US07849513B1
A method and system for authorizing the use of software program in an electronic device. The system uses a unique first code number associated with the software program. An intermediate object is encoded with a second code number. When the software program is initially installed into the electronic device, the first code number is transmitted to the electronic device. Later, when the intermediate object is then connected to the electronic device, the second code number on the intermediate object is identified and the third code number is then separately presented When the second and third code numbers have been presented, the software program may then be used.
US07849509B2
Methods and systems for analyzing a computer program use static and interprocedural analysis techniques and engines. A data processing operation, such as a function, is automatically identified within the computer program. It is determined whether the function represents a potential source for entry of untrusted data into the computer program. A course of the untrusted data is modeled through the identified function to produce a validation result, such as a call stack. Based on an attribute of the untrusted data (for example, whether the untrusted data is an unbounded integer or a string), it is determined whether the validation result identifies a security vulnerability of the computer program. A security vulnerability may exist, for example, when the modeled course of an unbounded integer through the function produces a buffer overrun in a call stack. The validation result is provided, via an API, software development tool, or user interface, for example.
US07849493B1
A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having an input (e.g., 77) controlling a plurality of computers (e.g., 205), generate and output user information at receiver stations. Under broadcast control, local computers (73, 205), combine user information selectively into prior art communications to exhibit personalized mass media programming at video monitors (202), speakers (263), printers (221), etc. At intermediate transmission stations (e.g., cable television stations), signals in network broadcasts and from local inputs (74, 77, 97, 98) cause control processors (71) and computers (73) to selectively automate connection and operation of receivers (53), recorder/players (76), computers (73), generators (82), strippers (81), etc. At receiver stations, signals in received transmissions and from local inputs (225, 218, 22) cause control processors (200) and computers (205) to automate connection and operation of converters (201), tuners (215), decryptors (224), recorder/players (217), computers (205), furnaces (206), etc. Processors (71, 200) meter and monitor availability and usage of programming.
US07849492B2
A broadcasting system comprises a transmission apparatus, which multiplexes stream-format data based on a stream transmission protocol and file-format data based on a file transmission protocol with each other and sends them as a single stream, and receiving apparatuses which receive and temporarily accumulate stream-format data and file-format data which are sent as they are multiplexed with each other, and stream-format data and file-format data are temporarily accumulated as they directly are in the form of a single stream, all or some of file-format data are reproduced later at predetermined timing and accumulated once again as a file.
US07849487B1
A digital video playback architecture utilizes review speed adjustment markers to enable viewer recognition of an event in a video program during fast advance of the video, either in a fast-forward advance mode or a rewind advance mode. A review speed adjustment marker gives the viewer time to recognize, or otherwise ascertain, an event in the video and stop the fast advance to review the video content, or other information, associated with the review speed adjustment marker at a normal playback speed.
US07849486B2
A master device interactively distributes a television signal to a remote device for remote display with low latency between a user input and a television signal change.
US07849479B1
A unified system of programming communication. The system encompasses the prior art (television, radio, broadcast hardcopy, computer communications, etc.) and new user specific mass media. Within the unified system, parallel processing computer systems, each having an input (e.g., 77) controlling a plurality of computers (e.g., 205), generate and output user information at receiver stations. Under broadcast control, local computers (73, 205), combine user information selectively into prior art communications to exhibit personalized mass media programming at video monitors (202), speakers (263), printers (221), etc. At intermediate transmission stations (e.g., cable television stations), signals in network broadcasts and from local inputs (74, 77, 97, 98) cause control processors (71) and computers (73) to selectively automate connection and operation of receivers (53), recorder/players (76), computers (73), generators (82), strippers (81), etc. At receiver stations, signals in received transmissions and from local inputs (225, 218, 22) cause control processors (200) and computers (205) to automate connection and operation of converters (201), tuners (215), decryptors (224), recorder/players (217), computers (205), furnaces (206), etc. Processors (71, 200) meter and monitor availability and usage of programming.
US07849477B2
The present invention provides targeted asset system implementations in contexts where there is limited or no ability to use a real-time return channel for communications from user equipment devices (e.g., STB) to the network. In one arrangement, a household classifier is generated and delivered to user equipment devices. The household classifiers are generated based on third party data and/or network usage information associated with the household. The system and method allow for generating highly accurate household classifications that may be forwarded to individual households where the user equipment device may implant the classifiers to select appropriate assets for delivery to the household.
US07849476B2
A system and method for automatically switching a primary image of a display module from a television program to an interactive application upon detecting the beginning of a commercial break and optionally switching the primary image back to the television program upon detecting or determining the end of the commercial break; wherein the user's progress in executing the interactive application is automatically saved upon return to the television program so that the user can progressively execute the interactive application program during consecutive commercial breaks.
US07849470B2
System and method for extending a programming language to include multiple dissimilar object systems
The illustrative embodiment of the present invention provides a method for extending a programming language to interact with foreign object systems. Through the use of an opaque interface, a requesting unit may interact with multiple foreign object systems. A single set of procedures written into the opaque interface and accessible by the requesting unit enable the requesting unit to interact with the foreign object systems. The foreign object systems register with the opaque interface. The registration process for the object systems includes the creation and registration of a defined set of functions, the format for which is provided by the opaque interface. The defined set of functions are called by the procedures in the opaque interface and execute in the object system. The results of the function execution are returned to the requesting unit thereby extending the foreign object system capabilities to the requesting unit.
US07849455B2
An initial user interface description is transmitted from a generation component to output modalities which include styling components configured to supplement the initial user interface description with layout information. The output modalities each include rendering components configured to render outputs based upon the initial user interface description and the layout information. Initial user interface description delay times between transmitting the initial user interface description from the generation component and rendering the outputs on the rendering components are determined, and a reference delay time is also determined based upon the greater of the initial user interface description delay times. Correction times are determined based upon the reference delay time and the initial user interface description delay times, and a subsequent user interface description is transmitted from the generation component to the output modalities based upon the correction times, such that the subsequent user interface description is rendered at the rendering components substantially simultaneously.
US07849453B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates code for software scouting the regions of a program. During operation, the system receives source code for a program. The system then compiles the source code. In the first step of the compilation process, the system identifies a first set of loops from a hierarchy of loops in the source code, wherein each loop in the first set of loops contains at least one effective prefetch candidate. Then, from the first set of loops, the system identifies a second set of loops where scout-mode prefetching is profitable. Next, for each loop in the second set of loops, the system produces executable code for a helper-thread which contains a prefetch instruction for each effective prefetch candidate. At runtime the helper-thread is executed in parallel with the main thread in advance of where the main thread is executing to prefetch data items for the main thread.
US07849449B2
System and method for implementing a design flow for a programmable hardware element (PHE) that includes a processor. A graphical program (GP) is received, where the GP specifies performance criteria. The GP is mapped for deployment, with a first portion targeted for execution by the processor, and a second portion targeted for implementation in the PHE. A determination is made as to whether the graphical program meets the performance criteria. If not, the GP is remapped for deployment, including identifying and specifying the sub-portion for implementation in the PHE, thereby moving the sub-portion from the first portion to the second portion, and/or identifying and specifying the sub-portion for execution on the processor, thereby moving the sub-portion from the second portion to the first portion. The determining and remapping is repeated one or more times until the performance criteria are met. The first and second portions are deployed to the PHE.
US07849444B2
A test executive sequence may be created by including a plurality of test executive steps in the test executive sequence and configuring at least a subset of the steps to call user-supplied code modules. One or more of the user-supplied code modules may take buffer parameters. The test executive sequence may be executed on a host computer under control of a test executive engine. When executing each step in the test executive sequence that calls a user-supplied code module that takes a buffer parameter, the test executive engine may be operable to perform several operations related to detecting a situation where the user-supplied code module writes outside the bounds of the buffer parameter and/or preventing the user-supplied code module from corrupting heap data if the user-supplied code module writes outside the bounds of the buffer parameter.
US07849435B1
Methods and structures utilizing multiple configuration bitstreams to program integrated circuits (ICs) such as programmable logic devices, thereby enabling the utilization of partially defective ICs. A user design is implemented two or more times, preferably utilizing different programmable resources as much as possible in each configuration bitstream. The resulting user configuration bitstreams are stored along with associated test bitstreams in a memory device, e.g., a programmable read-only memory (PROM). Under the control of a configuration control circuit or device, the test bitstreams are loaded into a partially defective IC and tested using an automated testing procedure. When a test bitstream is found that enables the associated user design to function correctly in the programmed IC, i.e., that avoids the defective programmable resources in the IC, the associated user bitstream is loaded into the IC, the configuration procedure terminates, and the programmed IC begins to function according to the user design.
US07849432B2
A dummy cell pattern for shallow trench isolation (STI). Active and shallow trench isolation areas are bounded by a circumference. An active area pattern completely overlaps the active area and a first polysilicon pattern in the shallow trench isolation area is outside the active area pattern. Layout methods using the same are also disclosed.
US07849428B2
The present invention provides a fully automatic method for obtaining a circuit having minimized power consumption due to clock-gating. A circuit design to be optimized is modified to a reduced power modified design and associated with a clock gating scheme. Verification tools compare the modified design with the original design to a predetermined trigger-events to determine if the modified design can be used. Further modifications may be made iteratively until an optimal design is achieved.
US07849422B2
A method for designing an integrated circuit, comprising the steps of (A) calculating an efficiency value for each of a plurality of equivalent cells in the design; and (B) selecting a number of the plurality of equivalent cells based on the efficiency values. The equivalent cells (i) decrease an overall delay of a path to meet a timing specification, and (ii) minimize an increase in overall leakage current.
US07849402B2
An interface and a method is provided for permitting a user to explore a collection of data. The data collection provides nodes as structural elements, and references which are assigned to nodes and hold the address of another node. Multiple references can be assigned to each node, thus guiding a user of the system to multiple other nodes, and multiple references can hold the same address, so that multiple nodes can have references pointing to the same node. The interface allows visualizing the network created by the interconnection of the nodes on a display region. The interface also allows the user to intuitively navigate along the references in both directions of the references, so that the user can explore which nodes are referenced by a certain node, and also by which nodes a certain node is referenced. Electronic documents can be assigned to each node, and the interface allows these documents to be displayed either directly in a reserved display region of the interface, or by launching a matching application on the user's computer.
US07849400B2
In a document such as a patient chart that contains several types of information, a tag is applied to each type of collected information to identify the content or type of data. The information is also associated with at least one particular individual, event or other association member. The information is stored in a manner such that each type of information collected is associated with one of the assigned tags and an association member. Each user has an access code associated with at least some of the defined tags. When a user seeks to retrieve collected information, access is permitted to only that information having tags associated with the access code assigned to that user. The tags are preferably created by storing the information in XML format. A standard may be applied to information collected to determine whether the collected information corresponds to the standard.
US07849398B2
A method is provided for selecting fields of an electronic form for automatic population with candidate text segments. The candidate text segments can be obtained by capturing an image of a document, applying optical character recognition to the captured image to identify textual content, and tagging candidate text segments in the textual content for fields of the form. The method includes, for each of a plurality of fields of the form, computing a field exclusion function based on at least one parameter selected from a text length parameter, an optical character recognition error rate, a tagging error rate, and a field relevance parameter; and determining whether to select the field for automatic population based on the computed field exclusion function.
US07849395B2
The present invention comprises methods and user interfaces for organizing data displayed within a data application. Specifically, the present invention provides methods and systems for arranging the display of the data by a format applied to one or more portions of the data. The formats comprise different visual characteristics of the displayed data. In exemplary embodiments, the data application organizes the data by the fill color of the cell, the font color of the data within the cell, or the type of icon inserted into the cell. The organizations comprise any type of rearrangement of the data. In exemplary embodiments, the data application sorts or filters the displayed data according to the format.
US07849393B1
An electronic book selection and delivery system distributes text to subscribers. The system includes the ability to use electronic links as well as a system for creating electronic links between specific electronic books and other electronic files. The links may be used or accessed by a menu system or by operation of a cursor and a select button. The other electronic files could be portions of a specific electronic book, such as a Table of Contents. The other electronic files could also exist external to a specific electronic book. For example, definitions provided in an electronic English-language dictionary could be linked to terms contained in an electronic book. The electronic links may be created by the book publisher or may be subscriber-defined. The links may use standard programming language such as hypertext markup language (HTML). The links may be established through use of a relational database.
US07849390B2
A module for transmitting sets of data bits to another module via a communication bus using dual-rail encoding is provided that has a reduced switching activity. The module comprises bus invert coding means adapted to compare a set of data bits with a preceding set of data bits to determine an indication of the number of transitions required to transmit the set of data bits; invert the set of data bits prior to transmission if it is determined that the number of transitions required to transmit the set of data bits is greater than half the total number of bits in the set of data bits; and provide an indication of whether the set of data bits has been inverted; the module also comprising means adapted to generate respective copies of the data bits in the set of data bits; and means adapted to transmit to the other module, via the communication bus, the set of data bits, their respective copies and the indication of whether the set of data bits has been inverted.
US07849385B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for detecting a media defect. A circuit providing a hard output and a soft output is used with the hard output and the soft output being combined and the product compared with a threshold. Based at least in part on the comparison, a media defect may be identified.
US07849376B2
A method for generating acknowledgement messages in a data transmission system having a receiver for receiving datagrams and being capable of determining which of a series of datagrams have been incorrectly received, the method comprising generating a plurality of a data units, each data unit comprising: a status bit indicative of the status of the data unit; and a plurality of spacing bits together forming a binary representation of a number at least partially indicative of the spacing between one incorrectly received datagram and a succeeding incorrectly received datagram. Apparatus for carrying out various aspects of the methods are also provided.
US07849375B2
A semiconductor test system includes: pin electronics (“PE”) cards each being operable to: a) apply a test pattern to device under tests (“DUTs”) each connected to the PE cards; b) capture patterns outputted in response to the test pattern from the DUTs; c) compare the patterns with an expected value pattern; and d) determine whether or not the patterns correspond with the expected value pattern, and a fail control card being operable to: e) aggregate fail information about the DUTs inputted through the PE cards every the DUTs; and f) transfer the fail information to the PE cards.
US07849362B2
A method and system comprises creating a test case that is dependent upon known sequences and executing the test case on an originating processor until it reaches a known point. The method further includes executing the test case on a different processor to perform an action and informing the originating processor that the action was taken. The action is verified as being occurred with the originating processor.
US07849360B2
The invention may back up or recover a computing device. The computing device may include a user computing environment and a supporting environment which stabilizes and functionality of the user computing environment. The invention may include one or more external devices or removable media.
US07849346B1
A controller may include a measurement circuit configured to generate a proxy signal representing delay variations in the controller. The measurement circuit may also generate a measurement value from the proxy signal. A control circuit may be configured to convert the measurement value into a control value. A delay circuit may be adjusted by the control value to alter an amount of delay of a signal.
US07849336B1
Embodiments for generating a boost voltage in a computing platform are disclosed.
US07849327B2
A technique to improve the performance of virtualized input/output (I/O) resources of a microprocessor within a virtual machine environment. More specifically, embodiments of the invention enable accesses of virtualized I/O resources to be made by guest software without necessarily invoking host software. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention enable more efficient delivery of interrupts to guest software by alleviating the need for host software to be invoked in the delivery process.
US07849323B2
A multimedia device or other type of processing device comprises a memory, a processor coupled to the memory, and playback circuitry coupled to the processor. In one aspect, the processor is operative to control the storage in the memory of at least one multimedia file containing a one-time password or other type of password, where the password is generated externally to the processing device, and to control the playback of the multimedia file via the playback circuitry to make the password apparent to or otherwise accessible to an associated user or other entity. The multimedia file may comprise, for example, an audio file, with the password being presented to the user in an audible form upon playback of the audio file. As another example, the multimedia file may comprise a video file, with the password being presented to the user in a visible form upon playback of the video file.
US07849322B2
The invention relates to a method for exchanging a 3D view between a first and a second user having both a piece of software for creating 3D views. A view is created by the first user. This view comprises an encrypted object, the first user being licensed for the encrypted object. This view is stored in a file by the first user. The encrypted object is encrypted and the result of this encryption is stored as encrypted data in the file. According to the invention, non-encrypted data defining the encrypted object is stored in the file in parallel to the encrypted data relating to the encrypted object. This non-encrypted data can be read by the second user, so that the second user can see the encrypted object if he has acquired a license for this object, or a basic representation of the encrypted object if he has not acquired a license.
US07849318B2
A secret string is established so as to be known only to a client computing system and a server computing system. A non-encrypted version of a message, a message counter value, and first hash value are received by the server computing system from the client computing system. The first hash value, based on a content of the message, the message counter value, and the secret string, is generated at the client computing system using a first hash algorithm. Using the first hash algorithm, the server generates second hash value based on the content of the received message, the received message counter value, and the secret string. The server computing system accepts the received non-encrypted version of the message as authentic upon determining that the received message counter value is greater than a previously received message counter value and that the second hash value matches the first hash value.
US07849316B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for securely printing a print job on a networked printer. An application program running on a networked computer instructs the printer to generate and exchange cryptographic keys. The application program then encrypts the print job using the keys, and then communicates the encrypted print job to the printer. The printer decrypts the received print job and prints the document.
US07849315B2
A method for managing operability of an on-chip debug capability (24) in a product (26) configured to execute software (30) includes storing (74, 76) a debug public key (40) and an operational public key (44) in product memory (54). The software (30) with either a debug signature (82) or an operational signature (88) is saved (84) in the memory (56). When enablement indication is received, the debug signature (82) is validated (102) using the debug public key (40). The debug capability (24) is enabled upon validation of the signature (82) and the software (30) is allowed to execute. When disablement indication is received, the operational signature (88) is verified (112) using the operational public key (44). The on-chip debug capability (24) is disabled upon verification of the signature (88) and the software (30) is allowed to execute.
US07849314B2
A method and a system for secure authentication in a wireless network are provided. The method comprises the following steps. First, a network device and a client device of a wireless network authenticate each other with EAP-TLS. Wherein, the network device mentioned above is a gateway or an access point. Then, the network device and the client device generate a TLS master secret jointly. In addition, the method uses a distributed mechanism to prevent the consequences of the failure of a single AAA server, and to alleviate the consequences resulting from a violated network device. Furthermore, the method includes a multiple time digital signature mechanism achieved by performing multiple times of one-way hash operation to enable verification and revocation of certificate.
US07849313B2
A system and methods providing immediate peer-to-peer messaging between mobile devices in a wireless system. An invitation architecture is disclosed which enables the exchange of personal identification numbers (PINs) without requiring a user to directly access or provide his or her PIN. A messaging application encrypts its associated PIN before providing it to a messaging application on another mobile device through an existing communication application. An invitation process for exchanging encrypted PINs involves receiving an invitation containing a question, obtaining user input of an answer, and transmitting the answer back to the sender with an encrypted PIN. The sender confirms the received answer is correct and replies with its encrypted PIN.
US07849309B1
A method of providing security for network access radio systems and associated access radio security systems used with the systems. The method includes connecting an access radio having a radio link to a network; communicating between the access radio and a computer over the network using a ping application having ping commands and unique encrypted codes; and enabling operation of the access radio when the access radio is receiving ping commands. Typically, the access radio and the computer are nodes on the network and the network is a local area network (LAN). The ping application sends packets of information from the computer to the access radio and receives a response from the access radio. The ping application must be functioning (i.e., sending and receiving commands between the computer and the access radio) to enable the access radio to communicate via the radio link with a remote network.
US07849302B2
Systems and processes for booting a device can be implemented by detecting a reset signal associated with the device and retrieving a predetermined page of data from a nonvolatile memory location into a register associated with the nonvolatile memory. The nonvolatile memory may be designed and implemented such that each page of data is retrieved from the nonvolatile memory as a unit, and the page of data includes instructions for use in booting the device. A command to read data stored in the register is received, and the command can include an address identifying a location of one or more instructions within the register. In response, the one or more instructions are retrieved from the register for execution by a processor.
US07849293B2
Method and structure for low latency load-tagged pointer instruction for computer microarchitechture
A methodology and implementation of a load-tagged pointer instruction for RISC based microarchitecture is presented. A first lower latency, speculative implementation reduces overall throughput latency for a microprocessor system by estimating the results of a particular instruction and confirming the integrity of the estimate a little slower than the normal instruction execution latency. A second higher latency, non-speculative implementation that always produces correct results is invoked by the first when the first guesses incorrectly. The methodologies and structures disclosed herein are intended to be combined with predictive techniques for instruction processing to ultimately improve processing throughput.
US07849291B2
Systems and apparatuses are presented relating a programmable processor comprising an execution unit that is operable to decode and execute instructions received from an instruction path and partition data stored in registers in the register file into multiple data elements, the execution unit capable of executing a plurality of different group floating-point and group integer arithmetic operations that each arithmetically operates on multiple data elements stored registers in a register file to produce a catenated result that is returned to a register in the register file, wherein the catenated result comprises a plurality of individual results, wherein the execution unit is capable of executing group data handling operations that re-arrange data elements in different ways in response to data handling instructions.
US07849290B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system that buffers stores on a processor that supports speculative execution. The system starts by buffering a store into an entry in the store queue during a speculative execution mode. If an entry for the store does not already exist in the store queue, the system writes the store into an available entry in the store queue and updates a byte mask for the entry. Otherwise, if an entry for the store already exists in the store queue, the system merges the store into the existing entry in the store queue and updates the byte mask for the entry to include information about the newly merged store. The system then forwards the data from the store queue to subsequent dependent loads.
US07849289B2
In parallel computers, sorting and calculation of large-scale data are realized while large-scale data is held in the respective processors without sharing the large-scale data between the processors so as to reduce communication between the processors. An information processing method gives global dimension value numbers common to all the processing modules to the dimension values for calculation, calculates measures for each of the dimension value numbers within the processing module, and lastly calculates measures commonly between all processing modules. The value list and pointer arrangement to the value list are locally held in each processing module and the order of the dimension values as a reference is globally held between processing modules. As a result, it is possible to eliminate mutual access by processing modules for acquiring data required for calculation and only data required for deciding the order of the dimension values is communicated between the processing modules.
US07849288B2
A reconfigurable circuit and control method therefor, capable of enhancing efficiency of implementation of a pipeline process in processing elements and improve processing performance. Processing elements are reconfigured to form a circuit based on configuration information and execute a prescribed process. Memory units store configuration information for the processing elements. A memory switching unit switches the plurality of memory units to store therein the configuration information on the stages of a pipeline process to be performed by the processing elements. A configuration information output unit switches the memory units to output therefrom the configuration information to the plurality of processing elements.
US07849280B2
In a storage system including: plural information processing apparatuses each of which copies data sent from a host computer to create archive data in accordance with redundancy sent from the host computer; and a storage apparatus having physical disks that store the archive data, the storage apparatus includes a management unit that manages power state information that is information on whether or not the power state of each of the physical disks is “on,” and the information processing apparatuses each include an acquisition unit that acquires the power state information managed by the management unit and a determination unit that determines an information processing apparatus targeted for reading or writing the archive data from among the information processing apparatuses based on the power state information acquired by the acquisition unit.
US07849278B2
A technique that can efficiently achieve migration of a configuration and data between storage units with varying constructions of configuration information and that can alleviate burdens of personal operation by an administrator, etc. With the configuration information of each storage unit controlled by the storage control server, based on each piece of configuration information, the transfer-source configuration information is converted into information necessary for establishing the logical partition configuration of a storage unit which has the transfer-destination logical partition function. The information prepared by the conversion is transmitted to the transfer-destination storage unit and the configuration with the transfer-source logical configuration set as the transfer-destination logical partition is updated in the transfer-destination storage unit. After the migration of the configuration, the data is migrated using a remote copy function of carrying out data copy between the transfer-source and transfer-destination logical devices.
US07849277B2
A bank controller, an information processing device, an imaging device, and a control method are provided which enable improved data communication processing between FIFO memories of processing blocks and a synchronous DRAM. An arbiter determines the order of priorities in data communication performed between FIFO memories and associated banks. A precharge period detecting block detects the states of precharge of the banks. A register stores data required to determine the order of priorities (data indicating whether the banks are in a precharge period, data indicating whether data communication request signals are presented). This enables the arbiter to exclude FIFO memories that are associated with banks that are not allowed to perform data communication. Efficient data communication is thus implemented between the FIFO memories and the synchronous DRAM.
US07849276B2
A memory interface for a parallel processor which has an array of processing elements and can receive a memory address and supply the memory address to a memory connected to the processing elements. The processing elements transfer data to and from the memory at the memory address. The memory interface can connect to a host configured to access data in a conventional SDRAM memory device so that the host can access data in the memory.
US07849261B2
Method and apparatus for reducing a likelihood of a cascade failure in a multi-device array. The array preferably comprises a controller and a plurality of storage devices to define a memory space across which data are stored in accordance with a selected RAID configuration. The controller operates to sever an operational connection between the storage devices and a host device in relation to a detected temperature of at least one storage device of the array. Preferably, when a selected device reaches a first threshold temperature level, the controller arms for a potential shutdown. When a selected device reaches a second higher threshold temperature, the controller preferably powers down all of the devices and executes a self-reboot operation. The controller preferably monitors a temperature of the array while the devices remain powered down, after which the storage devices are powered up and data reconstruction operations take place as required.
US07849259B1
An execution queue stores a write command from the host in response to issuance of the write command from the host, and is removed from the execution queue in response to a signal indicating that data designated by the write command has been written to the hard disk. A holding queue stores the write command removed from the execution queue. In response to the command being stored in the holding queue, a request is issued for an acknowledgment from the host. The write command is removed from the holding queue in response to the acknowledgment being received from the host. An outgoing queue stores the write command removed from the holding queue for deletion. The queues are controlled by queue management hardware, the request is issued by the queue management hardware, and the signal and acknowledgment are received by the queue management hardware.
US07849253B2
In one embodiment, the invention comprises a flash-media controller used for writing new data from an external system to a local flash-memory device. The newly written data may replace old data previously written to the flash-memory device, and may be written directly to unused locations within the flash-memory device. The flash-media controller may comprise a table of block descriptors and sector descriptors used to track specified characteristics of each block and sector of the flash-memory device, thereby allowing for write sequences to non-contiguous sectors within a block. Accordingly, copy operations may be deferred under the expectation that they will eventually become unnecessary, thereby designating old data as having become stale. Once all data within a block has been designated as being stale, the block may be marked as unused and may be made available for subsequent write operations, thereby providing fast write access to the flash-memory device, and significantly reducing the number of required copy operations during data transfer to the flash-memory device.
US07849247B2
A data processing system has an interrupt controller which provides an interrupt request along with a corresponding interrupt identifier and a corresponding interrupt vector to a processor. If the processor accepts the interrupt, the processor returns the same interrupt identifier value by way of interrupt identifier, along with interrupt acknowledge, to the interrupt controller. An interrupt taken/not taken indicator may also be provided. The communications interface used to coordinate interrupt processing between the interrupt controller and the processor may be asynchronous.
US07849243B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a method for transmitting a packet from a transmitter to a receiver along an interconnect and terminating transmission of the packet at a packet disconnect boundary, which has a length less than a payload length of the packet. After such termination, another packet such as a higher priority packet can be transmitted, or a remainder of the original packet may be transmitted as a separate packet. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07849241B2
The disclosed heterogeneous processor compresses information to more efficiently store the information in a system memory coupled to the processor. The heterogeneous processor includes a general purpose processor core coupled to one or more processor cores that exhibit an architecture different from the architecture of the general purpose processor core. In one embodiment, the processor dedicates a processor core other than the general purpose processor core to memory compression and decompression tasks. In another embodiment, system memory stores both compressed information and uncompressed information.
US07849240B2
A method of having multiple devices share a circuit's input/output (I/O) terminals includes applying first and second input signals to first and second I/O terminals to generate first and second output signals at the second and first I/O terminals, respectively. The first and second I/O terminals are coupled to first, second, and third devices via a plurality of signal paths. The method determines which, if any, of the first, second, and third devices is activated based on the first and second output signals. In some embodiments, the three devices correspond to three key switches of a keyboard through which a user can enter operation instructions. In some other embodiments, the three devices correspond to three signal receivers, which are controlled by a local or remote signal source that transmits activation signals in a wired or wireless manner.
US07849232B2
A flexible arrangement allows a single arrangement of Ethernet channel adapter (ECA) hardware functions to appear as needed to conform to various operating system deployment models. A PCI interface presents a logical model of virtual devices appropriate to the relevant operating system. Mapping parameters and values are associated with the packet streams to allow the packet streams to be properly processed according to the presented logical model and needed operations. Mapping occurs at both the host side and at the network side to allow the multiple operations of the ECA to be performed while still allowing proper delivery at each interface.
US07849229B2
A system and/or methodology that facilitates serial peripheral interface (SPI) addressing beyond 24 bits, by portioning a conventional SPI command byte into a plurality of nibbles. A new set of commands are mapped to the first nibble, and selected from the set of unused binary values under the conventional SPI command protocol. A number of address bytes required to access the storage location for the command are mapped on a second nibble, and a user and/or system definable number of dummy bytes to be sent after the command are mapped on a third nibble.
US07849223B2
A variant of Paxos is referred to as Virtually Synchronous Paxos (VS Paxos). VS Paxos is a self-reconfigurable protocol that allows for delay only for reconfiguration decisions, without placing an artificial limit on regular decisions. In an implementation of VS Paxos, subject to any restriction on reconfiguration decisions, a leader may activate an unbounded number of consensus instances ahead. A VS Paxos technique permits unlimited progress during stability periods, in that a leader may initiate commands at any number of consensus instances without bound. VS Paxos waits for command completion only when configuration-changing commands occur.
US07849219B2
A communication system (110) for connecting in real-time an Internet-based network interface (130) to a plurality of backend systems (136), each of the plurality of backend systems having an associated backend communications protocol and requiring an associated backend data format. The system includes a router (112) for receiving a job (124) having a front-end data format and a front-end communications protocol from the Internet-based network interface. The router selects one or more backend systems from the plurality of backend systems as a function of attributes of the job for delivery of the job to the one or more backend systems. The system also includes a plurality of service agents (114, 116, 118), each in communication with an associated one of the plurality of backend systems and configured to translate and reformat the job prior to delivery to the one or more backend systems.
US07849209B2
A system and method are provided for negotiating a link data rate in a communication system using a plurality of data rates. In a system including a first device network-connected to a second device, auto-negotiation (AN) messages are mutually transmitted. The AN messages indicate rate information such as preferred data rate capabilities, if the device has a dual-rate capability, or a single data rate capabilities. If the AN messages are mutually transmitted, a negotiated link data rate is established. However, if one of the devices cannot send AN messages, the other device times-out, and a link data rate is established at the data rate transmitted by the device that is not AN-capable.
US07849195B2
A method of establishing a connection between a second host and an application socket on a first host. The method utilizes the Host Identity Protocol (HIP). The method includes the steps of establishing either a new or a selected existing HIP Security Association between the first and second hosts; creating a new or selecting an existing Tube Association between the application socket and the Security Association; and forming an association for the connection between the application socket, the Security Association, and the Tube Association. This establishes a connection between the second host and the application socket on the first host through the Security Association and the Tube Association.
US07849193B1
A hyperlinking process identifies a uniform resource locator within content (e.g., within a web page, document, etc.). The hyperlinking process further identifies a plurality of subparts of the uniform resource locator. In this manner, each subpart represents a distinct location separately referenceable from a location referenced by the entire uniform resource locator. Additionally, the hyperlinking process receives a selection of a subpart of the uniform resource locator that identifies a selected subpart. In response to the selection of the subpart, the hyperlinking process references the distinct location associated with the selected subpart.
US07849190B2
A network system comprising a service control device (SEM); and at least one application execution device (AEE); wherein the service control device (SEM) is adapted to receive a service request, to select an appropriate application execution device according to the service request, and to invoke the selected application execution device, and wherein the application execution device (AEE) is adapted to perform the service requested by the service request. A corresponding network control method is also provided. According to the invention, a flexible service architecture is possible.
US07849188B2
Computer implemented method, system and computer usable program code for end-to-end transaction tracking of long-running processes such as a Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) process in a data processing system, such as a data processing system implemented in a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). A computer implemented method for tracking and correlating transactions in a process in a data processing system includes gathering instance identification data and instance state data regarding a transaction and storing the instance identification data and instance state data in association with transaction data regarding the transaction. Asynchronous event data is collected, and transaction performance information for an asynchronous event within the transaction is calculated using the transaction data. A tracking report of the transaction is then generated using the calculated transaction performance information.
US07849187B2
A network status display device using a traffic pattern map is provided. The device includes: a traffic feature extractor extracting a port number of a port having the maximum occupancy of micro-flows and macro-flows for each network address section and host address section with reference to traffic information collected by an external traffic information collector, calculating and storing an occupancy rate of the port; a traffic status display unit making a network traffic pattern map expressed by destination-source network addresses and a host traffic pattern map expressed by destination-source host addresses and displaying the port information stored in the traffic feature extractor on the network traffic pattern map and the host traffic pattern map; and a traffic anomaly determination unit determining whether a network status is abnormal with reference to the network traffic pattern map and the host traffic pattern map and detecting and reporting a harmful or abnormal traffic which causes the abnormal network status. The device can determine whether the anomaly deteriorating the network performance exists and can easily and quickly detect the harmful or abnormal traffic which causes the anomaly by the use of the port information of the port having the maximum occupancy of the micro-flows and the macro-flows for each network address section and each host address section.
US07849186B2
Some embodiments of the invention relate to a method and a system for detecting unwanted conversational media session data. In accordance with one aspect of the invention, a method of detecting unwanted conversation media session data according to some embodiments of the invention may include calculating two or more progressive similarity scores each with respect to a different instant during a progress of a real-time conversational media session, wherein each of said scores is associated with a similarity between the conversational media session's media data that was available at the associated instant and a reference data item corresponding to media data of a previous conversational media session, and evaluating progressive similarity between the real-time conversational media session and the reference data item based upon the two or more progressive similarity scores.
US07849184B1
A method or apparatus for monitoring the status of an SMD is described.
US07849182B2
A blade server that includes at least two data processing modules for receiving data and processing the received data; an exchange backboard for achieving data exchange between the data processing modules, and also for achieving data exchange between each of the data processing modules and an interconnection module; the interconnection module for achieving connection and high-speed data exchange between the data processing modules; an I/O interface module for achieving a connection between the blade server and an external network; and a management and control module for controlling the switching between the data processing modules and also for monitoring and managing the blade server. The blade server unites multiple networks such as a high-speed network, an Ethernet, a KVM network and a management network, reduces the cost for high-speed exchange, and reduces the delay for network exchange.
US07849172B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for non-preemptive DRAM transactions. More specifically, the present invention relates to improvements in non-preemptive DRAM transactions in real-time unified memory architectures. One embodiment of the present invention relates to a method for determining access to non-preemptive DRAM devices. This method comprises determining real time need for access to the device and prioritizing access using a rate monotonic scheduling.
US07849167B2
A method, system, computer program product, and computer program storage device for dynamically adjusting a maximum limit of concurrent service requests directed to a shared storage resource that can be issued by a plurality of host devices is disclosed. The method, system, computer program product, and computer program storage device operate based on a rotating turn, in which a host device has a chance to be able to increase its currently available maximum number of concurrent service requests.
US07849164B2
A device, which is encoded with ordered steps, is connected to a network. In an embodiment, each of the steps includes a type, a link that points at a respective tool, and a completion condition. The steps are sent from the device to an address in the network. A selection of one of the links is received from a user who is associated with the type. In response, the user interface for the tool that is pointed at by the link is sent to the user. The user interface includes tool commands. In response to receiving a tool command from the user, the tool command is performed, and if the tool command causes the completion condition for its step to be met, a completion command for the step is sent to the address in the network. In this way, setup activities are coordinated for configuring a device in a network.
US07849157B2
A system to support consumer entitlement that allows Producer web applications to decide which portlets to be offered to Consumer web applications can comprise: a role set which includes a plurality of roles; a Consumer web application adapted to interact with end users; and a Producer web application with a set of portlets operable to be combined in a unified portal for end users. The Producer web application operates to: define a property set that allows end users to input values for the property set; map the Consumer web application to one particular role in the role set; and check for portlets that are available among the set of portlets based on the particular role.
US07849155B2
An apparatus and method for providing multimedia contents is provided. The apparatus includes an analyzing unit that analyzes a quantity ratio corresponding to a type of first multimedia content included in an album, a mood code generating unit that generates a mood code corresponding to the quantity ratio as the analyzed result, a content abstracting unit that abstracts a list of second multimedia content corresponding to the generated mood code, and a sending/receiving unit that sends at least one of the list and the second multimedia content included in the list.
US07849144B2
Language translation of instant messages between a sending party and a destination party is automatically performed, based on the instant messaging system automatically determining the respective language preferences of the sending and receiving parties. The instant messaging system automatically determines the respective language preferences based on existing subscriber profile attributes for the sending and receiving parties, and automatically translates between the respective language preferences, without the necessity of any manual user intervention by any of the parties during the instant messaging session.
US07849143B2
There is disclosed a system and method of dynamically managing spam directed to a communications device. In an embodiment, a contact for each incoming message item is compared to contacts on a whitelist. If the contact is not found on the whitelist, the contact is added to a blacklist based on predetermined criteria. At a selected time, a summary of each message item corresponding to a contact on the blacklist is made available to the communications device. Based on this summary, a user selects contacts to transfer from the blacklist to the whitelist. The user selection is received, and any message items corresponding to a contact on the whitelist are transmitted to the communications device.
US07849140B2
System and method for facilitating communications between peers in a peer-to-peer environment and network email clients. In one embodiment, network nodes including peer nodes may host mail transfer agents. The mail transfer agents may act as bridges between peer-to-peer protocols and email communication protocols. The mail transfer agents may communicate with peers according to peer-to-peer protocols and with email clients according to email communications protocols. Peers may communicate with mail transfer agents to send peer-to-peer messages to email clients. Email clients may communicate with the mail transfer agents to send email messages to and receive email messages from other email clients via the peer-to-peer network and to obtain peer-to-peer messages from peers.
US07849132B2
The information processor includes a device communication performance management module. The device communication performance management module includes: a communication performance evaluation unit that measures and evaluates the communication performance with respect to a device to be used when it is used by a device-use application; a device naming rule management unit that manages a naming rule for incorporating the communication performance evaluated by the communication performance evaluation unit into the name of the device file for a device as the target of evaluation; and a device file management unit that creates a device file for a device as the target of evaluation in accordance with the naming rule based on the result of communication performance evaluation. The result of communication performance evaluation by the communication performance evaluation unit is incorporated into the name of a device file and the evaluation result is thereby provided to a device-use application.
US07849122B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to self-authenticating, quantum random bit generators that can be integrated into an optoelectronic circuit. In one embodiment, a quantum random bit generator comprises a transmission layer that includes an electromagnetic radiation source coupled to a waveguide branching into a first, second, and third waveguides. The radiation source generates pulses of electromagnetic radiation in a first polarization state. Polarization rotators are operably coupled to the second and third waveguides and rotate pulses transmitted in the second waveguide into a second polarization state and rotate pulses transmitted in the third waveguide into a third polarization state. The system control generates a sequence of bits based on polarization basis states of the pulses transmitted in the first waveguide, and tomographically authenticates randomness of the sequence based on polarization basis states of the second and third pulses.
US07849121B2
Various embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and systems for generating random numbers. In one embodiment, a quantum random number generator comprises: a state generator configured to generate a quantum system in a coherent state; a polarization states analyzer configured to project the quantum system onto one of four different polarization states, and detect each of the four different polarization states; a raw bit generator configured to convert the quantum system into a single photon and detect the single photon in either a first polarization state that corresponds to a first binary number or a second polarization state that corresponds to a second binary number; and a system control configured to receive signals from the polarization states analyzer and the raw bit generator, the signals corresponding to the polarization states, and output a random number based on the first and second polarization states of the single photon.
US07849120B2
A microprocessor includes a random number generator circuit (RNG) within its instruction set architecture (ISA). An RNG buffer accumulates zero or more bytes of random data generated by the RNG. An RNG counter maintains a count of the accumulated random data bytes. An instruction translator translates instructions of the ISA. The ISA includes a distinct instruction that instructs the microprocessor to write the bytes from the buffer to a first user-visible register of the microprocessor and to load the count from the counter to a second user-visible register of the microprocessor. The count is unspecified by the instruction and may be between zero or more. In another embodiment, the instruction instructs the microprocessor to store a number of random data bytes specified from the buffer to a destination specified by the instruction, wherein the specified number may be greater than the maximum amount of bytes the buffer can hold.
US07849115B2
The present invention relates to a method of adapting computer programs to user profiles, including providing a user with a questionnaire to determine at least one of the user's intelligence, personality, emotional state, computer experience, sensory skills, motor skills, education, and training; compiling a user profile based on data received from the questionnaire; modifying the computer programs used by the user based on the user's profile; and storing the user profile and the computer program modifications in a database for future utilization by the user. The modification of the computer programs includes modifying at least one of a user interface, workstation tools, input device and navigation, image presentation, analysis of information presented, and reporting.
US07849114B2
The present invention provides a virtual database as well as a method, system, and program product for generating a virtual database. Specifically, under the present invention, Service Data Objects (SDOs) corresponding to a plurality of database tables are provided within a virtual container. Once provided, two or more of the SDOs are interrelated to yield the virtual database (having a Virtual Bounded Persistent Memory). In accordance with the present invention, the database tables can be stored within a single (e.g., conventional) database, or databases. In addition, the virtual database can be generated and removed on-demand. Still yet, the virtual database of the present invention can be queried using standard Structured Query Language (SQL) queries.
US07849113B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with selectively acquiring and utilizing query statistics are described. One example method includes selectively acquiring statistics associated with search queries submitted to a search process during a sample period. The statistics may be associated with an index and tokens associated with the index and search queries. The method may also include selecting tokens and/or queries to optimize based, at least in part, on the statistics. In one example, whether and/or how the tokens and/or queries are optimized may depend on estimating index fragmentation based, at least in part, on the statistics.
US07849104B2
Systems and methods for searching heterogeneous interrelated entities for a heterogeneous entities search query are disclosed herein. A user may enter the heterogeneous entities search query. The search retrieves and returns multiple types of heterogeneous entities. The retrieved heterogeneous interrelated entities are searched in a unified matrix that represents relationships between one or more heterogeneous entities. The retrieved heterogeneous interrelated entities may have one or more entity types. The set of retrieved interrelated entities may also be ranked based on the similarity between each entity and the search query. Feedback may also be incorporated into the system to improve search accuracy.
US07849101B2
The present invention includes a computer-implemented method and an Enterprise Resource Planning System (ERP). The method and system allows a user to enable an electronic signature approval process for modification of data in a transaction. The method includes accessing a table that corresponds with the transaction and adding a signature field having a property sheet to the table. The method also includes defining a select property in the property sheet with a select parameter. The select property configured to provide approval of modified data in the transaction upon entry of a valid electronic signature.
US07849098B1
Multiple computers are connected to a data storage unit that includes a file system, which further includes multiple data entities, including files, directories and the file system itself. The file system also includes, for each data entity, an owner field for indicating which computer, if any, has exclusive or shared access to the data entity, along with a time field for indicating when a lease of the data entity began. When a computer wants to lease a data entity, the computer uses a disk reservation capability to temporarily lock the data storage unit, and, if the data entity is not currently leased, the computer writes its own identification value into the owner field and a current time into the time field for the data entity, to claim the data entity for a renewable lease period. If a prior lease of a data entity has expired, another computer may break the lease and claim ownership for itself.
US07849097B2
A typed separable mixture model is used to mine associative relationships between sets of objects. Instead of modeling only one type of co-occurrence among the sets of objects, the typed separable mixture model can model multiple different types of co-occurrences among more than two sets of objects, and co-occurrences that exist in different contexts.
US07849083B2
A query is run against a database with information related to images. Images of interest are selected for inclusion in an output file, for example, a presentation application file. Configuration and other choices are made regarding the output file, and any other information needed to generate the output file is gathered. When all the necessary information is available, an output file is automatically generated and delivered to a user. The output file includes the selected images and identifying information about the images.
US07849078B2
Generating searchable keywords includes obtaining sets of parameters that include weights, where the weights correspond to actions for changing first words into predicted keywords, using the sets of parameters to obtain predicted keywords from the first words, determining a prediction value for each set of parameters, where the prediction values are based on an extent to which predicted keywords for a set of parameters match predefined keywords, ranking the sets of parameters based on prediction values, and applying a selected set of parameters to a second word to obtain a new keyword, wherein the selected set of parameters is applied based on rank.
US07849077B2
Systems, methods, media, and other embodiments associated with ranking documents by providing a search engine with a series of sub-queries generated from an original query are described. One example system includes input logic for receiving a query. The example system may include a relaxation logic configured to produce sub-queries from the query. The sub-queries may describe metadata string matching, content string matching, and/or metadata numerical attribute analysis. The sub-queries may be provided by an output logic to a search engine in an order that facilitates defining document relevance without requiring post-retrieval relevance ranking.
US07849072B2
A local terminal search system is provided, which includes a search request processing unit, a search/index unit, a filtering unit, and a complex-structured file preprocessing unit. The search request processing unit receives search request information and converts search result information into prescribed document format and provides it to a search interface program. The search/index unit searches a local terminal using a search keyword in the search request information to generate search result information and indexes information stored in the terminal. The filtering unit collects information of files stored in the terminal for filtering and determines if a file corresponding to the collected information is a complex-structured file which requires more than a prescribed threshold time for filtering and filters the file if it is not a complex-structured file. If it is a complex-structured file, the file preprocessing unit extracts or generates information required for filtering to generate preprocessed information segments.
US07849069B2
Resources disposed within a plurality of distributed and autonomous computing systems, each of which may have its own legacy resource discovery service, are identified and allocated. Resource identification servers disposed within each one of the distributed computing systems communicate resource attribute data to a tree hierarchy of dedicated servers. The resource attribute data are maintained in native formats within the distributed computing systems and are mapped to a common format provided by the dedicated servers. The resource attribute data are aggregated at each node within the tree hierarchy, communicated up through the tree hierarchy to one or more root nodes and replicated down through all of the nodes. Additional system robustness is provided through period resource checks and resource attribute data updates. Resource allocation queries are submitted to any level node within the hierarchy and forwarded to the proper computing system for processing.
US07849062B1
Methods and systems for identifying critical fields in documents, for example so that quality improvement efforts can be prioritized on the critical fields. One aspect of the invention concerns a method for improving quality of a data processing operation in a plurality of documents. A set of documents is sampled. An error rate for fields in the documents is estimated based on the sampling. Critical fields are identified based on which fields have error rates higher than a threshold.
US07849060B2
A system and method for managing log information is provided. The system includes an index/record/catalog management module that determines if a page to be updated is newly allocated; a storage management module that manages a free page list and a non-committed free page list and, if the index/record/catalog module determines that the page to be updated is newly allocated, allocating a new page from the free page list or the non-committed free page list; and a buffer management module that sets identification information on a buffer page corresponding to the new page.
US07849058B2
There is provided a storage system providing a storage volume and being coupled via a network to a secondary storage system for storing a backup of data stored in the storage volume, the storage system copies data stored in the storage volume to the secondary storage system, upon receiving an instruction to create a backup; records the size of the data copied; predict the size of data to be copied in the future based on the recorded size of the copied data; records a usable bandwidth of the network at a time when the data is copied to the secondary storage system; predicts a usable bandwidth in the future based on the recorded usable bandwidth of the network; and predicts a time period required for copying data to the secondary storage system based on the predicted size of data to be copied and the predicted usable bandwidth of the network.
US07849055B2
The present invention provides a computer implemented method, data processing system and computer program product for limiting instances of a client-server program within a plurality of platforms in a restricted distributed network. The data processing system receives an invocation of the client-server program. The data processing system assigns a write file to the client-server program wherein the write file has a write file name and the write file is on a distributed file system accessible to the plurality of platforms. The data processing system determines whether the write file is available. Responsive to a determination that the write file is available, the data processing system opens the write file for writing wherein the write file is associated with the client-server program. The data processing system, responsive to a determination that the write file is available, forms an addressing file having addressing information of a first instance of the client-server program.
US07849041B2
The present invention provides, among other things, technologies for recognizing sequences of events or patterns of behavior, of predicting intent, need, objectives, purpose, aim, or the like, and responding to the predicted intent. Such technologies includes intent prediction and response (“IPR”) environments and systems, as well as methods for performing aspects IPR. Such technologies may aid in accomplishing tasks more efficiently or in reducing impediments whether they be physical, environmental, social, or the like.
US07849033B2
A learning control apparatus for controlling a learning operation of an apparatus sensing a state of an environment and selecting a behavior based on the sensed content, includes a predictor for learning the behavior and a change in the state of the environment, and predicting a change in the state of the environment in response to a predetermined behavior, a goal state setting unit for setting a goal state in the behavior, a planner for planning a behavior sequence from a current state to the goal state set by the goal state setting unit based on a prediction of the predictor, and a controller for controlling the behavior in the behavior sequence planned by the planning unit and learning an input and output relationship in the behavior.
US07849030B2
The invention provides a method and system for classifying insurance files for identification, sorting and efficient collection of subrogation claims. The invention determines whether an insurance claim has merit to warrant claim recovery efforts utilizing software code for partially describing a set of documents having unstructured and structured file data containing terms and phrases having contextual bases, code for transforming the terms and phrases, code for iterating a classification process to determine rules that best classify the set of documents based upon context, code for incorporating the rules into an induction and knowledge representation, thesauri taxonomies and text summarization to classify subrogation claims; code for calculating a base score and a concept vector to identify the selected claims that demonstrate a given probability of subrogation recovery.
US07849027B2
An unsupervised classification approach is improved by imposing some order into the treatment of the records and their attributes, which otherwise would be treated as random variables. A method is provided to identify particular attributes that are most associated with the “good” records within each of the plurality of groups of records within a data set. Based on a supervised scoring method, the records of the data set are processed to indicate their measure of “goodness”. There are various ways by which the records can be processed to indicate a bias during unsupervised clustering processing.
US07849025B2
Described herein is a system that facilitates modifying a relational model. The system includes a first model component that is a relational model that includes a plurality of atoms. The system further includes a modifier component that automatically assigns values to a plurality of atoms in the relational model by clustering atoms of the relational model to create a second model component, wherein the second model component is a relational model.
US07849024B2
A Recognition Frame presents multi-level application elements to the user simultaneously through a computer graphical user interface. The interface consists of an image display panel for displaying image channels; a data display panel for displaying object measurements and summary statistics; a configuration display panel for displaying recipe content; a master tab for selecting the panels. It also consists of a processing toolbar for context dependent processing tool display. The Recognition Frame further comprises a second side frame for data object display and charting. The second side frame has a tabular arrangement consisting of properties tab, controls tab, and charts tab. The Recognition Frame links application elements through a complex data model wherein interface display is automatically updated when one element is changed.
US07848997B2
A securities settlement system for settling trades in central depository systems is disclosed. The securities settlement system includes a credit line structure forming a tree structure with a number of levels with credit nodes. The securities settlement system also includes a control system for minimizing the transfer of cash between accounts by propagating cash obligations for each node in the tree structure to a highest common node.
US07848978B2
A method for completing a transaction is presented. The method comprises establishing network communications between a user and a server, receiving information, at the server, regarding the transaction, seeking available information pertinent to the transaction from at least one source external to the server and the user, processing data from the available information using a rules based engine including rules established on behalf of a party to the transaction located at the server, and presenting an offer set to the user based on at least one decision made by the rules based engine. The transaction may be one according to a variety of scenarios, and the user may be a appropriate party to the transaction. The user may employ various devices to contact the server and seek to complete the transaction.
US07848976B2
In private equity and debt funding operations, resource providers define electronic data collection templates to be filled in by prospective resource consumers to form semi-homogeneous profiles. Providers and/or consumers can assign themselves and/or third parties various individualized levels of permissions to access and to perform activities on the profiles. Providers can organize profiles into portfolios to further manage the data. All accesses and activities, such as changes to the data, are tracked and recorded in logs useful for audit purposes.
US07848975B2
A Central Securities Depository (CSD)-system carries out corporate actions in financial instruments. All financial instruments in the CSD-system are defined based on at least one of four functional basic building blocks: a first block for generating payments, a second block for requesting payments, a third block for adding holdings in an instrument, and a fourth block for removing holdings in an instrument.
US07848968B1
In an embodiment, a method of processing returned rental inventory items comprises receiving, at a rental item provider and from a set of first customers of the rental item provider, a set of returned rental items that the first customers have returned to the rental item provider after renting the items; predicting a subset of the returned rental items that the rental item provider will need to provide in the future to a set of second customers; creating and storing a record in a computer of the subset of the returned rental items; providing the subset of the returned rental items to the set of second customers without first returning the returned rental items to an inventory of rental items.
US07848967B2
The present invention provides systems and methods for generating replenishment orders for products sold to a multi-store retailer. Store trait data is mapped with planogram information and the mapped data is used to generate a fixture level safety stock for a particular product in a particular store. The fixture level safety stock triggers fixture level replenishment orders.
US07848966B2
In general, the invention is directed to a system for managing real estate transactions that includes a data interface and an application server. The data interface is configured to access property data for a number of properties listed for sale. The application server operatively connected to the data interface and configured to monitor a first search activity of a first buyer, where the first search activity is associated with at least one of the number of properties and monitor a second search activity of a second buyer, where the second search activity is associated with the at least one of the number of properties. The application server is further configured to generate an activity alert providing notification of the first search activity and the second search activity to a seller, where the at least one of the number of properties is listed for sale for the seller.
US07848957B2
The invention relates to a system for ordering a product and forecasting consumer interest, including a computer, software executing on the computer for listing a plurality of products for purchase, software executing on the computer for determining when a user views a product of the plurality of products, software executing on the computer for determining when a user orders a product of the plurality of products, software executing on the computer for tolling the views of each product and for tolling the orders of each product, software executing on the computer for identifying a first customer based on the tolled views, and software executing on the computer for identifying a second customer based on the tolled orders.
US07848956B1
A creative marketplace system and a computer-based method for marketing creative media include providing a computer system, the computer system defining a database. Inputs are received with said computer system from a plurality of potential sellers of media content and a plurality of potential purchasers of media content. Wherein, the inputs received from a potential seller include at least a portion of media content and media content data. The media content data includes a characteristic of media content and/or a characteristic of the potential seller of that media content. Wherein, the receiving inputs from a potential purchaser include receiving a selection of media content desired. The media content desired is selected from a characteristic of media content and/or a characteristic of the potential seller of that media content. Media content data is submitted that corresponds with media content desired by at least one potential buyer. The media content and media content data may be required to be submitted to a quality review process prior to submitting to at least one potential buyer.
US07848954B2
Techniques to facilitate pre-ordering of digital media assets from an on-line media store are disclosed. A user of the on-line media store can view advance listings for digital media assets that have not yet been released. A user can also choose to pre-order a digital media asset that has not yet been released. Such a pre-order is recorded and monitored so that the desired digital media asset can be purchased and delivered to the user once the digital media asset become available. Since the monitoring is computerized and the delivery is electronic, once a digital media asset becomes available, delivery of any pre-order can occur nearly immediately.
US07848948B2
An Internet-based product brand marketing communication network allowing members of a consumer product brand management team to communicate directly with consumers present at HTML-encoded pages of an electronic commerce (EC) enabled Web-site along fabric of the World Wide Web (WWW), using programmable Multi-Mode Virtual Kiosks (MMVKs) driven by server-side components and managed by product brand management team members and/or authorized parties. When a consumer's Web browser encounters an MMVK tag along the WWW, the MMVK is generated and automatically plays through its display modes, inviting and allowing the consumer to review and interact with advertising spots, promotional spots, and brand information resources displayed within the GUI of the MMVK, along the fabric of the WWW where the MMVK has been installed. Web-based subsystems are provided for programming these display modes.
US07848947B1
A performance management system (1) has a database (9) with KPI (10), Results & Ratings (11), and configuration date (12) tables. Configuration functions (8) configure the system to the environment and information management functions perform raw data capture and processing. The configuration functions (8) include a data dictionary function for formulation of calculation rules, and an objective wizard function for configuring objectives. Objectives are associated with individual agents by associating appraisal rating groups and data dictionary items with objectives. The objectives are grouped into objective groups, in turn associated with individual agents.
US07848939B1
A method for ensuring valid participation of a plan participant in a defined contribution pension plan provides data query for identifying the plan participant. A pension debt coverage policy protects an outstanding balance of a defined contribution plan loan secured by participant's plan assets, eliminating adverse tax consequences to the plan beneficiary in the event of the death or disability of the participant and ensuring that the full plan account balance passes intact to beneficiary in such event.
US07848934B2
A central station is provided to which the pharmacy can forward calls at the convenience of the pharmacy. A caller will call in to the pharmacy to request a refill and the call will be automatically routed to the central facility unbeknownst to the caller. The central station will obtain the refill information required, preferably by means of an automated computer system as is known in the art. This information can then be transferred to the pharmacist in a number of ways, such as by periodically faxing the information to the pharmacy. Voice messages could be flagged and the pharmacist would have to call into the central facility to obtain the voice mail message. Alternatively, a PC could be installed in the pharmacy having a reduced version of a complete, stand-alone program. The refill information can then be sent to the pharmacy by modem and the pharmacist could see a computer display of the refill orders and could hear voice messages. Alternatively, the information could be e-mailed to the pharmacy. Finally, a pager system may be utilized to alert the pharmacist to retrieve orders by telephone with a password. It should also be noted that orders could be taken by the central station over the Internet rather than merely through customer calls. The central station can communicate with a pharmacy management service to obtain prescription refill authorization.
US07848933B2
Methods and apparatus for broadcasting high quality audio “studio direct” with the same digital information employed in the studio by the video producer with AC-3 digital audio signals for broadcast to integrated receiver decoders (IRD). Control over individual data bits such as copyright bits is maintained by determining the bit status, comparing it to a preferred status, changing the status if it does not comply with the preferred status, and reevaluating cyclical redundancy check value in each data packet to avoid disruption in the data transmission. The system includes an uplink device which automatically checks, logs and reports errors in Dolby Digital AC-3 signals by a monitor which employs a processor, a digital audio card and an SMPTE timecode reader. The monitor employs a state machine that finds AC-3 packets, locks into the packets and detects discontinuities or loss of signal. A sound card having an input for receiving house reference AES clock pulses enables the AES clock of the playback signal to be locked to the frequency of a production house master as a time code reader or an editor's contact closure match video and audio signals playback.
US07848929B2
A method and apparatus for compressing digital data, particularly audio and other data, in a way that the packing method used can be automatically detected and decoded at the receiving station. The audio signal is divided into compression packets consisting of four word pairs of left and right words. The first word pair in each compression packet is tagged with an identifier to indicate the start of a new compression packet, and is provided with configuration information which, over an entire compression block of 48 compression packets, constructs a 48-bit word specifying the manner in which the compressed audio and other data is packed. The method and apparatus of the invention is able to compress digital audio and other data to accommodate 16-, 20-and 24-bit resolutions and transmit up to eight channels of audio information in a variety of formats, and makes more efficient use of available bandwidth in the 16-, 20-or 24-bit output by allowing other information to be embedded into the least significant bits of the remaining available compression packet space which would otherwise be dropped.
US07848916B2
A system, method, and program product for translating text. The invention provides a bidirectional translation corpus that is used to translate phrases from a first language to a second language and vice versa. The bidirectional translation corpus has multiple entries, each having a phrase in the first language and a corresponding phrase in the second language. A source phrase is compared with each entry in the bidirectional translation corpus to determine if it matches one of the entries. If a match is found, the corresponding phrase is used as a translated phrase. Otherwise, the phrase is translated using a translation system.
US07848911B2
A method of determining a measurement uncertainty of a test system uses a test system model having a plurality of uncertainty terms entered into a simulator. The test system model is run on the simulator a sufficient number of iterations while randomly varying each of a first portion of the plurality of uncertainty terms within probability distributions to produce a statistically significant number of results of a selected parameter. The results are evaluated to determine a measurement uncertainty of the selected parameter.
US07848908B2
A method for optimizing sound and vibration comfort in a mobile passenger compartment, the method applied by a design team to carry out overall design of the passenger compartment and/or by at least one equipment supplier to carry out design of a portion of the passenger compartment. The method establishes target values to be achieved for well-identified comfort indices, defines requirements and input data relating to plural equipment suppliers to obtain a totality of information relating to the passenger compartment, estimates values of the comfort indices and compares them with the target values, and then modifies individually or in combination the input data to correlate them with the target values.
US07848905B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for locating and tracking objects are disclosed. According to one system, a locating device can be configured to determine a location of an object. According to another system, an identifying device can be configured to determine the identification of an object. Further, a tracking system configured to store tracking information associated with the object. A communications system can be configured to communicate a signal to a remote computer device that identifies the location of the object and includes the tracking information associated with the object.
US07848903B2
An information processing method for obtaining placement information of a first position and orientation sensor attached to an object with respect to the object includes an image input step of inputting an image of the object captured by an image capturing device, and a sensor measurement value input step of inputting a first measurement value of the first position and orientation sensor and a second measurement value of a second position and orientation sensor attached to the image capturing device. An index detecting step detects information about image coordinates of an index attached to the object from the image, and a placement information calculating step calculates the placement information by using the first and second measurement values of the first and second position and orientation sensors and the information about the image coordinates of the index.
US07848902B2
Temperature of an electric power device of a hybrid transmission is managed based upon device temperatures and power flow, ambient temperature, and a cooling circuit flow rate.
US07848901B2
A computer implemented method, data processing system, and processor are provided for tracing thermal data via performance monitoring. A performance monitor is set into a tracing mode. Temperatures are sensed by a digital thermal sensor over a time period. The sensed temperatures are stored in a data structure and a trace of the sensed temperatures is graphically displayed.
US07848899B2
Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for testing integrated circuit devices within an environment that is representative of the application environment in which an integrated circuit device will be used. In at least one embodiment, the testing system comprises a second reference integrated circuit device that provides flexibility in testing, allowing only the input to a first reference integrated circuit device of an application system to be tapped and not necessarily both input to and output from the first reference integrated circuit device to be tapped. In some embodiments, the input to the first reference integrated circuit device may be subsequently modified by a controller. The controller is configured to tap first test data transmitted to the first reference integrated circuit device of the application system, and transmit second test data to both the second reference integrated circuit device and at least one integrated circuit device under test, the second test data comprising at least a portion of the first test data. Reference response data received from the second reference integrated circuit device may then be compared with output from the at least one integrated circuit device under test.
US07848885B2
A collision determining apparatus for a vehicle includes a first acceleration measuring device which measures an acceleration acting on the vehicle, a movement amount calculating device which calculates an amount of movement of an occupant, a change in movement speed calculating device which calculates a change in movement speed of the occupant, a first collision determining threshold value setting device which sets collision determining threshold values for a correlation between the amount of movement of the occupant and the change in movement speed of the occupant, a first collision determining device which determines whether or not the correlation exceeds the collision determining threshold value, and a first control signal generating device which generates a control signal which instructs that an occupant protection apparatus be operated slowly in multiple stages or be operated rapidly in multiple stages.
US07848884B2
A collision prediction ECU of a collision prediction apparatus estimates a state of presence of a detected front obstacle. At this time, the collision prediction ECU estimates the state of presence on the basis of road shape data supplied from a navigation ECU of a navigation apparatus. Further, the collision prediction ECU checks and corrects the calculated road gradient value. At this time, the collision prediction ECU corrects the gradient value on the basis of road gradient data supplied from the navigation ECU. Further, the collision prediction ECU changes a collision avoidance time on the basis of travel environment data supplied from the navigation ECU. Moreover, the collision prediction ECU obtains an ETC gate pass-through signal from the navigation ECU and determines whether the vehicle is passing through the gate. The collision prediction apparatus performs collation prediction on the basis of the corrected values.
US07848882B2
A vehicle-mounted man-machine interface device comprises display means for displaying a screen, press position detecting means for detecting the press position on the screen, and control means for displaying an operating screen on which operating figures are arranged on the display means and acquiring the operation content specified by the press on the operating screen from the arrangement positions of the operating figures, the operation on each operating figure, and the output of the press position detecting means. The device further comprises traveling detecting means for detecting whether or not the vehicle having the device is traveling or detecting the traveling speed of the vehicle. The control manes sets or alters one or both of the number of operating figures simultaneously displayed on the operating screen and their sizes according to the output from the traveling detecting means. With this, a man-machine interface technique for easily and reliably performing operation can be provided.
US07848873B2
An electronic control unit 9 performs a delay control for extending the period from when an engine stop request is made to when the engine is actually stopped. During non-execution of the delay control, the electronic control unit 9 adjusts the opening degree of a throttle valve 38 according to an accelerator pedal depression degree. During the execution of the delay control, the electronic control unit 9 adjusts the opening degree of a throttle valve 38 such that the opening degree becomes less than the opening degree during the non-execution of the delay control.
US07848867B2
A vehicle coasting deceleration control system has a motor/generator arranged in a drive-train of a vehicle. A controller is configured to determine a driver demand regarding deceleration of the vehicle at a time of coasting accompanied by an accelerator releasing operation. The controller is further configured to control the motor/generator to decelerate the vehicle according to the determined driver demand regarding deceleration.
US07848863B2
An apparatus and a method for providing a video content service in a vehicle are provided. The apparatus includes a speed detection unit detecting a speed of the vehicle using a global positioning system, a status detection unit detecting a status of a parking brake, and a video control unit controlling one or more display apparatuses so that an the video contents are displayed when the speed of the vehicle is determined to be below a predetermined speed based on information on the detected status of the parking brake and the detected speed of the vehicle. According to the present invention, various video contents can be provided to a driver and passengers while safety driving of the vehicle and the driver's concentration on driving are maintained.
US07848860B2
A method and system are described for machine loss of control detection. In one aspect, the method and system detect operator intended motion of the machine or a part of it and actual motion of the machine or a part of it; and determine machine loss of control in response to whether actual motion is materially different from operator intended motion. Actual motion is determined from angular motion signals from a gyroscopic angular sensor and, optionally, linear motion signals (e.g. acceleration via one or more accelerometers). Machine loss of control determination may be used to stop the actual motion (e.g. stopping power or fuel an engine, bypassing hydraulic fluid flow, etc). The method and system are adaptable to machines having one or more driving and actuating systems capable of malfunctioning in such a way as to cause the machine to move uncontrollably.
US07848858B2
Vehicular drive system which is small-sized and/or improved in its fuel economy.A power distributing mechanism 16, which is provided with a differential-state switching device in the form of a switching clutch C0 and a switching brake B0, is switchable by the switching device between a differential state (continuously-variable shifting state) in which the mechanism is operable as an electrically controlled continuously variable transmission, and a fixed-speed-ratio shifting state in which the mechanism is operable as a transmission having a fixed speed ratio or ratios. The power distributing mechanism 16 is placed in the fixed-speed-ratio shifting state during a high-speed running of the vehicle or a high-speed operation of engine 8, so that the output of the engine 8 is transmitted to drive wheels 38 primarily through a mechanical power transmitting path, whereby fuel economy of the vehicle is improved owing to reduction of a loss of conversion of a mechanical energy into an electric energy. The mechanism 16 is also placed in the fixed-speed-ratio shifting state during a high-output operation of the engine 8, so that the required electric reaction of first electric motor M1 can be reduced, whereby the required size of the first electric motor M1, and the required size of the drive system 10 including the electric motor M1 can be reduced.
US07848857B2
An electric traction system for an electric vehicle includes an internal combustion engine and a generator coupled to the engine, a power bus coupled to the generator, a power storage unit coupled to the power bus, a drive controller coupled to an electric motor and to the power bus, and a vehicle controller coupled to the drive controller. The generator is configured to receive electrical power regenerated onto the power bus by the electric motor in order to provide mechanical power to the engine, and the engine is configured to dissipate the mechanical power in order to provide a braking function.
US07848851B2
A controller for work piece-conveying robot having: a coordinate system storage section for storing one or more manual jog feed coordinate systems; a working area setting section for setting to a machine tool a working area to which the manual jog feed coordinate system is assigned; a hand position obtaining section for obtaining a current position of the robot hand at each specified sampling period; a determination section for determining whether or not the current position of the robot hand obtained by the hand position obtaining section is within the working area set by the working area setting section; and a coordinate system switching section for switching a present manual jog feed coordinate system to the manual jog feed coordinate system assigned to the working area if it is determined by the determination section that the current position of the robot hand is within the working area.
US07848848B2
A robotic system with a common software and hardware platform for integration of a variety of modular components is provided that can be set up for a given application and reconfigured to address changing needs. Modules attach to the robotic platform with standard interfaces in order to maximize the platform's flexibility. Robotic arms also have interchangeability such as variable pitched Z-racks, powder handling or other technologies. The standard interfaces allow third party developers to develop and integrate their own custom modules. One module included with the robotic platform in accord with this invention is a module that both weighs and images a sample.
US07848827B2
A diagnostic concentrator includes a first interface that is capable of receiving a signal sent from a field device to a process controller. The signal includes a primary process variable and additional information. The diagnostic concentrator also includes a controller that is capable of generating a message corresponding to the received additional information and a second interface that is capable of transmitting the generated message. The first interface may be a HART interface. The second interface may be a wireless interface or a network interface. The message may be transmitted to a diagnostic monitor or a process controller. The first interface may receive a plurality of signals sent from a plurality of field devices to the process controller. The controller may generate a plurality of messages corresponding to the plurality of additional information in the signals and transmit the messages via the second interface.
US07848826B2
There is described a method for enabling the operation of automation components of a technical system via a mobile control and monitoring device. In a first step, the control and monitoring device receives a first identification from a first transponder device, with the first transponder device being attached to the technical system, with the first transponder device having been activated by the automation components and with the first identification having been transmitted via a wireless communication connection from the automation components to the mobile control and monitoring device. In a further step the communication connection between the control and monitoring device and the automation components is deactivated. The mobile control and monitoring device sends a carrier signal and following that receives the carrier signal modulated by the first transponder device. A first distance between the control and monitoring device and the first transponder device is then determined from the modulated carrier signal. In addition, a first radio-determined identification from the first transponder device is determined from the modulated carrier signal. Following the reception of the modulated carrier signal, the communication connection is reactivated. If the first distance is shorter than a predetermined first distance and if the radio-determined first identification corresponds to the first identification, the operation of the automation components is enabled.
US07848820B2
In a system and method for radio communication between an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external base unit, respectively including transceivers for communication therebetween, the external base unit, according to a predetermined criterion, sends a sleep message to the IMD transceiver, requesting the IMD transceiver to switch power-consuming circuitry in the IMD to a sleep, power-down mode of operation for a predetermined sleep time period.
US07848817B2
In an implantable medical device having individual modules, a coupling module couples the modules to one another. The coupling module supports electrical and/or mechanical coupling of the modules. The coupling module may assume a variety of shapes or configurations. The various embodiments of the coupling module may offer the modules varying degrees of freedom of movement relative to one another.
US07848816B1
An exemplary includes acquiring an electroneurogram of the right carotid sinus nerve or the left carotid sinus nerve, analyzing the electroneurogram for at least one of chemosensory information and barosensory information and calling for one or more therapeutic actions based at least in part on the analyzing. Therapeutic actions may aim to treat conditions such as sleep apnea, an increase in metabolic demand, hypoglycemia, hypertension, renal failure, and congestive heart failure. Other exemplary methods, devices, systems, etc., are also disclosed.
US07848814B2
System for transcutaneous energy transfer to an implantable medical device adapted to be implanted under a cutaneous boundary having a housing having a first surface adapted to face the cutaneous boundary, the first surface of the housing of the implantable medical device having a first mating element, therapeutic componentry and a secondary coil operatively coupled to the therapeutic componentry. An external power source has housing having a first surface adapted to be placed closest to the cutaneous boundary, the first surface of the housing of the external power source having a second mating element and a primary coil capable of inductively energizing the secondary coil when externally placed in proximity of the secondary coil. The first mating element and the second mating element are configured to tactilely align the external power source with the implantable medical device.
US07848809B1
An implantable cardiac device is programmed to detect and classify premature atrial contractions (PACs). In the described implementation, the device uses timing based techniques to distinguish PACs from native sinus P-waves. The device is also able to detect and count a salvo of consecutive PACs for diagnostic purposes.
US07848804B1
An apparatus and related methods for reforming a capacitor. One method includes charging the capacitor to a first voltage value, allowing the capacitor to self discharge, measuring a time it takes for the capacitor to self discharge to a second voltage value, and determining whether to reform the capacitor depending upon the measured self-discharge time.
US07848803B1
Methods of facilitating stimulation of a stimulation site within a patient include implanting a distal portion of a first stimulating member such that the distal portion of the first stimulating member is in communication with a first stimulation site located within a patient, securing the distal portion of the first stimulating member at a first securing site with a first securing device positioned proximal to the first stimulation site, forming a first loop of at least 360 degrees with a portion of the first stimulating member proximal to the first securing device, securing the first loop with a second securing device at a second securing site having a position that is greater than or equal to substantially 180 degrees but less than or equal to substantially 315 degrees along the first loop from the first securing site, and positioning the second securing device and a stimulator to be coupled to a proximal end of the first stimulating member to maintain a curve in the first stimulating member of at least 45 degrees between the second securing device and the stimulator.
US07848783B2
Web page content, which is the same as web page content displayed on a first display unit with a mobile communication device in an opened state, is displayed on a smaller-sized second display unit with the mobile communication device in a closed state, without reacquiring content by another communication.
US07848781B2
Techniques to manage contact information are described. An apparatus may comprise a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may include a subscriber identity module having a first set of contact information. The mobile computing device may also include a contact management module. The contact management module may include a subscriber identity module cache manager to retrieve the first set of contact information from the subscriber identity module and store it in a subscriber identity module cache. The contact management module may also include a contact information database having a second set of contact information. The contact management module may further include a contact database manager to retrieve the first set of contact information from the contact information database and the second set of contact information from the subscriber identity module cache for a contact application. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07848774B2
A method and apparatus for selecting a service path of a Mobile Station (MS) in a relay communication system. The method includes periodically transmitting, by a Base Station (BS), a preamble (or pilot) signal to the MS and Relay Stations (RSs) existing within a cell; measuring, by the RSs, a Signal-to-Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) of a BS-RS link, and transmitting the measured SINR and the preamble (or pilot) signal to the MS; by the MS, measuring an SINR of each link using signals received from the BS and the RSs; and by the MS, computing throughput in consideration of the SINR of each link and frequency resources reused in the RSs existing within the cell, and selecting a service path having the highest throughput.
US07848773B2
A mobile communication terminal having QWERTY keys and a method for outputting Dual Tone Multi-Frequency (DTMF) signals thereof are disclosed. The user inputs information including alphabetic characters that is requested by a directory system, while viewing the alphabetic characters marked on the QWERTY keys. The mobile communication terminal outputs DTMF signals of symbols marked on the input QWERTY keys identical to the DTMF signals of the corresponding symbols of keys arrayed in a conventional 3×4 key array format. The alphabetic keys of the QWERTY keys output DTMF signals identical to those of the keys of the 3×4 array format in an alphabet input mode. Therefore, the user can easily input information requested by the directory system while viewing the symbols marked on the QWERTY keys, without requiring the user to memorize the array of alphabetic characters of the 3×4 key array format.
US07848771B2
A wireless terminal includes a housing (10) containing a substrate (12) having a ground plane, RF components mounted on the substrate, a PIFA (Planar Inverted-F Antenna) (16) carried by the substrate and coupled electrically to the RF components for transmitting and receiving signals and a notch antenna (14) in the substrate for receiving signals in a frequency band at least partially overlapping the transmission bandwidth of some of the signals transmitted by the PIFA. The notch antenna is de-activated when the PIFA (16) is being used for transmitting a signal lying within the said transmission bandwidth.
US07848752B2
Disclosed is a handoff processing method capable of restarting fast communications. The handoff processing method stores in a handoff buffer Host Control Interface (HCI) data and transmission data upon communications in a state where an Access Point is interlinked with an external device. Further, the method forwards the HCI data and the transmission data buffered in the handoff buffer to a new Access Point (AP) transmitting a message indicating setup completion of a connection if the message indicating setup completion of a connection with the external device is transmitted from the new AP after a handoff occurs as the external device moves. Accordingly, throughputs are not lowered despite handoff occurrences in poor wireless channel environments, so that service quality can be enhanced.
US07848750B2
A mobile terminal, which is registered to either a first mobile communication network or a second communication network, determines whether it is possible to register to the first mobile communication network on the basis of control information received from the second mobile communication network. Then, the mobile terminal attempts to register to the first mobile communication network a predetermined number of times in a case that it is determined that it is possible to register to the first mobile communication network.
US07848743B2
An inherent non-observability of the thermal noise power level is circumvented by estimating an upper limit of the thermal noise power level by time evaluations. An instantaneous total received wideband power is measured in a receiver. Preferably, also an instantaneous sum of powers of all links used in the same cell is provided. A quantity (P′), preferably the difference between the instantaneous total received wideband power and the instantaneous sum of powers of all links used in the same cell, is followed (110) during a time period (TLag). A minimum value (PMIN) of that quantity is then used as an estimate of the thermal noise power level upper limit. Preferably, the time period is configured as a sliding window. An improved determination of noise rise can then be calculated and used for controlling traffic within the cell.
US07848738B2
A method is disclosed that breaks the “one line, one location” paradigm of teleconferencing in the prior art. The teleconference bridge in the illustrative embodiment is able to utilize more than one audio channel from each location, where there are multiple signal sources present in the room. As a result, the bridge is able to determine acoustically whether two are more endpoints are collocated with each another. During an initialization sequence, the bridge transmits special audio signals to one or more endpoints present in a particular sound field; those endpoints then play the signals out of their loudspeakers. Based on a characteristic (e.g., amount of correlation, signal strength, etc.) of the signals received at each microphone present in the same sound field, the bridge determines whether to include or exclude signals that are received from a first endpoint when preparing a signal for transmission to a second endpoint during a conference call.
US07848731B1
A signal conditioner (SC) and method for communicating via a shared transport medium (STM) between a BTS and remote antenna entity (RAE). A first SC connects to the BTS and a second SC connects to the RAE. Each SC connects to a cable modem or BPL modem that interfaces to the STM. The first SC receives an RF signal carrying an analog baseband signal (ABS) representing digital signals for multiple communication channels. The first SC generates a CDS based on power level measurements of the ABS, and then transmits the CDS to the second SC via the STM. The second SC recovers the CDS, converts the CDS to another ABS, generates an RF signal carrying the other ABS, and transmits this RF signal to the RAE for transmission away from the RAE. The first SC and second SC also facilitate communication of a CDS from the RAE to BTS.
US07848729B2
A system and method for saving sensor power consumption based on context information on a wireless sensor network are provided. Basic context information is received from inside and outside of a network system including at least one sensor, wherein context information based on the basic context information is determined by inference, a group of expected services corresponding to the context information is determined, a sensor operation mode according to the group of expected services is determined, and control data is transmitted to the sensor according to the sensor operation mode. Accordingly, a sensor operation mode is adaptively determined according to changes of context information so that power consumption of a sensor can be saved.
US07848726B2
A high-frequency receiver alleviates an influence of adjacent interference waves in a location where an identical set of broadcast channels can be received with different broadcast waves which are broadcast or relayed in frequency bands different from one another by satellites and ground repeater(s). The I and Q signals are passed to a pair of variable LPFs. A demodulation unit is provided for each of said different broadcast waves to demodulate the I and Q signals derived from the broadcast wave into a demodulated signal. One of the demodulated signals which has a better reception quality is selected for output. Based on a reception level and a noise evaluation information (e.g., the bit error rate) for a selected demodulated signal, a controller controls the bandwidths of the variable LPFs so as to optimize the reception level and the noise evaluation information for the selected demodulated signal.
US07848722B2
A wireless transmission apparatus that can accurately select an optimal modulation scheme on a per block basis in a multi-carrier communication system in which block division of subcarriers and adaptive modulation are performed. In this wireless transmission apparatus, a propagation path characteristics acquisition section acquires the average SNR and SNR variance for each block, which are estimated by a wireless reception apparatus, using received signals inputted from a reception RF section and outputs these to an assignment section. The assignment section selects a modulation scheme for each block based on the average SNR and SNR variance of each block inputted from the propagation path characteristics acquisition section and modulation sections modulate multi-carrier signals included in each block, with the modulation scheme for each block selected by the assignment section.
US07848721B2
An antenna damping circuit in which the frequency characteristics of damping amount can be made substantially flat by providing a resistor (Ra) between PIN diodes (D1, D2) having a resistance varying upon application of a control voltage (Vc) and a capacitive dummy antenna circuit (10), and setting its resistance high enough to neglect the capacity of the dummy antenna circuit (10) sufficiently when the dummy antenna circuit (10) is viewed from the side of the PIN diodes (D1, D2) thereby substantially eliminating the influence of capacity of the dummy antenna circuit (10).
US07848720B2
In a method of auto-tuning a radio FM-receiver the receiver frequency band is scanned until a FM signal is received meeting criteria for identifying the signal as being of a predetermined quality, particularly coming from a valid FM station. At least during tuning it is permanently established whether or nor the FM signal meets the criteria, whereafter the results thereof are read a predetermined number of times, and the FM signal is only stored if at least most of these times the criteria are met. Particularly, the results are read 10 times and the FM signal is only stored if at least 8 times thereof the criteria are met.
US07848719B2
Variable phase ring oscillators are described that provide a linear phase progression between adjacent elements in an antenna array by providing a symmetric ring configuration of tuned amplifiers and a single phase shifter. The ring topology is coupled to a single PLL that allows for direct modulation and demodulation of arbitrary waveforms without using RF up/down converting mixers. The PLL distributes the transmit waveforms to all antenna elements in the transmit mode and combines the received waveforms in the receive mode without any complicated power distribution network. Ultra-wideband architectures and methods are described that utilize a first reference signal source, a VPRO, and a second reference signal source. Related methods are controlling an array and beam steering are also described.
US07848717B2
The present invention discloses a method and a system for out-of-band predistortion linearization, comprising steps of: dividing base band inputted or intermediate frequency signal into an in-band signal branch and an out-of-band signal branch; processing the in-band signal to form RF (Radio Frequency) signal; processing the out-of-band signal to form out-of-band predistortion signal for pre-compensating the in-band signal; adding the in-band signal with the out-of-band predistortion signal, and taking the result as the input of RF power amplifier. The present invention compensates the nonlinear distortion of the RF power amplifier by a way of out-of-band compensating signal in a wireless communication environment, thereby avoiding the limitation of improving performance of conventional predistortion method, and solving the limitation of bandwidth and capability of the predistortion system caused by memory effect.
US07848712B2
A wireless device includes high-performance CMOS RF switches that include serially connected transistors coupled between an input terminal and an output terminal, with an inductor coupled from the input to the output that resonates out the capacitance of the transistors to improve isolation. The transistors have a floating/bootstrapped body with remote body contacts.
US07848707B2
Systems and methods are provided for suppressing radio interference from a noise source having an operating frequency. One system includes memory for storing a threshold signal strength, a re-configurable filter for selectively filtering signals of a harmonic of the operating frequency, and a controller. The controller is configured to compare a signal strength of a received signal to the threshold signal strength and turn ON the re-configurable filter if the signal strength of the received signal is less than or equal to the threshold signal strength. A method includes determining a noise signature for the motor vehicle and associating a signal strength threshold with the noise signature. The method further includes comparing a signal strength of a tuned radio station to the signal strength threshold and turning ON the filter if the signal strength is less than or equal to the signal strength threshold.
US07848704B2
A method, apparatus, and system for tracking and locating BT enabled devices is described. A network of BT sniffers can be used to rapidly locate lost devices and their owners. Wearable child devices maintain low power contact with parent devices until such time as a signal limit is reached, at which point the parent devices alarm. An optional network of fixed sniffing devices can be used to coordinate a search for lost child devices once an alert is issued to the system.
US07848692B2
A neutralization unit for use in an image forming apparatus includes a support member made of an insulating material, an electric-charge removing member made of an electric conductive material, and a rib made of an insulating material. The electric-charge removing member, fixed on the support member, removes electric charge from a back face of the recording medium after a toner image is transferred to a front face of a recording medium at a transfer nip. The electric-charge removing member includes a plurality of exposed areas along a longitudinal direction of the electric-charge removing member. The rib, provided on the support member, has a curved peripheral side and protrudes from a surface of the electric-charge removing member. The back face of the recording medium is contactable at the curved peripheral side of the rib when the recording medium is transported from the transfer nip.
US07848688B2
An image-forming device includes 1st to Mth photosensitive drums (which are arrayed in numeric order in a first direction), a forming unit, an image-carrying member, a detecting unit, and a calibrating unit. Each of the photosensitive drums has a circumferential length D and extends in a first direction. The forming unit forms a registration mark on each of the photosensitive drums. The registration marks are transferred onto the image-carrying member in the numeric order and are arrayed in the first direction. Neighboring registration marks are spaced by a distance L in the first direction. The detecting unit detects positions of the registration marks. The calibrating unit calibrates positions of the photosensitive drums based on the positions detected by the detecting unit. D=NxMxL+(M−1)xL. N being an integer not less than 0.
US07848685B2
A developer supply container detachably mountable to a developer receiving apparatus and settable in a developer receiving apparatus by a setting operation including at least a rotation toward a setting position, includes a containing portion for containing the developer; a rotatable discharging member for discharging the developer out of said containing portion; drive transmitting means, engageable with a driving gear provided in said developer receiving apparatus and rotatable in a direction opposite the setting direction, for transmitting a rotating force from said driving gear to said discharging member.
US07848680B2
There is provided a technique in which in a four-rotation intermediate transfer system image forming apparatus, even in a state where a large amount of transfer residual toner is generated, the occurrence of color mixture of toners can be effectively suppressed.
US07848674B2
It is possible to provide a technique capable of attaching a reactor to a power source unit even upon shipping a package containing an image forming apparatus from a factory as well as opening the package and installing the image forming apparatus in a place for installment, by optionally attaching the reactor to the power source unit.An image forming apparatus includes a case to accommodate a main body of the image forming apparatus and having a bottom portion; and a power source unit provided with at least an AC filter unit and a DC output circuit unit, and a reactor space disposed in the bottom portion of the case, the reactor space being a space for installing a reactor between the AC filter unit and the DC output circuit unit.
US07848665B2
The image forming apparatus include: a resistance detection section (14) for measuring a volume resistivity of a two component developer (11) on a surface of a developer bearing member (12); a resistance memory section (16) for storing therein a preset volume resistivity; a resistance comparison section (15) for comparing the volume resistivity of the two component developer (11) which has been measured by the resistance detection section (14) with the preset volume resistivity stored in the resistance memory section (16); and a control section (17) for carrying out a process for replacing the two component developer or carrier if the volume resistivity of the two component developer (11) is lower than the preset volume resistivity.
US07848662B2
A delay interferometer and a demodulator including the delay interferometer and a balanced photodetector are provided. A half mirror splits an optical signal into first and second split beams of light which travel on first and second optical paths, respectively. A first reflector being disposed on the first optical path reflects the first split beam of light toward the half mirror. The second reflector being disposed on the second optical path reflects the second split beam of light toward the half mirror. At least one phase compensator being disposed between the half mirror and at least one of the first and second reflectors includes a medium that exhibits thermooptic effect and has temperature dependency of refractive index. The half mirror couples the first and second split beams of light to generate at least first and second coupled beams of light.
US07848661B2
An optical transmitter for generating a modulated optical signal for transmission over a fiber optic link to a remote receiver including a laser; an input coupled to the laser for directly amplitude modulating the laser with an analog RF signal to produce an output optical signal including an amplitude modulated information-containing component; and a phase modulator coupled to the output of the laser for reducing the distortion present in the received optical signal at the remote receiver.
US07848653B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method for transmitting low rate signals over an optical transport network, including: adapting the low rate signals into low rate optical channel data units of the same rate level with the low rate signals; asynchronously mapping each of the low rate optical channel data units into a low rate optical channel data tributary unit respectively, and generating justification overhead used for rate adaptation for each of the low rate optical channel data units; and forming a higher order optical channel data unit with at least one low rate optical channel data tributary unit and justification overhead corresponding to the low rate optical channel data tributary unit. The present invention enables the optical transport network to support mapping, multiplexing and highly efficient transmission of low rate signals.
US07848648B2
A position in which an optical signal characteristic is compensated in an optical network can be chosen. An optical network equipment measures an optical signal characteristic for each wavelength, and notifies an optical network equipment on a communication path of an optical signal characteristic index and control necessity determination threshold. In an upstream portion of the communication path, the optical network equipment (a start point or the like of the communication path) that can compensate the optical signal characteristic for each wavelength determines the necessity to eliminate a deviation between wavelengths and the position to eliminate it, using the optical signal characteristic index and the control necessity determination threshold. The equipment determines a compensator to be controlled, and a compensation amount, based on the result, and commands an optical network equipment including the compensator to control the compensator, using a communication path establishment control protocol such as GMPLS-extended RSVP-TE.
US07848635B2
The present invention relates to a rig for a stereoscopic camera system. More specifically, the present invention pertains to a modular stereoscopic rig system. The modular rig system comprises a plurality of interchangeable bases, a first camera mounting module for mounting a first camera to one base and a second camera mounting module for mounting a second camera to the same base.
US07848633B2
In an image taking system, when a running image is to be taken by the use of a self-timer or an automatic image taking system, exposure conditions and a focusing position are determined according to result of detection of the predetermined objective body at least once between the time when instruction to take a running image is done and the time when the running image is actually taken.
US07848632B2
It is so arranged that the portion of the image of a subject that is a face takes on an appropriate brightness. The image of the subject is obtained by imaging the subject. The subject image is subjected to face detection processing and an area construed as being the face-image portion is found. An area corresponding to this area is set in an image obtained by standardizing the subject image. An AE area used in control of exposure is specified from the area that has been set. Brightness is calculated based upon image data representing the image within the specified AE area, and exposure is controlled. Even if an image such as a tree is in the background of the face image, the brightness of the face-image portion is calculated comparatively accurately and a subject image having the appropriate brightness is obtained.
US07848630B2
An autofocus adapter is provided and includes an imaging adapter optical system placed on an optical axis of an imaging lens when the autofocus adapter is attached, and a focus state detection adapter optical system placed on an optical axis different from the optical axis of the imaging lens when the autofocus adapter is attached. The imaging adapter optical system has a light split prism for splitting subject light passing through the imaging lens into imaging subject light and the focus state detection subject light, a first lens group having a negative power as a whole and placed on the object side with respect to the light split prism, and a second lens group having a positive power as a whole and placed on the image side with respect to the light split prism. The focus state detection adapter optical system has a positive lens group having the same lens configuration as the second lens group in the imaging adapter optical system.
US07848626B2
A shake detection technique which does not mistakenly detect a swing-back component at the end of panning as a shake is provided. A shake detection apparatus includes: a sensor which detects velocity or angular velocity; a high-pass filter which removes a low-frequency component from an output signal of the sensor; a shake detection device which detects shake of an apparatus body based on an output signal from the high-pass filter; a determination device which determines whether the output signal of the high-pass filter contains a swing-back component outputted when a shake continued in one direction stops; and a removal device which removes the swing-back component from the output signal of the high-pass filter based on a determination result of the determination device.
US07848620B2
A method for managing chapters is disclosed. When data such as broadcasting program are recorded and chapters are set (e.g., automatically) based on a predetermined time interval in a disc recorder, such as a DVD recorder, embodiments of a method and apparatus of the invention can selectively integrate the last chapter of the recorded program with a chapter prior to the last chapter. The method can efficiently set the number of chapters without deteriorating random access performance. The method can efficiently manage navigation information according to chapter separation.
US07848618B2
A unified recording format allows both recorded programs and paused buffered broadcasts to be stored in memory as a common virtual stream. As content is received on a channel, it is placed into the virtual stream with newer content at the start of the stream and progressively aging content migrating farther downstream. A front section of the stream effectively operates as a pause buffer, as the currently tuned broadcast program is recorded in this section and is responsive to pause/resume commands. Recorded programs are also stored as part of the same virtual stream. Pointers are used to identify the boundaries of the pause buffer, as well as the beginning and end of each recorded program in the virtual stream.
US07848614B2
In the content automatic recording and playback, if the recording and the playback are conducted according to a taste, the user's taste takes precedence and is emphasized. To cope with this situation, a scenario is disposed as a condition to restrict the taste. In the recording and the playback, the scenario acts upon the taste to guide the user to easily view contents matching the scenario. As a result, only by setting the scenario, it is possible to enhance the possibility to guide the user's taste according to a desire (scenario) while recording the contents matching the taste.
US07848608B2
A fiber routing system with drop-in device protects and organizes cables entering into cabinets and racks and then transports the cables within the cabinets or racks to equipment or connection locations. A drop-in device associated with the fiber routing system manages the cables extending vertically into the fiber routing system and conveys the cables to a horizontal component. Cable storage is also provided.
US07848582B2
An image processing method for decoding input encoded image data, which has undergone encoding processing by a predetermined format, image processing the decoded image data, and encoding the image-processed data to create output encoded data includes repeating the process of decoding, image processing and encoding processing and outputting the image data in image processing units subject to the image processing; and sorting the encoded data obtained from the repeated processing step and creating the output encoded data in an order defined by the format of the output encoded data for performing encoding processing on one picture plane. In this case, the repeated processing step includes decoding the input encoded data in the image processing units and outputting image data, image processing the decoded image data in the image processing units, and encoding processing the image-processed data in encoding processing units.
US07848578B2
Visually encoded data is captured along with one or more visual elements, the encoded data is decoded and one composite view is displayed that incorporates information related to the decoding data, such as a decode confirmation or decoded data, and the visual elements. The recognition and decoding process may additionally provide for transforming the captured visual elements to accommodate the allocated display area of small sized display, such as the display associated with a handheld image capturing device. The invention is thus suited for capturing encoded data and branding elements, such as company or product logos, and displaying the branding elements in unison with data related to the decoded information.
US07848574B2
A method for classifying an input character is disclosed. Character models are used. Each character model is associated with an output character and defines a model specific segmentation scheme for that output character and an associated segment model. The model specific segmentation scheme defines a minimum length corresponding to a number of points in a stroke of the output character and a minimum length threshold. Using each of the character models, the input character is decomposed into segments and the segments are evaluated against the segment model of the respective character model to produce a score indicative of the conformity of the segments with the segment model. The character model that produced the highest score is selected and the input character is classified as the output character associated with the character model that produces the highest score.
US07848571B2
One embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method of image segmentation using automated saddle point detection. An edge map is created by edge detection, and a distance map is generated based on the edge map. Saddle points are detected using the distance map. Connector pixels are determined using the saddle points, and connector pixels forming valid connecting paths are marked as edge pixels. Finally, flood filling is performed within edges to designate image segments. Other features, aspects and embodiments are also disclosed.
US07848568B2
A color reproduction system using a medicine bag including a bag adapted to accommodate a medicine therein, and a color chart provided on an outer surface of the bag. The medicine bag includes a first medicine bag having a first color chart and located at a first location and a second medicine bag having a second color chart and located at a second location remote from the first location. The color reproducing system includes: a first device, located at the first location, and operable to read the first color chart so as to generate first color data; and a second device, located at the second location, and operable to transmit image data of an object and second color data of the second color chart to the first device. The first device corrects the image data by using a correction value based on the first color data and the second color data, and displays the corrected image data.
US07848555B2
A method for computer-aided detection of microcalcification clusters using a digital computer obtains digital mammography data for a single view image and normalizes and filters the image data to reduce noise. A first mask is generated and applied to the image data for defining the breast structure, forming a first cropped image. A second mask is generated and applied to the image data for defining muscle structure, forming a second cropped image. An artifact mask corresponding to vascular calcifications and known imaging artifacts is generated and applied to the first and second cropped images, defining first and second artifact-masked cropped images. In a repeated sequence, portions of each artifact-masked cropped image are processed using an enhancement algorithm and reducing edge effects to obtain a set of microcalcification cluster candidates and suspected microcalcification clusters. Image processing algorithms remove false positives from the listing of microcalcification clusters and classify candidate microcalcification clusters to identify true positives.
US07848553B2
The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for fusing or combining functional image data and anatomical image data. The invention, which may be carried out through user interaction or automatically, enables composite and clinically valuable images to be generated that display functional and anatomical data acquired with different imaging systems. By identifying fiducial markers on a functional data image and correlating the fiducial markers with anatomical markers or indicia on the anatomical data image, the respective images may be aligned with one another before a composite image is generated.
US07848548B1
The invention provides a face-based automatic demographics classification system that is robust to pose changes of the target faces and to accidental scene variables, by using a pose-independent facial image representation which comprises multiple pose-dependent facial appearance models. Given a sequence of people's faces in a scene, the two-dimensional variations are estimated and corrected using a novel machine learning based method. We estimate the three-dimensional pose of the people, using a machine learning based approach. The face tracking module keeps the identity of the person using geometric and appearance cues, where multiple appearance models are built based on the poses of the faces. Each separately built pose-dependent facial appearance model is fed to the demographics classifier, which is trained using only the faces having the corresponding pose. The classification scores from the set of pose-dependent classifiers are aggregated to determine the final face category, such as gender, age, and ethnicity.
US07848540B2
Methods and apparatus for embedding and recovering an image for use with video content are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an image processing module to embed a real component of a spectral representation of the image data into a first set of video frames from the plurality of video frames and embed an imaginary component of the spectral representation of the image data into a second set of video frames from the plurality of video frames.
US07848530B2
According to this invention, mechanical noise from a noise source of a pre-identified device can be removed, while tracing a change in gain of acoustic wave data, and noise is removed by tracing a change over time of the noise source. To this end, the gain of a signal from a microphone is automatically adjusted by an Auto level control unit (ALC). A threshold according to the gain of the ALC is stored in a register. A comparator compares audio data from the ALC with the threshold, generates weighting coefficients k and 1−k based on the comparison result, and outputs them to weighting coefficient multipliers. The weighting coefficient multipliers and an adder calculate a weighted average value of data in a memory that stores weighting coefficients of old frames and the input acoustic wave data, and update the contents of the memory by the calculation result. With this update processing, the memory stores only a NOISE component. A level adjusting unit adjusts data read out from the memory according to the current gain of the ALC. An adder subtracts the adjusted data from the input acoustic wave data, and outputs data after noise removal.
US07848529B2
A broadside small array microphone beamforming unit comprises a first omni-directional microphone to generate a signal X1(t), a second omni-directional microphone to generate a signal X2(t), a first delay unit delaying the signal X1(t) to generate a signal X1(t−T), a second delay unit delaying the signal X2(t) to generate a signal X2(t−T), a first substrator subtracting the signal X1(t−T) from the signal X2(t) to generate a signal R(t)=X2(t)−X1(t−T), a second substrator subtracting the signal X2(t−T) from the signal X1(t) to generate a signal L(t)=X1(t)−X2(t−T), a third delay unit delaying the signal R(t) to generate a signal R′(t)=R(t−D), a gain function unit convoluting the signal L(t) with a gain function G(t) to generate a signal L′(t)=L(t)*G(t−i), and a substrator subtracting the signal L′(t) from the signal R′(t) to generate a signal B′(t)=R′(t)−L′(t).
US07848514B2
Tables are defined to permit output masking for table look-ups to be carried out to resist power analysis attacks on cryptographic operations. A set of individually defined random values is used to mask each entry in a substitution table, defining a masked substitution table. A mask table is also defined such that the values of each entry, masked with the corresponding random value, is the value of a fixed mask. The masked substitution tables and the mask tables may be used in cryptographic operations to permit the output of table look-ups to be masked, without directly using the fixed mask value in the computations of the cryptographic operations.
US07848511B2
The subject matter provides a method that enable detecting if a party engaged into a tele-conference call is attempting to engage into conversation while a microphone is in a mute mode. The method provides receiving of a signal. The signal is then analyzed to determining if a party is attempting to engage into conversation. If it is determined that the party is attempting to engage in the conversation then an alarm is transmitted indicating the mode of operation of the microphone. The transmitted alarm may be an audio alert or a visual alert.
US07848492B1
Dispatch communication testing may be automated by actuating an electrically-controlled switch coupled to an initiating dispatch device to automatically generate dispatch test events. In one embodiment, user-defined test parameters may be used to determine exactly when the switch is to be actuated. The resulting test events may then be recorded and compared to corresponding recognized dispatch events, where the recognized dispatch events are those dispatch activities that were actually carried out by either the initiating dispatch device or a target dispatch device. One or more performance characteristic for the initiating dispatch device and/or the dispatch communication network may then be determined based on a result of the comparison.
US07848478B1
An optical communication system includes a rotatable base having a plurality of optical sources and optical receivers mounted thereon, and a stationary base having a plurality of optical sources and optical receivers mounted thereon. The system is configured to send and receive optical signals bi-directionally between the rotatable base and the stationary base while the rotatable base is rotating.
US07848468B2
According to one embodiment, a wireless communication device estimates channel response based on a reduced-density common pilot signal comprising a plurality of regularly spaced common pilot symbols when the reduced-density common pilot signal is sufficient for estimating the channel response with a desired accuracy. The wireless communication device estimates the channel response based on the reduced-density common pilot signal and one or more additional pilot symbols adaptively allocated to the wireless communication device when the reduced-density common pilot signal is insufficient for estimating the channel response with the desired accuracy.
US07848467B2
In a wireless mobile communication system, functions of a base transceiver station is divided and served by transmission/reception devices for communicating with mobile stations, and a signal processing device for performing base band signal processes of a plurality of channels. A plurality of transmission/reception devices and a plurality of signal processing devices are connected via a communication network. Thereby, connection relationships among the transmission/reception devices and the signal processing devices can be flexibly changed.
US07848464B2
A method and apparatus for receiving data in a communication system is disclosed. Receiving a first signal from a transmitter, a first canceller cancels from the received first signal a second signal desired to be received from the transmitter. A second canceller detects and cancels an interference signal from the second signal-canceled first signal. A calculator calculates a Log Likelihood Ratio (LLR) of the interference signal-canceled first signal.
US07848462B2
A digital broadcasting transmission/reception system having improved receiving performance and signal processing method thereof. A digital broadcasting transmitter according to the present invention includes a data pre-processor which processed robust data and generates robust data packet of predetermined format, a TS stream generator which combines robust data packet with a normal data packet to generate a TS stream of a predetermined format, a randomizer which randomizes the TS stream output from the TS stream generator, a convolution encoder which performs convolution encoding with respect to the robust data of the data output from the randomizer, and a RS encoder which performs RS encoding with respect to the data output from the convolution g encoder. Accordingly, digital broadcasting receiving performance can be improved in a poor multipath channel, while maintaining compatibility with existing transmission/reception system.
US07848459B2
A radio receiving apparatus wherein the interference can be minimized and the power and bands can be effectively used in the process of receiving a signal comprising a combination of an impulse signal and an OFDM signal. In this apparatus, a transmission path equalizing part (205) performs a transmission path equalizing process of a signal comprising a combination of an OFDM signal and an impulse signal of UWB-IR system, and a signal separating part (208) uses a constant (C) to clip the amplitude level for a signal (Y1) demodulated as the OFDM signal, and substantially clips only the signal components of the impulse signal. Further, only when a signal (Y2) demodulated as the impulse signal exhibits an amplitude level greater than the constant (C), it is outputted, while most of the signal power of the combined OFDM signal is removed.
US07848458B2
A communication apparatus associated with a system that uses two or more discontinuous frequency bands. The communication apparatus includes a BPF (band pass filter) including a plurality of BPFs associated with signals having respective frequency bands; a controller that controls each unit to transmit/receive the signals having the respective frequency bands; a down-converter that down-converts a filtered signal into a baseband signal while switching frequencies under control of the controller; a receiver that performs predetermined reception processing under control of the controller; and a transmitter that performs predetermined transmission processing under control of the controller, and common hardware is used in communication in all frequency bands with respect to processing of the baseband signal.
US07848457B2
A differential receiver circuit on an integrated circuit consumes substantially no standby power, has constant propagation delay regardless of the input common mode bias, has acceptable common mode rejection and includes first and second pass circuits and buffers to receive differential input signals. The first pass circuit provides a true output signal based on a differential between the “true” buffered signal and the complimentary buffered signal. The second pass circuit provides a “complementary” output signal based on a differential between the complimentary buffered signal and the “true” buffered signal. The differential receiver circuit rejects common mode biases that may be present on the received differential signals without varying propagation delay times.
US07848455B2
Provided is a transmission circuit which is capable of compensating for an offset voltage and a sensitivity characteristic of a PA, and operating with low distortion and high efficiency. A regulator 18 supplies, to a PA 201, a voltage which is controlled in accordance with an amplitude signal to which a first offset value has been added. A regulator 19 supplies, to a PA 202, a voltage which is controlled in accordance with an amplitude signal to which a second offset value has been added. The PA 201 amplifies, in accordance with the voltage supplied from the regulator 18, a phase-modulated signal outputted from a phase modulator 13. The PA 202 amplifies, in accordance with the voltage supplied from the regulator 19, an output signal of the PA 201. A digital block 11 controls the first and second offset values in accordance with temperature information T measured by a temperature measuring section 21.
US07848452B2
A distortion compensating apparatus has an IQ imbalance compensation coefficient arithmetic circuit 31 for calculating, from correlation values of a transmission signal and a feedback signal, IQ imbalance compensation coefficients for compensating for IQ imbalance in a quadrature modulator 23; and an IQ imbalance compensator 21 for compensating for the IQ imbalance with respect to a distortion compensated signal output from a distortion compensator 11 according to the IQ imbalance compensation coefficients, and for outputting to the quadrature demodulator 23.
US07848443B2
Pilot data and data-bearer data are formed to be mutually orthogonal and in each other's null-space. Data to be transmitted is first modulated with the data-bearer matrix and then pilot data is added thereto. The pilot data may be added to each modulated symbol, thereby increasing significantly the density of pilot information available at the receiver for channel state estimation. When pilot data is added across an entire transmitted block of data, data detection performance is improved for even fast fading Rayleigh fading channels.
US07848442B2
A signal processing apparatus in a multi-input/multi-output (MIMO) communication system includes a transmitting end in which a code rate is differently set and a respectively different modulation method is performed at each antenna in consideration of a channel situation of each transmission antenna, coded bits are separately interleaved, and then collectively interleaved to transmit data, and a receiving end in which received data is collectively deinterleaved and then decoded and deinterleaved separately according to each reception antenna, and a channel situation of each signal received from multiple transmission antennas is estimated and fed back to the transmitting end. A different coding rates and modulation method are used at each transmission antenna and the spatial interleaving is performed to obtain a diversity gain in a space domain, and thus, the communication quality can be enhanced.
US07848439B2
A communication apparatus capable of improving the spectrum usage rate of a system, especially, the spectrum usage rate in connection with both a fast fading and a channel estimation error as compared with the conventional sub-band adaptive method, while reducing the degree of the difficulty in achieving the adaptation, and further reducing the feedback overhead. In this apparatus, a sub-band group AMC parameter selecting part (318) selects an AMC parameter of each sub-band. An adaptive reception control part (503) must control an adaptive demodulating/decoding part (311), while controlling a parallel/serial converter (312) in a stage preceding the adaptive demodulation and decoding processes, and combining received symbols in the same sub-band group for demodulation and decoding.
US07848436B2
A scheme for detecting a symbol timing (synchronization) of an Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) system in which a transmitting end inserts a Cyclic Prefix (CP) and/or a Cyclic Suffix (CS) in an OFDM symbol for transmission, and a receiving end uses a new timing metric to detect a timing (synchronization) of the OFDM symbol based on a maximum value of the timing metric, whereby when applying the method for detecting the symbol timing of the OFDM system according to the present invention, the symbol timing can be obtained more precisely, to thusly enable stabilizing of performances of the OFDM system.
US07848429B2
The method comprising a wavelet-based spatial analysis step comprising filtering operations of the picture at the high resolution format and horizontal and/or vertical decimation operations of the filtered picture to supply subband signals, is wherein a decimation operation is carried out according to a factor different from an even value and corresponds to the quotient of the horizontal and vertical dimensions of the first and second format such that the low frequency picture thus obtained relative to the low frequency subband signals, corresponds to the second format.
US07848426B2
A motion vector estimation method and an encoding mode determining method for converting an input moving picture image into a compressed moving picture image suitable for a desired frame rate by re-determining a motion vector and a motion-compensated block type when the frame rate of the input moving picture image needs to be reduced. A method of estimating a motion vector of a motion vector of a macroblock of a current frame in a transcoder includes determining whether the motion vector of the macroblock of the current frame is created with reference to a macroblock of a dropped frame and estimating the motion vector of the macroblock of the current frame by tracing back a reference frame until an undropped frame is found, if the motion vector of the macroblock of the current frame is created with reference to the macroblock of the dropped frame.
US07848425B2
Stereoscopic video is encoded and decoded by using the MAC defined by the existing MPEG-4 standard. The stereoscopic video is divided into one image as a single video object, and another image as auxiliary information for the image established as the video object. The auxiliary information includes a horizontal disparity map, a vertical disparity map, luminance residual texture, and chrominance residual texture, which are respectively allocated to auxiliary components of the MAC according to importance and complexity of the images, encoded, and then output as a single encoding stream.
US07848414B2
A video encoding apparatus includes selecting one combination, for each block of an input video signal, from a plurality of combinations. Each combination includes a predictive parameter and at least one reference picture number determined in advance for the reference picture. A prediction picture signal is generated in accordance with the reference picture number and predictive parameter of the selected combination. A predictive error signal is generated representing an error between the input video signal and the prediction picture signal. Encoding the predictive error signal, information of the motion vector, and index information indicating the selected combination is included.
US07848402B1
Methods and circuits are provided for producing phase-adjusted pre-emphasis and equalization. In applications in which little or no phase distortion occurs during signal transmission, propagation, or reception, linear-phase pre-emphasis or equalization can be used to reduce or eliminate phase distortion introduced by the pre-emphasis or equalization. Linear phase, constant group delay FIR filters or circuits may have odd numbers of coefficients symmetrical about the middle coefficient. In applications in which signal phase distortion occurs, linear phase or non-linear phase pre-emphasis or equalization can be used to reduce or compensate for the phase distortion. Phase compensation may be effected using FIR pre-emphasis and equalization filters and circuits. Non-linear phase FIR filters may have different numbers and combinations of coefficients.
US07848399B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit has first and second delay circuits that have n (n is an integer equal to or larger than 2) delay elements connected in series, respectively, and in which an identical input signal is inputted to delay elements at a first stage and output signals of delay elements at a kth (k is an integer satisfying a condition 1≦k≦n−1) stage are inputted to delay elements at a k+1th stage and a detection circuit that has n edge detecting units and a readout unit and in which a jth (j is an integer satisfying a condition 1≦j≦n) edge detecting unit is inputted with an output signal of a delay element at a jth stage of the first delay circuit and an output signal of a delay element at an n−j+1th stage of the second delay circuit, detects whether periods of rising or falling changes of the two signals overlap, and counts a number of times of the detection, and the readout unit reads out the counted number of times of the detection.
US07848398B2
A communication system is provided for transmitting video, audio, and data content between two or more nodes of a communications network comprised party of twisted pair links. Also provided, is a telecommunication system for transmitting spectrum, comprising transmission bandwidths that carry signals such as, video, audio, data and other services, over twisted pairs of telephone wires. Such system being adopted to for dynamic assignment and management of frequency bands of spectrum over twisted pair links.
US07848389B2
A wireless communication receiver, such as the receiver included in a wireless communication transceiver implemented in a base station or in a mobile station of a wireless communication network, includes a parametric G-RAKE receiver circuit and a method that compute parametric scaling parameters on a per transmission interval basis. In one embodiment, measured impairment correlations are obtained for an individual transmission slot and used to estimate instantaneous values of the scaling parameters. One or both of those instantaneous values are then constrained according to one or more defined limits. In other embodiments, multiple transmission slots are used to increase the number of measurements available to estimate the scaling parameters, with parameter constraining optionally applied. Further embodiments use iterative methods and/or solve for one parameter, and use the results to obtain the other parameter(s). One or more of these embodiments can be improved through the use of error correction/detection information.
US07848386B2
A (radio frequency) RF transmission system includes an RF transmitter that generates an RF signal at a sequence of selected carrier frequencies. A frequency hop module, coupled to the RF transmitter generates the sequence of selected carrier frequencies. A programmable antenna is tuned to each of the sequence of selected carrier frequencies to transmit the RF signal via an antenna current.
US07848384B2
Receiver and reception method of receiving pulsed ultrawideband radio-frequency signals employ an amplification phase, an oscillation phase sensitive to an instability control signal, a shaping phase, and a demodulation phase, and further including an adaptation control step for adapting the receiver or the reception method to the type of signals to be received.
US07848381B2
A tunable laser includes dispersion optics for separating generated laser pulses into first and second wavelength pulses directed along first and second optical paths. First and second reflective mirrors are disposed in the first and second optical paths, respectively. The laser's output mirror is partially reflective and partially transmissive with respect to the first wavelength and the second wavelength in accordance with provided criteria. A first resonator length is defined between the output mirror and the first mirror, while a second resonator length is defined between the output mirror and the second mirror. The second resonator length is a function of the first resonator length.
US07848376B2
A quantum cascade laser structure in accordance with the invention comprises a number of cascades (100), each of which comprises a number of alternately arranged quantum wells (110a to 110j) and barrier layers (105 to 105j). The material of at least one quantum well (110a to 110j) as well as the material of at least one barrier layer (105 to 105j) is under mechanical strain, with the respective strain being either a tensile strain or a compression strain. The quantum wells (110a to 110j) and barrier layers (105 to 105j) are engineered in the quantum cascade laser structure in accordance with the invention so that existing strains are largely compensated within a cascade (100). In the quantum cascade laser structure in accordance with the invention, each material of the quantum wells (110a to 110j) has only one constituent material and the material of at least one barrier layer (105d, 105e, 105f) has at least two constituent materials (111a, 111b, 112a, 112b, 113a, 113b).
US07848370B2
Semiconductor diode lasers are phase-locked by direct current injection and combined to form a single coherent output beam. The optical power is amplified by use of fiber amplifiers. Electronically control of the optical phases of each emitter enables power efficient combining of output beams to be maintained under dynamic conditions.
US07848368B2
A powerful fiber laser system is configured with at least one large-area multi-clad rare-earth doped fiber, which is configured with a MM core capable of propagating a single mode laser emission at a first wavelength, and with at least one pumping assembly capable of generating an optical pump output at a wavelength shorter than the first wavelength of the rare-earth doped fiber. The pumping assembly has a plurality SM fiber lasers coupled to a SM-MM combiner which is operative to lunch the pump output into the cladding of the rare-earth doped fiber so that the powerful fiber laser system is operative to deliver a power of up to 20 kW.
US07848360B2
There is described a method for transmitting synchronization messages in a communication network, the communication network comprising a plurality of network nodes communicating with one another, each containing an internal clock, which is timed with a node clock frequency assigned to the respective network node. The synchronization messages transmitted in the communication network serve to synchronize the times of the internal clocks of the network nodes and contain the pulse counter status of a synchronization clock operating at a predefined synchronization clock frequency. The pulse counter status is estimated by each network node and updated in the synchronization message. Changes in the synchronization clock frequency are taken into account when estimating the pulse counter status. Precise determination of the pulse counter status is achieved with the aid of an approximation of the change over time in the pulse ratio between synchronization clock frequency and node clock frequency by means of a function, with the result that the pulse ratio on transmission of a new synchronization message can be predicted and a precise current pulse counter status can be determined on the basis of the predicted pulse ratio. The method is particularly suitable for use in a communication network of an industrial automation system, whose components communicate with one another for example according to the Profinet standard.
US07848356B2
A channel estimator for use in a receiver node receiving signals from a plurality of user terminals wherein each user terminal is allotted a respective set of transmission subcarriers and respective test signal sequences for transmission over the channel to be estimated. The channel estimator has stored therein information as to the respective sets of transmission subcarriers allotted to the user terminals for transmission as well as the discrete spectra of the respective test signal sequences allotted to the user terminals. Upon receiving from a plurality of user terminals signals including the respective test signal sequences transmitted over the channel by using the respective sets of transmission subcarriers allotted thereto, the estimator generates the discrete spectrum of the combined test signal received and performs channel estimation as a function of the discrete spectrum of the combined test signal and the discrete spectra of the test signal sequences allotted to the user terminals. A frequency domain channel estimation is performed for a single carrier frequency division multiple access system.
US07848355B2
A system and method for resource allocation in peer to peer streaming includes steps of: inferring global properties of a neighborhood made up of peer nodes, wherein the global properties are inferred from a summarization of information obtained locally at each peer node; allocating resources for each peer node to its neighbor nodes in accordance with propagated dependency information; and periodically updating the target rates as peer nodes join and leave the neighborhood.
US07848352B2
There is provided a relay device which enables improved communication quality and cost-reduction, wherein the device carries out both real-time communications and non-real-time communications. A first communicator carries out packet communications with a first real-time communication device and a first non-real-time communication device, which are connected through an external network. A second communicator accommodates a second real-time communication device included in an internal network. A_third_communicator_accommodates_a second_non-real-time communication device included in the internal network. A connection_controller_controls_a_connection_of the_first_and_second real-time communication devices. A timing checker detects a timing before the connection between the first and second real-time communication_devices,_and_a_timing_after_the disconnection_between them by monitoring operations of the connection controller. A resource controller controls resources for real-time communications and those for non-real-time communications based on the timings detected by the timing checker.
US07848345B2
A communication network which can use communication bandwidth effectively. Spreading codes of a first and a second code length are assigned for every communication terminal interfaces connected to the same communication network. The spreading codes of the first code length are used for data communications. The spreading codes of the second code length are used for the control communications between the interfaces and the server. The interfaces and the server receives mixed signals of the data and the control signals. When the received signals are decoded using the spreading code of the first code length, control signal components became equal to or lower than the noise level. When the received signals are decoded using the spreading code of the second code length, data components became equal to or lower than the noise level. Therefore, the interfaces and the server can extract one of these signal components.
US07848324B2
An Internet group membership protocol (IGMP) network device and a signal processing control method thereof in an Internet protocol (IP) digital broadcasting system are provided. The method includes: when an IGMP packet is received from an IGMP client, determining, at a packet transmission/reception unit, whether or not the received IGMP packet is transmitted via bypass; when it is determined that the IGMP packet received from the IGMP client is transmitted via bypass, copying, at the packet transmission/reception unit, the received IGMP packet and bypass-transmitting an original IGMP packet to an upper IGMP network device; transmitting, at the packet transmission/reception unit, the copied IGMP packet to a host; and receiving, at the host, the IGMP packet from the packet transmission/reception unit, processing the IGMP packet, and simultaneously updating its multicast table and a multicast table of the packet transmission/reception unit.
US07848314B2
Providing VOIP barge-in support for a half-duplex DSR client on a full-duplex network by buffering, in a half-duplex DSR client, input audio from the full-duplex network; playing, through the half-duplex DSR client, the buffered input audio; pausing, during voice activity on the half-duplex DSR client, the playing of the buffered input audio; sending, during voice activity on the half-duplex DSR client, speech for recognition through the full-duplex network to a voice server; receiving in the half-duplex DSR client through the full-duplex network from the voice server notification of speech recognition, the notification bearing a time stamp; and, responsive to receiving the notification, resuming the playing of the buffered input audio, including playing only buffered VOIP audio data bearing time stamps later than the time stamp of the recognition notification.
US07848313B1
A method that sends ATM source identification and an ATM-TDM correlation tag from an ATM source gateway to a telephony signaling control network; and then receives at an ATM destination gateway the ATM source identification and the ATM-TDM correlation tag as sent from the telephony signaling control network; and then sends the ATM-TDM correlation tag from the ATM destination gateway to the ATM source gateway to establish a connection between the ATM destination gateway and the ATM source gateway.
US07848302B1
Methods and systems are provided for prioritizing carriers in low-cost Internet-base-station-(LCIB) frequency-hopping pilot beacons. In one embodiment, an LCIB provides a frequency-hopping pilot beacon that repeatedly cycles through transmitting pilot-beacon information on each of multiple carriers. The LCIB identifies a first list of mobile stations, as well as a first list of carriers. The LCIB uses the first list of mobile stations to identify a second list of carriers from among the first list of carriers, thereby identifying a third list of carriers consisting of any carriers that are in the first list of carriers but not in the second list of carriers. The LCIB then prioritizes the second list of carriers over the third list of carriers for inclusion in the frequency-hopping pilot beacon.
US07848298B2
A method and system for de-coupling forward and reverse link assignment for multi-carrier wireless communication systems. A method may assign two or more forward link code division multiple access (CDMA) carriers to transmit data from a base station to an access terminal; assign one or more reverse link CDMA carriers to transmit data from the access terminal to the base station; and limit reverse link overhead transmissions corresponding to the two or more forward link CDMA carriers.
US07848296B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for generating channel information and apparatus and method for adaptive transmission employing the same. The channel information generation apparatus comprises an estimator for estimating current channel information of a multi-carrier received signal for each path, a short-period channel information generator for predicting channel information after a predetermined minimum transmission delay time based on the current channel information estimated by the estimator to generate short-period channel information, and a long-period channel information generator for deriving statistic information of error between the channel information predicted by the short-period channel information generator and actual channel information at the time of transmission to produce long-period channel information. The invention is applied to mobile communication systems using multi-carrier.
US07848293B2
A system and method for automatic wireless transport selection for increased performance and reduced power consumption. Multiple wireless transport services can appear to a TCP/IP stack as a single adapter. Management of the multiple wireless transport services can be performed below the TCP/IP stack to optimize on criteria such as power consumption and bandwidth.
US07848291B2
The present invention proposes an infrastructure to enable seamless mobility for wireless metropolitan area networks (WMANs) and to provide for management of spectrum and network resources. An WMAN reference model is introduced where the radio resource management (RRM) and handover (HO) sub-layer is introduced into the protocol stack. The WMAN management plane is responsible for the RRM and HO management. Several physical and logical network architecture options for WMAN management are proposed.
US07848273B2
A system and method for transmitting a traffic indication message in a Broadband Wireless Access communication system. A base station (BS) transmits the traffic indication message to mobile subscriber stations (MSSs). The traffic indication message includes information on a number of MSS groups and information on a number of traffic indication indexes, each of the MSS groups includes a predetermined number of MSSs, and each of the traffic indication indexes is assigned to each of the MSS groups, and includes a bitmap including a predetermined number of bits. The predetermined number of bits is identical to the number of the MSSs included in each of the MSS groups, each of the predetermined number of the bits is assigned to each of the MSSs included in each of the MSS groups, and represents operation instruction information for each of the MSSs.
US07848261B2
The systems and methods of the present invention provide a quiescing protocol. In one embodiment, nodes of a system utilize the protocol to complete processing until they reach a consistent state. In one embodiment, a coordinator initiates the quiescing process and the nodes communicate with each other to determine whether their messages have been processed and communicate with the coordinator to determine when all of the messages have been processed.
US07848259B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for managing services on a network. In one exemplary embodiment, the method includes receiving topologically relevant network information concerning nodes, interfaces, connections and/or protocols; resolving conflicts in the received information; determining and storing a network topology from the received and resolved information; and inferring one or more services based on the stored topology.
US07848258B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus comprises one or more processors; logic coupled to the one or more processors for execution and configured to perform receiving, from a second computer, a request for information about a first address of a customer premises equipment (CPE) device and including a second address of the second computer; determining that an address record of the first address identifies a third address, which is different from the second address, for a termination unit associated with the CPE device; in response to the determining: causing the generating and sending of one or more updates of inter-domain routing protocol information for the CPE device; updating the address record by storing the second address in a location that identifies the termination unit that is associated with the CPE device.
US07848256B2
The invention comprises a method and apparatus for adjusting a distribution schedule controlling distribution of network device configuration changes associated with a plurality of network devices. Specifically, the method comprises determining a distribution status of the distribution of network device configuration changes, comparing the distribution status to the distribution schedule, and adjusting the distribution schedule in response to a difference between the distribution schedule and the distribution status.
US07848251B2
Techniques are given for determining the data transmission or sending rates in a router or switch of two or more input queues in one or more input ports sharing an output port, which may optionally include an output queue. The output port receives desired or requested data from each input queue sharing the output port. The output port analyzes this data and sends feedback to each input port so that, if needed, the input port can adjust its transmission or sending rate.
US07848248B2
A method and apparatus enabling the measurement of one way delay in each of the two directions of transmission from a single location are disclosed. The method measures a first roundtrip delay at a first location between a first endpoint and a second endpoint over a first communication network, and measures a second roundtrip delay between a third endpoint and a fourth endpoint over a second communication network with symmetric delay characteristics. The method performs synchronous recordings of a test signal that is sent simultaneously from the second endpoint to the first endpoint and from the fourth endpoint to the third endpoint, to measure an arrival time (t1) of the test signal over the first communication network, and, an arrival time (t2) of the test signal over the second communication network t2, where the arrival times (t1) and (t2) are used to calculate an one way transmission delay in the first communication network.
US07848242B2
Methods and apparatus for testing adaptive timing characteristics of a packet-based timing protocol are provided. A packet delay variation test sequence is applied to packet-based traffic as the packet-based traffic passes through a packet delay variation generator during transmission between nodes. Adaptive timing characteristics at a node that receives the packet-based traffic are evaluated in accordance with the packet delay variation test sequence.
US07848236B2
The present invention concerns a method of configuring quality parameters in a packet-based transmission flow for packets within the flow, and still further a method of transmitting packet-based transmission flows comprising packets of configured quality classes within a session capable of handling at least two distinguishable flows, the method comprising the steps of: receiving packets of a first flow as a first flow of the session, analyzing the received packets in terms of the configured quality classes, separating those segments of the packets of a configured quality class, which configured quality class differs from a quality class of said first flow of the session. Also, a corresponding reception method is disclosed, and respective transmitter and receiver devices are disclosed.
US07848229B2
A ToL client is provided having, e.g., a key or button for the user to press or click when a voice problem arises. A controller maintains a set of predetermined “channels” having various voice quality settings, for example, related to codec selection, noise filters, jitter buffer size, echo cancellation, and the like. The user can select one of the channels and the connection will transfer over to using the parameters indicated. On subsequent uses, the new “best” channel can be the default or first selected.
US07848221B2
Disclosed are a method and system for detecting adjacent channel interference between two systems having neighboring frequencies. The method and system calculates a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) output for one or more upper and lower frequency side null subcarriers and center data subcarriers of a frequency channel. Power values are calculated for the upper and lower frequency side null subcarriers and the center data subcarriers for use in determining a presence of adjacent channel interference (ACI).
US07848213B2
A storage device including a storage medium for storing data in the form of topographic or magnetic marks. At least one probe is mounted on a common frame, the common frame and the storage medium designed for moving relative to each other for creating or detecting said marks. Each probe includes a tip facing the storage medium, a read sensing element, a write element and a capacitive platform, that forms a first electrode and is designed for a voltage potential applied to it independent from a control signal for said read sensing element and for said voltage potential applied to said capacitive platform being independent from a control signal for said write heating element. It further comprises a second electrode arranged in a fixed position relative to the storage medium forming a first capacitor together wherein said first electrode and a medium between the first and second electrode.
US07848208B2
An optical head device is provided with a semiconductor laser, an aberration correcting element for transmitting a beam from the semiconductor laser, a light guiding portion for introducing the beam from the semiconductor laser to the aberration correcting element, and an objective lens for focusing the beam having passed through the aberration correcting element on an optical disc. The aberration correcting element corrects a longitudinal chromatic aberration occurring in the objective lens and a longitudinal chromatic aberration occurring in the light guiding portion excluding the objective lens and the aberration correcting element based on a longitudinal chromatic aberration occurring in the aberration correcting element when the semiconductor laser emits a beam having a wavelength different by a specified wavelength difference.Therefore, an optical head device, an aberration correction method and an optical information processing apparatus can be provided which can suppress a longitudinal chromatic aberration occurring in the entire optical system from a light source to an objective lens.
US07848205B2
An information-recording medium having a substrate and a recording part formed on the substrate allowing three-dimensional formation of recording pits, the recording part, comprising multiple recording layers, in which the recording pits are formed with a converged recording light at a wavelength of λ2 and reproduced with a converged reproducing light with a wavelength λ1 shorter than the wavelength λ2, and intermediate layers alternately laminated between the recording layers, wherein the reflectance at the recording light wavelength of λ2 in the unrecorded region is smaller than the reflectance at the reproducing light wavelength of λ1 in the unrecorded regions of the recording layers.
US07848197B2
An information recording medium is provided, which comprises a plurality of recording layers and a first disc information area for storing parameters relating to access to the plurality of recording layers and formats relating to the plurality of recording layers. The first disc information area is provided in a first recording layer which is one of the plurality of recording layers.
US07848195B2
The invention relates to a method for transmitting a write strategy to a laser driver, and to a pickup and an apparatus for writing to or reading from and writing to optical recording media using such method.According to the invention, the method has the steps of: transmitting an encrypted write strategy to the laser driver; and decrypting the transmitted write strategy with a decryption key stored in a first memory of the laser driver.
US07848186B2
An objective lens focusing light emitted from a light source onto an information surface of an optical disk, comprising: a first lens surface to be positioned on the light-source side; a second lens surface to be positioned on the optical-disc side; a first edge surface to be positioned on the light-source side, provided in an outer region of the first lens surface; and a second edge surface to be positioned on the optical-disc side, provided in an outer region of the second lens surface, a first optical axis of the first lens surface coinciding with a second optical axis of the second lens surface, the first optical axis and the second optical axis being orthogonal to the second edge surface.
US07848180B2
The antenna circuit 42 includes: an MI magnetic sensor having an electric property which changes in accordance with a magnetic field change; a radio-frequency signal generator S1 to apply a radio-frequency signal to the MI magnetic sensor Z1; an inverter 92 to invert the radio-frequency signal; an adder 94 to reduce the radio-frequency signal by adding the inverted signal with a received signal obtained by the MI magnetic sensor Z1; and detectors D1 and D2 to detect the received signal in which the radio-frequency signal has been reduced. Further, included are a resonant circuit 620 including a magnetic sensor circuit Z1 and a resonant element such as quartz to retrieve a magnetic field change of a resonant frequency from a detected magnetic field change; and a resistance R0. Further, the magnetic sensor circuit 610 includes a magnetoresistance element 612, a DC power source 611 and a resistance R1.
US07848175B2
A method and system are provided for coupling a DRAM and a memory controller during driver training to reduce mismatches by controlling impedances within the system environment. The memory device, which is typically the device initializing a bit level voltage on a data net, is adjusted through altering what appears to be the reference voltage value to the memory device. A current driven to the memory device is varied in small increments while impedance training is rerun until a desired value is achieved to set the 0 level voltage on the data net.
US07848161B2
A semiconductor memory device comprising a memory cell array of cross-point type having memory cells each composed of a variable resistive element for storing information in the form of variation of the electrical resistance. The operating current in the programming operation is reduced. Main data lines (GDL0 to GDL7) for supplying predetermined data line voltages to each of the corresponding data lines (DL0 to DL7) of the memory cell arrays (BK0 to BK3) arranged at least in the row direction extend in the row direction and are connected to the corresponding data lines (DL0 to DL7) through individual data line selecting transistors (TD0k to TD7k) in the memory cell arrays (BK0 to BK3). The number of data lines (DL0 to DL7) of the memory cell arrays (BK0 to BK3) is equal to the largest number of memory cells in which data is simultaneously programmed in one write operation.
US07848157B2
A page buffer circuit of a memory device including a plurality of Multi-Level Cells (MLCs) connected to at least a pair of bit lines includes a Most Significant Bit (MSB) latch, a Least Significant Bit (LSB) latch, a data I/O circuit, an inverted output circuit, a MSB verification circuit, and a LSB verification circuit. The MSB latch is configured to sense a voltage of a sensing node in response to a control signal and store an upper sensing data, and output an inverted upper sensing data, or store an input data and output an inverted input data. The LSB latch is configured to sense a voltage of the sensing node in response to the control signal, and store and output a lower sensing data, or store and output an input data received through the MSB latch. The data I/O circuit is connected to the MSB latch and a data I/O line, and is configured to perform the input and output of a sensing data or the input and output of a program data.
US07848148B2
Silicon-oxide-nitride-oxide-silicon SONOS-type devices (or BE-SONOS) fabricated in Silicon-On-Insulator (SOI) technology for nonvolatile implementations. An ultra-thin tunnel oxide can be implemented providing for very fast program/erase operations, supported by refresh operations as used in classical DRAM technology. The memory arrays are arranged in divided bit line architectures. A gate injection, DRAM cell is described with no tunnel oxide.
US07848147B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor memory device and a writing method thereof are provided. The nonvolatile semiconductor memory device includes a cell array, a controller configured to receive input data from an outside source, an address latch unit configured to store a Y-address of the input data and X-addresses respectively corresponding to at least two wordlines, over which the input data is written, based on an address of the input data output from the controller, and a page buffer configured to receive the input data from the controller and temporarily store the input data. The controller writes the data stored in the page buffer over the two wordlines in the cell array based on the at least two X-addresses and the Y-address.
US07848141B2
A multi-level cell copyback program method in a non-volatile memory device is disclosed. The method includes reading LSB data of a source page, and storing the read LSB data in a second register of a page buffer, transmitting the data stored in the second register to a first register coupled to a data inputting circuit, and storing the transmitted data in the first register, amending the data stored in the first register through the data inputting circuit, transmitting the amended data to the second register, and storing the transmitted data in the second register, and LSB-programming corresponding data to a target page in accordance with the data stored in the second register.
US07848139B2
A conductive write line of a memory device includes a resistive heating portion for setting and resetting a phase-change material (PCM) storage cell of the device. A dielectric interface extends between the resistive heating portion of the write line and a side of the storage cell, and provides electrical insulation while allowing for thermal coupling between the resistive heating portion and the storage cell. A width of the resistive heating portion of the write line may be less than a width of the storage cell and/or may be less than a width of adjacent portions of the write line, between which the resistive heating portion extends. The side of the storage cell may define a channel of the storage cell through which the write line passes, such that the resistive heating portion is located within the channel.
US07848136B2
It is possible to reduce writing current without causing fluctuation of the writing characteristic. A magnetic memory includes: a magnetoresistance effect element having a magnetization pinned layer whose magnetization direction is pinned, a storage layer whose magnetization direction is changeable, and a non-magnetic layer provided between the magnetization pinned layer and the storage layer; and a first wiring layer which is electrically connected to the magnetoresistance effect element and extends in a direction substantially perpendicular to a direction of an easy magnetization axis of the storage layer, an end face of the magnetoresistance effect element substantially perpendicular to the direction of the easy magnetization axis of the storage layer and an end face of the first wiring layer substantially perpendicular to the direction of the easy magnetization axis being positioned on the same plane.
US07848100B2
A reconfigurable mounting bracket is disclosed. The bracket includes a first face plate configured to attach to an enclosure, a first flange that extends perpendicularly from a first end of the first face plate, and a second flange that extends perpendicularly from a second end of the first face plate, the second flange extending in an opposing direction from the first flange. The reconfigurable mounting bracket accommodates a plurality of attachment options.
US07848096B2
A mounting apparatus is provided for a storage device. The mounting apparatus includes a bracket, and an operating device. The bracket includes a first fixing arm, and a second fixing arm each forming a latching portion on an inside surface thereof, for engaging the storage device. The first fixing arm forms a receiving arm perpendicularly extending out from an end thereof. A sliding arm perpendicularly extends out from the second fixing arm and slidably received in the receiving arm. A locking portion is formed on the sliding arm. The operating device is rotatably attached to the received arm. The operating device includes an operating portion exposed out of the bracket, and an engaging surface. The operating portion is manipulated to allow the engaging surface to engage and disengage a side of the locking portion facing the second fixing arm.
US07848094B2
An electronic device includes a main body, a lid body, a hinge, a notch, and a cable. The main body includes a connecting side where the lid body is pivotally mounted to the main body. The hinge is disposed on the connecting side for mounting the lid body to the main body, and includes a fixing frame mounted to one of the main body and the lid body and a pivot member mounted to the other of the main body and the lid body. The notch is defined on one side of the pivot member. The cable extends along the notch and transmits electrical signals between the main body and the lid body.
US07848093B2
Portable devices configured to be worn as a belt buckle are disclosed herein. The portable device includes a housing, a first connector attached to the housing and adapted to slideably receive a belt, and a second connector attached to the housing and adapted to secure the housing to the belt.
US07848070B2
An electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection structure is disclosed. The ESD protection structure includes an active device. The active device includes a plurality of drains. Each of the drains has a contact row and at least one body contact row. The at least one body contact row is located on the active device in a manner to reduce the amount of voltage required for triggering the ESD protection structure.
US07848067B2
A method of controlling in-rush current to a DC motor is disclosed. The method may include operating the DC motor in a first mode including applying back-EMF across a relay coil to maintain the relay in an open configuration when the back-EMF is below a predetermined voltage. The method may also include operating the DC motor in a second mode including applying the back-EMF across the relay coil to maintain the relay in a closed configuration when the back-EMF is equal to or above the predetermined voltage.
US07848066B2
A motor drive device includes: chopping signal generation means for generating a chopping signal Sa when drive current of a driver has reached a first threshold value; chopping signal cut-off means for cutting off the chopping signal Sa when the drive current has reached a second threshold value which is greater than the first threshold value; and overcurrent protection means for generating an overcurrent protection signal Se when the drive current has reached a third threshold value which is greater than the first threshold value and its continuation time has reached a predetermined threshold value time. Thus it is possible to simultaneously obtain the constant current chopping function and the overcurrent protection function and to improve its reliability and safety.
US07848064B2
An anti-parallel pinned sensor is provided with a spacer that increases the anti-parallel coupling strength of the sensor. The anti-parallel pinned sensor is a GMR or TMR sensor having a pure ruthenium or ruthenium alloy spacer. The thickness of the spacer is less than 0.8 nm, preferably between 0.1 and 0.6 nm. The spacer is also annealed in a magnetic field that is 1.5 Tesla or higher, and preferably greater than 5 Tesla. This design yields unexpected results by more than tripling the pinning field over that of typical AP-pinned GMR and TMR sensors that utilize ruthenium spacers which are 0.8 nm thick and annealed in a relatively low magnetic field of approximately 1.3 Tesla.
US07848062B2
In a read-write head, the shields can serve as magnetic flux conductors for external fields, so that they direct a certain amount of flux into the recording medium. This problem has been overcome by the addition to the shields of a pair of tabs located at the edges closest to the ABS. These tabs serve to prevent flux concentrating at the edges so that horizontal fields at these edges are significantly reduced. Said tabs need to have aspect ratios of at least 2 and may be either triangular or rectangular in shape. Alternatively, the tabs may be omitted and, instead, outer portions of the shield's lower edge may be shaped so as to slope upwards away from the ABS.
US07848060B2
A magnetic storage system according to one embodiment includes magnetic media containing magnetic domain tracks; and at least one head for reading from the magnetic media, each head having: a first Extraordinary Magentoresistive (EMR) device for detecting magnetic fields of a first magnetic domain track; a second EMR device for detecting magnetic fields of a second magnetic domain track. The system further includes a slider for supporting the head; and a control unit coupled to the head for controlling operation of the head. A system according to another embodiment includes a first Extraordinary Magnetoresistive (EMR) device for detecting magnetic fields of a magnetic domain of interest. A system according to yet another embodiment includes an Extraordinary Magnetoresistive (EMR) device for deriving servoing information.
US07848059B2
A magnetoresistive effect element includes a magnetization fixed layer having substantially fixed magnetization direction. A magnetization variable layer has a variable magnetization direction, consists of a magnetic alloy that has a BCC structure and is expressed by Fe1-x-yCoxNiy (0≦x+y≦1, 0≦x≦1, 0≦y≦1), and contains at least one additive element of V, Cr, and Mn in a range of 0
US07848037B2
A method for testing a hard disk drive is described. The method includes determining a number of defects associated with a portion of recordable media associated with a hard disk drive. The method further includes comparing the number of determined defects to a threshold number of defects and provided the number of determined defects is greater than the threshold number of defects, determining that the portion of the disk comprises disk defects.
US07848027B2
An objective lens OL includes, in order from an object, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having positive refractive power, a diffractive optical element GD forming a diffractive optical surface D thereon, and a third lens group G3 having negative refractive power. The first lens group G1 includes at least one cemented lens and the most object side surface thereof forms a concave surface facing the object. The second lens group G2 includes at least one cemented lens. The third lens group G3 includes at least one cemented negative lens. In the objective lens OL, a principal ray crosses an optical axis between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3, and in the diffractive optical element GD, the diffractive optical surface D is disposed in the vicinity of the position where the principal ray crosses the optical axis.
US07848023B2
An exposure head, includes: a lens array that includes lenses that are arranged in a first direction and in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and a light emitting element substrate that is provided with light emitting elements that emit lights to be imaged by the lenses, wherein a relationship defined by a following formula: 1
US07848017B2
A microscope device including a coherent light source, an illuminating optical system which has light beam splitting means that splits the coherent light source into light beams and phase-modulating means disposed near a pupil conjugate plane and adapted for modulating the phases of two of the light beams and projects illuminating light spatially modulated into an interference fringe structure by causing the two light beams to interfere with each other near the plane of a sample, an imaging optical system for forming an image of the sample with diffracted light, imaging means, and image processing means for creating a sample image by computation of the image captured by the imaging means each time the phase of the spatial modulation is modulated.
US07848008B2
Disclosed is a structural color display including: (a) a pattern forming member which forms a plurality of cells each lined up in two dimension; and (b) a light transmissive image display sheet comprising a color showing layer which shows a structural color, the light transmissive image display sheet being faced to the pattern forming member, wherein each cell is independently controlled to reflect a light from a light source corresponding to an image pattern to be displayed, provided that the reflected light is made to enter in the image display sheet from a side facing the pattern forming member by a predetermined incident angle corresponding to the cell. The pattern image forming member comprises the element having a plurality of microscopic mirrors arranged in a rectangular array and being individually rotated.
US07848006B2
An electrophoretic medium has walls defining a microcavity containing an internal phase. This internal phase comprises electrophoretic particles suspended in a suspending fluid and capable of moving therethrough upon application of an electric field to the electrophoretic medium. The average height of the microcavity differs by not more than about 5 μm from the saturated particle thickness of the electrophoretic particle divided by the volume fraction of the electrophoretic particles in the internal phase.
US07848002B2
A method for aligning a micro-mirror device die having a plurality of micro-mirror devices formed on a semiconductor substrate and fixing the micro-mirror device die on the semiconductor substrate can be provided. The method comprises a first alignment step of aligning a first guide portion of the micro-mirror device die and a second guide portion of the package substrate and a fixing step of fixing the micro-mirror device die on the package substrate in a position aligned by the first alignment step using the first and second guide portions.
US07847998B2
Provided is an optical element including: a substrate; at least one at least partially ordered orientation facility connected to at least a portion of the substrate; and an at least partial coating connected to at least a portion of the at least partially ordered orientation facility. The at least partial coating includes at least one at least partially ordered anisotropic material. At least one photochromic-dichroic compound is at least partially aligned with at least a portion of the at least partially ordered anisotropic material.
US07847995B2
A micro electro mechanical system device includes a fixed electrode that includes a first electrode group, and a movable electrode that moves with respect to the fixed electrode as voltage is applied and includes a second electrode group that opposes the first electrode group, wherein electrodes of at least one among the first electrode group and the second electrode group are connected via a resistor.
US07847991B2
Holographic storage medium which avoids the interference between a reference beam and a reconstructed object beam, wherein the holographic storage medium has a holographic storage layer on top of a reflective layer, and wherein the reflective layer has non-reflective areas as well as reflective areas for coupling a reference beam out of the optical path of a reconstructed object beam.
US07847990B2
There is provided a method to print a composite image, by using a data processing apparatus, capable of generating first data, and an image forming apparatus, capable of generating second data and forming the composite image. The method includes providing one of a print instruction and a composition instruction to the data processing apparatus, setting a configuration of the second data, providing the one of the printing instruction and the composition instruction along with the first data to the image forming apparatus, reading and storing the second image, composing third data by combining the first data with the second data, judging whether the composition instruction is provided, pausing the printing operation when the composition instruction is provided, controlling reading the second image when the printing operation is paused, controlling the composition of the third data when the composition instruction is provided, and controlling forming the composite image.
US07847987B2
A method is disclosed as including scanning a first pixel of an image with a primary scanning line of a sensor, and scanning a second pixel of the image with a secondary scanning line of the sensor, wherein the first pixel is separated from the second pixel by a pitch of one or more scan lines. A compensation value is determined for one or more pixels of the image, wherein the compensation value is determined based, at least in part, on a mathematical operation comprising pixel values associated with the first and second pixels and the pitch. The method further includes compensating the one or more pixel values based, at least in part, on the compensation value, wherein the compensation value compensates for a reflection of light between the first and second scanning lines when the first and second pixels are scanned.
US07847986B2
Systems and methods providing multiband color management are described. In one aspect, source peripheral device primary color spectra are determined. Target peripheral device primary color spectra are also identified. Source and target color spaces are respectively modeled based on the source and target peripheral device primary color spectra. Color management is implemented using the source and target color spaces.
US07847983B2
An image reading apparatus comprises an original placement portion on which an original is to be placed, optical unit for optically scanning the original on the original placement portion while moving relative to the original placement portion and a guide member that guides movement of the optical unit. The optical unit includes a sliding member having a screw portion that slides in contact with the guide member and a screw hole portion to which the sliding member is mounted. The screw portion of the sliding member is plastically deformable and screwed into the screw hole portion while being plastically deformed.
US07847980B2
An image processing apparatus performs a density adjustment process for generating an image containing a copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image for warning against the use of copy products. To help users to easily adjust the density of a latent image portion and a background portion in the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image, the image processing apparatus determines a density relationship of the latent image portion and the background portion by performing a plurality of adjustment operations, in combination, different in the amount of adjustment relating to the range of variable density in at least one of the latent image portion and the background portion, and sets, based on the density relationship, the density data of each of the latent image portion and the background portion in the data of the copy-forgery-inhibited pattern image.
US07847974B2
Systems and methods for dynamically limiting total colorant coverage in multi-colorant rendering. Two polyhedra are defined: one contains all the colors that exceed the total colorant limit, and another is within the colorant limit that contains the results of the colorant limitation process. Data is received to identify a specified contone color, which is processed to decide whether it is inside one of the polyhedra. If the specified contone color is not within either polyhedra, the specified contone color is used in the rendering process. Alternatively, if the specified contone color is within one of the polyhedra, the value representing the specified contone color is compressed into the second polyhedra volume to obtain a resultant contone color that is used in the rendering process.
US07847971B2
A layout processing method changes the layout of a template having a plurality of data areas in accordance with contents data to be assigned in each of the plurality of data areas. The method includes a displaying step, first and second setting steps, and a layout step. In the layout step, the size of a first data area is maintained, changed, or expanded based on the size of contents data assigned in the first data area and based on changes in the size of a second data area associated with the first data area. An information processing apparatus and a control program stored on a computer-readable medium are also provided.
US07847962B2
An e-mail print processing device that performs printing of an e-mail and a file attached to the e-mail received via a network, including: a reception history storage unit that stores a reception history of e-mails; a display unit that displays a list of the reception history of the e-mails stored in the reception history storage unit; a selection unit that selects by a user's operation an e-mail of which printing is confirmed from the reception history list of the e-mails displayed by the display unit; a confirmation notice generation unit that generates a confirmation notice of the e-mail selected by the selection unit; and a confirmation notice sending unit that sends the confirmation notice generated by the confirmation notice generation unit.
US07847949B2
Method, apparatus and arrangement according an exemplary embodiment of the present invention can be provided for generating an image of at least one portion of an anatomical structure. For example, the portion can have an area greater than about 1 mm2, and the image can have a resolution a transverse resolution that is below about 10 μm. For example, light can be scanned over such portion so as to generate first information which is related to the portion, where the light may be provided through a diffraction arrangement to generate a spectrally dispersed line. Method, apparatus and arrangement according to a further exemplary embodiment of the present invention can be provided for positioning a radiation or optical beam within an anatomical structure based on signals generated by scanning a portion of the structure using the same or a different beam.
US07847945B2
A method is provided for making and using measurements in gas filter correlation radiometry. A Gas Filter Correlation Radiometer (GFCR) instrument is moved in a region of space surrounding a heavenly body. An atmosphere of the heavenly body is viewed with the GFCR instrument along a first view direction with the atmosphere and the GFCR instrument experiencing a relative velocity of approximately zero. The atmosphere is also viewed with the GFCR instrument along at least one second view direction that is angularly separated from the first view direction such that atmospheric spectra associated with the second view direction appears Doppler shifted with respect to atmospheric spectra associated with the first view direction. A gas filter correlation radiometry application is performed using the measurement signals obtained from the different view directions.
US07847933B2
Linear chirped pulses in a Raman excitation scheme provide selective excitation of only one target transition (single mode) in a molecule without disturbing any other transitions or molecules. Selectivity is guaranteed by the adiabaticity of the pulse excitation, which allows manipulation by only a resonant mode while leaving all of the other modes unperturbed. This in turn allows for enhanced imaging or spectroscopic analysis of a sample that contains one or more of the molecules.
US07847931B2
A measuring equipment utilizing terahertz pulse light, includes: a terahertz light generator that generates terahertz pulse light; a terahertz light detector that detects terahertz pulse light; a first condensing optical system that condenses the terahertz pulse light generated by the terahertz light generator; and a second condensing optical system that condenses the terahertz pulse light diverging after being condensed by the first condensing optical system, onto the terahertz light detector. A sample is arranged in a vicinity of a position of condensing the terahertz pulse light by the first condensing optical system; and at least one of the first and the second condensing optical systems includes at least one optical device having a positive or negative refractive power. The measuring equipment further includes: a position adjusting mechanism that adjusts a position of the at least one optical device on an optical axis when the terahertz light detector detects the terahertz pulse light having transmitted through the sample; and a controlling unit that controls the position adjusting mechanism.
US07847930B2
A method for detecting differences between physically measurable properties of a sample and a reference sample. A two-dimensional reference field is generated and first and second two-dimensional patterns are produced respectively from the reference sample and the sample. A correction is made to sample response functions to eliminate time-dependent and location-dependent fluctuations of the detector.
US07847929B2
A method for inspecting a plurality of dies, that are typically disposed on a surface of a semiconducting wafer. Each of the dies includes respective functional features within the die. The method consists of identifying within a first die a first multiplicity of the functional features having respective characteristics, and measuring respective first locations of the first multiplicity with respect to an origin of the first die. Within a group of second dies a second multiplicity of the functional features having the respective characteristics is identified, respective second locations of the second multiplicity are measured. The second locations are compared to the first locations to determine a location of an origin of the group of the second dies.
US07847920B2
An illumination system for illuminating a reticle that moves along a scanning direction in a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus has an optical axis and an optical component producing an illumination angle distribution of the projection light. In accordance with the illumination angle distribution, a plurality of poles is illuminated in a pupil plane of the illumination system. The poles form an arrangement that is only mirror-symmetrical with respect to an axis that is orthogonal to the optical axis of the illumination, but neither parallel nor perpendicular to the scanning direction.
US07847897B2
To provide a liquid crystal display, particularly TN type liquid crystal display capable of remarkably improving brightness inversion resistance at a high contrast with a simple configuration and an optical compensation film which realizes the aforementioned properties, the liquid crystal display includes a pair of polarizing plates, each of the polarizing plates being disposed on an outer side of a liquid crystal layer having a twisted structure, the liquid crystal layer being disposed between substrates facing to each other, at least one of the substrates having an electrode, each of the polarizing plates including a polarizing film, a protective film, and an optical compensation film, wherein the optical compensation film includes a compound having a discotic structure unit, and the compound having a discotic structure unit is aligned such that the average alignment direction of the molecular major axis of the discotic structure unit at each side of the upper and lower optical compensation films facing to the polarizing film cross each other at an angle of not greater than the crossing angle of absorption axes of the pair of polarizing plates.
US07847896B2
Disclosed is an in-plane switching liquid crystal display. The in-plane switching liquid crystal display uses at least one A-plate and adjusts the optical axis direction and the retardation value of the A-plate, thereby improving the contrast characteristic at a front and at a predetermined inclination angle of the in-plane switching liquid crystal display while minimizing a color shift according to viewing angles in the black state.
US07847893B2
A display device includes a gate line and a data line aligned on a substrate, wherein the gate line and the data line cross each other to define a pixel area on the substrate, a gate electrode branching from the gate line, a source electrode branching from the data line on the gate electrode, a drain electrode spaced apart from the source electrode, a reflective electrode extending from the drain electrode, wherein the reflective electrode is formed in the pixel area, and an insulating layer pattern formed on the reflective electrode, wherein a protrusion pattern is provided at a surface of the insulating layer pattern.
US07847892B2
An array panel for a liquid crystal display device includes a substrate, a gate line and a gate electrode on the substrate, wherein the gate line is connected to the gate electrode, a gate insulating layer on the gate line and the gate electrode, an active layer on the gate insulating layer, an ohmic contact layer on the active layer, a data line, a source electrode, and a drain electrode on the ohmic contact layer, wherein the data line, the source electrode, and the drain electrode are formed of molybdenum, a passivation layer on the data line, the source and drain electrodes, and a pixel electrode on the passivation layer, wherein the ohmic contact layer has the same shape as the data line, the source, and drain electrodes, and the active layer has the same shape as the data line, and the source electrode, and the drain electrode except for a channel area between the source electrode and the drain electrode, and the channel area has a “U” shape.
US07847887B2
To provide a protective film for a polarizing plate that shows a water vapor transmission rate (WVTR40) of 30 g/m2·day or less at 60° C. and a relative humidity of 40%, a water vapor transmission rate (WVTR95) 80 g/m2·day or more and 300 g/m2·day or less at 60° C. and a relative humidity of 95% and a value obtained by dividing the difference between WVTR95 and WVTR40 by the water vapor transmission rate (WVTR60) at 60° C. and a relative humidity of 60%, or (WVTR95-WVTR40) /WVTR60, 2.0 or more.
US07847886B2
A parabolic lenticular collimating film system includes at least one film which is at least partially transmissive and one or more parabolic structures on a surface of the film.
US07847884B2
A manufacturing method of an optical film is provided. The method includes the following steps. A substrate is provided first and a surface of the substrate is aligned or an alignment layer is formed on the substrate. Next, a defined pattern layer is formed on the aligned surface of the substrate or on a surface of the alignment layer at a first temperature. A first liquid crystal layer is then coated on the aligned surface of the substrate or the surface of the alignment layer to cover the defined pattern layer. Then, a first curing step is performed at a second temperature to enable the defined pattern layer and the first liquid crystal layer to form the optical film. A portion of the optical film having the defined pattern layer is characterized by a different liquid crystal alignment property from the other portion of the optical film.
US07847881B2
A diffusion plate that is capable of improving a display quality, and a backlight assembly and a liquid crystal display (“LCD”) including the same are disclosed. The diffusion plate includes a base layer including of a first optically transparent resin and a first coating layer provided on a first surface of the base layer. The first coating layer includes a second optically transparent resin and random embossings. The first surface including the embossings has a 60° gloss of 15% or less. A method of forming a diffusion plate includes forming a base layer including a first optically transparent resin, providing random embossings on the base layer and sizing the diffusion plate to predetermined dimensions.
US07847869B2
An autostereoscopic display is described. The autostereoscopic display apparatus includes a backlight having opposing first and second light input surfaces and a light transmission surface extending between the opposing first and second light input surfaces and a right eye light source located to provide light into the first light input side and a left eye light source located to provide light into the second light input side, wherein the left eye light source and the right eye light source are configured to be modulated between the left eye light source and the right eye light source at a rate of at least 90 hertz. A double sided prism film is adjacent to the light transmission surface. The double sided prism film has a plurality of linear prism features on a first major surface and a plurality of lenticular features on a second major surface. The first major surface opposes the second major surface. The double sided prism film is disposed between the light transmission surface and a Fresnel lens element. A liquid crystal display panel is positioned to receive light transmitted through the double sided prism film.
US07847868B2
An apparatus, system, and method for subpixels of a light valve pixel having characteristics adapted to complement light within certain wavelength ranges are disclosed herein.
US07847853B2
An image taking apparatus which can perform a focusing operation quickly is described. The image taking apparatus comprises a light splitting unit which splits a light flux from the image-taking lens into a plurality of light fluxes, a view finder optical system for observing an object image formed by the light flux from the image-taking lens, an image pickup element which photoelectrically converts the object image to an electric signal and a focus detection unit for detecting the focusing state of the image-taking lens according to a phase difference detection system. Here, the light splitting unit changes between a first state in which the light flux is directed to the view finder optical system and the focus detection unit and a second state in which the light flux is directed to the image pickup element and the focus detection unit.
US07847843B2
This invention has as its object to provide an image sensing apparatus which can satisfactorily correct misregistration among images, and can composite the images. To achieve this object, an image sensing apparatus includes: a plurality of apertures that receives external light from different positions; a plurality of image sensing units that outputs image signals obtained by independently receiving light that comes from an identical position of an object and is received via the plurality of apertures, and independently extracting predetermined color components for each received light; and a signal processing device that forms a signal that outputs an object image by mixing the image signals output from the plurality of image sensing units. When it is determined that a predetermined position deviation occurs between the image signals upon forming the signal that outputs the object image, the signal processing device corrects the predetermined position deviation by a signal process, and forms the signal that outputs the object image.
US07847842B2
The present invention relates to digital image sensors and in particular to contour filters (ZSB, 7) preventing green non-uniformity in the contour signal of the RGB Bayer image sensors. A set of rules is specified for designing the filter coefficients in the filter, whereby green non-uniformity is prevented.
US07847832B2
An electronic camera includes: an image-capturing device that captures an image of a subject and generates image data; a first bus to which the image data generated by the image capturing device are output; an image memory that is connected to the first bus and temporarily stores the image data on the first bus; a plurality of image data conversion devices connected to the first bus that individually convert the image data on the first bus; a second bus through which conversion outputs from the plurality of image data conversion devices are provided to individual output destinations; and an adjustment device that performs timing adjustment or multiplexing of a plurality of conversion outputs to ensure that the plurality of conversion outputs do not collide on the second bus.
US07847830B2
A method of adjusting exposure settings for a digital camera includes searching at least a portion of the field of view of the camera for pixels having a flesh tone. The flesh tone pixels are analyzed to identify at least one flesh tone spot. Spot metering of the field of view of the camera is carried out such that at least one flesh tone spot is given greater weight than the rest of the field of view. Then, the exposure settings are adjusted based on the spot metering.
US07847815B2
In one embodiment, a method includes capturing a facial image of a participant to a video conference session from a video stream of the video conference session. A database containing a plurality a stored facial images is then accessed in an attempt to match the facial image with one of the stored facial images. Each stored facial image is associated with information in the database associated with a person, the information being retrieved in the event of a match. It is emphasized that this abstract is provided to comply with the rules requiring an abstract that will allow a searcher or other reader to quickly ascertain the subject matter of the technical disclosure.
US07847811B2
An optical scanner includes a frame, a light source, an optical member, and a spacer. The light source emits a light beam. The optical member is mounted on the frame to guide the light beam to a scanning target. The spacer maintains the optical member at a predetermined position with respect to the frame. The spacer is formed of a photocurable resin that is cured in response to a predetermined light having a wavelength within a prescribed range.
US07847800B2
Disclosed is a system for producing images including emulation techniques. The system provides for emulation of graphics processing resources such that a central processing unit may provide graphics support. Disclosed embodiments include emulation of selected graphics calls as well as emulation of a programmable graphics processor for compatibility with systems having no compatible GPU.
US07847796B2
A display device includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of data lines intersecting the scanning lines, a plurality of pixels each of which includes a switching transistor connected to a scanning line and a data line, a driving transistor connected to the switching transistor, and an emitting element connected to the driving transistor, wherein a data driver applies data voltages to the data line, and a scanning driver applies scanning signals each of which has at least three different voltage levels to the scanning line.
US07847786B2
A display system has a display device arranged to generate a first view in a first direction relative to the display device and to generate a second view in a second direction relative to the display device, the second direction being different from the first direction, and a device that detects the hand position of at least one user or of a pointing device held by the hand of such user, the position relative to the display device, the user-input being arranged to control the first view and the second view on basis of the detection and an observation mechanism for observation of the, at least one user and arranged to detect whether the user-input is provided to control the first view or the second view, on basis of the observation.
US07847781B2
A flat display includes a substrate, a pixel matrix, a data driver and a number of bias apparatuses. The pixel matrix is disposed on the substrate and includes several columns of first pixels and several columns of second pixels, wherein each column of second pixels is located between two adjacent columns of first pixels. The data driver is for outputting a plurality of data signals to the columns of first pixels. The bias apparatuses are disposed on the substrate, and respectively coupled to the columns of second pixels. Each of the bias apparatuses outputs a bias data signal to the corresponding column of second pixels according to the two data signals outputted to the two columns of first pixels adjacent to the corresponding column of second pixels.
US07847780B2
A method for driving a display panel is provided. The display panel includes a first scan line, and the first scan line includes sub-pixels. A first portion of the sub-pixels is controlled by a first gate line, and a second portion of the sub-pixels is controlled by a second gate line. The arrangement of the sub-pixels of the first portion and the second portion are in an interlaced arrangement. The method includes the following steps. First, drive the first gate line and then drive the second gate line in a first image duration. Then, drive the second gate line and then drive the first gate line in a second image duration.
US07847773B2
A pixel unit in the present invention is divided into two sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a thin film transistor, a liquid crystal capacitor and a storage capacitor. The two thin film transistors respectively located in different sub-pixels are connected to different scan lines. One of the two thin film transistors is connected to a data line through another transistor. Therefore, two different pixel voltages are formed in a pixel.
US07847772B2
A method of fabricating a flat panel display includes, judging a panel defect area and a non-defect area of a display panel, generating a first compensation data for compensating the panel defect area, first modulating a data of the panel defect area by using the first compensation data, judging a brightness at a border between the panel defect area and the non-defect area of the display panel after compensating the panel defect, generating a second compensation data for compensating the border and the panel defect area, second modulating a data of the border and the panel defect area by using the second compensation data, adding the first compensation data and the second compensation data to calculate a resultant compensation data, and storing the resultant compensation data at a data modulation memory.
US07847763B2
A method for driving a passive matrix organic light emitting diode (PMOLED) is provided. A pulse width modulation (PWM) constant current is provided to OLED pixels connected to a segment of a PMOLED array without voltage pre-charging the segment. Then, an offset value corresponding to missing gray scales of the OLED pixel is determined. According to the missing gray scales, the gray scales of the OLED pixel are rescaled starting from the offset. The OLED pixel is thus driven by a compensated PWM constant current having the rescaled gray scales during each horizontal line period.
US07847762B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes: a pixel array unit and a driving unit which drives the pixel array unit. The pixel array unit includes rows of scanning line, columns of signal lines, pixels in a matrix state arranged at portions where scanning lines and signal lines cross each other and power supply lines arranged corresponding to respective rows of pixels. The driving unit includes a main scanner performing line-sequential scanning to pixels by each row by supplying a control signal to each scanning line sequentially, a power supply scanner supplying a power supply voltage which is switched to a first potential and a second potential to each power supply line so as to correspond to the line-sequential scanning, and a signal selector supplying a signal potential and a reference potential to be video signal to columns of signal lines so as to correspond to the line-sequential scanning.
US07847758B2
A plasma display panel driving method in which a reset step and an address step are sequentially executed in the first subfield and second subfield of each field. A microemission step is executed in the first subfield for generating a microemission discharge between ones of the row electrodes and the column electrodes in display cells in the ON mode by applying a voltage for using the ones of the row electrodes as the anode and the column electrodes as the cathode, between the electrodes immediately after the address step. Moreover, in the microemission step, a potential lower than the voltage generated when applying a sustain pulse is respectively applied to the ones and the others of the row electrodes while applying a voltage as described above between the ones of the row electrodes and the column electrodes.
US07847755B1
Changed Host Display Information (HDI) may be captured, selectively encoded, and optionally transmitted between participants over a session. Hints indicative of which portions of the HDI may have changed are collected and used to select areas of HDI for processing. Changed HDI is encoded using an encoding process selected from a number of encoding processes by determining which process is likely to efficiently encode that portion of the HDI. Where the HDI is divided into tiles for processing the encoding method selection may take place on a tile-by-tile basis, for example by counting the number of colors in the tile to be encoded. Changed HDI may be transmitted to viewers using paint commands containing pixel information and copy commands indicating that a portion of the HDI has been moved.
US07847742B2
A fixture for radio frequency (“RF”) testing of an assembled wireless device, the wireless device having a removable casing concealing one or more RF spring connectors, the fixture comprising: a retainer for receiving the wireless device with the removable casing removed; a coaxial connector mounted through the retainer, the coaxial connector having a center contact and a shield contact, the coaxial connector for communicating RF test signals through a coaxial cable with external test equipment; a circuit board mounted on an inner side of the retainer and having one or more pads each for receiving one of the center and shield contacts; and, one or more probes mounted on ones of the pads for contacting ones of the RF spring connectors to distribute the RF test signals.
US07847738B2
A microstrip antenna positioned on a substrate includes a feeding portion, a grounding portion, and a radiating portion. The substrate includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The feeding portion is positioned on the first surface. The grounding portion is positioned on the second surface. The radiating portion is positioned on the first surface, and includes a first radiator, a second radiator in zigzag shape, and a third radiator. The first radiator includes a first radiating section and a second radiating section. The third radiator includes a third radiating section and a fourth radiating section. The first radiating section, the second radiating section, the second radiator, the third radiating section, and the fourth radiating section are perpendicular to one another connected one by one in sequence. The first radiator and the third radiator co-define a receiving area, and the second radiator is positioned in the receiving area.
US07847736B2
An antenna formed on a dielectric substrate having first and second opposing surfaces, a first meander antenna element disposed on the first surface of the substrate and a second meander antenna element disposed on the second surface of the substrate.
US07847735B2
RF device powered by photovoltaic cells. A device comprises a substrate having one or more photovoltaic cells mounted on one side of the substrate, and an RF antenna mounted on the other side of the substrate. Electronics powered by the photovoltaic cells and communicating via the RF antenna are preferably mounted on the same side of the substrate as the antenna, but may be mounted on the same side of the substrate as the photovoltaic cells.
US07847732B1
A first network device includes a calibration module configured to receive a training signal from a second network device. The training signal indicates the second network device is capable of adjusting beamforming weights associated with the second network device based on a steering matrix received from the first network device. A steering module is configured to determine a first steering matrix for the second network device based on the training signal. The steering module is configured to transmit the first steering matrix to the second network device for adjustment of the beamforming weights associated with the second network device.
US07847723B1
The invention generally relates to the field of computer software particularly to an improved method of providing aircrew decision aids for use in determining the optimum placement of an Electronic Attack (EA) aircraft. The core of the invention is a software program that will dynamically provide the EA flight crew situational awareness regarding a threat emitter's coverage relative to the position of the EA aircraft and to the position of any number of protected entities (PE). The software program generates information to provide visual cues representing a Jam Acceptability Region (JAR) contour, a Jam Assessment Strobe (JAS) and text for display on a number of flexibly configurable display formats posted on display units. The JAR and JAS graphics and text will aid the EA aircrew in rapidly assessing the effectiveness of a given jamming approach.
US07847722B2
Provided is a secondary surveillance radar with an improved capability of eliminating an unnecessary Mode A/C target report, which includes a transmission unit transmitting interrogations, a reception unit receiving replies, from a transponder, corresponding respectively to the interrogations, and a signal processing unit generating a Mode S target report and a Mode A/C target report from the replies. The radar also includes a combiner generating a Mode S track and a Mode A/C track respectively from the Mode S and the Mode A/C reports, and then judging whether the Mode S report and the Mode A/C report are of the same target on the basis of the Mode S and the Mode A/C tracks. When the Mode S and the Mode A/C reports are of the same target, the combiner rejects the Mode A/C report.
US07847720B2
A pipelined analog-to-digital converter includes at least one multiplying digital-to-analog converter and at least one sub-ADC. The multiplying digital-to-analog converter includes at least one first capacitor, at least one second capacitor, an amplifier, and a plurality of switches. The amplifier is coupled to the first and the second capacitors. The switches control a connection between the first and the second capacitors according to a first control signal, a second control signal and a digital signal. In a first period, the first capacitor is connected to the second capacitor in parallel. In a second period, the first capacitor is connected to the second capacitor in series. At least one switch among the switches is composed of a transistor. The sub-ADC provides a digital signal according to the first and second control signals.
US07847701B2
Computer systems and techniques for predicting a cable failure in a network system begin by receiving a remote alarm indicator followed by a remote alarm indicator clear as a transmission alarm indicator of an intermittent short duration failure on the transmission path of a circuit. If the transmission alarm indicator is of a duration less than or equal to a preset threshold D it is considered an acceptable short hit transmission alarm. When at least N acceptable transmission alarms have been received and the time stamps of the last N acceptable transmission alarms have been recorded, then a determination is made as to whether N acceptable transmission alarms have been received within a preset time period. A moving window time period is calculated as the difference between the time stamp of the present acceptable transmission alarm K and the time stamp of the [(K−N)+1] acceptable transmission alarm. If the difference is less than or equal to T, a cable error signature is indicated. Based on the cable error signature, a cable failure may be predicted.
US07847696B2
For detecting a blocker RFID tag, the following steps are conducted. First, a random identifier of a given bit length is created. Alternatively, an identifier is selected out of a probing set, which is stored on a data storage device. The probing set comprises of identifiers, which are not being used as identifiers for a given set of RFID tags. In a second step, a response from all RFID tags is requested having an identifier matching the random identifier or, respectively, the selected identifier. In a third step, it is determined, depending on receiving or not receiving a response, whether the blocker RFID tag is present.
US07847689B1
An intruder alarm device that is designed to be mounted on an inside door frame of the front door of a home and sound an alarm, if activated, when the door is opened. The device includes an outer casing that is mounted adjacent to a door and includes a trigger that can be placed immediately in front of the door. If the door is opened while the trigger is in front of the door, the trigger touches a contact within the device and activates an alarm, which then audibly alerts individuals within the home that the door has been opened. The alarm continues to sound until the trigger is returned to vertical position.
US07847683B2
An apparatus for implementing an emergency machine off circuit of a fabrication system, includes: at least one safety switch adapted for shunting an operation enable signal from a piece of equipment selected for removal from service, the switch also removing from service supplemental devices for the selected equipment. A semiconductor fabrication system and a method for removing equipment from service are provided.
US07847673B2
This is a ceramic disk PTC and heater assembly, and a method for attaching one to the other, the combination useful in the heating elements of solid ink printing apparatus. The ceramic disk PTC attachment method is made up of a low melting temperature solder and a high operating temperature adhesive. The solder attaches the disk to a substrate, and provides a low resistance electrical and thermal bond to the substrate. The adhesive is used to substantially completely encircle the solder, containing the solder when melted, and keeping the PTC attached when the solder is melted. The adhesive can also partially encircle the solder to a degree sufficient to substantially prevent substantial escape of molten solder from the attachment area.
US07847672B2
A varistor includes a ceramic base body having a surface. The varistor also includes an insulating layer on at least a portion of the surface of the ceramic base body. The insulating layer includes a base glass and filler. The filler includes 3Al2O32SiO2.
US07847668B2
An inductor includes: a substrate; an insulator layer; a conductive coil; and a permeability-enhancing film of a multi-layer structure. The multi-layer structure includes at least one repeating unit that has at least two layers. The two layers exhibit an exchange-coupling effect and include a first ferromagnetic layer of a first ferromagnetic material and an exchange-coupling layer.
US07847661B2
An actuation magnet is provided for moving a closure needle of a hot-runner nozzle of an injection molding tool. The actuation magnet has an armature which is coupled in movement to the closure needle and may be displaced between first and second cores by subjecting at least one coil to current. A permanent magnet is arranged in a manner such that it exerts an additional magnetic force on the armature in at least one, preferably two, movement directions.
US07847654B2
A microstripline transmission line arrangement carries a signal having a fundamental frequency. The arrangement includes a first microstripline transmission line, a second microstripline transmission line, and a coaxial electrically conductive conduit interconnecting the first transmission line and the second transmission line. The conduit includes a signal conductor and an electrically grounded shield substantially surrounding the signal conductor. The conductor and the shield are positioned relative to each other to thereby comprise a means for lowpass filtering the signal. A cutoff frequency of the lowpass filtering is less than a third harmonic of the fundamental frequency.
US07847653B2
A wide bandwidth microwave balun utilizes frequency band splitting and two conventional baluns operating in a high frequency band and a low frequency band, which when combined offer a full bandwidth output, thus to offer wide bandwidth impedance matching and second-harmonic rejection.
US07847652B1
An orthomode transducer includes first, second and third waveguide sections. The first waveguide section is coupled to an antenna port and extends to a first port. The first waveguide section is configured to support the propagation of a signal having a first polarization. The second waveguide section is configured to support the propagation of a signal having a second polarization which is substantially orthogonal to the first polarization. The second waveguide section is coupled to the antenna port and extends to a second port. The second waveguide section further includes a plurality of filter elements. The third waveguide section includes a port coupled to the antenna port, and is configured to support the propagation of the signal having the second polarization. The third waveguide section includes at least one filter element, whereby the number of second waveguide section filter elements is greater than the number of the at least one third waveguide section filter elements.
US07847645B2
An oscillation control apparatus is provided with: an oscillating unit for oscillating an oscillating element; an output amplifying circuit having two pieces of same types of transistors series-connected to each other, for outputting a signal from a junction point between the two transistors in response to an oscillation signal outputted from the oscillating unit; a bias unit for generating two DC bias voltages having different levels from each other, which are applied to either respective gates or respective bases of the two transistors; a constant voltage power supply unit for applying a constant voltage to the oscillating unit; and an inverter unit provided between the oscillating unit and any one of either the gates or the bases of the two transistors, for inverting a phase of the oscillation signal outputted from the oscillating unit. Both the oscillation signal outputted from the oscillating unit and one of the two bias voltages are applied to either the gate or the base of one of the two transistors; and both an oscillation signal outputted from the oscillating unit and whose phase has been inverted by the inverting unit and the other bias voltage of the two bias voltages are applied to either the gate or the base of the other transistor of the two transistors.
US07847640B2
A voltage controlled oscillator controls an oscillation frequency based on a control voltage supplied from an external control voltage terminal. The voltage controlled oscillator includes a reference bias voltage circuit and a gain adjustment circuit. The reference bias voltage circuit includes multiple serial resistances between a reference voltage and a ground. The reference bias voltage circuit controls a switch coupled in parallel to at least one of the serial resistances and thus changes a voltage dividing ratio of the serial resistances so as to set a reference bias voltage. The gain adjustment circuit adjusts a gain of the control voltage. The gain adjustment circuit includes multiple resistances and multiple switching elements. The gain adjustment circuit controls the switching elements to form a voltage dividing circuit between the reference bias voltage and the external control voltage terminal so as to generate an automatic frequency control voltage.
US07847639B2
A pulse width modulation device which a step form control signal generated by a control signal generating device and a triangular wavecarrier signal generated by a carrier generating device are compared by a digital comparator and the comparison signal is supplied to an edge detection device. Also, a top/bottom signal generated by a top/bottom signal generating device is supplied to the edge detection device. The edge detection device includes an edge detection function that generates an edge detection signal by detecting change of the comparison signal. The edge detection function is inhibited by the edge detection signal; and inhibition is cancelled by the top/bottom signal so that the edge detection signal is output. A PWM signal is output from the pulse generating device in accordance with the comparison signal, edge detection signal, and top/bottom signal.
US07847636B2
A low noise amplifier (LNA) for ultra wide band receives and amplifies identical RF signals in different frequency bands, and includes more than one pair of narrow band LNAs coupled in parallel, and a load circuit which increases load impedance of the entire circuit of the narrow band LNAs. The LNA can not only amplify the RF signal in the UWB but also obtain the low noise and the high gain that are features of the conventional narrow band LNA.
US07847635B2
Provided is a transconductance amplifier capable of suppressing variation in the range of a linear relationship between an input voltage and an output current depending on the magnitude of a tuning voltage Vctrl, thereby adjusting transconductance over a wider range of operating input voltages. The transconductance amplifier is configured by a differential pair formed of MOS transistors (111, 112) having a common source, MOS transistors (113, 114), amplifiers (106, 107), a voltage generator circuit (100), and a differential-pair input voltage generator circuit (120). An input differential common voltage Vcm of all differential signals inputted to the differential pair is adjusted so that a difference between Vcm and Vctrl is equal to a constant, in accordance with a change in the tuning voltage Vctrl that controls the transconductance. This enables keeping constant the range in which the transconductance amplifier can achieve good linearity.
US07847634B2
Error amplifier structures are provided to generate an error signal in response to the difference between an input signal (e.g., a feedback current) and a reference signal (e.g., a bias current). Amplifier embodiments generally include a reference generator and a differencing amplifier. In at least one embodiment, the error generator is arranged to generate first and second bias voltages that correspond to the bias current. In at least one embodiment, the differencing amplifier is configured to provide a reference current to an output node in response to the first bias voltage, provide a feedback current to the output node in response to the second bias voltage, and generate an error current in response to a voltage at the output node. The error amplifier structures are suited for use in various systems such as negative switching regulators.
US07847631B2
Embodiments are described herein to provide better predistortion solutions for the linearization of high power amplifiers, especially those with memory effects. Many embodiments involve a method in which a predistorted signal zn is generated from input signal xn in accordance with z n = ∑ k = 1 K ∏ q = 1 Q P kq ( x n - q - 1 ) = P 11 ( x n ) P 12 ( x n - 1 ) … P 1 Q ( x n - Q - 1 ) + P 21 ( x n ) P 22 ( x n - 1 ) … P 2 Q ( x n - Q - 1 ) + … + P K 1 ( x n ) P K 2 ( x n - 1 ) … P KQ ( x n - Q - 1 ) for K terms and Q−1 delays, wherein each Pkq is a complex valued function of a single complex variable. Also described are predistorter apparatus embodiments in which a predistorter includes complex multipliers for multiplying the value of each Pkq having the same value of k to produce K products and at least one adder for adding the K products to generate predistorted signal zn from input signal xn in accordance with the equation above.
US07847625B2
Provided is a switched capacitor circuit which prevents leakage current by equalizing voltages at nodes where leakage current tends to flow in a sampling mode, and prevents errors in an output signal by minimizing voltage drop caused by leakage current in an integrating mode.
US07847614B2
A switch de-bouncing device includes a majority counter that counts samples generated by a sampler sampling a switch output where a counter value is incremented for each sample indicating a first switch state and decremented for each sample indicating a second switch state of the switch. A controller determines that the switch is in the first switch state when the counter value is above a first state threshold and is in the second switch state when the counter value is below a second state threshold.
US07847611B2
A level shifter includes a Not gate coupled to a signal input and operable between a first high level and a low level; a first PMOS transistor coupled to a second voltage source and a control end; a first NMOS transistor coupled to the first PMOS transistor, a Not-gate output end and a reference voltage; and a control circuit coupled to the signal input, the Not-gate output end and the second voltage source. When the signal input and the Not-gate output end are at the first high level and the low level, respectively, the first PMOS transistor is turned on so that the signal output is at a second high level; and when the signal input and the Not-gate output end are switched contrarily, the first PMOS transistor is turned off and the signal output is at the low level.
US07847609B2
A duty cycle corrector includes a duty adjusting unit configured to adjust a duty cycle of an input clock in response to a duty correction code and generate an output clock, a duty detecting unit configured to measure a difference between a high pulse width and a low pulse width of the output clock and output a difference value, and an accumulating unit configured to accumulate the difference value to generate the duty correction code.
US07847608B2
The present invention relates to a double data rate interface and method for use between a processor and random access memory, comprising a delay line including means for creating a delay in a data strobe signal from the random access memory, the delay line being arranged such that the delay in the data strobe signal is equal to the sum of set-up time and data bus rise time. The interface of includes the delay line comprising the delay locked loop which in turn comprises a ring oscillator. The ring oscillator includes a buffer and a Vernier delay.
US07847606B2
An electronic device comprising circuitry for providing a Power-on-Reset (POR) signal as a function of a supply voltage level of the circuitry. The circuitry comprises a Vbe-cell or a Vgs-cell comprising a first current path including a first transistor and a second current path including a second transistor. Each transistor has a control terminal for controlling a first current in the first current path and a second current in the second current path, wherein a control voltage level is commonly applied to the control terminals of the first and the second transistor. The control voltage level is derived from the current supply voltage level of the circuitry, and the circuitry further comprises a POR output node for providing a POR output signal, which changes from a first state to a second state in response to the ratio of the magnitudes of the first current and the second current.
US07847604B2
Provided is a driving circuit which suppresses a surge voltage at the time of switching a power semiconductor element and reduces switching loss. An element (10) such as an IGBT and another element (20) to be paired are connected, the element (10) is driven by a driver (22), and a gate voltage is controlled by a control circuit (24). When the power semiconductor element is turned off, a comparator (26) detects that a voltage (Vak) of the element (20) is a prescribed voltage, the control circuit (24) switches gate resistance from low resistance to high resistance to suppress the surge voltage, and the switching loss is reduced. When the power semiconductor element is turned on, start up of the voltage (Vak) is detected, and the control circuit (24) switches the gate resistance from high resistance to low resistance after a prescribed time to suppress the surge voltage, and the switching loss is reduced.
US07847592B2
A buffer circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes a buffering section configured to increase or decrease a voltage level of an output node by comparing a voltage level of an input signal with a voltage level of a reference voltage. A voltage compensation section applies a voltage to the output node in proportion to a variation of the reference voltage when the level of the reference voltage is lower than a target level.
US07847586B2
A logic gate array is provided. The logic gate comprises a silicon substrate, a first logic gate layer on top of the silicon substrate, a second logic gate layer on top of the first logic gate layer, and a routing layer between the first and second logic gate layers for routing magnetic gates in the first and second logic gate layers, wherein the first logic gate layer, the second logic gate layer, and the routing layer are electrically connected by vias.
US07847576B2
A comparison amplification unit compares a level of a signal in a positive line with that of a signal in a negative line and latches a comparison result. An input terminal of a first inverter is connected to the positive line and an output terminal thereof is connected to the negative line. An input terminal of a second inverter is connected to the negative line and an output terminal thereof is connected to the positive line. An activation switch selectively switches between a state where the activation switch outputs a power supply voltage to the other power supply terminals of the inverters that are connected in common, such that the comparison amplification unit is inactivated, and a state where the activation switch outputs the ground voltage such that the comparison amplification is activated. The comparator outputs a signal corresponding to at least one of the signal in the positive line and the signal in the negative line at a timing after the comparison amplification unit is activated.
US07847571B2
A semiconductor test system with self-inspection of an electrical channel for a Pogo tower is disclosed, which provides a short board and closed loops are formed respectively by providing various kinds of contacts to correspondingly electrically contact various kinds of Pogo pins in the Pogo tower on a load board. A self-inspection controller outputs different inspection signals, through the above-mentioned closed loops, respectively to each power channel, each I/O channel and each drive channel, and a plurality of parameter detection units detect response signals, and the response signals are judged by the self-inspection controller. Based on it, before inspecting a wafer to be tested, the invention is capable of self-inspecting each electrical channel and each Pogo pin on the Pogo tower to see if they are respectively in a normal condition, either in an open or short circuit, or if there exists a leakage condition.
US07847569B2
Contact pressure between a wafer and a probe is maintained at an appropriate level. A probe card 2 has a contactor 11 for supporting a probe 10, a printed wiring board 13 electrically connected to the contactor 11, and a reinforcement member 14. On the upper surface side of the probe card 2 is provided a top plate 70 connected to the reinforcement member 14 by a connection member 80. A groove 90 is formed in the upper surface of the top plate 70, and a strain gauge 91 is attached at the groove 90. When a wafer W and the probe 10 are in contact with each other, an upward load acts on the probe card 2 by pressure caused by the contact, and the load causes strain in the top plate 70. The amount of the strain in the top plate 70 is measured, and contact pressure between the wafer W and the probe 10 is regulated and set based on the amount of the strain.
US07847565B2
A system for electrical impedance tomography and method thereof are disclosed, by which electrical characteristics within a measurement target can be precisely detected. The present invention includes the steps of injection a current to a measurement target via at least one electrode pair selected form a plurality of electrodes (250) attached to the measurement target, detecting voltage of a surface of the measurement target using a plurality of voltmeters (260) connected to the electrodes that are not selected, respectively, adjusting gains of the voltmeters according to maximum values of the detected voltages, respectively, amplifying the detected voltages using the gain-adjusted voltmeters, respectively, and imaging an internal part of the measurement target based on the amplified voltages.
US07847549B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus comprises object placing means for placing an object in an imaging space, translating means for translating the object in a given direction by translating the object placing means in the given direction continuously or step-wise, magnetic field generating means for exciting the desired region of the object by generating a static magnetic field, a gradient magnetic field in the imaging space, and a high-frequency magnetic field in the imaging space, signal detecting means for detecting a magnetic resonance signal from the object, and control unit for controlling the translating means, magnetic field generating means and the signal detecting means, and translating the object continuously or stepwise to a predetermined position at a predetermined speed so as to capture a magnetic resonance image of the object.The magnetic resonance imaging apparatus further comprises translation error detecting means for detecting an error of the position or the set value of the speed, and correcting means for correcting the error detected by the positional error detecting means.
US07847540B2
There is provided a rotation angle sensor which does not require resin and an O ring for sealing and is applicable to such a structure that a rotating body to be detected passes through a center portion. A waterproof surface on the main body side 39 positioned at the inner periphery of the circuit-board arrangement portion 27 and rising toward the cover 17 is circumferentially provided at the inner periphery of the housing main body 15, the waterproof surface on the main body side 39 opposes the outer periphery of the detection shank 3 through a space across from the upper to the lower portion of the housing main body 15, a waterproof surface on the cover side 43 disposed opposite to the upper inner periphery of the waterproof surface on the main body side 39 is circumferentially provided at the lower surface of the cover 17 and a ditch D passing between the upper and the lower portion of the housing 5 is formed of the space between the detection shank 3 and the housing 5 and between the detection shank 3 and the waterproof surface on the main body side 39.
US07847538B2
An array of individually addressable micromirrors is characterized by sending a driving signal to a pixel group having a fewer number of micromirrors. A response of the micromirrors in the group is measured; and the micromirror array is characterized based upon at least the measured response.
US07847536B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methodology for providing approaches to remove or reduce thermal drift of the magnetic sensitivity of Hall sensor devices, to improve the stability of resulting signals of interest. Samples of a particular signal or signals of interest having improved stability make for advantageous use in conjunction with electricity meters. At the same time, associated designs and related components have greater simplicity, for reduced complexity in implementation. Among alternative embodiments, a gating structure selected of various present alternative designs may be used to partially cover, to an intentionally selected degree, an active area of a Hall sensor, so that a zero-drift supply current value may likewise be selected so as to satisfy other criteria which may be applicable to use of the Hall sensor. In other alternative embodiments, a gate structure is used which fully covers the Hall sensor active area, but a gate-control technique is practiced which is based on combined use with an external, relatively high resistance voltage-divider circuitry arrangement, again for eliminating temperature-based drift of the magnetic sensitivity of the Hall sensor arrangement, regardless of the end use to which such Hall sensor is applied.
US07847529B2
A linear voltage regulator is provided. The linear voltage regulator includes a first circuit configured to receive the first voltage from a voltage source and to remove frequency components of the first voltage in a first frequency range to obtain an output voltage at a primary output node. The linear voltage regulator further includes a second circuit having first and second inverters electrically coupled to the primary output node of the first circuit. The second circuit is configured to receive the output voltage and to remove frequency components of the output voltage in a second frequency range. The second frequency range is greater than the first frequency range.
US07847525B2
A thermal protecting circuit is provided for an alternator controller. The protecting circuit comprises a switching member switching on/off the alternator; a sensor sensing a temperature of the switching member; and a switching control circuit. This switching control circuit switches off the switching member when the temperature of the switching member exceeds a first predetermined temperature. This switching control circuit switches on the switching member when the temperature of the switching member is lower than a second predetermined temperature. The second predetermined temperature is set to be higher than the first predetermined temperature.
US07847523B2
Methods and systems for minimizing power loss in generator are disclosed, including providing one or more operating parameters for a generator, and determining an optimal field power and an optimal phase angle, where the optimal field power and the optimal phase angle substantially minimize a power loss in operating the generator at the one or more operating parameters.
US07847510B2
Systems and/or methods that facilitate efficiently controlling speed of an induction motor are presented. An optimized control component controls respective switching of an auxiliary switch component associated with an auxiliary winding of the motor, a main switch component associated with a main winding of the motor, and a capacitance adjuster switch component that facilitates adjusting the amount of capacitance associated with the auxiliary winding. The timing of switching on the auxiliary switch component and main switch component can be controlled such that there can be a time difference between the respective switching on of the auxiliary switch component and main switch component to produce additional phase shift to facilitate improving motor efficiency. The capacitance adjuster switch component can be switched on when motor speed is below a predetermined low speed threshold to facilitate increasing the amount of capacitance associated with the auxiliary winding to improve motor efficiency.
US07847505B2
An externally configurable soft starter system comprises a motor controller including solid state switches for controlling application of power to a motor. A control circuit controls operation of the solid state switches. The control circuit comprises a programmed processor for commanding operation of the solid state switches and a memory connected to the programmed processor storing parameters relating to operation of the solid state switches. An interface circuit is operatively connected to the programmed processor. An external device includes a memory for storing parameters relating to operation of the solid state switches and an interface for communication with the motor controller. A configuration program is operatively implemented in the programmed processor and the external configuration device for transferring a configuration database file between the controller memory and the external device memory. The configuration database file comprises a plurality of the stored parameters relating to operation of the solid state switches.
US07847494B2
In particular in articles of furniture having at least an element which may be adjusted with a DC motor, preferably via a mechanical transmission, it is desirable to have a level of acoustic noise as low as possible. The power supply to the DC motor is based on a transformer with rectification and smoothing. With the invention it has surprisingly been found that the level of acoustic noise may be reduced significantly in that the secondary side of the transformer has a first control to compensate for the loss in the motor, thereby keeping the speed thereof constant for a long period of time, and a second control adapted to remove the ripple in the voltage, thereby keeping the speed of the motor constant for a short period of time.
US07847483B2
Disclosed is a glass composition composed of an oxide glass wherein the percentages of constitutional elements other than oxygen (O) expressed in atomic % are as follows: boron (B) is not less than 56% and not more than 72%; silicon (Si) is not less than 0% and not more than 15%; Zinc (Zn) is not less than 0% and not more than 18%; potassium (K) is not less than 8% and not more than 20%; and the total of K, sodium (Na) and lithium (Li) is not less than 12% and not more than 20%. This glass composition further may contain at least one of magnesium (Mg), calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr) and barium (Ba) in an amount of more than 0% and not more than 5%, and molybdenum (Mo) and/or tungsten (W) in an amount of more than 0% and not more than 3%.
US07847482B2
The present disclosure relates to a plasma display device including a plasma display panel and a sheet disposed at a front surface of the plasma display panel to protect the plasma display panel from external light. The sheet includes a base unit formed with a plurality of grooves and a plurality of pattern unit lines formed on the plurality of grooves of the base unit and has a refractive index different from that of the base unit. The number of the pattern unit lines overlapped with any one of a plurality of discharge cells formed in the panel is 8 to 25. A lower end of the pattern unit lines has a width larger than an upper end of the pattern unit lines, and the upper end of the pattern unit lines is closer to the plasma display panel.
US07847478B2
An organic light emitting display capable of preventing the generation of screen distortion caused by a thick film phenomenon that occurs when the internal surface of a panel is coated with an absorbing member and a method of fabricating the same. The organic light emitting display includes a substrate on which an image display unit including at least one organic light emitting diode is formed. A panel is formed on the substrate to seal the image display unit. A first absorbing member is formed on the internal surface of the panel on the image display unit that faces the organic light emitting diode. A second absorbing member is formed on the circumference of the image display unit between the first absorbing member and the internal surface of the panel to overlap the circumference of the first absorbing member.
US07847475B2
A field effect electron emitting apparatus is prepared by depositing a plurality of nano-wires 216 onto a substrate 200 having a cathode layer 214. The deposition occurs by suspending the nano-wires 216 in a plating solution, and plating the substrate with a metal layer 202, thereby entrapping the nano-wires. The nano-wires 216 are composed of an electrically-conductive magnetic material, and the deposition process is carried out in the presence of a magnetic field perpendicular to the substrate 200 so that the nano-wires 216 are aligned by the field.
US07847470B2
To provide high reliable surface mounting oscillator that solder does not leak out by heat from the oscillator. The base print board with a terminal on the first surface and a concave on the second surface which is the opposite side of the first surface, the metal strut fixed to the concave, the sub print board has piezoelectric vibrator supported by the metal strut, the base print board, the cover which covers the metal strut and the sub print board.
US07847466B2
A laminated core (10) and a method for manufacturing the same, the laminated core (10) formed with a plurality of continuous segment core sheets (13) wound and laminated in a spiral form while connecting portions (12) mutually connecting the adjacent segment core sheets (13) are bent and side edges of the adjacent segment core sheets (13) are fitted with each other, the connecting portions (12) being located in an outer peripheral portion (11) of the laminated core (10), the laminated core (10) comprising:a concave cutout (19) provided at a radially outward side of the connecting portion (12), the concave cutout (19) allowing a radial bulge (18) to be accommodated within an outer circle of the laminated core (19), the radial bulge (18) formed at a radially outward side of the connecting portion (12) by bending the connecting portion (12); andan inward cutout (20) provided at a radially inward side of the connecting portion (12), the inward cutout (20) defining a bending position of the connecting portion (12), wherein the connecting portion (12) has a narrow radial width and, before being bent, has a radial width in the range of 0.5 to 5 times a thickness of the segment core sheet (13).The laminated core (10) and the method for manufacturing the same are capable of producing a highly-efficient and high-quality product that is free from effects of the swell in the thickness direction of the connecting portion (12).
US07847456B2
A permanent magnet electrical rotating machine having a permanent magnet rotor and a stator, wherein:a plurality of permanent magnets are disposed in a rotor iron core of the permanent magnet rotor along a periphery of the rotor iron core, polarities thereof being alternately changed;a cooling airflow channel is formed between each pair of adjacent opposite poles on the rotor iron core; and the cooling airflow channel has an approximately trapezoidal shape on an outer periphery side of the rotor iron core; and extends from an end on a central side in a radial direction of the approximately trapezoidal shape to a radial center.
US07847445B2
A rectifier of an alternator according to the present invention includes: a first heat sink; first unidirectional conducting element bodies that are disposed on a front surface of the first heat sink so as to be spaced apart; a second heat sink that is disposed so as to be separated from the first heat sink; second unidirectional conducting element bodies that are disposed on a front surface of the second heat sink so as to be spaced apart; and a circuit board that has a circuit board terminal by which the first unidirectional conducting element bodies and the second unidirectional conducting element bodies are connected so as to constitute a bridge circuit, and a terminal connection portion is configured by respectively connecting first terminals of the first unidirectional conducting element bodies and second terminals of the second unidirectional conducting element bodies adjacently in a common plane with the circuit board terminal. Thus, connection workability between the first terminals of first unidirectional conducting element bodies and the circuit board terminal and between the second terminals of second unidirectional conducting element bodies and the circuit board terminal is improved.
US07847441B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit includes a plurality of circuit blocks; a plurality of power switches configured to supply power or cut power supply to the corresponding circuit blocks on a circuit-block-by-circuit-block basis in accordance with logic states of first control signals; a power switch controller configured to select, upon receipt of a second control signal, which power switches to control from among the plurality of power switches, and output third control signals instructing the selected power switches to supply power or cut power supply; and a first protection circuit provided between the power switches and the power switch controller, the first protection circuit being configured to output the first control signals, which are obtained by converting the logic states of the third control signals, to the selected power switches.
US07847429B2
The present invention provides a vehicle power supply device that is capable of suppressing deterioration of a capacitor, shortening a precharging time, and suppressing power loss. An ECU estimates a polarization condition of a battery after a key has been switched OFF (IG SW_OFF), and opens a main relay after determining that the polarization condition of the battery has been eliminated. Thus, a voltage difference between a battery voltage and a capacitor voltage when the main relay is subsequently reconnected can be reduced. Hence, even when the capacity of the capacitor is increased, the time required for precharging can be shortened, and energy regeneration and so on can be realized efficiently within a short time period after switching the key ON. In this case, a situation in which the post-release capacitor voltage is maintained at an unnecessarily high level can be prevented even when charging polarization occurs in the battery, and as a result, deterioration of the capacitor can be suppressed.
US07847426B1
A wind power generating system is disclosed. The wind power generating system comprises a plurality of blades to capture wind energy; a shaft coupled to the plurality of blades, and a power extractor for extracting power from the rotation of the plurality of blades. A rotation of the plurality of blades occurs in response to the captured wind energy, and a lift force is generated from the captured wind energy by the plurality of blades that is substantially along the shaft.
US07847418B2
Input/output cells are formed so as to be peripherally arranged adjacent to a corner cell on a surface of a semiconductor chip, and electrode pads are formed on the respective input/output cells. The electrode pads are configured in a zigzag pad arrangement so as to form inner and outer pad arrays. However, of the electrode pads forming the inner pad array, those electrode pads in predetermined areas adjacent to the two sides of the corner cell are not disposed, such that an interconnect pattern of a carrier which is bump-bonded to the semiconductor chip and vias are prevented from becoming complex.
US07847414B2
A chip package structure including a first substrate, a second substrate, a plurality of bumps, a first B-staged adhesive layer and a second B-staged adhesive layer is provided. The first substrate has a plurality of first bonding pads. The second substrate has a plurality of second bonding pads, and the second substrate is disposed above the first substrate. The bumps are disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein each of the first bonding pads is respectively electrically connected to one of the second bonding pads via one of the bumps. The first B-staged adhesive layer is adhered on the first substrate. The second B-staged adhesive layer is adhered between the first B-staged adhesive layer and the second substrate, wherein the first B-staged adhesive layer and the second B-staged adhesive layer encapsulate the bumps.
US07847409B2
The present invention provides a method of forming a rigid interconnect structure, and the device therefrom, including the steps of providing a lower metal wiring layer having first metal lines positioned within a lower low-k dielectric; depositing an upper low-k dielectric atop the lower metal wiring layer; etching at least one portion of the upper low-k dielectric to provide at least one via to the first metal lines; forming rigid dielectric sidewall spacers in at least one via of the upper low-k dielectric; and forming second metal lines in at least one portion of the upper low-k dielectric. The rigid dielectric sidewall spacers may comprise of SiCH, SiC, SiNH, SiN, or SiO2. Alternatively, the via region of the interconnect structure may be strengthened with a mechanically rigid dielectric comprising SiO2, SiCOH, or doped silicate glass.
US07847407B2
A semiconductor device which is capable of preventing interface peeling and a crack from occurring in the vicinity of the edge part of a rewiring layer is provided. The semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor substrate; a first interlayer insulation film (a first insulation film) which is formed on the semiconductor substrate, having a first aperture; a first rewiring layer which is formed, ranging from a part of the top surface of the first interlayer insulation film to the inside of the first aperture, and which uppermost surface has a size smaller than the size of the region surrounded by the outer periphery of the surface contacting with the first interlayer insulation film; and a second interlayer insulation film (a second insulation film) which is formed on the first rewiring layer and on the first interlayer insulation film.
US07847403B2
A semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same which yields high reliability and a high manufacturing yield. The semiconductor device includes a metal line layer having a plurality of metal line patterns spaced apart from each other, and at least one underlying layer under the metal line layer, wherein the space between two adjacent metal line patterns has a sufficient width to prevent a crack from occurring in one or more of the underlying layers. The cracking of an underlying layer may also be prevented by providing a slit in a direction parallel to the space between two adjacent metal line patterns at a sufficient distance from the space between the two adjacent metal line patterns.
US07847394B2
According to one aspect of the invention, a method of constructing an electronic assembly is provided. A layer of metal is formed on a backside of a semiconductor wafer having integrated formed thereon. Then, a porous layer is formed on the metal layer. A barrier layer of the porous layer at the bottom of the pores is thinned down. Then, a catalyst is deposited at the bottom of the pores. Carbon nanotubes are then grown in the pores. Another layer of metal is then formed over the porous layer and the carbon nanotubes. The semiconductor wafer is then separated into microelectronic dies. The dies are bonded to a semiconductor substrate, a heat spreader is placed on top of the die, and a semiconductor package resulting from such assembly is sealed. A thermal interface is formed on the top of the heat spreader. Then a heat sink is placed on top of the thermal interface.
US07847388B2
Chipping of semiconductor chips is to be prevented. A semiconductor device comprises a semiconductor chip having a main surface, a plurality of pads formed over the main surface, a rearrangement wiring formed over the main surface to alter an arrangement of the plurality of pads, and a protective film and an insulating film formed over the main surface, and a plurality of solder bumps each connected to the rearrangement wiring and arranged differently from the plurality of pads. The presence of a bevel cut surface obliquely continuous to the main surface and formed on a periphery of the main surface of the semiconductor chip prevents chipping.
US07847380B2
Provided are a tape substrate for a smart card, a method of fabricating the same, and a semiconductor module and a smart card using the tape substrate. The tape substrate includes at least one tape unit. The at least one tape unit includes a chip mounting unit defining a region on which a semiconductor chip is to be mounted, a plurality of pin electrode units arranged around the chip mounting unit and separated from one another, a border unit encircling the chip mounting unit and the pin electrode units, and a cutting unit disposed between the chip mounting unit and the border unit and between the pin electrode units and the border unit. The cutting unit includes a plurality of connection lines connecting the chip mounting unit and the pin electrode units to the border unit.
US07847377B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip having at a center area thereof first and second pad rows which include a plurality of first pads and a plurality of second pads, respectively. A package substrate is bonded to the semiconductor chip. The package substrate includes a substrate opening corresponding to a region including the first and second pad rows, first and second wiring positioned at opposite sides of the substrate opening, respectively, and a ball land disposed in the first wiring area. A bridge section is provided over the substrate opening to mutually connect the first and second wiring areas. The ball land is electrically connected to at least one of the second pads through the bridge section by a lead.
US07847374B1
A semiconductor device comprising a memory region including one or more transistor string arrays, a logic region including one or more logic transistors and an isolation region for isolating the logic transistors. The string array includes a plurality, T, of bipolar junction transistors. The string array includes a common collector region for the T bipolar junction transistors, a common base region for the T bipolar junction transistors, a plurality of emitters, one emitter for each of the T bipolar junction transistors, a number, B, of base contacts for the T bipolar junction transistors where the base contacts electrically couple the common base region and where the number of base contacts, B, is less than the number of transistors, T.
US07847373B2
A bipolar junction transistor may act as a select device for a semiconductor memory. The bipolar junction transistor may be formed of a stack of base and collector layers. Sets of parallel trenches are formed in a first direction down to the base and in a second direction down to the collector. The trenches may be used to form local enhancement implants into the exposed portion of the base and collector in each trench. As a result of the local enhancement implants, in some embodiments, leakage current may be reduced, active current capability may be higher, gain may be higher, base resistance may be reduced, breakdown voltage may be increased, and parasitic effects with adjacent junctions may be reduced.
US07847368B2
This disclosure describes system(s) and/or method(s) enabling contacts for individual nanometer-scale-thickness layers of a multilayer film.
US07847367B2
An integrated circuit device includes an integrated circuit substrate and a first gate pattern on the substrate. A non-conductive barrier layer pattern is on the first gate pattern. The barrier layer pattern has openings at selected locations therein extending to the first gate pattern. A second gate pattern is on the barrier layer pattern and extends into the opening in the barrier layer pattern to electrically connect the second gate pattern to the first gate pattern.
US07847366B2
A well region of a first conductivity type located in a substrate of the first conductivity type and below about half the channel length of an electrically active portion of a transistor gate is disclosed. The well region is laterally displaced from a charge collection region of a second conductivity type of a pinned photodiode.
US07847365B2
A MOSFET device with an isolation structure for a monolithic integration is provided. A P-type MOSFET includes a first N-well disposed in a P-type substrate, a first P-type region disposed in the first N-well, a P+ drain region disposed in the first P-type region, a first source electrode formed with a P+ source region and an N+ contact region. The first N-well surrounds the P+ source region and the N+ contact region. An N-type MOSFET includes a second N-well disposed in a P-type substrate, a second P-type region disposed in the second N-well, an N+drain region disposed in the second N-well, a second source electrode formed with an N+ source region and a P+ contact region. The second P-type region surrounds the N+ source region and the P+ contact region. A plurality of separated P-type regions is disposed in the P-type substrate to provide isolation for transistors.
US07847364B2
Apparatus including flexible line extending along a length. Flexible line includes first charge carrier-transporting body, photosensitive body over first charge carrier-transporting body, and second charge carrier-transporting body over photosensitive body. Each of first and second charge carrier-transporting bodies and photosensitive body extend along at least part of length of flexible line. Photosensitive body is capable of near-infrared or visible light-induced generation of charge carrier pairs. Second charge carrier-transporting body is at least semi-transparent to near-infrared light or visible light.
US07847361B2
A solid state imaging device includes a plurality of imaging pixels that are arranged two-dimensionally along a main face of a semiconductor substrate. Each imaging pixel in the solid state imaging device includes a photodiode that performs photoelectric conversion and a color filter that is disposed higher in the Z axis direction than the photodiode. Also, light blocking portions have been formed between pairs of adjacent imaging pixels, on the main face of the semiconductor substrate to a height in a thickness direction (Z axis direction) of the semiconductor substrate that is substantially equal to or higher than top edges of the optical filters. Each light blocking portion is constituted from a combination of a light blocking film and a light blocking wall.
US07847358B2
A semiconductor structure formed on a substrate and process for preventing oxidation induced stress in a determined portion of the substrate. The structure includes an n-FET device and a p-FET device, and a shallow trench isolation having at least one overhang is selectively configured to prevent oxidation induced stress in a determined portion of the substrate. The at least one overhang is selectively configured to prevent oxidation induced stress in at least one of a direction parallel to and a direction transverse to a direction of a current flow. For the n-FET device, the at least one overhang is selectively arranged in directions of and transverse to a current flow, and for the p-FET device, the at least one overhang is arranged transverse to the current flow to prevent performance degradation from compressive stresses.
US07847355B2
A TFT formed on an insulating substrate source, drain and channel regions, a gate insulating film formed on at least the channel region and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. Between the channel region and the drain region, a region having a higher resistivity is provided in order to reduce an Ioff current. A method for forming this structure comprises the steps of anodizing the gate electrode to form a porous anodic oxide film on the side of the gate electrode; removing a portion of the gate insulating using the porous anodic oxide film as a mask so that the gate insulating film extends beyond the gate electrode but does not completely cover the source and drain regions. Thereafter, an ion doping of one conductivity element is performed. The high resistivity region is defined under the gate insulating film.
US07847354B1
A semiconductor device comprises a partially depleted semiconductor-on-insulator structure having both a three terminal JFET and a four terminal JFET constructed thereon. The four terminal JFET comprises a source region, a drain region, a channel region, a front gate region, and a back gate region formed in a semiconductor layer of the partially depleted semiconductor-on-insulator structure. The three terminal JFET comprises a source region formed in the semiconductor layer of the partially depleted semiconductor-on-insulator structure, and a drain region spaced apart from the source region and formed in the semiconductor layer of the partially depleted semiconductor-on-insulator structure. The three terminal JFET further comprises a channel region between the source region and the drain region and formed in the semiconductor layer of the partially depleted semiconductor-on-insulator structure. The three terminal JFET also comprises a gate region formed in the semiconductor layer of the partially depleted semiconductor-on-insulator structure. A gate-to-channel junction of the three terminal JFET is formed deep enough in the semiconductor layer such that the channel region of the three terminal JFET abuts an insulating layer of the semiconductor-on-insulator structure.
US07847349B2
In accordance with exemplary embodiments, a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) architecture includes elements that perform a radix-2 FFT butterfly in one processor clock cycle at steady state. Some exemplary implementations of the FFT architecture incorporate register and data path elements that relieve memory bandwidth limitations by pairing operands consumed by and results generated by two adjacent butterflies in the overall N-point FFT operation.
US07847338B2
Semiconductor memory having both volatile and non-volatile modes and methods of operation. A semiconductor memory cell includes a fin structure extending from a substrate, the fin structure including a floating substrate region having a first conductivity type configured to store data as volatile memory; first and second regions interfacing with the floating substrate region, each of the first and second regions having a second conductivity type; first and second floating gates or trapping layers positioned adjacent opposite sides of the floating substrate region; a first insulating layer positioned between the floating substrate region and the floating gates or trapping layers, the floating gates or trapping layers being configured to receive transfer of data stored by the volatile memory and store the data as nonvolatile memory in the floating gates or trapping layers upon interruption of power to the memory cell; a control gate wrapped around the floating gates or trapping layers and the floating substrate region; and a second insulating layer positioned between the floating gates or trapping layers and the control gate; the substrate including an isolation layer that isolates the floating substrate region from a portion of the substrate below the isolation layer.
US07847335B2
A non-volatile semiconductor memory device includes a gate stack formed on a substrate, semiconductor spacers, an oxide-nitride-oxide stack, and a contact pad. The semiconductor spacers are adjacent to sides of the gate stack and over the substrate. The oxide-nitride-oxide stack is located between the spacers and the gate stack, and located between the spacers and the substrate, such that the oxide-nitride-oxide stack has a generally L-shaped cross-section on at least one side of the gate stack. The contact pad is over and in electrical contact with the gate electrode and the semiconductor spacers. The contact pad may be further formed into recessed portions of the oxide-nitride-oxide stack between the gate electrode and the semiconductor spacers. The contact pad may include an epitaxial silicon having a metal silicide formed thereon.
US07847332B2
A nonvolatile memory device includes an active region defined by a device isolation layer in a semiconductor substrate, a word line passing over the active region and a charge storage region defined by a crossing of the active region and the word line and disposed between the active region and the word line. The charge storage region is disposed at an oblique angle with respect to the word line.
US07847329B2
A vertical MOSFET transistor is formed in a body of semiconductor material having a surface. The transistor includes a buried conductive region of a first conductivity type; a channel region of a second conductivity type, arranged on top of the buried conductive region; a surface conductive region of the first conductivity type, arranged on top of the channel region and the buried conductive region; a gate insulation region, extending at the sides of and contiguous to the channel region; and a gate region extending at the sides of and contiguous to the gate insulation region.
US07847328B2
A capacitor electrode is composed of an SrRuO3 film including first and second surfaces opposed to each other. The capacitor electrode contains a 10 atom % or less trivalent element in a region ranging from a position a predetermined distance away from the first surface in the thickness direction thereof up to the second surface side.
US07847319B2
A semiconductor device has a Group III nitride semiconductor layer and a gate electrode formed on the Group III nitride semiconductor layer. The gate electrode contains an adhesion enhancing element. A thermally oxidized insulating film is interposed between the Group III nitride semiconductor layer and the gate electrode.
US07847313B2
A group III-V nitride-based semiconductor substrate is formed of a group III-V nitride-based semiconductor single crystal containing an n-type impurity. The single crystal has a periodical change in concentration of the n-type impurity in a thickness direction of the substrate. The periodical change has a minimum value in concentration of the n-type impurity not less than 5×1017 cm−3 at an arbitrary point in plane of the substrate.
US07847312B2
A nitride semiconductor light-emitting device including a first n-type nitride semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, a p-type nitride semiconductor layer, and a second n-type nitride semiconductor layer in this order, and further including an electrode formed of a transparent conductive film on the second n-type nitride semiconductor layer is provided. The nitride semiconductor light-emitting device has improved light extraction efficiency. The electrode formed of a transparent conductive film is preferably formed on a part of a surface of the second n-type nitride semiconductor layer.
US07847308B2
Provided is a semiconductor light emitting device. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises a first conductive type semiconductor layer, an active layer, a second conductive type super lattice layer, and a second conductive type semiconductor layer. The active layer is formed on the first conductive type semiconductor layer. The second conductive type super lattice layer comprises a second conductive type nitride layer and an undoped nitride layer on the active layer. The second conductive type semiconductor layer is formed on the second conductive type super lattice layer.
US07847300B2
Disclosed is a light-emitting diode package. The light-emitting diode package includes an electrode pad on which a chip is placed; a housing having a window through which the chip is exposed; a housing wall defining the window; and an electrode lead extended from the electrode pad in a direction of the housing to be exposed outside a surface of the housing, wherein the housing wall formed in the direction comprises a first portion and a second portion thicker than the first portion to cover the electrode lead.
US07847295B2
A thin film transistor includes a gate electrode, a gate insulating film formed to cover the gate electrode, a semiconductor layer including a channel region formed over the gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode including a region connected to the semiconductor layer, where at least a part of the region is overlapped with the gate electrode, an upper insulating film formed to cover the semiconductor layer, the source electrode and the drain electrode, where the upper insulating film is directly in contact with the channel region of the semiconductor layer and discharges moisture by a heat treatment and a second upper insulating film formed to cover the first protective film and suppress moisture out-diffusion.
US07847287B2
An inverter, a logic circuit including the inverter and method of fabricating the same are provided. The inverter includes a load transistor of a depletion mode, and a driving transistor of an enhancement mode, which is connected to the load transistor. The load transistor may have a first oxide layer as a first channel layer. The driving transistor may have a second oxide layer as a second channel layer.
US07847281B2
A first film made of SiGe is formed over a support substrate whose surface layer is made of Si. A gate electrode is formed over a partial area of the first film, and source and drain regions are formed in the surface layer of the support substrate on both sides of the gate electrode. The gate electrode and source and drain regions constitute a first field effect transistor. A first stressor internally containing compressive strain or tensile strain is formed over the first film on both sides of the gate electrode of the first field effect transistor. The first stressor forms strain in a channel region.
US07847280B2
A III-nitride film, grown on an m-plane substrate, includes multiple quantum wells (MQWs) with a barrier thickness of 27.5 nm or greater and a well thickness of 8 nm or greater. An emission wavelength can be controlled by selecting the barrier thickness of the MQWs. Device fabricated using the III-nitride film include nonpolar III-nitride light emitting diodes (LEDs) with a long wavelength emission.
US07847278B2
Programmable metallization memory cells that have an inert electrode and an active electrode positioned in a non-overlapping manner in relation to a substrate. A fast ion conductor material is in electrical contact with and extends from the inert electrode to the active electrode, the fast ion conductor including superionic clusters extending from the inert electrode to the active electrode. A metal layer extends from the inert electrode to the active electrode, yet is electrically insulated from each of the inert electrode and the active electrode by the fast ion conductor material. Methods for forming programmable metallization cells are also disclosed.
US07847276B2
A fluid flow control system using flow rates to extract additional information from an in-line flow sensor. The system provides the ability to determine a position of a movable flow sensor element of a flow sensor by illuminating a photosensitive pixel array with a light source to create a first set of pixel intensity values introducing an abrupt change to the fluid driving pressure, illuminating the photosensitive pixel array with a light source to create a second set of pixel intensity values, and calculating the difference between the first and second sets of pixel intensity values as a function of pixel position.
US07847275B2
A patient treatment arrangement is provided which includes a fixed beam irradiation source; and a patient positioning apparatus, the patient positioning apparatus comprising: a support member; a patient securing mechanism arranged to secure a patient to the patient support member; and a patient positioner in communication with the patient support member and operative to achieve positioning of the support member equivalent to rotation of the patient support member about a plurality of axes and translation of the patient support member along a plurality of axes, the patient positioner thereby providing substantially unrestricted variable angular access for irradiation of a target tissue of a patient secured to the patient securing mechanism from the fixed beam irradiation source.
US07847265B2
A method and system for detecting at least one explosive in a vehicle using a neutron generator and a plurality of NaI detectors. Spectra read from the detectors is calibrated by performing Gaussian peak fitting to define peak regions, locating a Na peak and an annihilation peak doublet, assigning a predetermined energy level to one peak in the doublet, and predicting a hydrogen peak location based on a location of at least one peak of the doublet. The spectra are gain shifted to a common calibration, summed for respective groups of NaI detectors, and nitrogen detection analysis performed on the summed spectra for each group.
US07847261B2
A detecting unit (2) detects radiation. A data acquiring block (34) creates basic data equivalent to the count per unit time of the detected radiation. A data processing block (40) compares the basic data with a threshold and generates a annunciation control signal when the basic data is above the threshold. An annunciation block (42) generates a detection sound in response to the annunciation control signal. A computing block (38) computes the threshold by using a coefficient specified by means of an input device (18) and the maximum value of the basic data stored in a storage block (36). When the user repetitively examines a region (50) to be measured while gradually increasing the threshold, the region where the detection sound is generated is gradually narrowed. With this, a portion (53) where radiation is concentrated in the region (50) can be found out.
US07847255B2
The present invention relates to a rain sensor that adaptively functions in a variety of different modes when deployed on vehicle windows of different thicknesses and compositions. The arrangement of multiple lens segments and reflecting surfaces in a nonsequential configuration allows utilization of a greater proportion of light rays from the at least two emitters. Further, a greater portion of the light rays emitted by the at least two emitters is captured by the lens segments and reflectors arranged about at least two detectors, and directed to the detectors. Connection to analytical circuitry then allows interpretation of electrical signals, which in turn control, for example, window wiper systems.
US07847254B2
A photoconductive device (2) comprises a plurality of photoconductive layers (6, 8, 10, 12), each photoconductive layer comprising photoconductive material (4) and a respective plurality of electrodes (16, 18), wherein the photoconductive layers (6, 8, 10, 12) are electrically connected together.
US07847249B2
A technology whereby removal of magnetic hysteresis is enabled in short time in parallel with a process for stage transfer, and so forth. There is executed a magnetic hysteresis removal sequence whereby current for exciting an electromagnetic coil prior to acquisition of an image is always set to a predetermined variation value against a target value, thereby obtaining information on an image, and so forth, when a diameter of a primary electron beam, converged on the specimen, becomes smaller than dimensions displayed by one pixel of an image to be acquired.
US07847248B2
Ion trap apparatus and methods for efficiently addressing the effects of charge space caused by ion trap overfilling, useful in linear ion traps of mass spectrometers.
US07847246B2
In an RF ion trap, analyte ions are fragmented by applying a moderately high RF storage voltage to the trap. The ions are then excited via dipolar excitation, and after a short time, the ions are forced into a resting state, again using dipolar excitation. The RF storage voltage is then rapidly reduced to a low value thereby making it possible to store small fragment ions produced by ergodic decompositions that occur subsequent to the reduction of the RF storage voltage.
US07847241B2
In various aspects, ion sources, mass spectrometer systems, and a power supply circuit coupled to a feedback circuit are provided. A power supply is provided that includes at least the power supply circuit and is operable to transfer charge to a load. The feedback circuit is responsive to a DC component of an output voltage supplied by the power supply in a first feedback loop and an AC component of the output voltage in a second feedback loop to produce a feedback signal representative of at least one of: a value of the output voltage before a charge transfer from a capacitor of the power supply to a load; the value of the output voltage during the charge transfer from the capacitor of the power supply to the load; or the value of the output voltage after the charge transfer from the capacitor of the power supply to the load.
US07847239B2
A calibration strip and a laser calibration system using thereof are disclosed. The calibration strip is comprised of: a substrate; and a light impermissible layer, having a calibration pattern formed thereon while being formed on the substrate. The light impermissible layer is an opaque layer, being formed on the surface of the substrate by coating, electroplating or adhering. The substrate, manufactured by the principle for enabling the color or brightness of the substrate to have high contrast comparing with those of the light impermissible layer, can be a structure of a layer of transparent material and a light source; a layer of transparent material and a backlight source; or a metal film having a reflective layer formed thereon. Since, in the laser calibration system, the calibration strip with the calibration pattern is imaged by an imaging device and then the captured image is send to a processing unit where it is analyzed, the time-consuming and inaccurate off-line manual calibration is no longer required and the laser calibration system can be adapted for various lasers regardless of their spectra.
US07847237B2
A method for evaluating performance of a solar cell, comprising: a current passing step (S1) of passing, in a forward direction, a direct current with respect to a solar cell element constituting the solar cell; a temperature control step (S2) of heating the solar cell element and controlling a heating temperature of the solar cell element; and a light emission detecting step (S3) of detecting light emission characteristics of light generated from the solar cell element due to the passing of the direct current in the current passing step and the heating of the solar cell element in the temperature control step (S2).
US07847226B2
A light detection device includes a lens array of a plurality of lenses arranged in the form of a honeycomb; and a photoelectric device array of a plurality of photoelectric devices for each of the plurality of lenses. The plurality of photoelectric devices is arranged under each of the plurality of lenses. Also disclosed are a focus detection device provided with the light detection device, and an imaging apparatus provided with the focus detection device as well as a method of producing such a light detection device and a method of detecting a focus.
US07847222B2
A heater includes at least two leads, and a heating element which is formed between the at least two leads, a material of the heating element being different from a material of the at least two leads such that a location of a hot spot in the heater is controllable based on a polarity of current in the heater.
US07847219B2
An electric oven includes a door and a compartment having an internal space that is selectively closed by the door. The door has a cooling air opening oil a surface facing the compartment, and the compartment has an intake opening configured to receive air exhausted through the cooling air opening. A shield element prevents foreign matter from entering into the door through the cooling air opening.
US07847216B2
A panel heater includes: a heater main part including a substrate and an electric heating layer; an intervening terminal part including a base layer and a patterned conductive layer; and an anisotropic conductive film for coupling the heater main part and the intervening terminal part to electrically connect the electric heating layer to the conductive layer. The conductive layer is formed in a comb-shaped pattern including a plurality of tooth portions arranged in line at intervals and a portion connecting the tooth portions in common, the tooth portions being connected to the electric heating layer via the anisotropic conductive film, the intervening terminal part has a conducting wire-connective portion for connecting a power supply conductive wire to the conductive layer, and the electric heating layer and the conductive layer are made physically contact with each other via the anisotropic conductive film only by the tooth portions.
US07847213B1
A coherent beam source, e.g., a laser having a cavity that is unstable in at least one direction, is used to produce a coherent beam having an initial intensity profile. The beam is passed through a relay having a Fourier plane containing a spatial filter that serves as a radiation defining mask. The filter has an aperture size and shape effective to modify the beam such that the modified beam forms an image on a substrate. The to image has an intensity profile that more closely approximates a super-Gaussian profile than the initial profile. For example, when the initial intensity profile is Gaussian, the spatial filter may allow passage of only unattenuated the central core of the beam and block completely blocks the wings of the Guassian profile. The modified beam may be more suitable for use in a scanning system used to anneal wafers or other substrates containing integrated circuits.
US07847211B2
A method and device capable of properly selecting light radiating conditions in soldering work where components are soldered onto a board with light radiation applied to a solder joint. The device for selecting the light radiation conditions may contain a) an input device for entering information on; b) a storage for storing at least any one of databases on light radiation power and light radiation time for soldering; c) a calculator for determining light radiating conditions according to the information entered through the input device and the database stored in the storage; and d) an output device for outputting the light radiating conditions determined by the calculator. The input device may further comprise i) a component; ii) a board on which the component is soldered; and iii) solder for soldering the component.
US07847201B2
In order to prevent rattling and avoid generation of chips at the time of assembly in a storage case for a power steering control unit of a vehicle, a storage case includes a base having a plate-shaped substrate member, and a box-shaped cover having an opening on the lower side and being mounted on the base so as to cover the upper surface of the substrate member, wherein rattling preventing projections are provided at a plurality of positions on the peripheral edge of the substrate member so as to come into abutment with an opening-side edge of the cover, which is positioned at a mounting position with respect to the base, from the outside; on the inner side of the rattling-preventing projections bevels are formed, which presses the opening-side edge to resiliently deform the peripheral wall of the cover inward and causes a reaction force to act in a direction in which the cover moves away from the substrate member and comes apart from the base; and the opening-side edge is formed with a crimping projection formed by being bent toward the lower surface of the substrate member so as to retain the cover at the mounting position against the reaction force.
US07847200B2
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a terminal box adapted to be releasably and/or operatively attached to a selected electric motor of a plurality of electric motors. The terminal box can be adapted to receive a plurality of electrical wires. The plurality of electrical wires can be adapted to convey electrical energy to the selected electric motor.
US07847196B2
A flexible printed circuit and a display module comprising the flexible printed circuit are disclosed. The display module comprises a display panel, a printed circuit board, and a flexible printed circuit. The flexible printed circuit electrically connects the display panel and the printed circuit board, and further comprises a flexible substrate and a cover lay. The flexible substrate has an upper surface and two opposite end portions. The cover lay is disposed on the upper surface of the flexible substrate and extends along a lengthwise direction of the flexible substrate. The cover lay further has two opposite sides each also extending along the lengthwise direction of the flexible substrate. Each of the sides has at least a partially continuous contour which is formed with a discontinuous status on at least one of the end portions.
US07847193B2
A current conductor for an electrical device including an electrically conducting central section having a first side and a second side. The central section is configured to receive at least one inserted electrical component. Two electrical conducting shield sections are each disposed on one of the first side and the side and configured to shield against an electric field. The shield sections cover the central section and the at least one inserted electrical component.
US07847192B2
An electrical conductor L is specified, which has a central core (1) and at least two layers which are arranged above the core (1) and are composed of electrically conductive individual wires, which are twisted around the core (1) in a first layer (2) and around the first layer (2) in a second layer (4). The individual wires of the first layer (2) are steel wires with an ultimate tensile strength of between 800 N/mm2 and 2000 N/mm2, and the individual wires of the second layer (4) are copper wires with an ultimate tensile strength of between 250 N/mm2 and 400 N/mm2. A wire composed of a soft-annealed copper with an ultimate tensile strength of at least 210 N/mm2 is used as the core (1). The lay length of the copper wires (5) is between 8×D and 18×D where D is the diameter of the conductor L over the second layer.
US07847183B2
An apparatus for receiving energy is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a support base and a plurality of cells. The support base comprises an electric terminal. The plurality of cells are mounted to the support base. Further, each of the plurality of cells is electrically connected to the electric terminal disposed on the support base. Finally, each of the plurality of cells is oriented in a non-parallel relationship with each neighboring cell.
US07847176B2
In a digital signal processor to perform digital signal process with respect to a music signal and to suppress a signal level to a maximum value when the signal level over the maximum value of processable values is generated by the digital signal processor, a first level correcting device corrects the signal level by multiplying the signal level of the music signal by a correction coefficient so as to make the signal level of the music signal over the maximum value, and a second level correcting device corrects the signal level by multiplying the signal level of the music signal corrected by the first level correcting device by a reciprocal of the correction coefficient.
US07847175B2
The part template including information that is necessary to set after the image of the musical score read out by the scanner is recognized, is stored beforehand, and the part template corresponding to the read out musical score by the scanner is selected from a plurality of the part templates. And then, with the selected part template, setting (correcting) is to be performed automatically for the musical score read out by the scanner. Accordingly, it is possible to make the settings, which the user performs after a musical score is recognized, fewer than conventionally, and it is possible to increase the recognition rate of the musical score higher than conventionally.
US07847168B2
A method and system for controlling actuators in a mechanical reproducing piano or other instrument. In one implementation, a single finite state machine is provided to control all the actuators. The finite state machine may be or include a shift register or a toggle register, which increases the operating speed. When a note is to be played, the desired dynamic is mapped into a start vector and a stop vector. The actuator is turned on when the state of the finite state machine is equal to the start vector, and is turned off when the state of the finite state machine is equal to the stop vector. Furthermore, the period of the finite state machine is adjusted to be directly proportional to the supply voltage. This allows notes to be played at the desired dynamics even when the supply voltage fluctuates.
US07847166B2
This invention provides hybrid maize plant designated PP59601. This invention further provides hybrid seed of PP59601, hybrid plants produced from such seed, and variants, mutants, and trivial modifications to hybrid PP59601, as well as methods of using the hybrid and products produced from the hybrid.
US07847161B1
The present invention is in the field of soybean variety S06-01KG118459 breeding and development. The present invention particularly relates to the soybean variety S06-01KG118459 and its progeny, and methods of making S06-01KG118459.
US07847157B2
The present invention concerns a method for improving growth characteristics of plants by modulating activity of a mutant CDKA kinase or a homologue thereof in a plant and/or modulating expression of a nucleic acid encoding such mutant CDKA. One such method comprises introducing into a plant a mutant CDKA nucleic acid molecule or mutant functional variant thereof. The invention also provides an isolated CKA mutant protein and nucleic acids encoding such protein. The invention furthermore relates to transgenic plants having improved growth characteristics, which plants have modulated expression of a nucleic acid encoding a mutant CDKA kinase. The present invention also concerns constructs useful in the methods of the invention.
US07847150B2
New, distinct and stable cultivars of double-flowering Kalanchoe interspecific hybrids are disclosed. Double-flowering Kalanchoe interspecific hybrids produce one or more flowers with at least 5 full or partial petals per flower. Double-type K. blossfeldiana×K. laciniata, K. blossfeldiana×K. rotundifolia, K. blossfeldiana×K. aromatica, K. blossfeldiana×K. pubescens, K. blossfeldiana×K. grandiflora, K. blossfeldiana×K. citrina, K. blossfeldiana×K. ambolensis, K. blossfeldiana×K. faustii, K. blossfeldiana×K. schumacherii, K. blossfeldiana×K. pritwitzii, K. blossfeldiana×K. flammea, K. blossfeldiana×K. figueredoi, K. blossfeldiana×K. rauhii, K. blossfeldiana×K. obtusa, K. blossfeldiana×K. pumila, K. blossfeldiana×K. marmorata, K. blossfeldiana×K. porphyrocalux, K. blossfeldiana×K. jongmansii, K. blossfeldiana×K. pinnata, K. blossfeldiana×K. diagremontiana, K. blossfeldiana×K. gracilipes, K. blossfeldiana×K. campanulata, K. blossfeldiana×K. latisepela, K. blossfeldiana×K. coccinea, K. blossfeldiana×K. fedtschenkoi, K. blossfeldiana×K. tubiflora, K. blossfeldiana×K. decumbens, K. blossfeldiana×K. manginii, K. blossfeldiana×K. orgyalis, K. blossfeldiana×K. crenata and K. blossfeldiana×K. tomentosa are disclosed. The double-type flowering characteristic has been combined with many desirable Kalanchoe traits including different flower colors, growth characteristics and plant habit. Methods for the reliable breeding of the double-type characteristic into diverse Kalanchoe genetic backgrounds, as well as methods for increasing the number of petals per flower, are disclosed.
US07847149B2
Improved non-dehiscent sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) designated Sesaco 30 (S30) is herein disclosed. Its degree of shatter resistance, or seed retention, makes S30 suitable for mechanized harvesting.
US07847147B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a mouse which has the characteristics of early developing visceral fat type obesity and also has concurrent diabetes and hyperlipemia and in which the trait is genetically established and recessively inherited. An ICR-derived mouse strain, Daruma, spontaneously developing obesity, exhibiting autosomal recessive inheritance for the trait of spontaneously developing obesity, and becoming obese only in the homozygous type is provided.
US07847146B2
The present invention discloses a double transgenic fly that expresses both Tau protein and the human Aβ42 peptide of human amyloid-β precursor protein (APP). The double transgenic flies of the present invention display a synergistic altered phenotype as compared to the altered phenotype displayed by transgenic flies expressing either Tau or human Aβ42 alone, and thus provide for an improved model for neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease. The invention further discloses methods for identifying for therapeutic compounds to treat neurodegenerative disorders using the double transgenic flies.
US07847142B2
The regeneration of HF alkylation acid in an alkylation unit is improved by withdrawing a vapor stream from the HF regenerator tower and condensing the stream to form a liquid fraction which is accumulated in a side distillation zone; the collected liquid fraction, comprising HF acid, water and some stripping medium is distilled in a batch or continuous type operation to drive off the HF acid (along with stripping medium) and the vapor is returned to the regenerator-stripper vessel. The distillation of the sidedraw liquid is continued until the composition of the liquid attains the azeotropic value or as near to that value as desired. The azeotrope, comprising water and acid can then be dropped out of the distillation vessel for disposal by neutralization in the conventional way.
US07847136B2
Fractional hydrocarbons are recovered from reclaimed plastic materials and/or from oily residues. The reclaimed plastic materials and/or residues are sorted according to type and compacted using a feed system (1,2,3,4) in the absence of air. Thereafter the compacted mass is fed to a melting tank (7) below the liquid level. There the compacted mass is heated, so that a separation occurs into a first liquid phase, a first gas phase and a residue fraction. Thereafter the liquid phase and the first gas phase are transported into an evaporation tank (20) in which a second liquid phase and a second gas phase are formed under continued heat input. The second liquid phase is transferred to a re-heater (23) and is additionally heated there under further heat input so that a third gas phase is formed. Thereafter the second gas phase from the evaporation tank (20) and the third gas phase from the re-heater (23) are conveyed to a cracking tower (27) where further cracking of the long-chained hydrocarbons into short-chained hydrocarbons takes place, and the resulting oil gas is then conveyed to a condenser (30) in which the oil gas is condensed to form liquid oil, wherein the oil constitutes the target product.
US07847134B2
Disclosed herein is a method for producing monohydric alcohols from monocarboxylic acids or derivatives thereof using a catalyst comprising ruthenium (Ru) and tin (Sn) using zinc oxide (ZnO) as both a catalyst support and an active promoter; a catalyst prepared by adding an inorganic binder such as silica, alumina or titania in a limited range to the catalyst comprising the above components in order to impart a shaping ability to the catalyst; or, a modified catalyst reformed by adding at least one reducing component selected from the group consisting of Co, Ni, Cu, Ag, Rh, Pd, Re, Ir, and Pt to the catalyst in order to improve the reducing ability of the catalyst. By using such catalysts, the method according to the present invention is advantageous in that the monohydric alcohols can be prepared in high yield regardless of whether the monocarboxylic acids contain water or not, the monohydric alcohols can be economically prepared because the catalysts can be operated under mild reaction conditions and also exhibits high selectivity and productivity compared to conventional catalysts, and the catalysts have excellent long-term reaction stability so as to be advantageous for industrial applications.
US07847132B2
The progression of hepatic fibrosis and hepatic cirrhosis caused by various hepatic disorders and damages such as chronic hepatitis can be restrained by hepatic fibrosis inhibitor containing a compound represented by the following chemical formula: wherein, R1 represents an alkyl group with a carbon number of 4 to 8, and R2 represents a hydrogen atom, alkylcarbonyl group with a carbon number of 2 to 6, or alkoxycarbonyl group with a carbon number of 2 to 6.
US07847131B2
There is provided a process for producing acrolein, which makes it possible to obtain acrolein in high yield by dehydration of glycerin. Glycerin is allowed to coexist with a catalyst containing a rare earth metal salt crystal of phosphoric acid, thereby dehydrating the glycerin, wherein the crystal is obtained by calcining a solid which is formed by allowing a liquid containing water and a hydroxide of the rare earth metal and/or a dehydration condensate of the hydroxide to contain phosphate ions.
US07847112B2
Novel crystalline forms of anti Pneumocystis carinii compound (2-[4-(4-Chlorophenyl)cyclohexyl]-3-hydroxy-1,4-naphthoquinone) commonly known as Atovaquone and methods for producing the same is disclosed herein. This also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising the said polymorphs of Atovaquone and method of treating Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia, the method comprising administering to a warm blooded animal an effective amount of a product-by-process composition of matter comprising polymorphic forms of Atovaquone.
US07847107B2
The present invention is to provide a novel method for producing (2S)-2-benzyl-3-(cis-hexahydro-2-isoindolinylcarbonyl)propionic acid which is useful as a therapeutic agent for diabetes. The present invention relates to a method for producing (2S)-2-benzyl-3-(cis-hexahydro-2-isoindolinylcarbonyl)propionic acid, which is characterized in that 2-benzylidene-3-(cis-hexahydro-2-isoindolinylcarbonyl)propionic acid is subjected to a catalytic reduction reaction in the presence of an asymmetric catalyst prepared from a pyrrolidinebisphosphine compound (I) represented by the following general formula (I): wherein, R1 represents a linear or branched alkyl group having 1-10 carbon atoms, cycloalkyl group, aralkyl group or aryl group which may respectively have a substituent; and R2 and R3 independently represent an optionally substituted aryl group. The * mark in the pyrrolidine ring shows that the carbon atom at that position has the S configuration, and a rhodium compound.
US07847101B2
Pharmaceutical pyrazolybenzothiazole compositions of formula (1) are provided. The compositions may be pharmaceutically acceptable salts. R1, R2 and R3 at each occurrence are independently selected from amino, aminosulfinyl, aminosulfonyl, aryl, azido, halogen, heteroalkyl, heteroaryl, hydrazinyl, hydrocarbyl, hydrogen, hydroxyl, nitro, nitroso, phosphate, phosphinate, phosphonate, phosphonium, phosphorothioate, phosphoryl, sulfamoyl, sulfate, sulfinic acid, sulfonamido, sulfonate, sulfonic acid, sulfonyl, sulfoxido, thiol, thioureido, and ureido, and R4 is selected from hydrogen, heteroalkyl, heteroaryl, and hydrocarbyl.
US07847100B2
The present invention is directed to 1,3,5-phenyl substituted derivative compounds which are inhibitors of the beta-secretase enzyme and that are useful in the treatment of diseases in which the beta-secretase enzyme is involved, such as Alzheimer's disease. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the treatment of such diseases in which the beta-secretase enzyme is involved.
US07847097B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing 1-alkyl-3-phenyluracils of the formula I where the variables R1 to R7 are as defined in the description by reacting 3-phenyluracils of the formula II and alkylating agents of the formula III R1-L1 III, with one another, wherein during the entire reaction the pH is kept in a range from 1 to 6 by adding base a little at a time.
US07847089B2
The present invention provides an RNA interference induction element containing a nucleotide sequence selected from among the nucleotide sequences (a) to (c) below: (a) a nucleotide sequence containing SEQ ID NO:1 or a sequence complementary thereto; (b) a nucleotide sequence containing at least 15 continuous nucleotides present in the nucleotide sequence (a) above, and possessing RNA interference induction potential; (c) a nucleotide sequence having a homology of at least 70% to any one of the nucleotide sequences (a) and (b) above, and possessing RNA interference induction potential. Using the RNA interference induction element of the present invention, it is easily possible to knock down a desired target gene, and to produce a siRNA for a desired target gene.
US07847078B2
The invention provides previously uncharacterized variants of PDE11A that are correlated with a newly discovered form of Cushing Syndrome that presents at a young age. The invention also provides methods useful to research, screen for, treat, or prevent diagnose the disease using the PDE11A variants, as well as other methods relating thereto.
US07847076B2
An oligonucleotide probe is disclosed, the probe including an oligonucleotide, a fluorescer molecule attached to a first end of the oligonucleotide and a quencher molecule attached to the opposite end of the oligonucleotide. The probe is rendered impervious to digestion by the 5′→3′ exonuclease activity of a polymerase and the 5′→3′ extension of by a polymerase. The invention also includes methods for performing combined PCR amplification and hybridization probing, one such method including the steps of contacting a target nucleic acid sequence with PCR reagents and an oligonucleotide probe as described above, and subjecting these reagents to thermal cycling. One preferred refinement of the above method further includes the addition of a strand displacer to facilitate amplification. Additional similar combined PCR hybridization methods are disclosed, such methods not requiring probes having their 5′ ends protected, wherein (i) the polymerase lacks 5′→3′ exonuclease activity, (ii) a 5′→3′ exonuclease inhibitor is included, and (iii) an exonuclease deactivation step is performed.
US07847070B2
The invention provides the identification and characterization of disease and cancer-associated antigen, LUCA2. The invention also provides a family of monoclonal antibodies that bind to antigen LUCA2, methods of diagnosing and treating various human cancers and diseases that express LUCA2.
US07847067B2
Anti-NTB-A antibodies and antigen-binding fragments thereof, as well as pharmaceutical compositions comprising such antibodies and antigen-binding fragments are described. Also described are methods of using such antibodies and antigen-binding regions to bind NTB-A and treat diseases, such as hematologic malignancies, which are characterized by expression of NTB-A.
US07847064B2
Novel chimeric plant promoter sequences are provided, together with plant gene expression cassettes comprising such sequences. In certain preferred embodiments, the chimeric plant promoters comprise the BoxII cis element and/or derivatives thereof. In addition, novel transcription factors are provided, together with nucleic acid sequences encoding such transcription factors and plant gene expression cassettes comprising such nucleic acid sequences. In certain preferred embodiments, the novel transcription factors comprise the acidic domain, or fragments thereof, of the RF2a transcription factor. Methods for using the chimeric plant promoter sequences and novel transcription factors in regulating the expression of at least one gene of interest are provided, together with transgenic plants comprising such chimeric plant promoter sequences and novel transcription factors.
US07847063B2
The present invention provides a method for highly producing a recombinant protein in a plant storage organ and a GLP-1 derivative. The plant storage organ in which the recombinant protein is highly produced is obtained by transformation with the use of a vector which comprises a recombinant protein gene, a cytokinin-related gene, a drug-resistant gene and a removable DNA element, in which the cytokinin-related gene and the drug-resistant gene exist in the positions so that they can behave together with the DNA element, while the recombinant protein to be expressed in the plant storage organ exists in the position so that it would not behave together with the DNA element. The GLP-1 is produced by using the method, and a derivative having been stabilized against enzymatic digestion is further provided.
US07847054B2
A polyoxadiazole polymer is synthesized by heating polyphosphoric acid to a temperature of at least about 160° C. and making a solution by mixing hydrazine sulfate salt with one or more dicarboxylic acids or their derivatives in the heated polyphosphoric acid. The solution is heated under an inert gas atmosphere and the polymer is precipitated in a basic solution. The polyoxadiazole polymer can be produced as a homopolymer or copolymer, and may be used to produce a membrane or fibers.
US07847044B2
Method of producing copolymers by free-radical polymerization of at least one water-soluble N-vinyllactam and at least one hydrophobic comonomer in an organic solvent in the presence of an initiator, where the polymerization is carried out under a gauge pressure such that evaporation of the components is avoided.
US07847043B2
An organobismuth compound represented by the formula (1) wherein R1 and R2 are C1-C8 alkyl, aryl, substituted aryl or an aromatic heterocyclic group, R3 and R4 are each a hydrogen atom or C1-C8 alkyl, and R5 is aryl, substituted aryl, an aromatic heterocyclic group, acyl, amido, oxycarbonyl or cyano.
US07847042B2
The invention discloses a metallocene catalysed slurry polymerisation process of ethylene in the presence of a low concentration of scavenger. This allows improving the anti-sheeting of the reactor during the polymerisation process.
US07847036B2
A method for controlling a transition from an initial polymerization reaction to a target polymerization reaction in a manner that reduces significantly the amount of off-grade product having excessively low density produced during the transition, including steps of: during the transition, maintaining a first one of a concentration ratio and a feed ratio at an at least substantially constant value while implementing process changes in an effort to bring produced polymer into compliance with a target specification set and monitoring (without controlling) the other one of the concentration ratio and the feed ratio to generate first data; and during the transition, determining from the first data whether polymer having excessively low density is likely to be produced during the transition, and upon determining that polymer having excessively low density is likely to be produced during the transition, maintaining during the remaining portion of the transition the other ratio at a value that is at least substantially constant while allowing the first ratio to vary is provided.
US07847033B2
An emulsifier for use in forming a film for a suspended particle device (SPD) wherein the film is comprised of a cross-linked matrix polymer having a plurality of droplets of a liquid light valve suspension distributed therein. The emulsifier is formed of a copolymer material comprising at least first and second segments, the segments differing from one another in at least one of their chemical affinities, their compositions and their polarities. A first one of the segments is soluble in an uncured liquid matrix polymer used in forming the film, but insoluble in a liquid suspension medium of which the droplets are dispersed. A second segment is soluble in the liquid suspending medium in the droplets and insoluble in the uncured liquid matrix polymer. The first and second segments have substantially the same index of refraction and the index of refraction of the segments is within 0.010 of that of each phase of an emulsion formed with the emulsifier.
US07847028B2
The present invention provides a curable composition which can yield a fluorinated cured product excellent in transparency, light resistance, heat resistance, and mechanical strength, and minimally damaged by stress concentration. The invention relates to a curable composition comprising a perfluoro polymer (a) containing a unit derived from a perfluorodiene having two polymerizable carbon-carbon double bonds, wherein two carbon atoms in one carbon-carbon double bond form the main chain, and the other carbon-carbon double bond forms a side chain; a perfluorocyclic monoene (b) having at least 8 carbon atoms, which has an alicyclic structure made of carbon atoms and optionally containing an oxygen atom, and one polymerizable carbon-carbon double bond, wherein at least one of two carbon atoms forming the carbon-carbon double bond is a carbon atom constituting the alicyclic structure; and a polymerization initiator (i).
US07847026B2
A blend of epoxy resins includes a) an epoxy resin composition derived from the reaction of a liquid epoxy resin, a carboxyl terminated butadiene (CTB), and a carboxyl terminated polybutadiene-acrylonitrile (CTBN) and/or a random and terminal carboxyl functional polybutadiene-acrylonitrile (CTBNX), and b) unreacted epoxy resin. The carboxyl terminated butadiene is miscible with the unreacted epoxy resin and does not separate therefrom even upon aging. Upon cure as with a latent cure agent, a toughened epoxy resin is produced having unexpected good low temperature properties such as peel strength.
US07847018B2
The present invention relates to a polymer dispersion wherein the components of a physical mixture comprising (i) at least one unsaturated silane of the general formula (I): [H2C═CX(Y)n]Si(CH3)p(R)3-p in which X is a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, Y is a divalent group selected from —CH2— and —C(O)O—(CH2)3—, n is 0 or 1, R is an alkoxy group selected from methoxy, ethoxy, n-propoxy, isopropoxy, n-butoxy, isobutoxy, and 2-methoxyethoxy, and p is 0 or 1, and (ii) at least one organosilane of the general formula (II): R1Si(CH3)q(R2)3-q in which R1 is a linear, branched or cyclic alkyl group having 1 to 18 carbon atoms or is an aryl group or is a polyether group, R2 is an alkoxy group selected from methoxy, ethoxy, n-propoxy, isopropoxy, n-butoxy, isobutoxy and 2-methoxyethoxy, and q is 0 or 1, and/or at least one silicic ester of the general formula (III): Si(R3)4, in which groups R3 are identical or different and R3 is an alkoxy group selected from methoxy, ethoxy, n-propoxy, isopropoxy, n-butoxy and isobutoxy, are incorporated into the framework of the polymer, a process for preparing such a polymer dispersion, and its use.
US07847004B2
A process for preparing an aqueous dispersion of particles composed of addition polymer and finely divided inorganic solid (composite particles), in which process ethylenically unsaturated monomers are dispersely distributed in aqueous medium and polymerized by the method of free-radical aqueous emulsion polymerization by means of at least one free-radical polymerization initiator in the presence of at least one dispersely distributed, finely divided inorganic solid and at least one dispersant, which comprises using a monomer mixture comprising >0 and ≦10% by weight of at least one ethylenically unsaturated monomer containing an epoxide group.
US07846997B2
The invention relates to a solid pigment preparation comprising at least 35% by weight of one or more pigments and at most 65% by weight of a dispersant resin, wherein the dispersant resin comprises a polyester backbone having at least one pendent hydrophilic polyalkylene oxide monoalkylether group, the dispersant resin comprising 30 to 80% by weight of alkylene oxide units and having a number average molecular weight of 1,000 to 150,000.
US07846995B2
Novel optionally hydrogenated nitrile rubbers distinguised by a very low ruthenium content are provided as well as a process for the removal of ruthenium-containing catalyst residues from a solution of optionally hydrogenated nitrile rubber by using specific functionalized ion-exchange resins.
US07846994B2
This invention relates to inorganic microspheres having a relatively narrow particle size distribution, which may be prepared by spheridization of zeolite crystals. The microspheres are particularly useful for whitening polymer compositions and in other filler applications.
US07846992B2
A pigment dispersion includes a color pigment and a polymeric dispersant having at least one pending chromophore group covalently bound to the polymeric backbone of the polymeric dispersant through a linking group. The at least one pending chromophore group has a molecular weight which is smaller than 85% of the molecular weight of the color pigment; the at least one pending chromophore group occurs as a side group on the polymeric backbone and not as a group in the polymeric backbone itself or occurring solely as an end group of the polymeric backbone; the linking group consists of all the atoms between the polymeric backbone and the first atom of the aromatic group by which the pending chromophore group is linked to the polymeric backbone; and the at least one pending chromophore group has a similarity coefficient SIM of at least 0.75.
US07846990B2
A reactive organo-modified inorganic particle. Inorganic particles are modified with functional groups through chemical bonding, ionic bonding, hydrogen bond or complex formation. The functional groups of organo-modified inorganic particle can react with monomer or oligomer of biodegradable materials to facilitate crosslinking and functionalization, thus improving physical properties of the inorganic particle-biodegradable hybrid materials.
US07846989B2
Etching compositions, curable compositions, packaged products and methods of use for the treatment of bone substrate, i.e., teeth, are described. The etch compositions generally include a gelling agent, an inorganic acid, an organic acid and either a solvent, a surfactant or mixtures thereof. The curable composites include reactive monomers and crosslinking agents that are effective to adhere to the surface of the treated substrate. The methods of the invention provide the ability to modify a bone or bone-like surface so that the curable composition, such as an adhesive resin, can be used in combination with a restorative material.
US07846974B2
The compound represented by the general formula (I) is administered to a subject suffering from diabetes or obesity. In the formula (I), R1 and R2 independently represent an aliphatic hydrocarbon group having 1 to 10 carbon atoms or phenyl group, and arbitrary hydrogen atoms on the aliphatic hydrocarbon group and the phenyl group may be replaced by halogen, X1 represents halogen, and X2 represents hydrogen or halogen.
US07846963B2
The present invention is related to new 2-oxo-cyclic compound the process for preparing them and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same. The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition for preventing and treating the inflammatory disease comprising the pain or inflammation caused by rheumatic disease, for example, rheumatoid arthritis, spondyloarthopathies, gout, osteoarthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus and juvenile arthritis, and inflammatory syndrome for example, from myositis, gingivitis, synovitis, ankylosing spondylitis, burstitis, burns and scar, inflammatory Crohn's disease, Types I diabetes. therefore, it can be used as the therapeutics for treating and preventing inflammatory diseases.
US07846962B2
Compositions and methods for inhibiting translation using 3-(5-tert-Butyl-2-Hydroxy-phenyl)-3-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one and/or its derivatives are provided. Compositions, methods and kits for treating (1) cellular proliferative disorders, (2) non-proliferative, degenerative disorders, (3) viral infections, and/or (4) disorders associated with viral infections, using 3-(5-tert-butyl-2-hydroxy-phenyl)-3-phenyl-1,3-dihydro-indol-2-one and/or its derivatives are described.
US07846955B2
The invention provides [2-(4-chloro-benzyloxy)-ethyl]-[2-((R)-cyclohexyl-hydroxy-phenyl-methyl)-oxazol-5-yl-methyl]-dimethyl-ammonium napadisylate, pharmaceutical compositions containing it, and its use in therapy.
US07846953B2
The present invention relates to compounds of Formula (I), methods for preparing these compounds, compositions, intermediates and derivatives thereof and for treating a condition including but not limited to ankylosing spondylitis, artherosclerosis, arthritis (such as rheumatoid arthritis, infectious arthritis, childhood arthritis, psoriatic arthritis, reactive arthritis), bone-related diseases (including those related to bone formation), breast cancer (including those unresponsive to anti-estrogen therapy), cardiovascular disorders, cartilage-related disease (such as cartilage injury/loss, cartilage degeneration, and those related to cartilage formation), chondrodysplasia, chondrosarcoma, chronic back injury, chronic bronchitis, chronic inflammatory airway disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, diabetes, disorders of energy homeostasis, gout, pseudogout, lipid disorders, metabolic syndrome, multiple myeloma, obesity, osteoarthritis, osteogenesis imperfecta, osteolytic bone metastasis, osteomalacia, osteoporosis, Paget's disease, periodontal disease, polymyalgia rheumatica, Reiter's syndrome, repetitive stress injury, hyperglycemia, elevated blood glucose level, and insulin resistance.
