US07774852B2
Provided is a health care system including a key management server that receives from a server a request for a decryption key, with first identification information identifying a measuring apparatus, second identification information identifying vital sign data, and third identification information identifying the server. The key management server generates the decryption key using the first identification information, and stores fourth identification information identifying a server predetermined as a destination of the decryption key, and fifth identification information indicating the category of the vital sign data in correspondence with the fourth identification information. The key management server transmits the decryption key to the server, when the received third identification information matches the fourth identification information, and the received second identification information matches the fifth identification information.
US07774850B2
A data payload PD is recorded on a compact disc in a format including a lead-in indicating a track start address ATOC and a subchannel P which changes state at a payload start address AP, subsequent to the track start address ATOC. Data ED recorded at the track start address ATOC includes unrecoverable data. Where the data payload PD is an audio track, an audio-only player begins to search sequentially from the track start address ATOC until the subchannel changes state, and reproduces the audio track from that point. A data player, on the other hand, begins to reproduce data from the track start address ATOC. When the unrecoverable data is read, the read operation is aborted, as it appears that the data has been corrupted. This operation cannot be easily circumvented, because it is not normally acceptable to ignore corrupt CD-ROM data. The disc may also include a second session containing an encrypted version of the data payload PD, where each sector is encrypted using a different key which is derived from a sector address by an algorithm and requires a special player program which performs the decryption. A supervisory program prevents circumvention of the copy protection.
US07774847B2
A technique is disclosed for tracking a virus. For each of at least a subset of received network packets it is determined whether the packet comprises an open packet. Information usable to determine a sender of the packet in the event the a virus associated with a network transmission with which the packet is associated is determined to have been received is copied from each packet determined to be an open packet, but not from at least a subset of packets not determined to be open packets.
US07774844B1
In a computer system having one or more host computers in direct communication with a data storage array, an attribute retrieval engine in direct communication with the data storage array monitors disk structures of the data storage array and produces a change event indication if a disk structure changes. An analysis engine in communication with the attribute retrieval engine and a rule set database produces an intrusion indication in response to a change event indication if information received from the attribute retrieval engine describing changes in disk structure match a rule in the rule set database.
US07774842B2
An approach provides detection of unauthorized use of data services. A fraud case is created for a data call that is determined to be potentially fraudulent based on a fraud alert. A fraud score is determined for the case according to the fraud alert. The fraud score is adjusted according to adjustment criteria including an intermediate network involved with the data call, and an originating country of the data call.
US07774837B2
A technique for securing message traffic in a data network using a protocol such as IPsec, and more particularly various methods for distributing security policies among peer entities in a network while minimizing the passing and storage of detailed policy or key information except at the lowest levels of a hierarchy.
US07774835B2
A method and computer program for automatically and continually extracting application protocols (i.e., defining a set of allowable or authorized actions) for any application. The method involves receiving a message from a server before it is sent or in parallel with sending to a client. The message may be in response to a specific request for it from the client. The program then extracts the application protocol data from the server message. Working with a copy of the message, the program strips off the communications protocol(s) from the message and parses the remaining message to identify user-selectable options contained in the message such as commands, fields, etc. These items represent the set of allowable or authorized user actions for the particular “stage” of the current version of the application as set forth in the message. The set of allowable user actions is then stored by the extraction program in a protocol database accessible to a gateway or filter module.
US07774831B2
A markup language processing device processes markup language messages by receiving a message containing portions of tagged data formatted in a markup language and applying a transform selection rule set to at least one tagged rule selection data portion in the message to select at least one markup language transformation to apply to the tagged pre-transform data portion within the message. The markup language processing device applies the selected markup language transformation to transform the tagged pre-transform data portion to a tagged post-transform data portion according to a transformation function and then conditionally forwards the message. The markup language processing device operates on behalf of a computerized device that is not required to process the message due to operation of the at least one markup language transformation within the markup language processing device. The markup language processing device can process XML message for security and other purposes thus offloading such processing requirement from server computer systems.
US07774822B2
Techniques for autonomous policy discovery are provided. Machines have personality profiles. The personality profiles permit machines to request advice from different machines having similar personality profiles. This facilitates automatic and autonomous discovery of policies for detected events and facilitates autonomous processing of actions, which are processed in response to the discovered policies. Furthermore, the personality profiles allow administrators to monitor and to dynamically alter policies associated with the machines.
US07774813B2
A broadcasting system includes a broadcasting server which checks for overlap in a broadcasting schedule. The broadcasting server performs an operation on a first bit map corresponding to service time information of each program on each of at least one channel and a second bit map corresponding to service time information of a new program, and additionally arranges the new program. The broadcasting system providing broadcasting service through a variety of networks, enables a broadcasting program schedule to be managed efficiently, and performs a schedule overlap check so as to arrange a new program to be performed in a minimum amount of time.
US07774812B2
A system is provided that allows a user to select a pay program for purchase from a program guide. The program guide determines whether the selected program is part of a package of pay programs. If the selected program is part of a package, information regarding the package is provided to the user so that the user may decide whether to purchase the package. If the selected program is part of several packages, information for all packages is provided. The system automatically sets reminders for packages containing repetitive programming. The system monitors whether the user has watched any of the programs in such packages. When the user watches a program from the package, the remaining reminders are cancelled. If a user does not watch any programs in a package of any type, purchase of the package is cancelled and the user is provided with the opportunity to reschedule.
US07774794B2
A method of improving USB device virtualization to prevent bus bandwidth from being over allocated when isochronous USB devices are attached to multiple virtual machines by attaching a dummy device to each virtual machine which will mimic the bandwidth reservations made by real devices in other virtual machines, thus allowing each virtual machine to determine the true available bandwidth. The dummy devices are represented by incorporating a dummy device driver in each virtual machine and emulating the dummy device in software in the VMM.
US07774793B2
In a system and method for linking between data output by a plurality of applications, in response to a first data request addressed to a first application, the first request generated upon selection of a link in a page generated by a second application and displayed at a terminal, the first request including a first parameter, a processor may select a second parameter that is readable by the first application and that is equivalent to the first parameter, may transmit to the first application a second request for the data, the second request including the second parameter, and may transmit the data to the terminal after the data is output by the first application.
US07774789B1
A method, system, and computer readable medium for creating a proxy object, comprises calling a second functionality in a proxy class, creating a proxy object by the second functionality, calling a third functionality by the second functionality, calling a fourth functionality by the third functionality, creating a reference object by the fourth functionality, returning the reference object to the third functionality, associating the reference object to the proxy object by the third functionality, and returning the associated proxy object by the second functionality to a first functionality.
US07774785B2
A first logical partition in a first processing complex of a server cluster is operated at a first level of a software code. Software code in a second logical partition in the same processing complex is changed to a second level. Processing operations are transferred from the first logical partition in the first processing complex to a third logical partition in a second processing complex of the server cluster. In another aspect, the transferring of processing operations includes quiescing the first logical partition to cause a failover of processing operations from the first logical partition in the first processing complex, to the third logical partition in the second processing complex. In yet another aspect, a failback operation is performed and a first portion of the processing operations are transferred from the third logical partition in the second processing complex, to the second logical partition in the first processing complex. In still another aspect, a second portion of the processing operations may be transferred from the third logical partition in the second processing complex, to the second logical partition in the first processing complex of the server cluster. In one example, the transferring of the second portion of processing operations includes quiescing the third logical partition to cause a failover of processing operations from the third logical partition in the second processing complex, to the second logical partition in the first processing complex. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07774784B2
Systems and methods are provided that determine the actual amount of time a processor consumes in executing a code portion. The actual execution time of a code portion may be accurately determined by taking into consideration context switches and/or overhead time corresponding to the code portion. Determining the actual execution time of a code portion may include recording context switches and time values that occur during the execution of the code portion. This information along with overhead measurements may be used to generate the actual execution time of a code portion, as will be described in more detail below. For example, the switched-out intervals resulting from the context switches and the overhead time associated with the time measurements may be subtracted from the elapsed time to produce the actual execution time of a code portion.
US07774780B2
The feature of automatic retry of container-managed transactions configures the container to allow automatic retries of container-managed transactions that have been rolled back due to exceptions thrown at runtime. More specifically, on a per method basis, the container can be instructed to retry a failed transaction as using a new one up to a specified number of times if that method was the originator of the transaction that has been rolled back. The enabling of automatic transaction retries is accomplished either at deployment time by setting properties in the deployment descriptor of an instance of a class, such as EJB, or at runtime by setting properties on the EJB via a console on the application server. The automatic retry of container-managed transactions is a convenient feature that may alleviate the client of the task of explicitly coding transaction retries. In addition to programming convenience, retrying transactions using this feature may also offer performance benefits. This description is not intended to be a complete description of, or limit the scope of, the invention. Other features, aspects, and objects of the invention can be obtained from a review of the specification, the figures, and the claims.
US07774777B2
A method for partial initialization of a real-time computation device that is connected via a communication system to further computation devices. Various functionalities are implemented in the computation device by executing a computer program in different fixed time interval patterns. Communication to the further computation devices is performed in a fixed communication pattern. Time interval patterns that are slower than the communication pattern can be influenced from the computer program via the communication pattern. To allow the computation device to be partially initialized despite a large inventory of functionalities, without impairing communication to the further computation devices, for initialization of a portion of the computer program, the computation device is transferred into a meta-state by the communication pattern being maintained, halting all time interval patterns being initialized that are slower than the communication pattern, in a sequence from the slowest to the fastest time interval pattern to be initialized, all the time interval patterns to be initialized are successively initialized, and after initialization of all the time interval patterns to be initialized, the communication pattern is switched into an initialized state without impairing communication to the further computation devices.
US07774772B2
A method and apparatus to perform a software migration. According to one embodiment of the invention, end-user specific platform information is collected to be used by a set of one or more migration scripts to perform the software migration. The migration scripts are to be executed on an end-user server and generate log files to be used to restart the software migration if an error occurs during the software migration.
US07774767B2
A method includes extracting at least one object file from a library of object files. The method also includes identifying an interprocedural optimization associated with a plurality of object files. The plurality of object files includes the at least one extracted object file. The method further includes invoking recompilation of at least one of the plurality of object files to implement the identified interprocedural optimization. In addition, the method includes generating at least one executable file using the at least one recompiled object file. The plurality of object files could include interprocedural summary information generated by a compiler during a compilation of at least one source file and a compiler internal representation associated with the compiler during the compilation. The interprocedural optimization could be identified using the interprocedural summary information, and the at least one recompiled object file could be generated using the compiler internal representation.
US07774764B2
Embodiments of a method and system for compiling code, such as program-generated code, are disclosed herein. The method and system efficiently encode combined range and stride checks. For example, the method and system are operable to encode combined range and stride checks as they occur in a translation of switch statements. The method and system can generate code to perform the range and stride check, and to branch to the case body, if the range and stride checks are successful. The various embodiments may operate to provide an efficient code transformation, better code density, and processing performance. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07774763B1
An improved multi-tasking executable program has executable code which includes a main section defined by a main portion of source code, and a set of task sections defined by a set of task portions of the source code. Each task section has (i) a “jump_to_address” section defined by expansion of a “jump_to_address” macro of the source code, and (ii) multiple entry points defined by multiple expansions of a “breakout” macro of the source code. When the executable code is executed by a processor of the subsystem, the main section is configured to invoke each task section in a cyclical manner, and the “jump_to_address” section of each task section is configured to jump execution to one of the multiple entry points of that task section.
US07774759B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed to detect a macroscopic transaction boundary in a program workload. An example method includes identifying a transactional entropy value associated with macroscopic transactions of the workload; developing a trace of a program; identifying a sequence of program states from the trace; determining program state entropy values associated with the program states identified in the sequence; and identifying a program state in the sequence of program states and associated with a program state entropy value that is substantially equal to the transactional entropy value as a macroscopic transaction boundary.
US07774755B2
A palette of representations that can be generated by an application for database, spreadsheet, word processing, and the like, is provided in response to a request for a new object within the application. If the application already has one or more objects open at the time of the request, the representations are also determined based on the context of the data such as from any currently open object(s). The new object is then generated based on the selected representation from the palette, the context of the data, and a structure of data consumed by the application. The layout parameters for the new object are automatically set based on the current context, the structure of the data, and the selected representation.
US07774750B2
The common concurrency runtime (CCR) provides a simple and self-consistent set of concurrency primitives that developers can use to more readily split their computation into more discrete chunks that can scale better with additional processors. This set of primitives provides for very scalable applications that are well suited for the coming world of ubiquitous communication and very large scale out for the number of local processors. The CCR may be implemented as a single library in C# that implements channels with input and asynchronous output capabilities, along with an atomic test-and-input primitive. On top of this, richer derived operators (e.g., choice, join, replication, reader-writers, scatter-gather, etc.) may be encoded. Thus, existing C# may be built upon to provide the capability to concurrently issue I/O requests to remote systems while simultaneously performing other functions locally to increase the efficiency of the distributed system. Because it is based on C#, the CCR allows users to take advantage of a well-known programming model to address unique issues in a new programming environment.
US07774747B2
A method of creating an application comprising providing a set of predetermined rules for processing data; creating at least one node, each created node being capable of receiving data and further being capable of processing that data within the node according to the set of predetermined rules and making an output; creating a specification that defines how the or each node interacts with other nodes and defines resources useable by the nodes; and providing a run time environment that interconnects the or each node according to the specification such that data input to the application is processed by at least one of the nodes and, if further processing is required, forwarded to other nodes for that further processing.
US07774744B2
Methods and apparatuses enable evolution of components used in developing modeled applications and processes. A framework allows for observing and storing information regarding the relatedness of a component to another component. The framework can provide context changes and component modifications based at least in part on the observed relatedness information for use in development and/or execution of developed applications and processes.
US07774743B1
A system for defining a quality index is provided. The system includes a process compliance portion wherein process compliance aspects of a deliverable for a project are scored. Calculating an average of the scores in the process compliance portion gives a process compliance average score. Multiplying the process compliance average score by a weighting factor gives a weighted process compliance average score. The system also includes a content quality compliance portion wherein content quality aspects of the deliverable are scored. Calculating an average of the scores in the content quality compliance portion gives a content quality compliance average score. Multiplying the content quality compliance average score by a second weighting factor gives a weighted content quality compliance average score. Adding the weighted average scores gives the quality index for a deliverable. Quality indices for deliverables can be combined to derive quality indices for steps, phases, projects, and other entities.
US07774741B2
The resource leak detector attempts to identify the causes of resource leaks and fix the causes if possible. At a minimum, the located resource leaks are reported to an operating system manufacture for additional study and possible correction, either by the operating system manufacturer or the application manufacturer that is causing the resource leak. In an embodiment, in operation, a leak trigger for starting leak detection is started. If the leak trigger is activated, leak detection is started when an application begins. Resource allocations are tracked for the leaked resource and each leaked resource is matched to a corresponding allocation call stack. A type of the leaked resource may be identified. The leak detection and the leak trigger may be controlled according to at least one of a local policy and a global policy. The local and the global policy may be updated dynamically such as by using aggregated occurrences of applications that met the local policy or by matching a plurality of distinct types of leaked resources to the same call stack. A leak report may be generated of resource leak data where the leak report is stored locally or communicated to a local aggregation database or remote aggregation database. The leak report may include total leaked allocations, total size of leaked allocations, total outstanding allocations, total size of outstanding allocations and matched allocation call stacks. The leaked resource may be automatically reclaimed and a fix to the leaked resource may be created and applied automatically.
US07774728B2
A method and a design automation tool are provided for use in conjunction with designing logic circuits that implement virtual power signals. The method includes providing in a model for each virtual power signal an attribute that distinguishes the virtual power signal from both a logic signal and a power signal. The method also includes one or more circuit analysis, processing and synthesis tool that takes advantage of such an attribute. That is, within the design automation tool, capabilities are provided so that a virtual power signal may be processed in some instances as a logic signal, and at some instance as indistinguishable to a power rail signal or reference.
US07774721B2
A system for navigating among resources includes a target detection module detecting whether a first resource has been branched from to two other different resources and a backward navigation module operable to detect selection of a backward navigation button and cause navigation to the first resource. A method includes designating a target resource accessible via a backward navigation button in a first browser session, detecting selection of the backward navigation button in a second browser session, and navigating to the target resource in the second browser session. The method can involve detecting hovering of a pointer icon over the backward navigation button and responsively presenting a thumbnail of a resource associated with the backward navigation button.
US07774720B1
Systems and methods relating to enterprise systems are provided. In one implementation, a computer-implemented method for defining components and connections in an integration project is provided. The method includes selecting a project for integrating a plurality of components of an enterprise, adding a first component, the first component representing a first physical resource associated with the project, and positioning the first component on a connectivity map. The method also includes adding a second component, the second component representing a second physical resource associated with the project, positioning the second component on the connectivity map, and defining a connection between the first component and the second component.
US07774717B2
Embodiments of the invention comprise techniques to detect support for a given input device by a screen element of a graphical user interface (GUI). In one embodiment of the invention, a runtime version of a screen element's program code is examined to detect an ability to process a device's events. In another embodiment of the invention, a determination is made at runtime whether a screen element delegated processing of a given input device's events to other program code. In yet another embodiment of the invention, the runtime version of a screen element's program code is examined to detect a declaration of program code that is indicative of a screen element's support or non-support of a given input device. In yet another embodiment of the invention, one or more of the previously-identified embodiments can be combined.
US07774714B2
A digital design system 10 is described which includes a user interface 12 that is used to interact with a digital data set 14. The digital model data set 14 is augmented by smart model attributes and business process attributes stored in data sets 16 and 18, respectively. Business process attributes data set 18 may include information associated with quality information, safety information, revision information, and information links to other data sets. A knowledge base data set engine 20 inferentially applies attributes to various features, components, and processes defined in the digital model data set 14.
US07774701B2
A method of creating an index page that identifies at least one of several user interface (UI) frames includes receiving, in a computer system, information that identifies a category for the index page. The index page is provided with at least one index name identifying a UI frame that is associated with the category. The computer system includes several UI frames, each of which is controlled at least in part by instruction code in a package having a package name. The package names of the several UI frames are read to identify at least one package name that matches the category. The at least one index name is displayed in the index page, the at least one index name being obtained from the at least one package name that matches the category.
US07774694B2
A system and method are disclosed for sequential insertion processing of speech recognition results and, more particularly, server-based automated processing of speech recognition results. In addition, the use of formed document templates to facilitate the server-based automated sequential insertion of speech recognition results is disclosed. The formed document templates can include embedded dictionaries with related processing rules, including processing rules including positioning information.
US07774688B1
A decoder that decodes Bose, Ray-Chaudhuri, Hocquenghem (BCH) codewords includes an inner decoding module that decodes inner codes of two dimensional BCH product codewords and that includes an error decoding module that computes error values, an outer decoding module that decodes outer codes of the two dimensional BCH product codewords, and an error correction module that employs the error decoding module to iteratively correct errors in the two-dimensional BCH product codewords.
US07774676B2
Methods and apparatuses for generating error correction codes of a data block are disclosed. One proposed method includes: storing a plurality of calculating data corresponding to the error correction codes in a buffer; generating operating results according to the calculating data from the buffer and corresponding data of the data block; writing operating results into the buffer; and generating a plurality of updated calculating data according to the operating results stored in the buffer.
US07774667B2
The test design cost of a circuit capable of accessing an external memory is reduced. There is included a built-in self-test circuit for use in testing an external memory separately from a memory controller for performing memory control in response to an access request to the external memory capable of being coupled to a memory interface, and a TAP controller is used to control the built-in self-test circuit and referring to a test result. There is adopted a multiplexer for switchably selecting the memory controller or the built-in self-test circuit as a circuit for coupling to the memory interface in accordance with control information externally inputted through the TAP controller. The built-in self-test circuit programmably generates and outputs a pattern for a memory test in accordance with an instruction inputted through the TAP controller, and compares data read from the external memory with an expected value.
US07774658B2
A method and apparatus for discovering errors in a translation look-aside buffer (TLB). The TLB comprises a content addressable memory (CAM) and a random access memory (RAM). The TLB contains additional logic to check for error when the TLB is not in normal use to translate from a first set of elements, stored as entries in the CAM, to a second set of elements, stored as entries in the RAM. If the TLB is not in normal use, a RAM entry is selected and checked for errors. If an error is detected in the RAM entry, the corresponding TLB entry is purged.
US07774655B2
Systems and methods for analyzing time series data are disclosed. A query including a machine variable identifier may be received. The machine variable identifier may include an identifier pertaining to one or more of a state, a condition and a performance measure for a printer. A first time series data entry may be determined based on the query. The first time series data entry may include a data value and a time entry for the machine variable identifier. One or more second time series data entries may be selected based on the data value associated with the first time series data entry. One or more maintenance operations may be performed based on the one or more second time series data entries.
US07774648B2
Devices and methods for microprocessor supervision in a special purpose computer system are provided. One illustrative embodiment includes a first watchdog timer internal to the microprocessor and a second watchdog timer external to the microprocessor. In some cases, the internal watchdog timer may be initiated prior to or during the operating system startup and the external watchdog timer may be initiated after the operating system is up and running. The internal watchdog timer may have a relatively longer timer duration than the external watchdog timer, but is not required in all embodiments. In some embodiments, the internal watchdog timer may monitor the microprocessor's startup sequence and the internal watchdog timer and/or external watchdog timer may monitor the microprocessor when the operating system is up and running. If the microprocessor faults at any time during startup or while the operating system is up and running, the internal and/or external watchdog timer may trigger a microprocessor reset.
US07774647B2
This invention relates to a transparent and non-intrusive method for monitoring and managing the running of tasks executed in one or more computer processors, in particular in multi-processor systems with a parallel architecture. It proposes a system and method for managing a computer task, termed target, during a given execution period, termed activity period (SchJ, SchR), within a computer system, in a computer processor provided with means of monitoring or estimating performance and including a counter (PMC) with a given possible error in plus or minus, termed relative error, this process comprising on the one hand, an evaluation of a number of executed instructions (NR, NJ) up to at least one given point of said activity period, using said counter; and on the other hand, a generation of data, termed signature (SGJ, SGR), read or calculated from the state of the processor or computer system and corresponding to at least one given point of said activity period.
US07774635B2
A multi-processing system includes: a selecting unit that selects a clock frequency for each processor chips based on lot-to-lot variation thereof; a calculating unit that calculates chip performance of the processor chips operating at the clock frequencies; a judging unit that judges whether a total of chip performance of the processor chips is equal to or higher than a predetermined system performance; and a setting unit that sets the clock frequencies to the processor chips when the total is equal to or higher than the predetermined system performance.
US07774629B2
A method for power management of a CPU and a system thereof, which drive the CPU to enter a more efficient power saving state are disclosed. A chip of the present invention sends a first control signal to drive the CPU to wake from a non-snooping sleep state and enter a normally executing instruction state as well as a system management mode to execute a system management interrupt routine. Then the chip enables an arbiter to transmit a bus master request to the CPU for processing. After completing the processing of the bus master request, the chip disables the arbiter and the CPU drives the chip to send a second control signal to drive the CPU to return to the non-snooping sleep state according the system management interrupt routine.
US07774625B1
Adaptive voltage control. In accordance with a first embodiment of the present invention, a desirable operating frequency for the microprocessor is determined. Information stored within and specific to the microprocessor is accessed. The information can comprise coefficients of a quadratic approximation of a frequency-voltage characteristic of the microprocessor. An efficient voltage for operating the microprocessor at said desirable operating frequency is computed. The microprocessor is operated at the efficient voltage.
US07774616B2
Masking a boot sequence by providing a dummy processor is provided. One of the processors of a multiprocessor system is chosen to be a boot processor. The other processors of the multiprocessor system execute masking code that generates electromagnetic and/or thermal signatures that mask the electromagnetic and/or thermal signatures of the actual boot processor. The execution of the masking code on the non-boot processors preferably generates electromagnetic and/or thermal signatures that approximate the signatures of the actual boot code execution on the boot processor. One of the non-boot processors is selected to execute masking code that is different from the other masking code sequence to thereby generate an electromagnetic and/or thermal signature that appears to be unique from an external monitoring perspective.
US07774598B2
A method of managing a key of a user for a broadcast encryption. The method includes forming a tree comprising m hierarchies by repeating a process of setting a ith level comprising groups into which at least one node is grouped in a unit of ni, and setting a i+1th level comprising the groups of the ith level that are re-grouped in a unit of ni+1 until i is from “1” to “m”. The method further includes mapping users on at least one node of the tree and message providers on the mth hierarchy, going down from the mth hierarchy to the first hierarchy to map key encryption keys with respect to the i+1th level connected to the ith level, and transmitting the message using the key encryption keys.
US07774590B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for performing dynamic testing of a many-core processor including a plurality of cores, manipulating data obtained from the dynamic testing into profile information of the many-core processor, and storing the profile information in a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory may be within the many-core processor, in some embodiments. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07774580B2
A reconfigurable operation apparatus consists of a plurality of operation units capable of reconfiguring themselves by using a piece of given first configuration data and of operating simultaneously with one another; RAMs; diverse processor elements required for constituting an operation apparatus; an inter-resource network interconnecting the operation units, the RAMs and the diverse processor elements, performing data transfers between resources connected thereto in a uniform transfer time independent of positions and kinds of the resources, and being reconfigurable by using a given second configuration data; and a configuration memory storing the first and the second configuration data. Configuration data is loaded from an external storage apparatus onto the configuration memory, and the first and the second configuration data are supplied to the reconfigurable processor resources in appropriate sequence and timing based on data available from a plurality of operation units.
US07774573B2
The present invention relates to a memory device comprising a memory (EM) having at least two predetermined register memory sections addressable by respective address ranges AS1-ASz) and at least one access port (P1-PZ) for providing access to said memory (EM). Furthermore, access control means (A) are provided for addressing said memory (EM) so as to operate said register memory sections as shift registers and to map shift register accesses of the at least one access port (P1 to PZ) to predetermined addresses in the global address space of the memory (EM). In this way, it is possible to combine a plurality of FIFO memories in a single addressable memory device. This implementation is favourable in view of power consumption and area. Furthermore, by introducing a buffer memory, a multi-port memory device can be replaced by a single-port memory device of the same capacity. This advanced implementation also provides a reduced cycle and access time.
US07774571B2
Provided is a system, deployment and program for resource allocation unit queuing in which an allocation unit associated with a task is classified. An allocation unit freed as the task ends is queued for use by another task in a queue at a selected location within the queue in accordance with the classification of said allocation unit. In one embodiment, an allocation unit is queued at a first end of the queue if classified in a first class and is queued at a second end of the queue if classified in said second class. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07774570B2
The storage virtualization switch is capable of correctly designating a virtual target when a host computer accesses the virtual target. A dummy virtual target, which corresponds to a virtual target, is put into an effective state after the virtual target is put into the ineffective state when the virtual target is put into the ineffective state, and the virtual target is put into an effective state after the dummy virtual target, which corresponds to the virtual target, is put into the ineffective state when the virtual target is put into the effective state.
US07774555B2
In a cache coherent data processing system including at least first and second coherency domains, a memory block is stored in a system memory in association with a domain indicator indicating whether or not the memory block is cached, if at all, only within the first coherency domain. A master in the first coherency domain determines whether or not a scope of broadcast transmission of an operation should extend beyond the first coherency domain by reference to the domain indicator stored in the cache and then performs a broadcast of the operation within the cache coherent data processing system in accordance with the determination.
US07774537B2
An apparatus and method of page program operation is provided. When performing a page program operation with a selected memory device, a memory controller loads the data into the page buffer of one selected memory device and also into the page buffer of another selected memory device in order to store a back-up copy of the data. In the event that the data is not successfully programmed into the memory cells of the one selected memory device, then the memory controller recovers the data from the page buffer of the other memory device. Since a copy of the data is stored in the page buffer of the other memory device, the memory controller does not need to locally store the data in its data storage elements.
US07774523B2
A switch system may include a switch circuitry, an external housing for the switch circuitry, a number of first connector ports, and a second connector port. The switch circuitry is configured for coupling to input and output interfaces of the computers and is configured for switching a set of input and output interface couplings to one of the computers. The first connector ports are mounted on the housing. Each of the first connector ports is coupled to the switch circuitry for providing couplings to the computers. Each of the first connector ports has no less than sixteen electrical contacts for providing couplings to a display interface, an input device interface, and an audio interface. The second connector port is mounted on the housing. The second connector port is coupled to the switch circuitry for providing the set of input and output interface couplings, and the second connector port include electrical contacts for a display device, an input device, and an audio device.
US07774521B2
A method and article for reducing power consumption for isochronous data transfers are described. The method may include receiving packets of data having multimedia information with empty spaces. The packets of data may be stored in a first buffer having a first buffer size allocated for a universal serial bus processing stack. The empty spaces may be removed from the packets of data and the packets of data having the empty spaces removed may be copied to a second buffer having a second buffer size allocated for a media information processing stack. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07774517B2
An information processing apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a CPU; a plurality of peripheral devices connected to the CPU through a bus; and a peripheral access protection setting unit storing access protection information representing whether an access to each of the peripheral devices is permitted or inhibited in accordance with a task to be performed by the CPU, wherein an access by the CPU to the peripheral devices is limited based on the access protection information and address information of the peripheral device.
US07774516B2
A communicating system suitable for a repeater and communicating method thereof are described. The communicating system comprises a receiving unit, a delay module, a transmitting unit and a control unit. The receiving unit transmits a first signal based on a KB/MS input signal. The delay module is coupled to the receiving unit and delays the first signal from the receiving unit in order to generate a second signal. The second signal has a first phase difference in comparison with the first signal. The transmitting unit is coupled to the delay module and the control unit. The transmitting unit transmits a KB/MS output signal based on the second signal while the control unit controls the transmitting unit via a control signal. Specifically, the control unit is coupled to the receiving unit, the delay module and the transmitting unit such that the control unit generates the control signal based on the first signal from the receiving unit and controls the transmitting unit by inputting the control signal into the transmitting unit. That is, the control signal of the control unit triggers the transmitting unit to dominate output control of the delayed second signal of transmitting unit. The control signal generated by the control unit has a second phase difference in comparison with the first signal.
US07774511B2
Assigning addresses to legacy sharing at least one signal line with a plurality of client devices. Each of the devices includes a number of I/O pins selected ones of which are connected to the at least one signal line and each client device includes a first and a second initialization pin. In the described embodiment, all but a first one of the plurality of client devices are connected to one another in a daisy chain arrangement by way of the first and the second initialization pin separate from the signal line. A first client device has a first initialization pin that is independently held at a first logic level and a second initialization pin that is connected to the daisy chain arrangement. The first one of the client devices is initialized and, in turn, triggers initialization of the daisy chained client devices. The legacy device is initialized separately from the client devices.
US07774501B2
A system in which a personal computer sends messages into a TCP/IP network using a conventional dial-up link and downloads data from the TCP/IP network using a high-speed one-way satellite link. A preferred embodiment uses a conventional SLIP provider to connect to the TCP/IP network and uses a commercial software TCP/IP package that has a standard driver interface. A spoofing protocol compensates for the long propagation delays inherent to satellite communication.
US07774489B2
A network stream transmitter receives a transport stream having content packets and packets to be filtered out and is adapted to selectively encapsulate content packets into network frames.
US07774481B2
In one embodiment, a method includes associating a pluggable policy module with an application when executing at a session layer device within a session over Internet Protocol (SoIP) network. A policy service request can be received at the session layer device from an endpoint in communication with the session layer device. The method also includes defining a session control protocol signal based on a policy value sent to the application from the pluggable policy module. The policy value can be calculated at the pluggable policy module based on an input value associated with the policy service request.
US07774474B2
A method and system for resynchronizing a control layer and a line layer by tracing the data path through the line layer and, at the control layer, reclaiming ownership of disowned connections corresponding to the traced data path. Beginning at a head-end controller, the data path is traced by identifying the next controller along the data path and sending a set-up message containing the local state information necessary for a second controller to identify the connection within its associated network element that is associated with the data path. The second controller receives the set-up message and claims ownership of its portion of the data path. It then identifies the next leg or hop in the data path, modifies the set-up message to add data regarding the next hop, and sends the modified set-up message to the next controller along the data path. The process is repeated so as to dynamically establish a control connection corresponding to and synchronized with the existing data path.
US07774463B2
An electronic message, containing a request to initiate a service, can be received in a landscape of computer systems providing message-based services. Thereafter, a contract can be accessed to determine if provision of the requested service is permitted. As a result, the requested service identified in the message if provision of the requested service is permitted can be initiated. Related techniques, articles, apparatus, and systems are also described.
US07774457B1
A method of allocating resources in a grid computing environment is provided. The method includes allocating resources for concurrently executing a batch job and an interactive session.
US07774452B2
The present invention provides a method, apparatus and computer instructions for scaling a user interface adaptively to an object discovery or display system with policy driven filtering. A number of filters are defined by the user in an initial setup. The filter includes a target number of discovered objects and a metric for filtering discovered objects. Once the initial setup is complete, the present invention automatically triggers or deactivates the filters and dynamically applies one or more filters based on the number of discovered objects and rules defined by the user. Resulting discovered objects are displayed in the user interface to the user.
US07774451B1
Method, apparatus, and computer readable medium for classifying a file of interest in a computer network is described. File statistics are received over the network for a plurality of users and a plurality of files. The file statistics are processed to identify: (i) a set of users that received the file of interest; (ii) a group of shared files each of which was received by at least two users; and (iii) numbers of infected files received by respective users. An average ratio of a number of infected files to a total number of files in the group of shared files is computed using a Monte Carlo process constrained by: (i) indications of which users in received which files; and (ii) the numbers of infected files received by the respective users. A probability of infection is assigned to the file of interest based on the average ratio.
US07774450B2
The present invention creates a SOAP message without using DOM by generating a body part by sequentially performing such a process of a message as encryption or signing for each piece of the message, generating a header part by using information acquired during the process, and by combining the body part and the header part. The present invention also breaks a SOAP message without using DOM by acquiring header information with parsing a received SOAP message and sequentially performing decode or verification of a signature of a body part according to the header information.
US07774448B2
In a hierarchical tree-based protection scheme, a node in a mesh network is designated as a root node of a spanning hierarchical protection tree and subsequently invites each adjacent node to become its child within the tree. If the inviting node provides a more capacious protection path to the root node than is currently enjoyed by the invitee, the invitee designates the inviting node as its primary parent and assumes a new tree position. Otherwise, the invitee designates the inviting node as a backup parent. A node assuming a new tree position invites all adjacent nodes except its parent to become its child. The invitations propagate throughout the network until a spanning hierarchical protection tree is formed. Upon a subsequent failure of a straddling link, the tree may be used to re-route data. Further, given a tree link failure, protection switching is quickly achieved at a disconnected node through use of a backup parent as the new primary parent. Dynamic tree reconfiguration in the event of network topology changes may be limited to the network area surrounding the change.
US07774440B1
A system and method for network simulation and enhancement includes an experiment configuration engine that provides various proposed traffic and/or network models, and a simulator responsive to the proposed traffic and/or network models to execute a plurality of simulations for the network using parallel discrete event simulation, to determine an optimal network configuration based upon an objective function for enhancing an aspect of network performance. The traffic and/or network models may be based on monitored data from the network indicating a current network state and current network traffic. Reconfiguration instructions for the new network configuration may be conveyed from the simulator to the network, so as to effectuate ongoing, real-time enhancement of the network. The network model(s) may cover internal operational details of individual network devices (e.g., routers and/or switches) as well as operation of the network as a whole.
US07774439B2
An apparatus of managing sensing information for a sensor based home network and a method thereof are disclosed. The apparatus includes a sensor network to collect sensing information from multifunctional sensor nodes, a sensing information processing and managing unit for deciding the optimized context information through controlling and managing the collected sensing information according to all of the context information and providing services suitable to user's intention and environment. Therefore, the apparatus prevents collision and minimizes the interference generated between sensing information.
US07774432B2
A method, system, and computer-readable medium are described for registering and using multilingual domain names that include characters outside the ASCII character subset supported by the DNS system. Such multilingual domain names can in some situations be registered by first being converted into appropriate ASCII-Compatible Encodings (ACEs) that represent the corresponding multilingual domain names and that use only characters within the ASCII character subset. In addition, a variety of binary variants may be generated at registration for each multilingual domain name and then used as equivalents for the multilingual domain name, such as by storing the variants in the registry as alternative domain names or by otherwise reserving the binary variants. When requests to resolve such a registered multilingual domain name into a corresponding IP address or URL are received, the stored binary variants and/or ACE information can then be used to respond in an appropriate manner.
US07774423B2
An object of the invention is to allow a program execution domain to be specified and then a start target program to be started by the specified program execution domain. Disclosed is a remote start system including a communication terminal capable of switching multiple program execution domains from one to another, and a remote start server instructing, via a network, the communication terminal to start a start target program. In the remote server, generated is a switching program start message for requesting the communication terminal to start a switching program that switches a program execution domain to a specific program execution domain for executing the start target program. The switching program start message includes a switching program ID, a parameter for starting the switching program, and a parameter for starting the start target program. The parameter for starting the switching program includes the start target program ID and domain ID.
US07774406B2
A method and system for the establishment and maintenance of a collaborative computing community. The community includes one or more community members having membership data corresponding to their membership stored in a database and one or more collaborative components. A membership adapter interface is used to facilitate an exchange of information between the database and the collaborative components. A community template stored in which the community template indicates which collaborative components are accessible by the one or more community members. Such indication can be provided by data in a community role table of roles within the community, a collaborative component table identifying one or more collaborative components and API locations corresponding to the one or more collaborative components and a role map defining a mapping between the community roles in the community role table, named permission sets and the one or more identified collaborative components.
US07774399B2
A system for performing parallel multiplication on a plurality of factors. In a binary processor, a first and a second memory have pluralities of bit-positions. The first memory holds a first value as a multiplier that will commonly serve as multiple of the factors, and the second memory holds a second value that is representative of multiple multiplicands that are other of the factors. A multiplier bit-count is determined of the significant bits in the multiplier. And a +* operation is performed with the first value and said second value a quantity of times equaling the multiplier bit-count.
US07774396B2
Adaptive processing of an input signal is achieved by offline analysis, with inline processing comprising an adaptive filter. The method comprises passing the input signal through an adaptive time domain filter to produce an output signal. The input signal and/or output signal is used as an offline analysis signal. The analysis signal is transformed into a transform domain (eg frequency domain) to produce a transformed analysis signal. The transformed analysis signal is analysed, for example by ADRO, to produce a plurality of desired gains each corresponding to a respective transform domain sub-band. A time domain filter characteristic is synthesised to at least approach the desired gains. The adaptive filter is updated with the synthesised filter characteristic. Minimum phase adaptive filter techniques are found to possess particular benefits in this scheme.
US07774395B2
The digital filter has a finite impulse response, whose length corresponds at most to the duration of N input values, with the filter emitting an output signal which is n-times oversampled in comparison to the input signal (I, Q). In this case, a device (38.1-38.5) for storage of a plurality of N look-up tables is provided in the filter. n data values are stored per value in each look-up table for a plurality of k possible values of the input signal. Each data value is in this case characteristic of the product of a coefficient of the impulse response and a value of the input signal (I, Q).
US07774392B2
In a nonvolatile memory with block management system, data are written to blocks and are erasable block by block. At any time a pool of blocks are open for storing data concurrently. The number of blocks in the pool is limited. A replacement system allows new blocks to be introduced into the pool without exceeding the limit. In particular, different classes of blocks in the pool each has its own replacement rule, such as closing a least active block before being replaced. In this way, possible inefficiency and premature closure of blocks in the pool can be avoided.
US07774385B1
Surrogate heuristic identification is described, including a memory configured to store audio data associated with audio content, and a processor configured to select a portion of audio content, and the portion is standardized, to identify a characteristic associated with the portion, to use the characteristic to generate a data representation, the data representation being used to provide heuristic data associated with the audio content, and to process the heuristic data to generate a fingerprint associated with the audio content, and the fingerprint is configured to compare to one or more stored fingerprints to detect substantially similar audio content.
US07774379B2
The concept of portioning is expanded with a variety of techniques. In particular, one technique involves partitioning an object at multiple levels, where at least one of the levels uses list-based partitioning. Further, a partitioning technique is provided which involves storing a data item in a default partition when the item does not map to any one of the list-based partitions for which a key value group has been defined. Techniques are also provided for efficiently splitting a partition.
US07774378B2
Disclosed herein, among other things, is a system comprising a content repository, a communication portal developer, a content manager, and an analytic engine. The content repository is adapted to store electronic content in a computer-readable storage medium. The communication portal developer includes at least one wizard to create a plurality of customizable portals without coding software. Each customizable portal is accessible to one or more selected visitors through a web browser. The content manager is adapted to publish selectable electronic content to selectable portals. The content manager includes at least one wizard to populate and manage the electronic content within the content repository. The analytic engine analyzes electronic content use and visitor behavior while logged into their customizable portal. In various embodiments, the analytics are provided in real time or near real time. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US07774374B1
In some embodiments, a hardware linked-list manager includes a wildcard search controller for generating corresponding queue-specific read requests from wildcard read requests. The linked-list manager may be part of an on-chip interagent switch for allowing a plurality of agents to communicate with each other. The interagent switch may include a crossbar switch and a plurality of hardware linked-list managers integrated on the chip, connected to a random access memory, and connected to the crossbar switch such that the crossbar switch is capable of connecting each of the linked-list managers to each of the agents. Each linked-list manager sends agent-generated data to the memory for storage in the memory as a linked-list element, and retrieves linked-list elements from memory in response to agent read requests. A shared free-memory linked-list manager may maintain a linked list of free memory locations, and provide free memory address locations to a linked list manager upon request.
US07774372B2
A computer system and a relational database management system (RDMS) computer program product are described for interfacing a number of concurrently running database sessions with a large database in which a plurality of local temporary object database descriptors are used in lieu of a single global temporary object database descriptor where the global and each of the local temporary object database descriptors include identifiers for temporary objects, each of the local temporary object database descriptors is associated with a single database session and each of the global database descriptors is shared among multiple database sessions.
US07774371B2
A data processing system is provided for storing and managing multiple data entries. The data processing system employs a data structure which allows the storage and management of a vast number of interrelated data entries the interrelations of which change over time. The data structure reflects such changing interrelations over time and allows the querying and extracting of data entries on the basis of their interrelations as they were or are defined at any desired point in time.
US07774363B2
Activity data is analyzed or evaluated to detect behavioral patterns and anomalies. When a particular pattern or anomaly is detected, a system may send a notification or perform a particular task. This activity data may be collected in an information management system, which may be policy based. Notification may be by way e-mail, report, pop-up message, or system message. Some tasks to perform upon detection may include implementing a policy in the information management system, disallowing a user from connecting to the system, and restricting a user from being allowed to perform certain actions. To detect a pattern, activity data may be compared to a previously defined or generated activity profile.
US07774358B2
A multimedia data publishing system including a server connected to a computer network and a plurality of host terminals connected to the computer network, where the server includes a database in which digital files are saved containing descriptors of multimedia pages, and a program for management of the database and of the exchanges with the host terminals, the host terminals being equipped with a random access memory for temporarily saving digital files downloaded from the database of the server, and navigation software for the visual representation of the pages relating to the descriptors of a downloaded file, wherein at least some digital files include descriptors of at least two visual representations of a given digital file.
US07774351B2
If the storage medium runs out of space when storing clip-target information as clip data, data having higher deletion-target priority than others is deleted from among a plurality of stored data to have empty spaces on the storage medium, and then the new clip-target information is stored. The deletion-target priority is determined based on attribution of a plurality of stored data. In this manner, new clip-target information is stored without user's operation, after automatically deleting data having higher deletion-target priority than others (the deletion-target priority is determined based on attribution of clip data). Therefore it is avoided that important clip data is automatically deleted without a user being notified.
US07774349B2
A statistical methodology is employed for assisting people with the setting of parameters of software applications or services. With the method, information about demographics and/or about the complete or partial preferences of other people, are analyzed to infer recommendations for settings and functionality of a computer application or service. A system is reviewed with the ability to receive data regarding a plurality of users, and stores respective profiles for these users in a community store. The system can leverage off of these completed and/or partially completed profiles of parameters representing preferences about software operation in connection with building new profiles for users (new and/or existing). Data regarding a user that desires to build a new profile is employed in connection with the community profiles to facilitate the user building a personalized profile. Various statistical and/probabilistic schemes can be employed, for example, collaborative filtering techniques to identify to the user the top n settings by particular parameter(s), top m settings by popularity, top x most similar profiles to facilitate the user selecting most appropriate sub-profiles as part of a personalized profile building and selection effort.
US07774345B2
Described is a collection of search-related references authored from a set of search results, in which the collection may be persisted. Search results may be obtained via a federated search of multiple data sources (e.g., local files, the Internet, a corporate network/database). Search results may be presented as individual reference items or grouped into dynamic collection query reference sets, which may be added to the collection. A collection may also embed one or more other collections. Upon opening a collection, search results may be automatically updated by re-running any dynamic collection queries. The user authors the collection by selecting items from a search results interface and dropping or pasting the item reference into a collection interface, and/or by activating an item collection affordance associated with the item. Manual or automatic layout of collection item references is provided, such as to provide a tabular layout or a two-dimensional layout.
US07774334B2
A communication device includes an input device that is configured to receive input from a user and a memory configured to store a first database associated with word prediction. The communication device may also include logic configured to form a connection with a second communication device, where the second communication device includes a second database associated with word prediction. The logic may also be configured to obtain at least part of the second database, store the obtained part of the second database and perform word prediction on the received input using the obtained part of the second database.
US07774329B1
A method and system is provided for maintaining customer data in a data store system utilizing a scalable partitioning framework. More specifically, the data store of a customer service system is partitioned (divided) into multiple partitions by a partitionable key of customer data so that each partition owns a subset of the customer data. By maintaining several partitions that store a subset of the customer data exclusive to each other, blackout or brownout problems can be local to one partition and, thus, the availability for the entire system will be increased. Moreover, a set of partitionable keys, a minimal unit to be moved between partitions, is grouped and associated with a partition. By eliminating direct dependencies between the partitions and the partitionable keys, the system can have great flexibility with regard to migrating customer data between partitions and adding a new partition.
US07774325B2
A distributed data storage system stores a single image file system across a plurality of physical storage volumes. The physical storage may be direct attached storage, or may be coupled through a storage area network (“SAN”). One or more clients communicate with a plurality of storage nodes through a network. A client of the distributed data storage system transmits a request over the network for a file identified in the file system. A load-balancing switch selects one of the storage nodes to process the request. The storage node accesses at least one of the physical volumes and transmits a response for the storage operation to the client.
US07774314B1
Methods and systems for performing rapid recovery of deleted object in Active Directory. The invention allows automated recovery of any object at any point in an Active Directory hierarchy. In one embodiment, the method for recovering a deleted object includes determining whether the object of interest is contained in the tombstone and, if not, recursively evaluating higher-order parent nodes until a parent node is found that exists in the tombstone. The object of interest can then be reanimated and its attributes automatically restored as well as those for all of the children of the object of interest.
US07774304B2
A method, apparatus and program storage device for managing buffers during online reorganization. An adaptive buffer is provided having a dynamically adjustable boundary, the adaptive buffer processes log records and pointers associated with the log records during online reorganization of a database. Adaptive switching is provided between a first and a second task during the processing of data log records and index log records during the online reorganization of the database.
US07774295B2
A computer-implemented method of providing a track history of information previously requested from a database. The method includes: providing a track history of user-selectable records that have corresponding metadata items applicable to identify a data set from a data superset stored in the database; providing a bank of transformers with different user-selectable transformers; wherein a selected transformer takes a selected record and transforms the metadata items of the record to application specific metadata according to a syntax determined by the transformer; and activating an application, which accepts the determined syntax, comprising posting the application specific metadata.
US07774293B2
A hybrid causal framework applies properties of probabilistic models, such as Bayesian belief networks, to causal logic models, such as fault trees and event sequence diagrams. The probabilistic model establishes a joint probability distribution of causal relationships between events and conditions in the logic models. The probability of the events and conditions are found by propagating probabilities from the probabilistic model through the logic models.
US07774289B2
First and second applications having disparate concrete configuration models are integrated into a unified abstract model wherein configuration elements and associated element values are used to control configurable functions of the first and second application programs, respectively, and wherein the second configuration element has a similar configuration function as the first configuration element; using a first equivalence definition reflecting a functional relationship between the first application configuration element and an abstract model configuration element having the similar configuration function, wherein the abstract model configuration is application-independent and platform-independent; using a second equivalence definition reflecting a functional relationship between the second application program configuration element and the abstract model configuration element; and producing and associating a second configuration element value with the second application configuration element wherein the second application program is automatically configured according to the second concrete application configuration model.
US07774288B2
Records including category data is clustered by representing the data as a plurality of clusters, and generating a hierarchy of clusters based on the clusters. Records including category data are classified into folders according to a predetermined entropic similarity condition.
US07774287B2
A system to move a component in accordance with a setpoint profile including a plurality of target states of the component, each of the plurality of target states to be substantially attained at one of a corresponding sequence of target times, is presented. The system includes a displacement device to move the component according to the setpoint profile; a storage device containing a library of feedforward data; a signal generating part configured to identify a plurality of time segments of the setpoint profile that correspond to entries in the library of feedforward data, and access the entries in order to construct a feedforward signal; and a feedforward control system to control the operation of the displacement device by reference to the feedforward signal constructed by the signal generating part.
US07774277B1
Disclosed are systems and methods for providing a loan having an interest rate and a loan period. The systems and methods dynamically adjust the interest rate during the loan period based on actual payment performance of a borrower, thereby resulting in an improved reward structure, greater borrower loyalty and an improved experience for the borrower.
US07774273B2
Systems and methods for processing, for example, childcare benefits include: issuing a benefit card to a childcare customer; receiving a start time for childcare service at a childcare provider, the start time recorded by using the benefit card at a terminal located at the childcare provider at the start of childcare service; receiving an end time for childcare service at the childcare provider, the end time recorded by using the benefit card at a terminal located at the childcare provider at the end of childcare service; computing the childcare benefit eligibility based on the start time, the end time and benefits available for the childcare customer; and paying the childcare provider a payment based on the computed benefit eligibility.
US07774270B1
A method and system to protect, manage and control access to credit reports by the consumer. The company provides a website for the consumer to lock his credit report from being viewed without authorization. The report may be accessed via a previously assigned ID number and password. For a merchant to obtain the credit report, the consumer must grant access. The system eliminates manual intervention with access codes to lock or grant access to the report. Response to requests to access a report is instantaneous with the correct access code. Before a consumer subscribes, his is challenged to prove his identity. The verification method is based on his using a credit card to pay for the service that has the same name as the person in which they are attempting to subscribe to the service as. Address verification is provided by the credit card company. A credit report is then pulled from each of the credit reporting agencies, and the data used to further challenge the consumer's identity. Once correct identity has been established, the consumer enters an access code that is stored and instructions transmitted to the credit reporting agencies. Instructions are sent to the credit reporting agencies requiring them to lock the consumer's credit report and assign an access code to the file for consumer access. The system gives the consumer total control in protecting credit information from theft or misuse.
US07774264B1
A computer implemented system and method of executing an auction. The system has at least two intelligent systems, one for the auctioneer and at least one for a user. The auction is conducted by the auctioneer's system communicating with the user system(s). The auctioneer's system receives information from the user system(s) based on bid information entered by the user(s). With this information the auctioneer's system determines whether the auction can be concluded or not and appropriate messages are transmitted to the user(s).
US07774262B1
A system and associated methods are provided for use of fractional pay-up ticks in relation to offset orders being sent for a trading strategy that involves trading a first tradeable object and at least a second tradeable object. According to one example method, when an indication is received that a quantity at a first price for the first tradeable object is filled, a plurality of offset orders for the second tradeable object is sent to an electronic order book of the second tradeable object. The plurality of offset orders is placed at a plurality of price levels determined based on at least one fractional pay-up tick value, the first price, and the desired spread price. A quantity for each order is determined based on a quantity divider rule that is applied to an offset quantity to offset the fill.
US07774259B1
An interactive wagering application is provided that allows users to establish wagering criteria. When the wagering application detects that a wagering opportunity is available that satisfies the user's selected criteria, the wagering application may take an appropriate action. The wagering application may, for example, automatically place a wager or may notify a user that the criteria have been satisfied. Wagering criteria may be based on a particular track, horse, jockey, trainer, racetrack surface, race distance, statistics, jockey silks, odds or changes in odds, etc.
US07774254B2
A system for storing vital personal and business records in one secure location. A user may create an account and submit documents to be scanned and uploaded through a public kiosk. Documents may include, but are not limited to, such items as driver's licenses, birth certificates, state and federal identification cards and health information. The information is transmitted to a secure server where it is stored. A user may then utilize a computing device via secure online means to gain access to his or her stored documents.
US07774248B1
A system and method for evaluating financial transactions, which may involve credit requests, is provided. Credit requests are categorized into three tiers: the third-tier is for requests capable of being processed by computers, the second-tier is for requests that meet predefined criteria and cannot be categorized as third-tier requests, and the first-tier is for requests that cannot be categorized as second-tier or third-tier requests. The first-tier requests are manually reviewed by a credit executive. The second-tier requests are delegated to more junior credit personnel via an inventive pre-approval procedure. The third-tier requests are processed, at least in part, by computers. Additionally, requests that exceed a credit line, or limit, may be approved by reallocating credit from other credit lines.
US07774247B2
The invention provides systems, methods, and programs for improved computer trading of financial and other interests, including improvements in the making, acceptance, and control of proposals for transactions in interests. Among improvements provided by the invention are the presentation of terms of proposed transactions to trading parties in terms selected or otherwise designated by the trading parties. For example, terms of proposed transactions may be displayed in present or future values, such as in straight or split amounts for forward swap agreements. Prices in currency exchanges may be expressed in terms of any of the involved currencies. Improvements further include improved means for changing terms of proposed transactions, and especially groups or sets of proposed transactions; restrictions on repeated acceptance of transaction proposals; trading by users on each other's behalf; and improved display of transaction information associated with fellow traders.
US07774242B2
A method and apparatus for proximity sensing is described and illustrated. In one embodiment, the invention is an apparatus. The apparatus includes a processor. The apparatus also includes a memory coupled to the processor. The apparatus further includes a radio frequency interface coupled to the processor. The apparatus also includes an antenna coupled to the radio frequency interface. The memory embodies an identifier of an associated item along with specific information related to the associated item. The memory also embodies instructions which, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to exchange the identifier with similar apparatuses through the radio frequency interface and antenna and cause the processor to compare the specific information with information received from the similar apparatuses.
US07774232B2
A point of sale terminal that can be used to sell commodities such as gasoline, is also used to wirelessly distribute content files, such as MP3 and video files. The content files are addressed to a particular wireless playback receiving device. Wireless distribution of content files at other merchant's sites whereat point of sale terminals can be used enables the contents of playback devices to be updated without having to couple the device to a computer. Receipt of payment or account information prior to file transmission helps protect against theft.
US07774228B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for transferring toll data from a third party operated transport to a user account comprises, performing a verification of the user account, receiving a service request to transfer tolls incurred by the third party operated transport, receiving toll data, and sending information related to the user account if the toll data and the service request match.
US07774208B2
The present invention relates to methods and systems for managing intellectual property assets. In an embodiment, an intellectual property protection life cycle of an intellectual property asset is managed, and an intellectual property marketing life cycle of the intellectual property asset is managed.
US07774206B1
A method of providing communication services from retail business locations. The method comprising providing wireless transceiver devices to customers of the retail business, wherein the wireless transceiver devices are configured to receive at least one of a variety of different communication services. Contracting for the plurality of different communication services from a network system by the retail business. Contracting with a wireless service provider for wireless network services to exchange the plurality of different communication services between the retail business and the wireless transceiver devices. Receiving in at least one location of the retail business, the plurality of different communication services from the network system and providing at least one of the plurality of different communication services from the retail business location to the wireless transceiver devices via a wireless network.
US07774204B2
The present invention includes a speech recognition system comprising a light element, a power control switch, the power control switch varying the power delivered to the light element, a controller, a microphone, a speech recognizer coupled to the microphone for recognizing speech input signals and transmitting recognition results to the controller, and a speech synthesizer coupled to the controller for generating synthesized speech, wherein the controller varies the power to the light element in accordance with the recognition results received from the speech recognizer. Embodiments of the invention may alternatively include a low power wake up circuit. In another embodiment, the present invention is a method of controlling a device by voice commands.
US07774203B2
The present invention discloses an audio signal segmentation algorithm comprising the following steps. First, an audio signal is provided. Then, an audio activity detection (AAD) step is applied to divide the audio signal into at least one noise segment and at least one noisy audio segment. Then, an audio feature extraction step is used on the noisy audio segment to obtain multiple audio features. Then, a smoothing step is applied. Then, multiple speech frames and multiple music frames are discriminated. The speech frames and the music frames compose at least one speech segment and at least one music segment. Finally, the speech segment and the music segment are segmented from the noisy audio segment.
US07774198B2
A computer retrieval system includes memory which stores instructions for (1) receiving a user query in a natural language, (2) identifying text strings from an associated knowledge base, each containing at least one expression (word or multi-word expression) which is matched with at least one expression of the user query, (3) refining the user query by representing at least a group of the text strings as a navigation tree in which each of a plurality of selectable nodes comprises an expression representative of at least one syntactic unit in at least one of the identified text strings and wherein relationships between syntactic units are used in structuring the nodes of the navigation tree, and (4) retrieving text from the knowledge base related to the refined query. A processor executes the instructions.
US07774193B2
Collocation errors can be automatically proofed using local and network-based corpora, including the Web. For example, according to one illustrative method, one or more collocations from a text sample are compared with a corpus such as the content of the Web. The collocations are identified for whether they are disfavored in the corpus. Indications are provided via an output device of whether the collocations are disfavored in the corpus. Additional steps may then be taken such as searching for and providing potentially proper word collocations via a user output.
US07774188B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to the running of a virtual machine directly from a physical machine using snapshots of the physical machine. In one example, a computer system performs a method for running a virtual machine directly from a physical machine using snapshots of the physical machine. A snapshot component takes a snapshot of the physical system volume while the physical system volume is in an operational state. The virtual machine initializes using the physical system volume snapshot thereby allowing the physical system volume snapshot to be a virtual system volume snapshot representing an initial state of a virtual system volume. The physical system volume snapshot includes instances of all the files within the physical system volume at the time the snapshot was taken.
US07774186B2
A power and ground shield mesh to remove both capacitive and inductive signal coupling effects of routing in integrated circuit device. An embodiment describes the routing of a shield mesh of both power and ground lines to remove noise created by capacitive and inductive coupling. Relatively long signal lines are routed in between fully connected power and ground shield mesh which may be generated by a router during the signal routing phase or during power mesh routing phase. Leaving only the odd tracks or the even tracks for signal routing, power mesh (VDD) and ground mesh (VSS) are routed and fully interconnected leaving shorter segments and thereby reducing the RC effect of the circuit device. Another embodiment presents a technique where the signals are shielded using the power and ground mesh for a gridless routing. Another embodiment presents a multi-layer grid routing technique where signals are routed on even grid and the power and ground lines are routed on odd grid. A similar embodiment represents grid routing technique where the signals are routed between layers N and N+1. Another embodiment enables signals to be shielded by opposite power and ground grids on left, right, top and bottom. Additional embodiments also include utilization of similar mesh utilized in standard cell and/or in the gate array routing area or any other area where any other signal line is to be shielded.
US07774179B2
A computer-implemented system and method of non-linear modeling in a computer system having a limited precision processor is provided. A non-linear model is initialized by forming an objective function having one or more functional components and a marginal variance matrix. The model is then iteratively solved using the computer processor until it has converged to a feasible solution. In doing so, the feasibility of computing the objective function is evaluated by determining if the marginal variance matrix is positive definite, thereby indicating whether or not the computer processor is capable of calculating a feasible solution to the non-linear model. If the marginal variance matrix is positive definite, then the objective function and its gradient are computed using the marginal variance matrix. If the marginal variance matrix is not positive definite, then a surrogate marginal variance matrix is constructed that is positive definite and a surrogate objective function is constructed having components continuous first derivatives. The surrogate objective function and its gradient are then computed using the surrogate marginal variance matrix.
US07774172B1
A system and method of exposing debugging information in a graphical modeling and execution environment is disclosed. The present invention allows a user to view debugging information in the same window as the graphical view of the model being executed. Debugging data is associated with relevant components of the model displayed in the graphical view. A separate execution list view shows the methods called during the execution of the block diagram in the current time step up until the current point in execution. User-set breakpoints and conditional breakpoints may be set in both the model view and the execution list view. Values may be obtained for all of the displayed methods. The debugging tool may be implemented by using it in conjunction with a graphical modeling and execution environment, such as a block diagram environment or state diagram environment.
US07774164B2
A computer which functions by a performance prediction program for a ground source heat pump system of the present invention and a performance prediction system constructed thereby include a dimensionless distance calculating means, a first dimensionless time calculating means, a second dimensionless time calculating means, a boundary time acquiring means, an underground temperature change calculating means, and a tube surface temperature change calculating means. The performance prediction program and performance prediction system can be applied to the design of heat exchange system by obtaining predicted underground temperature data for the ground source heat pump system with high accuracy and predicting the performance for the ground source heat pump system based on the resulting underground temperature changes, etc., in view of the use of a plurality of buried tubes, underground temperature change patterns for buried tubes placed at different intervals, and the use of U-shaped tube heat exchangers.
US07774161B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for performing differential media time calculation and display are provided. A method includes determining a time of media origination, determining a current time, and calculating a differential media time as a difference between the current time and the time of media origination. The method also includes using the differential media time to determine information update data and outputting the information update data for display.
US07774160B2
Conventional cryptographic methods that are based on elliptic curves are prone to side-channel attacks. Previously known methods for preventing side-channel attacks have the disadvantage of requiring high arithmetic capacity and a large amount of available memory space. The proposed method overcomes said disadvantage by using a process for verifying points on elliptic curves which saves arithmetic capacity and memory space.
US07774152B2
A method of calculating node potentials in a network including current flow nodes on wirings with high precision at high speed is provided. Provided are a drive method of making voltages applied to electron-emitting devices uniform using the calculating method and an apparatus for manufacturing an image display apparatus including the electron-emitting devices. Assume that n nodes are located between one end of a wiring in which a potential DL is set and the other end of the wiring in which a potential DR is set. At a j-th node counted from the one end, when a current value flowing therefrom is Ij, a node potential is Vj, resistance elements between a terminal and a node and between adjacent nodes are R0 to Rn+1, and a resistance between both end of the wiring is Rall, the node potential Vj is calculated by the following expression. V j = D L 1 R all ∑ q = j n R q + D R 1 R all ∑ p = 0 j - 1 R p - ∑ k = 1 n ( 1 R all ∑ p = 0 min ( j , k ) - 1 R p ∑ q = max ( j , k ) n R q ) I k
US07774141B2
A method includes acquiring formation fluid sample information including pressure, volume, and temperature. Monotonic formation fluid information is extracted from the formation fluid sample information and a pressure, volume, temperature information set is constructed. A curvature sequence is estimated using a first partial derivative and a second partial derivative of pressure with respect to volume. A first maxima is estimated from the curvature sequence, and the formation fluid property is estimated using the estimated first maxima. A method may include a volume acceleration sequence estimated using a first partial derivative and a second partial derivative of the volume with respect to pressure. A first maxima is estimated from the volume acceleration sequence, and the formation fluid property is estimated at least in part by using the estimated first maxima. A method may include establishing a first linear regression model and predicting a confidence interval.
US07774133B2
A method of analyzing a path by defining a plurality of contiguous geographical regions, each to have a uniform value of a characteristic affecting travel through the region and evaluating the path from a point in an origin region through an intermediate region to a point in a destination region. Related methods and means of representing paths, and systems to implement the methods are also described and claimed.
US07774130B2
A method of determining fuel consumption in a vehicle through the OBDII bus is described. The fuel consumption is determined by using mass air flow (MAF) sensor data or manifold air pressure (MAP) sensor data, and obtaining and applying long term and short term fuel trim values for the vehicle, which respectively characterize deviations of air-to-fuel stoichiometry in the vehicle due to aging and vehicle's current operating conditions to determine the corrected fuel consumption in the vehicle. For MAP based method, an independent determining of Volumetric Efficiency of a vehicle's engine is also provided. The method is further enhanced by providing various sensing patterns for various sensor data, which depend on the rate of change of the respective data.
US07774125B2
A programmable fuel pump control for a fuel system includes integral sensors, an expansible fill chamber and a return chamber. The control can be used in either a return-style of returnless fuel system. The expansible fill chamber is in fluid communication with the fuel rail. A restrictable fuel passage connects the fill chamber to a return chamber that in a return-style fuel system can be optionally connected to a return line. The control includes an integral pressure transducer measuring fuel pressure relative to intake manifold pressure and one or more adjunct sensors that allow real time control of a fuel pump speed, and therefore fuel pressure, as a function of engine performance.
US07774112B2
A method and system for acquiring aircraft parameters that includes sampling an aircraft parameter during a first sampling period, recording the full value of the aircraft parameter sampled during the first sampling period, then sampling the aircraft parameter during a fixed number of subsequent consecutive sampling periods, and recording the change between the value of the aircraft parameter sampled in the subsequent sampling periods and the value of the aircraft parameter sampled in the prior sampling period. A method and system for constructing a data stream that includes merging a voluntary data stream and the mandatory parameters and storing the merged data stream in a flight data recorder while maintaining the certification of the flight data recorder.
US07774108B2
A front and rear wheel drive vehicle having a front wheel pair and a rear wheel pair, one of which is driven with an engine and the other one of which is driven with a motor. The vehicle includes an engine driving force setting section which sets a target driving force of the engine based on driving conditions of the vehicle, a motor driving force setting section which sets a target driving force of the motor based on driving conditions of the vehicle and a control section of the motor in accordance with changes of the target engine driving force and the target motor driving force.
US07774107B2
A system for simulating conditions along a route traveled by a mobile platform (such as a train, marine vessel, aircraft or automobile) is provided. The system includes a source of user input. The system also includes a navigation control module that generates navigation data. The navigation data includes a route for the mobile platform based upon at least the user input. The system further includes a conditions control module that determines at least one condition associated with the route. The at least one condition includes at least a lighting condition associated with the travel of the mobile platform along the route.
US07774101B2
A method for managing buildings comprises providing a computer database 10 operative to store information relating to at least one building 30, said information comprising building characteristics; Each said building having associated therewith a facility; Each said facility having associated therewith an account; Providing an operational link between a user and said computer database 20, receiving a user request to interact with said computer database 100, providing means for a user to establish a selected account 101, 102, providing means for a user to establish a selected facility 103, providing means for a user to establish a selected building 104, and presenting a user with information relating to said selected building 105.
US07774100B2
A robot control information generator generates control information for operating a robot equipped with a camera and a hand to grasp an object based on a two-dimensional code on the object. The two-dimensional code includes position identifying patterns and an information pattern, the position within the two-dimensional code of each of the position-identifying patterns is specified beforehand, and the information pattern is generated by encoding of information. The robot control information generator comprises an image input unit, a pattern detection unit, a position/posture calculation unit, a decoding device, and a control information-generating unit which generates the control information based on the decoded information decoded by the decoding device and the position/posture information calculated by the position/posture calculation unit.
US07774092B2
The invention concerns a press for the production of pressed moldings of powdery or granulate materials, as well as a process for controlling the press where a correction of the ram stroke of the press is initiated depending on the association of actual dimensions of the molding with certain tolerance ranges to which different valences have been assigned, and where, depending on the valence in question, no correction, an immediate correction, or a delayed correction of the ram stroke is effected.
US07774091B2
The present invention relates to a method of designing, previewing a natural stone veneer project in its entirety before a single stone is cut; cutting and finishing the edges of a natural veneer stone to form interconnecting finished natural stone veneer components having a weathered appearance, each component having a perimeter of a pre-determined contour and a finished edge.
US07774082B2
First feedforward calculation is executed when a preprocessing surface profile is measured and a processing chamber with its processing parameter value having been obtained through the first feedforward calculation judged to be within an allowable range is determined. Wafer transfer is executed only in conjunction with a processing chamber having a processing parameter value judged to be within the allowable range, and the wafer is carried to the entry point of the processing chamber. Then, second feedforward calculation is executed by reflecting the results of feedback calculation executed based upon the most recent processing having been executed in the particular processing chamber and wafer processing is executed in the processing chamber based upon the processing parameter value calculated in the second feedforward calculation.
US07774081B2
There is provided a manufacturing system for manufacturing an electronic device through a plurality of manufacturing stages. The manufacturing system includes a plurality of manufacturing apparatuses performing processes corresponding to the plurality of manufacturing stages. The manufacturing system includes a manufacturing line that manufactures the electronic device, a manufacturing control section that causes the manufacturing line to manufacture a wafer having therein a test circuit including a plurality of transistors under measurement, a measuring section that measures an electrical characteristic of each of the plurality of transistors under measurement in the test circuit, an identifying section that identifies, among the plurality of manufacturing stages, a manufacturing stage in which a defect is generated, with reference to a distribution, on the wafer, of one or more transistors under measurement whose electrical characteristics do not meet a predetermined standard, and a setting changing section that changes a setting for a manufacturing apparatus that performs a process corresponding to the manufacturing stage in which the defect is generated.
US07774080B2
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing dental prostheses, wherein from a raw material area, such as a blank, a dental prosthesis is manufactured (milled out) at a manufacturing position, such as a milling position, the manufacturing position of one or more dental prostheses being determined on the basis of one or more predetermined criteria. Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for checking a worked raw material area and/or a manufacturing arrangement for a raw material area, wherein it is checked whether one or more manufacturing shapes can still be manufactured from a number of predetermined manufacturing shapes. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for manufacturing a dental prosthesis, wherein from a raw material area a dental prosthesis is manufactured, wherein a raw material is selected from a plurality of raw material areas on the basis of one or more predetermined criteria. Moreover, the invention relates to a corresponding computer, a computer program, and a machine-readable medium.
US07774079B2
A system and method for decoding a received television signal is disclosed. The system includes an input to receive a digital audio signal and a digital variable deemphasis module to modify the amplitude of the digital audio signal based on a plurality of variable coefficients. The system also includes an exponential digital root mean square (ERMS) detector to provide level detection of the digital audio signal. The plurality of variable coefficients of the digital variable deemphasis module are digitally computed based on an output of the digital ERMS detector.
US07774047B2
An optical measurement instrument for a living body to measure dynamic change of blood of a brain includes light incident units for irradiating light on a head of a subject, a light detector for detecting a light irradiated from the light incident units and reflected within the subject, a signal processing unit for calculating a spacious distribution of signals from the subject to be measured from a signal detected by the light detector, and a display for displaying the spacious distribution of signals from the subject to be measured. Measurement points are arranged about a middle of the light incident units and the light detector, and the light incident units and the light detector are arranged such that the measurement points are arranged to form a lattice whose circumference is square.
US07774043B2
A microcoil is manufactured by rolling a trace unit in such a way as to form at least one winding. The trace unit is comprised of a conductive trace attached to a flexible insulating film. A preferred embodiment of the microcoil contains both a first winding and a second winding electrically connected and spaced apart by a joining portion. The microcoil may be used for internal magnetic resonance imaging of patient by attaching the microcoil to a catheter.
US07774033B2
Disclosed is a slider mechanism for slidably opening and closing a portable communication terminal. The slider mechanism includes a first plate and a second plate slidably combined with the first plate. The second plate has a cam profile formed along siding direction. A resilience unit is mounted on the first plate to exert resilient force perpendicularly to moving direction of the second plate. A roller is rotatably attached to an end of the resilience unit. The roller runs along the cam profile while the portable terminal opens or closes. Formed at a desired position of the cam profile is a depression on which the roller rests to hold the terminal in place at closed or opened state, or at any other desired position.
US07774032B2
A video baby monitor system has a child unit with a back-up battery, a video camera, a microphone, and a transmitter configured to transmit video signals representing video images sent from the camera and audio signals representing sounds sent from the microphone. A parent unit having a receiver for receiving the video signals and the audio signals, a video screen for displaying the video images, and a speaker for emitting the sounds. The child unit is configured to operate on primary power from an external power source and to operate on back-up power from the back-up battery source. The monitor system is configured to switch from the primary power to the back-up power and to deactivate at least one video function upon detecting a loss of the primary power.
US07774012B2
A method and apparatus are provided for a gateway which interconnects public safety wireless networks and commercial wireless networks that support push-to-talk group calls. The gateway translates Real Time Protocol (RTP), Session Invitation Protocol (SIP), and Talk Burst Control Protocol (TBCP)/Real Time Control Protocol (RTCP) messages received from the commercial wireless network and RTP and SIP messages received from the public safety wireless network into a format of the receiving network. The gateway has a call control component operable to set up and tear down RTP connections between the networks, a push-to-talk control component operable to arbitrate calls between wireless communications handsets of both networks, and a transmission control component operable to transfer media packets between the networks. The gateway reduces the number of call set ups required when a caller wants to speak because connections may remain active until the talk group participants leave the push-to-talk group call.
US07774008B2
Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communications, for various telemetry applications, such as meter reading, alarm applications or the like, utilize data communication service via a public mobile/wireless communication network, such as the short message service (SMS). However, such M2M communications may involve a large number of clients. To avoid the need to assign a telephone number, such as a mobile directory number (MDN) or the like, to each of the many remote M2M clients, routing through the network is based on another type of MSID (Mobile Station Identifier), such as the MIN (Mobile Identifier Number) or the IMSI (International Mobile Station Identifier) of the client. SMS messages transmissions originating at a client use a short code for the M2M application address, and SMS messages intended to terminate at a client use the MIN or IMSI as the routing address for the M2M device.
US07774007B2
A method for IP [=Internet Protocol] communication between a mobile terminal and its correspondent node in a mobile radio network. The method comprises establishing (2-2) an IP connection between the mobile terminal and its correspondent node. After detecting a period of inactivity in the IP connection, (2-4) keep-alive messages are sent via the IP connection at predetermined intervals, which are varied. The method comprises monitoring (2-6) the lengths of several periods of inactivity at which the mobile radio network disconnects the IP connection. Based on the monitored lengths of periods of inactivity, a maximum interval (TINT) between keep-alive messages is determined (2-8) such that the maximum interval meets a predetermined criterion of statistical confidence, and the interval between keep-alive messages is set (2-10) to the maximum interval (TINT).
US07774004B2
A network system implements paging control in which the control apparatus, upon receiving a packet destined for a mobile terminal, transmits a paging notification packet to a paging area of the mobile terminal, so as to obtain location information of the mobile terminal and to determine a transfer destination of a received packet. The control apparatus is configured to transmit the paging notification packet to a plurality of router devices included in the paging area. Each of the plurality of router devices is configured to transmit a received paging notification packet to a plurality of access points by multicasting. Each of the plurality of access points is configured to transmit a received paging notification packet to the mobile terminal through a link connection by multicasting, when it is judged that an IP address in the paging notification packet is a predetermined IP address.
US07774001B2
A portable communication device includes an application program for determining crowdedness of a desired location. The portable communication device executes the application program to communicate within a wireless communication system for requesting mobile critical mass information for at least one desired location. The mobile critical mass information for the at least one desired location is received and converted into a user-understandable format. The converted mobile critical mass information is displayed as crowdedness information on a display of the portable communication device. Portable communication device users can seek out or avoid crowds depending on their preference.
US07773999B2
A method and apparatus for identifying and reporting a non-operational enhanced uplink (EU) signaling channel. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) sends a channel allocation request for an enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) to a Node-B through an uplink (UL) EU signaling channel. In response to the request, the Node-B sends channel allocation information to the WTRU through one or more downlink (DL) EU signaling channels. If the WTRU does not receive the channel allocation information before a predetermined time period established by a request response timer expires, the WTRU reports a non-operational EU signaling channel to a radio network controller (RNC) via the Node-B. The Node-B reports a non-operational EU signaling channel when the Node-B does not receive E-DCH data transmissions after sending the channel allocation information, or receives subsequent E-DCH data transmissions which are inconsistent with the channel allocation information.
US07773998B2
A wireless communication apparatus and a frequency channel selecting method. The wireless communication apparatus includes a transmitting/receiving unit, a storage unit storing updateable indexes relating to a communication condition, an evaluation reference updating unit for updating a reference of a communication quality based on the stored indexes, and a controller that selects frequency channels to communicate data and instructs the transmitting/receiving unit to switch to the selected frequency channels. The frequency channel selecting method includes updating an index representative of a communication quality of a wireless communication for each of a plurality of frequency channels, storing the updateable indexes, updating a reference of a communication quality based on the stored indexes, and selecting frequency channels for communicating based on the updated reference. The communication apparatus and frequency selecting method readily and flexibly select frequency channels with an acceptable communication quality using the updateable index and reference.
US07773995B2
A system and method for creating a site specific representation of an environment are disclosed. The system and method comprise sending an RF signal and receiving a reflected RF signal. Based upon determining characteristics of the reflected RF signal, characteristics of an obstruction in the environment are computed. Finally, a site specific representation of the environment based upon the computed characteristics is created.
US07773990B2
By evaluating a cell selection criterion S during scans for available public land mobile networks (PLMNs), a user equipment (UE) can avoid network service interruptions by not selecting PLMNs for which there exist no suitable cells. The cell selection criterion can be evaluated based on cell parameters either read during the PLMN selection procedure or locally stored before the PLMN selection procedure. It is possible to reduce the time required for PLMN scans and UE power consumption.
US07773985B2
A cooperative system for testing signal strength near a target area selected by a wireless provider is disclosed, using test units installed in the fleet vehicles of an unrelated service enterprise. The system in one embodiment includes an algorithm for comparing test parameters to the route data contained in the dispatch plan for the fleet vehicles, in order to identify the optimal routes on which to send test units. A computer software product for storing the parameters and executing the algorithms is also disclosed. Signal testing in a target area is accomplished through the symbiotic relationship between the testing units and the fleet vehicles, whereby the wireless provider benefits from unit carriage along routes already being traveled by the fleet vehicles for a different purpose. This Abstract is provided quickly inform a reader about the subject matter, and not for use interpreting the scope or meaning of the claims.
US07773984B2
A method of enabling at least one function of a telephone to be controlled is provided. The telephone is operative to perform the function in response to a command from a computer system. The method includes the steps of: (a) providing a control interface containing information relating to the function, the control interface including coded data indicative of at least one operation relating to the command; (b) receiving, in the computer system and from the sensing device, indicating data regarding the operation and movement data regarding movement of the sensing device relative to the control interface, the sensing device, when moved relative to the control interface, generating the indicating data using at least some of the coded data and generating the movement data; and (c) effecting, in the computer system and from the indicating data and the movement data, the at least one operation.
US07773969B2
A current converter has a first amplification device, which outputs a differential current depending on a differential control signal and derives a differential feedback signal from the differential current. The current converter also has a second amplification device, which amplifies a differential input signal at its input depending on the differential feedback signal to form the differential control signal. The current converter may be used in a frequency mixer together with a mixer cell which produces a differential output signal by multiplying the differential current and an oscillator signal.
US07773962B2
In a structure having a fractional-N synthesizer driven by a voltage controlled oscillator, frequency accuracy is maintained by first using the fractional-N synthesizer to correct large frequency errors and then slowly transferring correction from the fractional-N synthesizer to the voltage controlled oscillator a little at a time.
US07773953B2
Provided is a wireless transceiving apparatus for variability of signal processing band, in which at least one resonator of an analog processor and a VCO are simultaneously controlled using a frequency synthesizer, and a frequency of the VCO and a resonance frequency of the analog processor are controlled to have a rational number ratio, thereby capable of varying the signal processing band. The wireless transceiving apparatus includes: an analog processor having a plurality of resonators on a path of transmission/reception signals, for performing analog signal processing; a digital processor for performing digital signal processing on an output signal of the analog processor or data to be transmitted to the analog processor; and a frequency synthesizer for providing a local oscillation (LO) frequency and a controlling signal to the resonators of the analog processor so as to vary a signal processing band of the analog processor.
US07773952B2
A system is presented for utilizing data in a mobile device in real-time and without the need for additional hardware. The system allows real-time processing of highly-compressed data that would otherwise require processing power in excess of that available from the system, or would otherwise not be possible without additional hardware. The system generally includes a processing device that receives the data in a highly compressed format, and includes a preprocessor that pre-processes the data to at least partially decode the data into a second compressed format. The processing device also includes a decompressor that fully decompresses the preprocessed data as needed by the system. The processing device may also include one or more memories for storing the preprocessed data until it is needed by the system.
US07773948B2
A communication device used in a first communication system under a frequency sharing environment where the first communication system and a second communication system establish communications within the same frequency band is disclosed. The communication device comprises a detector for detecting an interfering signal from the second communication system; and a determiner for determining transfer characteristics of a shaping filter according to a result of the detection, the shaping filter being used for a desired signal of the first communication system.
US07773946B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for transmitting data in a cellular communication system including at least one base station that communicates with a plurality of mobile stations through a given frequency band. The method and apparatus divides the frequency band into at least two subcarrier groups each including a plurality of subcarriers; allocates at least one subcarrier group to each mobile station, and changes the subcarrier group allocated to each mobile station according to a predetermined period; and codes data to be transmitted to each mobile station with a plurality of codes, and transmits modulation symbols obtained by performing inverse fast Fourier transform (IFFT) on a plurality of subcarriers of the allocated subcarrier group.
US07773935B2
A broadcast information receiving terminal which notifies a user, when a broadcast program is unreceivable, of such unreceivability, and also notifies the user, when a reception of the broadcast program has been recovered, of such recovery of the reception is provided. In the broadcast information receiving terminal which reproduces a TV number or the like, an at-reception-recovery-time processing preprogramming control section (3) determines, when a reception of a desired broadcast program which was determined as unreceivable has been recovered, whether or not to notify the user that the reception of the broadcast program has been recovered. An at-reception-recovery-time processing section (7) notifies the user that the reception of the desired broadcast information has been recovered.
US07773932B2
A fixation device configured to fix on a medium a resin fine particle that contains a resin, by providing a fixation fluid on the resin fine particle on the medium which fixation fluid contains a softening agent that softens the resin fine particle by dissolving or swelling at least one portion of the resin, water and a foaming agent that comprises a salt of aliphatic acid, wherein the fixation device comprises a foam-like fixation fluid producing part configured to produce a foam-like fixation fluid, a layer thickness controlling part configured to control a layer thickness of the produced foam-like fixation fluid, and a provision part configured to provide the layer-thickness-controlled foam-like fixation fluid on the resin fine particle on the medium.
US07773930B2
A fixing device includes a fixing roller, a fixing belt which is made to rotate by a rotation force received from the fixing roller, a nip forming unit to form a nip zone at a contact area between the fixing roller and the fixing belt, and a first heating unit, which is separated from the nip zone, to apply heat to the fixing belt. The nip zone and the heating unit are separated, so that the heating unit can be prevented from being broken as a result of the pressurization and thermal deformation.
US07773919B2
If a user is not familiar with the operation for a developer supply container, the rotating operation for the developer supply container may be insufficient, so that developer supply container does not reach a predetermined operating position, with the result of abnormal developer supply. By increasing a rotation load of a second gear which is in an operable connection with a drive gear member of the developer receiving apparatus by a function of a locking member, the developer supply container mounted to the developer receiving apparatus is rotated toward the supply position. After the developer supply container rotates to the supply position, the locking by the locking member is released, by which the rotation load applied to the second gear is reduced, so that drive transmission, thereafter, to the feeding member for developer supply is smooth.
US07773912B2
A support unit supports a rotation axe of each of at least three latent-image carriers in a rotatable manner. A plurality of developing units develops latent images on the latent-image carriers with toners of different colors, respectively. A toner-pattern detecting unit detects a toner pattern formed on a belt member that is suspended by a plurality of suspending members. A displacing unit is provided to the support unit to displace the rotation axis along a surface of the belt member in a direction of movement of the surface of the belt member. A control unit controls the displacing unit based of a result of detecting the toner pattern by the toner-pattern detecting unit.
US07773910B2
An image forming apparatus including: a first body; a second body to pivot between a closed position and an open position in relation to the first body; a guide lever member to control a pivoting of the second body and having a first end connected to one of the first body and the second body, and a second end, opposite the first end; and a guide rail member including: a guide rail along which the second end of the guide lever member is slidably connected. The guide rail member includes a first pressing portion to constrain the second end of the guide lever member in the open position of the second body, and a second pressing portion to prevent the second body from abruptly closing while the second body is being closed.
US07773909B2
In a method and system for handling of an endless belt for an electro-photographic printer or copier, an endless belt is borne with aid of a first, a second, and a third cylindrical body. The first cylindrical body is inserted through a loop of the endless belt. The second cylindrical body is arranged outside of the loop of the endless belt and parallel to the first cylindrical body. The endless belt is wound around the first and the second cylindrical bodies. The third cylindrical body is provided through the loop at a free end of the endless belt. The cylindrical bodies with the wound endless belt are housed in a container.
US07773904B2
An image forming apparatus for forming an image on sheets, includes: a storage unit for storing the number of jobs in which a discharge position of the sheets is switched; a switching unit for switching the discharge position of the sheets; a sheet discharge unit for stacking the sheets; and a control unit for controlling the switching unit to switch the discharge position of the sheets per the number of jobs, which is stored in the storage unit, to discharge the sheets.
US07773902B2
An image forming apparatus has: an intermediate transfer member to which a primary transfer voltage having a positive polarity is applied and the toner image is primarily transferred in which a reverse voltage having a negative polarity is applied; a primary transfer device which primarily transfers the toner image by applying the primary transfer voltage; a secondary transfer device which secondarily transfers the toner image by applying a secondary transfer voltage; and a resistance adjusting device which controls at least either the primary transfer device or the secondary transfer device in such a manner that while the intermediate transfer member rotates once, a first correction voltage is applied to the area where the primary transfer voltage has been applied and a second correction voltage higher than the first voltage is applied to the area where the reverse voltage has been applied.
US07773899B2
An amount of toner transfer on a reference pattern is calculated by using an optical detecting unit that detects both regular reflection light and diffuse reflection light from a detection target simultaneously, based on a relative ratio between a value obtained by subtracting a result of multiplying a “diffuse reflection output” by a “minimum value of a ratio between a regular reflection output and the diffuse reflection output” from the “regular reflection output” of the density detection reference pattern, and a value obtained by subtracting a result of multiplying the “diffuse reflection output” by a “minimum value of a ratio between the regular reflection output and the diffuse reflection output” from the “regular reflection output” in the background of a transfer belt or an intermediate transfer body.
US07773891B2
Systems and methods for determining the volume of imaging medium in a cartridge are disclosed. An imaging medium may include a movable housing portion and a device coupled to the movable housing portion. The movable housing portion may include a volume of imaging medium and may be configured to move in response to changes in the volume of imaging medium in the movable housing portion. The device may be configured to project a beam of electromagnetic energy onto a location of a beam-receiving photodetector, the beam-receiving location moving in response to movement of the movable housing portion such that the beam-receiving location is based at least on the volume of imaging medium on the movable housing portion.
US07773883B1
Systems, apparatus and methods for implementing single-fiber optical ring networks based on double side band modulation.
US07773878B2
A system, device, and method for supporting cut-through pats in an optical communication system involves obtaining hop count and quality of service information by an initiating device and using the hop count and quality of service information by the initiating device to make decisions relating to a cut-through path. The hop count and quality of service information is provided in a reply message that is sent by a terminating device and modified by intermediate devices between the initiating device and the terminating device. The terminating device sends the reply with a hop count equal to one and quality of service information for a first link (hop) toward the initiating device. Each intermediate device increments the hop count in the reply and adds quality of service information for a next link (hop) into the reply.
US07773873B2
An image-pickup apparatus is disclosed which is capable of restricting unnecessary focus control by an AF method other than the TV-AF method in the hybrid AF. The image-pickup apparatus includes a first detector which generates first information corresponding to a contrast state of a picked-up image, a second detector which detects second information differing from the first information and used for focus control, and a controller which performs focus processing that cyclically repeats first focus control using the first information and performs second focus control using the second information. In the focus processing, the controller is changed over between a state of restricting the second focus control and a state of allowing the second focus control, depending on a change amount of the contrast state.
US07773864B2
Authoring a Blu-ray Disc including defining interactive regions within a composition with buttons and associating a command with the button; and automatically defining non-interactive regions within the composition with buttons, wherein the non-interactive regions are not associated with any command.
US07773862B2
With this invention, at least one of a video file containing video information, a still picture file containing still picture information, and an audio file containing audio information and a management file having management information on a control method of reproducing the information in the file are recorded on an information storage medium. This realizes a data structure that causes the recording and deleting places on the information storage medium to correspond spuriously to places on a single tape, such as a VTR tape. Use of the data structure provides users with an easy-to-use interface.
US07773858B2
An optical disc drive and the method for adjusting the working speed are disclosed. In the present method, the user decides the highest working speed in advance. Then, in response to an initiation event, the optical disc drive chooses one of the highest working speed and the pre-determined standard working speed as the actual working speed. The actual working speed depends on the determination whether the current working speed is higher than the standard working speed. If the determination is “true”, the optical disc drive uses the standard working speed as the actual working speed. Otherwise, the optical disc drive uses the highest working speed as the actual working speed. Accordingly, for the present optical disc drive, it is easy to adjust the speed and thus the probability of disc shatter and noise level are reduced.
US07773856B2
A video and audio recording apparatus includes: a reservation inputting unit to which a recording reservation is inputted; an area ensuring unit adapted to ensure a preferential recording area in an information recording medium; and a reserved-recording performing unit adapted to record a broadcast program on the ensured preferential recording area, wherein: the reservation inputting unit is adapted to prompt a user to input the number of times of broadcasting a recording-reserved broadcast program; the area ensuring unit is adapted to ensure a preferential recording area whose size is obtained by multiplying the size of a recording area needed to record one part of the recording-reserved program, which part is to be broadcasted one time, by the number of times; and the reserved-recording performing unit performs the recording of the recording-reserved broadcast program on the preferential recording area the inputted number of times.
US07773854B2
In a player, for example, when a memory card is loaded as a removable medium during playback of a CD, an audio-output-source selecting unit switches the output state to playback of the memory card in normal operation. However, in a case in which a medium-loading detecting unit detects that a memory card is not loaded at the time when a request for recording on the memory card is entered during the playback of a CD, and a medium-loading-time detecting unit detects that the memory card is loaded within a predetermined time, the audio-output-source selecting unit immediately starts recording on the memory card without switching the output state to the playback of the memory card.
US07773849B2
A backlight assembly for feeding illuminating light to a passive display panel is disclosed. The backlight assembly comprises a plurality of waveguides being formed and/or embedded in at least one substrate and arranged to feed illuminating light to each sub-pixel position of the passive display panel in a manner such that each pixel region is illuminated by at least two waveguides, wherein each waveguide of the at least two waveguides is disposed to illuminate one sub-pixel position of the pixel region by a respective color channel.
US07773847B2
A core part of a multimode optical fiber including the core part and a cladding part has a structure composed of a plurality of concentric layers in which a refractive index is decreased stepwise from a first core layer as an innermost layer to a third core layer as an outermost layer. The structure having the plurality of layers is formed by adjusting a quantity of addition of fluorine to silica glass. Fluorine is added to the cladding part so that a refractive index is lower than that of the third core layer as the outermost layer of the core part.
US07773840B2
A method of coupling a waveguide to a multi-layered active device structure on a substrate is described. The method includes forming a junction area by etching the active device structure to form a sloped etch profile with respect to the substrate, aligning multiple layers of the multi-layered active device structure via an etch stop adjacent the multi-layered active device structure, and depositing the waveguide over the etched active device structure, wherein a sloped active passive junction is formed at the junction area that reduces residual interface reflection in a resulting coupled device. Also described is a method for removing at least one laser layer in a sloped junction region forming passive amorphous silicon waveguides. This includes depositing a SiN layer for use as an etch mask, patterning a photoresist mask, patterning the SiN layer by reactive ion etching, stripping the photoresist mask, and etching the at least one laser layer.
US07773838B2
The present invention discloses a network architecture for upgrading a legacy time division multiplexing-passive optical network (TDM-PON) to a wavelength division multiplexing-passive optical network (WDM-PON) based next-generation passive optical network (next-generation PON), wherein the legacy TDM-PON comprises: a central office (CO) having a first optical line termination (OLT); a remote node (RN) having a splitter; a single mode fiber (SMF) connecting the first OLT and the splitter; and a first group of one or more optical network terminations (ONTs) being connected to the splitter by a first group of one or more distribution fibers, and wherein the network architecture further comprises: in case that the next-generation PON is a WDM-PON, a first apparatus for combining and splitting wavelength bands being positioned between the SMF and the first OLT, in order to add a second OLT to be used for the WDM-PON within the CO or within another CO which is located in a position different from the CO, while sharing the SMF; a second apparatus for combining and splitting wavelength bands being positioned at a front terminal of the splitter; and an arrayed waveguide grating (AWG) being connected to the second apparatus for combining and splitting wavelength bands within the RN, and being connected to a second group of one or more ONTs by a second group of one or more distribution fibers within the RN or within another RN which is located in a position different from the RN.
US07773830B2
Disclosed is an image processing apparatus in which, when processing speed is deemed important, as when performing frame-advance playback or a scrolling display, a low-resolution display is presented using an image reduced to a size smaller than the display size. When frame-advance playback or scrolling is halted, a high-resolution image is displayed by presenting a display using an image reduced to the size of the display. As a result, the apparatus is extremely user friendly.
US07773826B2
An image processing apparatus for automatically improving the contrast of an input image that is obtained from a digital camera or the like, and obtaining a sharper and clearing image. A contrast improvement unit (11) performs a contrast improvement process on the input image by comparing an object pixel in the input image with pixels in the surrounding area. An image combination unit (12) combines the enhanced image obtained by the contrast improvement process with the input image. The combined image is then output to a desired device such as a printer by an image output unit (13).
US07773823B2
An image processing apparatus capable of eliminating noise from a digital image with edges maintained intact. The apparatus includes: an input means for accepting a digital image; a noise amount determination unit for determining the amount of noise in the digital image, and setting noise elimination power; a noise suppression unit for eliminating the noise from the digital image based on the noise elimination power; and an output means for outputting the noise suppressed digital image. The noise amount determination unit includes: a chrominance component separation unit for separating chrominance components from the digital image; a frequency transformation unit for transforming each of the separated chrominance components into the frequency domain; and a noise elimination power setting unit for calculating the amount of noise in each chrominance component transformed into the frequency domain, and setting the noise elimination power according the calculated amounts of noise.
US07773814B2
The distortion of each node is calculated from the distortions of respective elements in the finite element analysis result of a global model of a structure, and a second-order coefficient of a quadratic function representing the displacement at each node of a micro model is calculated from distortions of respective nodes. In addition, a constant term and a first-order coefficient of the quadratic function are calculated from the displacements of the respective nodes of the global model. Then, the displacement at each boundary node of the micro model is calculated using the obtained quadratic function and a finite element analysis of the micro model is performed.
US07773810B2
An image processing unit executes an image process on a target image based on process-setting contents, and generates a processed image. An area extracting unit compares the processed image with the target image, and extracts a partial area of a predetermined size showing a notable effect of the image process executed on the target image, as a checking area. A checking-image display unit displays the processed image corresponding to the extracted checking area on a display unit, as a checking image for checking the process-setting contents of the image process.
US07773809B2
A method and apparatus for generating discriminant functions for distinguishing obscene videos by using visual features of video data, and a method and apparatus for determining whether videos are obscene by using the generated discriminant functions, are provided. The method of generating discriminant functions includes: creating a first frame set by extracting a predetermined number of frames for each video data unit from a group of video data classified as obscene or non-obscene, and creating a second frame set by selecting the frames; generating a frame based discriminant function by extracting visual features of frames of the second frame set, and then generating a first discriminant value by determining whether each frame of the first frame set contains obscene video data; generating a group frame based discriminant function by extracting visual features of a group of frames of the first frame set, and then generating a second discriminant value by determining whether the frames of the group contain obscene video data; and generating a synthetic discriminant function by using the first and second discriminant values as a representative value of the video data. Accordingly, obscene video data stored in a computer system can be automatically and accurately distinguished.
US07773808B2
A method and apparatus are provided for enabling a mobile terminal equipped with a camera to store document information. An image of a document picked up by the camera is displayed. In response to a document “RECOGNIZE” key input, a character image is recognized from the displayed document image and the character image is converted into character data. The character data is displayed on the first display area, and SAVE items are displayed on the second display area. A SAVE item is selected from the displayed SAVE items and character data associated with the selected SAVE item is selected, such that the selected SAVE item and the character data associated with the selected SAVE item can be displayed on the third display area. When a “CORRECT” key is input, candidate characters associated with an erroneously recognized character are displayed on the third display area. After the erroneously recognized character is corrected or replaced with a selected candidate character, a result of the correction is displayed on the third display area. When a “CONFIRM” key is input, the SAVE item and character data displayed on the third display area are stored.
US07773796B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a handheld device that comprises an information module for obtaining and/or receiving information pertaining to a surface adjacent to the device, and a position determination arrangement for determining at least one of a position and/or velocity of the handheld device. The position determination arrangement comprises a determination module configured to determine at least one of a relative position of the handheld device and/or a velocity of the handheld device based upon at least one of surface markings located on the surface adjacent the device and/or apparatus markings located on an input apparatus. The surface markings and the apparatus markings are configured to provide absolute position information.
US07773793B2
A computerized method for associating one or more portions of a diagnostic image with one or more electronic records is provided. The method includes receiving a diagnostic image having data particular to at least two persons and associating a first portion of the diagnostic image with an electronic record. The method may further include storing the first portion of the diagnostic image with the electronic record and/or associating and storing a common portion of the diagnostic image with the electronic record, the common portion consisting of data common to each person whose data is shown on the image. In one embodiment, the method may further include modifying the received diagnostic image and associating and storing the modified image with an electronic record. A computer system for associating at least a portion of a diagnostic image with an electronic record is also provided.
US07773789B2
A segmentation of the esophagus from image data by specifying only the two end points is disclosed. Surrounding structures are used as high-level constraints to construct shape and appearance models. Prior shape information is integrated for the segmentation of a new esophagus using a Bayesian formulation. This permits to automatically select the proper models. Given the end points, a shortest path algorithm provides the optimal esophagus according to the Bayesian formulation.
US07773786B2
A system and method for segmenting and editing anatomical objects from medical images is disclosed. The system may be a medical diagnostic imaging system. A computer unit may execute computer software for segmenting anatomical objects from medical images. The computer software may extract an anatomical object from planar curves. Additionally, the computer software may correct the shape of an existing three-dimensional anatomical object from planar curves. The planar curves may be orthogonal to each other. A user may contour of an anatomical object on a plurality of slices, such as an axial slice a sagittal slice, a coronal slice, or some combination thereof. The contour may be drawn using a tracing pen on a display unit. The display unit may receive touch screen input from the tracing pen. The display unit may display the three-dimensional segmented anatomical object.
US07773781B2
A face detection method and apparatus and a security system employing the same. The face detection method includes: determining whether or not a face is detected in a previous frame image; if a face is not detected in the previous frame image, detecting a face in a first image according to one detection mode selected from N face detection modes, where N is an integer equal to or greater than 2; and if a face is detected in the previous frame image, detecting a face by performing sequentially at least one tracking mode of N face tracking modes with a second image.
US07773772B2
A device and method for easy correction of camera installation errors in a vehicle. A device comprises an input frame buffer receiving pixel data representing camera-generated images, a rearrangement table describing rules for rearrangement of the pixel data, an error-correction table describing rules for adjusting the pixel data to correct an installation error of the cameras, an output frame buffer receiving rearranged pixel data for display and a controller reading the pixel data from the input frame buffer, rearranging the pixel data based on the rearrangement and/or the error-correction table and storing rearranged pixel data in the output frame buffer. The method includes preparing plural error-correction tables corresponding to a magnitude of an installation error, displaying the composite image and correcting the installation error using at least one of the error-correction tables as a reference for a respective image used to create the composite image.
US07773771B2
A system tracks multiple moving objects in a stream of video data. In an embodiment, the system uses a combination of video motion detection data and color based data. In another embodiment, the system combines this data into a condensation framework. In yet another embodiment, the integration of the video motion data and the color-based data is done is real time. In further embodiments, the robustness of the tracking is enhanced by applying heuristics.
US07773768B2
In an acoustic design support apparatus, a speaker selection supporter selects a desired speaker as a candidate for use in a given space based on shape information representing a shape of the space. A speaker mounting angle optimizer calculates an optimal mounting direction of the selected speaker by selecting a mounting direction pattern which minimizes a degree of variation among sound pressure levels at a plurality of positions on a sound receiving surface defined in the space. An acoustic parameter calculator calculates a variety of acoustic parameters at sound receiving points within the space based on both of the shape information of the space and the optimal mounting direction of the speaker.
US07773762B2
To prevent sensitivity from lowering on switching to non-directionality as to a variable directional condenser microphone unit capable of switching to unidirectionality or non-directionality by opening and closing a rear acoustic terminal of a unidirectional condenser microphone unit. The variable directional condenser microphone unit has a converter 20 consisting of a diaphragm 21 set up on a supporter ring 22 and a fixed pole 23 supported by a seat 24 oppositely placed via a spacer housed in a cylindrical housing 10 including a front acoustic terminal 11, the microphone unit being unidirectional in the case where a rear acoustic terminal 24a provided on the seat 24 is open and being switchable to non-directionality by blocking the rear acoustic terminal 24a, wherein an air chamber A1 for complementing non-directional components is provided on the rear acoustic terminal 24a side.
US07773757B2
A method and circuit for deriving a set of multichannel audio signals from a conventional monaural or stereo audio signal uses an auxiliary multichannel spectral mapping data stream. Audio can be played back in stereo and multichannel formats from a conventional stereo signal on compact discs, FM radio, or other stereo or monaural delivery systems. The invention reduces the data rate needed for the transmission of multichannel digital audio.
US07773753B2
An efficient symmetrical-cryptographic method for using a fast but insecure host to perform encryption/decryption based on a secret key in a secure, but slow hardware token, such as a smartcard or similar device, without revealing the secret key to the host, and such that the ciphertext and plaintext are exactly the same size. The present method is suitable for use in Digital Rights Management and Software Rights Management applications which require precise interchangeability of ciphertext and plaintext in pre-allocated areas of data storage.
US07773752B2
A digital broadcast video receiving circuit includes a plurality of decoder circuits configured to decode an encoded digital broadcast video signal according to respective plurality of encoding formats to provide a digital data packet based on the encoded digital broadcast video signal. An encoding circuit is coupled to the plurality of decoder circuits and is configured to encode the digital data packet to provide a re-encoded digital data packet, related methods, and computer program products.
US07773726B2
In an X-ray source 1 and an X-ray tube 4, there is formed a shield portion 42 adapted to shield the portion W where a target support body 18 and an opening portion 34 on the other end side of a valve 20 are fixed to each other when viewed from the one end side of the valve 20. Therefore, the generation of discharge between the one end side of the valve 20 and the fixation portion W can be suppressed. Also, the other end portion of the valve 20 is formed as a narrowed portion 37 and the opening portion 34 on the other end side of the valve 20 is fixed to the target support body 18, whereby the shapes of the valve 20 and the shield portion 42 can be made simpler than in conventional X-ray tubes in which an inner cylindrical portion is formed in a valve. Such a simple structure can improve the stability of an electric field in the valve 20 when generating X-rays and thereby achieve an effective suppression of the generation of discharge in the valve 20.
US07773719B2
A method to obtain a patient based organ model from patient data, having steps of obtaining a computerized organ model based upon at least one data set of patients, the computerized organ model having a set of classifiers that are used to determine physical parameters of the patients heart, placing the patient in a diagnostic scanner device, taking representative data images of a patients organ while changing position of the image scan, the data images taken with ECG synchronization; and preparing the patient based organ model by evaluating the representative data images of the patients organ with the set of classifiers in the computerized organ model.
US07773718B2
A shift register circuit includes a plurality of bit register units, coupled in series, for transferring an input signal among the plurality of bit register units to sequentially output the input signal to a plurality of data output terminals according to a control signal and a clock signal, wherein the number of the plurality of data output terminals is greater than that of the plurality of bit register units, and a control unit for generating the control signal to control transference of the input signal.
US07773715B2
A process variable transmitter that preferably includes a transmitter output circuit that provides bidirectional HART and controller area network communication transceiver lines. The transmitter output circuit also includes sensor circuit interface contacts. An isolated circuit couples to the sensor circuit interface contacts. The isolated circuit includes sensor circuitry sensing a process variable. The isolated circuit further comprises a galvanic isolation barrier galvanically isolating the sensor circuitry from the HART and controller area network transceiver lines. A stacked power supply provides power management. Other aspects may include a controller area network current limiter diagnostic output, timed sequencing of microcontroller startup and shutdown, a local operator interface and power management.
US07773708B2
A method for choosing channel coding and/or interleaving scheme is applied in a communication connection over a radio interface between a terminal and a base station of a cellular packet radio system. A certain decision-making device allocates channel coding and/or interleaving schemes to communication connections. A request message is communicated (to the decision-making device, indicating a certain set of Quality of Service parameters associated with a certain first communication connection. The set of Quality of Service parameters is mapped to a certain first channel coding and/or interleaving scheme as a part of the channel coding and/or interleaving scheme allocation made by the decision-making device. The first channel coding and/or interleaving scheme is communicated to the base station and the terminal for them to apply said first channel coding and/or interleaving scheme in the first communication connection.
US07773704B2
Method and apparatus for performing midamble cancellation to remove midamble interference from the convolution tail of data field 1 and the first W−1 chips of the midamble field which results from the delay spread of the multipath channel and for canceling the first W−1 chip midamble spread in the data field 2, which operations are performed substantially simultaneously. The received burst, typically a TDD burst, is stored, the midamble interference and the corresponding parts in the received burst is removed and the resulting burst is applied to a multi-user detector to obtain the symbol sequences.
US07773686B2
A MIMO wireless data transmission system including a data arrangement in which data to be sent is divided for each transmission stream of MIMO with adding an error detection code thereto and thereby resending a subframe's worth of data when an error occurred at the time of resending. It therefore becomes to avoid the same frame being sent again at the time of resending.
US07773681B2
In a wireless communication system, a method and apparatus for noise estimation of a received OFDM communication signal, wherein the signal comprises a data frame with a preamble having at least one long training field (LTF) containing two substantially similar OFDM symbols, comprise examining the LTF for substantially similar OFDM symbols. The noise power in the signal is estimated and the received signal power is measured. The signal to noise ratio is calculated and the signal power is determined by subtracting the noise power from the signal noise.
US07773675B2
A method for efficiently decoding a video signal is disclosed. The method for decoding a video signal based on fine granularity scalability (FGS) includes obtaining a first reference picture from a reference picture list, decoding a current block using the first reference picture, wherein the first reference picture and a second reference picture corresponding thereto have the same picture identification information and are distinguished from each other by another identification information. Accordingly, it is possible to minimize a problem caused in a procedure for decoding a video signal due to transmission error.
US07773672B2
A rate control system for a video encoder including rate control logic which determines a first QP corresponding to a selected encoding layer of multiple encoding layers, and scaling logic configured to scale the first QP to a second QP corresponding to any other encoding layer based on at least one encoding layer parameter. A template of stored QP values may be used to reduce computational complexity, such as a QP value for each frame interval or a QP value for each of multiple rate control interval complexity values. The QP values in the template may be predetermined or programmed and updated during periodic training sessions. Several encoding layer parameters are contemplated, such as any combination of bit rate, frame rate and frame resolution. The scaling logic may be configured to scale from any one encoding layer to another and vice-versa for bi-directional scaling.
US07773671B2
An improved method and block transform for image or video encoding and decoding, wherein transformation and inverse transformation matrixes are defined such that computational complexity is significantly reduced when encoding and decoding. For example, in the two-dimensional inverse transformation of de-quantized transform coefficients into output pixel information during decoding, only four additions plus one shift operation are needed, per co-efficient transformation, all in sixteen-bit arithmetic. Transformations provide correct results because quantization during encoding and de-quantization (sixteen bit) during decoding, via the use of one of three tables selected based on each coefficient's position, have parameter values that already compensate for factors of other transformation multiplications, except for those of a power of two, (e.g., two or one-half), which are performed by a shift operation during the transformation and inverse transformation processes. Computational complexity is significantly reduced with respect to other known transforms without adversely impacting compression or quality.
US07773667B2
The various embodiments of the invention provide an apparatus, system and method of asynchronous testing a serializer and deserializer data communication apparatus (SERDES) for determining frequency and phase locking to pseudo asynchronous input data having a continual phase offset. An exemplary apparatus includes a data sampler adapted to sample input serial data and to provide output data; a controlled tap delay with a selected tap having a phase offset from the input serial data, in which the selected tap is selectively coupleable to the data sampler to provide pseudo asynchronous input serial data; a first variable delay control adapted to delay a reference frequency provided to the controlled tap delay in response to the pseudo asynchronous input serial data; and a second delay control adapted to adjust the plurality of taps in response to the pseudo asynchronous input serial data. In additional embodiments, the pseudo asynchronous input serial data is provided from an interpolated phase from at least two selected taps.
US07773664B2
A method of communicating through a random phase multiple access network is provided. A signal that has been spread using a pseudo-noise code and offset by a random timing offset and that contains payload data is received from a device. A destination is selected for the payload data based on a characteristic of the multiple access network. The payload data is transmitted to the selected destination.
US07773656B1
There is disclosed a laser comprising a laser medium comprising H2(1/p) where p is an integer and 1≦p≦137, a cavity comprising the laser medium, and a power source to form an inverted population in the energy level of H2(1/p). The power source may form excited vibration-rotational levels of H2(1/p) wherein lasing occurs with a stimulated transition from at least one vibration-rotational level to at least another lower-energy-level other than one with a significant Boltzmann population at the cell neutral-gas temperature, wherein the vibration-rotational levels of H2(1/p) comprise the inverted population.
US07773651B2
A semiconductor laser comprises: a substrate; an n-cladding layer disposed on the substrate; an active layer disposed on the n-cladding layer; a p-cladding layer disposed on the active layer and forming a waveguide ridge; and a diffraction grating layer disposed between the active layer and the n-cladding layer or the p-cladding layer and including a phase shift structure in a part of the diffraction grating layer in an optical waveguide direction. The width of the p-cladding layer is increased in a portion corresponding to the phase shift structure of the diffraction grating layer.
US07773646B2
A semiconductor light source includes a light-emitting device 101 having a plurality of semiconductor layers made of nitride semiconductors, and a drive circuit 102 for driving the light-emitting device 101. The drive circuit 102 performs forward drive operation, in which a forward current is supplied to the light-emitting device to make the light-emitting device 101 emit light, and reverse drive operation, in which a reverse bias is applied to the light-emitting device. The magnitude of the reverse bias is limited by the value of a reverse current flowing through the light-emitting device.
US07773644B2
A frequency-stabilized laser device comprises an actuator arranged to vary the cavity length; an actuator driver arranged to apply a voltage to the actuator for changing displacement; a temperature detector arranged to detect the temperature on the cavity; a temperature adjuster arranged to heat or cool the cavity; a cavity temperature controller arranged to control the temperature adjuster based on a previously given instruction temperature and the temperature on the cavity detected at the temperature detector; and an instruction temperature corrector arranged to correct the instruction temperature given to the cavity temperature controller such that the voltage applied to the actuator remains almost constant.
US07773643B2
A laser light generating apparatus includes a laser light source, a phase-modulator, a signal generating unit configured to generate a modulation signal applied to the phase-modulator, a first external resonator, a second external resonator disposed at the stage succeeding the first external resonator, nonlinear optical elements each provided in the external resonators configured to implement wavelength conversion, an optical path length varying unit for varying the optical path length of each of the external resonators, and a control circuit having a negative feedback arrangement configured to obtain error signals for each of the external resonators, and configured to control the optical path length varying unit using the error signals according to FM sideband method. In the laser light generating apparatus, the external resonators are each held simultaneously in a resonance state by setting the frequency of the modulation signal and by controlling the optical path length of each of the external resonators.
US07773642B2
To provide a tunable laser with high reliability and high performance, and of low cost.A tunable laser (10) comprises a double ring resonator (11) where ring resonators (111, 112) of different sizes are coupled through a directional coupler (122), an LD side waveguide (13) connected at one end (131) to the ring resonator (111) through a directional coupler (123), a reflection side waveguide (14) connected at one end (141) to the ring resonator (112) through a directional coupler (123), a PLC board (15) on which the ring resonator (111) and the like are formed, a high reflection film (16) provided at the other end (142) of the reflection side waveguide (14), an LD chip (17) having a low reflection film (18) formed on either of two opposing emission end faces (171, 172) and coupled optically with the other end (132) of the LD side waveguide (13), and film-like heaters (191-194) for varying the resonance wavelength of the double ring resonator (11).
US07773632B2
Machine-readable media, methods, and apparatus are described. In some embodiments, a header policy for a packet to be transmitted through the network is defined based upon characteristics of the network and a header of the packet is compressed based upon whether the header policy indicates the header of the packet is to be compressed.
US07773627B2
In an apparatus for allocating a transmission opportunity (TXOP) of a communication system, the amount of transmittable data of the respective terminals during a first TXOP allocated to the respective terminals is calculated based on data rates of the respective terminals, an average data amount for the respective terminals is calculated from the calculated amount of data, and a second TXOP of the respective terminals is calculated based on the average data amount to allocate the second TXOP to the corresponding terminal.
US07773624B2
A network system (10). The system comprises a network (WAN1, LAN1, LAN2) having an architectural model comprising a plurality of layers. The system also comprises a centralized manager node (CM1), coupled to the network. The system also comprises a plurality of routers (ERx) coupled to the network for communicating packets along the network and coupled to communicate with the centralized manager node. The centralized manager is programmed to perform the step (28) of communicating mapping information to each of the plurality of routers, and the mapping information comprises a correspondence of a behavior on a first of the plurality of layers with a behavior on a second of the plurality of layers.
US07773622B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed for temporarily deferring transmission of frames to a destination in a data switch. When a request for transmission of a frame to the destination port is received, the congestion status of that destination is determined. If the destination is congested, the frame is stored in a deferred queue. When the status of a destination changes from congested to non-congested, the deferred queue is examined to see if any deferred frames can now be forwarded to their destination. While examining the deferred queue, incoming frames are placed on a backup queue. When the deferred queue is fully analyzed, the backup queue is emptied by either sending those frames to their destination or storing the frames in the deferred queue. While examining the deferred queue, the congested states of the destinations are not allowed to change from congested to non-congested.
US07773621B2
An apparatus for selecting one of N transaction queues from which to transmit a transaction out a switch port. P round-robin vectors of P queue priorities each have N bits that are a 1-bit left-rotated and subsequently sign-extended version of an N-bit input vector with a single bit true corresponding to the last queue selected at the priority. N P-input muxes each receive a corresponding bit of each round-robin vector and select one of the inputs specified by its queue priority. Selection logic receives a transaction from each queue and selects one transaction corresponding to the queue having a transmit value greater than or equal to the queues left thereof in the input vectors. Each queue's transmit value comprises a least-significant bit equal to the corresponding mux output, a most-significant bit that is true if its transaction is transmittable, and middle bits comprising the queue priority.
US07773618B2
Systems and methods for preventing deadlock in richly-connected multiprocessor computer system using dynamic assignment of virtual channels. Deadlock is prevented in a multiprocessor computer system having a large plurality of processing nodes interconnected by a defined interconnection topology. Each link in the interconnection topology is associated with a set of virtual channels. Each virtual channel has corresponding communication buffers to store communication data and each virtual channel has an associated virtual channel identifier. Each communication between a source processing node and a target processing node is assigned an initial virtual channel to convey the communication from the source processing node. At an intermediate processing node, a different virtual channel is assigned to convey the communication toward the target processing node, in accordance with pre-defined rules to avoid a cycle of dependency of communication buffer resources.
US07773617B2
Systems and methods for arbitrating for virtual channels to prevent livelock in richly-connected multiprocessor computer system. Livelock is prevented in a multiprocessor computer system, in which each of a large plurality processing node has input links and egress links. A virtual channel is assigned to convey the communication. Communication data from the plurality of input links is buffered in cross point buffers. A subset of the cross point buffers bids for, and arbitrates, use of the same one egress link. The virtual channel of the selected communication is identified. It is determined whether any of the other communications bidding for use of the egress link are associated with the identified virtual channel and if so whether any communication has been waiting longer than the selected communication. If so, allowing that communication to use the egress link before the selected communication does.
US07773615B2
A connection state control device is provided that can promptly perform a reproducing operation by smoothly switching channels at each node and reduce the load on the management server in a case where operations are performed so as to sequentially change distribution information to be received at each node in a network system having a tree structure.A node receives content being distributed over a network, and performs an operation of reproducing the received content. When the node is to receive different content being distributed over a different network, the node is connected to the different network. After that, the node receives and reproduces the different content. The node continues to receive the original content but suspends the operation of reproducing the original content after connected to the different network.
US07773614B1
Systems and methods are disclosed which provide wireless communication systems implementing subsystems adapted for flexible deployment configurations and to resist the introduction of interference. Preferred embodiments of the present invention provide a wireless communication system configuration in which an ODU subsystem is coupled to an IDU subsystem using a fiber optic link. According to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an ODU subsystem is adapted to provide conversion between digital and analog to thereby facilitate the use of a digital link between the ODU subsystem and a corresponding IDU subsystem. Embodiments of the present invention utilize a plurality of ODU subsystems configured according to the present invention to provide wireless communication coverage of a service area, such as to provide a wireless application termination system (WATS) hub for use in providing wireless communication links with respect to a plurality of subscriber units.
US07773602B2
An embodiment of the system operates in a parallel packet switch architecture having at least one egress adapter arranged to receive data packets issued from a plurality of ingress adapters and switched through a plurality of independent switching planes. Each received data packet belongs to one sequence of data packets among a plurality of sequences where the data packets are numbered with a packet sequence number (PSN) assigned according to at least a priority level of the data packet. Each data packet received by the at least one egress adapter has a source identifier to identify the ingress adapter from which it is issued. The system for restoring the sequences of the received data packets operates within the egress adapter and comprises buffer for temporarily storing each received data packet at an allocated packet buffer location, a controller, and a determination means coupled to a storing means and extracting means.
US07773594B2
In one embodiment, label distribution sessions are established between a Modular Cable Modem Termination System (M-CMTS) core and one or more remote PHYs. The label distribution sessions facilitate association of labels with either Radio Frequency (RF) channels or groups of the RF channels that extend from the remote PHYs to one or more cable modems. The labels are then used to facilitate communications between the M-CMTS core and the remote PHYs over a MultiProtocol Label Switching (MPLS) network.
US07773593B2
A system sends an advertisement of a dynamic control channel (DCC) capability to a remote device, establishes a pseudowire and a DCC associated with the pseudowire based on a response from the remote device to the advertisement, and sends a channel function type (CFT) message that includes information about a control channel function (CCFN) over the DCC to the remote device.
US07773591B2
An integrated egress/replay memory structure is provided with split rate write and read ports and means for managing at least three types of data moving into, through and/or out of the integrated memory structure, namely: (1) currently egressing packet data; (2) replay data; and (3) to-be egressed data. Additionally, a shared free space (4) is managed between the storage areas of the (2) replay data and (3) the to-be egressed data. The to-be egressed data (PdBx) is allowed to enter into (to be written into) a front-end raceway portion of the integrated memory structure at a rate which can be substantially greater than that allowed for corresponding egressing packet data (PdUx). Thus, even when egressing packet data that is ahead in line is shifting out toward a slow rate egress port, this slowing factor does not slow the speed at which the to-be egressed data (PdBx) can be shifted into the front-end raceway portion. A shared free space memory area is maintained between the storage areas of the replay data (PdAx) and to-be-egressed data (PdBx). When a positive acknowledgement (ACK) is received from the destination of already-egressed data (of the After-Transmission Data, or PdAx), the corresponding replay storage area (the area storing the acknowledged PdAx data) can be reallocated for use as an empty part of the raceway portion.
US07773582B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for performing dynamic Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) endpoint mapping is presented. At least one on net endpoint of a VOIP call is determined. An endpoint data structure is used to store, for each on net endpoint of the call, a key and at least one of an Internet Protocol (IP) address of the end point, a phone number associated with the endpoint, and/or a display name associated with the endpoint. The endpoint data structure is used to correlate call legs across a network. Heuristics of the VOIP call are determined, the heuristics including information relating to the main source call leg and the main destination call leg.
US07773581B2
A telecommunications system for conferencing including a network. The system comprises N nodes in communication with each other through the network, where N is greater than or equal to three and is an integer. Each node of the N nodes able to produce a unique corresponding video stream having a bandwidth and a unique corresponding audio stream having a bandwidth for transmission over the network to other nodes of the N nodes, with each stream's bandwidth from each node being dynamically controlled and set at predetermined levels. A method for conferencing in a telecommunications system. A bandwidth manager. A method for controlling bandwidth in a telecommunications network. A telecommunications system for conferencing. Including a network. The system comprises N nodes in communication with each other through the network, where N is greater than or equal to three and is an integer. Each node able to produce at least one unique corresponding video stream and a unique corresponding audio stream for transmission over the network to other nodes of the N nodes. Each node able to selectively receive any stream from any of the other nodes. A videophone. A method for a video call.
US07773577B2
The invention includes methods for achieving efficient channel access in a wireless communications system. The invention is embodied in a wireless network adapter that is present in all stations belonging to the network. The invention describes methods by which access overheads may be reduced by introducing the concept of context sensitive frame timing—using which stations redefine and interpret frame timing depending on context and signaling. The result of realizing the invention is an improvement in medium utilization efficiency and consequently, an overall improvement in network throughput.
US07773576B2
A slotted Aloha communication system is provided according to one embodiment of the invention. The system may include a hub and a plurality of RCSTs. According to one embodiment, congestion control may occur at the RCST based in part on the number of segments received at the hub, the number of retransmission segments received at the hub and the number of successful collision retransmission segments received at the hub. The hub may communicate information regarding received segments. Congestion control may include calculating a transmission probably, performing a skewed probability measure with a probability equal to the transmission probability. If the results of the probability measure is positive the RCST may transmit or retransmit a segment within a first time prior, if the probability measure is negative then the RCST waits a set time period and reperforms the skewed probability measure.
US07773571B1
The invention discloses a new protocol to minimize data loss, reduce overhead transmissions on the system, reduce time delays and signal interruption during a handover in a Mobile IP system. Prior art Mobile IP systems transfer policy and charging rules for a particular mobile user device from a server to a gateway after the handover occurs. The invention allows for the transfer of the policy and charging rules during the handover procedure so that the system does not need to wait on a subsequent transmission of the policy and charging rules in order to process the transmissions sent by or to the mobile user, which results in minimized data loss, reduced overhead, and reduced time delays and signal interruption.
US07773569B2
A method for routing data packets from a source to a destination in a wireless communication network comprising a plurality of nodes, wherein each node is in uplink-downlink association with at least one neighboring node, and wherein each node comprises a registration table identifying all downlink nodes that are associated with the node, the method comprising: sending an Open Stream message from a source node which specifies a destination node; and receiving the Open Stream message at the uplink node of the source node, wherein the uplink node relays the Open Stream message to the destination node if the destination node is registered in the registration table of the uplink node.
US07773567B2
Disclosed is a method and apparatus for providing uplink packet data services through an E-DCH in an asynchronous WCDMA system. A transport block size (TBS) for transmitting uplink transport channel data is determined. A combination of a spreading factor and a modulation scheme for uplink channel data transmission, corresponding to the determined TBS, is selected according to transmittable physical channel data bit sizes and puncturing limit values. The TBS is transmitted by incorporating it into control information of the uplink transport channel data. The modulation scheme and spreading factor combination is determined based on a physical channel data bit size that maximizes transmission efficiency and minimizes the number of punctured bits, without requiring an additional physical channel in transmitting the uplink data having the TBS. This method maximizes uplink transmission efficiency to save transmission resources and reduces signaling overhead required to transmit E-DCH control information.
US07773541B2
If a selected packet switch connected to a neighboring packet switch makes first information identifying the neighboring packet switch available, element managers and processes retrieve the first information from the selected packet switch. The first information is derived by the selected packet switch from communication via a first protocol between the selected packet switch and the neighboring packet switch. If the first information is not available to the element manager and if the selected packet switch makes second information identifying the neighboring packet switch available to the element manager, the element managers and processes retrieve the second information from the selected packet switch. The second information is derived from communication via a second protocol between the selected packet switch and the neighboring packet switch and the first and second protocols are different protocols.
US07773537B2
Systems and methods for ranging adjustments are provided. In one embodiment, a remote service unit comprises: a transceiver communicatively coupled with a host in a multi-point to point configuration, the transceiver configured to communicate with the host via an OFDM waveform; and a multi-carrier modem coupled to the transceiver and configured to demodulate downstream information data from the OFDM waveform, the multi-carrier modem further configured to modulate upstream information data onto the OFDM waveform. The multi-carrier modem modulates upstream information data onto distinct subcarriers of the OFDM waveform, the multi-carrier modem synchronized with the host so that upstream OFDM signals transmitted by the transceiver and other upstream OFDM signals received at the host unit combine to a unified OFDM waveform. The multi-carrier modem adjusts a round trip path delay between the remote service unit and the host based on a path delay correction received from the host unit.
US07773533B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems relating to the control and application of policies for routing data over a computer network, such as the Internet. Some implementations of the invention facilitate the configuration, deployment and/or maintenance of network routing policies. Some implementations of the invention are particularly useful for controlling the routing of data among autonomous systems or organizations. Certain implementations allow for dynamic modification of routing policy based on such factors as current Internet performance, load sharing, user-defined parameters, and time of day. In one embodiment, the present invention provides methods, apparatuses and systems implementing enhanced network path testing methodologies that enhance the efficiency of processes associated with testing of a network path, while reducing the perceived intrusiveness of test packets associated with such metrics tests.
US07773524B2
An apparatus and method for using an Automatic Repeat reQuest (ARQ) in a Broadband Wireless Access (BWA) communication system are provided. In a transmitting method of a wireless communication system, a Media Access Control (MAC) layer creates a packet and transmits it to a physical layer, the physical layer generates a Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) burst using the packet received from the MAC layer and transmits it, the physical layer generates a HARQ ending signal and transmits it to the MAC layer when HARQ transmission of the packet is discontinued, and the MAC layer drives an ARQ retransmission timer for the packet in response to the HARQ ending signal.
US07773515B2
A method and apparatus for determining a network performance metric in a network is described. The network includes a number of network elements and a number of links. Each of the network elements is coupled to at least one other of the network elements by at least one of the links. The method includes forming a first set of network element pairs, ordering a first number of network element pairs, forming a second set of network element pairs, measuring a measured network performance metric between a first network element pair and computing a computed network performance metric. The first set of network element pairs include a number of pairs of the network elements. The ordering of a first number of network element pairs includes network element pairs in the first set of network element pairs. The second set of network element pairs includes network element pairs in the first set of network element pairs. The measurement is taken between a first network element pair. The first network element pair includes a first network element and a second network element of one of the network element pairs in the second set of network element pairs. The computed network performance metric is computed between a second network element pair using the measured network performance metric. The second network element pair includes a first network element and a second network element of the network element pair in the first set of network element pairs.
US07773513B2
A heterogeneous communication system comprises a plurality of heterogeneous access networks and a core network connecting the heterogeneous access networks. An admission server of the core network receives resource indications indicative of an estimated resource usage for a given communication service and a given access point of an access network. The admission server furthermore determines and stores current resource availability indications for access points. When a communication session request comprising a communication service indication and an access point identification is received, the admission server determines an estimated resource requirement for the communication sessions based on the resource indications. The admission server then determines whether to allow the communication session dependent on the resource availability for the access point and the estimated resource requirement for the communication service.
US07773508B2
A method for budgeted learning of link information in a network includes providing a database to contain the link information, for use by an entity connected to the network in transferring traffic over the network, and setting a maximum rate for addition of entries to the database. New entries to be added to the database are determined responsive to the traffic on the network during a learning period. The new entries are added to the database only if the addition of the entries during the learning period has not exceeded the maximum rate.
US07773506B2
This disclosure provides a method and apparatus for the communication of low delay data over multiple channels having different speed and latency and requiring a different amount of time to set up. In one embodiment, the transmitter removes duplicate data packets from a queue after a second channel, such as a dedicated channel is established. In an alternate embodiment, sequence numbers are assigned to data packets, allowing the receiver to identify duplicate packets and ignore the duplicates.
US07773495B2
The invention relates to a memory authentication method based on a pattern of storage areas of said memory that have altered latencies that are respectively altered such that the respective alteration of the latency of a storage area lies within a measurement noise of latency measurements in respect to the standard latency of said storage area when the measurement is performed with a reading device for accessing said record medium. The verification is then performed by a correlation of the latencies of the altered storage areas with a key used to alter the storage areas.
US07773479B1
A driver control module comprises a parameter generation module, a timing encoding module, and a pulse generation module. The parameter generation module receives a bit stream and generates a set of timing parameters based upon contents of the bit stream. The timing encoding module receives the set of timing parameters from the parameter generation module and creates N sets of pulse defining parameters, wherein N is an integer greater than one. The pulse generation module creates N generic pulses using the sets of pulse defining parameters, combines the generic pulses into P enable signals, and outputs the enable signals to a laser driver, wherein P is an integer greater than one.
US07773478B2
The present invention relates to an recording method for a multi-layered optical recording medium including M phase change recording layers, with M≧2. The method comprises recording a mark in a Kth one of said recording layers by using a laser to irradiate the Kth recording layer using a recording pulse train including a plurality of laser beam pulses. The recording pulse train for the Kth recording layer has a cycle of t(K)[T], the 1st recording layer is the recording layer closest the laser beam, and the Mth recording layer is the recording layer furthest from the laser beam, T is a clock cycle. The following relationship is satisfied:t(1)
US07773472B2
The present invention discloses a method for dynamically detecting writing quality of a recordable optical disc. According to the method, firstly a current detecting position located on a program area of the recordable optical disc is set. Then the recordable disc drive proceeds data recording in the program area with an optimal write power. The recordable disc drive paused data recording when a recording position exceeds or is equal to the current detecting position. Then the recordable disc drive reproduces pre-recorded data in the tracks of the recordable optical disc to perform OPC for modifying the optimal write power and calculating a jitter value. Thereafter a following detecting position is modified based on the jitter value and data recording is restarted in the program area with the modified optimal write power until the recording position exceeds or is equal to the modified following detecting position.
US07773468B2
Fifth order spherical aberration in addition to third order spherical aberration for an optical information recording medium of which thickness of a light transmission layer changes greatly is corrected. An objective lens collects a laser beam emitted from a semiconductor laser on an optical information recording medium. A spherical aberration correcting portion corrects spherical aberration generated according to a thickness of the light transmission layer of the optical information recording medium, in which the spherical aberration correcting portion includes a collimator lens, a lens holder and a stepping motor for correcting the third order spherical aberration and a liquid crystal element and an applied voltage control portion for correcting the fifth order spherical aberration.
US07773462B2
A watch includes a mechanical or electromechanical timepiece movement, analog time indicators, a lunar indicator indicating lunar date on a scale and driven by the timepiece movement to perform one revolution in one or two synodic months, and Chinese calendar indicator members actuated by a calendar mechanism driven from the lunar indicator. A month moving part provided with an indicator of lunar months is driven via a rocking lever so as to perform one revolution per ordinary year of twelve months and per leap year of thirteen months. The other Chinese calendar indicators are driven from the month moving part and comprise a first year indicator performing one revolution in twelve years, a second year indicator performing one revolution in ten years, and a third year indicator performing one revolution in nineteen years and associated with a cam representing the Chang cycle of ordinary years and leap years.
US07773456B2
There is provided herein a system and method for the imaging and monitoring of hydrocarbon reservoirs and other subsurface features preferably using seabed or surface sensors in conjunction with one or more downhole sensors. In one preferred embodiment, recordings will be simultaneously made using both seabed and downhole receivers. The energy source might be either a controlled seismic source or ambient noise. In one embodiment, the data will be used to compute a virtual VSP, checkshot, or similar survey by cross correlating a trace recorded at the surface with a trace recorded at depth. In another embodiment, the surface and well sensors will be permanently emplaced and repeated recordings over time will be used to form a time-varying (4-D) image of the subsurface.
US07773455B2
Methods for generating a time lapse difference image. In one implementation, the method includes estimating a trace in a first seismic survey data set at each trace coordinate of a second seismic survey data set, estimating a trace in the second seismic survey data set at each trace coordinate of the first seismic survey data set and calculating trace differences between the first seismic survey data set and the second seismic survey data set at each trace coordinate of the first seismic survey data set and the second seismic survey data set.
US07773450B2
An integrated circuit having a plurality of sectors is disclosed. One embodiment includes a sector driver for simultaneously driving word lines corresponding to a single sector, the sector driver being connected to each word line and comprising a programmable sector memory for storing the sectors and word lines corresponding to each sector.
US07773444B2
A semiconductor memory device having a first memory cell array block including a memory cell having a floating body, the memory cell coupled to a word line, a first bit line, and a first source line, a second memory cell array block including a reference memory cell having a floating body, the reference memory cell coupled to a reference word line, a second bit line, and a second source line, a first isolation gate portion configured to selectively transmit a signal between the first bit line and at least one of a sense bit line and an inverted sense bit line, a second isolation gate portion configured to selectively transmit a signal between the second bit line and at least one of the sense bit lines, and a sense amplifier configured to amplify voltages of the sense bit line and the inverted sense bit line to first and second sense amplifying voltage levels.
US07773432B2
A semiconductor memory device having a driver configured to sequentially perform over-driving and normal driving operations is presented. The semiconductor memory device includes a driver that outputs a drive signal, that over-drives the drive signal with an over-drive voltage having a voltage level higher than a normal drive voltage, and then subsequently normally drives the drive signal with the normal drive voltage. The semiconductor memory device also includes a drive voltage adjuster that detects a level of the over-drive voltage and compensates for a change in the voltage level of the normal drive voltage in response to the detected level of the over-drive voltage.
US07773428B2
An NMOS transistor type nonvolatile semiconductor memory has first and second N-type diffusion layers formed in a P-type silicon layer as a source and a drain; a gate electrode formed on a channel region with an insulating film interposed therebetween, the channel region being sandwiched between the first and second N-type diffusion layers; and a charge storage layer formed in the insulating film. A direction from the first N-type diffusion layer to the second N-type diffusion layer is the same as a crystal orientation <100> of the P-type silicon layer. At the time of rewriting, the hot holes go over a potential barrier of the insulating film to be injected into the charge storage layer.
US07773421B2
In response to a disagreement between a previously generated check code associated with previously programmed data bits and a more recently generated check code generated in response to a read command, the comparison process is changed, between i) a value representing accessed data and ii) a reference applied to such accesses to distinguish between logical levels. For example, the read bias arrangement and/or a read reference of a memory integrated circuit is changed.
US07773418B2
Memory arrays, and modules, devices and systems that utilize such memory arrays, are described as having a single level non-volatile memory cell interposed between and coupled to a select gate and a multiple level non-volatile memory cell. Various embodiments include structure, process, and operation and their applicability for memory devices and systems. In some embodiments, a memory array is described as including a number of select gates coupled in series to a number of single level non-volatile memory cells and a number of multiple level non-volatile memory cells, where a first select gate is coupled to a first single level non-volatile memory cell interposed between and coupled to the first select gate and a first multiple level non-volatile memory cell.
US07773417B2
A semiconductor memory device includes first memory cell transistors, a memory block, and word lines. Each of the first memory cell transistors has a stacked gate including a charge accumulation layer and a control gate and is capable of holding M bits (M≠2i, where i is a natural number and M is a natural number greater than or equal to 3) of data. The memory block includes the first memory cell transistors and is erase unit of the data. The data held in the first memory cell transistors included in the memory block is erased simultaneously. The size of data the memory block is capable of holding is L bits (L=2k, where k is a natural number). The word lines connect in common the control gates of the first memory cell transistors.
US07773416B2
A non-volatile memory device comprises a substrate with a dielectric layer formed thereon. A control gate is formed on the dielectric layer, as are two floating gates, one on either side of the control gate. Accordingly, the non-volatile memory device can be constructed using a single poly process that is compatible with conventional CMOS processes. In addition, the device can store two bits of data, one in each floating gate. The device can comprises two diffusion regions formed in the substrate, one near each floating gate, or four diffusion regions, one near each edge of each floating gate.
US07773414B2
A low voltage of the order of or one to three volts instead of an intermediate VPASS voltage (e.g. of the order of five to ten volts) is applied to word line zero immediately adjacent to the source or drain side select gate of a NAND flash device to reduce or prevent the shifting of threshold voltage of the memory cells coupled to word line zero during the programming cycles of the different cells of the NAND strings. This may be implemented in any one of a variety of different self boosting schemes including erased areas self boosting and local self boosting schemes. In a modified erased area self boosting scheme, low voltages are applied to two or more word lines on the source side of the selected word line to reduce band-to-band tunneling and to improve the isolation between two boosted channel regions. In a modified local self boosting scheme, zero volt or low voltages are applied to two or more word lines on the source side and to two or more word lines on the drain side of the selected word line to reduce band-to-band tunneling and to improve the isolation of the channel areas coupled to the selected word line.
US07773406B2
A semiconductor device can include a first ferroelectric random access memory to which a first voltage is applied and a second ferroelectric random access memory to which a second voltage is applied, where the second voltage is lower than the first voltage. A data protection circuit can determine whether test data is normally read from the second ferroelectric random access memory or whether a write-back operation is normally performed on the second ferroelectric random access memory on the basis of the second voltage. The data protection circuit can also generate a read prevention control signal to control whether a read operation is to be performed on the first ferroelectric random access memory based on the determined result.
US07773402B2
A first signal input circuit outputs a first control signal in response to self-refresh and active signals. A second signal input circuit outputs a second control signal in response to the self-refresh and active signals. The power supply circuit applies a first supply voltage to an output terminal in response to the first control signal. An elevated voltage generator generates a elevated voltage by pumping a second supply voltage, and applies the elevated voltage to the output terminal, in response to the first and second control signals.
US07773399B2
The control apparatus for controlling a voltage transforming apparatus having a transformer, power switching elements disposed in a primary side, and synchronous-rectifying switching elements disposed in a secondary side includes a judging circuit making a judgment as to whether or not an output current of the voltage transforming apparatus is smaller than a specified current on the basis of a primary-side current of the transformer and an inhibition circuit inhibiting the synchronous-rectifying switching elements from performing their synchronous-rectifying control operation when the judging circuit judges that the output current is smaller than the specified current. The judging circuit makes the judgment on the basis of the primary-side current flowing through the primary coil of the transformer immediately before the power switching elements are turned off.
US07773373B2
The present invention provides a vibration-damping structure for an audio apparatus, accommodating a main transformer, which becomes a vibration source when driven, the vibration-damping structure including: a main chassis to which a signal processing board for processing an audio signal is attached, the first chassis defining a portion of an outer shape of an assembly of the vibration-damping structure; a sub-chassis fastened to an inner surface of the main chassis so as to be partially in contact with the inner surface of the main chassis via a plurality of fastening members; and a component accommodating chassis fastened to an inner surface of the sub-chassis so as to be partially in contact with the inner surface of the sub-chassis via other fastening members, wherein the main transformer is fixed to the component accommodating chassis.
US07773370B2
A case fixing mechanism includes: a fixing device, located on a first case part; an assembling part, for containing the fixing device; a combination device, provided on the second case part; and a control device, for controlling the combination device to be in a first location or a second location. The combination device fixes the first case part and the second case part when the combination device is in the first location. The combination device enables the first case part to be separated from the second case part when the combination device is in the second location. By this mechanism, the first case part can be easily removed from the second case part in simple steps.
US07773362B1
An accelerator system and method that utilize dust as the primary mass flux for generating thrust are provided. The accelerator system can include an accelerator capable of operating in a self-neutralizing mode and having a discharge chamber and at least one ionizer capable of charging dust particles. The system can also include a dust particle feeder that is capable of introducing the dust particles into the accelerator. By applying a pulsed positive and negative charge voltage to the accelerator, the charged dust particles can be accelerated thereby generating thrust and neutralizing the accelerator system.
US07773354B2
A device is disclosed that includes an interface and an integrated circuit. The interface is communicatively coupled to a network connection to provide power and data to a power over Ethernet (PoE) powered device via the network connection. The integrated circuit is coupled to the interface. The integrated circuit includes a power over Ethernet (PoE) controller, a detection and classification circuit, and a voltage protection circuit. The detection and classification circuit is coupled to the interface to detect and classify a power level of the PoE powered device. The voltage protection circuit is coupled to the interface to detect a power event and to provide an alert to the PoE controller in response to the detected power event.
US07773341B2
A laminated main pole layer is disclosed in which a non-AFC scheme is used to break the magnetic coupling between adjacent high moment layers and reduce remanence in a hard axis direction while maintaining a high magnetic moment and achieving low values for Hch, Hce, and Hk. An amorphous material layer with a thickness of 3 to 20 Angstroms and made of an oxide, nitride, or oxynitride of one or more of Hf, Zr, Ta, Al, Mg, Zn, or Si is inserted between adjacent high moment stacks. The laminated structure also includes an alignment layer below each high moment layer within each stack. In one embodiment, a Ru coupling layer is inserted between two high moment layers in each stack to introduce an AFC scheme. An uppermost Ru layer is used as a CMP stop layer. A post annealing process may be employed to further reduce the anisotropy field (Hk).
US07773339B2
Disk clamp including a disk clamp base and a disk clamp platform. Disk pack including at least one disk coupled between disk clamp and spindle motor. Hard disk drive including disk pack mounted on disk base. Manufacturing methods for disk clamp base, disk clamp platform, disk pack and hard disk drive, and these items as products of their manufacturing processes.
US07773336B2
A hard disk drive that determines a flying height from a ratio of a first harmonic transfer function and a third harmonic transfer function. The transfer functions can be determined from a response to an impulse function. The impulse function (also known as an impulse response) can be a playback waveform de-convolved by channel data sequence. Any change in the ratio of the first and third harmonic transfer functions corresponds to a change in the flying height. The disk drive may utilize the transfer function ratios in a feedback routine to control the flying height.
US07773335B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, are described for calibrating servos, and in some implementations for calibrating spiral servos for use in self-servo-write processes. In one aspect, a method is provided that includes determining a measured slope of a spiral, and calibrating radial spacing between servo tracks using the measured slope and a target slope.
US07773328B1
A hard disk control system comprises a phase adjust module, an offset adjust module, and a read/write timing module. The phase adjust module generates a phase adjust signal based on a phase difference between a first repeatable run out (RRO) field and a servo wedge field. The offset adjust module outputs a position calibration pattern to a storage medium based on the phase adjust signal; receives at least a portion of the position calibration pattern from the storage medium; and determines an offset based on a comparison between the output position calibration pattern and the received portion of the position calibration pattern. The read/write timing module determines a position to write a second RRO field on the storage medium based on the offset.
US07773321B2
The present invention provides a lens unit including: a first lens group; a second lens group; an optical-path bending member; a movable frame holding the first lens group; a stationary frame holding the movable frame movably in an direction of the first optical axis, and adopted to telescopically house the movable frame therein; and a bending-member moving mechanism for moving the optical-path bending member. When an image is taken, the movable frame protrudes from the stationary frame and the optical-path bending member is arranged at a position so as to bend the first optical axis in the direction of the second optical axis. When the lens unit retracts, the bending-member moving mechanism moves the optical-path bending member to retreat the optical-path bending member from an area where the first lens group to be housed in the stationary frame.
US07773313B2
A cam mechanism includes a cam ring having front and rear cam grooves which have a common reference cam diagram and are formed so that a front part of the front cam groove and a rear part of the rear cam groove are omitted from the reference cam diagram. A normal-width section and a wide-width section are provided in each of the front and rear cam grooves. In a zoom range, an associated cam follower of a driven member is engaged in the normal-width section of one of the front and rear cam grooves, and another associated cam follower of the driven member is positioned out of the other of the front and rear cam grooves. In a transition state between the zoom range and an accommodated position, both of the associated cam followers are positioned out of the normal-width sections of the respective front and rear cam grooves.
US07773309B2
A projection zoom lens device includes, in order from a magnification side, a negative first group G1 and positive second to fifth groups (G2 to G5) and is configured so that the second group G2, the third group G3, and the fourth group G4 are moved along an optical axis toward the magnification side during zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state. Also, a lens L4, being closest to the magnification side, of the second group G2 is formed of a negative lens, and the fifth group G5 includes a single positive lens.
US07773307B2
Systems and methods for shifting the phase of incident light to induce a continuous phase variation in an azimuthal direction. A phase mask assembly has a first surface and a second surface. The first surface and the second surface are configured such that the distance between the first surface and the second surface varies continuously in an azimuthal direction around the phase mask. This mask can be used in a coronagraph system to effectively suppress the on-axis star image for the detection of off-axis planets.
US07773306B2
An electrowetting cell including an expandable joint between a body section and an end section. Such an expandable joint could include a membrane or a flange-like portion.
US07773304B2
A small optical pickup of wide spherical aberration correction range includes a rising mirror for perpendicularly deflecting a light beam and guiding the light beam to an objective lens; a spherical aberration correction lens having one surface formed to a larger curvature than the other surface; a lens holder for holding the correction lens so that the surface of large curvature projects towards the rising mirror side; an axially extending guide member; and a slidable part slidable along the guide member. The projecting portion of the slidable part is configured to be fitted within the side surface of the reflecting surface of the rising mirror, and the projecting portion from the lens holder of the spherical aberration correction lens overlaps the reflecting surface of the rising mirror when the spherical aberration correction lens approaches the rising mirror the most.
US07773299B2
Light transmission in a vehicle may be controlled using a system that includes a linear polarizing means and an ellipticity increaser associated with a display in the vehicle. The ellipticity increaser is configured and oriented with respect to the linear polarizing means for increasing the ellipticity of light passing from the linear polarizing means through the ellipticity increaser. The system also includes an ellipticity adjuster and a linear polarizer associated with a window of the vehicle. The ellipticity adjuster is oriented with respect to the linear polarizer for increasing the ellipticity of light passing from the linear polarizer through the ellipticity adjuster. The ellipticity increaser and adjuster are disposed between the linear polarizing means and the linear polarizer, and are configured and oriented with respect to each other for reducing ellipticity of light passing from the linear polarizing means through the ellipticity increaser and adjuster to the linear polarizer.
US07773297B2
A scanning microscope includes an objective lens for focusing illumination light onto a specimen; a scanning device for deflecting and scanning the illumination light; a pupil-projection optical system for illuminating a pupil of the objective lens with the scanned illumination light; and a total-magnification specifying unit for specifying a total magnification. An optical-system selecting unit changes at least one of the objective lens and the pupil-projection optical system such that a magnification of an optical system including the objective lens and the pupil-projection optical system is equal to or less than the total magnification specified by the total-magnification specifying unit and that the numerical aperture of the optical system is maximized. A deflection-angle determination unit determines a deflection angle of the illumination light deflected by the scanning device based on the ratio of the magnification of the optical system to the total magnification to achieve the total magnification.
US07773296B2
An ultra-broadband ultraviolet (UV) catadioptric imaging microscope system with wide-range zoom capability. The microscope system, which includes a catadioptric lens group and a zooming tube lens group, has high optical resolution in the deep UV wavelengths, continuously adjustable magnification, and a high numerical aperture. The system integrates microscope modules such as objectives, tube lenses and zoom optics to reduce the number of components, and to simplify the system manufacturing process. The preferred embodiment offers excellent image quality across a very broad deep ultraviolet spectral range, combined with an all-refractive zooming tube lens. The zooming tube lens is modified to compensate for higher-order chromatic aberrations that would normally limit performance.
US07773292B2
When illuminated with a plane wave a variable cross-coupling partial reflector reflects a specific amount of a cross-polarized field and a specific amount of a co-polarized field and transmits the remaining power with low attenuation. This is achieved with a pair of frequency selective surfaces (FSS) that are rotated with respect to the incident plane wave. The FSSs can be fixed with a given alignment for a particular application or a tuning mechanism can be provided to independently rotate the surfaces and adapt the reflected co- and cross-polarized fields to changing requirements. Of particular interest is the ability to provide a specific amount of cross-polarized reflected power while reflecting no co-polarized field over a certain range of wavelengths. This will be useful to increase power efficiency in, for example, wave power sources that utilize quasi-optical power by causing oscillations in reflection amplifier arrays.
US07773290B2
This invention provides a better means to achieve affordable solar energy. It does so by increasing the efficiency and capacity of control grids (for addressing and alignment) in solar concentrators, and similar equipment. Method and apparatus are described for going from a 25% grid efficiency and capacity to a more than 90% grid efficiency and capacity. The instant invention relates to improvements in the control (addressing and alignment) grid for Solar Energy Concentrators, and similar equipment. The control grid acts to address and align active optical elements such as mirrored balls, electrophoretic, and magnetophoretic cells in solar concentrators [e.g. cf. U.S. Pat. Nos. 7,133,183 and 6,843,573 by M. Rabinowitz]. This invention also reduces the cost of transistor grids by greatly reducing the number of grid junctions and hence the number and cost of transistors. Moreover, the present invention simplifies the grid making it more feasible to use the same voltage supply sequentially to further reduce costs, rather than having multiple voltage sources.
US07773289B2
Method and apparatus for providing brightness control in an interferometric modulator (IMOD) display
Methods and systems for providing brightness control in an interferometric modulator (IMOD) display are provided. In one embodiment, an interferometric modulator display pixel is provided that includes a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) interferometric modulator having an associated first color spectrum, and a color absorber located substantially in front of the interferometric modulator display pixel, in which the color absorber has an associated second color spectrum. The microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) interferometric modulator is operable to shift the first color spectrum relative to the second color spectrum to control a visual brightness of the interferometric modulator display pixel independent of a color of the interferometric modulator display pixel.
US07773286B2
A microelectromechanical (MEMS) device includes a substrate, an actuation electrode over the substrate, a reflective layer over the actuation electrode, and a support layer between the actuation electrode and the reflective layer. The reflective layer includes at least one aperture through the reflective layer. The support layer includes a recess between the actuation electrode and the at least one aperture. Upon application of a control signal to the device, at least a first portion of the reflective layer is configured to move into the recess and at least a second portion of the reflective layer is configured to remain stationary. The reflectivity of the MEMS device is dominantly modulated by changing a phase difference between light reflected from the first portion and light reflected from the second portion.
US07773272B2
An image reading apparatus that includes: a document delivering unit; a switchback delivering unit that pulls a document into a switchback delivery path extended to an opening formed on an external surface of an apparatus housing from a predetermined position of the document delivery path; an image reading unit that reads an image of the document delivered to a reading position of the document delivery path; and a control unit that delivers a document inserted into the opening of the switchback delivery path to the reading position by the switchback delivering unit and the document delivering unit, thereby reading an image in a second image reading operation to be carried out by temporarily stopping a first image reading operation.
US07773268B2
In a digital camera that can perform print designation, a print designation file for writing jobs for printing is prepared in a memory card in which image data is recorded, and information for specifying a file to be printed (FILE_ID), file identifying information for identifying whether the file to be printed is a moving image file or a still image file (FILE_TYPE), and information for specifying a scene to be printed in the moving image if the file to be printed is the moving image file (FRAME_NUM) are stored in the print designation file. A printing device reads the print designation file from the memory card, then takes out the image data to be printed from the memory card in accordance with the read information and executes printing. Thus, it is possible to perform the print designation of the specified image in the moving image without wasting the memory capacity in the recording medium.
US07773266B2
This invention is an image processing apparatus capable of adding a reference frame for accurately specifying an image region printed on a printing medium. An image forming unit (13) converts an input image for printing into that of a predetermined resolution. An additional information multiplexer (14) embeds additional information in each predetermined region of the resolution-converted image. A reference frame addition unit 15 adds a predetermined reference frame to the perimeter of the image in which the additional information is embedded. A printer (16) prints the image having the additional information embedded in it and the reference frame onto a printing medium, and outputs a printed image (17).
US07773261B2
A method of setting color processing parameters for a digital imaging apparatus includes connecting a computer via a communication path to a digital imaging apparatus that produces color image data through color processing performed by a color processing unit on image data taken by an imaging device, setting, in the computer, parameters for use in the color processing, transferring the parameters from the computer to the digital imaging apparatus via the communication path, causing the color processing unit to perform color processing based on the parameters under control of an emulator that operates in the digital imaging apparatus, and storing, in memory, color image data generated by the color processing based on the parameters.
US07773260B2
An image processing method is applied for recording an image on a recording medium using a plurality of color materials including a chromatic material and an achromatic material. A total amount of recording of the chromatic material is smaller than a total amount of recording of the achromatic material, and a plurality of monochrome modes including a first monochrome mode and a second monochrome mode are provided, the total amount of recording of the chromatic material being different for each of the monochrome modes. The image processing method includes adjusting the amount of recording of the achromatic material so that a recording density of an image recorded in the first monochrome mode and a recording density of an image recorded in the second monochrome mode become equivalent to each other with respect to the same luminance signal.
US07773258B2
Color production with high chroma in a low lightness portion is realized by using an appropriate complementary color ink to a particular color ink reproducing the low lightness portion. More specially the device secondary color G-K is reproduced with ink of the pure color component composed of the color mixture of the particular color G ink and the basic color Y ink to tone the particular color G ink. In addition, as complementary color components, the particular color R ink and K ink are used. Thereby, the reproduction line is substantially linear from the device secondary color G point to the device K point. In color reproduction at the dark portion of the color on the G-K line, sufficient chroma can be obtained.
US07773256B2
Systems and methods are provided that accurately estimate a post-printing appearance of a color on a substrate. In addition, systems and methods are provided that accurately estimate a post-mixing appearance of several colors mixed on a substrate.
US07773251B2
There are provided a scanned image processing method and a scanned image processing apparatus to create a plurality of page images (PI) by sequentially scanning two or more printed papers in a predetermined resolution, reducing the created page images, arranging the reduced page images (RPI) in integrated page region (IPR), and creating one integrated page image. The method includes setting the scan environment by a user, dividing the integrated page region if a multi scan request is input from the user, creating and storing page images by sequentially scanning printed papers to be fed according to a predetermined method, reducing the stored page images by a predetermined ratio, creating and storing the reduced page images, and creating one integrated page image by reading the reduced, stored page images and arranging in a predetermined arranging order, whereby the file can be managed more efficiently.
US07773246B2
A printing system and an image forming device are provided for printing an electronic document, and an electronic document printing method thereof. The printing system includes an electronic document providing server for providing an electronic document, and a host computer having a first interface for receiving the electronic document from the electronic document providing server, a driver for setting print options and generating printing data according to the set print options when an electronic document print function corresponding to the received electronic document is selected, and a second interface for transferring the generated printing data. The printing system further includes an image forming device for printing the received printing data according to the set print options based upon the electronic document print function. The user can print the electronic document with optimal print quality without having to change the print options of the driver and the image forming device.
US07773245B2
A handheld mobile communications device includes a chassis. Mobile communications circuitry and components are mounted on the chassis. A printer apparatus is mounted on the chassis. The printer apparatus has a pagewidth printhead and an ink supply module arranged on the printhead. A print media feed mechanism is mounted on the chassis to feed print media through the printer apparatus.
US07773235B2
The invention provides a method for determining vibration-related information by projecting an aerial image at an image position in a projection plane, mapping an intensity of the aerial image into an image map, the image map arranged for comprising values of coordinates of sampling locations and of the intensity sampled at each sampling location, and measuring intensity of the aerial image received through a slot pattern. The method further includes determining from the image map a detection position of a slope portion of the image map, at the detection position of the slope portion, measuring of a temporal intensity of the aerial image and measuring of relative positions of the slot pattern and the image position, the relative positions of the slot being measured as position-related data of the slot pattern and determining from the temporal intensity of the aerial image vibration-related information for said aerial image.
US07773231B2
A differential pressure measuring system includes a light source for emitting a light, a first transducer for attenuating the intensity of the emitted light in a first range, depending on a first pressure, and providing a first light, a second transducer for attenuating the intensity of the first light in a second range, depending on a second pressure, and providing a second light, a feedback circuit for adjusting the intensity of the emitted light to maintain the intensity of the second light in the second range constant, and a measuring module for measuring a differential pressure between the first and second pressures, based on the intensities of the second light in the first and second ranges.
US07773219B2
A method and apparatus for measuring Mueller matrix parameters from scattered light. The apparatus is advantageous for use in countering bioterrorism by detecting information concerning airborne pathogens, particularly microorganism in aerosol form. The system provided is portable, more efficient, and less sensitive to wavelength changes. The method uses variation in retardation over wavelength as opposed to variation in retardation with time.
US07773218B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for spectral imaging. Electromagnetic energy emanating from an object is passed through a first dispersive element, a coded aperture, and a second dispersive element to a detector plane. A wavelength-dependent shift is created by the first dispersive element. The coded aperture modulates the image emanating from the first dispersive element. The wavelength-dependent shift is removed from the modulated image by the second dispersive element producing a wavelength-independent image measured by the detector. A spectral image of the object is calculated from the measured image, a wavelength-dependent shift of the first dispersive element, the code of the coded aperture, and a wavelength dependent shift of the second dispersive element. A spectral image can be calculated from measurements obtained in a single time step and from a number of measurements that is less than the number of elements in the spectral image.
US07773216B2
The present invention is a method of selecting composite sheet materials for use in ultra-fast laser patterning of layers of organic thin film material such as OLEDs. The material is selected to accomplish patterning of upper layers without damaging underlying layers by using an ultra-fast laser programmed with the appropriate laser processing parameters. These parameters are derived by examining each layer's absorption spectra, thermal, and chemical characteristics. The method of the present invention includes measuring each layer's absorption spectrum, examining each layer's thermal and chemical characteristics, determining if the layer is ablatable, determining the laser setup, patterning the layer through laser ablation processing, and determining if more layers need to be ablated. Further, the method includes a sub-method of selecting an alternate material if a layer's material characteristics are not favorable for ablation without damaging underlying layers.
US07773208B2
Embodiments relate to a device for measuring characterisation by reflectometry including a source that emits a light beam, a detector, optics for processing and controlling this light beam so as to focus it on a reflective surface to be measured in the form of a spot and to receive it on the detector, command and acquisition modules, a camera and modules for imaging the spot on the detector and on the camera, wherein the camera is connected to the command and acquisition means so as to automatically focus the spot on the reflective surface to be measured and to automatically conjugate the reflective surface to be measured with the surface of the detector.
US07773206B2
A flow-through tank 300 is suitable for an optical device 120 for the counting and/or differentiation of leucocytes in an automatic blood analysis apparatus 1. The tank has an analysis zone 304, in which the section of the tank has at least one transverse dimension between 1 and 5 millimeters. It can advantageously be produced, at least partially, from an injected plastic material.
US07773186B2
In the manufacture of a display device, an object of the invention is to make it possible to easily and precisely measure the amount of beveling of the display panel without an increase in manufacturing costs. In the process of manufacturing a display device, a shorting interconnection (10) is provided near edges of the display panel in order to short-circuit signal interconnections and scanning interconnections (interconnections 3). In a final stage, the shorting interconnection (10) is removed together with a beveled area (A2) by the beveling of the edges of the display panel. The interconnections (3) have marks (11) that are formed near the edges of the substrate and used as reference for the amount of beveling. Each mark (11) is located in a position shifted from the mark (11) of an adjacent interconnection (3) along the length of the interconnections (3).
US07773185B2
A thin film transistor (TFT) array panel and a display device having the same are provided. The TFT array panel includes a substrate, an n−1th and an nth gate line formed on the substrate, a data line intersected with the n−1th gate line, a first source electrode overlapped with at least one portion of the n−1th gate line and connected to the data line, a first and a second drain electrode overlapped with at least one portion of the n−1th gate line and facing the first source electrode, a first sub pixel electrode electrically connected to the first drain electrode, a second sub pixel electrode electrically connected to the second drain electrode, a second source electrode overlapped with at least one portion of the nth gate line and electrically connected to the second sub pixel electrode, a third drain electrode overlapped with at least one portion of the nth gate line and facing the second source electrode, a third source electrode overlapped with at least one portion of the nth gate line, a fourth drain electrode overlapped with at least one portion of the nth gate line and facing the third source electrode, a third sub pixel electrode electrically connected to the fourth drain electrode; and a fourth sub pixel electrode capacitively coupled with the third sub pixel electrode.
US07773176B2
A method of manufacturing a color active matrix display device comprises forming islands over a rigid carrier substrate, forming a plastic substrate over the rigid carrier substrate, forming an array of pixel circuits over the plastic substrate and forming a display layer over the array of pixel circuits. The rigid carrier substrate is then released from the plastic substrate and the plastic substrate then has channels defined by the islands. These are filled to define color filter portions. The formation of a plastic substrate on a rigid carrier, with the use of a subsequent lift off process, enables the circuit arrays to be made on very thin plastic sheets. The color filters can then be made on the outside of the LC cell. Depressions are formed in the plastic substrate registered to the circuit array, and these are filled in with color filter material, for example by ink jet printing.
US07773155B2
A broadcasting signal receiver and a method of controlling the broadcasting signal receiver having a user selection unit, the method including: determining whether a plurality of channels that correspond to a selected channel exist; determining whether the plurality of channels have the same contents if it is determined that the plurality of channels exist; selecting a first channel among the plurality of channels according to a priority if it is determined that the plurality of channels have the same contents; and determining whether the first channel provides a corresponding signal; and selecting a second channel among the plurality of channels according to the priority if it is determined that the first channel does not provide the corresponding signal.
US07773151B2
A device and a method of deinterlacing a sequence of images from an interlaced format to a progressive format. The sequence of images being composed of successive frames. A plurality of pixels of missing lines of a current frame to be completed, an evaluation of the values of these pixels according to a spatially consistent order. The evaluation comprises, for each pixel of the plurality of pixels, estimating a direction of interpolation, spatial interpolation according to the estimated direction of interpolation. According to the invention, the estimation step comprises, for at least one current pixel of the plurality of pixels, calculating a score for at least two directions, and selecting the direction of interpolation on the basis of the calculated scores and of the estimated direction of interpolation for a distinct pixel situated in the neighborhood of the current pixel.
US07773148B2
A camera includes: a battery unit on which a battery is mounted, that can be detachably loaded into the camera and supplies power to the camera; and a function unit that executes camera functions, wherein: as a function of the camera is executed, the function unit transmits information related to the executed function to the battery pack; and the battery unit has a storage unit in which the information related to the camera function is stored.
US07773147B2
A method for predicting the quantity of pictures that can be taken is applied to a picture-taking function of a digital still camera. Firstly, a lookup table is individually built for different power using operations of a battery according to the operational modes of the picture-taking function. Next, the method looks up the corresponding lookup table according to an obtained battery voltage value of the digital still camera and the operational mode. Finally, a quantity of pictures that can be taken is obtained from the lookup table, and is displayed on a display unit of the digital still camera and is provided to the user. Thereby, the user can change the operational mode to reduce power consumption and take more pictures.
US07773145B2
An auto focus unit, comprising a pursuit block, a scanning area setting block, a change area setting block, a permission block, and a lens driver, is provided. The pursuit block pursues the movements of a target object. The scanning area setting block designates a part of an object-area as a scanning area at first timing. After first timing, the scanning area setting block is able to reset the scanning area to the now location where the targeted object has moved. The change area setting block defines an area of a predetermined range as a change area at the first timing. The permission block orders the scanning area setting block to reset the scanning area when the location where the targeted object moved is outside of the change area. The lens driver orders a focus lens to move so that an optical image of the scanning area is focused on.
US07773144B2
A lens device, in which object light is branched by a half mirror after passing through a photographic lens to allow photographing with two photographing means and in which the half mirror can be retracted from the optical axis to obtain a clear image using one of the photographing means, is provided. The half mirror in the lens device is provided between a front-side relay lens and a rear-side relay lens, and is provided such that the half mirror can be retracted away from an optical axis of the photographic lens and advanced toward from the optical axis. The rear-side relay lens is moved along the optical axis to a position in accordance with the retracting of advancing of the half mirror.
US07773142B2
A digital camera capable of readily recognizing the printing-specifying information that has been set.Printing-specifying information is set for digital image data acquired by photographing. When an image for which printing-specifying information has been set is displayed on a monitor provided in the digital camera, the image is displayed along with the set printing-specifying information.
US07773134B2
A system and method for canceling dark photocurrent in a color sensor circuit is disclosed. A color sensor is described including a color sensor circuit, a dark color sensor circuit, and a differential amplifier circuit. The color sensor circuit receives photocurrent from a color component of a light input. The color sensor circuit outputs a first voltage indicating intensity of the color component. The dark color sensor circuit receives dark photocurrent and outputs a second voltage indicating an offset voltage. The differential amplifier circuit is coupled to the color sensor circuit and to the dark color sensor circuit. The differential amplifier circuit receives the first and second voltages and outputs a final output that cancels contributions of the offset voltage in the first voltage due to the dark photocurrent.
US07773132B2
An image processing device utilizes a morphological filter such as an opening type morphological filter and a closing type morphological filter to remove a hole or a chunk in an over-luminance area of an image, thereby to display a zebra pattern masked on the over-luminance area more clearly, and accordingly a user can achieve a high quality image.
US07773128B2
By connecting to or mounting a first storage medium that stores image data as a retrieval object (e.g. first memory card 121) and a second storage medium that stores a retrieve condition (e.g. non-volatile memory 111 or second memory card 122), an imaging apparatus 100 can store image data as a retrieval object and a retrieve condition on different storage medium. By replacing the first storage medium with a third storage medium, image retrieval can be executed for a plurality of storage medium using the same retrieve condition.
US07773127B2
An automated RAW image processing method and system are disclosed. A RAW image and metadata related to the RAW image are obtained from a digital camera or other source. The RAW image and the related metadata are automatically processed using an Operating System service of a processing device to produce a resulting image in an absolute color space. The resulting image is then made available to an application program executing on the processing device through an application program interface with the Operating System service.
US07773122B2
An image pick-up module, especially for an endoscope, comprises an electronic image sensor, a single-piece circuit board which is electrically bonded to the image sensor, with at least one cable leading away from the circuit board being further electrically bonded to the circuit board. The circuit board has at least three sections, with a first section and a second section extending in spaced relation one to the other and obliquely or crosswise to the image sensor and a third section being arranged between the first and the second section. In order to provide for strain relief of the at least one cable, it is proposed that the image sensor be arranged on one side of the circuit board opposite the third section. In a method for assembling the image pick-up module the circuit board initially has the form of a planar board blank comprising at least three sections that can be folded along flexible connecting sections whereby the at least one cable is bonded to the board blank, whereafter the board blank is folded in such a way that a third section is located between a first section and a second section, and finally the image sensor is bonded to the circuit board at an end of the circuit board opposite the third section.
US07773118B2
A digital camera has a pair of angular rate-sensing gyroscopic sensors with mutually perpendicular axes and an electronic circuit responsive to the sensor output signals to discriminate between voluntary and involuntary movements of the article as a function of the number of zero crossings per unit time of the signal and the average of the absolute amplitude of the signal.
US07773115B2
Deblur digital camera image captured in low-light, long-integration-time conditions by deconvolution based on motion estimation from preceding and following reference images. Alternatively, capture multiple short-integration-time images and fuse after motion estimation and alignment.
US07773110B2
An electronic endoscope apparatus comprises: a processor unit; and an electronic endoscope having a solid-state pickup element, the electronic endoscopes being capable of connecting to the processor unit, so as to generate digital picture signals, wherein the processor unit comprises a differential signal outputting portion that generates digital picture signals corresponding to a pixel number of the solid-state pickup element and corresponding to a display standard for an external computer, parallel-serially converts the digital picture signals, and outputs the converted signals as differential signals, and wherein the electronic endoscope apparatus further comprises a high-definition television system converter that detects the pixel number of the digital picture signals based on the differential signals, converts the digital picture signals to high-definition television signals based on the detected number of pixels and outputs the high-definition television signals, the high-definition television system converter being detachably connected to the differential signal outputting portion.
US07773106B2
The present invention allows mobile users to send replies to, or to forward, truncated electronic mail messages, and yet still send the entire body of the original electronic mail message, without having to download the entire body of the mail message locally to the mobile device and then re-transmit the entire message from the mobile device.
US07773101B2
In an implementation, an appearance of a lens is applied to an original image by a data processing system to produce a presentation for display on a display screen, the appearance of the lens having a focal region at least partially surrounded by a shoulder region. A data interaction mode is provided by the data processing system to interact with underlying data of the focal region if a cursor is positioned over the focal region in the presentation. A lens interaction mode is provided by the data processing system to adjust one or more parameters of the appearance of the lens if the cursor is positioned over the shoulder region in the presentation. The presentation is displayed on the display screen.
US07773100B2
A method of continuously rotating a subject object top over bottom over top on a display screen encompasses jumping to a view having a longitude that is 180 degrees from the previous and displaying the image in an up-side-down orientation. Upon pausing, or completing the rotation by releasing the mouse button, a higher resolution image loads and displays thereby improving the sharpness or allowing the user to zoom in on additional detail.
US07773085B2
The present invention is a system that grids original data, maps the data at the grid locations to height values at corresponding landscape image pixel locations and renders the landscape pixels into a three-dimensional (3D) landscape image. The landscape pixels can have arbitrary shapes and can be augmented with additional 3D information from the original data, such as an offset providing additional information, or generated from processing of the original data, such as to alert when a threshold is exceeded, or added for other purposes such as to point out a feature. The pixels can also convey additional information from the original data using other pixel characteristics such as texture, color, transparency, etc.
US07773084B2
In the present invention, during an 1H period excluding a blanking period (1HB) constituting a line display period, pixel data pulses of RGB (61B to 61R) are successively supplied for each color to corresponding signal lines for the color display of one pixel line. A control circuit (40) of select switches connected to the signal lines (6-1 to 6-n) supplies permission pulses (63B to 63R) for the supply of data to signal lines when displaying one color among RGB to select switches (TMG), and turns on the select switch (TMG) of the signal line corresponding to another color to be displayed later in the same line display period during the period of this application by a precharge pulse (62G or 62R) having a time duration shorter than the supply time of the pixel data of the other color (T2 or T3) to previously precharge the signal line of the other color to the predetermined potential. Due to this, sufficient precharging of a signal line, which became difficult due to an increase of a load capacitance of the signal line due to higher definition of the image display device and an increase in the speed of a drive clock thereof, can be achieved.
US07773082B2
A conventional setting voltage was a value with an estimated margin of a characteristic change of a light emitting element. Therefore, a voltage between the source and drain of a driver transistor Vds had to be set high (Vds≧Vgs−VTh+a). This caused high heat generation and power consumption because a voltage applied to the light emitting element. The invention is characterized by feedbacking a change in a current value in accordance with the deterioration of a light emitting element and a power source voltage controller which modifies a setting voltage. Namely, according to the invention, the setting voltage is to be set in the vicinity of the boundary (critical part) between a saturation region and a linear region, and a voltage margin for the deterioration is not required particularly for an initial setting voltage.
US07773078B2
An information detection device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: light sensing units generating photocurrents according to light amount and outputting sensor data signals based on the photocurrent; sensor scanning lines receiving sensor scanning signals from a sensor scanning driver and controlling the output of the sensor data signals from the light sensing units; sensor data lines transmitting the sensor data signals from the light sensing units; and a sensing signal processor receiving the sensor data signals from the sensor data lines at input terminals, wherein the number of the input terminals of the sensing signal processor is less than the number of the sensor data lines.
US07773072B2
An improved handheld electronic device having an improved keyboard provides enhanced usability with fewer keys by enabling the keys to pivot slightly to provide multiple functions to the keys. The improved keyboard may, for example, include internal strips of conductive carbon that are disposed adjacent the keys and are electrically engageable with contacts on a printed circuit board. Specifically, when a key is pressed directly downward it collapses a single dome and connects together a set of primary contacts to provide a first function. When the key is pressed at the side thereof, the key pivots slightly, collapses the dome and connects together the primary contacts, and also engages a carbon strip with a pair of secondary contacts to connect together the secondary contacts, all of which provide a second function. The keyboard may be configured to be of a QWERTY configuration while using only a relatively small number of keys.
US07773064B2
The present invention relates to a display film that may be transferred by lamination or otherwise onto a substrate. The display film is formed of a stack of layers that can include different types, arrangements, and functionality within the stack depending upon factors including the characteristics of the substrate (e.g., upper or lower, transparent or opaque, substrates) and addressing of the display (e.g., active or passive matrix, electrical or optical addressing). The layers of the stacked display film include one or more electrode layers and one or more liquid crystal layers and, in addition, may include various combinations of an adhesive layer, preparation layer, casting layer, light absorbing layer, insulation layers, and protective layers. The liquid crystal layer can include cholesteric or other liquid crystal material. The liquid crystal layer can be a dispersion of liquid crystal in a polymer matrix formed by a variety of techniques. The display film may interact with components mounted on or laminated to the substrate, including a solar cell, active matrix backplane and electrodes. The display film may be mounted onto flexible or drapable substrates such as fabric and can itself be drapable. Thus, the invention offers substantial flexibility in fabrication and design that has not been previously possible in the display industry.
US07773062B2
A method of compensating uniformity of an EL device, having a plurality of light-emitting elements, including providing the EL display; and measuring the performance of one or more light-emitting elements at three or more different code values. At least two different groups of code values are formed from the three or more code values, while calculating a linear transformation for converting an input signal to a compensated signal from the performance measurements for each of the groups. Subsequently, the difference between the measured performance and compensated signal is calculated over the range of code values for each of the groups; while the linear transformation, having a preferred difference, is selected. Additionally an input signal is received and employed with the selected linear transformation to calculate a compensated signal to drive the EL display.
US07773061B2
A method of compensating uniformity of an OLED device, having a plurality of light-emitting elements, including providing the OLED display; and measuring the performance of one or more light-emitting elements at three or more different code values. At least two different groups of code values are formed from the three or more code values, while calculating a linear transformation for converting an input signal to a compensated signal from the performance measurements for each of the groups. Subsequently, the difference between the measured performance and compensated signal is calculated over the range of code values for each of the groups; while the linear transformation, having a preferred difference, is selected. Additionally an input signal is received and employed with the selected linear transformation to calculate a compensated signal to drive the OLED display.
US07773058B2
The invention provides an analog circuit that decreases an effect of variation of a transistor. By flowing a bias current in a compensation operation, a voltage between the gate and source of the transistor to be compensated is held in a capacitor. In a normal operation, the voltage stored in the compensation operation is added to a signal voltage. As the capacitor holds the voltage according to the characteristics of the transistor to be compensated, the effect of variation can be decreased by adding the voltage stored in the capacitor to the signal voltage. Further, an analog circuit which decreases the effect of variation can be provided by applying the aforementioned basis to a differential circuit, an operational amplifier and the like.
US07773055B2
A display device including a plurality of pixels is provided, each pixel includes: a light emitting element; first and second driving transistors connected between a driving voltage and the light emitting element and supplying a driving current to the light emitting element; a first switching transistor transmitting a data voltage to the first driving transistor; a second switching transistor transmitting a data voltage to the second driving transistor; a first inverter generating an inversion voltage having a polarity opposite the data voltage and applying the inversion voltage to the first driving transistor; and a second inverter generating an inversion voltage having a polarity opposite the data voltage and applying the inversion voltage to the second driving transistor.
US07773053B2
The object of the invention is elimination of an occurrence of instantaneous light in the center part of a display, a border between the upper half and the lower half of the display.An scanning method of the display, dividing the display panel to a first filed and a second filed, starts a counter therein, synchronized with the timing of driving a first row electrode of the first filed thereof, and drives a first row electrode of the second filed thereof, every time the counter value changes.
US07773052B2
There is provided a plasma display device including a slope waveform generating circuit which supplies to an electrode a slope waveform of which voltage changes with the lapse of time, the electrode being formed in a capacitive load to serves as a display element in a display panel for displaying images, wherein the slope waveform generating circuit includes: a plurality of power supplies which supply different voltages; and a switching circuit which selects one power supply out of the a plurality of power supplies and supplies a voltage to the electrode, wherein the switching circuit switches the power supply, which supplies a voltage to the electrode, in accordance with a voltage being supplied to the electrode.
US07773050B2
To provide an AC-PDP capable of achieving low power consumption and low cost, a driving method is adopted in which, during a period of sustaining light emission of the AC-PDP, an electrode of one side of the panel is fixed at a predetermined potential, and positive and negative voltages are alternately applied to an electrode of the other side of the panel. In addition, an IGBT is used as a switch element. Thus, with a half-bridge driving method using an IGBT as a switch element, it is possible to simultaneously achieve a reduction in loss of a driving circuit of the AC-PDP and a reduction in the number of components thereof, such reductions not being able to be achieved by the conventional techniques.
US07773045B2
An antenna line is configured with a conductor line that meanders in a shape where a plurality of lines of the same shape, which are bent only at an obtuse angle, are provided in sequence.
US07773033B2
A multilayer metamaterial isolator and method of fabricating the same. A first layer or surface of a multilayer dielectric substrate includes a first leg of a first resonator loop. A second layer or surface of the multilayer dielectric substrate includes a second leg of the first resonator loop. A third leg of the first resonator loop extends through the multilayer dielectric substrate interconnecting the first and second legs of the first resonator loop.
US07773027B2
An all-digital line-of-sight (LOS) process architecture addresses the size, weight, power and performance constraints of a receiver for use in semi-active or active pulsed electromagnetic (EM) targeting systems. The all-digital architecture provides a platform for enhanced techniques for sensitive pulse detection over a wide field-of-view, adaptive pulse detection, LOS processing and counter measures.
US07773013B1
A multiple-input follower amplifier is coupled through a configuration of switching devices to an upper reference voltage at a number of its inputs and to a lower reference voltage at the remaining number of its inputs to form a voltage interpolator. The output of the voltage interpolator is a voltage between the upper and lower reference voltages proportional to the number of inputs coupled to each reference voltage. The voltage interpolator may be constructed so that the interpolated voltage may be selected through a reduced number of signal lines, such as by a row/column selection scheme. A voltage reference circuit providing the upper and lower reference voltages may also implement a row/column selection mechanism, thereby allowing a decoding scheme common to both a voltage reference circuit and a voltage interpolator in a digital-to-analog converter.
US07773010B2
The present invention is related to an analogue-to-digital (A/D) converter comprising at least two voltage comparator devices. Each of the voltage comparator devices is arranged for being fed with a same input signal and for generating an own internal voltage reference. The two internal voltage references are different. Each voltage comparator is arranged for generating an output signal indicative of a bit position of a digital approximation of said input signal.
US07773009B2
To increase the accuracy and resolution of an m bit digital analog converter, n bit input values with n>m are fed to a control circuit and converted to a series of control values for the digital analog converter using dithering techniques. When the series of control values straddles a major transition where a large number of bits are switched between 1 and 0, a corrected series of control values is retrieved from a calibration table. The corrected series takes into account the glitch effects observed at the output of digital analog converter at a major transition.
US07773006B2
A system and method for using one or more clock signals is disclosed. The system includes a clock translator that has a first input to receive a first reference clock signal and a second input to receive a second reference clock signal. The clock translator also includes an output to provide a bit rate clock signal having a clock frequency in a first ratio with respect to the frequency of the first reference clock but having a resolution based on at least a portion of the second reference clock signal. The second reference clock has a faster rate than the first reference clock.
US07773003B1
A method for decoding an input bit stream encoded using Huffman encoding generates a lookup table using a standard Huffman code book. Thereafter, at least three bits are extracted from the input bit stream. The at least three bits extracted are used to traverse the lookup table. Subsequently, a data set corresponding to a Huffman code word is accessed, thereby decoding the input bit stream.
US07773002B2
In a channel encoder comprising a dk-encoder stage and a precoding stage, obeyance of a repeated minimum transition runlength constraint is achieved because, between the dk-encoder and the precoder, data are passed through an RMTR encoder which replaces occurrences of a forbidden pattern by a current replacement pattern having the same length as the forbidden pattern. By appropriately selecting current replacement patterns from a predefined set of two different replacement patterns, DC-control can be achieved for the encoder output. The corresponding decoder is described, which also employs pattern replacement.These results are provided by a method of channel encoding binary data, wherein the data is contained in a n input sequence of data tuples. An input sequence of constrained tuples is generated that obeys the relationships heretorfore set forth. A post encoding step is applied with NRZI modulation to be used in a channel as described.
US07772998B2
Provided are a meta data encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The meta data decoding method includes decoding a media signal containing a media object, and decoding meta data corresponding to the media object. During the decoding of the meta data signal, decoding of the meta data is skipped when the meta data that is to be decoded is identical to already decoded meta data.
US07772997B2
The present disclosure includes a system and method for reducing leakage noise in directly sampled radio frequency signals. In some implementations, a Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID) reader includes an antenna, an Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC), a synthesizer module, and a Carrier Noise Reduction (CNR) module. The antenna is configured to receive Radio Frequency (RF) signals and pass the RF signals to a receive path. The ADC is configured to directly sample RF signals in the receive path in accordance with a clock signal and generate a digital signal. The synthesizer module is configured to generate the clock signal and a signal used to upconvert a transmitter signal. The clock signal and the upconversion signal are phase locked. The CNR module is configured to reduce leakage noise in the receive path.
US07772991B2
In one embodiment, the present invention is directed to a method to operate a host vehicle having a rearview camera vision sensor, and an electronic controller with memory. The method comprises the steps of determining whether the host vehicle is in reverse gear, activating a rearview camera vision sensor on said host vehicle to detect objects, determining host vehicle motion and path of travel, simultaneously determining an inter-frame difference metric and a histogram difference metric of the field of view of said rearview camera, determining a dynamic scene change, determining a collision threat assessment based upon said dynamic scene change, and activating warnings and collision avoidance moves.
US07772983B2
An apparatus and method for identifying a carcass during meat production. In one embodiment, the apparatus includes a band sized to fit around a limb of the carcass and a readable identification tag affixed to the band for remote identification of the carcass. In another embodiment, the apparatus includes a block adapted to couple to a trolley carrying the carcass and a readable identification tag coupled to or embedded in the block. The readable identification tag may be used to read and write information relating to the carcass to a database.
US07772982B2
An anti-theft tag includes a body that carries an EAS sensor, a shrinkable sleeve disposed about the outside of the body, an adhesive material disposed on the body between the body and the sleeve, and a sleeve holder extending from the body. The sleeve holder is constructed and arranged to hold the sleeve on the body such that a portion of the sleeve and the body define an aperture configured to receive an elongate article, such as an arm from a pair of eyeglasses. In use, once the anti-theft tag is disposed on the article, an assembler shrinks the sleeve to secure the anti-theft tag to the arm. In such a configuration, the sleeve and adhesive material holds the body of the anti-theft tag against the arm, thereby limiting the ability for a thief to remove the anti-theft tag from the elongate article by twisting or rotating the anti-theft tag relative to the article.
US07772981B1
A non-removable closure having a radio frequency identification, RFID, circuit integral therein. The RFID may be active or passive and may be integral with the top wall or side wall of the closure. The non-removable closure has a closure retainer which non-removeably engages a container neck at to which it is engaged. The closure retainer may be in the form of “J” hooks depending from the bottom portion of a side wall, an adhesive between the container neck and closure, or other closure retainer known to persons having ordinary skill in the art.
US07772975B2
There is provided a system for identifying a plurality of components via an RFID reader with an associated database and processing element. The system includes a first component with an associated first RFID transponder and a second component with an associated second RFID transponder. A third RFID transponder may be associated with the first component, wherein either the first or third RFID transponder includes stored information relating to both transponders. The first and second RFID transponders are adapted to communicate with the RFID reader to enable identification of the connection of the first component to the second component. One of the RFID transponders may be adapted to identify the other RFID transponder and store the identification information for subsequent communication to the RFID reader of identification information for both RFID transponders and the associated components. The system is adapted to create a map of the two or more components, such as components of telecommunications equipment.
US07772964B2
Methods and systems for automatically programming an RFID tag using machine readable indicia. A dual mode device performs a bar code scan of a bar coded label. Information obtained from the bar code scan is stored. This information may be used to query a database indexed by the bar code information that contains detailed product information. The bar code information as well as the detailed information may be transmitted in an RF signal by the dual mode device to an RFID tag to be stored in a memory structure in the tag. The dual mode device may perform a read operation on the tag after the write operation to confirm that the data was successfully stored and provide an indication thereof. The indication may be a visual indication, a textual indication, an audible indication or combinations of these.
US07772958B2
A circuit breaker with a first contact sleeve (3, 14), a second contact sleeve (4, 16), an insulating sleeve (5, 18) disposed between the first contact sleeve (3, 14) and the second contact sleeve (4, 16) has a switching piston (6, 20) with at least one contact section (8) and an isolating section (7, 19), which is disposed at the side of the contact section (8), whereby the switching piston (6, 20) is movable between a closed position in which the contact section (8) of switching piston (6, 20) connects the first contact sleeve (3, 14) with the second contact sleeve (4, 16) so as to be electrically conductive, and an open position in which the contact section (8) of the switching piston (6, 20) does not connect the first contact sleeve (3, 14) with the second contact sleeve (4, 16), in which the first contact sleeve (3, 14), second contact sleeve (4, 16) and insulating sleeve (5, 18) is movable. The isolating section (7, 19) is elastically deformable and in the insulating sleeve (5, 18) exerts a surface pressure force on the surface thereof due to elastic deformation. The circuit breaker according to the invention is reclosable.
US07772951B2
An improved field emission system and method is provided that involves field emission structures having electric or magnetic field sources. The magnitudes, polarities, and positions of the magnetic or electric field sources are configured to have desirable correlation properties, which may be in accordance with a code. The correlation properties correspond to a desired spatial force function where spatial forces between field emission structures correspond to relative alignment, separation distance, and the spatial force function.
US07772949B2
A magnet structure for a Nuclear Magnetic Resonance imaging apparatus includes at least two opposing magnetic pole pieces, which are located at a certain distance from each other and delimit an imaging region. The pole pieces are formed by at least one massive layer of a magnetically permeable material, and at least one layer of magnetically permeable material having a pack of superimposed sheets or foils, electrically insulated from each other. Each of the sheets has cuts arranged over the surface of the sheet in positions that are at least partly non coincident with the cuts of at least one, or both adjacent sheets. The magnetically permeable sheets or foils have a first face and a second face and the cuts are so arranged on each sheet that the cuts of a sheet or foil are offset and not coincident with respect to the cuts of an adjacent sheet or foil, when said adjacent sheet is laid over the previous sheet in an overturned position, i.e. with the first face turned toward the first face of the first sheet or with the second face of said adjacent sheet turned toward the second face of the first sheet.
US07772934B2
A technique includes selecting one out of a plurality of frequency bands and providing a voltage controlled oscillator to generate a mixing signal for the selected frequency band. The technique includes adjusting a frequency gain of the voltage controlled oscillator based on the selected frequency band.
US07772933B1
In one embodiment, a multiple band oscillator system is disclosed which comprises a first oscillator having a first input, a resonating element, a first output, and a second output. In addition, the multiple band oscillator system also comprises a second oscillator having a second input, a third output, and a fourth output. The first oscillator has a first oscillator frequency and the second oscillator has a and second oscillator frequency. The multiple band oscillator system also contains a tuning capacitive element coupled to the first and second oscillators for determining the second oscillator frequency, and the first oscillator and the second oscillators are both capable of operating the resonating element.
US07772932B1
A method of generating a quadrature local oscillator (LO) frequencies is provided. In this method, a voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) frequency can be mixed with a divided version of the VCO frequency to generate mixed signals. A lower sideband of the mixed signals can be selected for the quadrature LO frequencies to minimize the occurrence of spurs. Notably, the divided version is 1/N of the VCO frequency and the VCO frequency is a radio frequency (RF) channel frequency times a ratio N/(N−1).
US07772929B2
A method and a device are proposed for frequency synthesis by means of oscillator means, particularly a digitally controlled oscillator, which are capable of generating output frequencies out of a set of possible output frequencies. For the purpose of generating a desired frequency that is not included in the set of possible output frequencies, the oscillator means are driven by a control device in such a way that said oscillator means alternately generate at least two different output frequencies, out of the set of possible output frequencies, in such a way that the average value of the generated output frequencies over a time period is substantially the desired frequency.
US07772921B2
A filter and a filtering method are provided. The filter includes a first compare voltage generation unit, a second compare voltage generation unit, a comparator and a first inverter. The first compare voltage generation unit generates a first compare voltage according to an input signal. The second compare voltage generation unit generates a second compare voltage. When the first compare voltage is not over the first reference voltage, the second compare voltage equals the first reference voltage. When the first compare voltage is over the first reference voltage, the second compare voltage equals the second reference voltage. The first reference voltage and the second reference voltage depend on a minimum pulse width. The comparator outputs a filtered signal according to the first compare voltage and the second compare voltage. The first inverter inverts a filtered signal to an output signal.
US07772916B2
An internal voltage generator of a semiconductor device consumes relatively small amount of driving current and generates a stable internal voltage with relatively small voltage level variation. The semiconductor device includes an oscillator configured to generate an oscillation signal in response to an input signal, wherein the oscillation signal oscillates with a first period and oscillates with a second period longer than the first period during a predetermined latter section, and an internal circuit configured to perform a predetermined operation in response to the oscillation signal.
US07772907B2
Provided are a digital phase interpolator, which performs linear phase interpolation irrelevantly to input order of two input signals, and a semi-digital delay locked loop (DLL), which includes and controls the same. The phase interpolator includes: a first clocked inverter controlled by a phase indicating signal and providing a first output signal to a common output terminal by inverting a first input signal, and a second clocked inverter controlled by the phase indicating signal and providing a second output signal to the common output terminal by inverting the second input signal. The second clocked inverter is clocked by the first input signal when the phase indicating signal is in a first logic state, and the first clocked inverter is clocked by the second input signal when the phase indicating signal is in a second logic state. The phase indicating signal indicates a lead/lag phase relationship between the first and second input signals and is generated in a controller of a circuit of the semi-digital DLL.
US07772903B2
A pulse width modulation circuit capable of linearly adjusting duty cycle with voltage, which comprises an input voltage source for generating an input voltage, a regulator for generating a regulated voltage, a first voltage-dividing unit for providing a first divided voltage, a second voltage-dividing unit for providing a second divided voltage, a third voltage-dividing unit for providing a third divided voltage, a voltage adder for adding the first divided voltage and the third divided voltage for generating a high level voltage, a waveform generator for generating an oscillating signal according to the high level voltage and the third divided voltage, and a comparator having a first input terminal coupled to the second voltage-dividing unit, a second terminal coupled to the waveform generator, and an output terminal for comparing the second divided voltage with the oscillating signal to output a pulse width modulation signal through the output terminal.
US07772900B2
PLL (phase locked loop) circuits and methods are provided in which PWM (pulse width modulation) techniques are to achieve continuous fine tuning control of DCO (digitally controlled oscillator) circuits. In general, pulse width modulation techniques are applied to further modulate dithered control signals that are used to enhance the frequency tuning resolution of the DCO such that the dithered control signals are applied to the fractional tracking control port of the DCO for a selected fraction of a full clock signal based pulse width modulation applied.
US07772896B2
A method and apparatus generates a clock frequency dependent on a reference clock signal and has a phase locked loop configuration. A multiplexer is connected into the transmission path of the respective incoming input signal, to which the corresponding input signal is fed directly, on the one hand, and in delayed fashion, on the other hand. The common clock signal used is a system clock signal, independent of the reference clock signal and the local clock signal and whose frequency is higher by a factor of at least “5” than the frequency of the reference clock signal and of the local clock signal, respectively. The temporal spacing between the edges of the undelayed clock signal, and of the delayed clock signal, is set such that it is greater than the temporal spacing of the sampling pulses of the phase detector that are predetermined by the system clock signal.
US07772894B2
Aspects of the present invention include a method, apparatus and device for generating a power on reset (POR) signal in relation to the crossing point of two currents wherein at least one current is a quadratic function and the other is an exponential function, where each has a mathematical correlation to a function of a predetermined power supply voltage.
US07772878B2
A parallel resistor circuit that can reduce an error of a resistance value, an on-die termination having the same, and a semiconductor device having the on-die termination device. The semiconductor memory device includes a calibration circuit configured to pull up or pull down a predetermined node and compare a voltage of the predetermined node with a reference voltage to generate calibration codes, by using parallel resistor units that are turned on or off in response to the calibration codes. An output driver is configured to terminate a data output node to a pull-up or pull-down level to output data, by using the parallel resistor units. At least one of the parallel resistor units having at least two resistivities includes resistors with different resistivities connected to each other in parallel.
US07772877B2
An output buffer circuit, a differential output buffer circuit, an output buffer circuit having a regulation circuit and a regulation function, and a transmission method, to improve resolution of a pre-emphasis amount without increasing power consumption or a circuit area. The output buffer includes a delay circuit, an inverter and output buffers to transmit a logical signal to a transmission line and generate a waveform having four or more types of signal voltages on a transmission side according to a signal attenuation amount of the transmission line. The output buffer has a selector and a variable resistance portion at an output resistance to change a pre-emphasis amount according to a change in a variable resistance value. The inverter is configured to select a signal to input into the output buffer, invert a data signal and adjust a tap pre-emphasis amount by a select signal of the selector logic.
US07772875B2
An electronic device comprising at least one input/output circuit (10) in a first supply voltage domain (VDD, GND) is provided. The electronic device furthermore comprises a buffer (INV) which is coupled to the input/output circuit for driving an input of the input/output circuit (10). The buffer comprises a first and second switch (T1, T2; T4, T5). The buffer is arranged in a second supply voltage domain (VDD1, GND1). Furthermore, a control circuit is coupled to the buffer for controlling the first and second switch (T1, T2; T4, T5) such that during a transition of an input signal of the input/output circuit (10) both switches (T1, T2; T4, T5) are temporarily kept in a conducting state and a crowbar current flows through the buffer (INV).
US07772863B2
A stiffener structure, a wiring substrate, and a frame having a major surface disposed in a stack can be part of a probe card assembly. The wiring substrate can be disposed between the frame and the stiffener structure, and probe substrates can be coupled to the frame by one or more non-adjustably fixed coupling mechanisms. Each of the probe substrates can have probes that are electrically connected through the probe card assembly to an electrical interface on the wiring substrate to a test controller. The non-adjustably fixed coupling mechanisms can be simultaneously stiff in a first direction perpendicular to the major surface and flexible in a second direction generally parallel to the major surface.
US07772862B2
An alignment method is used in implementation of electric characteristic inspection of an object to be inspected via electric contact between the object disposed on a movable mounting table and probes. The alignment method includes detecting tip positions of the probes by using the tip position detecting device, detecting the tip positions of the probes, previously detected by the tip position detecting device, by using the second imaging unit, transferring needle marks of the probes onto a soft member provided at the tip position detecting device by allowing the probes to come into contact with the soft member, detecting the needle marks of the probes formed on the soft member by using the first imaging unit, and detecting inspection electrodes of the object corresponding to the probes by using the first imaging unit.
US07772853B2
Provided is a semiconductor device determining connection status between an output terminal connected to an output buffer and an external device, the semiconductor device including a test voltage generating circuit to generate test voltage for changing voltage of the output terminal, a connection detection determining circuit to compare voltage of the output terminal with reference voltage and to determine connection status of the external device based on the comparing result, and a compensation circuit generating simulation current where leak current generated at the output buffer is reproduced in a simulatory manner and compensating voltage change of the output terminal by the simulation current.
US07772846B2
In a method to correct a B0 field drift in a temperature map exposure obtained by magnetic resonance tomography as well as a device to implement such a method, a magnetic resonance phantom is placed at a stored, marked reference position relative to an acquisition coil. A first reference phase image of the phantom is automatically acquired in the acquisition of a first phase image of an examination subject in the unheated state. A second reference phase image of the phantom is automatically acquired in the acquisition of a later second phase image of the examination subject. The phase images are adapted to one another according to the requirements of a calibration of the associated reference phase images.
US07772843B2
In one embodiment a method for processing a reconstruction image is disclosed. The method includes recording the reconstruction image by a magnetic resonance device having a gradient coil to generate a gradient field. The method further includes distortion-correcting the reconstruction image. The method further includes back-transforming the distortion-corrected reconstruction image, by an image processing device, into a distortion-uncorrected reconstruction image, the back-transforming uses a first algorithm or a second algorithm including a second input value associated with the measurement signal, the second input value being a fictitious gradient field value associated with a distorted measuring point at which the measurement signal is processed, and the second input value is raised or lowered by a nonlinear field component of the real gradient field compared with a linear ideal gradient field.
US07772841B2
A magnetic device comprises a magnetic element, a first magnetic field applying means, and a second magnetic field applying means. The first and second magnetic field applying means are disposed on mutually opposite sides of the magnetic element. The magnetic element is, for example, an element in which a soft magnetic film is formed in a meandering shape on a nonmagnetic substrate. The first and second magnetic field applying means create a magnetic field in one direction from the first magnetic field applying means toward the second magnetic field applying means. The bias magnetic field in one direction is thereby applied to the entire soft magnetic film in the magnetic element disposed between the first and second magnetic field applying means.
US07772840B2
The eddy current testing apparatus includes a probe having an eddy current testing sensor including a pair of eddy current testing coils. The apparatus also includes an eddy current testing flaw detector inputting detection signals from the eddy current testing sensor. The diameter of a magnetic core used in each of the pair of eddy current testing coils is within the range of 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm.
US07772822B2
A power supply apparatus having a soft start function that enables a startup without any overshoot within an appropriate startup time regardless of whether the load is heavy or light. Even when output direct current voltage Vo has not yet risen upon startup, switch circuit (4) is turned ON within a count time of timer (7), and clamping circuit (5) clamps error signal (Ve) of error amplifier (2), so that an excessive signal is prevented from entering PWM circuit (6), and electric power supplied to load (13) is controlled. Consequently, supply power as the power supply apparatus is limited, and any inrush current can be prevented from being generated. By controlling the count time of timer (7) when this error signal is clamped, it is possible to realize a startup within an appropriate startup time without any overshoot.
US07772821B2
A digital current share bus interface connects to a power module which provides a signal representative of its output current, and adjusts the module's output current in response to a control signal received from the interface. A data formatting module receives the output current signal and generates a digital word that varies with the current; the bits of the word are coupled to a current share bus. A comparator module receives digital words conveyed via the bus and generated by the data formatting module at respective inputs, and provides the control signal to the power module so as to adjust its output current to match the current value represented by the digital word on the bus. In a typical implementation, multiple power modules are coupled to the current share bus via respective interfaces, with the output currents of all the power modules connected in parallel.
US07772820B2
A feedback and comparison apparatus applicable to a DC-DC voltage converter is provided. The feedback and comparison apparatus includes a comparator and a voltage feedback circuit. The voltage feedback circuit includes a first voltage dividing component and a second voltage dividing component. The comparator compares a feedback voltage with a first reference voltage, and outputs a control signal to the DC-DC voltage converter according to the comparing result. One end of the first voltage dividing component is coupled to an output voltage output by the DC-DC voltage converter and the other end of the first voltage dividing component is coupled to one end of the second voltage dividing component, for providing the feedback voltage. The other end of the second voltage dividing component is coupled to a second reference voltage. The present invention is applicable to a situation that the output voltage is smaller than the reference voltage.
US07772814B2
A step-down circuit generates a second power supply lower than a first power supply. The step-down circuit includes an output terminal connected to a load circuit, an output transistor connected between the first power supply and the output terminal, and having a gate terminal connected to a first node, a monitor transistor connected between the first power supply and a second node, and having a gate terminal connected to the first node, and a feedback circuit which sets a gate voltage of the output transistor in accordance with a difference between a voltage obtained by dividing a voltage of the second node and a reference voltage. A size of the monitor transistor is changed in accordance with an operation mode of the load circuit.
US07772806B2
A power storage system regulates DC power from a DC power supply into prescribed voltage and current using a DC-DC converter unit for storage in a storage unit. On the DC power supply side of the DC-DC converter, the system includes a primary side current detecting unit, a primary side voltage detecting unit, a primary side switch unit, and a primary side filter unit. On the storage unit side of the DC-DC converter, the system includes a secondary side filter unit, a secondary side switch unit, a secondary side voltage detecting unit, and a secondary side current detecting unit. The on/off states of the primary and secondary side switch units, and the DC-DC converter unit are controlled by a system control unit provided with an externally applied operation command and signals obtained from elements such as the primary side current detecting unit and the primary side voltage detecting unit.
US07772800B2
The invention relates to an energy system comprising an electrochemical energy source, wherein said electrochemical energy source comprises at least one assembly of a first electrode, a second electrode, and an intermediate solid-state electrolyte separating said first electrode and said second electrode. The invention also relates to an electronic module provided with such an energy system. The invention further relates to an electronic device provided with such an energy system. Moreover, the invention relates to a method of manufacturing of such an energy system.
US07772799B2
A battery pack is provided including universal battery modules and a master control module. By selecting proper rated universal battery modules and connecting them either in series and/or parallel, a high performance and long life battery pack is assembled that is suitable for high power applications such as electrical vehicles whereby the master control module acts as the battery pack control and interface module.
US07772790B2
A control method for a motor that rotates based on flux linkages to a winding member of the motor when the winding member is energized by a drive current is provided. The method includes storing magnetic-state information indicative of a relationship between each of a plurality of predetermined operating points of the drive current and a magnetic-state parameter associated with the flux linkages. The method includes obtaining at least one of command information associated with an operating state of the motor and detection information associated with the operating state of the motor. The method includes referencing the magnetic-state information with the use of the obtained at least one of the command information and detection information to obtain a value of the magnetic-state parameter based on a result of the reference. The method includes controlling an output of the motor based on the obtained value of the magnetic-state parameter.
US07772787B2
The present invention provides a light source, method, computer-readable storage medium and computer program product for optimising one or more illumination characteristic thereof. In particular, the present invention provides a light source comprising four or more light-emitting elements, or groups or arrays thereof, each one of which having a respective predefined emission spectrum which, when combined in accordance with a given intensity ratio, provide illumination at a particular color temperature. This light source may comprise an internal and/or external selection module for selecting one or more illumination characteristics to be optimised, and internal and/or external computing module for optimising drive parameters of the light source to provide the optimised illumination characteristic selected. The light source may optionally be hardwired to operate according to predefined drive parameters selected, using a method, computer-readable storage medium and/or computer program product of the present invention, in order to optimise a pre-selected illumination characteristic.
US07772785B2
Disclosed is a low-cost parallel lighting system for discharge lamps for a surface light source, which reduces nonuniform brightness and static noise, and fulfills a requirement that lamp currents of individual cold-cathode fluorescent lamps should be uniform and stabilized. In a surface light source system having multiple discharge lamps, there is a module which lights the discharge lamps in parallel and whose input terminal and electrodes on an opposite side to that side of the discharge lamps which is connected to the module are driven by voltage waveforms different in phase by 180 degrees from each other, wherein an input terminal of an opposite phase of the surface light source system is connected to an inverter circuit having outputs of opposite phases via a single shunt transformer in such a way as to cancel out magnetic fluxes generated by currents respectively flowing in windings of the shunt transformer, whereby the resonance frequency of the inverter circuit having outputs of opposite phases is matched to balance the outputs.
US07772783B2
A dimmable electronic ballast for an electrodeless discharge lamp comprises an inverter circuit, a resonance circuit, an induction coil and a start circuit. The start circuit has a variable time constant. The start circuit sweeps a drive frequency of the inverter circuit through a time constant for start or restart so that the voltage applied across the coil is raised from voltage lower than start voltage and restart voltage for starting and restarting the lamp to voltage higher than the start voltage and the restart voltage. The time constant for start during a start period for starting the lamp is larger than the time constant for restart during a restart period for restarting the lamp.
US07772780B2
Disclosed are a lamp igniter module and method of assembling a lamp igniter module. The lamp igniter module comprises a transformer carrier, a slide-in electrical connector, a pc board, and a housing. Assembly of the lamp igniter module is accomplished by initially inserting a transformer carrier assembly within the housing and subsequently installing a slide-in electrical connector which may or may not be attached to the pc board.
US07772779B2
An external electrode fluorescent lamp for a backlight, including: a lamp that emits light; a first external electrode at one end of the lamp, and a second external electrode at a second end of the lamp; a dividing electrode between the first and second external electrodes and defining a plurality of divided regions; and a separating wall inside the lamp corresponding to the dividing electrode and separating the lamp into the divided regions.
US07772777B2
A Plasma Display Panel (PDP) reinforces a ground of a circuit board by directly connecting a protection plate, which protects a Tape Carrier Package (TCP), to the ground portion of a circuit board. Accordingly, the noise inflow into an address buffer board is reduced.
US07772764B2
A display device and a method of manufacturing the display device are provided. The display device includes a substrate; a driving voltage line disposed on the substrate; a driving voltage line pad to transmit a driving voltage to the driving voltage line; a driving transistor connected to the driving voltage line; a pixel electrode connected to the driving transistor; a common electrode opposing the pixel electrode; a light emitting member disposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode; and a common electrode pad disposed on the substrate so as to transmit a common voltage to the common electrode. The common electrode pad and the driving voltage line pad are exposed at a side surface of the substrate.
US07772762B2
A white light organic electroluminescent element is provided. The white organic electroluminescent element comprises an anode, a hole transporting layer on the anode, an orange light emitting layer on the hole transporting layer, a blue light emitting layer on the orange light emitting layer, an electron transporting layer on the blue light emitting layer, and a cathode on the electron transporting layer, wherein the orange light emitting layer is formed by co-evaporation of a host-emitting material, a blue guest-emitting material, and an orange guest-emitting material.
US07772759B2
An electrooptical apparatus includes a light emission element array in which a plurality of light emission elements are arranged, and a barrier rib which surrounds the light emission element array.
US07772757B2
A white-light electroluminescent device having an adjustable color temperature substantially on a predetermined range of a Planckian locus within the 1976 Commission Internationale de l'Eclairage (CIE) uniform chromaticity scale diagram. According to one embodiment, a first light-emitting element having a fixed ratio of at least two different species of emitters combined to produce a set of chromaticity coordinates at a predetermined white point substantially on the Planckian locus. A second light-emitting element having at least a single species of emitters produces a set of chromaticity coordinates. The set of chromaticity coordinates are positioned along a projected line extending from the Planckian locus and through the chromaticity coordinates of the first light-emitting layer. A controller adjusts the voltage or current associated with the first and second light-emitting elements to provide white light with a predetermined range of chromaticity coordinates substantially on the Planckian locus.
US07772756B2
There is a problem in a dual emission device emitting light out of both surfaces that an image on the surface and an image on the rear surface are different from each other (either image is mirror-reversed). A dual emission device is disclosed in which either light emitted from the light-emitting device is reflected by glass including a semi-transmissive film to display on glass an image same as another image obtained also from the light-emitting device, and simultaneously, external information can be viewed through the glass. A mirror can be arranged between the dual emission device and the glass including a semitransparent film.
US07772755B2
A thermionic emission device includes an insulating substrate, and one or more grids located thereon. Each grid includes a first, second, third and fourth electrode down-leads located on the periphery thereof, and a thermionic electron emission unit therein. The first and second electrode down-leads are parallel to each other. The third and fourth electrode down-leads are parallel to each other. The first and second electrode down-leads are insulated from the third and fourth electrode down-leads. The thermionic electron emission unit includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a thermionic electron emitter. The first electrode and the second electrode are separately located and electrically connected to the first electrode down-lead and the third electrode down-lead respectively. The insulating substrate comprises one or more recesses that further insulate the thermionic electron emitters from the substrate.
US07772754B2
An electron emission display is provided to prevent electron beams around the spacers from being distorted and to prevent arc discharging due to the spacers. The electron emission display includes first and second substrates facing each other to form a vacuum vessel, an electron emission unit provided on the first substrate, a light emission unit provided on the second substrate, and a plurality of spacers disposed between the first and the second substrates. Each spacer has a spacer body with a surface roughness, a resistance layer placed on a lateral side of the spacer body, and a flattening layer covering the resistance layer. The flattening layer has a thickness larger than the thickness of the resistance layer and a surface roughness smaller than the surface roughness of the spacer body.
US07772750B2
A lamp assembly (20) includes a ceramic metal halide lamp (22) mounted in a reflector (60) with support assembly (62). First frame portions (64) of the support assembly (which include linear first portions (64a), angled second portions (64b), and offset portions (64c)) are bent approximately ninety degrees at one end and merge into second frame portions (66) that extend parallel to the lamp. The arrangement supports the light source in the PAR lamp in a transverse manner. In a second embodiment, the frame portions (62′) extend along either side of the light source to accurately position the light source relative to the reflector.
US07772745B2
It is made possible to provide a MEMS device that has a low operation voltage, a large contact pressure force, and a large separation force. A MEMS device includes: a substrate; a supporting unit that is provided on the substrate; a fixed electrode that is provided on the substrate; an actuator that includes a first electrode, a first piezoelectric film formed on the first electrode, and a second electrode formed on the first piezoelectric film, one end of the actuator being fixed onto the substrate with the supporting unit, the actuator extending in a direction connecting the supporting unit and the fixed electrode, the first electrode being located to face the fixed electrode; and a stopper unit that is located above a straight line connecting the supporting unit and the fixed electrode, and is located on the substrate so as to face the first electrode.
US07772730B2
The present invention provides a magnetic wheel including a foundation body, a cover body, a fly wheel, a central axis, a drive motor, a drive gear assembly and two magnetic control strips. The drive gear assembly is driven by an output axis of the drive motor, enabling the swinging of the gear wheel of two magnetic control strips. The drive gear assembly has a gearshift unit, a coupling element and rear gear. The axial direction of the coupling element and rear gear is the same as the central axis of the magnetic wheel. The gear wheel of two magnetic control strips is mated with the rear gear through spur gear, thus making it easier to improve the manufacturing precision and drive efficiency and also reduce the manufacturing cost for better economic efficiency.
US07772723B1
An electrical panel is operable to receive electrical power from a first power supply and a second power supply. The electrical panel includes a neutral bus conductor having a stab configured to engage one or more switching devices and a separation formed in a bus conductor to electrically isolate one of the stabs.
US07772709B2
A resin sealed semiconductor device includes a first semiconductor switching device having a first emitter terminal and a first collector terminal bonded to its top and bottom surfaces respectively, a second semiconductor switching device having a second emitter terminal and a second collector terminal bonded to its top and bottom surfaces respectively, a first heat sink directly or indirectly bonded to the first collector terminal, a second heat sink directly or indirectly bonded to the second collector terminal, and a molding resin integrally covering the first and second semiconductor switching devices. The first and second heat sinks are exposed from the molding resin. The first emitter terminal faces and is spaced apart from the second emitter terminal.
US07772706B2
A spacer is adjacent to a conductive line. Vias that do not completely land on the conductive line land on the spacer and do not punch through into a volume below the spacer.
US07772697B2
A semiconductor device includes a tape carrier substrate having a flexible insulating film base, a plurality of conductor wirings provided on the film base, and wiring bumps respectively formed so as to cover an upper surface and both side surfaces of the conductor wirings, and a semiconductor chip mounted on the tape carrier substrate, wherein electrodes of the semiconductor chip are connected to the conductor wirings via the wiring bumps. Electrode bumps are formed on the electrodes of the semiconductor chip, the electrodes of the semiconductor chip are connected to the conductor wirings via a bonding between the wiring bumps and the electrode bumps, and the electrode bumps are harder than the wiring bumps. This structure can reduce bonding damages to the electrodes of the semiconductor chip caused by a process of connecting the electrodes and the conductor wirings via the bumps.
US07772696B2
An integrated circuit package, according to one embodiment, includes a package substrate, an interface stratum and an integrated circuit die. Both the IC die and interface stratum are disposed on the package substrate. The integrated circuit die includes a microelectronic circuit having a plurality of inputs and outputs. A first set of the inputs and outputs are electrically coupled to a plurality of package-to-circuit connection regions on the package substrate. A second set of input and outputs are electrically coupled through the package substrate to package-to-circuit connection regions on the interface stratum.
US07772695B2
A semiconductor component and a method for its production in semiconductor chip size, can have a semiconductor chip, which has external contacts of the semiconductor component that are arranged in the manner of a flip-chip on its active upper side. The semiconductor chip can be encapsulated by a plastic compound at least on its rear side and its side edges. The outer contacts, which can be arranged on external contact connecting areas, can project from the active upper side.
US07772690B2
An insulating film for semiconductor devices is obtained by curing, on a substrate, a high molecular compound obtained by polymerizing a cage-type silsesquioxane compound having two or more unsaturated groups as substituents and having a cyclic siloxane structure, wherein the structure of the cage-type silsesquioxane compound is not broken by curing, and the breakage of the cage structure can be detected by observing a peak at approximately 610 cm−1 in Raman spectrum of the film after curing.
US07772688B2
The present invention relates to an electronic circuit unit having at least one semiconductor (15), that is situated on a substrate, and whose electrical connections are in electrical contact with printed circuit traces of the substrate, and having a housing, that accommodates the substrate, which has contact paths which are connected to the printed circuit traces of the substrate using electrical connections. It is provided that the electrical connections (20) each have a contact surface (17) situated on the substrate (12) which, when the substrate (12) and the housing (2) are joined together, comes to lie in an opposing position to the counter-contact surfaces (19) of the contact paths (21). The present invention also relates to a corresponding manufacturing method.
US07772687B2
In an electronic component contained substrate in which electronic components are mounted between a pair of wiring substrates in a plural-stage stacked fashion, one wiring substrate and other wiring substrate are connected electrically mutually via solder balls, a first electronic component is mounted on one wiring substrate and then a second electronic component is mounted on the first electronic component, an opening portion for containing the second electronic component therein is provided in the other wiring substrate, the second electronic component is contained and mounted in the opening portion and is connected electrically to the other wiring substrate by a wire bonding, and a space between the pair of wiring substrates is sealed with a sealing resin.
US07772685B2
A stacked semiconductor structure and fabrication method thereof are provided. The method includes mounting and connecting electrically a semiconductor chip to a first substrate, mounting on the first substrate a plurality of supporting members corresponding in position to a periphery of the semiconductor chip, mounting a second substrate having a first surface partially covered with a tape and a second surface opposite to the first surface on the supporting members via the second surface, connecting electrically the first and second substrates by bonding wires, forming on the first substrate an encapsulant for encapsulating the semiconductor chip, the supporting members, the second substrate, the bonding wires, and the tape with an exposed top surface, and removing the tape to expose the first surface of the second substrate and allow an electronic component to be mounted thereon. The present invention prevents reflow-induced contamination, spares a special mold, and eliminates flash.
US07772675B2
The present invention provides a thin and bendable semiconductor device utilizing an advantage of a flexible substrate used in the semiconductor device, and a method of manufacturing the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device has at least one surface covered by an insulating layer which serves as a substrate for protection. In the semiconductor device, the insulating layer is formed over a conductive layer serving as an antenna such that the value in the thickness ratio of the insulating layer in a portion not covering the conductive layer to the conductive layer is at least 1.2, and the value in the thickness ratio of the insulating layer formed over the conductive layer to the conductive layer is at least 0.2. Further, not the conductive layer but the insulating layer is exposed in the side face of the semiconductor device, and the insulating layer covers a TFT and the conductive layer. In addition, a substrate covering an element formation layer side is a substrate having a support on its surface is used in the manufacturing process.
US07772674B2
A spiral inductor, which is formed of a spiral wiring pattern, is formed in an inductor formation region which is assigned within an IC chip. A plurality of dummy wiring lines are formed according to a given design rule on an inside region surrounded by the spiral inductor within the inductor formation region and on an outside region of the spiral inductor within the inductor formation region. Each of the plurality of dummy wiring lines is formed to have such a shape that at least one side of a closed loop is opened, and the plurality of dummy wiring lines are disposed to have regularity and/or uniformity at a given distance from the spiral inductor.
US07772669B2
Second diffusion layers to be guard rings of a second conductivity type are formed on the major surface of a semiconductor substrate of a first conductivity type in a guard ring region. An insulating film is formed on these second diffusion layers. The semiconductor device has a structure wherein a conductive film is formed on the insulating film between adjacent electrodes among a first surface electrode, second surface electrodes, and a third surface electrode.
US07772662B2
The present invention makes it possible to obtain: a semiconductor device capable of forming a highly reliable upper wire without a harmful influence on the properties of the magnetic material for an MTJ device; and the manufacturing method thereof. Plasma treatment is applied with reducible NH3 or H2 as pretreatment. Thereafter, a tensile stress silicon nitride film to impose tensile stress on an MTJ device is formed over a clad layer and over an interlayer dielectric film where the clad layer is not formed. Successively, a compressive stress silicon nitride film to impose compressive stress on the MTJ device is formed over the tensile stress silicon nitride film. The conditions for forming the tensile stress silicon nitride film and the compressive stress silicon nitride film are as follows: a parallel plate type plasma CVD apparatus is used; the RF power is set in the range of 0.03 to 0.4 W/cm2; and the film forming temperature is set in the range of 200° C. to 350° C.
US07772659B2
The magnetic device comprises a least two layers made of a magnetic material that are separated by at least one interlayer made of a non-magnetic material. The layers made of a magnetic material each have magnetization oriented substantially perpendicular to the plane of the layers. The layer of non-magnetic material induces an antiferromagnetic coupling field between the layers made of a magnetic material, the direction and amplitude of this field attenuating the effects of the ferromagnetic coupling field of magnetostatic origin that occurs between the magnetic layers.
US07772654B2
Nonvolatile memory devices and methods of fabricating the same are provided. A semiconductor substrate is provided having a cell field region and a high-voltage field region. Device isolation films are provided on the substrate. The device isolation films define active regions of the substrate. A cell gate-insulation film and a cell gate-conductive film are provided on the cell field region of the substrate including the device isolation films. A high-voltage gate-insulation film and a high-voltage gate-conductive film are provided on the high-voltage field region of the substrate including the device isolation films. The device isolation film on the high-voltage field region of the substrate is at least partially recessed to provide a groove therein.
US07772653B1
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor apparatus is disclosed. The apparatus comprises double poly bipolar transistors and double poly metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) transistors. The bipolar transistors and the MOS transistors are manufactured in a unified process in which a first polysilicon layer (Poly1) is doped to form the extrinsic bases in the bipolar transistors and to form the gates in the MOS transistors. A second polysilicon layer (Poly2) is doped to form emitters in the bipolar transistors and to form the sources and drains in the MOS transistors. The method of the invention minimizes the number of manufacturing process steps.
US07772645B2
A semiconductor device in which a semiconductor layer is formed on an insulating substrate with a front-end insulating layer interposed between the semiconductor layer and the insulating substrate is provided which is capable of preventing action of an impurity contained in the insulating substrate on the semiconductor layer and of improving reliability of the semiconductor device. In a TFT (Thin Film Transistor), boron is made to be contained in a region located about 100 nm or less apart from a surface of the insulating substrate so that boron concentration decreases at an average rate being about 1/1000-fold per 1 nm from the surface of the insulating substrate toward the semiconductor layer.
US07772644B2
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.
US07772638B2
Provided is a non-volatile memory device that can repetitively perform data write and erase operations in an embedded semiconductor device. In the non-volatile memory device, a device isolation region isolates a first active region and a second active region formed on a semiconductor substrate. A transistor electrode is formed on a first insulating layer in the first active region. A first capacitor electrode is formed on a second insulating layer in the first active region. A second capacitor electrode is formed on a third insulating layer in the second active region and electrically connected to the transistor electrode and the first capacitor electrode.
US07772636B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a first dielectric layer formed on the major surface of a semiconductor substrate, a floating gate electrode layer formed on the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer obtained by sequentially forming, on the floating gate electrode layer, a lower dielectric film mainly containing silicon and nitrogen, an intermediate dielectric film, and an upper dielectric film mainly containing silicon and nitrogen, a control gate electrode layer formed on the second dielectric layer, and a buried dielectric layer formed by covering the two side surfaces in the gate width direction of the stacked structure including the above-mentioned layers. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device further includes a silicon oxide film formed near the buried dielectric layer in the interface between the floating gate electrode layer and lower dielectric film.
US07772629B2
To securely prevent hydrogen from entering a ferroelectric layer of a ferroelectric memory. A first hydrogen barrier layer 5 is formed on the lower side of ferroelectric capacitors 7. Upper surfaces and side surfaces of the ferroelectric capacitors 7 are covered by a second hydrogen barrier layer. All upper electrodes 7c of the plural ferroelectric capacitors 7 to be connected to a common plate line P are connected to one another by an upper wiring layer 91. The upper wiring layer 91 is connected to the plate line P through a lower wiring 32 provided below the ferroelectric capacitors 7. A third hydrogen barrier layer 92 is formed on the upper wiring layer 91 such that all edge sections 92a of the third hydrogen barrier layer 92 come in contact with the first hydrogen barrier layer 5.
US07772627B2
Pixel cells are provided which employ a gate capacitor associated with the floating diffusion node to selectively increase the storage capacity of the floating diffusion node. The gate capacitor can be formed at the same time as the same process steps used to form other gates of the pixel cells. The inherent capacity of the storage node alone may be sufficient under low light conditions. Higher light conditions may result in selective activation of the gate capacitor, thus increasing the capacity of the storage node with the additional capacity provided by the gate capacitor. The invention produces high dynamic range and high output signal without charge sharing or lag output signal. Methods of forming such pixel cells can be applied in CMOS and CCD imaging devices, image pixel arrays in CMOS and CCD imaging devices, and CMOS and CCD imager systems.
US07772622B2
A manufacturing method of a field effect transistor in which, a patterned gate electrode is provided on a substrate, and a gate insulator is provided on the substrate and the gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode are spaced apart from each other on the gate insulator, a region to be a channel between the source electrode and the drain electrode is provided, a boundary between the region and either one of the source electrode and the drain electrode is linear, a boundary between the region and either one of the drain electrode and the source electrode is non-linear, the boundary has a continuous or discontinuous shape, and the boundary part has a plurality of recess parts, the surface of the region has hydrophilicity and a peripheral region of the region prepares a member having water-repellency, and a solution including semiconductor organic molecules is supplied to the region, and the solution is dried.
US07772621B2
A semiconductor device with structured current spread region and method is disclosed. One embodiment provides a drift portion of a first conductivity type, a current spread portion of the first conductivity type and first portions of the first conductivity type. The current spread portion and the first portions are arranged in a first plane on the drift portion, wherein the current spread portion surrounds at least partially the first portions. The semiconductor body further includes spaced apart body regions of a second conductivity type which are arranged on the current spread portion. Further, the doping concentration of the current spread portion is higher than the doping concentrations of the drift portion and of the first portions.
US07772617B2
A gas sensitive field effect transistor comprises a semiconductor substrate that includes a capacitance well, and source and drain regions of a field effect transistor. A gate of the field effect transistor is separated from the semiconductor substrate by an insulator, and a gas sensitive layer separated from the gate by an air gap. The field effect transistor provides an output signal indicative of the presence of a target gas within the air gap to an amplifier, which provides an amplified output signal that is electrically coupled to the capacitance well.
US07772615B2
Semiconductor electrooptic medium shows behavior different from a medium based on quantum confined Stark Effect. A preferred embodiment has a type-II heterojunction, selected such, that, in zero electric field, an electron and a hole are localized on the opposite sides of the heterojunction having a negligible or very small overlap of the wave functions, and correspondingly, a zero or a very small exciton oscillator strength. Applying an electric field results in squeezing of the wave functions to the heterojunction which strongly increases the overlap of the electron and the hole wave functions, resulting in a strong increase of the exciton oscillator strength. Another embodiment of the novel electrooptic medium includes a heterojunction between a layer and a superlattice, wherein an electron and a hole in the zero electric field are localized on the opposite sides of the heterojunction, the latter being effectively a type-II heterojunction. Yet another embodiment has a heterojunction between two superlattices, wherein an electron and a hole in a zero electric field are localized on the opposite sides of the heterojunction, the latter operating effectively as a type-II heterojunction.
US07772611B2
On a processed substrate having an engraved region as a depressed portion formed thereon, a nitride semiconductor thin film is laid. The sectional area occupied by the nitride semiconductor thin film filling the depressed portion is 0.8 times the sectional area of the depressed portion or less.
US07772610B2
A structure of LED of high heat-conducting efficiency is to provide a copper substrate having a plurality of indentations. An insulating layer is formed on the surface of the substrate and the bottom of the indentations. Meanwhile, a set of metallic circuits is formed on the insulating layer of the substrate, and a layer of insulating lacquer is coated on the surface of the metallic circuits, where there is no electric connection and no enclosure. A tin layer is coated on the insulating layer of the indentation and the metallic circuits, where there is no insulating lacquer. Furthermore, a set of light-emitting chips are die bonded on the tin layer of the indentation. Next, the light-emitting chips and the metallic circuits are electrically connected by a set of gold wires. Moreover, a ringed object is arranged on the surface of the substrate, such that the light-emitting chip set, the gold wires and the metallic circuits are enclosed therein. Meanwhile, a fluorescent glue is attached to the light-emitting chip set, the gold wires and the metallic circuits. Eventually, an epoxy resin is filled into the interior of the ringed object to be dry for forming an epoxy resin layer. Thus, a packaging manufacture of LED is completed.
US07772607B2
A GaN-series light emitting diode with high light efficiency utilizes a p-type semiconductor layer having a textured surface structure. The optical waveguide effect can be interrupted and formation of hexagonal shaped pits defect can be reduced due to the textured structure. The p-type semiconductor layer is formed on a light emitting layer and includes a p-type cladding layer, p-type transitional layer, and p-type ohmic contact layer. During the manufacturing of the GaN-series LED, the tension and compression of strain is controlled while the p-type cladding layer and the p-type transition layer are formed. Through the control of the epitaxial growth process, it is attained that the surface of the p-type semiconductor layer is textured to increase external quantum efficiency and the operation life of the light emitting device.
US07772583B2
Memory devices having a plurality of memory cells, with each memory cell including a phase change material having a laterally constricted portion thereof. The laterally constricted portions of adjacent memory cells are vertically offset and positioned on opposite sides of the memory device. Also disclosed are memory devices having a plurality of memory cells, with each memory cell including first and second electrodes having different widths. Adjacent memory cells have the first and second electrodes offset on vertically opposing sides of the memory device. Methods of forming the memory devices are also disclosed.
US07772578B2
A diagnostic test device comprising means for sampling a liquid biological sample, means for reacting the sample with at least one reagent to provide one or more visible indicia and an optical detector for detecting the presence of said one or more indicia, the device further comprising a releasable tether which is released by contact with the liquid sample, thereby to cause the optical detector to detect the said one or more indicia.
US07772567B2
A specimen holding device has a plurality of electrodes, and a moving mechanism for moving upward and downward a part of the plurality of electrodes. Further, the moving mechanism moves the part of the plurality of electrodes downward to evacuate from a path through which a specimen is introduced. Further, the specimen holding device has a positioning member for the specimen so that the specimen is positioned after being mounted.
US07772562B2
In a radiation detector in which scintillator layers are directly formed on all the light receiving parts of a plurality of photoelectric conversion substrates, space and level difference between the adjacent photoelectric conversion substrates are determined so that the effects of these space and level difference fall within a range corresponding to the effect of one photoelectric conversion element. Specifically, the space between the adjacent photoelectric conversion substrates is equal to or less than 133 μm and the level difference between the adjacent photoelectric conversion substrates is equal to or less than 100 μm. Accordingly, the scintillator layers can be directly formed on all the light receiving parts of the plurality of photoelectric conversion substrates. This prevents degradation in MTF and sensitivity and reduces manufacturing costs.
US07772561B2
In order to detect an image generated by an image source, a mirror arrangement is arranged between the image source and a detector. The mirror arrangement includes two spaced-apart deflection mirrors, which are parallel to each other or form an acute angle of less than 90° between them. In particular when the image source is a scintillator layer, shielding of X-rays from the detector with simultaneous compact dimensioning of the apparatus is achieved in this manner.
US07772559B2
A method for stabilizing the gain of a PET detection system with a cooling unit includes: determining the temperature of at least one component of the PET detection system, comparing the actual gain with a reference value, and actuating the cooling unit to influence the temperature such that the gain tends to the reference value. In at least one embodiment, the reference value is determined by determining the temperature of the at least one component during a test measurement, determining the gain during the test measurement, determining a functional dependence of the gain on the temperature, and selecting the reference value based on the gain to be stabilized. Advantageously, in at least one embodiment the gain can be kept constant using the described method in a simple manner, with the influence of the temperature of the components being taken into account.
US07772556B2
This invention relates to a detection system for detecting an analyte in a fluid medium. The detection system comprises a substrate that provides mechanical stability and is sized and shaped to intercept an infrared beam. A reactive material is coated on the substrate. When contacted with the analyte in the fluid medium, the reactive material reacts with the analyte and is altered. The detection system also comprises an infrared spectrometer producing the infrared beam that passes through the reactive material to a detector of the spectrometer. The alteration of the reactive material allows the spectrometer to identify and quantify the analyte. In one embodiment, the reactive material irreversibly reacts with the analyte. In another embodiment, the spectrometer is a non-ATR infrared spectrometer. In a further embodiment, the substrate is a disposable substrate.
US07772543B2
A system and method for manipulating and processing nanowires in solution with arrays of holographic optical traps. The system and method of the present invention is capable of creating hundreds of individually controlled optical traps with the ability to manipulate objects in three dimensions. Individual nanowires with cross-sections as small as 20 nm and lengths exceeding 20 μm are capable of being isolated, translated, rotated and deposited onto a substrate with holographic optical trap arrays under conditions where single traps have no discernible influence. Spatially localized photothermal and photochemical processes induced by the well-focused traps can also be used to melt localized domains on individual nanowires and to fuse nanowire junctions.
US07772538B2
An optical switch having a housing, a light source and a light detector. The light source and light detector are located remote from the housing, The light source is connected to the housing with a first light guide, and the light detector is connected to the housing with a second light guide. The first and second light guide cables have distal ends positioned through the housing and are optically aligned but separated by a gap. The switch includes a device to interrupt a light beam that is usually adapted to removably occupy the gap.
US07772537B2
A pixel circuit that partially incorporates an associated column amplifier into the pixel circuitry. By incorporating part of a mirrored amplifier into the pixel, noise from the pixel is reduced.
US07772530B2
An apparatus and process are provided for induction heating of a workpiece. The workpiece is moved through an inductor to inductively heat treat the workpiece with electric power of varying frequency and duty cycle or amplitude control to control the magnitude of electric power as the frequency changes. Alternatively the workpiece may be stationary and the inductor can be moved along the workpiece, or combined and coordinated movement of both the workpiece and inductor can be used.
US07772527B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a process chamber including upper and lower quartz walls, a substrate support disposed in the process chamber, radiant heaters respectively provided above and below the quartz walls of the chamber, and heat reflectors disposed outside the process chamber for reflecting heat towards the substrate support. Each of the heat reflectors has heating has a first thermally reflective section oriented to reflect the heat towards an outer peripheral region of the substrate support and a second thermally reflective section oriented to reflect the heat towards a central region of the substrate support. Each heat reflector also has a reflection angle adjusting mechanism by which an angle at which the second thermally reflective section reflects heat can be adjusted. The angle is adjusted depending on the temperature distribution across the substrate so that the substrate can be processed uniformly.
US07772523B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a laser irradiation apparatus and a laser irradiation method for conducting a laser process homogeneously to the whole surface of a semiconductor film. A first laser beam emitted from a first laser oscillator passes through a slit and a condensing lens and then enters an irradiation surface. At the same time, a second laser beam emitted from a second laser oscillator is delivered so as to overlap the first laser beam on the irradiation surface. Further, the laser beams are scanned relative to the irradiation surface to anneal the irradiation surface homogeneously.
US07772521B2
A system and associated method of marking a molded vehicle tire with laser engraved information to provide both human visible and machine readable data concerning the tire. Information contained in a barcode on the tire is read at a first station and supplied to a control unit. The physical location of human visible information previously molded into the tire is read from the tire at a second station and supplied to the control unit which uses this information to position a laser located at a third station for engaging additional human visible information pertaining to the manufacture of the tire adjacent the existing visible information to satisfy the Department of Transportation (DOT) tire marking requirements. The additional information also can be laser engraved into the tire in a machine readable encoded format, such as 2D symbols, for subsequent control and verification throughout the life of the tire.
US07772519B2
The laser irradiation apparatus of the present invention is configured to include a laser and at least two mirrors each having a concave surface for unidirectionally homogenizing an energy density of laser light emitted from the laser. A focal position of a first mirror exists between the first mirror and an irradiation surface. A focal position of a second mirror does not exist between the second mirror and the irradiation surface, but exists behind the irradiation surface. The laser irradiation apparatus thus configured enables laser irradiation of, for example, semiconductor films.
US07772511B2
An electric power socket module comprising a socket portion, a switch portion and a plurality of conductive pins is provided. The socket portion and the switch portion are integrally formed and electrically connected in series by using the conductive pins. Thus, conventional wirings and hand-welding can be eliminated to reduce the costs and enhance safety.
US07772507B2
An improved switch assembly for use in a handheld electronic device comprises a capacitive sensing system employing a capacitive slider input device to detect navigational inputs, and further provides a pair of switches mounted to the slider on an underside thereof to provide selection or escape inputs as desired.
US07772501B2
A flexible printed circuit board (FPC) is disclosed which can eliminate the need for forming through holes and ensure the strength required for mounting components. The FPC has a metal foil layer formed only on one side of an insulating layer via an adhesive layer. The FPC is configured such that the insulating layer and the adhesive layer are partially removed, and the surface of the metal foil layer on the side from which the insulating layer and the adhesive layer have been removed is flattened. In a region from which the insulating layer and the adhesive layer have been removed, an overcoat layer for reinforcing the metal foil layer is provided along the metal foil layer on a surface opposite to the flattened surface. A drive IC is mounted on a first metal foil face of the metal foil layer and on a second metal foil face which is the flattened surface of the metal foil layer, and is provided with electrical conduction by the metal foil layer. To form the FPC, the insulating layer and the metal foil layer can be directly affixed to each other without using the adhesive layer.
US07772500B2
An improved pole mount cable restraint insulator is described featuring a pin and bolt locking mechanism that may be used to secure a medium voltage 5 kV to 35 kV electrical cable to the insulator and riser pole. The cable restraint insulator includes a seat to secure the cable. A further improvement over existing cable restraints is the polymer insulating materials used in the construction. Such materials are lighter in weight, electrically track resistant, lower in cost and non-breakable. The cable restraint insulator may be constructed by injection molding and/or casting with variety of electrically insulating polymers.
US07772494B2
A telecommunications cable having a cable jacket defining an elongate cable core, a conductor assembly comprising four twisted pairs of conductors disposed along the core and parallel elongate distensions formed on an inner surface of the cable jacket. The distensions are spaced about an inner surface of the cable jacket and prevent the conductor assembly from coming into contact with the inner surface. The distensions can be the result of a series of filler elements placed between the cable jacket and the cable core and which wind helicoidally along and about the cable core. A separator spline has first and second elongate dividing strips having a substantially H shaped cross section and arranged side by side. The spline twists helicoidally along its length. The separator spline and the insulation surrounding the twisted pairs of conductors can be manufactured form a material having the same dielectric constant.
US07772493B2
An electrical winding conductor (1) with a rectangular cross section is specified in order to produce an electrical winding for electrical appliances which contain a liquid, which is used as a coolant and in which the winding is immersed in the in-use position. In order to improve the cooling, raised areas (2) composed of insulating material are fitted at a distance from one another on at least one side of the winding conductor (1), over its entire length.
US07772483B2
An immersion thermocouple is described. The immersion thermocouple includes a heat resistant sheathing, the interior of which is substantially filled with a heat resistant cement, a first U-shaped tube enclosing a thermocouple fixed in the heat resistant cement, and a second U-shaped tube fixed in the heat resistant cement. The second U-shaped tube bridges the first U-shaped tube at an angle of approximately ninety degrees. The immersion thermocouple also includes a shield circumferentially surrounding the first and the second U-shaped tubes proximate to where the first and the second U-shaped tubes are fixed to the heat resistant cement.
US07772482B2
An electronic musical instrument includes a performance operation portion that is operated by fingers of a performer, a contact portion that is adapted to be brought into contact with a lower lip of the performer, a contact pressure detection portion that detects the contact pressure at which the lower lip is brought into contact with the contact portion, and generates a pressure value in accordance with the detected contact pressure, and a control portion that specifies sound of a pitch in accordance with an operation status of the performance operation portion and changes the pitch of the sound in accordance with the pressure value.
US07772478B2
There are disclosed methods and apparatus for understanding music. A classifier machine may be trained for each of a plurality of selected terms using a first plurality of music samples. The classifier machines may then be tested using a second plurality of music samples. The results from testing the classifier machines may then be used to select a plurality of semantic basis function from the selected terms. A semantic basis classifier machine may then be trained for each semantic basis function.
US07772477B2
An electronic music apparatus has a sound generator for generating a music sound signal according to music data and a display device for displaying information associated with music data. In the electronic music apparatus, a storage medium stores a plurality of music data files, each being written with music data for use in generating the music sound signal. An information retention section retains file information for use in displaying a name or an icon of the respective music data. A reading command section issues a command of reading out a target music data file from the storage medium. A display control section controls the display device when the target music data file is successfully read out, for displaying the name and the icon of the music data written in the read target music data file based on the file information, and controls the display device when the target music data file is failed to be read, for displaying the name and the icon of the music data in a state different from the name and the icon displayed when the target music data file is successfully read out.
US07772469B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH379824. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH379824, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH379824 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH379824.
US07772464B2
The invention provides alfalfa plants having adaptation, productivity, winterhardiness, and disease resistance with high levels of somatic embryogenesis. Plants and plant parts of the invention are useful in the efficient development of transgenic alfalfa plants with adaptation, productivity, winterhardiness, and disease resistance.
US07772461B2
It is to provide a novel molybdenum ion transporter MoTR1 gene responsible for molybdenum transport for the first time in plants, enabling to promote effectively molybdenum absorption from the environment or molybdenum transport in vivo. By QTL analysis of Arabidopsis thaliana accessions Col-0 and Ler, it was found that QTL which dominates Mo concentration in leaves was present on the chromosome No: 2. In the present invention, the region in which the causal gene is present was limited to 172 kb, by a genetic analysis. In the region, the gene At2g25680 having a domain common to sulfate ion transporter, while its function is not revealed was present. Thus, knockout strains of 2 separate lines in which a foreign gene fragment (T-DNA) was introduced at At2g25680 were obtained, Mo concentration in leaves was measured, and MoTR1 gene was identified.
US07772447B2
In a process for converting methane to liquid hydrocarbons, a feed containing methane is contacted with 0 dehydrocyclization catalyst under conditions effective to convert said methane to aromatic hydrocarbons, including benzene and/or naphthalene, and produce a first effluent stream comprising hydrogen and 0t least 5 wt % m>35 aromatic hydrocarbons than said feed. At least part the aromatic hydrocarbons from the first effluent stream is then reacted with hydrogen to produce a second effluent stream having a reduced benzene and/or naphthalene content compared with said first effluent stream.
US07772442B2
Disclosed is a shell-and-tube reactor that may be used for fixed-bed catalytic partial oxidation, the reactor being characterized by including at least one reaction zone of a first-step reaction zone for mainly producing unsaturated aldehydes and a second-step reaction zone for mainly producing unsaturated acids, wherein at least one reaction zone of the above reaction zones comprises two or more catalytic layers; each of the catalytic layers is packed with a formed product of catalyst that is different in pore density and/or pore size in a catalytically active component; and the pore density and/or pore size is controlled in such a manner that specific surface area of the catalytically active component increases from the inlet of the reactor to the outlet of the reactor. A method for producing unsaturated aldehydes and/or unsaturated fatty acids from olefins using the same reactor is also disclosed. According to the present invention, it is possible to control the temperature efficiently at a hot spot, thereby permitting stable use of a catalyst, and to produce unsaturated aldehydes and/or unsaturated fatty acids with high yield.
US07772437B2
The present invention discloses novel and improved processes for preparation of sertraline hydrochloride crystalline form II. Thus, for example, sertraline free base is dissolved in isoamyl alcohol at 25-30° C., pH of the mass is adjusted to 2.0 with conc. hydrochloric acid (36%) at 25-30° C. and then stirred for 14 hours at 25-30° C. Filtered the solid and dried at 65° C. for 4 hours to give sertraline hydrochloride crystalline form II. The present invention also provides a novel process for preparation of sertraline hydrochloride crystalline form I.
US07772435B2
Disclosed herein is a method comprising: (a) adding an aqueous solution comprising a quaternary ammonium salt to an organic solvent in a vessel under an inert atmosphere, thereby forming a first mixture comprising the quaternary ammonium salt and the solvent; and (b) mixing the first mixture at a temperature and for a time sufficient to remove water and a portion of the solvent from the first mixture, wherein the mixing is performed in an inert atmosphere and the temperature is less than the decomposition temperature of the quaternary ammonium salt.
US07772428B2
Methods of production for Tricreatine Hydroxycitrate are disclosed. Tricreatine hydroxycitrate can be used as supplemental dietary ingredient for the purposes of reducing adiposity, suppression of appetite, improvement of muscle and exercise performance and recovery. The salts are useful in the dietetic, food supplement and food industries.
US07772421B2
A monomer compound that contains at least one polymerizable functional group per molecule, and at least one bicycloheptyl-, bicycloheptenyl-, or branched (C5-C42)alkyl-polyether radical per molecule, wherein the bicycloheptyl- or bicycloheptenyl- polyether radical may optionally be substituted on one or more of the ring carbon atoms by one or two (C1-C6)alkyl groups per ring carbon atom is useful in making polymers, particularly pH responsive polymers.
US07772419B2
A vinyl ester alkoxycarbonylation process comprising reacting a vinyl ester with carbon monoxide in the presence of an alkanol and a catalyst system. The catalyst system used is obtainable by combining: a) a metal of Group VIII B or a compound thereof, and b) a bidentate ligand of general formula (I) R is a covalent bridging group; R1 together with Q2 to which form an optionally substituted 2-Q2-tricyclo[3.3.1.1{3,7}]decyl group or derivative thereof (2-PA); R2 and R3 independently represent univalent radicals up to 20 atoms or jointly form a bivalent radical of up to 20 atoms; and Q1 and Q2 each independently represent phosphorous, arsenic or antimony. The process is carried out for the production of a 3-hydroxy propanoate ester or acid of formula (II) CH2(OH)CH2C(O)OR28 (II). or for the production of a lactate ester or acid of formula III.
US07772418B1
A process for producing 3,4′diacetoxybenzophenone by first synthesizing 3,4′dihydroxybenzophenone by reacting meta-hydroxybenzoic acid and phenol in the presence of a Lewis acid, and a protonic acid followed by reacting the 3,4′dihydroxybenzophenone with an acetylating agent in the presence of an inorganic acid and activated carbon.
US07772412B2
The invention includes a method of dehydration of a sugar using a dehydration catalyst and a co-catalyst within a reactor. A sugar is introduced and H2 is flowed through the reactor at a pressure of less than or equal to about 300 psig to convert at least some of the sugar into an anhydrosugar product. The invention includes a process for producing isosorbide. A starting material comprising sorbitol is flowed into a reactor. H2 is counter flowed through the reactor. The starting material is exposed to a catalyst in the presence of a co-catalyst which comprises at least one metal. The exposing is conducted at a hydrogen pressure of less than or equal to 300 psig within the reactor and the hydrogen removes at least some of any water present during the exposing and inhibits formation of colored byproducts.
US07772411B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of (3R,3aS,6aR)-hexahydrofuro[2,3-b]furan-3-yl (1S,2R)-3-[[(4-aminophenyl)sulfonyl](isobutyl) amino]-1-benzyl-2-hydroxypropylcarbamate as well as intermediates for use in said process. More in particular the invention relates to processes for the preparation of (3R,3aS,6aR)-hexahydrofuro[2,3-b]furan-3-yl (1S,2R)-3-[[(4-aminophenyl)sulfonyl](isobutyl)amino]-1-benzyl-2-hydroxypropylcarbamate which make use of 4-amino-N-((2R,3S)-3-amino-2-hydroxy-4-phenylbutyl)-N-(isobutyl)benzene sulfonamide intermediate, and to processes amenable to industrial scaling up. (3R,3aS,6aR)-hexahydrofuro[2,3-b]furan-3-yl (1S,2R)-3-[[(4-aminophenyl)sulfonyl](isobutyl)amino]-1-benzyl-2-hydroxypropylcarbamate is particularly useful as HIV protease inhibitors.
US07772409B2
A method of preparing a sultine of formula (V) from a dihalogeno compound of formula (IV) is provided. The method comprises reacting the dihalogeno compound (IV) with a hydroxymethanesulfinate salt in a DMSO solvent,wherein: R1, R2, R3 and R4 are each independently selected from hydrogen, hydroxyl, C1-20alkyl, C1-20alkoxy, amino, C1-20alkylamino, di(C1-20alkyl)amino, halogen, cyano, thiol, C1-20alkylthio, nitro, C1-20alkylcarboxy, C1-20alkylcarbonyl, C1-20alkoxycarbonyl, C1-20alkylcarbonyloxy, C1-20alkylcarbonylamino, C5-20aryl, C5-20arylalkyl, C5-20arylalkoxy, C5-20heteroaryl, C5-20heteroaryloxy, C5-20heteroarylalkoxy or C5-20heteroarylalkyl; and X is Cl, Br or I.
US07772406B2
Provided are: a process for production of a benzyloxypyrrolidine derivative in high yield and safety, and a process for production of a hydrochloride powder of a benzyloxypyrrolidine derivative in high yield and safety; the process for production of a benzyloxypyrrolidine derivative expressed by the general formula (2) [Chemical formula 2], in reacting a pyrrolidinol derivative represented by the general formula (1) [Chemical formula 1] with a benzyl halide derivative in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide, wherein the reaction is carried out in either of the following conditions A or B; condition A: an aprotic polar solvent, and condition B: an aliphatic ether solvent containing a phase transfer catalyst:
US07772404B2
N-[4-(3-Amino-1H-indazol-4-yl)phenyl]-N′-(2-fluoro-5-methylphenyl)urea Crystalline Form 2, ways to make it, formulations comprising it and made with it and methods of treating patients having disease using it are disclosed.
US07772403B2
A novel process for the preparation of hydantoin sulfonyl chlorides of general formula (I) wherein R and n are as specified in the description, and certain novel intermediates thereto, are disclosed.
US07772394B2
A process for making zaleplon comprising alkylating 3-[3-(dimethylamino)-1-oxo-2-propenyl]-phenyl]-acetamide with ethyl iodide in the presence of an alkali metal hydroxide or alkoxide selected from sodium hydroxide, potassium hydroxide, sodium methoxide, sodium tert-butoxide or potassium tert-butoxide in an aprotic solvent to give N-ethyl-[3-[3-(dimethylamino)-1-oxo-2-propenyl]-phenyl]-acetamide, condensing N-ethyl-[3-[3-(dimethylamino)-1-oxo-2-propenyl]-phenyl]-acetamide and 3-amino-4-cyanopyrazole, and isolating zaleplon from the reaction. Preferably, the condensing is done in the presence of (a) a water immiscible organic acid; (b) a cation exchange resin; or (c) a water miscible organic acid in water or in a C-1 to C-4 alcohol or in a mixture of water and a C-1 to C-4 alcohol.
US07772386B1
The present invention relates to compositions useful in immunization against pathogenic organisms of the genus Mycobacterium and for diagnostic purposes. In particular, the present invention relates to a composition comprising at least one protein which is differentially expressed in a virulent strain as compared to an avirulent strain of Mycobacteria. Furthermore, the invention relates to compositions comprising fusion proteins, antigenic fragments, nucleic acid molecules encoding the aforementioned proteinaceous compounds and/or antibodies thereto. Additionally, the invention relates to pharmaceutical and diagnostic compositions comprising or employing compounds of the invention. In addition, the present invention relates to the use of the compounds of the invention for the treatment of Mycobacterium induced diseases and/or for the preparation of a vaccine for vaccination against Mycobacterium induced diseases.
US07772378B2
Glucopyranosyl-substituted (hetero)arylethynyl-benzene derivatives of the general formula I where the groups R1 to R6 as well as R7a, R7b, R7c are defined according to claim 1, including the tautomers, the stereoisomers thereof, the mixtures thereof and the salts thereof. The compounds according to the invention are suitable for the treatment of metabolic disorders.
US07772377B2
Disclosed is a colorant composition of the formula wherein R is an alkyl group, an aryl group, an arylalkyl group, or an alkylaryl group, and wherein R can be joined to the phenyl moiety to form a ring, R′ is an aromatic- or heteroaromatic-containing group, each Ra, independently of the others, is a halogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group, a nitrile group, a nitro group, an amide group, or a sulfonamide group, w is an integer of 0, 1, 2, 3, or 4, n is an integer representing the number of carbon atoms in each repeat alkylene oxide unit, and x is an integer representing the number of repeat alkylene oxide units, wherein said colorant has no more than one —OH, —SH, or primary or secondary amino group per molecule.
US07772376B2
A process for the preparation of a desired chemical compound in a continuous reactor in which a part of the product stream exits the reactor and part of the product stream is recycled around the reactor in order to reduce the amount of buffer that would otherwise be required.
US07772368B2
The present invention relates to IgE-dependent histamine releasing factor (HRF) and HRF-binding peptides, more precisely, deletion forms of HRF which are able to be formed as dimers containing amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO:3, genes encoding thereof and novel HRF-binding peptides having an activity of inhibiting HRF. The deletion forms of HRF which are able to be formed as dimers of the present invention induces intracellular secretion of histamine and IL-8, making an excellent candidate for a drug for inhibiting allergic reaction triggered by HRF and a kit for detecting HRF in serum of an allergy patient. In addition, novel HFR-binding peptides of the present invention bind to HRF to inhibit the actions of HFR, so they can be effectively used for the prevention and the treatment of allergic diseases of animals including asthma and rhinitis or malaria.
US07772363B2
An isolated polypeptide, Z domain, derived from B domain of Staphylococcal protein A, comprising a pair of anti-parallel alpha helices that are capable of binding a target, is provided herein. Introduction of an engineered disulfide bridge between two natural or un-natural amino acids in the polypeptide is provided here. Also provided are methods of using the two-helix binders.
US07772358B2
A process of synthesizing hyperbranched polytriazoles, linear and hyperbranched poly(aroyltriazoles) by Huisgen 1,3-dipolar cycloaddition. The polytriazoles were prepared by A2+B3 method to avoid self-polymerization during monomer preparation and storage. The polymers are light emissive and can be crosslinked to generate well-resolution photopatterns upon UV irradiation. White light emission patterns were observed with fluorescence microscopy. The high molecular weight poly(aroyltriazoles) (up to 26000 Da) are prepared in high yields (up to 92.0%) and with high regioselectivity (the ratio of 1,4- and 1,5-disubstituted 1,2,3-triazole is equal or larger than 9:1). The polycyclomerization is not moisture or oxygen sensitive and therefore, no special precautions are necessary before and during the reaction. All the polymers are processible, easily film-forming, and curable into thermosets by heat or irradiation. The hyperbranched polymers can act as fluorescent adhesive materials with large tensile strength.
US07772357B2
A water soluble polymer comprising multiple degradable carbonate linkages in a backbone and, for each carbonate linkage in the backbone, an oligomer linked thereto by the carbonate linkage, wherein the oligomer is branched.
US07772354B2
Polyurethane-based and polyurea-based compositions including modified amine curing agents for use in golf ball layers where modified amine curing agent of the invention allows control of the reaction rate by providing a composition with both primary and secondary amine linkages.
US07772353B2
This invention relates to polyurethane elastomers and to a process for their production. These elastomers comprise the reaction product of a (cyclo)aliphatic isocyanate component having an NCO group content of about 20 to about 45%, with an isocyanate-reactive component comprising one or more polyether polyols which is free of amine groups, and a low molecular weight organic compound containing two hydroxyl groups and which is free of amine groups, in the presence of one or more catalysts.
US07772328B2
The present invention relates to hydrogenated nitrite rubber polymers having lower molecular weights and narrower molecular weight distributions than those known in the art. The present invention is also related to shaped articles containing hydrogenated nitrile rubber polymers having lower molecular weights and narrower molecular weight distributions than those known in the art.
US07772327B2
To provide a novel crosslinking system of fluorine-containing elastomer giving a crosslinked product particularly having improved mechanical strength and compression set at high temperature. A fluorine-containing rubber composition comprising a fluorine-containing elastomer having carboxyl group and/or alkoxycarbonyl group at an end of a trunk chain and/or branched chain as a crosslinkable group.
US07772326B2
The invention provides a novel block copolymer which can significantly improve the adhesion between a molded product composed of a nonpolar polymer such as polypropylene or polyethylene and a coating material or a molded product composed of a polar polymer, as well as a method for producing the same. Disclosed is a block copolymer comprising at least one poly (aromatic vinyl) block having a weight-average molecular weight of 1,000 to 500,000 and at least one cyclized poly (conjugated diene) block, as well as an oxygen scavenger and a modifier for polymer molding material, which comprise the block copolymer as an active ingredient.
US07772318B2
An aqueous polymer dispersion comprising polymer particles (A), polymer particles (B) and at least one low molecular weight polymer (C) where polymer particles (A) comprise high molecular weight polymer pA having Mw >50,000 and acid number of from 0 to 160, polymer particles (B) comprise high molecular weight polymer pB having Mw >50,000 and acid number of from 0 to 160, and C is an addition polymer having a calculated Tg,(low) of less than 10° C., Mn <10,000, acid number of from 0 to 80, formed by the polymerization of at least one ethylenically unsaturated nonionic monomer.
US07772312B2
The invention relates to reinforced polyurethane-urea elastomers with a specific urea content and a specific urethane content, to sheet polyurethane moldings with high surface energy and good lacquer adhesion produced therefrom, and to their use.
US07772306B2
A series of mixtures of N-butyl cyanoacrylate and 2-octyl-cyanoacrylate monomers having specific and differing concentrations of free radical inhibitor/antioxidant stabilizers for each mixture of the two monomers. This results in cyanoacrylate compositions that can withstand radiation such as E-beam and gamma radiation at any desired level and not be adversely affected.
US07772295B2
To provide a resin composition excellent in conformability to special shapes and in holding power without the need of containing a low molecular softener such as a plasticizer, other than a polysiloxane, and a cured product and a sheet using it.A resin composition characterized by comprising (a) an acrylic rubber, (b) a compound containing at least two mercapto groups per molecule, (c) a compound containing at least two acryloyl and/or methacryloyl groups per molecule, (d) an acrylate and/or methacrylate having a C2-12 alkyl group, and (e) acrylic acid or methacrylic acid. The above resin composition which contains a thermally conductive filler. A cured product and sheet using it.
US07772294B2
A method for forming a fire resistant material is disclosed. The method comprises providing a plurality of expandable beads of a polymeric material. The beads are coated with an exfoliable graphite. The exfoliable graphite is adhered to the beads with a resin having a solubility parameter of the polymeric material. The beads are thereafter caused or allowed to expand and fuse.
