US07735147B2
A mechanically stable and oriented scanning probe tip comprising a carbon nanotube having a base with gradually decreasing diameter, with a sharp tip at the probe tip. Such a tip or an array of tips is produced by depositing a catalyst metal film on a substrate (10 & 12 in FIG. 1(a)), depositing a carbon dot (14 in FIG. 1(b)) on the catalyst metal film, etching away the catalyst metal film (FIG. 1(c)) not masked by the carbon dot, removing the carbon dot from the catalyst metal film to expose the catalyst metal film (FIG. 1(d)), and growing a carbon nanotube probe tip on the catalyst film (16 in FIG. 1(e)). The carbon probe tips can be straight, angled, or sharply bent and have various technical applications.
US07735137B2
A method and apparatus for storing an intrusion rule are provided. The method stores a new intrusion rule in an intrusion detection system having already stored intrusion rules, and includes: generating combinations of divisions capable of dividing the new intrusion rule into a plurality of partial intrusion rules; calculating the frequency of hash value collisions between each of the generated division combinations and the already stored intrusion rules; dividing the new intrusion rule according to the division combination which has the lowest calculated frequency of hash value collisions; and storing the divided new intrusion rule in a corresponding position of the intrusion detection system. According to the method and apparatus, the size of the storage unit occupied by the intrusion rule can be reduced, and by performing pattern matching, the performance of the intrusion detection system can be enhanced.
US07735134B2
A jumping application security system and method provides known safe code for the jumping applications on each jump. A participating host specifies the desired code by describing the desired behavior. The security system provides the specified code on behalf of the host.
US07735129B2
A firewall apparatus including plural virtual firewalls, each virtual firewall including a dependent firewall policy, is disclosed. The firewall apparatus includes: a distribution management table for managing a user name and a virtual firewall ID; a part configured to receive authentication information for network connection from a user terminal, and hold a user name included in the authentication information; a part configured to report the authentication information to the authentication server; and a part configured to receive an authentication response from the authentication server, and hold a user ID, included in the authentication response, to be provided to the user terminal. The firewall apparatus registers the user ID in the distribution management table associating the user ID with the user name.
US07735128B2
A method of storing a pattern matching policy and a method of controlling an alert message are provided. The method includes (a) generating a content structure as a sub-structure of a header combination structure of a stored traffic pattern which is a policy to be newly applied to a pattern matching apparatus; (b) determining whether a content of the stored traffic pattern is identical to a content of an original traffic pattern stored in advance in the pattern matching apparatus; (c) allocating a content index of the content of the original traffic pattern to the content of the stored traffic pattern if the content of the stored traffic pattern is identical to the content of the original traffic pattern; and (d) determining whether a header combination structure of the original traffic pattern comprises only one content structure or more than one content structure and allocating a header index of the header combination structure of the stored traffic pattern to the header combination structure of the original traffic pattern if the header combination structure of the original traffic pattern is found to comprise only one content structure. Accordingly, it is possible to efficiently use hardware memories with limited storage capacities and effectively perform a pattern matching function.
US07735125B1
The invention includes systems and methods for identifying and verifying the identity of a user of a kiosk using an external verification system. The kiosk receives customer input data that indicates the identity of the user of the kiosk. The kiosk generates an identification query that includes at least some customer input data. The kiosk transmits the identification query to an external verification system. The kiosk receives a verification response from the external verification system. The kiosk then processes the verification response to verify the identity of the user of the kiosk. These systems and methods advantageously provide identification and verification of the identity of a user of a kiosk. With sufficient identification and verification, financial institutions can comply with government regulations designed to reduce the opportunity for money laundering, terrorism, fraud, and identity theft while offering users of kiosks a wider range of financial services.
US07735118B2
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for preventing a bridge between a secure network and an insecure network. Specifically, the method comprises monitoring a network device supporting a secure network connection for an attempt to establish an insecure network connection, and terminating the secure network connection in response to detecting the attempt to establish the insecure network connection, where the secure network connection comprises a network layer connection.
US07735117B2
Techniques are disclosed for achieving context-sensitive confidentiality within a federated environment for which content is aggregated in a distributed Web portal (or similar aggregation framework), ensuring that message portions that should be confidential are confidential to all entities in the federated environment except those entities to which the message portions may properly be divulged. The federation may comprise an arbitrary number of autonomous security domains, and these security domains may have independent trust models and authentication services. Using the disclosed techniques, messages can be routed securely within a cross-domain federation (irrespective of routing paths), thereby ensuring that confidential information is not exposed to unintended third parties and that critical information is not tampered with while in transit between security domains. Preferred embodiments leverage Web services techniques and a number of industry standards.
US07735116B1
A unified threat management system is provided with a uniform relational rules model. The unified relational rules model provides for the sub-setting of rules and the ability to derive a result based partially from previous security measurements. The sharing of a security check from one security implementation to another using an object-oriented methodology is facilitated. Security policy is divided into specific security features that result in a security hierarchy. The security features may be considered to be listed sequentially, from bottom to top, and form a relationship with one another. These relationships are used to build a current security measure upon a previous security measure and may be used as a pre-cursor when marshalling data content to be validated.
US07735114B2
A multiple key, multiple tiered network security system, method and apparatus provides at least three levels of security. The first level of security includes physical (MAC) address authentication of a user device being attached to the network, such as a user device being attached to a port of a network access device. The second level includes authentication of the user of the user device, such as user authentication in accordance with the IEEE 802.1x standard. The third level includes dynamic assignment of a user policy to the port based on the identity of the user, wherein the user policy is used to selectively control access to the port. The user policy may identify or include an access control list (ACL) or MAC address filter. Also, the user policy is not dynamically assigned if insufficient system resources are available to do so. Failure to pass a lower security level results in a denial of access to subsequent levels of authentication.
US07735112B2
A virtual channel table for broadcasting protocol and a method for broadcasting by using the virtual channel table includes identification information identifying and permitting discrimination of active and inactive channels contained in the virtual channel table. At a receiver, the virtual channel table transmitted from the transmitting side is parsed, thereby determining whether the current received channel is an active or inactive channel.
US07735111B2
A system and method for merging of multiple encoded audio and video streams into a single program in the transport stream enables playback of any audio stream with any video stream. This is accomplished by first locking the frequency of audio and video input streams for a plurality of different programs to a source clock, independently encoding each program with its own PCR and PTS into a program stream, multiplexing the program streams into a transport stream, and then synchronizing the PCR and PTS of the program streams to a declared master PCR.
US07735109B2
Provided are a method of and an apparatus for automatically setting a channel to achieve channel synchronization between a transmitter and a receiver in a wireless transceiver system. The transmitter stores information about a channel tuned according to an initial channel number, transmits a message indicating a completion of the channel information storage to a receiver, and transmits a next channel number in response to a message confirming the completion of a channel information storage performed in the receiver. The receiver receives a tuned channel number and the message indicating the completion of the channel information storage in sequence from the transmitter, stores channel information corresponding to the received tuned channel number, transmits the message confirming the completion of the channel information storage to the transmitter, and waits for the next channel number to be received from the transmitter.
US07735103B2
A method of providing a broadcast, method of reproducing the same, terminal for the same, and system thereof are disclosed, by which recorded broadcast data can be summarized and reproduced according to contents or priority of the broadcast. The present invention includes a broadcasting station inserting a summary reproduction information in broadcast data, transmitting the broadcast data; and a broadcast terminal storing the broadcast data received from the broadcasting station, reproducing a summary of the broadcast data using the summary reproduction information.
US07735099B1
Method and system for a network for receiving and sending network packets is provided. The system includes a host processor that executes an operating system for a host system and at least one application that runs in a context that is different from a context of the operating system; and a network adapter with a hardware device that can run a network protocol stack, wherein the application can access the network adapter directly via an application specific interface layer without using the operating system and the application designates a named memory buffer for a network connection and when data is received by the network adapter for the network connection, then the network adapter passes the received data directly to the designated named buffer.
US07735097B2
A system and method are described for implementing and using a deploy system for deployment of entities. In one embodiment, a deploy service is implemented as a module on a J2EE engine to perform deployment services on a container on the J2EE engine. The deployment services include deploying one or more entities on the container which includes a J2EE container and/or a non-J2EE container.
US07735092B2
An object cooperative network system for executing processing in cooperation between objects connected by a common communication path. Each of the objects includes a transmitting section to transmit messages that include predetermined information to the network system. In addition, each object includes a monitoring section to monitor the predetermined information of the transmitted messages, and a reaction table to indicate correspondence between the transmitted messages. Each of the objects sets information to which the object should respond in the monitoring section, and receives a message to execute processing by making reference to the reaction table when information to which the object should respond is detected.
US07735091B2
Computing device executed application services are provided to a user using a plurality of application service providing modules, each of which provides a subset of the application services to the user. A request received form the user is translated to one or more needs to be satisfied. One or more of the application service providing modules required for satisfying the need(s) is identified. Execution of actions by the identified application service providing module(s) to satisfy the need(s) is scheduled.
US07735087B2
A method of assigning task management blocks for first type tasks to time slot information on a one-by-one basis, assigning a plurality of task management blocks for second type tasks to time slot information, selecting a task management block according to a priority classification when switching to the time slot of the time slot information, and switching to the time slot except the time slot information. Additionally, a task switching apparatus selects the task management block assigned to the time slot and executes the task.
US07735066B1
A software tool and method is provided in which a user can ask questions about their computer programs. As the subject program is executed, information is collected about the units of code that are executed and the changes to data. The user can pause the program, for example by pressing a button labeled “Why”, which will prompt the user to select what they want to ask about. For example, the user can ask about why units of code did or did not get executed. The tool and method provide answers that can be in the form of prepared statements and interactive data and control flow visualizations that show the values of data and the particular units of code that caused the execution to occur or not occur. The user can ask further questions using the visualization.
US07735059B2
Systems and methods for hosting managed code controls within unmanged hosts, such as MICROSOFT Word and Excel. There are two components to the hosting architecture, a wrapper control that implements various interfaces and a container control that hosts the managed code control. A design-time implementation allows for a designer to drag and drop managed code controls onto documents that run in a design component process. A runtime component allows managed code controls to run within hosts under security permissions specified by a policy.
US07735053B2
A validation/correction method is provided for design data or mask data by which a pattern which becomes critical in a process is extracted in advance so that the pattern can be corrected. Consequently, the process spec is achieved in a short period of time after OPC or process proximity effect correction (PPC).
US07735052B2
Optical proximity effects (OPEs) are a well-known phenomenon in photolithography. OPEs result from the structural interaction between the main feature and neighboring features. It has been determined by the present inventors that such structural interactions not only affect the critical dimension of the main feature at the image plane, but also the process latitude of the main feature. Moreover, it has been determined that the variation of the critical dimension as well as the process latitude of the main feature is a direct consequence of light field interference between the main feature and the neighboring features. Depending on the phase of the field produced by the neighboring features, the main feature critical dimension and process latitude can be improved by constructive light field interference, or degraded by destructive light field interference. The phase of the field produced by the neighboring features is dependent on the pitch as well as the illumination angle. For a given illumination, the forbidden pitch region is the location where the field produced by the neighboring features interferes with the field of the main feature destructively. The present invention provides a method for determining and eliminating the forbidden pitch region for any feature size and illumination condition. Moreover, it provides a method for performing illumination design in order to suppress the forbidden pitch phenomena, and for optimal placement of scattering bar assist features.
US07735051B2
Design Data Management uses one copy of common data sets along with a plurality of instances, while continuing to utilize the existing design databases and existing CAD tools. Allowing a minimum amount of user intervention to create and maintain the common data set, Design Data Management employs replicating common data sets into one or more clone data sets. The method preferred provides for replicating and synchronizing one or more data sets with a master data set, comprises providing data design management of a master data set and at least one clone data set, and copying a master physical design data set into one or more physical instances to enable customization of said one or more physical instances. The master data set describes at least one of: a design component, a circuit macro, and a circuit entity, and comprises logical data sets, and it comprise physical design data sets. This permits all existing verification processes that are normally executed against the common data set to also be equally applied to the clones of said data set by way of automatic synchronization between of the common dataset and the clones.
US07735050B2
Disclosed herein are representative embodiments of methods and apparatus for managing and allocating hardware resources during RTL synthesis. For example, in one exemplary method disclosed herein, an RTL description of a circuit to be implemented in a target architecture is received. The target architecture of this embodiment comprises a fixed number of hardware resources in a class of hardware resources. One or more operator instances are determined from the RTL description received, where at least some of the operator instances are implementable by the hardware resources in the class of hardware resources. In this embodiment, and prior to initially synthesizing the RTL description into a gate-level netlist, assignment information indicative of how the operator instances are to be implemented using the hardware resources in the class of hardware resources is automatically determined. A graphical user interface is also provided that allows a user to view and modify the assignment information.
US07735047B1
Disclosed are processor-implemented methods for technology mapping a logic network onto programmable logic resources of a programmable logic device. The methods include determining respective Boolean flexibility values for a plurality of functionally equivalent mappings of the logic network onto the programmable logic resources, selecting one of the mappings as a function of the respective Boolean flexibility values, and storing the selected mapping.
US07735046B2
An e-fuse circuit, a method of programming the e-fuse circuit, and a design structure of the e-fuse circuit. The method includes in changing the threshold voltage of one selected field effect transistor of two field effect transistors connected to different storage nodes of the circuit so as to predispose the circuit place the storage nodes in predetermined and opposite states.
US07735040B2
Method for designing cell layout of a semiconductor integrated circuit with logic having a data flow
With a conventional method for designing cell layout, it is necessary to give relative positional information in advance to all cells to be arranged. Furthermore, the method is troublesome because it is necessary to correct relative positional information of cells after confirming a result of temporary layout. Therefore, it takes time to obtain a layout result.The present invention extracts cells of a specific type specified from outside or cells satisfying specific conditions, arranges these specific cells first or limits a layout position by specifying a layout position, then arranges the remaining cells using a general layout algorithm.
US07735037B2
Described are a system and method to control interface timing and/or voltage operations of signals transmitted between devices. A processor may be coupled through one or more bus interfaces of a bus to one or more corresponding interface timing and/or voltage comparison circuits and corresponding interface timing and/or voltage adjustment circuits.
US07735033B2
The present invention presents methods for modeling the high frequency and noise characterization of MOSFETs. The models may be readily implemented as part of a SPICE or other simulation in a design flow. In particular, this invention is capable of providing a sub-circuit representation of a MOSFET that can accurately predicate a MOSFET's low frequency, high frequency, and noise characterizations. An interface is described through which a user may simultaneously optimize all of these characterizations. Further, methods are presented for building models that can predicate the variations in MOSFETs due to manufacturing processes and generate a corresponding corner model.
US07735031B2
A system that includes a controller for enabling an enumeration operation. The enumeration operation is performed by a controller (110) and logic elements (120) in a system, such that each logic element in the system assigns itself a unique identifier. Each logic element can then be controlled by another source or have a means to communicate with other logic elements in the system. The unique identifier enables greater system flexibility, thereby reducing cost and improving efficiency.
US07735029B2
At a particular stage in design of an integrated circuit, DFM improvements are identified which might conflict with design requirements applicable during a subsequent stage in the design flow. These DFM improvements are “reserved” that is, they are not implemented right away. However, an instance of a DFM-optimized version of this portion of the design is generated, characterized and stored. Meta information is associated with the reserved DFM improvements, for example locations in the design which correspond to the reserved DFM improvements are tagged. If, after the subsequent stage in the design flow, processing of the meta-information (tags) shows that the reserved DFM improvement does not actually conflict with the potentially-conflicting design requirement, the corresponding reserved DFM improvement is implemented, for example, by swapping-in the stored instance of the DFM-optimized version of this portion of the design.
US07735026B2
A computer poetry screen saver including loading an author analysis model, randomly selecting a seed word from the author analysis model, completing a poem following the seed word and displaying the poem on an output device.
US07735022B2
The present invention relates to a method of entering of data in a data processing system. A first linear sequence of top-level icons is displayed. A second linear sequence of second-level icons for a selected one of the top-level icons is also displayed such that the position of the leading icon of the second linear sequence is aligned with the selected one of the top-level icons of the first linear sequence. At least one data entry field for a selected one of the second-level icons is also displayed.
US07735018B2
Methods and systems are provided for providing an improved three-dimensional graphical user interface. In one embodiment, the method generally comprises: receiving an input from an end user, and capturing computing output from at least one computer source in response to the received end-user input. The computing output can be presented as two or more objects within a three-dimensional virtual space displayed to the end user. In one embodiment, the method further comprises generating a timeline that includes an icon for each object presented within the virtual space. In another embodiment, the method further comprises providing a database for storing and categorizing data regarding each object presented within the virtual space.
US07735014B2
Methods and systems for ensuring that a default contact list display name presented on a mobile electronic device is meaningful to a user of the mobile electronic device. Such a mobile electronic device in some embodiments comprises a user interface, a wireless interface and a processor wherein in response to a login to a server having a contact list a device-selected default contact list display name is presented on the user interface and wherein prior to presenting the device-selected default contact list display name the device causes a previous default contact list display name associated with the contact list to be replaced with the device-selected default contact list display name.
US07735013B2
Adapting information to a user of an application program is provided. An arbiter receives a request object from the application program. The request object contains profile elements that convey characteristics of the user. The profile elements are analyzed by the arbiter, and, based on the outcome of the analysis, the arbiter selects a personalization engine from a plurality of personalization engines. The request object is passed to the selected personalization engine, which accesses a content database to retrieve a personalized content object comprising information tailored to the user. The personalized content object is sent to the application program, which interprets it for the user. Various embodiments include an expert-system arbiter, and an arbiter comprising computer code that is provided according to conventional object-oriented analysis and design methods executing on a programmable processor. The plurality of personalization engines may include a rule-based engine, a collaborative-filtering engine, or a predictive-modeling engine.
US07735011B2
A technique for creating polyphonic audio signals of telecommunication devices such that the technique may be performed quickly without a user needing music theory knowledge. A midi-composer application includes a graphical user interface for assisting a user in creating the polyphonic audio signal. The graphical user interface includes at least one track for receiving placement of at least one music block and a plurality of bars within the at least one track for relating the at least one music block with a selected time period. The at least one music block includes at least one type of music block representing an audio loop or sample.
US07735006B2
A system for setting data list parameters for displaying a data list in pages. An application program receives a first and second user input, wherein the first user input defines a number of items displayed within a page, and wherein the second user input defines a page size tolerance. In response to receiving the first and second user input, the application program sets the number of items displayed within the page and the page size tolerance. Then the application program displays the data list in a graphical user interface according to the set number of items displayed within the page and the set page size tolerance.
US07734997B2
The content description of multimedia content contains a plurality of descriptor values that pertain to specific events within the media. A Transport Hint Table (THT) provides a set of synchronization events that indicate the relation between timed events in the media and their representation in the content's description data. The THT allows for synchronized delivery of presentation of content description data with the associated events in the media. The THT provides a set of sync events based on the existence of “time” related events obtained from the content description data, which are relevant to particular events in the media. The THT allows the transport layer encoder to use the time-related events to synchronize the scheduled delivery times of media content segments and their associated descriptions. The THT also provides information for fragmenting a description for delivery and for managing resources at the decoder.
US07734996B2
To enable a person to effectively create a document based on image data or audio data of a recorded meeting or a recorded lecture and also a person who creates the minutes of a meeting or a participant to browse a summarized document with images or voices so that a plurality of persons can effectively perform documentation.The audio/image inputting means 10 generates image data by recording a meeting and audio data by recording the contents of the meeting. The document inputting means 20 generates document data including a drafted minutes of a meeting or the like inputted by a person who creates the minutes of a meeting. The relationship deriving means 50 generates correspondence table data by deriving relationship between voices or images and a document based on audio data or image data and document data. The relationship presenting means 60 displays voices or images and a document in association with each other based on the correspondence table data.
US07734995B1
Systems and methods receive link fragments and component fragments for assembly into a template. The component fragments comprise editable portions of a document. The link fragments comprise references to other component fragments. A further aspect of the systems and methods includes assembling multiple templates into a formset. The templates included in the formset may be dynamically selected at runtime. Conflicts between references in the templates that make up the formset are resolved and a new form may be created.
US07734993B2
Embodiments of the invention include a method and apparatus for encoding data and a system for transmitting and/or storing data, in which the data is encoded and precoded in a manner that does not violate previously established data constraints, such as modulation encoding constraints. The method includes the steps of modulation encoding the data using a modulation code defined by at least one modulation constraint, parity encoding the modulation encoded information, and preceding the encoded information. The preceding step either partially precodes information bits and precodes parity bits, precodes information bits but not parity bits, or precodes both information bits and parity bits in such a manner that does not violate modulation constraints. Also, the parity encoding step can be performed in such a manner that does not violate modulation code constraints.
US07734992B2
A path memory circuit for use in a Viterbi decoding process performed based on state transitions through a number n (n is a positive integer) of states. The path memory circuit includes a memory area A formed by the storage circuits of the first to ith (i is an integer from 0 to M) stages; a memory area B formed by the selective storage circuits that select and hold a decoding result for any state k (k is integer from 1 to n) of the storage circuits from the i+1th stage to the Mth stage; and a memory area C formed by the selective storage circuits other than the memory area A and the memory area B.
US07734989B2
An interleaver for a turbo encoder and decoder comprising a first table populated with a first set of parameters to allow intra-row permutation of data within an array in accordance with a first wireless communication standard when operation in the first wireless communication standard is required and a second table populated with a second set of parameters to allow inter-row permutation of the data in accordance with the first wireless communication standard when operation in the first wireless communication standard is required wherein the first table is populated with a third set of parameters to allow intra-row permutation of data within an array in accordance with a second wireless communication standard when operation in the second wireless communication standard is required and to populate the second table with a fourth set of parameters to allow inter-row permutation of the data in accordance with the second wireless communication standard when operation in the second wireless communication standard is required.
US07734987B2
A communication method includes causing a transmitter to apply error correcting or detecting code systems to multiple frames or packets and to transmit the multiple frames or packets in succession, causing a receiver to receive the transmitted frames or packets and to decode each of the frames or packets received, and causing the receiver to send an acknowledgment signal to the transmitter on the basis of the results of decoding of the frames or packets. The transmitter applies two or more error correcting or detecting code systems to the frames or packets.
US07734978B2
A receiver capable of switching between a NormalAck scheme that includes an acknowledgement for a single frame in one frame and a BlockAck scheme that includes an acknowledgement for a plurality of frames in one frame. The receiver regards the use of the BlockAck scheme to have been terminated and releases resource being used for the BlockAck scheme and switches to the NormalAck scheme if a data frame requesting the BlockAck scheme is not received within a predetermined period regardless of whether the receiving station has or has not received a data frame requesting the NormalAck scheme.
US07734970B2
A latch circuit having three latch stages generates a majority output value from the stages, senses when the latch stage outputs are not all equal, and feeds the majority output value back to inputs of the latch stages to reload the latch stages. The latch circuit uses a not-equal gate whose output is an error signal that can be monitored to determine when a single-event upset has occurred. A master stage is controlled by a first multiplexer which receives one system clock signal, while a slave stage is controlled by a second multiplexer which receives another system clock signal, and the latch stage outputs are connected to respective inputs of the not-equal gate, whose output is connected to second inputs of the multiplexers. The latch circuit is part of a latch control system, and reloading of the latch stages takes less than one cycle of the system clock (less than 500 picoseconds).
US07734959B2
A system comprises a first network device and a second network device coupled via a network to the first network device. The first network device initiates a recovery across the network of an operating system of the second network device.
US07734958B1
A method and apparatus are described for a programming language with fully undoable, timed reactive instructions. More specifically, the present invention relates to providing a multi-modal user interface for controlling the execution of fully undoable programs. An embodiment of the present invention includes a method for providing a multi-modal user interface that is enabled to control the order of execution of a program having fully undoable instructions using checkpoints associated with discrete locations within the program.
US07734957B2
The disk controller has a plurality of channel control units, a plurality of cache memories, a plurality of disk control units, and a plurality of internal switch units. Each channel control unit or disk control unit sends to one of the cache memory units a request packet requesting execution of processing. The cache memory unit sends a response packet in response to the received request packet. Each internal switch unit monitors the request packet sent from the channel control unit or disk control unit, and judges whether or not the response packet to the request packet has passed through the internal switch unit within a first given time period since the passage of the request packet. In the case where the response packet has not passed through the internal switch unit within the first given time period, the internal switch unit sends a failure notification.
US07734951B1
A system and method for data protection in a logical namespace of a storage system environment is provided. An integrated management framework implements a data protection technique that monitors failures in the logical namespace at a managed data object granularity, e.g., a share. In the event of a failure to the data object, e.g., a primary share, the data protection technique enables automatic failover for a link point to the object (primary share) that is protected by a backup copy of the data object, e.g., a secondary share. That is, the data protection technique enables failover from the primary share to a secondary share and corresponding linking of the secondary share to the link point in the logical namespace.
US07734950B2
Embodiments include methods, apparatus, and systems for determining bandwidth in storage systems. One embodiment includes a method receiving a recovery point objective (RPO) for a disaster recovery (DR) system that uses asynchronous replication. The method then computes a queue depth for queued data waiting to be transmitted to a secondary storage location and uses the RPO and the queue depth to calculate a bandwidth for transmitting data from a first storage location to the secondary storage location.
US07734947B1
A cluster-wide published configuration system and method is provided for assigning host nodes to virtual interfaces (VIFs) in a cluster of data storage systems. A coordinating VIF manager publishes a set of failover rules using a replication database. The coordinating VIF manager monitors VIF hosting status within a cluster. In the event of a VIF failure, the coordinating VIF manager publishes a reassignment of host nodes using a single read-write transaction of a replication database service. Secondary VIF managers in the cluster must perform VIF hosting in accordance to the reassignment. If a secondary VIF manager can not activate an assigned VIF it must publishing new reassignment of VIF hosts via the replication database service.
US07734941B2
In a power management scheme, at least one indicator of at least one current device operating condition that affects an amount of power required to operate a device may be received. Based on the at least one indicator, a floor value for an operating parameter of the device (e.g. clock frequency or voltage) may be determined. At least one further indicator of at least one current device operating condition may further be received. Based on the at least one further indicator, a ceiling value for the operating parameter may be determined. Based on an indicator of current activity of the device, the operating parameter may be dynamically adjusted to a value between the floor value and the ceiling value, to control power consumption by the device. In some embodiments, the value may be adjusted to only the ceiling value or the floor value, e.g. by selectively applying a scaling ratio.
US07734933B1
The present invention is directed to a system for providing a trusted environment for untrusted computing systems. The system may include a HAC subsystem managing shared resources and a trusted bus switch for controlling a COTS processor to access the shared resources. The shared resources such as memory and several I/O resources reside on the trusted side of the trusted bus switch. Alternatively, the system may include a SCM as an add-on module to an untrusted host environment. Only authenticated applications including COTS OS execute on the SCM while untrusted applications execute on the untrusted host environment. The SCM may control secure resource access from the untrusted host through a plug-in module interface. All secure resources may be maintained on the trusted side of the plug-in module interface.
US07734931B2
A method for detecting within a networked computer a target vulnerability such as a Trojan Horse residing therein is disclosed, wherein the vulnerability is characterized by a signature response to an encrypted query. The method includes encrypting a plurality of query data packets in accordance with a plurality of encryption keys, each encrypted query data packet including a defined query field specific to the target vulnerability. The method further includes storing the plurality of encrypted query data packets in a memory. The method further includes thereafter scanning the networked computer for a target vulnerability residing within the networked computer by sending successive ones of the encrypted-and-stored query data packets to the host computer and analyzing responses thereto from the host computer with respect to the characteristic signature. Preferably, the encrypting is performed for substantially all of the encryption keys within a defined key space. The memory may be non-volatile memory such as a disk drive or a volatile memory such as random-access memory (RAM) or a memory configured as a cache.
US07734929B2
An authorization method includes establishing a password for a user, wherein the password includes password characters in a defined order. The method further includes assigning a code character to each of the password characters at an authorization site, transmitting the code characters assigned to the password characters to a remote client and authorizing a user at the remote client upon entry of the code characters corresponding to the password characters in the defined order.
US07734921B2
A system, method, and computer program product enabling individual user devices to authenticate and validate a digital message sent by a distribution center, without requiring transmissions to the distribution center. The center transmits the message with an appended modulus that is the product of two specially selected primes. The transmission also includes an appended authentication value that is based on an original message hash value, a new message hash value, and the modulus. The new message hash value is designed to be the center's public RSA key; a corresponding private RSA key is also computed. Individual user devices combine a digital signet, a public modulus, preferably unique hardware-based numbers, and an original message hash to compute a unique integrity value K. Subsequent messages are similarly processed to determine new integrity values K′, which equal K if and only if new messages originated from the center and have not been corrupted.
US07734920B2
An information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information providing medium are provided. Encrypted information, an encrypted first key for decrypting the encrypted information, and a second key for decrypting the first key are processed to store the information in a storage medium. To be more specific, cross certification is executed with the storage medium, the first key is decrypted by the second key, the decrypted first key is encrypted, and the decrypted first key and the encrypted information are stored in the storage medium. The novel constitution prevents unauthorized replication of information by use of a low-cost, general-purpose semiconductor memory.
US07734919B2
An information processing terminal includes a calculation processing unit, a telephone communication processing unit for performing a telephone communication with respect to another appliance, a communication processing unit for performing a communication operation with respect to the another appliance, and a signature calculating unit in which when a telephone communication with respect to the above-described another appliance is carried out, a signature using a secret key is produced by the calculation processing unit, and the signature calculating unit produces information attached with signature to which the produced signature has been attached. In the information processing terminal, the telephone communication processing unit transmits the information attached with signature to the another appliance corresponding to a telephone calling destination. It then becomes possible to notify that a telephone communication counter party is a justified user of an appliance before the telephone communication is commenced.
US07734917B2
Provided is a method for delivering all or part of a rights object (RO) of a user associated with the content to other users. The method includes creating a rights object to be transmitted to a second user within a limit of the rights object held by the first user, and forwarding the created rights object to the second user. The method allows each user to share its own RO with other users within the limit of the RO without server authentication.
US07734911B2
A user network station transmits a cookie that includes a user identifier and an augmenting factor transformed with one key of a first asymmetric crypto-key or with a symmetric crypto-key. An authenticating entity network station recovers the augmenting factor from the transformed augmenting factor included in the transmitted cookie, with the other key of the first asymmetric crypto-key or with the symmetric crypto-key, and transmits a customized login page corresponding to the user identifier. The user network station transmits a factor responsive to the transmitted customized login page. The authenticating entity network station generates a first key portion based on the transmitted factor and the recovered augmenting factor, and validates the generated first key portion based on a second key portion of one key of a second asymmetric crypto-key associated with the user and on the other key of the second asymmetric crypto-key, to thereby authenticate the user.
US07734898B2
A data processing system uses a data processor instruction that forms an immediate value. The data processing instruction uses a first field as a portion of the immediate value. A second field of the data processing instruction determines a positional location of the portion of the immediate value within the immediate value. A bit value in a third field of the data processing instruction is used to determine a remainder of the immediate value.
US07734894B1
An integrated circuit comprises a plurality of tiles. Each tile comprises a processor including a storage module, wherein the processor is configured to process multiple streams of instructions, a switch including switching circuitry to forward data received over data paths from other tiles to the processor and to switches of other tiles, and to forward data received from the processor to switches of other tiles, and coupling circuitry configured to couple data resulting from processing an instruction from at least one of the streams of instructions to the storage module and to the switch.
US07734892B1
A method for providing hardware support for memory protection and virtual memory address translation for a virtual machine. The method includes executing a host machine application on a host computer system, executing a first virtual machine application within a first virtual machine, and executing a second virtual machine application within a second virtual machine. A plurality of TLB (translation look aside buffer) entries for the first virtual machine application and the second machine application are stored within a TLB of the host computer system. At least one of the plurality of TLB entries is a global TLB entry.
US07734891B2
A non-volatile memory data address translation scheme is described that utilizes a hierarchal address translation system that is stored in the non-volatile memory itself. Embodiments of the present invention utilize a hierarchal address data and translation system wherein the address translation data entries are stored in one or more data structures/tables in the hierarchy, one or more of which can be updated in-place multiple times without having to overwrite data. This hierarchal address translation data structure and multiple update of data entries in the individual tables/data structures allow the hierarchal address translation data structure to be efficiently stored in a non-volatile memory array without markedly inducing write fatigue or adversely affecting the lifetime of the part. The hierarchal address translation of embodiments of the present invention also allow for an address translation layer that does not have to be resident in system RAM for operation.
US07734889B1
Some embodiments are directed to a technique for storing and/or locating content units stored on an object addressable storage (OAS) system, wherein each content unit is identified by an object identifier. The OAS system may comprise a plurality of zones, each of which stores content units. A mapping process may be defined that maps object identifiers for content units to zones on the OAS system. Thus, the storage location for a content unit on the OAS system may be the zone on the OAS system to which the object identifier for the content unit maps.
US07734886B1
Aspects of the invention relate to sharing content stored on an object addressable storage (OAS) system among a plurality of users of the OAS system and authenticating users to an OAS system. In some embodiments, a user may store content units on the OAS system and control access by other users to these content units. In some embodiments, when a user grants one or more other users access to a content unit stored on the OAS system, the OAS system may send a notification of grant of access to the other user(s).
US07734879B2
A technique for efficiently boosting the priority of a preemptable data reader in order to eliminate impediments to grace period processing that defers the destruction of one or more shared data elements that may be referenced by the reader until the reader is no longer capable of referencing the data elements. Upon the reader being subject to preemption or blocking, it is determined whether the reader is in a read-side critical section referencing any of the shared data elements. If it is, the reader's priority is boosted in order to expedite completion of the critical section. The reader's priority is subsequently decreased after the critical section has completed. In this way, delays in grace period processing due to reader preemption within the critical section, which can result in an out-of-memory condition, can be minimized efficiently with minimal processing overhead.
US07734874B2
A method and system for caching data such as audio, video and/or other data uses information including future access request information for improved caching performance. According to an exemplary embodiment, a cache system includes a cache operative to cache a plurality of data items. A processor is operative to enable at least one of the data items in the cache to be replaced using future access request information for the at least one data item.
US07734870B2
The first storage subsystem, when new data is written in a first memory device beyond a certain timing, writes pre-updated data prior to update by said new data into a pre-updated data memory region and, in addition, updates snapshot management information that expresses a snapshot of a data group within the first memory device to information that expresses the snapshot at the certain timing and, at a later timing than the certain timing, judges, on the basis of the snapshot management information, in which of either the pre-updated data memory region or the first memory device the data constituting the data group at a certain timing exists, acquires data from the one in which the data exists and writes it into the second memory device of the second storage subsystem, and generates the certain timing repeatedly.
US07734865B2
A storage system using flash memories includes a storage controller and plural flash memory modules as storage media. Each flash memory module includes at least one flash memory chip and a memory controller for leveling erase counts of blocks belonging to the flash memory chip. The storage controller combines the plural flash memory modules into a first logical group, translates a first address used for accessing the flash memory modules belonging to the first logical group to a second address used for handling the first address in the storage controller, and combines the plural first logical groups into a second logical group.
US07734860B2
For every sampling period of a DSP 100, a timing generator 200 requests a CPU 300 to release a bus and provides a DSP 100 access time period to make an external memory 400 access the DSP 100 by occupying the bus released according to the request. In the DSP 100, during the DSP access time period, a memory interface section 11 executes read/write processing in which waveform data read from the external memory 400 is stored in an internal memory 12 and waveform data read from the internal memory 12 is written into the external memory 400 according to the command stored in an access command memory 10. At the same time, an operation section 13 executes operation processing by using the waveform data stored in the internal memory 12 independently of the read/write processing.
US07734859B2
A hardware/software system and method that collectively enables virtualization of the host computer's native I/O system architecture via the Internet and LANs. The invention includes a solution to the problems of the relatively narrow focus of iSCSI, the direct connect limitation of PCI Express, and the inaccessibility of PCI Express for expansion in blade architectures.
US07734858B2
An interposer module may be used between a unified architecture blade compute module and a mid-plane of a present technology blade compute module system. The interposer module may contain input-output controllers for desired input-output fabrics. The mid-plane couples these input-output controllers to associated input-output fabric switches. The same unified architecture blade compute module may also be used without the interposer module in a new technology blade compute module system having multi-context fabric input-output controllers. The multi-context fabric input-output controllers may be coupled to the unified architecture blade compute modules of the information handling system by a switch such as a PCI Express (PCIe) switch.
US07734857B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a switch device to be coupled between a first semiconductor component and a processor node by interconnects of a communication protocol that provides for cache coherent transactions and non-cache coherent transactions. The switch device includes logic to handle cache coherent transactions from the first semiconductor component to the processor node, while the first semiconductor component does not include such logic. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07734851B2
An information processing apparatus includes a transmitting unit configured to transmit to a management apparatus transmission data containing data related to count data stored in the information processing apparatus, a pattern storing unit configured to store a type and an order of data related to count data as a pattern, a determining unit configured to determine whether a pattern of data related to count data which is to be transmitted by the transmitting unit matches a pattern of data related to count data stored in the pattern storing unit, and a transmission data reducing unit configured to reduce the amount of the transmission data to be transmitted by the transmitting unit if it is determined by the determining unit that the pattern of data related to count data which is to be transmitted by the transmitting unit matches a pattern of data related to count data stored in the pattern storing unit.
US07734844B2
The disclosure relates to a trusted interface unit and a method of making and using the same. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method of transmitting data on a network may include receiving data from a partition within a node on the network. This node may be configured to transmit data associated with a number of sensitivity levels. According to one embodiment of the invention, these sensitivity levels may be classification levels. One method of transmission of data may include determining the identity of the partition that originated the data within the node. Furthermore, a label may be added to the data received from within the node and the data may be encrypted with a key that may be uniquely associated with the label on the data. After encryption, the data may be transmitted on the network. Additional methods including the reception of data are disclosed. Various node and network architectures are disclosed implementing the methods and apparatus of the present invention.
US07734841B2
Versatile serial bus connectivity is provided for enabling detection and use of passive media output devices that connect to a host device through a serial bus connector. In addition, serial bus connectivity is extended to video output devices that can use analog video data.
US07734838B2
An apparatus for in-field configuration of a seismic device such as a seismic sensor may include a memory module having data for configuring the seismic device, a location sensor determining a location parameter for the seismic sensor, and a communication device transmitting the determined location parameter to a selected external device. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract which will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims. 37 CFR 1.72(b).
US07734830B2
An information storage device, by which only information outputted in a state desired by a user can be stored and disclosed with minimum time and trouble of the user, is provided. After FAX transmission, the FAX image is displayed and an inquiry concerning whether to store the FAX image or not is conducted. When the user performs an operation designating registration of the FAX image in a database (i.e. when a registration command button is pressed by the user), the FAX image is registered in the database. When the user performs an operation designating discard of the FAX image (i.e. when a discard command button is pressed by the user), the FAX image is discarded. Since the user can decide whether or not to register the FAX image in the database after checking the image to be registered, registration of undesired image in the database can be prevented.
US07734827B2
Secure operation of cell processors is disclosed. A cell processor receives a secure file image from a client device at a cell processor of a host device (host cell processor), wherein the secure file image includes an encrypted SPU image.
US07734824B2
A method and apparatus for transporting portions of a codestream over a communications mechanism is described. In one embodiment, the method comprises sending a request over a network and receiving tile-parts of a JPEG 2000 compliant codestream from the network as a return type as part of a response to the request.
US07734820B1
A system and method for adaptively responding to update messages for a replica of a data object. A node may maintain first information regarding a replica of a data object. In various embodiments, the first information may comprise any kind of information regarding the replica of the data object. In one embodiment, the first information may comprise information indicative of accesses to the replica of the data object, e.g., may comprise access history information. In response to receiving a message for updating the replica of the data object, the node may respond to the message based on the first information. For example, the node may select one or more operations to perform based on the first information and may perform the one or more selected operations.
US07734815B2
The invention is an intelligent traffic redirection system that does global load balancing. It can be used in any situation where an end-user requires access to a replicated resource. The method directs end-users to the appropriate replica so that the route to the replica is good from a network standpoint and the replica is not overloaded. The technique preferably uses a Domain Name Service (DNS) to provide IP addresses for the appropriate replica. The most common use is to direct traffic to a mirrored web site.
US07734811B2
The present invention describes a method and an apparatus of multi-feature lookup process using multi-feature classification memory (“CM”). In one embodiment of the present invention, the method defines various features, offered in the router, into a feature hierarchy. Individual associated CMs are merged into a combined associated multi-feature CM. The feature rules for packet processing are merged according to the feature hierarchy and the multi-feature CM is populated with the merged rules. The multi-feature CM includes combined packet-processing rules for multiple features. The multi-feature CM eliminates the need for individual associated CMs. The memory space in the multi-feature CM is shared by various feature rules.
US07734810B2
In one embodiment, a first network device receives a control message in a first protocol from a client, the control message in the first protocol being addressed to a second network device. The first network device identifies an existing connection in a second protocol that is associated with the second network device. The first network device establishes a connection in the first protocol with the client according to a status of the existing connection in the second protocol that is associated with the second network device.
US07734805B2
A method for scheduling transmissions to a plurality of users in a communication network determines a satisfaction metric and a dissatisfaction metric for each user in a given timeslot that is to be used for a next scheduled transmission to one of the users. Each user is assigned a weight based on a value of at least one of the user's satisfaction metric, the user's dissatisfaction metric and a rate requested by the user. The use having the highest weight is selected to be served the next scheduled transmission in the given timeslot.
US07734804B2
A method and system is provided which allows for integrating streaming content and a real time interactive dynamic user interface on a network, such as the Internet. The system includes a web browser for receiving a user interface from a content server. The user interface, among other functions, detects an embedded code in a media file from a streaming content server. Based on the embedded code, the user interface spawns a Common Gateway Interface (CGI) process which retrieves information from a data store. The information in the data store may include rules for altering the displayed user interface. The system and method results in an interactive user interface which may be easily modified by altering the contents of the data store rather than altering and reindexing the media file.
US07734800B2
Multimedia content is streamed over a network system from a server computer to a client computer. The client allows a user to enter a variable playback speed and varies the speed at which the multimedia content is rendered at the client. Time-scale modification technology is used to maintain the original pitch of any audio content, thereby maintaining its intelligibility.
US07734796B2
A method and an arrangement in an IP network provides a scalable solution for reserving resources to obtain a predictable QoS end-to-end in a heterogeneous IP network. The object is achieved by categorizing the destination domain with a domain property label that for example informs about the availability of resources in the destination domain and about how to obtain QoS to the endpoint in this particular domain category.
US07734789B2
A method and device for providing switched tunnel connections from a user to a destination or a multiple number of destinations. Tunnels are switched from a user to a destination by receiving an incoming tunnel connection from the user and initiating a switched tunnel connection to the destination. Traffic from the incoming tunnel is switched to the destination over the switched tunnel. A disclosed embodiment uses user information to determine the switching of the tunnel to implement security access to a tunnel destination, load balancing among destination resources, and bundling of tunnel sessions to implement high bandwidth transmission.
US07734785B2
The present invention relates to distributed networking, and in particularly to a message-based networking environment. More particularly, it relates to business applications, which access the network via some middleware within a predetermined load schedule. In order to alleviate the disadvantages of prior art it is proposed to perform, a method with the following sequence of steps: monitoring, metering the current workload, storing metered workload data in a first appropriate data store, store state information data about the plurality of currently used instances in a second appropriate data store, analyzing both, said stored, metered workload data and said state information for compliance with a predetermined quality-of-service policy, adapting the number of instances usable for satisfying the workload to the workload needs as required by said predetermined quality-of-service policy, wherein meta data of newly created instances are managed in a plurality of message stores, the data contents of which are frequently synchronized in order to decouple the plurality of client applications from bindings fixed during their operation to particular service instances.
US07734784B1
A device may include a service activation engine (SAE) including: a policy information base (PIB) file that defines a plurality of attachments that correspond to a plurality of network policies; and a server. The server may receive a request, using common open policy service for policy provisioning (COPS-PR), for a network service related to an interface handle associated with a subscriber device; determine which ones of the network policies correspond to the network service; and send, using COPS-PR, a provisioning instance (PRI) including a first of the attachments to implement the ones of the network policies to the interface handle based on the attachments.
US07734783B1
Systems and methods for allocating resources, such as contact center agents, computer servers and recorders, among geographically distributed sites are provided. In this regard, a representative method comprises: creating a workload forecast, such as contact volume, and resource utilization, such as average interaction time, of events for a specified time frame as if the geographically distributed sites were co-located, performing discrete event-based simulation to assign or allocate the events to the resources as if the resources were co-located, and determining recommended allocations of the resources among the geographically distributed sites based on a relative distribution of events assigned to resources at each of the geographically distributed sites.
US07734766B2
To enable communication in accordance with a RPC through a firewall in using email, the server-side communication device has a mail transmitting and receiving unit and an information converting unit for retrieving instruction information from an email received with the mail transmitting and receiving unit, for outputting the instruction information to a RPC server, for converting response information corresponding to the instruction information into a return email to a client-side communication device 7, in which the mail transmitting and receiving unit transmits the return email output with the information converting unit to the client-side communication device. On the other hand, the client-side communication device has a mail transmitting and receiving unit and an information converting unit for outputting the email to the mail transmitting and receiving unit after converting the instruction information transmitted to the server-side communication device into the email, for retrieving the response information corresponding to the instruction information from the received email, for outputting the response information to a RPC client unit, in which the mail transmitting and receiving unit transmits the email output with the information converting unit to the server-side communication device.
US07734758B1
A universal serial bus (USB) remote host control driver includes a connection to a local network, a network protocol stack and a memory for storing network addresses of USB device adapters and USB devices on the network. A USB device adapter has one or more USB ports, a network connection, a network address, and a network protocol stack. Together, the USB remote host control driver and the USB device adapter enable interaction between a network computer and peripheral USB devices on the network.
US07734749B2
The Device Model Agent (DMA), the device side technology module in Device Centric Services (DCS) system, is the main focus of this invention. DMA is a thin, efficient applications/services execution environment. DMA provides an embedded services platform for enabling system management applications and services. This allows a flexible, extensible, dynamic services management module allowing networked services to be designed, added, and managed within the system without modifications to devices, DCS system, or DMA itself. While this invention specifically describes the integration of benefits from DMA into document system devices, the concepts are equally applicable in other domains. The DMA runtime environment is a thin software interface layer that resides on a document system device between the Java runtime environment and embedded web server.
US07734748B1
A network element (NE) includes an intelligent interface (II) with its own operating environment rendering it active during the NE boot process, and with separate intelligence allowing it to take actions on the NE prior to, during, and after the boot process. The combination of independent operation and increased intelligence provides enhanced management opportunities to enable the NE to be controlled throughout the boot process and after completion of the boot process. For example, files may be uploaded to the NE before or during the boot process to restart the NE from a new software image. The II allows this downloading process to occur in parallel on multiple NEs from a centralized storage resource. Diagnostic checks may be run on the NE, and files, and MIB information, and other data may be transmitted from the II to enable a network manager to more effectively manage the NE.
US07734741B2
A dynamic reconfiguration to include on-line addition, deletion, and replacement of individual modules of to support dynamic partitioning of a system, interconnect (link) reconfiguration, memory RAS to allow migration and mirroring without OS intervention, dynamic memory reinterleaving, CPU and socket migration, and support for global shared memory across partitions is described. To facilitate the on-line addition or deletion, the firmware is able to quiesce and de-quiesce the domain of interest so that many system resources, such as routing tables and address decoders, can be updated in what essentially appears to be an atomic operation to the software layer above the firmware.
US07734725B2
A method and apparatus for controlling at the server-side the order in which supplemental files referenced in an HTML page are served to a client machine requesting the page. The server queues the supplemental files in an order dictated within the HTML code itself and serves the supplemental files in the order dictated in the queue regardless of the order of which the Web browser at the client-side requests the supplemental files.
US07734723B2
An apparatus for deferred handling of a message in a publish/subscribe system comprises a publisher for publishing the message and a subscriber for receiving the message. The apparatus comprises a handier for handling a first message published by a publisher, the first message comprising an instruction associated with said publisher, the instruction comprising topic data, and a generator, responsive to handling of the first message, for using first data associated with the instruction to generate topic data.
US07734720B2
A system, apparatus and method for transmitting data on a private network in blocks of data without using TCP/IP as a protocol are provided. When data is to be transmitted on a private network, the data is divided into a plurality of packets and a MAC header is added to each packet. The header contains hardware addresses of the transmitting and receiving hosts as well as parameters of the data being transmitted. The hardware addresses are used to route the packets through the private network therefore obviating the use of TCP/IP to perform the same task. The data is ordinarily stored in contiguous sectors of a storage device; thus, ensuring that almost every packet will either contain data from a block of sectors or is a receipt acknowledgement of such packet.
US07734718B2
A communications network, system, and method includes a server; a primary device in communication with the server through a communications channel, wherein the primary device comprises a component that detects data transmissions from the server, and transmits the detected data transmissions; and a secondary device connected to the primary device, wherein the secondary device automatically performs self diagnosis relating to operational performance of the secondary device in response to the data transmissions. The remotely programmable apparatus comprises any of an appliance and an entertainment device, wherein the appliance comprises any of a refrigerator, a telephone, a stove, and a clock. The server generates computer executable commands that are executable by the secondary device and comprises any of queries, instructions, and messages. The secondary device comprises a processor that collects operational data relating to the secondary device, and provides a diagnosis of a performance of the secondary device.
US07734716B2
A web-enabled automation control module (ACM) includes an ACM central processing unit (CPU) and a web and file transfer system electrically connected to the ACM CPU, and embedded within the ACM. The system is configured to process hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) requests from a network.
US07734715B2
A system, method and computer program product for managing documents. The system includes an image forming apparatus configured to display interactive menus so as to allow an operator of the image forming apparatus to interact with a document manager. The display interactive menus are downloaded from the document manager to the image forming apparatus based on a request by the operator. The document manager is configured to search for application services providers (ASPs) over a network and based on operator inputs. The document manager can search documents within the ASPs, retrieve documents and URLs, store documents and data. The system can provide basic and/or customized interactive menus displayed on the screen of the image forming apparatus.
US07734695B2
The present invention discloses a method and apparatus for controlling the presentation of submissions within a real-time communication session by sequentially organizing and displaying messages immediately followed by their corresponding responses for allowing participants within the session to easily view, follow and participate within such session. Sequential tags are associated with each submission displayed within the session, whereby these tags are used to sequentially sort the messages along with their corresponding responses. Time stamps associated with each message and response may further be used for sequentially sorting such messages along with their corresponding responses. These sequentially sorted messages and corresponding responses are viewed in a modified display window, optionally along with the unmodified display window of the real-time communication session, on a display screen. This modified display window may be continually refreshed.
US07734686B2
A mark-up method and system that enables server-managed thick client capabilities using a thin client server, framework, and administration. Active content such as program code, service, and data components, are driven to a thick client platform. The thick client platform is defined through a combination of thick client components, while the thick client components and user interface experience are centrally managed. The thick client container can operate to embed thin client container components, such as a browser, and the thick client container itself can be initially deployed over a network using a thin client.
US07734672B2
A method and a circuit for detecting a possible loss of the equiprobable character of a first output bit flow originating from at least one first normalization element of an initial bit flow, consisting of submitting the initial flow to at least one second normalization element of a nature different from the first one, pairing, bit to bit, the flows originating from the two elements, and checking the equidistribution of the different state pairs.
US07734670B2
A received reply email document enables some action to be effectuated using data included in the email document responsive to field identifiers associated with the data and corresponding to fields of metadata. The associated field identifiers that correspond to known fields of the metadata provide some expectation as to the semantic meaning and/or syntactic constraints of the data to which the field identifiers are associated. In a described implementation, an actionable email documents module creates an email document having blocks that are mapped to fields of metadata. The email document is transmitted to one or more recipients. Each recipient adds data to the blocks so that the data becomes mapped to the fields of the metadata. The recipients return a reply email document having the field-mapped data. Upon receipt, the module can effectuate some action using the field-mapped data responsive to the mappings.
US07734663B2
A lightweight application server for use on portable or embedded devices includes an application manager and services containers. Each of these is managed by an admin server allowing for remote and rapid deployment and maintenance of applications, objects and features associated with the server-enabled portable or embedded devices. This permits portable devices like PDAs to provide server functionality to each other, in a fully portable network if desired. A system including such server-enabled portable or embedded devices may include, among other things, a decision flow server for facilitating distributed decision flow processing.
US07734658B2
Techniques for improving the performance of a Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (“LDAP”) server are described. The server computes the priority of an LDAP request and enqueues it on a priority queue according to the priority. A high-priority LDAP request is removed from the queue to prepare a corresponding LDAP response. Systems and software to implement similar techniques are also described and claimed.
US07734650B2
The present invention relates to recommendation of items to a user for providing items more satisfying a user's request on the basis of new association. The present invention provides a data display server connected to a user terminal, which includes a posting database for storing posting data posted through the user terminal, a reference data base for storing reference data, relational metadata generating means which generates relational metadata making association between two pieces of reference data, and a relational database for storing the relational metadata. According to the arrangement, tight linking between reference data is made possible so that items more suitable for a user's preference can be recommended.
US07734648B2
A database management protocol exchanges update tokens between a client and a server on which the database resides. When a client requests data to be read from a database, an update manager either reads an update token stored therein or generates one dynamically. The update token represents a current state of the data object being read. Sometime thereafter, if the client requests new data to be stored in the object, the client may furnish the update token back to the update manager. The update manager compares the client's update token to a local update token representing a current state of the database and, if they match, determines that the state has not changed. If they do not match, an error results.
US07734638B2
A file system program that controls a processor to create an attribute information area in which a registered keyword as metadata of the data attached to the file; wherein the file system program comprises: a file access control module that controls access to the file; and a file search module that searches for the file using an inputted keyword, wherein the file search module comprises: an attribute information search module that searches for a file by comparing the registered keyword and the inputted keyword; and an entire document search module that searches for a file by comparing the entire file and the inputted keyword, and wherein the file access control module comprises an. attribute information change module that changes the registered keyword based on a result of the search by the entire document search module.
US07734635B2
A method and interface for managing indices of ordered elements are provided. A subset of elements are selected from an index of ordered elements and displayed on a user interface device. A user can manipulate the display of different subsets of the ordered elements via a user input device. Additional indicia corresponding to the subset of index elements are also displayed on the interface. The additional indicia can include a reference to a visual indicator of index display depth and/or a reference to the location of the displayed elements within the index.
US07734631B2
A system for associating information comprises an association module that uses anchoring information to associate a first piece of information with a second piece of information, wherein the second piece of information is not part of the first piece of information. The system further includes a rendering module that presents the second piece of information for use. Methods for using such a system are also described.
US07734626B2
A system for obtaining associated personal data of a person attending a reception site in order to provide a response to such person includes a computer operably disposed at the reception site having operating software thereon and follow-up software for receiving personal name and address information data for the person and event data and storing for subsequent retrieval the personal name and address information data and the event data in a memory of the computer and camera operably associated with the computer and the follow up software for acquiring an image data of the person such that the follow-up software stores for subsequent retrieval the image data in a manner to be associated with the personal name and address information data in a memory of the computer based device. A method is also provided.
US07734622B1
Media-driven browsing methods, systems, and machine-readable instructions are described. In one aspect, a context search is performed based on information associated with at least one media object. A context-sensitive search is performed based on results of the context search. Information derived from results of the context-sensitive search is presented.
US07734601B2
The disclosure relates to a digital asset storage, search and retrieval system. Each digital asset may comprise one or more versions and properties. The system may access stored digital assets using hierarchical classifications under a taxonomy based on the properties. The digital assets may be assigned conditions governing usage of the assets. Via relationship networks, the digital assets may “inherit” the conditions from other digital assets.
US07734599B2
An information processing apparatus divides print data into data pieces and generates a hash value of each data piece. The information processing apparatus generates one unit of transmitting data by adding the generated hash value to a data piece different from the data piece whose hash value is generated, and transmits the transmitting data to an image processing apparatus.
US07734590B2
The claimed subject matter provides a system and/or method that facilitates utilizing metadata appended to data related to an industrial automation environment with a controller that is associated with a hierarchically structured data model. An interface component can facilitate receipt of data associated with at least one of an instruction set, a configuration, and a collection. An append component can affix metadata to at least one of the instruction set, the configuration, and the collection, wherein the metadata conforms to a hierarchically structured data model.
US07734586B2
A system and method for providing content to an enterprise is described. One embodiment includes receiving, from each of a plurality of users within an enterprise, subscription information, which indicates content feeds that each corresponding user desires to receive content from and retrieving content items from a plurality of feeds. The content items are stored in a first data store and at least a portion of the content items are replicated in a second data store that is utilized by an email message system of the enterprise so as to enable each of the plurality of users to view content items via the email message system.
US07734582B2
An apparatus, system, and method are disclosed for cache synchronization within a multi-tier system having multiple client-server relationships. The apparatus includes a pre-synchronization module, a locking module, and a synchronization module. The pre-synchronization module receives a pre-synchronization call from an upstream node coupled to a first downstream node. The locking module locks a first cache coupled to the first downstream node in response to a synchronization call from the upstream node. The synchronization module synchronizes source data on the upstream node with cached data on the first cache. The apparatus also may include a post-synchronization module to perform any necessary cleanup activities. Advantageously, the apparatus, system, and method reduce the likelihood of a system deadlock due to premature locking of the first downstream cache, which prevents a subsequent downstream cache from synchronizing with the first cache.
US07734581B2
An array update operation which specifies number of (row-identifier, value) pairs for updating rows in a table of a database is implemented as follows. A block-identifier of a block (on disk) that holds a row identified by a row-identifier in a specified pair is looked up using a database index, and the block-identifier thus found is stored in a structure. Use of a row-identifier to look up the corresponding block-identifier, and the storage of the block-identifier in the structure are repeatedly performed, for each of several specified pairs. Next, a vector read is performed, to read and store in a cache, each block identified by a block-identifier in the structure, and all the blocks that have been read are stored in the cache during a single function call. Thereafter, rows identified in specified pairs are modified, in blocks currently in the cache, using the values in the specified pairs.
US07734580B2
A standby database system or another replica data system replicates changes, made to data blocks at a source database system or another primary data copy, to replicas of the data blocks at the standby database system or other replica. While replicating the changes to the data blocks thereof, the standby database system (or other replica) receives queries (or reads) issued thereto and computes the queries based on data read from the data blocks thereof.
US07734566B2
Embodiments of the present invention include methods for retrieving information from an information base. In one embodiment, the present invention includes specifying a first query including one or more specified attribute values corresponding to one or more attributes, performing a count-only query on a structured information base for information elements having one or more attribute values within a first range, the first range including the specified attribute values, and performing a retrieval query for information elements having one or more attribute values within a second range, wherein the second range includes the first range.
US07734561B2
According to the present invention, there is provided a SAN management system to provide autonomic management of a storage system using an action-centric approach. The SAN management system includes a policy specification logic block to maintain a policy specification associated with the managed system. In addition, the SAN management system includes a reasoning logic block to provide for the determining of action rules using a combination of logic and information obtained from the policy specification. Also, the SAN management system includes a learning logic block to couple the policy specification logic block with the reasoning logic block to improve an understanding of a managed system. The learning is continuous and provides for autonomic evolvement of the system in which reliance on manual input from a user is lessened.
US07734560B2
A computer-implemented method, system, and computer program product for generating an application is disclosed. A pattern module associated with an application pattern is provided. The pattern module includes a model of the application pattern, a design time component to provide content for the model, and a runtime component to execute the operation associated with the model based with the content. A set of dependencies among the model, the design time component, and the runtime component is determined. A set of interfaces is then generated to couple the model, the design time component, and the runtime component based on the set of dependencies.
US07734559B2
An improvement in a computer-implemented rule processing method that provides conflict or selection advice to help guide a user achieve satisfiability of a business or engineering rule represented by a zero-suppressed binary decision diagram (ZDD) rule model. The improvement comprises obtaining at least one Exclude ZDD rule component from the ZDD rule model, identifying covers within the Exclude ZDD rule component, removing covers identified in the identifying step thereby to produce abridged Exclude ZDD rule component, determining satisfiability of the rule model utilizing the abridged Exclude ZDD component, and utilizing results of the determining step during automated decision support to help guide the user to attain satisfiability of the rule. An apparatus that implements the aforementioned method is also disclosed.
US07734552B2
A method and apparatus effectuates bilateral commerce in ideas. An originator and user-driven on-line commercial network system is designed to facilitate idea submission, purchase, and licensing, and is easily adapted to business-to-business transfers of innovation as well as consumer-to-business transfers of innovation. The invention allows originators of ideas to communicate nondisclosing synopses of ideas globally to potential users, for users conveniently to search for relevant ideas and for users potentially to bind an originator to a limited duration license granting user the exclusive right to access and consider confidentially the originator's fully disclosed idea. The invention also allows users to communicate confidentially or nonconfidentially unsolved problems or needs globally to potential originators, for originators conveniently to search for relevant unsolved problems or needs, and for originators to submit and communicate confidentially proposed solutions to the soliciting user.
US07734548B2
Methods, systems, and products are disclosed for providing electronic media to a customer. One method prompts a customer to license a lifetime right to electronic media. The lifetime right allows the customer to experience the electronic media as often as desired. If the customer agrees to license the lifetime right, then the license is electronically stored on behalf of the customer. The licensed electronic media is communicated to the customer via a communications network.
US07734544B2
Techniques are presented for authorization and capture with multiple funding sources and currencies. A transaction amount associated with a target currency is authorized from one or more funding sources, where at least one of the one or more funding sources includes funds associated with a different currency from the target currency. The funds from the different currency are calculated at authorization to cover the transaction amount and converted at settlement or capture to determine if the transaction amount is still covered at capture.
US07734543B2
A switching system for the electronic presentment and payment of bills between a Consumer and a Biller. The system includes an open, interoperable switching network for routing bill summary information between a Biller and a Consumer. Bill summary files are generated by a Bill Service Provider. Consumer Service Providers poll the Bill Service Providers through the switching network for newly generated bill summary files. The bill summary files are routed through the switching network to the appropriate Consumer Service Provider. Customers of the Consumer Service Provider log on to the web site of the Consumer Service Provider to access bill summary data. In addition to viewing the bill summary files electronically, the Consumer can initiate electronic payment of previously presented bills or bills that have not been presented electronically. Accounts of the Billers and Consumers are settled periodically by the switching network and reports are generated of the historical transactional activity of the exchanges over the network. Detailed information concerning a bill is accessible by the consumer only via a direct communication with the Biller, e.g., a hyperlink to the web site of the Biller, not via the switching network.
US07734533B2
A method and system for providing electronic trading via yield curves. The method and system allow automatic execution of electronic trades with yield curve trading strategies using real, synthetic, black box, spread, and supply differential yield curve trading information.
US07734529B1
A variety of user interfaces, systems and methods are provided for traders of commodities, futures contracts, derivatives, stocks, etc. A user interface may have two display modes, locked and unlocked. In the locked mode, some or all of the data fields (price, bids, offers—optionally bids and offers not exposed to the market) are locked. In the unlocked mode, all the data fields, including the price column, are dynamically updated. In a second embodiment, a price column is divided such that prices above the market are in a first column and prices below the market are in a second column to reduce the number of columns required to show bids, offers and prices. Optionally, the trader's bids and offers not exposed to the market can be shown in columns adjacent to the market bids and offers. In a third embodiment of the invention orders are cancelled if the market changes within a short period of time before the order is placed and the change does not benefit the user.
US07734509B2
Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants based at least in part on an expansion plan, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to the merchant, and requesting an acceptance of a membership status from the merchant.
US07734506B2
This invention is related to electronic information transfer between trading partners and more particularly to the use of a physical item identifier affixed to a physical item for tracking the item using physical identification systems. The invention further discloses the catalogs, catalog queries and processes to provide the information to initialize the item in the physical identification systems.In the present invention, a machine-readable item identifier is affixed to a physical item. The identifier is unique and is used to identify the item. The item identifier has three segments: 1) catalog identifier, 2) item description identifier, and 3) physical item identifier. The catalog identifier is used to determine the catalog that provides the item description and a description specific to the physical item. The item description identifier is used to query the catalog, which returns the description of the item. The physical item identifier is used to query the catalog, which returns a more detailed description of the physical item. The item identifier and the item description are used to initialize item in the physical identification system. The description specific to the item is added to the physical identification system and associated with the item identifier.
US07734497B2
A method for implementing transaction-based data exchange. The method includes transferring information relating to a product via a transmission means selected by an individual at a computing device requesting the information. The information includes at least one of warranty information, accounting information, pricing information, and product details. The method further includes calculating a net worth relating to the product, and updating a financial application associated with the individual with results of the calculating.
US07734496B1
An improved survey method is disclosed for evaluating the satisfaction of a client with the services and support provided by a service provider. The survey method includes first surveying at least one representative of a service provider providing a service to a client. A plan is then developed for the client based on survey data from the service provider representative survey to address at least one aspect of the provided service requires changing. The developed plan is then presented to the client. A second survey is then taken of at least representative of the client based on performance of the service provider and the developed plan. The survey method advantageously exploits the knowledge of those service provider representatives that provide a service to the client for identifying advantageous modifications of the service or support areas before presenting the client with a survey. In such manner, such survey results would enable a service provider to more quickly implement a plan for service changes that would likely increase client satisfaction with a single or reduced number of client surveys.
US07734495B2
A method and system for the collection of consumer sales data for use in intelligent management of shelf space in a retail environment based on quantitative analysis of consumer sales data in which interactions between two or more products are quantitatively applied in estimating sales for a particular selection of the shelf space location and/or shelf space amount. Such management may be achieved manually or automatically with the invention.
US07734488B2
A top-down tiered process establishes an objective measure of the functional capacity of an asset to address a specified use. The process comprises: developing Issue Categories and lists of functional impact Sub-issue Types and specific issues under each type that may impact functionality of the asset for a specified use; providing the list to evaluators; employing evaluators to evaluate functionality, evaluators assigning a numerical Severity measure to each Sub-issue Type present during the evaluation; recording occurrences of issues under each Sub-issue Type discovered, summing occurrences to determine a Density of each Sub-issue Type; recording the evaluation in one or more engineering management systems (EMS); and using the recorded evaluation, calculating a value to be inserted on a numerical scale as a functionality index, FI. In select embodiments of the present invention, a numerical scale is used with values from 0-100.
US07734486B2
In one embodiment, a method that can be performed on a system, is provided for preferred vender pre-transaction bidding. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing to a user one or more offers for sale of an item or service, the offers matching criteria pre-determined by one of a separate user or entity; receiving a selection of at least one offer from the user; comparing the selected offer to a set of pre-determined preferences of the user and generating and transmitting a request to one or more vendors for a counter-offer based on the set of pre-determined preferences of the user; in response to receiving one or more counter-offers, comparing the one or more counter offers to the criteria pre-determined by the separate user or entity; and providing to the user one or more of the counter-offers matching the criteria pre-determined by the separate user or entity.
US07734478B2
The system distributes workload amongst a plurality of pharmacy resources that are connected by a computer network. Work orders are queued at each pharmacy resource and redistributed based on existing workload distribution, capacity of pharmacy resources, and/or product demand.
US07734470B2
Methods and systems for testing and analyzing integrated voice response systems are provided. Computer devices are used to simulate caller responses or inputs to components of the integrated voice response systems. The computer devices receive responses from the components. The responses may be in the form of VXML and grammar files that are used to implement call flow logic. The responses may to analyzed to evaluate the performance of the components and/or call flow logic.
US07734467B2
Techniques for assisting in translation are provided A speech recognition hypothesis is obtained, corresponding to a source language utterance. Information retrieval is performed on a supplemental database, based on a situational context, to obtain at least one word string that is related to the source language utterance. The speech recognition hypothesis and the word string are then formatted for display to a user, to facilitate an appropriate selection by the user for translation.
US07734462B2
A bandwidth extension module, and an associated method and computer-readable medium, suitable for use in artificially extending the bandwidth of a lowband speech signal. The bandwidth extension module comprises a band-pass filter configured to produce a band-pass signal from the lowband speech signal; at least one carrier frequency modulator, each carrier frequency modulator configured to pitch-synchronously modulate the band-pass signal about a respective carrier frequency, the at least one carrier frequency modulator collectively producing a highband speech signal component; a synthesis filter configured to determine a highband speech signal based on the highband speech signal component; and a summation module configured to combine the lowband speech signal with the highband speech signal to obtain a bandwidth-extended speech signal.
US07734460B2
A time-asynchronous lattice-constrained search algorithm is developed and used to process a linguistic model of speech that has a long-contextual-span capability. In the algorithm, nodes and links in the lattices developed from the model are expanded via look-ahead. Heuristics as utilized by a search algorithm are estimated. Additionally, pruning strategies can be applied to speed up the search.
US07734455B1
In one embodiment, a design is verified by creating a graphical model with a graphical modeling tool executing on a computing device. The graphical model may include a plurality of model elements. A postcondition element is coupled to a selected model element of the plurality of model elements. The postcondition element is associated with a desired result. The graphical model is employed to generate an executable form of the design. The executable form of the design and an indication of the desired result are provided to a verification tool, to instruct the verification tool to implement one or more verification scenarios.
US07734452B2
A method and system for performing ternary verification is disclosed. Initially, a ternary model is generated from a binary model of a logic circuit design. The pairings used to encode the ternary model are then recorded. Next, the number of the recorded gate pairings is reduced by removing all invalid gate pairings. A ternary verification is performed on the ternary model having a reduced number of gate pairings.
US07734451B2
Various methods, devices, systems, and computer programs are disclosed relating to the use of models to represent systems and processes (such as manufacturing and production plants). For example, a method may include generating a first model and a second model using operating data associated with a system or process. The method may also include using the first and second models to predict one or more events associated with the system or process. The one or more events are predicted by generating one or more initial event predictions using the first model and adjusting the one or more initial event predictions using the second model. The first model may represent a Principal Component Analysis (PCA) model, and the second model may represent a Fuzzy Logic model.
US07734449B1
The hydrodynamics of a seagoing vessel are numerically modeled through the present invention's new calculative methodology, which uniquely combines vessel boundary characteristics and pseudo-spectral environmental characteristics. Solutions are obtained through mutual transformations between the vessel boundary's irregular grid and the environment's regular pseudo-spectral grid. The pressure at the vessel boundary, an important component of the vessel boundary itself, can be determined via either (i) finite element analysis (which has a Cartesian framework) or (ii) the present invention's new vessel normal vector analysis (which has a non-Cartesian framework); the latter approach avoids the singularity problem that generally besets hydrodynamics-related mathematics. Typical inventive practice implements a computer processing unit and succeeds in finding superior solutions in shorter CPU durations.
US07734438B2
In a coordinate measuring machine or any other kind of machine having at least one translational movement axis, correction values are determined by moving the mobile head of the machine along a defined path of movement. First and second position data are recorded by means of first and second position measuring devices. The first position data originate from position measuring devices of the machine. The second position data result from a reference measurement. The correction values are determined as a function of the first and second position data. A defined number of correction values is determined for each section of the path of movement, with the defined number varying in the sections as a function of the error profile defined by the correction values.
US07734434B2
In some embodiments an apparatus includes a higher order statistical signal processor to process a jittered digital signal, a diagonal line average unit to identify a distinct line in a signal output from the higher order statistical signal processor, and a peak detection unit to determine a peak value in response to an output of the diagonal line average unit and to provide a data rate signal as an output. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07734433B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a first power source having a power supply voltage that operates the semiconductor integrated circuit, a voltage comparator that compares the power supply voltage with a reference voltage, and a comparison result recording unit that records a comparison result of the voltage comparator, wherein the comparison result recording unit records a length of a period based on a clock signal for which the power supply voltage exceeds the reference voltage.
US07734413B2
When a guiding route is included in a display target region at a photograph display mode, route data of the guiding route is also read. Within the read route data, information of a region for editing a photograph is stored. This information includes a road kind (color information), coordinates of the start/end points of the road, and a road width when editing is for a road. Next, photograph data is read, so that a color of the photograph data is edited based on the stored information of the route data. For instance, a color of the photograph data in a corresponding road region is changed to red that represents “national road.”
US07734412B2
In one example, an apparatus and method are provided for rendering map images. In one example, an apparatus (e.g., a map server) includes logic for causing the transfer of tiled vector image data in response to a map request, wherein the vector data is associated with stored map data divided into a plurality of tiles. The tiled vector image data is transferred to a remote device (e.g., a client device) for rendering of the map image. Additionally, the vector image data may comprise one or more attributes associated therewith, the one or more attributes configurable by a receiving device. For example, the map image may be rendered (e.g., customized) based on one or more local attributes to vary the language used, colors, how items in the map are displayed, and other imaging characteristics of the map image.
US07734409B2
In a method for controlling the composition of a combustible air-fuel mixture present in a combustion chamber of a spark-ignited internal combustion engine having external mixture formation, at least two fluids containing air are generated, of which at least one is an air-fuel mixture; the fluids are supplied to the combustion chamber, wherein the quantity proportions of the fluids are controlled such that their total composition corresponds to the predetermined composition.
US07734404B2
A deceleration control apparatus for a vehicle including a controller that performs deceleration control based on a first target deceleration set based on a distance to a starting point of an upcoming curve, when the deceleration control for the curve is started at a position distant from the starting point of the curve; and that performs the deceleration control based on a second target deceleration set based on a lateral acceleration that is estimated to be detected when the vehicle passes the starting point of the curve, when the deceleration control for the curve is started at a position close to the starting point of the curve. With this apparatus, it is possible to perform the deceleration control that provides drive assist according to the intention of the driver and that enhances driving convenience for the driver.
US07734403B2
A system for vehicle driver support carrying out assist functions in a motor vehicle for supporting the driver in stopping and starting maneuvers, which are activated depending on a first comparison between at least one driving state parameter and a threshold value and/or based on first actuating signals from an actuating unit operable by the driver. A control unit determines a vehicle state by way of another comparison of at least one driving state variable with a predetermined threshold value and/or based on additional actuating signals of the actuating unit, in that the control unit checks whether at least one assist function is activated, and in that the control unit controls the brake system of the vehicle depending on the detected vehicle state when at least one assist function is activated.
US07734401B2
A shift control system of a hybrid transmission for a vehicle is arranged to correct ideal motor/generator torques so as to achieve a target engine speed prior to a target driving torque when an actual engine speed becomes greater than an allowable upper-limit engine speed and to correct the ideal motor/generator torque so as to achieve the target driving torque prior to the target engine speed when the actual engine speed does not become greater than the allowable upper-limit engine speed.
US07734394B2
A method and a system of controlling a restraint device in a vehicle during a crash. The method includes sensing a lateral condition, classifying the crash, sensing a roll value, comparing the roll value with a plausibility region, and activating the restraint device based on the classified crash and when the roll value falls within the plausibility region.
US07734388B2
A wheel-speed-sensor-anomaly detection apparatus detects anomaly of wheel speed sensors of a vehicle. When a difference between the minimum wheel speed among detected wheel speeds and the smallest value among the remaining wheel speeds is greater than a predetermined threshold value, in principle, a wheel speed sensor of the wheel corresponding to the minimum wheel speed is determined to be anomalous. Meanwhile, when a wheel having a lowered tire air pressure (air-pressure-lowered wheel) is present and a road surface on which the vehicle is currently traveling is a low-μ road surface, the operation of detecting anomaly of the wheel speed sensors is prohibited. This operation reliably prevents erroneous detection of anomaly of the wheel speed sensor of the air-pressure-lowered wheel, which erroneous detection would otherwise occur due to the locking tendency of the air-pressure-lowered wheel occurring because of decreased tire air pressure, in particular, on a low-μ road surface.
US07734378B2
A vertical component or the like of a floor reaction force moment to be applied to a robot 1 is defined as a restriction object amount, and the permissible range of the restriction object amount is set. A provisional motion of the robot that satisfies a predetermined dynamic balance condition is determined on a predetermined dynamic model, and if a restriction object amount determined by the provisional motion deviates from the permissible range, then the motion of a desired gait is determined by correcting the provisional motion by changing the angular momentum changing rate of the robot from the provisional motion while limiting the restriction object amount to the permissible range on the dynamic model.
US07734369B2
A method for supplying items to dispensing units that hold at least one type of item and a record of inventory levels comprises periodically sending restocking information from the dispensing units over a network to a server computer. Ordering information is generated for the items to be restocked based on the restocking information. The ordering information is electronically sent to one or more supplier computers to order items to be restocked into the dispensing units.
US07734362B2
For reducing Doppler artifacts in the wave-field synthesis due to delay changes from one time to a second time, first, the delay for the first time and the delay for the second time are determined. Then, a value of an audio signal delayed by the first delay for the current time and the value for the audio signal delayed by the second delay for the current time are determined. Then, the first value is weighted by a first weighting factor and a second value is averaged with a second weighting factor, whereupon the two weighted values are added up to obtain a discrete value for the current time of the component in a loudspeaker signal for a loudspeaker based on a virtual source. Thus, by knowing a delay present at a later time, panning is obtained from a delay to a subsequent delay, which reduces undesired Doppler artifacts.
US07734361B2
A communication system comprises a terminal configured for being able to communicate with a computer and to operate according to at least one operational parameter. A peripheral device for use with the terminal has a characterizing parameter associated therewith. The terminal is operable for reading the characterizing parameter from the peripheral device when the device is coupled to the terminal. The terminal is further operable for configuring itself to operate according to an operational parameter associated with the characterizing parameter of the peripheral device.
US07734350B2
The present invention generally relates to an apparatus and method for stimulating respiration during sleep. In one aspect, a respiration stimulation system is provided. The respiration stimulation system includes a detector configured to measure a respiratory cycle or a user and provide an electrical output signal indicative of the respiratory cycle. The respiration stimulation system further includes a control device configured to receive the electrical output signal from the detector and monitor the respiratory cycle of the user. Additionally, the respiration stimulation system includes a stimulator configured to apply stimuli to at least one point of stimulation upon receipt of a signal from the control device. In another aspect, a method of stimulating respiration in a user is provided. In a further aspect, a respiration stimulation system is provided.
US07734349B2
Embodiments of the invention are related to monitoring devices and methods with osmometric sensors, amongst other things. In an embodiment, the invention includes an implantable heart failure monitoring system including an osmometric sensor, the osmometric sensor configured to generate a signal corresponding to the osmotic strength of a bodily fluid, and a controller in communication with the osmometric sensor, the controller configured to receive and process the signal corresponding to the osmotic strength of a bodily fluid. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US07734346B2
In general, the invention is directed to techniques for delivery of pacing in response to a premature atrial contraction (PAC) to prevent atrial arrhythmia, i.e., delivery of post-PAC pacing pulses. The techniques may involve monitoring the success rate of prior post-PAC pacing sequences, and adjusting the number of post-PAC pacing pulses delivered subsequent post-PAC pacing sequences based on a success rate. In addition, the techniques may involve adjusting the post-PAC pacing interval based on the success rate.
US07734345B2
One method for aborting cardiac treatments includes detecting an arrhythmia in a heart of a patient with at least one electrode, which is located outside the heart of the patient. An alarm signal is generated after the detection of the arrhythmia to alert a user of an impending cardiac treatment. The cardiac treatment is cancelled if an abort signal is provided by the user within a predetermined amount of time.
US07734343B2
The present application describes an intravascular implantable pacing and/or defibrillation system. The described system includes a pulse generator that is implantable within a blood vessel and proportioned to blood flow through the blood vessel, and at least one lead attachable to the pulse generator. During implantation, the pulse generator is introduced into a patient's vasculature, advanced to a desired vessel and anchored in place within the vessel. The lead or leads are placed within the heart or surrounding vessels as needed to deliver electrical pulses to the appropriate location.
US07734342B2
Apparatus and techniques to address problems associated with lead migration, patient movement or position, histological changes, neural plasticity or disease progression. Disclosed are techniques for implanting a lead having therapy delivery elements, such as electrodes or drug delivery ports, within a vertebral or cranial bone so as to maintain these elements in a fixed position relative to a desired treatment site. The therapy delivery elements may thereafter be adjusted in situ with a position control mechanism and/or a position controller to improve the desired treatment, such as electrical stimulation and/or drug infusion to a precise target. The therapy delivery elements may be positioned laterally in any direction relative to the targeted treatment site or toward or away from the targeted treatment site. A control system maybe provided for open- or closed-loop feedback control of the position of the therapy delivery elements as well as other aspects of the treatment therapy.
US07734338B2
Biofeedback training can materially reduce the frequency and/or severity of seizures in sufferers from epilepsy, notably those resistant to treatment by way of therapeutic drugs. By training sufferers to decrease their galvanic skin response, which generally corresponds to an increase in vigilance or awareness, it is found that after such training, the frequency or severity of seizures is reduced, and in particular that by recollecting the training sessions, some patients can reduce the severity of, or avoid, an impending epileptic seizure.
US07734329B2
Method for pre-interventional planning of a 2D fluoroscopy projection for an interventional entry using a fixed instrument, comprising the following steps: a) Recording a 3D data set, b) Planning the intervention, c) Planning the optimum projection direction, d) Registering the 3D data set with a navigation system and a 2D fluoroscopy system, e) Transmission of the intervention data to the navigation system, f) Computing the position of the fluoroscopy system, and g) Executing the interventional entry under fluoroscopy.
US07734326B2
A method for positioning at least one catheter on a body in which a fluid is present includes performing a body-specific detection of anatomical structure and/or tissue structure. A position of the fluid in the body and/or the amount of fluid in the body are detected and at least one catheter is positioned such that at least a part of the fluid can be drained from the body. A method for simulating drainage of a fluid from an interstice of a body includes performing a body-specific detection of anatomical structure and/or tissue structure. A position of the fluid in the body and/or the amount of fluid in the body are detected and a location of at least one catheter on the body is set.
US07734312B2
Disclosed is a radio base station including: a common control channel transmission unit configured to transmit a common control channel by using radio communications parameter to be assigned to each radio base station; a transmission level determination unit configured to transmit the common control channel according to a predetermined transmission pattern; a reception level supervision unit configured to acquire a reception level of the common control channel received by a mobile station; and an overlap determination unit configured to determine whether or not the predetermined radio communications parameter overlaps with a radio communications parameter used in a different radio base station based on the reception level acquired by the reception level supervision unit and the predetermined transmission pattern.
US07734310B2
To provide a mobile terminal device which enables a user to view the television broadcast while the television broadcast is being displayed or the television broadcast is start to be displayed even in the case where the remaining amount of battery is small, and which can perform an action which reflects the user's intention. The mobile terminal device (100) includes: a television broadcast receiving unit (101) which receives a television broadcast signal; a television broadcast processing unit (102) which decodes the stream of the received television broadcast signal; a display conversion unit (103) which converts the decoded YUV signal into an RGB signal on a frame-by-frame basis; a control unit (109) which controls actions of the mobile terminal device in the case where the remaining amount of a battery (112) falls to a predetermined amount or below while the video and audio of the television broadcast is being outputted or in the case where the remaining amount of the battery (112) is the predetermined amount or below at the time when the video and audio of the television broadcast are required to be outputted; and an electric power supply management unit (111) which detects remaining amounts of the battery (112) and notifies the control unit (109) of the remaining amounts of battery for every predetermined time points.
US07734308B2
Whether a receiver supports blind data channel detection is determined, and transmission of control channel information associated with a data channel is disabled if the determining step determines the receiver is capable of detecting the data channel without the use of control channel information. Data is transmitted to the receiver on the data channel without the control channel information after disabling of the transmission of the control channel information.
US07734303B2
Systems and methodologies are described that facilitate monitoring transmitter performance in a wireless communication environment. A metric or metrics associated with one or more pilot symbols can be generated and used to evaluate performance. To generate pilot metrics, a signal analyzer can be used to sample the output of a transmitter and the sampled signal can be propagated to a processor. The processor can generate frequency domain channel estimates for subcarriers. Average channel estimates for the subcarriers can be used with the known pilot symbols to determine noise or error for each subcarrier, which can be used to generate the noise variance for each of the pilot symbols. A pilot modulation error metric can be generated based upon the average channel estimates and noise variance.
US07734295B2
A method for providing concurrent service in a mobile communication system is disclosed in which a SCCP connection identifier SLR/DLR of a lower layer and a Service Option Connection Identifier (SOCI) on an IOS message of the higher layer to be exchanged are transmitted when a SCCP connection is established between a BSC and a MSC, thereby providing additional services to those already requested from a mobile station after the SCCP connection establishment without stopping a currently used service. According to the method, the concurrent service is provided while minimizing the conventional call processing procedures on the interface between the BSC and the MSC, thereby allowing a subscriber to use new additional service without stopping the current service or concurrently use a plurality of services such as voice and packet data services. Furthermore, a flexible confront is possible to a future development direction of the network. Providing concurrent service is an essential function of the third generation mobile communication network in a multimedia environment
US07734294B2
An intelligent interactive call handling system is provided that typically includes a central office, a service control point, and an internet call routing system. The central office typically triggers a query responsive to receiving a call request. The service control point is coupled to the central office, receives the query, and triggers an internet call routing query. The internet call routing system, which is coupled to the service control point, typically receives the internet call routing query, determines presence of the called party with respect to at least one registered communication device, sends a prompt to the called party at said at least one registered communication device responsive to the presence determination, receives a reply from said at least one registered communication device, and routes the call responsive to the reply. Methods and other systems are also provided.
US07734293B2
A hotspot access point enables a mobile wireless device to resume a service with a network server when service is interrupted by the mobile device moving out of the coverage area of the access point. A short-range communication link is established by the access point with the mobile device based on a local identification of the device. The access point requests additional information from the wireless device. The additional information relates to a wide area network identification of the device. The mobile device transmits additional information to the access point which stores the local area identification and additional identification. The access point transmits to the mobile device a coded identificator of the wireless device based upon the local area identification and a network identification of the device. The access point determines whether service with the mobile device is open and establishes a wide area connection with the mobile device.
US07734290B2
An exemplary method for updating acquisition list in a wireless communication device having a first transceiver and a second transceiver is disclosed. The acquisition list associated with the second transceiver. The exemplary method comprises updating a first category of entries of the acquisition list over a wide area network via the first transceiver and updating a second category of entries of the acquisition list by a user through input means on the wireless communication device.
US07734289B2
A network element includes at least one input to receive communications from a plurality of terminal devices and a plurality of network elements, a processing unit and logic to classify the communications as a type of user information, and a router to route the communications according to the type of user information. The communication may be routed to at least one of a plurality of subnetworks according to the type of user information.
US07734285B2
Network-initiated uninstallation of programs on remote modules, such as wireless telephones, is performed over a wireless network to recall programs stored on the wireless telephone that are faulty or harmful to the wireless telephone, the wireless network, or a user of the wireless telephone. If one or more recall criteria are met for uninstallation of a targeted application program, a recall command source constructs a recall command. A program manager, using a database containing information about each program downloaded onto each wireless telephone in the network, identifies, for the recall command source, which wireless telephones carry the targeted application program. The recall command includes a unique application identification for the targeted application program and an instruction to the wireless telephone to uninstall the targeted application program. The recall command is broadcast over the wireless network to the wireless telephones. In response to the recall command, the wireless telephone automatically uninstalls the targeted application program by executing a recall program on the wireless telephone.
US07734280B2
A method and apparatus for authentication in a wireless communication network is disclosed. A secret is shared between a mobile device and a home device. When a mobile device requests a connection to a remote device and the remote device does not have knowledge of the shared secret, the remote device determines whether the mobile device can connect to the remote device by concurrently sending a challenge to the mobile device and the home device. The remote device then compares the responses from the mobile device and the home device.
US07734278B2
A method and system for providing credit for participation in an ad hoc wireless communication network is useful for improving network efficiency. The method includes receiving at a first network node a first data packet transmitted from a second network node (step 305). The first data packet includes payload data and credit claim data. The first node then determines that the credit claim data should be forwarded to a credit accounting authority (step 310), so a second data packet is then transmitted from the first node to the credit accounting authority (step 315). The second data packet includes some of the credit claim data. The first node then transmits a third data packet to a third network node, where the third data packet includes the payload data (step 320).
US07734271B2
Frequency converters include waveguides configured for a local oscillator (LO) signal, an intermediate frequency (IF) signal, and an RF signal. A multimode IF waveguide can be used for selectively coupling of an IF signal and to reduce signal contributions produced by the LO signal. Typically, the multimode waveguide is situated to that the IF signal and the LO signal propagate in different waveguide modes, and a selected one of these signals can be selectively attenuated. In some examples, a periodically stepped waveguide is used to enhance propagation of a selected waveguide mode or a lossy conductor is used to attenuate a selected waveguide mode.
US07734266B2
An improved radio frequency receiver and method enabling the dynamic range of a radio frequency receiver to be extended are disclosed. In the receiver system, the effective received channel power is a combination of the wanted signal level, the noise floor and any in band spurious signals generated from blocking signals present at the input to the receiver system. When this total effective channel power is known, the front end gain is optimized by adaptively minimizing the total effective channel power. Since the wanted input signal power does not vary with the receiver gain setting, this optimizes the noise figure and input intercept point for the presented input signal conditions.
US07734264B2
An access terminal (102) reacquires a system frame number (SFN) when a difference between a continuous counter elapsed time (220) and a calculated elapsed time (222) exceeds a threshold. The continuous counter elapsed time (220) is generated by a continuous counter (122) remaining active during a sleep state of the access terminal (102) and the calculated elapsed time (222) is based on a SFN derived from a counter value generated by a discontinuous counter (124) that is deactivated during the sleep state. In one aspect, the continuous counter (122) may be clocked by a continuous clock (118) during a sleep mode and the discontinuous counter (124) may be clocked by a faster clock (120) that is deactivated during the sleep mode. During reactivation after the sleep mode, the discontinuous counter (120) is set, at the counter set time, to a reset counter value (126) corresponding to an SFN indicated by the continuous counter (122).
US07734255B2
The radio resource management server 1 receives radio link quality information measured by the radio base station 2 and radio link quality information measured by the radio base station 3 and thus detects the occurrence of interference. Upon the occurrence of the interference, the transmission power of the radio base station causing the occurrence of interference is controllably reduced to suppress the interference. In the method of controllably varying the transmission power of a radio base station, depending on the number of radio terminals or traffic volume, oscillation of a service area occurs. However, according to the present invention, the transmission power is changed on the occurrence of interference, without depending on the number of radio terminals or traffic volume, so that the area oscillation does not occur after the transmission power has been once stabilized.
US07734254B2
A system and method for remote device control are disclosed. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include a radio controlled toy and a controller for controlling the toy. In some embodiments, the controller may have an input mechanism and a housing component that defines a cavity, within which may be located a wireless wide area transceiver and a wireless local area transceiver. Some controllers may also have an operating system for the controller and an application resident on the controller and operable to convert inputs received via the input mechanism into commands for the toy. The controller may have a microprocessor operable to execute the application and to cause the commands to be communicated to the toy using the wireless local area transceiver.
US07734251B1
A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having an input (e.g., 77) controlling a plurality of computers (e.g., 205), generate and output user information at receiver stations. Under broadcast control, local computers (73, 205), combine user information selectively into prior art communications to exhibit personalized mass media programming at video monitors (202), speakers (263), printers (221), etc. At intermediate transmission stations (e.g., cable television stations), signals in network broadcasts and from local inputs (74, 77, 97, 98) cause control processors (71) and computers (73) to selectively automate connection and operation of receivers (53), recorder/players (76), computers (73), generators (82), strippers (81), etc. At receiver stations, signals in received transmissions and from local inputs (225, 218, 22) cause control processors (200) and computers (205) to automate connection and operation of converters (201), tuners (215), decryptors (224), recorder/players (217), computers (205), furnaces (206), etc. Processors (71, 200) meter and monitor availability and usage of programming.
US07734250B2
The method for operating a radio communications system, which provides for the routing of data of connections via subscriber stations, which occasionally perform the function of routing nodes, provides that one of the subscriber stations indicates, to a routing unit of the radio communications system, its readiness to take on the function of a routing node.
US07734249B1
A method and system for detecting, at a repeater, that a communication passing between a wireless communication device and radio access network infrastructure via the wireless repeater has a predefined characteristic and responsively outputting a reporting signal is disclosed. The reporting signal may be sent to a database which is accessible to a positioning system. The reporting signal may contain information regarding attributes of the repeater. Using the attributes of the repeater, the positioning system may be able to perform more accurate triangulation when locating the wireless communication device.
US07734242B2
A protective layer setting unit includes a protective agent and an application unit configured to apply the protective agent to an image carrying member in a manner sufficient to satisfy equations (1) and (2). A surface condition of the image carrying member is determined by an applied-agent amount index “X” and an agent coating ratio “Y,” and a ratio of “X/Y” is set to 0.020 or less after applying the protective agent for 120 minutes. applied-agent amount index X=Sb/Sa (1) agent coating ratio Y=(A0−A)/A0×100(%) (2).
US07734240B2
Fusers, printing apparatuses and methods, methods of fusing toner on media are disclosed. An embodiment of the fusers for fusing toner on a medium includes a rotatable fuser member including an outer fusing surface; a first indenter adapted to form a first indentation in the fusing surface at a first location during movement of the fuser member relative to the first indenter; and a second indenter adapted to form a second indentation in the fusing surface at a second location laterally spaced from the first location during movement of the fuser member relative to the second indenter.
US07734236B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a belt unit including: a belt that is formed in an endless shape; a first roller that supports the belt from an inner side of the belt; a second roller that supports the belt from the inner side of the belt; regulation walls that are disposed on both sides of the second roller and that each includes a boss protruding outwardly, the boss having a tapered portion; and plate frames that are disposed on both sides of the belt and that each includes: a first groove portion that supports the first roller; and a second groove portion that supports the second roller, the second groove portion having a rounded edge formed to be run on by the boss through the tapered portion.
US07734232B2
In a toner cartridge, a cover member is attached to an outer surface of a case main body so as to cover a filling hole through which a toner is filled in a toner chamber. The cover member is detachably attached to the case main body by a lock mechanism disposed between the case main body and the cover member. The lock mechanism includes two or more lock structures which lock the cover member to the case main body and a release tool which carries out a release operation of the lock structures. Each of the lock structures includes an elastic engagement claw and an engagement recess which are provided on opposite surfaces of the case main body and the cover member, respectively. The release tool is configured to allow all of the elastic engagement claws to be simultaneously displaced in a lock release direction.
US07734223B2
An image forming apparatus and process cartridge employed in same which, when contact charging processing is implemented employing a brush roller, suppresses the generation of localized excessive discharge and suppresses a state of localized excessive discharge on a photosensitive drum surface. Charging means is configured from a brush roller in the surface of which a brush is formed, drive means for rotationally driving the brush roller, and a power source for applying a prescribed charging voltage to the brush roller, and uniformly charges the surface of the latent image carrier by bringing the brush roller into contact with the surface of the latent image carrier. The outer diameter of the latent image carrier is in the range 16 [mm] or more and 34 [mm] or less, the outer diameter of the brush roller is in the range 6 [mm] or more and 24 [mm] or less, and the outer diameter of the latent image carrier and the outer diameter of the brush roller are set so that the sum of the outer diameters thereof is 40 [mm] or less.
US07734221B2
The present invention provides a conductive member 10 with a superior durability by controlling an electric resistance value of an electric resistance adjusting layer 2 within a semi conductive range, preventing an ion conductive material from bleeding out of the electric resistance adjusting layer 2 to avoid improper charging and avoiding strength decreasing of a weld portion of the electric resistance adjusting layer and an electric resistance value fluctuation. The electric resistance adjusting layer 2 is made from a resin composition prepared by melting and kneading a thermoplastic resin, a high molecular ion conductive material containing an alkali metal salt and a graft copolymer which has an affinity for both the thermoplastic resin and the high molecular ion conductive material.
US07734220B2
A velocity correction device of an image forming apparatus capable of obtaining a high-quality image. The image forming apparatus includes a rotor, a motor, a motor control unit, and a velocity command memory. The velocity correction device includes a velocity measuring unit, an arithmetic unit, and an interface unit. The velocity correction device is attached to the image forming apparatus. The velocity measuring unit measures the rotational velocity of the rotor when the motor is rotating at a reference rotational velocity which is a fixed velocity. The arithmetic unit compares the measured velocity with a no-velocity-fluctuation velocity of the rotor calculated by the reference rotational velocity of the motor, extracts a velocity fluctuation component of the rotor, and generates the velocity command data to cancel the extracted velocity fluctuation component. The generated velocity command data are transmitted to the velocity command memory through the interface unit, and stored therein.
US07734219B2
A structure which increases positioning precision of a blade member to a rotating member, an image forming apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a unit frame. A first reference surface of a boss provided on a surface of a frame to which a blade is contacted is formed by a first mold that forms a positioning hole for positioning a rotating member. The first reference surface supports the blade member to prevent the blade member from moving to a weight direction. With this arrangement, there is no manufacturing error of the first reference surface due to a mold assembling error. As a result, precision of positioning the blade member to the rotating member can be increased.
US07734215B2
A tool for rotating a drum from a first cartridge drum axle end, the first cartridge drum axle end having a predetermined shape, the tool comprising a tool body configured to provide structure to the tool; a first end defined by the tool body; a second end defined by the tool body, the second end positioned on an end on the tool body opposite to the first end; and a first impression made on the first end of the tool body, the first impression substantially matching the predetermined shape of the first cartridge drum axle end, wherein when the first cartridge drum axle end is inserted within the first impression, the tool allows the drum to be rotated.
US07734214B2
A system board provided with electrical components is contained in a substrate frame, a reinforcing frame is pivotally fixed to an peripheral part of the substrate frame, and an HDD is mounted on the reinforcing frame in a vibration-damping manner. With this structure, the HDD is mounted on the system board in a floating state, and a space is formed between them as an airflow passage.
US07734208B2
An image fixing apparatus controls temperature of a rotating member for fixing with compensation for delay by using a Smith predictor with a controlled object model to reduce temperature ripple effectively. In one example, the image fixing apparatus includes a pair of rotating members to form a nip portion, a heater to heat the rotating member, a temperature sensor to detect temperature of the rotating member, a calculator to calculate a heat value to attain a target temperature of the rotating member, a controller to control the heater based on a calculation result of the heat value with compensation for delay using a model according to the calculation result, and a selector to select a control in which an output of the compensation is input into the calculator or a control in which the output of the compensation is not input into the calculator.
US07734206B2
An image forming apparatus including an exposure device, a development device, an image density detection device, a supply device for supplying a toner to the development device, a cleaning device for cleaning the surface of an image bearing member, a driving torque detection device for detecting a driving torque of the image bearing member, and a controller which drives the image bearing member while providing a predetermined electric potential difference between a region charged in the image bearing member and a developer support in case of non-image formation conducts a driving torque detecting operation with respect to the image bearing member by means of the driving torque detection device, and changes a reference value in response to the value of the driving torque detected.
US07734202B2
An apparatus for adjusting a fixing pressure of an image forming apparatus is provided. The apparatus for adjusting the fixing pressure includes a pair of pressing members to rotatably support an axis of a first roller from both ends and to rotate about a hinge shaft to cause the first roller to press against a second roller, a pair of hinge cams to move the hinge shaft of the pair of pressing members in either of two directions, a driving unit to rotate the pair of hinge cams, and a control unit to control the driving unit to adjust the position of the hinge shaft.
US07734200B2
An image forming system includes an image forming apparatus that includes process units for different colors and a lifetime management device that manages lifetime information on each unit of the image forming apparatus. The lifetime management device counts the number of prints produced by the image forming apparatus with respect to each of photoconductor units and developing units in the process units, and measures an operation amount unique to the respective units. Based on the number of prints, service life of each unit and operation amount, the lifetime management device calculates the remaining lifetime of each unit.
US07734185B2
An optical SSB-SC modulation section 13 subjects an optical signal fa outputted from an optical source 11 to an optical SSB-SC modulation based on the amplitude of an external electric signal fc to thereby output an optical intensity-modulated signal. An optical phase modulation section 14 subjects the optical signal fa to an optical phase modulation based on the amplitude levels of the first to nth external electric signals having frequencies f1 to fn to thereby output the resultant signal as an optical phase-modulated signal. An optical combining section 15 combines together the optical intensity-modulated signal and the optical phase-modulated signal. An optical detecting section 16 performs an optical homodyne detection through a squared detection of the optical intensity-modulated signal and the optical phase-modulated signal combined together to thereby produce a wideband modulated signal, being the difference beat signal between the two optical signals. A combining section 17 combines together the wideband modulated signal and the oth to tth electric signals having frequencies fo to ft to thereby output the resultant signal as a wideband modulated signal.
US07734184B2
An optoelectronic transceiver comprises an active linear TOSA circuit mounted on a header. The active linear TOSA circuit includes input nodes for receiving a differential signal pair, a first bipolar transistor, a second bipolar transistor and an electro-optical transducer. A base terminal of the first bipolar transistor is coupled to the two input nodes and an emitter terminal of the first bipolar transistor is coupled to a base terminal of the second bipolar transistor. A collector terminal of the first bipolar transistor is coupled to a first terminal of the electro-optical transducer, the first terminal of the electro-optical transducer also being configured to be coupled to a voltage source. A collector terminal of the second bipolar transistor is coupled to a second terminal of the electro-optical transducer and an emitter terminal of the second bipolar transistor is coupled to a signal ground which is not the header ground.
US07734180B2
The present invention provides a single fiber bidirectional optical transmission system capable of realizing the extension of a single fiber bidirectional long distance at a moderate price.An optical signal outputted from a second optical transmitter is incident on an optical amplifying portion passing through an optical circulator, a single fiber bidirectional transmission path, an optical circulator and an optical Blue/Red filter. The optical signal outputted from a first optical transmitter is incident on the optical amplifying portion passing through a dispersion compensator and the optical Blue/Red filter. By inserting the dispersion compensator immediately after the first optical transmitter, a difference between a power level by which the optical signal from the first transmitter is inputted to the optical amplifier and the power level by which the optical signal from the second optical transmitter is inputted to the optical amplifier is made small, so that, even when the optical amplifier is installed at one end of the transmission path, both of the bidirectional signals can obtain sufficient gains, thereby realizing a bidirectional collective amplification.
US07734176B2
A system and method for a cell switching optical network. A block of data is buffered at an edge node and sliced into data slices. Slice headers are pre-appended to each data slice. The data slices are then scheduled for transmission onto an optical switching network during fixed time slots defined on a per carrier wavelength basis.
US07734173B2
Error detection and recovery of an optical network element are described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary process includes, but is not limited to, transmitting from a transmitting module of the optical network element a first packet of data to a receiving module of the optical network element, and the transmitting module transmitting a first value representing a number of bits of the first packet having a predetermined logical value to the receiving module, wherein the first value is used by the receiving module to verify an integrity of the first packet in order to determine whether the packet has been transmitted successfully. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US07734159B2
A dispersion device for dispersing volatile materials includes a housing and a plurality of receptacles containing volatile material therein. The device also includes a means for generating or permitting two or more airflows that exit the housing and a switch for adjusting the airflows with respect to speed or path. The plurality of receptacles is connected to the housing such that a portion of the volatile material can be placed into one or more airflows.
US07734152B2
There is disclosed a recording apparatus having first and second recording modes for recording image signals of one frame in tracks, the numbers of which are different in the first and second recording modes. On the first recording mode, a still image is recorded for a first predetermined period. On the second recording mode, a still image is recorded for a second predetermined period. Lengths of these first and second predetermined periods are respectively set according to the first and second recording modes.
US07734144B2
A method and apparatus for editing a source video that has already been taken to stabilize images in the video. To eliminate jerky motion from a video, changes in shots are first detected. Then, any jerkiness within the video of that shot is classified and the video is segmented further into smaller segments based on this classification. The jerkiness within the selected segments is removed. The corrected shot, comprising a plurality of frames, is then added to the preceding shot until all shots of the video have been appropriately corrected for jerkiness. To help the user identify the shots being edited, keyframes or snapshots of the shots are displayed, thereby allowing the user to decide whether processing of the shot is desired and which shots should be incorporated into the final video.
US07734137B2
A multicore optical fibre includes a microstructured cladding material formed from a plurality of cladding elements arranged in an array and each cladding element comprising at least two different materials each having different refractive indices, and a plurality of core elements formed within interstitial regions between adjacent cladding elements. A fibre so formed may have a large number of cores per unit cross-sectional area as compared with prior art fibres, and thus allows the fibre to have relatively short distances between adjacent cores for a given required inter-core isolation. A fibre so formed has utility in many areas requiring high core density, such as inter-chip optical communication, or optical communication between circuit boards.
US07734136B2
The present invention relates to a single mode optical fiber comprising a first central region having a radius r1, a maximum refractive index value n1 and at least one second ring surrounding said first central region, which second ring has a radius r2 and a minimum refractive index value n2, wherein n2
US07734124B2
An optical waveguide includes an optical waveguide main body and mirrors. The optical waveguide main body includes a first cladding layer, a second cladding layer and a core portion provided between the first cladding layer and the second cladding layer. The optical waveguide main body has a first region in which the core portion and the mirrors are arranged and the light signal is transmitted, and a second region arranged on both sides of the first region and not contributing to a transmission of a light signal. Through vias that pass through the optical waveguide main body is provided in the second region. The first region on a side that faces the light emitting element or the light receiving element is protruded larger than the second region on a side that faces the light emitting element or the light receiving element.
US07734117B2
An artificial neural network (ANN) based system that is adapted to process an input pattern to generate an output pattern related thereto having a different number of components than the input pattern. The system (26) is comprised of an ANN (27) and a memory (28), such as a DRAM memory, that are serially connected. The input pattern (23) is applied to a processor (22), where it can be processed or not (the most general case), before it is applied to the ANN and stored therein as a prototype (if learned). A category is associated with each stored prototype. The processor computes the coefficients that allow the determination of the estimated values of the output pattern, these coefficients are the components of a so-called intermediate pattern (24). Assuming the ANN has already learned a number of input patterns, when a new input pattern is presented to the ANN in the recognition phase, the category of the closest prototype is output therefrom and is used as a pointer to the memory. In turn, the memory outputs the corresponding intermediate pattern. The input pattern and the intermediate pattern are applied to the processor to construct the output pattern (25) using the coefficients. Typically, the input pattern is a block of pixels in the field of scaling images.
US07734112B1
A system and method for identifying an object in an electronically acquired image that includes at least one two-dimensional array of pixels. A plurality of one-dimensional gradient runs oriented along a common direction in the two-dimensional array of pixels is identified. A second-order set of gradient runs is formed by selecting a group of previously identified one-dimensional gradient runs. Each of the one-dimensional gradient runs in the group has a pixel that is offset along an axis perpendicular to the common direction from a pixel in a neighboring one-dimensional gradient run in the group. The object is identified in the array using the second-order set of gradient runs.
US07734110B2
The present invention sets out to make available a method for reducing noise in an image sequence. This method can be implemented in an acquisition device such as a digital video camera or the like. The aim of this invention is attained with a method for filtering a sequence of digital images in CFA format.
US07734103B2
An image processing apparatus for compressing and decompressing image data is disclosed that is capable of image processing with a small memory area. The image processing apparatus includes a compression unit to compress the image data to a predetermined compression format; an omission secondary compression unit to omit a portion of the compressed image data given by the compression unit, divide the compressed image data into blocks having predetermined block sizes, and perform secondary compression to generate omission secondary compression image data; a data recovery unit to recover the omission secondary compression image data into the compressed image data; an image rotation unit to rotate the compressed image data decompressed by the data decompression unit according to the block sizes; a block storage unit to store the rotated compressed image data in units of the block sizes; and a data decompression unit to decompress the compressed image data stored in the block storage unit according to predetermined conditions.
US07734091B2
An XML parsing system includes a pattern-matching system 1 that receives an input stream 2 of characters corresponding to the XML document to be parsed, and provides an output 3 for subsequent processing in software by a processor 4. The pattern matching system 1 includes two main components, a controller in the form of a programmable state machine 5, which is programmed with an appropriate state transition diagram 6, and a character processing unit 7 in the form of a token and character handler. The programmable state machine 5 controls the character processing unit 7 to, e.g., compare characters in the input character stream 2 with other received or stored characters. The character processing unit 7 then provides feedback to the programmable state machine controller 5, e.g., as to whether the compared characters match, so that the programmable state machine controller 5 can then parse the received document accordingly.
US07734084B2
A method for determining an offset vector. The method includes obtaining an image of a first feature. An image of a second feature is also obtained. Also, a combination image of the first feature and the second feature is obtained. A plurality of composite images is utilized to determine an accurate offset vector between the first feature and the second feature in the combination image. The plurality of composite images is based on the image of the first feature and the image of the second feature.
US07734076B2
A diagnostic imaging system in an example includes a high frequency electromagnetic energy source, a detector, a data acquisition system (DAS), and a computer. The high frequency electromagnetic energy source emits a beam of high frequency electromagnetic energy toward an object to be imaged. The detector receives high frequency electromagnetic energy emitted by the high frequency electromagnetic energy source. The DAS is operably connected to the detector and programmed to employ a threshold to trigger a filter operation on a pixel, in a basis material decomposition (BMD) image of a plurality of BMD images, through comparison of an actual noise ratio between a pair of BMD images, of the plurality of BMD images, to a theoretical BMD noise ratio value. The computer is programmed to employ a correlation in noise distribution of the plurality of BMD images to reduce image noise in the plurality of BMD images.
US07734073B2
Provided is a computer system and method for mapping a visual path. The method includes receiving one or more images included in a predefined area; receiving one or more parameters associated with the image; and integrating the images and parameters into a map of the predefined area to enable mapping the visual path through the predefined area in response to one or more input path parameters.
US07734071B2
Systems and methods are presented that determine components to use as examples to train a component-based face recognition system. In one embodiment, an initial component shape and size is determined, a training set is built, a component recognition classifier is trained, and the accuracy of the classifier is estimated. The component is then temporarily grown in each of four directions (up, down, left, and right) and the effect on the classifier's accuracy is determined. The component is then grown in the direction that maximizes the classifier's accuracy. The process can be performed multiple times in order to maximize the classifier's accuracy.
US07734069B2
An iris region of an eye is detected from an original image (S1) and image conversion is performed to the detected iris region so that feature data unique to the person can not be extracted (S2). For example, the iris region is divided into a plurality of portions and respective images of divided portions are re-arranged in a predetermined order or at random.
US07734068B2
An improved electronic lock box system is provided for more secure control over the accessibility of a secure compartment in the electronic lock box, which is typically used to store a dwelling key. The new system uses biometric identification sensors to determine if the correct, authorized user is attempting to access the secure compartment of the electronic lock box. In one embodiment, the biometric identification sensor uses thermal scanning to detect a person's fingerprint pattern. This is compared to previously stored (enrollment) biometric identification information/data, and if the “live” (observed) biometric identification information/data sufficiently correlates to the stored enrollment biometric identification information/data, access will be granted.
US07734066B2
A security system with a processor that receives information from multiple sources. The system is illustrated by a network of inspection machines at multiple locations in an airport, such as at check-in desks. These machines provide data to the processor for threat detection processing. The processor provides a central control and data integration point. Centralized control may be used to readily adapt threat detection programs and data integration may allow more accurate or more thorough threat determinations to be made. Moreover, centralized processing of computation intensive operations, such as image reconstruction, may provide for more efficient processor utilization throughout the system, providing a lower total processing cost. Additionally, centralized processing allows for human decision makers to be readily integrated into the system.
US07734064B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for classifying geological materials using image processing techniques. The method and apparatus classify geological materials including stones, rock samples, and rock surfaces according to type and state by sequentially applying image processing techniques, such as a color space analysis, a granulometry analysis, texture parameter extraction and texture statistics extraction, to digital images of the geological materials. Since the method and apparatus extract quantitative figures that represent an entire image region by applying various image processing techniques, such as the color space analysis, the granulometry, the texture parameter extraction and the texture statistics extraction, to the digital images of the geological materials, the geological materials can be classified, which is not possible using a conventional image processing technique.
US07734062B2
An action recognition apparatus acquires image data and outputs action information representing an action content of a human captured in the image data. The action recognition apparatus includes a face-portion specifying section, an acquisition section, a specifying section, and an information output section. The face-portion specifying section specifies a first image region including a face portion of the human from the image data. The acquisition section acquires skin-color information peculiar to the human from pixel values of the first image region. The specifying section specifies at least one second image region including a predetermined portion of a body of the human from the image data except for the first image region based on the skin-color information. The information output section outputs the action information representing the action content of the human based on position relation between the specified first image region and the specified second image region.
US07734057B2
When attaching a watermark to image data including a non-background object and a background object, first the watermark is drawn, and next the background object is drawn. Then, the watermark is drawn again after the background object has been drawn. Thereafter, the non-background object is drawn.
US07734044B2
A method and apparatus for a signal encryption device constructed to perform synchronous stream cipher encryption for a sequence of input words with restricted codes. The encryption device includes a keystream generator for producing a sequence of pseudorandom words from a key, and an adder that is used to sum the output of the keystream generator and the input words. A lookup table of size substantially twice the number of possible input words provides encrypted codes excluding restricted codes from the summed signal. A signal encryption and decryption system is constructed by including a second keystream generator for producing a second sequence of pseudorandom words from the key, and a second adder to produce a second summed signal from the output of the second keystream generator and the encrypted codes. A corresponding lookup table provides decrypted codes excluding restricted codes from the second summed signal.
US07734043B1
Circuits, methods, and apparatus that prevent easy detection and erasure or modification of an encryption or encoding key. This key may be used to encode and decode a configuration bitstream for an FPGA or other programmable or configurable device. One embodiment of the present invention obfuscates a key then stores it in a memory array on an FPGA. This memory array may be a one-time programmable memory to prevent erasure or modification of the key. After retrieval from storage, a reverse or de-obfuscation is performed to recover the key. Further obfuscation may be achieved by proper layout of the relevant circuitry.
US07734033B2
A method for activating a distinctive ring-tone can include the steps of extracting caller identifying data from an incoming phone call; comparing the caller identifying data to data in a caller list; determining whether the caller is authorized to activate a distinctive ring-tone based upon the comparison; and, activating a distinctive ring-tone if the caller is authorized and if a request to activate a distinctive ring-tone can be detected in the incoming phone call. The extracting step can include the step of extracting a source phone number from the incoming phone call. The determining step can include the step of determining whether the caller has been included in the caller list as an authorized caller. Conversely, the determining step comprises the step of determining whether the caller has been included in the caller list as an unauthorized caller.
US07734023B2
A voice messaging system comprises a common message store, a local data store located remotely from the common message store, and a media server. The media server is operable to receive a call directed to a number serviced by the media server, prompt the user for a voice message, direct the voice message to the local data store for temporary storage, notify the common message store that the voice message is present in the local data store, respond to a request to transfer the voice message to the common message store, and direct the local data store to erase the message upon receipt of a communication from the common message store that the voice message was successfully saved.
US07734022B1
Method and apparatus for managing call requests in a communication network is described. In one example, a call request for a public identifier associated with a recipient party is received from an originating device. A set of approved calling party identifiers associated with the public identifier is identified. A calling party identifier associated with the originating device is compared with the set of approved calling party identifiers. If the calling party is approved, then: a private identifier for a recipient device is selected based on the calling party identifier, and the call request is routed to the recipient device using the private identifier. If the calling party is not approved, then: a call handling treatment associated with the public identifier may be identified, and the call request may be handled in accordance with the calling handling treatment.
US07734019B1
Various systems and methods for servicing emergency calls are disclosed. One such method includes providing a location database that includes physical location information about a communication device. This location information can be accessed either directly or indirectly by an emergency service answering system, while concealing the information from a network responsible for terminating the call.
US07734008B1
A vehicle cargo inspection station includes a building structure that has open first and second ends and a top portion forming a passageway therein. A mechanism automatically scans the cargo area of the existing vehicle. The scanning mechanism is movable within the passageway while the existing vehicle remains stationary such that cargo within the existing vehicle remains statically housed therein. The building structure is manufactured of durable and rigid material such that the structure provides a barrier between the scanning mechanism and the outside environment thereby protecting the scanning mechanism from damage by harsh environmental conditions.
US07734006B2
In the X-ray CT apparatus of the present invention, the setting device sets X-ray irradiation condition candidate by at least one combination of a tube current and tube voltage for power to be supplied to the X-ray source by the use of an X-ray absorption coefficient of said scanning subject site of the object, and the control device makes the display device selectably display each of the set X-ray irradiation condition candidates which is provided for a diagnosis of a requested tissue of the object, to take control such that a tomographic image of the object is taken according to the selected X-ray irradiation condition candidate. According to the X-ray CT apparatus of the present invention, it is possible to set a scanning condition in view of absorption or transmission of X-rays specific to and different among each tissue of an object.
US07734003B2
A shift register array is provided. The shift register array includes a plurality of shift registers connected in serial. The shift register includes a first transistor coupled between a first input terminal and a first node, a second transistor coupled between a first clock input terminal and an output terminal and a pull-up unit. The first transistor has a gate coupled to the first input terminal. The second transistor has a gate coupled to the first node. The pull-up unit includes a third transistor coupled between the first node and a ground, a capacitor coupled between the first clock input terminal and the second node and a fourth transistor coupled between the second node and the ground. The third transistor has a gate coupled to a second node. The fourth transistor has a gate coupled to the first node.
US07734001B2
A fractional frequency divider circuit with a small circuit scale that outputs a clock with a duty ratio of 50%, and a data transmission apparatus comprising same. The fractional frequency divider circuit is constituted by multiple master-slave flip-flops, and comprises an integer frequency divider circuit that frequency-divides a clock signal with a frequency-division ratio of 1/N(N is an integer), and a logic circuit into which multiple signals outputted from master stages and slave stages of the master-slave flip-flops are inputted and that outputs a signal with a duty ratio of 50% obtained by frequency-dividing the clock signal with a frequency-division ratio of 2/N. The data transmission apparatus is constituted such that it is possible to switch over between a frequency-multiplied clock outputted by a PLL and a clock obtained by frequency-dividing the frequency-multiplied clock with the fractional frequency divider circuit for each channel.
US07733992B2
A method for providing analog control of digital gain in a wireless device is provided. The method includes receiving an analog gain from a baseband modem at a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC) having a digital region. The baseband modem is associated with a first operating range, and the digital region of the RFIC is associated with a second operating range. The analog gain is compatible with the first operating range. A digital gain is generated based on the analog gain. The digital gain is converted into a modified digital gain compatible with the second operating range.
US07733986B2
A receiver has a receiving unit including a PLL, a mixer, and a filter, and demodulating unit including a frequency error detector for detecting a frequency error in a signal from a filter. The PLL includes a local oscillator for supplying a local oscillation signal to a mixer, a variable frequency divider for frequency-dividing the local oscillation signal based on a signal from the frequency error detector, and a phase comparator for comparing a signal from the variable frequency divider with a signal from a crystal oscillator. The PLL can reduce the frequency error of the local oscillation signal.
US07733983B2
A method for symbol tracking in AM in-band on-channel radio receivers comprises the steps of: receiving a stream of time domain samples; assembling a set of the time domain samples equal to a symbol time plus a half symbol delay in response to a symbol timing adjustment value for each symbol period; interpolating the time domain samples; partitioning the interpolated time domain samples into a first group of samples representing half-off symbols and a second group of samples representing on-time symbols; processing the first and second groups of samples to produce the symbol timing adjustment value; and outputting the second group of samples representing on-time symbols at a symbol rate. An apparatus that performs the method is also included.
US07733982B2
Systems and methods for adjusting a signal received from a communication path are disclosed. A receiver can receive a signal from a communication path which attenuates at least some frequency components of the signal. The receiver can include an equalization block that adjusts at least some of the frequency content of the received signal, a signal normalization block that provides a normalized signal amplitude and/or a normalized edge slope, and a control block. In one embodiment, the control block controls frequency adjustment in the equalization block for high frequencies but not for low frequencies. For low frequency adjustment, the control block controls the normalized signal amplitude in the signal normalization block. In this manner, controlled adjustment for low frequency content is performed in the signal normalization block.
US07733979B2
A method an apparatus for controlling a transmission signal power level of a transmitter is disclosed. The method includes receiving a root-mean-squared target power level. A duty cycle of a transmission signal is determined that indicates power on and power off periods over a predetermined sensing interval. A transmission signal power level is sensed. The transmission signal power level is adjusted to be approximately equal to the target power level divided by the duty cycle.
US07733973B2
An object of the present invention is to efficiently perform weighted difference coding of two or more signals. Determination is made as to which of independent coding and weighted difference coding is to be used for each channel so that the total energy of the channel signals and weighted difference signals is minimized. A weighted difference signal is generated on the basis of the determination and a reference signal (parent) and a weight is generated as auxiliary codes, the difference signal is treated as an input channel signal, and the process of coding determination and difference signal and auxiliary code generation is repeated. The difference signal generated at the last iteration of the process and a signal to be coded by independent coding are compressive coded and the auxiliary codes generated at the iterations of the process are coded and outputted.
US07733967B2
The transmission control unit of the device transmits sample data while changing the setting of output amplitude and emphasis of the transmitter within a prescribed range. The transmission processing unit of the device generates an eye diagram from the sample data received by the receiver, detects receivable phase-range data from the eye diagram, and transmits the same. The optimization processing unit of the device writes the phase-range data transmitted from the device into the table in correspondence to the output amplitude and emphasis of which the setting has been changed, determines optimum values of output amplitude and emphasis from the table obtained upon the completion of setting change within the prescribed range, and sets the same in the transmitter of the device. Then, the device, serving as the transmitting side, determines optimum values of output amplitude and emphasis of the transmitter and sets the same.
US07733960B2
When a block (MB22) of which motion vector is referred to in the direct mode contains a plurality of motion vectors, 2 motion vectors MV23 and MV24, which are used for inter picture prediction of a current picture (P23) to be coded, are determined by scaling a value obtained from averaging the plurality of motion vectors or selecting one of the plurality of the motion vectors.
US07733956B1
The present invention provides an apparatus and method for encoding, storing, transmitting and decoding multimedia information in the form of scalable, streamed digital data. A base stream containing basic informational content and subsequent streams containing additive informational content are initially created from standard digital multimedia data by a transcoder. Client computers, each of which may have different configurations and capabilities are capable of accessing a stream server that contains the scalable streamed digital data. Each different client computer, therefore, may access different stream combinations according to a profile associated with each different client computer. Thus, the streams accessed from the server are tailored to match the profile of each client computer so that the best combination of streams can be provided to maximize the resolution of the 3D, audio and video components.
US07733949B2
A wireless communications system is provided with reduced sideband noise and carrier leakage. In the system, at least one transmitter modulates at least one input signal with a first carrier to generate a modulated output signal, and at least one receiver receives the modulated output signal and demodulates the same with a second carrier to generate at least one demodulated output signal. The first and second carriers are at different frequencies, such that the sideband noise and carrier leakage generated by different sources can be distinguished.
US07733944B2
A system for operating a GPS receiver in a GPS-adverse environment includes a plurality of GPS receivers, a plurality of remote sensor interfaces (RSIs), and a computer management system. The GPS receivers are adapted to determine positional parameters based on the GPS satellite signals. A first set of GPS receivers is able to accurately determine its positional parameters and a second set of GPS receivers is unable to do so. Each RSI is associated with a respective GPS receiver. The RSIs are communication nodes in an ad hoc wireless network. The computer management system identifies a GPS receiver that is not accurately determining its positional parameters, and in response, causes GPS information to be provided from one of the first set of GPS receivers to the identified GPS receiver. The identified GPS receiver then determines its positional parameters accurately using the provided GPS information.
US07733929B2
A wavelength tunable laser module for DWDM is used, in which a single electroabsorption modulator integrated laser is mounted and an oscillation wavelength is made tunable by temperature control. Driving conditions of a laser and a modulator are determined such that they have approximately the same modulation and transmission characteristics in a temperature control range. Such an electroabsorption modulator integrated laser is used and the driving conditions are incorporated, thereby a small, inexpensive wavelength tunable optical transmitter can be provided.
US07733925B2
A laser source (10) for generating a continuously wavelength tunable light (12) includes a gain media (16), an optical output coupler (36F), a cavity collimator (38A), a diffraction grating (30), a grating beam (54), and a beam attacher (56). The diffraction grating (30) is spaced apart from the cavity collimator (38A) and the grating (30) cooperates with the optical output coupler (36F) to define an external cavity (32). The grating (30) includes a grating face surface (42A) that is in a grating plane (42B). The beam attacher (56) retains the grating beam (54) and allows the grating beam (54) and the grating (30) to effectively pivot about a pivot axis (33) that is located approximately at an intersection of a pivot plane (50) and the grating plane (42B). As provided herein, the diffraction grating (30) can be pivoted about the unique pivot axis (33) to move the diffraction grating (30) relative to the gain media (16) to continuously tune the lasing frequency of the external cavity (32) and the wavelength of the output light (12) so that the output light (12) is mode hop free.
US07733919B2
Method and apparatus for processing transport stream packets received from a network for distribution to user terminals is described. In one embodiment, a pair of clock reference packets in the transport stream packets is identified. The pair of clock reference packets includes a first clock reference packet having an output time stamp and a second clock reference packet. A difference between a time value of the second clock reference packet and a time value of the first clock reference packet is computed. An output time stamp for the second clock reference packet is calculated in response to the output time stamp of the first clock reference packet and the difference.
US07733908B1
A cross-layer architecture for a network device having a number of network interfaces is provided. Each of the network interfaces implements a number of low level layers of a protocol stack and includes an associated network based cross-layer agent. The network device also includes an application based cross-layer agent associated with one or more high level protocol stack layers including an application layer. When the application layer desires to form a network connection to another network device, an arbitration agent operates to identify one of the network interfaces for the network connection. The arbitration agent then effects interconnection of the application based cross-layer agent and the network based cross-layer agent of the network interface and interconnection of the high level protocol stack layers and the low level protocol stack layers of the network interface, thereby forming a complete protocol stack having a cross-layer architecture for the network connection.
US07733886B2
A method and apparatus for receiving burst data in an OLT of an EPON are provided. The method includes the steps of: a) receiving burst data from the plurality of ONUs; b) generating a multipoint control protocol (MPCP) LOS signal for reducing a synch time of the burst data; c) reducing the synch time in response to generation of the MPCP LOS signal; and d) recovering the received burst data by performing a code-group sort in a period where the MPCP LOS signal is not generated.
US07733884B1
A service provider system connects to systems associated with a group of business-partners. Each of the business-partners sells services, of an extensible set of services provided by the service provider system, to its customers. The service provider system provides a common interface via which the business-partner systems can request one or more services from the extensible set of services. The service provider system exposes subsets of the common interface to each of the business-partner systems by controlling access to the extensible set of services by the business-partner systems.
US07733881B2
An end node in a packet-switched network is proposed wherein the end node is arranged to exchange packets consisting of a packet header and payload data with a server node connected to the packet-switched network. The end node includes at least one module adapted to extract quality of service parameter values from the headers of packets received over the packet-switched network and to insert the extracted quality of service parameter value in the headers of packets destined for transmission to the server node over the packet-switched network. In this manner the end node automatically adapts the quality of service parameters received over the packet-switched network to correspond with the type of quality of service defined in received packets. Such a system means that only the server node need be configured with the quality of service parameters applicable on the particular packet switched network, so greatly reducing the installation and configuration overheads in a multi-user network.
US07733880B2
Managing routes in a router involves the implementation of threshold-specific discard algorithms to discard redundant routes in an intelligent fashion based upon the volume of routes in the router. By employing threshold-specific discard algorithms to intelligently discard redundant routes within a router, the storage capacity of the router is utilized in a more efficient fashion because the routes are not dropped indiscriminately. A method and system comprise identifying a volume of routes in the router, determining whether the volume of routes has reached a threshold and applying a threshold-specific discard algorithm to routes in the router if the volume of routes has reached the threshold.
US07733874B2
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for receiving an initial request from a first device to a second device. A response to the initial request is received from the second device to the first device. Each response and request received from the first device to the second device is processed by accessing the response or request from a packet encoded using a first communication protocol; generating a packet including the accessed response or request into a packet encoded using a second communication protocol; and transmitting the generated packet to the second device. Each response and request received from the second device to the first device is processed by accessing the response or request from a packet encoded using the second communication protocol; generating a packet including the accessed response or request into a packet encoded using the first communication protocol; and transmitting the generated packet to the second device.
US07733872B2
A system and method for implementing a Quality of Service (QoS) fallback using Resource Reservation Protocol (RSVP) includes initiating a communication session with a QoS precondition between a first domain and a second domain. It is determined whether the second domain supports the QoS precondition. Intra-domain RSVP is established in the first domain if the second domain does not support the QoS precondition.
US07733870B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for providing bandwidth-on-demand telecommunications services over next-generation optical transport networks (NG-OTN). One embodiment of a system providing bandwidth-on-demand services includes a next-generation optical transport network (NG-OTN) having an intelligent control plane (ICP) and new-generation synchronous optical network (NG-SONET) capabilities. A next-generation operation support subsystem (NG-OSS) is communicatively coupled to the NG-OTN. The NG-OTN and the NG-OSS are configured to provide the bandwidth-on-demand services.
US07733869B2
A method and apparatus for emulating VPLS within an ATM network. Provider Edge devices are configured for VPLS connections. For each pair of provider edge devices supporting the same VPLS ID, one device establishes a virtual circuit between the pair. Thus, a full mesh of virtual circuits is established between provider edge devices, and a VPLS-like service can be offered to users without having to implement MPLS. Establishing the virtual circuits within a PNNI hierarchy maybe facilitated by each provider edge device propagating through the hierarchy an information group containing an association between the ATM address of the device and a VPLS ID, so that each provider edge device learns all ATM addresses to be associated with each VPLS ID. The method of advertising ATM addresses can be applied to other services requiring a number of interconnections between provider edge devices, such as Virtual Private Networks.
US07733865B2
A delay in packet output due to packet fragmentation processing is reduced. If input data is output upon being subjected to fragmentation processing, fragmented data, from among a plurality of fragmented data items fragmented based upon a set value in an MTU register, which belongs to a first fragmented packet containing information that is based upon all fragmented packets is stored in a fragment buffer. After all fragmented packets from a second fragmented packet onward to which other fragmented data items belong are output, the first fragmented packet is output.
US07733859B2
A packet forwarding apparatus with a function of registering packet forwarding control information for each user terminal into a user management table during PPPoE connection and authentication phases in which the apparatus carries out predetermined communication procedures with each user terminal. During DHCP and IP forwarding phases following the authentication phase, the packet forwarding apparatus controls packet forwarding based on the user management table. Packets are forwarded in the form of PPPoE frame until the authentication phase is completed and packets are forwarded in the form of Ethernet frame in the DHCP and IP forwarding phases.
US07733858B1
A control surface has a network connection for connecting to a host computer and has an address and an input for communicating data with the host computer. The network interface processes packets received from the host computer. Packets received include a first type and a second type, and the type is indicated by data in the packet. Upon receipt of a packet of the first type an acknowledgment packet is sent. Upon receipt of a packet of the second type, an acknowledgment packet is not sent. The packets of the second type include at least status information for a plurality of meters in the audio control surface. The status of the meters on the audio control surface is overwritten with the status information provided in any packets of the second type.
US07733846B2
In a method of transmitting control signals for uplink transmission of packet data in a communication network, control signal data related to scheduling a user for uplink transmission of packet data is transmitted over a single control channel. The single control channel may be configured based on the transmission mode the user is in for scheduling an uplink transmission from the user to the network, so that only one control channel is used, regardless of the transmission mode the user is in for scheduling the user for the uplink transmission. The control channel may be embodied as a sub-frame adapted to carry control information that is dependent based on the transmission mode the user is in for scheduling an uplink transmission from the user to the network.
US07733843B1
A method for receiving data packets in a communication network comprising scanning a channel for a preamble during an acquisition search window, detecting the preamble during the acquisition search window, assigning a reception acquisition search window for receipt of a data packet including a data preamble and a data portion, coordinating the transmission of the data packet with the reception acquisition search window, detecting the data preamble during the reception acquisition search window, and initiating receipt of the data portion upon detection of the data preamble.
US07733835B2
A method and system for reducing power consumption of a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), (i.e., mobile station), are disclosed. A first WTRU measures a predetermined parameter and determines whether the measured predetermined parameter exceeds a threshold. If so, the first WTRU sends a sleep frame to a second WTRU. The sleep frame indicates sleep duration. The second WTRU receives the sleep frame and enters a sleep state for the sleep duration. The predetermined parameter may be an inactivity time of wireless medium. The second WTRU may or may not be allowed to send transmission to the first WTRU during the sleep duration. The sleep frame may be a control frame, a management frame, a data frame or an action frame. One of a multiple receiver aggregate (MRA) multi-poll frame, a power saving aggregation descriptor frame, or a power save multi-poll frame may be used as the sleep frame.
US07733828B2
A method and apparatus are described that facilitate reducing intra-cell interference and meanwhile randomizing inter-cell interference without cell planning. Segment time-frequency patterns can be obtained to form multiple different segment time-frequency pattern sets where the segment time-frequency patterns in one time-frequency pattern set are orthogonal to each other. Randomly select at least one segment time-frequency pattern set in each TTI. Within each TTI, at least one user and/or traffic channel in one cell may be randomly assigned to at least one segment time-frequency pattern of the segment time-frequency pattern set.
US07733822B2
A distributed disparate wireless switching network is described herein. In one embodiment, an exemplary network architecture includes, but is not limited to, a connection origination exchange (COX), a proxy controller coupled to the COX, an access point coupled to the proxy controller, and a mobile node wirelessly coupled to the access point. The mobile node communicates with a terminating node of a network through the access point and the proxy controller using an identification maintained by the proxy controller. The COX originates a connection with the terminating node on behalf of the mobile node using the identification provided by the proxy controller. Other methods and apparatuses are also described.
US07733819B2
A digital broadcasting system and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. A method for controlling a digital broadcast receiving system includes the steps of receiving a broadcast signal having mobile service data and main service data multiplexed therein, extracting transmission parameter channel (TPC) signaling information and fast information channel (FIC) signaling information from a data group within the received mobile service data, by using the extracted fast information channel (FIC) signaling information, acquiring a program table describing virtual channel information and service of an ensemble, the ensemble being a virtual channel group of the received mobile service data, by using the acquired program table, detecting a descriptor defining basic information required for accessing the received service, and, by using the detected descriptor, controlling the receiving system to enable access to the corresponding service.
US07733806B2
A method, apparatus, and computer instructions for identifying nodes in a network data processing system. Cache data is received from a set of routers in the data processing system. The cache data includes an identification of the nodes sending data packets onto the network data processing system. The nodes on the network data processing system are identified using the cache data from the set of routers.
US07733803B2
The disclosed systems and methods provide a user interface for modifying host configuration data that has been automatically and passively determined and for adding or modifying other parameters associated with a host. A host data table can store various parameters descriptive of a host including the applicability of specific vulnerabilities. If it is determined that one or more hosts should not be identified as associated with a specific vulnerability, a graphical user interface can be used to modify the vulnerability parameter.
US07733797B2
Methods are disclosed for forming a network (1) of nodes (A-H) from a plurality of nodes (A-H) and a plurality of potential transmission links (2) between respective nodes (A-H). Methods are also disclosed for adapting an initial mesh communications network configuration to a final mesh communications network communications configuration. Methods are also disclosed such that at least some of the changes to the initial mesh communications network configuration that are required as part of the adaptation to the final mesh communications network configuration form a group of changes such that all of the changes within the group can occur substantially simultaneously. Various other methods useful in or to a mesh communications network (1) are also disclosed herein.
US07733796B2
A method for the monitoring of transmissions in a transmission branch of a bidirectional interface, which besides the transmission branch has a reception branch standing in connection with the transmission branch, has the steps a) sending out of information by means of the transmission branch, and b) evaluation of defined characteristics of the sent information via the reception branch of the same interface, whereby preferably depending on the evaluation of the sent information a setting of parameters of the transmission branch is effected, so that future information is sent out with use of these parameters.
US07733794B2
Performance measurements for a network, such as delay, delay variation, and loss, are performed over layer-2. A PM frame is sent from a source MEP (Maintenance End Point) to a destination MEP. The PM frame is timestamped immediately prior to transmission, and the local clock at the destination MEP is noted immediately upon arrival. MIPs (Maintenance Intermediate Points) may also time stamp the PM frame. Preferably, each PM frame has an interval (session) identifier and a sequence number within the interval. The PM frames are received by and sent by PM modules within the nodes of the network. The PM modules include a Sender function for sending an interval of one or more PM frames and a Receiver function for receiving PM frames and computing measurements.
US07733788B1
A computer network control plane tampering monitor that detects unauthorized alteration of a label-switched path setup for an information packet intended for transmission through a computer network.
US07733786B2
A method and apparatus for performing a constrained shortest path first (CSPF) computation is described. In one embodiment of the invention, the network element receives a request with one or more exclusion constraints or a path re-optimization request. The network element marks one or more attribute bits in a traffic engineering data structure based on the request. If an exclusion bit is set for a link, that link is skipped during CSPF computation. If a re-optimization bit is set for a link, the allocated bandwidth of the link is added to the advertised bandwidth of the link to form a re-optimization comparison value, which is used for a bandwidth comparison during path re-optimization.
US07733781B2
According to an example embodiment, a total offered traffic load for a shared resource within a network switching system may be determined, the total offered traffic load may include, for example, a sum of offered traffic loads from one or more active virtual output queues (VOQs) of the network switching system. A capacity of the shared resource within the network switching system may be determined. A transmission rate from one or more of the active VOQs over the shared resource may be adjusted such that the total traffic load from the active VOQs does not exceed the capacity of the shared resource.
US07733778B2
A communication connection merge method and a node to be employed in the same can merge parameter of LSP, such as request bandwidth or the like, upon performing merging. The communication connection merge method performs merge process for consolidating a plurality of communication connection of a connection-oriented network at a node on the way of transfer route into a common communication connection by making judgment of possibility to have a common transfer route from a node to merge to an egress node upon merging new communication connection on setting for existing communication connection, modifying collateral parameter of the existing communication connection which is judged to merge the new communication connection for enabling accommodation of the new communication connection in the existing communication connection, and performing merge after modification of parameter of the existing communication connection.
US07733775B2
In a data packet router, a router fabric card for routing data packets is provided. The router fabric card comprises a plurality of ingress/egress ports, the ports connected through a switching facility for switching connection states of the port paths between individual ingress paths and individual egress paths on the fabric card, and a scheduling component for scheduling communication between ports on the fabric card. Data coming into ingress on the card is organized into individual data-packet trains, each individual train comprising data packets and inserted data denoting a starting point and an ending point of a train. The switching facility recognizes the start data and the end data of a train and switches port paths to a next-assigned connection state accordingly.
US07733768B2
Protection and working routes are determined responsive to shared resources. The administrative weight value of a route can correspond to the physical distance associated with that route. Once the administrative weight values are assigned, that route having the lowest administrative weight value is designated the working route. The protect route is next identified by reassigning administrative weight values to the remaining routes in the network. Those routes that share resources, such as a fiber bundle or conduit, with the working route are assigned high administrative weight values, while those routes independent of the working route are assigned administrative weight values corresponding to the physical distance of each route. That route having the lowest administrative weight value after working route selection is designated the protect route. Accordingly, by assigning high administrative weight values to routes sharing resources with the working route, those resource-sharing routes are not selected as protect routes. Suitable protect routes, therefore, can be identified quickly and efficiently.
US07733760B2
An optical pickup includes a first source which emits a first beam with a first wavelength; a second source which emits a second beam with a wavelength shorter than the first wavelength; a first collimates lens which collimates the first beam; a second collimate lens which collimates the second beam; a first objective lens which converges the first collimated beam onto an optical disc; and a second objective lens which converges the second collimated beam onto the disc. The first and second objective lenses are arranged in the disc radial direction. The second objective lens is arranged closer to the side of the disc outer circumference than the first objective lens. The first collimate lens is arranged on the right-hand side when the second objective lens is viewed from the first objective lens. The second collimate lens is arranged on the left-hand side when the first objective lens is viewed from the second objective lens. The gap between the first collimate lens and the first objective lens is larger than the gap between the second collimate lens and the second objective lens.
US07733759B2
An optical system is disclosed including an optical pickup having a wavefront aberration-correcting element capable of correcting coma aberration and astigmatism, and an optical disc apparatus which uses the optical pickup. The optical pickup includes a laser light source for irradiating an optical disc with a light beam; an objective lens for focusing the light beam on the optical disc; a lens for correcting astigmatism; a second lens for correcting coma aberration; and a photodetector for receiving the light beam reflected from the optical disc. The astigmatism and the coma aberration are corrected independently of each other.
US07733756B2
A recording medium, such as a high-density and/or read-only recording medium, such as BD-ROM, which includes an identification information, which can identify whether optional information, such as copy protection information, is needed or not for the playback of contents stored on the recording medium, and to methods and apparatuses for forming, recording, and reproducing data on the recording medium.
US07733754B2
An optical disc drive reads identification information from an optical disc inserted in the drive in a label orientation having a label side presented to the optical disc drive laser by reading codes marked at the opposing storage side in a transparent region or marked on the label side oriented to be read from the storage side. The identification information is used to determine the ability and authority of the optical disc to have a label written on the label surface. For instance, label authorization is determined from authorization information embedded on the storage side of the optical disc when the optical disc is in a storage orientation and the label authorization is saved on an associated information handling system with reference to the identification information to allow authorization to be determined when the optical disc is in the label orientation.
US07733753B2
This optical disk device includes a pickup head, a spindle motor, a signal generation unit, a runout amount calculation unit, and an out of balance disk detection unit. The signal generation unit generates a tracking error signal. The runout amount calculation unit controls the rotational speed of the spindle motor to first and second disk rotational speeds, and obtains, at these rotational speeds, runout amounts TE1 and TE2 of a tracking error signal, and runout amounts FE1 and FE2 of a focus error signal. And an out of balance disk detection unit detects that this optical disk is an out of balance disk, if the absolute value of (TE2×FE2)/(TE1×FE1) is greater than or equal to a threshold value.
US07733743B2
A comprehensive time determining system includes a list of geographical locations located on a periphery thereof. The base section further includes a plurality of time zones associated with the geographical locations. The time zones are presented on a time strip on the base section. The list of geographical locations on the base section includes locations using standard time only. A first movable section includes a northern hemisphere portion and a southern hemisphere portion. The northern hemisphere portion and the southern hemisphere portion are each independently movable relative to the base section. The northern hemisphere portion includes a list of northern hemisphere geographical locations. The southern hemisphere portion includes a list of southern hemisphere geographical locations. The lists on the first movable sections contains locations using dual time, the northern hemisphere portion and the southern hemisphere portion being movable to select a desired position depending on the season. The first movable section is so arranged and constructed to allow the user to be able to view the time strip located on the base section. A second movable section includes a rotatable dial, the dial being rotatable relative to the base section and to the first movable section. The dial includes evenly spaced markers positioned about a periphery thereof representing the hours in a day. During use, an operator selects a location on either the base section or the first movable section and adjusts the first movable section depending on the season, and sets the dial so that a reference time on the dial element is set to a reference time on the time strip. The user can then use the evenly spaced markers on the dial to determine time at any selected geographical location on the base section or first movable section.
US07733737B2
A semiconductor memory device is capable of transferring address signals at high speed and improving the operation reliability even though an input rate of an address signal increases, and thus a degradation of an operation speed caused by applying a bus inversion scheme can be prevented and power consumption can be reduced. The semiconductor memory device includes a bus inversion decoding block configured to determine whether a plurality of address signals are inverted or not by decoding an indication control signal, and an address buffer block configured to receive two address signals per one cycle of an external clock, align the received address signals for parallel processing, and transfer the address signals or inverted address signals according to an output of the bus inversion decoding block.
US07733736B2
A semiconductor memory device for driving a word line is provided. The enabling timing of a word line is advanced using a block information signal that contains no redundancy information, thereby improving a RAS to CAS delay (tRCD). A sub word line driving enable signal for controlling a driving of a sub word line and a main word line driving enable signal for controlling a driving of a main word line are controlled by the block information signal that contains only mat information but does not contain the redundancy information. Accordingly, the word line control signal may be activated earlier than the sub word line driving enable signal and the main word line driving enable signal, thereby advancing the enable timing of the word line.
US07733732B2
A method of refreshing the content of a memory cell of a memory arrangement includes selectively controlling a refreshing device of the memory arrangement via an interface of the memory arrangement or by an internal control device of the memory arrangement to refresh the content of the memory arrangement.
US07733731B2
A memory device includes a command decoder and control interface logic. One or more external inputs, such as row and column address strobes, communicate with the command decoder through the control interface logic. A control signal is also in communication with the control interface logic. During operation of a drowsy mode in the memory device, a self-refresh signal causes the control signal to disable the external inputs. With the external inputs disabled, command hazards are reduced when exiting drowsy mode.
US07733730B2
A negative voltage detection circuit including first and second MOS transistor circuits configured to change a dimension size of a transistor based on a control signal, a first comparator circuit, a gate electrode of the second MOS transistor circuit commonly coupled to the gate electrode of the first MOS transistor circuit forming a current mirror circuit, a resistive divider supplied with a negative voltage to be detected, and coupled to the end of the current path of the second MOS transistor circuit to generate a second voltage, a second voltage comparator circuit to compare the second voltage with a reference voltage and to generate a detection signal corresponding to the value of the negative voltage, and a detection circuit for detecting a temperature or power supply voltage, generate the control signal corresponding to the detection result, and supply the control signal to the first and second MOS transistor circuits.
US07733728B2
Disclosed is to enable high speed reading from a storage node when a read is executed. A main cell array is constituted from main cell division units 20a. Each main cell division unit 20a includes select gates SG that extend in a vertical direction, common sources CS that extend in a horizontal direction below the select gates SG outside a cell region, word lines W0 to W15 that extend above the select gates SG in the horizontal direction within the cell region, a plurality of storage nodes disposed in the vicinity of intersecting portions between the word lines W0 to W15 and the select gates SG, respectively, below the word lines W0 to W15, and a bit line MGB for transmitting to a sense amplifier 11 information on one of the storage nodes through a selection switch 21. In the main cell division unit 20a, an inversion layer is formed below each of the select gates SG within the cell region by applying a positive voltage to each of the select gates SG. A reference cell array is constituted from a reference cell division unit 30a having a same configuration as the main cell division unit 20a.
US07733726B2
A sense amplifier for reading a memory cell, including a read node linked to the memory cell, and an active circuit structured to maintain a voltage appearing on the read node at a value inferior to a value of a selection transistor threshold voltage.
US07733723B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a drive clock supplier and a signal generator. The drive clock supplier supplies a drive clock which is obtained by dividing an internal clock with a divide ratio, wherein the drive clock synchronizes with a rising edge of the internal clock with which an internal write signal synchronizes. The signal generator counts time corresponding to a write-recovery on the basis of the drive clock, to generate a precharge signal.
US07733713B2
A memory cell array includes a plurality of non-volatile semiconductor memory elements, each memory element storing data in a non-volatile manner. A shift register stores data read from the semiconductor memory element and sequentially transfers the data outside, the shift register also stores data transferred from outside and stores the data in the semiconductor memory element. A syndrome generation circuit is connected to an output terminal of the shift register, the syndrome generation circuit generating syndrome of data output from the output terminal. An error-correction circuit uses the data and the syndrome to correct an error of the data.
US07733703B2
Part of the latency from memory read or write operations is for data to be input to or output from the data latches of the memory via an I/O bus. Methods and circuitry are present for improving performance in non-volatile memory devices by allowing the memory to perform some of these data caching and transfer operations in the background while the memory core is busy with a read operation. A read caching scheme is implemented for memory cells where more than one bit is sensed together, such as sensing all of the n bits of each memory cell of a physical page together. The n-bit physical page of memory cells sensed correspond to n logical binary pages, one for each of the n-bits. Each of the binary logical pages is being output in each cycle, while the multi-bit sensing of the physical page is performed every nth cycles.
US07733693B2
There are many inventions described and illustrated herein. In a first aspect, the present invention is directed to a memory device and technique of reading data from and writing data into memory cells of the memory device. In this regard, in one embodiment of this aspect of the invention, the memory device and technique for operating that device that minimizes, reduces and/or eliminates the debilitating affects of the charge pumping phenomenon. This embodiment of the present invention employs control signals that minimize, reduce and/or eliminate transitions of the amplitudes and/or polarities. In another embodiment, the present invention is a semiconductor memory device including a memory array comprising a plurality of semiconductor dynamic random access memory cells arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. Each semiconductor dynamic random access memory cell includes a transistor having a source region, a drain region, a electrically floating body region disposed between and adjacent to the source region and the drain region, and a gate spaced apart from, and capacitively coupled to, the body region. Each transistor includes a first state representative of a first charge in the body region, and a second data state representative of a second charge in the body region. Further, each row of semiconductor dynamic random access memory cells includes an associated source line which is connected to only the semiconductor dynamic random access memory cells of the associated row.
US07733686B2
An exemplary system and methods implementing pulse width control in SRAM bit cell arrays that vary in size are described.
US07733684B2
A data read/write device according to an example of the present invention includes a recording layer, and means for applying a voltage to the recording layer, generating a resistance change in the recording layer, and recording data. The recording layer is composed of a composite compound having at least two types of cation elements, at least one type of the cation element is a transition element having a “d” orbit in which electrons have been incompletely filled, and the shortest distance between the adjacent cation elements is 0.32 nm or less.
US07733676B2
A non-contact power supply system is provided in which current phases of induction lines are matched. According to the output current of a power supply unit (21) and the power consumption of induction lines (19), a lead time corresponding to a phase difference between the output currents of the induction lines is determined. A signal for driving transistors (52) is advanced ahead of a drive synchronization signal (β) according to the lead time.
US07733667B2
One design aspect in electronic systems, such as communication systems, is noise suppression. More particularly, this relates to microphonics suppression in high-speed communication systems, such as microwave wireless radio systems. The present invention contemplates system design for substantially eliminating microphonic behavior created by mechanical stimulus such as vibrations and the drum effect. A preferred approach includes isolating the motherboard from its mounting harnesses (mechanical interconnection) and adding an echo damping and shock absorption pad to the underside of the enclosure cover to stiffen the enclosure cover while maintaining its light weight. Preferably also, this approach isolates the entire motherboard rather than a particular component. A design using this approach is particularly useful in an outdoor unit (ODU) of a split-mount microwave radio system.
US07733665B2
Multi-layer substrate having conductive pattern and resin film and method for manufacturing the same
A multi-layer substrate connecting to an external electric device includes: a plurality of resin films; and a plurality of conductive patterns. The resin films are stacked together with the conductive patterns. The conductive pattern includes an inner conductive pattern and a surface conductive pattern. The inner conductive pattern is disposed inside of the multi-layer substrate for providing an inner circuit. The surface conductive pattern is exposed on the multi-layer substrate for connecting to the external electric device. The surface conductive pattern has a thickness in a stacking direction, which is thicker than a thickness of the inner conductive pattern.
US07733651B2
The invention relates to a heat sink arrangement with a heat sink element, with a cylindrical interior, in particular a housing of an electric motor or housing part for such, with power electronics integrated into the housing or housing part, with at least one electronics component attached to the heat sink element from inside, in which the heat sink element is a sector of a cylinder adapted to the cylindrical interior of the heat sink arrangement, and that a springy clip is present that presses onto the ends of the sector such that the heat sink element is pressed against the cylindrical interior by spreading, as well as to an electric motor, a housing part and a springy clip.
US07733642B2
A waterproof casing includes a first casing having a first base wall and a first surrounding wall, and a second casing having a second base wall and a second surrounding wall. The first surrounding wall surrounds a periphery of the first base wall to cooperatively define a first receiving recess therewith, and has a first wall surface confronting the first receiving recess, and a first groove provided in the first wall surface. The second surrounding wall is connected to the second base wall proximate to the first surrounding wall to cooperatively define a second receiving recess therewith, and has a second wall surface outwardly of the second receiving recess, and a second groove provided in the second wall surface and corresponding to the first groove. A resilient member is fitted between and closes the first and second grooves. The first and second receiving recesses cooperatively receive a flat panel display.
US07733640B2
A conversion enclosure allows a first group of hard disk drives of a first size to be received by a hard disk drive enclosure having a second group of hard disk drives of a second size. The conversion enclosure includes a chassis having first and second side panels, each of the side panels having a front edge and a rear edge, a plurality of pairs of chassis rails having a first rail of each of the pairs of chassis rails connected to the first side panel, and the second rails connected to the second side panel. Pairs of slots are included therein, each slot bounded on one side by a first plane passing through a first pair of chassis rails, and on the other side, by a second plane passing through the second pair of chassis rails adjacent to the first pair. The conversion enclosure includes a pair of engaging panels, each having a vented area respectively connected to the rear edge of the first side panel and to the rear edge of the second side panel. The engaging panels respectively engage the hard disk drive enclosure in response to the conversion enclosure being inserted and located into the hard disk drive enclosure.
US07733633B2
A video display unit support bracket (100) that facilitates greater integration of TV, internet, gaming, and computer peripheral devices. The bracket (100) can include a rigid casing (105) defining a first outer shell (205). An engagement structure (110) can be disposed on a portion of the rigid casing (105). The engagement structure (110) includes one or more receivers (220) that are configured for rotatably securing a proximal end (121) of a video display unit support arm (120) to the rigid casing (105). The rigid casing (105) can enclose a first internal cavity (306), which, in turn, can enclose one or signal processing circuits (300) selected from the group consisting of an RF modem (310), a multiplexing device (305), and a control signal interface circuit (315).
US07733627B2
The embedded capacitor of the present invention contains a power plate, a ground plate, and a dielectric layer vertically sandwiched between the power and ground plates. Both the power and ground plates are divided laterally into a number of smaller plates with appropriate gaps therebetween; and, as such, cracks in the dielectric layers are limited to happen between gaps only. The smaller plates are then electrically connected by connectors in the gaps. The connectors for the power plate and the connectors for the ground plate are not vertically overlapped so that they do not appear simultaneously at the two ends of the cracks simultaneously.
US07733622B2
This surge absorber includes an insulating part upon which is formed a conductive layer which is divided into two separate portions by a discharge gap (micro gap) around its circumferential surface; a pair of terminal electrodes which are arranged to oppose the insulating part, and contacts the conductive layer; an insulating tube at the ends of which the terminal electrodes are arranged, and which seals the insulating part in its interior along with seal gases; and a conductive portion provided at least between the terminal electrodes and the conductive layer. As a result, it becomes possible to provide a surge absorber of lower cost, and which is endowed with stabilized performance and high quality, while moreover it exhibits excellent durability.
US07733617B2
A self testing fault detector having a line side and a load side and a conductive path there between. The apparatus includes a solenoid, which is adapted to move a plurality of contacts disposed in the conductive path from a first position to a second position when the self testing device is powered from the line side; and a processor, which is adapted to energize the solenoid using a first switch and maintain said solenoid in the energized state using a second switch.
US07733614B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention provide a method of manufacturing a magneto-resistive head which can realize high sensitivity and good linear response characteristics with low noise even if a track width becomes narrower. A uniaxial anisotropy unaffected by annealing which is due to the orientation of the crystal grain growth direction, is induced in a magnetic layer. The free magnetic layer has the synthetic antiferromagnetic construction: first magnetic layer/interlayer antiferromagnetic coupling layer/second magnetic layer, the magnitude of the antiferromagnetic coupling is adjusted, and linear response characteristics are obtained even if a longitudinal biasing field applying mechanism is not provided.
US07733609B2
A system and method for an improved magnetic head arm assembly (HAA) is disclosed. The HAA includes three principal components, a head gimbal assembly (HGA), a flexible printed circuit (FPC) assembly, and an actuator coil assembly. The design allows for HAA rigidity, yet each of the components is designable and manufacturable independent of one another, in addition to other advantages over current methods.
US07733599B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a magnetic disk unit in which there has been adopted a structure fixing a base and a top plate and preventing a deformation by a bimetal effect. In one embodiment, the magnetic disk unit includes a magnetic disk; a head drive mechanism in which is mounted a head accessing the magnetic disk; a base accommodating the magnetic disk and the head drive mechanism, and possessing a flat part, in which a threaded hole has been formed, in a circumference of an opening edge; and a top cover which is formed by a material whose thermal expansion coefficient differs from that of the base, in which there is provided an escape hole, for a screw, position-aligned to the threaded hole of the flat part, and which is attached to the base by the screw penetrating through the threaded hole and the escape hole for the screw. A slip mechanism for reducing a slip friction resistance is provided respectively in a contact portion between the flat part and the top cover, and a contact portion between a head part of the screw and the top cover.
US07733598B1
A data storage tape cartridge and tape drive is disclosed in which drive mounted guides are received in a cutout of a data storage cartridge. A read/write head is moved through an access opening into engagement with a data storage tape between the drive mounted guides. The drive mounted guides closely control lateral positioning of the tape as it passes across the read/write head. The read/write head and the drive mounted guides are moved relative to each other and into engagement with the tape.
US07733587B2
A position detecting device includes an optical position detecting element and a position information portion which are disposed so as to be opposed to each other. The position information portion has a binary pattern where a high light efficient portion and a low light efficient portion are alternately repeated when the movable portion moves in a predetermined direction. The position detecting device includes a loose position detecting portion for detecting a loose position of the movable portion by counting a pulse signal obtained by the optical position detecting element, a close position detecting portion for detecting a close position of the movable portion by counting pulse number of driving pulses which are applied to an electromechanical transducer from a position where the loose position detection is carried out, and a combining arrangement for combining the loose position with the close position to calculate a current position of the movable portion.
US07733584B2
An optical device includes an elongated tube configured for insertion into a body and optical members located in the tube. The optical members are configured to have an optical invariant-to-clear aperture semidiameter ratio greater than about 0.05 and an optical path difference less than about a value of the optical invariant divided by at least 250 times a midrange wavelength in a spectral range from about 435.8 nm to about 656.3 nm, and are preferably formed of an extraordinary dispersion optical material. A method includes conducting polychromatic light through at least one optical member located in an elongated tube configured for insertion into a body, where the optical members have an optical invariant-to-clear aperture semidiameter ratio greater than about 0.05 and an optical path difference less than about a value of an optical invariant divided by at least 250 times the midrange wavelength from about 435.8 to about 656.3 nm.
US07733580B2
A plurality of first refraction surfaces 121 and a plurality of second refraction surfaces 122 are alternately provided on an emission surface of a lens element 120 so as to form concentric circles each having an optical axis 113 at the center thereof, and having diameters different from each other, and a light reflected by a plurality of reflection surfaces 123 provided on an incident surface of the lens element so as to form concentric circuits each having the optical axis 113 at the center thereof and having diameters different from each other, is refracted and emitted by the plurality of second refraction surfaces 122 at desired angles. Therefore, it is possible to enhance efficiency and an emission intensity, and reduce variations in brightness of an emitted light without increasing the diameter of the lens element 120, thereby realizing a light emitting module 100 enabling advantageous performance.
US07733576B2
A two-group zoom projection lens is provided and includes: in order from a magnification side, a first lens group having a negative refractive power; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power, the second lens group including a front group and a rear group in order from the magnification side, the front group including a group having at least two positive lenses and a group having at least one negative lens in order from the magnification side, the rear group including a group having at least one negative lenses and a group having at least two positive lenses in order from the magnification side. The front group includes a negative lens having a concave surface directed toward the magnification side, the rear group includes a negative lens having a concave surface directed toward a reduction side, and the projection lens satisfies conditional expressions specified in the specification.
US07733570B2
An optical condenser device has light sources (10, 20) and an optical combiner (30). Each light source (10, 20) includes a semiconductor laser array stack (12, 22), collimator lenses (16, 26), and beam converters (18, 28). Since the optical combiner (30) combines the beams from one (12) of the stacks and the beams from the other (22), a laser beam with high optical density is generated. The optical combiner (30) has transmitting portions (32) and reflecting portions (34), each of which preferably has a strip-like shape elongated in the layering directions of the stacks (12, 22). In this case, the beams emitted from the active layers (14, 24) will be received and combined appropriately by the optical combiner (30) even if positional deviation of the active layers (14, 24) occurs.
US07733557B2
A holographic data storage system that includes a write head that includes a pixellated spatial light modulator and a separate or integral phase mask that varies the phase depending on the location in the phase mask that light passes through. The phase variation can be changed over time in a random, pseudo-random, or predetermined fashion. The spatial light modulator and phase mask can be implemented in a liquid crystal SLM (nematic, ferroelectric, or other), in a DMD SLM, in a magneto-optical SLM, or in any other suitable manner.
US07733550B2
An optoelectric device including a deformable membrane with an outer reflecting surface and an inner surface whereon a plurality of permanent magnets are fixed, and having a bottom surface entirely coated with a continuous layer of a flexible material; and a support including a plurality of electromagnets placed opposite the permanent magnets to exert an electromagnetic force thereon, locally displacing a zone corresponding to the deformable membrane.
US07733548B2
A method is provided for processing image data read from a book document placed on a platen of an image reading apparatus. The method includes determining a background pixel of the image data based on a luminance difference or a color difference between neighboring pixel arrays, identifying a shadow region based on a luminance change between the neighboring background pixel arrays, discriminatively detecting a shadow of a binding portion and a shadow of a front edge in a document region with reference to a changing direction of shadow luminance, and performing a luminance correction on the shadow region according to characteristics of the shadows.
US07733547B2
A technique that can perform appropriate image quality control processing corresponding to fluctuation in a printing environment is provided.An image forming apparatus that forms, on a sheet, a test pattern formed by a color obtained by mixing toners of plural colors, scans a test pattern image formed on the sheet with a color sensor, and performs predetermined image quality control processing on the basis of information scanned, the image forming apparatus including a media sensor that acquires information for discriminating a type of a sheet to be an object of image formation processing, a control-information acquiring unit that acquires, on the basis of the information acquired by the media sensor, information for control used in the image quality control processing, and a color sensor that is arranged further on a downstream side than a fixing device in a sheet conveying direction and scans the test pattern formed on the sheet.
US07733544B2
A laser scanner may include a measuring head structured to be rotatable around a first axis, a first rotary drive structured to rotate the measuring head, a rotary mirror rotatable around a second axis, a second rotary drive structured to rotate the rotary mirror, a transmitter structured to transmit a light beam, a receiver structured to receive a reflection of the light beam from an object located at a distance from the laser scanner, and a processor structured to process signals embedded within the reflection of the light beam. The measuring head may include a plurality of modules, and the first rotary drive, rotary mirror, second rotary drive, transmitter, and receiver may be provided on one of the plurality of modules. At least two of the plurality of modules may be releasably connected to each other.
US07733540B2
A multifunction apparatus is provided with a printer unit having a discharge tray disposed on a top face thereof and a scanner unit disposed on the image recording unit with a space being defined between the image reading unit and the discharge tray. The scanner unit has a casing. The casing is provided in the printer unit rotatably about a rear side of the apparatus in such a fashion as to open a front side of the apparatus. The casing has a recessed part formed at a position of a bottom plate thereof and corresponding to the discharge tray. Thus, a recording sheet removal opening opened on a front side of the apparatus is formed. A reinforcing portion recessed in such a fashion as to be swollen toward an internal space of the casing is formed on the bottom plate having the recessed part.
US07733535B2
Efficiently processing contone image data by determining one or more characteristics of the image data and using these characteristics to manipulate the dither matrix so that the printed image is enhanced.
US07733534B2
In an image processing apparatus that performs a dither processing using a dither matrix based on the result of determination of the segmentation class to which the pixel to be processed belongs, to perform the dither processing, any of a plurality of pairs of threshold values is selected according to the result of determination of the segmentation class, and the selected pair of threshold values are compared with the value of the pixel to be processed, which are set so that in correspondence with each position of a dither matrix of a same configuration and a same size, a different dither processing is performed according to the result of determination of the segmentation class on part of the dither matrix and a same dither processing is performed irrespective of the result of determination of the segmentation class on the remainder of the dither matrix.
US07733525B2
A gamut mapping method and apparatus are provided which allow a reproduction device to properly represent colors that are not within a gamut boundary of the reproduction device but within in a gamut boundary of a source device. The gamut mapping method includes (a) setting a cut-off rate for a predetermined color component and defining a cut-off region on a standard color circle; (b) determining a gamut of a reproduction device using color data which is part of basic color data and corresponds to colors that do not belong to the cut-off region; (c) modifying a gamut of a source device according to the determined gamut of the reproduction device; (d) determining a mapping relationship between the modified gamut of the source device and the determined gamut of the reproduction device; and (e) creating a mapping table based on the determined mapping relationship.
US07733524B2
A monochromic image processing system and method for background removal according to dynamic data firstly obtain pixel histogram data in part of an image during a photo/text separation process. Afterwards, look-up tables for executing a background removal process are generated immediately to remove background noise of all images simultaneously. This method can solve the problem that in the multi-source document copy mode the background noise of all images cannot be removed at the same time in the prior art. It also increases the flexibility in the background removal process in various copy modes.
US07733503B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for measuring articles made of a material that is difficult to measure, such as glass. In the system, an elastic film (19) is arranged on top of an article (110). A number of measurement points have been arranged on the film that are imaged using a machine vision system. The location of the measurement points imaged are calculated with respect to one another, and based on this, the shape of the article can be measured.
US07733502B2
A roughness evaluation method for evaluating a roughness of lines formed on a substrate includes a measuring step of irradiating light onto a plurality of locations of the substrate and measuring a state of reflected light by a scatterometry; and an analyzing step of evaluating the roughness of the lines based on a variation in value measured in the measuring step. A roughness evaluation system includes an optical device for irradiating light onto the substrate and measuring a state of reflected light by a scatterometry; a moving device for moving the substrate in at least one of an x-direction and a y-directions on a horizontal plane; a controller for controlling the moving device such that the optical device measures a plurality of locations on the substrate; and an analysis unit for evaluating the roughness based on a variation in measured values at the plurality of locations on the substrate.
US07733498B2
An exposure apparatus comprises an optical system support supporting a projection optical system, a stage surface plate, first stage and second stages, a first interferometer configured to measure stage position in a first area, a second interferometer configured to measure stage position in a second area, a third interferometer which is interposed between the first interferometer and the second interferometer, a gap sensor configured to measure a gap between the optical system support and the stage surface plate, and a control unit configured to pass, in the swapping, the measurement result obtained by one of the first interferometer and the second interferometer to the other one of the first interferometer and the second interferometer using the measurement result obtained by the third interferometer, and to correct the passed measurement result based on the measurement result obtained by the gap sensor.
US07733494B2
A method and apparatus for estimating bandwidth of laser output light is described which may include a dispersive element producing a dispersed output having a plurality of spectrum images from at least a portion of the laser output light. An array of light detecting elements is oriented to receive the dispersed output together with a shifting mechanism that moves the array, the dispersed output, or both, relative to each other. Electronics may be provided for determining the widths of at least two spectrum images at different phases of registration between the spectrum images and light detector elements and for averaging the widths to estimate a laser output bandwidth. The-spectrum images formed by the laser output light may be under-sampled, e.g., in the spatial or time domains.
US07733487B2
A particle counting method is provided whereby a liquid sample is radiated by a laser light, scattered light produced by causing the laser light to hit a particle in the liquid sample is detected by a photoelectric conversion element, and a sample value which is the output of the photoelectric conversion element is sequentially compared to a threshold preset for each particle size range, thereby counting the number of particles for each particle size range, the method comprising: a timer start-up step for starting a timer of a predetermined time when the sample value becomes smaller than a threshold of a minimum particle size for the first time and for sequentially holding the maximum value of the sample value; and a timer extension step for restarting the timer to sequentially hold the maximum value of the sample value when the sample value at the time-out of the timer start-up step is larger than the threshold of the minimum particle size.
US07733483B2
A method of ascertaining the orientation of molecules in a biological specimen by total internal reflection includes focusing illuminating light through an objective in different positions in a plane of a pupil of the objective so as to generate a plurality of respective differently oriented evanescent fields in the specimen. Respective different fluorescence intensities resulting from the differently oriented evanescent fields are correlated with respective different orientations of molecules in the specimen.
US07733479B2
The invention relates to charged single-wall carbon nanotubes and their use in sensing and monitoring devices. The charged single-wall carbon nanotubes, have been found to have spectral shifts in certain regions of the electromagnetic spectrum. The charged single wall nanotubes are very sensitive to environmental perturbations and the nanotube's optical properties will be affected by these perturbations. Accordingly, the charged single wall carbon nanotubes can be used as sensors for a wide variety of applications, such as salt concentrations and pH, signal generators, measuring length of DNA molecules, as well as optical tags for biological detection and mapping of malignant cell activity. Optimal sensor devices are achieved in the present invention when the charged single-wall carbon nanotube carries a linear charge density close to that of DNA. The invention further describes an optical pH sensor comprising at least one charged carbon nanotube in solution.
US07733478B2
One aspect of the disclosure is directed to a calibration system. The calibration system includes an imaging device including a predetermined print engine capable of being calibrated and a calibration sheet. The calibration sheet includes at least one visible calibration reference region including a given mix of pre-selected reference colorants printed in the calibration reference region on the calibration sheet. The pre-selected reference colorants have been previously printed on the printable calibration sheet using a different imaging device that is different than the given imaging device and that has the same print engine as the given imaging device. The calibration sheet includes freshly printable target regions on the calibration sheet. The given imaging device is configured to enter into the calibration mode, wherein the given imaging device is configured to freshly print a mix of colorants corresponding to the pre-selected reference colorants onto at least one of the target regions.
US07733476B2
The defect inspection apparatus and method for determining an acceptable condition of a reticle/mask member with a pattern area to be developed on a semiconductor device includes determining a non-pattern area and designating an inspection target area within a non-pattern area. Light is scanned across the inspection target area and detected to provide representative signals. The representative signals are processed to define the status of foreign matter including size and location and further compared with predetermined values to determine the acceptability of the mask for continued production purposes.
US07733475B2
A defect inspecting apparatus of the invention solves a problem that in a defect inspecting apparatus, because of improving detection sensitivity of a microscopic defect by reducing a detection pixel size, a focal depth becomes shallow, a height of imaging is varied due to environmental change and the detection sensitivity of a defect becomes unstable. This apparatus comprises an XY stage, which carries a substrate to be inspected and scans in a predetermined direction, and a mechanism having a system of irradiating a defect on the inspected substrate at a slant and detecting the defect by a detection optical system disposed on the upper side, which corrects a height of imaging in real time for change in temperature and barometric pressure in order to keep the imaging in a best condition.
US07733470B2
The invention comprises a real-time stroboscopic acquisition protocol for a measurement of the fluorescence decay and a method and apparatus for real-time calculation of the fluorescence lifetime from that measurement.
US07733469B2
A light beam is detected/localized by multisector detector—quad-cell, or 5+ sectors handling plural beams. Preferences: Beams focus to diffraction limit on the detector, which reveals origin direction by null-balance—shifting spots to a central sector junction, and measuring shifts to reach there. One or more MEMS reflectors, and control system with programmed processor(s), sequence the spot toward center: following a normal to an intersector boundary; then along the boundary. One afocal optic amplifies MEMS deflections; another sends beams to imaging optics. After it's known which sector received a spot, and the beam shifts, source direction is reported. The system can respond toward that (or a related) direction. It can illuminate objects, generating beams reflectively. Optics define an FOR in which to search; other optics define an FOV (narrower), for imaging spots onto the detector. The FOR:FOV angular ratio is on order of ten—roughly 180:20°, or 120:10°.
US07733468B2
A lens meter capable of obtaining optical characteristics of a lens with high stability and accuracy has a measurement optical system including a target panel having measurement targets having first measurement targets and second measurement targets and a photodetector which photo-receives a measurement light bundle, a calculation means which calculates the optical characteristics including first calculation means which calculates first optical characteristics based on a detection result of the first measurement targets by the photodetector and second calculation means which calculates second optical characteristics based on a detection result of the first and second measurement targets, and display control means which displays the second optical characteristics as the optical characteristics of the lens if the calculation result by the first calculation means or the detection result by the photodetector satisfies a predetermined condition and displays the first optical characteristics if the predetermined condition is not satisfied.
US07733456B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a plurality of signal lines on a substrate, a plurality of pad electrodes on the substrate, each one of the plurality of pad electrodes connected to one of the plurality of signal lines, at least one insulating film on the plurality of pad electrodes, the at least one insulating film having a plurality of contact holes to expose portions of the pad electrodes, and a conductive film electrically connected to each of the plurality of pad electrodes through the contact holes.
US07733454B2
A liquid crystal display having electrodes on a single substrate. A transparent planar electrode elongated in the transverse direction is formed on the inner surface of a substrate, and an insulating film is deposited thereon. A plurality of linear electrodes, which are elongated in the longitudinal direction and either transparent or opaque, are formed on the insulating film. Potential difference between the planar and the linear electrodes generated by applying voltages to the electrodes yields an electric field. The electric field is symmetrical with respect to the longitudinal central line of the linear electrodes, and has parabolic or semi-elliptical lines of force having a center on a boundary line between the planar and the linear electrodes. The line of force on the planar and the linear electrodes and on the boundary line between the planar and the linear electrodes has the vertical and the horizontal components, and the liquid crystal molecules are re-arranged to have a twist angle and a tilt angle. The polarization of the incident light varies due to the rearrangement of the liquid crystal molecules.
US07733447B2
A liquid crystal display device in which three cholesteric liquid crystal layers of selective reflection type are laminated, comprises: a first liquid crystal layer arranged on a device observation side selectively reflecting blue; a second liquid crystal layer arranged next to the first liquid crystal layer selectively reflecting green; a third liquid crystal layer arranged next to the second liquid crystal layer selectively reflecting red; and a green cut filter layer arranged between the green liquid crystal layer and the red liquid crystal layer selectively absorbing a light ray of a wavelength of 600 nm or less.
US07733446B2
The present invention intends to provide a manufacturing method of a semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device in which method a structure and manufacturing process thereof are simplified to enable to reduce the manufacturing cost. In order to achieve the above object, a semi-transmissive liquid crystal display device in the invention has a layer constitution in which a reflective pixel electrode is formed with a second conductive film that constitutes a source electrode, a drain electrode, a source wiring and so on and on an upper layer of the second metal film a transmissive pixel electrode made of a transparent conductive film is formed through the insulating film. A TFT array substrate can be formed through 5 times of photoengraving process.
US07733444B2
Residual direct-current charges may be accumulated and distributed non-uniformly on the built-in color filters in a displaying panel such as the liquid-crystal-on-silicon displaying device, and thus results in the non-uniformity of the internal electric field that controls the arrangement of liquid crystal molecules. To reduce residual direct-current charges so as to cause the internal electric field to be substantially uniform, the present invention provides a structure of the display panel including a plurality of shields for respectively enclosing a plurality of color filters, wherein each shield is connected to a corresponding pixel electrode by a conductive wire.
US07733442B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and microcapsules sandwiched between the first substrate and the second substrate, the microcapsules constituting a display area, the microcapsules encapsulating a display material whose optical properties change in response to electrical stimulation. A conductive material for conducting between the substrates is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate to constitute a vertically conducting portion. The thickness of the conductive material is set such that the distance between the first substrate and the second substrate at the vertically conducting portion is larger than the distance between the first substrate and the second substrate in the display area.
US07733440B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a liquid crystal display apparatus that can eliminate brightness nonuniformity by suitably diffusing light emitted from a light source. The liquid crystal display apparatus includes a liquid crystal panel providing a liquid crystal between a pair of substrates, the liquid crystal panel having an effective display area for displaying information, a sealing member placed around the liquid crystal in order to seal the liquid crystal between the pair of substrates, a light source for illuminating the liquid crystal panel from an edge thereof, and light diffusing means, provided between the pair of substrates, for diffusing the light introduced from the light source into the effective display area.
US07733424B2
A method and apparatus for an analog-to-digital video signal converter. The converter is controlled by a clock with controllable frequency and phase for sampling an analog signal. A measure of the difference between successive frames of the image is computed for a sequence of clock phases. The measure can be a count taken over pixels of the magnitude of the difference between a pixel in one frame and the corresponding pixel in a following frame exceeding a threshold value. The frequency of the clock is verified using a characteristic of the frame difference. The characteristic can be the ratio of the maximum measure to the minimum measure over the selected clock phases. Other characteristics can be used such as a difference of a maximum and a minimum measure.
US07733419B1
Video filtering using a programmable graphics processor is described. The programmable graphics processor may be programmed to complete a plurality of video filtering operations in a single pass through a fragment-processing pipeline within the programmable graphics processor. Video filtering functions such as deinterlacing, chroma up-sampling, scaling, and deblocking may be performed by the fragment-processing pipeline. The fragment-processing pipeline may be programmed to perform motion adaptive deinterlacing, wherein a spatially variant filter determines, on a pixel basis, whether a “bob”, a “blend”, or a “weave” operation should be used to process an interlaced image.
US07733415B2
A small illumination apparatus including an optical member less affected by heat from a light source is disclosed. The illumination apparatus has a light source and an optical member closer to a light irradiation side than the light source and having an entrance surface formed as a refractive surface. The entrance surface has a first area receiving a first light component emitting from the light source at an angle smaller than a first angle with respect to an irradiation optical axis and a second area receiving a second light component emitting at an angle larger than the first angle with respect to the irradiation optical axis. The second area is positioned closer to the light source than the first area in the irradiation optical axis direction. Each of the first and second areas is formed a flat surface or a curved surface having a concave shape facing the light source.
US07733414B2
There is disclosed a photographic device that uses an image sensor and an electronic viewfinder. When a release button is pressed halfway, an aperture value, an electronic shutter speed and a photosensitivity are decided based on the present subject brightness to provide a proper exposure value for photographing a still image. So long as the release button is kept being pressed halfway, a timing generator drives the image sensor to shoot video images at a frame rate of 20 Hz, and the aperture value decided for still image photography is fixed, whereas the electronic shutter speed and the photosensitivity are adjusted according to the subject brightness by use of an aperture-priority type video program. When the release button is pressed to the full, an exposure for a still image is done with the fixed aperture value.
US07733410B2
An electronic camera includes a shutter button. When the shutter button is half-depressed, a focal level of an object is determined on the basis of an image signal outputted from an imaging device, and a moving start position of a focus lens is settled on the basis of the determination result. More specifically, a correction amount of the moving start position is settled in accordance with the determination result of the focal level, and a position that subtracts the correction amount from a lens position at a time the shutter button being half-depressed is settled as the moving start position. The higher the focal level, the more reduced the correction amount. The focus lens gradually moves toward the imaging device from the settled moving start position, and a focal position is specified on the basis of the image signal outputted from the imaging device at each step.
US07733406B2
An image signal generation unit comprises a horizontal pixel number conversion unit for performing the conversion of horizontal direction pixels corresponding to horizontal scanning period of NTSC system, for digital image data of the chrominance difference having the picture element number configuration based on the VGA standard, and a liquid crystal encoder for generating the primary color group digital image data RGB from digital image data YUV processed by the horizontal pixel number conversion unit, and output them directly on a liquid crystal display.
US07733404B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for calibrating an imaging system comprising a processing unit communicatively coupled to one or more imaging devices. The imaging system may also include a display. In an embodiment, a sequence of display features are displayed on a display, and imaged by the imaging device or devices. Spatial data is compiled related to the display features and the corresponding image features. In an embodiment, the display, imaging device or device, or both may be repositioned and another sequence of display features may be presented and the spatial data compiled. Using optimization and calibration techniques, the compiled spatial data may be used to obtain one or more internal imaging device parameters, one or more external parameters, or both.
US07733389B2
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing element which outputs a captured image signal including pixels, a magnification setting unit which sets an electronic zoom magnification, a mode setting unit which sets one of reading modes which vary in a number of the pixels included in the captured image signal according to the electronic zoom magnification, an electronic zoom unit which performs an electronic zoom process on the captured image signal based on the electronic zoom magnification, and an image quality adjuster which performs an image quality adjustment on the captured image signal based on the electronic zoom magnification.
US07733384B2
An imaging device of the present invention includes a solid-state image sensing device; a vertical transfer drive circuit for feeding a subpulse to the solid-state image sensing device; and a control circuit, and repeats a series of photographing operations in a cycle same as or longer than a period during which the series of photographing operations are performed, the series of photographing operations including an exposure operation for exposing an imaging area after the subpulse is fed to the solid-state image sensing device to sweep out electric charges accumulated in pixels. The control circuit stops the subpulse from being fed from the vertical transfer drive circuit to the solid-state image sensing device during a period during which the exposure operation included in the series of photographing operations is not performed.
US07733380B1
A camera including a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to perform image signal processing and control one or more functions of the camera using image signal processing related information and encoding related information. The second circuit may be configured to encode image data using the image signal processing related information and camera settings information. The first circuit may be further configured to pass the image signal processing related information and the camera settings information to the second circuit. The second circuit may be further configured to pass the encoding related information to the first circuit.
US07733371B1
A fully digital camera system provides high-resolution still image and streaming video signals via a network to a centralized, server supported security and surveillance system. The digital camera for collects an image from one or more image transducers, compressing the image and sending the compressed digital image signal to a receiving station over a digital network. A plurality of image transducers or sensors may be included in a single camera unit, providing array imaging such as full 360 degree panoramic imaging, universal or spherical imaging and field imaging by stacking or arranging the sensors in an array. The multiple images are then compressed and merged at the camera in the desired format to permit transmission of the least amount of data to accomplish the desired image transmission. The camera also employs, or connects to, a variety of sensors other than the traditional image sensor. Sensors for fire, smoke, sound, glass breakage, motion, panic buttons, and the like, may be embedded in or connected to the camera. Data captured by these sensors may be digitized, compressed, and networked to detect notable conditions. An internal microphone and associated signal processing system may be equipped with suitable signal processing algorithms for the purpose of detecting suitable acoustic events and their location. In addition, the camera is equipped with a pair of externally accessible terminals where an external sensor may be connected. In addition, the camera may be equipped with a short-range receiver that may detect the activation of a wireless ‘panic button’ carried by facility personnel. This ‘panic button’ may employ infrared, radio frequency (RF), ultrasonic, or other suitable methods to activate the camera's receiver.
US07733369B2
A method of video processing may include analyzing input video information to determine if a current video frame is directed to a same view as a previous video frame; determining whether a new view is present; and indicating a need to use video processing information pertaining to the new view if a new view is determined to be present.
US07733356B2
A method for viewing a full image of a server stored original attachment on a portable electronic device including: building a graph structure within the server representing a map of the original image, downloading and displaying a re-sized image from the server to the portable electronic device, the original image exceeding an image size limit of the portable electronic device indicative of screen size of the portable electronic device, calculating width and height parameters of the full image, sending a request from the portable electronic device to the server to enlarge the image displayed on the device based on the width and height parameters, the request including the image size limit, retrieving and traversing the graph structure within the server to locate a separate image component constructed for the image size limit, collecting image binary data from the separate image component and modifying the image binary data based on the width and height parameters to create the full image of the original image and downloading the full image of the original image to the portable electronic device.
US07733348B2
The present invention provides an image processing apparatus that can make effective use of a memory area. To accomplish this, the image processing apparatus comprises storage means having a first management record storage area for storing a first management record used for management of image data and a second management record storage area for storing a second management record linked with the first management record, and acquisition means for acquiring an area for storing the first management record and the second management record in the storage means, the apparatus managing the image data using the first management record and the second management record in the storage means, the apparatus managing the image data using the first management record and the second management record, wherein the acquisition means acquires a storing area for storing the first management record in the second management record storage area, when the storing area for storing the first management record is not acquired in the first management record storage area.
US07733345B2
A method and an apparatus for encoding and decoding a position interpolator including key data and key value data are provided. The method for encoding a position interpolator includes (b) generating key data and key value data to be encoded by extracting, from a first animation path constituted by the position interpolator, a minimum number of break points, which can bring about an error of no greater than a predetermined allowable error limit between the first animation path and a second animation to be generated by the extracted break points, (d) encoding the key data generated in step (b), and (e) encoding the key value data generated in step (b).
US07733344B2
A method and apparatus for rendering 3D graphic data is provided. The 3D graphic data is projected onto a 2D screen and points are interpolated and rendered, thereby quickly processing the 3D graphic data.
US07733342B2
Disclosed herein is a method of extracting three-dimensional building information using shadow analysis. In the method, an image of a building captured through a manmade satellite, an airplane or some other means, and metadata to be used for extraction of building information is received, the azimuth and altitude angles of a sun in an area of capture, and the azimuth and altitude angles of a camera are calculated. The contour of the roof of the building, the location and height of which are desired to be obtained, is extracted from the image. A height value is assigned to the extracted contour of the roof of the building, and the height value is adjusted until the assigned height value satisfies a predetermined condition. The vertical line and shadow of the building, which are based on the height value, is projected onto the image. The location of the building is extracted using the height value and vertical line of the building if the location of the projected shadow coincides with the location of the shadow of the building.
US07733333B2
The present invention is directed to a shared electrode pattern field effect touch sensor apparatus. The apparatus includes first and second spaced electrode patterns, each having an inner electrode and an outer electrode. The inner electrode includes a primary portion defining a primary sense area and at least one secondary portion. Secondary portions of at least two patterns are adjacently disposed, and define secondary sense areas. A pulse generation circuit and a detection circuit are electrically coupled to each pattern. The presence of an object proximate a primary sense area activates one detection circuit. The presence of an object proximate a secondary sense area activates two detection circuits. A controller in communication with the detection circuits senses activation of the detection circuits. In a preferred embodiment, the apparatus is a navigational control device. A method of processing touch sensor field effect signals is also disclosed.
US07733320B2
A shift register circuit includes a plurality of cascade-connected signal holding circuits each of the signal holding circuits includes an input control circuit to which an input signal is applied, and which fetches and holds the input signal, an output control circuit to which a first control clock signal is applied, and which outputs an output signal corresponding to timings of the held input signal and the first control clock signal, and a reset control circuit to which a reset signal is applied, and which initializes a signal level of the input signal held in the input control circuit. A timing at which the output signal is terminated is set to be ahead of an application start timing of the reset signal.
US07733318B2
A display device includes a display panel having pixels arranged in a matrix form, a driving circuit for outputting an analog voltage according to a video signal to the pixels through signal lines, a plurality of measuring circuits each for detecting the amount of transmitted light, a single totalizing circuit for totalizing the results of measurements made by the measuring circuits, and a control circuit for adjusting a potential on a common electrode of the display panel in accordance with the result of the totalization from the totalizing circuit. The results of measurements made by the plurality of measuring circuits are totalized by the single totalizing circuit.
US07733317B2
A reliable image display apparatus is provided that is capable of preventing a direct current from being applied to liquid crystal of a spatial light modulating element so that damage such as burns in the liquid crystal and screen flicker may be prevented and a high resolution image with high image quality may be displayed. The image display apparatus is configured to divide a frame into 2i sub frames (i corresponding to a natural number) and sequentially display the sub frames using the liquid crystal spatial light modulating element. The image display apparatus includes a polarity switching unit configured to reverse the polarity of a drive voltage for a pixel of the spatial light modulating element for every j sub frame(s) (j corresponding to a natural number that is less than 2i) and for every n frame(s)(n corresponding to a natural number).
US07733315B2
The invention provides an active matrix EL display device which can perform a clear multi-gray scale color display. In particular, the invention provides a large active matrix EL display device at low cost by a manufacturing method which can selectively form a pattern. Power supply lines in a pixel portion are arranged in matrix by the manufacturing method which can selectively form a pattern. Further, capacitance between wirings is reduced by providing a longer distance between adjacent wirings by the manufacturing method which can selectively form a pattern.
US07733308B2
The invention provides an electro-optical device in which a voltage drop due to the wiring resistance of a cathode is reduced and therefore steady image signals are transmitted such that erroneous image display, such as low contrast, is reduced or prevented. The invention also provides an electronic apparatus including such an electro-optical device. An electro-optical device includes red, green, and blue luminescent power-supply lines to apply currents to light-emitting elements arranged in an actual display region in a matrix; and a cathode line disposed between the light-emitting elements and a cathode. The cathode line has a width larger than a width of red, green, and blue luminescent power-supply lines.
US07733307B2
An emission driver for an organic light emitting display device is disclosed. The emission driver includes a plurality of flip-flops, and each flip-flop selectively receives two input signals and inverts a level of a received input signal. Also, each flip-flop transmits the level-inverted signal to an adjacent flip-flop, inverts the level-inverted signal, and transmits the inverted level-inverted signal to the adjacent flip-flop and as an emission control signal. To invert the level of the received input signal, the emission driver includes a level shifter, which includes transistors of the same conductivity type arranged to reduce power consumption.
US07733300B2
The inventive plasma display is capable of enhancing the luminous efficiency and the brightness by minimizing ineffective ultraviolet rays.The plasma display according to the present invention comprises: a first transparent electrode having two or more protrusion parts; and a second transparent electrode having two or more protrusion parts corresponding respectively to the protrusion parts of the first transparent electrode. When discharges between the first and second transparent electrodes take place, there are two or more peaks in the discharge intensity of each transparent electrode.
US07733286B2
In a broadband printed dipole antenna for wireless applications, metal plates of a radiation portion, a feed-in portion and a bandwidth modulation portion are formed on a substrate. Two radiation portions come with a specific shape and have an interval between the two radiation portions. The feed-in portion is composed of two separated long bars and coupled to one of the specific shaped radiation portions. The bandwidth modulation portion is disposed symmetrically adjacent to the feed-in portion, such that the impedance matching can be adjusted to form a broadband dipole antenna for WiMAX applications.
US07733272B2
An antenna apparatus is disclosed that includes an element member made of sheet metal, a ground member made of sheet metal, and a connection part that is integrally formed with the element member and the ground member.
US07733241B2
A telemetry unit (100) is provided for mounting to the inside of a pneumatic tire, which includes sensors for measuring the pressure and temperature within the tire and an RF transmitter for transmitting measured data to an on-board display remote location. The unit (100) includes a piezoelectric element (114) supported in a housing (112) with an actuator (136) arranged for contact with the element (114), to deflect the element (114) in response to external forces acting on the actuator (136) during rotation of the tire. For every rotation of the tire, cyclic pulses of electrical charge are generated by the deflection of the element (114). The unit (100) includes control means which controls the consumption of stored charge when measuring and transmitting data and is arranged to vary the rate of transmission of data from the unit (100) in dependence on the rotary speed of the tire.
US07733232B2
Social networking in a virtual space over a network is facilitated. Subscriber computing devices each operated by a subscriber are associated with a subscriber identifier. Each computing device is connected to the network. A subscriber profile is created in a profile datastore, wherein the subscriber profile comprises information about the subscriber and wherein the subscriber profile is associated with the subscriber's subscriber identifier. Subscriber identifiers associated with subscribers who are logged in to a website are monitored. The website defines a virtual space and the logged-in subscribers are characterized as present in the virtual space. A web page is served to the computing devices of the present subscribers via the network. The web page of a first subscriber comprises a first subscriber icon associated with the first subscriber and subscriber icons of other present subscribers. A determination is made whether the first subscriber profile matches the subscriber profile of one or more of the other present subscribers according to matching criteria. An attribute is assigned to the icons of the other present subscribers that match the profile of the first subscriber according to matching criteria. Selected profile information is provided to the first subscriber of a selected one of any of the other present matching subscribers.
US07733221B2
An apparatus for logging and reporting network parameters within a portable communication device that includes a processor and a wireless module that may communicate with a wireless network such as a wireless telephone network, for example, via a wireless connection. The wireless module may determine characteristic information associated with the wireless connection and may provide the characteristic information to the processor. The processor may format the characteristic information for transmission and then transmit the formatted characteristic information to the wireless network. In addition, the processor may store the characteristic information within the portable communication device for future aggregation and transmission.
US07733220B2
Systems and methods are provided for detecting changes in a monitored environment. One aspect of the invention relates to a system that comprises a plurality of radio frequency (RF) sensors distributed about the monitored environment, such that each RF sensor configured to respond to an interrogation signal with a unique identifier and a radio frequency (RF) interrogator that transmits interrogation sequences of interrogations signals over a plurality of different frequency bands at one or more power levels. The system also includes a response pattern analyzer that determines response patterns for each of the plurality of RF sensors to the interrogation sequences and transmits a change detection indicator if at least one of the determined response patterns vary outside a predetermined background baseline.
US07733218B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting a reader signal strength in a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is described. A tag is configured to monitor an attribute of a reader transmitted signal, such as the signal strength. The tag generates an indication of the signal attribute, and transmits the indication of the signal attribute to the reader.
US07733213B2
Methods, systems and computer program products provide time-restricted passcode access to a restricted access area by: (a) electronically generating a time-limited visitor access passcode that is operational for a security system for a limited time duration; then (b) electronically accepting the visitor access passcode in a security entry control access device in communication with the security system to allow a user with the visitor access passcode a time-limited entry to a restricted area; then (c) automatically electronically preventing user access to the restricted area using the visitor access passcode with the security entry control access device after a certain time or expiration of a certain time period. Embodiments of the invention may be particularly useful for allowing visiting meeting participants physical access to a restricted area in a building to attend a scheduled meeting.
US07733205B2
An integrated circuit, such as a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC), has a first layer bearing first metallization patterned for defining a first inductive coil, a second layer bearing second metallization patterned for defining a second inductive coil that overlies the first inductive coil and that is magnetically coupled to the first inductive coil through a third layer interposed between the first layer and the second layer. The third layer bears third metallization for defining an electric shield or electrostatic shield. The third metallization is patterned into a plurality of structures having shapes intended to minimize eddy currents. The electric shield is connected to further metallization that carries a ground potential. The third layer may further bear other metallization for coupling together at least two components of the integrated circuit. The integrated circuit may be fabricated by a CMOS process, and the first and second coils may be a primary coil and a secondary coil, respectively, of a radio frequency transformer. An additional electric shield may also be included, and in this case one electric shield can be coupled to a ground potential associated with the primary coil, and the second electric shield can be coupled to a ground potential associated with the secondary coil.
US07733203B2
An auxiliary contact unit for a magnetic contactor is disclosed, wherein the auxiliary contact unit is disposed at an inner lower frame thereof with a cover connected to lower hooks and supporting an upper structure, and the cover is supported at a lower surface thereof by a protrusion.
US07733201B2
According to the invention, a starter includes a motor and an electromagnetic switch. The electromagnetic switch includes a switch case, a movable contact, a fixed contact, a contact cover, an excitation coil, an excitation coil terminal, a motor terminal, and a protective cover. The excitation coil terminal has a first end, which is located inside the contact cover and electrically connected to the excitation coil, and a second end that protrudes outside the contact cover so as to be electrically connected to a power source. The motor terminal has a first end, which is located inside the contact cover and electrically connected to the fixed contact, and a second end that protrudes outside the contact cover and is electrically connected to the motor. The protective cover covers both the second end of the excitation coil terminal and the second end of the motor terminal, thereby protecting both the second ends.
US07733194B2
A modulator is provided that comprises a nonlinear transmission line (NLTL) that is bias modulated by a baseband signal. A given logic state of the baseband signal determines a delay amount of a first carrier signal through the NLTL. The modulator further comprises an impulse forming network (IFN) that includes a first NLTL that receives the first carrier signal delayed by the determined delay amount and a second NLTL that receives a second carrier signal having a fixed delay amount. The first NLTL and second NLTL within the IFN have opposite diode polarity configurations. The modulator further comprises a power combiner that converts a delta delay of the first carrier signal relative to the second carrier signal to a sharp impulse that represents the given logic state of the baseband signal.
US07733193B2
DQPSK modulator control is provided using a single monitor photodiode with a selectively injected dither tone. The dither tone signal is sequentially injected into arm modulators and/or to a modulator driver port in time slots. A tapped signal at the output of the modulator is monitored synchronously with injected dither (I arm, Q arm, or phase modulator in third slot). The recovered dither output from a single photodiode is processed in the same sequence as the dither injection to adjust the bias to the optimal point: I-arm at the null point, Q-arm at the null point, and phase modulator at the quadrature point. This technique can be used for any control where the rate of change of the monitored condition due to systemic or environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, aging, etc.) is slow enough to allow time slot dither injection, monitor, and control.
US07733189B1
Control circuitry is disclosed including an oscillator operable to generate an oscillator signal. A frequency of the oscillator signal increases as an amplitude of a first voltage increases up to a threshold, and the frequency of the oscillator signal decreases as an amplitude of the first voltage exceeds the threshold. The oscillator is operable to generate a foldover signal indicating when the frequency of the oscillator signal is decreasing due to the first voltage exceeding the threshold.
US07733179B2
A differential amplifier (10-1,2) includes an input stage (7) including first (M1) and second (M2) input transistors and first (4A) and second (4B) load devices. Sources of the first and second input transistors are connected together. Drains of the first and second input transistors are coupled by first (12) and second (13) conductors to the first and second load devices, respectively. Common mode feedback circuitry (6A) including first (M3), second (M4), and third (M5) transistors is combined with offset correction circuitry (8) including the second transistor and the third transistor. Sources of the first, second, and third transistors are coupled to a tail current source (11). Drains of the second and third transistors are coupled to the first and second conductors, respectively. A common mode voltage (VOCM) is applied to a gate of the first transistor. Offset trim voltages are applied to gates of the second and third transistors.
US07733174B2
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an amplifier, differential amplifiers, and FETs. The amplifier has an intermediate node and an output node, and the amplifier is adapted to receive an audio signal. Each differential amplifier amplifies the difference between an output voltage from the output node with a reference voltages. The FETs are coupled in series with one another between a first and a second voltage, and each FET receives an output from at least one of the differential amplifiers. Additionally, the intermediate node is coupled to a node between at least two FETs.
US07733170B2
The present invention discloses a switching amplifier and its modulations process, which belongs to the field of non-filters-type switching amplifier. The switching amplifier comprises: pulse-width modulation with dual comparator, multiple-loop feedback structure, only one integrating amplifier with dual-ends output needed for each loop, no less than two feedback loops set between the integrating amplifier and H-bridge, in addition, no any low-pass filters needed adding to the feedback path. Multiple feedback loops are adopted in the present invention, which can low the distortion of the switching amplifier to the extent. Furthermore, no any extra low-pass filters are needed adding to the feedback path, which making the products a higher cost effectiveness.
US07733164B2
In a semiconductor device, a monitoring circuit monitors and detects a quantity of noise in the semiconductor device. A control circuit has capacitances and controls connections to the capacitances such a decoupling capacitance value provided between a first power supply and a second power supply is dynamically adjusted based on the detected noise quantity.
US07733163B1
A compensation device that can include a bias-able device, a bias circuit that provides the bias-able device with a bias current, a signal conditioner selectively coupled to the bias-able device, and an emulator. The signal conditioner and emulator can divert current from the bias-able device in an operational and calibration mode, respectively. In calibration mode, the emulator generates a compensation current that is combined with a sense current so that the sense current equals the bias current.
US07733157B2
Noise-reducing transistor arrangement having first and second field effect transistors (FETs) having source terminals coupled together, drain terminals coupled together, and control terminals for application of a first or second signal. A clock generator unit is configured to provide the first and second signals alternately to the FETs with an alternating frequency which is at least as great as the cut-off frequency of the noise characteristic of the FETs, or with a reciprocal alternating frequency which is less than a mean lifetime of an occupation state of a defect in the boundary region between channel region and gate insulating layer of the FETs. The first signal is applied to the control terminal of the first FET and, simultaneously, the second signal to the control terminal of the second FET. The second signal is applied to the control terminal of the first FET and, simultaneously, the first signal to the control terminal of the second FET.
US07733156B2
The transistor arrangement contains a first and a second field effect transistor comprising a first and a second source drain connection and a control connection for applying a first or a second signal. The two field effect transistors are of the same conductive type. The transistor arrangement is configured in such a manner that the first signal can be applied in an alternating manner to the control connection of the first field effect transistor and the second signal can be applied in a simultaneous manner to the control connection of the second field effect transistor, and/or the second signal can be applied to the control connection of the first field effect transistor and the first signal can be applied simultaneously to the control connection of the second field effect transistor.
US07733155B2
In one embodiment, a low power voltage detection circuit includes a first voltage detection device that receives power from an input voltage and a second voltage detection device receives power from an output of the low power voltage detection circuit.
US07733148B2
Delay circuits are provided. Some embodiments of delay circuits herein include a delay line including multiple delay cells connected in series and a variable voltage supplier operative to output a voltage value proportional and/or inversely proportional to a temperature. Delay circuits may include at least one loading capacitor that includes a first end that is connected to an output port of the delay cell and a second end that is connected to an output port of the variable voltage supplier, the at least one loading capacitor including a capacitance that is decreased corresponding to an increase in temperature when a positive voltage is applied across the first end and the second end of the at least one loading capacitor.
US07733145B2
A nonvolatile latch circuit includes: a first gate part controlling to load or intercept an input signal based on a gate signal; a first logic gate functioning as an inverter or a gate outputting a constant voltage in response to the first control signal; a second logic gate functioning as an inverter or a gate outputting the constant voltage in response to the first control signal; a second gate part controlling to load or intercept the output of the second logic gate based on an inverted signal of the gate signal and sends the output of the second logic gate to an first input terminal of the first logic gate; and first and second injection type MTJ elements provided between the driving power supply and the first and second logic gates and changing in resistance depending upon a current flow direction.
US07733142B2
Consistent with an example embodiment, an edge-rate control circuit arrangement (300) for an I2C bus application comprises a first circuit stage (10, M1, M3), responsive to a state transition of a received signal. A second circuit stage (310, 25, 20, 35, 45, M4, ESD) is responsive to the state transition of the received signal and includes drive circuitry (M4) that is activated in response to the state transition of the received signal in order to provide an edge-transition signal for an I2C bus, and regulation circuitry (310, R1, R2, M0, M2) adapted to control the drive circuit and regulate a transition rate for the edge-transition signal, the transition rate being greater than a transition rate of the received signal at the first circuit stage and greater than a minimum and less than a maximum transition rate designated for communication on the I2C bus.
US07733141B2
A delay locked loop (DLL) of a semiconductor device has a relatively small area and low current consumption while having a function of correcting a duty ratio. The semiconductor device includes a split unit configured to receive and split a reference clock to output a first clock corresponding to a first edge of the reference clock and a second clock corresponding to a second edge, a voltage generation unit configured to generate a first voltage corresponding to a duty ratio of the first clock and a second voltage corresponding to a duty ratio of the second clock, a voltage comparison unit configured to compare levels of the first and second voltages with each other, and a clock delay unit configured to receive one of the first and second clocks to delay the received clock of which delay amount is determined in response to an output signal of the voltage comparison unit.
US07733130B2
A data communications system is disclosed. The data communications system comprises two clock domains. Each of the clock domains are coupled to receive a source clock signal. The first clock domain includes a first clock signal and the second clock domain includes a second clock signal, each of the first clock signal and the second clock signal are derived from the source clock signal. The first clock signal has a frequency which is different from that of the second clock signal. The system includes circuitry configured to generate a pulse indicative of when data transferred between the first clock domain and the second clock domain may be latched. Data is only latched when the pulse is asserted and on a given edge of the first clock signal, and the circuitry is configured to generate the pulse such that the given edge occurs at approximately a position corresponding to a middle of a period of the second clock signal.
US07733127B2
When communicating data between different voltage and frequency domains, for example chiplets, in an integrated circuit, the data signals can be formatted to compensate for propagation delays and different operating frequencies between the domains, and the signaling voltage level of the formatted data signals can then be changed from the operating voltage of the transmitting domain to the operating voltage of the receiving domain so that the formatted and changed data signals can be transmitted. As such, voltage crossings are combined with frequency crossings, which can have the effect of hiding the voltage shifting within the propagation delays.
US07733121B2
Methods and apparatus for programmably powering down a structured application-specific integrated circuit are provided. At least one of the programmable layers of the structured ASIC that frequently provides some programmability as between or among a small number of alternative functions is used to provide this programmability.
US07733120B2
Disclosed is an impedance adjustment circuit including a comparator and a resistor control circuit. The comparator compares the resistance value of an external resistor and that of a replica resistor that forms a replica of a terminal resistor. The resistor control circuit includes a replica resistor control counter, a resistor-under-adjustment control signal holding circuit and a monitor circuit. The replica resistor control counter counts up and down based on the comparison result by the comparator to output a control signal to the replica resistor. The resistor-under-adjustment control signal holding circuit holds a control signal that is delivered to the terminal resistor. The monitor circuit receives the state of the counter and an output of the retention circuit and, in case the difference between the count state of the replica resistor control counter and an output of the resistor-under-adjustment control signal holding circuit is within a preset range, delivers the output of the resistor-under-adjustment control signal holding circuit as an input to the resistor-under-adjustment control signal holding circuit.
US07733115B2
The present invention relates to a substrate testing circuit comprising a testing bus and a testing signal terminal connected to the testing bus, a signal line to be tested in the substrate being connected to the testing bus via a signal connecting terminal, wherein a plurality of signal access terminals are provided on the testing bus; one testing branch is connected between each the signal access terminal and the testing signal terminal; and resistance values of the testing branches are the same. By means of the present invention, since a plurality of signal access terminals are introduced and the testing branches with the same resistance are added so that input resistances and impedances of testing signals across the display screen are substantially identical without making changes to process flow and device hardware structure, input resistances and impedances of respective signal lines are well averaged, thereby no obvious regional attenuation occurs in the testing signals within the pixel area to be tested irrespective of limitation in size of panel, so as to realize tests for panels with greater sizes.
US07733110B2
An integrated circuit (70) having parallel scan paths (824-842, 924-942) includes a pair or pairs of scan distributor (800,900) and scan collector (844,944) circuits. The scan paths apply stimulus test data to functional circuits (702) on the integrated circuit and receive response test data from the functional circuits. A scan distributor circuit (800) receives serial test data from a peripheral bond pad (802) and distributes it to each parallel scan path. A scan collector circuit (844) collects test data from the parallel scan paths and applies it to a peripheral bond pad (866). This enables more parallel scan paths of shorter length to connect to the functional circuits. The scan distributor and collector circuits can be respectively connected in series to provide parallel connections to more parallel scan paths. Additionally multiplexer circuits (886,890) can selectively connect pairs of scan distributor and collector circuits together. The scan distributor and collector circuits can be formed in core circuits (704). The core circuits then can be connected to other core circuits and functional circuits with simple connections to the parallel scan circuits through the scan distributor and collector circuits.
US07733102B2
A system and a method of testing a semiconductor die is provided. An embodiment includes a printed circuit board connected to a space transformation layer, which is connected to a substrate. The substrate uses through silicon vias and a redistribution layer to reduce the pitch of the connections beyond the historical limitations. A probe head using Cobra-style probe pins is connected to the redistribution layer through C4 bumps.
US07733094B2
An apparatus for monitoring and measuring the electrical, thermal and mechanical operating parameters of high voltage power conductors. A toroidal shaped housing, which can be mounted onto an energized conductor, contains all of the necessary electrical instruments to monitor the parameters associated with the conductor. Moreover, the housing includes the processing capability to analyze disturbance and fault events based on these parameters.
US07733080B1
The clamp meter contains a revolving member configured between the meter's body member and jaw member. The revolving member is composed of a first base and a second base located on the interfacing sides of the body member and the jaw member, respectively. The first base and the second base are revolvably joined together by an axle extended axially from the body member into the jaw member via the first and second bases' aligned axle holes. The first base has at least a roller ball elastically embedded in a concave and exposed towards the second base. The roller ball would roll into one of a number of notches of the second base as the base and jaw members are rotated relative to each other, thereby creating a number of preset configurations of the included angle between the body and jaw members.
US07733077B1
Portable locators are disclosed for finding and mapping buried objects such as utilities. A articulatable antenna node configuration and the use of Doppler radar and GPS navigation are also disclosed.
US07733074B2
To provide a control circuit of a current mode DC-DC converter, a current mode DC-DC converter and a control method thereof having excellent high-speed responsiveness with respect to fluctuations in output voltage. The control circuit of the current mode DC-DC converter serves as a DC-DC converter 1 that controls a peak value of a coil current and comprises a window comparator that detects whether an output voltage VOUT is within a predetermined voltage range including a target voltage, and a peak current setting unit that sets a peak current setting value of a coil current to a lower limit value or an upper limit value in response to a high or low voltage level of the output voltage VOUT, in the case that the output voltage VOUT is not within the predetermined voltage range including the target voltage.
US07733073B2
A regulator and a method for regulating a current through a load. The regulator may include, for example, a first circuit portion configured to alternately apply and remove a voltage across the load in accordance with a first signal, the voltage causing a current to flow, and a second circuit portion configured to generate the first signal so as to have a duty cycle that depends upon an amount of the current and a second signal when the amount of current is below a threshold amount, and to generate the first signal so as to have a duty cycle that depends upon the amount of the current but not the second signal when the amount of current exceeds the threshold amount.
US07733072B2
The invention provides a switching power supply device that can restrain the variation in the ripple of the output voltage corresponding to the variation in the input voltage and a control device thereof. When output voltage Vout is higher than a target value, switching converter circuit 10 is set to a second state (a state of discharging the power stored in inductor L1 to terminal To). When output voltage Vout is lower than the target value, switching converter circuit 10 is set to a first state (a state of storing the power input from terminal Ti in inductor L1) for a prescribed period of time and is then returned to the second state. Also, when the current flowing through inductor L1 exceeds a threshold value, switching converter circuit 10 is set to the second state. In addition, the threshold value of the inductor current is adjusted corresponding to the ratio between input voltage Vin and output voltage Vout, so that the variation in the ripple of output voltage Vout occurring together with the variation in that ratio can be restrained.
US07733071B2
The invention relates to smoothing a consumer electrical circuit supplied by a controllable current sink connected in parallel to the consumer. For this purpose, measuring voltage proportional to a load current supplied to the consumer is derived therefrom. A pick value measuring device makes it possible to determine a maximum value thereof. The difference between the maximum value and measuring voltage makes it possible to control the voltage-controlled current sink in such a way that the sum of a compensation current supplied by the current sink and the load current which runs by the consumer is substantially constant.
US07733069B2
AC module makers must prepare two types of AC modules for the 100-V and 200-V outputs only for domestic supply. For foreign countries, the makers must manufacture AC modules compatible with more system voltages. To solve these problems, the control circuit of an AC module controls the operation of an inverter circuit and/or the transformation ratio of a transforming circuit, and ON/OFF-controls a switch on the basis of the system voltage and connection state of an electric power system.
US07733066B2
A power generation apparatus and method includes an AC energization synchronous generator, a switching device which connects to a network disposed on a stator side of the AC energization synchronous generator, an energizing device which applies a variable frequency AC to a secondary winding of the AC energization synchronous generator, and a first voltage detection unit which detects a voltage of the switching device on the stator side. A rotational frequency of the AC energization synchronous generator is estimated or calculated based on a frequency of a stator side voltage of the switching device, while the switching device is open.
US07733063B2
An apparatus is provided to calculate a quantity indicating a charged state of an on-vehicle battery. The battery powers a starter starting up an on-vehicle engine. In the apparatus, a plurality of pairs of data consisting of current and voltage of the battery are acquired at predetermined sampling intervals during a cranking period of the engine in response to starting up the starter. At intervals, a value of an internal resistance of the battery is calculated based on the plurality of pairs of data of current and voltage. The internal resistance is one kind of the charged-state indicating quantity. An open voltage difference is calculated, which is a difference between a pseudo circuit-open voltage of the battery given before starting up the starter and a pseudo circuit-open voltage of the battery given after the cranking period. The value of the internal resistance is corrected using the open voltage difference.
US07733061B2
Current control circuitry for controlling current supplied from a source, that may be a current-constrained source, to a load and a battery. A current limit control circuit limits current supplied by the source to the load in accord with a programmed current limit. Load current is measured, and an input charger control circuit controls magnitude of current to the battery based on the difference between measured load current and battery current programmed to be supplied to the battery, such that the sum of load current and battery current is maintained within the programmed current limit.
US07733049B2
A change computing arrangement computing an amount of change in a measured value of a measurement signal of a raindrop sensor in a raindrop quantity sensing execution time period that is a time period, during which a wiper blade moves outside of a sensing range of the raindrop sensor. A difference computing arrangement computes a difference between a predetermined reference value and an initial measured value of the measurement signal of the raindrop sensor. A determining arrangement determines the quantity of raindrops on the windshield based on the amount of change, which is computed by the change computing arrangement, and the difference, which is computed by the difference computing arrangement.
US07733047B2
A motor controller calculates a motor torque command based on motor speed and causes a motor to generate a torque corresponding to the motor torque command, to drive a machine load coupled to the motor. The motor controller includes a speed compensator that makes, when a speed compensation torque is calculated based on the motor speed, frequency characteristics of the speed compensation torque for the motor speed exhibit a low frequency cutoff characteristic so that steady-state gain in frequency response is less than a maximum gain value. A torque adder generates a motor torque command by adding to the existing motor torque command an externally input feedforward torque signal and the speed compensation torque.
US07733040B2
In the m phase brushless motor, n (n
US07733026B2
The invention relates to a Hg free high pressure discharge lamp having a quartz envelope and a halide filling, wherein the lamp comprises at least one electrode which comprises tungsten and ≧0 wt. % and ≦0.5 wt. % thorium and whereby the lamp comprises at least one Mo-containing lead-in wire and/or foil whereby the Mo containing wire and/or foil comprises TiO2 and having a characteristic life time of ≧2500 h and ≦7500 h according to the EU Carmaker cycle test.
US07733024B2
A flexible plasma display panel including a display area defined by a first substrate and a second substrate, which are disposed to face each other to form discharge spaces therebetween, wherein the first substrate and the second substrate are flexible and include a plurality of electrodes; and a sealing area for sealing the first substrate and the second substrate by compressing the first and second substrates on edges of the display area.
US07733008B2
An Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) which is adapted to inhibit the formation and growth of non-emissive areas known as “dark spots.” The OLED comprises an anode disposed on a substrate, a cathode, an electroluminescent (EL) layer disposed between the anode and the cathode and a hole transport layer disposed between the anode and the EL layer. The OLED has one or more dielectric organic barrier layers disposed between one or more of the OLED's layers. These barrier layers are made from an organic polymer and are adapted to resist permeation by oxygen and moisture and to inhibit metal migration.
US07733007B2
Light-emitting devices, and related components, systems and methods are disclosed. A light-emitting device can include a multi-layer stack of materials that includes a light-generating region and a first layer supported by the light-generating region. During use of the light-emitting device, light generated by the light-generating region can emerge from the light-emitting device via a surface of the first layer. The surface of the first layer can have a dielectric function that varies spatially as a pattern and at least about 45% of a total amount of light generated by the light-generating region can emerge from the light-emitting device emerges via the surface of the light-emitting device.
US07733006B2
There is provided an electron-emitting device of a field emission type, with which the spot size of an electron beam is small, an electron emission area is large, highly efficient electron emission is possible with a low voltage, and the manufacturing process is easy. The electron-emitting device includes a layer 2 which is electrically connected to a cathode electrode 5, and a plurality of particles 3 which contains a material having a resistivity lower than that of a material constituting the layer 2, and is wherein a density of particles 3 in the layer 2 is 1×1014/cm3 or more and 5×1018/cm3 or less.
US07733004B2
A field emission device (FED) includes a top substrate having an anode electrode and a phosphor layer, a lower substrate, at least one cathode electrode having an opening-pattern with at least one opening, an insulating layer located on the cathode electrode, a gate layer located on the insulating layer, and an electron emitter located in the opening of the cathode electrode. The electron emitter is adjacent to the cathode electrode and is electrically connected therewith. The cathode electrode having the opening-pattern is located on a bottom panel. Through the structure illustrated above, uniformity of emitting electron density can be improved and brightness and contrast of color for the FED can be enhanced.
US07732998B2
A telescoping actuator assembly includes a plurality of cylindrical actuators in a concentric arrangement. Each cylindrical actuator is at least one piezoelectric fiber composite actuator having a plurality of piezoelectric fibers extending parallel to one another and to the concentric arrangement's longitudinal axis. Each cylindrical actuator is coupled to concentrically-adjacent ones of the cylindrical actuators such that the plurality of cylindrical actuators can experience telescopic movement. An electrical energy source coupled to the cylindrical actuators applies actuation energy thereto to generate the telescopic movement.
US07732994B2
A non-linear power generator system that may include a flexible beam for receiving a mechanical input, the flexible beam being supported in a bowed configuration; an electrically responsive member supported adjacent one end of the flexible beam so as to be under a compressive force exerted by the flexible beam; and the flexible beam being adapted to move towards a flattened shape from the bowed shape in response to the mechanical input, to transmit the mechanical input to the electrically responsive member, to cause a compression of the electrically responsive member that results in an electrical output signal being generated by the electrically responsive member.
US07732986B2
A driving apparatus comprises: an electro-mechanical conversion element; a driving member that reciprocates in response to an extension and contraction of the electro-mechanical conversion element; and a driven member, frictionally engaged with the driving member, that moves by reciprocating the driving member, wherein the driving member comprises a shaft portion which extends in a direction of extension and contraction of the electro-mechanical conversion element in a position which lies on a side of the electro-mechanical conversion element, and the driven member is frictionally engaged with the shaft portion.
US07732985B2
Provided is a micro stage comprising: a body having a vertically perforated through-hole passing through a central portion thereof; a bobbin including a tip portion with an electron emission tip embedded in the center thereof, and passing through the through-hole of the body to be moved in the through-hole along a first axis perpendicular to a vertical direction; a first piezoelectric element disposed on the body and lengthened when a voltage is applied thereto to push the bobbin in one direction along the first axis; a second piezoelectric element disposed on the body and lengthened when a voltage is applied thereto to push the bobbin in the other direction along the first axis; and an upper cover that is coupled to an upper portion of the body and has a through-hole, through which the bobbin passes and communicates with the through-hole of the body, wherein the bobbin can be positioned as desired along the first axis by adjusting the voltages applied to the first piezoelectric element and the second piezoelectric element. Accordingly, the emission tip can be exactly and stably positioned using only the movable piezoelectric elements.
US07732984B2
The piezoelectric actuator comprises: a substrate; a constraint force buffering layer which is formed on the substrate and made of a hardness control material having low hardness; and a piezoelectric element which is formed directly on the constraint force buffering layer.
US07732978B2
A piezoelectric element driving circuit includes: a transformer; a switch circuit; a reactance element connected in parallel with the piezoelectric element on one of the primary side and the secondary side of the transformer, the reactance element forming a resonant circuit that performs parallel resonance at the driving frequency with a capacitance component in an equivalent circuit of the piezoelectric element and an inductance component of the transformer; a pulse generating circuit for generating a driving pulse for the switch circuit; and a duty ratio controlling circuit for being supplied with the driving pulse, limiting a duty ratio of the driving pulse such that a value of the driving voltage falls within a range equal to or lower than the specification voltage value on the load side, and outputting the driving pulse whose duty ratio is limited to the switch circuit.
US07732977B2
A piezoelectric transducer device includes a receive signal path, a transistor and a piezoelectric transducer connected to a first terminal of the transistor. The device also includes a switch connected to a second terminal of the transistor, wherein the switch is adapted to selectively connect the second terminal of the transistor to a transmit signal or to a bias voltage; an output connected to a third terminal of the transistor, and adapted to receive a signal from the transducer when the switch is connected to the bias voltage, wherein the switch is not in the receive signal.
US07732962B2
A small DC motor includes: a motor frame including a cylindrical portion, the cylindrical portion having a constant thickness and having a cross section in a shape that includes four sides and connecting portions, each of the connecting portions connecting adjacent two of the four sides and being located inward from a corresponding corner in a quadrangle including the four sides; field magnets; and an armature assembly, wherein the field magnets are provided so as to be spaced apart from each other, and the small DC motor includes an air gap between each of the four sides and a radially outermost surface of the armature assembly, the air gap being a minimum size needed to rotate the armature assembly.
US07732955B2
In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, a power tool has an electric motor having a stator disposed in a field case. The stator has field coils having opposed axial ends that extend axially outwardly from opposed axial ends of a lamination stack of the stator. An armature is disposed in the stator and has a shaft on which a fan is disposed. There are gaps between the opposed axial ends of the respective field coils. The fan baffle includes an air direction member that extends into one of the gaps to direct air flow between the armature and the stator. In an aspect, the fan baffle includes a plurality of such members, one for each gap.
US07732946B2
A current source includes a first switching element configured to adjust an output current according to a control signal received at a control input. The current source also includes a reference resistance, which is electrically coupled to the first switching element such that the output current flows through the reference resistance. The latter includes first and second individual reference resistors, connected in series, and a diode connected in parallel to the first reference resistor. The first reference resistor has a higher impedance than the second reference resistor. A controller receives a predetermined reference potential and an actuating signal that constitutes the control signal of the first switching element. A second switching element supplies the controller with an actual value consisting of the voltage across the first and second individual reference resistors, when the element adopts a first switching position and consisting of the voltage drop across the second individual reference resistor, when the element adopts a second switching position.
US07732942B2
A string set of series-connected incandescent bulbs in which substantially all of the bulb filaments in the set are individually provided with a shunt in their respective socket. If flasher bulbs are used in the string, they will twinkle off and on when the operating potential is applied. The flasher bulbs are provided with internal shunts to prevent all of the bulbs of the string from flashing on and off in the event of a failure of the shunt in the socket of the flasher bulb.
US07732938B2
An adapter for use with vehicle-mounted electronics includes an adapter body further including an input section having at least one main input terminal to which a video signal or audio signal is supplied and at least one secondary input terminal to which a video signal or audio signal is supplied, an output section having an output terminal from which a video signal or audio signal is delivered, a switching element switching an output signal from the input section between the main input terminal side and the secondary input terminal side, and a control section controlling the switching element. The control section includes a detector detecting a signal supplied to the secondary input terminal side. The control section controls the switching element based on signal detection by the detector so that the output signal from the input section is switched from the main input terminal side to the secondary input terminal side.
US07732934B2
In a semiconductor device, a semiconductor substrate may include a plurality of first conductive pads. An insulating isolation layer may be on the semiconductor substrate so as to separate the first conductive pads. A package substrate may include a plurality of second conductive pads. A conductive adhesive layer may connect the first conductive pads and the second conductive pads.
US07732932B2
Structures and a method for forming the same. The structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a transistor on the semiconductor substrate, and N interconnect layers on top of the semiconductor substrate, N being a positive integer. The transistor is electrically coupled to the N interconnect layers. The structure further includes a first dielectric layer on top of the N interconnect layers and P crack stop regions on top of the first dielectric layer, P being a positive integer. The structure further includes a second dielectric layer on top of the first dielectric layer. Each crack stop region of the P crack stop regions is completely surrounded by the first dielectric layer and the second dielectric layer. The structure further includes an underfill layer on top of the second dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is sandwiched between the first dielectric layer and the underfill layer.
US07732925B2
A semiconductor device with improved reliability and its manufacturing method is offered. The semiconductor device of this invention includes a semiconductor substrate, a pad electrode formed on the semiconductor substrate through an insulation layer made of silicon oxide, silicon nitride or the like, a supporting plate bonded to a top surface of the semiconductor substrate to cover the pad electrode and a via hole formed in the semiconductor substrate and extending from a back surface of the semiconductor substrate to the pad electrode, wherein an aperture of the via hole at a portion close to the pad electrode is larger than an aperture of the via hole at a portion close to the back surface of the semiconductor substrate.
US07732918B2
An enhanced heat transposer comprised is of a vapor chamber. The surface of the vapor chamber that holds the fluid comprises an array of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that are grown in a way that enables the fluid to come into maximum contact with the CNTs. The fluid evaporates in the sealed vapor chamber when it is in touch with a hot surface. The vapor comes in contact with a hollow pin-fin structure that provides additional surface area for vapor cooling and heat transfer. The condensed vapor then drops back into the fluid container, and the cycle continues.
US07732916B2
A semiconductor package is provided with a package main body including a base portion configured by joining thin plates integrally, and a semiconductor device accommodating portion provided on one surface of the base portion, electric terminals electrically connected to a semiconductor device in the accommodating portion and exposed to an outer surface of the accommodating portion, and a heat high-transfer element including at least one layer-like member provided in the base portion. The layer-like member is configured independent of the base portion by a material having a thermal conductivity higher than that of the base portion, and extends from a position corresponding to a heat-generation site of the semiconductor device to a position in an outside of the heat-generation site corresponding position.
US07732913B2
A semiconductor package substrate is provided, which includes a substrate body having a plurality of conductive through holes formed therein, wherein at least two adjacent conductive through holes are formed as a differential pair, each of which has a ball pad formed at an end thereof; and at least one electrically integrated layer formed in the substrate body, and having an opening corresponding to the two adjacent conductive through holes formed as the differential pair and the ball pads thereof. Thus, the spacing between the conductive through holes and the electrically integrated layer and the spacing between the ball pads can be enlarged by the opening, so as to balance the impedance match.
US07732904B2
A cost effective, high performance, IC package assembly of the present invention comprises stair-stepped layers of redistribution circuits from at least one chip to terminals on any of multiple surfaces and levels of the IC package assembly. Critical path circuits of the assembly have no plated vias and are directly routed from interconnection terminals which are used to interconnect the package to the IC chip terminals by flip chip or wire bond methods.
US07732902B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate having a first surface portion in a cavity. The first surface portion includes an artificially formed grass structure. The package includes a getter film formed over the grass structure.
US07732898B2
A fuse link of undoped material is connected between first and second doped material contact regions and a layer of conductive material is located above the first and second contact regions and the fuse link. According to other embodiments, a fuse link is connected between first and second contact regions. A layer of conductive material is above the first and second contact regions and the fuse link, and a heat sink is in proximity to the fuse link. In a method, a programming pulse is applied to a fuse link of undoped material connected between first and second doped material contact regions to generate electromigration drift of a conductive material above the first and second contact regions and the fuse link.
US07732883B2
Methods and apparatuses for forming optical packages, and intermediate structures resulting from the same are disclosed, which provide an optical element over a device. The optical element is formed by applying a force to lateral portions of a liquid material layer formed below an elastomeric material layer such that the liquid material layer has a radius of curvature sufficient to direct light to a light sensitive portion of the device, after which the liquid material layer is exposed to conditions which maintain the radius of curvature after the lateral force is removed.
US07732881B2
One embodiment of the present invention includes a memory element having a composite free layer including a first free sub-layer formed on top of the bottom electrode, a nano-current-channel (NCC) layer formed on top of the first free sub-layer, and a second free sub-layer formed on top of the NCC layer, wherein when switching current is applied to the memory element, in a direction that is substantially perpendicular to the layers of the memory element, local magnetic moments of the NCC layer switch the state of the memory element.
US07732875B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device having a pair of shallow silicided source and drain junctions with minimal leakage is disclosed. The semiconductor device typically has a MISFET structure with NiSi regions partially making up the source and drain regions. The fabrication method includes the steps of providing silicon surfaces having Si{110} crystal planes on both sides of this gate electrode and forming a plurality of nickel silicide (NiSi) regions, each having a rectangular planar shape whose shorter sides being equal or less than 0.5 μm in length and running along a Si<100> direction.
US07732870B2
The present invention provides a method for producing thin nickel (Ni) monosilicide or NiSi films (having a thickness on the order of about 30 nm or less), as contacts in CMOS devices wherein an amorphous Ni alloy silicide layer is formed during annealing which eliminates (i.e., completely by-passing) the formation of metal-rich silicide layers. By eliminating the formation of the metal-rich silicide layers, the resultant NiSi film formed has improved surface roughness as compared to a NiSi film formed from a metal-rich silicide phase. The method of the present invention also forms Ni monosilicide films without experiencing any dependence of the dopant type concentration within the Si-containing substrate that exists with the prior art NiSi films.
US07732869B2
Channel regions continuous with transistor cells are disposed also below a gate pad electrode. The channel region below the gate pad electrode is fixed to a source potential. Thus, a predetermined reverse breakdown voltage between a drain and a source is secured without forming a p+ type impurity region below the entire lower surface of the gate pad electrode. Furthermore, a protection diode is formed in polysilicon with a stripe shape below the gate pad electrode.
US07732868B2
A protecting element, comprising a first n+-type region, an insulating region, and a second n+-type region, is connected in parallel between two terminals of an FET. Since discharge across the first and second n+ regions is enabled, electrostatic energy that reaches the operating region of the FET can be attenuated without increasing the parasitic capacitance.
US07732863B2
A LDMOS transistor having a channel region located between an outer boundary of an n-type region and an inner boundary of a p-body region. A width of the LDMOS channel region is less than 80% of a distance between an outer boundary of an n+-type region and the inner boundary of a p-body region. Also, a method for making a LDMOS transistor where the n-type dopants are implanted at an angle that is greater than an angle used to implant the p-type dopants. Furthermore, a VDMOS having first and second channel regions located between an inner boundary of a first and second p-body region and an outer boundary of an n-type region of the first and second p-body regions. The width of the first and second channel regions of the VDMOS is less than 80% of a distance between the inner boundary of the first and second p-body regions and an outer boundary of an n+-type region of the first and second p-body regions. Moreover, a method for making a VDMOS transistor where the n-type dopants are implanted at an angle that is greater than an angle used to implant the p-type dopants.
US07732858B2
A high voltage integrated circuit contains a freewheeling diode embedded in a transistor. It further includes a control block controlling a high voltage transistor and a power block—including the high voltage transistor—isolated from the control block by a device isolation region. The high voltage transistor includes a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type, a epitaxial layer of a second conductivity type on the semiconductor substrate, a buried layer of the second conductivity type between the semiconductor substrate and the epitaxial layer, a collector region of the second conductivity type on the buried layer, a base region of the first conductivity type on the epitaxial layer, and an emitter region of the second conductivity type formed in the base region. The power block further includes a deep impurity region of the first conductivity type near the collector region to form a PN junction.
US07732849B2
A dynamic random access memory (DRAM) is provided. The DRAM comprises a substrate, a vertical transistor, a deep trench capacitor and a buried strap. The substrate has a trench and a deep trench located on one side of the trench thereon. The vertical transistor is disposed in the trench, a portion of which is disposed on the substrate. The deep trench capacitor is disposed in the deep trench, and comprises a bottom electrode, a capacitor dielectric layer and a top electrode. The vertical transistor comprises a gate structure disposed in the trench and above the substrate, a first doped region disposed in the substrate on sidewalls and bottom of the trench, and a second doped region disposed in the substrate on top of the trench. The buried strap is disposed in the substrate below the vertical transistor, and is adjoined to the first doped region and the top electrode.
US07732847B2
A semiconductor memory device is composed of a field effect transistor using the interface between a ferroelectric film and a semiconductor film as the channel and including a gate electrode to which a voltage for controlling the polarization state of the ferroelectric film is applied and source/drain electrodes provided on both ends of the channel to detect a current flowing in the channel in accordance with the polarization state. The semiconductor film is made of a material having a spontaneous polarization and the direction of the spontaneous polarization is parallel with the interface between the ferroelectric film and the semiconductor film.
US07732844B2
The present disclosure provides an image sensor semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a first type of dopant; a semiconductor layer having a second type of dopant different from the first type of dopant and disposed on the semiconductor substrate; and an image sensor formed in the semiconductor layer.
US07732843B2
Forming an impurity region 6 and an impurity region 5 having a lower concentration than the impurity region 6 in a lower layer region of a gate electrode close to the boundary with a signal electron-voltage conversion section of a horizontal CCD outlet makes it possible to smooth a potential distribution at the time of transfer, improve the transfer efficiency, increase the number of saturated electrons and reduce variations in the transfer efficiency and variations in saturation.
US07732838B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first gate line, a second gate line, a first contact electrode, first dummy gates, a second gate pad, and a second contact electrode. The first gate line is formed on a semiconductor substrate and the second gate line of a spacer shape is formed on the sidewalls of the first gate line with a thin insulating layer interposed therebetween. The first contact electrode is vertically connected with the first gate line. The first dummy gates are formed in array spaced a predetermined interval from the first gate line on the semiconductor substrate. The second gate pad of a spacer shape is formed on the sidewalls of the first dummy gates with a thin insulating layer interposed therebetween. The second gate pad is connected to the second gate line and is also gap-filled between the first dummy gates. The second contact electrode is vertically connected with the second gate pad.
US07732835B2
A P-N junction device and method of forming the same are disclosed. The P-N junction device may include a P-N diode, a PiN diode or a thyristor. The P-N junction device may have a monocrystalline or polycrystalline raised anode. In one embodiment, the P-N junction device results in a raised polycrystalline silicon germanium (SiGe) anode. In another embodiment, the P-N junction device includes a first terminal (anode) including a conductor layer positioned above an upper surface of a substrate and a remaining structure positioned in the substrate, the first terminal positioned over an opening in an isolation region; and a second terminal (cathode contact) positioned over the opening in the isolation region adjacent the first terminal. This latter embodiment reduces parasitic resistance and capacitance, and decreases the required size of a cathode implant area since the cathode contact is within the same STI opening as the anode.
US07732834B2
A semiconductor device includes an ESD device region disposed within a semiconductor body of a first semiconductor type, an isolation region surrounding the ESD device region, a first doped region of a second conductivity type disposed at a surface of the semiconductor body within the ESD region, and a second doped region of the first conductivity type disposed between the semiconductor body within the ESD region and at least a portion of the first doped region, where the doping concentration of the second doped region is higher than the semiconductor body. A third doped region of the second semiconductor type is disposed on the semiconductor body and a fourth region of the first conductivity type is disposed over the third doped region. A fifth doped region of the second conductivity type is disposed on the semiconductor body. A trigger device and an SCR is formed therefrom.
US07732828B2
A flat panel display is provided. The flat panel display includes a display panel. A light guide plate is disposed below the display panel. At least one optical film is disposed between the display panel and the light guide plate. At least one illuminating device package is disposed in proximity to the side of the light guide plate. The illuminating device package includes an illuminating semiconductor device and a lens encapsulating the illuminating semiconductor device. The lens includes two reflective surfaces disposed at either side of a central axis. A plurality of diffractive surfaces are disposed between the reflective surfaces. Each of the diffractive surfaces has a tilt angle respective to the central axis. A first portion of light beams incident to each of the reflective surfaces is reflected to at least one diffractive surface and then diffracted and collected into a first convergent angle.
US07732827B2
A light-emitting device and manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The light-emitting device includes a substrate, a semiconductor light-emitting structure, a filter layer, and a fluorescent conversion layer. The method comprises forming a semiconductor light-emitting structure over a substrate, forming a filter layer over the semiconductor light-emitting structure, and forming a fluorescent conversion layer over the filter layer.
US07732824B2
Failure light emission of an EL element due to failure film formation of an organic EL material in an electrode hole 46 is improved. By forming the organic EL material after embedding an insulator in an electrode hole 46 on a pixel electrode and forming a protective portion 41b, failure film formation in the electrode hole 46 can be prevented. This can prevent concentration of electric current due to a short circuit between a cathode and an anode of the EL element, and can prevent failure light emission of an EL layer.
US07732817B2
A partition-wall structure having a concave portion corresponding to a pattern formed by a functional liquid, including: a first concave portion provided corresponding to a first pattern; a second concave portion provided corresponding to a second pattern that is coupled to the first pattern and whose width is smaller than a width of the first pattern; and a convex portion provided in the first pattern.
US07732812B2
Apparatus including a support body; an organic semiconductor composition body on the support body, —and a first body including a hydrogenated vinylaromatic-diene block copolymer on the organic semiconductor composition body. Apparatus including a support body, —a first body including a hydrogenated vinylaromatic-diene block copolymer on the support body; and an organic semiconductor composition body on the first body. Techniques for making an apparatus.
US07732811B2
A light-emitting element disclosed in the present invention includes a light-emitting layer and a first layer between a first electrode and a second electrode, in which the first layer is provided between the light-emitting layer and the first electrode. The present invention is characterized by the device structure in which the first layer comprising a hole-transporting material is doped with a hole-blocking material or an organic compound having a large dipole moment. This structure allows the formation of a high performance light-emitting element with high luminous efficiency and long lifetime. The device structure of the present invention facilitates the control of the rate of the carrier transport, and thus, leads to the formation of a light-emitting element with a well-controlled carrier balance, which contributes to the excellent characteristics of the light-emitting element of the present invention.
US07732806B2
A refractive index variable element has a structure including a solid matrix, and one or more types of quantum dots dispersed in the solid matrix and having discrete occupied and unoccupied electron energy levels. The quantum dots perform a function of generating a pair of positive and negative charges upon irradiation with light, a function of trapping a positive charge, and a function of trapping a negative charge. The quantum dots performing the function of trapping a negative charge are selected from the group consisting of a combination of a negatively charged accepter and a positively charged atom, where the outermost electron shell of the positively charged atom is fully filled with electrons so that an additional electron occupies an upper different shell orbital when receives an electron, a metal chelate complex, and metallocene and derivatives thereof.
US07732800B2
A phase change random access memory PCRAM device is described suitable for use in large-scale integrated circuits. An exemplary memory device has a pipe-shaped first electrode formed from a first electrode layer on a sidewall of a sidewall support structure. A sidewall spacer insulating member is formed from a first oxide layer and a second, “L-shaped,” electrode is formed on the insulating member. An electrical contact is connected to the horizontal portion of the second electrode. A bridge of memory material extends from a top surface of the first electrode to a top surface of the second electrode across a top surface of the sidewall spacer insulating member.
US07732796B2
An inspection system for inspecting an imprinted substrate on a printing press has a light source, a contact image sensor, and a processor. The light source is configured to illuminate a portion of the substrate which has been imprinted with different colors at a plurality of printing units of the printing press. The contact image sensor has a plurality of sensing elements. Each sensing element senses light reflected by a corresponding region on the substrate to produce data representative of the corresponding region printed on the substrate. The processor is configured to receive the data representative of the imprinted substrate and to compare the data representative of the corresponding region printed on the substrate with stored reference data.
US07732795B2
The invention relates to a circuit arrangement for the electrical isolation of signal lines, with an input (IN) for applying an input signal, an output (OUT) for releasing an output signal, and an initial branch (1) with an opto-coupler (OK) for optically coupling the input (TN) to the output (OUT), such that the input (IN) and the output (OUT) are connected in electrically isolated fashion by a second branch (2) with a capacitor (C1).
US07732794B2
In an extreme ultra violet light source apparatus having a comparatively large output power for exposing, a solid target is supplied fast and continuously while heat dissipation for irradiation of a driver laser light is performed successfully. The extreme ultra violet light source apparatus includes: a chamber in which extreme ultra violet light is generated; a target material supplying unit which coats a wire with target material, a wire supplying unit which supplies the wire coated with the target material to a predetermined position within the chamber, a driver laser which applies a laser beam onto the wire coated with the target material to generate plasma; and a collector mirror which collects the extreme ultra violet light radiated from the plasma and outputting the extreme ultra violet light.
US07732793B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for reducing the influence of plasma generated debris on internal components of an EUV light source. In one aspect, an EUV metrology monitor is provided which may have a heater to heat an internal multi-layer filtering mirror to a temperature sufficient to remove deposited debris from the mirror. In another aspect, a device is disclosed for removing plasma generated debris from an EUV light source collector mirror having a different debris deposition rate at different zones on the collector mirror. In a particular aspect, an EUV collector mirror system may comprise a source of hydrogen to combine with Li debris to create LiH on a collector surface; and a sputtering system to sputter LiH from the collector surface. In another aspect, an apparatus for etching debris from a surface of a EUV light source collector mirror with a controlled plasma etch rate is disclosed.
US07732787B2
An ion source is disclosed that is capable of providing ions of decaborane in commercial ion current levels to the ion extraction system of an ion implanter is provided, the ion source comprising an ionization chamber defined by walls enclosing an ionization volume, there being an ion extraction aperture in a side wall of the ionization chamber, arranged to enable the ion current to be extracted from the ionization volume by an extraction system, an electron gun mounted on a support that is outside of and thermally isolated from the walls of the ionization chamber, the ion extraction aperture plate is biased to a negative voltage with respect to the ionization chamber to further increase the drift velocity of the ions, and hence the maximum obtainable current in the resulting ion beam.
US07732786B2
A device for coupling energy in a plasmon wave to an electron beam includes a metal transmission line having a pointed end; a generator mechanism constructed and adapted to generate a beam of charged particles; and a detector microcircuit disposed adjacent to the generator mechanism. The generator mechanism and the detector microcircuit are disposed adjacent the pointed end of the metal transmission line and wherein a beam of charged particles from the generator mechanism to the detector microcircuit electrically couples the plasmon wave traveling along the metal transmission line to the microcircuit.
US07732785B2
Radiation analysis devices include circuitry configured to determine respective radiation count data for a plurality of sections of an area of interest and combine the radiation count data of individual of sections to determine whether a selected radioactive material is present in the area of interest. An amount of the radiation count data for an individual section is insufficient to determine whether the selected radioactive material is present in the individual section. An article of manufacture includes media comprising programming configured to cause processing circuitry to perform processing comprising determining one or more correction factors based on a calibration of a radiation analysis device, measuring radiation received by the radiation analysis device using the one or more correction factors, and presenting information relating to an amount of radiation measured by the radiation analysis device having one of a plurality of specified radiation energy levels of a range of interest.
US07732776B2
Provided is a radiation imaging apparatus including: a conversion unit including a plurality of pixels arranged two-dimensionally, wherein each of the pixels includes a conversion element for converting incident radiation into an electric charge and a switching element for transferring an electric signal based on the electric charge; a drive circuit unit for outputting, to the switching element, a drive signal having a voltage for turning on the switching element; a read-out circuit unit for reading out the electric signal from the pixel; a calculating unit for calculating the S/N ratio of the electric signal read out by the read-out circuit unit; and a determination unit capable of changing the voltage of the drive signal output from the drive circuit unit according to the S/N ratio calculated. As a result, the radiation imaging apparatus capable of improving the S/N ratio of the derived image is provided.
US07732773B2
Gamma-ray tracking methods for use with granular, position sensitive detectors identify the sequence of the interactions taking place in the detector and, hence, the position of the first interaction. The improved position resolution in finding the first interaction in the detection system determines a better definition of the direction of the gamma-ray photon, and hence, a superior source image resolution. A PET system using such a method will have increased efficiency and position resolution.
US07732766B2
A crystal thin film is adopted as a specimen for measurement. A change in the contrast of crystal lattice fringes is measured under a condition that a diffracted wave and other wave are caused to interfere with each other. Thus, an information transfer limit of a transmission electron microscope can be measured quantitatively. Since the measurement is performed with a condition for interference restricted, the information transfer limit of the transmission electron microscope can be quantitatively assessed.
US07732765B2
A technique executes autofocus adjustment stably even when a plurality of patterns or foreign matter capable of being imaged only by a specific detector are included independently. Such an image as a concavo-convex image having a weak contrast can be picked up. The technique can automatically focus such an image even when it is difficult to find a focus position in the image. A scanning electron microscope includes a plurality of detectors for detecting secondary signals from a specimen when irradiated with an electron beam, and a calculation unit for combining the signals obtained from the detectors. At least two of the detectors are provided to be symmetric with respect to the electron beam. The focus of the electron beam is adjusted based on the signals of the detectors or on a signal corresponding to a combination of the signals.
US07732742B2
An analog real-time signal processing device and method are presented. The device is configured to perform electrical signal processing. The device comprises an electronic circuit including at least one basic unit of electrodes, the basic unit being configured to be sensitive to an external field, such as input photon flux, indicative of a first input signal to cause emission of charged particles and configured to define at least one electrical input for a second input signal and one electrical output, thereby providing the electrical output in the form of an approximation of a product of the first and second input signals.
US07732739B2
A degassing from a susceptor heated at a high temperature in a vacuum atmosphere is suppressed. The susceptor is disposed between a heater and a substrate and partitions a space in the chamber into a first chamber space where the heater is placed and a second chambers space where the substrate is placed, and the surface of the susceptor facing the second chamber space is coated with a pyrolytic carbon layer (15) of thickness of 10 μm to 50 μm.
US07732731B2
A method and system for laser processing targets of different types on a workpiece are provided. The method includes setting a laser pulse width of one or more laser pulses to selectively provide one or more laser output pulses having one or more set pulse widths based on a first type of target to be processed. The method further includes setting a pulse shape of the one or more output pulses to selectively provide the one or more output pulses having the set pulse shape based on the types of targets to be processed. The method still further includes delivering the one or more output pulses having the one or more set pulse widths and the set pulse shape to at least one target of the first type. The method finally includes resetting the laser pulse width of one or more laser pulses to selectively provide one or more laser output pulses having one or more reset pulse widths based on a second type of target to be processed.
US07732723B2
An auxiliary contact configuration for a switching device, the switching device comprising a frame part (2) and the auxiliary contact configuration comprising a first auxiliary contact position (5) provided in the frame part (2) and arranged to receive an auxiliary contact (8), and a movable auxiliary contact control device (10) comprising a first control element (11) arranged to control the auxiliary contact (8) installed in the first position (5). The auxiliary contact configuration comprises a second auxiliary contact position (6) provided near the first auxiliary contact position (5), and the auxiliary contact control device (10) comprises a second control element (12) arranged to control the auxiliary contact (8) installed in the second position (6) in a manner different from the manner in which the first control element (11) is arranged to control the auxiliary contact (8) installed in the first position (5).
US07732721B2
A precision force transducer having a spring element (1) whose load-dependent deflection is converted into an electrical signal by means of strain gauge elements (10). The spring element (1) is made of a precipitation-hardenable nickel-based alloy with a nickel content in the range of 36 to 60 percent and a chromium content in the range of 15 to 25 percent. The strain gauge elements (10) are composed of a polymer-free layered film system. This makes it possible to produce a precision force transducer that features great accuracy, low creep and low moisture sensitivity.
US07732717B2
A combination weighing apparatus includes a dispersion unit, a plurality of weighing hoppers, and a combination unit. The dispersion unit circumferentially disperses articles that drop from above. The weighing hoppers are arranged generally circumferentially below the dispersion unit. The combination unit combines weight results obtained from each of the weighing hoppers. In addition, a state of a drop position of the articles in the dispersion unit changes during operation.
US07732716B2
The invention provides a weighing device for a production machine or installation and a method for weighing piece goods from a production machine or installation, which can be implemented in a space-saving manner and/or permit processing of piece goods within a large belt width in the format of the piece goods. According to the invention, this is achieved in that the weight of two or more piece goods (7′, 7″) and the weight which is varied by subsequent feeding or discharge of an individual piece good (7″) or a number of piece goods to be jointly weighed are detected from which the weight of an individual piece good (7″) or a number of piece goods to be jointly weighed is determined from the difference between the weights.
US07732712B2
A wiring board includes: a semiconductor chip; an insulating layer in which the semiconductor chip is embedded; a wiring connected to the semiconductor chip; and reinforcing layers for reinforcing the insulating layer, the reinforcing layers respectively formed on a front face side of the insulating layer and a rear face side of the insulating layer.
US07732711B2
A semiconductive polymer composition for use in power cables, wherein the composition has a multimodal ethylene homo- or copolymer produced in a polymerization process having a single site catalyst whereby the polymer composition has a density of 870-930 kg/m3, a MFR2 of 1 to 30 g/10 min and a Mw/Mn of less than or equal to 10.
