US07669233B2
Methods and systems are provided for generating a party static token to be used in combination with a party dynamic token for identifying a party to a host system. Identification information that identifies the party to the host system is received. Such identification information includes a host dynamic token and a host static token. A false host dynamic token that differs from the host dynamic token is generated. The host dynamic token and the false host dynamic token are encrypted. In addition, information that uniquely identifies the party dynamic token is encrypted. The party static token is produced from a combination of the encrypted host dynamic token, the encrypted false host dynamic token, and the encrypted information that uniquely identifies the party dynamic token.
US07669225B2
A method and apparatus for providing multi-domain control over a digital data item via a first domain security policy assigned to the digital data item at a first domain, the data item being transferred from the first domain to a second domain, the second domain being autonomous from the first domain in respect of security policies. The method comprises assigning the security policy to the digital item within the first domain; transferring the digital items to the second domain together with data defining the first domain security policy; analyzing the first domain security policy within the second domain; and distributing and/or allowing usage of the digital items within the second domain in accordance with analyzed first domain security policy, and/or reporting breaches or attempted breaches of the policy.
US07669219B2
A synchronized media experience is described. A media server identifies a group of two or more remote media entertainment systems through which user-controlled play of media content may be presented. The server generates and transmits one or more synchronization commands to the remote media entertainment systems to synchronize presentation of a particular media content through the two or more remote media entertainment systems. A control command entered by a user of one of the remote media entertainment systems may be communicated to each of the two or more remote media entertainment systems to enable synchronized, user controlled presentation of the particular media content.
US07669215B2
An information processing apparatus which creates a predetermined piece of programming, including: a taste information acquiring module which acquires taste information showing user's tastes; a material information acquiring module which acquires a component configuring the piece of programming as material information; a construction information acquiring module which acquires construction information that describes a construction of the piece of programming and includes a motion of the component in the piece of programming; and a creating module which creates the piece of programming based on the taste information, the material information, and the construction information.
US07669187B2
A low-level process, which was mapped from a high-level graphical notation diagram, is debugged using the high-level graphical notation diagram. To debug the low-level process, a debugging interface allows a user to set and track breakpoints and other debug events from the high-level graphical notation diagram. When a breakpoint or other debug event is encountered during low-level processing, the high-level graphical notation diagram is updated to show the status of the low-level process.
US07669185B2
A system and method for executing a graphical program which has a plurality of timed loops, wherein the timed loops utilize timing sources that are related to or derived from each other. According to one embodiment of the method, a graphical program having a plurality of timed loops may be created. In one embodiment the timing sources may be related to each other according to tree hierarchy. Each of the loops in the graphical program may be associated with one of the timing sources. Thus the plurality of loops may be viewed as a group of loops that are grouped together due to the relationships among their respective timing sources. Execution of the graphical program may then begin. Execution of the loops may be delayed until every loop in the group is ready to execute. After every loop in the group is ready to execute, the timing sources for the various loops may be started. To satisfy the defined relationships among the timing sources, the timing sources may be started in an order based on their hierarchical relationship. Once the timing sources have been started, execution of the loops may be begun such that each loop executes based on its respective timing source, i.e., iterations of each loop are timed by its respective timing source.
US07669182B2
A method maintains a hierarchy of application objects in a computer system. The method includes automatically detecting an exit of a child application object, the exit resulting from a failed process, the child application object launched by a parent application object. A grandchild application object is automatically terminated after the exit of the child application object, the grandchild application object launched by the child application object. Notwithstanding the exit of the child application object, the computer system, which maintains the hierarchy of application objects, the parent application object, and the grandchild application object, remains active.
US07669180B2
A method, information processing system and computer readable medium for assessing risk in a software development project. The method includes receiving software project data for assessing risks in a software development project and identifying a plurality of focus areas for analysis. The method further includes defining a set of analysis tasks for each focus area and creating one or more rule sets for each analysis task, each rule set comprising one or more rules including software project data. The method further includes evaluating each rule set against the software project data summarizing results of evaluating each rule set corresponding to an analysis task. The method further includes providing a risk assessment value for each analysis task using the results of the summarizing element.
US07669179B2
A method on a computer for providing critical chain-based project management across a plurality of projects is disclosed. The method includes generating a plurality of plans, each of the plurality of plans corresponding to one of the plurality of projects, wherein a project comprises at least one task. The method further includes generating buffers for each of the plurality of projects and reconciling project resources among the plurality of projects. The method further includes executing the plurality of project plans, including allowing a user to manage the buffers across the plurality of projects. The user is further provided with information associated with buffers for the plurality of projects, so as to evaluate the status of the plurality of projects. Additionally, the user is provided with task prioritization for any task of the plurality of projects, wherein task prioritization is calculated across the plurality of projects.
US07669175B2
A method of designing a layout for manufacturing an integrated circuit is provided, in which computationally intensive portions of the design process, such as simulation of an image transferred through a mask design, or simulation of electrical characteristics of a circuit, are performed more efficiently by only performing such computations on single instance of computational subunits that have an identical geometrical context. Thus, rather than performing such computations based on the functional layout, for which typical design process steps result in significant flattening of the functional hierarchy, and therefore increase the cost of computation, the invention performs simulations on computational subunits stored in a hierarchy based on geometrical context, which minimizes the cost of simulation. The resulting simulation results are subsequently assembled according to the functional layout.
US07669166B1
A method for generating a hardware description language (HDL) specification of a processor of network packets. Independent sets of interdependent handlers are determined from a specification of the handlers for processing the network packets. Either a first pipeline or a cluster of threads is selected for a corresponding architecture for each independent set. The corresponding architecture has one or more concurrent units for each interdependent handler in the independent set. Each concurrent unit is either a stage of the first pipeline or a thread of the cluster. Each action of each interdependent handler in each independent set is assigned to a concurrent unit for the interdependent handler. Each of these actions is also assigned to a stage of a second pipeline for the concurrent unit. The HDL specification of the processor is generated specifying the corresponding architecture for each independent set and the second pipeline for each concurrent unit.
US07669161B2
Roughly described, method and apparatus for laying out an integrated circuit, in which a subject interconnect has predetermined values for a plurality of variables affecting propagation delay of the subject interconnect. The value of an adjustment one of the variables is adjusted to minimize exposure of the propagation delay of the interconnect to process variations causing variations in the value of a subject fabrication variable, and a revised layout is developed in dependence upon the adjusted value for the adjustment variable. In an embodiment, the adjustment is made in dependence upon a pre-calculated “interconnect optimization database” indicating combinations of values for the plurality of variables which have been pre-determined to minimize exposure of interconnect propagation delay to process variations affecting the subject variable. Different databases, or different entries in the same database, can be provided for minimizing exposure of interconnect propagation delay to process variations affecting each subject variable of interest.
US07669160B2
Simultaneous Dynamical Integration modeling techniques are applied to placement of elements of integrated circuits as described by netlists specifying interconnection of devices. Solutions to a system of coupled ordinary differential equations in accordance with Newtonian mechanics are approximated by numerical integration. A resultant time-evolving system of nodes moves through a continuous location space in continuous time, and is used to derive placements of the devices having one-to-one correspondences with the nodes. Nodes under the influence of net attractive forces, computed based on the interconnections between the morphable devices, tend to coalesce into well-organized topologies. Nodes are also affected by spreading forces determined by density fields that are developed based on local spatial node populations. The forces are optionally selectively modulated as a function of simulation time. The placements of the devices are compatible with various design flows, such as standard cell, structured array, gate array, and field-programmable gate array.
US07669158B2
A method and apparatus for partitioning of the input design into repeating patterns called template cores for the application of reticle enhancement methods, design verification for manufacturability and design corrections for optical and process effects is accomplished by hierarchy analysis to extract cell overlap information. Also hierarchy analysis is performed to extract hierarchy statistics. Finally template core candidates are identified. This allows to the design to be made amenable for design corrections or other analyses or modifications that are able to leverage the hierarchy of the design since the cell hierarchy could otherwise be very deep or cells could have significant overlap with each other.
US07669156B2
A method of performing node-based static timing analysis on a digital network and a program storage device for implementing the method, wherein the method comprises partitioning timing delays in the digital network into portions attributable to a factor of interest and portions attributable to other factors; multiplying the timing delays by different weights based on the factor of interest to produce weighted timing delays; and using the multiplied timing delays to determine a relative impact of the factor of interest on the various paths in the digital network. The method further comprises setting arrival times of timing signals at digital network path start points to zero and identifying digital network paths whose timing delays are dominated by a particular factor of interest. The different weights comprise any of a positive weight, a negative weight, and a zero weight.
US07669153B2
A method for correcting a photomask pattern is provided. The correcting method performs a verification of a focus-exposure matrix (FEM) and an overlay variation on a layout area having contact holes or vias in a layout pattern so as to generate a hint information. The layout pattern of the photomask is corrected according to the hint information to prevent the contact holes or vias from being exposed in arrangement to corresponding metal layer, poly layer, or diffusion layer.
US07669147B1
Non-hierarchical relationship UIs (“topology UIs”) are difficult to scale to hundreds or more items. An embodiment of this invention provides indicators and quick access controls for the nodes in navigation tree that appear more than once in a hierarchy—where a pure hierarchical navigational tree falls short. The navigational tree is structured by grouping all matching nodes together. The display area displays the most frequent and the concatenated labels of the semantically grouped redundant nodes. A set of contextual proximity and similarity information and an exception list are stored in a semantic database which is configurable by system administrators. These navigation area controls and indicators will preemptively handle non-hierarchies directly within the navigation tree.
US07669143B2
An information reading apparatus such as a handheld personal device comprises a memory having a plurality of cells arranged in a two-dimensional array of rows and columns. Each cell stores a symbol image to be displayed on a screen. When a matrix array of cells is displayed, a cursor key is used to select one of the displayed cells as a candidate by moving a selection point by one cell at a time in response to a user's operation and is used to enter a user's decision command when a desired candidate is displayed at the center of the screen. A matrix array of cells including the selected cell and its neighbor cells are read from the memory and displayed so that the selected cell is positioned at the center of the screen. The processes of reading and displaying are repeated in response to a user's operation until the user's decision command is entered.
US07669139B2
An apparatus and program product utilize a displayed pictorial representation that depicts the actual physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components in a physical computer system to facilitate the collective management of the underlying hardware components. Typically, within such a pictorial representation, a selected status is displayed for multiple of such hardware components, thereby permitting hardware components sharing common attributes or characteristics to be identified in an efficient and intuitive manner, as well as to permit collective management operations to be performed on all selected hardware components. In addition, a pictorial representation may be dynamically generated to represent the physical configuration of a plurality of hardware components within a plurality of computers. In connection with such dynamic generation, the plurality of computers may be accessed to identify the plurality of hardware components that are resident in such computers.
US07669138B2
A method, and apparatus, and a software product for implementing a method for interacting with a computer-based management system including authoring and communicating composite data messages, each composite data message comprising both free-text and structured data, such that the structured data represents the intended meaning of the free-text in a form understandable by the computer-based management system. In one version, authoring includes converting free-text to structured data. One version includes communicating the composite message.
US07669133B2
A system and method for developing rules for validating a process having one or more parameters. The system or method may be used with a knowledge management system to validate the process. In one example, one or more rules are created to be used to validate the process, and the one or more rules are stored in a repository. One or more parameters relating to the process are obtained, one or more rules associated with the process are obtained from the repository, and the one or more rules obtained are used to validate the one or more parameters of the process. If the one or more parameters comply with the one or more rules, an indication thereof may be provided. Or if the one or more parameters do not comply with the one or more rules, an indication thereof may be provided.
US07669132B2
In a method for a matching a slideshow with an audio track, a slideshow is received. The slideshow comprises a timebase defining display times for slides of the slideshow. An audio track is received. The audio track is utilized to warp the timebase such that a display time for at least one of the slides is altered to increase a correlation between the display time and an intensity of a portion of the audio track.
US07669126B2
A plurality of identification miniature images for to-be-replayed objects is displayed simultaneously on a manipulating-function menu screen with taking one of the to-be-replayed objects corresponding to one of the identification miniature images in a predetermined position as a to-be-replayed object of interest. There are displayed a first group of a plurality of manipulating-function items for the respective to-be-replayed objects and a second group of a plurality of manipulating-function items related to a plurality of to-be-replayed objects. While any one of the manipulating-function items included in the first group is being selected, the identification miniature image corresponding to the to-be-replayed object of interest is displayed for differentiation from the other identification miniature images.
US07669123B2
A method for displaying a news feed in a social network environment is described. The method includes generating news items regarding activities associated with a user of a social network environment and attaching an informational link associated with at least one of the activities, to at least one of the news items, as well as limiting access to the news items to a predetermined set of viewers and assigning an order to the news items. The method further may further include displaying the news items in the assigned order to at least one viewing user of the predetermined set of viewers and dynamically limiting the number of news items displayed.
US07669112B2
An apparatus, program product and method utilize automated analysis techniques to assist in the determination of acceptable usages of linguistic terms (e.g., words, phrases, acronyms, etc.). In particular, an acceptable usage of a linguistic term in a document on the Internet may be determined by detecting a spell definition tag in the document. In response to detecting the spell definition tag, automatically adding the acceptable variant of the linguistic term to an electronic dictionary.
US07669110B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for determining survivor paths in a Viterbi detector, using a trace-ahead algorithm. A trellis memory is maintained having a depth L that stores L trellis stages, each of the L stages having a plurality, N, of trellis states; and a status memory is maintained for each of the N states of the trellis, wherein each entry in the status memory identifies a least recent trellis state stored in the trellis memory of a survivor path that begins at a given state on a side of the trellis associated with most recent states. A bit sequence of one or more of the survivor paths in the trellis is determined in an order that the bits are received by examining least and most recent trellis stages of the trellis and the status memory. One or fork memories maintain an indicator of whether a given fork is active; a list of active forks; a trellis position of active forks in the trellis; and a fork type of one or more forks in the trellis.
US07669100B2
In an integrated circuit having a plurality of modules and/or submodules that each performs a substantially same function, defective modules and/or submodules are determined by creating a test signature from an input test pattern. The output of each module and/or submodule is compared with the test signature and defective modules to identify defective modules and/or submodules. The identity of defective modules/submodules is stored on the integrated circuit for subsequent use by a customer. Integrated circuits having one or more defective modules/submodules are sold to customers with full disclosure of which modules/submodules are defective, thereby improving the yield associated with the product. Pricing of the product is discounted for products with less than full functionality.
US07669097B1
A configurable integrated circuit (IC) performs error detection and correction on configuration data. The IC includes a configuration memory for storing configuration data, an error detection circuitry for detecting an error and a circuit that outputs from the IC an uncorrectable error signal indicating the detection of an error. The configurable IC has a circuit inside of the IC that causes the IC to reset when the error circuitry detects an uncorrectable error. In another embodiment, the circuit that causes the IC to reset is located outside of the IC.
US07669094B2
The invention provides an inspection method of a semiconductor device which receives a test program wirelessly. As an inspection method of the semiconductor device, a test program is transmitted as a communication signal for every test. By transmitting a test program as a communication signal wirelessly in the case of an operation test, test contents are changed as required. As a result, a test program can be easily changed and an inspection circuit or the like is not required. In this manner, manufacturing cost of a wireless chip can be reduced.
US07669093B2
An information radio transmission system is provided that enables provision of correct control information on the transmitting side irrespective of the error volume when an error occurs in communication data. Error volume measuring data string storage units that store an error volume measuring data string are provided in both a transmitting-side communication device that transmits data by radio transmission and a receiving-side communication device that receives data transmitted from the transmitting-side communication device. The receiving-side communication device has an error volume measuring unit that measures the error volume when transmitting data. An error volume measuring data string is added to data and the data is transmitted from the transmitting-side communication device. Having received this, in the receiving-side communication device, the error volume measuring unit compares the error volume measuring data transmitted from the transmitting-side communication device with an error volume measuring data string stored in an error volume measuring data string storage unit of the receiving-side communication device, thereby measuring the error volume.
US07669092B2
Various embodiments comprise apparatus, methods, and systems that include an apparatus comprising a memory device configurable as a plurality of erase block groups including a base erase block group, wherein each of the plurality of erase block groups comprises a plurality of erase blocks each identified by a matching unique plurality of erase block numbers unique within the plurality of erase blocks and matching across the plurality of erase block groups; and a mapping table coupled to the plurality of erase block groups to store at least one group address number corresponding to one of the matching unique plurality of erase block numbers identifying a non-defective erase block in the base erase block group, and corresponding to several of the matching unique plurality of erase block numbers identifying a single non-defective erase block in each of the plurality of erase block groups other than the base erase block group.
US07669091B2
Apparatuses and methods for defect replacement when an optical storage medium is read are provided. When the defect management is LOW, a pick-up head retrieves a set of data from the optical storage medium; a defect detector detects whether there is a defect in the set; if yes, a processor determines whether a replacement for the defect is in the set; and if yes, an interface transmits the replacement from the set. When the defect management is CRD, a buffer temporarily stores data retrieved from the optical storage medium; a defect detector detects whether there is a set of defects in the data; if yes, a comparator compares a length of the set of defects with a defect threshold length; a pick-up head reads more data from the optical storage medium continuously until the buffer reaches a buffer threshold if the length is compared shorter than the defect threshold length; and the pick-up head reads a set of replacements for the set of defects directly if the length is compared longer than the defect threshold length.
US07669067B2
In order to set the clock frequency of a processor it is proposed that a processor load value be determined, representing a measure for the instructions carried out by the processor during a unit of time, and the clock frequency of a clock signal of the processor be set depending on the processor load value determined. To this end, an appropriately configured device has a clock signal source which provides the clock signal at a clock frequency which can be set depending on a clock frequency control signal. The processor load value is preferably determined by a time counter module which detects lengths of time during which the processor is in an inactive state. A control unit computes the value to which the clock frequency is set depending on a relative proportion of time TI during which the processor is in the inactive state. An input buffer memory co-operates with a data input of the processor and an output buffer memory co-operates with a data output of the processor, and allowance is preferably made for the degree to which they are full in order to adapt the clock frequency.
US07669061B2
The present invention provides a system and method for providing remote controlling of a power device. In architecture, the service device comprises a receiver circuitry that receives operating status data of the power device, and a data input circuitry accepts control information from a user. In addition, the transmitter circuitry transmits the control information to the power device. The present invention can also be viewed as a method for providing remote controlling of a power device. The method operates by acquiring an operating status data of the power device, and transmitting control information to the power device.
US07669059B2
Methods and apparatuses are presented for detecting hostile software in a computer system involving storing a representation of configuration data associated with an operating system for the computer system obtained at a first time, comparing the stored representation of the configuration data obtained at the first time with a representation of the configuration data associated with the operating system for the computer system obtained at a second time, and if deviation is detected between the stored representation of the configuration data obtained at the first time and the representation of the configuration data obtained at the second time, automatically performing at least one remedial measure in response to the deviation detected. In one embodiment of the invention, the configuration data relates to identification of executable code installed in the computer system. The configuration data may be obtained from a registry key in a registry maintained by the operating system.
US07669055B2
Methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for securely transporting a software application onto a tamper resistant module (TRM) (103) by using an individualized TRM key set. A method embodiment of the present invention comprises: storing a key pair unique to the TRM (103) in a memory located on the TRM (103), where the key pair comprises a TRM public key (150) and a TRM private key (190); retrieving the TRM public key from the TRM; encrypting a portion of the software application using the TRM public key (150); transmitting the encrypted software application to the TRM (103); and recovering and decrypting the encrypted software application using the TRM private key (190).
US07669053B2
A hand-held sonic token can be used as a pseudorandom oracle for a requesting application, which can generate a challenge that is sent to the token. The user of the token decides whether to allow the token to function as an oracle, and if so, the user causes the token to digitally sign the challenge and send it back to the requesting application, for use of the digitally signed challenge as an encryption key. After encryption the requesting application deletes the signed challenge, with subsequent decryption essentially following the encryption process.
US07669042B2
An instruction execution pipeline for use in a data processor. The instruction execution pipeline comprises: 1) an instruction fetch stage; 2) a decode stage; 3) an execution stage; and 4) a write-back stage. The instruction pipeline repetitively executes a loop of instructions by fetching and decoding a first instruction associated with the loop during a first iteration of the loop, storing first decoded instruction information associated with the first instruction during the first iteration of the loop, and using the stored first decoded instruction information during at least a second iteration of the loop without further fetching and decoding of the first instruction during the at least a second iteration of the loop.
US07669037B1
Method and apparatus for communication between hardware blocks and a processor in a programmable logic device is described. A shared memory is provided along with a memory controller for controlling access to the shared memory. An interface is configured to receive auxiliary instructions from the processor, select the hardware blocks for the requested tasks in response to the auxiliary instructions, notify the hardware blocks of those tasks, and arbitrate access to the memory controller among the hardware blocks.
US07669035B2
A processing system includes a communication bus. a controller, an Input/Output (“I/O”) block, and reconfigurable logic segments (e.g., reconfigurable units). Individually reconfigurable logic segments are part of a single chip. A communication bus is in electrical communication with the logic segments. A first logic segment communicates to a Second logic segment over the communication bus. Reconfiguration can partition a first logic segment into a second and a third logic segment where the smaller logic segments are in electrical communication with the communication bus. Resources are dynamically reallocated when reconfigurable units are either combined or partitioned. More specifically, both partitioning a logic segment and combining two or more logic segments can change the bus width allocated to a reconfigurable unit and the quantity of logic gates in the reconfigured unit. As a result of a reconfiguration, a logic segment's embedded resources can change. The processing system provides high chip utilization throughout the chip's operation.
US07669034B2
A method and data processing system for accessing an entry in a memory array is provided using base and offset addresses without adding the base and offset addresses. PGZO encoding is performed on the address bits of the operands. The PGZO values are evaluated using wordline generators resulting in a plurality of possible memory array entry addresses. In parallel with the PGZO operations, a carry value is generated using other bits in the operands. The result of the carry operation determines which of the possible memory array entries is selected from the memory array.
US07669033B2
Pretranslating input/output buffers in environments with multiple page sizes that include determining a pretranslation page size for an input/output buffer under an operating system that supports more than one memory page size, identifying pretranslation page frame numbers for the buffer in dependence upon the pretranslation page size, pretranslating the pretranslation page frame numbers to physical page numbers, and storing the physical page numbers in association with the pretranslation page size. Typical embodiments also include accessing the buffer, including translating a virtual memory address in the buffer to a physical memory address in dependence upon the physical page numbers and the pretranslation page size and accessing the physical memory of the buffer at the physical memory address.
US07669032B2
A system for host-based virtualization optimizations in storage environments employing off-host virtualization may include a host, one or more physical storage devices, and an off-host virtualizer such as a virtualizing switch. The off-host virtualizer may be configured to aggregate storage within the one or more physical storage devices into a virtual storage device such as a logical volume, and to provide control data for the virtual storage device to the host. The host may be configured to use the control data to perform a function in response to an I/O request from a storage consumer directed at the virtual storage device, and to use a result of the function to coordinate one or more I/O operations corresponding to the I/O request.
US07669030B2
The invention provides a system and method for tracking memory information associated with dynamically loaded kernel modules with the help of a tracking system. The tracking system defines its own kernel memory allocation functions. Whenever, a dynamic kernel module is loaded/unloaded into/from the kernel space, these newly defined functions are called in response to kernel memory allocation/de-allocation requests from the kernel module. The newly defined functions are responsible for allocating and de-allocating kernel memory, as well as, keeping track of information relating to the kernel memory allocations/de-allocations. The tracked information may be used to identify the source of kernel memory leaks.
US07669029B1
An apparatus and method for automatically load balancing one or more workload groups to a set of available physical resources of a data storage system, and generating a layout planning recommendation of the set of available physical resources that supports the one or more workload groups based on the load balancing.
US07669017B1
A method of buffering data in a circuit processing data in both a natural address order and a modified address order is described. The method comprises the steps of storing a first block of data according to a first addressing order of a natural address order or a modified address order; reading the first block of data stored in a buffer according to the other addressing order of the natural address order and the modified address order; and simultaneously writing a second block of data to the buffer in the other addressing order while reading the first block of data stored in a buffer according to the other addressing order.
US07669014B2
A transpose memory circuit is provided which comprises a number of dual port memory blocks each having a plurality of storage cells each configured for storing one or more data word. The dual port memory blocks form a storage array for storing at least one input matrix and outputting the at least one input matrix in transposed form. A data input is provided to receive a plurality data words on each cycle and a data output is provided to output a plurality of data words on each cycle. A read address logic is provided to generate read addresses such that one cell of each dual port memory block can be read out on each cycle. A write address logic is provided to generate write addresses such that one cell k of each dual port memory block can be written on each cycle. In each cycle, one storage cell of each dual port memory block is addressed by the read address logic. The data words stored in the addressed storage cells are read out from one dual port memory block and outputted through the data output. In each cycle, one storage cell of each dual port memory block is addressed by the write address logic, where the addressed storage cells have been read out in a preceding cycle and into which storage cells data words received through the data input are written. The transpose memory circuit is provided to receive an input matrix in cycles and to output the transposed input matrix in next cycles without any dead cycles interposed between them.
US07669011B2
A processor includes a processor core coupled to an address translation storage structure. The address translation storage structure includes a plurality of entries, each corresponding to a memory page. Each entry also includes a physical address of a memory page, and a private page indication that indicates whether any other processors have an entry, in either a respective address translation storage structure or a respective cache memory, that maps to the memory page. The processor also includes a memory controller that may inhibit issuance of a probe message to other processors in response to receiving a write memory request to a given memory page. The write request includes a private page attribute that is associated with the private page indication, and indicates that no other processor has an entry, in either the respective address translation storage structure or the respective cache memory, that maps to the memory page.
US07669010B2
A system, method and article of manufacture for reducing latencies associated with cache coherence directory misses on external caches in a shared distributed memory data processing system. A cache coherence directory is evaluated for possible prefetching of a directory entry into a directory cache. A prefetch miss indicator is set if the prefetch evaluated results in a directory miss. The prefetch miss indicator is consulted during subsequent processing of a memory block request corresponding to the directory entry. An accelerated snoop response action is taken if the prefetch miss indicator is set. The latency of a second lookup into the cache coherence directory, which would otherwise be required, is thereby avoided.
US07669008B2
A method of destage management of redundant data copies in a cache storage subsystem includes providing a plurality of target storage devices, each of the plurality of target storage devices capable of storing a complete copy of a data image. The data image and the plurality of target storage devices are subdivided into a plurality of sub-regions, each of the plurality of sub-regions organized such that a minimum cumulative total of the plurality of sub-regions on the target storage devices equals a number of sub-regions required to form the complete copy of the data image. Data is destaged from a write cache to the plurality of sub-regions on the target storage devices in an order such that a minimum number of sub-regions can be combined to restore the complete copy of the data image.
US07669004B2
The present invention presents a non-volatile memory and method for its operation that ensures reliable mechanism for write and erase abort detection in the event of lost of power during non-volatile memory programming and erasing with minimized system performance penalty. During a multi-sector write process, an indication of a successful write in one sector is written into the overhead of the following sector at the same time as the following sector's data content is written. The last sector written will additionally have an indication of its own successful write written into its overhead. For erase, an erase abort flag in the first sector of the block can be marked after a successful erase operation.
US07669003B2
Host system data files are written directly to a large erase block flash memory system with a unique identification of each file and offsets of data within the file but without the use of any intermediate logical addresses or a virtual address space for the memory. Directory information of where the files are stored in the memory is maintained within the memory system by its controller, rather than by the host. Each data file is uniquely identified in a file directory, which points to entries in a file index table (FIT) of data groups that make up the file and their physical storage locations in the memory.
US07669000B2
A multi-host host bus adapter (HBA) can be connected to multiple host devices to allow the multiple host devices to communicate on a SAN fabric. More specifically, the multi-host HBA provides an interface for multiple SAN hosts without necessitating an HBA on each host, eliminating the need for an on-board HBA on each SAN host. The multi-host HBA interfaces to memory in each SAN host to which it is connected using PCI-Express (or a similar protocol), and communicates with other devices on the SAN fabric using Fibre Channel ports. The multi-host HBA communicates by receiving a command from a connected host, forwarding the command to a processor in the multi-host HBA, and sending the command to a device on a SAN. When the multi-host HBA receives a response from the device on the SAN, the multi-host HBA associates the response with the process and sends the response to the host.
US07668998B2
In a method for communication between a master node and a plurality of slave nodes connected by a bus therebetween, a first interrupt request is asserted by one of the plurality of slave nodes via a primary interrupt line. The plurality of slave nodes are electrically connected by the primary interrupt line. A unique delay time for requesting an interrupt is associated with each of the plurality of slave nodes. A second interrupt request is asserted by the one of the plurality of slave nodes via a secondary interrupt line electrically connecting the plurality of slave nodes. The second interrupt request is asserted in response to successfully asserting the first interrupt request and after the unique delay time associated with the one of the plurality of slave nodes. A message is then transmitted from the one of the plurality of slave nodes to the master node via the bus. Related systems and devices are also discussed, including the use of the primary and secondary interrupt request lines to provide bus arbitration between the plurality of slave nodes for communication with the master node.
US07668971B2
In one embodiment, a first path computation element (PCE) operates between first and second network domains, and is adapted to service requests from path computation clients (PCCs) in at least the first domain. In response to a backup event (e.g., failure of a second PCE), a backup PCE in the second domain may be informed of path computation information for the first domain used by the first PCE, and tunnels may be bi-directionally established between the first PCE and the backup PCE. Once the tunnels are established, the backup PCE may be advertised into the first domain, and the backup PCE may operate to load balance service requests for the first domain through the bi-directionally established tunnels.
US07668960B2
Digital products are delivered to a client computer through a wide area network such as the Internet only upon determination that the client computer is located in a geopolitical territory, such as a country or state, for which delivery of the digital product is authorized. A server computer estimates the geopolitical location of the client computer from the client computer's network address through contact information in a network address allocation database. Alternatively, the server computer estimates the geopolitical location of the client computer from the client computer's custom name, e.g., domain name. The domain name itself can specify a country within which the client computer is located. Such can be conventional or can be parse according to ad hoc patterns developed by large, international organizations identified by a root domain name. In addition, contact information for the domain name can be retrieved and geopolitical territory information parsed from the contact information. A super-classification of the domain name can indicate a geopolitical territory. Records associating geopolitical territories with network address ranges are stored in such a manner that maximizes resolution within a cache of such records, perhaps at the expense of reduce efficiency but so as to maximum currency and accuracy.
US07668959B2
There is disclosed a link manager comprises detecting unit for detecting what link is installed; managing unit for defining a plurality of link metrics indicating characteristics of each link detected and managing data corresponding to the respective link metrics on a table; and selecting unit for selecting a link having link metrics complying with a given condition.
US07668955B2
When investigating a failure occurring in a transaction between information processing apparatuses, it is possible to reduce the time required for the failure investigation. A first local ID for identifying a transaction processing of first information processing apparatus is related with a standard ID for relating transaction processing of the first and the second information processing apparatuses with each other the related IDs and are stored in a first mapping table. The standard ID and a transaction processing request are transmitted to the second information processing apparatus to request execution of a transaction processing therefor. If a failure occurs in the requested transaction processing, a standard ID of the transaction processing concerned is specified to inquire a second local ID for identifying the transaction processing. Mapping information for relating the first local ID corresponding to the specified standard ID with the transmitted second local ID is generated.
US07668944B2
A unified setting interface that enables a management application to configure network manageable devices, regardless of their type or manufacturer. Configuration of a network manageable device requires that certain information be provided to the network manageable device. For different types of devices from different manufacturers, this information and its format can vary. A management application using the unified setting interface does not require the individual interfaces for configuring network manageable devices from different manufacturers.
US07668943B2
The present invention discloses a method for synchronizing the configuration data between an EMS and a NE, which includes: dividing the configuration data in the NE into several layers so that different configuration data layers include different minimum unit configuration data sets; setting a minimum unit identifier word for each configuration data layer to identify the configuration data changes of the configuration data layer; when the configuration data of the NE is changed, changing the corresponding identifier word and sending a configuration changed event notification to EMSs; after receiving the configuration changed event notification, the EMS synchronizes the configuration data according to the event notification. With the present invention, it is possible to make the EMS effectively monitor and synchronize configuration data with the NE in a real-time manner, so that network management efficiency can be improved.
US07668941B1
Methods and systems for implementing a network protocol stack and a web interface within a management module are provided. A network controller supports utilizing a plurality of media access control (MAC) addresses. The method involves configuring the network controller to allocate one of the MAC addresses to the management module where the management module is utilized in monitoring operations associated with the computer system. The network controller is programmed to send the management module, via the system interface, all network packets addressed to the MAC address allocated to the management module. The TCP/IP stack and the web interface are provided within the management module. Thus, when a network packet destined for the management module is received from a remote computer at the network controller, the network controller sends the network packet to the management module via the system interface thereby implementing a network protocol stack and web interface.
US07668940B2
A computer network system in which an IP address is assigned not only automatically at a destination of a notebook size PC (portable personal computer) 4, but also information relating to shared resources on the network is obtained at the site from a server 1 through a LAN circuit 2, so that the notebook size PC 4 can be used by connecting to the network even in the absence of the administrator. Henceforth, when the user moves within the same building as his own office, it seems that the occasion of using the portable personal computer by connecting to the network such as the Internet and intranet increases. In such a case, connection and disconnection of the network may be repeated frequently, and setting for such operation is facilitated.
US07668931B2
In various embodiments, a context or location service module, implemented in software, determines a vehicle context or a vehicle location based upon information that it receives from various context providers or location providers respectively. Software executing on a vehicle's computer can then cause one or more applications that are associated with a vehicle computer to be modified in a manner that changes their behavior.
US07668930B2
A Web Service distribution system with the standard combination of a general protocol for the transporting and handling of data entities to and from Web stations, e.g. SOAP layered over HTTP, including means for detecting fault conditions in these general protocol transport and handling means with standard Web Services Description Language (WSDL) definitions for accessing specific Web Services for said data entities. There are standard processes for detecting fault conditions in said WSDL combined with routines responsive to the detection of WSDL fault conditions for sending WSDL fault message data to selected applications at display stations. There is prohibition of the sending of general protocol fault message data (e.g. SOAP message data) detected in the transport and handling of data entities for which entities Web Services are to be accessed combined with routines for converting the fault messages based on general protocol fault data into WSDL message data during the access of such Web Services, whereby said converted data is sent as a WSDL defined fault message.
US07668928B2
A system and method for interactive events relating to broadcast content, whether provided over the television, internet, or other means, provides messages that can be transmitted to different types of user devices, including personal computers, set top boxes, net top boxes, and wireless clients. The system can be used with personal recorders by recording interactive content for display with the broadcast when the recorder is used to play back the broadcast.
US07668923B2
A system and method are provided in which communication adapters, which are used for the transfer of message packets from and amongst a plurality of data processing nodes, are provided with internal storage which is used to indicate the status of a particular adapter as a master, as a slave or as a backup up adapter. This information provides the adapters with the ability to be called into service to take over the operations of another adapter in the event of node or adapter failure.
US07668922B2
An apparatus, program product and/or method identify relevant shared entities and/or display shared entities in an instant messaging system. In particular, entities such as files, images, videos, e-mails, links, bookmarks, databases, transcripts of other instant messages, etc. that are shared between users participating in an instant message session may be identified and highlighted to indicate that the shared entities are related to the instant message session. Furthermore, a link to an entity may be sent to a user when the entity is referenced in an instant message of the instant message session. Additionally, a display representation of entities that are shared with a user may be displayed in the user's buddy list to indicate that the shared entity is accessible to the user and whom shared the entity with the user. Furthermore, a transcript may be associated with an entity.
US07668917B2
A method for substantially assuring the examination of a set of data elements by a first user with a messaging device, the set of data elements further comprising a metadata portion. The method further includes determining a set of data elements, each data element of the set of data elements further comprising a state. The method also includes creating a first set of rules for monitoring a change to the state, creating a second of rules for transforming the set of data elements from a first representation to a second representation, based in part on the metadata, and creating a third set of rules for optimizing the delivery of a notification to the first user, based in part on the first set of rules, the notification further comprising a link to the second representation. The method further includes sending the notification to the first user based in part on the third set of rules. And, if the first user does not redeem the second representation, the method includes sending the notification to a second user.
US07668915B2
The present invention is a data network system (110) and method for responding to a communication message with a canned reply by a target user of a target client device (one of 102-108). The data network system comprises a messaging server (112) and a messaging proxy (120) coupled to the messaging server. Initially, the target client device or, more particularly, the target user, configures one or more canned replies for the system. The messaging proxy then receives (204, 304, 404) a communication message from an originating client device (another one of 102-108) and retrieves (206, 306, 406) configuration data of the target client device. Next, the messaging proxy determines (208, 308, 408) whether the target client device is available for interactive communication with the originating client device based on the configuration data. If the target client device is available for interactive communication with the originating client device, then the messaging proxy routes (210, 310, 410) the communication message to the target client device. Otherwise, if the target client device is not available for interactive communication with the originating client device, then the system withholds (230, 330, 430) the communication message from the target client device and sends (230, 330, 430) the canned reply to the originating client device.
US07668914B2
A server at the edge of a broadband network distributes multimedia content streams to clients, while ensuring that the first data delivered to each client is key data (milestones) needed for correctly decoding the stream content. This is obtained by buffering the packets in the incoming stream and transmitting the packets from the buffer in an outgoing stream, starting with the most recent milestone placed in the buffer before a request to join the respective incoming stream is received. As the writing to and reading from the buffer are performed at different rates, the incoming and outgoing streams are eventually synchronized, at which point the client may be switched to receive the incoming stream directly.
US07668910B2
The invention relates to a system and a method for simplified provision of services (1, 2) within a network (3) comprising coupled computers (4, 5), wherein the computers (4, 5) have storage means (20) for storing objects (7, 8), with the objects (7, 8) having first means (21) for loading, storing and processing descriptions (11) of groups (9, 10), with the objects (7, 8) having second means (22) for loading, storing and executing services (1, 2) assigned by the respective groups (9, 10), with a group (9, 10) having associated with it in each case the objects (7, 8) that have stored the description (11) of the respective group (9, 10), with the description (11) of a group (9, 10) determining the semantics of the services (1, 2) assigned to the respective group (9, 10), with the objects (7, 8) having search means (33) for conducting parallel searches within different groups (9, 10) for objects (7, 8) having the services (1, 2) assigned to the respective group (9, 10) and executable by the respective objects (7, 8), and with the objects (7, 8) having third means (23) for initiating the execution of the services (1, 2) which can be executed by another object (7, 8) of the group (9, 10) and are assigned to the respective group (9, 10).
US07668902B2
A set of DSML application programming interface (DSML API) functions is provided to facilitate the implementation of DSML-based directory service access. The DSML API includes a DSML document API class for building or accessing a DSML payload, and a DSML connection API class that handles connection and transport to a DSML server. To access a directory service, the client calls functions of the DSML document API class to generate a DSML request payload, and calls functions of the DSML connection API to transport a packet with the DSML request payload according to a pre-selected connection protocol, such as SOAP, to the DSML server for forwarding to the directory service.
US07668899B2
A method and system in a routing network sends a request for the performance of a task from an originating node in a routing system to nodes having an interface connection with the originating node. Upon receiving a response to the request from the one or more nodes, one or more of the nodes is selected to perform the task. Any node included in the network can comprise an originating node, and the steps of sending and selecting are performed substantially automatically. A preferential order of nodes automatically and dynamically maintained in dependence on the performance of task(s) by the nodes.
US07668897B2
Within a processor 2 providing single instruction multiple data (SIMD) type operation, single data processing instructions can serve to control processing logic 4, 6, 8, 10 to perform SIMD-type processing operations upon multiple independent input values to generate multiple independent result values having a greater data width than the corresponding input values. A repartitioner (FIG. 5) in the form of appropriately controlled multiplexers serves to partition these result data values into high order bit portions and low order bit portions that are stored into separate registers 38, 40. The required SIMD width preserved result values can be read from the desired high order 38 result register or low order result register 40 without further processing being required. Furthermore, the preservation of the full result facilitates improvements in accuracy, such as over extended accumulate operations and the like.
US07668894B2
A power function is approximated over an applicable data interval with polynomials determined by means of a Chebyshev minimax approximation technique. In some cases, multiple polynomials may be used to approximate the function over respective ranges of the desirable interval, in a piecewise manner. The appropriate polynomial that approximates the power function over the range of interest is derived and stored. When the power function is to be applied to a particular data value, the data value is first evaluated to determine where it lies within the applicable interval. The constants for the polynomial associated with that range of the interval are then retrieved and used to calculate the power of that data value.
US07668893B2
Some embodiments of the invention includes a data generator. The data generator includes a data generating circuit having a combination of linear feedback shift registers and shift registers for generating a pseudo-random data pattern in a first order. The data generator also includes a recovery circuit for allowing the data generating circuit to generate the pseudo-random data pattern in a second order. The second order is a reverse of the first order. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07668892B2
A data processing apparatus and method are provided for normalizing a data value to produce a result value. The data processing apparatus includes prediction logic for generating a shift indication based on a prediction of the number of bit positions by which the data value needs to be shifted in order to normalize the data value. Further, normalizer logic is used to apply a shift operation to the data value based on the shift indication. In addition, correction logic is operable in parallel with the normalizer logic to determine from the data value and a least significant bit of the shift indication whether the shift indication has correctly predicted the number of bit positions by which the data value needs to be shifted in order to normalize the data value, or whether instead the prediction is incorrect, and to generate an output signal dependent on that determination. Shift logic is then used, if the output signal indicates that the prediction is incorrect, to apply a correction shift such that the result value is the normalized data value.
US07668881B1
A system and method for associating NIS attributes with CIFS client. Upon requesting attributes by a CIFS client, a CIFS security ID (SID) is generated for the owner and group from the NIS attributes associated with the NIS name. The generated SIDs are returned to the CIFS client. The SIDs are generated using the NIS UID or GID and a CIFS domain associated with the file server storing the referenced file.
US07668877B1
A system and method for providing a canonical query expression employable by a plurality of application tasks which may be invoked by a SAN management application avoids successive regeneration of extensive queries Each of the application tasks employs the canonical form of the same query, allowing multiple reports and actions to be invoked without reentry of the query by the user. In this manner, a user need not repeat the query entry for each invocation of a report or task. Rather, the canonical query form is provided to each application task for which a report or action is requested. Each of the application tasks, therefore, employs the canonical query expression. The canonical form defines a set of identifiable portions of a syntactical expression. The application tasks invoke some or all of the portions of the query expression derived from the initial syntax. Users or operators invoke the application tasks for providing a report, action, or other result.
US07668864B2
A customizable workflow is specified in a script that is associated with an object that is to be processed by the workflow. Both the object and the script can be stored in a content management system, with the object and script associated with one another by way of identifying the script in metadata stored in the system for the object. The script can be located by locating the object. The script can specify a sequence of a plurality of workflow processes that are performed over the life of the object.
US07668863B2
A method and apparatus for generating court calendars. A court date server is coupled to a database of court rules for generation of court dates. A user accesses the court date server via a communications network and submits event and jurisdiction data to the court date server. The court date server uses the event data and the jurisdiction data to generate a court calendar of event dates that is transmitted to the user. In one embodiment of a court date server, the court date server is coupled to a user database. The court date server stores the court calendar in the user database for later retrieval and use by the user. In addition, the court date server uses the stored court calendar to generate court date reminders that are sent to the user and to send notifications to the user when court rules are modified that affect the user's already calculated court dates.
US07668861B2
A system and method are disclosed for classifying a user interaction on a network. A user interaction is identified on a network and user interaction data is collected relating to the user interaction on the network. The user interaction data includes an aggregate measure data and a unique feature data. The user interaction data is processed to generate a value score for the interaction. A classification of the user interaction is determined based on the value score.
US07668851B2
A system, method and computer program product for moving a shared list element from a first list location to a second list location includes making the list element appear simultaneously in the first list and the second list under a first key associated with the first list, changing the first key associated with the first list to a second key associated with the second list, and making the list element appear only in the second list under the second key associated with the second list.
US07668837B2
A multiplex apparatus includes a plurality of systems configured to be connected to each other by links. Each of the plurality of systems includes a CPU, a pseudo legacy device and a legacy device. The pseudo legacy device is configured to be electrically connected to the CPU. The legacy device is configured to be electrically connected to the pseudo legacy device. The pseudo legacy device includes a request buffer and a pseudo operator. The request buffer is configured to store a request when the CPU sends the request through the pseudo legacy device to the legacy device. The pseudo operator is configured to execute an emulation with regard to the legacy device based on the request, and store the emulation result including an inside status of the legacy device.
US07668834B2
A method or data processing system readable medium can be used for communications between a user and a network site. The method or medium may allow a user to determine what, if any, personal information should be transmitted to the network site. In one embodiment, the user may request personalization information including personalization rule(s) from the network site. The user can generate personalization logic based on the personalization information. In this manner, the user has better control over his or her personal information. The server computer at the network site may benefit because it does not have to generate the personalization logic for the user. Accordingly, the server computer at the network site may be able to accommodate more users or can respond to them faster.
US07668827B2
Navigating a collection of nodes by selecting a first node, generating a context list, and displaying the first node and list are discussed. Each context of a context collection includes a second node essentially referencing the first node. Another aspect includes a method of generating an address from a collection of contexts containing steps of receiving a selected attribute collection and generating the address. Another aspect includes a method of navigating a hypergraph including at least one context list containing at least one context including a node. The method includes steps of selecting a first context list of the context lists, selecting a first context of the first context list, and displaying the node of the first context of the first context list. Aspects also include computer programs implemented on computer readable media.
US07668819B2
A database is queried with on demand database query reduction A query document includes global variables selectively set off by first tags identifying a first global variable as a complete replacement variable and by second tags identifying a second global variable as a complete removal string. An agent is provided for building from the query document an expanded query by replacing any variables set off by first tags with runtime strings, setting off any unions in the query document, and selectively replacing any variables set off by second tags and removing the second tags without replacing variables set off by second tags.
US07668818B2
The present invention provides a method for transforming a concept-based query into SQL query statements, comprising the steps of: transforming inputted concept-based queries into logic rules; checking validity of the logic rules; optimizing the valid logic rules; and translating the logic rules into SQL query statements in accordance with the optimization result. The present invention further provides corresponding transformation engine, database query system and computer program product. The present invention facilitates people to use more descriptive query language to query data stored in relational database. Furthermore, the present invention can automatically generate the correct and efficient SQL query statements so that people's efforts to deal with complex data model are saved significantly.
US07668817B2
A method for processing data performed in a data processing system having a storage unit is provided which includes: creating a spatial index comprising a leaf containing location information and attribute information with respect to a plurality of objects to be searched, and storing the spatial index in the storage unit; and referring to the spatial index stored in the storage unit in response to an input of a search request including location information and attribute information for searching the object to be searched, and extracting the object to be searched that agrees with the search request. With this configuration, a spatial search with subsidiary condition search can be processed at high speed, without merging results of both searches.
US07668811B2
A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions are detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination is made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information is extracted electronically from third party web sites, direct supplier connections, and intermediate databases. Potential information suppliers are automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries are formulated from the user search and transferred to each selected supplier over a network coupling. The queries include a request for information. Responses are received from the suppliers, and the responses are used to generate a result list for the user. The result list includes information and query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a web site of each supplier from which the information was derived.
US07668809B1
A method and apparatus are provided for a dynamic information connection engine. User actions may be detected on at least one client system. In response, a determination may be made whether the user is searching for supported information. When the user is searching for supported information, information may be extracted electronically from, for example, third party websites, direct supplier connections, and/or intermediate databases. Potential suppliers may be automatically selected in response to the detected user search. Queries may be formulated from the user search and transferred to one or more selected suppliers. Responses may be received from the suppliers, and used to generate a result list for the user. The result list may include information and/or query status information. Further, an electronic link may be provided to a website of one or more of the suppliers from which the information was derived.
US07668807B2
Embodiments of the invention allow for managing execution of queries with respect to different data sources. The different data sources are logically represented by data abstraction models. One embodiment comprises receiving a first abstract query against physical data in a first data source. The first abstract query has result fields configured to return requested data from the first data source. In response it is detected whether the first data source is available. If the first data source is unavailable, a second abstract query against physical data in a second data source containing a portion of the requested data is created on the basis of the first abstract query. The second abstract query has result fields configured to return the portion of the requested data from the second data source. The second abstract query is executed against the second data source to obtain the portion of the requested data.
US07668797B2
An active semiotic system creates implicit symbols and their alphabets from features, structural combination of features, objects and patters, creates models with explicit structures that are labeled with the implicit symbols, and derive other models in the same format via diagrammatic- and graph transformations. The active semiotic system treats vision as a part of a larger system that converts visual information into special knowledge structures that drive a vision process, resolve ambiguity and uncertainty via feedback projections, and provide image understanding that is an interpretation of visual information in terms of corresponding knowledge models. Mechanisms of image understanding, including mid- and high-level vision, are presented as methods and algorithms of the active semiotic system, where they are special kinds of diagrammatic and graph transformations. Derived structures, and not a primary view, are the subject for recognition, and such recognition is not affected by local changes and appearances of the object from a set of similar views, thereby allowing a robot or unmanned vehicle to interpret images and video similar to human beings for better situation awareness and intelligent tactical behavior in real world situations.
US07668796B2
Systems, methods and apparatus are provided through which in some embodiments, automata learning algorithms and techniques are implemented to generate a more complete set of scenarios for requirements based programming. More specifically, a CSP-based, syntax-oriented model construction, which requires the support of a theorem prover, is complemented by model extrapolation, via automata learning. This may support the systematic completion of the requirements, the nature of the requirement being partial, which provides focus on the most prominent scenarios. This may generalize requirement skeletons by extrapolation and may indicate by way of automatically generated traces where the requirement specification is too loose and additional information is required.
US07668794B2
An RFID events processing system includes a rules database having filtering rules and complex event rules, a primitive event filtering unit for receiving a plurality of primitive events to generate filtered events based on the filtering rules, and a complex event detection engine which receives the filtered events and detects complex events based on the complex event rules.
US07668792B2
A portable terminal device or cellular phone includes a target setting section, a display unit, a focused-state determination section, and a recognition section. The photography-target setting section sets normal photography mode for photographing an image, and OCR mode for photographing a character or bar code. The display unit displays a photographed image, and positioning of an image as a photography target. The focused-state determination section is activated, and determines a focused state of a character or bar code photographed in the OCR mode. The recognition section recognizes the photographed character or bar code, the result of which is displayed by the display unit. Press of a confirmation button initiates a process to communicate with a communications target corresponding to the recognized result. A linking section may link recognition results to form a continuous string.
US07668786B2
A method and system for selecting a characterizing algorithm to be used to characterize blocks of printed material. A digital image of printed material, such as an address block, on an object is obtained, and the image is processed to extract characterizing information descriptive of aspects of the printed material. An indicium representative of the information is then printed on the object. The object's relationship to the indicium can be verified by regenerating the characterizing information from the printed material and comparing the regenerated characterizing information with characterizing information recovered from the indicium. A particular algorithm is selected from a predetermined group of characterizing algorithms by determining an estimate for the robustness of each algorithm.
US07668785B1
A method. The method includes a) sending a first transaction notification message comprising an original payee identifier to a user. The original payee identifier may be part of original transaction information associated with a first transaction. At some point, the user sees this transaction information and wants to correct one or more items in the transaction information. For example, the user may not recognize that the original payee identifier is wrong or is otherwise unrecognizable. The user may then contact a central server (e.g., via a Web site) and may provide updated transaction information such as an updated merchant identifier to the central server computer. This updated transaction information may be stored so that subsequent transactions can be accurately conducted and reported to the user, and other uses.
US07668784B2
The invention provides a method of detection of an imprint of a postal indicium at a location on a mail piece. The method involves utilizing a sensor to scan along a band on the mail piece to detect a sequence of transitions between light and dark reflectance areas within a band extending across the said location. AN indication of the presence of the imprint of the postal indication is generated in response to detection of a transition succeeding a predetermined number of initial transitions at a start of the sequence of transitions.The invention also provides apparatus for imprinting postal indicia on mail pieces. The apparatus comprises a printer operable to print a postal indicium in a required location on the mail piece. A first sensor is provided that is responsive to reflectance transitions between light and dark along a band of the mail piece extending across the said location. The first sensor generates a sequence of first signals corresponding respectively to reflectance transitions along the said band. The apparatus further includes means operative in response to a first signal occurring after a predetermined number of said first signals at a start of said sequence to generate a second signal which is indicative of a postal indicium imprint on the mail piece.
US07668783B2
A rental software providing system and a method thereof, and its rental software providing server and a wireless terminal are disclosed. The rental software providing system using a prefetching scheme includes: a wireless terminal for notifying a network connection state, and a hardware state of the wireless terminal to a rental software providing server in order to perform the prefetching scheme; and a rental software providing server for prefetching partial programs of a rental software to be used in the wireless terminal by using a prefetching managing unit and a pattern analyzer and transmitting the prefetched partial programs to the wireless terminal.
US07668781B2
A global customer activated terminal (CAT) that primarily serves traveling customers who require access to their accounts when they are away from their home financial institution and beyond their local regional financial area is provided. The system provides applications that permit users to access their accounts and utilize account profiles and transaction journals within a generic global system approach, and each transaction set provides access to the user's full account profile. The traveling customer is also provided with access to all their accounts linked (as they would locally) to a specific card. The hardware employed in the system supports encryption key downloading, personal identification number (PIN) unscrambling and PIN encryption, so that security is instituted at the hardware level. To provide the maximum flexibility at each regional level for product and services offered, regional front end processors (FEPs) and Hosts (small financial systems) are the arbitrators of each transaction . . . acceptance and fulfillment, rather than the CAT.
US07668780B2
A money transfer system where a sender can authorize an escrow agent computer system electronically by touch-tone telephone, computer modem, P.O.S.(point of sale) terminal, live operators, and the like, to send a money transfer such as a cash transfer from their card account such as their credit card, debit card, bank card, ATM card, or a bank checking account, bank savings account, and the like, to a recipient that can access the money transfer at any remote ATM type location or P.O.S.(point of sale) terminal by using magnetic cards such as a specialized magnetic (Cash Magic) card, credit cards, debit cards, and automated teller machine(ATM) card, at anytime and anywhere that the ATM or P.O.S.(point of sale) terminal is located worldwide. The system can be used to quickly and easily send another party cash for pickup at any ATM location or P.O.S.(point of sale) terminal worldwide without having pre-existing relationships between the parties. A sending party can authorize, by touch-tone and PIN(personal identification number) secure codes to a central computer system which authorizes taking of funds from one type account (for example, a bank account, a credit account, and the like) and put credit for access by a recipient-user. The recipient-users can take the cards to withdrawal sites such as ATM machines, merchant machines, credit card machines, banks, and the like, to be used. The invention computer system can monitor the charging transaction and take surcharges based on the amount of cash being transferred and deposited into the escrow account accessible by the debit type cards. The system can be an alternative to wire money transfers, and Western Union type services. The system offers customers an easy method for sending cash, making it available at existing ATM type machine locations throughout the world, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The invention can also allow for having a universal specialized magnetic card permanently tethered to an ATM machine so that money transfer recipients do not need to possess any magnetic card, and/or be used with novel double magnetic sided cards.
US07668777B2
A system and method for issuance of a financial network-based payment card (generally known as a “credit card”) almost instantaneously after application, wherein an applicant applies for a credit card by entering data into a data entry system, advantageously by filling in a plurality of predefined forms in a computer-based data entry system. The applicant's data is sent via a data network to a central decision center, which approves or disapproves the application. If the application is approved, data is generated and delivered to a card production system, which embosses and magnetically encodes a card blank. The card is then delivered to the applicant.
US07668771B1
A method, program product and system for managing a group of aggregated accounts, each aggregated account held in a different one of a plurality of deposit institutions, each of the aggregated accounts associated with at least one financial entity and holding funds of a plurality of clients of the at least one financial entity, each of the clients having a client asset balance in a respective client account associated with the at least one financial entity, the method comprising: (1) allocating fund deposits to and fund withdrawals from the aggregated accounts, the step of allocating comprising: (a) calculating an aggregated transaction amount based on a total net transaction from among the plurality of the client accounts during a period of time; (b) selecting at least one aggregated account from among the group of aggregated accounts in the different deposit institutions to which to deposit or to withdraw funds based, at least in part, so as to avoid withdrawing funds from or depositing funds to at least a different one of the aggregated accounts in the group; and (2) withdrawing funds from or depositing funds to the at least one of the aggregated accounts based on the allocation.
US07668768B2
A computer-implemented method and tool for evaluating an investment includes functionality that generates and stores data representing values/dates of a plurality of inflows and outflows over the investment period. Such data is used to derive first values that represent expected benefits over corresponding intervals of the investment period. A first net present value result is generated by discounting some or all of the first values, and then stored for output as part of the investment evaluation. The first values account for at least one of: i) interest payments and credits on calculated daily bank account balances (CDBAs) derived from the data; ii) tax payments due on CDBAs derived from the data; iii) VAT payments derived from portions of the data corresponding to forecasted sales of the investment, iv) income tax payments derived from said data, and v) allocation of forecasted net income into a plurality of predetermined categories.
US07668763B1
A financial services outsourcing method or system facilitates a direct service provider's ability to outsource financial services to numerous ultimate clients. The financial services are outsourced to an outsourcing group abroad. Ultimate client specific financial files and corresponding reference materials are loaded onto a remotely accessible part of a host server located in the United States. The host server provides access to a remote client computer of information concerning the ultimate client specific financial files and corresponding reference materials. The access may be limited to limited screen shot access. Outsourced personnel are retained to perform financial service projects (e.g., prepare individual tax returns) for ultimate clients of direct financial services firms. The outsourced personnel perform the financial service projects while located outside the United States. The status of the financial service project is monitored and reported.
US07668748B1
Helping advertisers by simplifying the management of interactive advertising. Such simplification can be achieved by allowing an advertiser to specify a single bid for multiple keywords associated with an advertisement. When used in conjunction with a maximum cost bid, advertisers are not penalized with higher costs for such simplification.
US07668743B2
An apparatus for planning a demand-supply scheme of a supply chain so as to increase the corporate profit. A demand-supply scheme including order receipt, order placement, purchase and supply in the unit of a month of each step of a supply chain that includes various steps, such as product sales steps, product-producing steps, steps of producing parts for producing products, etc. is set so that the order placement to each producing step becomes within an order receivable range that is calculated from the equipment, the manpower, the number of times of operation, etc. of the producing step. Furthermore, a demand-supply scheme is planned and changed so as to maximize a profitability index that is calculated by using a cost regarding the production of a product that includes a material cost, a manpower cost, and an equipment cost, a stock management cost, a transportation cost, etc.
US07668736B2
A system and method for providing secure data communications and user access authorization for an integrated emergency medical transportation database. The secure communications and user authorization is provided by a Virtual Private Network (“VPN”), allowing confidential patient medical records to be transmitted via a public network such as the Internet without compromising the confidentiality of the data.
US07668734B2
A system for creating, maintaining and selectively accessing medical histories. The system allows a patient and other selected parties to build a medical history, but importantly places the authority to grant access to the medical history solely in the hands of the patient. When the patient's medical history file is created, the patient also pre-authorizes selected parties, including government agencies such as FEMA to have access to at least part of the patient's history. Each selected party is associated with an access module that dictates the level of access the party has to the medical history. Primary care physicians are associated with a full access module, which allows full access to the patient's medical history. Dentists and pharmacies are associated with a limited access module, which limits the party's access to only pertinent portions of the patient's medical history. The present system also includes a fingerprint scanner and/or retina scanner that can be used to identify unconscious patients and patients without an I.D. card.
US07668732B1
A system for improving personalized care at an urgent care unit by creating a high-level of quality service includes a special care unit in the urgent care unit and a team trained to provide high quality customer care and thereby invoke patient loyalty to the urgent care unit. The urgent care unit has a contract with an association that enables association members to become qualified patients. Qualified patients are provided an indicator to allow the team to accept the qualified patient for treatment. The qualified patients use an interface to request to request a time, the time is confirmed, and an examination ensues within thirty minutes of the time. The team member makes an evaluation to determine whether the patient stays or is transferred to the emergency department. A treatment is devised based on the evaluation.
US07668725B2
A method is disclosed for generating a sales referral over the Internet for the sale of an asset. A first and second salesperson is provided with an account that comprises a number of clicks and a first period during which the clicks will be delivered. A click comprises an assignment on a web site of linking information corresponding to a saleperson's web site. A consumer who activates the click is transferred to a web site of the salesperson, and the click is debited from the salesperson's account.
US07668723B2
An audio codec losslessly encodes audio data into a sequence of analysis windows in a scalable bitstream. This is suitably done by separating the audio data into MSB and LSB portions and encoding each with a different lossless algorithm. An authoring tool compares the buffered payload to an allowed payload for each window and selectively scales the losslessly encoded audio data, suitably the LSB portion, in the non-conforming windows to reduce the encoded payload, hence buffered payload. This approach satisfies the media bit rate and buffer capacity constraints without having to filter the original audio data, reencode or otherwise disrupt the lossless bitstream.
US07668719B2
In an interactive process using speech recognition together with a graphical user interface comprising a plurality of settable graphical user interface items, the recognition rate is improved by reducing recognition target vocabulary. A settable graphical user interface item not displayed on the display screen is detected, and the received speech information is recognized using a speech recognition grammar corresponding to the detected item, and data is set to the item using the recognition result.
US07668717B2
A speech synthesis system stores a group of speech units in a memory, selects a plurality of speech units from the group based on prosodic information of target speech, the speech units selected corresponding to each of segments which are obtained by segmenting a phoneme string of the target speech and minimizing distortion of synthetic speech generated from the speech units selected to the target speech, generates a new speech unit corresponding to the each of the segments, by fusing the speech units selected, to obtain a plurality of new speech units corresponding to the segments respectively, and generates synthetic speech by concatenating the new speech units.
US07668716B2
A device improves speech recognition accuracy by utilizing an external knowledge source. The device receives a speech recognition result from an automatic speech recognition (ASR) engine, the speech recognition result including a plurality of ordered interpretations, wherein each of the ordered interpretations includes a plurality of information items. The device analyzes and filters the plurality of interpretations using an external knowledge source to create a filtered plurality of ordered interpretations. The device stores the filtered plurality of ordered interpretations to a memory. The device transmits the filtered plurality of ordered interpretations to a dialog manager module to create a textual output. Alternatively, the dialog manager module retrieves the filtered plurality of ordered interpretations from a memory.
US07668713B2
A method for transcoding a bit stream encoded according to a mixed-excitation linear prediction (MELP) standard to a bit stream encoded according to a linear predictive coding (LPC) standard, including: decoding a bit stream into a first set of vocoder parameters compatible with the MELP standard; transforming the first set of vocoder parameters into a second set of vocoder parameters compatible with the LPC standard without converting the first set of vocoder parameters to an analog or digital waveform representation; and encoding the second set of vocoder parameters into a bit stream compatible with the LPC vocoder standard.
US07668711B2
According to the present invention, it is possible to calculate appropriate chirp factor and noise component amount with a little processing amount.Input subband signal is segmented into a plurality of ranges by a range segmentation unit 101. The range segmentation is performed for energy value calculation, chirp factor calculation, noise component calculation, and tone component calculation, respectively, and determined range segmentation information ei, bi, qi, and hi are outputted. Respective processing for the energy calculation, the chirp factor calculation, the tone component calculation, and the noise component calculation are performed sequentially for the respective corresponding ranges. By using linear prediction processing, it is possible to obtain an parameter having higher accuracy with a little operation amount.
US07668708B2
A system and method for wireless network planning utilizing raster data, stored and manipulated in raster data planes (204-212) and vector data (522) stored and manipulated in vector data planes (528-532). The invention increases the accuracy of network planning by simultaneously utilizing vector data planes (528-532) and raster data planes (204-212) to perform computations using vector features contained within map pixels (604). The disclosed method makes it possible to perform accurate computations such as propagation loss to vector points (602) contained within map pixels (604). Accuracy is further increased because other characteristics such as received power, elevation, and best server can be computed to the vector features rather than processing them with traditional raster resolutions.
US07668699B2
Apparatus and method for improving the detection of signals obscured by noise using stochastic resonance noise. The method determines the stochastic resonance noise probability density function in non-linear processing applications that is added to the observed data for optimal detection with no increase in probability of false alarm. The present invention has radar, sonar, signal processing (audio, image and video), communications, geophysical, environmental, and biomedical applications.
US07668692B2
A method for weighing vehicles moving on a bridge deck pavement is provided. At least one vibration sensor is mounted on a lower side of the pavement to sense low frequency pavement vibrations generated by moving vehicle wheels and propagated in waves in the pavement. Vibration sensor output signals are provided to a computing device. Sensed vibration energy rate is computed and, with signals from vibration sensors mounted at two locations separated by a known longitudinal distance, vehicle speed is also computed. The weight of the vehicle is determined as the product of a calibration coefficient and the ratio of sensed vibration energy rate to velocity. Using vibration sensor signals indicative of wheel generated vibrations in the very near field and summing vibration energy rates computed from these signals during vehicle passage over the vibration sensors the weight of individual vehicles is computed when other moving vehicles are present.
US07668690B2
A motor control system and method are provided for detecting current ripple in a commutated DC motor and further determining position and speed of the motor based on the detected ripple current. Ripples in the motor current are detected and a ripple frequency is calculated based on the time between successive ripples. A ripple count between successive frequencies is determined and the ripple count is compared to a threshold value, and an estimated ripple frequency is determined from a motor model when the ripple count exceeds the threshold value. A corrected ripple count is calculated from a ratio of the calculated ripple frequency and the estimated ripple frequency, and motor position and motor speed are determined based on the corrected ripple count.
US07668685B2
An electrical connector for connection to a sensor has an integrated microcontroller, with a plug-and-socket connection for connection to an interface of the sensor and with an electronic circuit. With the connector, the data of a sensor, especially the parameter data, can be mirrored outside the sensor in a simple and economical manner so that the data are available at any time and as much as possible on site. The electronic circuit has a memory for storage of data, especially parameter data and characteristic data of the sensor, and a microcontroller, the microcontroller operating the interface of the sensor, and depending on the characteristic data of the sensor, either reading data, especially parameter data, out of the sensor via the interface and storing it in the memory, or reading data stored in the memory, especially parameter data, out of the memory and transmitting them via the interface into the sensor.
US07668683B2
The present disclosure is directed to numerical test data reporting using an image file and subsequent analysis of the test data. A method for capturing and analyzing test data in accordance with an embodiment includes: capturing multi-bit integer values of test data; writing each multi-bit integer value to a multi-bit vertical field in an image file; extracting the multi-bit integer values from the multi-bit vertical fields in the image file; and analyzing the extracted multi-bit integer values.
US07668672B2
A method and systems for automatically adjusting the parameters of signal emitter in a synchronous high-speed transmission system, is disclosed. According to the method of the invention, the quality of a high-speed received signal is analyzed for a plurality of sets of parameter values and the one producing the best signal quality is selected. In a first embodiment, the quality of the high-speed received signal is determined by analyzing a digital eye characterizing the signal behavior, obtained by over-sampling the high-speed received signal. In a second embodiment, the quality of the high-speed received signal is determined by analyzing the behavior of the phase rotator used for data sampling. Finally, in a third embodiment, the quality of the high-speed received signal is determined by analyzing a digital eye, obtained by moving the position of a phase rotator from one end to the other and sampling data at each position.
US07668670B2
Tracking vibrations on a pipeline network includes installing multiple vibration recorders on the pipeline network, with each recorder including a sensor, a processor, and a communication device. At each vibration recorder, vibration signals are received from the sensor at programmed times under the control of the processor of the vibration recorders and processed by the processor. The processed vibration signals are communicated from the vibration recorder to a reader device using the digital communication device. In addition, at a particular vibration recorder, meter readings from a flow meter associated with the particular vibration recorder are received. The meter readings are indicative of a level of flow in the pipeline network, and are communicated from the particular vibration recorder to a reader device using the communication device of the particular vibration recorder. Thereafter, the processed vibration signals from the one or more reader devices are collected at a central computer system. Finally, the collected processed vibration signals and the meter readings are analyzed at the central computer system to determine abnormal vibration patterns and to obtain measures of any leaks present in the pipeline network.
US07668665B2
Methods of operating an interrogation system that has a plurality of patches attached to a host structure. Each patch is capable of generating a diagnostic wave and/or developing a sensor signal in response to the diagnostic wave. In each method, a Euclidean undirected graph is generated by forming a plurality of paths; wherein each path connects two of the patches and the length of the path is shorter than a preset limit. Then, a directed graph or network is generated by assigning a propagation direction of the diagnostic wave to each path. Structural condition index (SCI) values are measured by use of the directed graph and, based on the SCI values, the host structure is scanned for anomalies. The directed graph is reconfigured to determine the shape and location of the anomalies.
US07668663B2
Systems and methods for identifying and removing spikes in data sets representing PCR growth curves or other sigmoid type curves or growth curves. A double sigmoid function with parameters determined using a Levenberg-Marquardt regression algorithm is used to find an approximation to the curve, and a statistical test such as a z-test is then used to identify spikes by identifying data points in the data set that do not fit well with the approximation. The identified spike(s) are removed from the data set and/or replaced with interpolated data points determined by using data points surrounding the identified spike(s). In one aspect, a spline interpolation process such as a cubic spline interpolation process is used to find an approximation to the data set with the identified spike points removed. Interpolated values to replace the spike points are then calculated using the cubic spline interpolation approximation curve.
US07668662B2
A patient-specific optimally effective radiation dose for administration of a radiopharmaceutical to a patient for treatment of a disease may be established by basing the calculation of the appropriate therapeutic dose on factors such as the desired total body dose, the maximum tolerated dose, the typical clearance profile of the radiopharmaceutical, the patient's mass or maximum effective mass, and the patient-specific residence time of the radiopharmaceutical or an analog in the whole body of the patient. The use of the method allows for treatment of a patient with an appropriate dose which is maximally effective against the disease yet minimally toxic. The determination of a patient-specific therapeutic dose may be assisted by the use of a software program set to the particular parameters of the radiopharmaceutical.
US07668657B2
A system for determining positions of fixed-position GPS receives that have restricted views of the sky includes a data recording and control center, and one or more base GPS receivers with associated antennas with a substantially unrestricted views of the sky. The system batch processes range information provided by the fixed-position GPS receivers over an extended period of time; determining which of the range data from the fixed-position receivers are valid, and using the valid range data to determine position. In this way, the precise positions of the respective fixed-position slave GPS receivers can be calculated, even if the fixed-position GPS receivers are able to observe and collect data from sets of two or more satellites for only three or four relatively short time intervals at various sky positions during the extended period.
US07668655B2
An inertial navigation system includes a navigation component, such as an inertial measurement unit, a processor in communication with the navigation component, and a filter embedded in computer code implemented within the processor. The filter includes a model of the navigation component, and one or more parameters of the model are configured after startup of the inertial navigation system based upon performance characteristics of the individual navigation component included in the inertial navigation system.
US07668654B2
A navigation device is provided that includes a GPS input that receives GPS information from a GPS satellite. The system also includes a non-GPS input that receives real-time content from a non-GPS source. The real-time content includes updates to travel conditions. The system also includes a navigation module that analyzes the updates from the non-GPS source in conjunction with the GPS information form the GPS satellite.
US07668648B2
The invention relates to a method and an apparatus to display a geographical picture on a screen (36) of a monitor (30), which is connected over a data bus (3) to a first computer (1). The invention specifies that the first computer (1) furnishes abstract data (a, c, f), determined on a geographical basis, to the data bus (3), and that these data (a, c, f) are processed in a second computer (31) situated in the monitor (30), for the visual display of a picture on the screen (36) of the monitor (30).
US07668646B2
A navigation device mounted on an automotive vehicle includes geographical map data, a position detector such as a global navigation system and a device for calculating a driving route from a starting point or a present position to a destination. When the vehicle is going to cross a border such as a national border, the driving route is calculated to include a parking spot close to the border. A driver of the vehicle is guided to temporarily park at the parking spot to obtain local information including traffic regulations in a country he/she is going to enter. Since the local information is given to the driver while he is parking, the driver is able to concentrate on obtaining the local information in detail without sacrificing driving safety.
US07668644B2
A vehicle fuel informational system is provided with a fuel level determination component, an onboard vehicle positioning component, an onboard vehicle navigation component and a low fuel notification component. The fuel level determination component determines a fuel level of a host vehicle equipped with the vehicle fuel informational system. The onboard vehicle positioning component determines a host vehicle's position of the host vehicle equipped with the vehicle positioning component. The onboard vehicle navigation component provides vehicle route information for a desired vehicle route of the host vehicle. The low fuel notification component provides a low fuel alert notification that is indicative of a low fuel and automatically recommends a suggested fuel provider at least partially based on at least one of the host vehicle's position of the host vehicle and the desired vehicle route.
US07668642B2
An electronic control unit executes a delay control and a load compensation control. In the delay control, the period from when an engine stop request for an engine is made to when the engine is actually stopped is extended. In the load compensation control, the engine power is adjusted according to the driving load of auxiliary devices. Further, if the engine stop request is made during operation of a compressor, which is one of the auxiliary devices, the electronic control unit executes a power reduction control, in which ignition timing is retarded to temporarily reduce the engine power. As a result, in an internal combustion engine that executes the delay control, sudden increases in the engine speed that are likely to occur when an engine stop request is made during operation of auxiliary devices are reliably suppressed.
US07668637B2
A technique for determining a slip angle of a motor vehicle, while compensating for bank angle of the motor vehicle, includes a number of steps. Initially, a first lateral velocity of a motor vehicle is determined, without consideration of a bank angle and is derived from an integral of a first lateral velocity derivative (vy dot). A second lateral velocity of the motor vehicle is also determined, with consideration of the bank angle and is derived from an integral of a second lateral velocity derivative. A third lateral velocity of the motor vehicle is also determined, with consideration of the bank angle and the first and second lateral velocities and is derived from an integral of a third lateral velocity derivative. A longitudinal velocity of the motor vehicle is also determined. A slip angle of the motor vehicle is then determined, based upon the third lateral velocity and the longitudinal velocity or the first lateral velocity and the longitudinal velocity.
US07668636B2
A brake-related ECU (46) terminates control on the basis of a control stop signal sent from a body-related ECU (40) connected with the brake-related ECU by a CAN 1, an engine revolving speed supplied from an engine ECU (42) connected with the brake-related ECU by the CAN 1, and wheel speeds detected by wheel speed sensors (20L, 20R, 22L, 22R) connected with the brake-related ECU by electric wiring (60).
US07668632B2
A system for identifying events includes a memory capable of storing a compressed event table including a number of events, the event table having been compressed by reducing the number of events in the event table without reducing the number of events represented by the event table. Each event of the event table includes a set of state parameters, and may also be associated with an output. The system also includes a processor capable of operating a fast state recognition (FSR) application. The FSR application, in turn, can receive a plurality of inputs, and identify an event of the compressed event table based upon the plurality of inputs and the state parameters of the compressed event table, event being identified in accordance with a state recognition technique.
US07668630B2
A method for regulating an electromechanically power-splitting hybrid drive system of a motor vehicle, having an internal combustion engine and two electric motors that are coupled by way of a transmission, as well as an electromechanically power-splitting hybrid drive system for a motor vehicle. It is proposed that, based on coupling conditions of the transmission, respective target rotation speeds and target torques be calculated for the internal combustion engine and the two electric motors; that the respective target rotation speeds be compared with corresponding actual rotation speeds of the internal combustion engine and of the electric motors; and that in the case of a system deviation between one of the actual rotation speeds and the corresponding target rotation speed, one or more additional torques be calculated on the basis of the system deviation and be taken into account, in addition to the target torque or torques calculated by the control system, in controlling the torque of the internal combustion engine and of the two electric motors.
US07668628B1
Methods and systems are provided which warn a pilot or flight crew to prevent navigation of an aircraft into an unapproved region of operation. A boundary of an approved region of operation for the aircraft is identified. A position of the aircraft relative to the boundary of the approved region of operation is determined. Then, a warning is generated if the determined position of the aircraft relative to the boundary of the approved region of operation satisfies a predetermined criteria.
US07668610B1
A system trains a first model to identify portions of electronic media streams based on first attributes of the electronic media streams and/or trains a second model to identify labels for identified portions of the electronic media streams based on at least one of second attributes of the electronic media streams, feature information associated with the electronic media streams, or information regarding other portions within the electronic media streams. The system inputs an electronic media stream into the first model, identifies, by the first model, portions of the electronic media stream, inputs the electronic media stream and information regarding the identified portions into the second model, and/or determines, by the second model, human recognizable labels for the identified portions.
US07668606B2
There is realized a control device capable of speeding up an output response without causing deterioration in the resolution of a time-proportional output. The control device controls a control object at a ratio of ON-time to OFF-time for a time-proportional output. The control device comprises a PID computation unit for executing PID computation of deviation between a set value and a measured value from the control object, an integrator for sequentially adding up control output values each representing the result of the PID computation executed by the PID computation unit, an ON/OFF determination unit for determining whether the time-proportional output is turned ON or OFF on the basis of an integrated value of the integrator, and a time-proportional output unit for turning the time-proportional output ON/OFF on the basis of a determination value of the ON/OFF determination unit.
US07668599B2
The present invention is a visual prosthesis for the restoration of sight in patients with lost or degraded visual function. The visual prosthesis includes a user interface which controls function of the visual prosthesis to optimize operation for each individual patient. The user interface controls functions such as brightness, contrast, magnification, frequency, pulse width, or amplitude. The user interface may also individually control points of neural stimulation.
US07668594B2
An implantable cardiac rhythm management (CRM) device delivers a chronic therapy while detecting an ischemic state. When the ischemic state indicates the occurrence of an ischemic event, the implantable CRM device delivers a post-ischemia therapy. The post-ischemia therapy and the chronic therapy are adjusted using feedback control with the ischemic state and parameters indicative of the effectiveness of the post-ischemic therapy and the effectiveness of the chronic therapy as inputs.
US07668593B1
System and method to accelerate individualized gain adjustment in implantable medical device systems
A system and method for increasing the speed of individualizing amplifier gain optimization in implantable medical devices. A variable amplifier gain is initially set at a relatively high level such that the amplifier experiences at least intervals of saturation. A saturation indicator is determined which is indicative of the relative degree of saturation. The gain is then adjusted as a function of the saturation indicator. Relative larger degrees of saturation result in more aggressive gain adjustment. This increases the speed of adjustment with reduced likelihood of loss of sensing. In one implementation, one or more discrete amplifier gain adjustment steps are made in a single adjustment to effectively skip over intermediate adjustments. In another implementation, an estimate is made of a signal peak during a saturating interval. The gain is adjusted directly based on the estimated peak with appropriate sensing safety margins. The method can be implemented with a system including a programmer in communication with an implantable device.
US07668585B2
A medical diagnostic imaging system (10) includes a diagnostic imaging scanner (12) that acquires imaging data of a medical imaging patient. A reconstruction processor (46) reconstructs at least a portion of the acquired imaging data into an image representation. A pair of electrodes (30, 32) contact a thoracic region of the patient. An electrical meter (34) measures electrical resistance R(t) or another time-varying electrical parameter (70) across the electrode pair (30, 32) during the acquiring of imaging data. A respiration monitor (36) extracts a time-varying respiration characteristic (90, 98, 110, 120) from the measured time-varying electrical parameter (70) to indicate respiratory cycle phase.
US07668572B2
A system and method to remotely activate a procedure, preferably to Reload, a transceiver unit powered with an Ethernet cable. The system and method includes a power source including circuitry to reverse the polarity of voltage for a desired amount of time to a detection circuit in the transceiver unit. Upon successful detection, a reload circuit preferably in the transceiver unit activates the Reload procedure in the transceiver unit.
US07668561B2
In a wireless communication system, an apparatus and a method are provided for controlling reverse link interference among access terminals that are power controlled by a sector of a base station. In an embodiment, the maximum effective noise power spectral density is used as a parameter for controlling the level of reverse link loading, by setting a reverse activity bit (RAB) to signal the access terminals to reduce their data rates in order to minimize interference between the access terminals if the maximum effective noise power spectral density is above a predetermined threshold.
US07668559B2
A method of delivering a call to a called party's device. The method includes receiving a call directed to a wireline device and validating that a telephone number of the wireline device is associated with a telephone number of a wireless device. The method also includes transmitting a message to the wireless device, delivering the call to the wireline device when a return message is not received from the wireless device, and determining a location of the wireless device when a return message is received from the wireless device. The method further includes comparing the location of the wireless device with a location of the wireline device, delivering the call to the wireless device when the location of the wireless device is not within a predefined vicinity of the location of the wireline device, and delivering the call to the wireline device when the location of the wireless device is within a predefined vicinity of the location of the wireline device.
US07668556B2
A communication system including a communication terminal apparatus and a wireless key apparatus in wireless communication is provided. The communication terminal apparatus includes a first communication unit operable to receive a first wireless signal, and a first control unit operable to determine a distance between the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus based on the received first wireless signal, wherein the first control unit limits a predetermined function of the communication terminal apparatus based on determining the distance. The wireless key apparatus includes a second communication unit operable to receive a second wireless signal, and a second control unit operable to determine the distance between the communication terminal apparatus and the wireless key apparatus based on the received second wireless signal, whereby the second control unit decreases transmission power associated with the second communication unit based on the determined distance.
US07668550B2
When a terminal is moved to an area covered by a different switching node RNC of a radio access network, degradation of speech quality is prevented by returning a transcoder insertion connection to a transcoder-free-operation connection. When the terminal is moved and the switching node RNC of the radio access network is changed, a relocation is performed by inserting the transcoder, re-confirmation of parameter information of a bandwidth-compression coding system is requested for a local side switching node RNC and a remote side switching node RNC and, when the transcoder can be bypassed according to the confirmation, the transcoder is removed to return to the transcoder-free-operation connection mode.
US07668548B2
A cell reselection function in a mobile station (MS) through an adjacent cell search is provided. The MS in an idle state obtains its own moving speed and current location using Global Positioning System (GPS) location information, calculates a predicted moving location, and stores the predicted moving location. Thereafter, when measurement values of adjacent cells are similar, or when the adjacent cells are located in different location areas (LAs), the MS can efficiently search for the best cell from among the adjacent cells based on the location information and select the best cell as a new serving cell.
US07668530B2
A communications base station is installed at a selected new location and the base station, prior to going “on line” monitors the wireless traffic from other base stations within interference range of the new base station's coverage area. The new base station also monitors the wireless traffic between mobile devices within its coverage area and these other base stations. Based upon these monitored conditions, as well as other known conditions, the new base station then determines the transmitting parameter configuration it should imply in order to achieve a desired optimization between capacity and coverage area. After the new base station is on line, a central control can monitor the entire network to determine if any additional changes are necessary and if so the new transceiver, or any other transceiver, can be instructed to monitor itself with respect to interference and to take corrective action to improve overall network coverage and capacity.
US07668511B2
A network communication system is provided for communication between network nodes, including individual nodes and a communication controller. In the network, signals are transmitted from the communication controller to identify a slot of a frame in which individual nodes may transmit a request to transmit data. When a first individual node has data to transmit, the first node transmits a request signal to the controller in its identified slot, the request including randomly generated information (RGI) for identification of the node. In response to the request signal, the controller transmits a grant signal along with the RGI back to the first node to allow the first node to identify the grant.
US07668506B2
In a receiving apparatus equipped with a plurality of tuners, if a reception antenna is controlled in such a manner that a reception condition of a channel tuned by one tuner may become suitable, then a reception condition of the channel tuned by another tuner does not always become suitable. The receiving apparatus is provided with an antenna control unit which controls a reception antenna whose reception condition can be set, a first receiving unit, a second receiving unit, and a storage unit which stores thereinto tuning information such as a tuning channel, signal quality information, and a reception antenna setting condition. The receiving apparatus calculates a setting condition of the reception antenna capable of obtaining suitable receiving conditions in both the first and second receiving units by employing tuning information in a first channel and tuning information in a second channel.
US07668504B2
A scanning apparatus and method in a multi-hop relay Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. In the scanning method, a Mobile Subscriber Station (MSS) sends a scan request message requesting scanning to a Base Station (BS) via a Relay Station (RS). The BS sends a scan response message containing information for the scanning of the MSS to the MSS via the RS. The BS then sends a scan notify message indicating the scanning of the MSS to the RS.
US07668497B2
An image heating roller for heating a toner image on a recording material. The image heating roller includes a heat generation layer for generating heat by a microwave introduced into a hollow portion of the image heating roller. The image heating roller further includes a blocking layer, provided on the heat generation layer, for substantially blocking passing of the microwave.
US07668494B2
In an embodiment of the present invention, a pressure application mechanism portion is provided with a pressure-varying link structure arranged so as to be movable in lateral directions along an upper end portion of a device frame, a drive shaft having an eccentric cam for moving the pressure-varying link structure in the lateral directions, a shaft holding structure arranged so as to be rotatable coupled to the pressure-varying link structure, and a coil spring for applying a biasing force to the shaft holding structure in one direction along the upper end portion of the device frame, and a rotational movement is carried out to make a pressure roller approach and move away from a heat roller so as to achieve a relatively low pressure during a color processing mode and a relatively high pressure during a monochrome processing mode.
US07668492B2
The present invention relates to an image forming apparatus, comprising: an image carrying belt which rotates so as to carry an image; a first roller supporting the image carrying belt; a second roller contacting a face opposite to a face of the image carrying belt contacting the first roller, and supporting the image carrying belt; and a control unit which controls rotation of the image carrying belt such that a portion of the image carrying belt, supported by the first roller in a period that the image carrying belt is stopped before image formation, is supported by the second roller in a period that the image carrying belt is stopped after the image formation.
US07668490B2
A developing apparatus has a developer carrying member carrying a developer thereon, a developer supplying member for supplying the developer to the developer carrying member, and a scraping member for contacting the developer carrying member upstream of the closest position between the developer carrying member and the developer supplying member with respect to the movement direction of the developer carrying member to thereby scrape off the developer from the developer carrying member. There is formed a developer supplying portion surrounded by the scraping member, the developer carrying member and the developer supplying member for supplying the developer from the developer supplying member to the developer carrying member, and the developer scraped off by the scraping member is conveyed to a collecting passage differing from the closest position.
US07668489B2
A toner path opening and closing apparatus of an image forming device includes a first shutter elastically supported by a first elastic member to open and close a first toner path, and a second shutter elastically supported by a second elastic member having an elastic modulus smaller than the first elastic member to open and close a second toner path by the first shutter. After the second toner path is opened by the first shutter, the first is opened, so that the first and second toner paths communicate with each other. The first toner path is a toner supplying pipeline to which a toner is supplied from a toner cartridge, and the second toner path is a toner injecting port disposed in a developing unit. In mounting of the developing unit, after the toner injecting port disposed in the developing unit is first opened, the toner supplying pipeline is opened, and in dismounting of the developing unit, after the toner supplying pipeline is first closed, the toner injecting port is closed, so that in mounting and dismounting of the developing unit, toner is prevented from being leaked through the toner paths.
US07668485B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming structure including an image carrier that carries an image and an optical writing device that writes a latent image onto the image carrier in an integral arrangement; plural development devices that develop a latent image carried by the image carrier; a shifting mechanism unit that shifts the image forming structure relative to the development devices; and a shift controller that controls the shifting mechanism unit so that the image carrier is shifted to a development position in contact with one of the development devices in a predetermined order.
US07668484B2
The invention delivers a charging roller which is capable of preventing current leakage to a photoreceptor throughout life-time and which has a stable resistance value throughout life-time. The charging roller contains a metal core and a rubber layer formed on the core. The rubber layer is an epichlorohydrin-based rubber base material to which an electronic conductive agent and an ionic conductive agent are added. The rubber layer is subjected to surface processing by spraying the surface with a solution containing an isocyanate compound and heating. The amount of the electronic conductive agent added to the rubber base material is limited so that a volume resistivity when only the electronic conductive agent is added to the rubber base material is 1.46×106 Ω·cm or greater. In addition, the amount of the added ionic conductive agent is increased so that a volume resistivity when the electronic conductive agent and the ionic conductive agent are added to the rubber base material is 1.93×106 Ω·cm or less.
US07668480B2
A cleaning device for use with an electrophotographic image forming apparatus has a charging brush positioned in contact with an endless image bearing surface of a rotatable image bearing member to form a contact region in which the brush provides an electric charge with a certain polarity to toner particles passing through the contact region according to a rotation of the image bearing member, and a cleaning member positioned on a downstream side with respect to a rotational direction of the image bearing member and in contact with the image bearing surface of the image bearing member to collect the toner particles from the image bearing surface. The charging brush has a base and a number of bristles planted in the base. A contact force of the charging brush against the image bearing surface is set to be more than 0 N/m and equal to or less than 1.5 N/m.
US07668476B2
An image forming apparatus includes a main body, a post-processing unit, a transport unit, a filter and a suctioning/exhausting unit. The post-processing unit is disposed adjacent to the main body. The post-processing unit performs predetermined post-processing on a recording medium on which an image is formed in the main body. The transport unit transports the recording medium from the main body to the post-processing unit. The suctioning/exhausting unit suctions air in the transport unit and exhausts the suctioned air through the filter to an outside of the main body.
US07668475B2
A method of configuring a printing system includes providing a document key having an initial image and providing a printing system that includes a memory storing a first system setting. The method also includes scanning the document key and validating the initial image. The method can optionally include marking a first overlay image over at least a portion of the initial image, scanning the document key, and verifying the marking of the first overlay image thereon. The method also includes configuring or permitting the configuration of the printing system after the initial image has been validated or the marking of the first overlay, image on the initial image has been verified. A printing system that is capable of being configured using the document key is also included.
US07668439B2
An apparatus for reproducing data, method thereof and recording medium are disclosed. In reproducing a title configured with data within a recording medium and/or data within a local storage, a method of reproducing data, the present invention includes the steps of checking information of identifying an application associated with the title from an object file corresponding to the title, authenticating the associated application, and reproducing the title by executing the application. Accordingly, the present invention can protect contents provided by a content provider and a user's playback system. Hence, the content provider can provide contents safely and the user can reproduce the contents with security. Therefore, the present invention can provide more convenient functions.
US07668436B2
A method is provided for recording video information in which copy control information of video information is managed in the case of copying the content of data from one recording medium to another recording medium. Copy control information (CCI) or a watermark (WM) of an inputted AV stream is detected and whether the content of the copy control information or watermark has changed is determined. Change point information of the copy control information or watermark and the content of the copy control information or watermark are acquired, and management information for managing the copy control information is generated on the basis of the acquired change point information. The generated management information is recorded together with the video information to a recording medium at a copy destination.
US07668431B2
There is provided grommet and plate assemblies for sealing fiber optic closures into which and/or out of which fiber optic cables are routed. The grommet of the assembly includes a central portion with an axial opening adapted to receive the fiber optic cable through a slit in the central portion. The grommet also includes an end cap portion on an axial end of the grommet, and the end cap portion includes a deformable outer lip that overhangs an outer surface of the central portion to provide axial retention of the grommet once it is inserted into an opening of the plate. The plate includes a plurality of openings into which grommets may be selectively inserted. The plate may be received within an opening of the fiber optic closure and includes a slot for receiving a protrusion within the opening of the fiber optic closure.
US07668422B2
Arrangement for multiplexing and/or demultiplexing optical signals having a plurality of wavelengths
An arrangement for multiplexing and/or demultiplexing optical signals having a plurality of wavelengths, including a multiplex body having two parallel surfaces between which light is reflected back and forth and in this case is coupled in or out in a wavelength-dependent manner, and structures for coupling optical signals into or out of the multiplex body. According to the invention, the structures for coupling optical signals into or out of the multiplex body have a plurality of essentially structurally identical subassemblies, each subassembly having an optoelectronic transducer and an associated optical system, by which light having a wavelength is respectively coupled into or out of the multiplex body.
US07668419B2
Method and apparatus enable optical evanescent sensing utilizing a waveguide with an annular core. The annular core can provide detectable sensitivity to a measurand due to optical interactions with contents along an inside surface of the annular core since optical properties of the contents vary with changes in the measurand.
US07668413B2
Disclosed is an apparatus for measuring convergence using a fiber Bragg grating sensor measuring slight deformation, capable of measuring the convergence such as the inclination or the gravitational acceleration of a measurement target including a bridge or a tunnel by measuring the deformation of the fiber Bragg grating sensor when the measurement target is inclined or vibrated, as well as a measurement method using the apparatus. The apparatus includes a main body that is installed on a measurement target; a fixture that is fixedly installed at the front of the main body; a rotator that is horizontally installed apart from the fixture at a predetermined distance and is rotatably installed in the main body using a bearing; an optical fiber that is adhered to upper outer surfaces of the fixture and the rotator so as to maintain a horizontally tensioned state and has optical terminals installed on opposite ends thereof; a fiber Bragg grating sensor that is installed on the optical fiber between the fixture and the rotator; and a bob that is vertically connected with a lower portion of the rotator by a support having a predetermined length. The apparatus is installed on the measurement target after setting a reference value and then calculates a quantity of displacement caused by variation of the ground, so that values of angular displacement and gravitational acceleration displacement are measured.
US07668399B2
A layout image is generated by laying out images in a background area according to a predetermined rule. An instruction to edit the layout image is received from a user, and the layout image is edited. Based on a result of editing according to the instruction, user preference information representing preference of the user is generated. The user preference information is fed back in subsequent layout image generation.
US07668398B2
A method of displaying an image with a display device is provided. The method comprises receiving image data associated with an image, generating a set of three sub-frames using less than all of the image data, and alternating between displaying the set of three sub-frames in first, second, and third positions, wherein the second position is spatially offset from the first position, and wherein the third position is spatially offset from the first and the second positions.
US07668397B2
A new approach to objective quality assessment of DCT-coded video sequences, with or without a reference is proposed. The system is comprised of a proprietary segmentation algorithm, a feature extraction process and a nonlinear feed-forward-type neural network for feature analysis. The methods mimic function of the human visual system (HVS): A neural network training algorithm is used for determining the optimal network weights and biases for both system modes of operation. The proposed method allows for assessment of DCT-coded video sequences without the original source being available (pseudo-reference mode). The pseudo-reference mode is also comprised of a proprietary DCT-coded video (MPEG) noise reducer (MNR), co-pending patent application No. 60/592,143.
US07668396B2
In a specific embodiment of the present disclosure, a source image is smoothed to create a smoothed image, and an edge detector is used to create an edge layer. A blending controller is used to control a blending between the source image and the smoothed image. The blended destination image maintains detail while eliminating unwanted noise.
US07668390B2
A multi-dimensional data enhancement system uses large kernel filtering, decimation, and interpolation, in multi-dimensions to enhance the multi-dimensional data in real-time. The multi-dimensional data enhancement system is capable of performing large kernel processing in real-time because the required processing overhead is significantly reduced. The reduction in processing overhead is achieved through the use of low pass filtering and decimation that reduces the amount of data that needs to be processed in order to generate an unsharp mask comprising low spatial frequencies that can be used to process the data in a more natural way.
US07668380B2
A method of rate-control for a sequence of scalably coded images having transform coefficients partitioned into coding units coded in a plurality of quality increments having respective significance values. The method defines subsets each having one or more coding units, at least one image contributing at least one coding unit to two or more subsets. A list of requirements (LOR) is set having a least one entry associated with each subset. The significance values are used to select quality increments to construct an admissible codestream that satisfies the LOR on the subsets. The quality increments may be selected to achieve high quality for different subsets subject to size requirements in the LOR. For certain requirements, the codestream will also exhibit approximately constant reconstructed image quality. The quality increments may also be selected to achieve small compressed sizes for different subsets subject to quality requirements in the LOR.
US07668379B2
Apparatus for processing image data is provided, comprising first storage means, processing means and manual input means, wherein said first storage means is configured to store said image data and said image data includes a plurality of components defined by a hierarchy of data processing nodes, and said processing means is configured to process each of said nodes in turn. The nodes include standard nodes and switch nodes, each switch node having at least two child nodes one of which is the designated child node of said switch node. The processing means is configured to process a standard node only when each of its child nodes has been processed, and process a switch node when only its designated child node has been processed. Additionally, said processing means may include second storage means and stores, in either said first or said second storage means, information recording the states of said switch nodes that defines a version of said image data.
US07668378B2
Characteristics can be stored in a computer databank for various plants, animals, and items. When a user wants to identify a particular plant, animal, or item, the user supplies the characteristics that are readily ascertained. After the user has entered the characteristics, the standardized reverse logic databank of the invention will cull out the items that have non-compatible characteristics and identify the item or provide a list of the possible identity matches for the unknown.
US07668373B2
A pattern evaluation method includes: acquiring an image of a pattern to be evaluated, detecting edge points of the pattern from the image, creating a parameter curve having the detected edge points as control points thereof, and evaluating the pattern based on the created parameter curve.
US07668364B2
Inspection of partially drilled microvias by fluorescence based optical imaging techniques, selective coaxial illumination and multivariable off-axis illumination and the use of comparative image analysis and the transformation of back reflected radiation by means of an integrated fluorescing plate mounted to the surface of a CCD or EMCCD array.
US07668357B2
Computed axial tomography images of different respiratory phases of lungs are obtained, where the intensity of the image measures lung density. One image is deformed to the coordinate space of the other image, and the differences between the intensity values of the other image as compared to the mapped image are evaluated as measures of ventilation.
US07668345B2
An image processing apparatus, for example, a multi-camera monitoring system is provided for processing images with the intention of protecting the individuals' privacies in accordance with the type of customers in a store which is equipped with the multi-camera monitoring system, and for deleting or modifying individuals' privacy information to protect the individuals' privacies while permitting the identity of a person to be determined among a plurality of cameras. The image processing apparatus processes an image captured by an imager device to output the resulting image. A processor detects a person from an image, and an image database stores feature information on the person. The processor extracts features from the detected person and the database, processes the extracted feature amount in the stored feature information, and generates an output image based on the processed features.
US07668336B2
An apparatus, method, system, computer program and product, each capable of extracting embedded information from a document. The method includes inputting the document having the embedded information, wherein the embedded information is arranged in an embedded area of the document so as to form a grid pattern, obtaining a horizontal regression line representing a horizontal line of the embedded area and a vertical regression line representing a vertical line of the embedded area, moving the horizontal regression line and the vertical regression line across the embedded area to respectively obtain a plurality of horizontal parallel lines and a plurality of vertical parallel lines, detecting a location of the embedded information based on intersection points formed by the plurality of horizontal parallel lines and the plurality of vertical parallel lines, extracting the embedded information from the location detected by the detecting step, and outputting the embedded information to an output device.
US07668335B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a communication device, a digital signature verification method, and a digital signature generation method, in which the memory usage efficiency is improved without confidential information required for the verification or generation of a signature being easily leaked to the outside.The Java application judges whether signature verification is required for the received signature target data. When judging that signature verification is required, the Java application outputs the received signature target data to the PKI of the platform. The PKI verifies the signature that has been added to the data output by the Java application and performs signature generation, and then notifies the Java application.
US07668327B2
A hearing aid (1), fitted with an aperture (4) in a wall of a case (2, 3) receiving an adjustment wheel (5) which can be rotated from the outside by finger action around an axis of rotation (6) configured parallel to the wall (2), the adjustment wheel (5) driving a continuously adjustable electric volume control (7, 8), is characterized in that the adjustment wheel (5) rests in such manner at a shifting element (10) mounted in the case (2, 3) that a switch (13) shall be actuated when said wheel (5) is driven against a spring force (14) in the direction of shifting (17, 18, 19, 20).
US07668326B2
A battery compartment for a hearing aid. The battery compartment comprises a first portion for accommodating a battery and a second portion, where the second portion comprises at least one retaining element for securing the position of the battery compartment with respect to a housing of said hearing aid. The first and second portions of the battery compartment are provided as first and second separate parts (1, 2) comprising releasable interlocking means (12, 14) for mutual engagement.
US07668320B2
The present invention is directed towards a portable electronic equipment (10) comprising a speaker (16) and a receiver (18), wherein the receiver (18) is damped while the speaker (16) is active to provide good sound reproduction.
US07668318B2
This invention concerns a distributed stereo audio system. Distributed stereo audio systems are used to provide stereo sound to several rooms or areas from a single source of signal. The system includes two or more speakers for the broadcast of stereo audio signals; a source of stereo audio signals; a stereo amplifier to amplify stereo audio signals and drive the speakers; and a mains operated electrical power supply to provide power to the amplifier. The amplifier is located in the same room as the speakers, and remote from the signal source and power supply. The amplifier is connected to the signal source and power supply by means of a category 5 four pair twisted cable which provides, in respective twisted pairs, right channel audio signals from the signal source to the amplifier, left channel audio from the signal source to the amplifier, DC power from the power supply to the amplifier, and control signals from the amplifier to the signal source.
US07668302B1
A method and system are disclosed where a call center operator having multiple locations, including a call center is able to utilize existing network infrastructure to route telephone communications to the call center to the location where the lowest toll rate is applicable. The telephone communications are converted into data packets and routed to the call center using VoIP technology. No toll would apply to the transmission of the data to the call center.
US07668296B2
In one embodiment, an X ray tube assembly is provided. The X ray tube assembly comprises an evacuated envelope, an anode disposed at a first end of the evacuated envelope and a cathode assembly disposed at a second end of the evacuated envelope. The cathode assembly comprises a cathode filament and a cathode cup defining a plurality of electrically isolated deflection electrodes. Further, the cathode cup comprises at least two portions, a first portion comprising an electrically conductive material and a second portion comprising an electrically insulating material. In another embodiment, a method of manufacturing the X ray tube assembly is provided.
US07668282B2
The core of a pressurized water reactor is assembled in such a way that if the fuel elements on the edge of the core are bent, these fuel elements are oriented such that the bending of the fuel elements points outwards in a convex manner. When the reactor is in operation, forces arise which increase the size of small gaps between the fuel elements at the expense of greater gaps and counteract the bending effect of the fuel elements.
US07668280B2
A nuclear fuel assembly having an instrumentation tube having an insert that centers the in-core instrumentation while permitting bugling or welding of the instrumentation tube wall to a grid strap to obtain a rigid connection there between at any elevation along the instrumentation tube.
US07668276B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for adjusting phase of data signals to compensate for phase-offset variations between devices during normal operation. The phase of data signals are adjusted individually in each transmit data unit and receive data unit across multiple data slices with a common set of phase vector clock signals and a corresponding clock cycle count signal. The transmission of signal information between a first device (such as a memory controller) and a second device (such as a memory component) occurs without errors even when the accumulated delays between the first device and second device change by a half symbol time interval or more during operation of the system. The apparatus reduces the circuitry required, such as phase-lock-loops, for individually adjusting the phase of each transmit data unit and receive data unit across multiple data slices, which in turn results in reduction in complexity and cost of the system.
US07668268B2
A signal vector is received over a plurality of channels. A channel matrix H is determined that represents at least one of the plurality of channels. An iterative algorithm such as Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz is used to determining a change of basis matrix T that when multiplied with the channel matrix H converges to a matrix H*T that is more orthogonal than the channel matrix H. In one aspect the iterative algorithm is upwardly bounded in the number of iterations (e.g., 20 or 30 iterations) that it may perform for any specific channel realization to determine the change of basis matrix T. In another aspect the algorithm is initiated with a matrix derived from a previously determined change of basis matrix. Both aspects may be combined in a single method or device, or either employed separately.
US07668267B2
A decoder generates distance and label metrics associated with each label of a coset transmitted in a multi-input multi-output communication system having Mt transmit antennas and Mr receive antennas by performing 2(“u+n”)(Mt−1) searches, where n is the number of encoded bits used to identify one of 2u cosets at the transmitting end and u is the number of unencoded bits used to select one of 2u labels at the transmitting end. The decoder forms an intermediate vector quantity associated with one of the transmit antennas to compute the metrics associated with each of the remaining transmit antennas. The decoder then forms a second intermediate vector quantity to compute the metrics associated with the transmit antenna that was used to form the first intermediate variable. The metrics so computed are used by a Viterbi decoder to identify the coset and the most likely transmitted label in that coset.
US07668261B2
A terminal 13 for selectively receiving broadcast data in a transport stream 7 over a first network, the broadcast data including a series of bursts of associated data packets (B1), comprises a controller 16 and a receiver 19. The controller 16 is configured to extract information identifying a group of data packets from the data packets within a first burst, e.g. Packet Identifier (PID) PID1, PID2, calculate a burst length and burst interval for the series on the basis of the times at which data packets are received by the receiver and to calculate one or more instances of time ts at which one or more subsequent bursts in the series will be received based on the calculated burst length ts3 and/or burst interval t1. The receiver 19 is operated to selectively receiving the transport stream 7, e.g. by switching the receiver 19 between its on and off states, the receiver 19 being switched on at time is for a period equal to the burst length in order to receive subsequent data bursts in the series. The terminal 13 may be further configured to enable mobile telephone communication via a second network.
US07668259B2
A receiver is utilized to receive signals from various systems within a vehicle such as tire pressure monitoring system (TPM) and a remote keyless entry system (RKE). During the on time, the receiver sequentially is open to receive a first signal with a first baud rate. If the signal of the first baud rate is not received, the receiver receives a second signal at a second baud rate. Upon receipt of a transmission, the receiver operates according to a mode that corresponds to the transmission indicated by the specific baud rate. The operation of the receiver can include specialized filtering, or other known signal processing that is tailored to the specific transmission data communication requirements.
US07668253B2
A method for allocating a subchannel in a transmitter of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access (OFDMA) cellular communication system in which an entire frequency band includes a plurality of bands, each of the bands includes a plurality of bins, and each of the bins includes a plurality of subcarriers. The method includes dividing a predetermined time interval into an Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) subchannel time interval and a diversity subchannel time interval; selecting any one of the plurality of bands in the AMC subchannel time interval; selecting a predetermined number of bins among the plurality of bins in the selected band; and allocating the selected bins to the AMC subchannel.
US07668248B2
Transceiver circuitry for use in a multiple-input, multiple-output (MIMO), orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM), communications environment, is disclosed. Error correction coding according to a fixed-block size code, such as low density parity check (LDPC) coding, is implemented. A specific LDPC code with excellent error rate performance is disclosed.
US07668240B2
A method and apparatus for variable accuracy inter-picture timing specification for digital video encoding is disclosed. Specifically, the present invention discloses a system that allows the relative timing of nearby video pictures to be encoded in a very efficient manner. In one embodiment, the display time difference between a current video picture and a nearby video picture is determined. The display time difference is then encoded into a digital representation of the video picture. In a preferred embodiment, the nearby video picture is the most recently transmitted stored picture. For coding efficiency, the display time difference may be encoded using a variable length coding system or arithmetic coding. In an alternate embodiment, the display time difference is encoded as a power of two to reduce the number of bits transmitted.
US07668239B2
An improved method and apparatus for transmitting digital signals in a communications channel by compensating for distortions due to attenuation of high frequency components suffered by the digital signals. In a preferred embodiment, the digital signals are pulses and the compensation is performed at the transmitter without the need for an emphasis driver, by widening the pulses to compensate for the distortion in the channel that results in narrowing of the pulses incurred in the channel. The resulting pulse train is pre-compensated for the distortions caused by the communications channel. The amount of pre-compensation can be determined statically or dynamically.
US07668222B1
The invention herein is directed to a dual-chamber combustion laser assembly having lighter weight (per unit flow area), a more compact, flexible configuration for packaging in spacecraft, aircraft, or ground mobile vehicles, higher mass efficiency from lower heat loss and proven power extraction efficiency of linear lasers, superior output beam quality by incremental compensation of gain medium optical path disturbances and by reduction in time-dependent variations in structural and gain medium characteristics, lower cost and shorter fabrication time for modular dual flow laser and linear optics, more efficient pressure recovery with side-wall isolation nozzles and compact diffuser configurations, and increased small signal gains for more efficient extraction of overtone power.
US07668219B2
A surface emitting semiconductor device comprises: a semiconductor region including an active layer; a first DBR having first layers and second layers; and a second DBR. The first and second layers are alternately arranged, and the first layers are made of dielectric material. The first DBR, semiconductor region and second DBR are sequentially arranged along a predetermined axis, and the semiconductor region is provided between the first DBR and the second DBR. The cross section of the first DBR is taken along a reference plane perpendicular to the predetermined axis. The distance between two points on an edge of the cross section takes a first value in a direction of an X-axis of a two-dimensional XY orthogonal coordinate system defined on the reference plane, and the distance between two points on the edge takes a second value in a direction of a Y-axis of the above coordinate system. The first value is different from the second value. The cross section of the second DBR is taken along another reference plane perpendicular to the predetermined axis, and a shape of the cross section of the first DBR is different from a shape of the cross section of the second DBR.
US07668215B2
A laser mounted in a casing is driven by and mounted close to its driving circuit. To reduce the effect on the laser of heat generated by the driver circuit, the casing includes a passive heat sink element on which the driver circuit is mounted whereby heat generated by the driver is dissipated by the passive heat sink element.
US07668213B2
A method and apparatus for detecting and controlling the conditions needed for starting and maintaining mode-locked operation of a laser system including a fiber oscillator and high power fiber amplifier. The invention is used to monitor the output power and repetition rate of the fiber oscillator and control the operation of the oscillator such that the oscillator obtains and maintains correct mode-locked operation despite changes in environmental conditions such as temperature, and also with changes due to component aging or degradation.
US07668207B2
A system, method, and article of manufacture for synchronizing first and second time-of-day clocks on first and second computers, respectively, are provided. The first and second computers have first and second network interface cards with third and fourth clocks, respectively, thereon. The system utilizes time stamp values generated by the third and fourth clocks to synchronize the first and second time-of-day clocks.
US07668203B1
A network device, and corresponding method and computer program, comprises a plurality of ports; wherein one of the ports is configured to receive frames of data each comprising a steering header comprising a flooding mask that identifies one or more of the ports, and a management bit that when set indicates the frame of data is a management frame; wherein, for each frame received by the one of the ports, the one of the ports removes the steering header from the frame and, when the management bit is set, identifies the frame as a management frame and directs the frame to one or more of the ports based only on the flooding mask; and wherein each of the ports can operate in a blocked state that permits only frames of data identified as management frames to pass through the port.
US07668201B2
A method and apparatus are provided for bandwidth management. The method includes receiving a value representative of a target bandwidth from a remote device; storing a data packet in a data queue; associating a quantum of bandwidth to the data queue, wherein the quantum of the bandwidth is a function of at least the target bandwidth and time; and transmitting the data packet based on at least the quantum associated with the data queue. A method and apparatus for network congestion control are also provided.
US07668194B2
A system and method to implement a dual speed network interface. A first code is transmitted from an initiator unit to a follower unit on a first output datapath (“OUT_DP”) of multiple OUT_DPs coupling the initiator unit to the follower unit. The first code is transmitted to initiate a speed change of a link to a physical medium for communicating data. The first code is transmitted at a first datapath speed. A second code is received on a first input datapath (“IN_DP”) of multiple IN_DPs coupling the follower unit to the initiator unit. The second code indicates to the initiator unit that the follower unit received the first code. The first OUT_DP is then placed into an idle state in response to receiving the second code. Subsequently, the first OUT_DP is enabled after the idle state at a second datapath speed different from the first datapath speed.
US07668193B2
A data processor unit includes at least two operation-execution units, each one adapted to receive input data, perform a respective operation on the input data and outputting output data resulting after applying said operation; the data processor unit further includes: a data storage unit including at least two individually-accessible memory devices adapted to store data; a programmable controller adapted to be programmed so as to execute a selected program; a first data routing circuit arrangement adapted to receive data from the at least two memory devices, from the programmable controller and from a second data routing circuit arrangement, and for selectively routing selected ones among the received data to the input of the operation-execution units; the second data routing circuit arrangement is adapted to receive the output data outputted by the operation-execution units and to selectively route the output data to the at least two memory devices, to the programmable controller, and to the first data routing circuit arrangement. The programmable controller is operatively coupled to the at least two operation-execution units, to the first and second data routing circuit arrangements, and to the at least two memory devices for controlling the operation thereof.
US07668189B1
An adaptive transport protocol decoder includes a source of a stream of packets, each including a payload, and having a first transport protocol, and a source of a stream of packets, each including a payload, and having a second transport protocol. A protocol decoder, coupled to the first and second packet stream sources, extracts the respective payloads from the packets from a selected one of the first and second packet stream sources.
US07668186B1
A buffer management system for a data processing system can include a plurality of tokens wherein each token is associated with one of a plurality of buffers, and a plurality of first-in-first-out (FIFO) memories. Each FIFO memory can be associated with a stage of the data processing system and is configured to store at least one of the tokens. The buffer management system also can include control logic configured to determine a state of one or more selected buffers and transfer the token associated with the selected buffer from a source FIFO memory to a target FIFO memory. The target FIFO memory can be selected according to the state of the selected buffer.
US07668185B2
It is the object of the present invention to provide a processing apparatus, a tree-type network system, processing program and recording method that are capable of performing requests to a higher-order apparatus at the same time, while reducing the load that is concentrated in the communication path upstream in the network. One node apparatus which is provided with tree-type network system including broadcasting apparatus sending inquiry information as request-reception-begin data etc. for requesting sending response message as select-node information etc. to a plurality of node apparatus, receiving inquiry information that is sent from other processing apparatus that is connected in a higher-order layer above the processing apparatus, transferring to other processing apparatuses that are connected in a lower-order layer below the processing apparatus, receiving the reply-result information that is sent from other processing apparatus, creating its reply-result information based on own processing apparatus, and replying created reply-result information based on reply information included in reply-result-information and created reply information to other processing apparatus that is connected in a higher-order layer.
US07668183B2
An apparatus in one example has: a plurality of networks operatively coupled to one another, and having respective end points; and a single SIP (Session Initiation Protocol) profile useable by each network of the plurality of networks; wherein two end points, via signaling mechanisms within SIP, negotiate a level of support for ISUP (Integrated Services Digital Network User Part) services that are usable between the two end points.
US07668180B2
A system and a method are disclosed which utilizes the standard communication devices at the users' premises and a standard LAN communication in order to enable utilization of IP communication possibilities such as V/FoIP calls, SMS and MMS messaging and video communication over IP network. The system includes a single Local Server and multiple Endpoint Interface Units. The Local Server connects the LAN to the external IP communication and each Endpoint Interface Units connects the communication devices to the LAN. According to the preferred embodiment all communication between the Local Server and the Endpoint Interface Units is established using a layer 2 communication protocol which improves the data transport capabilities of any given network and lowers the overall costs of the system's implementation. In a second embodiment the data processing procedure is performed on an external server which establishes a VPN communication with each Local Server.
US07668179B2
A method for determining at least one parameter for a particular AAL2 channel identifier (AAL2-CID), according to which the behavior of the transmission of the user information stream is determined per application. Preferably, the present invention enables the QOS (quality of service) for the user application to be determined by setting a plurality of such parameters for a specific AAL2 CID. The present invention preferably encompasses the ability to determine any parameter that is usually set for the ATM channel to instead be set for the CID separately. These parameters may be dynamically adjusted according to the real-time state of the system, channel and the specific CID. Additionally the selection and usage of said parameters may also be influenced by the real time state of the system, channel and the specific CID.Examples of such parameters include, but are not limited to, traffic type, priority, any type of QOS parameter, timing parameters, and so forth.
US07668176B2
A UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) core network supports the negotiation of variable quality of service (QoS). A QoS information element (IE) is defined that supports downgradeable QoS requirements by allowing multiple traffic classes to be specified in a priority order. Similarly, a QoS information element (IE) is defined that supports upgradeable QoS requirements.
US07668175B2
Methods and apparatus for managing a pool of I/O interfaces associated with one or more I/O devices are disclosed. The I/O bandwidth utilization of the I/O devices is ascertained and compared with an upper threshold and a lower threshold. When the I/O bandwidth utilization is greater than the upper threshold, the resources provided by the pool of I/O interfaces are increased. When the I/O bandwidth utilization is less than the lower threshold, the resources provided by the pool of I/O interfaces are decreased.
US07668171B2
An Estimated Wait Time (EWT) service for a Web page provider has an internet-connected facility for monitoring communication status with a communication center having communication equipment hosting agents of the web page provider, and an interactive link in a web page hosted by the Web page provider. The interactive link is presented to a user accessing the Web page, and when selected, connects the user to the facility for monitoring communication status. In a preferred embodiment the facility provides a Web page display for the user, displaying parameters regarding the communication status, such as estimated wait time (EWT). In some cases there are options in a user interface for placing an Internet Phone (IP) call, for sending a message, and e-mail, and so forth, or for requesting a call back. In the case of a cal back the user may, in some embodiments, provide alternative numbers or addresses and times for call back.
US07668167B2
A method of exchanging information between a first network implementing a routing protocol using static routing tables and a second network implementing a routing protocol using dynamic routing tables and including stages of exchanging identification messages and of exchanging routing table update messages, the method comprising the steps of: a first routing element associated with the first network issuing to a second routing element associated with the second network identification messages containing identifiers of network elements to which the first routing element knows it is connected either directly or indirectly, and in the second routing element updating the routing table from the identification messages coming from the first routing element.
US07668157B2
A device is provided including a processor and a display configured to list more than one presence enabled contact. A user agent is configured to indicate an availability status of the device to a presence server. The user agent is at least partially executed by the processor. Moreover, at least one input is configured to enable a device user to request a communications session with at least one of the plurality of presence enabled contacts. The request is initiated by the user agent when the requested presence enabled contact is available.
US07668156B2
A voice portal and a method for operating a voice portal are disclosed. In one embodiment of the present invention, voice a voice portal is connected to multiple telephones of various protocols by both a voice signal interface and a data signal interface. The voice portal is also connected to one or more telephony networks. The voice portal is capable of receiving requests for functions from the telephones; retrieving the requested functions from memory and sending the functions back to the telephone for execution. The functions supplied by the voice portal are programmable and customizable and control all functions of the telephones.
US07668150B2
An apparatus for packet-priority control for controlling a priority for packets input includes packet-priority setting means for setting hierarchically the priority for the packet input based on predetermined elements, and to adjust, taking into account other elements according to which the priority for the packet varies over time, the set priority, and wireless-resource allocating means for determining a packet for which a wireless resource is to be allocated in accordance with the adjusted priority.
US07668149B2
Methods and apparatus for facilitating concurrent Push-to-talk over Cellular (PoC) group communication sessions for a mobile station (102) are disclosed. A first PoC communication session (550) for a first user group (504) is maintained while a second PoC communication session (552) for a second user group (506) is concurrently maintained, where the second user group (506) has at least one common member (516) with the first user group (504). The second user group (506) may have at least one member (518, 520) which is not included in the first user group (504). Through a user interface, a PoC user may select between the first and the second user groups (504 and 506) for communication or combine the communications. In an alternative embodiment, all of the members (518, 520, 522) of a second user group (604) may be included in a first user group (602). In a specific approach, encrypted data packets of a PoC communication sub-session are communicated during a PoC communication session. If a key for the encrypted data packets is known for the mobile station (102), the encrypted data packets are decrypted to facilitate the PoC communication sub-session involving the mobile station (102); otherwise the encrypted data packets are discarded.
US07668144B2
This invention discloses a generalized software gateway function which can be housed within small devices and is scalable up to the largest server or other hardware environment which eliminates the differences between devices at the application format, communications protocol and device characteristics layers.
US07668118B2
An apparatus and method for discovering and monitoring a collection of nodes in a downhole network may include receiving data packets originating from several downhole nodes. These packets may be read to extract a unique identifier and hop count for each of the nodes. This information may then be used to create entries in a network topology table corresponding to each of the downhole nodes. Each entry may contain unique identifier identifying the respective node, a hop count identifying a location of the node within the downhole network, and a direction identifier. The method may further include modifying one or more entries in the topology table having a conflicting hop count and direction identifier.
US07668104B1
A network switching system comprises a managing device and a first switching device comprising first and second ports. The first port communicates with the managing device. A queue communicates with the second port, stores frames for later output by the second port, and generates a congestion signal when filled above a threshold. A control module directs frames received from the second port to the first port, and selectively sends an outgoing flow control message to the first port when the congestion signal is present.
US07668101B1
The systems and methods for incorporating an automatic retransmission mechanism into a point to multipoint network MAC layer that does not already incorporate retransmission are provided by virtue of one embodiment of the present invention. For example, the DOCSIS MAC layer protocol developed for data over cable networks may be modified to incorporate an automatic retransmission mechanism. This allows DOCSIS to be applied more effectively to communication channels such as the wireless communication channel.
US07668099B2
A method of controlling transmission of data from a computer to a video client via an interface device, comprising: reading a register on the interface device to obtain a value indicating temporal proximity to an occurrence of a vertical blanking interval occurs, the value increased incrementally until a vertical blanking interval occurs, and then being reset; deriving a time value, the time value indicating the occurrence of a vertical blanking interval; sending an interrupt to a processor on the computer at the occurrence of the vertical blanking interval; and invoking code in response to an occurrence of the video blanking interval.
US07668098B2
Methods and apparatus for improving the upstream data transfer rate for a cable modem. A device that shares an upstream channel with other devices determines whether, based on particular data, an upstream channel data transfer rate can be improved over a current data transfer rate of a current upstream channel from the device to a remote system. If the upstream channel data rate can be improved, the device improves the upstream channel data transfer rate based, at least in part, on the particular data used to determine whether the data transfer rate can be improved.
US07668095B2
A new type of data transport service which uses a frame relay layer 2 data link connection identifier (DLCI) to select among various service types, feature sets, and/or closed user groups (CUGs). A layer 3 address may be extracted from a layer 2 frame, and the layer 3 address information may be used to route a data packet over a packet-switched network according to the service classes, feature sets, and/or CUGs selected. At the destination, the layer 3 data packet may again be enclosed in a layer 2 frame with a DLCI indicating the service classes, features sets, and/or CUGs. Because the use of conventional permanent virtual circuits (PVCs) is not required in aspects of the invention, new methods of measuring and managing network traffic are presented.
US07668077B2
There is provided a down link multi-user time-space code precoding method including: a step (S401) where a base station acquires channel information on a plurality of user terminals and converts it into a channel matrix; a step (S402) for obtaining a such a conversion matrix that a matrix obtained by multiplying the channel matrix and the conversion matrix is a block diagonal orthogonal matrix; a step (S403) for obtaining a standardization factor of each user terminal by squaring the elements on the diagonal line of the block diagonal orthogonal matrix; a step (S404) for standardizing a transmitted symbol of each user by using the standardization factor; and a step (S405) for multiplying the conjugate transposed matrix and the conversion matrix of the block diagonal orthogonal matrix into standardized symbols successively from the left so as to obtain symbols after the processing and transmitting the processed symbols by the time-space code rule. This method improves the downlink performance and effectively improves the radio system capacity.
US07668075B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a versatile system for selectively spreading carrier data across multiple carrier paths within an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system, particularly an ultra-wideband (UWB) system. The present invention provides a data input, which passes data to a randomizer. The data then passes to a convolutional code function (206), the output of which is punctured by puncturing function. An interleaver function receives the punctured code data, and cooperatively operates with a mapper element to prepare the coded data for pre-transmission conversion by an IFFT. The mapper element comprises a dual carrier modulation function, which associates and transforms two punctured code data elements into a format for transmission on two separate signal tones.
US07668069B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, methods of retrieving information from a data storage device previously deactivated by modification or degradation of at least a portion of the data storage device are disclosed.
US07668068B2
Embodiments of methods and systems for controlling access to information stored on memory or data storage devices are disclosed. In various embodiments, fluid-mediated modification of information or access to information is utilized. According to various embodiments, data storage devices designed for rotating access are described which include rotation-activated fluid control mechanisms.
US07668063B2
A parameter acquisition unit acquires parameters of a write strategy corresponding to the type of an optical disk upon which data is to be recorded, and a recording unit irradiates pulse modulated laser light upon the optical disk based upon the parameters of the write strategy acquired by the parameter acquisition unit, and forms marks corresponding to the data to be recorded in order upon the optical disk. A timing setting unit sets a sampling period, using the parameters of the write strategy acquired by the parameter acquisition unit, within the period from after the completion of formation of a mark upon the optical disk to the start of formation of the next mark. And, during this sampling period which has been set, a sampling unit performs sampling of a signal used for servo control, and a sampling servo control unit performs servo control based upon the signal which has been sampled.
US07668047B2
A seismic exploration method and unit comprised of continuous recording, self-contained wireless seismometer units or pods. The self-contained unit may include a tilt meter, a compass and a mechanically gimbaled clock platform. Upon retrieval, seismic data recorded by the unit can be extracted and the unit can be charged, tested, re-synchronized, and operation can be re-initiated without the need to open the unit's case. The unit may include an additional geophone to mechanically vibrate the unit to gauge the degree of coupling between the unit and the earth. The unit may correct seismic data for the effects of crystal aging arising from the clock. Deployment location of the unit may be determined tracking linear and angular acceleration from an initial position. The unit may utilize multiple geophones angularly oriented to one another in order to redundantly measure seismic activity in a particular plane.
US07668038B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a clock buffer, a command decoder and a write recovery time control circuit. The clock buffer may generate an internal clock signal based on an external clock signal. The command decoder may generate a write command signal by decoding an external command signal. The write recovery time control circuit may gate a plurality of bank pre-charge control signals in a wave pipeline mode based on the internal clock signal, the write command signal and a write recovery time control signal having a plurality of bits to generate a plurality of gated bank pre-charge control signals. Therefore, the semiconductor memory device may decrease a number of flip-flops required to control a write recovery time.
US07668035B2
A memory circuit includes a global read bit line, a global read bit line latch, and a plurality of sub-arrays, each of which includes first and second local read bit lines, first and second local write bit lines, and first and second pluralities of memory cells interconnected, respectively, with the first and second local read bit lines and the first and second local write bit lines. The local read bit lines are decoupled from the local write bit lines. A local multiplexing block is interconnected with the first and second local read bit lines and is configured to ground the first and second local read bit lines upon assertion of a SLEEP signal, and to selectively interconnect the local read bit lines to the global read bit line. A global multiplexing block is interconnected with the global read bit line and is configured to maintain the global read bit line in a substantially discharged state upon assertion of the SLEEP signal and to interconnect the global read bit line to the global read bit line latch. Also included are design structures for circuits of the kind described.
US07668025B2
An input circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a first frequency control unit which receives a first signal and a second frequency control unit which receives a second signal. The first frequency control unit outputs the first signal to the second frequency control unit in response to a test mode signal and generates a third signal which has a frequency higher than the frequencies of the first and second signals by using the first and second signals. Also, the second frequency control unit outputs the second signal to the first frequency control unit in response to the test mode signal and generates a fourth signal which has a frequency higher than the frequencies of the first and second signals by using the first and second signals.
US07668024B2
A hybrid circuit for a memory includes: a skewed static logic gate circuit; a dynamic pre-discharge device coupled with the skewed static logic gate circuit for operating the static logic gate circuit as a dynamic circuit.
US07668017B2
A method includes determining groups of rows to erase together in order to minimize the margin loss associated with bake after a large number of program and erasure cycles. The method alternatively includes determining groups of rows to erase together to minimize the width of a resultant erase threshold voltage distribution, erasing the groups together, stopping erasure of a group when the group is erase verified and performing the step of erasing on those groups which were not previously erase verified.
US07668016B2
Non-volatile memory devices and methods of programming a non-volatile memory device in which electrons are moved between charge trap layers through a pad oxide layer are provided. The non-volatile memory devices include a charge trap layer on a semiconductor substrate and storing electrons, a pad oxide layer on the first charge trap layer, and a second trap layer on the pad oxide layer and storing electrons. In a programming mode in which data is written, the stored electrons are moved between a first position of the first charge trap layer and a first position of the second charge trap layer through the pad oxide layer or between a second position of the first charge trap layer and a second position of the second charge trap layer through the pad oxide layer.
US07668008B2
The present invention relates to an 1-transistor DRAM cell, a DRAM device and a manufacturing method therefor, a driving circuit for a DRAM, a driving method therefore, and a driving method for an 1-transistor DRAM, and a double-gate type 1-transistor DRAM. The present invention comprises a data hold process biasing a word line at a negative voltage level and biasing a sensing line and a bit line at a first constant voltage level; a data purging process resetting data by biasing the word line and the bottom word line at a second constant voltage level and biasing the sensing line and the bit line at the first constant voltage level; and a data write process biasing the word line and the bottom word line at the second constant voltage level and supplying a write data to the bit line.
US07668005B2
A magnetic memory includes a plurality of magnetoresistive elements which include a fixed layer in which a magnetization direction is fixed, a free layer in which a magnetization direction changes, and a nonmagnetic layer formed between the fixed layer and the free layer, and a word line electrically connected to the magnetoresistive elements. Data erase is performed by setting the magnetization direction of the free layer in a first direction by a magnetic field induced by a current flowing through the word line, and data of the magnetoresistive elements are erased by one time data erase. Data write is performed by setting the magnetization direction of the free layer in a second direction by spin-transfer magnetization reversal by supplying a current in one direction to the magnetoresistive elements.
US07668000B2
The invention relates to a method and apparatus providing a memory cell array in which each resistance memory cell is connected in series to a capacitive element. Access transistors are not necessary to perform read and write operations on the memory cell. In one exemplary embodiment, the capacitive element is a capacitor.
US07667996B2
The scale of the devices in a diode array storage device, and their cost, are reduced by changing the semiconductor based diodes in the storage array to cold cathode, field emitter based devices. The field emitters and a field emitter array may be fabricated utilizing a topography-based lithographic technique.
US07667995B1
A method for creating a logic state for teleporting quantum information using a single photon is described. The method includes receiving a photon with an initial polarization and causing a first semiconductor crystal to have a first spin orientation. The photon interacts with the first semiconductor crystal for producing a resulting polarization dependent upon the first spin orientation. Causing the photon to interact with the first semiconductor crystal generates a maximally entangled state.
US07667993B2
A dual-ported AND-type match-line circuit includes at least one dual-ported dynamic AND gate. The dual-ported dynamic AND gate includes a group of CAM cells and a dual-ported dynamic circuit. A group of CAM cells connected to a dual-ported dynamic circuit and to the GND. The dual-ported dynamic circuit is connected to a group of CAM cells. The dual-ported dynamic circuit includes a setting circuit, a first directing circuit, a second directing circuit, a first AND dynamic output circuit and a second AND dynamic output circuit.
US07667987B2
A comparing circuit and a control loop are used to maintain the peak level of current flowing through an inductor of a flyback converter. An inductor switch control signal controls a switch through which the inductor current flows. The inductor current increases at a ramp-up rate during a ramp time and stops increasing at the end of the ramp time. The comparing circuit generates a timing signal that indicates a target time at which the inductor current would reach a predetermined current limit if the inductor current continued to increase at the ramp-up rate. The control loop then receives the timing signal and compares the target time to the end of the ramp time. The pulse width of the inductor switch control signal is increased when the target time occurs after the end of the ramp time. Adjusting the frequency and pulse width controls the peak of the inductor current.
US07667983B2
An electronic transmission port cover assembly has a body, a sliding bracket and a cover. The body is mounted securely in an electronic device adjacent to an electronic transmission port. The sliding bracket is mounted slidably on the body. The cover is attached pivotally to the sliding bracket and has cover springs. The sliding bracket is pushed relative to the body and the cover is pushed away from the body and pivots relative to the sliding bracket to uncover the transmission port.
US07667972B2
A connector with a heat sink to prevented a card from being damaged due to friction when the card is inserted or removed includes a frame provided with two guide arms and two elastic members, each guide arm containing two chutes, each chute containing an upper and a lower limit zones; a pressurizing-down mechanism connected to the frame, a leading post received in the chute being disposed on each side arm, and a heat sink being provided on top; card insertion driving the pressurizing-down mechanism to move with its leading post in the chute for the heat sink to contact the card to conduct the heat generated from the card; and the elastic member moving the pressurizing-down mechanism into the upper limit zone to remove the card.
US07667970B2
A heat sink assembly for removing heat from two heat generating-components mounted on a printed circuit board, includes a first heat sink, a second heat sink, a plurality of poles each having a head at a top end and a double-layer spring. The first heat sink includes a base and a plurality of fins arranged on the base. The second heat sink has a first shoulder extending from a lateral side thereof. The first shoulder is disposed on the base. The double-layer spring includes an outer spring and an inner spring having a top end connected to a top end of the outer spring. One of the poles wearing the double-layer spring extends through the first shoulder and the base. The outer spring is compressed between the head of the pole and the first shoulder. The inner spring is compressed between the head of the pole and the base.
US07667963B2
A mount module for an inverter includes a housing element with a recess being open to the front face, for holding a single inverter. The upper face and the lower face of the housing element are complementary to one another, and/or the right side and the left side of the housing element are complementary to one another, and/or the rear face of the housing element is complementary to itself. The respective side or sides and face or faces of the housing element each have at least one connection device. A relatively large number of the mount modules can be disposed one above the other, alongside one another, and/or with their rear faces against one another and can be connected to one another in order, for example, to form a central inverter unit for large photovoltaic installations.
US07667958B2
A display unit comprises a display unit body, a display part displaying information, a first button so provided as to protrude from the bottom surface of display unit body and a second button provided on the upper surface of display unit body. A first function is realized by pressing a region of the upper surface of display unit body adjacent to second button to rotate display unit body and to push first button into display unit body. A second function different from the first function is realized by pressing second button with a prescribed load to rotate display unit body and to push first button into display unit body.
US07667956B2
A portable electronic apparatus comprises one or more protrusion structures on a surface of the portable electronic apparatus. The protrusion structure comprises a plurality of facets, and one or more peaks are formed on the junctions of the facets. The facets are preferably in the form of triangles or quadrangles, and the protrusion structure is in the form of a pyramid of a triangular base or a quadrangular base. In an embodiment, the protrusion structure is formed on the back housing of the portable electronic apparatus, so that an electronic device, e.g., a digital camera module, embedded in the back housing can be protected to minimize the likelihood of damage.
US07667953B2
An electrolytic solution, for use in an electrolytic capacitor, comprising a solvent and a solute wherein water accounts for 20 to 100% by weight of the solvent and the total solute content is from 1.5 to 44% by weight, and an electrolytic capacitor comprising a capacitor element, a case containing the capacitor element, and a sealant with which the case is sealed, the capacitor element comprising a pair of electrode foils each comprising a dielectric, a separator for isolating the electrode foils from each other, and the above electrolytic solution filled between the electrode foils.
US07667952B2
The invention concerns a connection system between batteries or banks of capacitors associated with a circuit, for example of the inverter type and whereof the capacitors are connected by a busbar consisting of two thin bars of different polarities stacked and separated by an insulating layer. Each busbar comprises at least one protuberance designed to co-operate with a linking member between two protuberances derived from two batteries or banks of adjacent capacitors. The linking member comprises two conductive strips designed to be contacted each with the bars of same polarity of two opposite protuberances, said strips being arranged on either side of an insulating layer. One of the protuberances or of each co-operating zone of the linking member with one protuberance comprises a clamp forming a slide enabling the other to be slidingly positioned perpendicular to the axis of the link. Clamping/releasing means enable the linking member to be fixed to each protuberance, said means being maintained as one single assembly upon release.
US07667948B1
A digitally controlled capacitor includes a first set of N capacitors, wherein the first set has a first capacitance value and each of the M capacitors has a second capacitance value, and at least one second set of N capacitors. The second set has the first capacitance value and each of the N capacitors has a third capacitance value that is greater than the second capacitance value. M and N are integers greater than one and M is not equal to N.
US07667944B2
The present invention discloses an electrostatic chuck for clamping work substrates, said chuck comprising three layers, where the dielectric constant of included non-conductive layers is selected to provide overall lower capacitance to the chuck. In the chuck assembly of the present invention, the top dielectric layer that is in contact with a substrate, such as, a wafer, has a dielectric constant that is preferably greater than about 5, with a resistivity that is preferably greater than about 1E6 ohm.m, whereas the bottom dielectric layer has a dielectric constant that is preferably less than about 5 and a resistivity that is preferably greater than about 1E10 ohm.m. The intermediate layer preferably has a conductive layer where the resistivity is less than about 1 ohm.m.
US07667942B2
An electrical circuit for a downhole tool may include a battery, a load electrically connected to the battery, and at least one switch electrically connected in series with the battery and to the load. The at least one switch may be configured to close when a tool temperature exceeds a selected temperature.
US07667938B2
A circuit fault detector and interrupter which consists of parallel current conduction paths, including a path through a mechanical contactor and a path through a power electronics switch. A fault can be detected by a fault detection circuit within 50 microseconds of the occurrence of the fault, causing the mechanical contactor to be opened and the fault current to be commutated via a laminated, low-inductance bus through the power electronics switch. The power electronics switch is thereafter turned off as soon as possible, interrupting the fault current. The fault current can be interrupted within 200 microseconds of the occurrence of the fault, and the device reduces or eliminates arcing when the mechanical contactor is opened.
US07667936B2
A circuit for electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection includes a resistor a capacitor connected in series with the resistor, a first transistor including a gate, the gate being connected to a first power supply providing a first voltage to the gate via the resistor and a first terminal connected to the first power supply, a second transistor including a gate, the gate being connected to a second power supply, the second power supply providing a second voltage smaller than the first voltage, the second transistor having a first terminal connected to a second terminal of the first transistor, and a third transistor including a gate, the gate being connected to the second power supply, a first terminal of the third transistor being connected to a second terminal of the second transistor, and a second terminal being connected to a reference voltage different from the first voltage and the second voltage.
US07667932B2
A piezoelectric sensor-actuator, including a piezoelectric sensor bonded through non-conductive adhesive to a piezoelectric actuator to determine the pressure and/or temperature near the coupled slider. The piezoelectric actuator contributes to slider positioning. The piezoelectric sensor determines the experienced stress-strain. The hard disk drive uses the piezoelectric sensor-actuator creates a stress-strain measurement, a sensor spectrum, deriving the temperature estimate and/or the pressure estimate from said sensor spectrum, and operating at least one positioning control group member based upon the temperature estimate and/or pressure estimate. The micro-actuator containing at least one of the piezoelectric sensor-actuators, flexure finger, head gimbal assembly, head stack assembly, an actuator assembly, an embedded circuit, and the hard disk drive. The invention includes manufacturing methods and the piezoelectric sensor-actuator, the micro-actuator, the head gimbal assembly, the actuator assembly, the head stack assembly, the embedded circuit, and the hard disk drive as products.
US07667930B1
A disk drive suspension has a doubly increased dimple contact force through separate, differential deflections of the flexure frame toward the load beam so as to carry the flexure tongue having dimple engagement with the load beam closer to the beam, and thus have greater dimple contact force without adverse PSA alteration. Doubly deflecting the outrigger struts of the flexure toward the supporting load beam in differential relation with a greater deflection and local strut displacement in a first location and a lesser deflection and local strut displacement in a second location on the initially deflected portion of the frame outriggers provides increased dimple contact force.
US07667923B1
A system for impairing at least one pair of data platters stacked. An alignment device is pivotably mounted; upper and lower arms of the alignment device are spaced apart from and extend parallel to one another. The alignment device is movable between a stowed position in which the alignment device is spaced apart from the data platters to an impairment position in which the upper and lower arms of the alignment device overlay at least an edge of the data platters. The upper arm includes an opening for receiving an impairment tool, the opening being generally aligned with an impairment opening formed in the enclosure when the alignment device is in the impairment position. The impairment tool is inserted through the impairment opening formed in the enclosure and the opening in the upper arm for engaging a surface of the data platters to impair the data platters.
US07667917B2
Provided is a method and an apparatus for controlling a write parameter according to a voltage variation. The method for controlling the write parameter includes monitoring a voltage supplied to a pre-amplifier before performing a write operation and adjusting the write parameter supplied to the pre-amplifier based on the monitoring result. Controlling the write parameter includes reading a predetermined write parameter from a write parameter table based on the monitoring result, and adjusting the read write parameter to the write parameter which will be supplied to the pre-amplifier.
US07667916B1
Apparatus, systems, and methods implementing techniques for converting a signal. In an apparatus form, an input circuit receives a differential input signal and produces a single-ended intermediate signal. An amplifier circuit receives the intermediate signal and produces an amplified signal, and a feedback path couples the amplified signal to the intermediate signal. An inverter circuit receives the amplified signal and produces an output signal.
US07667908B2
The present invention provides a magnetic transfer method comprising: a magnetic transfer step of applying a magnetic field for transfer parallel to the plane of a disk shaped substrate having formed on the surface thereof a pattern composed of magnetic layer arrangement corresponding to information to be transferred to a perpendicular magnetic recording medium while a master recording medium for perpendicular magnetic transfer being the substrate is brought into close contact with the perpendicular magnetic recording medium, and thereby transferring the magnetic pattern of the master recording medium for perpendicular magnetic transfer to the perpendicular magnetic recording medium; and a servo correction information writing step of writing by use of a magnetic head, servo correction signal information into a section adjacent to the information transferred to the perpendicular magnetic recording medium by the magnetic transfer step.
US07667898B2
A zoom lens includes a first lens group having negative power, a second lens group having positive power, a third lens group having positive power, and a fourth lens group having positive power, disposed in this order from the enlargement side to form the entire structure. At the time of zooming from the wide angle side to the telephoto side, the first lens group shifts from the enlargement side to the reduction side and the second and third lens groups shift from the reduction side to the enlargement side and the fourth lens group is fixed. The overall length of the zoom lens becomes the maximum at the wide angle end.
US07667896B2
The objective of the present invention is to provide a high-speed, miniaturized, low-cost DVD recording and reproducing system. The present invention is particularly directed to a motorless optical pick-up device for recording and/or reading information on or from an optical disc (CD or DVD), which provides focusing, tracking, seamless layer jumping, tilt compensation, and CD/DVD compatibility.
US07667895B2
An optical structure includes a light transmissive substrate having a surface relief pattern applied thereon, such as a hologram. One or more layers can be patterned corresponding to materials playing the role of absorbers or reflectors on a Fabry-Perot type of optical structure. These materials are applied over portions of the surface relief pattern so as to form alphanumeric characters, bars codes, or pictorial or graphical designs. Additional layers may be applied to the patterned layer of the reflective or absorber materials and exposed portions of the surface relief pattern in order to provide desirable optical effects to the exposed portions of the surface relief pattern. In some embodiments, the optically active coating is a color shifting thin film, or contains color shifting flakes based on Fabry Perot designs.
US07667892B2
In at least one embodiment of a coating for a projection screen for displaying an image projected as a combination of primary colors, said coating comprises one or more primary pigments, each of said primary pigments corresponding to at least one of said primary colors. In at least one embodiment of a projection screen for displaying an image projected as a combination of primary colors, said projection screen includes a coating for displaying said projected image and a substrate for receiving said coating, wherein said coating comprises one or more primary pigments corresponding to one of said primary colors, one or more reflective pigments, and a transparent medium.
US07667890B2
The present invention relates to the analysis of specimens. Specifically, the invention relates to methods and apparatus for reviewing specimen slides, including apparatus for holding the slides. The invention also relates to an automatic focusing method for an imaging system and methods for accommodating vibration in the imaging system. In particular, the methods and apparatus may be applied to the automated analysis of cytological specimen slides.
US07667884B2
An iterferometric modulator is formed having a dielectric with charge persistence. The interferometric modulator is addressed by a method making advantageous use of the charge persistence property, wherein the interferometric modulator is pre-charged in such a way that the pre-charging is not observable to a viewer, and the actuation voltage threshold of the imod is significantly lowered. Subsequently the interferometric modulator may be actuated with a significantly lower actuation voltage, thereby saving power.
US07667881B2
An original color image is read to generate color image data. The color image data is converted into coordinate data including values associated with a first coordinate value and a second coordinate value in a color space. The first coordinate value is indicative of brightness. It is acquired correction data including values corresponding to the second coordinate value which are determined in accordance with the values included in the coordinate data and associated with the first coordinate value. The coordinate data is corrected with the correction data. A color image is printed with the corrected coordinate data, thereby obtaining a copied image of the original color image.
US07667880B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates a look-up table which can be used to preview digital motion picture content. During operation, the system receives an analytical model for a digital motion picture workflow. Next, the system selects a set of input pixel values. The system then determines a set of output pixel values using the set of input pixel values and the analytical model. Finally, the system generates the look-up table by associating the set of input pixel values with the set of output pixel values. The analytical model comprises a number of models that capture the various stages in the digital motion picture workflow. These models can include a recorder model, a negative film model, a printer model, a positive film model, and a projector model.
US07667875B2
An image processing method for adding noise-like texture to the print through the manipulation of halftone screens. The method injects noise into halftone thresholds arrays rather than directly into the image. The method operates by creating a halftone threshold array of suitable size to support the desired noise characteristics. A textured pattern of a corresponding size is created having the desired noise characteristics and boundary transitions. The texture pattern is applied to the halftone threshold array by an amount determined by a noise amplitude control curve. The incoming contone image is then processed with the modified halftone screen.
US07667869B2
An image processing device (140), which converts multivalued pixel values of an RGB color space corresponding to original colors of a multicolor original image into multivalued pixel values of a CMY color space corresponding to color inks used for printing in order to overprint a multicolor original with a plurality of color inks, includes: a color space coordinate conversion unit (141) configured to convert the multivalued pixel values of the RGB color space into the multivalued pixel values of the CMY color space corresponding to the color inks used for printing with reference to a color conversion LUT (131) for storing relationship between the multivalued pixel values of the RGB color space and the multivalued pixel values of the CMY color space; and a correction unit (142) configured to correct the multivalued pixel values of the CMY color space converted with reference to the color conversion LUT in response to the color inks used for printing and an overprint sequence thereof.
US07667850B2
An imaging system uses a low coherence light source to image objects at a relatively far distance (at least 10 cm) and/or of a relatively large size (having a dimension of at least 10 cm). An imaging plane is located such that its image path is substantially equal to a reference path that the light follows within the imaging device. The imaging plane has a thickness of about the coherence length of the light. Only light returning from the imaging plane forms part of the image. Light returning on other paths is effectively negated due to a lack of coherence. The imaging plane may be a fixed distance from the imaging system. Alternatively, the imaging plane may be at a variable distance from the imaging system, with the reference path having a changeable length.
US07667846B2
A system for inspecting container bottoms with an observation device, which observe the container bottoms, with a plurality of viewing windows, which are arranged underneath the container bottoms and which have viewing sections, through which the observation device observes the container bottoms, where the viewing windows are mounted in a carrier plate. Also, holding devices are provided, which transport the containers a certain distance above the carrier plate, and the viewing sections are at least partially offset from a projection of the containers in a direction perpendicular to the carrier plate.
US07667845B2
A spectral distribution error evaluation apparatus is used to evaluate precision of color matching between evaluation and target colors. A first weighting function generator generates a first weighting function on the basis of color matching functions, wavelength characteristics which are independent of a light source of the target color, and visual characteristics which depend on wavelengths. A second weighting function generator generates a second weighting function on the basis of light source information of selected light sources. A difference calculator calculates error values between the evaluation and target colors for respective frequencies. An evaluation value calculator applies the first and second weighting functions to the error values, and calculates the sum total of the error values as an evaluation value. In this way, a precision evaluation value which has high correlation with actual color appearance and is used to improve the color matching precision can be calculated independently of a change in condition such as a light source or the like.
US07667843B2
A method of evaluating the sensitivity grade of an interior material used in vehicles comprises: evaluating sensitivity properties of an interior material before providing noise factors; evaluating sensitivity properties of the interior material after providing noise factors; averaging each of the sensitivity properties evaluated before the provision of noise factors and after the provision of noise factors to obtain the average value (safety factor) of each of the sensitivity properties; comparing the average value of each of the sensitivity properties with a preset target value of each of the sensitivity properties to compute a target value achievement level of each of the sensitivity properties; and determining the sensitivity grade of the interior material based on the sensitivity property with the lowest target value achievement level. By providing an objective standard to evaluate sensitivity properties of an interior material used in vehicles, the present method(s) eliminates the difficulty in communication between customers and manufactures and quality control regarding the sensitivity grade of interior materials used in vehicles.
US07667839B2
A particle sensor for optically detecting an unconstrained particle suspended in a flowing gas includes a sample chamber having a gas inlet and a gas outlet; a gas flow system for flowing said gas from said gas inlet through said sample chamber to said gas outlet, a source of light; an optical system directing said light through said sample chamber, an optical collection system located to collect light scattered by said particles in the gas, and a detection system located to detect the collected light. The total pressure drop through said gas flow system is 3 inches of water or less. The gas flow system includes an axial fan, which may be a high static pressure fan or a counter-rotating fan. In a 1.0 CFM system, the gas inlet nozzle has an area of 25 square millimeters or more.
US07667837B2
Provided is a capillary tube flow cell used in analyses at very low flow rates and, particularly, in liquid chromatographic analyses. To ensure that high detection sensitivity and low noise can be realized, a flow cell which houses a liquid sample and exposes the liquid sample to radiant light for analysis purposes comprises a capillary tube which has a bent portion for incident light, a bent portion for emergent light and a linear passage of appropriate length formed between the bent portions, a passage portion of the capillary tube being inserted into a slit and the slit being provided with a light pass preventing portion.
US07667828B2
A tagging system contains first taggants and second taggants. The taggants differ from each other so that the first taggants have a first emission spectrum and a first absorption edge and the second taggants have a second emission spectrum and a second absorption edge. In the tagging system, the first taggants are arranged to be within an interaction distance of the second taggants so that energy transfer between the first taggants and the second taggants causes an emission spectrum of the tagging system to differ from a sum of the first emission spectrum and the second emission spectrum.
US07667816B2
A liquid crystal drop fill device by which liquid crystal panels of different sizes is easily obtained from a mother glass, and a method for drop filling liquid crystal by using the device is provided in order to increase utilization efficiency of the mother glass. The device 1 includes a stage 3 arranged to support a substrate 2, liquid crystal dispensers 4 and 5 arranged to drop fill liquid crystal on the substrate 2, a first moving unit 6 arranged to support the dispensers 4 and 5 movably in a Y-direction relative to the stage 3, and second moving units 7 and 8 arranged to support the dispensers 4 and 5 movably in an X-direction relative to the first moving unit 6, wherein the device 1 further includes a third moving unit 9 arranged to support the dispenser 5 to be further movable in the Y-direction relative to the second moving unit 8.
US07667814B2
An STN liquid crystal display cell includes a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between a first and second transparent substrate, is outwardly provided with a first and second polarizers, and a monochromatic back light. Twist angle of the liquid crystal layer is 95° to 170° or 200° to 280°; a first angle between alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules contacting the first transparent substrate and polarization direction of the first polarizer and a second angle between an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules contacting the second transparent substrate and polarization direction of the second polarizer are each larger than 0° and smaller than 90°; and sum of the first and second angles is 90°±7°.
US07667803B2
In a liquid crystal display device including an orientation film and a seal material, at a terminal connection portion where one substrate extends outward from another substrate, a step portion of an organic insulating film is formed on an inner side of the seal material to dispose a step, whereby spreading of the orientation film from the step portion to the seal material is limited. Lead wires that electrically interconnect connection terminals and pixel portions are formed on a portion of the organic insulating film where the film thickness is thin.
US07667800B2
A transflective liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including transmissive and reflective pixels. Gate and data lines on the first substrate cross each other to define a pixel region, with a thin film transistor at each crossing. The transmissive and reflective pixels correspond to respective pixel regions. A first passivation layer covers the thin film transistor and has a transmissive hole in the transmissive pixel. A first reflector is disposed on the first passivation layer in the reflective pixel. A second passivation layer is disposed on the first reflector and in the transmissive hole. A pixel electrode on the second passivation layer is connected to the thin film transistor. A second substrate opposing the first substrate has a color filter layer on an inner surface thereof. The color filter layer contains R, G and B sub color filters, which each correspond to a pixel region.
US07667793B2
A liquid crystal display device of an in-plane switching mode comprises at least optically anisotropic members (A) and (B) and liquid crystal cell disposed between a pair of polarizers having absorption axes disposed approximately perpendicularly to each other, wherein nzA>nyA and nxB>nzB (nxA, nxB:refractive indices (n) in the direction of the in-plane slow axis; nyA, nyB:n in the in-plane direction perpendicular to the above direction; nzA, nzB:n in the direction of thickness, each at 550 nm); the in-plane slow axes of (A) and (B) are approximately parallel or perpendicular to each other; and the in-plane slow axis of (A) is approximately parallel or perpendicular to the absorption axis of a polarizer closer to (A). The antireflection property, scratch resistance and durability are excellent, the angle of field is wide, and uniform display of images with great contrast can be achieved at any angle of observation.
US07667792B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a liquid crystal panel having an upper substrate and a lower substrate that face each other with a layer of liquid crystal molecules therebetween, and a liquid powder display panel at a lower surface of the liquid crystal panel for blocking light.
US07667787B2
The present invention is directed to a transmission type liquid crystal display apparatus using a backlight device for delivering rays of display light which have been emitted from a large number of light emitting diodes to a transmission type display panel, wherein an optical sheet block (10) is provided between a liquid crystal panel (5) and a light source unit (7) including a large number of LEDs (12), the transmission type liquid crystal display apparatus comprising a light diffusion plate (15), consisting of resin, having light transmitting characteristic, which is adapted control incidence of rays of display light which have been emitted from the respective LEDs (12). At the light diffusion plate (15), light adjustment patterns (18) facing the respective LEDs (12) and adapted to take a shape which has dimensions including outer shape thereof and is longitudinally elongated are formed by light reflection ink. Thus, realization of uniformity of rays of light which have been emitted from LEDs (12) is preformed to realize image display of high luminance in which color unevenness and/or lateral stripe have been suppressed.
US07667784B2
A liquid crystal display device includes first and second substrates facing each other with a predetermined space therebetween, a liquid crystal material layer disposed between the first and second substrates, a seal pattern formed between the first and second substrates to surround the liquid crystal material layer, and a blocking layer formed over a first surface of the second substrate to cover the seal pattern.
US07667777B2
A display device comprises a data input unit configured to convert an image signal to a color signal. The display device also comprises a brightness control unit operationally coupled to the data input unit, configured to extract a brightness level associated with the color signal, to subdivide the brightness level associated with the color signal, and to apply different voltages according to brightness level subdivisions to control brightness of the color signal. The display device also comprises a display unit configured to display the color signal according to controlled brightness. The brightness level may comprise gray levels of a γ curve. The color signal may comprise one of YUV or RGB signals.
US07667775B2
A digital cable TV receiver includes a POD module and a host device. The host device includes a DVI controller and a plurality of DVI ports linked to a plurality of peripheral devices, respectively. When the DVI controller receives a diagnostic request for DVI status from the POD module, it generates a DVI status report and transmits the DVI status report to the POD module. The DVI status report includes a plurality of DVI status information associated with the plurality of peripheral devices, respectively.
US07667769B2
A rotatable wireless electrical coupler is disclosed that presents a wireless alternative to mechanical slip rings, such as are used in rotatable mechanical assemblies such as dome cameras. The rotatable wireless electrical coupler is designed to provide for the wireless transfer therethrough of electrical power, video and data signals. A rotatable multi-function transformer of the electrical coupler is designed primarily for the transfer of electrical power therethrough, and can also be used for the transfer of data signals. A rotatable electrical capacitor of the electrical coupler is designed primarily for the transfer of video data signals therethrough, and can also be used for the transfer of control and feedback data signals. In a dome camera, the rotatable wireless electrical coupler transfers power and data signals to and from a rotatable platform/section on which is mounted a video camera, pan and tilt motors and other associated electrical components.
US07667759B2
The imaging apparatus of the present invention can display both real-time images received by an image pickup device and an image(s) recorded on a recording medium at the same time on a display part. The image(s) recorded on the recording medium and to be displayed is selectively switched between image data selected from a recording part in accordance with a shooting instruction and image data selected from the recording part in accordance with an instruction other than the shooting instruction.
US07667757B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric conversion unit 110, an analog shift register, and signal output units 131 and 132. The analog shift register is divided into a first transfer section 121 and a second transfer section 122 with a substantially central region of the analog shift register being set as a boundary. A common transfer section 123 is provided in the boundary between the first transfer section and the second transfer section. The common transfer section 123 selects, as a transfer path of signal charges transferred from the photoelectric conversion unit 110, either a first path through the first transfer section 121 or a second path through the second transfer section 122.
US07667755B2
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 the substrate, that reads a signal corresponding to photo-charges which are generated by incidence of light into the photosensitive layer; and a pulse voltage applying section that applies a variable pulse-width pulse voltage between the pixel electrode layer and the opposing electrode layer.
US07667754B2
An input side of a switched capacitor amplifier section is connected to output sides of transfer transistors of a photoelectric conversion transfer section group comprised of a prescribed number of a plurality of photoelectric conversion transfer sections, each of which has a photodiode and a transfer transistor. An output side of the switched capacitor amplifier section is connected to a vertical signal line. The switched capacitor amplifier section has a signal charge storage section, an amplification transistor whose an input side is connected to the signal charge storage section, a capacitor connected between input and output sides of the amplification transistor and a reset transistor. A voltage at the ground terminal of an inverting amplifier, which is constructed of a constant current load transistor connected to the output side of the amplification transistor via the vertical signal line and the amplification transistor, is controlled by a vertical scanning circuit.
US07667747B2
A digital image system identifies defective pixels of a digital image sensor based on sensor values of pixels positioned in at least two dimensions on the digital image sensor. The exemplary imaging system includes a buffer for receiving sensor values that are each associated with a pixel in the digital image sensor and electronics for comparing the sensor value associated with a test pixel to the sensor values of pixels positioned in at least two dimensions on the digital image sensor. The electronics determines whether the test pixel is a defective pixel based on the comparison.
US07667740B2
Disclosed are digital imaging devices that embody a method for eliminating modulated light effects in rolling shutter CMOS sensor images. The digital imaging device comprises an image sensor utilizing an electronic rolling shutter, a processor and firmware for implementing the methods. Embodiments of the method comprise detecting the presence of light modulation and the frequency of the light modulation, and synchronizing the exposure times to the modulation cycle time.
US07667730B2
A method and apparatus acquires images of a scene with an omni-directional imager and a pan-tilt-zoom imager. A relationship between pixels in the input image and locations in the scene is expressed in terms of polar coordinates. An event is detected in the input images and the omni-directional pan-tilt-zoom camera is directed at the event in the scene using the relationship expressed in the polar coordinates.
US07667725B2
A multi-beam image forming apparatus and a method using the same. The image forming apparatus includes: an image process module to divide first image data into a plurality of second image data; a light scanning unit to scan the plurality of second image data using a plurality of laser beams; and a controller to control the formation of an electrostatic latent image of the first image data on a photosensitive body in an overlapping manner, using at least two of the plurality of laser beams.
US07667724B2
A customer replaceable unit installable in a printing apparatus comprises a component requiring high voltage electric power for operation, a low voltage power input, and that cooperates with the low voltage power input in order to transform low voltage electric power from the low voltage power input into high voltage electric power for use by the component. The customer replaceable unit may also include a low voltage signal input, and the high voltage power supply unit controls output of the high voltage electric power in response to signals received at the low voltage signal input. The signals received at the low voltage signal input are independent of a type of the component in the customer replaceable unit, and the high voltage power supply unit provides an appropriate high voltage for the type of the component, thereby allowing modification of the type of component without having to provide a different low voltage signal.
US07667720B2
An image display device is provided which is capable of improving its image quality when a moving picture is displayed by using a holding-type display panel such as a liquid crystal panel. A display gray-level feature value of each display screen is extracted based on a video input signal. A black inserting signal to set a gray level of a black screen (frame) is generated based on the display gray-level feature value extracted by the displayed brightness extracting section. Based on a video input signal, a control signal is sent out to a source driver and another control signal is sent out to a gate driver and a gray level of a black screen to be inserted among display screens each making up a moving picture is set to a liquid crystal panel based on the black inserting signal generated by the black inserting signal computing section.
US07667713B2
An image processing apparatus is provided with a process unit to carry out a resolution conversion process and an image division process with respect to an input image, and a control unit to control a division number of the image division process depending on a size of an image display region and a resolution after the resolution conversion process. The division number indicates a number of divided image portions into which the input image is divided into by the image division process. The control unit may control the division number of the image division process depending on an image size of the input image in addition to the size of the image display region and the resolution after the resolution conversion process.
US07667710B2
A graphics integrated circuit chip is used in a set-top box for controlling a television display. The graphics chip processes analog video input, digital video input, a graphics input and an audio input simultaneously. The chip includes a display engine that processes graphics images organized as windows. The system includes plurality of line buffers for receiving the graphics contents. The graphics contents are composited into each of the plurality of line buffers by blending the graphics contents with the existing contents of the line buffer until all of the graphics surfaces for the line have been composited.
US07667709B2
Disclosed is a system and method for processing graphic operations on a plurality of data structures of an image with a graphics processing unit and memory. The disclosed techniques of the system and method create an accumulation buffer of the data structures for accumulating changes to the data structures. A separate buffer is then created from at least a portion of the data structures of the accumulation buffer. The disclosed techniques read the data structures from the separate buffer with the graphics processing unit. The graphics processing unit operates on the data structures read from the separate buffer with the operation. Then, the disclosed techniques write the results of the operation onto the portion of the accumulation buffer corresponding to the separate buffer.
US07667694B2
A burst wave is applied to an excitation element of a touch panel main body from an oscillation section so as to excite surface acoustic waves, and the excited surface acoustic waves are received by a receiving element of the touch panel main body. The received signals are A/D converted by a receiving section, and a control section calculates the contact position and the contact width of the object in contact with the touch panel main body, based on time-series changes in the received strength. Based on the received strength of surface acoustic waves, the control section controls the wave number of the burst wave to be applied to the excitation element.
US07667688B2
A cursor control device includes a main body, a circuit board, a base, a touch support stand, a touch sensor and a knock sensor. The circuit board is disposed within the main body. The base is disposed within the main body and above the circuit board, and includes an elongated slot. The touch support stand is mounted on the base and aligned with the elongated slot. The touch sensor is supported on the touch support stand and electrically connected to the circuit board. In response to a touching action on the touch sensor, a screen scrolling signal is generated. The knock sensor is mounted on the circuit board and under the touch support stand. The knock sensor is triggered when the touch support stand is moved to touch the knock sensor.
US07667687B2
A method is disclosed that includes outputting haptic feedback based on a movement of an object in a first direction from a first position to a second position. The haptic feedback is discontinued when the object is moved in a second direction opposite the first direction subsequent to the movement in the first direction. The haptic feedback is output again when the object moves past the second position in the first direction.
US07667683B2
A light source driving circuit includes a voltage signal source and a temperature-improving current source for adjusting luminance of a series of LEDs. A first end of the series of LEDs is electrically connected to a ground end. The temperature-improving current source includes an adjustable power supply for outputting an adjustable voltage, a voltage-controlled current source for outputting currents according to the voltage signal source, and a feedback circuit electrically connected between a second end of the series of the LEDs and the adjustable power supply for controlling the output voltage of the adjustable power supply according to the voltage on the second end of the series of LEDs.
US07667680B2
Disclosed is an LCD and driving method thereof. The present invention comprises a data gray signal modifier for receiving gray signals from a data gray signal source, and outputting modification gray signals by consideration of gray signals of present and previous frames; a data driver for changing the modification gray signals into corresponding data voltages and outputting image signals; a gate driver for sequentially supplying scanning signals; and an LCD panel comprising a plurality of gate lines for transmitting the scanning signals; a plurality of data lines, being insulated from the gate lines and crossing them, for transmitting the image signals; and a plurality of pixels, formed by an area surrounded by the gate lines and data lines and arranged as a matrix pattern, having switching elements connected to the gate lines and data lines.
US07667677B2
A liquid crystal module for flat panel display comprising a glass substrate, a plurality of source drivers, a control board, and at least one bus. The source drivers coupled to the glass substrate utilize the chip on glass (COG) technology. The control board receives a plurality of data signals, a power signal and a gamma correction signal. The at least one bus coupled to the control board and at least one source driver, passes the data signals, the power signal and the gamma correction signal. The source drivers couple to the control board via the bus, each receiving a corresponding data signal. The data signals, conforming to transistor-transistor logic (TTL) standard, are transmitted sequentially on the bus.
US07667668B2
An apparatus or multiple driver video card that simplifies user interface design through displaying portions of a single image on multiple screens, and processing feedback from multiple devices as if the interface was a single device. Method, device, and computer-readable medium embodiments generate a user interface image, separate the user interface image into a plurality of sub-images, convey the plurality of sub-images to remote terminals, and configured to receive input data from the remote terminals.
US07667662B2
An antenna is provided. The antenna has a ground element, a radiator and a conductive element. The radiator has a body, wherein the body has a first edge, a second edge, a third edge and a fourth edge, and the first edge is parallel to the third edge, a length of the first edge is shorter than a length of the third edge, the first edge is close to the ground element, the second edge connects the first edge and the third edge, a fourth edge connects the first edge and the third edge, and a first slot is formed on the radiator. The second edge and the fourth edge extend separately from the first edge to the third edge. The conductive element connects the ground element and the radiator.
US07667661B2
An electronic device and short-circuited dipole antenna thereof are provided. The short-circuited dipole antenna comprises a first radiation unit, a second radiation unit and a short-circuited unit. The short-circuited unit comprises a first terminal connected to the first radiation unit, and a second terminal connected to the second radiation unit.
US07667656B2
A method is disclosed for optically pre-aligning and referencing an antenna set-up outside an antenna measurement range. The pre-alignment is performed in an integration room close to the antenna measurement range in order to avoid unnecessary occupation of the measurement range. The method teaches a technique using generally a pair of high accuracy theodolites (T1, T2) to by means of a room mirror reference (RM) and an antenna mirror-cube transfer a difference between the co-ordinate system of an integration tower (INT) used and the measurement range antenna tower.
US07667652B2
A multi-protocol, multi-band array antenna system may be used in Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system reader and sensory networks. The antenna array may include array elements with an integrated low noise amplifier. The system may employ digital beam forming techniques for transmission and steering of a beam to a specific sensor tag or group of tags in an cell. The receive beam forming network is optimized for detecting signals from each sensor tag. Narrow and wideband interferences may be excised by an interference nulling algorithm. Space division multiplexing may be used by the antenna system to enhance system processing capacity.
US07667646B2
A system for indicating the relative direction of a target object or location as determined from the current position of a wireless communication device. The system employs Direction of Arrival determination using an antenna array for indicating the direction of a target device and includes facilities to activate a location-indicating transmission in a target device, the ability to request that a location-indicating transmission be activated in a remote target device, relevant information reception from a target device and the display of all potential target devices within effective transmission range of the wireless communication device.
US07667643B2
Described is a miniaturized satellite transceiver for communicating with a Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite and a communications satellite. The miniaturized satellite transceiver includes an integrated GPS receiver configured to receive communications from the GPS satellite, a satellite modem configured to transmit and receive communications from the communications satellite, and an operating system. The miniaturized satellite transceiver is installable in a hand-held device, a mobile satellite transceiver system, or an in-flight transceiver and locator system.
US07667636B2
In a vehicle control system, when an inter-vehicular distance between a subject vehicle and a preceding vehicle detected by a radar device is less than or equal to a predetermined value, automatic braking is performed or an alarm is activated to alert a driver to prevent a collision. A stationary object detection threshold value of a reception level of a reflected wave for detecting a stationary object is set higher in a predetermined region compared to a moving object detection threshold value of a reception level of a reflected wave emitted from the radar device for detecting a moving object such as a preceding vehicle. Thus, the system prevents a gate or an article in the roadway, which are not obstacles, from being erroneously recognized as obstacles. As such, unnecessary automatic braking and alarm activation for the gate and the article in the roadway can be prevented.
US07667632B2
An electronic device that includes an internal data storage location coupled to an electrical conductor and a quantizing circuit coupled to the internal data storage location via the electrical conductor. In some embodiments, the quantizing circuit includes an analog-to-digital converter having an input and an output, where the input is coupled to the electrical conductor and a digital filter coupled to the output of the analog-to-digital converter.
US07667629B2
Methods for generating Gray count for an odd length sequence using a virtual space. More than one set of Gray codes can be generated for a given odd multiple virtual domains that assists in achieving more robust systems which are fault tolerant. Broadly contemplated herein is the use of a simple and elegant algorithm which is less complex and uses only an N-bit sequence.
US07667626B1
Systems and methods are provided for encoding and decoding constrained codes using an enumerative coding graph. The constrained code may contain run-length and DC level limits. The enumerative coding graph contains a series of states and each state has two branches that lead to other states. Each state in the enumerative coding graph is assigned a cardinality. Configuring the structure of the graph and the cardinalities associated with each state allow the encoder to generate a code that conforms to defined constraints.
US07667622B2
The marine vessel monitoring system of the present invention enables marine vessel owners to monitor their vessels when they are unable or unavailable to personally do so. The system of the present invention provides an efficient method for inspecting and repairing a designated marine vessel at periodic intervals and for reporting the results of such inspections and repairs to the vessel's owner in a timely manner for the owner's review and consideration.
US07667616B2
An electrical control system includes one or more master nodes that are adapted to control and monitor the operation of one or more slave nodes. The master nodes and the slave nodes are operably coupled by one or more communication interfaces, such as radio frequency, Internet Protocol, power line, or other conventional communication interfaces. A hand-held radio frequency controller includes a controller that is operably coupled to an radio frequency transceiver. The controller includes an operating system and application programs, including a device engine, a scenes engine, an events engine, a system engine, and an away engines. The device engine, scenes engine, events engine, system engine and away engine permit a user of the hand-held radio frequency controller to customize the operation of at least some of the aspects of the master and slave nodes.
US07667614B2
The invention relates to a casing (i.e., housing) for receiving an electrical device, particularly a switching device or sensor, having at least one indicating apparatus for indicating different electrical states, particularly switching states, of the device. The casing is characterized in that each indicating apparatus has a plurality of indicating devices and that the indicating devices of one indicating apparatus are positioned facing one another on the casing in such a way that, from each viewing direction, at least one indicating device of each indicating apparatus can be seen.
US07667604B2
Methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for real-time and context-aware tracking of items. Tags bound to items are read and information read from the tags and location information about the tags is provided by at least two enterprises and used to maintain disposition information about the items, which is made visible to enterprises in the supply chain. The disposition information can be mapped to a world model that tracks the items and circumstances affecting the items, for example, geo-spatial events and traffic delays. Visibility of the disposition information can be controlled through authorization. Visible information can include relationships between particular items and business documents such as order and shipping documents.
US07667594B2
A sensor of this comprises a receiving section that receives a signal that is sent from outside, a circuit whose impedance changes irreversibly in accordance with an environmental change, a measurement section that measures the impedance of the circuit in an event that a signal is received by the receiving section, and a sending section that sends data representing a measurement result of the measurement section.
US07667583B2
A tire pressure gauge for attachment to a valve stem includes a wall defining a chamber having a first port adapted to sealingly engage a valve stem, a probe being mounted in the first port so as to open a valve of a valve stem sealingly engaged by the first port, a pressure sensor in the chamber, a memory, a display physically supported on the device, a processor being operatively coupled to said display, pressure sensor and memory; and code being stored in the memory and operable by the processor to: retrieve at least one value indicative of a first threshold tire pressure from the memory, determine a pressure sensed by the pressure sensor, and, cause the display to present information indicative of a relative value of the sensed value to the first threshold tire pressure.
US07667580B2
A vehicle moves to and remains in an out-of-cellular coverage area for a long time period. As long as the vehicle is located within a specified range from a reference point, a time measuring unit does not start time count for forcibly operating an immobiliser provided in the vehicle.
US07667566B2
An inductor structure comprising a substrate; a plurality of insulation layers on the substrate; a first spiral electric conductive coil positioned in the insulation layers to form an inductor having a first direction of magnetic field; a second spiral electric conductive coil positioned in the insulation layers to form an inductor having a second direction of magnetic field, in which, the two or more inductors are independently positioned in a same 3-D space and have a good integration.
US07667565B2
This invention discloses an inductor that includes a conducting wire composed of an alloy having temperature coefficients of resistance (TCR) 700 ppm/° C. or lower. The inductive coil has a winding configuration provided for enclosure in a substantially rectangular box with a mid-plane extended along an elongated direction of the rectangular box wherein the conducting wire intersecting at least twice near said mid-plane.
US07667557B2
A bandpass filter including one or more metal layers, each layer having a first region and a second region. The filter also includes two or more LC resonators and one or more coupling networks for connecting the two or more LC resonators in parallel. The two or more LC resonators are contained within the first region of the one or more layers and the one or more coupling networks are contained in the second region of the one or more layers.
US07667554B2
A pulse train having a specific amplitude is transmitted from a transmitting circuit, and the amplitude at the receiving end is measured by a comparator. A coarse adjustment control unit determines a coarse adjustment value of the pre-emphasis intensity based on the measured amplitude. The pre-emphasis intensity is changed within the course pre-emphasis range, and the maximum receivable time width of a test signal is obtained by a reception judging unit 13 by using a fine adjustment stage.
US07667553B2
In a frequency modulator, a VCO oscillates at a frequency according to a voltage applied to an input terminal. A divider divides an output signal of the VCO. A phase comparator compares the output of the divider with a reference clock signal and outputs a voltage corresponding to a phase difference. A loop filter is provided on a path leading from an output terminal of the phase comparator to the input terminal of the VCO, and the loop filter removes a high-frequency component of an output voltage of the phase comparator. A terminal for inputting a modulation signal is provided in the loop filter, separately from a terminal connected with the path leading from the output terminal of the phase comparator to the input terminal of the VCO.
US07667549B2
A low-power-consumption semiconductor device and a driving method thereof where a clock signal generation is controlled. A transmission and reception control circuit to control signal communication with an outside; a ring oscillator control circuit to detect an edge in a receiving signal and control a ring oscillator; a clock generation circuit to generate a clock signal based on the ring oscillator; and a logic circuit to operate based on a clock signal are included. During signal communication between the transmission and reception control circuit and the outside, the ring oscillator operates and a clock signal is output from the clock generation circuit when the ring oscillator control circuit detects an edge in a receiving signal, and the ring oscillator stops and output of the clock signal from the clock generation circuit stops when transmission of a reply signal from the transmission and reception control circuit to the outside is terminated.
US07667548B2
An oscillation maintenance circuit for a half-duplex transponder that has an LC resonant circuit, a storage capacitor and a rectifier connected to charge the storage capacitor with a rectified oscillation signal, having an end-of-burst detector providing an end-of-burst signal when the amplitude of the oscillation signal has dropped below a predetermined threshold. A clock regenerator provides a clock signal derived from the oscillation signal. Switching means controlled by the clock signal in the presence of the end-of-burst signal connect the storage capacitor with LC resonant circuit through at least one current limiting resistor during part of the period of the clock signal, in such a manner that energy is fed into the LC resonant circuit.
US07667542B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes an amplifier having an input to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal from an output node of a source. An input stage coupled to the amplifier input may include one or more components to aid in processing of incoming signals. One such component coupled between the source and the input of the amplifier is a coupling capacitor used to maintain a bias voltage of the amplifier at a different potential than a DC voltage of the output node. In certain applications, the amplifier and the coupling capacitor may be integrated on a single substrate.
US07667535B2
Sampling capacitors are connected respectively to a pair of differential input terminals of an operational amplifier. The sampling capacitors sample input signals. Source terminals and drain terminals of dummy switches are connected respectively to paths connecting the operational amplifier and the sampling capacitors, so that a common-mode voltage of differential input voltages to the operational amplifier is adjusted by gate-channel capacitances.
US07667527B2
Structure and process for compensating threshold voltage variation due to process variation. The structure includes a circuit segmented into sub-blocks having a predetermined size corresponding to a characteristic length associated with a process variation. A local circuit is located in each circuit sub-block, and a reference signal coupled to each local circuit. The local circuit generates a compensation signal in response to the reference signal to adjust an electrical parameter of the respective sub-block to a predetermined value.
US07667514B2
A delay circuit includes: a current control circuit which has n (n is 1 or larger natural number) control pins and a first output line, and is capable of controlling current outputted from the first output line in response to n control signals inputted to the corresponding n control pins; a current mirror circuit connected with the first output line to produce current mirror current from the current and output the current mirror current from a second output line; a first active element having a gate pin and an input pin, the gate pin is connected with the second output line, and the input pin is connected with the first voltage line; a second active element having a gate pin and an input pin, the gate pin is connected with the first output line, and the input pin is connected with the second voltage line; and an inverter circuit having third and fourth active elements connected in series between an output pin of the first active element and an output pin of the second active element.
US07667511B2
Efficient PAM transmit modulation is provided by a PAM modulator that includes an oscillator (404) that provides a clock signal, CKV, (408). The clock signal 408 and a delayed version (CKV_DLY) 420 of the clock signal are provided to a logic gate (414). The output of logic gate (414) is used as a power amplifier input signal (PA_IN) for radio frequency power amplifier (416). Depending on the relative time delay of the CKV clock signal (408) and the CKV_DLY delayed clock signal (420), the timing and duty cycle of the logic gate (414) duty cycle can be controlled. The duty cycle or pulse-width variation affects the turn-on time of the power amplifier (416); thereby establishing the RF output amplitude.
US07667507B2
According to some embodiments, a method and system are provided to receive a clock input at a first clock adjustment tuner, receive the clock input at a second clock adjustment tuner, output a tuned inverted rising clock signal via the first clock adjustment tuner, output a tuned inverted falling clock signal via the second clock adjustment tuner, receive the inverted rising clock signal and the inverted falling clock signal at a clock synchronizer, output a synchronized tuned clock signal via the clock synchronizer, receive the synchronized tuned clock signal at a third clock adjustment tuner, and output a tuned clock signal. The first clock adjustment tuner and the second clock adjustment tuner provide coarser adjustments than the third clock adjustment tuner.
US07667498B1
A circuit includes a first transistor stack that receives an input signal, a voltage reference, a reference potential, a clock signal and an inverted clock signal, and generates an output signal that is an inverse of the input signal. A first inverter receives the output signal from the first transistor stack. A second transistor stack receives the voltage reference, the reference potential, the clock signal and the inverted clock signal, and generates an output signal that is an inverse of an output signal from the first inverter. A pass control circuit includes first and second transistors. The first terminals of the first and second transistors are coupled together and receive the output signal of the second transistor stack, control terminals of the first and second transistors receive the clock signal and the inverted clock signal, respectively, and second terminals of the first and second transistors are coupled together and output the output signal of the second transistor stack.
US07667497B2
A circuit having dynamically controllable power. The circuit comprises a plurality of pipelined stages, each of the pipelined stages comprising two clocking domains, a plurality of switching circuits, each switching circuit being connected to one of the pipelined stages, first and second power sources connected to each of the plurality of pipelined stages through the switching circuits, the first power source supplying a first voltage and the second power source supplying a second voltage, wherein the first and second power sources each may be applied to a pipelined stage independently of other pipelined stages, first and second complementary clocks, and a plurality of latches connected to the first and second complementary clocks and to the plurality of pipelined stages for proving latch-based clocking to control the first and second clocking domains and to enable time-borrowing across the plurality of switching circuits. The first voltage differs from the second voltage and the plurality of pipelined stages interpolates between the first and second voltages to provide differing effective voltages between the first and second voltages.
US07667489B1
A voltage regulator and method of voltage regulation for a power-on reset condition are described. Voltage regulation control signals responsive to the power-on reset condition are obtained. The control signals are generated with a first voltage to be associated with a second voltage to provide a first power-on-reset signal and a second power-on-reset signal which are opposite in state to one another. A portion of driver logic is tri-stated responsive to the control signals, and the second power-on-reset signal to at least impede supply to supply current leakage. Voltage is pulled up on a first output port and a second output port of the driver logic responsive to the first power-on-reset signal. A portion of a semiconductor substrate is electrically coupled to a higher one of a first voltage and a second voltage responsive to the pulling up to at least further impede the supply to supply current leakage.
US07667487B2
A circuit assembly includes a functional chip and a first capacitor. The functional chip includes a first logic island and a second logic island. The first capacitor is configured to be selectively coupled (e.g., at different times) to a first power supply terminal of the first logic island and a second power supply terminal of the second logic island.
US07667481B2
A surface electron emission device array and a TFT inspection system for inspecting a TFT array using a surface electron emission device array may be provided. The TFT inspection system may include a surface electron emission device array, which may have a first electrode disposed to face the TFT array in a first direction, a second electrode disposed in a second direction intersecting the first direction in a region corresponding to a region in which the first electrode and a corresponding pixel electrode of the TFT array may be formed, and an insulating layer interposed between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US07667480B2
Provided is an anisotropic conductive sheet (8) having heat resistance and cold resistance and suitable for connection of electrodes. The anisotropic conductive sheet of the present invention has conductivity in the thickness direction, wherein the base film (1), which is a film made of synthetic resin having an electrical insulation property, has a plurality of holes (3) formed in the thickness direction, and the holes (3) are open to one main surface of the base film and closed to the other main surface, wherein a metal is adhered to the closed parts (2a) and the inner walls (2b) of the holes (3) so that by contacting electrodes (7) with the closed parts (2a) respectively from the outside, the electrodes (7) can electrically be connected through the adhered metal to the main surface where the holes (3) are open.
US07667477B2
Noise measuring circuitry of the present invention can be used to observe power supply noise waveforms, ground level noise waveforms, and a spatial distribution of noise at different positions in an integrated circuit having plural circuit blocks that perform digital signal processing, by being integrated into the integrated circuit (i.e., embedded), distributed at different positions. The distributed noise measuring circuitry can be manufactured using a CMOS process to manufacture the integrated circuit. The power supply noise measuring circuit and the ground level noise measuring circuit comprise a source follower, a select read out switch, and source-grounded amplifier. These noise measuring circuits can be configured by several (about 6) MOS transistors, so the layout for the measuring circuit can be small and can be achieved by using a logic gate circuit of the same size as that of a standard cell type logic gate circuit. As for the output of the noise measuring circuits, the output current of said source-grounded amplifier is connected to the current bus line, the outputted current is amplified and the amplified current is read by driving the external resistance load circuit. Plural noise measuring circuits can be connected parallel to the current bus line. Measuring multiple noise points in the main integrated circuit can be achieved by reading out the output current.
US07667475B2
The invention relates to a tester apparatus of the kind including a portable supporting structure for removably holding and testing a substrate carrying a microelectronic circuit. An interface on the stationary structure is connected to the first interface when the portable structure is held by the stationary structure and is disconnected from the first interface when the portable supporting structure is removed from the stationary structure. An electrical tester is connected through the interfaces so that signals may be transmitted between the electrical tester and the microelectronic circuit to test the microelectronic circuit.
US07667472B2
A probe assembly for use in electrical measurement of a device under test. The probe assembly comprises a plate-like probe base plate with bending deformation produced in a free state without load, and a plurality of probes formed on one face of the probe base plate to project from the face. All the tips of the probes are positioned on the same plane parallel to an imaginary reference plane of the probe base plate.
US07667459B2
Methods, systems, software arrangements and storage medium for measuring the magnetic field correlation function (“MFC”), and more particularly, to methods for measuring the magnetic field correlation function utilizing asymmetric spin echoes. Asymmetric Dual Spin Echo Sequences (“ADSE”) and Echo Planar Imaging Asymmetric Dual Spin Echo Sequences (“EPI-ADSE”) may be employed to apply multiple echoes to a sample and acquire data from which the MFC may be determined.
US07667451B2
A method of determining a size of an optical disc inserted into an optical disc drive is disclosed. The method includes driving a turntable motor of the optical disc drive to rotate the optical disc at a predetermined rotation frequency for reading data stored on the optical disc, measuring a rotation frequency of the turntable motor, applying a kick-pulse voltage to the turntable motor of the optical disc drive for a predetermined period of time, measuring a change in the rotation frequency of the turntable motor after applying the kick-pulse voltage, comparing the change in the rotation frequency of the turntable motor to a threshold value, and determining that the optical disc is an 8 cm disc when the change in the rotation frequency of the turntable motor is above the threshold value.
US07667449B2
To provide a constant current circuit which is capable of not only acquiring characteristics of various sorts of electric circuits even before a trimming adjustment is carried out, performing the trimming adjustment based upon the acquired characteristics, performing trimming processes to both the constant current circuit and a load collectively, and performing an adjustment of a constant current with high precision, but also capable of reducing a total number of manufacturing steps so that a production cost can be lowered, as compared with that of a conventional constant current circuit.A constant current circuit of the present invention includes: a current output portion including a first transistor for causing a reference current to flow and a second transistor for causing an output current with respect to a load to flow, the first transistor and the second transistor connected with each other through a current mirror connection; a depletion transistor connected in series with the first transistor, for adjusting the reference current through trimming; a third transistor interposed between the depletion transistor and a ground point, for controlling tuning on/off of a connection between the depletion transistor and the ground point; and a first external terminal for allowing the reference current to flow through the first transistor.
US07667442B2
A constant voltage power supply circuit is provided with a constant voltage circuit part to convert an input voltage into a predetermined constant voltage, a first excessive current protection circuit part to control the constant voltage circuit part so as to reduce the output voltage while maintaining an output current that is output to a predetermined maximum value if the output current is greater than or equal to the predetermined maximum value when the output voltage is a rated voltage, and a second excessive current protection circuit part to control the constant voltage circuit part so as to reduce the output voltage and the output current and to output a short-circuit current if the output voltage decreases to a ground voltage when the output voltage is decreased to a predetermined value by the first excessive current protection circuit part. The second excessive current protection circuit part is disabled in response to a first test signal that is active.
US07667441B2
Inductive element for a multi-phase interleaved power supply and apparatus and method using the same
An inductive element for transforming and/or regulating voltage input from a multi-phase, interleaved power supply system into an output voltage to a load is disclosed. The multi-phase, interleaved power supply system includes a plurality of pulsed power sources, each of which is adapted to provide voltage at a discrete phase. The inductive element includes a magnetic core having, for each power supply, a distinct area of relatively-high magnetic reluctance, which is surrounded by areas of relatively-low magnetic reluctance, and a pair of windings. Each of the pair of windings includes a first, phase winding that is electrically coupled to an output of one of the pulsed power source and to the load, and a second, loop winding that is operatively coupled and proximate to the first, phase winding. Each of the second, loop windings is disposed serially on a closed loop.
US07667439B2
A power converter arrangement for connecting an induction generator to an electric power network comprises a first path provided for transferring electric power from the induction generator to the electric power network during a first operation condition, and a second path provided for transferring electric power from the induction generator to the electric power network during a second operation condition, where the first path includes an AC-AC converter and the second path includes a switch. A capacitor arrangement is interconnected between the induction generator and the first and second paths and a first AC reactor device is interconnected between the capacitor arrangement and the first and second paths, where the capacitor arrangement is provided for compensating for a magnetization current of the induction generator.
US07667434B2
The present invention relates to a method of managing a supply of electrical power to an appliance that is delivered by means of at least a first battery and a second battery, said method comprising the following steps: powering the appliance by means of the first battery so long as said first battery has a level of charge sufficient for powering the appliance; when the battery has a level of charge that is insufficient, powering the appliance by means of the second battery; and powering the appliance with both of the batteries in parallel when the levels of charge of both batteries are substantially equal and insufficient for it to be possible to power the appliance using a single one of the batteries. The invention also relates to an electrical power supply circuit for implementing said method, and to a method of powering an appliance when cold.
US07667433B1
A recharging cover system for storing, protecting and recharging an electronic device during transport of the electronic device includes a case receives the electronic device to protect the electronic device from being inadvertently damaged. A recharging assembly is positioned in the case. The recharging assembly is electrically coupled to the electronic device to recharge the electronic device when the electronic device is positioned in the case.
US07667425B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for controlling an electric door drive. During a learning process determination of the course over time of the torques of the door drive for each of at least one opening process and closing process is carried out. Maximum permissible torques are derived from the ascertained torques for predetermined zones within an opening process and closing process. During operation of the door drive a comparison of the current torque with the maximum torques and a comparison of the current speeds of the door drive with predetermined target speeds are carried out. The current speed of the door drive is increased if the associated target speed is fallen below. In addition, switching-off the door drive takes place if the current torque exceeds the associated maximum torque.
US07667419B2
A motor driving apparatus includes a virtual difference voltage detecting unit operable to detect a difference voltage between a virtual neutral point of a resistor circuit connected in parallel to motor coils and a terminal of a motor coil in non-conduction state, a rotor position detecting unit operable to detect a position of the rotor based on the difference voltage, and a controller operable to control commutation of an inverter based on the rotor position. The motor driving apparatus has a searching start mode for detecting the rotor position and energizes the coils, and a back electromotive voltage feedback mode for controlling commutation based on the back electromotive voltage. In the searching start mode, a rotor position searching process and a rotation start torque applying process are alternately performed.
US07667418B2
A control system for an electromagnetic rotary drive for bearingless motor-generators comprises a winding configuration comprising a plurality of individual pole pairs through which phase current flows, each phase current producing both a lateral force and a torque. A motor-generator comprises a stator, a rotor supported for movement relative to the stator, and a control system. The motor-generator comprises a winding configuration supported by the stator. The winding configuration comprises at least three pole pairs through which phase current flows resulting in three three-phase systems. Each phase system has a first rotor reference frame axis current that produces a levitating force with no average torque and a second rotor reference frame axis current that produces torque.
US07667412B2
A driving device for driving a light source module (12), includes an inverter circuit (15) for converting a received signal to a signal driving the light source module, a feedback and filter circuit (13) for feeding back currents flowing through the light sources and filtering radio frequency interference (RFI) signals of feedback currents, and a controller (14) electrically connected between the feedback and filter circuit and the inverter circuit. The feedback and filter circuit includes at least one filter for filtering the RFI signals of the feedback currents, and a resistor (R) for feeding back the current flowing through the light source module. The filter includes an impedance (Z11) including a first terminal designated as an input of the filter and a second terminal, and a capacitor (C11). The capacitor includes a third terminal designated as an output of the filter and a fourth terminal electrically connected to ground.
US07667411B2
A backlight assembly includes a switching section for switching on/off an input voltage so as to output a primary voltage in accordance with a control signal; and a voltage boosting section for boosting the primary voltage received at a primary side thereof to a secondary voltage at a secondary side thereof. The primary and secondary sides of the voltage boosting section are electrically isolated from each other. In a feedback link for supplying the control signal from the secondary side to the primary side, a signal isolation section is provided for both transmitting the control signal between and electrically isolating primary side and secondary side portions of the feedback link. Additionally or alternatively, a balancing circuit section is connected between the secondary side of the voltage boosting section and a plurality of lamps so as to uniformly supply an alternating current, generated by the secondary voltage, to the lamps, in order to uniformize the luminances of the lamps.
US07667410B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for balancing currents passing through multiple parallel circuit branches and in some cases through parallel fluorescent lamps. Single transformers with multiple-leg magnetic cores are wound in specific manners that simplify current balancing. Conventional three-legged EE-type magnetic cores, with disclosed windings are used to balance current in circuits with three or more parallel branches, such as parallel connected Cold Cathode Fluorescent Lamps (CCFLs).
US07667409B2
A method and a control apparatus for driving a lamp (14) in a lighting system, in particular a lamp laving a fast response to a change of an amount of energy supplied through the lamp, in which a device controller 8 is connected with the lamp (14) The device controller (8) receives data values from a system controller (2) to change a light output level of the lamp (14). Upon receiving a data value which is different from a previously received data value the device controller calculates additional data values and distribute the additional data values in a following, time interval to smoothen a transition between different light output levels of the lamp (14).
US07667407B2
A fluorescent tanning lamp having a glass envelope has an ultra-violet light reflecting coating covering at least 180° of an inside surface of the envelope; and a phosphor layer covering substantially 360° of the inside surface of the envelope, including overlying the ultra-violet reflecting coating. An odor reducing photocatalytic material is provided on an outside surface of the envelope, the photocatalytic material being coextensive with the ultra-violet light reflecting material. A preferred material is anatase TiO2; i.e., the crystalline form.
US07667403B2
A plasma display panel may include a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, barrier ribs disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, and at least partially defining a plurality of discharge cells therebetween, a plurality of pairs of discharge electrodes for generating a discharge in the discharge cells, the plurality of pairs of discharge electrodes being arranged in non-display portions of the plasma display panel, and a color filter layer disposed between the barrier ribs and the first substrate.
US07667395B2
A light emitting device includes on a base member: a plurality of first electrodes; a barrier wall having a plurality of opening portions corresponding to the plurality of first electrodes; organic functional layers disposed in the opening portions; a second electrode covering the barrier wall and the organic functional layers; an organic buffer layer covering the second electrode; a gas barrier layer disposed to cover patterns of the organic buffer layer and surroundings thereof; and an outside reinforcing layer disposed to cover the outer circumferential region of the organic buffer layer.
US07667386B2
A fabricating method of display panel is provided. A first substrate having display area and non-display area is provided. A pixel array is formed in the display area of the first substrate, and at the same time, a spacer layer is formed in the non-display area. The spacer layer surrounds the display area. Next, a sealant is formed in the non-display area, and the spacer layer is disposed between the sealant and the pixel array. A second substrate is arranged above the first substrate, and the first substrate and the second substrate are fixed by using the sealant. The spacer layer can prevent the overflow sealant from contaminating the devices in the panel. The spacer layer is formed during the fabricating process of the pixel array, so that no extra fabrication cost is needed.
US07667377B2
A multilayer piezoelectric device including a body having internal electrode layers and piezoelectric ceramic layers alternately stacked. The internal electrode layers contain Cu as a major component, the piezoelectric ceramic layers contain a compound oxide represented by Pb(Ti, Zr)O3 as a major component, and a metal oxide (Nb2O5, Sb2O5, Ta2O5, or WO3) containing Nb, Sb, Ta, or W, which is at least one of a pentavalent metal element and a hexavalent metal element, is incorporated in the piezoelectric ceramic layers such that the concentration of the metal oxide decreases with distance from the internal electrode layers. Thereby, even in a case where internal electrodes contain Cu as a major component, it is possible to provide a multilayer piezoelectric device which can be obtained by low-temperature firing while ensuring a sufficient piezoelectric constant.
US07667371B2
A circuit (800) for controlling at least one piezoelectric actuator (142) includes a piezoelectric drive circuit (802) that generates unidirectional voltage drive signal, also referred to as Vout, at node (804). The piezoelectric actuator drive circuit (802) includes a boost switcher circuit or charging circuit (806), a buck switcher circuit or pulsed current sink discharge circuit (808) and a control signal generating circuit (810) that receives an input control signal (812) from, for example, a keyboard processor or other suitable processor (604) indicating that the device has requested generation of haptic feedback utilizing the piezoelectric actuator (142). The control signal generating circuit (810) provides at least two pulse-with-modulated control signals, one to control the charging circuit and one to control the discharging circuit to produce the unidirectional voltage drive signal, that in one example is a raised cosine drive signal (904).
US07667365B2
A magnetic gap is provided between a permanent magnet of a rotor and an auxiliary magnet pole portion which is arranged adjacent to the permanent magnet in a peripheral direction. A gradual change in a magnetic flux density distribution of a surface of the rotor is obtained and a cogging torque and a torque pulsation are restrained. By obtaining a reluctance torque according to the auxiliary magnetic pole, a permanent magnet electric rotating machine in which the cogging torque and the torque pulsation are restrained can be obtained and further an electromotive vehicle having the permanent magnet electric rotating machine can be provided.
US07667364B2
A brushless motor includes a stator and a rotor. The stator includes an annular stator core having teeth arranged with a spacing in a circumferential direction of the annular stator core; and coils wound around the teeth respectively. The rotor includes a rotor core and magnetic poles of segment magnets arranged annularly along a circumferential direction of the rotor core. The segment magnets are stacked at a plurality of stages in an axial direction of the rotor core. A length direction of each of the segment magnets is parallel with the axial direction of the rotor core. The following expression is satisfied: (2×β/P)+θ<(360/P) where P is the number of the magnetic poles of the segment magnets at each stage, β (electrical angle) is the effective pole angular aperture on the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core, and θ is the skew angle equivalent to a phase shift angle between the corresponding magnetic poles of the segment magnets at the adjacent stages.
US07667355B2
A linear motor comprising a coil assembly and a magnet assembly is provided with a cooling apparatus which comprises a segmented air knife assembly. The segmented air knife assembly has a plurality of slot openings distributed along its length which is coupled to the linear motor and it is operative to discharge cooling air into a gap between the coil assembly and magnet assembly in a discharge direction. An inclined surface extends from the plurality of slot openings and slopes at an obtuse angle away from the discharge direction of the cooling air. Each slot opening is individually configured to discharge the cooling air in the discharge direction at a sufficient velocity so as to entrain atmospheric air along the inclined surface to amplify the cooling air that is so discharged.
US07667354B2
A sensor unit is disclosed with a safety system for use with a signal generator, where at least one evaluation unit is provided for evaluating a signal from a sensor and for producing a first trigger signal based on the signal. In at least one embodiment, a more compact and less expensive version of a sensor unit is provided, which operates reliably under high safety demands. In at least one embodiment, this is achieved by a safety system which has a checking unit for checking the operation of the evaluation unit using a test signal. The test signal is processed by the evaluation unit in the same way as the signal from the sensor. The two-channel output is provided on the basis of a conclusiveness check in the checking unit.
US07667345B2
A device for blocking and for releasing an adjusting mechanism having at least two parts which are movable relative to each other is disclosed. The device comprises a blocker configured to be brought at least into a blocking position and a release position relative to the adjusting mechanism. The device further comprises an actuator for changing the position of the blocker between the blocking position and the release position.
US07667342B2
A power supply system that supplies high-voltage power to a vehicle drive motor is provided to achieve reduction in size, weight and cost of power supply. The power supply system includes a plurality of battery modules connected in series. With the intermediate connection point of the battery modules as an electrical neutral point, power is supplied to a three-level inverter via a three-level-potential high-voltage power supply line having potentials of +150V and −150V relative to this neutral point. In the three-level inverter, direct-current electric power is converted into three-phase alternating-current electric power to drive an electric motor. Accordingly, the withstand-voltage performance required of control units or control elements connected to the high-voltage power supply line can be halved as compared with the related art, thereby allowing a reduction in the size, weight, and cost of the power supply system. Further, the electric power generated by a generator is converted into direct-current electric power by a three-level converter and supplied to the high-voltage power supply line to charge the battery modules.
US07667340B2
A method for drawing electricity from a non-animal organism, the method including coupling a first electrical conductor to the non-animal organism, coupling a second electrical conductor to a ground rod, embedding the ground rod into soil at a predetermined depth as a function of a desired current level, whereby the current available from the non-animal organism is increased by increasing the depth that the ground rod is embedded into the soil, coupling an electrical load between the first electrical conductor and the second electrical conductor, the electrical load being configured to draw electricity from the non-animal organism via the first electrical conductor, and operating the electrical load using electricity drawn from the non-animal organism.
US07667330B2
A semiconductor device includes an input/output pad, an input line of an internal circuit, and a plurality of metal lines formed on a lower portion of the input/output pad to have a buffer area overlapping with a plane area of the input/output pad, wherein one of an entirety and a portion of the plurality of metal lines included in the buffer area forms protective resistance interconnecting the input/output pad to the input line.
US07667328B2
An integrated circuit for reducing the electromigration effect. The IC includes a substrate and a power transistor which has first and second source/drain regions. The IC further includes first, second, and third electrically conductive line segments being (i) directly above the first source/drain region and (ii) electrically coupled to the first source/drain region through first contact regions and second contact regions, respectively. The first and second electrically conductive line segments (i) reside in a first interconnect layer of the integrated circuit and (ii) run in the reference direction. The IC further includes an electrically conductive line being (i) directly above the first source/drain region, (ii) electrically coupled to the first and second electrically conductive line segments through a first via and a second via, respectively, (iii) resides in a second interconnect layer of the integrated circuit, and (iv) runs in the reference direction.
US07667322B2
An example of a high-frequency semiconductor device includes two unit semiconductor devices. Each of the two unit semiconductor devices has a ground substrate, a high-frequency semiconductor element, an input-side matching circuit, an output-side matching circuit, a side wall member, an input terminal, and an output terminal. The ground substrate has heat-radiating property. The high-frequency semiconductor element is provided on the ground substrate. The input-side matching circuit is connected to the high-frequency semiconductor element. The output-side matching circuit is connected to the high-frequency semiconductor element. The side wall member surrounds at least the high-frequency semiconductor element. The input terminal is connected to the input-side matching circuit. The output terminal is connected to the output-side matching circuit. The two unit semiconductor devices are coupled to each other at upper edges of the side wall members.
US07667318B2
To pick and place standard dies on a new base for obtaining an appropriate and wider distance between dies than the original distance of dies on a wafer. The package structure has a larger size of balls array than the size of the die by fan out type package. Moreover, the die may be packaged with passive components or other dies with a side by side structure or a stacking structure.
US07667316B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a power transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate, a plurality of first metal patterns and a plurality of second metal patterns which are formed right above the power transistor and function as a first electrode and as a second electrode of the power transistor, respectively, a plurality of first buses each electrically connected with, of a plurality of first metal patterns, a corresponding first metal pattern, a plurality of second buses each electrically connected with, of a plurality of second metal patterns, a corresponding second metal pattern, wherein one contact pad is provided to each of a plurality of first buses and a plurality of second buses.
US07667310B2
Paper embedded with a semiconductor device capable of communicating wirelessly is realized, whose unevenness of a portion including the semiconductor device does not stand out and the paper is thin with a thickness of less than or equal to 130 μm. A semiconductor device is provided with a circuit portion and an antenna, and the circuit portion includes a thin film transistor. The circuit portion and the antenna are separated from a substrate used during manufacturing, and are interposed between a flexible base and a sealing layer and protected. The semiconductor device can be bent, and the thickness of the semiconductor device itself is less than or equal to 30 μm. The semiconductor device is embedded in a paper in a papermaking process.
US07667309B2
Efficient utilization of space in a laterally-conducting semiconductor device package is enhanced by creating at least one supplemental downbond pad portion of the diepad for receiving the downbond wire from the ground contact of the device. The supplemental diepad portion may occupy area at the end or side of the package formerly occupied by non-integral leads. By receiving the substrate downbond wire, the supplemental diepad portion allows a greater area of the main diepad to be occupied by a die having a larger area, thereby enhancing space efficiency of the package.
US07667308B2
A semiconductor package includes a leadframe. An upper lead is disposed above the leadframe. A first die is attached to a lower surface of the upper lead to provide electrical conductivity from the first die to the upper lead. A second die is attached to the first die. A method of manufacturing a semiconductor package includes providing a leadframe having an upper lead, lower lead, and an elevated die paddle. A first die, attached to a plurality of dies in a wafer form, is attached to a second die. The first die is singulated from the plurality of dies. The first and second dies are attached to the elevated die paddle structure. The first die is wire bonded to the lower lead. An encapsulant is formed over the first and second dies. The elevated die paddle is removed to expose a surface of the upper lead and second die.
US07667307B2
To actualize a reduction in the on-resistance of a small surface mounted package having a power MOSFET sealed therein. A silicon chip is mounted on a die pad portion integrated with leads configuring a drain lead. The silicon chip has, on the main surface thereof, a source pad and a gate pad. The backside of the silicon chip configures a drain of a power MOSFET and bonded to the upper surface of a die pad portion via an Ag paste. A lead configuring a source lead is electrically coupled to the source pad via an Al ribbon, while a lead configuring a gate lead is electrically coupled to the gate pad via an Au wire.
US07667293B2
A resistive random access memory including, an insulating layer, a hard mask layer, a bottom electrode, a memory cell and a top electrode is provided. The insulating layer is disposed on the bottom electrode. The insulating layer has a contact hole having a first width. The hard mask layer has an opening. A portion of the memory cell is exposed from the opening and has a second width smaller than the first width. The top electrode is disposed on the insulating layer and is coupled with the memory cell.
US07667289B2
A laser fuse structure for a semiconductor device, the laser fuse structure having an array of laser fuses wherein one or more of the fuses in the array have a tortuous fuse line extending between first and second connectors that connect the fuse to an underlying circuit area.
US07667285B2
A protective photochromic barrier film for a light-sensitive printed electronic substrate. Light-sensitive semiconductor devices on a dielectric substrate are electrically connected by conductors. A barrier layer containing photochromic dyes covers some or all of the light-sensitive semiconductor devices. Upon exposure to visible, infrared, or ultraviolet light, the photochromic dyes change chemical structure and decrease the amount of visible or non-visible light that can impinge upon the light-sensitive electronic devices. Upon removal of the visible or non-visible light, the photochromic dyes either revert to their original structure or maintain their altered state.
US07667284B2
An organic electroluminescent device, which, on a substrate, has a plurality of first electrodes, and a second electrode opposing the plurality of first electrodes. The organic electroluminescent device also including a light-emitting functional layer between the second electrode and one of the first electrodes and a buffering layer that covers the second electrode. The buffering layer having a side end portion with an angle equal to or less than 30°. The organic electroluminescent device further including a gas barrier layer that covers the buffering layer.
US07667276B2
There is provided a small-type semiconductor integrated circuit whose circuit area is small and whose wiring length is short. The semiconductor integrated circuit is constructed in a multi-layer structure and is provided with a first semiconductor layer, a first semiconductor layer transistor formed in the first semiconductor layer, a wiring layer which is deposited on the first semiconductor layer and in which metal wires are formed, a second semiconductor layer deposited on the wiring layer and a second semiconductor layer transistor formed in the second semiconductor layer. It is noted that insulation of a gate insulating film of the first semiconductor layer transistor is almost equal with that of a gate insulating film of the second semiconductor layer transistor and the gate insulating film of the second semiconductor layer transistor is formed by means of radical oxidation or radical nitridation.
US07667266B2
A semiconductor device including an active pattern having a channel recess portion, and a method of fabricating the same, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the semiconductor device includes an active pattern including first active regions and a second active region interposed between the first active regions. The active pattern protrudes above a surface of a semiconductor substrate and includes a channel recess portion above the second active region and between the first active regions. A device isolation layer surrounds the active pattern and has a groove exposing side walls of the recessed second active region. A distance between opposing side walls of the first active regions exposed by the channel recess portion is greater than a distance between side walls of the groove. A gate pattern is located in the channel recess portion and extends along the groove.
US07667263B2
A semiconductor structure and related method for fabrication thereof includes a liner layer interposed between: (1) a pedestal shaped channel region within a semiconductor substrate; and (2) a source region and a drain region within a semiconductor material layer located upon the liner layer and further laterally separated from the pedestal shaped channel region within the semiconductor substrate. The liner layer comprises an active doped silicon carbon material. The semiconductor material layer may comprises a semiconductor material other than a silicon carbon semiconductor material. The semiconductor material layer may alternatively comprise a silicon carbon semiconductor material having an opposite dopant polarity and lower carbon content in comparison with the liner layer. Due to presence of the silicon carbon material, the liner layer inhibits dopant diffusion therefrom into the pedestal shaped channel region. Electrical performance of a field effect device that uses the pedestal shaped channel region is thus enhanced.
US07667247B2
The present disclosure provides a method of fabricating a semiconductor device. The method includes providing a semiconductor substrate, forming a dielectric layer over the semiconductor substrate, treating the dielectric layer with a carbon containing group, forming a conductive layer over the treated dielectric layer, and patterning and etching the dielectric layer and conductive layer to form a gate structure. The carbon containing group includes an OCH3 or CN species.
US07667243B2
A semiconductor device for locally protecting an integrated circuit input/output (I/O) pad (301) against ESD events, when the I/O pad is located between a power pad (303) and a ground potential pad (305a). A first diode (311) and a second diode (312) are connected in series, the anode (311b) of the series connected to the I/O pad and the cathode (312a) connected to the power pad. A third diode (304) has its anode (304b) tied to the ground pad and its cathode (304a) tied to the I/O pad. A string (320) of at least one diode has its anode (321b) connected to the series between the first and second diode (node 313), isolated from the I/O pad, and its cathode (323a) connected to the ground pad. The string (320) may comprise three or more diodes.
US07667236B2
A light emitting device (A) includes a semiconductor die (100). The semiconductor die includes: an epitaxial structure (120) arranged on a substrate (160), the epitaxial structure forming an active light generating region (140) between a first layer (120n) on a first side of the active region and having a first conductivity type, and a second layer (120p) on a second side of the active region and having a second conductivity type, the second side of the active region being opposite the first side of the active region and the second conductivity type being different that the first conductivity type; a first contact (180n) in operative electrical communication with the active region via the first layer in the epitaxial structure, the first contact being arranged on a side of the epitaxial structure opposite the substrate; a second contact (180p) in operative electrical communication with the active region via the second layer in the epitaxial structure, the second contact being arranged on a side of the epitaxial structure opposite the substrate; a first contact trace corresponding to the first contact and defined at a surface thereof distal from the substrate, the first trace including at least one area designated for bonding (320n); and, a second contact trace corresponding the second contact and defined at a surface thereof distal from the substrate, the second trace including at least one area (320p) designated for bonding. Suitably, the first contact trace is substantially enclosed within the second contact trace.
US07667234B2
A memory array having decreased cell sizes and having transistors with increased channel widths. More specifically, pillars are formed in a substrate such that sidewalls are exposed. The sidewalls of the pillars and the top surface of the pillars are covered with a gate oxide and a polysilicon layer to form a channel through the pillars. The current path through the channel is approximately equal to twice the height of the pillar plus the width of the pillar. The pillars are patterned to form non-linear active area lines having angled segments. The polysilicon layer is patterned to form word lines that intersect the active area lines at the angled segments.
US07667229B2
An electronic device can include a first workpiece including at least 4,000 electronic components that each include a corresponding electrode and a second workpiece including at least one conductor. The electronic device can also include at least 4,000 conductive members that are substantially directly bonded to the corresponding electrodes and the at least one conductor.
US07667221B2
In a phase change memory, an interlayer insulating layer is disposed on a substrate. A heater plug includes a lower portion disposed in a contact hole penetrating the interlayer insulating layer and an upper portion protruding upward over the top surface of the interlayer insulating layer. A phase change pattern is disposed on the interlayer insulating layer to cover the top surface and the side surface of the protruding portion of the heater plug. An insulating spacer is interposed between the phase change pattern and the side surface of the protruding portion of the heater plug. A capping electrode is disposed on the phase change pattern.
US07667216B2
A method of generating masks for printing a pattern including a plurality of features having varying critical dimensions. The method includes the steps of: (1) obtaining data representing the pattern; (2) defining a plurality of distinct zones based on the critical dimensions of the plurality of features; (3) categorizing each of the features into one of the plurality of distinct zones; and (4) modifying the mask pattern for each feature categorized into a predefined distinct zone of the plurality of distinct zones.
US07667215B2
Disclosed herein is a method and apparatus for providing radiation shielding for non-invasive inspection systems. An embodiment of the apparatus may include a radiation shield having a plurality of slats, where each of the plurality of slats comprises a radiation attenuating material. The radiation shield may further include a support structure configured to hold the slats in a non-planar shape. An embodiment of the method may include gathering a plurality of slats, each slat comprising a radiation attenuating material. The method may further include disposing the slats to form a shielding curtain having a non-planar shape. The method may also include positioning the shielding curtain to cover an opening of a scanner.
US07667211B2
An illumination light detecting optical system includes an element emitting excitation light; an insertion part of a long-narrow-shape; a fluorescence luminescence component arranged near a top of the insertion part; an excitation light guiding element which leads the excitation light emitted from the light emitting element to the fluorescence luminescence component; and a light detecting element which detects return light which is a part of the illumination light. The optical system is also provided with a pillar-shaped transparent component for irradiating illumination light arranged coaxially at a forward position of the fluorescence luminescence component; an illuminating-light-extracting-element for extracting the illumination light from the pillar-shaped transparent component, out of the illumination light which enters into the inside of the pillar-shaped transparent component; and a deflecting element by which the extracted illumination light is directed toward the light detecting element.
US07667208B2
A technique for confining secondary electrons on a wafer is disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the technique may be realized as an apparatus and method for confining secondary electrons in plasma-based ion implantation. The apparatus and method may comprise a magnetic field portion of a magnetic field configuration placed under a target wafer for generating a magnetic field above the target wafer for confining secondary electrons on the target wafer. The apparatus and method may also comprise a magnetic field above the target wafer that is substantially parallel to an upper surface of the target wafer. The apparatus and method may additionally comprise a magnetic field portion comprising at least one of a plurality of coils, one or more current-carrying wires, and a plurality of magnets.
US07667206B1
A neutron source detector is provided for detecting and determining an energy spectrum of a neutron source and a direction to the neutron source. The neutron source detector includes a detection system configured to detect and record the location and energy of interaction between a detector and a recoil proton produced by a scattering of a neutron emitted by the neutron source. A processor is configured to determine the energy of each of a plurality of recoil protons produced by respective scatterings of a neutron based on the recorded locations and energies of interactions of the recoil protons and determine and order scatter locations of the scattered neutron based on the determined energies of the recoil protons. A direction of the scattered neutron is determined based on the order of the scatter locations. The direction to the neutron source is determined based on the determined directions of a plurality of scattered neutrons, and the energy spectrum of the neutron source is determined based on the determined direction to the neutron source, the determined directions of the plurality of scattered neutrons, and the determined energies of the plurality of recoil protons produced by the respective plurality of scattered neutrons.
US07667205B2
A method for determining a particle impact on a sensor device comprising M sensing areas, each impact causing a variation of at least one physical magnitude of several sensing portions, said method comprising the steps of: determining an impact center sensing area, where the variation of the at least one physical magnitude is substantially maximal, allocating a result of a sum of the physical magnitude variations of a first set of N sensing areas, said set including the impact center area and other sensing areas neighboring said impact center sensing area, where N is at least 2 and is strict less than M.
US07667202B2
Provided are a multilayer-structured bolometer and a method of fabricating the same. In the multilayer-structured bolometer, the number of support arms supporting the body of a sensor structure is reduced to one, and two electrodes are formed on the one support arm. Thus, the sensor structure is electrically connected with a substrate through the only one support arm. According to the multilayer-structured bolometer and method of fabricating the bolometer, the thermal conductivity of the sensor structure is considerably reduced to remarkably improve sensitivity to temperature, and also the pixel size of the bolometer is reduced to obtain high-resolution thermal images. In addition, the multilayer-structured bolometer can have a high fill-factor due to a sufficiently large infrared-absorbing layer, and thus can improve infrared absorbance.
US07667190B2
A control mechanism pins an optical fiber assembly on and off gimbal and between gimbals to route the assembly from an off-gimbal optical source across the gimbal axis/axes to an on-gimbal optical element so that the fiber assembly moves with the rotation of the gimbals. To accommodate a relatively large range of motion, the control mechanism is suitably configured to route the fiber assembly in a “U-shaped” loop with one end pinned off-gimbal in a stationary guide track and the other end pinned on-gimbal point in a rotating guide track so that the loose fiber assembly is constrained in the concentric tracks on and off gimbal. As the gimbal rotates, the loop seats onto one guiding track and peels off of the other guiding track while always maintaining its U shape. To accommodate a relatively small range of motion in other gimbal configurations, the control mechanism is suitably configured to pin one end of the fiber assembly off-gimbal and pass the fiber assembly directly over the gimbal where it is pinned on the other side of the gimbal. In a multi-gimbal pointer, the fiber assembly preferably exhibits different mechanical stresses as it crosses the different gimbals.
US07667184B2
The invention aims to provide an optical information reader which can identify precisely, reliably, and with high sensitivity, even when the quantity or the wavelength of light from a measuring object from which optical information is to be read, extends over a wide range. The optical information reader comprises: a substrate on which one or more biological materials labeled by a combination of presence or extent of a plurality of kinds of optical labeling elements are immobilized at one or more different immobilized positions; one or more light-receiving ends capable of receiving light from the substrate; an optical information measuring unit which obtains optical information on a specific measuring object on the substrate based on an electric signal obtained by converting the light received by the light-receiving end by photoelectric elements having different characteristics determined depending on the measuring object; and a scanning unit which scans the substrate by moving the substrate and the light-receiving end relative to each other, and the optical information measuring unit has an optical waveguide.
US07667172B2
A conventional image sensor has a narrow dynamic range, so that the conventional image sensor has the limitation of not representing very dark portions or very bright portions depending on the exposure time when representing an image having such dark and bright portions. The present invention provides an image sensor including at least two storage units for respectively storing at least two image signals; a first switch unit for performing switching applied image signals to be respectively stored in the at least two storage units; and a second switch unit respectively connected to the at least two storage units and for equalizing the image signals stored in the at least two storage units.
US07667168B2
A stackable cooking vessel arrangement for microwave ovens wherein the arrangement comprises a plurality of plate members suspended at multiple tiers by leg support members within the cooking cavity of microwave ovens.
US07667165B2
An auxiliary heater for motor vehicles includes an open housing accommodating a layered structure which includes at least one radiator element and at least one heat-emitting element having at least one PTC heating element, and further accommodating at least one spring element pretensioning the layered structure, a plurality of contacts being held in said housing in an insulating manner and electrically connected to the at least one PTC heating element. The layered structure is pretensioned by a displacer which is inserted into a lower housing component when the elements of the layered structure have been inserted in the lower housing component in a tension-free manner. The displacer is inserted into the lower housing component in a direction approximately perpendicular to the plane of the layered structure and, in the mounted position, it is secured in position relative to said lower housing component.
US07667163B2
The thermostat includes a housing having at least a portion thereof illuminated by a light that changes color via a manual input. The light illuminates the display for easy readability while the variable color of the light allows a user to match the appearance of the thermostat to best complement the surrounding décor. User input elements provide for the manual adjustment of one or more characteristics of the light, such as visible color of the light. The light source comprises at least one LED for displaying a plurality of colors. In this case, to change the color of the light illuminating the translucent portion of the housing or backlighting the display, electronics within the thermostat control the drive signals to the LED in order to operate the LED to provide the desired color. The invention also contemplates filtering the light and manually adjusting the filtering to provide the desired aesthetics.
US07667160B2
There is provided a laser processing apparatus, a multilayer printed wiring board manufacturing apparatus, and a manufacturing method to form via holes of ultra-fine diameter. The laser beam from the CO2 laser oscillator (60) is converted to the shortened wavelength beam by a tellurium crystal (94) to control diffraction of the laser beam. Simultaneously, when the laser beam is condensed, a limit value of the condensation limit is reduced. Thereby, the spot diameter of laser beam is reduced and a hole for via hole is bored on the interlayer insulation resin on a substrate (10). Therefore, even when the laser beam output is raised to form a deeper hole, the hole diameter is not widened and thereby a hole for a small diameter via hole can be formed.
US07667154B2
A multi-position apparatus for use with a system operated in at least three distinct positions. The apparatus comprises (i) a position-selection mechanism, (ii) a first link mechanism and a second link mechanism, each link mechanism being operably coupled with the position-selection mechanism, (iii) a first weight-actuated spring mechanism operably coupled with the first link mechanism, (iv) a second weight-actuated spring mechanism operably coupled with the second link mechanism, (vi) a first output-actuating member operably coupled with the first weight-actuated spring mechanism, the first output-actuating member being arranged to operably communicate with the system, and (vii) a second output-actuating member operably coupled with the second weight-actuated spring mechanism. In one example, the system may be an electrical transfer switch having two separate set of electrical contacts.
US07667153B2
A change-over switch for the switching of two electric circuits is disclosed, including a housing, a tappet, two contacts of a first electric circuit, two contacts of a second electric circuit, and a switching contact which comprises in an initial state a first shape in which said first electric circuit is closed and said second electric circuit is opened, and which by actuating said tappet may be transferred into a second shape in which said first electric circuit is opened and said second electric circuit is closed.
US07667147B2
A combination weigher of the present invention comprises a plurality of weighing hoppers (4) each of which includes two weighing chambers (4a, 4b) and is capable of weighing objects to be weighed which have been fed to the two weighing chambers, the weighing chambers being capable of independently discharging the objects to be weighed; a plurality of feeding hoppers (3) which are disposed above the weighing hoppers to respectively correspond to the weighing hoppers, for selectively feeding the objects to be weighed to each of the two weighing chambers of the corresponding weighing hopper; and a control unit (10) which is configured to perform combination calculation based on weight of the objects to be weighed which have been fed into the weighing chambers of each of the weighing hoppers (4) to select weighing chambers (4a, 4b) forming a combination which have been fed with the objects to be weighed whose total weight falls within a predetermined weight range, and is configured to cause the selected weighing chambers to discharge therefrom the objects to be weighed; and the control unit (10) is configured to perform the combination calculation in such a way that the number of weighing hoppers whose weighing chambers (4a, 4b) are both selected simultaneously to form the combination is limited to a predetermined number or less.
US07667146B2
An attachment device for attachment of an electrical or electronic device to a top-hat rail, including an attachable or integrated carrier plate, and a lockable fastener. The carrier plate has a holding device. The fastener is axially movable relative to the carrier plate and has an elongated base region, metal catch hooks, and a spring tongue punched out of the base region. The carrier plate has a projection protruding in a direction of the fastener, and arranged corresponding to the spring tongue. In a mounted state, the spring tongue is deflected by the projection so that the catch hooks are pulled against the top hat rail by a reset force thereof
US07667142B2
Prepregs, laminates, printed wiring board structures and processes for constructing materials and printed wiring boards that enable the construction of printed wiring boards with improved thermal properties. In one embodiment, the prepregs include substrates impregnated with electrically and thermally conductive resins. In other embodiments, the prepregs have substrate materials that include carbon. In other embodiments, the prepregs include substrates impregnated with thermally conductive resins. In other embodiments, the printed wiring board structures include electrically and thermally conductive laminates that can act as ground and/or power planes.
US07667141B2
The present invention discloses a flexible printed circuit (FPC) layout and a method thereof. The flexible printed circuit (FPC) layout method comprises steps of: providing a circuit board body; disposing at least an electroplating point on the circuit board body; disposing a plurality of solder pads on the circuit board body, the plurality of solder pads comprising at least a first solder pad and at least a second solder pad being connected respectively to the electroplating point through an internal wire, the first solder pad being further connected to an electroplating zone on the circuit board body through an external wire; performing an electroplating process from the electroplating zone through the external wire so that the external wire, the first solder pad connected to the external wire, the electroplating point connected through the internal wire to the first solder pad, and the second solder pad connected through the internal wire to the electroplating point are electroplated and electrically connected; and providing at least a via hole at the electroplating point on the circuit board body to form an open circuit between the first solder pad and the second solder pad. By using the disclosed method, the flexible printed circuit layout of the present invention can be formed.
US07667131B2
A system for producing music from a stringed musical instrument includes a sensor/actuating transducer arrangement coupled to each or all of one or a plurality of the tensioned strings and supervisory system that governs one or more motion controllers associated with the transducer to affect the string vibration through at least one actuator transducer coupled to the string(s) in accordance with technique commands issued by the player of the instrument, the technique commands being recognized by processes in the supervisor from among characteristics of signal features extracted by further processes continuously analyzing the motional behavior of one or more strings.
US07667123B2
A portable audio playing device implements a jukebox manager function to permit the simple generation of musical playlists and the alteration or editing of existing playlists. Data, such as MPEG-3 data or other conventional audio format data, may be readily downloaded into the system for storage in a solid state memory or in a spinning media device. The audio tracks are associated with one or more metatags that are used to describe the content of each track. The metatags and associated audio tracks are stored in a data structure that may be implemented as a database or other convenient data structure that readily permits searching by user-specified search terms. The user generates a new playlist by selecting one or more metatags corresponding to the desired musical tracks. The system queries the data structure using the user-specified metatags and automatically generates a playlist containing one or more audio tracks whose metatags correspond to the user-specified metatags. Alternatively, the system may perform the same query and simply generate a results list that will allow the user to manually specify which of the audio tracks identified by the search process will be added to the newly created playlist. The system also permits the simple editing of existing playlists. New audio tracks may be added in the manner described above using metatags for searching or maybe manually added from the list of stored audio tracks. The system readily supports different audio formats and different playlist types.
US07667122B2
To generate motion data of a motion in synchronization with a melody of music. As an embodiment of the present invention, when motion pattern data corresponding to a predetermined motion pattern is stored, music data is analyzed to detect a beat of music based on the music data, and the music data is divided into a plurality of bar intervals based on the detected beat, the motion pattern data is allocated to the bar intervals of the music data being divided to generate motion data. In this manner, when the motion data is reproduced together with the music data, the motion pattern can be switched in synchronization with switching of first bar intervals and second bar intervals corresponding to a bar when the music based on music data is expressed in a musical score.
US07667105B2
The present invention relates to a novel tobacco cultivar designated AOB 176, which has low to intermediate nicotine content. The invention provides seeds of the cultivar AOB 176, plants and parts thereof of the cultivar AOB 176, a tissue culture derived from the cultivar AOB 176, hybrids produced from cultivar AOB 176 and lines derived from cultivar AOB 176, as well as genetically modified forms of the foregoing plants and tissue culture. Also provided are methods of producing cultivar AOB 176 plants, cultivar AOB 176 hybrid plants, and tobacco lines derived from cultivar AOB 176. In addition, products produced from the plants of the present invention are provided.
US07667101B2
The invention provides seed and plants of the watermelon line designated 110-1005. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of watermelon line 110-1005, and to methods for producing a watermelon plant produced by crossing a plant of watermelon line 110-1005 with itself or with another watermelon plant, such as a plant of another line. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of watermelon line 110-1005, including the fruit and gametes of such plants.
US07667091B2
The present invention provides a method of producing a genetically engineered transgenic organism, by (a) incorporating into the organism a functional DNA sequence that confers a trait on an organism and (b) incorporating into the organism a non-functional DNA sequence, wherein the non-functional DNA sequence encodes an information message using a predefined coding scheme, wherein the information message provides information about the functional DNA sequence, and the predefined coding scheme can be used to map a plurality of information messages into a plurality of non-functional DNA sequences and additionally, the functional and the non-functional DNA sequence are incorporated into the same chromosome of the organism.
US07667089B2
Hemophilia A is one of the major inherited bleeding disorders caused by a deficiency or abnormality in coagulation factor VIII (FVIII). Hemophiliacs have been treated with whole plasma or purified FVIII concentrates. The risk of transmitting blood-borne viruses and the cost of highly purified FVIII are the major factors that restrict prophylaxis in hemophilia therapy. One of the challenges created by the biotechnology revolution is the development of methods for the economical production of highly purified proteins in large scales. The present invention provides improved mammary expression cassettes useful for the expression of genes at high levels in the milk of transgenic animals. In particular, the present invention provides recombinant signal peptide sequences derived from a-lactalbumin and aS1-casein milk genes suitable for leading protein secretion in the mammary gland. These gene cassettes are capable of delivering different transgenic constructs which result in the production of full-length or B domain-deleted therapeutic levels of biologically active human FVIII in the transgenic animals in vivo. Within the scope of the invention are also method for producing the transgenic non-human mammal, such as mouse, rat, rabbit, goat, sheep, pig and bovine species, capable of expressing human FVIII, and methods of making milk and methods of identifying protein from the transgenic milk.
US07667088B2
Pemphigus vulgaris (PV) is an autoimmune disease with a possible fatality of the skin and mucosae which is induced by an antibody against desmoglein 3 (Dsg3). Persistent production of anti-Dsg3 IgG can be induced by adoptively transferring spleen cells of a DSG3−/− mouse immunized with rDsg3 into an RAG2−/− immunodeficient mouse expressing Dsg3 protein. This IgG in the blood binds to the Dsg3 protein in vivo, induces the breakage of intercellular adhesion of keratinocytes and thus brings about the phenotype of pemphigus vulgaris involving the formation of blisters in the oral mucosa and the disappearance of resting hair. These effects are sustained over 6 months. By using this method, active disease model animals relating to various autoimmune diseases can be constructed.
US07667083B2
A compound containing two fluorosulfonyl groups which are groups convertible to sulfonic acid groups, an intermediate therefor, and methods for their production with high productivity, are provided. Also provided are a fluorosulfonyl group-containing polymer obtained by polymerizing such a compound, and a sulfonic acid group-containing polymer obtained from such a polymer.A method for producing a compound of the following formula (m0), such a compound, a fluorosulfonyl group-containing polymer obtained by polymerizing such a compound, and a sulfonic acid group-containing polymer obtained from such a polymer, provided that RF01 is a single bond or a C1-6 bivalent perfluoro organic group, RF02 is a C1-6 bivalent perfluoro organic group, and n is 0 or 1.
US07667079B2
Processes for recovering at least one triarylphosphine from a Group VIII metal catalyst triarylphosphine complex mixture are provided. The processes are particularly useful for recovering the triarylphosphine from spent Group VIII metal catalyst complex mixtures. The processes include the steps of (i) forming a distillate from a Group VIII catalyst complex mixture containing a Group VIII metal catalyst complex, a triarylphosphine, and a light ends component wherein the distillate contains at least a portion of the triarylphosphine as a vapor and at least a portion of the light ends component as a vapor; (ii) cooling the distillate to a temperature below the boiling point of the light ends component to form a condensate; (iii) crystallizing at least a portion of the triarylphosphine using the light ends component as a crystallizing liquid; and (v) recovering the crystallized triarylphosphine from the condensate.
US07667071B2
A process for preparation of gabapentin hydrochloride by converting 1,5-dicyano-2,4-dioxo-3-azaspiro[5,5]-undecane into 1,5-diaminoformyl-2,4-dioxo-3-azaspiro[5,5]-undecane at a temperature of 65° C. to 85° C. in the presence of a strong acid, and then carrying out Hofmann rearrangement under an alkaline condition. The starting material of the process is readily available. The process is simple, and can reduce the purification procedure of intermediates, reduce production cost, and obtain product with higher purity.
US07667066B2
A novel manufacturing process is described for producing hindered phenolic alkyl esters, which may be useful as antioxidants. This process simplifies catalyst neutralization and removal during the preparation of hindered phenolic esters. Compositions that comprise the hindered phenolic esters produced according to these methods are also described.
US07667065B2
This invention relates to high nucleation density organometallic ruthenium compounds. This invention also relates to a process for producing a high nucleation density organometallic ruthenium compound comprising reacting a bis(substituted-pentadienyl)ruthenium compound with a substituted cyclopentadiene compound under reaction conditions sufficient to produce said high nucleation density organometallic ruthenium compound. This invention further relates to a method for producing a film, coating or powder by decomposing a high nucleation density organometallic ruthenium compound precursor, thereby producing the film, coating or powder.
US07667062B2
A novel series of compositions with aqueous chemicals decontamination activity and their uses is described. The preparation of esters of fatty acids with polyols that contain lactic acid is also described. These novel compositions release hydroxy acid and fatty acids slowly into water providing activity over long periods of time with the compounds exhibiting biodegradable characteristics and aiding in the biodegradation of contaminants.
US07667061B2
The present invention is directed to a method of preparing compositions enriched in compounds containing carbon chains of varying degrees of unsaturation using argentation chromatography. The present method utilizes an argentized cationic resin or a conditioned argentized alumina to separate compounds containing saturated or mono-unsaturated carbon chains from compounds having polyunsaturated carbon chains present in a starting composition. The invention is particularly useful for preparing a composition enriched in polyunsaturated fatty acid alkyl esters from mixtures of fatty acid esters in a starting composition derived from vegetable oils. The present invention is also directed to a method of preparing a conditioned argentized alumina adsorbent having increased selectivity for compounds containing one or more polyunsaturated carbon chains.
US07667054B2
The invention relates to novel cytotoxic agents comprising taxanes and their therapeutic use as a result of delivering the taxanes to a specific cell population in a targeted fashion by chemically linking the taxane to a cell binding agent.
US07667049B2
An industrially advantageous process for the production of (3R,4S)-3-cyclopropylaminomethyl-4-fluoropyrrolidine or an enantiomer thereof that is useful as an intermediate for the production of novel antimicrobial agents 10-(3-cyclopropylaminomethyl-4-fluoropyrrolidinyl)pyridobenzoxazine carboxylic acid derivatives.Highly stereoselective asymmetric hydrogenation of 1-protected-4-alkoxycarbonyl-3-oxopyrrolidine, followed by ester hydrolysis, followed by amidation with cyclopropylamine gives crude crystals. The crude crystals are purified by recrystallization to give a novel compound (3R,4S)-1-protected-3-cyclopropylcarbamoyl-4-hydroxypyrrolidine or an enantiomer thereof at high optical purity. The use of these intermediates enables industrial production of high-quality products of (3R,4S)-3-cyclopropylaminomethyl-4-fluoropyrrolidine or an enantiomer thereof. The process is highly simple and can produce the desired products at high purity and stable yields.
US07667046B2
Compounds having two reactive functional groups are described that can be used as a tethering compound to immobilize an amine-containing material to a substrate. The first reactive functional group can be used to provide attachment to a surface of a substrate. The second reactive functional group is a N-sulfonyldicarboximide group that can be reacted with an amine-containing material, particularly a primary aliphatic amine, to form a connector group between the substrate and the amine-containing material. The invention also provides articles and methods for immobilizing amine-containing materials to a substrate.
US07667040B2
Azacyclic ethynyl derivatives, which are found to be cholinergic ligands at the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors and modulators of the monoamine receptors and transporters. Due to their pharmacological profile the compounds of the invention may be useful for the treatment of diseases or disorders as diverse as those related to the cholinergic system of the central nervous system (CNS), the peripheral nervous system (PNS), diseases or disorders related to smooth muscle contraction, endocrine diseases or disorders, diseases or disorders related to neuro-degeneration, diseases or disorders related to inflammation, pain, and withdrawal symptoms caused by the termination of abuse of chemical substances.
US07667038B2
The present invention relates to specific, novel tantalum and niobium compounds which can serve as starting materials for the preparation of chemical vapour deposition (CVD) precursors.
US07667035B2
The invention relates to new substituted imidazoles of general formula wherein R1 to R3 and X are defined as in the claims, the tautomers, the enantiomers, the diastereomers, the mixtures thereof and the salts thereof, and processes for preparing them and their use as intermediates for preparing pharmaceutical compositions or pesticides.
US07667030B2
This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating matrix metalloproteinase (e.g., MMP13) 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 MMP13 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 MMP13 genes.
US07667029B2
This invention relates to compounds, compositions, and methods useful for modulating checkpoint kinase (e.g., checkpoint kinase-1 or CHK-1) 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 checkpoint kinase 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 checkpoint kinase genes.
US07667023B2
The invention is directed to a promoter, designated MuB, sequences which hybridize to same and functional fragments thereof. The regulatory element of the invention provide improved expression in plants of operably linked nucleotide sequences. Expression vectors with the regulatory element is the subject of the invention, which may further include an operably linked nucleotide sequence. The invention is further directed to transformed plant tissue including the nucleotide sequence and to transformed plants and seeds thereof. The regulatory element is useful for driving gene or antisense expression or the like for the purpose of imparting agronomically useful traits such as, but not limited to, increase in yield, disease resistance, insect resistance, herbicide tolerance, drought tolerance and salt tolerance in plants.
US07667015B2
A novel gene (designated 151P3D4) and its encoded protein, and variants thereof, are described wherein 151P3D4 exhibits tissue specific expression in normal adult tissue, and is aberrantly expressed in the cancers listed in Table I. Consequently, 151P3D4 provides a diagnostic, prognostic, prophylactic and/or therapeutic target for cancer. The 151P3D4 gene or fragment thereof, or its encoded protein, or variants thereof, or a fragment thereof, can be used to elicit a humoral or cellular immune response; antibodies or T cells reactive with 151P3D4 can be used in active or passive immunization.
US07667014B2
The present invention is directed to methods for comparatively detecting the level of human Porcupine (PPN)/MG61, a family member of membrane-bound O-acyltransferases, which is the human homologue of the Drosophila polarity gene Porcupine (Porc), and use thereof.
US07667013B2
A gene encoding a novel protein that works as a guanine nucleotide exchange factor (GEF) for a Rho family protein being one group of small GTP-binding proteins, namely, a polynucleotide shown by the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 3, or SEQ ID NO: 5, or the complementary strand, the equivalents of the polynucleotide, a protein encoded by the polynucleotide, a vector containing the polynucleotide, a transformant containing the vector, an antibody against the protein encoded by the polynucleotide, a method of identifying a compound that inhibits the function of the protein encoded by the polynucleotide and/or the expression of the polynucleotide, a method of determining a disease, a pharmaceutical composition, and a reagent kit are provided.
US07667010B2
The invention provides, inter alia, methods of extracting an analyte from a solution comprising the steps of: passing a solution containing an analyte through an extraction channel having a solid phase extraction surface, whereby analyte adsorbs to the extraction surface of said extraction channel; purging bulk liquid from said extraction channel; and eluting the analyte by passing a desorption solvent through the channel. The invention further provides reagents, columns and instrumentation related to this and other methods.
US07667007B2
The invention provides enhanced LM609 grafted antibodies exhibiting selective binding affinity to αvβ3, or a functional fragment thereof. The invention also provides nucleic acid molecules encoding the enhanced LM609 grafted antibodies. Additionally provided are methods of inhibiting a function of αvβ3 by contacting αvβ3 with an enhanced LM609 grafted antibody.
US07667006B2
The present invention aims at providing a high affinity anti-HIV antibody. According to the present invention, there are provided an antibody or a fragment thereof that binds to the gp12 glycoprotein of HIV and has a dissociation constant (KD) value of 1.0×10−9 (M) or less; a pharmaceutical composition comprising the antibody or fragment thereof; and a method of producing an anti-HIV antibody or a fragment thereof, comprising immunizing a GANP transgenic non-human mammal or a progeny thereof with a polypeptide consisting of the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 6 as an antigen and collecting the antibody from the resultant mammal or progeny.
US07667005B2
The present invention relates to a polypeptide having an activity of suppressing aging; DNA encoding the polypeptide; a method for improving livestock, using the DNA; a recombinant DNA prepared by inserting the DNA into a vector; a transformant harboring the recombinant; a method for preparing the polypeptide of the present invention, using the transformant; an antibody which recognizes the polypeptide; a ligand for the polypeptide of the present invention; a compound inhibiting specific binding between the polypeptide and ligand of the present invention; a compound enhancing the expression of an aging-suppressing gene encoding the aging-suppressing polypeptide of the present invention; an oligonucleotide comprising a sequence of 10 to 50 nucleotides in the nucleotide sequence of the DNA; and a therapeutic agent for a syndrome resembling premature aging, a therapeutic agent for adult diseases or an aging-suppressing agent, using the same.
US07667002B2
Early developing stage-specific liver proteins and the genes coding for them that have been isolated and sequenced are provided, and these genes and proteins can be utilized to diagnose and/or treat a wide variety of liver disorders and other ailments. Since the early developing liver proteins of the invention arise during embryogenesis when the liver and other organs are in transition from an undifferentiated state to a differentiated one, these proteins are involved in tissue differentiation and thus can be utilized in methods of diagnosing and treating a variety of liver diseases and other disorders including those relating to oncogenesis and tissue repair. Antibodies recognizing early developing liver proteins and peptides are also provided.
US07667000B2
Cytokines and their receptors have proven usefulness in both basic research and as therapeutics. The present invention provides a new human cytokine receptor designated as “Zcytor16.”
US07666998B2
The present inventors extensively studied and found that an antibody binding to PepT has cytotoxic activity and inhibits cell growth. These results suggest that an antibody binding to PepT, particularly an antibody having a cytotoxic activity, can be used as a cell growth inhibitor, for example, in treating and preventing cancer.
US07666991B2
The present invention relates, in part, to methods and compositions for needleless delivery of antibodies to a subject. The present invention also relates, in part, to methods for needleless delivery of fusion proteins comprising a bioactive molecule and an antibody fragment to subject. In one aspect, the methods and compositions involve administering to the subject a delivery construct comprising a carrier construct non-covalently bound to the antibody or fusion protein to be delivered, wherein the carrier construct comprises a receptor-binding domain, a transcytosis domain, and an antibody-binding domain to which the antibody or the antibody fragment of the fusion protein non-covalently binds.
US07666989B2
The present invention discloses a recombinant protein having an anti-cancer effect, its encoding gene and uses thereof. The recombinant protein having an anti-cancer effect provided by the present invention is one selected from the group consisting of: 1) a protein having the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No:2 shown in the sequence listing; 2) a protein derived from SEQ ID No:2, which has a sequence homology of more than 90% with SEQ ID No:2 and which has the same activity as that of SEQ ID No:2; 3) a protein derived from SEQ ID No:2, which is obtained by adding or deleting 15 or less amino acid residues at the N-terminus of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No:2, and which has the same activity as that of SEQ ID No:2; 4) a protein derived from SEQ ID No:2, which is obtained by adding or deleting 15 or less amino acid residues at the C-terminus of the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No:2, and which has the same activity as that of SEQ ID No:2; 5) a protein derived from SEQ ID No:2, which is obtained by substitution, deletion, or addition of one or several amino acid residues in the amino acid sequence of SEQ ID No:2, and which has the same activity as that of SEQ ID No:2. The medicament containing above recombinant protein as active component has significant selective inhibitory effect on tumor cells, and does not induce apoptosis of normal tissue cells, and has important applicable value.
US07666978B2
A technique is described for the preparation of polymers according to a process in which the starting compound of formula (I) is polymerized in the presence of a base in an organic solvent. No end chain controlling agents are required during the polymerization to obtain soluble precursor polymers. The precursor polymer such obtained comprises structural units of the formula (II). In a next step, the precursor polymer (II) is subjected to a conversion reaction towards a soluble or insoluble conjugated polymer by thermal treatment. The arylene or heteroarylene polymer comprises structural units of the formula III. In this process the dithiocarbamate group acts as a leaving group and permits the formation of a precursor polymer of structural formula (II), which has an average molecular weight from 5000 to 1000000 Dalton and is soluble in common organic solvents. The precursor polymer with structural units of formula (II) is thermally converted to the conjugated polymer with structural formula (III).
US07666975B2
There is provided a polyketone comprising repeating units, 95-100 mole % of which are 1-oxotrimethylene and having an intrinsic viscosity of 2.5-20 dl/g, wherein the content of Pd element is 0-20 ppm, terminal structures include an alkyl ester group (terminal group A) and an alkyl ketone group (terminal group B), and the equivalent ratio of terminal group A/terminal group B is 0.1-8.0. The polyketone of the present invention can be used in any forms, such as fibers and films, and can be applied to a wide variety of the uses such as clothing, reinforcing materials for rubbers, resins, cements, and optical fibers, electronic materials, battery materials, civil engineering materials, medical materials, daily commodities, fishery materials, and packaging materials.
US07666974B2
Disclosed is a method for production of polyphenylene by means of polymerization of phenols. The method comprises using hydroquinone as a phenol, which is predissolved in water or in alcoholic solution, adding hydrogen peroxide in the presence of transition metals aquo-ions, and controlling temperature during polymerization keeping it not higher than the boiling point, and controlling pH in the range of 2-7. In on example embodiment, Cr, Mn, Fe, Cu, Ni, Co, Zn aquo-ions or a combination thereof may be used as transition metal aquo-ions.
US07666971B2
This invention relates to novel liquid, storage-stable, amide-modified diphenylmethane diisocyanates and to a process for the production of these liquid, storage-stable diphenylmethane diisocyanates.
US07666966B2
The invention relates to a process for the production of post-crosslinkable thermoplastic resins by bulk-polymerizing a polymerizable composition (A) comprising (I) a monomer fluid containing a cyclic olefin (α) having two or more metathetical ring-opening reaction sites in the molecule in an amount 10 wt % or above based on the total amount of the monomers or a monomer fluid containing a norbornene monomer and a crosslinking agent, (II) a metathetical polymerization catalyst, and (III) a chain transfer agent; thermoplastic resins obtained by this process; and a process for producing crosslinked resins or crosslinked resin composite materials which comprises laminating such a thermoplastic resin with a substrate at need and then crosslinking the thermoplastic resin. According to the invention, thermoplastic resins which are free from odor due to residual monomers and excellent in storage stability can be efficiently obtained by a simple process of bulk-polymerizing the composition (A). The process is not only easy and simple but also applicable to continuous production, thus being industrially advantageous. The crosslinked resins and crosslinked resin composite materials obtained according to the invention are excellent in electrical insulation properties, mechanical strengths, heat resistance, dielectric characteristics and so on, thus being useful as electrical materials or the like.
US07666959B2
The present invention discloses a metallocene catalyst system for producing polyolefins comprising: A. a hafnocene-based catalyst component suitable for producing the high molecular weight fraction of the polyolefin; B. one or more metallocene or post-metallocene components different from the component A and suitable for producing the low molecular weight fraction of the polyolefin; C. an activating agent having a low or no coordinating capability.
US07666957B2
A process for the polymerisation of ethylene and optionally at least one C3-20 alpha olefin comonomer in the slurry or solution phase in a reactor having a polymer outlet stream, a procatalyst or catalyst feed stream and a hydrogen feed stream, said polymerisation being effected in the presence of a metallocene catalyst, a diluent and hydrogen, wherein said diluent is recycled from said outlet stream to said hydrogen feed stream, said procatalyst or catalyst feed stream is free of hydrogen, said hydrogen feed stream is free of procatalyst or catalyst and said procatalyst or catalyst feed stream does not comprise recycled diluent.
US07666954B2
The present invention provides N,N′-dimethyl secondary diamine polymers including methylamine-terminated poly-(N-methylazetidine) and methylamine-terminated poly-(N-methylazacycloheptane). Amine compositions and amine-epoxy compositions comprising N,N′-dimethyl secondary diamine polymers are also disclosed.
US07666951B2
Coating compositions are disclosed comprising a polyester comprising at least two reactive hydroxyl groups, a material comprising at least two functional groups reactive with the hydroxyl groups of the polyester, and a free acid. Methods of using the coatings, methods for refinishing an article with the coatings, and the substrates coated therewith, are also disclosed.
US07666930B2
In a master batch containing a heat radiation shielding component, which is used to produce heat radiation shielding transparent resin forms, the master batch has as chief components a thermoplastic resin and a hexaboride represented by XB6, wherein X is at least one selected from La, Ce, Pr, Nd, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Y, Sm, Eu, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, Sr and Ca. The hexaboride, which is a heat radiation shielding component, is contained in an amount of from 0.01 part by weight or more to less than 20 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of said thermoplastic resin. The use of this master batch enables simple production of heat radiation shielding transparent resin forms having a high visible-light transmission power and a high heat radiation shielding performance, without relying on any high-cost physical film formation methods.
US07666919B2
A composition for making a polyurethane foam includes a non-fugitive tertiary amine urethane catalyst and an aromatic diacid ester diol or substituted carbamate thereof. Foams prepared from the reaction of a polyol and an organic isocyanate in the presence of these ingredients show excellent resistance to deterioration of physical properties upon humid ageing.
US07666917B2
Process for conversion of syngas to liquid hydrocarbons using a catalyst composition containing a support and a Fischer-Tropsch metal for the conversion of syngas to liquid hydrocarbons, in which a silylating compound modifier is added to the catalyst composition during catalyst preparation or during a post-treatment stage.
US07666915B2
The particle sizes of agglomerates of carbon nanospheres are reduced by dispersing the carbon nanospheres in a polar solvent. The carbon nanospheres are multi-walled, hollow, graphitic structures with an average diameter in a range from about 10 nm to about 200 nm, more preferably about 20 nm to about 100 nm. Spectral data shows that prior to being dispersed, the carbon nanospheres are agglomerated into clusters that range in size from 500 nm to 5 microns. The clusters of nanospheres are reduced in size by dispersing the carbon nanospheres in the polar solvent (e.g., water) using a surface modifying agent (e.g., glucose) and ultrasonication. The combination of polar solvent, surface modifying agent, and ultrasonication breaks up and disperses agglomerates of carbon nanospheres.
US07666914B2
Disclosed herein is a preparation for topically delivering and localizing therapeutic agents, comprising: a vasoconstrictor for retarding vascular dispersion of a therapeutic agent; and a penetration enhancer for facilitating penetration of the vasoconstrictor and the therapeutic agent through a patient's skin. Further disclosed is an associated method of topically delivering and localizing therapeutic agents, comprising the steps of: using a vasoconstrictor for retarding vascular dispersion of a therapeutic agent; in combination with using a penetration enhancer for facilitating penetration of the vasoconstrictor and the therapeutic agent through a patient's skin. Also disclosed are various courses of treatment which comprise applying the various disclosed combinations of agents to the patient's skin.
US07666908B2
The present invention relates to method for enhancing cognitive function in a mammal, comprising administering to a mammal in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of the formula (I): Further, the present invention provides a method for treating a disorder of cognitive function in a mammal, comprising administering to a mammal in need thereof an effective amount of a compound of the formula (I):
US07666907B2
Unique salts of trimebutine and N-monodesmethyl trimebutine, and their corresponding stereoisomers, having improved analgesic properties useful in the treatment of visceral pain are provided. The salts of the present invention are particularly useful in the treatment of conditions characterized by abdominal pain, such as inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), diabetic gastroparesis, and dyspepsia.
US07666906B2
L-threo-β-benzyloxyaspartate derivatives having a substituent on the benzene ring, represented by the following formula (1): wherein R is hydrogen, a linear or branched lower aliphatic acyl group with the acyl portion optionally substituted, an alicyclic acyl group, an aromatic acyl group with a substituent on the aromatic ring, an amino acid-derived group or a biotin derivative-derived group, having an amino substituent on the benzene ring, and salts thereof, which can easily bind to affinity column chromatography carriers as ligands of glutamate transporter proteins.
US07666905B2
Methods and pharmaceutical compositions comprise at least one hepoxilin analog of the formula (I) wherein X and R3 are as defined herein. The methods are directed to treatment of a cancer and for promotion of a apoptosis in a cancer cell.
US07666904B2
The present invention provides a compound of formula I and the use thereof for the inhibition of bacterial cell wall biosynthesis and for the therapeutic treatment of bacterial infection or disease in a patient in need thereof. The present invention also provides the use of the formula I compound for the control of ecto- or endoparasites in homeothermic animals.
US07666894B2
Disclosed herein are pharmaceutical compositions comprising oxybutynin, or a free base thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and pilocarpine, or a free base thereof or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Also disclosed are methods of treating a patient suffering from overactive bladder comprising administering to the patient the above pharmaceutical composition.
US07666885B2
Compounds of general formula (I): where A, E, G, X, Y and the bond - - - take various meanings are of use in the preparation of a pharmaceutical formulation, for example in the treatment of a disease in which GSK-3 is involved, including Alzheimer's disease or the non-dependent insulin diabetes mellitus, or hyperproliferative disease such as cancer, displasias or metaplasias of tissue, psoriasis, arteriosclerosis or restenosis.
US07666882B2
This invention provides compounds of Formula I, N-oxides and suitable salts thereof wherein Y and V are each independently N or CR4a; W is N, CH or CR6; and R1 through R6, and n are as defined in the disclosure. This invention also pertains to a composition for controlling an invertebrate pest comprising a biologically effective amount of a compound of Formula I, an N-oxide thereof or an agronomic or nonagronomic suitable salt of the compound and at least one additional component selected from the group consisting of a surfactant, a solid diluent and a liquid diluent, and optionally further comprising an effective amount of at least one additional biologically active compound or agent. Also disclosed are methods for controlling an invertebrate pest comprising contacting the invertebrate pest or its environment with a biologically effective amount of a compound of Formula I, an N-oxide thereof or an agronomic or nonagronomic suitable salt of the compound or with the composition described herein.
US07666878B2
There are provided according to the invention compounds of formula (I), in free or salt form, wherein R1, R2, R3, R 4, R5, R6, Q, W, X, m, n and p are as described in the specification, process for preparing them, and their use as pharmaceuticals.
US07666876B2
Aqueous formulations suitable for intranasal administration comprise buprenorphine or a physiologically acceptable salt or ester thereof and (a) a pectin having a degree of esterification of less than 50%, (b) chitosan and a polyoxyethylene-polyoxypropylene copolymer (poloxamer) or (c) chitosan and hydroxypropylmethylcellulose. Such formulations can induce rapid and prolonged analgesia when delivered intranasally to a patient. The buprenorphine or buprenorphine salt or ester may be delivered to the bloodstream to produce within 30 minutes a therapeutic plasma concentration of buprenorphine, Cther, of 0.2 ng/ml or greater which is maintained for a duration Tmaint of at least 2 hours.
US07666874B2
The present invention relates to the use of pyrimidylaminobenzamide derivatives for the preparation of a drug for the treatment of FIP1L1-PDGFRα-induced or TEL-PDGFRβ-induced myeloproliferative diseases, especially for the curative and/or prophylactic treatment of hypereosinophilic syndrome and hypereosinophilic syndrome with resistance to imatinib, and to a method of treating hypereosinophilic syndrome, chronic eosinophilic leukemia and hypereosinophilic syndrome with resistance to imatinib, or other diseases associated with FIP1L1-PDGFRα, TEL-PDGFRβ or similar mutations that activate PDGFR.
US07666871B2
The present invention discloses novel aryl oxazole compounds of Formula I (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, which have histamine-H3 receptor antagonist or inverse agonist activity, as well as methods for preparing and using such compounds. In another embodiment, the invention discloses pharmaceutical compositions comprising compounds of Formula I as well as methods of using these compositions to treat obesity, cognitive deficiencies, narcolepsy, and other histamine H3 receptor-related diseases. Formula I (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, wherein: m is independenlly at each occurrence 1, 2, or 3, Z independently represents carbon (substituted with hydrogen or the optional substituents indicated herein) or nitrogen, provided that when Z is nitrogen then R6 is not attached to Z; R1 and R2 are independently —(C1—C7) alkyl (optionally substituted with one to three halogens), or R1 and R2 and the nitrogen to which they are attached form an azetidinyl ring, a pyrrolidinyl ring, or a piperidinyl ring, wherein further the azetidinyl, pyrrolidinyl, or piperidinyl ring so formed may be optionally substituted one to three times with R5; R6 is independently at each occurrence —H, -halogen, or —CH3.
US07666869B2
The present invention is to provide an aliphatic nitrogen-containing 5-membered ring compound represented by the formula [I]: wherein symbols in the formula have the following meanings; A: —CH2— or —S—, B: CH or N, R1: H, a lower alkyl group, etc., X: a single bonding arm, —CO—, -Alk-CO—, —COCH2—, -Alk-O—, —O—CH2—, —SO2—, —S—, —COO—, —CON(R3)—, -Alk-CON(R3)—, —CON(R3)CH2—, —NHCH2—, etc., R3: hydrogen atom or a lower alkyl group, Alk: a lower alkylene group, and R2: (1) a cyclic group which may be substituted, (2) a substituted amino group, etc., provided that when X is —CO—, then B is N, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US07666865B2
Compounds of the formula wherein m is 0, 1 or 2; wherein when m is 0, Z is O, when m is 1, Z is N, and when m is 2, Z is C; Y is H, OH, NH2, or an organic moiety of 1-20C, optionally additionally containing 1-8 heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of N, P, O, S and halo; each l1 and l2 is independently 0-5; l3 is 0 or 1; each of R1, R2 and R3 is independently alkyl (1-6C), aryl (6-10C) or arylalkyl (7-16C) optionally containing 1-4 heteroatoms selected from the group consisting of halo, N, P, O, and S or each of R1 and R2 may independently be halo, COOR, CONR2, CF3, CN or NO2, wherein R is H or lower alkyl (1-4C) or alkyl (1-6C); n is 0 or 1; X is a linker; with the proviso that Y is not a tropolone, a coumarin, or an antioxidant containing an aromatic group and with the further proviso that if l3 is 0, and either l1 and l2 is 0 or 1 and if R1 and/or R2 represent F in the para position, Z cannot be C or N; and are useful to treat pain. Libraries of these compounds can also be used to identify antagonists for other targets.
US07666858B2
This invention addresses the pharmaceutical composition for topical corticosteroid use in association with diffusing enzyme for treatment of phimosis. A pharmaceutical composition for treatment of phimosis using topical corticosteroid characterized by including around 0.025 to 5 percent in weight in relation to the total weight of the mixture composition of one or more corticosteroids and/or hormone steroids, whether or not associated with non-hormonal anti-inflammatory agents and around 25 UTR to 4000 UTR/g of one or more proteolytic diffusing enzymes in proper medium, in different pharmaceutical forms, accompanied with additives known to the technical man. Topical corticosteroid application in association with diffusing enzyme for treatment of phimosis in which 90 percent of the patients had improvements over their clinical complaints, with the prepuce being easily retracted.
US07666851B1
This invention relates to the field of nucleic acid chemistry, more specifically to the field of compositions and processes that are nucleic acid analogs. More specifically, it relates to purine analogs that contain three rings, where the third ring bridges the exocyclic substituent at position 6 to position 7, using the purine numbering system. Still more specifically it relates to analogs having this structure that are able to form nucleobase pairs having the Watson-Crick geometry with a pyrimidine or pyrimidine analog, where the nucleobase pair is joined by hydrogen bonding patterns that either present a standard hydrogen bonding pattern, or a non-standard hydrogen bonding pattern. Most specifically, it to nucleoside analogs that are analogs of isoguanosine, but where the 5-6 ring system of the purine ring in isoguanosine is fused to another five- or six-membered ring, where the fused ring joins the exocyclic amino group with an atom that is, by analogy, at position 7 of the isoguanine ring system. Compositions having this structure can support a base pair with isocytosine joined by three hydrogen bonds, or a base pair with a diaminodiazanaphalene riboside, or 2′-deoxyriboside, or an analog, joined by four hydrogen bonds.
US07666838B2
The present invention provides peptides which stimulate the release of insulin. The peptides, based on GIP 1-42 include substitutions and/or modifications which enhance and influence secretion and/or have enhanced resistance to degradation. The invention also provides a process of N terminally modifying GIP and the use of the peptide analogues for treatment of diabetes.
US07666837B2
Methods and compositions for producing secreted soluble receptors and biologically active polypeptides in trimeric forms are disclosed. The process involves fusing the DNA template encoding a soluble receptor with a ligand binding domain or biologically active polypeptide to a DNA sequence encoding a C-propeptide of collagen, which is capable of self-assembly into a covalently linked trimer. The resulting fusion proteins are secreted as trimeric soluble receptor analogs, which can be used for more efficient neutralization of the biological activities of their naturally occurring trimeric ligands.
US07666832B2
Disclosed are peptides that bind to Ang-2. Also disclosed are peptibodies comprising the peptides, methods of making such peptides and peptibodies, and methods of treatment using such peptides and peptibodies.
US07666823B2
The present invention provides solutions containing dexpanthenol in combination with xylitol, preferably further including a viscosity-enhancing agent to make solutions viscous so that the viscous solutions are not only capable of cleaning, disinfecting, and/or rinsing a contact lens in a lens case but also capable of cleaning and lubricating the contact lens directly in an eye. Such solutions can provide to the user an ability to clean and to rewet lenses anytime anywhere even without taking them out.
US07666815B2
A dye-donor element, a method of printing using the dye-donor element, and a print assembly including the dye-donor element are described, wherein the dye-donor layer of the dye-donor element includes ethyl cellulose as a binder. The dye-donor element is capable of printing a defect-free image on a receiver element at a line speed of 2.0 msec/line or less while maintaining a print density of at least 2.0.
