photo sensor module includes a holder made of resin and a light-emitting element and a light-receiving element accommodated in the holder. A printed circuit board is fixed to a flat side wall portion of a motor. The resin holder has a guide portion which is formed integrally therewith and which comes into contact with an end surface and a bearing-holding portion of an end bell. The printed circuit board is fixed in a state in which the guide portion is sandwiched between the bearing-holding portion and the printed circuit board while being brought into contact with the end surface of the end bell, whereby the photo sensor module is positioned in thrust and radial directions of the motor.
US07663274B2
A motor stator section (3a) is furnished with a busbar (51) attached to an armature (3), and with a circuit board (52) attached to the busbar (51). A parts accommodation recess (516) is formed in the busbar (51) surface that opposes the circuit board (52), and a holding recess (512), in which is anchored a sensor holder (54) that retains Hall sensors (53) mounted on the circuit board (52) is formed in the busbar (51) inner circumferential surface. Further, grooves are formed in the circuit board (52), the sensor holder (54), and the busbar (51), wherein fitting a jig (9) to these grooves enables high-precision assembly of these components.
US07663245B2
An interposer may include a base substrate supporting an array of conductive lands. The conductive land may have an identical shape and size. The conductive lands may be provided at regular intervals on the base substrate. The conductive land pitch may be determined such that adjacent conductive lands may be electrically connected by one end of an electric connection member. Alternatively, each conductive land may provide respective bonding locations to which ends of two different electric connection members may be bonded. A stacked chip package may include an interposer that may be fabricated by cutting an interposer to size. In the stacked chip package, electrical connections may be made through the interposer between an upper semiconductor chip and a package substrate, between the upper semiconductor chip and a lower semiconductor chip, and/or between the lower semiconductor chip and the package substrate.
US07663237B2
A semiconductor structure and a method of forming the same using replacement gate processes are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a butted contact coupling a source/drain region, or a silicide on the source/drain region, of a first transistor and a gate extension. The semiconductor structure further includes a contact pad over the source/drain region of the first transistor and electrically coupled to the source/drain region. The addition of the contact pad reduces the contact resistance and the possibility that an open circuit is formed between the butted contact and the source/drain region. The contact pad preferably has a top surface substantially leveled with a top surface of the gate extension.
US07663234B2
A package of a semiconductor device with a flexible wiring substrate and a method thereof are provided. The package of the semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate with at least one pad on a surface thereof, a bump bonded to the pad, an adhesive layer on the bump, and a flexible wiring substrate having at least one contact section being electrically connected with the bump by the adhesive layer. The present invention makes the flexible wiring substrate directly conductively attached onto the semiconductor substrate. The package size is shrunk and the cost down can be obtained.
US07663230B2
A method of forming channels on a die or other substrate. Also disclosed are liquid cooling systems including such channels.
US07663228B2
An electronic component includes an electronic element, a conductive first base portion, a conductive second base portion, an insulator and a terminal. An electronic element is to be mounted on the electronic element mounting portion. The electronic element mounting portion is mounted on the first base portion. The insulator insulates the first base portion from the second base portion and couples the first base portion to the second base portion. The terminal is provided on the first base portion and is insulated from the first base portion.
US07663226B2
A heat-releasing printed circuit board and semiconductor chip package are disclosed. The heat-releasing printed circuit board includes an insulation layer, on a surface of which a circuit pattern is formed, and a solder resist, which is stacked on the insulation layer, where the solder resist contains carbon nanotubes. The heat-releasing printed circuit board allows the heat generated in a semiconductor chip to be dispersed in several directions of the board or package, to improve heat-releasing property.
US07663221B2
A package circuit board having a reduced package size. The package circuit board may include a semiconductor substrate in place of a printed circuit board. The package circuit board may further include a microelectronic chip mounted on the semiconductor substrate, the microelectronic chip having at least one of active and passive elements formed on the semiconductor substrate semiconductor substrate.
US07663210B2
Optical components are flip chip mounted onto a substrate for improved alignment. Each device is fabricated using “build-up” layers above a substrate. Each has an optical confinement region in which optical radiation travels in use, and a bonding surface. The overall depth of the layers above the optical confinement region is closely controlled during fabrication, for instance by the use a “spacer” layer, so that when the devices are subsequently flip chip mounted adjacent one another on a shared substrate by means of their bonding surfaces, they can be passively positioned so that their optical confinement regions abut and optical radiation can be coupled from one to the next in use.
US07663205B2
Integrated circuit devices include a semiconductor substrate and a flux line generating passive electronic element on the semiconductor substrate. A dummy gate structure is arranged on the semiconductor substrate in a region below the passive electronic element. The dummy gate includes a plurality of segments, each segment including a first longitudinally extending part and a second longitudinally extending part. The second longitudinally extending part extends at an angle from an end of the first longitudinally extending part. Ones of the segments extend at a substantially same angle and are arranged displaced from each other in an adjacent nested relationship.
US07663204B2
A substrate for multi-chip stacking and a multi-chip stack package utilizing the substrate and its applications are disclosed. The substrate comprises a first wire-bonding finger, a second wire-bonding finger, a trace configured for electrical transmission and a loop wiring on a same surface. The first wire-bonding finger and the second wire-bonding finger are adjacent each other and to a die-attaching area of the substrate. The loop wiring connects the first wire-bonding finger with the second wire-bonding finger in series and connected to the trace. The loop wiring can be selectively broken or not when at least two chips are stacked on the die-attaching area and electrically connected to the first and second wire-bonding fingers respectively. Accordingly, the chips can operate respectively and independently without mutual interference if one of the chips is fail. Moreover, there is merit to apply the multi-chip stack package utilizing the substrate because it can be repaired after molding and without removing any bonding wire during semiconductor packaging processes.
US07663203B2
In a high-voltage PMOS transistor having an insulated gate electrode (18), a p-conductive source (15) in an n-conductive well (11), a p-conductive drain (14) in a p-conductive well (12) which is arranged in the n-conductive well, and having a field oxide area (13) between the gate electrode and drain, the depth (A′-B′) of the n-conductive well underneath the drain (14) is less than underneath the source (15), and the depth (A′-B′) of the p-conductive well is greatest underneath the drain (14).
US07663201B2
Semiconductor device with a diffusion barrier film having a spacing for stress relief of solder bump
The present invention provides a semiconductor device exhibiting an improved reliability. A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip having an electrode on a surface thereof and a mounting substrate, and the electrode (aluminum electrode) of the semiconductor chip is coupled to the mounting substrate through a bump (solder bump 104). A plurality of diffusion barrier films (UBM 112) for preventing a diffusion of a material composing the bump is provided between the electrode and the bump, and the diffusion barrier film is formed to have a plurality of divided portions via spacings therebetween.
US07663195B2
In a P-channel power MIS field effect transistor formed on a silicon surface having substantially a (110) plane, a gate insulation film is used which provides a gate-to-source breakdown voltage of 10 V or more, and planarizes the silicon surface, or contains Kr, Ar, or Xe.
US07663190B2
A tunable voltage isolation ground to ground ESD clamp is provided. The clamp includes a dual-direction silicon controlled rectifier (SCR) and trigger elements. The SCR is coupled between first and second grounds. The trigger elements are also coupled between the first and second grounds. Moreover, the trigger elements are configured to provide a trigger current to the dual-direction silicon controlled rectifier when a desired voltage between the first and second grounds is reached.
US07663189B2
A semiconductor device is created in a doped silicon layer at most one-tenth of a micrometer thick formed on and having an interface with a sapphire substrate. An oppositely doped source region is formed in the silicon layer. A gate electrode is formed above part of the silicon layer. A diffusion layer doped with the same type of impurity as the source region but at a lower concentration is formed in the silicon layer, extending into a first area beneath the gate electrode, functioning as a drain region or as a lightly-doped extension of a more heavily doped drain region. The depth of this diffusion layer is less than the thickness of the silicon layer. This comparatively shallow diffusion depth reduces current leakage by inhibiting the formation of a back channel.
US07663183B2
A semiconductor device, a method of forming the same, and a power converter including the semiconductor device. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes a heavily doped substrate, a source/drain contact below the heavily doped substrate, and a channel layer above the heavily doped substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a heavily doped source/drain layer above the channel layer and another source/drain contact above the heavily doped source/drain layer. The semiconductor device further includes pillar regions through the another source/drain contact, the heavily doped source/drain layer, and portions of the channel layer to form a vertical cell therebetween. Non-conductive regions of the semiconductor device are located in the portions of the channel layer within the pillar regions. The semiconductor device still further includes a gate above the non-conductive regions in the pillar regions. The semiconductor device may also include a Schottky diode including the channel layer and a Schottky contact.
US07663182B2
A first region functioning as a transistor includes a drain region, a body region formed over the drain region, a source region formed over the body region and a trench formed through the body region and having a gate electrode buried therein. A source region is formed over the body region extending in a second region. The source region forming an upper edge of the trench is rounded.
US07663175B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit device provided with a plurality of power supply wire layers including a first potential power supply wire and a second potential power supply wire formed in different layers. At least one capacitor contact wire extends from one of the first and second potential power supply wires toward the other one of the first and second potential power supply wires so as to form a capacitor between each capacitor contact wire and its surrounding wires.
US07663173B1
In a non-volatile memory cell, charge is stored in a fully isolated substrate or floating bulk that forms a storage capacitor with a first poly strip and includes a second poly strip defining a read gate and a poly-filled trench defining a control gate.
US07663150B2
An optoelectronic chip having a semiconductor body (14), which contains a radiation-emitting region (2), and a partial region (3) in which the surface (13) of the semiconductor body (14) is curved convexly toward a carrier (10). The lateral extent (2r) of the radiation-emitting region (2) is less than the lateral extent (2R) of the partial region (3). A method for producing such a chip is also described.
US07663146B2
An active matrix addressing LCD device having an active matrix substrate on which conductive lines are formed is provided, which suppress the AI hillock without complicating the structure of the lines and which decreases the electrical connection resistance increase at the terminals of the lines, thereby improving the connection reliability. The device comprises an active matrix substrate having a transparent, dielectric plate, thin-film transistors (TFTs) arranged on the plate, and pixel electrodes arranged on the plate. Gate electrodes of the TFTs and scan lines have a first multilevel conductive structure. Common electrodes and common lines may have the first multilevel conductive structure. Source and drain electrodes of the TFTs and signal lines may have a second multilevel conductive structures. Each of the first and second multilevel conductive structures includes a three-level TiN/Ti/Al or TiN/Al/Ti structure or a four-level TiN/Ti/AI/Ti structure. Each of the TiN film of the first and second structures has a nitrogen concentration of 25 atomic % or higher. The Al file may be replaced with an Al alloy.
US07663145B2
A display panel includes a substrate having a display area and a blank area. The blank area includes at least one of a non-metal line region and a metal-line region. The non-metal line region includes a plurality of insulating patterns and a first conductive pattern layer formed on the substrate. The insulating patterns are isolated from each other by the first conductive pattern layer. The metal-line region includes an insulating multilayer formed on the substrate and a conductive pattern layer formed on the insulating multilayer. Several isolated zones are formed by the conductive pattern layer on the surface of the insulating multilayer.
US07663142B2
To provide a light emitting device capable of promoting an efficiency of taking out light to outside and achieving highly reliable bright image display by lower power consumption, in a light emitting device including a plurality of pixels and including a transistor and a pixel electrode electrically connected to the transistor at each of the plurality of pixels, an insulating film provided below the pixel electrode includes an opening portion an side surface of which is a curved face at a light emitting region. Light emitted from a light emitting element is focused by the curved face provided at the insulating film to reduce propagation thereof in a lateral direction, the efficiency of taking out the light is promoted and therefore, bright image display can be achieved without particularly increasing a current amount to be injected.
US07663135B2
Memory cells are described along with methods for manufacturing. A memory cell as described herein includes a bottom electrode, a memory element and a side electrode. The bottom electrode contacts the memory element at a first contact surface on the bottom of the memory element. The side electrode contacts the memory element at a second contact surface on the side of the memory element, where the second contact surface on the side faces laterally relative to the first contact surface on the bottom.
US07663134B2
An array includes a transistor cpmprising a first terminal, a second terminal and a third terminal; a first contact plug connected to the first terminal of the transistor; a second contact plug connected to the first terminal of the transistor; a first resistive memory cell having a first end and a second end, wherein the first end is connected to the first contact plug; and a second resistive memory cell having a third end and a fourth end, wherein the third end is connected to the second contact plug.
US07663124B2
A recording device including a beam deflection section for relatively moving an irradiation position of an exposure beam with respect to a substrate on which a resist layer is formed; a substrate velocity adjustment section for adjusting a moving velocity of the substrate based on a deflection amount of the exposure beam; and a deflection control section for controlling to change a deflection velocity of the exposure beam during exposure of the recording signals according to the moving velocity of the substrate.
US07663120B2
A radiation detector 6 detects radiation that passed through a specimen 2 by discriminating it by a plurality of energy regions. The radiation detector 6 includes a radiation detecting section 10 which generates output signals corresponding to energy of the incident radiation, and a signal processing section 20 which discriminates output signals by first through N-th signal discrimination thresholds T1 through TN and acquires regional counts A1 through AN as radiation counts in the plurality of energy regions W1 through WN by counting the discriminated output signals. The first through N-th signal discrimination thresholds T1 through TN are set so that reference regional counts A1(B) through AN(B) as regional counts in the plurality of energy regions W1 through WN when the radiation detecting section 10 detects radiation (reference radiation) before passing through the specimen 2 become substantially equal.
US07663117B2
A radiation detector for detecting radiation has a semiconductor layer on a substrate, the semiconductor layer being covered by a converter layer so that incoming radiation penetrates the converter layer preceding the semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer forms a part of a detector array formed by a number of detector elements. The semiconductor layer is given increased sensitivity by being formed of a polycrystalline semiconductor material.
US07663111B2
Apparatus for detecting radiation emitted from a number of volume elements of a body. The apparatus includes a first plurality of detector elements, each detector element being configured to output signals indicative of an intensity of radiation that is incident thereon. The apparatus also includes a first plurality of adjustable collimator channels, each adjustable collimator channel being associated with and being positioned between a respective detector element and the body, each adjustable collimator channel having a second plurality of dimensional configurations defining respective different sets of the volume elements from which emitted radiation impinges on the respective detector element. A processor computes a radiation intensity from at least a portion of the volume elements in response to the signals output by the detector elements in at least two of the dimensional configurations of the adjustable collimator channels.
US07663109B2
The present invention discloses a mobile cantilever door-type container inspection system, in the art of radiation scanning imaging inspection technology. The system according to the present invention comprises a moveable scanning apparatus formed by a scanning frame and a remote control device, wherein the scanning frame comprises a radiation source and some detectors, wherein the radiation source or an apparatus cabin wherein the radiation source is disposed is connected with an L-shaped cantilever structure to form a door-type scanning frame, wherein beneath the radiation source or the apparatus cabin wherein the radiation source is disposed are provided with rollers that can reciprocatingly move on rails and are controlled by drive means. The detectors are disposed in a cross beam and a vertical beam of the cantilever structure of the door-type scanning frame. Rays of the radiation source are right in alignment with rows of detectors in the cantilever structure. The container truck to be inspected can pass through the door-like frame formed by the door-type scanning frame. Due to the cantilever structure, the inspection system is advantageous in stable operation, good-quality images, and high reliability.
US07663103B2
A line-width measurement adjusting method, which is used when first and second electron beam intensity distributions for measuring a line width are produced from intensity distribution images of secondary electrons obtained respectively by scanning a first irradiation distance with an electron beam at first magnification, and by scanning a second irradiation distance with an electron beam at second magnification, includes the step of adjusting the second electron beam intensity distribution of the electron beam at the second magnification such that the second electron beam intensity distribution is equal to the first electron beam intensity distribution of the electron beam at first magnification. The second electron beam intensity distribution may be adjusted by increasing or decreasing a second irradiation distance when producing the electron beam intensity distribution.
US07663095B2
A photodetector and method for making the same are disclosed. The photodetector includes a photodetector die mounted on a substrate, an infrared filter, and an encapsulating layer. The infrared filter is positioned over the photodetector, the infrared filter blocking light in an infrared region of the optical spectrum while allowing light in a visible region of the optical spectrum to reach the photodetector die. The encapsulating layer surrounds the photodetector and the substrate, the infrared filter being embedded in the encapsulating layer, which is transparent to light in the visible region.
US07663090B2
A biasing circuit for a photodiode. The novel biasing circuit includes a first system for setting a reference gain threshold, a second system for setting an operating gain threshold, and a third system for adjusting a bias of the photodiode until a ratio of the operating gain threshold to the reference gain threshold is equal to a predetermined factor Z. In an illustrative embodiment, the reference gain threshold corresponds to a given probability of an output of the photodiode crossing the reference gain threshold when the photodiode is operating at a reference gain bias, and the operating gain threshold corresponds to a given probability of the photodiode output crossing the operating gain threshold when the photodiode is operating at an operating gain bias. The predetermined factor Z is a ratio of noise at a desired operating gain of the photodiode to noise at the reference gain of the photodiode.
US07663080B2
An exemplary light sensor (20) includes a supporting base, a light-sensing unit (21) provided at at least one first location of the supporting base where ambient light is received, and a compensating unit (22) provided at a second location of the supporting base shielded from ambient light, the compensating unit having a structure that is the same as the light-sensing portion. The light-sensing portion includes at least one amorphous silicon thin film transistor (TFT) (210) configured for sensing light, and the compensating unit is configured for providing a reference value current for the light-sensing unit. A display device using the light sensor is also provided.
US07663078B2
A focusing method is provided for the high speed digitalization of microscope slides using an imaging device, wherein the slide is divided into fields of view according to the imaging device and focusing is performed. During rough focusing, several images are captured within the focus range using large focus steps. On the basis of this set of images the position of the best contrast is determined. Fine focusing is performed by adjusting the focus according to the focus distance already determined for another field of view and by focusing with fine steps. A slide displacing device is provided, which enables the displacement of a slide parallel to the optical axis. The slide displacing device includes slide holding elements affixed to one side of a supporting member having two parallel sides, which are connected by stiffening elements defining at least two parallel planes.
US07663076B2
The invention relates to conductive materials particularly to serve as a heater. Heating means formed by or with electrically conductive materials are known and particularly effective for its flexibility is that sold under the British, Community and US Registered Trade Mark INDITHERM. Conductive rails are used to provide electrical connection to a source of power that need to have a commensurate flexibility, and the object of the invention is to ensure the maintenance of power to the full length of the conductive rail. This objective, is met by a construction comprising spaced first rails for the supply and return of electrical power, the said rails having a flexibility compatible with the semi-conductive material, and there being a supplementary rail attached to each first rail along the length thereof, the supplementary rails being flexible and having strength characteristics greater than those of the first rails.
US07663075B2
Disclosed is a layer for use in a domestic appliance, based on a sol-gel precursor. This layer can be obtained by screen-printing and comprises an organosilane compound. The layer is obtained from a concentrated pre-polymerized sol-gel precursor. The layer can be used as an insulating layer or as a conductive layer in a heating element. Furthermore, the layer can be used for decorative purposes.
US07663069B2
A switch structure of an automatic external defibrillator including a housing member and a flap member for covering the housing member, open and closed states of the flap member and ON and OFF of a switch of the automatic external defibrillator which are associated with each other, the switch structure includes a movable unit for turning ON the switch when the flap member is in the open state and turning OFF the switch when the flap member is in the closed state and an operator performs further operation.
US07663058B2
The present invention relates to a helically-wound electric cable comprising at least two groups that are wound-together so as to form a group helix, each group comprising at least two twisted-together conductor wires. In the cable of the invention, the pitch of the group helix varies along the helically-wound electric cable between two limit values having the same sign.
US07663055B2
The photovoltaic module comprises a plurality of photovoltaic cells arranged between substrates and connected in series by connecting conductors. An external connector pin of the module comprises a block of insulating material glued to one end of the module. An external connector of the pin is connected to at least one connector electrically connected to the connecting conductor associated with a cell arranged at the end of the module. The contact between the connector and the connecting conductor associated with a cell arranged at the end of the module is achieved by pressure, generated by means of a deformation. The deformation can be achieved either at the free end of the connecting conductor or at the internal end of the connector.
US07663048B2
A content distributing server capable of reproducing desired display contents in conformity with reproduction of a desired musical composition. In response to a request from a terminal device, one of musical composition contents stored in a musical composition database is identified, and one of template contents stored in a template database is identified. A reproduction time length of the identified template content is adjusted according to a reproduction time length of the identified musical composition content. The adjusted template content is added to the musical composition content to generate a synthesized content, which is distributed to the terminal device.
US07663046B2
This disclosure describes techniques for processing audio files that comply with the musical instrument digital interface (MIDI) format. In particular, various tasks associated with MIDI file processing are delegated between software operating on a general purpose processor, firmware associated with a digital signal processor (DSP), and dedicated hardware that is specifically designed for MIDI file processing. Alternatively, a multi-threaded DSP may be used instead of a general purpose processor and the DSP. In one aspect, this disclosure provides a method comprising parsing MIDI files and scheduling MIDI events associated with the MIDI files using a first process, processing the MIDI events using a second process to generate MIDI synthesis parameters, and generating audio samples using a hardware unit based on the synthesis parameters.
US07663040B1
A positioning device for a cymbal has a bracket, a clamp, a cymbal supporting assembly, two friction pads and a primary adjusting assembly. The bracket has a stationary clamping member. The clamp is mounted movably on the bracket and has a movable clamping member. The cymbal supporting assembly is mounted pivotally between the stationary clamping member of the bracket and the movable clamping member and has a friction wheel and a cymbal supporting rod. One of the friction pads is mounted between the stationary clamping member and one side of the friction wheel. The other friction pad is mounted between the movable clamping member and the other side of the friction wheel. The friction pads selectively presses respectively against the sides of the friction wheel of the cymbal supporting assembly. The positioning device with the friction pads precisely sets the angular position of the cymbal.
US07663039B2
An apparatus for a guitar comprising a first compressible member, one or more spacers and a second compressible member. The second compressible member may be configured to receive the one or more spacers and engage the first compressible member when a force is applied to the first compressible member.
US07663035B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV193192. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV193192, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV193192 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV193192 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV193192.
US07663029B1
According to the invention, there is provided a novel soybean variety designated RJS38001. This invention thus relates to the seeds of soybean variety RJS38001, to the plants of soybean RJS38001 to plant parts of soybean variety RJS38001 and to methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing plants of the soybean variety RJS38001 with another soybean plant, using RJS38001 as either the male or the female parent.
US07663028B2
The present invention relates to unique isoforms of eukaryotic initiation Factor 5A (“eIF-5A”): senescence-induced eIF-5A; wounding/pathogen induced eIF-5A; stress eIF-5A and growth eIF-5A, as well as polynucleotides that encode these three factors. The present invention also relates to methods involving modulating the expression of these factors. The present invention also relates to deoxyhypusine synthase (“DHS”), polynucleotides that encode DHS, and methods involving modulating the expression of DHS.
US07663014B2
A radioactive containment composition may be created for containing radionuclides from a radioactive material by mixing a clay mineral with water. This mixture may form an aqueous clay suspension. The mixture can be refined by filtering to remove coarse material. The aqueous clay suspension may be applied to a radioactive material, allowing the radionuclides to be exchanged with cations in the aqueous clay suspension. The resulting aqueous slurry, a silver-based solution may be added to produce a suspension. The suspension may be collected, heated and analyzed.
US07663006B2
A process for producing a purified alcohol giving satisfactory results in a sulfuric acid coloring test is provided.A process for producing a purified alcohol which includes the following steps: a condensation step in which an aldehyde is subjected to aldol condensation and dehydration to obtain the corresponding condensate, a hydrogenation step in which the condensate is hydrogenated to obtain a crude alcohol, and a purification step in which the crude alcohol is distilled to obtain a purified alcohol, characterized in that the crude alcohol in which the concentration of one or more compounds having an oxygen-containing heterocycle having a carbon-carbon double bond in the ring is 200 weight ppm or lower is fed to the purification step. Specifically, the aldehyde is normal butyraldehyde, the condensate is 2-ethylhexenal, and the alcohol is 2-ethylhexanol.
US07663003B2
A process for hydrogenating an organic compound which has at least one carbonyl group, in which the organic compound is brought into contact in the presence of hydrogen with a shaped article which can be produced in a process in which (i) an oxidic material comprising copper oxide, aluminum oxide and at least one of the oxides of lanthanum, tungsten, molybdenum, titanium or zirconium is prepared, (ii) powdered metallic copper, copper flakes, powdered cement, graphite or a mixture thereof is added to the oxidic material, and (iii) the mixture resulting from (ii) is shaped to a shaped article.
US07662996B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide for forming essentially pure diastereomers of 5/6-substituted norbornene-type monomers. Further, embodiments in accordance with the present invention encompass polymerizing such diastereomers to form addition or ROMP polymers where a desired exo-/endo-ratio of the diastereomers is provided to the polymerization, such ratio designed to provide a desired ratio of endo-/exo-structured repeating units for a resulting polymer to have desired physical or chemical properties.
US07662986B2
This invention concerns a free radical polymerization process, selected chain transfer agents employed in the process and polymers made thereby, in which the process comprises preparing polymer of general Formula (A) and Formula (B) comprising contacting: (i) a monomer selected from the group consisting of vinyl monomers (of structure CH2═CUV), maleic anhydride, N-alkylmaleimide, N-arylmaleimide, dialkyl fumarate and cyclopolymerizable monomers; (ii) a thiocarbonylthio compound selected from Formula (C) and Formula (D) having a chain transfer constant greater than about 0.1; and (iii) free radicals produced from a free radical source; the polymer of Formula (A) being made by contacting (i), (ii) C and (iii) and that of Formula (B) by contacting (i), (ii) D, and (iii); and (iv) controlling the polydispersity of the polymer being formed by varying the ratio of the number of molecules of (ii) to the number of molecules of (iii); wherein Q, R, U, V, Z, Z′, m, p and q are as defined in the text.
US07662974B2
The present invention provides an industrially advantageous process for producing a steroid C17,20 lyase inhibitor represented by the general formula (I): and a Reformatsky reagent in a stable form suitable for the process. In the present invention, a compound represented by the general formula (I) is produced by reducing a specific β-hydroxy ester compound derivative or a salt thereof obtained from a specific carbonyl compound in a Reformatsky reaction in the presence of a metal hydride complex and a metal halide, and then subjecting it to a ring-closing reaction. In the above Reformatsky reaction, it is useful to use a stable solution of a compound represented by the general formula BrZnCH2COOC2H5 or a crystal of the compound which is represented by the formula (BrZnCH2COOC2H5.THF)2.
US07662971B2
Improved competitive inhibitors of FAAH employ an α-keto heterocyclic pharmacophore and a binding subunit having a ?-unsaturation. The α-keto heterocyclic pharmacophore and a binding subunit are attached to one another, preferably by a hydrocarbon chain. The improvement lies in the use of a heterocyclic pharmacophore selected from oxazoles, oxadiazoles, thiazoles, and thiadiazoles that have alkyl or aryl substituents at their 4 and/or 5 positions. The improved competitive inhibitors of FAAH display enhanced activity over conventional competitive inhibitors of FAAH.
US07662969B2
This invention relates to compositions and methods for achieving the efficient aziridination of organic molecules, especially olefins. More specifically, the invention is directed to a mild, selective, and efficient aziridination protocol that involves catalysis by a mixed-valent dirhodium(II,III) catalyst (Rh25+). Especially preferred sources for forming such mixed-valent dirhodium(II,III) catalyst (Rh25+) are dirhodium(II) carboxamidates, such as dirhodium(II) caprolactamate, and their derivatives and analogues.
US07662960B2
Conformationally constrained compounds of structure: which mimic the secondary structure of β-strand regions of biologically active peptides and proteins are disclosed. Such β-strand mimetic structures have utility over a wide range of fields, including use as diagnostic and therapeutic agents that inhibit protease, kinase and the like. Libraries containing the β-strand mimetic structures of this invention are also disclosed as well as methods for screening the same to identify biologically active members.
US07662959B2
A compound having the structure: w-A-x-CY—Z(CF3), where CY is cyclohexane or substituted cyclohexane, exemplified by 4-trifluoromethyl-4-methylcarboxy-4′-propyl-1,1′-(bi)cyclohexane.
US07662953B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing cellulose carbamate. In the method, an auxiliary agent and urea in solution form and possibly in solid form are absorbed into cellulose, and a reaction between cellulose and urea is carried out in a mixture containing cellulose, a liquid, the auxiliary agent, and urea The absorption of the auxiliary agent and urea into cellulose, and the reaction between the cellulose and the auxiliary agent at least partly are carried out in a working device. According to the invention, it is possible to manufacture cellulose carbamate without ammonia, organic solvents or other auxiliary agents, by using only a small quantity of water as a medium.
US07662952B2
This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating GRB2 associated binding protein (GAB2) gene expression using short interfering nucleic acid (siNA) molecules. This invention also relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating the expression and activity of other genes involved in pathways of GRB2 associated binding protein (GAB2) gene expression and/or activity by RNA interference (RNAi) using small nucleic acid molecules. In particular, the instant invention features small nucleic acid molecules, such as short interfering nucleic acid (siNA), short interfering RNA (siRNA), double-stranded RNA (dsRNA), micro-RNA (miRNA), and short hairpin RNA (shRNA) molecules and methods used to modulate the expression of GAB2 genes. The small nucleic acid molecules are useful in the treatment of cancer, malignant blood disease (leukemia), inflammatory diseases or conditions, allergic diseases or conditions, or proliferative diseases or conditions.
US07662950B2
Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. By selecting particular siRNAs by rational design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing genes. Methods, compositions, and kits generated through rational design of siRNAs are disclosed including those directed to nucleotide sequences for MYD88.
US07662926B2
The present application describes antibodies that selectively bind human FcγRIIB, with little or no binding to other human FcγRs, e.g., human FcγRIIA. The invention also provides isolated bispecific antibodies comprising an antibody that selectively binds FcγRIIB, and a second antibody that specifically binds an activating receptor. Various uses, including therapeutic uses, for those antibodies are also described, including administration with anti-tumor antibodies and methods of inhibiting immune responses and suppressing histamine release.
US07662924B2
The present invention provides β-subunit-Associated Regulator of Apoptosis, or BARA, polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules encoding the same. The invention also provides selective binding agents, vectors, host cells, non-human transgenic animals, devices and methods for producing BARA polypeptides. The invention further provides compositions comprising BARA nucleic acids, polypeptides, and fusions or derivatives thereof. The invention further provides methods for treating, preventing, or ameliorating a medical disease, condition, or disorder comprising administering BARA or BARA compositions, as well as methods of diagnosing a pathological condition related to BARA. Still further, the invention provides methods of modulating levels of BARA expression and methods of determining whether a compound stimulates or inhibits BARA polypeptide activity or BARA polypeptide production.
US07662911B2
Disclosed herein is a method of making a film, the method comprising depositing a first layer polyelectrolyte on a surface of a substrate to form a first layer; and depositing a second layer polyelectrolyte on the first layer polyelectrolyte to form a second layer. The first layer polyelectrolyte, the second layer polyelectrolyte, or both, is deposited on the substrate in the presence of a polymeric precipitant; and the first layer polyelectrolyte and the second layer polyelectrolyte have net charges of opposite polarity. Also disclosed are methods of improving bioactive molecule retention during fabrication of a polyelectrolyte multilayer film.
US07662907B2
The present invention relates to all-aromatic polyesters, a method for preparing the same, and a polyester composition containing the same. The present method is carried out in two stages of first carrying out a prepolymerization to obtain a prepolymer having a specific particle size distribution, then carrying out a solid polymerization.The present method can control the quality of polyester effectively and produce all-aromatic polyester exhibiting excellent flowability, high heat resistance, and high solder heat resistance.
US07662904B2
The present invention relates to aromatic polyether resins crosslinked with amic acid or imide side chain, and more particularly, to the aromatic polyether resin crosslinked by amic acid or imide side chain, which is produced by heat curing of amic acid, wherein introduction of imide groups to the basic backbone provides excellent chemical resistance as well as heat resistance and improves surface roughness when coated as a thin film so that it can be suitable for films and flexible display plate substrate.
US07662901B2
The present invention is directed to a high melt flow rate high crystallinity polypropylene homopolymer. The present invention likewise describes a bulk polymerization process using a Ziegler-Natta catalyst to produce the high melt flow rate high crystallinity polypropylene homopolymer according to the invention.
US07662870B2
A composition for artificial stone includes an acrylic resin, sponge particles in an amount of about 0.001 ppwa to about 50 ppwa, filler in an amount of about 100 ppwa to about 300 ppwa, and a polymerization initiator in an amount of about 0.1 to about 10 ppwa.
US07662869B2
The invention relates to a dental composition comprising a) carbosilane containing component (A) comprising at least 1 Si-Aryl bond, at least 1 silicon atom, at least 2 unsaturated moiety, no Si—Oxygen bond, b) Si—H functional component (B), c) initiator (C), d) optionally filler (D), and e) optionally component (E) selected from modifiers, dyes, pigments, thixotropic agents, flow improvers, polymeric thickeners, surfactants, odorous substances, diluting agent(s) and flavorings.
US07662866B2
The invention is a method of producing a cross-linked polymeric support having a multimodal pore structure, which comprises providing a degradable initiator molecule; providing an organic phase comprising said initiator molecule, radically polymerizable monomers and a porogen in a solvent; providing an aqueous phase comprising a transition metal catalyst; suspension polymerization of the organic phase by adding a ligand, co-ordinating to the transition metal in the aqueous phase to produce a cross-linked polymeric support having a primary pore structure and comprising initiator molecule; and subjecting the support obtained to degrading conditions to remove the initiator molecule from within the support to produce a cross-linked polymeric support having a secondary pore structure in addition to the primary pore structure.
US07662865B2
The subject of the invention is a process for the synthesis of hydrocarbons based on a synthesis gas type feedstock in which said synthesis gas is brought into contact with a catalyst in a reactor under Fischer-Tropsch synthesis conditions and in which the partial pressure of water is controlled in order to keep it below a critical value ppH2O-limit defined by the formula: ppH2Olimit=exp(−7751/dp·T)·Ps(T) where T is the reaction temperature in K, dp is the average diameter of the catalyst pores in nm, determined by nitrogen adsorption-desorption (BJH method), Ps(T) is the saturating water vapour pressure at temperature T, in bar.
US07662864B2
Anhydride polymers that release active or activatable agent(s) have pre-selected properties such as molecular weight, flexibility, hardness, adhesiveness, and other valuable properties. The polymers are suitable for use in compositions, formulations, coatings, devices, and the like that benefit from the controlled release of an agent(s) over a period of time. The polymers are prepared by a process involving various alternative and sequential steps that allow the design a priori of products with specific characteristics. The polymers are suitable as delivery systems, either by themselves, as compositions, formulations or devices.
US07662860B2
The present invention discloses 3D-structure of SARS-CoV Viral 3CL Protease obtained through molecular simulation. The 3D-structure is used as a drug target for screening the existing medical database CMC (Comprehensive Medicinal Chemistry, MDL Information System, Inc.), and a group of compounds which have the activity of inhibiting SARS-CoV virus 3CL Protease are found. Cinanserin was tested at molecular and viral levels, and it was found to be able to inhibit the SARS-CoV viral 3CL protease and SARS-CoV viruses. Cinanserin analogs were synthesized and tested at molecular and viral levels, they were found to be able to inhibit the SARS-CoV virus 3CL Protease and SARS-CoV viruses, and may be used for treating and/or preventing SARS-CoV virus infection.
US07662852B2
An antiviral preparation comprising as an active ingredient, a phorbol derivative of formula 1: wherein is R1 is —(CH2)aX(CH2)bCH3, —(CH2)cX(CH2)dYCH3, —CO(CH2)eCH3 or —(CH2)fCH3 R2 is —CO(CH2)nCH3, R3, R4 and R5 are hydrogen atom, or an aliphatic or aromatic carboxylic acid residue, X and Y are O or S, and each of a-f and n is a number, and having a specific safety index S.I.=CC50/EC50 of 10 or more wherein EC50 means a concentration at which HIV-1 induced cytopathogenic effect (CPE) in MT-4 cell is inhibited by 50%, and CC50 means a concentration at which survival of MT-4 cell in a cell proliferation test is reduced by 50%. These preparations are particularly effective for human immuno-deficiency virus (HIV).
US07662847B2
The invention encompasses novel N-alkyl-hydroxamic acid-isoindolyl compounds, pharmaceutical compositions of these compounds, and methods of using these compounds and compositions for treatment or prevention of various diseases and disorders, for example, diseases associated with PDE4.
US07662841B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I) and a process for producing the same. In formula (I), X represents a halogen atom, and R1 represents group —COR2 wherein R2 represents group OM or C1-12 alkyloxy wherein M represents a hydrogen atom, an alkali metal, an alkaline earth metal, or quaternary ammonium. The use of this compound as a synthetic intermediate can realize the production of carbapenem derivatives having potent antimicrobial activity in an efficient and safe manner at low cost.
US07662840B2
This invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition containing 4-[(4-thiazolyl)phenoxyl]alkoxy-benzamidine derivatives expressed by the following formula 1 for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis and more particularly, to the use of 4-{5-[4-(5-isopropyl-2-methyl-1,3-thiazol-4-yl)phenoxyl]pentoxy}-benzamidine or N-hydroxy-4-{5-[4-(5-iso-propyl-2-methyl-1,3-thiazol-4-yl)phenoxyl]pentoxy}-benzamidine expressed by the following formula 1, which is known as an antagonist of leukotriene-B4 receptor, as a pharmaceutical composition for the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis. [Formula 1], wherein, R is a hydrogen atom or a hydroxy group.
US07662839B2
A compound of formula (I): or a salt, or chemically protected form thereof, wherein: R5 is an optionally substituted phenyl; A is wherein Q is N; R3 is selected from H, F, Cl and optionally substituted C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 alkoxy, C5-7 aryl, and C5-7 aryl-C1-4 alkyl groups; R4 is selected from H, F, Cl and optionally substituted C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 alkoxy, C5-7 aryl, and C5-7 aryl-C1-4 alkyl groups; R6 is selected from H, F, Cl, and optionally substituted C1-4 alkyl, C1-4 alkoxy, C5-7 aryl, and C5-7 aryl-C1-4 alkyl groups; D is selected from: B is selected from the group consisting of: Where RN′ is selected from H and C1-4 alkyl; where one of RP3 and RP4 is —Cm-alkylene-R2 and the other of RP3 and RP4 is H, m and n can be 0 or 1, and m+n=1 or 2; and additionally, when RP3 is —Cm-alkylene-R2, m can also be 2 or 3, and m+n=1, 2, 3 or 4, and when R2 is tetrazol-5-yl, m+n may be 0; or where one of RP3 and RP4 is —O—CH2—R2, and the other of RP3 and RP4 is H, n is 0; RN is H or optionally substituted C1-4 alkyl; R2 is either: (i) —CO2H; (ii) —CONH2; (iii) —CH2—OH; or (iv) tetrazol-5-yl.
US07662838B2
The invention relates to the use of a deoxynojirimycin derivative, or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for the preparation of a medicament for the treatment of insulin resistance, hyperpigmentation and/or inflammatory processes in the skin, a fungal disease, overweight and obesity, or a microbacterial infection.
US07662835B2
The present invention is related to novel processes for preparing anhydrous and hydrated forms of piperidine derivatives, polymorphs and pseudomorphs thereof of the formulas which are useful as antihistamines, antiallergic agents and bronchodilators.
US07662834B2
This invention relates to treating cancer or an angiogenesis-related disease using a compound of formula 1: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and n are defined herein.
US07662827B2
Compounds of the formula (I), in which R, X, R1, R2, R3 and R4 have the meanings indicated in Claim (1), are inhibitors of tyrosine kinases, in particular TIE-2, and Raf kinases and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of tumours.
US07662818B2
Compounds of the formula (I): wherein A and B together represent an optionally substituted, fused aromatic ring; X can be NRX or CRXRY; if X=NRX then n is 1 or 2 and if X=CRXRY then n is 1; RX is selected from the group consisting of H, optionally substituted C1-20 alkyl, C5-20 aryl, C3-20 heterocyclyl, amido, thioamido, ester, acyl, and sulfonyl groups; RY is selected from H, hydroxy, amino; or RX and RY may together form a spiro-C3-7 cycloalkyl or heterocyclyl group; RC1 and RC2 are both hydrogen, or when X is CRXRY, RC1, RC2, RX and RY, together with the carbon atoms to which they are attached, may form an optionally substituted fused aromatic ring; and R1 is selected from H and halo.
US07662811B2
Selected compounds are effective for treatment of pain and diseases, such as inflammation mediated diseases. The invention encompasses novel compounds, analogs, prodrugs and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for prophylaxis and treatment of diseases and other maladies or conditions involving pain, inflammation, and the like. The subject invention also relates to processes for making such compounds as well as to intermediates useful in such processes.
US07662809B2
The present invention relates to tetracyclic indole compounds of formula (I); wherein R1, R2, R14, R15, A, Ar, Y and Z are defined herein, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and their use for the treatment or prevention of infection by hepatitis C virus.
US07662802B2
A complex of glucosamine having a purity of at least about 99 wt. % and a maximum halide content of about 0.01 wt. %, and a therapeutic drug having a pKa of less than 7. Preferably, the complex is stabilized by coating it with at least one pharmaceutically acceptable polymer comprising a water-soluble, water-immiscible and/or water-swellable homopolymer and/or copolymer. Suitable polymers include carboxypolymethylene homopolymers and copolymers; polyethylene glycol homopolymers and copolymers, povidone homopolymers and copolymers; polyacrylic acid homopolymers and copolymers; polyacrylamide homopolymers and copolymers; polysaccharides; and mixtures of two or more of the foregoing polymers. The resultant coated complex will be stable upon exposure to ambient temperature and/or the atmosphere. Suitable therapeutic drugs fall into the following classes: α- and β-Adrenergic Agonists; Narcotic and Non-Narcotic Analgesics; Anorexics; Antiallergics; Antianginals; Antiarrhythmics; Antiasthmatics; Antibiotics; Anticoagulants; Anticonvulsants; Antidepressants; Antidiabetics; Antihistaminics; Antihypertensives; Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatories; Antimigraines; Antineoplastics; Antiparkinsonians; Antipsychotics; Antipyretics; Antispasmodics; Antithrombotics; Antiulceratives; Anxiolytics; Decongestants; Diuretics; Hepatoprotectants; Sedatives; and Vasodilators.
US07662796B2
The present invention relates to apoptosis specific eucaryotic initiation factor 5A (eIF-5A), referred to as apoptosis factor 5A1 or simply factor 5A1, apoptosis factor 5A1 nucleic acids and polypeptides and methods for inhibiting or suppressing apoptosis in cells using antisense nucleotides or siRNAs to inhibit expression of factor 5A1. The invention also relates to suppressing or inhibiting expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines by inhibiting expression of apoptosis factor 5A.
US07662791B2
The present invention provides novel compositions and methods for suppressing the expression of a targeted gene using mRNA-cDNA duplexes. The invention further provides novel methods and compositions for generating amplified mRNA-cDNA hybrids, whose quantity is high enough to be used for the invention's gene silencing transfection. This improved RNA-polymerase chain reaction method uses thermocycling steps of promoter-linked double-stranded cDNA or RNA synthesis, in vitro transcription and then reverse transcription to amplify the amount of mRNA-cDNA hybrids up to two thousand folds within one round of the above procedure.
US07662783B2
The invention describes methods for inhibiting angiogenesis in a tissue by administering an antagonist that specifically binds to a proteolyzed or denatured collagen type-IV with substantially greater affinity than to the native triple helical form of collagen type-IV. Methods utilizing such antagonists for therapeutic treatment of tumor growth, tumor metastasis or of restenosis also are described, as are methods to use such antagonists as diagnostic markers of angiogenesis in normal or diseased tissues both in vivo and ex vivo. The invention further describes methods for treating tumors using said antagonists in combination with radiation therapy and therapies comprising the antagonists and radiation treatment.
US07662779B2
The present invention relates to compounds of Formula I or II, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, esters or prodrugs thereof: which inhibit serine protease activity, particularly the activity of hepatitis C virus (HCV) NS3-NS4A protease. Consequently, the compounds of the present invention interfere with the life cycle of the hepatitis C virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HCV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HCV infection in a subject by administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising a compound of the present invention.
US07662778B2
HDAC inhibitor of the general formula (1) exhibits strong inhibitory activity against various subtype HDACs. The compound is useful as a medicinal agent for the treatment or prevention of HDAC 1, 4 and 6-related diseases. There is further provided a process for producing the compound which is capable of readily synthesizing various types of compounds and is promising in the contribution to the development of HDAC inhibitor having novel properties, etc.
US07662773B2
Modified natriuretic compounds and conjugates thereof are disclosed in the present invention. In particular, conjugated forms of hBNP are provided that include at least one modifying moiety attached thereto. The modified natriuretic compound conjugates retain activity for stimulating cGMP production, binding to NPR-A receptor, and in some embodiments an improved half-life in circulation as compared to unmodified counterpart natriuretic compounds. Oral, parenteral, subcutaneous, and intravenous forms of the compounds and conjugates may be prepared as treatments and/or therapies for heart conditions particularly congestive heart failure. Modifying moieties comprising oligomeric structures having a variety of lengths and configurations are also disclosed. Analogs of the natriuretic compound are also disclosed, having an amino acid sequence that is other than the native sequence.
US07662770B2
Low molecular weight protein tyrosine phosphatase (LMW-PTP) is identified as a novel diagnostic and therapeutic target in cancer diagnosis, prognosis and treatment. The invention provides diagnostic and treatment methods useful in connection with cancers expressing LMW-PTP and, optionally, EphA2 receptor. Also provided is a screening method that utilizes changes in the amount and/or activity of LMW-PTP to identify candidate cancer therapeutic agents that effectively target the oncoprotein EphA2.
US07662769B2
The present invention provides a peptide or protein having a neovascularization action and containing a basic amino acid cluster region of β1,6-N-acetylglucosaminyltransferase, a neovascularization accelerator containing the above-mentioned peptide or protein, a method of screening an inhibition substance for the above-mentioned peptide or protein, and a neovascularization inhibitor containing this inhibition substance.
US07662764B2
To provide a solvent composition capable of removing soils such as dusts and oils attached to the surface of an article made of an acrylic resin or an article coated with an acrylic resin, without damaging it.An azeotrope-like solvent composition comprising from 38 to 41 mass % of (2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane and from 59 to 62 mass % of perfluorohexane. A mixed solvent composition comprising from 30 to 60 mass % of (2,2,2-trifluoroethoxy)-1,1,2,2-tetrafluoroethane and from 40 to 70 mass % of perfluorohexane.
US07662761B2
The invention relates to novel bar compositions comprising complexes formed from interaction of multivalent ions and soap. The insoluble complexes permit greater solid contents which counterintuitively, enhance lather (i.e., even if soluble soap is complexed, it is believed more can be used). Further, the complexes enhance rate of wear, hardness, mildness and deposition. The invention further comprises process for enhancing benefits by adding multivalent ions to soap stock during processing.
US07662757B2
Defoamant solution exhibiting improved foam control performance over an extended time under ASTMD 892 or test method comprising base defoamant diluted in GTL fluid and/or hydrodewaxed waxy feed fluid and/or hydroisomerized/catalytic (and/or solvent) dewaxed waxy feed, the defoamant solution remaining clear with no separation over extended periods of time of storage prior to use.
US07662740B2
A fuel cell catalyst comprising platinum, chromium, and copper, nickel or a combination thereof. In one or more embodiments, the concentration of platinum is less than 50 atomic percent, and/or the concentration of chromium is less than 30 atomic percent, and/or the concentration of copper, nickel, or a combination thereof is at least 35 atomic percent.
US07662731B2
A quantum dot manipulating method and a generation/manipulation apparatus are provided which can control the size of a large number of generated quantum dots on or below the order of percent which is required for optical applications of the dots.Quantum dots are generated by shining a dot production laser (4a) onto a solid object (3) in a quantum dot production/manipulation apparatus (1) containing superfluid helium (7) therein. A dot manipulation laser (5a) is shone onto the generated quantum dots to manipulate the quantum dots.
US07662728B2
A method of forming a low-K dielectric film, comprises the steps of placing a substrate carrying thereon a low-K dielectric film on a stage, heating the low-K dielectric film on the stage, processing the low-K dielectric film by plasma of a processing gas containing a hydrogen gas, the plasma being excited while supplying the processing gas over the low-K dielectric film, wherein the plasma is excited within 90 seconds after placing the substrate upon the stage.
US07662727B2
To improve a step coverage and a loading effect, without inviting a deterioration of throughput and an increase of cost, in a method for forming a thin film by alternately flowing a raw material and alcohol to a processing chamber. The method includes: loading a silicon wafer having a surface terminated by H into a processing chamber; supplying alcohol to supply the alcohol into the processing chamber as a first gas; first purging to discharge the first gas from an inside of the processing chamber; supplying a raw material to supply a source gas into the processing chamber as a second gas; second purging to discharge the second gas from the inside of the processing chamber; generating a desired thin film on the silicon wafer by setting as one cycle at least the aforementioned supplying alcohol, first purging, supplying the raw material, and second purging, and by repeating this cycle a prescribed number of times; and unloading the silicon wafer, with said desired thin film generated thereon, from the inside of the processing chamber.
US07662722B2
A method is provided for fabricating a microelectronic chip which includes a passive device such, as an inductor, overlying an air gap. In such method, a plurality of front-end-of-line (“FEOL”) devices are formed in a semiconductor region of the microelectronic chip, and a plurality of stacked interlevel dielectric (“ILD”) layers are formed to overlie the plurality of FEOL devices, the plurality of stacked ILD layers including a first ILD layer and a second ILD layer, where the second ILD layer is resistant to attack by a first etchant which attacks the first ILD layer. A passive device is formed to overlie at least the first ILD layer. Using the first etchant, a portion of the first ILD layer in registration with the passive device is removed to form an air gap which underlies the passive device in registration with the passive device.
US07662720B2
In an embodiment, a 3-dimensional flash memory device includes: a gate extending in a vertical direction on a semiconductor substrate; a charge storing layer surrounding the gate; a silicon layer surrounding the charge storing layer; a channel region vertically formed in the silicon layer; and source/drain regions vertically formed on both sides of the channel region in the silicon layer. Integration can be improved by storing data in a 3-dimensional manner; a 2-bit operation can be performed by providing transistors on both sides of the gate.
US07662719B2
A method for substantially simultaneously polishing a copper conductive structure of a semiconductor device structure and an adjacent barrier layer. The method includes use of a polishing pad with a slurry solution in which copper and a material, such as tungsten, of the barrier layer are removed at substantially the same rate. The slurry is formulated so as to oxidize copper and a material of the barrier layer at substantially the same rates. Thus, copper and the barrier layer material have substantially the same oxidation energies in the slurry. Systems for substantially polishing copper conductive structures and adjacent barrier structures on semiconductor device structures are also disclosed.
US07662712B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor substrate comprising a patterned metal conductor layer. To provide UV blocking, an overlying separation layer is formed over the substrate, and a UV blocking layer of silicon enriched oxide is formed over the separation layer. The UV blocking layer has a silicon atomic concentration sufficient for ultraviolet blocking. A gap-filling, hydrogen-blocking layer may be formed over the semiconductor substrate, and any the UV blocking layer, to prevent hydrogen from passing therethrough.
US07662711B2
A method of forming a dual damascene pattern for a metal interconnection by a relatively simple process. Only a portion of an interlayer insulating film is initially etched when forming a via hole. When the interlayer insulating is etched to form a trench, the remaining portion of the via hole may be etched simultaneously.
US07662710B2
Providing through-wafer interconnections in a semiconductor wafer includes forming a sacrificial membrane in a pre-existing semiconductor wafer, depositing metallization over one side of the wafer so as to cover exposed portions of the sacrificial membrane facing the one side of the wafer, removing exposed portions of the sacrificial membrane facing the other side of the wafer, and depositing metallization over the other side of the wafer so as to contact the previously deposited metallization. Techniques also are disclosed for providing capacitive and other structures using thin metal membranes.
US07662706B2
A method of forming a nanostructure having the form of a tree, comprises a first stage and a second stage. The first stage includes providing one or more catalytic particles on a substrate surface, and growing a first nanowhisker via each catalytic particle. The second stage includes providing, on the periphery of each first nanowhisker, one or more second catalytic particles, and growing, from each second catalytic particle, a second nanowhisker extending transversely from the periphery of the respective first nanowhisker. Further stages may be included to grow one or more further nanowhiskers extending from the nanowhisker(s) of the preceding stage. Heterostructures may be created within the nanowhiskers. Such nanostructures may form the components of a solar cell array or a light emitting flat panel, where the nanowhiskers are formed of a photosensitive material. A neural network may be formed by positioning the first nanowhiskers close together so that adjacent trees contact one another through nanowhiskers grown in a subsequent stage, and heterojunctions within the nanowhiskers create tunnel barriers to current flow.
US07662702B2
A method of forming a crystalline silicon layer on a microrough face of a substrate by reducing the microroughness of the face and then performing a metal induced crystallization process on the face is disclosed.
US07662700B2
An optical device wafer dividing method includes a rear surface grinding step for grinding a rear surface of the optical device wafer; a dicing tape sticking step for sticking the front surface of the optical device wafer bonded with the reinforcing substrate to the front surface of a dicing tape; a laser processing step for emitting a laser beam along the streets formed on the optical device wafer from the rear surface of the reinforcing substrate to perform laser processing on the reinforcing substrate along the streets to form fracture starting points; and a wafer dividing step for applying an external force along the fracture starting points of the reinforcing substrate to fracture the reinforcing substrate along the fracture starting points to fracture the optical device wafer along the streets.
US07662690B2
Multiple blanket implantations of one or more p type dopants into a semiconductor substrate are performed to facilitate isolation between nwell regions subsequently formed in the substrate. The blanket implantations are performed through isolation regions in the substrate so that the p type dopants are implanted to depths sufficient to separate the nwell regions. This increased concentration of p type dopants helps to mitigate leakage between the nwell regions as the nwell regions are brought closer together to increase packing densities.
US07662689B2
Various embodiments of the invention relate to a CMOS device having (1) an NMOS channel of silicon material selectively deposited on a first area of a graded silicon germanium substrate such that the selectively deposited silicon material experiences a tensile strain caused by the lattice spacing of the silicon material being smaller than the lattice spacing of the graded silicon germanium substrate material at the first area, and (2) a PMOS channel of silicon germanium material selectively deposited on a second area of the substrate such that the selectively deposited silicon germanium material experiences a compressive strain caused by the lattice spacing of the selectively deposited silicon germanium material being larger than the lattice spacing of the graded silicon germanium substrate material at the second area.
US07662683B2
Provided is a method for forming a gate dielectric layer, in which a plasma oxide layer is finely formed by plasma at a temperature of 200° C. or below, and an atomic layer deposition (ALD) oxide layer is deposited. Further, the gate dielectric layer according to the present invention can be applied to a display device comprising a substrate such as a plastic substrate vulnerable to heat, have good interfacial characteristic, and allow a high dielectric layer to be applied thereto.
US07662676B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array panel with signal lines that have low resistivity is presented. The TFT array panel includes an insulating substrate, a gate line formed on the insulating substrate, a gate insulating layer formed on the gate line, a drain electrode and a data line having a source electrode formed on the gate insulating layer, the drain electrode facing the source electrode with a gap, and a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode. In one embodiment, at least one of the gate line, the data line, and the drain electrode includes a first conductive layer made of a Mo-containing conductor, a second conductive layer made of a Cu-containing conductor, and a third conductive layer made of a MoN-containing conductor.
US07662658B2
A pinned photodiode with an ultra-shallow highly-doped surface layer of a first conductivity type and a method of formation are disclosed. The ultra-shallow highly-doped surface latter has a thickness of about 100 Angstroms to about 500 Angstroms and a dopant concentration of about 5×1017 atoms per cm3 to about 1×1019 atoms per cm3. The ultra-shallow highly-doped surface layer is formed by diffusion of ions from a doped layer into the substrate or by a plasma doping process. The ultra-shallow pinned layer is in contact with a charge collection region of a second conductivity type.
US07662657B2
An isolation region formed in a substrate and lined with a transparent metal layer. The isolation region provides isolation between adjacent active areas of an integrated circuit structure, for example the inventive region may provide isolation between pixels of a pixel array. Utilizing a transparent material maintains high quantum efficiency of the pixels as photons are not blocked from penetrating into the substrate. In one exemplary embodiment, a shallow trench isolation region is formed in a substrate, lined with an oxide or other dielectric, and an indium-tin-oxide shielding layer is formed over the oxide. The lined trench may then be filled with either the transparent metal material or a transparent insulating material.
US07662655B2
A method for forming a vibrating micromechanical structure having a single crystal silicon (SCS) micromechanical resonator formed using a two-wafer process, including either a Silicon-on-insulator (SOI) or insulating base and resonator wafers, wherein resonator anchors, capacitive air gap, isolation trenches, and alignment marks are micromachined in an active layer of the base wafer; the active layer of the resonator wafer is bonded directly to the active layer of the base wafer; the handle and dielectric layers of the resonator wafer are removed; windows are opened in the active layer of the resonator wafer; masking the active layer of the resonator wafer with photoresist; a SCS resonator is machined in the active layer of the resonator wafer using silicon dry etch micromachining technology; and the photoresist is subsequently dry stripped. A patterned SCS cover is bonded to the resonator wafer resulting in hermetically sealed chip scale wafer level vacuum packaged devices.
US07662653B2
A method of manufacturing a hermetically-sealed chamber with an electrical feedthrough includes the step of hermetically fixing an electrode to a substrate in a predetermined location on the substrate. A passage is formed through the substrate through the predetermined location such that at least a portion of the electrode is exposed to the passage. The passage is then at least partially filled with an electrically conductive material. A housing is then formed including the substrate such that the housing defines a chamber, with the electrode being disposed within the housing and the chamber being hermetically sealed. The electrode within the chamber can be placed in electrical communication with an exterior electrical component by way of the electrically conductive material in the passage.
US07662648B2
Methods and systems that include a nanotube used as an emitter in the testing and fabrication of integrated circuits. The nanotube emits a signal to a substrate. Based on the signal or the electrical properties, e.g., current induced in the substrate by the signal, the region of the substrate is characterized. The characterization includes topology of the region of the substrate such as determining whether a recess in the substrate has a proper depth or other dimensions or characteristics of the substrate.
