US07877811B2
In order to reduce the multitude of data for transmitting and converting use authorizations, which are received either encoded or non-encoded together with sound and/or picture contents in signals from optional networks, it is proposed to reduce the hierarchically structured use authorization information in the form of a tree structure before transmitting it further, such that non-occupied tree branches are detected and marked as not relevant, wherein the tree branches marked as not relevant are not included during the further transmitting of the use authorization information.
US07877809B1
A computer system uses a clean boot technique to protect against malware attacks. Upon certain detection of a malware infection, the computer system is configured to clean boot off of a fixed secure volume containing its own operating system and security software. The security software in the fixed secure volume is usable to remediate the malware attack by itself or by relying at least in part on security software installed in the infected volume.
US07877805B1
A method for detecting a security breach in a network comprises at one of a plurality of transceivers each having a different media access control address, receiving a signal from an access point, the signal representing one or more packets of data, determining a source media access control address for each of the packets, and alerting the access point when the source media access control address of one of the packets is the media access control address of the transceiver.
US07877802B2
A system, method, and computer readable medium for the proactive detection of malware in operating systems that receive application programming interface (API) calls is provided. A virtual operating environment for simulating the execution of programs and determining if the programs are malware is created. The virtual operating environment confines potential malware so that the systems of the host operating environment will not be adversely effected. During simulation, a behavior signature is generated based on the API calls issued by potential malware. The behavior signature is suitable for analysis to determine whether the simulated executable is malware.
US07877801B2
A method, system and computer program product for detecting a malicious entity in a processing system. The method (600) comprises booting the processing system into a boot module prior to loading an operating system (610); and detecting, using the boot module, if the processing system comprises a malicious entity (620).
US07877800B1
A cookie monitoring manager detects fraudulent updates to cookies on a computer. The cookie monitoring manager monitors cookies, and detects attempted write operations thereto. The cookie monitoring manager determines whether each detected attempted write operation is an attempt to write a fraudulent affiliate identifier to a cookie. The cookie monitoring manager detects fraudulent write attempts, for example, by detecting an attempt to write a known fraudulent affiliate identifier to a cookie, by detecting an attempt to write to a cookie by a process other than a browser or by detecting multiple attempts to write affiliate identifiers to a cookie within a sufficiently short period of time. When the cookie tracking manager detects an attempt to write a fraudulent affiliate identifier to a cookie, it can block the write attempt and/or run an adware removal program on the computer.
US07877787B2
An apparatus and method for sharing data in a communications system include a bootstrapping server function (BSF) configured to transmit a first message. The first message includes a timestamp parameter corresponding to a generic bootstrapping architecture user security settings (GUSS) stored in the BSF. A home subscriber server (HSS) is configured to receive the first message, to compare the timestamp parameter corresponding to the GUSS stored in the BSF with a timestamp parameter corresponding to a GUSS stored in the HSS, and to transmit a second message back to the BSF excluding the GUSS when the timestamp parameters of the GUSS of the BSF and the HSS are equal.
US07877774B1
A method includes steps of indexing a media collection, searching an indexed library and browsing a set of candidate program segments. The step of indexing a media collection creates the indexed library based on a content of the media collection. The step of searching the indexed library identifies the set of candidate program segments based on a search criteria. The step of browsing the set of candidate program segments selects a segment for viewing.
US07877773B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a digital television (DTV) data stream including program and system information protocol (PSIP) data associated with content of the DTV data stream, the PSIP data including a virtual channel table (VCT) and an event information table (EIT), the EIT comprising: a source identification field identifying a source of an associated event in a DTV data stream; an event identification field indicating an identification of the event; a start time field indicating a star time of the event; a title field indicating a title of the event; and a descriptor comprising: a descriptor tag identifying the descriptor as a genre descriptor; a descriptor length indicating a total length of the descriptor; and at least one category code for an associated event in a DTV data stream, each category code specifying genre, program type, or category information of the associated event, wherein the at least one category code specifies at least one of a set of basic categories.
US07877768B2
A smart broadcast program recording padding and scheduling system provides a system for adjusting the start and end times of a broadcast program's recording schedule that has a predetermined start and end broadcast time and resolving any conflicts arising from conflicting scheduled program recordings. An on screen program guide is displayed to the viewer via a monitor or television that lists the predetermined scheduled broadcast times and channels of a plurality of broadcast programs. The viewer selects a particular broadcast program to record and the invention schedules the broadcast program to be recorded by inserting the program's information such as program identifier, start and end times, and storage duration into a recording schedule database. The viewer adjusts the scheduled start and/or end recording times for a specific program or series of programs by specifying the time increment (padding) to add or subtract from the start and/or end recording times and the invention adjusts the recording schedule for the program(s) using the padding values. Conflicts that arise from adjusted recording schedules are resolved using a priority scheme. Conflicting padding values and start and end recording times are adjusted using threshold values or by elimination. Broadcast programs are recorded onto a persistent storage device when the recording schedule indicates that it is time to do so.
US07877755B2
A solution to a variant of a class constrained multiple knapsack problem. Previous solutions require that memory demand of every application be identical and do not consider minimizing placement changes. Previous techniques do not consider optimizing placement to improve load balancing as is described subsequently. Thus, the present invention provides systems, methods and apparatus, encapsulated in software, to provide the dynamic placement of application instances on a heterogeneous cluster of server machines. It depends on the existence of a visible and controllable platform, systems management and other business services that signal events and accept commands. It provides dynamically placing applications on servers such as to maximize a total amount of satisfied application demands, minimize a number of placement changes from a current placement, and minimize imbalance of load distribution of said applications on said at least one server.
US07877753B2
A multi-processor system with a plurality of unit processors includes: a semaphore setting section for setting semaphores representing preferential right to the competing of resources to be able to be identified to correspond to each of a plurality of the resources; a semaphore request determining section for determining, whether when a first unit processor among said unit processors requests to obtain a semaphore that is set to said semaphore setting section, the request is for requesting a semaphore being obtained by the second unit processor; and an exclusive controlling section for making the request by the first unit processor wait when it is determined that said request is for requesting a semaphore being obtained, and permitting to obtain the requested semaphore when it is determined that said request is for requesting a semaphore other than the semaphore being obtained by the semaphore request determining section.
US07877743B2
The present invention comprises: a converting step for converting a source program into a machine language program; an inserting step for inserting notifying instructions for notifying that the source program has been executed in the machine language program; and a program generating step for generating the executable program from the machine language program in which the notifying instructions are inserted. Further, in the inserting step, the notifying instructions are placed at the entry points of each basic block that constitutes the machine language program and the notifying instructions to which the same conditions as those of the conditional instruction groups are granted are placed at the entry points of conditional instruction groups provided in the machine language program. In the program generating step, identification information for identifying the notifying instructions is granted to each of the notifying instructions. According to this, the present invention enables analysis of the executed range in the program that includes the conditional instructions as well.
US07877732B2
A method for efficiently stress testing a service oriented architecture based application. A business process flow is recorded between a client and a server. When an XML document is extracted from the recorded business process flow, an XML document file is created for the extracted XML document, an XML document descriptor file is created comprising XPath queries for data elements in the XML document file, a configuration file is created comprising user input parameters obtained from the recorded business process flow, and test input data file is created. The user input parameters in the configuration file are used to generate a test script to test the service oriented architecture based application, wherein data values from the test input data file are inserted into a template of the XML document file at locations specified by the XPath queries in the XML document descriptor file. The test script is then executed.
US07877726B2
A system and method for integrating databases and/or web services into a searchable ontological structure. The structure allows for free-form searching of the combined system and for the discovery of an execution path through the ontology. The discovered execution path (or paths) provides for the generation of code that integrate databases and services for the purpose of fusing information from disparate databases and Web services.
US07877714B2
A system and method is provided for optimizing semiconductor power by integration of physical design timing and product performance measurements. The method includes: establishing a timing run and identifying a sigma code for the timing run; establishing ring oscillator bins and respective code; identifying a required timing run for a second level assembly to satisfy a selected voltage bin; timing a product using the required timing run; testing a ring oscillator of the product using the timing to obtain physical design identification; recording the physical design identification and the sigma code for the timing run; and using the recorded physical design identification and the sigma code to set a voltage for the product to optimize power.
US07877709B2
A method of placing wires for placing a shield wire with respect to a shield subject wire placed on a chip, a method includes setting a plurality of wire tracks on the chip, dividing the chip into at least a first area and a second area according to a division boundary, confirming whether the shield subject wire exists around the division boundary in the second area when the division boundary is not laid on top of the wire track, and determining whether to place the shield wire on a wire track being adjacent to division boundary in the first area based on the confirming.
US07877699B2
A multilayered task supporting apparatus includes: a display area that is divided into three or more; an input unit that is provided with a group of control buttons for assigning a display object; and a control unit that controls a content to be displayed on the display area on the basis of an input from the input unit.
US07877698B1
A system comprising user interface software configured to provide a plurality of spectral data display and manipulation options on a display displaying spectral data, a user interface processor configured to display a pictorial representation of the spectral data display and manipulation options, and a user interface instruction engine configured to provide a plurality of data display and manipulation instructions to the user interface processor to provide display and manipulation of the displayed spectral data. The plurality of data display and manipulation instructions are received from a control device connected to a computing system and the manipulation of the displayed spectral data is based on a user response to the displayed spectral data manipulation options or a pre-determined selection of the displayed spectral data display manipulation options.
US07877695B2
A system for managing user interface events in user interface of a client system. The system includes a service layer including a business object. The system also includes an intermediate object layer comprising an intermediate object associated with the business object, wherein the intermediate object handles user interface messages raised by the business object and retrieves data from the business object for user interface. The system further includes a service manager that provides the retrieved data from the intermediate object for display on the user interface.
US07877691B2
Methods are disclosed for navigating between and within applications that display most recently visited applications and application parts, with redundancies eliminated from the display. The methods can be carried out in a computational machine that compiles a list of visited data-access locations, and identifies data-access locations that have been visited more than once, wherein each data-access location that has been visited more than once is presented in a collapsed form as a single navigational target. The methods then can present the visited data-access locations as a navigational control record including navigational targets that represent the visited data-access locations.
US07877686B2
The current status of a list of tasks to be performed is dynamically displayed. The tasks may be performed by a user (e.g., data entered by the user, words spoken by the user, actions taken by the user, and so forth) or alternatively by a computer (e.g., the steps it follows in carrying out a programmed task). At least a portion of the list is displayed at any given time along with an indication of which task is the next task to be performed. As the tasks are completed, the current status of the progression through the items on the list is dynamically updated so as to readily inform the user (or someone else) as to what the current task is that needs to be performed, as well as what tasks have already been performed and/or what tasks remain to be performed.
US07877680B2
A computer-implementable method, system and computer media for auto-generating and auto-versioning a dynamic document are presented. In a preferred embodiment, the computer-implementable method includes populating a dynamic document with content from multiple sources. The dynamic document is then version named in accordance with a nomenclature rule that identifies a source and version of content from the multiple sources. In response to a content from one or more of the multiple sources changing at a source, the dynamic document is updated with updated content, and a version name of the dynamic document is updated to reflect the updated content.
US07877675B2
A semiconductor memory apparatus capable of detecting an error in data input/output includes a memory cell block including a plurality of memory cells. A data input unit receives data from outside the semiconductor memory apparatus and performs predetermined signal processing to record the received data in the memory cell block. A first global data line is connected between the data input unit and the memory cell block. A data output unit receives data from the memory cell block and performs predetermined signal processing to output the received data to the outside of the semiconductor memory apparatus. A second global data line is connected between the memory cell block and the data output unit. A multiplexer selectively outputs data from the first or second global data line in response to a control signal. An error detection code generator generates an error detection code having a plurality of bits to detect whether the data output from the multiplexer includes an error, and outputs the error detection code to the outside of the semiconductor memory apparatus.
US07877671B2
A communication apparatus that is present between each of receiver and sender LANs including a user network and a WAN, and relays a packet exchanged between the sender and receiver LANs through the WAN while correcting an error in the packet. The communication apparatus determines whether to perform error correction on a packet received from the sender LAN. When it is determined not to perform the error correction, the communication apparatus instantly transfers the packet to the receiver LAN.
US07877670B2
Error correcting decoding for convolutional and recursive systematic convolutional encoded sequences
The invention relates to error-correcting coding and correct restart of decoding after errors of sequences that are coded by convolutional coders or LFSR based descramblers. The signals can be binary or multi-valued signals. Methods and apparatus to convolutional encode and decode sequences of binary and n-valued symbols are disclosed. The invention further discloses methods and apparatus to identify symbols in error in sequences coded according to methods of the invention. Methods and apparatus to correct these errors are provided. Methods and apparatus to repair errors in a Trellis of received sequences are also provided. Methods and apparatus for n-valued Recursive Systematic Convolutional coders and decoders are disclosed.
US07877666B2
Methods and apparatus to track the health of integrated circuit structures are described. In an embodiment, a counter may be updated when the status of a portion of a storage unit (e.g., a cache) transitions to a defective status (e.g., as determined by reference to one or more corresponding status bits). The value stored in the counter may be compared with a threshold value, e.g., to generate a signal that is indicative of whether the threshold value has been exceeded. Other embodiments are also described.
US07877665B2
A data structure for a memory device is provided. The device includes an array having a plurality of rows of storage elements divided into logical units composed of a plurality of data structures. The data structure includes a data sector including user data and user attribute data. The user attribute data includes error correction coding (ECC) for the user data. The user attribute data includes information for other sectors in the logical unit. The data sector is provided in one of the plurality of rows having a higher degree of data integrity than others of said plurality of rows.
US07877657B1
A method and apparatus are disclosed for predicting the failure of a functional element of an integrated circuit during operation. The method includes determining whether the functional element of the integrated circuit device is in an idle cycle, performing a stress test of the functional element while the functional element is in the idle cycle, and indicating that the functional element, if it fails the stress test, is a potential future failing element. The stress test can include simultaneously providing a margining test voltage and a stress clock signal to the functional element. The stress test is performed in the background, during continuous operation of the integrated circuit device, such that normal operation of the integrated circuit device is not interrupted. Thereby, the method and apparatus of the present invention allows for failure prediction in a device before it happens, allowing for planned outages or workarounds and avoiding system downtime for unplanned repairs.
US07877656B2
A method for applying test patterns to scan chains in a circuit-under-test. The method includes providing a compressed test pattern of bits; decompressing the compressed test pattern into a decompressed test pattern of bits as the compressed test pattern is being provided; and applying the decompressed test pattern to scan chains of the circuit-under-test. The actions of providing the compressed test pattern, decompressing the compressed test pattern, and applying the decompressed pattern are performed synchronously at the same or different clock rates, depending on the way in which the decompressed bits are to be generated. A circuit that performs the decompression includes a decompressor such as a linear feedbackstate machine adapted to receive a compressed test pattern of bits. The decompressor decompresses the test pattern into a decompressed test pattern of bits as the compressed test pattern is being received. The circuit further includes scan chains for testing circuit logic, the scan chains coupled to the decompressor and adapted to receive the decompressed test pattern.
US07877651B2
Two common varieties of test interfaces exist for ICs and/or cores, the IEEE 1149.1 Test Access Port (TAP) interface and internal scan test ports. The TAP serves as a serial communication port for accessing a variety of circuitry including; IEEE 1149.1 boundary scan circuitry, built in self test circuitry, internal scan circuitry, IEEE 1149.4 mixed signal test circuitry, IEEE P5001 in-circuit emulation/debug circuitry, and IEEE P1532 in-system programming circuitry. Internal scan test ports serve as a serial communication port for primarily accessing internal scan circuitry within ICs and cores. Today, the TAP and internal scan test ports are typically viewed as being separate test interfaces, each utilizing different IC pins and/or core terminals. The need for different IC pins and/or core terminals is overcome by an interface in accordance with the disclosure that allows the TAP and internal scan test ports to be merged so they both can co-exist and operate from the same set of IC pins and/or core terminals. Further, this interface allows merged TAP and scan test port interfaces to be selected individually or in groups.
US07877649B2
An apparatus and methods for testing an integrated device comprising memory a test device are provided. At least two data inputs of the memory are coupled to a data output of the test device. As an alternative, at least two data outputs of the memory are coupled to a data input of the test device. Test data are transferred from the test device to the memory chip and written to memory cells of the memory. Data are read from the memory cells of the memory and transferring from the memory to the test device. The data read from the memory chip are compared with the test data written to the memory in order to identify faults of the memory.
US07877648B2
A method of identifying a valid version of a data value and voting on separate instances of the data value is described. A processor receives an instance of the data value generated by one processor and a transmitted version of that generated instance transmitted by another processor and compares the received values to validate them. The processor further determines an agreed version of the data value from a comparison of the validated instances. As a result a simple and robust voting system is provided.
US07877644B2
A complex user-facing computer application often has run-time dependencies on other computer applications. The other computer applications may, in turn, have run-time dependencies on still other applications. A supporting application might run on multiple hosts and a particular host might be chosen by a higher-level application in order to meet requirements such load balancing or reliability. In order to facilitate intelligent choices by higher-level applications in the system, each server in the system is responsible for generating a performance capability or health score that reflects the health of local components and the health of all servers on which the given server has a direct run-time dependency. A particular server's generated health score is advertised to any other server that has a direct run-time dependency on the particular server. Decisions about which of alternative lower-level servers to use in a servicing a client request are made using a routing or hop-at-a-time approach.
US07877643B2
A method, system, and computer program product in a logical partitioned data processing system are disclosed for providing a host bridge that implements extended error handling (EEH). If all devices coupled to the host bridge implement EEH, the host bridge is initialized to operate in EEH mode. In EEH mode, the devices handle any error that occurs within the devices without reporting the error to the host bridge. All partitions that share the host bridge continue to operate without being terminated while the devices are handling the error. If at least one device does not implement EEH, the host bridge is initialized to operate in non-EEH mode. In non-EEH mode, a machine check is generated by the host bridge when an error occurs within one of the devices resulting in the termination of all partitions that share the host bridge in response to a receipt of the machine check.
US07877638B2
An apparatus for testing a computer includes a control module having a power cycling test program and a display driving program therein, a switch module connected to the control module for receiving trigger signals generated from the power cycling test program and powering on or off the computer consequently, a driving module connected to the control module for receiving display driving signals from the display driving program, and a display module connected to the driving module for displaying test parameters. A method utilizing above described apparatus for testing the computer is also disclosed.
US07877635B2
A method for the autonomous diagnosis and repair of user-configured storage subsystem components in a storage environment is provided. The method includes monitoring the user-configured storage subsystem components to identify an error associated with a first component of the user-configured storage subsystem components, the error corresponding to an error code, cross referencing the error code against a severity matrix, querying a depot for a fix code, and downloading and applying the fix code if the first component is configured, according to the severity matrix, to be autonomously repaired.
US07877623B2
An apparatus and method is disclosed to compensate for skew and asymmetry of a locally processed system clock used to synchronize an output signal, e.g., a data signal or a timing signal, from a logic circuit, for example a memory device. A first phase detector, array of delay lock loop (DLL) delay elements and accompanying circuitry are disclosed to phase-lock the rising edge of the output signal with the rising edge of the system clock XCLK signal. Additionally, a comparator circuit, a register delay, an array of DLL delay elements and accompanying circuitry are disclosed to add or subtract delay from the falling edge of the DQ signal in order to produce a symmetrical output of the DQ signal.
US07877616B2
A data management system including a storage and activating an application so that the application accesses contents in the storage and processes the contents. The data management system also monitors access of the application to the contents by associating information for the application brought into an activated status with information for the accessed contents. The data management system also enciphers the contents with the application information when the activated application writes the contents into the storage while deciphering the contents with the application information when the activated application reads out the contents.
US07877607B2
A tamper-evident data management system uses public-private digital signature keys to control use of data and to ensure the fidelity of data that is stored on a customer's system for later collection by a computer vendor or that is sent to the vendor over a network. A computer system includes an application for collecting usage or metrics data from the computer system, for example. The metering application uses an application private key to digitally sign all metrics data prior to optionally storing the data in a data log file. The vendor can then use an application public key to validate the digitally signed entries. The digitally signed data entries may also be encrypted using a vendor public key prior to storage in the data log and may be decrypted using a vendor private key prior to validating the digitally signed data. The application and application private key may be stored on a smart card to discourage and detect tampering or may be stored on the computer system itself.
US07877605B2
A computer-based system securely transmitting and authenticating a transaction input by a user while retaining the anonymity of the user with respect to content of the transaction, including a device encoding the content of the transaction input by the user with a key known only to another device, encoding other portions of the transaction with another key known only to a secure transaction server, and sending the encoded content of the transaction and the encoded other portions of the transaction to the secure transaction server to authenticate an identity of the user of the device, wherein the secure transaction server decodes the other portions of the transaction and sends the encoded content of the transaction to the another device to be finally decoded.
US07877596B2
A recursive verification protocol to reduce the time variance due to delays in the network by putting the subject node at most one hop from the verifier node provides for an efficient manner to test wireless sensor nodes. Since the software signatures are time based, recursive testing will give a much cleaner signal for positive verification of the software running on any one node in the sensor network. In this protocol, the main verifier checks its neighbor, who in turn checks its neighbor, and continuing this process until all nodes have been verified. This ensures minimum time delays for the software verification. Should a node fail the test, the software verification downstream is halted until an alternative path (one not including the failed node) is found. Utilizing techniques well known in the art, having a node tested twice, or not at all, can be avoided.
US07877594B1
A method for frustrating unauthorized access to an electronic mail message having address, body and attachment information and being transmitted from a first computer to a second computer, including: at the first computer: detecting a request to send the message; encrypting the extracted body information; replacing the extracted body information with the encrypted body information; extracting the attachment information; encrypting the extracted attachment information; replacing the extracted attachment information with the encrypted attachment information; returning the message having the encrypted body and attachment information to the mail user application; and transmitting the message having the encrypted body and attachment information to a third computer; and, at the third computer: decrypting and re-encrypting the transmitted body information; decrypting and re-encrypting the transmitted attachment information; and, transmitting the re-encrypted body and attachment information to the second computer.
US07877592B2
A method and apparatus is disclosed herein for performing operating system (OS) switching. In one embodiment, the method comprising enabling a plurality of operating systems to run concurrently on a computer, wherein a first operating system in the plurality of operating systems is actively being run, the method comprising, identifying a second operating system of a plurality of operating systems that is to be active next, exchanging information between the first and second operating systems using a storage area accessible by the first and second operating systems, causing the first operating system to become inactive by performing a suspend operation; and causing the second operating system to become active by performing a resume operation to cause the second operating system to resume operation, wherein the information controls which operations are performed as part of one or both of the suspend and resume operations.
US07877586B2
In at least one embodiment, a processor includes at least one execution unit that executes instructions and instruction sequencing logic, coupled to the at least one execution unit, that fetches instructions from a memory system for execution by the at least one execution unit. The instruction sequencing logic including branch target address prediction circuitry that stores a branch target address prediction associating a first instruction fetch address with a branch target address to be used as a second instruction fetch address. The branch target address prediction circuitry includes delay logic that, in response to at least a tag portion of a third instruction fetch address matching the first instruction fetch address, delays access to the memory system utilizing the second instruction fetch address if no branch target address prediction was made in an immediately previous cycle of operation.
US07877585B1
One embodiment of a computing system configured to manage divergent threads in a SIMD thread group includes a stack configured to store state information for processing control instructions. A parallel processing unit is configured to perform the steps of determining if one or more threads diverge during execution of a conditional control instruction. A disable mask allows for the use of conditional return and break instructions in a multithreaded SIMD architecture. Additional control instructions are used to set up thread processing target addresses for synchronization, breaks, and returns.
US07877576B2
When an interruption instruction occurs in an information processing apparatus including a CPU and a coprocessor, execution of a single dedicated instruction “GETACX Dm,Dn” performs saving of necessary data from all registers. “Dm” is a value output from a general register group 104 to a first data input bus 120. Each of calculation units implemented in a coprocessor 110 recognizes a value stored therein. If a value “Dm” specifies one of the calculation units, the specified calculation unit outputs, to a selector 116, data stored in a register included in the specified calculation unit. An implemented calculation unit information output circuit 117 stores therein the count of the calculation units implemented in the coprocessor 110. If a value of the first data input bus 120 is greater than the count of the calculation units, the implemented calculation unit information output circuit 117 outputs a value “1” to a flag register 102. Based on the fact that the value stored on the flag register 102 is “1”, a CPU 100 recognizes that saving of the data from the register has been completed.
US07877567B2
A method for transporting an image file over a network is provided. The network may include two or more computers, and the image file may include a control stream, a data stream, and a cluster map stream. The method may include parsing the image file into two or more segments. A first segment may include the control stream, the cluster map stream and a first portion of the data stream. A second segment includes a second portion of the data stream. The method may also include sending the first segment from a first computer to a second computer, and sending the second segment from the first computer to the second computer.
US07877565B1
Systems and methods for using multiple versions of programmable constants within a multi-threaded processor allow a programmable constant to be changed before a program using the constants has completed execution. Processing performance may be improved since programs using different values for a programmable constant may execute simultaneously. The programmable constants are stored in a constant buffer and an entry of a constant buffer table is bound to the constant buffer. When a programmable constant is changed it is copied to an entry in a page pool and address translation for the page pool is updated to correspond to the old version (copy) of the programmable constant. An advantage is that the constant buffer stores the newest version of the programmable constant.
US07877561B2
The present invention relates to methods of copying and updating data in a processor memory during program run-time without suspending the program's access to its data in the memory during the data-copying and updating processes. In one aspect, the invention concerns a method of copying data from processor memory to a dump memory during run-time, including determining whether data in a segment of the processor memory is to be updated by a program and copying the data to a corresponding segment in the dump memory prior to the data being updated. According to one embodiment, a data-copying instance is utilized to obtain a point-in-time image of a data content of processor memory while the program is running.
US07877557B2
A technology prevents an operational mistake and reduces a labor and a time necessary for the operation in a system which a repetition of the same or similar operation steps is required of. An information processing system includes a first storage module storing step information containing parameters, a second storage module storing values of the parameters, and a module executing steps specified by the step information in a way that replaces a parameter of the step information with a value of the parameter.
US07877553B2
Aspects of the subject matter described herein relate to sharing volume data via shadow copies. In aspects, an active computer creates a shadow copy of a volume. The shadow copy is exposed to one or more passive computers that may read but not write to the volume. A passive computer may obtain data from the shadow copy by determining whether the data has been written to a differential area and, if so, reading it from the differential area. If the data has not been written to the differential area, the passive computer may obtain it by first reading it from the volume, then re-determining whether it has been written to the differential area, and if so, reading the data from the differential area. Otherwise, the data read from the volume corresponds to the data needed for the shadow copy.
US07877545B2
A technique is provided for implementing online restriping of a volume in a storage area network. A first instance of the volume is instantiated at a first port of the fibre channel fabric for enabling I/O operations to be performed at the volume. While restriping operations are being performed at the volume, the first port is able to concurrently perform I/O operations at the volume.
US07877543B2
A system (and associated method) comprises a storage drive and a central processing unit (“CPU”). The storage drive is adapted to accommodate a removable storage medium. The CPU is configured to cause the CPU to write data and a time value to each of a plurality of addressable units of the storage medium in which data is written. The time value is indicative of the time at which each addressable unit was written with data.
US07877522B2
A method of using a device, including monitoring host activity in an autonomous manner, without the host reporting to the device about its activity. The method also including initiating communications from the device and using resources of the host for such communications, thereby enabling the device to function as a proactive device.
US07877520B2
Configuration information settings for a storage device are made highly reliable and facilitated. The storage device includes a service processor for setting storage device configuration information, and a terminal device connected to the service processor via a private line to send a command group, received from an operator and related to the storage device configuration information, to the service processor. The service processor also includes a device for determining approval or denial of execution of the command group prior to execution of the command group received from the terminal device.
US07877511B1
Methods and apparatus provide an adaptive load balancer that presents a virtual data system to client computer systems. The virtual data system provides access to an aggregated set of data, such as files or web service objects, available from a plurality of server data systems respectively operating within a plurality of server computer systems. The adaptive load balancer receives a client data access transaction from a client computer system that specifies a data access operation to be performed relative to the virtual data system presented to the client computer system. The adaptive load balancer processes the client data access transaction in relation to metadata associated with the virtual data system to provide access to the file or service object within a server computer system, or to access the metadata. The adaptive load balancer can work in conjunction with other adaptive load balancers to dynamically adjust to demands for access to data by replicating and migrating data such as files or service objects as needed between the server computer systems to accommodate data access demands.
US07877509B2
Systems for balancing distribution of participants in a gaming environment are provided. In various embodiments, systems of the present invention may include multiple application servers each hosting a common game application, a lobby server for assigning new client devices to one of the application servers, and a universe manager for receiving reports from each of the application servers concerning the status of the game application. The universe manager may further instruct the lobby server to reallocate assignment of subsequent new client devices in order to balance the number of client devices assigned to each application servers.
US07877507B2
A system and method for enabling single-socket server applications to receive information via multiple ports. In one embodiment, a system includes a network tunnel configured to receive traffic at a first port of an application server and to communicate the received traffic to a second port of the application server. The system further includes a single-socket application, coupled to the second port of the application server, to monitor for incoming traffic at the second port, and to receive the traffic destined for the first port and communicated to the second port via the network tunnel.
US07877504B2
Techniques to store entries so that minimal sequential memory accesses are used to determine all relevant entries. Entries may be grouped into blocks. The order of entries within blocks may be set in a manner so that entry locations can be determined using an input value, such as a destination address. Blocks may be ordered into levels. Blocks of each level may be stored in consecutive storage locations. Accordingly, entry locations may be determined and retrieved with minimal sequential memory accesses by storing entries in a predetermined manner.
US07877503B2
Techniques for establishing a chain of custody for intercepted electronic information are disclosed. In one particular exemplary embodiment, the techniques may be realized as a method, comprising securely negotiating a data collection interval time and protocol support for electronic data collection between network equipment associated with a data collecting party and network equipment associated with a data receiving party, receiving a nonce at a network equipment associated with the data collecting party from network equipment associated with the data receiving party, utilizing the nonce to compute, at least in part, a hash value at network equipment associated with the data collecting party, collecting electronic data at an intercept access device at network equipment associated with the data collecting party, utilizing the nonce and the hash value to transmit the collected electronic data to network equipment associated with the data receiving party, and utilizing the hash value to establish a chain of custody between the data collecting party and the data receiving party.
US07877493B2
A method of validating queries for reputation scores of message senders comprises receiving, from a first host computer, a DNS format query to obtain a reputation score associated with a second host computer, wherein the query includes an authentication code; validating the authentication code; and only when validating the authentication code is successful, performing a DNS lookup in a reputation database and returning a DNS response that provides the reputation score associated with the second host computer.
US07877489B2
An improved networked computer communications system handles arbitrary streams of data, and transports at varying speeds those steams where intermediate updates can be dropped if they are obsoleted by later arriving data updates, optimizing the utilization of network and node resources. Complex buffering by system server software allows distributed, parallel, or redundant processing, transmission, and storage for performance, reliability, and robustness. Various parameters of the system can be monitored, and the system can be reconfigured automatically based on the observations. Varied techniques reduce the perceived end-to-end latency and take advantage of software and hardware capabilities that assets connected to the system may possess. One conferencing system allows conference participants to share all or a portion of the display seen on their computer screens. The conferees may be at sites removed from each other, or may view a recorded presentation or archived conference at different times. Conference participants are either “presenters” who can modify the display or “attendees” who cannot modify the display. A pointer icon, which can be labeled to identify the conferee, is displayed on the shared image area. Each conferee can modify the position of his or her own pointer, even when not presenting, so that every participant can see what each conferee is pointing to, should a conferee choose to point to an element of the display. These and other features apply to other data streams shared in the conference or in meetings where there is no shared-image data stream.
US07877486B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method, system and computer program product for deploying and delivering composite services in an NGN network. A method for auto-establishing a voice channel of access to a session for a composite service can include establishing a visual channel of access to a session for a composite service. Responsive to detecting a user interface event in a view for the visual channel which is not related to the establishment of a new channel of access, a separate voice channel of access to the session can be auto-established for the composite service. For instance, the user interface event can include the loading of a page for the view, the receipt of focus for a form in the view, the receipt of focus for a field in a form in the view, or a keystroke or mouse event. Finally, the method can include synchronizing changes of state for the session in a view for each of the visual channel of access and the voice channel of access to the session for the composite service.
US07877470B2
A management system including: a management apparatus including a first control unit functioning as an agent; and at least one piece of field equipment connected to the management apparatus with communication connection, the field equipment including a field equipment main body and a second control unit functioning as a first service associated with the field equipment main body. The first service provides at least one of inputting and obtaining information to the corresponding field equipment main body, and the agent performs at least one of the inputting and the obtaining of the information to the field equipment main body through the corresponding first service based on a script describing access destinations and access contents in order.
US07877466B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for improving the configuration and allocation of storage resources in a fiber channel fabric. Network topology information and loop topology information is used to increase data availability and data access efficiency. For example, devices in different loops are selected for striping and devices connected to a host through different ports and switches are selected for mirroring. Link speed, quality of service, credits, and the availability of trunking links can also be considered.
US07877461B1
Described are systems and methods for adding information to a mobile application. A mobile application is downloaded from a server to a mobile device using a web browser. A web browser cookie associated with the mobile application is stored on the mobile device. A request is sent from the mobile application to the server, where the request includes information from the stored web browser cookie. Mobile application data associated with the stored web browser cookie from the server is received by the mobile application in response to the request. The mobile application is then provided with access to the mobile application data.
US07877449B2
A push type scanner apparatus according to the present invention can transmit image data read by the push type scanner apparatus through a network to a desired personal computer only by operating the push type scanner apparatus without transmitting any operation command from the personal computer. In the push type scanner apparatus, for transmitting image data, a destination address is specified; a mail to be transmitted to the specified destination address is created; an appended file comprising the image data read by the scanner apparatus and appended to the mail is created; and the created mail and appended file are outputted to the network.
US07877448B2
A method, system, and computer program product for assigning reply status to an outgoing electronic mail (e-mail) message. While creating an e-mail message, an interface is provided for granularly assigning or denying reply privileges to recipients of an outgoing e-mail message. Reply status is assigned by selecting a subset of recipients by name, e-mail address, and/or e-mail group who may reply to the e-mail. As the recipient's reply status is modified, the outgoing e-mail is updated, revising the reply e-mail address for each recipient. When the recipient is granted reply status, the e-mail address of the original sender is provided as the reply e-mail address. However, in the event the recipient is not granted reply status, the e-mail address of an automated, unmanned e-mail account is provided as the reply e-mail address.
US07877446B2
In a recording medium, a program for making a computer execute processing is stored. The processing includes detecting a recipient's domain name of an e-mail to be transmitted with data attached to the e-mail from a recipient's address of the e-mail, deciding a format of the data depending on the detected recipient's domain name, formatting the data into the decided format, and transmitting the data formatted into the decided format to the recipient's address as an attachment of the e-mail.
US07877437B1
A method and system for an interactive globe, which is use to view web content and which adds a geographic context to such content.
US07877434B2
A method for presenting forms and publishing form data are provided. A software component determines if a request for a network resource containing a form has been received. The software component then determines whether a previously compiled class file should be utilized to respond to the form request. If a previously compiled class file cannot be utilized, the software component compiles a class file capable of generating the fields of the requested form. When the class file is compiled, a field engine table is consulted and field names for the fields to be placed on the requested form are retrieved. A field name specified in the field engine table is associated with the correspondence fields in a form. When a submission containing response data for the fields in the form is received, the software component saves the response data in an output table having fields named identically to the fields in the form.
US07877431B2
Systems and methods for encoding floating point numbers. A system can include encoding logic which encodes invalid floating point representations as valid data. Decoding logic can be used to recognize the invalid floating point representations and map can provide the invalid floating point representations to valid data values. The decoding logic then can provide the valid data values so that operations on the valid data values can be performed in accordance with instructions received from an associated program.
US07877428B2
A processor includes a first register, a control section and an arithmetical section. The processor has a first operation mode which allows the first area of a first register to be accessed and a second operation mode which allows a second area of the first register to be accessed. The first register includes the first area capable of holding data and the second area provided in the second operation mode and inhibited from holding data. The control section generates an address corresponding to the second area accessed in the second operation mode and is capable of reading data from an external memory device using the generated address. The arithmetical section, in the first operation mode, performs an arithmetical operation using the data held in the accessed first area and, in the second operation mode, performs an arithmetical operation using the data read at the control section.
US07877427B2
A printing apparatus manages identifiers of accounting destinations of print jobs. With a Web browser, a client can set update settings (update rules) of an identifier list saved in an identifier saving unit (of a device. An identifier update unit obtains an identifier list from another device, and updates the identifier list by adding or synchronizing identifiers included in the obtained identifier list in accordance with the update settings.
US07877423B2
This disclosure describes a system that electronically collects, translates, groups, and delivers wage assignment information from at least one initiator to at least one recipient via an accumulator. An initiator initially receives the wage assignment information. Then, an accumulator collects the wage assignment information from at least one initiator, such as a government agency. The accumulator then translates the wage assignment information into a format compatible with electronic data interchange (EDI), such as the ANSI X12 standard. The accumulator then groups the EDI wage assignment information into specific files, batching the files based upon one data field contained within the wage assignment information data set, such as a recipient. The accumulator then delivers a batched EDI wage assignment file to each respective recipient. Once the EDI wage assignment file is received by the recipient, the wage assignment may then be implemented.
US07877420B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for incorporating meta-data in document content. The disclosed systems and methods may include initiating an application program configured to generate a document. Furthermore, the disclosed systems and methods may include displaying, by the initiated application program, a property panel. The property panel may be configured to receive meta-data to be associated with the document generated by the application program. Moreover, the disclosed systems and methods may include receiving the meta-data in the property panel and copying the meta-data from the property panel to the document content.
US07877414B2
A method is disclosed for representing a sequence of images constituting a moving image by processing signals corresponding to the image. An object appearing in one image is identified in the sequence in a first perspective view, and the same object appearing in another image is identified in the sequence in a second perspective view. A view descriptor of the outline of the object in the first perspective view is derived and at least one additional view descriptor of the outline of the object in another perspective view is also derived. The two or more view descriptors are associated to form a descriptor which is a single indexable entity for the sequence of images.
US07877412B2
An electronic media distribution/play system includes a service facility that has a communications network interface and maintains a data file catalog. The catalog is sent over the network to requesting users, and the system processes payments from customers in establishing file access authorizations. Encrypted user-selected files and a player program are transmitted to each customer for metered access to received data files as limited by the authorization, and customers can make additional selections and play the encrypted files freely while the authorization remains established. The system can transmit the data files from local storage, and also provide links to encrypted files that are stored at remote vendor facilities. Authorizations can be for selected portions or class levels of the catalog, and for terms measured as calendar time, play time, and collective number of plays. Also disclosed is a method for facilitating the distribution and accessing of electronic files.
US07877406B2
A system and method for generating text data from graphical image information of a first data form and passing the generated text data to another data form is disclosed. The system comprises a computer-based platform configured to obtain search criteria data from a current data form of interest and search an operating system of the computer-based platform for at least one other data form having first data that match the search criteria data to identify any matching data forms. The computer-based platform is further configured to perform an image capture operation on at least one predefined area of any matching data forms to form at least one captured image. An optical character reading operation is performed on the at least one captured image to generate at least one instance of second data and the at least one instance of second data is passed to the current data form of interest.
US07877405B2
A method, system, and computer program product provides improved performance for queries on local partitioned indexes. A method of performing a database query comprises receiving a query of spatial data in a database, the database comprising at least one partitioned spatial index, obtaining metadata relating to all partitions of the spatial index using array-fetching techniques, determining, for each partition, whether the partition is relevant to the query by comparing with “footprint” (root_mbr) information stored in the metadata for the partition, and processing the query on each relevant partition.
US07877399B2
A method and system for comparing two documents, such as XML (Extensible Markup Language) files, where each document is capable of being parsed into a DOM (Document Object Model) trees. Each tree structure is converted into an array of leaf paths containing nodes. These arrays are then compared to identify corresponding matched nodes—either exactly matched nodes or schema matched nodes. In reporting the results of the comparison, unmatched nodes of the source document are reported as “deleted nodes”, that is, existing in the source but not in the target. Similarly all unmatched nodes of the target document are reported as “added nodes”, that is, existing in the target but not in the source. In addition, schema matched nodes are reported as “modified nodes” between source and target documents.
US07877396B1
A method and apparatus for automatically detecting and extracting information from dynamically generated web pages are disclosed. For example, the present method stores user provided information that is entered into a form interface of a web page for a first query. Responsive to the first query, a first response web page is received and stored. The present method then automatically generates a second query to acquire a second response web page that is responsive to the second query. Finally, the present method compares the first response web page and the second response web page. In one embodiment, the present invention extracts information that is dissimilar between the first response web page and the second response web page. This extracted information is deemed to be the pertinent information requested by the user.
US07877394B2
Various example embodiments are disclosed. According to one example embodiment, a method may include storing a plurality of database records, storing a value associated with each database record, receiving a request to sort the database records, sorting the database records, and sending a response message.
US07877392B2
A system and method for modifying a parameter of a website in order to optimize an organic listing of the website at one or more search engines is described. Several embodiments include methods and systems for generating scored representations based upon different portions of data associated with a website, and then combining the scored representations to achieve a result. The result indicates a feature of the website that may be modified in order to optimize the organic ranking of the website at one or more search engines.
US07877388B1
A method (and system) for clustering a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The method includes inputting a plurality of items. Each of the items includes information. The items are provided into a clustering process. The method also inputs an initial organization structure into the clustering process. The initial organization structure includes one or more categories, at least one of the categories being associated with one of the items. The method processes the plurality of items based upon at least the initial organization structure and the information in each of the items; and determines a resulting organization structure based upon the processing. The resulting organization structure relates to the initial organization structure.
US07877385B2
Information retrieval using query-document pair information is described. In an embodiment, a click record is accessed having information about queries and documents where user clicks have been observed for query-document pairs. A click graph is either formed or accessed. This has nodes connected by edges, each node representing any of a document and a query and each edge representing at least one observed click. Given at least one first node in the click graph, a similarity measure is determined between that first node and each of one or more second nodes. The second nodes are then ranked on the basis of the similarity measure results and the ranking is used to retrieve information from the click record.
US07877371B1
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that selectively deletes clusters of conceptually-related words from a probabilistic generative model for textual documents. During operation, the system receives a current model, which contains terminal nodes representing random variables for words and contains one or more cluster nodes representing clusters of conceptually related words. Nodes in the current model are coupled together by weighted links, so that if an incoming link from a node that has fired causes a cluster node to fire with a probability proportionate to a weight of the incoming link, an outgoing link from the cluster node to another node causes the other node to fire with a probability proportionate to the weight of the outgoing link. Next, the system processes a given cluster node in the current model for possible deletion. This involves determining a number of outgoing links from the given cluster node to terminal nodes or cluster nodes in the current model. If the determined number of outgoing links is less than a minimum value, or if the frequency with which the given cluster node fires is less than a minimum frequency, the system deletes the given cluster node from the current model.
US07877370B2
Systems and methods for storing and accessing data. A query language statement may reference a plurality of data sets and a plurality of algebraic relations between the data sets may be composed from the query language statement. The algebraic relations may be used to define new data sets and to optimize access to data sets. A store of algebraic relations may be accumulated over time. Alternative collections of algebraic relations may be generated and evaluated to determine an optimized collection of algebraic relations to use in calculating and providing a requested data set. The optimization may be performed using the algebraic relations rather than retrieving underlying data sets from storage. As a result, optimization may be performed at processor speeds to minimize the amount of time required for data to be retrieved from slower storage.
US07877368B2
Hosted searching of private LAN information is described. The apparatus includes a LAN crawler to automatically and repeatedly crawl a LAN having multiple devices, using a discovery module to discover the devices, a generic-probing module to attempt to collect the descriptive information according to a first set of probing requirements, and multiple specific-probing plug-ins each of which attempt to collect the descriptive information according to a second set of specific probing requirements. In another embodiment, the apparatus also includes a hosted on-demand search system including a centralized-search server to create and synchronize a private search database. The centralized-search server includes an application interface to receive a request to access the private search database from a third-party add-on application, to provide the accessed information to the third-party add-on application, and to receive from the third-party add-on application an application rendered component to be displayed on the user interface.
US07877366B2
An XML Extractor that extracts XML data from streamed input based on registered XPaths is provided. XPaths and associated content handlers instances are registered at runtime with the XML Extractor. The XML Extractor receives streaming input that represents XML data at a stream-based parser, and evaluates the received input against the registered XPaths expression. In response to detecting that the received streaming input includes an XPath that matches a registered XPath expression, the XML Extractor generates output to the content handler associated with the matching registered XPath expression.
US07877364B2
A method of storing data including the steps of providing a first index of first location identifiers, a second index of second location identifiers and a dictionary data base of data items, wherein the first location identifiers are adapted to identify the location of second location identifiers in the second index and the second location identifiers are adapted to identify the location of data items in the dictionary data base, receiving data and separating the data into a plurality of data items and storing the data items in a main data base, whereby at least one of the data items is stored in the main data base as at least one first location identifier, which identifies at least one second location identifier, which identifies the or each data item in the dictionary data base.
US07877363B2
An expression entered by a user to set a limit variable for a numerical range may be received in a computer system. The expression signifies to the user that the numerical range is unlimited. The limit variable can only be set with a numerical value. The limit variable is set with a first numerical value that is within a predetermined extreme portion of the numerical range. A command to display a limit variable for a numerical range may be received in a computer system. The limit variable is set with a numerical value. If the numerical value is within a predetermined extreme portion of the numerical range, an expression is displayed to a user that signifies to the user that the numerical range is unlimited. If the numerical value is not within the predetermined extreme portion of the numerical range, the numerical value is displayed to the user.
US07877357B1
Embodiments described herein adapt static-image and clone technology to provide a simulated dynamic image to an application requesting a dynamic image. A storage system is configured to backup its file system by taking a first static image of the file system at a point in time. A clone of the first image may then be produced, the clone containing any subsequent changes to the file system and a reference pointer to the first image. A second static image of the clone is then produced. An application may request, from the storage system, an image of the file system. In response, the second static image may be presented to the application as a simulated dynamic image.
US07877355B2
Techniques are described for sharing multidimensional data between software systems, such as enterprise software systems. Specifically, the techniques provide mechanisms for defining inter-application “links” for automatically moving data among different databases associated with the enterprise software systems. For example, a system may include a first database storing multidimensional data for a first software application, and a second database storing multidimensional data for a second software application. The system further includes an interface by which an administrator defines a link that specifies a source area of the first database and a target area of the second database. A link control module automatically moves multidimensional data from the source area to the target area in accordance with the link. The link control module may automatically move the multidimensional data directly between live portions of the respective databases.
US07877354B2
A resume database system allows for resume records on the resume database system to be viewed by others via a Uniform Resource Locator, URL. In addition, in response to instructions from an authorized user of the resume database system, input from an unauthorized, but otherwise verified, source can be added to the database by the resume database system. The verified user accesses the resume database and completes any necessary forms via a web browser and submits the information. The authorized user defines the actions that the verified user is allowed to take. These actions include, for example, only being able to review resume information, or being able to add information to the resume database without needing training on the operation of the database. A resume database server system coordinates the activity of the authorized and verified users. Communications between all three users is accomplished via a computer network.
US07877353B2
A computer-implemented method and system is disclosed in which a network-based interaction environment includes a plurality of peer-to-peer nodes being able to communicate directly with each other using a peer-to-peer protocol and a peer-to-peer client application, the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes including a first peer-to-peer client and a second peer-to-peer client, a first peer-to-peer client application running on the first peer-to-peer client to maintain persistent buddy information on the first peer-to-peer client, the persistent buddy information including a buddy list identifying trusted peer-to-peer nodes of the plurality of peer-to-peer nodes, and a second peer-to-peer client application running on the second peer-to-peer client to maintain persistent reputation information on the second peer-to-peer client, the persistent reputation information including information related to the reputation of the first peer-to-peer client in the network-based interaction environment.
US07877351B2
The invention is a hierarchical backup system. The interconnected network computing devices are put into groups of backup cells. A backup cell has a manager software agent responsible maintaining and initiating a backup regime for the network computing devices in the backup cell. The backups are directed to backup devices within the backup cell. Several backup cells can be defined. A manager software agent for a particular cell may be placed into contact with the manager software agent of another cell, by which information about the cells may be passed back and forth. Additionally, one of the software agents may be given administrative control over another software agent with which it is in communication.
US07877348B2
A method for analyzing data from a database using an analytic database function includes receiving a selection of measured items from a user, receiving a placement item from the user, and determining a partitioning of the selection of measured items from the placement item. A placement item can be a column, a row, or an axis. A template associated with the analytic database function is adapted to define at least one partitioning relative to the placement item. The template is further adapted to define an ordering parameter for the analytic database function and optionally an aggregation level for the analytic database function. A database query is created with the partitioning. The database query can be an SQL statement.
US07877345B2
The present application presents methods for performing topical sentiment analysis on electronically stored communications employing fusion of polarity and topicality. The present application also provides methods for utilizing shallow NLP techniques to determine the polarity of an expression. The present application also provides a method for tuning a domain-specific polarity lexicon for use in the polarity determination. The present application also provides methods for computing a numeric metric of the aggregate opinion about some topic expressed in a set of expressions.
US07877343B2
To implement open information extraction, a new extraction paradigm has been developed in which a system makes a single data-driven pass over a corpus of text, extracting a large set of relational tuples without requiring any human input. Using training data, a Self-Supervised Learner employs a parser and heuristics to determine criteria that will be used by an extraction classifier (or other ranking model) for evaluating the trustworthiness of candidate tuples that have been extracted from the corpus of text, by applying heuristics to the corpus of text. The classifier retains tuples with a sufficiently high probability of being trustworthy. A redundancy-based assessor assigns a probability to each retained tuple to indicate a likelihood that the retained tuple is an actual instance of a relationship between a plurality of objects comprising the retained tuple. The retained tuples comprise an extraction graph that can be queried for information.
US07877340B2
A system for identifying radionuclide emissions is described. The system includes at least one processor for processing output signals from a radionuclide detecting device, at least one training algorithm run by the at least one processor for analyzing data derived from at least one set of known sample data from the output signals, at least one classification algorithm derived from the training algorithm for classifying unknown sample data, wherein the at least one training algorithm analyzes the at least one sample data set to derive at least one rule used by said classification algorithm for identifying at least one radionuclide emission detected by the detecting device.
US07877337B2
In an auto-adaptive system, efficient processing generates predicted values in an estimation set in at least one dimension for a dependent data location. The estimation set comprises values for a dependent data point and a preselected number of spatial nearest neighbor values surrounding the dependent data point in a current time slice; The prediction may be made for time slices, seconds, hours or days into the future, for example. Imputed values may also be generated. A mean value sum of squares and cross product MVSCP matrix, inverse, and other learned parameters are used. The present embodiments require updating only one MVSCP matrix and its inverse per time slice. A processing unit may be embodied with selected modules each calculating a component function of feature value generation. Individual modules can be placed in various orders. More than one of each type of module may be provided.
US07877334B2
A recognizing apparatus includes a training vector input unit configured to enter training vectors for training, a weak classifier generator configured to obtain weak classifiers based on the value of an element of a dimension common to the training vectors using a learning method, a classifier integrator configured to obtain non-linear mappings for each dimension of the training vectors by combining the weak classifiers, a test vector input unit configured to input a test vector to be classified, a non-linear transformer configured to a transformed vector by transforming the values of the elements of the test vector using the respective non-linear mappings, and a score calculator configured to obtain a classification score by summing the value of the respective elements of the transformed vector and recognize the test vector using the classification score.
US07877331B2
Digital cash token protocols use a combination of blind digital signatures and pseudonym authentication with at least two pairs of public and private keys. A user is provided with one master pair of private and public keys and as many pseudonym pairs of private and public keys as desired. The resulting digital cash token based hybrid protocols combine the advantages of blind digital signature and pseudonym authentication. Blind digital signatures based on the master pair of keys are used to withdraw digital cash from the user's bank account under the user's real identity. A pseudonym pair of keys is used for converting digital cash into digital cash tokens by a digital cash issuer. All pseudonyms can be used for spending the digital cash tokens. These protocols ensure anonymity when withdrawing digital cash from the user's account under the user's real identity in addition to providing pseudonym authentication when spending digital cash tokens under a pseudonym.
US07877324B2
A system and method for issuing letters of credit. The system and method issue a first letter of credit from a second party to a third party, and issue at least one second letter of credit from the third party to at least one fourth party. The system and method also provide a credit facility from the second party to a first party, the credit facility associated with the first and second letters of credit. The system and method also transfer credit risk from the credit facility to at least one fifth party under a participation agreement.
US07877322B2
A creditor creates a lock box at a financial institution. The lock box includes an escrow provision. A consumer makes regularly scheduled payments to the financial institution and designates the payment either for the creditor's lock box or for the escrow account. The financial institution reports all payments and escrow events to the creditor and to the credit payment data repository. All credit payment data maintained in the credit data repository is maintained securely and will not be released without the consent of the consumer. The credit data maintained in the repository is used to report a credit score, which occurs only when the consumer authorizes the release of the data.
US07877319B2
A system is provided for processing and transmitting trading information for exempt securities or assets not otherwise listed, traded, valuated or bought/sold in any conventional exchange or system for the regulation of securities or commodities. The system may include: (a) a risk analytic module using the latest market prices and data provided by other modules, (b) an auction module including asset auction functionality and a multi-lateral counterparty trade workstation capability, with bid-offer and unique asset price sourcing capabilities, (c) an asset or portfolio tracking module providing browser based, realtime consolidated reporting of multi-firm asset positions (public or private), and (d) an out-of-band communications module alerting users/subscribers who may or may not be logged on the system via fax, e-mail, text messages, or other out-of-band communications of a pending transaction being consummated or achieved.
US07877317B2
Embodiments of the invention concern finding correlations between related traded items, such as securities, commodities, currencies, or contracts. The pricing information of multiple traded items from one or more markets is analyzed and a user is provided with a listing of pairs or larger groups of traded items which are most closely correlated. Another embodiment of the invention is a system and method for finding the most related traded item to a particular predefined item. Another embodiment of the invention is a system and method for finding the traded item whose trading history is closest to a predefined curve.
US07877316B2
A reprice-to-block order and related market center and process are disclosed which automatically reprice a posted limit order to the price of a block trade executed at an inferior price on a market away from the market center that posted the limit order.
US07877308B1
A system and method directed to improving efforts to plan for investor life goals. The method combines unique approaches of assessing investor risk tolerance using utility theory and investor preferences using conjoint analysis, Analytic Hierarchy Process (“AHP”), or the like in combination with existing industry financial projection methods using linear projections, Monte Carlo simulation, or the like. Further, the method improves upon existing financial projection approaches with the addition of regression techniques to streamline adjustments to the plan objectives, resources, and constraints. The method includes a means of determining an optimal combination of attribute preferences that have an acceptable probability of achieving plan goals while maximizing investor satisfaction as measured by total utility.
US07877306B2
A computer implemented data processing system and method administers a deferred variable annuity contract during the accumulation phase for a relevant life. The annuity contract has a payment base value, a contract value, and a lifetime benefit payment amount available for withdrawal without reduction in the payment base. The lifetime benefit payment amount available is based in part on a withdrawal percent determined in accordance with a withdrawal percent relationship that provides a particular withdrawal percent for each respective completed year since the purchase date of the contract.
US07877305B2
In an exemplary embodiment, a server system stores a plurality of textual scripts in a database server in association with a plurality of contractor actions. Each of the textual scripts comprises an alert notifying the contractor of an obligation to perform the associated contractor action. The server system generates a plurality of deadlines by which the contractor is required to perform the contractor actions, and provides a user interface that allows a user to submit a plurality of notices of completion for the contractor actions. If a particular notice of completion is not submitted by the deadline for the contractor action, the server system selects the textual script associated with the contractor action, converts the textual script to a voice message, and initiates transmission of the voice message to the contractor via a telephone network.
US07877302B2
A system and method for managing a construction payment process. One method embodying the invention can include generating a budget for a construction project, receiving an invoice amount from at least one participant in the construction project, generating at least one of an automated invoice and an automated sworn statement based on the invoice amount and the budget, generating at least one automated lien waiver based on at least one of the automated invoice and the automated sworn statement, and electronically executing at least one of the automated invoice, the automated sworn statement, and the at least one automated lien waiver to create at least one of a legally-binding invoice, a legally-binding sworn statement, and a legally-binding lien waiver. Another method embodying the invention can include electronically receiving a lien waiver from a participant in a construction project, electronically transmitting payment to the participant in response to receipt of the lien waiver, and releasing the lien waiver in response to the payment.
US07877301B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for minimizing stock outs and costs by managing manufacturing, ordering, and distribution in a supply chain. In one embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for coordinating production across a supply network is provided. The method includes the steps of identifying one or more items in a supply network, identifying one or more constraints for such items in the supply network, identifying one or more strategic target buffers for such constraints, and generating make, order, and ship recommendations for one or more such items based upon one or more constraints and one or more strategic target buffers.
US07877298B2
Methods, apparatuses and systems directed to the identification of a set of auctions which are similar, or relevant, to a contemplated or model auction. In one embodiment, the similar auction identification system uses a model auction, including keywords and other information contained in a data structure that characterize attributes of the auction, as input data to identify a set of auctions that are similar or analytically relevant to the model auction. In one implementation, the resulting set of identified auctions allows a user to efficiently analyze the auctions in assessing the starting parameters of a contemplated auction, or for assessing the latest bid price in a currently pending auction. In one implementation, the set of identified auctions can be used as an input to an auction optimization system that, for example, computes a set of suggested auction parameters for a contemplated auction, and/or computes one or more predicted behavioral attributes for a contemplated auction.
US07877294B2
A computer implemented method and system for determining the formula or formulas of haircoloring agents to be used in the process of coloring hair, including the steps of receiving input on the current color, state, and desired color of the hair, and using a database of haircoloring formulas to determine the coloring agents to be used, quantities of such coloring agents, application time of such coloring agents, and refreshing options that can be applied to the hair to treat and correct faded hair ends. The computer in some embodiments is portable, and includes a processor, an electronic storage means in which the haircolor formula database is stored, and software that defines the process by which the correct haircolor formula is determined. The computer software determines the best formula and process steps to be taken to achieve the desired haircolor.
US07877291B2
The present invention provides a bi-directional communication network which provides monitoring, data collection, and control of food service industry operations. The system includes a computer and control logic implemented by the computer which may be configured to perform various tasks. A communication network may be provided linking the computer with equipment and appliances having a microprocessor based controller capable of communicating with the system. In one embodiment, the system automatically verifies the performance of equipment-related manual tasks in food preparation. In another embodiment, the system schedules the maintenance of a plurality of kitchen appliances. In another embodiment, the system provides a hold timer for tracking the hold time of cooked food products and determines when the hold time elapses. In yet another embodiment, the system manages the inventory of cooked food products in a food preparation establishment.
US07877278B1
A method and system that allows a user to report fraud and claim insurance related to network-based transactions. A submission of a complaint is facilitated to a network-based facility in which the complaint relates to a network-based transaction. The complaint is associated with an identifier. A resolution of the complaint associated with the identifier is facilitated, and if the complaint is not resolved, an insurance claim is facilitated for the unresolved complaint.
US07877264B2
Intelligent Trust Management provides a centralized security facility that gives system components a flexible mechanism for implementing security policies. System components such as applications create a request describing an action that needs to be checked against an appropriate security policy. The request is given to a trust system that determines which policy object applies to the request, and may pass request arguments to the policy. The policy objects include executable code that uses any arguments along with dynamically obtained variable information to make a decision. The decision is returned to the system component, which then operates accordingly. Policy objects may maintain state and interface with the user independent of the system component in order to obtain information to make their decisions. Policy objects may call other policy objects and/or mathematically combine the results of other policy objects to make a decision.
US07877261B1
Systems and methods are provided for embodiments of a speech recognition system call flow object model. The systems and methods organize and execute, for example, multiple question directed dialogs, overview dialogs, or natural language directed dialogs. In certain embodiments, the organizing and executing of the natural language directed dialogs uses primary and secondary concepts without requiring a structured response. The systems and methods enable the call flow designers to define particular call flows without requiring the designers to perform any programming or coding.
US07877247B2
A method is provided and includes generating a first simulated device at a device simulator. The first simulated device corresponding to a first physical device. Also, a second simulated device is generated at the device simulator. The second simulated device corresponds to a second physical device. At least one behavior extension file is loaded at the device simulator. Further, the behavior extension file is applied to the first simulated device or to the second simulated device. The method further includes selectively loading an application to the device simulator. The application can be selectively executed with respect to the first simulated device, the second simulated device, or to the first simulated device and the second simulated device. Also, the application can be modified at least partially in response to the execution of the application at the device simulator to produce a modified application.
US07877245B1
A method, system and computer program product to define and utilize functions graphically is provided which may be used in the simulation of finite state machines. The functions may combine mathematical, logical, non-linear and comparative operations. The graphical elements of the function may be hidden for ease of display of various portions of a model.
US07877244B2
A simulating circuit for simulating a toggle magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) element includes at least a synthetic Anti-Ferromagnetic free layer, a tunnel barrier layer, and a synthetic Anti-Ferromagnetic pinned layer. The simulating circuit is configured with a converting circuit, a status circuit, a storage circuit, a voltage computing circuit and a feature simulating circuit. The convert circuit converts the magnetic filed generated from a write in current to an equivalent voltage. The status circuit indicates the flipping status of the magnetic moment of the free layer. The storage circuit is used for representing data stored in the toggle magnetic tunneling junction element. The arrangement of the magnetic moment of the two Anti-Ferromagnetic adjacent to the tunnel barrier layer is represented by the voltage computing circuit. The voltage-current characteristic is represented by the feature simulating circuit.
US07877242B2
Computer based CAE FSI models for simulating the physical behavior of diapers, and/or diaper materials, and/or diaper machines during diaper manufacturing processes.
US07877237B1
The invention provides a method of analyzing a building made from a core of foam plastic which is coated on the inside and outside with a strengthening coating. The building is designed in a CAD program. Then, the building surfaces are meshed in an automeshing program as one piece. Plates are added to the inner, outer and edge surfaces of the core by using copying at zero distance. The core is Solid Meshed. The boundary conditions are chosen for the boundary nodes. Appropriate characteristics of the EPS and GFRC have been assigned to the core and plates. A FEA analysis can be run.
US07877235B2
Various embodiments of methods and systems described herein relate to tracking and/or managing any combination of energy consumption, GHG emissions, carbon credits, and/or costs associated with one or more pieces of equipment, one or more sites, or an entire enterprise.
US07877228B2
A method for monitoring a patient employs hypothesis testing against each of several monitored signals to determine whether an artifact is present in the monitored signals. In the hypothesis testing, a null hypothesis includes an assumption that pairs of samples of highly correlated monitored signals of the several monitored signals have a predetermined distribution. The method determines that an artifact may exist in one of the monitored signals when the likelihood that the null hypothesis is true falls below a predetermined confidence value. This method can be embodied in an intelligent module for processing multiple data from one or more patients to filter out clinically significant changes in the patient from those changes caused by artifacts.
US07877227B2
A surface measurement instrument (1) for obtaining surface characteristic data of a sample surface (13) is described. Relative movement between a reference surface (11) and a sample support (15) is caused to occur while a sensor (16) senses light intensity at intervals along a scan path (SP) to provide a series of intensity values representing interference fringes produced by a region of a sample surface (13) during said relative movement and from which series of intensity values surface characteristic data can be derived. The sample support (15) is both translatable and tiltable in at least one direction perpendicular to a scan direction so that the sample support (15) can be both tilted to cause the scan path (SP) to be normal to the sample surface region and translated to compensate for translation movement due to the tilting.
US07877223B2
A computer method or corresponding system for optimally balancing a rotor assembly. The computer system defines a theoretical centerline based on a mathematical model of the rotor assembly. For each disc or component of the rotor assembly, the invention system calculates rotor blade or bolt and washer distribution, based on calculated centerline deviations and angular locations of the discs and effective weights of rotor blade or bolt-and-washer sets. The rotor blade or bolt-and-washer distribution provides locations for placement of the rotor blades or bolts-and-washers so as to offset the centerline deviations and thus correct imbalance of the rotor assembly.
US07877220B2
An electromagnetic flowmeter assembly is described in which an excitation field is set up across a flow conduit and electrodes are used to sense the electromagnetic field generated across the flow conduit as a result of interaction between the excitation field and fluid flowing along the flow conduit. The signals obtained from the electrodes are processed, together with stored calibration data, by processing circuitry to determine flow measurements and means is provided for dynamically updating the calibration data.
US07877217B2
A method and a system of testing electronic components assemblies, each assembly comprising a multiplicity of tracks, each connecting a multiplicity of ports. The system may enable applying heat energy upon at least one part of the at least one track; measuring energy diffusion within a predefined time interval of the heated part of the track; calculating at least one distribution energy diffusion profile associated according to the measured diffusion, where the profile represents the diffusion of energy versus time; and identifying defects in the at least one track, according to the analysis of the diffusion profile.
US07877212B2
Methods for producing data for a partially saturated pixel produced during scanning of a chemical array are provided. In general, an analog signal for a partially saturated pixel is sampled to obtain a set of non-saturated digital signals and a set of saturated digital signals. The saturated digital signals are then processed to produce data for the pixel. Also provided are computer program products comprising programming for performing the subject methods, and a chemical array scanner containing this programming. The invention finds use in a variety of different applications, including both genomics and proteomics applications.
US07877211B2
A method for determining a drilling event includes measuring a first signal from a sensor over a first selected time interval, measuring a second signal from the sensor over a second time interval, determining if a noise is reduced in the second signal.
US07877209B2
Rooftop cargo racks, otherwise simply known as roof-racks, provide an option for transporting cargo that does not use space inside a vehicle. However, despite the usefulness of roof-racks, once cargo is secured to a roof-rack on a vehicle there is the added potential for a collision between the cargo and some overhead obstruction—such as, for example only, a garage door, over-hanging sign, public parking structures, and tree branch. Previous collision avoidance systems that employ either ultrasonic acoustic or Doppler-based radar systems are poorly suited for detecting the potential of a collision between rooftop mounted cargo and an overhead obstruction. By contrast, aspects of the present invention provide systems and methods for reducing the risk of a collision between rooftop mounted cargo and overhead obstructions by providing a more suitable radar-based means for detecting overhead obstructions and warning drivers and, if present, passengers in vehicles when there is a risk of a collision.
US07877205B2
A method for setting a destination based on an identifier of a moving object and a method for providing position information are disclosed. In accordance with an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for setting a destination based on an identifier of a moving object, including the steps of: a) selecting an identifier of moving object; b) requesting the providing of position information providing to the selected moving object; c) receiving the position information from the selected moving object; and d) setting a destination for the moving object based on the received position information.
US07877196B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for determining traffic condition comprising the steps of determining periodically a position data of a host vehicle 1, wherein the position data includes a time stamp, position, velocity and driving direction of the host vehicle 1, receiving periodically position data of at least an other vehicle 2, 3, 4, wherein the position data includes a time stamp, position, velocity and driving direction of the other vehicle 2, 3, 4, storing the position data of the host vehicle 1 and the position data of at least the other vehicle 2, 3, 4, calculating a relative position data, wherein the relative position data includes relative velocity and relative driving direction between the host vehicle 1 and the other vehicle 2, 3, 4, and judging a traffic condition based on the position data of the host vehicle 1, the position data of the other vehicle 2, 3, 4 and the relative position data.
US07877190B2
A fuel control device for an internal combustion engine determines that the internal combustion engine is in a transient state, by a criterion D, and makes fuel correction, where the transient-state criterion D is set to be a more relaxed criterion (=|ΔTHaf|) when forcible modulation control is being performed, compared with a normal criterion (=|ΔTHn|) used when the forcible modulation control is not being performed.
US07877184B2
A control apparatus for a hybrid vehicle includes a required torque calculating portion that calculates required drive torque required of the vehicle; a running mode switching portion that switches between a motor running mode and a hybrid running mode according to the calculated required drive torque; a torque distribution control portion that sets the torque distribution between front and rear wheels according to the switched running mode; a gear noise preventing portion that prevents gear noise in a gear mechanism by changing the set torque distribution between the front and rear wheels when a predetermined gear noise producing condition is satisfied; and a drive torque control portion that calculates drive torques of the front and rear wheels based on the calculated required drive torque and the changed torque distribution and controls the torques of the engine and the electric motor.
US07877182B2
A computationally efficient method for generating a spiral swath pattern for a region of a field bounded by a convex polygon, the method automatically generating curved portions for the swath pattern having radii of curvature greater than a minimum turning radius based on the minimum turning radius and a definition of the field boundary.
US07877181B2
An apparatus for indicating a grain tank fill level for a grain tank (20) of an agricultural harvester (10), the harvester (10) having a chassis (12), an operator cabin (18) on the chassis (12); a threshing, separating, and cleaning means (24) on the chassis (12) for processing crop, a grain tank (20) on the chassis (18) for storing harvested grain and having an actual fill level of grain, a display (48) disposed in front of the operator in the direction of travel for displaying a fill level of the grain tank; a calculating means (46) coupled to the display (48) for calculating a fill level of the grain tank to be displayed on the display (48), and an operator input device (70) coupled to the calculating means (46) for selecting between first and second modes of operation, wherein the calculating means (46) is configured to repetitively and automatically calculate the fill level of the grain tank (20) in a first mode of operation and configured to repetitively and automatically indicate a scaled fill level that is scaled to a reference fill level different from the actual fill level in a second mode of operation, and further wherein the operator input device (70) is configured to indicate to the calculating means (46) the reference fill level when the operator input device (70) is selected by the operator.
US07877170B2
In a power generating system the remanent voltage of an induction machine is measured. The frequency of the remanent voltage is compared to a predetermined threshold. When the frequency of the remanent voltage is greater than the predetermined threshold the induction machine is connected to the power grid. Induction machine is disconnected from power grid once generated power drops below a predetermined threshold. Once the induction machine is disconnected, it is prevented from being reconnected to the power grid until a predetermined time period elapses.
US07877169B2
There is provided herein methods and apparatus for apparatus for controlling the interconnection of an auxiliary AC generator with an electrical system, such as an electrical distribution system, e.g., a utility grid. A measuring circuit measures the frequency of an auxiliary AC generator and the phase angle between one voltage phase of the generator and the correspondent voltage phase of the electric utility's electricity supply lines, i.e., the grid, each of which are averaged and filtered. The measured frequency of the auxiliary AC generator is matched to the frequency of the electrical system and the measured phase angle of the generator is matched to the electric utility's electricity supply lines. Once matching is achieved to within a defined tolerance, interconnecting contactors are closed.
US07877162B2
A process and apparatus for the manufacture of adapted, fluidic surfaces on a gas turbine blade is disclosed. In an embodiment, the process includes: (a) generating a nominal milling program for the manufacture of fluidic surfaces in the region of one flow inlet edge and/or one flow outlet edge for an ideal gas turbine blade; (b) measuring the area of an actual gas turbine blade in the region of one flow inlet edge and/or one flow outlet edge thereof; (c) generating a milling program adapted to the actual gas turbine blade, where measured values determined in step (b) are used to adapt the nominal milling program generated in step (a) to the milling program for the actual gas turbine blade; and (d) manufacturing of the fluidic surfaces on the actual gas turbine blades by milling with the use of the milling program generated in step (c).
US07877154B2
A first principles model may be used to simulate a batch process, and the first principles model may be used to configure a multiple-input/multiple-output control routine for controlling the batch process. The first principles model may generate estimates of batch parameters that cannot, or are not, measured during operation of the actual batch process. An example of such a parameter may be a rate of change of a component (e.g., a production rate, a cell growth rate, etc.) of the batch process. The first principles model and the configured multiple-input/multiple-output control routine may be used to facilitate control of the batch process.
US07877153B2
A configuration device is provided for configuring a control system that includes at least one electronic processing unit and at least one associated I/O device. At least a portion of a control program is generated that corresponds to a configuration and is used for controlling the control system. The configuration device has at least one display device. The display device allows at least one I/O access point to be displayed in a model configuration field and/or at least one hardware functionality to be displayed in a function configuration field and/or at least one hardware interface to be displayed in an interface configuration field. It is possible to associate at least one I/O access point and at least one hardware functionality with one another and/or to associate at least one hardware functionality and at least one hardware interface with one another.
US07877151B2
Low voltage conductors in a lead assembly share a lumen in a tube and are separated from adjacent conductors in the tube by an insulative layer. In an embodiment, low voltage conductors are combined with high voltage conductors. In another embodiment, low voltage conductors are combined with other low voltage conductors.
US07877150B2
A neurostimulation lead is configured to be implanted into a patient's body and has at least one distal electrode. The lead comprises at least one conductive filer electrically coupled to the distal electrode, a jacket for housing the conductive filer and a shield surrounding at least a portion of the filer for reducing electromagnetic coupling to the filer.
US07877148B2
A medical device for use on the human eye is described. The device is placed in an extrocular location in a patient and delivers an electrical current that stimulates the retina of patients who are blind or have vision disorders. It has at least one electrode that makes contact with the scleral surface of the eye, the electrode typically being activated by an electrical stimulator. The device produces electrical pulses which pass through the electrodes on the scleral surface of the eye, to activate the retina of the eye, which causes the patient to experience improved vision, visual sensations or the prevention of deterioration of vision. By this means, sight can be restored or improved where patients have disorders of their retina or other parts of their visual system.
US07877146B2
The present invention is directed to systems and methods for treating respiratory or pulmonary medical conditions by neuromodulation of a target site of the sympathetic nervous system and preferably a target site in communication with a sympathetic nerve chain. A system for treating a respiratory or pulmonary medical condition incorporating a closed-loop feedback system is also provided.
US07877142B2
Systems, methods and devices are provided for improving the hemodynamic efficiency of a patient's heart by implanting one or more reinforcement elements on or with the heart and providing electrical stimulation to the heart. The reinforcement elements may include magnetic and/or shape memory material and are configured to reshape the heart so as to boost the heart's mechanical energy during a response to the electrical stimulation. In some embodiments, at least one reinforcement element includes an electrode configured to sense electrocardiogram signals within the heart. An electrical stimulation device such as an implantable or external pacemaker/defibrillator may be configured to control delivery of electrical pulses to the heart based on the sensed electrocardiogram signals. In addition, or in other embodiments, at least one reinforcement element includes an electrode configured to deliver the electrical pulses to the heart.
US07877136B1
Methods and systems of enhancing transmission of a neural signal through damaged neural tissue include providing a stimulator, programming the stimulator with one or more stimulation parameters configured to enhance transmission of a neural signal through the damaged neural tissue, and applying a hyperpolarizing electrical stimulation current with the stimulator to the damaged neural tissue in accordance with the one or more stimulation parameters.
US07877132B2
A method for use in a medical viewing system for processing for display a sequence of images of a medical intervention comprising manipulating a tool such as a stent (25) within an artery. Two markers (21, 22) are provided on the tool support (10) and the method includes extracting these markers (21, 22) to yield marker location information, from which tool location information can be derived. The image of the tool within the sequence of images is then enhanced relative to the background. The background can be additionally blurred by simulating or effecting relative movement of the image detector and the stent (25) by, for example, zooming in on the stent (25) or rotating the detector relative thereto, during acquisition of the sequence of images.
US07877130B2
A system and method for imaging and identifying non-viable myocardial tissue in a patient's myocardium is disclosed. Images of a section of the myocardium are obtained. An endocardial border and epicardial border of the section of the myocardium is segmented. The section of the myocardium is divided into sectors. One or more selected features of the sectors of the myocardial wall are measured and applied to a decision surface. A determination is made as to whether each sector contains viable or non-viable myocardial tissue. An image that shows each sector of the myocardial wall and an indication of its viability is displayed.
US07877120B2
A combined battery and wireless-communications apparatus and method. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes a support, a first conductive layer deposited on a first surface area of the support, a thin-film battery including a cathode layer, a solid-state electrolyte layer, and an anode layer deposited such that either the anode layer or the cathode layer is in electrical contact with the first conductive layer, an antenna mounted to the support structure, and an electronic communications circuit mounted to the support and electrically coupled to the battery and the antenna to transceive radio communications. Other embodiments include an energy-receiving device mounted to the support structure, and an electronic communications circuit mounted to the support structure and including a recharging circuit, the recharging circuit electrically coupled to the battery and the energy-receiving device to recharge the battery using energy received by the energy-receiving device.
US07877119B2
Disclosed is a mobile communication device. The mobile communication device includes a first body section having a keypad arranged on a first upper surface thereof; and a second body section connected to the first body section and having a display screen arranged on an upper surface thereof, the second body section linearly sliding from a first position where the second body section overlays the first body section to a second position where the second body section exposes a first part of the keypad, the first part providing input functions of numerals and letters, the second body section rotating while facing the first upper surface from the first position to a third position where the second body section fully exposes the keypad. The communications device can selectively provide QWERTY keyboard arrangement, thereby allowing increasingly integrated electronics and complex features sufficiently utilized and long text messages easily edited.
US07877118B2
A mobile terminal includes a first body, a second body slidably mounted at the first body, and a fragrance emanating unit mounted at one of the first and second bodies and disposed at a portion close to a user's nose when the user performs call communication. A user can smell fragrance during call communication effectively.
US07877112B2
System and method for transferring data from a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card to a second SIM card are provided. The first SIM card is inserted into a wireless telephone. Software is downloaded to the wireless telephone. The software converts the data from a format of the first SIM card to a format of the second SIM card. The second SIM card is inserted into the wireless telephone, and the converted data is written to the second SIM card.
US07877110B2
A Global Positioning System (GPS), a touch screen generated signal, a first Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexed (OFDM) signal, a first Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) signal and a first Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA) signal is received by two or more antennas and is processed into processed GPS, touch screen, OFDM, CDMA and TDMA signal and is provided to a subscriber unit-interface circuitry. The processed CDMA signal is a cross-correlated in-phase and quadrature-phase baseband signal. One or more of the processed GPS, touch screen, first OFDM, first CDMA or first TDMA baseband signal is provided for cascade processing, modulation and transmission into a second OFDM, second CDMA or second TDMA signal, wherein the second signal is distinct from the first signal. The transmitter has two or more antennas for transmission and linearly and a non-linearly amplified amplifier for linear and for non-linear amplification of modulated signals.
US07877109B2
A method and apparatus of controlling a transmission power of a cognitive radio (CR) environment, the method including: sensing an incumbent user that uses a same channel as the CR environment; detecting signal quality information of the sensed incumbent user; calculating, using the detected signal quality information, a maximum transmission power value that corresponds to a maximum transmission power that may be transmitted by a CR base station in the CR environment; and controlling a communication of the CR environment to be performed within the calculated maximum transmission power value.
US07877097B2
Interference levels occurring at one or more stations are mapped, and a reuse pattern is generated, based on the mapped interference levels, including one or more reuse sets of stations capable of sharing a transmission resource. The stations within each reuse set are listed in increasing order based on their respective interference levels, and an additional station is added to a reuse set, as long as the cumulative interference level within the reuse set is below a threshold interference level and the additional station is not already listed in another reuse set. A network schedule is updated based on the reuse pattern to increase bandwidth efficiency in the network.
US07877085B2
Reception of a list including information on a content not receivable at a current location is avoided in acquiring a multicast content list.A portable terminal searches a wireless base station which can communicate with the portable terminal at a current location thereof, and transmits available sector identification information for identifying the searched wireless base station to a content information server. Based on the available sector identification information and multicast detailed information on a content distributed by the wireless base station, the content information server transmits a list of contents receivable at the current location of the portable terminal to the portable terminal. The portable terminal selects a content from the content list in accordance with user's manipulation, and makes transition to a channel where the selected content is distributed based on the multicast detailed information.
US07877081B2
Methods and apparatus are presented herein for allowing a wireless communication device to perform a proxy authentication on behalf of a tethered device and ensure the authentication is encrypted.
US07877071B2
Apparatus and method to provide unified STTD/CLTD dedicated pilot processing in a wireless receiver. The technique allows different set of parameters to be introduced to a same processing module to process STTD and CLTD diversity signals to recover a pilot signal. Introducing another set of parameters to the processing module also allows processing of a non-diversity signal to recover a pilot. The unified processing of STTD/CLTD signals is achieved by converting STTD/CLTD pilot bits as Hadamard-like bits and processing these bits along with orthogonal pilot bits which are encoded as Hadamard encoded bits.
US07877070B2
Certain aspects of a method and system for tuning an antenna using injection may include mixing a received DVB-H signal with a reference oscillator signal to generate an added DVB-H signal. A mixed signal may be generated from the added DVB-H signal using the reference oscillator signal. A wireless antenna that receives the received DVB-H signal may be tuned based on a received signal strength indicator (RSSI) associated with the mixed signal. The reference oscillator signal may be generated and then may be amplified. The first mixed DVB-H signal may be amplified prior to the generating of the mixed signal. The RSSI associated with the mixed signal may be determined. The tuning may occur during receiving of a preamble of a packet for the received DVB-H signal and/or during receiving of a plurality of packets for the received DVB-H signal.
US07877056B2
An image forming system comprises a selection unit for selecting a post-processing apparatus that executes post-processing to a recording medium on which an image is formed from among a plurality of post-processing apparatuses, and a selection limitation unit for determining an insertion apparatus whose supply of the insertion medium to be limited for a selected post-processing apparatus and limiting selection of the insertion apparatus.
US07877045B2
There is provided a charging device having high durability, of which controllability of charged potential of a photoreceptor is hardly impaired even with a some amount of contaminants such as a toner so that control of charged potential of a photoreceptor can be stably carried out to fall in an appropriate range over a long period of time, and moreover which is inexpensive. As a grid electrode, one prepared by forming a composite plated layer composed of three layers of an Sn plated layer, an Sn—Co plated layer and a Ni plated layer is used. More preferably, an upper layer is an Sn plated layer, an intermediate layer is an Sn—Co plated layer and a lower layer is a Ni plated layer.
US07877033B2
There is provided an image forming apparatus, including: a image bearing member; a charging member; a developing device; a transfer member that forms a transfer portion, thereby transferring a toner image on the image bearing member, to a transfer material; a first toner charging member disposed on the lower stream side of the transfer portion and on the upper stream side of the charging member in a rotating direction of the image bearing member, thereby charging the toner on the image bearing member by applying voltage; wherein the developing device develops the electrostatic latent image and recovers the toner charged by the first toner charging member, the image forming apparatus further including: a first current detecting portion that detects a current value flowing through the first toner charging member; and a changing portion that changes a transfer condition according to the detected current value.
US07877030B2
An image forming apparatus includes a developer carrying member to which a developing bias is applied. A frequency f of a developing bias waveform, a developing area S1 which is a time-integrated value of a difference between a voltage value of the developing bias and a solid electrostatic image potential VL in a developing period of the developing bias, a collecting area S2 which is a time-integrated value of a difference between the voltage value of the developing bias and VL in a collecting period of the developing bias, and a developing contrast value Vcon are used for defining a range of a value of the developing bias frequency f, a range of a value of a voltage change rate α at VL during transition of the developing bias voltage value from a developing-side voltage to a collecting-side voltage, and a range of a value represented by the formula: {(S1−1.28×S2)×f/Vcon}×exp(−2.0×10−5×f/Hz).
US07877023B2
A light receiver has a photoelectric conversion circuit which converts an input optical signal into an electrical signal, an electric amplifier which amplifies the electrical signal output from the photoelectric conversion circuit, a threshold adjustment circuit which outputs a threshold value according to signal information in the optical signal, and an optical signal loss detection circuit which compares amplitude of the electric signal output from the electric amplifier with the threshold value output from the threshold adjustment circuit and outputs results of the comparison.
US07877022B2
Disclosed herein are circuits and methods for reducing a thermally dependent gain swing. Exemplary embodiments include a resonant notch filter in parallel with a thermistor.
US07877021B2
In a pulse generator of very high resolution phase and/or intensity profiles, an active mode-locking laser source (1) emits a first train of optical pulses according to a determined period (To), which is intensity-modulated pulse-by-pulse by a modulator (2). The modulated pulses are transmitted to an optical loop (3) via a coupler (4). The optical length of the optical loop is slightly different from the period (To) of the source. The modulated pulses are transmitted to input B of the coupler. The optical loop connects output D to input A of the coupler. This coupler is commanded such that, according to a first command (k=0), it transmits the light received on its two inputs A, B towards output d, and according to a second command (K=1), it transmits the light received on its input (A) towards output (C).
US07877016B2
A photonic integrated circuit (PIC) for a PON transceiver comprises a single monolithic chip having a modulated transmitter laser diode of a first wavelength, λ1, for generating a first communication signal outgoing from the chip via an input/output port and a receiving photodetector for receiving a second communication signal of a second wavelength, λ2, onto chip incoming from the input/output port and a monitoring photodetector for receiving a portion of the first communication signal to monitor the laser diode output power.
US07877013B2
A wavelength division multiplexing based passive optical network is disclosed. The network includes an optical line terminal; a power optical splitter connecting to the optical line terminal by an optical fiber; and several optical network units. Each of the optical network units connects to the power optical splitter by each of other optical fibers by a random process.
US07877012B2
A control module is configured to receive one or more input signals. An optical selection network includes a plurality of optical input ports configured to receive respective optical waves at an operative wavelength, and at least one optical output port configured to provide an optical wave at the optical wavelength. The optical selection network is configured to receive one or more control signals from the control module, and in response to the control signals, provide a high transmission path for the operative wavelength from an optical input port, determined by the input signals, to the optical output port at a predetermined time with respect to a time reference in at least one of the input signals, and provide a low transmission path for the operative wavelength from each of a plurality of optical input ports, determined by the input signals, to the optical output port at the predetermined time.
US07877008B2
The present invention discloses a WDM layer-based OChP device and the method thereof, i.e., M protection channels are added in the transmitting module and the receiving module to connect to receiving ends and transmitting ends of M protection channels in the WDM system; a switching device is added so as to switch signals in specified working channels to specified protection channels or switch signals transmitted in specified protection channels back to specified working channels according to switching requests from the WDM system; wherein M and N are natural numbers, and M
US07877003B2
An illumination and/or imaging system including a dome, a crown, and multiple light sources for illuminating an object. The multiple light sources can include dome lights, diffuse on-axis sources, diffuse off-axis sources, medium-angle direct light sources and low-angle direct light source. The medium- and low-angle sources can illuminate the object from one direction or from multiple directions simultaneously.
US07876998B2
DVD playback over Multi-room by copying to the hard drive of a primary device in a networked multi-room system (NMS). The DVD content is saved to a hard drive and can then be retrieved by any of the remote devices in the NMS by accessing the program guide or the recorded programs list. The DVD menu can be altered to include previews, contests, products, etc.
US07876996B1
A method and system for time-shifting video. Specifically, in the method a digital input video signal is received at a processor unit, such as a video processor unit (VPU). A live feed of the digital input video signal is provided as a digital output video signal for display. In parallel, the digital input video signal is stored as video frames. Also, the digital input video signal is recorded for time-shifting. An instruction is received to display a previously seen frame of the digital output video signal. The previously seen frame is repeatedly accessed and provided from that the stored video frames. The previously seen frame that was recorded is accessed when available. Thereafter, the method switches from the previously seen frame stored as video frames to the previously seen frame that was recorded for providing as an output for display.
US07876993B2
A cable management panel including chassis, a sliding drawer, and a rack and pinion arrangement. The rack and pinion arrangement including a first length of track located on an interior surface of the chassis, a second length of track provided on a drawer slide, and a gear that engages both the first track and the second track to control the movement of a sliding radius limiter mounted to the drawer.
US07876985B2
An optical rotating data transmission device comprises a first collimator arrangement for coupling-on first optical waveguides, a second collimator arrangement for coupling-on second optical waveguides, which is supported to be rotatable relative to the first collimator arrangement about a rotation axis, and a derotating element such as a Dove prism in a light path between the collimator arrangements. At least one collimator arrangement comprises a deflecting element which deflects light entering the device from optical waveguides positioned at an angle to the direction of the rotation axis to travel along the direction of the rotation axis, or deflects light traveling along the direction of the rotation axis to exit the device at an angle to the rotation axis towards optical waveguides.
US07876984B2
The optical element array and an optical waveguide array are optically connected on the substrate. The optical waveguide array includes optical waveguide channels which are the outermost optical waveguide channels on both sides of optical waveguide array channels and each of which is provided with a mirror structure for light redirection. With the optical element array driven by a bias applied thereto, the optical waveguide array is brought near the optical element array. The optical axes of the optical waveguide array channels and the optical element array are aligned while monitoring optical signals outputted from the outermost optical waveguide channels on both sides of the optical waveguide array channels via the mirror structures for light redirection. The optical waveguide array is fixed to the substrate in such a position that the optical signals have a desired output value.
US07876983B2
Provided are a method and apparatus directed to hybrid electromagnetic processing devices. The apparatus includes a planar integrated optical device. The planar integrated optical device has at least one input optical waveguide, a free space optical region and a plurality of output optical waveguides. The optical waveguides end connecting to the free space optical region. The at least one input optical waveguide has an offset in a core thereof at joined ends of an input portion and an output portion of the at least one input optical waveguide.
US07876978B2
A first representation of a video stream is received that includes video frames, the representation expressing the video frames at a relatively high pixel resolution. At least one of the video frames is detected to include a region of interest. A second representation of the video stream that expresses the video frames at a relatively low pixel resolution is provided to a video playing device. Included with the second representation is additional information that represents at least a portion of the region of interest at a resolution level that is higher than the relatively low pixel resolution.
US07876968B2
An apparatus for compressing an image data with an array of pixels comprising a data length is disclosed. The apparatus comprises a rearranging unit, a transformation operator, a quantizer and a coding operator. The rearranging unit is configured to transform the array to form a rearranged block with a mark value. The transformation operator is configured to obtain transform coefficients of the rearranged block according to a predetermined transformation. The quantizer is configured to quantize the transform coefficients. The coding operator is configured to generate a result data by coding the transform coefficients which is quantized and the mark value according to a predetermined coding method.
US07876964B2
Disclosed is a method for assigning the content of a digital image to a class of a classification system. Said method comprises the following steps: —a predetermined number of F numerical shape characteristics ψm are determined; —the value of each shape characteristic of the F numerical shape characteristics determined for the image is compared to the value filed in a table for the respective shape characteristic, values for the individual numerical shape characteristics being allocated to each class in the table; —the class in which the F numerical shape characteristics determined for said image correspond best to the values of the numerical shape characteristics indicated in the table for said class is output as the class into which the image that is to be recognized is classified.
US07876958B2
A system and method for decomposing a digital image is provided. A digital image is represented as a word-graph, which includes words and visualized features, and zone hypotheses that group one or more of the words. Causal dependencies of the zone hypotheses are expressed through a learned generative zone model to which costs and constraints are assigned. An optimal set of the zone hypotheses are inferred, which are non-overlapping, through a heuristic search of the costs and constraints.
US07876954B2
For stereo matching, edge images are extracted from stereo images. An edge mask matching an edge form of a window relating to a reference edge pixel is searched for from among predefined edge masks mapped to predefined edge forms capable of appearing within a predetermined size window having a center of the reference edge pixel among edge pixels of a reference edge image of the edge images. Among edge pixels of a search edge image of the edge images, an edge pixel located at a center of a window having an edge form matching the searched edge mask is searched for and is set to a corresponding edge pixel mapped to a corresponding point with respect to the reference edge pixel. Among the edge pixels of the reference edge image, the reference edge pixel is used to currently search for the corresponding edge pixel from the search edge image.
US07876927B2
A preliminary guidance data is determined for the vehicle during an evaluation time window. A vision module collects vision data from a vision module during the evaluation time window. Vision guidance data is determined from the collected vision data. A vision quality estimator estimates vision quality data for at least one of the vision data and the vision guidance data during the evaluation time window. The vision quality data is based on a cross correlations and an r-squared value. An adjuster adjusts the preliminary guidance data to a revised guidance data based on the vision guidance data such that the revised guidance data is registered with or generally coextensive with the vision guidance data, if the vision quality data exceeds a minimum threshold.
US07876925B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for locating a runway by detecting an object (or blob) within data representing a region of interest provided by a vision sensor. The vertices of the object are determined by finding points on the contour of the object nearest for the four corners of the region of interest. The runway can then be identified to the pilot of the aircraft by extending lines between the vertices to identify the location of the runway.
US07876918B2
For reducing wind noise effects in a hearing instrument, a converted acoustic signal is processed in a number of frequency bands, a low frequency band of which is chosen to be a master band. A wind noise attenuation value is determined in each frequency band, based on a signal level in the frequency band concerned and on a signal level in the master band. A further wind noise reducing effect may be achieved in hearing instruments with at least two microphones where in the presence of wind noise the instrument may be switched from a directional mode to a omnidirectional mode in which an average of the output signals of the two microphones is used as signal. In single microphone hearing instruments, the microphone signal and a delayed version of this signal are used to improve wind noise detection and reduction.
US07876910B2
An active noise/vibration/sound control system for a vehicle has an ANC (active noise control apparatus), an AVC (active vibration control apparatus), and an ASC (active sound control apparatus). To prevent the ANC, the AVC, and the ASC from interfering with each other and hence to prevent vehicle cabin environment of vibrations, noise, and sound from being impaired, activation and inactivation of the ANC, the AVC, and the ASC are controlled or their control characteristics are controlled in relation to each other by a weighting variable calculator as a coordination controller, depending on an engine rotation frequency and a frequency change which are representative of a running state of the vehicle as detected by an engine rotation frequency detector and a frequency change detector that serve as a running state detector.
US07876903B2
Method and apparatus for producing, combining, and customizing virtual sound environments. A binaural sound system (400) includes a transceiver (492) configured for receiving a signal (600) containing at least a first type of information and a second type of information. The first type of information includes enunciated data (602). The enunciated data specifies certain information intended to be audibly enunciated to a user. The second type of information comprises first type of metadata (604-1) and a second type of metadata (604-2). The first type of metadata includes information which identifies a characteristic of the enunciated data exclusive of spatial position information. The second type of metadata identifies a spatial position information associated with the enunciated data.
US07876900B1
In one embodiment, a hybrid backplane coding scheme transmits data using lengthy sequences of scrambled data, separated by 8b/10b control character sequences that prepare the receiver for the next scrambled sequence and permit realignment if necessary. Advantageously, the sender of the scrambled data can be changed during the control character sequence. The hybrid backplane coding scheme can be designed such that the power spectral density of scrambled data and control character sequences are similar, which permits good performance with high-speed electrical differential receivers. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07876882B2
A novel approach to generating radiation treatment plans through a nested partitions framework provides an optimization of radiation delivery. The nested partitions approach couples beam angle selection and dose optimization to solve treatment planning problems. An optimal beam angle selection is provided to best treat tumors, while minimizing exposure to the surrounding healthy tissues.
US07876874B2
A radiographing apparatus according to an aspect of the present invention is characterized in that an image processing device comprises an acquisition device which acquires projection data of a first energy spectrum and projection data of a second energy spectrum, and a synthetic image generating device which synthesizes a first image on the basis of the projection data of the first energy spectrum, and a second image on the basis of the projection data of the second energy spectrum according to a predetermined synthetic condition, and generating a synthetic image, and a display device displays the generated synthetic image.
US07876873B2
An asynchronous ping-pong counter is disclosed. The asynchronous ping-pong counter comprises a first asynchronous counter, a second synchronous counter, and a controller, the asynchronous ping-pong counter operates between a first state and a second state. In the first state, the first asynchronous counter counts a first number of clock edges of a fast clock signal, and the second asynchronous counter holds a first counter output value. In the second state, the second asynchronous counter counts a second number of clock edges of the fast clock signal, and the first asynchronous counter holds a second counter output value. The controller determines a state transition based on a sampling of a slow clock signal by the fast clock signal.
US07876872B2
In the present invention, a reactor power control apparatus of a natural circulation reactor comprises a reactor pressure vessel which circulates cooling water using the density difference of the coolant inside, a feed water pipe which is connected to the reactor pressure vessel and supplies cooling water, a power control section which controls the reactor power using a control rod. The feed water pipe has an ultrasonic thermometer sensor. Driving of the control rod is controlled by the power control section based on the feed water temperature detected by the feed water thermometer. The reactor power control apparatus can detect the temperature of the feed water and perform drive control of the control rod preferentially, and obtain stable reactor power.
US07876871B2
Techniques for achieving linear operation for a phase frequency detector and a charge pump in a phase-locked loop (PLL) are described. The phase frequency detector receives a reference signal and a clock signal, generates first and second signals based on the reference and clock signals, and resets the first and second signals based on only the first signal. The first and second signals may be up and down signals, respectively, or may be down and up signals, respectively. The phase frequency detector may delay the first signal by a predetermined amount, generate a reset signal based on the delayed first signal and the second signal, and reset the first and second signals with the reset signal. The charge pump receives the first and second signals and generates an output signal indicative of phase error between the reference and clock signals.
US07876862B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide systems and methods for decoding encoded information. For example, a decoder including a branch metric calculator that conditionally calculates a branch metric based on either an actual input or a saturated input. Such a branch metric calculator is operable to receive an actual input, and to compare the actual input with an expected range. At times, the aforementioned comparison yields a comparison result indicating that the actual input is outside of the expected range. A first branch metric associated with a first branch is calculated. Where the first branch has an expected value representing a boundary of the expected range, calculating the first branch metric is done using the saturated input. Further, a second branch metric associated with a second branch is calculated. Where the second branch has an expected value representing something other than a boundary of the expected range, calculating the second branch metric is done using the actual input.
US07876861B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for generating bit-wise reliability information using a soft output Viterbi algorithm (“SOVA”) in an nT Viterbi decoder implementation devoid of 1T metric information. At each nT clock pulse 1T equivalent metric values are determined from the current nT metric information. 1T equivalent metric information is determined as values that sum to the corresponding nT metric information. Subtraction is then used to determine state metric difference information from the 1T equivalent metric values. The state metric difference information may then be used to estimate log likelihood ratio information for use in the SOVA algorithm to determine bit-wise reliability information.
US07876848B2
An apparatus and method for determining a transmission unit for data stream transmission in a wireless communication system in which multiple transmission and reception antennas are used and a receiver provides information on a data stream to be transmitted through a transmission unit. A fading estimator calculates fading values from the multiple transmission antennas to the multiple reception antennas. A channel quality estimator reverse-orders combined weights for multiple transmission units based on the fading values from the multiple transmission antennas to the multiple reception antennas, successively selects transmission units for data stream transmission among the reverse-ordered transmission units, determines a modulation and coding scheme (MCS) for each of the selected transmission units, and feeds back the MCS to a transmitter.
US07876834B2
A video encoding method and 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.
US07876833B2
Adaptive up-sample filtering is used to improve compression efficiency of spatially scalable coding systems by more effectively predicting the high-resolution (enhanced-layer) video (or image) from the low-resolution lower-layer video (or image). Different up-sample filters adaptive to local image properties are selectively used for different portions of a low resolution frame to generate a better up-sampled image. Selection between different up-sample filters is determined by a variety of different information available to both the encoder and decoder. In one embodiment, the up-sample filters are selected by the encoder and then explicitly identified to the decoder. Other techniques are then used to minimize the cost of transmitting the up-sample filter identifiers. In alternative embodiments, the encoder and decoder independently make up-sample filters selections.
US07876824B2
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.
US07876822B2
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.
US07876817B2
A video encoding method 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.
US07876812B2
A system for transmitting a plurality of independent data signals between two modules connected to a communication link is provided. The communication link may be a two lead wired connection. A first data signal may be transmitted in form of a differential signal over the communication link. A second data signal may be transmitted between both connected modules by adding the second data signal identically to both leads of the communication link. The second data signal references a ground potential which is common to both connected modules.
US07876810B2
Interference is cancelled from a baseband signal by synthesizing interference from estimated symbols in interfering subchannels. The estimated symbols are hard-coded, soft weighted, or zeroed, depending on the value of an estimated pre-processed signal-to-interference-and-noise ratio (SINR) in each subchannel in order to maximize a post-processed SINR. The estimated pre-processed SINR is obtained from averages of estimated symbol energies and estimated noise variances, or from related statistical procedures.
US07876804B2
A first optical base having a high-reflection mirror and a second optical base having a partial-reflection mirror are arranged in parallel to each other on both sides of an oscillator housing. A guide light source emits a guide light for aligning optical components in an optical path of a laser light emitted from an optical resonator and adjusting a processing point on a target object. An optical-component supporting unit includes optical components that guide the laser light in a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical resonator. The guide light source is arranged on the second optical base.
US07876803B1
A ring laser includes a large-core rare-earth-doped fiber ring-connected with a free-space path having an electro-optic switch, output coupler, and intracavity band-pass filter to enforce lasing operation in narrow wavelength range. In some cavity-dumped modes, the laser is configured in a similar manner, except that an output coupler is omitted since the optical power is extracted from the laser cavity by the electro-optic switch itself. The same laser can be configured to operate in Q-switched and/or cavity-dumping modes as well as in hybrid modes (e.g., partial Q-switch, followed by cavity dumping, or even CW). In some embodiments, the laser can be used as, or inject laser light into, a regenerative solid-state amplifier, or a Raman laser, or can be also used to generate visible, ultra-violet, mid-infrared, and far-infrared (THz) radiation via nonlinear wavelength conversion processes. The various embodiments can use a power oscillator or seed-plus-amplifier MOPA configuration.
US07876793B2
A charged particle beam including charged particles (e.g., electrons) is generated from a charged particle source (e.g., a cathode or scanning electron beam). As the beam is projected, it passes between plural alternating electric fields. The attraction of the charged particles to their oppositely charged fields accelerates the charged particles, thereby increasing their velocities in the corresponding (positive or negative) direction. The charged particles therefore follow an oscillating trajectory. When the electric fields are selected to produce oscillating trajectories having the same (or nearly the same) frequency as the emitted radiation, the resulting photons can be made to constructively interfere with each other to produce a coherent radiation source.
US07876791B2
Provided are a synchronizing apparatus and method for performing synchronization in a packet network. The synchronizing apparatus includes a sampling unit to measure a time difference using a plurality of time stamps included in a plurality of two-way message packets, an estimating unit to estimate a frequency offset by applying a baseline algorithm to the time difference, a verifying unit to verify the frequency offset to remove an error caused by network delay variation, and a synchronizing unit to remove the frequency offset from a local slave clock signal and generate a slave clock signal synchronized to a clock signal of a master device.
US07876787B2
Method for monitoring the state of a device in a network and device for carrying out said monitoring
The invention relates to a method for monitoring the state of a device within a communication network comprising at least two devices, the network comprising isochronous communication channels transmitting data packets synchronized by a signal emitted by the network emitted in regular time intervals. The method comprises at the level of a first device desiring to be monitored a step of emission by the device being monitored of data packets on a specified isochronous channel in response to the signal emitted regularly by the network. The method also comprises at the level of a second device a step of monitoring the emissions of data packets emitted on the isochronous channel and a step of executing a specified task, consequent upon the absence of data packets on the isochronous channel between at least two emissions of synchronization signals.The invention also relates to a device for the implementation of the method.
US07876778B2
A packet transfer apparatus connects two networks of different protocols. The packet transfer apparatus, connected to a first communication network and a second communication network, performs the steps of: storing first destination correspondence information; receiving a packet of the first communication protocol; based on the first destination correspondence information, determining destination information of a packet of the second communication protocol corresponding to destination information of the received packet of the first communication protocol; generating the header of the packet of the second communication protocol, based on the determined destination information of the packet of the second communication protocol; converting the received one or more packets of the first communication protocol into one or more packets of the third communication protocol; and adding the generated header of the packet of the second communication protocol to the packets of the third communication protocol.
US07876769B2
A system manages a buffer having a group of entries. The system receives information relating to a read request for a memory. The system determines whether an entry in the buffer contains valid information. If the entry is determined to contain valid information, the system transmits the information in the entry in an error message. The system may then store the received information in the entry. In another implementation, the system stores data in one of the entries of the buffer, removes an address corresponding to the one entry from an address list, and starts a timer associated with the one entry. The system also determines whether the timer has exceeded a predetermined value, transferring the data from the one entry when the timer has exceeded the predetermined value, and adds the address back to the address list.
US07876764B2
Various systems and methods that allow multiple aggregation protocol sessions to be established in a daisy chain network are disclosed. One method involves sending a first aggregation protocol packet and a first session identifier associated therewith to a first network device via a first interface and sending a second aggregation protocol packet and a second session identifier associated therewith to a second network device via the first interface.
US07876756B2
A packet transmitting method wherein an explicit multicast packet can be transmitted with the consumption of communication bands of broadcast media being suppressed. According to this method, a link level multicast is used to transmit an explicit multicast packet only to next hop nodes that, even when receiving the explicit multicast packet through the link level multicast, will not output the same packet to the broadcast media, while a unicast is used to transmit an explicit multicast packet to the other next hop nodes.
US07876754B2
Methods and arrangements for monitoring at least one interconnection between at least two nodes in a distributed network. At least one subscriber node is prompted to ascertain the integrity of an interconnection with at least one parent node.
US07876751B2
Communication over a computer network with a node having a first port with a point-to-point link connection to a second node having a second port. The first port transmits to the second port a reliable link layer (RLL) packet over the link. The RLL packet comprises a first RLL header and a first data packet, the first RLL header preceding the first data packet, the first RLL header comprising an RLL start-of-frame (SOF) character and an RLL packet sequence number (PSN). If the first port receives an RLL acknowledgment control packet from the link, it acknowledges receipt of the first data packet, and the first port does not retain the first data packet in the buffer. If the first port does not receive the RLL acknowledgment packet from the link, acknowledging receipt of the first data packet, the first port re-transmits from the buffer the first data packet.
US07876738B2
In order to prevent an incorrect synchronization between a received code-modulated signal and an available replica code, partial correlations are performed between a respective subset of samples of the replica code and samples of the received code-modulated signal associated to the respective subset of samples of the replica code at a specific alignment between the received code-modulated signal and the replica code. The results of the partial correlations are then compared to each other, and it may be decided based on this comparison whether the replica code corresponds to a code employed for code-modulating the received code-modulated signal.
US07876727B2
High speed data packet access (HSDPA) is facilitated by ensuring that power offsets are delivered to the base station (Node B) so that the new functions envisioned therefor having to do with scheduling and retransmission handling can be carried out effectively. A signal primitive having one or more information elements indicative of corresponding power offsets are received by the Node B, saved for future use and then signalled back to the serving radio network controller so that the user equipment can be informed with a proper RRC message containing the appropriate power offsets.
US07876724B2
The present invention relates to perform presence service in a wireless communication system that is available to a mobile device.
US07876723B2
A system for communication of an access terminal in a wireless network having a plurality of subnets. The system determines, based upon movement of the access terminal in a dormant state between subnets, and upon ColorCode and SecondaryColorCode values of each subnet, whether or not the access terminal should immediately initiate a Unicast Access Terminal Identifier (UATI) update request, or delay the Unicast Access Terminal Identifier (UATI) update.
US07876720B2
A differential clock pulse compensation is performed between the clock-pulse system (23) of a digital line-connected data interface and the asynchronous clock-pulse system (22) of a digital wireless data interface. A characteristic variable (20, 21) for the asynchronous differential clock pulse between the clock-pulse systems (22, 23) is monitored hereby. The data rate of the data (15, 16) transmitted over the line-connected data interface is adapted depending on the characteristic variable (20, 21).
US07876715B1
Techniques are provided herein to combine the advantages of beamforming with the advantages of multiple-input multiple output (MIMO) technology in a frequency division duplex (FDD) communication system, even when the uplink and downlink frequency separation exceeds the coherent bandwidth of the over-the-air-channels. At a first wireless communication device having M plurality of antennas, a wireless transmission is received that is sent from a second wireless communication device having P plurality of antennas. The first device computes spatial components associated with the transmission received at the M plurality of antennas. The first device selects the N strongest spatial components among the computed spatial components. The first device computes N beamforming weight vectors based on the N strongest spatial components. The first device then computes N MIMO beamforming weight vectors based on the N beamforming weight vectors. The N MIMO beamforming weight vectors are applied to N signal streams to be transmitted via the plurality of antennas of the first device to the plurality of antennas of the second device.
US07876714B2
A method and apparatus for scheduling a conference among multiple persons includes receiving group data that indicates persons in a first group. Availability data is received from a shared database that includes information about availability for a conference of a population of persons that includes the persons from the first group. Quorum data is received that indicates that a quorum for a particular conference includes any one or more persons in the first group and less than all persons in the first group; thus the first group is a called a “representative group.” A proposed time interval that satisfies the quorum based on the group data, the availability data, and the quorum data is determined for the particular conference.
US07876709B2
A mesh network communication system including one or more mesh networks and a plurality of remote subscriber users employing wireless, spread spectrum type communications for communicating with an access node in one of the mesh networks. The remote subscriber units can be mobile and can use handover to change nodes within a mesh network without a disruption of communication. The system and methods determine the location of a remote subscriber unit in a mesh network by the remote subscriber unit providing the access node with its home address and ID such that if the access node is not the home node, the home node is notified of the visiting node address such that the home node always knows the location of any remote subscriber unit based at the home node. Accordingly, communication between remote subscriber units where one of the remote subscriber units is not currently located at its home node can be accomplished without using the home node.
US07876706B2
Techniques are provided for selecting a root node in an ad hoc network comprising a plurality of nodes including a first node. According to one implementation of these techniques, a first node can receive a message from at least one of the other nodes. Each message includes a number of primary factors associated with a particular node regarding capabilities of the particular node. The primary factors associated with each node can then be evaluated, and an attempt can be made to select the root node based on the primary factors associated with each node. If the first node is unable to select the root node based on the primary factors associated with each node, then the root node can be selected based on secondary factors associated with each node.
US07876705B2
A Single Well Predictive Model (SWPM) software based computer system stores a Single Well Predictive Model (SWPM) software therein. When the SWPM software is executed, the SWPM computer system will: (1) automatically produce a first specific workflow comprised of a first plurality of software modules in response to a first set of user objectives and automatically execute the first specific workflow in response to a first set of input data to produce a first desired product, and (2) automatically produce a second specific workflow comprised of a second plurality of software modules in response to a second set of user objectives and automatically execute the second specific workflow in response to a second set of input data to produce a second desired product. There is no longer any need to separately and independently execute the first plurality of software modules of the first workflow in order to produce the first desired product, and there is no longer any need to separately and independently execute the second plurality of software modules of the second workflow in order to produce the second desired product. A considerable amount of time and labor is saved.
US07876701B2
A protocol is provided that facilitates downlink concurrent peer-to-peer communications (within a time slot or traffic slot) between one device and many terminals as well as uplink concurrent peer-to-peer communications (within a time slot or traffic slot) between a plurality of terminals and one device. The concurrent peer-to-peer communications may take place within an ad hoc network of devices. To facilitate such operation, a time-frequency structure is provided within a control channel that allows the device and terminals to identify the peer-to-peer connections. This time-frequency structure also allows terminals to identify other sibling terminals that have a connection with the same device, thereby allowing to more efficiently performing interference mitigation. That is, sibling peer-to-peer connections with the same device may be treated different from other non-related peer-to-peer connects for purposes of interference mitigation in a wireless network.
US07876682B2
An admission control method for determining a session admission probability with respect to a new session admission of a path, so that a bandwidth measured in the path and corresponding to a sum of bandwidth used converges to a vicinity of a specified target value, includes computing the session admission probability based on a deviation between the measured bandwidth and the bandwidth target value using a feedback control rule, and judging whether or not to accept a new session in the path based on the computed session admission probability, and processing the new session admission based on a result of the judging.
US07876679B2
Providing a data transfer connection according to a connection-oriented data transfer protocol between a first communication entity and a second communication entity using a wireless transmission path, the first communication entity being capable of using at least two wireless transmission paths in data transfer. A data transfer connection is established between said first communication entity and said second communication entity in so that the first communication entity uses one of the wireless transmission paths on the data transfer connection. The data transfer flow is controlled on said data transfer connection using one or more windows that indicate the maximum amount of data to be transferred simultaneously on said data transfer connection. At least one of said windows is adjusted based on the wireless transmission path used.
US07876677B2
A device that queues and transmits data packets is described. This device includes: a queue configured to store data packets awaiting transmission; a controller configured to dynamically determine an order in which the data packets are transmitted from the queue; and a transmission mechanism configured to transmit the data packets from the queue in the determined order. The transmission order is determined using Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) sequence numbers and/or TCP timestamps contained in the data packets in the queue in order to provide increased utility without reducing existing fairness between independent data streams.
US07876676B2
A network monitoring system capable of effectively monitoring the behavior of traffic through a network is provided with an aggregation apparatus which is connected to access networks which is connected to a telecommunications network. The aggregation apparatus includes: a receiving unit distinctively receiving input side communication data which is input from the telecommunications network to one of the access network and output side communication data which is output from one of the access network to the telecommunications network; and an abnormal traffic detecting unit detecting abnormal traffic on the basis of both the input side communication data and the output side communication data.
US07876672B2
For a survivable portion of a network, a backup port for a first router of the survivable network, to reach a destination node in the event of a single node failure, may be determined by (a) accepting a routing path graph having the destination node, wherein the routing path graph includes one or more links terminated by one or more primary ports of the first router; and (b) for each router of at least a part of the routing path graph, (1) assuming that the current router is removed, defining (A) a first part of the routing path graph including the destination node, and (B) a second part of the routing path graph separated from the first part wherein the second part defines one or more sub-graphs, and (2) determining the backup port for the first router by examining at least one of the one or more sub-graphs to find a link to the first part of the routing path graph.
US07876665B2
An optical recording medium includes a substrate, a first dielectric layer, a recording layer, a second dielectric layer, a super-resolution layer, and a third dielectric layer, which are provided in that order. The super-resolution layer is formed of a material configured such that voids are generated when the material is irradiated with DC light at a predetermined irradiation power for 1 to 300 seconds. Therefore, super-resolution reproduction can be made such that the irradiation power of a readout laser beam does not depend on the size of a recording mark.
US07876658B2
An optical-disk device includes a record unit recording data onto an optical disk, and a management-information-record unit configured to additionally write the latest disk-management information about the optical disk in management-information-record areas provided on the optical disk. When a first area of the management-information-record areas is short of a vacant area used to additionally write the disk-management information, the management-information-record unit records padding data in an unrecorded area of the first area, and additionally writes the disk-management information in a second area of the management-information-record areas, and wherein when the first area includes an unrecordable area where the disk-management information can be additionally written with difficulty, the management-information-record unit stops additionally writing the disk-management information in the first area, and additionally writes the disk-management information in the second area.
US07876657B2
An information recording apparatus, an information recording system, a program, and a recording medium are disclosed, by which contents are legally recorded to another information recording medium. Copy-once contents stored in a first optical disk are written to the second optical disk. After this writing is completed, a laser light having power equal to recording power is irradiated to the first optical disk so that reproduction of the copy-once contents in the first optical disk is made impossible. In this way, the copy-once contents stored in the first optical disk are erased, and the contents are moved to the second optical disk without jeopardizing the “copy-once” attribute of the contents. That is, the contents can be legally moved to another information recording medium.
US07876655B2
Optical recording medium and recording device for this optical recording medium and recording method
In the present invention, in order to permit recording operation of data by optimum recording power even at any recording position of inner circumference and outer circumference of an optical disc (1), PCAs (Power Calibration Areas) serving as a trial write area for adjusting recording power of laser beams are respectively provided at the inner circumferential side and the outer circumferential side of the optical disc (1) in the state where program area is put therebetween. In recording data into the program area of the optical disc (1), one PCA near from the recording position of data is selected to perform trial write operation to set write power of laser beams on the basis of trial write data to thereby permit recording operation of data at optimum laser power.
US07876653B2
Where a clock frequency based on which encoding is performed has deviated over time, problems such as that an appropriate digital signal can not be outputted occur. To solve the problems, it is arranged such that when a decoder decodes video data and audio data, a control variable for controlling a frequency of a clock recovered by a clock generating portion is recorded as needed in a recording portion, and when the decoder decodes data recorded in the recording portion, the clock generating portion is controlled by using the control variable so that system time information generated by the counter synchronizes with time information extracted upon reception of a digital broadcasting program.
US07876649B2
A DSP of the DVD recorder includes a balance value setting portion for determining an appropriate value of a focus balance value α when information is reproduced from an optical disc so as to record the determined focus balance value α0 in a balance value storing portion and to set the same in a first amplifier of a focus error signal generating circuit, and a correction executing portion for reading the focus balance value α0 stored in the balance value storing portion when information is recorded in the optical disc 2 so as to correct the read value to be a focus balance value α1, which is set in the first amplifier of the focus error signal generating circuit.
US07876645B2
The present invention refers to a system for detecting obstacles for vehicles, comprising at least one sensor able to transmit a detection signal and to receive an echo signal reflected off at least one obstacle, means of parametric evaluation of said received echo signal which comprise means of comparison between at least two successive echo signals for the determination of a reference echo signal able to define the position of at least one fixed obstacle with respect to said at least one sensor.
US07876636B2
A semiconductor memory device performs a refresh operation stably even while a temperature continuously changes at near a specific temperature. The semiconductor memory device includes an on die thermal sensor (ODTS) and a control signal generator. The on die thermal sensor (ODTS) outputs a thermal code corresponding to a temperature of the semiconductor memory device. The control signal generator generates a self refresh control signal in response to the thermal code, wherein a state of the self refresh control signal does not change when the temperature variation is less than a predetermined value.
US07876635B2
A sense amplifier driving control circuit has a stable discharge characteristic by differently controlling the discharge of a node having a driving voltage according to the change of an organization of a semiconductor memory device. The sense amplifier driving control circuit includes a pull-down driving block configured to provide a pull-down voltage for a pull-down operation of the sense amplifier, a pull-up driving block configured to sequentially provide a first voltage for the overdrive and a second voltage for the normal drive as a pull-up voltage for a pull-up operation of the sense amplifier, wherein a voltage level of the second voltage is lower than that of the first voltage, and a discharging block configured to discharge the node having the second voltage by controlling a amount of the discharging according to an organization of the semiconductor memory device.
US07876628B2
A data output circuit of a semiconductor memory apparatus includes: a control unit that outputs a first standby instruction signal, a second standby instruction signal, a first output instruction signal, and a second output instruction signal in response to an input of a standby instruction signal, an output instruction signal, a first test signal, and a second test signal; a first output driver that causes first data to be output or to enter a standby state according to whether or not the first standby instruction signal or the first output instruction signal is enabled; and a second output driver that causes second data to be output or to enter a standby state according to whether or not the second standby instruction signal or the second output instruction signal is enabled.
US07876599B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of selectively placing a reference column or reference row in a memory array. The method includes measuring a resistance state resistance value for a plurality of variable resistive memory cells within a memory array and mapping a location of each measured variable resistive memory cell to form a map of the resistance state resistance values for a plurality of variable resistive memory cells within a memory array. Then a column or row is selected to be a reference column or reference row based on the map of the resistance state resistance value for a plurality of variable resistive memory cells within a memory array, to minimize read operation errors, and forming a variable resistive memory cell memory array.
US07876598B2
A determination of the memory state of a resistive n-level memory cell is described. The determination includes charging or discharging a read capacity of the memory cell by applying a voltage between a first electrode and a second electrode of the resistive memory cell. A voltage at the second electrode is compared to a reference voltage to obtain a comparison signal. The comparison signal is sampled at, at least, (n−1) time instants during the charge or discharge of the read capacity to obtain sampling values. The memory state of the memory cell can be determined based upon the sampling values.
US07876597B2
A variable-resistance material memory array includes a series of variable-resistance material memory cells. The series of variable-resistance material memory cells is in parallel with a corresponding series of control gates. A select gate is also in series with the variable-resistance material memory cells. Writing/reading/erasing to a given variable-resistance material memory cell includes turning off the corresponding control gate, while turning on all other control gates. Devices include the variable-resistance material memory array.
US07876587B2
A method for controlling a power supply is disclosed. An example method includes deactivating the power supply in response to a first current through a first terminal of a power supply controller falling below a first threshold value. The power supply is activated in response to the first current through the first terminal rising above a second threshold value. Deactivating the power comprises causing a power switch coupled to a primary winding of the power supply not to receive a switching waveform for more than one cycle until the power supply is activated.
US07876579B1
An anti-electromagnetic interference (anti-EMI) corner shield unit for a shielding device is disclosed. The shielding device is designed for fastening to a printed circuit board and includes an upper lid and a frame, and the frame includes a plurality of sequentially connected side walls with a gap left at each joint of two adjacent side walls. The anti-EMI corner shield unit includes an L-shaped shield plate having a first and a second shield plate for mounting to an inner side of each corner of the frame formed at the joint of any two adjacent side walls, so as to completely shield the gap left at the joint; and a clip provided at a lower edge of each of the first and the second shield plate for receiving and firmly clamping on the side wall of the frame.
US07876578B2
An insertion slot shielding mechanism for an electronic device is used to shield an insertion slot provided in an opening of a casing of an electronic device. The insertion slot shielding mechanism includes a shielding means and an elastic pushing piece. The shielding means corresponds to the opening and is slidably connected to the opening of the casing. One end of the elastic pushing piece is connected to a side wall within the electronic device corresponding to the opening of the casing, and the other end thereof is kept to abut against the shielding means. The elastic force of the elastic pushing piece allows the shielding means to be located in a position to shield the opening of the casing.
US07876575B2
The present invention includes a ceiling portion 8, bottom portion 9, a substrate housing portion 3 formed by a side walls 5 to 7, a plurality of wafer slots 11 arrayed in parallel on the inner surface of the side walls 6 and 7, a slit portion 12 formed in an extended manner along the array direction of the wafer slots 11 on each of a second side wall 6 and a third side wall 7, a slide portion 18 movably arrayed along each of the slit portions 12, a plurality of substrate securing pieces arrayed with substantially the same intervals with the intervals of the wafer slots 11 on the inner surface of the slide portion 18, in which, with the slide portion being in a substrate securing position, the substrate housing pieces press and secure the substrate on the wafer slot 11, and in a substrate securing releasing position, the substrate housing pieces move separately from a circumferential portion of the substrate and releases a securing state of the substrate. In accordance with the present invention, it is possible to provide a substrate housing container which is able to hold the wafer in a predetermined position even in a case in which the substrate housing container is moved in which a lid body is released.
US07876570B2
In a module with embedded electronic components, connection electrodes are formed on the component mounting surface of a substrate. The electrode portions of each of the electronic components are placed on the individual connection electrodes and connected in fixed relation thereto by using a solder. The electronic components are encapsulated in an encapsulating resin. When the distance between the lower surface of the main body portion of each of the electronic components and the component mounting surface is assumed to be a and the thickness of the portion of the encapsulating resin which is located above the main body portion of the electronic component is assumed to be b, if b/a is set to a value of not more than 6, it becomes possible to prevent, when the module with embedded electronic components is reflow-mounted on a printed wiring substrate or the like, the occurrence of a short circuit failure resulting from the melting and flowing of the solder which causes a short circuit between the two electrode portions.
US07876569B2
A mounting apparatus for a motherboard includes a chassis and a mounting assembly for securing the motherboard in the chassis. The mounting assembly includes a pivot member pivotally attached to the chassis and a limiting member securely attached to the chassis. The pivot member is rotatable from a released position disengaging from the motherboard to a final position resisting against the motherboard for preventing the motherboard sliding from a secured position to a detachable position. The limiting member includes a resilient arm. A resisting piece extends from the resilient arm and engages with the pivot member to prevent the pivot member rotating from the final position to the released position.
US07876565B2
Integrated circuit-chip hot spot temperatures are reduced by providing localized regions of higher thermal conductivity in the conductive material interface at pre-designed locations by controlling how particles in the thermal paste stack- or pile-up during the pressing or squeezing of excess material from the interface. Nested channels are used to efficiently decrease the thermal resistance in the interface, by both allowing for the thermally conductive material with a higher particle volumetric fill to be used and by creating localized regions of densely packed particles between two surfaces.
US07876564B2
A method and apparatus for cooling chips on a computer memory module. The apparatus includes a primary and secondary heat spreaders, at least a first heatpipe coupled to the primary heat spreader and having a remote portion spaced apart from the primary heat spreader and thermally contacting the secondary heat spreader, and a coolant within the first heatpipe and the primary heat spreader so as to absorb heat from the primary heat spreader and conduct the heat to the secondary heat spreader. The primary heat spreader has at least two panels configured to engage the memory module therebetween, with facing contact surfaces of the panels adapted for thermal contact with the module chips. The secondary heat spreader is configured to increase surface dissipation of heat from the first heatpipe into the environment. The coolant has a boiling point at or below a maximum preselected operating temperature of the module chips.
US07876559B2
A system for managing air flow through a body of an information handling system is disclosed. The disclosure provides a blank including a blank base plate and a blank ridge extending from the blank base plate. The blank base plate may be configured to match an architecture of both a processor socket and a bank of memory chip sockets. The blank may be configured to provide an impedance to air flow substantially similar to a total impedance provided by a processor and associated heat sink disposed in the processor socket and a bank of memory chips disposed in the bank of memory chip sockets.
US07876553B2
According to the present invention, the amount of usage of a heat conductive member for fixing a self-luminous flat display panel to a metallic chassis member disposed at the back of the display panel is reduced in the thickness direction as well as in the surface direction. The invention further provides a technique for efficiently radiating heat from the display panel, suppressing cost increase. To this end, in the invention, the heat conductive member is a hot-melt adhesive having adhesion at room temperature and filled with a heat conduction imparting agent, and the display panel is fixed to the chassis member by a plurality of heat conducting sections of the heat conductive member formed discretely ranging from 0.3 to 0.8 mm in thickness.
US07876552B2
A support structure for supporting a display panel includes a rotatable base, a first supporting assembly, a second supporting assembly, and a connecting portion. The first supporting assembly includes a first sleeve and a first connector moveably coupled to the first sleeve along a first direction. The first sleeve is fixed to the rotatable base. The second supporting assembly includes a second sleeve and a second connector moveably coupled to the second sleeve along a second direction. The second direction is perpendicular to the first direction. The second connector is slidably coupled to the display panel along a third direction. The third direction is perpendicular to a plane cooperatively defined by the first direction and the second direction. The connecting portion fixedly connects the first connector to the second sleeve. A display panel using the support structure is also provided.
US07876551B2
A hinge assembly includes a base, a rotating member, and a connecting member connecting the base to the rotating member. The connecting member is slidably positioned on the base. The rotating member is rotatably positioned on the connecting member. The rotating member relative to the connecting member is able to move to be on an outer side of the base with sliding movement of the connecting member relative to the base.
US07876548B2
Disclosed are a niobium solid electrolytic capacitor capable of reducing leak current that may occur in high heat treatment in a reflow process and capable of preserving the capacity before and after heat treatment, and a method for producing it. The niobium solid electrolytic capacitor comprises an anode containing an oxide of niobium monoxide or niobium dioxide and a metal of niobium or a niobium alloy, a dielectric layer formed on the surface of the anode, and a cathode formed on the dielectric layer, wherein the dielectric layer contains fluorine.
US07876539B2
Various electrical apparatuses which include a current dampening device are disclosed. In one embodiment, an electrical apparatus is provided which includes a motor and a switch having an “on” position and an “off” position to control the operation of the motor. A current dampening device is connected in parallel with the motor downstream from the switch to dampen transient current. In another embodiment a ground fault circuit interrupter (GFCI) is electrically connected to the motor upstream from the switch.
US07876537B2
An MR element incorporates a layered structure. The layered structure includes: a spacer layer having a first surface and a second surface that face toward opposite directions; a free layer disposed adjacent to the first surface of the spacer layer and having a direction of magnetization that changes in response to a signal magnetic field; and a pinned layer disposed adjacent to the second surface of the spacer layer and having a fixed direction of magnetization. The spacer layer is a layer at least part of which is made of a material other than a conductor, and the spacer layer intercepts the passage of currents or limits the passage of currents as compared with a layer entirely made of a conductor. The MR element further incorporates a conductive film that is disposed on the peripheral surface of the layered structure and allows conduction between the free layer and the pinned layer.
US07876536B2
Embodiments of the present invention provides sufficiently high exchange coupling with a magnetic layer and improve the yield and reliability of a magnetoresistive head. By using a tilted growth crystalline structured antiferromagnetic film manufactured by an oblique incident deposition method, a high exchange coupling field with a ferromagnetic film can be obtained. As a result, excellent reliability and high output can be obtained in a magnetoresistive head utilizing features in accordance with embodiments of the present invention.
US07876535B2
A magnetoresistive device of a CPP (current perpendicular to plane) structure includes a magnetoresistive unit sandwiched between a first substantially soft magnetic shield layer from below, and a second substantially soft magnetic shield layer from above, with a sense current applied in a stacking direction. The magnetoresistive unit includes a non-magnetic intermediate layer sandwiched between a first ferromagnetic layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer. At least one of the first and second shield layers is configured in a window frame of a planar shape, including a front frame-constituting portion and a back frame-constituting portion partially comprising a combination of a nonmagnetic gap layer with a bias magnetic field-applying layer. The combination of the nonmagnetic gap layer with the bias magnetic field-applying layer forms a closed magnetic path with magnetic flux going all the way around the window framework, turning the magnetization of the front frame-constituting portion into a single domain.
US07876531B2
A magnetic writer includes a first write element and a second write element. The first write element produces a first field when a first current is passed through a first coil. The second write element, which is disposed relative to the first write element, produces a second field when a second current is passed through a second coil such that the second field at least partially opposes the first field.
US07876529B1
An apparatus having a write head for writing data on to a recording medium comprises a recording disk medium and one or more ferromagnetic islands. The recording disk medium has a data layer in discrete tracks with trenches between the discrete tracks, and a soft underlayer beneath the data layer and the trenches. The one or more ferromagnetic islands are disposed in the trenches between the discrete tracks in the recording disk medium and over the soft underlayer. The one or more ferromagnetic islands comprise a first layer having a first magnetization direction and a second layer having a second magnetization direction that is different than the first magnetization direction.
US07876527B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention improve bonding reliability in a feedthrough sealing portion. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an opening of a through hole is provided on the bottom of the base of the magnetic disk device and a feedthrough mounting plane which is one of the steps formed toward the outside of the device is provided around the opening. The feedthrough includes a flange and pins which are fixed to the flange by a glass material and pass an electric signal. The flange is larger in outer shape than the opening of the base. The periphery of the flange of the feedthrough is mounted on the feedthrough mounting plane of the base from the outside and bonded thereto by solder.
US07876526B2
A fill-port sealing assembly for sealing a housing, such as a hermetically sealed housing of a data storage device. A fill port body extends through an opening in a substrate and has a central bore communicating between a first side and a second side of the substrate. A compression member threadingly engages the central bore to compress an annular seal member and seal against passage of a low density gas through the central bore.
US07876522B1
A disk drive is disclosed comprising a disk and a head actuated over the disk by a voice coil motor (VCM) comprising a voice coil, wherein the VCM is controlled by a VCM control loop comprising an IR voltage detector. The IR voltage detector is updated by measuring a first back EMF voltage of the voice coil, and after measuring the first back EMF voltage, applying a first control current to the voice coil for a first interval and applying a second control current to the voice coil for a second interval. After the second interval, a second back EMF voltage is measured, and a delta voltage is computed relative to a difference between the first back EMF voltage and the second back EMF voltage. The IR voltage detector is adjusted in response to the delta voltage and at least one of the first and second control currents.
US07876513B2
The camera module comprises: an insulating substrate 13 having an imaging device 18 on a front face thereof and a plurality of solder balls 21 on a rear face thereof; a cylindrical lens holder 14 securely fixed on the substrate 13, composed of an upper large-diameter portion 14-1 and a lower small-diameter portion 14-2 and having a lens 15 therein; a cylindrical shield 12 fitted onto the small-diameter portion 14-2 of the lens holder and composed of a cylindrical side portion 12-2 fixed on the large-diameter portion 14-1 of the lens holder and a plate-shaped bottom portion 12-1 in contact with the rear face of the insulating substrate 13 and having an opening 12-1a for conduction; and a mounting board 11 connected with the insulating substrate 13 by the plurality of solder balls 21 formed on the rear face of the insulating substrate 13.
US07876507B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens unit of negative refractive power, a second lens unit of positive refractive power, and a third lens unit of positive refractive power. The zoom lens changes the distances between the lens units during zooming. The following condition is satisfied: 0.3<|f1 |/fT<0.5, where f1 is a focal length of the first lens unit, and fT is a focal length of the zoom lens at a telephoto end.
US07876502B2
An optical film is provided and includes a transparent polymer film. The optical film has at least an A1 value defined by Re (450)/Re (550) of from 0.10 to 0.95 and A2 value defined by Re (650)/Re (550) of from 1.01 to 1.50. Re (λ) represents the retardation value of the film with respect to light having a wavelength of λ nm; and Rth (λ) is the retardation value in the thickness direction of film with respect to light having a wavelength of λ nm.
US07876500B2
It is possible to check for observation success or failure and the observation history without waiting for observation to be completely finished, thus saving time and energy required for observation, and avoiding lost opportunities for observation of precious samples etc. Provided is a microscope apparatus including an image acquisition unit for acquiring a plurality of frame images while varying a plurality of parameters; an image saving unit for successively saving the frame images acquired by the image acquisition unit; a property-information saving unit for saving property information in which identifying information of the saved frame images is associated with the parameters; and a control unit for controlling these units, wherein the control unit saves updated property information in the property-information saving unit each time the frame image is saved in the image saving unit.
US07876492B2
The present invention provides a spatial light modulator, comprising: a plurality of mirror elements; a plurality of address electrodes for controlling the movement of each of the mirror elements; and first and second control circuits for generating a voltage in the address electrode, wherein the second control circuit applies a voltage to the address electrode when the mirror element is in a moving state.
US07876491B2
To take out monitor light unaffected by a multilevel optical phase-modulated component. For the purpose, a phase-shift unit that controls phases of plural (n, n is an integral number equal to or greater than 2) input lights, plural (n, n is an integral number equal to or greater than 2) phase modulating units that respectively phase-modulate the input lights from the phase-shift units, a first coupling unit that couples and outputs the phase-modulated lights from the plural phase modulating units as multilevel optical phase-modulated signal light, and a second coupling unit that couples and outputs non-phase-modulated lights from the plural phase modulating units as coupled light are provided.
US07876471B2
Printed material is electronically read, and electronic data of that printed material is input as a comparison source image. From the comparison source image, a plurality of partial regions are extracted. Layout comparison between partial regions of the comparison source image and a comparison destination image stored in a storage unit is executed under a condition in which the positional deviation amount in the center of gravity direction of an image is looser than those in other directions.
US07876468B2
A document delivery network server having a set of integrated functions including sending, receiving, routing and filing of FAXes and e-mails to other users which achieves numerous advantages over the prior art. The document delivery system is based on a client/server model having both analog and digital Fax line capabilities. The server side provides very highly integrated systems functionality based on industry standard, commercially available hardware and a mix of industry standard and proprietary software components including integrated FAX/modem modules, an embedded OS, embedded plug-and-play driver sets, embedded e-mail gateways, an embedded FAX archive, embedded back-up/restore, proprietary high efficiency line utilization and highly efficient load balancing.
US07876466B2
A printer controller is provided having page data input circuitry for receiving compressed and encoded page data for expansion processing, JPEG decoding circuitry for decompressing contone data in the received page data, EDRL expansion circuitry for decompressing EDRL-compressed bi-level image data in the received page data, halftoning and compositing circuitry for halftoning and compositing the decompressed contone and bi-level data, and a printhead interface for receiving the compositing data and for writing corresponding print data to a printhead of the printer.
US07876457B2
A laser metrology system for determining a location of a target utilizes a laser projector having a laser source for projecting a laser beam. A rotating head directs the laser beam in a lateral direction. A sensor associated with the laser projector is capable of sensing the laser beam. A reflective target is configured to reflect the laser beam projector from the laser source toward the sensor in a manner indicative of the angle of the rotating head and the pulse of the laser beam to determine location of the target.
US07876444B2
A plasmonic conveyor, system and method of plasmonic conveyance employ a surface plasmon that is controllably moved on a surface of a plasmonic element. The conveyor includes a first plasmonic element and a second plasmonic element that individually supports a respective surface plasmon. The conveyor further includes a controller that provides controlled movement of a location of the respective surface plasmon on a surface of the plasmonic element. The controlled movement facilitates translocation of an analyte particle around a periphery of the respective plasmonic element using a high field region of the respective surface plasmon. The system includes the conveyor and an excitation signal source that provides an excitation signal having one or both of a polarization and a frequency that are controllably variable. The method includes exciting a surface plasmon with the excitation signal and moving a location of the excited surface plasmon.
US07876440B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods for determining overlay between a plurality of first structures in a first layer of a sample and a plurality of second structures in a second layer of the sample. Targets A, B, C and D that each include a portion of the first and second structures are provided. The target A is designed to have an offset Xa between its first and second structures portions; the target B is designed to have an offset Xb between its first and second structures portions; the target C is designed to have an offset Xc between its first and second structures portions; and the target D is designed to have an offset Xd between its first and second structures portions. Each of the offsets Xa, Xb, Xc and Xd is different from zero, and Xa is an opposite sign and differ from Xb.
US07876439B2
A target system for determining positioning error between lithographically produced integrated circuit fields on at least one lithographic level. The target system includes a first target pattern on a lithographic field containing an integrated circuit pattern, with the first target pattern comprising a plurality of sub-patterns symmetric about a first target pattern center and at a same first distance from the first target pattern center. The target system also includes a second target pattern on a different lithographic field, with the second target pattern comprising a plurality of sub-patterns symmetric about a second target pattern center and at a same second distance from the second target pattern center. The second target pattern center is intended to be at the same location as the first target pattern center. The centers of the first and second target patterns may be determined and compared to determine positioning error between the lithographic fields.
US07876415B2
A display substrate includes a base substrate, a thin-film transistor (TFT), a pixel electrode, a pad part, and a cell-gap compensating part. The base substrate has a display region, a seal region surrounding the display region, and a peripheral region surrounding the seal region. The TFT is in the display region. The pixel electrode is connected to a drain electrode of the TFT and contacts the base substrate. The pad part is interposed between a first side of the base substrate and the seal region and is connected to the TFT through a first transmission line. The cell-gap compensating part is in the seal region and includes a compensating pattern adjacent to a second side of the base substrate and an insulating pattern on the compensating pattern.
US07876401B2
A method for manufacturing LCD includes providing a bottom substrate, applying a sealant on its top surface, providing a liquid crystal mixture including a vertical alignment liquid crystal material and at least one reactive monomer which are surrounded by the sealant, providing a top substrate so that its bottom surface covers the sealant and the bottom substrate, performing a pre-curing process to pre-cure the sealant under a first temperature, and performing an active curing process under a second temperature, wherein the second temperature is higher than the first temperature.
US07876399B2
A light shutter includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode, wherein the first and second electrodes are capacitively coupled to each other by the third electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode can be segmented and the segments separately addressed. In a display having a light shutter and an EL panel stacked on the same side of a substrate, there is a common front electrode and separate rear electrodes for operating the light shutter and the EL panel. The common electrode is electrically floating and the rear electrodes are capacitively coupled to each other by the common front electrode. The rear electrodes can be segmented and the segments separately addressed.
US07876398B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus is configured such that protrusions penetrate through the through holes of the fitting portions of a reflection sheet, and such that each short side of a diffusion plate and a diffusion sheet stacked on the diffusion plate fits with the step portion of a light frame, and each long side thereof is in contact with the protrusion.
US07876397B2
A backlight (5) for a 3D display device, the backlight (5) comprising a planar light guide (7) through which light is guided transversely by internal reflection. The light guide (7) is provided with a plurality of grooves (8), which are configured to direct light propagating within the light guide (7), out of a face (7f) of the light guide (7) so as to form a plurality of line light sources.
US07876396B2
A backlight assembly comprises a light source unit emitting light, a heat-blocking plate disposed over the light source unit to prevent heat generated from the light source unit from being upwardly transmitted, and a receiving container receiving the light source unit and the heat-blocking plate. The receiving container includes a bottom plate and a plurality of sidewalls. Each of the sidewalls extends from a side of the bottom plate and has openings formed through each of the sidewalls. The openings are formed over the heat-blocking plate.
US07876395B2
A backlight module is provided. The backlight module includes a frame, a plurality of light emitting elements, at least one photo sensor device and a diffusing plate. The frame has a bottom plate on which the plurality of light emitting elements are disposed. The photo sensor device is distributed on the bottom plate and among the plurality of light emitting elements. It is to be noted that the photo sensor device includes a light mixing component having a receiving space configured at a bottom thereof, and a photo sensor chip received in the receiving space. The diffusing plate is disposed in the frame and above the light emitting elements and the photo sensor device. The backlight module has an excellent light outputting performance and an LCD using the same has better displaying performance.
US07876388B2
The charging voltage of a pixel electrode varies when there is a photo-misalignment of the pixel electrode, and such variation degrades the display quality. An array substrate that prevents fluctuation in the charging voltage of a pixel electrode is presented. The array substrate includes a pixel electrode, a gate wiring formed on the pixel electrode, and a data wiring that includes a first data line and a second data line formed two sides of the pixel electrode. A first voltage-maintaining electrode is separated from a first side of the first data line by a first distance, and a second voltage-maintaining electrode is separated from a second side of the first data line by a second distance. Both voltage-maintaining electrodes are electrically connected to the pixel electrode. A thin-film transistor is electrically connected to the gate wiring, the data wiring and the pixel electrode.
US07876384B2
Rear projection imaging system with image warping distortion correction system and associated method
A rear projection imaging system with an image warping distortion correction system using a camera and processing unit to generate a warping map that corrects for image distortion. The warping map is generated in an iterative process by displaying a known pattern on a viewing screen and, through the use of a camera, having a microprocessor determine the location and shape of the pattern on the screen. The microprocessor then compares the displayed image to the original reference image, calculates the distortion effects present in the projection optics, and generates a warping map.
US07876382B2
A television program display apparatus displays a small area selected from a plurality of small areas in an enlarged scale on the basis of position information and magnification information of the small area, and displays program information indicating the contents of a received program and video data of the program in the small area displayed in an enlarged scale.
US07876374B2
Disclosed herein is an image display system including a display apparatus, an imaging apparatus placed on a movable body; and a server apparatus. The display apparatus and the imaging apparatus are capable of communicating with the server apparatus. The imaging apparatus includes: an imaging section; a speed detection section; and a control section that controls transmission of image data and speed information to the server apparatus. The server apparatus includes: a movable body speed management section that manages the moving speed of the movable body using the speed information; and a control section that identifies an imaging apparatus that matches speed specification information, and causes image data to be transferred from the identified imaging apparatus to the display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display section; and a control section that performs a speed specification process, an image request transmission process, and a display process.
US07876371B2
An imager includes a successive approximation analog-to-digital converter (SA-ADC) and an arithmetic memory. The successive approximation analog-to-digital converter converts analog representations of pixel reset and image signals for a pixel to digital representations of the pixel reset and image signals. The arithmetic memory generates a difference signal that represents the difference between the digital representations of the pixel reset signal and the pixel image signal using a most-significant-bit-first (MSB-first) calculation.
US07876358B2
A printing apparatus 1000 records an image on a recording medium. The printing apparatus is provided with communication means for communicating with a digital camera 3012, digital camera recognizing means for recognizing the digital camera 3012, and status display means for displaying the operation status of the printing apparatus 1000. In a status where the status display means is displaying a status wherein a power supply is turned off, the communicating means communicates with the digital camera 3012. When the digital camera is recognized by the digital camera recognizing means, a display by the status display means can be changed from the printing apparatus side.
US07876355B2
Methods and apparatuses to detect presence of undesirable video abnormalities during, for example, video ingest or playback. These undesirable characteristics may include an average picture level that is less than a preset threshold value, or static input, in which the content does not change over a significant number of frames. Detection of abnormalities results in an alarm to a system operator. Analysis and alarm may occur automatically during processing of video data streams. The same abnormalities may be detected during playback of the image data.
US07876353B2
An apparatus for viewing an event at an event site includes a plurality of cameras disposed about an event site, the cameras providing views of the event site from at least two different camera angles, and a viewer in communication with the plurality of cameras, the viewer enabling a user to selectively view the event by means of at least two of the plurality of cameras.
US07876342B2
In an image forming apparatus for forming a color image by superposing component color images, a control device obtains position data representing a forming position of each of plural registration mark images for the component color images with respect to a positional reference value arbitrarily determined, divides the position data into each of a unit reference range representing a range in which one mark image is formed, converts the position data divided for each unit reference range into those based on respective reference values representing the front edge of the unit reference ranges, extracts the position data representing ranges common to the mutually overlapping ranges each of which is represented by a couple of position data corresponding to the rising and falling edges of a passage timing pulse as read position data of the mark image of the component color, and calculates the amounts of positional deviations of the component color images from one another on the basis of the position data extracted.
US07876341B2
A display device comprises a display panel comprising high brightness subpixel repeating groups—for example, RGBW display panels. Displays comprise subpixel repeating groups that in some embodiments are part-striped colored subpixels and part-checkerboard pattern colored subpixels.
US07876335B1
A system redacts content in a multi-layered document by executing a content modifier process that redacts a first portion of content in a source layer and then automatically redacts related content in at least one target layer. The content modifier process overlays the source redaction region on corresponding areas of other layers in the document to identify target redaction regions in those other layers that contain target content. In turn, the content modifier process automatically identifies and redacts the target content within target redaction regions.
US07876333B2
A method of displaying a computer application comprising a plurality of objects within an initially transparent application window comprises creating an animated content window below the application window for each animated content object of the computer application and directing the player responsible for playing the animated content object to draw the animated content directly therein. The objects of the computer application are examined and a clipping mask for each animated content object corresponding generally to the animated content window created therefor is defined. Starting from bottom to top, an object from the list is selected. If the selected object is not an animated content object, the object is drawn within the application window except in areas corresponding to the clipping masks. If the selected object is an animated content object, the clipping mask defined for animated content object is removed, thereby to allow selected objects in the list above the animated content object to be drawn thereover.
US07876321B2
The invention discloses a method for the transforming of a 2D image into a 3D image. The method comprises the steps of: (a) selecting an object of 2D image; (b) setting a base line in the 2D image; (c) base on the base line, judging whether the object is located on the foreground or background of the 2D image; (d) offering a displacement to the object; (e) moving the object with the displacement to generate a plurality of continuous images; and (f) sequentially outputting each of the continuous images to generate the 3D image. Accordingly, after the user selects an object of 2D image, the method of the invention will automatically transform the 2D image into the 3D image.
US07876315B2
A thin image display apparatus includes a thin image display apparatus body, a hollow support member having a first end at which the hollow support member supports the thin image display apparatus body through a rocking mechanism section and a second end at which a plug element configured to engage with an illumination apparatus wiring member attached to the ceiling or a wall is provided, and a power line extending through the hollow support member and configured to connect the plug element and the thin image display apparatus body to each other. The thin image display apparatus body receives, when the plug element engages with the illumination apparatus wiring member, power supplied through the power line together with a modulated image signal supplied through the power line such that an image based on the modulated image signal is displayed on the thin image display apparatus body.
US07876302B2
A driving circuit for an electro-optical panel, in which a plurality of pixel portions are provided in an image display region, has a plurality of power supply lines that are respectively supplied with a plurality of power supplies having different potentials from a power supply circuit, a shift register that outputs transfer signals defining timings at which image signals are supplied to the plurality of pixel portions, a level shifter that is connected to at least one power supply line and another power supply line supplied with different potentials among the plurality of power supply lines and that increases the voltage levels of the output transfer signals by using the power supplies having the different potentials supplied through the one power supply line and another power supply line, and an electrostatic protecting circuit having a diode that is provided between the one power supply line and another power supply line and that forms an electrical path to release static electricity applied to one of the one power supply line and another power supply line to the other.
US07876293B2
An image display system comprises a pixel driving circuit. A storage capacitor is coupled between the first and second nodes. The first switch is turned on in the first and second periods. The second switch, coupled to the first node, is turned on in the first and second periods. The third switch, coupled between the second node and the first switch, is turned on in the first, third and fourth periods. The fourth switch, coupled between the second switch and the first voltage, is turned on in the first, third and fourth periods. The fifth switch, coupled between the second node and the first voltage, is turned on in the first, second and third periods. The sixth switch, coupled between the first node and the reference voltage, is turned on in the fourth period. The first transistor is coupled between the first and second switches and is turned on in the fourth period. During the second period, the voltage between source and gate of the first transistor is a threshold voltage. The electroluminescent element emits light in the fourth period.
US07876292B2
An active matrix organic light emitting diode AMOLED driving circuit using current feedback that ensures the uniformity of brightness in pixels of a flat panel display and shortens the time required to input accurate current to respective pixels in the driving circuit.The prevent invention provides an AMOLED driving circuit using current feedback, comprising: a current digital-to-analog converter outputting a current corresponding to input digital data; a first differential amplifier connected to the current digital-to-analog converter and controlling the input data current and a driving current of a driving transistor of a pixel circuit to be identical to each other; a current mirror mirroring driving current of an organic light emitting diode of the pixel circuit to an input side of the first differential amplifier; and a second differential amplifier coupled to the current mirror and controlling charge and discharge speeds of parasitic capacitance of the pixel circuit.
US07876287B2
A system with a main monitor for a host computer and a second, mini monitor for displaying a portion of the display normally intended for the main monitor. In one embodiment, the mini monitor is connected to the computer over a shared, peripheral bus, such as the universal serial bus (USB). The smaller size of the mini monitor and either compression or slower refresh rates allow it to be connected to the USB just like other peripheral devices.
US07876286B2
In a multi-display device, first and second panels, each of which has a display device, are stuck fast to each other to embody a screen. The first panel has an interface surface formed of a hard material, and the second panel has an interface surface formed of a soft material. Thus, the soft material is elastically compressed and transformed by the hard material so that the two panels are closely in contact with each other, and formation of air gaps is prevented at the joint between the panels. As a result, image cutting in a screen due to a luminance difference can be minimized so that an image can be naturally connected between the two panels.
US07876282B2
As described herein vascular anchoring systems are used to position an implant in a vascular area such as a bifurcated vasculature with relatively high fluid flow, for instance, in an area of a pulmonary artery with associated left and right pulmonary arteries. Implementations include an anchoring trunk member having a first anchoring trunk section and a second anchoring trunk section. Further implementations include a first anchoring branch member extending from the anchoring trunk member. Still further implementations include a second anchoring branch member extending from the anchoring trunk member.
US07876279B2
An antenna having a plurality of resonant frequencies and including a feed point; a ground point; and an antenna track extending between the feed point and the ground point and including, in series, a first small loop, a large loop and a second small loop. In one embodiment, the extension of the antenna track through the first U-shaped small loop displaces the antenna track in a first direction, then the extension of the antenna track through the large U-shaped loop displaces the antenna track in a second direction opposite to the first direction and the extension of the antenna track through the second U-shaped small loop displaces the antenna track in the first direction. A bridge element may be used.
US07876273B2
An apparatus including a first conductive cover portion defining an interior surface and an exterior surface of the apparatus; an antenna element, connected to a feed point and arranged to operate in at least a first resonant frequency band; a conductive element, positioned between the interior surface of the first conductive cover portion and the antenna element, and arranged to couple with the first conductive cover portion, wherein the combination of the conductive element and the first conductive cover portion are operable in a second resonant frequency band, different to the first resonant frequency band and are arranged to be contactlessly fed by the antenna element.
US07876272B2
Various embodiments are directed to antenna designs that may improve the performance of a mobile computing device. Some embodiments are directed to a mobile computing device assembly comprising accessory incorporating a supplemental antenna designed to be adjacent to at least one internal antenna of a mobile computing device when the accessory is attached to the mobile computing device. The supplemental antenna and the internal antenna may cooperatively form an antenna system for the mobile computing device resulting in improved performance. In various implementations, the use of the supplemental antenna in conjunction with the internal antenna may enhance antenna performance and/or increase antenna efficiency. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07876270B2
A cellular modem card that conforms to a PCMCIA standard includes a balanced antenna. The balanced antenna minimizes susceptibility to limited available ground plane and limited ground connections between the modem card and a host device, such as laptop computer. The balanced antenna may be a dipole antenna, loop antenna, capacitively loaded antenna, or any other suitable balanced antenna.
US07876252B1
In a data acquisition system that captures signal data from one or more input channels, the signal data are compressed prior to transfer or storage. Compression allows the data acquisition system to effectively store more captured signal data in a given amount of memory. The data transfer interface of the data acquisition system requires less bandwidth for transfer of compressed data than for uncompressed data. The compression operations may be performed in real time. The data acquisition system may include one or more analog-to-digital converters to sample analog signals received over the input channels to produce the sampled data for compression. The compressed data are transferred to a processor where they are decompressed prior processing or analysis. This abstract does not limit the scope of the invention as described in the claims.
US07876250B2
An analog to digital conversion circuit comprises a first digital noise cancellation filter (16) configured to provide a signal to cancel quantization noise from an analog to digital converted output signal. In a calibration phase a second digital noise cancellation filter (26) is has an input coupled to an input of the first digital noise cancellation filter (16). Mutually different sets of at least one-filter coefficients are programmed in the first and second digital noise canceling filters (16, 26). A difference is computed of averaged size indications of digital output signals derived using signals from the first and second digital noise cancellation filters (16, 26) using the same input signal. Updates of the sets of at least one filter coefficients are adapted dependent on the difference between the averaged size indications.
US07876243B2
A transmission device configured to transmit a transmission bit string which is an arrangement of a unit bit string of multiple N bits includes: a conversion unit configured to convert the unit bit string into a converted bit string in accordance with a conversion table obtained by obtaining an error rate wherein a k'th bit out of the N bits is in error; obtaining an error expectancy which is an expectancy that a significant bit of the N bits in the unit bit string will err; and creating a conversion table that correlates the unit bit string and a converted bit string obtained by converting the insignificant bit of the unit bit string to a smallest error expectancy bit pattern which is a bit pattern that minimizes the error expectancy of the multiple bit patterns; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the converted bit string.
US07876240B2
A method for decoding elements is disclosed. The method decodes at least a part of the binary stream into a set of elements on the basis of first and second decoding parameters CodlOffset0 and CodIRange, the set of elements comprising a prefix composed of n first elements and a suffix comprising m second elements, the prefix and the suffix being separated by an element called a pivot. The method comprises: determining the value of n on the basis of the first and second decoding parameters and of the values of k consecutive bits of the binary stream, termed k first bits, so as to deduce therefrom the prefix and the value of m; and determining the suffix on the basis of the first and second decoding parameters and of the values of m consecutive bits which follow the n first bits of the k first bits.
US07876233B2
The present disclosure is a system and method to control illumination within a data center, so as to efficiently light areas only when necessary. A path of low level light created between the entrance of the data center and the location of the required machine to access may be provided.
US07876232B2
A data cable includes a plurality of illumination devices, an application module, and a lighting control module. The plurality of illumination devices are adapted to receive a control signal to change an illumination characteristic of the plurality of illumination devices, and the control signal is indicative of a signal characteristic for data to be transmitted over the data cable. The application module is adapted to analyze the data communicated over the data cable to determine the signal characteristic. The lighting control module is connected to the application module and adapted to light the plurality of illumination devices at the data cable based on the signal characteristic.
US07876230B2
A system for detecting and suppressing a fire condition in a storage unit may include a transmitter associated with the storage unit and configured to transmit a first signal upon detection of the fire condition, at least one receiver configured to detect the first signal and configured to provide a second signal indicating detection of the fire condition, and a fire suppression device configured to discharge a fire suppressant material into the storage unit upon detection of the fire condition.
US07876228B2
An implantable medical device, such as a pacemaker or implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD), is configured to automatically detect ingestion of medications to verify that prescribed medications are taken in a timely manner and at the correct dosage. Briefly, individual pills are provided with miniature radio frequency identification (RFID) devices capable of transmitting RFID tag signals, which identify the medication contained within the pill and its dosage. The implanted device is equipped with an RFID transceiver for receiving tag signals from a pill as it is being ingested. The implanted system decodes the tag to identify the medication and its dosage, then accesses an onboard database to verify that the medication being ingested was in fact prescribed to the patient and to verify that the correct dosage was taken. Warning signals are generated if the wrong medication or the wrong dosage was taken. Therapy may also be automatically adjusted. Non-RF-based ID devices are also described, which instead transmit ID data via biphasic current pulses.
US07876227B2
A handheld radio frequency identification (RFID) reader includes a polarization insensitive antenna that enables simultaneous operation in two orthogonal polarization modes. The RFID reader includes an RF communication module and an antenna coupled to the RF communication module. The RF communication module is configured to process RF signals associated with operation of the RFID reader, and the antenna is configured to transmit and receive RF energy associated with operation of the RFID reader. The antenna includes a conductive loop element having a major longitudinal path, and a slot formed in the conductive loop element along the major longitudinal path. The conductive loop element is configured to operate as a first antenna polarized in a first orientation, and the slot is configured to operate as a second antenna polarized in a second orientation.
US07876226B2
A method includes a step of dividing tag IDs of plural wireless tags into groups; a step of sequentially storing tag data items in storage areas provided for the wireless tags, each tag data item including a tag ID and related-tag data constituted by the tag IDs of other wireless tags belonging to the same group as the wireless tag; a step of reading the stored tag data items; a step of generating a list of read tag IDs and a list of related tag IDs, from the tag IDs included in the tag data items read in the tag-data reading step and the related-tag data, and then determining whether the read tags coincide with the related tags; and a step of outputting reading-error data when tag IDs are determined to exist in the list of related tag IDs but not in the list of read tag IDs.
US07876224B2
The invention generally relates to an airborne deployed passive radio frequency identification system and a method to identify an analyte and then to communicate a result of the analyte identification to a receiving station for an analysis and generation of a set of recommended actions. The invention will enhance the situational awareness and preparedness of forward deployed combat troops or security forces by assessing the presence of benign substances or hazardous substances as they advance and enter an area.
US07876221B2
The seal having an IC tag is to be attached to cover a bordering part between the cover and main body of a container. The seal has a base member serving as a support, an antenna provided on one surface of the base member and having a slit, an IC chip connected to the antenna and provided on the antenna, and an adhesive layer provided on that surface of the base-member on which the antenna and the IC chip are provided. The method of attaching a seal having an IC tag is to attach the antenna by using the adhesive layer, so that the seal may overlap both the cover and the main body of the container.
US07876218B2
A secure communication link (24) is provided between a movable barrier operator (23) and a peripheral alarm system (20). Information conveyed via this link is used by one, the other, or both such elements to further inform or direct their respective actions.
US07876215B1
A location-based and preference-based system and method for matching information such as the attributes, interests and/or characteristics profiles of persons with the expressed preferences of mobile users to alert and direct such users to any persons having information matching the user's express preferences. In particular, the system comprises a mobile device such as a GPS-capable PDA that stores the user's preferences and communicates with a server that contains or accesses the profiles of the persons to compare the profiles and preferences. Comparison of the user's preferences with the various profiles allows the user only to be informed of those persons that it is likely to be interested in. The system and method thus provides for a mobile real-time point of interest exchange network.
US07876209B2
An audio visual turn/hazard signaling system in a vehicle can include an electronic user-selectable sound file, a control circuitry containing a solid state relay, a sensor, and an amplifier. The signal system of the invention provides a customizable signal system including a sound file where the operator can choose the volume and frequency to play when turn signal is activated. The signal system of the invention also provides an automatic volume adjuster wherein the safety of the operator while operating a vehicle is enhanced.
US07876204B2
An object detection system is provided for detecting a thermal emitting object in a blind zone proximate to a host vehicle. The system includes a thermal radiation detector located on a host vehicle and configured to sense temperature of multiple coverage zones proximate to the host vehicle. A processor processes temperature sensed by an infrared detector. The processor determines a change in thermal temperature sensed by the infrared detector and determines the presence of an object in the coverage zone based on the change in the sensed temperature. An output provides a signal indicative of an object sensed in the coverage zone based on the determined change in temperature. The thermal radiation detector may include a first infrared detector configured to measure temperature of a first coverage zone by receiving infrared radiation from the first coverage zone, and a second infrared detector configured to measure temperature of second and third coverage zones by receiving infrared radiation from the second and third coverage zones.
US07876188B2
The EMI-free planar inductor is the core technology of the green technology. The EMI-free planar inductor adopts the structure of the closed magnetic field flux IC inductor (CMFFICI). All the magnetic field is confined in a small volume. The magnetic field is parallel to the surface of the chip. The EMI-free planar inductor makes the on-chip LC tank having very high Q and saves a lot of energy. Combining with the gain-boost-Q technology, it makes the high performance clock chip being comparable to the xtalchip. The xtalchip is the inductor being replaced with the crystal in the gain-boost Q resonator. Furthermore, the EMI-free planar inductor makes the highest power efficiency boost-buck converter and the on-chip spinning motor. It makes the PC laser TV projector being implementable.
US07876180B2
There are provided a waveguide forming apparatus, a dielectric waveguide forming apparatus, a pin structure and a high frequency circuit that can optimize a circuit portion provided therein and have high versatility. A waveguide is formed by allowing first and second conductive layers (6, 7) to cooperate with a plurality of control pins (2). A variable high frequency circuit forming portion is freely and simply changed by displacing each control pin (2) between a down-status indicated by Z1 and an up-status indicated by Z2.
US07876173B2
The present invention can control the power of an output from a device, which changes the amplitude of an input and outputs a result of the change, according to the frequency of the input so that the power is close to a desired value. An output control system (1) includes an amplitude changer (2) which controls the ratio of a change in amplitude according to a control signal, a discrete attenuator (14) which outputs an output signal obtained by attenuating an output from the amplitude changer while discretely setting an amount of the attenuation, a measurement result changer (18) which changes a measurement result of the output signal, a set voltage recording unit (24) which records a correspondence between a value of the control signal and a value of the output signal when the input signal is at a predetermined frequency, a measurement result correcting unit (44) which corrects an output from the measurement result changer (18) according to the frequency of the input signal, a target value correcting unit (42) which corrects a target value of the output signal according to the frequency of the input signal, a voltage setting unit (26) which sets the value of the control signal, an attenuation setting unit (12) which sets the amount of the attenuation according to the frequency of the input signal and a change setting unit (13) which sets an amount of the change provided by the measurement result changer (18).
US07876155B2
An apparatus includes an electronic amplifier and an electrical feedback line, a plurality of electrical sources, and an electronic controller. The electrical feedback line connects an output of the electronic amplifier to an input thereof. The electrical sources connect to nodes on the electronic feedback line. The electronic controller is configured to adjust the electrical sources in a manner responsive to a current input to the electrical feedback line.
US07876154B2
A variable gain amplifier (VGA) with a linear-in-dB gain characteristic is provided. The VGA includes: a control signal converter which converts an input gain control signal VC, which is input so that the VGA obtains a linear-in-dB gain characteristic to the maximum gain, into an output gain control signal Vx=VTln((1/m)exp(−VC/VT)−1) (m is a constant, VT=kT/q); and a variable gain amplifier which receives and converts the output gain control signal VX output from the control signal converter so that the gain has a linear-in-dB characteristic. A shape of a gain curve is externally controlled.
US07876148B2
A low pass filter includes a driver unit configured to output a voltage proportional to an input pulse width, a charge/discharge unit configured to charge the output voltage of the driver unit, a comparator unit configured to compare an output voltage of the charge/discharge unit with a reference value to output a square wave signal, and a switching unit configured to switch the charge/discharge unit to an operation state, based on a bandwidth expansion signal.
US07876146B2
A method and an apparatus powers down an analog integrated circuit. A power down circuit is electrically coupled to the analog circuit and is adapted to power down the analog circuit in response to receiving a power down signal. A node protection circuit is electrically coupled to the analog circuit and is adapted to provide a predetermined voltage potential to at least one predetermined node in the analog circuit in response to receiving the power down signal when a voltage potential at the at least one predetermined node is not determined by the power down circuit.
US07876143B2
A phase shifter includes a phase shifting unit for operating at a timing at which a clock signal becomes equal to or greater than a threshold value and outputting periodic signals having phases shifted by 90 degrees from each other; a DC voltage setting unit for setting a voltage value of a DC component of the clock signal input into the phase shifting means; and a clock signal slope varying unit for varying a slope of a rising edge of the clock signal.
US07876138B2
A DLL circuit includes a delay line that generates an internal clock signal by delaying an external clock signal CLK, a counter circuit that sets a delay amount of the delay line, a phase detecting circuit that generates a phase determination signal based on a phase of the external clock signal, and an antialiasing circuit that prohibits the counter circuit to update a count value based on the phase determination signal, in response to a fact that a jitter component included in the external clock signal is equal to or higher than a predetermined frequency. With this configuration, a problem that the internal clock signal is continuously controlled to a wrong direction due to malfunction of aliasing does not occur.
US07876130B2
A data transmitting device and a data receiving device are disclosed. The data transmitting device may include a clock signal generator for generating a clock signal, and a transmitter for generating a transmission signal having the clock signal inserted in a data signal, wherein the clock signal has only a single differential element, and the data signal has two differential elements with an amplitude identical to an amplitude of the clock signal. The clock signal may be embedded and the clock signal may be restored by using the common element of the data signal without any auxiliary reference voltage. As a result, only the data signal line may be used between the data transmitting device and the data receiving device, to reduce the number of transmitting lines. Furthermore, the data transmitting and receiving devices according to embodiments will not need a reference voltage. As a result, the clock signal may be restored smoothly even if the size of the data signal is changing. Further, the amplitude of the clock signal included in the data signal is identical with the amplitude of the data signal. As a result, additional power consumption and EMI may be reduced.
US07876128B1
A voltage sequence output circuit includes a sequence control circuit and a number of voltage output circuits. The sequence control circuit includes a first NOR gate, and the first NOR gate includes a number of the input terminals. The voltage output circuits each includes an input terminal, an output terminal, and a positively enabled tristate buffer connected between the input terminal and the output terminal thereof. The input terminals of the voltage output circuits is connected to the input terminals of the first NOR gate. If all of input terminals of the voltage output circuits are connected with electronic devices, the positively enabled tristate buffer of the voltage output circuits are enabled. The output terminals of the voltage output circuits sequentially output a voltage.
US07876120B2
Provided is a test apparatus for testing a device under test, the test apparatus including: a pattern generating section that inputs a test pattern to the device under test; a judging section that receives an output signal of the device under test, and makes judgment concerning pass/fail of the device under test based on the output signal; an internal circuit that exchanges signals between the device under test and the pattern generating section or the judging section; a first transmission line that connects the internal circuit to the device under test; and a first switch that connects the first transmission line to a ground potential in not testing the device under test, and cuts off the first transmission line from the ground potential in testing of the device under test.
US07876114B2
A wafer probe comprises a contact conductively interconnected with the wall of a waveguide channel and supported by a substrate that projects from an end of a waveguide channel.
US07876107B2
An obstacle detection system includes a static capacitance detection module including a sensor strip for detecting a static capacitance, an RF oscillator connected to the sensor strip, a phase lock loop section for maintaining the oscillation frequency of the RF oscillator to a selected value and a first MCU for controlling the operation of the phase lock loop section, a control module including a second MCU for remotely controlling the first MCU of the static capacitance detection module and a transmission line for connecting the static capacitance detection module and the control module and transmitting the information acquired by the first MCU so as to be transmitted to the control module, a control signal to be transmitted from the second MCU to the first MCU and drive power of the static capacitance detection module.
US07876100B2
A method and apparatus for actively controlling quench protection of a superconducting magnet includes a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system and a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program comprising instructions which when executed by a computer cause the computer to detect a quench condition of the superconducting magnet. The instructions also cause the computer to actively control a quench protection system of the superconducting magnet in response to the detected quench condition.
US07876097B2
A local coil arrangement for a magnetic resonance apparatus has a support structure with an antenna arrangement and a sensor arrangement embedded in the support structure. The antenna arrangement has a number of magnetic resonance antennas. A magnetic resonance excitation signal can respectively be emitted by means of each magnetic resonance antenna and/or a magnetic resonance signal can respectively be received by means of each magnetic resonance antenna. The sensor arrangement has a number of magnetic field sensors and an evaluation circuit. The magnetic field sensors detect how large a static magnetic field is to which the local coil arrangement is exposed and output a corresponding output signal and supply a corresponding output signal to the evaluation circuit. The evaluation circuit determines a logical presence signal and outputs it. The value of the logical presence signal depends on whether a field strength of the static magnetic field is greater than a minimum field strength.
US07876091B2
A magnetic encoder is provided, in which a large output voltage (a large amplitude) is obtained so that the magnetic encoder can have a strong resistance to external noise and so that malfunction can be prevented.Each of first to fourth magnetoresistance elements A1, A2, A3, and A4 has at least a pinned layer, and a free layer in which an internal magnetization direction changes in accordance with external magnetic fields emitted by a magnetic body 11. A magnetization direction α of the pinned layer is set to be in a first direction (a direction Z2) that is parallel to an outer peripheral side surface 11A and that is perpendicular to rotation directions ra1-ra2, or is set to be in a second direction (a direction Z1) that is opposite to the first direction. Additionally, an initial magnetization direction β of the free layer is set to be in the first direction (the direction Z2) or the second direction (the direction Z1). When a pitch of N and S poles adjacent to one another in the rotation direction is denoted by λ, a pitch of the magnetoresistance elements A1, A2, A3, and A4 is set to a pitch of λ/2.
US07876077B2
The invention presents a control circuit and a control method of DC-DC converter capable of suppressing subharmonic oscillation of coil current even if the on-duty is over 50%. An error amplified signal V1 is an output voltage of an error amplifier ERA1. An offset voltage unit Ve2 outputs a lower limit set voltage V2 obtained by subtracting offset voltage e2 from error amplified signal V1. A voltage comparator COMP2 compares lower limit set voltage V2 output from offset voltage Ve2, and output voltage signal VIL. When the voltage value of output voltage signal VIL is decreased to lower limit set voltage V2 (region E2), the output of voltage comparator COMP2 changes from low level to high level. As a result, main transistor FET1 is set in conductive state. On the other hand, when the voltage value of output voltage signal VIL reaches an error amplified signal V1 (region E1), main transistor FET1 is set in non-conductive state.
US07876076B2
A DC-DC converter for preventing through current from causing erroneous operation of an ideal diode. A first transistor for receiving input voltage is connected to an ideal diode, which includes a second transistor and a comparator for detecting current flowing through the second transistor and generating a detection signal. A control circuit generates a switching signal for turning the first transistor on and off so as to keep the output voltage constant. A pulse generation circuit generates a pulse signal for turning off the second transistor before the first transistor is turned on and keeping the second transistor turned off for a predetermined period from when the first transistor is turned on. An erroneous operation prevention circuit generates a control signal for keeping the second transistor turned off from when the second transistor is turned off to when the first transistor is turned on.
US07876075B1
A control circuit and control method for a power converter detects change of the output voltage of the converter, and performs the time-optimal control function when the change exceeds the default value. According to the voltage slew rate detected at the time of the change exceeding the default value, a time interval T1 from the change exceeding the default value being detected to the current of the inductor rising to be the same as the output current of the converter is estimated, and the time intervals T2 and T3 are figured out based on the time interval T1. The parasitic resistance of the output capacitor of the converter is taken into account during estimating process such that even if the output capacitor has larger parasitic resistance, the output voltage can be back to the steady state value accurately to avoid the time-optimal control being triggered repeatedly.
US07876069B2
A fuel cell 1 and an electric double-layer capacitor 2 are parallelly arranged for a power supply. A DC/DC converter 3 steps up voltage of the fuel cell 1 and the electric double-layer capacitor 2, to thereby output power. An output switch 5 is disposed on an output pathway of the DC/DC converter 3. By controlling the output switch 5 with a control IC 4, output power can be switched on and off. When there is a fuel shortage or abnormality in the fuel cell 1, the control IC 4 controls the output switch 5, to thereby intermittently alter the output power. With this configuration, when the power supply is used for a mobile telephone as a portable electronic device connected thereto, a user can confirm whether there is a fuel shortage or a fuel cell abnormality by checking of blinking state of a charge pilot lamp of the mobile telephone.
US07876062B2
A first member has a magnet assembly that includes at least one permanent magnet pair, and a second member includes an electromagnetic coil. A control circuit controls the supply of power to the electromagnetic coil as well as regeneration of power from the electromagnetic coil. The permanent magnet pair generates its strongest magnetic field along a magnetic field direction on homopolar contact planes where first magnetic poles contact one another, outward from the center of the permanent magnet pair along the magnetic field direction. The electromagnetic coil is positioned such that current will flow in a direction intersecting the magnetic field direction.
US07876061B2
A method of operating a power system is provided, the power system having power-system controls. The method may include automatically setting a priority ranking for a plurality of generator units of the power system with the power-system controls based at least in part on an operating parameter of each generator unit indicative of a quantity of work done by the generator unit. The method may also include automatically controlling which of the generator units run with the power-system controls based at least in part on the priority ranking of the generator units.
US07876058B2
Systems and methods for backlighting an image display by independently driving multiple backlights for the display. The display may be, for example, a LCD display panel of a portable information handling system such as a battery-powered notebook computer that employs two or more cold cathode fluorescent lamps (CCFLs) for backlighting the LCD display. The multiple backlights may be independently driven, for example, using a common inverter that is capable of independently driving two or more backlight lamps, or by driving each backlight lamp with a separate inverter.
US07876055B2
An economical device for lighting lamps such as discharge tubes. The lamp-lighting apparatus has an inverter transformer, a switching circuit connected with the primary winding of the inverter transformer and acting to perform switching for converting a voltage from an input power supply, a shunt transformer connected in series with the secondary winding of the inverter transformer, lamps connected in series with the shunt transformers, and a control circuit for producing a control signal to control the switching performed by the switching circuit based on the voltages at the junctions of the shunt transformer and each of the lamps without directly detecting the voltage applied to the secondary winding of the inverter transformer. The number of protective circuits can be reduced. Consequently, the cost can be reduced.
US07876047B2
A plasma display panel having a uniformly distributed firing voltage despite of irregular discharge gaps, the plasma display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate facing the first substrate, barrier ribs between the first and second substrates to define discharge cells, address electrodes corresponding to the discharge cells and extending in a first direction, first and second electrodes respectively extending in a second direction crossing the first direction and formed on any one of the first and second substrates, corresponding to the discharge cells, and a dielectric layer covering the first and second electrodes, where the first and second electrodes are spaced apart from each other to form a discharge gap having distances, the dielectric layer having varied permittivities according to distances of the discharge gaps to improve discharge uniformity according to the distances of the discharge gaps.
US07876041B2
An organic light emitting display device according to one or more embodiments is provided. An organic light emitting display device according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes a reinforcement member disposed on a substrate and having a refractive index of greater than about 2.1, a transflective electrode disposed on the reinforcement member and contacting the reinforcement member, a pixel electrode disposed on the transflective electrode and contacting the transflective electrode, an organic light emitting member disposed on the pixel electrode, and a common electrode disposed on the organic light emitting member.
US07876040B2
An electroluminescent (EL) device includes a plurality of first transistors provided over a first area of a substrate and a plurality of second transistors provided over a second area of the substrate. A plurality of light emitting elements, each including an EL layer, are coupled to corresponding ones of the first transistors, and at least one insulating layer is provided on at least one of the plurality of first transistors or the plurality of second transistors. A conductive layer having a multilayer structure is then provided over at least one of the plurality of second transistors and on the at least one insulating layer.
US07876037B2
The invention provides an organic electroluminescence device having an input function, including: an element substrate that has a light-emitting layer sandwiched between a positive electrode and negative electrode in each of a plurality of sub pixel regions that are arrayed in a matrix pattern; a sealing substrate that seals the element substrate; and a touch panel section that is provided at the outer-surface side of the sealing substrate. In such a configuration of the organic electroluminescence device having an input function according to an aspect of the invention, the negative electrode is formed on an individual basis so as to correspond to the display color of each of the sub pixel regions; and the sealing substrate has a shield conductor that is formed on the element-substrate side of the sealing substrate, the shield conductor having a fixed potential.
US07876025B2
A tubular piezoelectric transducer comprising a tube of piezoelectric material and having a plurality of external electrodes for inducing in a first end of the tube at least one movement of a plurality of possible movements; at least two spokes attached to and extending radially inwardly of the tube for movement with the first end; a hub at an inner end of the at least two spokes and being located on the longitudinal axis of the tube, the hub being attached to the at least two spokes for movement therewith; the hub being for receiving therein a probe for movement of the probe with the hub. A phaco-probe incorporating the transducer is also disclosed.
US07876020B2
A boundary acoustic wave device is capable of reducing insertion loss and the absolute value of the temperature coefficient of frequency (TCF). The boundary acoustic wave device utilizes a boundary acoustic wave propagating along the interface between a piezoelectric substance and a dielectric substance. The piezoelectric substance has a negative temperature coefficient of frequency and the dielectric substance has a positive temperature coefficient of frequency. IDT electrodes include a first conductive layer arranged on a side of the piezoelectric substance, a third conductive layer arranged on a side of the dielectric substance, and a second conductive layer arranged between the first and third conductive layers and composed of a metal having a lower density than those of the first and third conductive layers or an alloy primarily containing the metal. If thicknesses of the first, second, and third conductive layers are H1, H2, and H3, and a period of the IDT electrodes is λ, 0.04λ
US07876015B2
Plate-shaped projections are provided on a front insulator in such a manner as to project towards a front housing. In addition, projecting pieces are provided on a surface of each projection which confronts an inner circumferential surface of a stator housing. The projecting pieces are provided on each projection in such a manner as to form three rows which are parallel to an inner circumferential direction of the stator housing. Spaces between the respective rows constitute guide paths by which the transition wirings which connect between the coils are disposed on the projection in such a manner as to be spaced apart from each other.
US07875997B2
A circuit interruption device (110) is provided in which an interruption element (112) and a fuse element (114) are configured electrically in parallel. The interruption element includes an electrical conductor and a current interrupter capable of severing the electrical conductor to eliminate its capacity to carry current. An exemplary embodiment of a circuit interruption device is capable of detecting an interrupt control signal and actuating in response to the signal.
US07875991B2
The present invention concerns a method of operating a wind power installation comprising an electric generator drivable by a rotor for outputting electrical power to an electrical consumer, in particular an electrical network.The invention further concerns a wind power installation comprising a rotor and an electric generator coupled to the rotor for outputting electric power to an electrical consumer, in particular an electrical network.The object of the present invention is to provide a method of operating a wind power installation, and a wind power installation, which avoid the disadvantages of the state of the art and in particular avoid voltage over-fluctuations at the consumer, in particular an electrical network, and unwanted shut-down of the wind power installation.In a method of the kind set forth in the opening part of this specification, that object is attained by the invention in that the power delivered to the network by the wind power generator is regulated in dependence on the applied network voltage of the power supply network.
US07875986B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device in which pads on a chip which are wire-bonded to lands for solder-balls of a package, respectively, are arranged on first and second sides of the chip facing to each other and are disposed on a third side of the chip as well. Four sets of the pads for data signals are respectively disposed on four regions obtained by dividing the first and second sides into the four regions. Pads for command/address signals are arranged on the third side, thereby increasing layout space for bond fingers for the data signals and achieving uniformity in wiring for data signals.
US07875981B2
To provide an insulating film material that can be advantageously used for forming an insulating film having a low dielectric constant and excellent resistance to damage, such as etching resistance and resistance to liquid reagents, a multilayer interconnection structure in which a parasitic capacitance between the interconnections can be reduced, efficient methods for manufacturing the multilayer interconnection structure, and an efficient method for manufacturing a semiconductor device with a high speed and reliability. The insulating film material contains at least a silicon compound having a steric structure represented by Structural Formula (1) below. where, R1, R2, R3, and R4 may be the same or different and at least one of them represents a functional group containing any of a hydrocarbon and an unsaturated hydrocarbon.
US07875975B2
Organic integrated circuit completely encapsulated by multi-layered barrier and included in RFID tag
An electronic circuit having at least one electronic component comprised of an organic material, and arranged between at least two layers forming a barrier, wherein the layers protect the at least one component against an influence of light, air or liquid.
US07875973B2
A microelectronic combination and a method of making the combination. The combination includes a package substrate including a substrate body having a peripheral surface and contacts disposed at the peripheral surface; and a surface mount component electrically and mechanically bonded to the contacts.
US07875968B2
Leadframe for a semiconductor package and manufacturing from such leadframe including a plurality of connection leads supported in a frame. Die mounting plate is centrally located in the leadframe and is supported by a plurality of support leads which are electrically connected to the die mounting pad and extending in a direction outwardly therefrom towards the frame. Each support lead is formed with a connection pad portion and a down set link portion. Each connection pad portion is spaced from the die mounting plate and is connected to a conductive bonding ground wire from a semiconductor device mounted on the die mounting plate. Each down set link portion is electrically connected to the die mounting pad and supports the die mounting pad in a spaced arrangement from the connection leads. The connection pad portion and the down set link portion overlap, in the direction of extension of the support lead.
US07875966B2
A stacked integrated circuit and package system including attaching a first top integrated circuit over an upper surface of a top substrate, attaching a second top integrated circuit over a lower surface of the top substrate, forming top electrical connectors on the lower surface of the top substrate, and connecting a bottom package to the top electrical connectors.
US07875957B2
Provided is a semiconductor substrate for epitaxial growth which does not require any etching treatment as a pretreatment in the stage of performing an epitaxial growth of HgCdTe film. A CdTe system compound semiconductor substrate for the epitaxial growth of the HgCdTe film is housed in an inactive gas atmosphere, in a predetermined period of time (for example, 10 hours) after mirror finish treatment thereof, to thereby regulate the proportion of Te oxide of the total amount of Te on the substrate surface which is obtained by XPS measurement so as to be not more than 30%.
US07875954B2
Provided is a semiconductor chip (1) including: at least one fuse element (21); a fuse opening (17) formed above the fuse element (21); and a discharge electrode (31) that is formed below a bottom portion (17a) of the fuse opening (17), and is formed in one of the same layer with the fuse element (21) and the above layer of the fuse element (21). Accordingly, the current caused to flow due to the electrostatic discharge generated at the time of assembling the semiconductor chip can be discharged through the discharge electrode (31). As a result, the current caused to flow due to the electrostatic discharge generated at the time of assembling the semiconductor chip can be prevented from being discharged through the fuse element, whereby a problem in that a functional failure occurs in the semiconductor chip can be solved.
US07875953B2
An integrated circuit laminate with a metal substrate for use with high performance mixed signal integrated circuit applications. The metal substrate provides substantially improved crosstalk isolation, enhanced heat sinking and an easy access to a true low impedance ground. In one embodiment, the metal layer has regions with insulation filled channels or voids and a layer of insulator such as unoxidized porous silicon disposed between the metal substrate and a silicon integrated circuit layer. The laminate also has a plurality of metal walls or trenches mounted to the metal substrate and transacting the silicon and insulation layers thereby isolating noise sensitive elements from noise producing elements on the chip. In another embodiment, the laminate is mounted to a flexible base to limit the flexion of the chip.
US07875949B2
An image sensor device is disclosed. The image sensor device comprises a substrate having a pixel region and at least one integrated circuit in the substrate of the pixel region. A photodiode is disposed on the substrate of the pixel region, comprising a lower electrode, a transparent upper electrode and a photoelectric conversion layer. The lower electrode is disposed on the substrate and is electrically connected to the integrated circuit. The photoelectric conversion layer is disposed on the lower electrode and has a submicron structure therein. The transparent upper electrode is disposed on the photoelectric conversion layer.
US07875948B2
A backside illuminated image sensor includes a substrate, a backside passivation layer disposed on backside of the substrate, and a transparent conductive layer disposed on the backside passivation layer.
US07875947B2
Provided are color filters formed of alternately stacked inorganic materials having different refractive indices, a color filter array, a method of manufacturing the color filter array, and an image sensor. A color filter can include a substrate and first and second inorganic films configured to filter light of a specific wavelength corresponding to a predetermined color, wherein the first and second inorganic films can be alternately stacked on the substrate and have different refractive indices from each other. The refractive index difference between the first inorganic film and the second inorganic film is at least 0.8. The color filter can be formed by alternately stacking the first and second inorganic films. The first inorganic film and the second inorganic film can have a refractive index of 1.3 to 6.0 in a visible light region of 400 to 700 nm, and can be formed of a material selected from the group consisting of SiO2, SiON, SiN, and Si.
US07875944B2
An integrated vacuum package having an added volume on a perimeter within the perimeter of a bonding seal between two wafers. The added volume of space may be an etching of material from the inside surface of the top wafer. This wafer may have vent holes that may be sealed to maintain a vacuum within the volume between the two wafers after the pump out of gas and air. The inside surface of the top wafer may have an anti-reflective pattern. Also, an anti-reflective pattern may be on the outside surface of the top wafer. The seal between the two wafers may be ring-like and have a spacer material. Also, it may have a malleable material such as solder to compensate for any flatness variation between the two facing surfaces of the wafers.
US07875942B2
An electronic device includes a substrate provided with a passing opening and a MEMS device including an active surface wherein a portion of the MEMS device is integrated sensitive to chemical/physical variations of a fluid. The active surface of the MEMS device faces the substrate and is spaced therefrom, the sensitive portion being aligned to the opening. A protective package incorporates at least partially the MEMS device and the substrate, leaving at least the sensitive portion of the MEMS device, and the opening of the substrate exposed. A barrier element is positioned in an area which surrounds the sensitive portion to realize a protection structure for the MEMS device, so that the sensitive portion is free.
US07875941B2
A method of manufacturing a miniature electromechanical system (MEMS) device includes the steps of forming a moving member on a first substrate such that a first sacrificial layer is disposed between the moving member and the substrate, encapsulating the moving member, including the first sacrificial layer, with a second sacrificial layer, coating the encapsulating second sacrificial layer with a first film formed of a material that establishes an hermetic seal with the substrate, and removing the first and second sacrificial layers.
US07875930B2
The invention provides a semiconductor structure. A first type body doped region is deposited on a first type substrate. A first type heavily-doped region having a finger portion with an enlarged end region is deposited on the first type body doped region. A second type well region is deposited on the first type substrate. A second type heavily-doped region is deposited on the second type well region. An isolation structure is deposited between the first type heavily-doped region and the second type heavily-doped region. A gate structure is deposited on the first type substrate between the first type heavily-doped region and the isolation structure.
US07875917B2
An image sensor and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. In the image sensor, a semiconductor substrate has a pixel region and a peripheral region defined by a first device isolation layer. First and second photodiode patterns are formed on the pixel region and are connected to lower metal lines to first and second readout circuitries. The first photodiode pattern performs as an active photodiode and the second photodiode pattern functions as a dummy pixel. The dummy pixel can measure leakage current.
US07875916B2
An image sensor with an image area having a plurality of photodetectors of a first conductivity type includes a substrate of the second conductivity type; a first layer of the first conductivity type spanning the image area; a second layer of the second conductivity type; wherein the first layer is between the substrate and the second layer, and the plurality of photodetectors is disposed in the second layer and abut the first layer.
US07875915B2
An integrated circuit includes at least one photodiode associated with a read transistor. The photodiode is formed from a stack of three semiconductor layers comprising a buried layer, an floating substrate layer and an upper layer. The drain region and/or the source region of the transistor are incorporated within the upper layer. The buried layer is electrically isolated from the upper layer so as to allow the buried layer to be biased independently of the upper layer.
US07875912B2
The use of atomic layer deposition (ALD) to form a nanolaminate dielectric of zirconium oxide (ZrO2), hafnium oxide (HfO2) and tin oxide (SnO2) acting as a single dielectric layer with a formula of Zrx Hfy Sn1-x-y O2, and a method of fabricating such a dielectric layer is described that produces a reliable structure with a high dielectric constant (high k). The dielectric structure is formed by depositing zirconium oxide by atomic layer deposition onto a substrate surface using precursor chemicals, followed by depositing hafnium oxide onto the substrate using precursor chemicals, followed by depositing tin oxide onto the substrate using precursor chemicals, and repeating to form the thin laminate structure. Such a dielectric may be used as a gate insulator, a capacitor dielectric, or as a tunnel insulator in non-volatile memories, because the high dielectric constant (high k) provides the functionality of a much thinner silicon dioxide film.
US07875909B2
A gate array of a semiconductor substrate on which plural unit cells are arranged in parallel, the unit cells having the same pattern that includes a source potential region VDD, a PMOS, an NMOS and a ground potential region GND. Metal wiring lines being formed, with an insulating layer between, on the unit cells, with contacts that make electrical connection between the metal wiring lines and the unit cell transistors. The gate wiring of a transistor in a non-used unit cell is used in place of a metal wiring line. By doing so, the area of metal wiring lines in a gate array is reduced and the array wiring efficiency is increased.
US07875896B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a positive electrode having high transparency, low contact resistance and excellent current diffusibility and not requiring electron beam irradiation, high-temperature annealing or heat treatment, for alloying, in an oxygen atmosphere.The inventive transparent positive electrode for gallium nitride-based compound semiconductor light-emitting devices comprises a contact metal layer in contact with a p-type semiconductor layer, a current diffusing layer on the contact metal layer, the current diffusing layer having an electrical conductivity larger than that of the contact metal layer, and a bonding pad layer on the current diffusing layer.
US07875895B2
An organic light emitting display includes a substrate, an OLED including an anode electrode, a cathode electrode and an organic thin film formed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, a reflective layer on the OLED, the reflective layer comprising a laminated first material and second material, the first material and the second material having different refractive indices, and an encapsulation layer on the reflective layer, the encapsulation layer comprising at least one of organic thin film and inorganic thin film.
US07875880B2
Disclosed are a light emitting display and a method for fabricating the same. The light emitting display includes a substrate. A thin film transistor is formed on a first region of the substrate, and includes a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, and source/drain electrodes. An organic light emitting diode is electrically coupled to the thin film transistor and includes a first electrode, an emission layer, and a second electrode. A dummy pixel, formed in a second region of the substrate, includes at least one dummy pattern. The dummy pattern is formed of the same material as that of one of the semiconductor layer, the gate electrode, the source/drain electrodes, and the first electrode.
US07875874B2
A semiconductor light emitting device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor light emitting device comprises a first semiconductor layer emitting electrons, a second semiconductor layer emitting holes, and an active layer emitting light by combination of the electrons and holes. At least one of the layers comprises an photo enhanced minority carriers.
US07875861B2
The invention relates to a positioning device for positioning a patient in a medical device comprising a patient receiving device for placing a patient and a robot arm having a plurality of movement axes for positioning the patient receiving device in a room. The positioning device can be placed into a manual operating mode in which a position of the patient receiving device in the room can be changed manually. The invention also relates to a method for operating the positioning device, comprising: providing a normal operating mode for positioning the patient receiving device automatically at a position predefined by a control device; providing a manual operating mode for manually changing a position of the patient receiving device; and switching from the normal operating mode into the manual operating mode if a switchover condition is present. The invention further relates to an irradiation device having the positioning device.
US07875858B2
The invention relates to a trajectory correction method for a charged particle beam, and provides a low-cost, high accuracy and high-resolution converging optical system for use with a charged particle beam to solve problems with conventional aberration correction systems. To this end, the present invention uses a configuration which forms electromagnetic field which is concentrated towards a center of a beam trajectory axis, causes oblique of the beam to make use of lens effects and bend the trajectory, and consequently, cancels out large external side non-linear effects such a spherical aberration of the electron lens. Specifically, the configuration generates an electric field concentration in a simple manner by providing electrodes above the axis and applying voltages to the electrodes. Further, the above configuration can be realized trough operations using lenses and deflectors with incident axes and image formation positions that are normal.
US07875850B2
The invention provides a standard component for calibration that enables a calibration position to be easily specified in order to calibrate accurately a scale factor in the electron-beam system, and provides an electron-beam system using it. The standard component for calibration is one that calibrates a scale factor of an electron-beam system based on a signal of secondary charged particles detected by irradiation of a primary electron beam on a substrate having a cross section of a superlattice of a multi-layer structure in which different materials are deposited alternately. The substrate has linear patterns on the substrate surface parallel to the multi-layers and are arranged at a fixed interval in a direction crossing the cross section of the superlattice pattern, and the cross sections of the linear patterns are on substantially the same plane of the superlattice cross section, so that the linear patterns enable a position of the superlattice pattern to be identified.
US07875844B2
An absolute-type encoder includes an absolute-type encoder wheel. The absolute-type encoder wheel includes a primary optical grating unit and two secondary optical grating units, wherein the two secondary optical grating units are arranged outside and inside the primary optical grating unit and contain one less optical grating than that of the primary optical grating unit. The encoder wheel is rotated to find a zero point in the light detection signal of the secondary optical grating unit, and a corresponding light detection value of the primary optical grating unit is also determined based on the zero point. The absolute position of the encoder wheel can be calculated with reference to the corresponding light detection value. The absolute-type encoder can also be used as an incremental-type encoder to provide more versatility.
US07875837B1
A method for engaging a hostile missile with an interceptor missile includes mathematically dividing an estimated target trajectory into portions, the junction of each portion with the next defining a possible intercept point. The engagement for each possible intercept point is modeled, to generate a probability of lethal object discrimination which is processed to generate a probability of intercept for each of the possible intercept points. The intercept point having the largest probability of intercept defines a selected intercept point from which intercept missile launch time is calculated, interceptor missile guidance is initialized, and the interceptor is launched at the calculated launch time and under the control of the interceptor missile guidance. Also, a method for estimating discrimination performance of a system of sensors includes generating sensor data signal-to-noise ratio and an aspect angle between the sensor and a lethal object. A table of probability of lethal object discrimination is generated as a function of the signal-to-noise ratio and aspect angle. The signal-to-noise ratio and the aspect angle are quantized into bins and the table with at least the signal-to-noise ratio and the aspect angle is entered to determine the probability of lethal object discrimination.
US07875836B2
Components for use in a temperature controlled heatable object are provided in which a temperature sensor is connected to a transmitter such as a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag. The RFID tag is encased in a protective overmolding and connected to the temperature sensor via a mineral insulated cable. An end cap containing a potting material (such as silicone or ceramic) is placed over the temperature sensor and laser welded to a sheathing of the mineral insulated cable. A potting material for use in a heatable object is also provided comprising a silicone-based material that is modified by adding bauxite to increase thermal conductivity.
US07875835B2
The present invention makes a proposal of a heating component for a pipe joint which can be easily mounted on a pipe joint and also can stabilize the assembly quality to the pipe joint. The heating component for a pipe joint is characterized in that the heating component for a pipe joint has partially thereon fitting portions each having an inner face shape fitted with a part of an outer shape of the pipe joint, and also, a holding recess portion for holding therein a heating wire is formed on an inner face portion other than the fitting portions; when the heating wire is held in the holding recess portion, and then, the heating component for piping joint is mounted to the joint by fitting the fitting portions with the parts of the outer shape of the joint, the heating wire held in the holding recess portion comes in contact with the pipe joint.
US07875824B2
An electrode assembly and method of centering an outer ring around an electrode assembly in a plasma reaction chamber used in semiconductor substrate processing. The method includes positioning the outer ring around an outer surface of a backing member of the electrode assembly, and inserting at least one centering element between the outer ring and the backing member. The centering element can be a plurality of spring-loaded centering elements received in a cavity on the outer surface of the backing member, the centering elements having a first end adapted to contact the outer ring and a second end adapted to receive a spring. The outer ring surrounds an outer surface of the backing member, such that the plurality of spring-loaded centering elements are positioned between the outer surface of the backing member and an inner surface of the outer ring.
US07875823B1
A hollow rotor shaft for use in a small twin spool gas turbine engine in which the hollow rotor shaft is assembled by welding two hollow shaft sections together to form the single shaft assembly. One of the hollow shaft sections includes a lip that functions to form a snug fit prior to welding and also functions as a weld filler material. The hollow shaft ends each include a hole to allow for pressure equalization during the welding process to prevent bulging of the hollow shaft. To ensure a full penetration weld, an orbital welding process is used while passing an insert gas such as argon through the hollow shaft to minimize the buildup of material on the inner surface of the weld from the welding process. The shaft ends are pre-heated prior to welding. An insert gas is passed through the inner surface of the shaft sections during welding to prevent buildup of material on the inner surface of the hollow rotor shaft. After welding, material is removed from the outer surfaces of the shaft sections to form the outer surface of the hollow rotor shaft. And, then heat treatment at a high temperature while cooling the shaft with the insert gas occurs. Then, a second heat treatment at about half the first temperature occurs while also passing the insert gas through the shaft for cooling. The welded and heat treated hollow shaft is then balanced by removing material from around the holes.
US07875821B2
A method for sorting integrated circuit (IC) devices of the type having a substantially unique identification (ID) code, such as a fuse ID, including automatically reading the ID code of each of the IC devices and sorting the IC devices in accordance with their automatically read ID codes, is disclosed.
US07875819B2
A panel operator structure having operator units respectively disposed in position relative to operator unit insertion holes, thereby preventing key tops of the operator units from being in contact with the insertion holes. Switches are provided on an upper surface of a base plate and operation unit insertion holes are formed in an operation panel made of metal. Each operator unit includes a key top connected for vertical pivot motion to a casing via a hinge, and frame portions continuously formed together in an upper part of wall portions. The key top is disposed inside the frame portions with a gap therebetween. The frame portions fitted in the insertion hole restrict a horizontal positional motion of the operator unit relative to the operator insertion hole.
US07875808B2
An embedded capacitor device within a circuit board having an integrated circuitry thereon is provided. The circuit board has a common coupling area under the integrated circuitry. The embedded capacitor device includes a first capacitor section providing at least one capacitor to a first terminal set of the integrated circuitry and a second capacitor section providing at least one capacitor to a second terminal set of the integrated circuitry. A portion of the first capacitor section is in the common coupling area and has its coupling to the first terminal set located in the common coupling area. Similarly, a portion of the second capacitor section is in the common coupling area and has its coupling to the second terminal set located in the common coupling area.
US07875801B2
A conductive wire includes a plurality of thermoplastic filaments each having a surface, and a coating material having a plurality of carbon nanotubes dispersed therein. The coating material is bonded to the surface of each thermoplastic filament. The thermoplastic filaments having the coating bonded thereto are bundled and bonded to each other to form a substantially cylindrical conductor.
US07875798B2
A mounting box for installation on an exterior wall of a building. The mounting box has a box-shaped structure having a substantially horizontally disposed top surface when in situ, a nailing flange around a perimeter of the box-shaped structure, a downwardly and outwardly inclined shoulder on each side of the top surface, the shoulders each having a shoulder surface and a plurality of notches along an outer edge of the shoulder surface which attract and constrain the flow of water along the shoulders.
US07875796B2
Disclosed is a lightweight reflecting system for the concentration of solar radiation in which the reflecting optic is approximately sinusoidal in cross section and is maintained in this shape by minimal contact with a support frame. The reflector can be a flexible rectangular sheet deformed into a generally sinusoidal trough by compression between fixed or adjustable end supports. The sinusoid can be adjusted to be less than half a cycle by torsion applied to each end of the flexible sheet. A reflective film, polished metal, or similar material on the reflector surface can concentrate sunlight along a diffuse band rather than a sharp line, providing improved concentration levels for photovoltaic cells. The reflectors and their support frames can be mounted singly or severally on a tracking device that maximizes instantaneous power output by orienting the collectors toward the sun.
US07875793B2
A solar cell assembly includes a first solar cell panel, a second solar cell panel, and at least one light guide assembly. The first solar cell panel has at least one first through hole defined therein. The second solar cell panel faces and is spaced from the first solar cell panel. The at least one light guide assembly comprises a light diverging lens engaged in the first through hole of the first solar cell panel, and a light guide body aligned with the light diverging lens and located between the first and second solar cell panels. The light diverging lens is configured for diverging sunlight incident thereupon and forming diverged light. The light guide body has an incident surface for receiving the diverged light, and emitting surfaces for emitting light to the second solar cell panel.
US07875790B2
A method of preparing a thermoelectric material includes the following steps. A thermoelectric raw material can be filled into a cavity of a first mold so that the thermoelectric raw material filled in the cavity has first and second dimensions. The first dimension can be defined in a first direction. The second dimension can be defined in a second direction. The second direction can be perpendicular to the first direction. The first dimension can be equal to or greater than the second dimension. The thermoelectric raw material filled in the cavity can be cooled in a uniaxial direction that is parallel to the second direction at a cooling rate of at least 600° C./min.
US07875789B2
A synthesizer 10 is configured such that when a PC 30 is connected thereto, the synthesizer 10 accepts selection of a tone used for sound generation from among a tone included in an internal tone generation unit 16 and a tone included in a tone generation module 312 provided by the external PC 30, and causes the PC 30 to enable the function of the tone generation module 312, downloads an edit operation accepting program corresponding to the tone generation module 312 from a UI control program memory 315 of the PC 30, and executes the downloaded edit operation accepting program to thereby realize a function of editing data of the tone included in the tone generation module 312, the data being stored in the PC 30, when the tone included in the tone generation module 312 of the PC 30 is selected.
US07875783B2
A spring holding mechanism is adapted to a foot pedal including a spring which applies a tensile force to a rotation shaft interconnected with a drum beater of a bass drum. It includes an external thread (i.e. a bolt) interconnected to one end of the spring, a support member having a hole allowing for the external thread running therethrough, and an internal thread (i.e. a fixing nut) that is engaged with the external thread so as to fix the support member in position, thus limiting the vertical movement of the external thread in an axial direction. A projection and a recess are formed in the support member and the internal thread respectively. The projection having an external slope is engaged with the recess having an internal slope so that the projection is received inside the recess when the internal thread is attached to the support member.
US07875766B2
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated D5684792. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety D5684792. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety D5684792 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety D5684792 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US07875764B2
Nucleotide sequences mediating male fertility in plants are described, with DNA molecule and amino acid sequences set forth. Promoter sequences and their essential regions are also identified. The nucleotide sequences are useful in mediating male fertility in plants. In one such method, the homozygous recessive condition of male sterility causing alleles is maintained after crossing with a second plant, where the second plant contains a restoring transgene construct having a nucleotide sequence which reverses the homozygous condition. The restoring sequence is linked with a hemizygous sequence encoding a product inhibiting formation or function of male gametes. The maintainer plant produces only viable male gametes which do not contain the restoring transgene construct. Increase of the maintainer plant is also provided by self-fertilization, and selection for seed or plants which contain the construct.
US07875763B2
This invention relates to isolated nucleic acid fragments encoding fructosyltransferases. More specifically, this invention relates to polynucleotides encoding 1-FFTs, 6-SFTs, or 1-SSTs. The invention also relates to the construction of a recombinant DNA constructs encoding all or a portion of the fructosyltransferases, in sense or antisense orientation, wherein expression of the recombinant DNA construct results in production of altered levels of the fructosyltransferases in a transformed host cell.
US07875760B2
A reuse apparatus of eutectic salt waste produced in an electro refining process and a method thereof is a technology that in order to collect the eutectic salt of the eutectic salt waste, oxidizes/precipitates nuclides (rare earth and TRU) within the eutectic salt waste, an oxygen dispersing method is used to perform a layer separation into the eutectic salt layer and the precipitate layer. Then, the precipitate layer and eutectic salt layer are separated and collected, so that the eutectic salt layer is directly reused and the eutectic salt within the precipitates is reused by separating and collecting it using distillation/condensation processes. The reuse apparatus of the eutectic salt waste and a method thereof thereby increases the collecting efficiency of the eutectic salt and allows the compositions of the collected eutectic salt to have the same compositions as the eutectic salt used in the electro refining process.
US07875759B2
A process for extracting natural gas liquids (NGLs) from natural gas that involves contacting natural gas from one source with crude, or heavy, oil from a different source under conditions that promote enrichment of the crude or heavy oil with NGLs from the natural gas. Apart from functioning as an absorbent fluid, the crude or heavy oil also functions as the carrier medium for the absorbed. NGLs. When practicing the process, unlike conventional methods, there is no need to regenerate the absorbent fluid, in this case the crude and heavy oil, for recycling.
US07875758B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally disclose membrane-based systems and methods for the separation of propylene and propane that overcome certain issues associated with prior art devices and take advantage of a temperature drop across the associated separation membrane.
US07875756B2
A process for producing lower olefins is disclosed. The technical problem is to overcome the defects presented in the prior art including high reaction pressure, high reaction temperature, low yield and selectivity of lower olefins as the target products, poor stability and short life of catalyst, and limited suitable feedstocks. The disclosed process, which is carried out under the conditions of catalytic cracking olefins and adopts as a feedstock an olefins-enriched mixture containing one or more C4 or higher olefins and optionally an organic oxygenate compound, comprises the steps of: a) letting the feedstock contact with a crystalline aluminosilicate catalyst having a SiO2/Al2O3 molar ratio of at least 10, to thereby produce a reaction effluent containing lower olefins; and b) separating lower olefins from the reaction effluent; wherein, the reaction pressure is from −0.1 MPa to <0 MPa.
US07875750B2
The present invention relates to a process for preparing 2-amino-6-alkyl-amino-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrobenzothiazoles (I) wherein the asterisk (*) represents an asymmetric carbon and R1 is C1-C6 alkyl; their enantiomers or mixtures thereof, their solvates, hydrates or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, comprising: (a) reacting a compound (II) with a secondary amine, optionally in the presence of an acid and a solvent 1, to form an enamine; (b) optionally removing said acid and said solvent 1, and then reacting said enamine with sulfur in the presence of a solvent 2; and (c) reacting the previously obtained compound with cyanamide to obtain the compound (I). Pramipexole, a compound with dopamine D-2 agonist activity, is among the compounds (I) and is useful for the treatment of Parkinson's disease and schizophrenia.
US07875747B2
In accordance with the disclosure, one aspect of the present application is directed to a dispersant compound comprising the reaction product of (i) a hydrocarbyl carbonyl compound, (ii) a polycarbonyl compound having at least three carbonyl acylating functions, and (iii) a primary amine moiety of a polyamine. Methods of making and methods of using the dispersant compound are also disclosed.
US07875737B2
Pyran derivatives of general formula (I) wherein Y is a 5-, 6- or 7-membered ring, preferably a 5-membered ring, methyl or ethyl mono- or polysubstituted, and optionally unsaturated, and R1, R2, R3, R4 are, each independently, a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched C1-5 alkyl or C2-5 alkenyl group, and X is present or absent; when X is present, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9 are all present, and X is a hydrogen atom or an OZ group, wherein Z is a hydrogen atom or a R10 group or a C(O)R10 group; when X is absent, a double bond involving the carbon atom at the 4 position is present and R7, R8 and R9 are present, and one of R5 or R6 is present and the other one is absent, or R5, R6, and R7 are present, and one of R8 or R9 is present and the other one is absent, or R7 is a ═C(R11)(R12) group and R5, R6, R8, R9 are present; and when they are present, each of R5-R12 group is, independently, a hydrogen atom or a linear or branched C1-5 alkyl or C2-5 alkenyl group; and use of at least one pyran derivative of formula (I) as flavoring or fragrant agent.
US07875735B2
Disclosed herein are processes for the preparation of isoflavonoids, in particular haginin E, equol, daidzein, formononetin and the like, in which 7-benzyloxy-3-(4-methoxyphenyl)-2H-1-benzopyran is used as a common starting material.
US07875719B2
The present invention is directed to a process for using n-butanol to prepare an oxycodone base compositions having reduced levels of impurities such as 14-hydroxycodeinone and DHDHC.
US07875718B2
This invention relates to intermediates useful in the preparation of opiate alkaloids, particularly morphinane compounds. The invention also relates to processes for preparing such intermediates and to processes which utilise such intermediates in the synthesis of morphinane compounds.
US07875717B2
The present invention relates to a light emitting metallic compound of Chemical Formula 1 and an organic electroluminescence device including the compound. In the Chemical Formula 1, M is selected from Ir, Pt, Rh, Re, and Os, m is 2 or 3, n is 0 or 1, the sum of m and n is 3, provided that the sum of m and n is 2 when M is Pt. X is an N or P atom, Y is S, O, or Se, and Z is SiR5R6, CR5R6, PR5, S, SO2, carbonyl, or NR5, and L2 is represented by Chemical Formulae 2, 3, or 4.
US07875716B2
The invention relates to compounds of the formula I, or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof: wherein: Z=O or S; n=1-3; R3=—CO2R8, —C(O)SR8, —C(O)NHR8, —C(S)OR8, —C(S)SR8, —C(S)NHR8, —C(NH)SR8 or —C(NH)NHR8, wherein R8 is —H or alkyl; R4=—H, —CH2R5 or —CH2CH2R5, wherein R5 independently has one of the meanings of R3; B=—NR2—, —CH2NR2—, —CH2CH2NR2—, —CH2CHR7— or —CH2O—, wherein R2 is H or a C1-3 alkyl, alkenyl or alkynyl group, and R7 is H or a C1-3 alkyl or alkoxy group; wherein R1=—NH2 or —OH, and C and D are each, independently, a 5- or 6-membered, substituted or unsubstituted, aromatic or non-aromatic ring which may also contain one or more heteroatoms, and C is connected to group B in any available position.
US07875714B1
The present invention describes a novel heavy-metal-free sequence leading to a superior, more economical, and scalable process for the high efficiency conversion of hexaallylhexaazaisowurtzitane (HAllylIW) to hexanitrohexaazaisowurtzitane (CL-20). The process of the present invention avoids both the preparation of benzyl chloride, which uses elemental chlorine, and catalytic hydrogenolysis steps that require palladium metal/compounds.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. It is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope of the claims.
US07875711B2
The invention relates to a double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) targeting X-Box Protein 1 (XBP-1), and methods of using the dsRNA to inhibit expression of XBP-1.
US07875705B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a novel antibody capable of specifically recognizing ROBO1 that is expressed in a cell membrane, a hybridoma that produces the above antibody, a method for producing the above antibody, and a tumor diagnostic agent used in PET comprising the above antibody. The present invention provides a monoclonal antibody capable of specifically recognizing ROBO1 existing on the surface of a cell, which is obtained by immunizing an animal to be immunized with a ROBO1-displaying budded baculovirus recovered from the culture supernatant of host cells infected with a recombinant baculovirus comprising the full-length cDNA of ROBO1 as an antigen.
US07875698B2
A novel polymeric initiator is disclosed comprising a dendritic polymer core with at least one initiating functional group as an end group. The dendritic polymeric core is preferably a hyperbranched polymer. The polymeric initiators are useful in radiation curable compositions such as varnishes, lacquers and printing inks and are especially useful in radiation curable inkjet inks.
US07875696B2
Use of at least one kinked rigid-rod polyarylene of a specific type for its fire resistance properties. Films and coatings consisting of a material comprising the same kinked rigid-rod polyarylene.
US07875691B2
The present invention relates to a polyethylene composition wherein (i) the composition has an MFR2 of 0.05 to 100 g/10 min, (ii) the environmental stress crack resistance ESCR measured according to the FNCT at 12 MPa and 23° C. in hours and the E-modulus EM measured according to ISO 527-2: 1993 satisfy the following relation: ESCR>−0.244 EM h/MPa+416 h (I).
US07875685B2
Apparatus and methods for gas phase polymerization are provided. The method can include polymerizing one or more olefins at gas phase conditions in a reactor comprising one or more process exposed surfaces in the presence of a catalyst system; and treating at least a portion of the one or more process exposed surfaces prior to injecting the catalyst system to reduce the number of surface hydroxyls or access of the catalyst system to the surface hydroxyls on the process exposed surfaces.
US07875684B2
The invention discloses thermosetting water-based paint comprising water-dispersible acrylic polymer particles which are obtained through multi-stage emulsion polymerization of radical polymerizable unsaturated monomers using a specific reactive emulsifying agent, said monomers comprising amido-containing radical polymerizable unsaturated monomer having at least 2 radical polymerizable unsaturated groups per molecule, methacrylic acid and hydroxyl-containing radical polymerizable unsaturated monomer; and coating film-forming methods which use the thermosetting water-based paint.
US07875683B2
The metathetic degradation of nitrile rubber can be improved by use of a combination of metal-carbene complex catalysts with specific transition metal additives.
US07875682B2
Disclosed is a propylene block copolymer having excellent flexibility and impact resistance and showing a good polymer powder form. Also disclosed is a process for producing the copolymer. More specifically, the copolymer is a novel propylene block copolymer which satisfies a specific requirement and is produced by a process comprising continuously performing a multi-step polymerization composed of a former step in which a propylene homopolymer component or a specific propylene copolymer component is produced in the presence of a metallocene catalyst carried on a support and a latter step in which propylene and a specific copolymer component are produced by gas phase polymerization.
US07875679B2
A polypropylene resin composition comprising 40 to 80% of a polypropylene component (A) comprising a copolymer of propylene with ethylene and/or a C4-12 α-olefin, or a homopolymer of propylene, and 20 to 60% of a copolymer component (B) containing copolymer (B-1) and copolymer (B-2), wherein both (B-1) and (B-2) are copolymers of propylene with ethylene and/or a C4-12 α-olefin, in (B-1) the amount of units derived from propylene is more than 50% to 85%, and in (B-2) the amount of units derived from propylene is 15 to 50%, the molecular weight distribution is 3.0 or less, and blockness is 1.3 or less; in which composition the amount of (B-2) is 3% or more, and the ratio of the limiting viscosity of (B-1) to the viscosity of (A). is 1.5 or less, and the ratio of the limiting viscosity of (B-1) to the viscosity of (B-2) is 0.8 or more.
US07875678B2
Compositions, processes, and methods are provided relating to styrenic polymers, including high impact polystyrene (HIPS), also referred to as rubber-modified polystyrene. In one aspect, a process is provided for making high impact polystyrenes, comprising the steps of combining a monovinylarene component, a monovinylarene-conjugated diene block copolymer, and a conjugated diene polymer. In another aspect, the feed components form an emulsion having a continuous phase and a dispersed phase. The continuous phase comprises at least a portion of the monovinylarene component and at least a portion of the conjugated diene polymer. The dispersed phase is suspended within the continuous phase, and comprises globules having at least a portion of the monovinylarene-conjugated diene block copolymer, a remaining portion of the monovinylarene component, and a remaining portion of the conjugated diene polymer. The monovinylarene component is polymerized in the presence of the emulsion alone or in the presence of other feedstocks.
US07875677B2
This invention provides compositions comprising a hydrophobic drug, a biocompatible micelle forming polymer, and a biocompatible low molecular weight, water-soluble polymer. Also provided are devices for injection of such compositions and for the use of such compositions to form hydrophobic drug containing micelles within the body of a patient.
US07875676B2
The present invention is directed to a method for preparing a cellulose reactive adduct of polyvinylamide and a composition resulting from the method. The preparation of the cellulose reactive adduct is carried out close to a Critical Concentration defined herein. When the reaction is run close to this Critical Concentration, the risk of gelation is minimized, consumed glyoxal is maximized, and shelf live is enhanced. Additionally, the glyoxalated vinylamides of the present invention impart improved wet and dry strengthening efficiency to paper and paperboard when compared to adducts disclosed in previously described art.
US07875673B2
An aqueous siloxane resin containing emulsion is prepared by: (i) adding water, at least one nonionic surfactant, optionally adding an ionic surfactant, and a catalyst, to a reaction vessel, and heating the contents of the vessel to form a mixture; (ii) adding to the mixture at least one silane monomer of the formula RSi(OR′)3; (iii) optionally, adding to the mixture, silane monomers of the formula R2Si(OR′)2 or R3SiOR′; (iv) allowing the silane monomer to hydrolyze and condense by a polymerization reaction in the catalyzed aqueous mixture; (v) terminating the reaction by neutralizing the mixture; and (vi) recovering from the mixture a siloxane resin emulsion containing a siloxane resin.
US07875667B2
Disclosed are a long-fiber reinforced and colored molded article having desirable physical properties such as superior impact strength, tensile strength, and flexural strength as well as superior heat-resistance, a long-fiber reinforced polyolefin composition for producing the article, and method for producing the article. The long-fiber reinforced polyolefin composition comprises long-fiber reinforced polyolefin pellets including 35 to 90 weight % of a long-fiber reinforcing agent and 5 to 60 weight % of polyolefin wherein the impregnation degree of the long-fiber reinforced polyolefin pellet is preferably more than 80%; and colored polyolefin pellets having the length of 5 to 500 mm, and including 0.01 to 15 weight % of a coloring agent for the total amount of the coloring agent and polyolefin, wherein the amount of the colored polyolefin pellets is 5 to 80 weight % for the total amount of the colored polyolefin pellets and the long-fiber reinforced polyolefin pellets.
US07875664B2
This invention relates to a composition comprising, consisting of or alternatively consisting essentially of a stabilized furfural or glycol ester of a vegetable oil fatty acid and an antioxidant such as butylated hydroxy toluene. This invention also relates to latex film-forming compositions containing stabilized furfural or glycol esters, such as a stabilized propylene glycol monoester (PGME) mixture. This invention is also directed to methods of stabilizing furfural or glycol esters of a vegetable fatty acid by contacting the esters with an antioxidant such as butylated hydroxy toluene. This invention also includes methods of preparing film-forming compositions comprising a stabilized furfural or glycol ester, such as the stabilized PGME mixture disclosed herein.
US07875659B2
This invention provides a water-soluble macromonomer having terminal unsaturation obtained by polymerization of monomers in the presence of inclusion complex of chain transfer agent in aqueous system. Hydrophobic chain transfer agent AMSD forms an inclusion complex with methylated cyclodextrin. The complexation enhances its solubility in water and enables the polymerization of water-soluble monomers in aqueous medium. After polymerization cyclodextrin is removed and the macromer with terminal unsaturation obtained can be used further for copolymerization with any vinyl monomer.
US07875650B2
The present invention is directed to analogs of baicalein according to formula (I): where R5 is H, (C1-C12)alkyl, (C2-C13)acyl, or an optionally substituted phenyl or benzyl group, an acyl group, a C1-C20 alkyl or ether group, a phosphate, diphosphate, triphosphate or phosphodiester group; R6 and R7 are each independently H, (C1-C12)alkyl, (C2-C13)acyl, or an optionally substituted phenyl or benzyl or together form a —OCR1R2O— group wherein each of R1 and R2 is independently H, a C1-C3 alkyl group or an optionally substituted phenyl or benzyl group; and R8 is H, OH, an O-acyl group, a C1,-C4 alkyl or alkoxy group, F, Cl, Br or I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which exhibit anti-P-glycoprotein activity and methods of enhancing the bioavailability of active compounds, especially orally administered compounds, by inhibition of P-glycoprotein 170 (P-gp 170) and/or CYP450 enzyme, especially CYP450 3A4 enzyme. Pharmaceutical compositions based upon these novel derivatives according to the present invention are also described herein.
US07875645B2
The present invention relates a method for treating depression, anxiety disorders, bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, stress-related disorders, psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia, neurological diseases such as Parkinson's disease, neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, epilepsy, migraine, hypertension, substance abuse and metabolic disorders such as eating disorders, diabetes, diabetic complications, obesity, dyslipidemia, disorders of energy consumption and assimilation, disorders and malfunction of body temperature homeostasis, disorders of sleep and circadian rhythm, and cardiovascular disorders which comprises administering to an individual a therapeutically effective amount of a compound of formula I wherein R, R1, R2, A and n are as defined in the specification and to their pharmaceutically active salts. The invention also relates to novel compounds of formula I, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods for their preparation.
US07875644B2
Compounds of the formula (I), in which R1, R2, R3a, R3b, R3c and R3d have the meanings indicated in claim 1, are inhibitors of tyrosine kinases, in particular Met kinase, and can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of tumours.
US07875639B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, prodrugs, salts of prodrugs, or combinations thereof, wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, and L2, are defined in the specification, compositions comprising such compounds, and methods of treating conditions and disorders using such compounds and compositions.
US07875636B2
The present invention is directed to pyridyl amide compounds which are antagonists of T-type calcium channels, and which are useful in the treatment or prevention of disorders and diseases in which T-type calcium channels are involved. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and the use of these compounds and compositions in the prevention or treatment of such diseases in which T-type calcium channels are involved.
US07875631B2
Compounds of the formula (I): where R2, R5, R6 have the meanings as given in the description, and U, V and W, respectively, may be CR2′, CR4′ and CR6′, respectively (with the definitions of R2′, R4′ and R6′ again as in the description), or may be N, were synthesized. They were found to down-regulate or inhibit the expression or function of the IGF-1 receptor.
US07875626B2
The present invention relates to 4,5,6,7-tetrahydropyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridin-4-one and 4,5-dihydropyrrolo[3,2-c]pyridin-4-one compounds of formula (I) and processes for preparing such compounds, their use in the treatment of obesity, psychiatric and neurological disorders, to methods for their therapeutic use and to pharmaceutical compositions containing them.
US07875620B2
The present invention provides methods of treating microbacterial infections comprising administering to a subject in need thereof, a composition comprising a compound of formula I: wherein: X1, X2 and X3 are selected from the group consisting of oxygen, sulfur, aminoalkyl, alkoxy, aryl, and heteroaryl, unsubstituted or substituted; and R1, R2, R3 and R4 are selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, actinium, silicon, germanium, cyano, alkyl, alkoxy, allyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, alkylaryl, arylalkyl, aminoalkyl, alkylamino, alkene, alkyne, aryl, halide, alkylhalide, alkyloxyalkyl, thioalkyl, alkylthioalkyl, alkylamino, cycloalkyl, heterocyclyl, unsubstituted or substituted; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The present invention further provides methods of treating bacterial infections comprising administering to a subject in need thereof, an effective amount of a pharmaceutical composition comprising uric acid, urate, derivatives thereof, salts and hydrates thereof and prodrugs thereof and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier.
US07875608B2
The present invention provides substituted 8-[6-amino-3-pyridyl]xanthines like the compound shown in the following formula: and pharmaceutical compositions that are selective antagonists of A2B adenosine receptors (ARs). These compounds and compositions are useful as pharmaceutical agents.
US07875599B2
Described are steroidal C-17 benzoazoles, pyrimidinoazoles (azabenzoazoles) and diazines. Methods for their synthesis are also described, which include methods having a step of nucleophilic vinylic “addition-elimination” substitution reaction of 3β-acetoxy-17-chloro-16-formylandrosta-5,16-diene or analogs thereof and benzoazole or pyrimidinoazole nucleophiles and methods having a palladium catalyzed cross-coupling reaction of 17-iodoandrosta-5,16-dien-3β-ol or analogs thereof with tributylstannyl diazines. The compounds are potent inhibitors of human CYP 17 enzyme as well as potent antagonists of both wild type and mutant androgen receptors (AR). The compounds are useful for the treatment of human prostate cancer.
US07875588B2
Disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising a thrombin peptide derivatives and a chelating agent and/or a pharmaceutically acceptable thiol-containing compound. The pharmaceutical compositions optionally further comprise an antioxidant. Also, disclosed are methods for activating the non-proteolytically activated thrombin receptor in a subject in need of such treatment. The methods comprise the step of administering an effective amount of a thrombin peptide derivative in the pharmaceutical composition described above.
US07875584B2
A detergent resistant car polish composition includes an alkoxy aminofunctional dialkylpolysiloxane, a long chain silicone quaternary blend, a silicone fatty amino quaternary polydimethylsiloxane, a carboxylic acid, a surfactant, a cosurfactant, and water.
US07875581B2
A lubricant composition for a resin conveyor, comprising specific (A) a nonionic surfactant and (B) water and, if necessary, (C) (a) a cationic surfactant and/or (b) an amphoteric surfactant, and a method for using same. Using a specific nonionic surfactant as the main component provides excellent washing ability, lubricating ability, and stability in storage. In particular, because excellent ability to prevent stress cracking is attained, the lubricant composition for a resin conveyor can be advantageously employed for transporting PET containers. Furthermore, adding a specific cationic surfactant makes it possible to obtain a lubricant composition for a resin conveyor also demonstrating an effect of inhibiting microorganism (fungi) generation, without degrading the various original performances (effects). Furthermore, a preferred method for using those lubricant compositions for resin conveyors is also provided.
US07875580B2
An automotive engine oil comprising a base oil and an antiwear additive system comprising an ester. The antiwear additive system preferably further comprises a phosphorus-containing and/or sulphur-containing antiwear additive. The antiwear additive system of the invention has superior antiwear properties and also reduced metal, phosphorus and sulphur levels compared to current commercial antiwear agents such as ZDDP.
US07875577B2
A lubricating oil composition comprising a base oil of lubricating viscosity having a kinematic viscosity of 22 to 300 mm2/s at 40° C. and dissolved or dispersed therein the following additives in the following amounts based on a total amount of the lubricating oil composition: (1) an overbased sulfurized alkylphenol calcium salt detergent in an amount of 0.1 to 1.6 wt. % in terms of calcium content, (2) an overbased calcium alkylbenzenesulfonate detergent in an amount of 0.6 to 2.1 wt. % in terms of calcium content, (3) a nitrogen-containing ashless dispersant in an amount of 0.005 to 0.1 wt. % in terms of nitrogen content, and (4) a zinc dihydrocarbyldithiophosphate in an amount of 0.01 to 0.1 wt. % in terms of phosphorus content, wherein the weight ratio of the overbased sulfurized alkylphenol calcium salt detergent to the overbased calcium alkylbenzenesulfonate detergent is in the range of 10:90 to 40:60 in terms of calcium content and wherein the lubricating oil composition has a total base number of 30 to 60 mg·KOH/g.
US07875576B2
Disclosed herein is a lubricating oil composition comprising a) major amount of a base oil of lubricating viscosity; b) from about 0.1 to 10 wt % of an overbased alkaline earth metal alkyl aryl sulfonate detergent having a total base number (TBN) of about 25 to 500; c) from about 0.02 to 10 wt % of a oxymolybdenum-containing complex of a nitrogen-containing compound; d) from about 0.1 to 5 wt % of a friction modifier; and e) from about 0.2 to 10 wt % of an antioxidant selected from the group consisting of a diphenylamine type, a sulfurized ester-containing compound and mixtures thereof; wherein the total concentration of the oxymolybdenum-containing complex and antioxidant must be at least 1.3 wt %, based on the total weight of the lubricating oil composition and wherein the phosphorus content of the total lubricating oil composition is 0.08 wt % or less, based on the total weight of the lubricating oil composition.
US07875573B2
The present invention is directed to a diesel oxidation catalyst for the treatment of exhaust gas emissions, such as the oxidation of unburned hydrocarbons (HC), and carbon monoxide (CO) and the reduction of nitrogen oxides (NOx). More particularly, the present invention is directed to a novel washcoat composition comprising two distinct washcoat layers containing two distinctly different ratios of Pt:Pd.
US07875570B2
A process for producing a titanium-containing silicon oxide catalyst, which comprises the following steps A and B; a catalyst obtainable by the process; and a process for producing an olefin oxide using the catalyst. Step(A) in which a silica source part or all of which is a silicon compound having a silicon atom having a hydrocarbon group directly bonded thereto is mixed by stirring with a titanium source and a template solution to obtain a solid containing the catalyst component and template, the rate of water in the solvent in the template solution being 50% by weight or lower or a step in which a silica source which comprises a combination of an organic silica source comprising a silicon compound having a silicon atom having a hydrocarbon group directly bonded thereto with a silicon compound having no carbon-silicon bond is mixed by stirring with a titanium source and the template solution to obtain a solid containing the catalyst component and the template, the addition of the silica source to the template solution being conducted so as to satisfy the relationship: (amount of the organic silica source added in the first half)>(amount of the organic silica source added in the latter half). Step B: a step in which the template is removed from the solid obtained in the step A.
US07875569B2
A supported catalyst includes a carbonaceous catalyst support and first metal-second metal alloy catalyst particles adsorbed on the surface of the carbonaceous catalyst support, wherein the difference between a D10 value and a D90 value is in the range of 0.1 to 10 nm, wherein the D10 value is a mean diameter of a randomly selected 10 wt % of the first metal-second metal alloy catalyst particles and the D90 value is a mean diameter of a randomly selected 90 wt % of the alloy catalyst particles. The supported catalyst has excellent membrane efficiency in electrodes for fuel cells due to uniform alloy composition of a catalyst particle and supported catalysts that do not agglomerate.
US07875567B2
A method for manufacturing barium zirconate particles includes providing a mixture of materials that includes barium, zirconium and a sintering aid, wherein the sintering aid includes at least one of barium tungstate, potassium niobate, tungsten oxide, barium molybdate, molybdenum oxide, potassium tantalate, potassium oxide, sodium niobate, sodium tantalate, sodium oxide, lithium niobate, lithium tantalate, lithium oxide, copper oxide, manganese oxide, zinc oxide, calcium zirconate and strontium zirconate; and heating the mixture of materials to produce barium zirconate particles that include the sintering aid.
US07875557B2
A semiconductor substrate treating method is disclosed that can selectively remove contaminants or unnecessary substances present on the surface of a semiconductor substrate. Also disclosed are a semiconductor component of enhanced reliability produced by this method and an electronic appliance incorporating the semiconductor component. The semiconductor substrate treating method comprises the step of treating a semiconductor substrate with a treating fluid containing NH4OH and HF wherein the relationships 0.30≦X/Y≦0.78 and 0.03≦Y≦6.0 are satisfied, where X represents a concentration [mol/L] of NH4OH in the treating fluid and Y represents a concentration [mol/L] of HF in the treating fluid. Preferably, the treating fluid is substantially free from H2O2. The semiconductor substrate has a surface, at least a part of which is composed of high melting point metal.
US07875556B2
Classes of liquid aminosilanes have been found which allow for the production of silicon carbo-nitride films of the general formula SixCyNz. These aminosilanes, in contrast, to some of the precursors employed heretofore, are liquid at room temperature and pressure allowing for convenient handling. In addition, the invention relates to a process for producing such films.The classes of compounds are generally represented by the formulas: and mixtures thereof, wherein R and R1 in the formulas represent aliphatic groups typically having from 2 to about 10 carbon atoms, e.g., alkyl, cycloalkyl with R and R1 in formula A also being combinable into a cyclic group, and R2 representing a single bond, (CH2)n, a ring, or SiH2.
US07875554B2
Broadly speaking, a method and an apparatus are provided for depositing a material on a semiconductor wafer (“wafer”). More specifically, the method and apparatus provide for selective heating of a surface of the wafer exposed to an electroless plating solution. The selective heating is provided by applying radiant energy to the wafer surface. The selective heating of the wafer surface causes a temperature increase at an interface between the wafer surface and the electroless plating solution. The temperature increase at the interface in turn causes a plating reaction to occur at the wafer surface. Thus, material is deposited on the wafer surface through an electroless plating reaction that is initiated and controlled by varying the temperature of the wafer surface using an appropriately defined radiant energy source.
US07875538B2
A semiconductor device includes: a nitride semiconductor layer including a channel layer, a Schottky electrode that contacts the nitride semiconductor layer and contains indium, and an ohmic electrode that contacts the channel layer. The nitride semiconductor layer includes a layer that contacts the Schottky electrode and contains AlGaN, InAlGaN or GaN. The Schottky electrode that contains indium includes one of an indium oxide layer and an indium tin oxide layer.
US07875525B2
A stack-type capacitor includes a lower electrode, a dielectric layer formed on the lower electrode, and an upper electrode formed on the dielectric layer, wherein the lower electrode includes a first metal layer having a cylindrical shape and a second metal layer filled in the first metal layer. In the capacitor, an amount of oxygen included in the lower electrode is decreased to suppress oxidation of a TiN layer. Thus, a stable stack-type capacitor may be formed, which increases greatly the performance of highly integrated DRAMs.
US07875519B2
A method of manufacturing a metal gate structure includes providing a substrate (110) having formed thereon a gate dielectric (120), a work function metal (130) adjacent to the gate dielectric, and a gate metal (140) adjacent to the work function metal; selectively forming a sacrificial capping layer (310) centered over the gate metal; forming an electrically insulating layer (161) over the sacrificial capping layer such that the electrically insulating layer at least partially surrounds the sacrificial capping layer; selectively removing the sacrificial capping layer in order to form a trench (410) aligned to the gate metal in the electrically insulating layer; and filling the trench with an electrically insulating material in order to form an electrically insulating cap (150) centered on the gate metal.
US07875516B2
An integrated circuit including a first gate stack and a second gate stack and a method of manufacturing is disclosed. One embodiment provides non-volatile memory cells including a first gate stack and a gate dielectric on a first surface section of a main surface of a semiconductor substrate, and a second gate stack including a memory layer stack on a second surface section. A first pattern is transferred into the first gate stack and a second pattern into the second gate stack.
US07875515B2
A method for manufacturing a capacitor of a semiconductor device includes: forming an interlayer insulating film including a contact plug over a semiconductor substrate; forming a first stack film including a capacitor oxide film and a nitride film over the interlayer insulating film; etching the first stack film to form a first stack pattern and a contact hole that exposes the contact plug; forming a lower electrode in the contact hole; forming a capping oxide film continuously over the first stack pattern to form a bridge connecting the neighboring first stack patterns; forming an etching barrier film including cavities over the capping oxide film; performing a blanket etching process onto the etching barrier film including cavities until the capacitor oxide film is exposed to form a nitride film pattern; and removing the exposed capacitor oxide film.
US07875512B2
According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, the method including: forming a first region and a second region in a semiconductor substrate by forming an element isolation region; forming an insulating film on the semiconductor substrate in the first region and the second region; forming a first metal film on the insulating film in the first region and in the second region; removing the first metal film in the second region; forming a second metal film on the first metal film in the first region and on the insulating film in the second region; and flattening top surfaces in the first region and the second region by performing a flattening process.
US07875511B2
A CMOS structure includes an n-FET device comprising an n-FET channel region and a p-FET device comprising a p-FET channel region. The n-FET channel region includes a first silicon material layer located upon a silicon-germanium alloy material layer. The p-FET channel includes a second silicon material layer located upon a silicon-germanium-carbon alloy material layer. The silicon-germanium alloy material layer induces a desirable tensile strain within the n-FET channel. The silicon-germanium-carbon alloy material layer suppresses an undesirable tensile strain within the p-FET channel region. A silicon-germanium-carbon alloy material from which is comprised the silicon-germanium-carbon alloy material layer may be formed by selectively incorporating carbon into a silicon-germanium alloy material from which is formed the silicon-germanium alloy material layer.
US07875506B2
The present invention discloses technique of etching selectively a layer containing siloxane. The present invention provides a semiconductor device with reduced operation deterioration due to etching failure. A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device comprises steps of forming a conductive layer electrically connecting to a transistor, an insulating layer covering the conductive layer, and a mask formed over the insulating layer; and etching the insulating layer with a processing gas including a hydrogen bromide gas.
US07875487B2
A pixel cell is formed by locating a first passivation layer over the final layer of metal lines. Subsequently, the uneven, non-uniform passivation layer is subjected to a planarization process such as chemical mechanical polishing, mechanical abrasion, or etching. A spin-on-glass layer may be deposited over the non-uniform passivation layer prior to planarization. Once a uniform, flat first passivation layer is achieved over the final metal, a second passivation layer, a color filter array, or a lens forming layer with uniform thickness is formed over the first passivation layer. The passivation layers can be oxide, nitride, a combination of oxide and nitride, or other suitable materials. The color filter array layer may also undergo a planarization process prior to formation of the lens forming layer. The present invention is also applicable to other devices.
US07875486B2
Embodiments of the present invention generally provide an apparatus and method for forming an improved thin film single or multi-junction solar cell in a substrate processing device. One embodiment provides a system that contains at least one processing chamber that is adapted to deposit one or more layers that form a portion of a solar cell device. In one embodiment, a method is employed to reduce the contamination of a substrate processed in the processing chamber by performing a cleaning process on the inner surfaces of the processing chamber prior to depositing the one or more layers on a substrate. The cleaning process may include depositing a layer, such as a seasoning layer or passivation layer, that tends to trap contaminants found in the processing chamber. Other embodiments of the invention may provide scheduling and/or positioning the cleaning processing steps at desirable times within a substrate processing sequence to improve the overall system substrate throughput.
US07875482B2
A method of forming a device with multiple encapsulated pressures is disclosed herein. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method of forming a device with multiple encapsulated pressures, including providing a substrate, forming a functional layer on top of a surface of the substrate, the functional layer including a first device portion at a first location, and a second device portion at a second location adjacent to the first location, encapsulating the functional layer, forming at least one diffusion resistant layer above the encapsulated functional layer at a location above the first location and not above the second location, modifying an environment adjacent the at least one diffusion resistant layer, and diffusing a gas into the second location as a result of the modified environment.
US07875479B2
The present invention discloses an integration structure of a semiconductor circuit and microprobe sensing elements and a method for fabricating the same. In the method of the present invention, a semiconductor circuit is fabricated on one surface of a semiconductor substrate, and the other surface of the semiconductor substrate is etched to form a microprobe structure for detect physiological signals. Next, a deposition method is used to sequentially form an electrical isolated layer and an electrical conductive layer on the microprobes. Then, an electrical conductive material is used to electrically connect the electrical conductive layer with the electrical pads of the semiconductor circuit. Thus is achieved the integration of a semiconductor circuit and microprobe sensing elements in an identical semiconductor substrate with the problem of electric electrical isolated being solved simultaneously. Thereby, the voltage level detected by the microprobes will not interfere with the operation of the semiconductor circuit.
US07875478B2
A method for controlling the color contrast of a multi-wavelength light-emitting diode (LED) made according to the present invention is disclosed. The present invention includes at least the step of increasing the junction temperature of a multi-quantum-well LED, such that holes are distributed in a deeper quantum-well layer of the LED to increase luminous intensity of the deeper quantum-well layer, thereby controlling the relative intensity ratios of the multiple wavelengths emitted by the LED. The step of increasing junction temperature of the multi-quantum-well LED is achieved either by controlling resistance through modulating thickness of a p-type electrode layer of the LED or by modifying the mesa area size to control its relative heat radiation surface area.
US07875477B2
A method of manufacturing a liquid crystal display at a reduced cost is presented. The method entails: preparing an insulating substrate; forming a gate line and a data line on the insulating substrate to define a pixel area; forming a thin film transistor at an intersection of the gate line and the data line; forming A passivation layer on the thin film transistor; positioning a mold having a concavo-convex pattern on the organic passivation layer, pressing the mold, and forming the concavo-convex pattern on the surface of the organic passivation layer. A pixel electrode on the organic passivation layer is formed.
US07875472B2
A method of manufacturing light-emitting diode device has steps of isolating a light-emitting side of an LED chip from a wire-bonding region by disposing partition panels on the wire-bonding region and coating phosphors on the light-emitting side of the LED chip in a phosphor-coating process. The method can be applied to manufacturing LED device having a flip chip structure or a vertical chip structure. According to the method, a white LED device can be directly manufactured without adopting a phosphor package technique, and thereby a whole package process of the white LED device is simplified.
US07875465B2
A capturing molecule having not less than two domains specifically binding to different sites of a target substance, wherein the not less than two domains comprise (1) a first domain having a hypervariable loop structure at a binding site to the target substance, and (2) a second domain having no hypervariable loop structure at a binding site to the target substance.
US07875463B2
A generalized printhead control model is provided herein as a basis for configuring printhead control software that will operate any selected printhead or group of printheads. The subject model covers a hierarchy of classes for the attributes of software that controls the printheads in a system, such as for producing a biopolymer array.
US07875460B2
A method for determining the available treatment dosage of stabilized chlorine dioxide in the prevention and the treatment of plaque accumulation, volatile sulfur compound production, gingivitis and periodontitis, and for differentiating the treatment dosage from other chlorine-containing compounds that may not have such beneficial effects is disclosed. When in solution as stabilized chlorine dioxide, the presence of other ions such as chlorate and chloride may not only obscure results as to the concentration of stabilized ClO2, but also reduce the predicted effectiveness. The present invention uses validated analytical methods to predict the effectiveness of stabilized ClO2 by more precisely measuring its concentration in solution. Such measurement renders precision at a level required of food-grade and pharmacy-grade chemotherapeutic agents in the oral cavity. Preferred concentrations are within the range of about 0.005 to about 2% (w/v) stabilized chlorine dioxide. The solution may be in the form of wash, rinse, soak, paste, gel, aerosol spray, or other suitable delivery system.
US07875448B2
The present invention is in the field of cell bioreactors, and specifically in the field of disposable bioreactors.
US07875445B2
The present invention relates to novel JP170 like subtilases from wild-type bacteria, hybrids thereof and to methods of construction and production of these proteases. Further, the present invention relates to use of the claimed subtilases in detergents, such as a laundry or an automatic dishwashing detergent.
US07875443B2
A process is provided to improve the specific activity of an enzyme catalyst having nitrilase activity when converting glycolonitrile to glycolic acid under aqueous reaction conditions. Inclusion of an effective amount of at least one amine protectant improves the specific activity and catalytic productivity of the enzyme catalyst.
US07875437B2
The invention provides isolated polypeptide and nucleic acid sequences derived from Streptococcus pneumoniae that are useful in diagnosis and therapy of pathological conditions; antibodies against the polypeptides; and methods for the production of the polypeptides. The invention also provides methods for the detection, prevention and treatment of pathological conditions resulting from bacterial infection.
US07875435B2
A method and apparatus for use in a flow through assay process is disclosed. The method is characterized by a “pre-incubation step” in which the sample which is to be analysed (typically for the presence of a particular protein), and a detection analyte (typically one or more antibodies bound to colloidal gold or a fluorescent tag) which is known to bind to the particular protein may bind together for a desired period of time. This pre-incubation step occurs before the mixture of sample and detection analyte come into contact with a capture analyte bound to a membrane. The provision of the pre-incubation step has the effect of both improving the sensitivity of the assay and reducing the volume of sample required for an assay. An apparatus for carrying out the method is disclosed defining a pre-incubation chamber for receiving the sample and detection analyte having a base defined by a membrane and a second membrane to which a capture analyte is bound. In one version the pre-incubation chamber is supported above the second membrane in one position but can be pushed into contact with the membrane carrying the capture analyte thus permitting fluid transfer from the incubation chamber through the capture membrane. In another version the membrane at the base of the incubation chamber is hydrophobic and its underside contacts the capture membrane and when a wetting agent is applied to the contents of the pre-incubation chamber fluid transfer occurs.
US07875418B2
In a method for multiply exposing at least one substrate coated with a photosensitive layer, a first exposure is carried out in accordance with a first set of exposure parameters on a first projection system, and a second exposure is carried out in accordance with a second set of exposure parameters on a second projection system spatially separated from the first projection system. The projection systems are integrated in a common projection exposure installation. The first exposure can be carried out, for example, with an amplitude mask, the second exposure with a phase mask. The use of a number of projection systems enables multiple exposure that is performed in parallel and is therefore timesaving.
US07875412B2
A positive electrified charge control agent comprising a silicon complex compound of an effective component represented by the following chemical formula (I) and/or chemical formula (II) (in the formula (I) and formula (II), [D-(SO3)2]2− is a bivalent anion of an organic acid having at least two sulfonic acid groups, p is 0 or 1, B is a bonding line when p is 0, B is a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom when p is 1, J is a carbon atom or a nitrogen atom, A is an organic group which forms a ring with (B)p and J, both of R are same or different to each other and are an organic group, and these both of R are independent or form a heterocyclic ring). A positive electrified toner for developing an electrostatic image comprises the positive electrified charge control agent. A charge control method of the positive electrified toner for developing the electrostatic image comprises a step for making the toner positively electrified by friction.
US07875408B2
Compositions comprising photobleachable organic materials can be bleached by 193 nm light, and brought back to their original state by stimuli after exposure. (reversible photobleaching). We use these compositions in art-known contrast enhancement layers and as a part of a photoresist, especially in optical lithography processes for semiconductor fabrication. They may comprise polymers such as organo-silicon polymers, polymers comprising polymers of aromatic hydroxyl compounds such as phenol and naphthol such as phenol formaldehyde polymers and naphthol formaldehyde polymers styrene polymers and phenolic acrylate polymers or cyclic materials comprising: where the radicals “R” and “Y” represent organo, or substituted organo moieties, Structures I, II, and III represent basic organic skeletons and can be unsubstituted or substituted in any available position with any one or combinations of multiple substituents.
US07875405B2
A membrane electrode assembly is used for a planer type fuel cell. The membrane electrode assembly includes an electrolyte membrane, anodes and cathodes disposed counter to the anodes. Ends of current collectors are connected to one side of the anodes, respectively. Ends of current collectors are connected to one side of the cathodes, respectively. On a cathode side, the current collectors are provided in positions opposed respectively to the insulators provided on an anode side with the electrolyte membrane interposed in between. A cathode-side current collection and an anode-side current collector are connected by an interconnector, and adjacent cells are electrically connected in series with each other.
US07875401B2
A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, a heat exchanger, a reformer, and a casing containing the fuel cell stack, the heat exchanger, and the reformer. A chamber unit is formed at an end plate of the fuel cell stack. The air heated by the heat exchanger temporarily fills the chamber unit. The heat exchanger and the reformer are directly connected to the chamber unit.
US07875394B2
A proton exchange membrane fuel cell comprises an cathodic compartment including a cathode, an oxidant consisting of oxygen and at least one enzyme catalyst, an anodic compartment comprising an anode, a fuel and at least one catalyst. The anodic and cathodic compartments are arranged at either end of the membrane. The cell is characterized in that the enzyme catalyst of the anodic compartment is an oxidoreductase type enzyme capable of catalyzing the reduction of oxygen into hydrogen peroxide and the hydrogen peroxide is a direct receptor of the electrons from the cathode.
US07875392B2
A polymer electrolyte membrane comprising: (a) a fluorinated polymer electrolyte having an ion exchange group, and (b) a basic polymer, wherein, optionally, at least a part of component (a) and at least a part of component (b) are chemically bonded to each other. A method for producing the above-mentioned polymer electrolyte membrane. A membrane/electrode assembly comprising the above-mentioned polymer electrolyte membrane which is securely sandwiched between an anode and a cathode. A polymer electrolyte fuel cell comprising the membrane/electrode assembly.
US07875373B2
Embodiments in accordance with the present invention help to obtain a perpendicular magnetic recording medium having a granular structure, excellent recording/reproducing properties, and excellent durability. According to one embodiment, a recording layer includes a layer which has crystal grains mainly composed of cobalt and crystal grain boundaries mainly composed of the oxide; the oxygen content of the recoding layer is changed in the film thickness direction; the oxygen content in the area in the vicinity of the interface between the recording layer and the intermediate layer is made lower than the oxygen content in the area in the vicinity of the center of the recording layer; and the oxygen content in the area in the vicinity of the interface between the recording layer and the protective layer is made lower than the oxygen content in the area in the vicinity of the center of the recording layer.
US07875371B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a perpendicular magnetic recording medium improved for fly ability, high in read signal quality, and capable of suppressing magnetic decay of recorded magnetization to be caused by stray fields. In one embodiment, a perpendicular recording layer is formed over a substrate with a soft magnetic underlayer therebetween, then an amorphous or nano-crystalline layer is formed between the substrate and the soft magnetic underlayer. The soft magnetic underlayer includes first and second amorphous soft magnetic layers, as well as a nonmagnetic layer formed between those first and second amorphous soft magnetic layers. The first and second amorphous soft magnetic layers are given uniaxial anisotropy in the radial direction of the substrate respectively and coupled with each other antiferromagnetically.
US07875364B2
An electrically conductive connector housing body (16, 17) of aluminum or an aluminum compound, and a surface layer on the aluminum which comprises an adhesive layer in the form of a chemical nickel-plating, a corrosion protection layer, and a metallic passivation layer provided in sequence. In order to avoid the use of toxic metals and their compounds in a housing part of this type and nevertheless to assure sufficient conductivity and corrosion resistance, the corrosion protection layer is formed by a zinc-cobalt-iron compound, the passivation layer is constituted by a compound made of trivalent chromium, and a sealing layer made of an inorganic compound containing silicate is applied as the exterior layer.
US07875362B2
An absorbent member and a method for making such an absorbent member. The absorbent member includes a modified water absorbent resin having good production efficiency, absorbency against pressure, absorption speed, gel strength, and liquid permeability. The modified water absorbent resin may be made by mixing a water absorbent resin, water, and a water-soluble radical polymerization initiator without addition of an ethylenically unsaturated monomer to obtain a water absorbent resin composition, and irradiating the water absorbent resin composition with active energy rays. During irradiation, the surface water content of the water absorbent resin is at least 3.0 wt %.
US07875358B2
A composition for a slurry for manufacture of a building panel includes one or more fillers, one or more binders and water. One or more fillers is an expanded perlite at least partially covered with a film-forming, thermoplastic polymer coating Some embodiments use calcined or uncalcined gypsum as a binder or filler. One embodiment is a building panel that includes a solid matrix of calcium sulfate dihydrate crystals bound to expanded perlite.A method of making the panel includes acquiring expanded perlite and coating it with film-forming, thermoplastic polymer coating. After the expanded perlite is prepared, it is combined with water other optional fillers and one or more binders to form a slurry. The slurry is shaped into a panel and allowed to dry.
