US07921466B2
The invention relates to a method of using an atomic force microscope and to a microscope. The inventive method comprises the following steps consisting in at least performing bimodal excitation of a microlever (M) which is disposed on a sample and analysing at least: the variation in the oscillation amplitude (Ai) of an output signal (Ai cos(ωit−φi)) that is representative of the response from the microlever (M) to the excitation of one of the natural vibration modes thereof, in order to obtain topographic information in relation to the sample; and to the variation in the phase (φj) of an output signal (Aj cos(ωjt−φj)) that is representative of the response from the microlever (M) to the excitation of another natural vibration mode thereof, in order to obtain compositional information in relation to the sample. The inventive microscope is adapted to be used with the aforementioned method.
US07921465B2
A system (100) for characterizing surfaces can include a nanotip microscope (104) in a first pressure envelope (102) at a first pressure with an electrically conductive nanotip (110) mounted thereon for characterizing a sample surface. The system can also include an ion imaging system (122, 124, 128) within a second pressure envelope (120) at a second pressure. The second pressure can less than or equal to the first pressure and the pressure envelopes (102, 120) can be separated by a pressure limiting aperture (PLA) (132). The system can further include gas sources (116, 118) for introducing into the first pressure envelope (102) at least one gas, and a voltage supply (114) coupled to the nanotip (110) for generating an electric field between the nanotip (114) and the PLA (132). In the system, the electric field repels and ionizes molecules or atoms of the gas in proximity to the nanotip (110) and the ion imaging system (122, 124, 128) collects at least a portion the repelled and ionized molecules or atoms traversing the PLA (132) to image the nanotip (110).
US07921457B2
A distributed subscriber management system and method that controls access to a network preventing unauthorized traffic through the access network and providing centralized access control between user networks are disclosed. The controlled access is provided through the use of one of several technologies including user authentication, using PAP, CHAP, RADIUS, TACACS+. The method includes the steps of receiving a connection request from a user located on one of the User Networks; interrogating the user for userid and password information; encrypting the userid and password information; transmitting the encrypted information, via the access network, to an authentication server attached to one of a plurality of external networks; decrypting the information at the authentication server; and transmitting an authentication message from the authentication server of the external network to the access control node via the access network. Additionally, the method includes the step of challenging all data leaving the access control node.
US07921452B2
A method of defining policies for controlling access to resources of a system. Authorization requirements for the system are modeled to obtain a model expressing each of a plurality of access control policies as a constraint. From the model is generated a single policy set in an authorization markup language that captures the requirements. This method can be used to define role-based access control policies in a format that can be adapted for input to a variety of access control mechanisms. This generative approach to access control design allows maintenance to be performed at the requirements level.
US07921451B2
A facility for receiving an embedded policy is provided. The facility checks an application program image for the presence of an embedded policy. If an embedded policy is detected, the facility extracts the policy from within the application program image. The facility may then apply the extracted policy to the application program image before the application program image is loaded and/or executed. Moreover, the facility may check the application program image's integrity prior to extracting the embedded policy.
US07921450B1
Improved system and approaches for centralized storage of access restrictions which are associated with public keys are disclosed. The access restrictions serve to limit access to files secured by a security system. According to one aspect of the present invention, identifiers, or encoded versions thereof, are used as public keys to identify particular access restrictions. The identifiers to the access restrictions are used in a decentralized manner for public keys, while the access restrictions themselves are maintained in a centralized manner. As compared to the access restrictions, the public keys based on identifiers tend to be smaller and more uniform in size. The centralized storage of the access restrictions also facilitates subsequent changes to access restrictions for previously secured files. The improved system and approaches is particularly suitable in an enterprise environment.
US07921448B2
The present invention provides for methods, systems, and devices for simultaneously receiving and processing multimedia asset packages transmitted by a plurality of multimedia content providers. The methods and systems of the present invention implement a multiport catcher appliance configured to receive a plurality of transmissions, simultaneously, from multiple content providers in a multimedia asset distribution system. The multimedia catcher receiver includes a multimedia network interface unit configured to simultaneously receive multimedia data segments from content providers, a multimedia network interface unit that provides the multimedia data segments to a receive unit, a receive unit configured to reconstruct and validate a multimedia asset package using multimedia data segments transmitted by a content provider, and a content management system to manage multimedia asset packages and provide multimedia asset packages to a multimedia server.
US07921436B2
An optical device integrated head having high light utilizing efficiency by decreasing the propagation loss caused from an optical source to a recording medium, conducting by mounting according to compact active alignment method for efficiently guiding a light generated from a laser device to the top end of a head, in which a light source device mounted on a submount has a mirror portion having an inclinated surface to at least a portion of one edge thereof for reflecting an output light from the optical source device at the inclinated surface, a structural member including a lens structure for further allowing a light to pass through the submount, and an optical waveguide disposed passing through a slider for mounting the submount, and the optical source and the slider are positioned by using active alignment of light in a chip-on carrier structure having the optical source device mounted on the submount.
US07921432B2
Managed application programming interfaces (APIs), schemas and procedures receives a managed API call from an application, and maps the managed API call to an unmanaged API call. Managed data types and managed data objects of the managed API call are mapped to corresponding unmanaged data types and data objects. A request resulting from the unmanaged API call is dispatched to and interpreted by an unmanaged programming language interpreter, which executes the request in an unmanaged programming language. An unmanaged response to the request is mapped to a corresponding managed response, which is provided to the managed application.
US07921431B2
N-port virtualization driver-based application programming interface and split driver implementation
An API in an NPIV-compatible SAN is disclosed that includes functions for creating a vlink, replicating driver software for managing the vlink, monitoring resources in an HBA, or removing a target so that resources can be freed up for other vlinks. The API is part of a driver that communicates with a host OS and also communicates with an HBA to establish the vlinks between the host OS and FC devices. To create vlinks, an “add” function in the API is called by the OS. In addition, when a new vlink is created, a single version of an HBA interface function block is maintained in the driver, but a discovery function block, SCSI bus function block, and I/O function block are all duplicated, forming one logical vlink driver for each vlink. To obtain HBA resource information, a resource monitoring functions in the API may be called by the OS.
US07921428B2
Data communications, including issuing, by an application program to a high level data communications library, a request for initialization of a data communications service; issuing to a low level data communications library a request for registration of data communications functions; registering the data communications functions, including instantiating a factory object for each of the one or more data communications functions; issuing by the application program an instruction to execute a designated data communications function; issuing, to the low level data communications library, an instruction to execute the designated data communications function, including passing to the low level data communications library a call parameter that identifies a factory object; creating with the identified factory object the data communications object that implements the data communications function according to the protocol; and executing by the low level data communications library the designated data communications function.
US07921414B2
A method and system for compiling a source code, the source code is written in a source-code-human-language. The method comprises associating a plurality of identifiers to a grammar analyzer. The grammar analyzer comprises an analyzer that corresponds to each identifier. The plurality of identifiers is arranged in a predefined-sequence. Further, the plurality of analyzers in the grammar analyzer is arranged in the predefined-sequence. Also, the method comprises tokenizing the source code in response to associating the plurality of identifiers.
US07921409B2
A Managed Add-in Framework (MAF) proxy generation tool comprises a library analyzer module operable for taking as input either a type library or managed software code assembly of the existing host application, and a proxy code generation module. Also, an additional input XML file that describes changes that a user would like to be made may be received by the tool and data acquired form the inspection of the additional input XML file and the inspection of the other inputs is merged and used to create the code of the proxy to the host object model. The proxy to the host's object model conforms to requirements of the MAF.
US07921407B2
Transaction code written by the programmer may be translated, replaced or transformed into a code that is configured to implement transactions according to any of various techniques. A compiler may replace programmer written transaction code into code allowing multiple compatible transaction implementation techniques to be used in the same program, and at the same time. A programmer may write transaction code once using familiar coding styles, but the transaction to be effected according to one of a number of compatible alternative implementation techniques. The compiler may enable the implementation of multiple, alternative transactional memory schemes. The particular technique implemented for each transaction may not be decided until runtime. At runtime, any of the various implemented techniques may be used to effect the transaction and if a first technique fails or is inappropriate for a particular transaction, one or more other techniques may be attempted.
US07921403B2
Impedance control, and the uniformity of electrical and mechanical characteristics in electronic packaging are becoming more important as chip and bus speeds increase and manufacturing processes evolve. Current state of the art design and manufacture processes inherently introduce physical dielectric thickness variations into PCB cross sections. These thickness variations between the ground reference plane(s) and the signal layer(s) inject undesirable characteristic impedance variations and undesirable mechanical variations in thickness and surface topology. Therefore a process of generating equalization data and a design structure for multilayer electronic structures is presented.
US07921399B2
A method for preprocessing tie net routing data organizes the data into a plurality of tie nets each based on an optimal connection path between a pin or set of pins and the power grid. The router then routs the data embodying the thusly-simplified plurality of tie nets. Once the routing is complete, post processor takes the routed design and returns it to its original net list state while keeping the routing solution.
US07921398B2
A method for determining placement of circuitry during integrated circuit design is presented. The method includes accessing a net list identifying circuitry connections. A plurality of individual net weights are assigned to nets in timing paths within the net list. A composite net weight is determined for said timing paths, the composite net weight being in response to the plurality of individual net weights. Concurrently therewith it is advantageous to utilize our new method of improvements of concurrently proceeding to improve wireability of said design by additional timing optimization and net weight mapping modification steps.
US07921393B2
Simultaneous Dynamical Integration modeling techniques are applied to global placement of elements of integrated circuits as described by netlists specifying interconnection of morphable-devices. Solutions to a system of coupled ordinary differential equations in accordance with Newtonian mechanics are approximated by numerical integration. A resultant time-evolving system of nodes moves through a continuous location space in continuous time, and is used to derive placements of the morphable-devices having one-to-one correspondences with the nodes. Nodes under the influence of net attractive forces, computed based on the interconnections between the morphable devices, tend to coalesce into well-organized topologies. Nodes are also affected by spreading forces determined by density fields that are developed based on local spatial node population.
US07921385B2
A method for determining a mask pattern is described. During the method, a first mask pattern that includes a plurality of second regions corresponding to the first regions of the photo-mask is provided. Then, a second mask pattern is determined based on the first mask pattern and differences between a target pattern and an estimate of a wafer pattern that results from the photolithographic process that uses at least a portion of the first mask pattern. Note that the determining includes different treatment for different types of regions in the target pattern, and the second mask pattern and the target pattern include pixilated images.
US07921379B1
The present invention relates to the system and the method for graphically displaying the results of search engine on a terminal of client, so that client can see a search process at first glance and move between a higher category and a lower easily and earn the results of search engine quickly.
US07921377B2
A method for generating an interactive electronic menu on a display, the menu comprising menu items, wherein a menu item may be in a deselected, selected or activated state, and the menu being coded into a menu data segment, comprises that at least a first and a second menu item are connected by a parent-child relationship, wherein the second menu item being a child of the first menu item can only be selected when the first menu item is selected, and further comprises that the first and the second menu item are coded into the same data segment. The method is preferably usable for menus relating to content of digital storage media, such as optical discs, in particular read-only Blu-ray discs.
US07921375B2
The invention discloses a system and method for integrating user interfaces (UI) within an application. The invention can be configured to display an UI of a second application within a first application in a manner that the user cannot identify that the second application's UI is displayed on top of a reference window within the first application. The invention can be configured to identify a reference window that is to be replaced by a replacement window of the second application, monitor the reference window, create the replacement window, and align the replacement window over top of the reference window.
US07921374B2
Interrogative punctuation is automatically added to a sequence of characters entered into a handheld device upon termination of the sequence, such as by double actuation of the spacebar, when the first word, or the first and third words at the beginning of the sequence, of after a comma or semicolon, are indicative of an interrogatory.
US07921362B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products are disclosed for differential dynamic content delivery. Typical embodiments of the present invention include providing a session document for a presentation, wherein the session document includes a session grammar and a session structured document; selecting from the session structured document a classified structural element bearing a preview designation; and presenting the selected structural element to a prospective user participant. In many embodiments, selecting a classified structural element bearing a preview designation further comprises selecting a classified structural element in dependence upon user classifications of a prospective user participant.
US07921350B2
A method for fault detection and localization calls for obtaining a data set, smoothing the data set, identifying a plurality of split points within the data set, fitting a piecewise linear function to the plurality of split points; and determining a residual between the function and the smoothed data set. Related systems and computer program products are disclosed and claimed.
US07921347B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for performing Automatic Retransmission reQuest (ARQ) in a mobile communication system including an ARQ layer and a Hybrid ARQ (HARQ) layer. The method includes receiving from an ARQ receiving (Rx) entity a status report indicating a reception status of ARQ packets; detecting an ARQ packet having a transmission completion time going ahead of a generation time of the status report, among the ARQ packets whose transmission was completed by an ARQ transmitting (Tx) entity; and retransmitting an ARQ packet not ACK/NACK-ed by the status report, among the detected ARQ packets.
US07921345B2
A system comprising a plurality of components and an automation module coupled to the plurality of components. The automation module is adapted to automatically initialize a software test environment for at least one of the plurality of components, where the software test environment prepares the at least one of the plurality of components to be tested. The automation module also is adapted to, without transferring a testing agent to the at least one of the plurality of components, automatically test the at least one of the plurality of components.
US07921334B2
There is provided an error determination program executed by an information processor included in an electronic apparatus that includes a device installation section capable of installing any one of a plurality of devices having different formats, a host controller acting as an intermediary between the information processor and the device installed in the device installation section, and a storage circuit storing an error determination information table that includes a plurality of pieces of error determination information for determining a presence or absence of any error in a plurality of responses to a plurality of commands from the devices installable in the device installation section, by associating the pieces of error determination information with a combination of the formats of the installable devices and the commands executable by the devices. The program includes instructing the host controller to issue a desired command in the commands executable by the device installed in the device installation section to the installed device; acquiring the error determination information associated with the combination of the format of the installed device and the desired command from the error determination information table; acquiring response content information regarding a content of a response to the desired command from the installed device from the host controller; and determining the presence or absence of any error in the response based on the error determination information and the response content information.
US07921325B2
A device that is communicably connected to each of three or more nodes constituting a cluster system holds resource information, which is information relating to a resource used by an application, in relation to each of the three or more nodes. The device receives resource condition information indicating variation in the condition of the resource from each node, updates the resource information on the basis of the received resource condition information, determines a following active node on the basis of the updated resource information, and notifies at least one of the three or more nodes of the determined following active node.
US07921322B2
Systems and/or methods that facilitate expediently transmitting and programming data to an electronic device that contains nonvolatile memory are presented. A host component facilitates the determination of different clock frequencies that an electronic device(s) can accommodate for transmitting data to and receiving data from the electronic device. The host component can facilitate transmitting data to the electronic device at a higher clock frequency than the clock frequency utilized to transmit data from the electronic device to the host component in order to facilitate programming large amounts of data to the electronic device efficiently. The host component can select a downlink and/or uplink clock frequency based in part on the type of electronic device(s), the size of a memory buffer associated with the nonvolatile memory device, and/or a type of protocol associated with the electronic device.
US07921309B1
Systems and methods for determining and managing the power remaining in a handheld electronic device
Portable user devices, such as electronic book reader devices, may have a limited power supply. Power management techniques, such as current sensing, dynamic voltage measurement, and/or power state control may be used to manage power usage of such user devices.
US07921298B2
A security framework for a host computer system which allows a host to control access to a compliant security token by ensuring enforcement of established security policies administered by a middleware application. Processing between the host computer system and the security token is performed using one or more modular security application agents. The modular security application agents are counterpart applications to security applications installed in the security token and may be retrieved and installed upon to ensure compatibility between counterpart token and host security applications. The security policies are a composite of host security policies and token security policies which are logically combined by the middleware application at the beginning of a session.
US07921295B2
A system for managing service mobility using an extensible Markup Language (XML) electronic signature. A mobility interface stops and stores the operation of a service being currently performed. Before the service is moved, a service serializer serializes service state information and converts it into an XML form which is attachable to an electronic signature. An XML security manager creates an XML electronic signature for the Manifest file of the Java ARchive (JAR) file of a service bundle, attaches the serialized service state information to the XML electronic signature, and records it. A service installer transmits the signed JAR file to an Open Service Gateway initiative (OSGi) framework that has requested that the service be moved.
US07921294B2
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture in which a non-reversible signature of a symmetric cryptographic key is computed, wherein the symmetric cryptographic key is used to symmetrically encrypt data at rest in a storage device. The non-reversible signature is stored in association with the symmetrically encrypted data at rest in the storage device. The non-reversible signature is used to determine validity of a cryptographic key provided by a host for accessing the symmetrically encrypted data at rest in the storage device.
US07921290B2
A method is provided to securely authenticate user credentials. The method includes encrypting a user credential with a public key at an access device wherein the public key is part of a public/private key pair suitable for use with an encryption algorithm. The encrypted network user credential is transmitted from the access device to a decryption server where it is decrypted with a private key, the private key being part of the public/private key pair suitable for use with the encryption algorithm. The decrypted user credential is then transmitted from the decryption server to an authentication server for verification. The decryption server typically forms part of a multi-party service access environment including a plurality of access providers, the method including decrypting the user credential of a user proximate an access provider associated with the user credential. The method can be used in legacy protocols such as Point-to-Point protocol (PPP), Password Authentication Protocol (PAP), Challenge-Handshake Authentication Protocol (CHAP), Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) protocol, Terminal Access Controller Access Control System (TACACS) protocol, Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), NT Domain authentication protocol, Unix password authentication protocol, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), HyperText Transfer Protocol over Secure sockets layer (HTTPS), Extended Authentication Protocol (EAP), Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol, Token Ring protocol and/or Secure Remote Password protocol (SRP).
US07921288B1
With files secured by encryption techniques, keys are often required to gain access to the secured files. Techniques for providing and using multiple levels of keystores for securing the keys are disclosed. The keystores store keys that are needed by users in order to access secured files. The different levels of keystores offer compromises between security and flexibility/ease of use.
US07921284B1
Even with proper access privilege, when a secured file is classified, at least security clearance (e.g. a clearance key) is needed to ensure those who have the right security clearance can ultimately access the contents in the classified secured file. According to one embodiment, referred to as a two-pronged access scheme, a security clearance key is generated and assigned in accordance with a user's security access level. A security clearance key may range from most classified to non-classified. Depending on implementation, a security clearance key with a security level may be so configured that the key can be used to access secured files classified at or lower than the security level or multiple auxiliary keys are provided when a corresponding security clearance key is being requested. The auxiliary keys are those keys generated to facilitate access to secured files classified respectively less than the corresponding security or confidentiality level.
US07921282B1
A method, apparatus, and system are directed toward managing a Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol (TCP/IP) handshake. A SYN-ACK cookie is determined based on a cryptographic operation using a secret key and at least one network characteristic. The SYN-ACK cookie is provided in a SYN message's field. The SYN message is sent from a client to a server. Another sequence number based on the received SYN-ACK cookie is included in a SYN-ACK message. The SYN-ACK message is sent to and received by the client. The other sequence number is validated based on the secret key to generate at least another network characteristic. A TCP/IP connection is established if the network characteristic matches the other network characteristic. In one embodiment, the component sending the SYN message may be a different component than the component receiving the SYN-ACK message. In this embodiment, the secret key may be shared between the two components.
US07921276B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a translation lookaside buffer (TLB) having storage locations each including a priority indicator field to store a priority level associated with an agent that requested storage of the data in the TLB, and an identifier field to store an identifier of the agent, where the TLB is apportioned according to a plurality of priority levels. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07921272B2
Provided are a method, system, and article of manufacture for monitoring patterns of processes accessing addresses in a storage device to determine access parameters to apply. Processes accessing addresses of data in a storage device are monitored. The processes are granted access to the addresses according to first access parameters that indicate how to arbitrate access by processes to the addresses. A condition occurring in response to a pattern of processes accessing addresses is detected. A determination is made of one of the processes in the pattern and the address accessed by the determined process. Indication is made that second access parameters apply for the determined address. The second access parameters are used to grant access to the determined address for subsequent accesses of the indicated address.
US07921267B1
A system and method for fixing data inconsistency between an original dataset stored on a source storage server and a mirror of the original dataset stored on a destination storage server is provided. The method determines whether the mirror is consistent with the original dataset by comparing metadata describing the original dataset with metadata describing the mirror. If the mirror is inconsistent with the original dataset, corresponding block(s) of the original dataset is/are requested and received from the source storage server. The mirror is then fixed according to the received block(s).
US07921263B2
A system and method for accelerated handling of masked store operations in a processor or processor-based system/chip are described. A set of instructions that support a store operation under a per-byte predicate mask is provided. The invention accelerates the handling of small transfers at arbitrary alignments, such as those used by xDSL modems to deal with ATM cells or Reed Solomon codewords.
US07921258B1
Described is a technology by which a secondary nonvolatile storage (e.g., a flash memory device) maintains a copy of the changes made to a hard drive after a data backup operation. The backup changes are combinable with backed up data to recreate a hard drive state, whereby changes after the last backup are not lost, e.g., if the hard drive fails. The backup change data may maintain the changes at the block (e.g., allocation unit) level corresponding to hard drive blocks, or at the file level, corresponding to files or parts of files on the hard drive. The backup changes may be filtered, so that only certain data (e.g., user data) are maintained as backup change data. Read requests can be satisfied by reading data from the backup change data, or from a performance (e.g., disk) cache that may also reside on the nonvolatile storage.
US07921257B1
A dynamic parity distribution system and technique distributes parity across disks of an array. The dynamic parity distribution system includes a storage operating system that integrates a file system with a RAID system. In response to a request to store (write) data on the array, the file system determines which disks contain free blocks in a next allocated stripe of the array. There may be multiple blocks within the stripe that do not contain file system data (i.e., unallocated data blocks) and that could potentially store parity. One or more of those unallocated data blocks can be assigned to store parity, arbitrarily. According to the dynamic parity distribution technique, the file system determines which blocks hold parity each time there is a write request to the stripe. The technique alternately allows the RAID system to assign a block to contain parity when each stripe is written.
US07921253B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a switch device to be coupled between a first semiconductor component and a processor node by interconnects of a communication protocol that provides for cache coherent transactions and non-cache coherent transactions. The switch device includes logic to handle cache coherent transactions from the first semiconductor component to the processor node, while the first semiconductor component does not include such logic. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07921234B2
In a communications channel coupled to multiple duplicated subsystems, a method, interposer and program product are provided for verifying integrity of subsystem responses. Within the communications channel, a first checksum is calculated with receipt of a first response from a first subsystem responsive to a common request, and a second checksum is calculated for a second response of a second subsystem received responsive to the common request. The first checksum and the second checksum are compared, and if matching, only one of the first response and the second response is forwarded from the communications channel as the response to the common request, with the other of the first response and the second response being discarded by the communications channel.
US07921233B2
A signal converter is used to connect between an all-in-one USB connector and a PCB and has USB 3.0 and eSATA signal interfaces, an inner communication interface and a processing unit. The processing unit has an identifying and converting procedure. The identifying and converting procedure is periodically executed to detect the USB 3.0 and eSATA signal interfaces in sequence and determine whether a response signal is sent back from one of the USB 3.0 and eSATA signal interfaces. If a determined result is positive, the processing unit bi-directionally converts two different standard signals of the inner communication interface and the one of the USB 3.0 and eSATA signal interfaces that transmitted the response signal. Therefore, the PCB successfully communicates with the external electronic device through the correct port of the all-in-one USB connector.
US07921226B2
A method and apparatus for providing user specific request redirection in a content delivery network includes parsing a page having embedded objects intended for redirection to at least one cache server, and transforming the embedded objects into relative uniform resource locators (URLs). A content-base token is inserted into an HTTP response header in response to a user request for the page. In an instance where the content-base token is not supported by the server and/or client devices, a base token is inserted into the page in response to a user request for the page. The content-base token and base token provide identification of a server or URL prefix where the embedded objects in the page are to be retrieved. The requested page is then sent to the user's browser. The browser constructs absolute URLs from the embedded URLs using either the received content-base token or base token, to retrieve embedded objects from the server.
US07921224B2
In a method for controlling data traffic in a wireless or other communication network, one or more hardware/software agents are deployed to interface with one or more network entities such as routers, switches, backhaul transmission lines, and wireless base stations. The agents monitor the L1 (physical) and L2 (data link) layers of the network for the presence of indicators associated with network failover operations, such as DS1 alarms and protocol errors, respectively. Based on detected indicators across all monitored network entities, the agents determine if a failover operation has occurred. If so, data congestion associated with the failover operation is controlled according to a failover congestion monitoring and recovery mode (e.g., a data source backoff model), to reduce instances of dropped calls that would otherwise occur if the failover congestion were handled according to a general purpose congestion monitoring and recovery mode of the network.
US07921221B2
With techniques for obtaining digital objects (e.g., songs or video clips) from information providers in data communication networks (e.g., the Internet), the digital objects typically being sent through channels (e.g., Internet radio channels or Internet TV channels), end-users gain several advantages over prior techniques. For example, end-users may easily locate desired digital objects, need not be connected during object capture, can be connected through a low speed connection, need not have a high capacity computer, can receive supplemental information associated with the digital objects, can quickly scan a vast number of digital objects having been sent earlier, need not have storage space for the digital objects available during object capture, can easily navigate through a multitude of digital object channels, can easily obtain objects with a certain desired quality and/or format, can legally obtain digital objects at no cost and can prove that the digital objects were actually obtained legally.
US07921217B2
A method for implementing parallel download applicable to a system supporting the download of chunked download content includes: acquiring download source information corresponding to download content, wherein the download source information comprises multiple content sources providing the download content, and the multiple content sources corresponds to multiple download servers respectively; dividing the download content into download content chunks according to the download source information; sending a download content chunk request to the multiple download servers corresponding to the multiple content sources respectively, and downloading the download content chunks from the multiple download servers in parallel. A download agent for implementing parallel download is provided. The method and download agent of the embodiments of the present invention may improve the download speed and robustness effectively. Therefore, object files with a large amount of data may be downloaded reliably and rapidly.
US07921214B2
The present solution includes a method for dynamically switching modalities in a dialogue session involving a voice server. In the method, a dialogue session can be established between a user and a speech application. During the dialogue session, the user can interact using an original modality, which is either a speech modality, a text exchange modality, or a multi mode modality that includes a text exchange modality. The speech application can interact using a speech modality. A modality switch trigger can be detected that changes the original modality to a different modality. The modality transition to the second modality can be transparent to the speech application. The speech application can be a standard VoiceXML based speech application that lacks an inherent text exchange capability.
US07921211B2
A secure domain name service for a computer network is disclosed that includes a portal connected to a computer network, such as the Internet, and a domain name database connected to the computer network through the portal. The portal authenticates a query for a secure computer network address, and the domain name database stores secure computer network addresses for the computer network. Each secure computer network address is based on a non-standard top-level domain name, such as .scom, .sorg, .snet, .snet, .sedu, .smil and .sint.
US07921209B2
An apparatus and method for integrating authentication protocols in the establishment of connections between a controlled-access first computing device and at least one second computing device. In one embodiment, network access user authentication data needed to access the at least one second computing device is transmitted to an authentication server automatically if the user has access to use the first computing device, thereby not requiring the user to manually enter the authentication data needed for such access at the first computing device. The network access user authentication data may be, for example, retrieved from a memory store of the first computing device and/or generated in accordance with an authentication data generating algorithm.
US07921207B2
A method, system, API and computer product for adapting reverse data channel (RDC) utilization by selectively restricting the reporting of statistics data from client devices using a client-side filter adapted in response to configuration data from a file or other source file.
US07921188B2
A computer system is described having a plurality of resources which includes a plurality of processors, a distributed point-to-point transmission infrastructure for interconnecting the plurality of processors, and a partitioning processor for configuring the plurality of resources into at least one partition. Each partition comprises a subset of the plurality of resources. The partitioning processor is operable to configure the resources by enabling at least one link between at least one of the plurality of processors and at least one other one of the plurality of processors according to a previously specified partitioning schema. The link(s) so enabled corresponds to a portion of the point-to-point transmission infrastructure.
US07921183B2
A communication system includes a storage device having a storage area accessed in one of a page unit and a sector unit; a control device operable to request access to data in a file unit; and a predetermined transmission line for transmitting data between the storage device and the control device. The control device transmits to the storage device via the transmission line a request for access to one of each page and each sector forming a file for which access has been requested, and the storage device sequentially accesses one of a requested page and a requested sector, whereby a request for access to the entire file is realized in the storage area.
US07921178B2
Device, system, and method of accessing storage. For example, a server includes: a Solid-State Drive (SSD) to store data; a memory mapper to map at least a portion of a storage space of the SSD into a memory space of the server; and a network adapter to receive a Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) read command incoming from a client device, to map one or more parameters of the SCSI read command into an area of the memory space of the server from which data is requested to be read by the client device, said area corresponding to a storage area of the SSD, and to issue a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) write command to copy data directly to the client device from said area of the memory space corresponding to the SSD.
US07921163B1
Routing and displaying instant messages includes receiving a first request to establish a first instant messaging session associated with an instant messaging online identity assigned to a user using a first instant messaging controller. The first instant messaging session is established in response to the first request, where the first instant messaging session includes a first state. A second request from the user is received to establish a second instant messaging session associated with the instant messaging online identity assigned to the user using a second instant messaging controller that differs from the first instant messaging controller. The second instant messaging session is established in response to the second request, where the second instant messaging session includes a second state. An instant message designated for the instant messaging online identity assigned to the user is received and a determination is made on where to route the instant message based on routing criteria. The routing criteria includes the first state of the first instant messaging session and the second state of the second instant messaging session. The instant message is routed based on the determination of where to route to the instant message.
US07921161B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for routing T-37 E-mail over an H 323 (VOIP) network. The methods and systems facilitate the obtaining and utilization of data from Gatekeepers with respect to the utilization of Gateways to be utilized to transmit the E-mail from the network over a conventional telephone network to the recipient. They thereby facilitate the choice of a Gateway which is less heavily utilized.
US07921159B1
Computer-implemented methods, apparati, and computer-readable media for countering spam that disguises characters within an electronic message (1). A method embodiment of the present invention comprises locating (36) portions of an electronic message (1) where the difference between foreground color and background color is negligible; deleting (37) from the electronic message (1) foreground characters from said portions, to form a redacted electronic message; and forwarding (33) the redacted electronic message to a spam filter (23).
US07921157B2
Using switching technologies to duplicate packets of a digital stream (e.g., digital video stream) sent from one workstation to multiple recipient workstations, where the switching technologies enable the multiple streams sent from the switch to the recipient workstations to be generated from a single digital stream sent from the sending workstation to the switch. Data units, such as video data units, may be transmitted by using a switch to enable receipt of a stream of data units including a payload portion and an attribute portion from at least two conferencing participants. The switch is used to duplicate at least a subportion of the payload portion of a data unit within the stream of data units, and to enable access to the duplicated subportion of the data unit by two or more conferencing participants.
US07921156B1
Content is inserted into conversations hosted on a takeoff site using creatives that provide lures and links to other material that users engaged in the conversation might find helpful and relevant. Such insertions are made in a contextually meaningful fashion through the use of a matching and decision process that determines best candidate creatives and an appropriate time and place for their insertion into the conversation.
US07921153B2
In one embodiment, methods and apparatuses are provided for allowing an invited participant to access a customized web page; programming a first content for the invited participant; displaying the first content on the customized web page to the invited participant; and automatically displaying a second content to the invited participant based on displaying the first content to the invited participant.
US07921151B2
A computer system's multiple processors are managed as devices. The operating system accesses the multiple processors using processor device modules loaded into the operating system to facilitate a communication between an application requesting access to a processor and the processor. A device-like access is determined for accessing each one of the processors similar to device-like access for other devices in the system such as disk drives, printers, etc. An application seeking access to a processor issues device-oriented instructions for processing data, and in addition, the application provides the processor with the data to be processed. The processor processes the data according to the instructions provided by the application.
US07921145B2
A method is provided for extending a sequence repetition period of a random number generator in systems based on the availability of random sequences. The method includes performing RNS arithmetic operations to express a random number in a sequence as RNS residue values. Each generated random number has a value between zero and n!−1. The method also includes converting each of the RNS residue values to a relatively prime base number system so that each of the RNS residue values includes at least one digit. The method further includes generating an arbitrary permutation ordering of output sequence numbers using a select combination of digits associated with each of the RNS residue values. The arbitrary permutation ordering is applied to a cyclic structure having n elements. Each of the n elements has an associated output sequence number.
US07921140B2
An apparatus and method for browsing contents, the apparatus including: a generation module to generate a key value using metadata of contents as an input value; a management module to manage an index for accessing the key value; and an output module to output a user interface (UI) required to browse the contents using the key value included in a leaf node of the index.
US07921136B1
A system and method are disclosed for facilitating development of scenes for entertainment features, such as motion pictures or television shows, that depict or represent actual, real world (or imaginary) geographic areas. A source database contains data that represent geographic features in a region including roads in the region. The data in the source database includes attributes suitable for use for providing navigation-related functions. In addition to providing data from the source database for navigation-related functions, data from the source database are also provided for facilitating development of scenes for entertainment features that depict or represent actual, real world (or imaginary) geographic areas. An application programming interface, as well as other tools for handling geographic data, is provided for accessing and processing of the geographic data.
US07921131B2
An improved system and method for query processing in a distributed column chunk data store is provided. A distributed column chunk data store may be provided by multiple storage servers operably coupled to a network. A storage server provided may include a database engine for partitioning a data table into the column chunks for distributing across multiple storage servers, a storage shared memory for storing the column chunks during processing of semantic operations performed on the column chunks, and a storage services manager for striping column chunks of a partitioned data table across multiple storage servers. Query processing may be performed by storage servers or query processing servers operably coupled by a network to storage servers in the column chunk data store. To do so, a hierarchy of servers may be dynamically determined to process execution steps of a query transformed for distributed processing.
US07921128B2
A migration tool for merging disparate virtual universes by selecting a source region or source account, selecting a destination edge or destination account, retrieving and storing virtual universe information for the source region or account, inserting the virtual universe resources of the source region or account into the destination region or account, activating the inserted resources, and deleting the source resources from the source region or account.
US07921126B2
Methods for patent summarization are disclosed. A digital file comprising an issued patent document or a published application is acquired. At least one claim string is acquired from the digital file. Multiple elements are acquired from the claim string. A part-of relationship architecture among a portion of the elements is generated according to the claim string. At least one is-a relationship for at least one of the elements is generated according to the claim string. At least one association relationship for at least one of the elements is generated according to the claim string. The part-of relationship architecture, as-is relationship and association relationship are displayed.
US07921125B1
A virtual data room distributes information associated with an investigational product, such as an investigational compound. The information includes documents associated with the investigational product; and reports based on live clinical study data of the investigational product. The live clinical study data includes cleaned and not cleaned data records. For a designated subset of data records, the reports use data associated with only cleaned data records, and for the remaining data records, the reports use data regardless of whether the data is associated with cleaned or not cleaned data records.
US07921108B2
The invention also provides a method of interfacing with a client computer system, wherein search results include search results with geographic locations outside the first selected area if the number of the search results that have geographic locations within the selected area are less than a predetermined threshold value.
US07921106B2
Search results are ranked by applying sub-relevancies within a search result list. This permits search result lists to be further refined into more manageable relevant groupings from a user's perspective. The sub-relevancies or ‘group-by’ parameters are derived from search result attributes. Attribute values from the attributes are employed in a ranking scheme to group the search results based on attribute value relevancy. The grouped search results can then be displayed to users via a search result page. In one instance users can select which attribute value is used to group the search result list. Ranking processes are based on object ranking algorithms that consider each attribute value as an object type. Some instances provide for search result list group condensing based on relevancy of the attribute values as well. A top-k instance can be employed to limit the search results to control the amount of time required for processing groupings.
US07921100B2
The similarity between a query set comprising query set tokens and a database set comprising database set tokens is determined by a similarity score. The database sets belong to a data collection set, which contains all database sets from which information may be retrieved. If the similarity score is greater than or equal to a user-defined threshold, the database set has information relevant to the query set. The similarity score is calculated with an inverse document frequency method (IDF) similarity measure independent of term frequency. The document frequency is based at least in part on the number of database sets in the data collection set and the number of database sets which contain at least one query set token. The length of the query set and the length of the database set are normalized.
US07921096B2
A system for providing telecommunications equipment information and customer information that includes a display and a processor. The display displays a graphical user interface that allows a user to access the equipment information and the customer information. The graphical user interface includes at least one input area that allows a user to input search criteria, related to at least one of equipment data and customer data, to initiate a search. The graphical user interface also includes at least one results area that displays a result of the search, the result including at least one of the equipment information and the customer information related to the search criteria. The processor implements the search for at least one of the equipment information and the customer information in response to the input search criteria.
US07921093B2
Providing an information processing apparatus and information processing method that prevent the occurrence of inconsistencies between restored files and other files, thereby improving ease of use. When restoring a backup virtual tree, the owner of each file and directory belonging to the backup virtual tree is identified; and when it is found, based on the identification result, that the owner of any of the files or directories is not a target user and the update time and/or version of the backup file or directory is older than that of the corresponding present file or directory, the backup file or directory is restored back into a special directory accessible for the target user with the tree structure of the original virtual tree intact.
US07921088B1
Compressed stride tables in a multi-bit Trie structure perform lookups. An input lookup key is divided into strides including a current stride of S bits. A valid entry in a current stride table is located by compressing the S bits, forming a compressed index of D bits into the current stride table. A compression function logically combines the S bits to generate the D compressed index bits. An entry in a prior-level table points to the current stride table and has an opcode field indicating which compression function and mask to use. Compression functions can include counts of leading-repeated bits, and very complex functions such as hashes, CRC, encryption. A function table stores results of the complex functions that are addressed by the S bits of the current stride. The opcode field in the stride entry selects from among several tables, each storing results for a different function.
US07921073B2
Described are a system and method for determining an event occurrence rate. A sample set of content items may be obtained. Each of the content items may be associated with at least one region in a hierarchical data structure. A first impression volume may be determined for the at least one region as a function of a number of impressions registered for the content items associated with the at least one region. A scale factor may be applied to the first impression volume to generate a second impression volume. The scale factor may be selected so that the second impression volume is within a predefined range of a third impression volume. A click-through-rate (CTR) may be estimated as a function of the second impression volume and a number of clicks on the content item.
US07921043B2
A method and mechanism identify various discrepancies that commonly arise when downloading transactional data from one database to another, and provide an ordered sequence of user interface tools to correct each type of discrepancy.
US07921042B2
A computer-implemented service analyzes purchase histories and/or other types of behavioral data of users on an aggregated basis to detect and quantify associations between particular items represented in an electronic catalog. The detected associations are stored in a mapping structure that maps items to related items, and is used to recommend items to users of the electronic catalog.
US07921037B2
Personalized messages can be generated according to contents detected in communications between parties to a commercial transaction. The information streams between parties is monitored; spoken keywords, images, video or textual data are detected by pattern recognition, voice recognition or text matching. One or more subjects of the communication detected from recognized keywords, images, video or text data are used to generate a personalized message to one or more participants according to the detected subjects.
US07921023B2
In certain embodiments, a system and method of receiving data indicates one or more software components included in a user's system landscape, receives a user's selection of a software component to be managed or customized, accesses the software component in response to the user's selection, receives a user's input relating to an alteration to be made to a feature or setting of the software component, and modifies one or more files associated with the software component to reflect the alteration.
US07921019B2
A method and product for the establishment and continued use of a secure online communication network between known and intentional acquaintances utilizing unique individual encoded exchanged objects, purchased by a purchaser and given to individuals known by the consumer, comprising a key object used to establish a closed network by the purchaser or host, and a plurality of exchanged token objects given to members or friends to whom an offer to join the closed network is extended, each exchanged token object containing a unique code required to log into the closed network, wherein communication may be held between the host and their friends without intrusion by persons outside the closed network.
US07921009B2
A method and device for updating statuses of synthesis filters are provided. The method includes: exciting a synthesis filter corresponding to a first encoding rate by using an excitation signal of the first encoding rate, outputting reconstructed signal information, and updating status information of the synthesis filter and a synthesis filter corresponding to a second encoding rate. In the present disclosure, the status of the synthesis filter corresponding to the current rate and the statuses of the synthesis filters at other rates are updated. Thus, synchronization between the statuses of the synthesis filters corresponding to different rates at the encoding terminal may be realized, thereby facilitating the consistency of the reconstructed signals of the encoding and decoding terminals when the encoding rate is switched, and improving the quality of the reconstructed signal of the decoding terminal.
US07921000B2
A maintenance support system for a construction machine calculates the cumulative load of every component corresponding with the driving and working conditions of the construction machine by a load calculation means after simulating the driving and working conditions on the basis of production operating conditions by an operation simulation means, and forecasts the lifespan of the respective components by a lifespan calculation means on the basis of the cumulative load. Hence, a more accurate maintenance schedule can be established in comparison with a case where which component is to be maintained is determined on the basis of only the operating time.
US07920997B2
Based on common weather conditions, novel methods are disclosed for the prediction of electrical power distribution interruptions and for interruption risk assessment based on immediate weather conditions. Daily, hourly, and bi-hourly weather data are used to predict the number of interruptions and to normalize reliability indices for weather. Common weather conditions include, but are not limited to, rain, wind, temperature, lightning, humidity, barometric pressure, snow, and ice. These conditions do not occur simultaneously at any one place, and the range of combinations is great, therefore the invention allows broad application of the disclosed methods.
US07920993B2
The present invention relates to methods for achieving an optimal function of a biochemical reaction network. The methods can be performed in silico using a reconstruction of a biochemical reaction network of a cell and iterative optimization procedures. The methods can further include laboratory culturing steps to confirm and possibly expand the determinations made using the in silico methods, and to produce a cultured cell, or population of cells, with optimal functions. The current invention includes computer systems and computer products including computer-readable program code for performing the in silico steps of the invention.
US07920989B2
A central test facility transmits wirelessly test data to a local test facility, which tests electronic devices using the test data. The local test facility transmits wirelessly response data generated by the electronic devices back to the central test facility, which analyzes the response data to determine which electronic devices passed the testing. The central test facility may provide the results of the testing to other entities, such as a design facility where the electronic devices were designed or a manufacturing facility where the electronic devices where manufactured. The central test facility may accept requests for test resources from any of a number of local test facilities, schedule test times corresponding to each test request, and at a scheduled test time, wirelessly transmits test data to a corresponding local test facility.
US07920988B2
A computer-implemented method for capturing interactions in a system is disclosed. The method includes receiving a selection of a first component of the system and receiving a selection of a second component of the system. The method further includes receiving a selection of an interaction between the first component and the second component, and displaying a list of functions performed by the selected interaction.
US07920986B2
A method of quantifying a shape of a surface includes measuring an elevation (z) of the surface at a plurality of locations in an x-y plane of the surface. The measurement data is fit to a series expansion in terms of one or more base functions that include a series expansion fit. A vector of shape coefficients are calculated from the series expansion fit. A vector of shape coefficients are output.
US07920985B2
An inclination calculation apparatus within a game machine computes inclination of an input device having an acceleration sensor/detector capable of detecting acceleration in at least two axial directions. Programmed logic circuitry within the apparatus generates preliminary data which is representative of a current inclination and which is uniquely determined from acceleration data obtained from the acceleration sensor/detector. Programmed logic circuitry within the apparatus also regularly consecutively computes new/updated inclination vectors in real-time based on a previously computed inclination vector, a variable “effectiveness” valve and a current inclination vector, where the effectiveness value is a correction factor that represents the degree to which the direction of the previously computed inclination vector must be made closer to the direction of the current inclination vector to result in a direction for the new/updated inclination which more accurately reflects the actual inclination of the input device at the time the acceleration data is acquired.
US07920981B2
The invention relates to a method of calibrating a sensor, in particular a yaw rate sensor, in which sensor values (Ysensor) and associated temperature values (T) are stored in the shape of reference points in a non-volatile memory of the sensor, in which case the values (Ysensor, T) are determined during a calibration mode in which the sensor is exposed to a predefined temperature profile. In order to further improve the accuracy of the calibration, the invention discloses that the values (Ysensor, T) determined in the calibration mode are used to determine coefficients (C0, . . . , Cn-1, Cn) of a polynomial of nth order, and these coefficients are stored.
US07920978B2
A circuit for detecting noise events in a system with time variable operating points is provided. A first voltage, which is averaged over time, is compared to a second voltage. A signal is generated to instruct circuits within a processor to initiate actions to keep a voltage from drooping further.
US07920974B2
One embodiment of the present invention provides a system that generates a vibration profile for a rotational device in a computer system. During operation, the system sequentially sweeps a rotation speed of a rotational device over a range of rotation speeds. While driving the rotational device at each rotation speed, the system collects a time-domain vibration signal produced by the rotational device and subsequently computes a frequency spectrum of the time-domain vibration signal. In this way, the system generates a set of frequency spectra associated with the range of rotation speeds. Next, the system combines the set of frequency spectra to generate a composite vibration profile for the rotational device.
US07920972B2
The present invention discloses a suite of G2FT and GFT NMR experiments that can be used for complete resonance assignments of proteins and for obtaining structural (conformational and orientational) constraints for determining high resolution three-dimensional structures of biomolecules.
US07920971B2
Method and apparatus, including computer program products, implement techniques for quantifying a target nucleic acid (target) in a test sample. The techniques include providing a target and a defined initial amount of an internal control nucleic acid (control) different from the target; amplifying the target and control in a common amplification process; measuring a quantity indicating the amount of amplification product for the target and for the control in relation to a parameter representing the progress of the amplification; determining a characteristic value of the progress parameter for the target based on measurement results related to the amount of target amplification product; possibly determining a characteristic value of the progress parameter for the control based on measurement results related to the amount of control amplification product; and quantifying the original amount of target according to a predefined or selected quantification scheme using at least the characteristic value for the target.
US07920968B2
Digital mapping techniques are disclosed that provide visually-oriented information to the user, such as driving directions that include visual data points along the way of the driving route, thereby improving the user experience. The user may preview the route associated with the driving directions, where the preview is based on, for example, at least one of satellite images, storefront images, and heuristics and/or business listings. The visually-oriented information can be presented to the user in a textual, graphical, or verbal format, or some combination thereof.
US07920966B2
Navigation apparatuses, methods, and programs set a first reference point on a driving route, set a second reference point on the driving route, the second reference point being prior to the first reference point along the driving route, and set a third reference point on the driving route, the third reference point being after the first reference point along the driving route. The apparatuses, methods, and programs set a triangular area having vertices corresponding to the first reference point, the second reference point, and the third reference point and obtain three-dimensional map data around the triangular area. The apparatuses, methods, and programs set a predetermined translucent ratio for a structure included in the triangular area. The apparatuses, methods, and programs generate a moving three-dimensional image which displays the driving route overlapped with the structure set with the predetermined translucent ratio and display the generated three-dimensional motion-image.
US07920950B2
The estimated drive torque calculation unit, is configured such that if the running condition determination unit determines that the transmission mechanism is in gear, and if the speed of rotation of the output shaft of the torque converter measured by the rotation speed measurement sensor is equal to or less than a predetermined speed of rotation, and if the rotation speed of the wheels measured by the wheel speed sensor is equal to or greater than a predetermined rotation speed, the torque combination unit calculates the first estimated drive torque as the engine estimated drive torque even if the slip ratio of the torque converter is equal to or less than a predetermined value, and even if the first estimated drive torque calculated by the first drive torque calculation unit is greater than the second estimated drive torque calculated by the second drive torque calculation unit.
US07920948B2
An assumption torque setting device for an engine that executes a torque reduction process during gear shifting. The device sets a torque assumed to be output by the engine and based on a target torque from which an amount corresponding to the torque reduction process is excluded as an assumption torque during the gear shifting. The device includes an assumption model torque calculation unit which calculates an assumption model torque from the target torque from which an amount corresponding to the torque reduction process is excluded based on an internal combustion engine delay model. An assumption torque calculation unit calculates before torque reduction is performed an assumption torque based on an engine operation state and calculates when the torque reduction is being performed an assumption torque based on the assumption model torque and an assumption torque calculated from the engine operation state.
US07920944B2
A system and method for providing user-initiated vehicle diagnostic testing and reporting in a telematics-enabled vehicle. In the method, a request for a vehicle diagnostic test is received from the driver through a user interface of a telematics unit on the vehicle. A simplified initial diagnostic check is made and a first voice message is played for the driver that provides information concerning any detected vehicle problem. The method then undergoes a more complete diagnostic check and the resulting diagnostic information is used to select and play a second voice message that provides instructions for taking corrective action to fix the detected problem. Communication with a live advisor is also provided by way of a cellular or other wireless carrier system.
US07920942B2
A microsource is provided, which includes an energy storage device, a power generation device, and a controller. The energy storage device is operably coupled for power transfer to a load through a first power bus. The power generation device is operably coupled for power transfer to the load through a second power bus. The controller determines a mode of operation for the energy storage device and the power generation device based on an energy level of the energy storage device and on the load; determines minimum power set points and maximum power set points for the energy storage device and the power generation device based on the determined mode of operation, on a storage output power measured at the first power bus, and on a generation output power measured at the second power bus; and controls an output power of the energy storage device and an output power of the power generation device based on the determined minimum and maximum power set points.
US07920932B2
A method of controlling presentation of audio data in a home entertainment system using a wireless home entertainment hub comprises obtaining a registration of at least one audio sink device, where the at least one audio sink device is capable of receiving a first number of audio channels used for presenting the audio data to a user in the home entertainment system. The audio data comprising a second number of audio channels, wherein the second number of audio channels is greater than the first number of audio channels, is received from a source device at the wireless home entertainment hub. The audio data received is processed in response to the capabilities of the at least one audio sink device by down-mixing the audio data to the first number of audio channels. The processed audio data is transmitted to the at least one audio sink device for presentation to the user.
US07920927B2
A lead assembly includes an elongate body having a conductor electrically coupled with an electrode coupled to the elongate body. The lead assembly includes a push tube extending along at least a portion of the elongate body. A distal tip is coupled to the elongate body substantially adjacent to the distal end of the elongate body. The distal tip is sized and shaped to couple with a push tube distal end. In one option, the distal tip includes a seat to receive the push tube distal end. In another option, the seat is a side rail seat and a guide wire extends along the elongate body and is slidably coupled with the side rail seat. The lead assembly includes, optionally, an active fixation device slidably coupled with a portion of the elongate body, and the active fixation device is sized and shaped to couple with the push tube.
US07920925B2
Errors in pitch (frequency) allocation within a cochlear implant are corrected in order to provide a significant and profound improvement in the quality of sound perceived by the cochlear implant user. In one embodiment, the user is stimulated with a reference signal, e.g., the tone “A” (440 Hz) and then the user is stimulated with a probe signal, separated from the reference signal by an octave, e.g., high “A” (880 Hz). The user adjusts the location where the probe signal is applied, using current steering, until the pitch of the probe signal, as perceived by the user, matches the pitch of the reference signal, as perceived by the user. In this manner, the user maps frequencies to stimulation locations in order to tune his or her implant system to his or her unique cochlea.
US07920911B2
A magnetic resonance imaging system for interventional MR imaging involves operations to insert a device such as a catheter into an object. According to the system, a tip position of the catheter is detected, data indicative of moved loci of the catheter are produced from data indicative of the detected tip position, and the produced movement locus data are displayed. In addition, even when an operator changes the progress direction of the device such as a puncture needle, an imaging cross-section automatically tracks movements of the device. Appropriate preoperative planning is also provided.
US07920910B2
A patient table includes a cradle for slidably receiving a board carrying a patient, a cradle supporting member for slidably receiving the cradle, a locker for preventing the board from sliding off the cradle, and a stopper for preventing the cradle from sliding off the cradle supporting member. A method of transferring a patient to an imaging system from a second table uses the patient table to move the board from the second table to the patient table to the imaging system. An RF coil system usable with the table includes a coil, a coil cable, an intermediate box for receiving the coil cable, and a system cable extending from the intermediate box and connected to the imaging system.
US07920907B2
Devices and methods for monitoring an analyte are provided. Embodiments include continuous analyte sensors having a high degree of accuracy.
US07920906B2
Systems and methods for processing sensor analyte data are disclosed, including initiating calibration, updating calibration, evaluating clinical acceptability of reference and sensor analyte data, and evaluating the quality of sensor calibration. The sensor can be calibrated using a calibration set of one or more matched sensor and reference analyte data pairs. Reference data resulting from benchtop testing an analyte sensor prior to its insertion can be used to provide initial calibration of the sensor data. Reference data from a short term continuous analyte sensor implanted in a user can be used to initially calibrate or update sensor data from a long term continuous analyte sensor.
US07920905B2
Taught is a mobile phone holder, especially for a mechanical vehicle, having a two-part body with side clamps and provided with a coupling/locking module, which has two step-shaped side clamps (10) on both of its sides. The side clamps are provided with a tooth (14) on their upper arm and are coupled with each other by means of unlocking buttons (3). The clamps are also provided with pins, which engage with the guides and the cams in the body and thus make the clamps move with a translational motion towards the inside of the holder combined with a concurrent rotational motion towards the inside of the holder. In the end phase of this motion the clamps are locked thus also locking the mobile phone in the holder.
US07920903B2
Among other features, a boom microphone has a microphone connector; an earcup module includes an earcup connector jack to connect to a headphone and a boom lead-in to receive the microphone connector; and a control module communicates voice signals wirelessly between (a) the boom microphone and headphone and (b) a telephone.
US07920901B2
A method is provided for providing a visual indicator of content existing in a play list while displaying available media items for adding to the play list. The method comprises the steps of: retrieving information related to the available media items; retrieving information related to the content existing in the play list; comparing the available media item information with the play list content information to determine items from the available media that are already included in the play list; displaying a menu showing the available media items; and displaying visual indicators next to the items in the menu of the available media that are already included in the play list.
US07920894B2
Methods and apparatus for analyzing, processing and formatting network information such as web-pages
A method for processing information received by a wireless device over a computer network, including receiving information from at least one source of information over a computer network, parsing at least some of the information, and employing at least some results of the parsing to provide the information in a form suitable for display to a user on the wireless device.
US07920890B2
A transmission power increasing section continuously transmits, from a testing instrument to a mobile communication terminal at predetermined intervals, a transmission power increasing request for increasing transmission power of the mobile communication terminal by a predetermined quantity. A block size extracting section extracts, from a predetermined second physical channel, block size information indicating a block size of transmittable data defined in association with the maximum transmission power set at a first physical channel upon receipt of a plurality of physical channels from the mobile communication terminal for each transmission of the transmission power increasing request. A storage section stores, at least one time, block size information extracted at the block size extracting section. In the case where a value of newly extracted block size information in the block size extracting section is decreased below a value of immediately preceding block size information stored in the storage section as a result of comparison therebetween, the maximum output power state determining section stops transmission of the transmission power increasing request in the transmission power increasing section and transmits, to the mobile communication terminal, a transmission power decreasing request for decreasing transmission power of the mobile communication terminal by a predetermined quantity.
US07920887B2
Disclosed herein are a system and method for setting up a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) communication group in a cellular system, and a P2P communication system and method using the P2P communication group. The system for setting up a P2P communication group for a terminal in a cellular system including a base station and the terminals includes a location detection unit, a location information transmission unit, a control information reception unit, and a final group setup unit. The location detection unit detects the location of a terminal. The location information transmission unit sends information about the location, detected by the location detection unit, to the base station. The control information reception unit receives information about a preliminary P2P communication group set up by the base station based on the location information. The final group setup unit sets up a final P2P communication group based on the preliminary P2P communication group.
US07920872B2
The supplementary location-related information which may be included in a digital map of the receiver is transmitted in such a way that the location-related information may be downloaded from an Internet page.
US07920870B1
A telecommunications system and method is disclosed for adaptively configuring the cell structure of a cell having at least two carrier frequencies between an overlaid/underlaid (OL/UL) sub-cell structure and a normal cell structure based on the position of mobile stations within the cell. A Base Station Controller (BSC) for the cell determines the position of all of the mobile stations involved in a call connection within the cell relative to the cell site. If the number of mobile stations within a predefined distance from the cell site is greater than a channel threshold, the BSC adapts the cell configuration to the OL/UL sub-cell structure. The channel threshold is an operator-defined percentage of available channels (throughout the cell or within either the overlaid or underlaid cell). However, if the BSC determines that the percentage of mobile stations closer than the predefined distance is less than the channel threshold, the BSC maintains the normal cell structure.
US07920866B2
The present invention provides a method of wireless communication with a mobile unit and a base station router. The method may include providing, over a first channel, configuration information indicative of a second channel associated with the base station router and the mobile unit. The method may also include providing state information associated with the mobile unit to the base station router.
US07920865B2
In one embodiment, a method is provided for managing secure registration of a mobile communications device, the method comprising registering, at a network node, the mobile communications device using a first registration process, the first registration process requiring an authentication key associated with the mobile communications device; processing a request from the mobile communications device, the request including an indication that the mobile communications device is changing to a second registration process; and clearing the authentication key associated with the mobile communications device upon expiration of a time window.
US07920864B2
The present invention provides a mobile communication system including an IP (Internet Protocol) core network, a mobile communication network, a switching center server and a mobile terminal, wherein a plurality of services in each of the IP network and the mobile communication network are provided for the mobile terminal.
US07920862B2
Methods and systems for IMEI registration are provided. In accordance with exemplary embodiments of the present invention, when an IMEI registration fails due to a network failure, the mobile station implements a back-off algorithm for future IMEI registration attempts. Specifically, the present invention provides a back-off algorithm which determines a different amount of time for the time period between each unsuccessful IMEI registration.
US07920861B2
The present invention relates to a method for operating a mobile communication terminal, a mobile communication system, and a method for providing contents. The mobile communication system includes a mobile communication network and a mobile communication terminal for receiving a contents service through the mobile communication network. The mobile communication system is characterized by the mobile communication terminal that downloads contents data provided from a roamed mobile communication network and performs a contents service.
US07920857B2
A method is performed by first and second mobile wireless communication devices used respectively by first and second users. In the method, a first user selects, on the first device, a first task for the first user to perform. The first device sends to the second device a request to link the first task to a second task to be performed by the second user. The second device sends to the first device, in response to the second task being completed, a notification to the first device.
US07920856B2
A hosted mobile management service is provided for enabling a user to access a centralized account through a web browser on a terminal in order to manage the user's media information, such as digital music and photos. Any modifications made by user through the web browser are transparently sent to the user's mobile device where a thin client application receives such modification information and interacts with the mobile device's file system to reconcile such modifications.
US07920851B2
Information or items that otherwise might be carried in a person's wallet or purse may be managed and stored on a mobile phone. Embodiments include a software application loaded on a mobile phone and an Internet website through which certain information can be transmitted to the phone by the user, third parties, or both. A user may be alerted to certain information or changes in information that meet certain criteria. The website may provide secure storage for information, filter information, and send encrypted and compressed nuggets or fractions of information to the phone for storage based on topic. E-mails may be searched for information, information may be sent to different parties, and signals may be sent locally to exchange information. Personal information may include account information or travel information, for example.
US07920833B2
A device having a radio front end is provided. The radio front end includes an inductor having a first end and a second end. A capacitor having a first end and a second end is connected to the second end of the inductor. An antenna is connected to the second end of the inductor and the second end of the capacitor. A first switch is connected to the first end of the inductor and the first end of the capacitor, wherein the inductor and capacitor form a resonant circuit when the first switch is closed. A second switch is connected to the resonant circuit, the second switch connecting the resonant circuit to ground through a low impedance when the first switch is closed. A third switch is connected to a transmit power amplifier connecting the transmit power amplifier to ground through a low impedance when the first switch is closed.
US07920830B2
A method for performing an radio frequency test of a mobile phone (5) includes: setting standard parameters of a transmitter (52); controlling an RF tester (3) to send RF signals to a receiver (53); processing the RF signals and transmitting the processed RF signals to the transmitter, reprocessing the processed RF signals and transmitting the reprocessed signals to the RF tester; obtaining resulting parameters of the RF performance of the transmitter; determining whether the RF performance of the transmitter is acceptable; setting standard parameters of the receiver; controlling the RF tester to send RF signals to a combiner (4), and controlling a disturbance source (2) to send channel noise to the combiner; generating combined signals by combining the RF signals and the channel noise, and transmitting to the receiver; obtaining resulting parameters of the RF performance of the receiver; and determining whether the RF performance of the receiver is acceptable.
US07920827B2
A system, apparatus, and method for locating available information and services/applications via mobile terminals radio frequency identification (RFID) technology. At least one transponder is provided, having at least an application identifier and associated content, at a location that is accessible to mobile terminal users. The transponder is activated via a wireless signal transmitted by the mobile terminal. The application identifier and content from the activated transponder are received at the mobile terminal when the mobile terminal is physically located within a wireless transmission range of the transponder. In response, an application identified at least in part by the application identifier is invoked on the mobile terminal.
US07920806B2
A process cartridge is detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus. The main assembly includes a motor, a gear receiving a driving force from the motor, a hole defined by twisted surfaces substantially coaxial with the gear and having a grounding contact. The cartridge includes an electrophotographic photosensitive drum, and a projection engageable with the twisted surfaces. The projection is provided at a longitudinal end of the drum. When the gear rotates with the hole and projection engaged with each other, a rotational driving force is transmitted from the gear to the drum through engagement between the hole and the projection. The cartridge also includes a grounding contact electrically connected with the drum, for electrically grounding the drum when the cartridge is mounted to the main assembly, and provided on the projection to be electrically connectable with the main assembly grounding contact.
US07920801B2
Related is an image forming apparatus by electrophotography having a function of performing adjustment of image quality when performing image formation. The image forming apparatus includes a detection portion for detecting a fixing temperature of a fixing apparatus; a storage portion for storing an application history of a development bias; a count portion for counting a reposed time from a point when an operation of image formation is ended; a determination portion for determining a change range of the development bias immediately before the end of the operation of image formation; and an execution portion for executing adjustment of image quality by setting the development bias based on a determination result from the determination portion when the reposed time or the fixing temperature exceeds a predetermined value.
US07920797B2
The disclosure relates to an optical receiver having an apparatus for varying decision threshold level and an optical transmission system having the same. An optical receiver having an apparatus for varying decision threshold level includes a photo diode (PD) for receiving an optical signal and transforming the received optical signal into an electrical signal; a trans-impedance amplifier (TIA) for pre-amplifying the electrical signal transformed by the PD; a limiting amplifier (LA) for deciding the electrical signal amplified by the TIA as either level 0 or level 1 and for amplifying the decision signal; a clock and data recovery (CDR) for generating a clock and data from the amplified decision signal by the LA; and a control circuit for adjusting a decision threshold level depending on the received optical signal power by the PD and for providing the adjusted decision threshold level with the LA.
US07920793B2
An inline repeater that uses a forward-pumped DRA that can use a pumping light source such as an FBG pumping light source and a fiber laser, which are the most commonly used, and an optical fiber communication system are realized. The optical fiber communication system comprises silica fiber as a gain medium for Raman amplification to amplify a signal light; a pumping light source that emits a pumping light that co-propagates through the silica fiber in the same direction as the signal light; and a multiplexer disposed between the silica fiber and the pumping light source that multiplexes the signal light and the pumping light, with the multiplexer being provided with a means to multiplex the signal light input thereto having a wavelength longer than the zero-dispersion wavelength of the silica fiber and the pumping light emitted from the pumping light source, and the pumping light source being equipped with a means to emit pumping light, with the longest wavelength of the pumping light being shorter than the shortest wavelength of the signal light by a frequency difference on the low-frequency side of 13.7 to 30 THz.
US07920788B2
An optoelectronic device uses microcode to perform an end of life calculation for the optoelectronic device. In particular, the optoelectronic device senses environmental and operational parameters under changing conditions during device operation. The optoelectronic device then calculates the end of life for itself based on one or more of the sensed environmental and/or operational parameters. The calculation can be done in real time and using digital logic. The calculation can provide a result in a format which is useful to a host system with which the device is connected. The optoelectronic device may automatically shut itself down upon reaching its calculated end of life.
US07920783B2
A camera assembly, preferably a cinematographic camera assembly, comprises a camera housing and a plurality of interchangeable lenses which can be attached to the camera housing for capturing an image. Each lens has a body and a lens system comprising at least one lens element that is movable relative to the lens body to alter the focus distance of the lens, the lens having a focal length that differs from the focal length of the each other lenses. Each lens has a focus scale on one of the lens system and the lens body that comprises a plurality of focus distance marks, and a focus index mark on the other of the lens system and the lens body.
US07920782B2
An imaging device having a shooting optical system, including an imaging element having a pixel array capable of generating image signals regarding light from a subject coming through the shooting optical system, and a focus-detection pixel line having pairs of pixels, the pixels of each of the pairs receiving luminous fluxes from the subject coming through a pair of individually corresponding partial regions of an exit pupil of the shooting optical system; a rapid-fire shooting unit configured to perform rapid-fire shooting to generate image signals at the pixel array on each exposure and to generate certain signals at the focus-detection pixel line; a focus detection unit configured to perform focus detection by a phase-difference detection method on the basis of the certain signals; and a focus adjustment unit configured to perform focus adjustment during each interval of the exposures on the basis of a result of focus detection.
US07920761B2
A computer program product includes machine readable instructions for providing enhanced video output by: receiving footage including likeness information in a plurality of modalities; demultiplexing the plurality of modalities to provide information for each modality; comparing information from at least two of the modalities for determining a correlation in the likeness information; using the correlation, obtaining semantic information for association with the likeness; and combining the semantic information with the likeness information for providing the enhanced video output. A system for implementing the computer program product includes resources for receiving the footage.
US07920750B2
A method and apparatus for coding positions of data such as coefficients are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises coding data in a vector of data based on indications of whether the data is zero or non-zero identified using a tree data structure and producing a bit stream based on coded data.
US07920748B2
An apparatus and software for processing an image reduces the number of pixels constituting the image by sequentially eliminating alternate rows and columns of pixels, the information represented by each pixel being eliminated (a “source” pixel) being redistributed into adjacent “destination” pixel locations. The redistribution is made in proportion to the similarity between the source and each destination pixel, e.g., similarity of color and/or luminance values.
US07920746B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods disclosed herein may transpose image blocks from successively-captured versions of an image according to relative movement between an image capture device and the scene being captured. The transposition may provide for alignment of the successively-captured images notwithstanding the movement. The transposed image blocks from the successive images are composited in the frequency domain by integrating frequency domain coefficients from each into a composite final image. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US07920735B2
In at least one embodiment, two image data records of two computed tomography pictures of the object are provided that have been recorded in the context of a different spectral distribution of the X-radiation. For voxels of at least one interesting slice, there is calculated from the two image data records a ratio r that is yielded from measured or averaged X-ray attenuation values of the respective voxel or its environment in the context of the different spectral distributions of the X-radiation and prescribed X-ray attenuation values of soft tissue in the context of the different spectral distributions of the X-radiation according to a prescribed calculation rule. Upon overshooting of a threshold value for the ratio r the respective voxel is assigned either contrast agent or calcium-containing material as a function of the magnitude of r.
US07920733B2
First, image capturing is performed in the exposure time of ExpStart. If the maximum intensity value of all the pixels of an image is smaller than TransStart, the exposure time is increased and the image capturing is performed again. After that, increase in the exposure time and the image capturing are repeatedly performed until the maximum intensity value of all the pixels of the captured optical image becomes equal to or greater than TransStart. When the maximum intensity value becomes equal to or greater than TransStart, image data is transferred to a computer to be recorded on the hard disk, and the number of images recorded is counted. Subsequently, the increase in the exposure time, the image capturing, transfer and record of the image data, and count of the number of images recorded are repeatedly performed. The image capturing is finished when the minimum intensity value in an area of the fluorescent image that is smaller than the entire area becomes larger than TransEnd, the number of images recorded becomes larger than TransPicts, or the exposure time becomes longer than MaxExpTime.
US07920732B2
A capsule endoscope system includes a capsule endoscope, swallowable in a body, for forming an image. A receiver is positioned on the body, for wirelessly receiving the image from the capsule endoscope, to store the image. A workstation as information manager operates for image filing of the image from the receiver. A first wireless interface is incorporated in the receiver, for wirelessly transmitting the image during imaging with the capsule endoscope. A second wireless interface is positioned on the workstation, for wirelessly receiving the image from the first wireless interface. Furthermore, an image selector selects the image for image filing in the workstation among plural images received by the receiver. The first wireless interface transmits the selected image to the workstation. The receiver includes an image compressor for reducing a data size of the image received from the capsule endoscope before transmission in the first wireless interface.
US07920730B2
A method for detecting bone and bone disease using MRI images includes: detecting and segmenting bone borders using dark bone border intensity information from an MRI image; and detecting bone disease within a segmented image region.
US07920723B2
A digital image acquisition device is for acquiring digital images including one or more preview images. A face detector analyzes the one or more preview images to ascertain information relating to candidate face regions therein. A speed-optimized filter produces a first set of candidate red-eye regions based on the candidate face region information provided by the face detector.
US07920717B2
A method for pixel extraction and replacement is disclosed. In one implementation, the method includes generating a set of pixel values and pixel value frequencies for a pixel presented in a series of digital images of a scene. A digital image of the scene which includes a pixel value for the pixel is received and a comparison is made between the pixel value and the set of pixel values. A determination is performed to decide upon substitution of the pixel value with a different pixel value based on the comparison. Other techniques are also disclosed.
US07920711B2
An audio device capable of easily generating two or more sets of surround signals based on 2-channel stereo signals and a method for generating surround sound are provided. The audio device 100 includes: an SL signal generation section 20 and a BL signal generation section 40 as first surround signal generation units for receiving an L signal and an R signal as 2-channel stereo signals, extracting a component of the R signal having high correlation with the L signal, subtracting the component from the L signal, thereby generating a first surround signal; and an SR signal generation section 30 and a BR signal generation section 50 as second surround signal generation units for extracting a component of the L signal having high correlation with the R signal, subtracting the component from the R signal, thereby generating a second surround signal. The level of subtracting a component from the L signal or the R signal for generating the first or second surround signal is differentiated each other between the plural sets.
US07920707B2
The designation of a localization position is received in accordance with an input position on a dashboard image in a localization-position reception window, and delay times for audio signals supplied to respective speakers are set so that the sound image is localized at the received localization position. The position where a sound image aurally perceived is localized is received, on the dashboard image in a localization-position confirmation window, from the user, until the user indicates that the position where the sound image aurally perceived is localized matches the localization position designated in the localization-position reception window. The relationship between the delay times and the localization position is re-estimated so as to correspond to the received localization position and the set delay times. In accordance with the estimated relationship, processing for re-setting the delay times is repeated.
US07920705B1
A communication system comprises a covert channel detector. The covert channel detector can be used in a multi-level security system (MLS) or multiple single levels of security (MSLS). The covert channel detector detects covert channels in a cryptographic system. The cryptographic system can be used in a military radio system.
US07920690B2
The present invention provides a way to associate multimedia clients with telephony devices and create multimedia sessions related to a voice connection between the telephony devices. The telephony devices may be part of a public network or an enterprise network associated with a PBX. Further, calls can be routed in part over packet-switched and circuit-switched networks.
US07920689B2
A ringback replacement insertion system for replacing certain communications network signals and tones is disclosed. Communications devices activate and interact with the ringback replacement system to allow for modification of the network service.
US07920677B2
The present application discloses an automated digital subscriber line performance control system comprising a computer system including a logic module to evaluate performance of a plurality of DSL lines and to automatically select a set of DSL lines from the plurality of DSL lines, a line profile database responsive to the computer system, the line profile database providing a plurality of line profiles in response to a request from the computer system, and a digital subscriber line access multiplexer coupled to the computer system.
US07920676B2
CD-GISAXS achieves reduced measurement times by increasing throughput using longer wavelength radiation (˜12×, for example) such as x-rays in reflective geometry to increase both the collimation acceptance angle of the incident beams and the scattering signal strength, resulting in a substantial combined throughput gain. This wavelength selection and geometry can result in a dramatic reduction in measurement time. Furthermore, the capabilities of the CD-GISAXS can be extended to meet many of the metrology needs of future generations of semiconductor manufacturing and nanostructure characterization, for example.
US07920674B2
An image processing apparatus and an image processing method. The image processing apparatus includes an image obtaining unit to obtain a plurality of X-ray images using a plurality of X-rays corresponding to each of a plurality of energy bands being different from each other, a first processing unit to generate a plurality of material images using the plurality of X-ray images, and a second processing unit to generate a high contrast X-ray image using at least one of the plurality of material images.
US07920670B2
A method of acquiring and reconstructing a computed tomography (CT) image is provided. A first scan of the full field of view (FOV) is acquired. A second scan of a smaller target FOV is then acquired by using a collimator to narrow the X-ray beam width. The CT image is iteratively reconstructed by replacing a key-hole region of the full FOV projection data with the target FOV projection data. An exemplary embodiment comprises imaging a heart (target FOV) within a torso (full FOV) over multiple heart beat cycles. A computer readable medium is further provided, including a program configured to reconstruct a CT image using the key-hole method.
US07920653B2
The invention relates to a method as well as a circuit arrangement for suppression of a perturbing quadrature component of a carrier signal of an amplitude-modulated signal during the recovery of the carrier signal in a synchronous demodulator, which outputs a quadrature signal (Q). The perturbing quadrature component of the carrier signal is estimated and the estimated quadrature component is subtracted from the quadrature signal (Q).
US07920652B2
To detect phase mismatches between in-phase and quadrature signals of a quadrature demodulator. The phase mismatches can be detected using the signals obtained by removing high frequency components of output of a multiplier by a low pass filter, the output being the product of the in-phase signals of which low frequency components are removed by a first high pass filter by the quadrature signals of which low frequency components are removed by a second high pass filter.
US07920650B2
In a system for characterizing a satellite clock in a satellite, the satellite has a transmitting device that emits a transmission signal at a transmission frequency indicative of a state of the satellite clock, and a receiver clock which has a higher precision than the satellite clock. A receiving device is configured to receive the transmission signal and to determine a received signal therefrom, as well as a received signal frequency and/or phase, using the receiver clock. Finally, an evaluation device is configured to determine a frequency offset, drift, and/or an Allan deviation of the transmission frequency from the received signal frequency and/or the received signal phase. The evaluation device determines the stability of the satellite clock, or the validity of its time indication, from the determined frequency offset, frequency drift, and/or the Allan deviation, to thereby characterize the satellite clock.
US07920649B2
In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a digital signal processor (DSP) coupled to receive a digitized signal. The DSP may be controlled to perform a timing recovery mechanism that implements a Mueller and Müller (MM)-based algorithm to generate a sensor output responsive to the digitized signal, where the incoming signal is non-linearly precoded in a transmitter from which the signal is received. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US07920648B2
The mixed signal chip (10) takes analogue signals received at, for example, a mobile telephone and converts them to the digital domain for subsequent processing. Through use of sample rate adaption and adjustable filtering, the mixed signal chip can work on radio signals formatted according to different standards.
US07920639B2
When a closed loop transmission diversity control is performed by controlling the phase of the transmission signals from the plurality of antennas according to feedback information noticed by the mobile station to transmit the signals, an antenna verification on-off control unit 370 controls the on-off of an antenna verification process of estimating the phase of the transmission signals from the plurality of antennas according to the information about the channel of the signals transmitted in the uplink from the mobile station to a radio base station. Thus, depending on the channel type (for example, a packet channel, a voice channel, etc.), the on-off control is performed on the antenna verification process, thereby performing easier and more appropriate control and improving the quality of a channel.
US07920634B2
A splicer/transcoder device that interfaces with a material archiver/server using a stream. The splicer/transcoder device interfaces with an editor and switcher using a base band signal. In a predetermined region including at least an edit point, a transcoding process is performed. In an input stream, two programs to be edited have been multiplexed. The editor and switcher receives base band signals Sa and Sb of which respective programs have been encoded. As with a conventional editing device, the editor and switcher edits the base band signals and returns the edited result as a base band signal Sc to the splicer/transcoder device. The splicer/transcoder device re-encodes the base band signal Sc into an output stream using codec information obtained in the decoding process.
US07920633B2
Described herein is a method and system for parallel processing video data. The system having parallel encoder devices can create a balance between quality of service and delay. In order to maintain quality, compression parameters in a group of pictures can be produced by one encoder device and used by another encoder device for estimation during the encoding of another group of pictures. Compression parameters of different picture types may be stored separately and used for the encoding of a future pictures of the same type. The generation and passing of compression parameters introduces a delay based on the time it takes to encode one or more pictures.
US07920631B2
Methods and systems enable uncompressed source data, corresponding to previously-compressed data, to be manipulated or otherwise modified, prior to being rendered by a rendering application. For example, audio data can be modified to include additional audio content, and/or video data can be modified to include additional video content. Accordingly, when the modified or manipulated source data is rendered by the rendering application, it can contain additional information that was not part of the previously-compressed data.
US07920630B2
A system, method, and apparatus for providing display parameters from the decode process to the display process are presented herein. The decode process receives images which are encoded according to a predetermined standard. Included with the encoded images are parameters which facilitate the decode and display processes. The decode process decodes the encoded images as well as the parameters and stores each image in a separate image buffer. Additionally, the decode process stores the parameters which facilitate the display process in a buffer descriptor structure associated with the image buffer. The display process uses the parameters stored in the buffer descriptor structure during the display process.
US07920629B2
Transform coefficients of sample blocks of a macroblock of a video picture are encoded by adaptively encoding a combination, the number of non-zero coefficients before the trailing one coefficients and the number of trailing one coefficients. The transform coefficients may be further encoded by adaptively encoding one or more of the signs of the trailing one coefficients, the level measures of the interposed in the non-zero coefficients. Adaptive encoding of the number and trailing one coefficients may be performed in view of one or more neighboring sample blocks, whereas adaptive encoding of level measure may be performed in view of quantization parameters of a macroblock and previously encoded level measures. Decoding may be performed in an inverse manner.
US07920627B2
A method for motion estimation and for motion compensated interpolation. By taking a source of video data into account, a size of update vectors to be employed for determining spatial prediction vectors is set in accordance with a detected source mode. By selecting an appropriate update vector size, accuracy of predicted motion and consequently, a picture quality of motion compensated interpolated images can be increased considerably.
US07920626B2
Integrated imaging and GPS network monitors remote object movement. Browser interface displays objects and detectors. Database stores object position movement. Cameras detect objects and generate image signal. Internet provides selectable connection between system controller and various cameras according to object positions.
US07920625B2
In one embodiment, the method includes determining reference picture index numbers in a reference picture list. The reference picture index numbers increase for reference pictures having a decreasing display order with respect to a picture including the macroblock. The reference picture index numbers increase for reference pictures having an increasing display order with respect to the picture including the macroblock, and the reference picture index numbers of the reference pictures having a decreasing display order are greater than the reference picture index numbers of the reference pictures having an increasing display order. The embodiment further includes obtaining motion vector information for the current macroblock, obtaining a field reference picture index associated with the current field macroblock, determining a frame reference picture index based on the field reference picture index divided by 2, selecting a frame reference picture based on the frame reference picture index and the reference picture index number, and selecting a field reference picture based on the selected frame reference picture and the field reference picture index. The current macroblock is decoded based on the motion vector information and the selected field reference picture.
US07920619B2
A method and apparatus for reducing the complexity of waveform correlation computations used by a multicode receiver is described herein. One exemplary multicode receiver includes a despreading unit, channel estimator, and waveform correlation calculator. The despreading unit despreads a received multicode signal to generate despread symbols. The channel estimator estimates channel coefficients associated with the despread symbols. The waveform correlation calculator determines waveform correlations between the transmitted symbols in successive processing windows that span two or more symbol periods and that overlap in time. To reduce the computational complexity associated with computing waveform correlations, the calculator may reuse channel coefficients and/or net channel correlations for multiple symbol periods and/or processing windows. The calculator may also reduce complexity by reusing one or more waveform correlations from a previous processing window as waveform correlations for one or more subsequent processing windows and/or by exploiting the Hermitian symmetry of the waveform correlation matrix.
US07920613B2
The reliability of a buried hetero-structure semiconductor laser is improved by preventing an increase in oscillation threshold current and a decrease in external differential quantum efficiency in cases where the semiconductor laser is energized continuously under conditions of high temperature and high optical output. An optical semiconductor laser has an optical waveguide structure comprising an n-type cladding layer, an active layer and p-type cladding layers, and a current narrowing/blocking structure comprising a p-type blocking layer and an n-type blocking layer, wherein concentration of hydrogen contained in the p-type cladding layers is higher than concentration of hydrogen contained in the p-type blocking layer.
US07920603B2
Presented herein are system(s), method(s), and apparatus for rapid switching between streams of data. In one embodiment, there is described a circuit for providing media. The circuit comprises a multiplexed stream processor, a queue, and a decoder. The multiplexed stream processor receives a multiplexed stream and filtering at least one elementary stream. The queue queues the at least one elementary stream. The decoder decodes the at least one elementary stream. The multiplexed stream processor filters at least another elementary stream instead of at least one elementary stream after issuance of a command to switch from the at least one elementary stream to the at least another elementary stream. The queue stores a portion of the at least one elementary stream after issuance of the command, said portion of the at least one elementary stream being written into the queue before issuance of the command. The decoder decodes the portion of the at least one elementary stream and the at least another elementary stream.
US07920592B2
A method of bandwidth control and a corresponding bandwidth control device are disclosed, in which a plurality of queues are provided, bandwidth is assigned to each of the queues on the basis of a strict priority scheme, and additional bandwidth is assigned to the queues on the basis of a fair queuing scheme.
US07920579B2
The present invention provides a method, system and apparatus for an MG to transmit and receive multicast data. A method for an MG to receive multicast data in embodiments of the present invention include the following: the MG receives a multicast-related indication from the MGC, reports the relevant information to the router in the network at the multicast source side according to the indication, and requests to join the multicast group. The MG receives the multicast data transmitted by the multicast source. A method for an MG to transmit multicast data in embodiments of the present invention include the following: the MG receives the multicast-related indication from the MGC; and the MG transmits the corresponding multicast data to the users in the network at the receiver side in the form of multicast according to the indication.
US07920569B1
A device may receive a packet at a network device, and may retrieve from a table, by using information in a header of the packet as keys, records that include communication performance statistics associated with transport protocols. In addition, the device may select, based on the records, a transport protocol with an optimum communication performance statistics among the transport protocols and send the packet in accordance with the selected transport protocol from the network device.
US07920568B2
An apparatus including a first interface unit configured to perform frame communication processing with a ring network; a second interface unit configured to perform frame communication processing with a different network; a processing unit configured to convert a frame of a first format from the different network to a frame of a second format; a frame switching unit having at least one port connected to each of the first interface unit, the second interface unit and the processing unit and configured to switch the frame between ports; and a table configured to store frame identification information in correspondence with an output destination port identifier for an output port in the frame switching unit and frame conversion requirement information indicating whether conversion to the frame of the second format is required.
US07920564B1
A network device receives a packet at a network interface and determines whether the packet represents control traffic. The network device also determines whether the packet is received from a privileged node. To achieve this, a source address is extracted from the packet, a query of the source address is performed in an address database, and a node status attribute associated with the source address is returned from the address database. If the packet represents control traffic and is received from a privileged node, the network device may modify one or more attributes of associated with the packet. These attributes may include a traffic class, drop precedence, or bandwidth restriction. Packets that represent control traffic may be placed in a priority queue for further processing based upon their modified attributes.
US07920563B2
A method and apparatus that includes processing for providing distributed communication routing that, in one embodiment, begins by obtaining registration information from a plurality of forwarding engines, for identifying the plurality of forwarding engines based on the registration information, for generating at least one specific forwarding table for at least one corresponding forwarding engine of the plurality of forwarding engines, and for forwarding the specific forwarding table to the corresponding forwarding engine. In an alternate embodiment, the processing determines internal routing connections and external routing connections for the plurality of forwarding engines after identifying the forwarding engines, generates at least one external forwarding table for at least some of the plurality of forwarding engines, and generates at least one specific internal forwarding table for a corresponding forwarding engine. The tables are forwarded to the corresponding forwarding engine or engines.
US07920562B2
A communications system and method provide a seamless switch from a first session to a plurality of multicast sessions. A server transmits data over both a first session and alternatingly between a plurality of synchronized multicast sessions. At predetermined time intervals, the server stops transmitting data over the currently active multicast session and starts transmitting over an idle multicast session. The server is further responsive to a request to stop transmitting the data over the first session at a time when the server alternates transmission between the multicast sessions. The time intervals are advantageously sufficient to allow a receiver to join an idle multicast channel and to send a request to stop the data transmission over the first session.
US07920550B2
A voice communication system, which is connected to a LAN to which communication terminals are connected and to a public network to which telephones are connected, is provided with a communication server between the LAN and public network having different protocols from each other. The communication server enables a voice communication between a telephone on the public network and a communication terminal connected to the LAN by performing processing similar to that for a voice communication between two communication terminals connected to the LAN. The communication server determines whether an address of the other party inputted by a user is a communication terminal address or a telephone number, and transmits a voice communication request to a communication terminal of the other party when the address is a communication terminal address. When the address is a telephone number, the user acquires the communication terminal address of the communication server, and transmits a voice communication request to the communication server. Thereafter, the voice communication processing is performed through the communication server.
US07920546B2
An automated attendant system is made multimedia capable by adding a combined user agent to the automated attendant. A search is done to verify that the caller to the automated attendant has combined user agent capabilities. If so, the caller receives multimedia content from the automated attendant's combined user agent so that the content may be presented on the caller's computer to assist the caller in navigating through the automated attendant's menus and options. Upon selection of a desired connection from the menus and options, the automated attendant's combined user agent helps the caller be connected by voice to the selected connection.
US07920545B2
A communication apparatus determines a hibernation period on the basis of the amount of an offset in beacon period start timing among multiple beacon groups. The communication apparatus is placed in a hibernation status in accordance with the determined hibernation period. Thus, an offset in beacon period start timing among the beacon groups that would occur while the device is in hibernation can be prevented and the need for merging beacon groups and decrease in data rate during such merging are prevented.
US07920540B2
A method and system for communicating information over a wireless channel in a communication system including a coordinator and receivers, involves controlling channel access by dividing a contention-free period (CFP) into one or more schedules, wherein each schedule includes one or more periodical channel time blocks (CTBs) for wireless communication, reserving a CTB for reliable broadcast or multicast (ReBoM) communication of a data packet over the channel, transmitting the data packet from the coordinator over the channel during the reserved CTB, and receiving one or more acknowledgments for the data packet from one or more of the receivers. The data packet includes a header comprising ReBoM information indicating a multi-CTB ReBoM communication sequence for the data packet or a single-CTB ReBoM communication sequence for the data packet.
US07920539B2
A system and method is disclosed for allowing communications between a base station and a group of mobile transceivers in a communications network used for a merchant facility.
US07920535B2
A novel and useful apparatus for and method of improving idle connection state power consumption in wireless local area network (WLAN) system. Beacon transmission delay information is determined by the access points and advertised to the stations via a Beacon Transmission Delay Information Element. In response, the stations adjust their Wake For Beacon Reception time accordingly to wake up at a time much closer to the actual receipt of the Beacon, thereby reducing power consumption due to the reduced time the receive circuits need to be powered on.
US07920530B2
A first wireless network device in a wireless network that includes a plurality of wireless network devices comprises an RF transceiver that transmits and receives data packets and that periodically transmits or receives a beacon. A control module communicates with the RF transceiver, determines a transmission position m and a default IFS time based on the beacon, selects a second IFS time when the RF transceiver receives a data packet from a second wireless network device having a transmission position m−1, and selects the default IFS time when the RF transceiver does not receive a data packet from the second wireless network device.
US07920528B2
A system and method for sharing a view between systems in a dynamic wireless communication network. Various aspects of the present invention may comprise a first system communicating information of a view to a display resource of the first system. The first system may establish a two-way wireless communication link between the first system and a second system in the dynamic wireless communication network. The second system may, for example, communicate a request to the first system for the first system to share a view with the second system. The first system may, for example, receive such a request and respond to such a request by communicating information of a view to the second system. The second system may then communicate information of the view to a display resource of the second system. Various aspects may comprise the first and second systems communicating view modification information between the systems.
US07920520B2
Handoff between a wireless SIP network and a cellular communication system is provided. A system is designed to provide nomadic cellular services including voice to a SIP-enabled device.
US07920510B2
For a broadband wireless access system, a method of configuring an IP address for a fixed/mobile station that changes from idle mode to receiving mode or when performing handover such that IP address configuration procedures are simplified. The base station determines whether the mobile station that changes from idle mode to receiving mode or performs handover needs to re-configure its IP address, and informs this to the mobile station, which can then selectively configure its IP address according to the needs of configuring its IP address.
US07920504B2
According to various embodiments of the invention a device can announce broadcast traffic in a global access period. Thus, a destination can change its local communication window every global access period. By announcing a local communication window during a global access period it can be more likely that a source device in a network will receive the information because all devices should be active during the global access period. A device can awaken for its local communication window and during the local communication window a source device can schedule a transmission and transmit information to the device.
US07920499B2
A method in a communication system, a communication system and an application server embodying the method are disclosed. The method is for communication of information during establishment of a communication session. In the method, additional information is included in a message carrying information regarding a data communication media for a communication session. The additional information regards a floor status of the data communication media in relation to a party of the communication session. The message is sent from the communication system to a user equipment.
US07920496B2
A mobile customer service station operating within a wireless multi-hop communication network includes a console on a wheeled chassis. The console carries and houses a number of components which are used in merchandising operations to conclude customer purchase transactions. The items supported externally on the console are a printer for printing purchase receipts, customer credit charge agreements and records of transactions, and a magnetic card reader for reading information from a magnetic stripe of a customer's credit card. In one embodiment, the operation of the printer, credit card reader and the cash drawer is controlled by a multi-function control unit located within an enclosure of the console. The control unit is electrically powered by a self-contained power source which is preferably a deep cycle rechargeable battery. The console also houses a transceiver unit which under the control of the control unit is capable of interactive communication with a premises network. In another embodiment, the mobile service station comprises an access device which participates with a variety of peripherals at the station in a lower power communication LAN, while providing higher power communication to other network devices via a premises network with routing via a wireless spanning tree configuration.
US07920482B2
Systems and methods for monitoring information corresponding to communication sessions are provided. A representative method includes: receiving information corresponding to the communication session; storing the information in long term storage; extracting a first portion of the information from the long term storage; populating a database with the first portion of the information such that the portion of the information is stored in the database in addition to being stored in the long term storage; determining that additional information corresponding to the communication session is required for use; and extracting an additional portion of the information from the long term storage.
US07920481B2
Disclosed are techniques for determining a path maximum transmission unit (MTU) of a communication path connecting two or more nodes of a network. A node initiates a connection with a remote node by repeatedly transmitting increasingly-larger path MTU discovery messages until the size of a path MTU discovery message exceeds the link MTU of a link within the communication path. This results in the generation and transmission of an MTU error message back to the initiating node. The edge router linked to the initiating node generates a MTU change message in response to receiving the MTU error message and multicasts the MTU change message to all local nodes to which it is linked. The MTU change message directs the receiving nodes to update their destination caches to reflect the path MTU discovered through the use of the increasing-size path MTU discovery messages and the resulting MTU error message.
US07920477B2
Systems, methods, and devices for novel error detection and retransmission processes are described. These processes may be implemented on intermediate communication links between two end terminals, wherein the intermediate links are via satellite. Error control mechanisms to detect and retransmit lost or corrupted frames may be implemented at the network layer, or between the network and data link layers. Processes for discovering error control protocol-aware terminals are described. Features of these error control processes may include a configurable delay limit, tailored to traffic type or class.
US07920473B1
Method and system for managing transmit descriptors (TDs) for transmitting information over a network connection is provided. The method includes, allocating a minimum number of TDs to plural network connections at any given time; and determining an additional number of TDs for allocation to plural network connections, wherein the additional number of TDs is based on network traffic. The system includes a computing system with an operating system, a system memory and a network device driver; and a network adapter coupled to the computing system, wherein the operating system checks for availability of data for transmission over a plurality of network connections; and the network device driver allocates a minimum number of transmit descriptors (TDs) to the plural network connections at any given time; and determines an additional number of TDs for allocation to the plural network connections, wherein the additional number of TDs is based on network traffic.
US07920471B2
A call admission control technique allowing flexible and reliable call admissions at an ATM switch in the case of an ATM network including both QoS-specified and QoS-unspecified virtual connections is disclosed. In the case where a QoS (Quality of Service) specified connection request occurs, an estimated bandwidth is calculated which is to be assigned to an existing QoS-unspecified traffic on the link associated with the QoS-specified connection request. A call control processor of the ATM switch determines whether the QoS-specified connection request is accepted, depending on whether a requested bandwidth is smaller than an available bandwidth that is obtained by subtracting an assigned bandwidth and the estimated bandwidth from a full bandwidth of the link.
US07920470B2
A network adapter and corresponding method for its use are disclosed. The network adapter has an operational mode that allows a host CPU to offload transmission of a block of data to the adapter. The adapter segments the block into fragments, and builds a data packet for each fragment. The adapter transmits these packets with an adapter-implemented flow control. This flow control uses: a context engine that tracks flow control variables for a “context” established for the block; a context memory for storing the variables; and a receive filter that updates flow control information for the block based on ACK packets received from the remote endpoint receiving the data packets. Because the network adapter implements flow control for data blocks that the network adapter segments, intermediate ACK packets corresponding to that block can be intercepted by the adapter, before they pass to the host, conserving host resources. An added advantage is that the host CPU can offload data blocks larger than the remote endpoint's receive window size, since the adapter can follow the transmit window and transmit packets at appropriate intervals. This further decreases load on the host CPU, decreases latency, and improves bandwidth utilization.
US07920469B2
A method and an apparatus for wireless communication between a receiver and a transmitter in a cellular system are provided. The method comprises associating a channel of known structure at the transmitter with the transmission of a first control channel to indicate a variable structure of the first control channel to the receiver.
US07920467B2
A system for monitoring a plurality of network devices within a network comprises a network monitor embedded within one of the network devices for automatically discovering and requesting status information from other network devices. The network monitor, in the event that another network monitor is discovered, initiates cooperation with the other network monitor to share discovering and requesting.
US07920458B2
An optical recording medium is provided with at least a substrate, light absorbing and heat generating parts each of which absorbs light and generates heat, and recording parts, and each of the recording parts are formed between two recording tracks.
US07920456B2
An objective lens used for an optical pickup device wherein the optical pickup device includes: light source; and a converging optical system including the objective lens for converging a light beam emitted from the light source to an information recording surface of an optical information recording medium, and the optical pickup device is capable of recording and/or reproducing information by converging the light beam emitted from the light source to the information recording surface of the optical information recording medium with the converging optical system, the objective lens being a plastic single lens and satisfying following formulas when NA is an image-side numerical aperture required for recording and/or reproducing information to the optical information recording medium and f (mm) is a focal length of the objective lens. Even in a plastic single lens having a high NA, thermal aberration does not increase excessively and in a plastic single lens of a refraction type, thermal aberration within the temperature range of practical use in an optical pickup device is suppressed within an allowable range. NA≧0.8 (1) 1.0>f>0.2 (2)
US07920452B2
Provided are a recording/reproducing apparatus and method for optimizing data recording. The recording/reproducing apparatus sets a predetermined length which is an integer multiple of a unit recording length and sets a plurality of recording parameters, with reference to mark/space combinations which can be configured within the predetermined length ahead of a start point of a mark for recording data and mark/space combinations which can be configured within the predetermined length behind an end point of the mark for recording data. Accordingly, by setting a predetermined length and limiting conditions for optimizing recording parameters, and considering run-length combinations which can be configured within the predetermined length, it is possible to quickly and efficiently optimize parameters.
US07920446B2
An apparatus includes a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit may be configured to generate status signals and an error signal in response to accessing a storage medium. The error signal provides a first value based on an accuracy of accessing the storage medium. The second circuit may be configured to offset the first value of the error signal to a second value to increase the accuracy of accessing said storage medium. The status signals include one or more of a data signal and a differential signal. In a first mode, an offset signal is generated in response to the data signal. In a second mode, the offset signal is generated in response to the differential signal.
US07920444B2
There is provided an assembling method for expanding a maximum admissible astigmatism of objective lens which includes defining a maximum admissible astigmatism for the entire optical system, installing the collimator lens on the optical system to cause a predetermined amount of astigmatism lying within a range of up to the maximum admissible astigmatism by tilting the collimator lens from a condition where a point source of the semiconductor laser lies on an optical axis of the collimator lens, and installing the objective lens on the body case of the optical system to bring a total amount of astigmatism of the entire optical system to a level smaller than or equal to the maximum admissible astigmatism for the entire optical system by rotating the objective lens from a condition where the point source of the semiconductor laser and the center of the collimator lens lie on the optical axis of the objective lens.
US07920441B2
A GPS enabled timepiece. A Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled timepiece in accordance with the present invention comprises a timepiece, the timepiece comprising a local oscillator, and a GPS receiver, coupled to the timepiece, the GPS receiver using the local oscillator to predict a time arrival of a GPS message from a GPS satellite, wherein the GPS receiver is powered on based on the predicted time.
US07920430B2
In an embodiment, an integrated circuit having a memory cell arrangement is provided. The memory cell arrangement may include a plurality of multiple bit information storing memory cells, a plurality of buffer circuits, each buffer circuit being coupled to at least one multiple bit information storing memory cell of the plurality of multiple bit information storing memory cells, and a controller configured to control an access operation to access at least one multiple bit information storing memory cell using the buffer circuit coupled to the at least one multiple bit information storing memory cell to be accessed, and a buffer circuit of at least one other multiple bit information storing memory cell being coupled to at least one other multiple bit information storing memory cell.
US07920425B2
The invention relates flash memory programming techniques. An object of the invention is to provide a flash memory programming technique avoiding problems of the known state of the art and in particular, saving a significant amount of time during the development and/or production phases of any equipment containing flash memory devices and also saving time during an updating or upgrading procedure of such an equipment already being in use. Accordingly, the invention proposes for programming a flash memory device to program only differences in information between data already stored in the flash memory device and new data to be stored.
US07920424B2
A non-volatile memory (NVM) system includes a plurality of NVM cells fabricated in a dual-well structure. Each NVM cell includes an access transistor and an NVM transistor, wherein the access transistor has a drain region that is continuous with a source region of the NVM transistor. The drain regions of each NVM transistor in a column of the array are commonly connected to a corresponding bit line. The control gates of each NVM transistor in a row of the array are commonly connected to a corresponding word line. The source regions of each of the access transistors in the array are commonly coupled. The NVM cells are programmed and erased without having to apply the high programming voltage VPP across the gate dielectric layers of the access transistors. As a result, the NVM cells can be scaled down to sub-0.35 micron geometries.
US07920420B2
A method of programming a flash memory device may include dividing a plurality of memory cells into a plurality of groups according to a threshold voltage state, the memory cells configured to store multi bit data. The plurality of memory cells may be programmed with a program data. The memory cells of the divided groups may be respectively selected and programmed by divided group during the programming of the plurality of memory cells.
US07920419B2
A memory device and a method to prevent or reduce program disturb by isolating P-wells of strings in a non-volatile memory array. During a program operation, the isolated P-wells may be coupled to corresponding bitlines, which may be selected or inhibited, and may be at different voltages. During erase, read, and verify operations, the isolated P-wells may be coupled to source.
US07920416B2
Magnetic random access memory (MRAM) devices and techniques for use thereof are provided. In one aspect, a magnetic memory cell is provided. The magnetic memory cell comprises at least one fixed magnetic layer; at least one first free magnetic layer separated from the fixed magnetic layer by at least one barrier layer; at least one second free magnetic layer separated from the first free magnetic layer by at least one spacer layer; and at least one capping layer over a side of the second free magnetic layer opposite the spacer layer. One or more of the first free magnetic layer and the second free magnetic layer comprise at least one rare earth element, such that the at least one rare earth element makes up between about one percent and about 10 percent of one or more of the first free magnetic layer and the second free magnetic layer.
US07920415B2
A memory device including a memory cell comprising phase change material is described along with methods for programming the memory device. A method for programming disclosed herein includes determining a data value for the memory cell, and applying a pulse pair to store the data value. The pulse pair includes an initial pulse having a pulse shape adapted to preset the phase change material in the memory cell to a normalizing resistance state, and a subsequent pulse having a pulse shape adapted to set the phase change material from the normalizing resistance state to a resistance corresponding to the determined data value.
US07920413B2
Provided are an apparatus and method for writing data to a phase-change random access memory (PRAM) by using writing power calculation and data inversion functions, and more particularly, an apparatus and method for writing data which can minimize power consumption by calculating the power consumed while input original data or inverted data is written to a PRAM and storing the data consuming less power. A PRAM consumes a significant amount of power in order to store data in a memory cell since a large electric current is required to flow for a long period of time. According to the present invention, since the PRAM consumes different amounts of power when writing data with a value of 0 and data with a value of 1, the power consumed when input original data is stored and the power consumed when the input original data is inverted and stored are compared to each other, the data with a smaller power consumption is stored when the data is written to the PRAM as a word unit, and thus the power consumption of the PRAM can be reduced.
US07920404B2
One embodiment relates to a ferroelectric memory device. The ferroelectric memory device includes a segment of contiguous ferroelectric memory cells arranged in rows and columns. A row of ferroelectric memory cells includes a common wordline that allows access to the memory cells of the row and also includes at least two platelines associated with the row. At least one of the at least two platelines is associated with adjacent columns of ferroelectric memory cells within the row. The row of ferroelectric memory cells includes another word line which is not associated with the at least two platelines. Other methods and systems are also disclosed.
US07920403B2
A semiconductor memory cell array is disclosed which comprises an elongated continuous active region, a first transistor formed in the elongated continuous active region, the first transistor forming a first single-transistor memory cell, a second transistor also formed in the elongated continuous active region, the second transistor forming a second single-transistor memory cell and being the closest memory cell to the first single-transistor memory cell along the elongated direction, and an isolation gate formed on the elongated continuous active region between the first and second transistor, wherein the isolation gate has substantially the same structure as gates of the first and second transistor, and is supplied with a predetermined voltage to shut off any active current across a section of the elongated continuous active region beneath the isolation gate.
US07920398B1
A content addressable memory (CAM) device having any number of rows, each of the rows including a match line connected to a plurality of CAM cells, a match line detector circuit, and a pre-charge circuit. The detector circuit detects a voltage of the match line and generates a feedback signal based on the detected match line voltage. The pre-charge circuit adaptively charges the match line in response to the feedback signal.
US07920387B2
A chassis for telecommunication gear including horizontal circuit boards includes an enclosure forming a front-accessible circuit board slot for receiving horizontal circuit boards. The circuit board slot has first connectors for receiving mating second connectors on the circuit boards, and multiple circuit board guides for guiding and securing horizontal circuit boards inserted into the slot. Adjacent pairs of the guides are spaced to receive circuit boards of predetermined widths, and at least one of the guides is removable so that it can be re-positioned within the slot for changing the spacing between adjacent pairs of the guides to receive circuit boards of different widths. The circuit boards may be telecommunication line cards.
US07920385B2
A plurality of terminal boards (30A, 30B) for electrically interconnecting a plus electrode and a minus electrode of a solar cell module and cables (90) for external connection corresponding to the both electrodes are placed on a base plate (11), and two corresponding terminal boards (30A, 30B) are bridged by a bypass diode (50). The respective terminal boards (30A, 30B) juxtaposed on the top surface of the base plate (11) are collectively supported and fixed by a retaining plate (60). Accordingly, the generation of an undue strain in the bypass diode (50) can be avoided even in the case of fixing the terminal boards (30A, 30B) to the base plate (11) with the terminal boards (30A, 30B) bridged by the bypass diode (50) beforehand.
US07920384B2
Fan cage assemblies for computer systems are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment a method may comprise providing a single-enclosure fan cage to house a plurality of fan assemblies in a chassis of a computer system. The method may also comprise fastening the fan cage to the chassis of the computer system with a quick-connect latch system.
US07920372B2
A handheld electronic device has a body that is substantially less thick than wide and long. The body has a user side with a user interface and which body defines an aperture through the body substantially perpendicular to the user side so as to provide a grip for holding the device. Also a method is disclosed in which a rod is inserted to the aperture so as to support the handheld electronic device in a backward tilted angle.
US07920367B2
Circuit arrangement embodiments that use relative groupings of energy pathways that include shielding circuit arrangements that can sustain and condition electrically complementary energy confluences.
US07920365B2
The present invention is directed to a protective device that includes a housing having a plurality of line terminals, a plurality of load terminals, and a plurality of user-accessible terminals accessible via apertures disposed in a front major surface of the housing. A fault detection assembly is coupled to the plurality of line terminals, the fault detection circuit being configured to provide a fault detection output in response to detecting a fault condition. A circuit interrupter is coupled to the fault detection assembly. The circuit interrupter includes a first set of interrupting contacts configured to provide electrical continuity between the plurality of line terminals, the plurality of load terminals, and the plurality of user-accessible terminals in a reset state. The first set of interrupting contacts are decoupled in response to the fault detection output to enter a tripped state such that the plurality of line terminals are decoupled from the plurality of load terminals and the plurality of user-accessible terminals. An auxiliary switch is coupled to the fault detection assembly. The auxiliary switch includes a second set of contacts configured to decouple at least a portion of the fault detection assembly from a source of electrical power in the tripped state. The second set of contacts being self-biased toward a predetermined switch position when no force is applied thereto. A latch block assembly is coupled to the circuit interrupter. The latch block assembly includes a first latch block portion and a second latch block portion. The first latch block portion is configured to drive the first set of contacts to close when transitioning from the tripped state to the reset state. The second latch block portion is configured to overcome the self bias of the second set of contacts to thereby drive the second set of contacts open when transitioning from the reset state to the tripped state.
US07920361B2
It is made possible to provide a magnetoresistive effect element that can reverse magnetization direction with a low current, having low areal resistance (RA) and a high TMR ratio. A magnetoresistive effect element includes: a film stack that includes a magnetization free layer including a magnetic layer in which magnetization direction is changeable, a magnetization pinned layer including a magnetic layer in which magnetization direction is pinned, and an intermediate layer provided between the magnetization free layer and the magnetization pinned layer, the intermediate layer being an oxide containing boron (B) and an element selected from the group consisting of Ca, Mg, Sr, Ba, Ti, and Sc. Current is applied bidirectionally between the magnetization pinned layer and the magnetization free layer through the intermediate layer, so that the magnetization of the magnetization free layer is reversible.
US07920351B2
A method of setting an AC erase frequency using a data frequency of a disk area and an AC erase method. The method of setting the AC erase frequency includes obtaining a data frequency for each disk area, and setting an AC erase frequency for each disk area based on the data frequency for each disk area.
US07920348B2
A patterned media type magnetic storage medium has separated magnetic dots formed a data area having a first magnetic dots and a servo area. The micro position detection portion in the servo area is constructed with first and second dot arrays having a different number of second magnetic dots in the circumference direction and face with the center line that the first magnetic dots of the data area in the magnetic storage medium are disposed, as the axis. The area of the magnetic dot constituting the micro position detection portion of the servo area is small, so the coercive force of the servo area increases. The frequency is changed depending on the number of magnetic dots, and the phase is changed depending on the position of the magnetic dot array in the radius direction with the center line as an axis.
US07920344B2
Arrangements for mounting an optical element, such as a lens or a mirror, are disclosed.
US07920342B2
Accurate lens substrates on a waferscale are obtained by forming a polymer material on a lens surface formed on a lens wafer. The substrate may also be thinned by the glass lens surface forming process at the portion of the lens. The polymer material may have the same or different optical properties (refractive index and dispersion) as the lens wafer.
US07920335B2
A movable lens module includes a plate type piezoelectric driving unit, a movable stage, a lens base and a lens group. The movable stage is in contact with the plate type piezoelectric driving unit, and is driven by the plate type piezoelectric driving unit to move. The lens base is disposed on the movable stage. The lens group includes at least one lens installed in the lens base. An optical lens module can be assembled by components of the movable lens module.
US07920323B2
In a multilayer mirror (1) for the reflection of EUV radiation containing a large number of alternating molybdenum layers (4) and silicon layers (3), a barrier layer (5) containing a silicon nitride or a silicon boride is included at a number of interfaces between the molybdenum layers (4) and the silicon layers (3). As a result of the barrier layers (5) of a silicon nitride or of a silicon boride, high thermal stability is achieved, in particular high long-term stability at temperatures of more than 300° C., whilst at the same time achieving high reflectivity in the multilayer mirror. A multilayer mirror (1) of this type can, in particular, be used as a heatable collector mirror for an EUV radiation source.
US07920308B2
A rendering of objects described by description language into bitmap data is performed. As color space compression, the bitmap data in which the rendering has been performed is compressed in a color reproduction range.
US07920305B2
An optical scanning device of the invention includes: n-odd (n≧2) light sources disposed at different positions at least in a sub scanning direction; a light source driving control part configured to control a light emitting state of the light source; and a sub-scanning pixel position detecting part configured to depict one pixel with m-odd (n≧m≧2) light sources of the n-odd (n≧2) light sources and to detect a deviation in position of the one pixel in a sub scanning direction, wherein the light source driving control part is configured to correct the deviation in position of the one pixel in the sub scanning direction at a resolution equal to or higher than a density of the pixel, depicted with the m-odd light sources, by controlling the light emitting state of the m-odd light sources on the basis of a result of detection with the sub-scanning pixel position detecting part.
US07920303B2
A scanning device with multiple LED light sources and an application thereof. The scanning device includes a housing, a chassis, a main LED light source and an auxiliary LED light source. A horizontal plane of the housing is connected to a sloped plane of the housing to form a connecting section. The main LED light source has a length extending in a longitudinal direction substantially perpendicular to a moving direction of the chassis. The main LED light source provides a main light ray to illuminate the horizontal plane, and includes a first circuit board mounted on the chassis and first LEDs mounted on the first circuit board. The auxiliary LED light source includes a second circuit board mounted on the chassis and a second LED mounted on the second circuit board. The second LED provides an auxiliary light ray to illuminate the connecting section.
US07920302B2
A discrimination machine optically senses an object having a surface with a planar structure while scanning the planar structure along the surface. The machine includes a discrimination sensor including optical devices detecting light generated from the planar structure. The optical devices are disposed at an interval in a transverse direction, perpendicular to a scanning direction, to ensure a sufficiently wide sensing area for the object. A deviation detector detects deviation of the planar structure from a plane based on electrical signals output from the respective optical devices detecting the light generated by the object while the discrimination sensor is scanning the object. An optical device selector selects an optical device, from among the optical devices, based on the deviation detected. A determination is made as to whether the electrical signal output from the optical device selected is within an allowable margin.
US07920299B2
In a system and method for processing a form comprising a plurality of entry markings, an area-array image sensor may capture an image of the form in free-space without requiring relative movement of the sensor and the form. A processor may interpret the captured image to determine at least a first entry selection based, at least in part, on the position of at least one of the plurality of entry markings with respect to at least one other marking in the image.
US07920298B2
According to a first aspect of the present invention, a method for enforcing a distribution policy with respect to information transmitted from a sending fax machine to a recipient fax machine as fax traffic is presented. The method comprising defining an information distribution policy with respect to the fax traffic, then monitoring the fax traffic in accordance with the distribution policy, where the monitoring comprising: (i) de-modulating the fax traffic being monitored into a digital stream; (ii) reconstructing from the digital stream a graphic image representing at least part of the information within the fax traffic; and (iii) analyzing information within the reconstructed image, and then applying the distribution policy with respect to the analyzed fax traffic.
US07920296B2
A system and method for determining the image and ancillary image sides of scanned hardcopy media. Hardcopy prints typically provide ancillary data to supply additional information for an area of interest and can enhance the analysis of key data in the print. Postcards, for example, provide a unique form of ancillary data. On the back of a postcard image, ancillary data information such as stamps, user notes, dates, addresses, and other types of annotation can be found. This data typically provides additional information to a reader of the postcard. Dual sided scanners provide both the image and ancillary (i.e., non-image) scans simultaneously. In addition, ancillary data can be in a variety of formats, such as audio, video and the like. When a hardcopy print is scanned the scanner provides two image files that represent the image and ancillary image sides of the print. However, given two image files that represent a hardcopy print scan, the front and back need to be automatically identified as to which is of primary interest to a user.
US07920292B2
Present systems and methods enable digital color printers to consistently print color output from computer generated image data that includes spot color definitions. Colors that are defined as spot colors can be separated from colors that are defined as combinations of process colors. Accordingly, color corrections can be separately applied to objects that are defined by spot color definitions to provide customized image processing that provides printed color images with improved quality.
US07920270B2
An apparatus for interferometric sensing, comprising a plurality of single-longitudinal mode laser sources to each provide radiation at a corresponding plurality of selected wavelengths, and at least one modulator to frequency or phase modulate the radiation from each laser; a plurality of Fabry-Perot interferometers formed by Bragg Gratings written into optical fibre, each interferometer being responsive to one of the said plurality of wavelengths to each produce a reflected or transmitted optical output signal dependent on the corresponding interferometer path length; and one or more demodulators to demodulate the optical output signals and produce a corresponding plurality of measurement signals indicative of optical path lengths of the respective interferometers.
US07920269B2
A system and method for measuring interferences are disclosed. The system is based on the concept of a composite interferometer. The sample is measured while a simultaneous compensation of the phase deviation due to the relative displacement of the optical delay component between the measurements at different pixels of the sample is performed. In the application of profilometry, the information of the surface profile of a material is obtained from the phase shift of the interference signal. By using the proposed compensation mechanism, an axial resolution at nanometer scale can be achieved. For the measurement of a thin film, a polarized probe beam is oblique incident on the sample. The system can perform a simultaneous measurement of the refractive index and the thickness of the thin film. From the ratio of the intensities of the interferograms of TE and TM waves as well as the phase shifts of the interferograms, the refractive index and the thickness of the thin film can then be obtained simultaneously.
US07920268B2
The present invention provides a long-range surface plasmon optical waveguide sensor which has a reduced loss of an electromagnetic wave, an increased sensitivity and limitation of detection and a high analysis speed, and enables fabrication of a sensor of various sizes such as a small-sized or lightweight system, etc. To this end, the long-range surface plasmon optical waveguide sensor, comprising: a sensor section, wherein the sensor section comprises a substrate, a first dielectric layer stacked on the substrate, a metal thin film stacked on the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer stacked on the metal thin film and having a channel penetratingly formed therein in such a fashion that the top surface of the metal thin film is partially exposed into the channel, a metal strip stacked on the second dielectric layer in such a fashion that the underside thereof is partially exposed into the channel, and a third dielectric layer stacked on the metal strip; a light source section for inducing a surface plasmon resonance between the metal thin film and the metal strip; and a detection section for detecting and analyzing a change of light according to the surface plasmon resonance.
US07920264B1
Horizontally oriented attenuated total reflection (HATR) system applied in spectroscopic ellipsometer or polarimeter systems, and methodology of use.
US07920263B2
An apparatus, for measuring an electric field while minimally perturbing the electric field being measured, includes an analyzing stage and a sensor head. The sensor head is optically coupled to the analyzing stage by a laser probe beam transmitted from the analyzing stage. The sensor head includes an electro optic crystal disposed between two gradient index lenses, where the first gradient index lens emits a laser beam transmitted from the analyzing stage to the sensor head, where the electric field is applied and where, the electro optic crystal transforms the laser beam probe into a phase modulated laser beam. The second gradient index lens transmits the phase modulated laser beam back to the analyzing stage, where polarization optics and a photodetector convert the phase modulated laser beam into an electrical signal representing field strength and phase of the electric field.
US07920257B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for determining the shape of a glass sheet during and/or after the forming process. In one example, a system for determining the shape of a glass sheet defining an interior bulk can include a light source, an image capture device and a processor that are configured to calculate the location of an energy centroid within a selected portion of the bulk of the glass sheet.
US07920245B2
A light-modulating material includes a transparent front surface layer, an intermediate layer including a liquid crystal forming an isotropic phase and a transparent back surface layer, laminated in this order.
US07920240B2
A liquid crystal display device includes an electrode substrate having a pixel electrode and a counter electrode, a counter substrate placed opposite to the electrode substrate, a sealing material formed frame-like surrounding a display area to attach the electrode substrate and the counter substrate, and liquid crystals placed in a space created by the electrode substrate, the counter substrate and the sealing material. The liquid crystal display device also includes an overcoat layer formed on a surface of the counter substrate facing the liquid crystals and placed in the display area. An end of the overcoat layer is located on the inward side with respect to the outer end of the sealing material.
US07920239B2
A liquid crystal display device including first and second substrates, liquid crystal between the substrates, a plurality of gate bus lines extending in a first direction, a plurality of drain bus lines extending in a second direction, and a picture element electrode. The picture element electrode includes a body portion and a plurality of branches, separated by slits, extending therefrom. The body portion includes a first body portion extending generally in the first direction and a second body portion extending generally in the second direction, and further wherein the first body portion includes at least one wide portion and at least one narrow portion. The liquid crystal display device also includes a capacitor electrode and a capacitor upper electrode that overlap the wide portion. The capacitor upper electrode connects to the picture element electrode through a contact hole formed at the wide portion.
US07920238B2
A liquid crystal display apparatus includes a first polarizer located on one side of a first substrate, a second polarizer located on the opposite side of a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer formed of liquid crystal molecules and between the first and the second substrates so that the liquid crystal molecules may be aligned in parallel to the first or the second substrate and to which an electric field is applied in parallel to the first substrate, and a lighting device. The first or the second polarizer includes a polarization layer and supporting materials located on both sides of the polarization layer, reducing light leakage and a colour shift in a black display state when viewed from the oblique direction.
US07920236B2
An object of the present invention is to reduce defects in display due to short-circuiting in liquid crystal display devices using a liquid crystal material containing organic particles having anisotropy in a uniaxial form. The present invention provides a liquid crystal display device with: a first substrate; a second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer, a pixel electrode and a common electrode placed between the above described first substrate and the above described second substrate, wherein the above described liquid crystal layer contains a number of organic particles having anisotropy in a uniaxial form, and the longitudinal axis of the particle having the longest longitudinal axis from among the above described particles is no greater than the thickness of the above described liquid crystal layer or the distance between the above described pixel electrode and the above described common electrode—whichever is shorter.
US07920232B2
Provided is a method of producing a liquid crystal cell substrate comprising forming an image having at least two different hues and having different thickness for the respective hue domains, and forming at least one monoaxial or biaxial optically anisotropic layer having different film thicknesses on the respective hue domains on the image.
US07920230B2
The object of the present invention is to provide a laminate polarizing plate of which application to liquid crystal displays is able to simplify constitutions and production procedures of the displays, and to reduce cost thereof; and to provide an industrially advantageous method of producing the compound polarizing plate, and a liquid crystal display using the same. The object is achieved by a laminate polarizing plate comprising a polarizing film, an adhesive layer and a phase retarder film which being laminated in this order, wherein said phase retarder film comprises at least one coating layer having refractive index anisotropy of which an in-plane retardation value (R0) is 0 to 10 nm and a retardation value in the thickness direction (R′) is 40 to 300 nm, wherein said coating layer is formed on a transfer substrate, followed by being transferred on a surface of the adhesive layer of the polarizing film.
US07920215B2
When image data is displayed on the display portion of a conventional mobile telephone, characters cannot be displayed thereon, and thus the image data and the characters cannot be simultaneously displayed. In a portable electronic device according to the present invention, a cover member having a first display device (101) for displaying an image (digital still image or the like) and a second display device (102) having a touch input operational portion (for displaying characters, symbols, or the like) are attached to each other so as to allow opening and closing.
US07920211B2
A cross-color/dot interference reduction circuit according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a signal generation unit configured to calculate a difference in an input signal between adjacent frames and generate a difference signal, a component extraction unit configured to extract a cross-color/dot interference component from the difference signal, a combination output unit configured to combine an interference reduction signal corresponding to the cross-color/dot interference-component with the input signal and provide an output signal with a reduced cross-color/dot interference, an image scene analysis unit configured to analyze an image scene contained in the input signal, and a signal amplification/attenuation unit configured to amplify/attenuate the interference reduction signal based on an image scene analysis result from the image scene analysis unit.
US07920209B2
An audio/video system comprises an audio signal processing path having an audio path delay and a video signal processing path having a video path delay. The audio path delay may be different from the video path delay. The audio path delay and/or the video path delay may change, for example because of replacement of a component within the audio signal processing path or the video signal processing path. Delay matching (synchronization) in the audio/video system comprises adjusting the audio path delay to be substantially equal to the video path delay. Matching the audio path delay to the video path delay generally includes adding delay to the signal processing path with the lesser delay.
US07920206B2
There is provided a camera module package. A camera module package according to an aspect of the invention includes a bonding unit at an inner surface of a housing including an optical system and a filter adhered to the bonding unit by an adhesive. Here, the bonding unit corresponding to the filter has a longitudinal central region corresponding to a gate and an overflow unit of a runner hardening unit provided when the housing is injection molded, and left and right regions while the longitudinal central region has a smaller surface height than each of the left and right regions, and the adhesive provided between the bonding unit and the filter has a predetermined thickness so that maximum thermal stress generated in the housing has a relatively smaller value than adhesive strength of the adhesive.
US07920202B2
An apparatus and method to control the focusing of a photographing device, in which a light source portion is removed from an image, is provided. The focusing of the photographing device is controlled according to whether the image is in a high- or low-illuminance state. The apparatus includes a luminance detection unit detecting respective luminance values of pixels included in an image; a filter unit outputting values corresponding to the detected luminance values; a threshold calculation unit counting a number of pixels having luminance values greater than a predetermined value among the luminance values of the pixels included in the image and calculating a threshold value using a ratio of the counted number of pixels to a total number of pixels included in the image; and a control unit controlling a position of a lens using output values greater than the calculated threshold value among the output values.
US07920195B2
An image sensing apparatus provided with a plurality of image sensing elements each including a plurality of photoelectric conversion sections and an adding circuit adapted to add signals from the plurality of photoelectric conversion sections to obtain a one-pixel signal, wherein the adding circuit adds the signals such that the one-pixel signals obtained by the addition are arranged at equal intervals in an area extending over the plurality of image sensing elements.
US07920193B2
Methods, systems and apparatuses proving a high dynamic range imager. Multiple photosensor integration periods are used to capture pixel signal information. A transistor gate is used to remove electrons from the photosensor between the two successive integration periods providing a non-linear pixel response characteristic having a knee point. Each pixel is calibrated for the knee point which is used during adjustment of the pixel output signal. Each pixel may also be calibrated with an arbitrary signal response curve for multiple light intensities.
US07920188B2
An NchMOS transistor Q71 on the input side of a current mirror 70 is made function as a voltage operating-point setting portion so that a pixel signal line potential (voltage of a horizontal signal line 20) would be constantly stable nearly at the GND. Then, an amplification factor and linearity become good in an amplification transistor in the solid imaging device 3. A current copier 90 is made function as a current sampling portion so as to receive a signal current IIN of the solid imaging device 3 through the current mirror 70 to carry out sampling of a pixel signal in a resetting period in the shape of current component as the pixel signal is. Calculating differential between a current component in a detecting period and an offset current, which is the current component in a resetting period in sampling, allows an offset component included in the pixel signal to be removed and only pure signal Isig to be picked up at an output terminal Iout, so that the FPN restraining function can be fulfilled.
US07920187B2
An image pickup device includes an image pickup unit configured to convert an optical image of a subject to image data and to output the image data, a face image recognition unit configured to recognize face image from the image data, and a face portion judgment unit configured to judge each portion in the face image recognized by the face image recognition unit. When every portion in the face image can be judged by the face portion judgment unit, a release button for executing photographing of the subject is automatically pressed, or the photographing operation is executed.
US07920181B2
The challenge of the present invention is to suppress a variation in brightness of an image and make a reference value of a black level converge at an appropriate value in a short time. A condition judgment circuit judges whether or not a frame of an amount of change in gains of a variable gain amplifier being equal to or greater than a threshold continues for a predefined frames or more. If a frame of an amount of change in the gains being equal to or greater than the threshold continues for the predefined frames, a black level value of the current frame is set for new black level reference. If not continues for the predetermined number, the previous black level reference value is retained in lieu of correcting the black level.
US07920178B2
An image storage system effectively stores image data captured by an image capture device in a plurality of image storage devices. Each of the image storage devices includes a storage unit for storing image data. An image storage device performing as a master among the image storage devices includes an image reception unit for receiving the image data captured by the image capture device. A storage unit provided in each of the image storage devices distributes the image data received by the image reception unit provided in the image storage device performing as the master to the respective image storage devices so as to be stored there.
US07920176B2
An image generating apparatus generating image data of a plurality of different viewpoints, comprises: a file converting device which records the image data of each viewpoint in a general-purpose image file format, and records moving image regeneration information including a regeneration time interval for regenerating each image as a moving image, and viewpoint information for regenerating each image as a three-dimensional image in a file header portion at the beginning of the general-purpose image file. By recording an image of a plurality of viewpoints along with the viewpoint information in a general-purpose moving image format, the exclusive-use regenerating apparatus becomes able to regenerate and display a three-dimensional image and a moving image, and the general-purpose regenerating apparatus becomes able to regenerate as a moving image.
US07920172B2
A method for activating a function by using a measurement taken from at least one digital image having at least two colors and originating from an image-capturing apparatus, wherein a relative sharpness is measured between at least two colors on at least one region of the digital image, and at least one function is activated depending on the measured relative sharpness.
US07920163B1
A hermetically sealed digital electronic camera that is designed to operate both on land and underwater to great depths, and method of making same. The present invention is a camera which is hermetically sealed by being totally encapsulated, preferably by being cast in plastic, with no seals, holes, joints, penetrating pins, wires or other objects. Wireless means are used for communicating information, electrical power and control signals. The invention is impervious to atmospheric contamination and absolutely incapable of leaking under water to great depths and pressures. In an alternate embodiment camera optics are not encapsulated but are immersed in water when the encapsulated digital camera is placed in water.
US07920161B2
A method for acquiring at least two digital images by means of a digital camera, wherein the digital images are to be stitched into a panoramic image, comprises capturing a first digital image, wherein a first scenery is imaged, determining a relation between the first scenery and a second scenery being viewed by the digital camera, while said second scenery being viewed by the digital camera is changed, analysing the relation between the first scenery and the second scenery being viewed by the digital camera in order to identify an appropriate view to be captured by the digital camera in a second digital image, and indicating to a user that the camera is directed towards an appropriate view for capturing a second digital image.
US07920146B2
A user interface providing device provides a user interface that handles correction of a pixel value of each pixels forming image data. The user interface includes a hue setting unit for selecting a pixel by designating a hue.
US07920139B2
A graphics processing platform includes a rasteriser 50 that receives primitives representing an image to be displayed for processing. The rasteriser 50 determines which sets of sampling points of the image include sampling points that are covered by a given primitive, and then generates a fragment for rendering for each set of sampling points found to include a sampling point that is covered by the primitive and passes those fragments to a renderer 51 for rendering. The renderer 51 carries out rendering operations on the fragments that it receives, and stores the rendered fragment data in tile buffers 52. The rendered fragment data is stored in multiple copies in the appropriate sample positions in the tile buffers 52, so as to provide a separate set of fragment data for each individual sample position taken of the image. The data from the tile buffers 52 is input to a downsampling unit 53, and thence output to a frame buffer 54 of a display device 55 for display.
US07920136B2
Methods of writing display data to MEMS display elements are configured to minimize charge buildup and differential aging. Simultaneous to writing rows of image data, a pre-write operation is performed on a next row. The pre-write operation writes either image data or the inverse of the image data to the next row. In some embodiments, the selection between writing image data and writing inverse image data is performed in a random or pseudo-random manner.
US07920128B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a display device may include a display panel, a plurality of pixels disposed on the display panel, a plurality of first sensing units disposed on the display panel and generating first sensing signals in response to a touch exerted on the display panel, and a sensing signal processor configured to process the first sensing signals and generate second sensing signals for a plurality of frames, the sensing signal processor determining whether a touch occurs based on the second sensing signals for the plurality of frames.
US07920126B2
An input device, especially for a vehicle, comprises a touchscreen to enter commands by touching an operating surface of the touchscreen or by pressing on the operating surface, an actuator to move the touchscreen in at least one direction, and a control module to control the actuator as a function of the speed of a touching movement over the operating surface.
US07920125B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic apparatus includes a housing having an outer surface and an inner surface, a pointing device having a flat input surface and located in the housing with the input surface on the inner surface of the housing, an operation area provided in a position on the outer surface of the housing corresponding to at least a part of the pointing device, and a display section which illuminates at least a part of an outline of the operation area and displays a position of the operation area.
US07920124B2
A force sense presentation device for presenting a sense of force in virtual space to a user, comprises: a fixed unit which is gripped by the user; a force sense presentation unit which presents a sense of force; an actuator which supplies a driving force and operates the force sense presentation unit relative to the fixed unit; a joint unit which is provided between the fixed unit and the force sense presentation unit, and guides the relative operation of the force sense presentation unit; and a force sense rendering unit which controls the relative operation of the force sense presentation unit by the actuator, wherein the force sense presentation device simulates a device which is gripped and used by the user, and the force sense rendering unit controls the relative operation of the force sense presentation unit based on a position and orientation of the device in the virtual space.
US07920123B2
An information input device has a main section where an operation member used to input information is disposed. The information input device also has a support section on which the main section is mounted and which slidably supports the main section in a depth direction. The support section is capable of tilting the main section by sliding the main section in the depth direction thereby raising a rear side of the main section.
US07920121B2
A dynamic control method for controlling backlight module of liquid crystal display (LCD) comprises steps of: receiving a frame data which is transferred to the LCD and consists a plurality of raw grayscale level; processing a statistical analysis for distribution of the plurality of raw grayscale level; and transferring a plurality of corrected grayscale level which is resulted from the statistical analysis corresponding to the raw grayscale level to the backlight control unit and a data modification simultaneously, wherein the backlight control unit uses the plurality of corrected grayscale level to modify brightness of backlight module and the data modification uses the plurality of corrected grayscale level to compare with the plurality of raw grayscale level for accurate display performance, so that the electrical power consumption is reduced and image quality is enhanced.
US07920117B2
Two storage capacitor lines are provided corresponding to a single pixel, and each of pixels arranged in a row direction uses either one of the storage capacitor lines to form a storage capacitor. The storage capacitor of a certain pixel is formed to extend to an adjacent pixel which does not use the same storage capacitor line as the certain pixel. Further, the two storage capacitor lines are formed below a reflective layer in the thickness direction of the reflective layer.
US07920115B2
An apparatus and method for data transmission and an apparatus and method for driving an image display device using the same are disclosed, in which transition of data is minimized during data transmission to minimize electromagnetic interference. The apparatus for data transmission includes a data modulator modulating low bits excluding the most significant bit (MSB) in response to the MSB of input data, and a data restorer restoring the modulated data transmitted from the data modulator to their original data in response to the MSB. Since the low data bit excluding the MSB data are inverted in response to the MSB data of the input data, the number of times of data transition can be reduced to reach half, thereby minimizing electromagnetic interference.
US07920107B2
A display device includes a plurality of scanning lines, a plurality of signal lines, current-driven elements provided corresponding to portions where the scanning lines and the signal lines cross one another, and performs a display operating in response to the amount of a driving current supplied to the current-driven elements. The amount of the driving current is defined by the value of the driving current and the length of a period in which the driving current, which is periodically repeated, is supplied to the current-driven elements. This definition of the amount of the driving current can realize accurate gray scale control in a minute current region and a reduction in power consumption of the display device.
US07920102B2
Vehicular heads-up display control techniques wherein content of a virtual display generated by the heads-up display system is controlled by actions of an occupant of the vehicle. The control device can be a voice-reception system which receives vocal commands from the occupant and/or a gesture-detection system which detects gestures by the occupant. One such gesture-detection system includes a camera having a field of view of hands or an upper body region of an occupant expected to exercise control of the heads-up display and a processor arranged to receive images from the camera, detect movement of a head, hand or arm of the occupant in one of predetermined number of areas and perform a function based on the detection of movement in the predetermined area. The function may be to alter the content of the heads-up display or adjustment of a vehicle component.
US07920100B2
A foldable reflect array may include a plurality of geometrically-flat reflect antennas. Each of the reflect antennas may include a respective plurality of antenna elements to receive and retransmit an incident wavefront, and each of the plurality of reflect antennas may be foldably coupled to at least one other of the plurality of reflect antennas.
US07920098B2
There is provided an antenna device for use with a portable terminal, which can be used in different frequency bands by combining antenna characteristics.Whip antenna is electrically connected to power feeder through contact member, and resonates in a UHF band or higher when extended. Coiled antenna is electrically connected to power feeder through frequency filter mounted on device board. Frequency filter is set to a low impedance in a VHF band to supply electric power to coiled antenna. With this arrangement, external whip antenna is excited in the UHF band or higher, and built-in coiled antenna is mainly excited in the VHF band. The antenna device is thus capable of sending or receiving radio waves in a wide frequency band.
US07920091B2
A system and method for estimating the position of a mobile device using information from a constellation of satellites. A first set of satellites of the constellation may be selected and then a second set of satellites of the constellation may be selected as a function of signals received from the first set of satellites. Data may be transmitted to the mobile device based on signals received from the second set of satellites, and a location of the device estimated based on the data. One embodiment may select the second set as a function of an intersection of coverage areas of ones of the first set of satellites. Another embodiment may select the second set as a function of one or more satellites that are not occluded by the Earth from one or more of the first set of satellites.
US07920090B2
The invention provides a radar system comprising a power amplifier and a mixer, wherein the power amplifier and the mixer are integrated in a common semiconductor chip. For detecting a target object with the radar system, a high frequency signal from the power amplifier is employed as a local oscillator signal for the mixer, the radar system comprising the power amplifier and the mixer.
US07920089B2
A variable ratio power divider (VRPD) used for adjusting a calibration signal for a dual polarization radar system has been developed. The VRPD includes an input line that receives a calibration signal and splits the calibration signal into two separate test signals that have a 0° phase shift between them. The VRPD also includes a horizontal polarization output port for a horizontal calibration signal and a vertical polarization output port for a vertical calibration signal. A waveguide switch receives one of the test signals. If the waveguide switch is operating in a first position, it passes the test signal through a variable 0°-180° phase shifter. This evenly divides the power of the test signals between the horizontal and vertical output ports. If the waveguide switch is operating in a second position, it causes the test signal to bypass the phase shifter so that the entire power of the both test signals is directed entirely to either the horizontal phase output port or the vertical phase output port.
US07920088B2
The present invention is a method and apparatus that provides detection, characterization, and intuitive dissemination of targets. This disclosure combines improvements to ultra-wideband (UWB) sensing and machine target characterization with a means to convey data in a format that is quickly and readily understood by practitioners of the technology. The invention is well suited for Situational Awareness (SA) support in areas that are occluded by rain, fog, dust, darkness, distance, foliage, building walls, and any material that can be penetrated by ultra-wideband RF signals. Sense Through The Wall (STTW) performance parameters including target range, stand-off distance, and probability of detection are improved herein by combining a dynamically positioned sliding windowing function with orthogonal feature vectors that include but are not limited to time amplitude decay, spectral composition, and propagation time position in the return signal data. This invention is particularly useful for STTW and SA applications including urban combat, law enforcement, fire protection, transportation security, and homeland security. The invention can also be used to detect objects that are concealed by clothing, debris, and other non-metallic materials.
US07920078B2
Poly-phase filters are used to offer an efficient and low complexity solution to rate conversion. However, they suffer from inflexibility and are not easily reconfigured. A novel design for rate converters employ poly-phase filters but utilize interpolation between filter coefficients to add flexibility to rate conversion. This interpolation can be implemented as an interpolation of the poly-phase filter results. Additional approximations can be made to further reduce the amount of calculations required to implement a flexible rate converter.
US07920068B2
A system and method for determining a distance of a utility asset from a moving equipment. The invention determines a first current location of the equipment; accesses stored coordinates for a plurality of utility assets; selects an area of interest including a portion of the plurality of utility assets; identifies local utility assets in the selected area; determines a utility asset nearest to the first current position of the equipment, from the local utility assets; determines velocity and direction of the moving equipment; and determines the distance from the nearest utility asset to the second current location of the equipment responsive to the determined velocity and direction of the equipment. The invention may then generate a warning indication responsive to the determined distance.
US07920066B2
A collar to be worn on an object or a large or small animal has been designed incorporating (D)GPS technology. The operation of the device includes programming the three dimensional boundary into the memory of the device and simply installing the collar on the animal. As the animal approaches the preprogrammed boundary, a first alarm sounds when the subject is within an arbitrary user defined distance, and a second more drastic alarm such as a shock correction is applied when the subject approaches a second position closer to the boundary. Means to easily program the device are also included in the system. The device has the capability to call or transmit important information such as location, speed, identity, and medical parameters, etc. to a station automatically or when polled. All necessary analog and digital circuitry, microprocessor, programming, communications hardware are integrated into the collar. The device also has applications in land, air and sea navigation, farming, construction, tracking stolen vehicles, and keeping track of children. This device could also be embedded in a specialized lawnmower that would know where your yard ended and your neighbor's began, and traverse around all obstacles in the yard. Important Military applications would include warning and directing soldiers of front line boundaries, minefield mapping and 3-D direction around MOA's for aircraft.
US07920056B2
A driving support apparatus has a display mounted in a vehicle, a driving information receiving unit receiving a steering angle of a steering wheel of the vehicle, and a control unit. The control unit produces a vehicle figure imitating a shape of the vehicle and a tire figure imitating a shape of a tire of the vehicle in a bird's-eye view, calculates a predicted running locus of the vehicle, detects positions of portions of an obstacle facing the vehicle one after another, and controls the display to display a driving support image including the vehicle figure, the tire figure, the running locus and obstacle detecting marks indicating the positions of the obstacle while changing a direction of the tire figure with respect to the vehicle figure according to the steering angle. A driver recognizes a turning rate of the vehicle from the direction of the tire figure.
US07920054B2
A bicycle meter assembly with locating function includes a sensor module and a receiver module. The sensor module includes a microprocessor, a sensing unit, a display unit, a keypad, an encoder, and a wireless transceiver. The receiver module includes a wireless receiver, a decoder, and a warning unit. The sensor module and the receiver module are separately installed on a bicycle at two selected positions. The sensor module senses and displays traveling information and user's body signals that are generated when the bicycle is moving. When the user wants to locate the bicycle being parked at a selected place, the keypad can be pressed to generate a call signal, which is sent to the receiver module for the warning unit to emit a warning signal.
US07920053B2
A notification system and method of visual notification of different types of events by flashing different colors is provided, wherein the notification system includes a master controller and a notification device. The master controller is configured to communicate at least one signal. The notification device includes an enclosure accepting a plurality of conductors providing both signaling and electrical power to the notification device, and at least one strobe drive circuit configured to supply an electrical signal for periodically flashing at least one strobe. The notification device further includes a strobe system configured to flash at least one strobe, such that the strobe system flashes one of at least two different colors, and a control logic configured to determine which color of the at least two different colors to flash at least one strobe based upon the signal received from at least one of the plurality of conductors.
US07920045B2
A surface mount circuit protection device includes a laminar PTC resistive element having first and second major surfaces and a thickness therebetween. A first electrode layer substantially coextensive the first surface is formed of a first metal material of a type adapted to be soldered to a printed circuit substrate. A second electrode layer formed at the second major surface includes structure forming or defining a weld plate. The metal weld plate has a thermal mass and thickness capable of withstanding resistance micro spot welding of a strap interconnect without significant resultant damage to the device. The device is preferably surface mounted to a printed circuit board assembly forming a battery protection circuit connected to a battery/cell by battery strap interconnects, wherein one of the battery strap interconnects is micro spot welded to the weld plate of the device.
US07920039B2
A planar transformer comprises a laminate substrate having an opening with metal traces wound thereabout forming a primary and a secondary winding, a core configured to fit inside the opening to enclose the laminate substrate. At least one heat sink fin is integrally formed with the top, bottom or both sides of the core. A method of forming a planar transformer comprises laminating a substrate having an opening with metal traces wound thereabout forming a primary and a secondary winding, fitting a core inside the opening, and enclosing the laminate substrate. One of the top, bottom or both sides of the core include one or more heat sink fins.
US07920038B1
Provided is a relay that includes first and second contacts that are selectively connectable for closing an electric circuit. A coil wound around the contacts along a longitudinal axis can generate a magnetic field that connects the contacts in one of an energized or de-energized state and disconnects the contacts in the other of the energized or de-energized state. A first electrically conductive shield is provided adjacent to a first end of the relay and electrically connected to the first contact, and a second electrically conductive shield, the second electrically conductive shield being electrically connected to the second contact. The first electrically conductive shield extends at least partially around the first contact and the second electrically conductive shield extends at least partially around the second contact. The second electrically conductive shield is substantially coaxial with the first electrically conductive shield and separated a distance apart from the first electrically conductive shield along the longitudinal axis.
US07920035B2
A microwave, power splitter/combiner (20) is formed as part of a multilayer laminate (27, 28, 29, 33, 34) such that two ports (22, 23) are connected by plated vias (31, 32) to conductive pads (29, 30) connected across an isolation resistor (27). Furthermore, a microwave circuit is provided in the form of a multi-layer laminate including a substrate carrying a resistive layer which has been etched to define at least one resistor, a dielectric membrane covering the resistor, a conductive layer defining at least part of an electrical circuit, and said at least one resistor is electrically connected to the conductive layer by vias extending through the dielectric membrane.
US07920034B1
A compact integrated waveguide load has a load section disposed within an interior region of the waveguide proximate to a closed end of the waveguide. The load section has a tubiform shape, with an exterior surface congruent with an interior surface of the waveguide and an interior surface defining a circumferential step within the waveguide. A method of making a compact integrated waveguide load includes providing a waveguide and placing electromagnetic wave absorbing materially circumferentially around the interior surface to create an inward step.
US07920032B2
An oscillator device for generating an oscillator signal, includes a heater arrangement, a first switching element, a temperature sensor, signal process means, and voltage controlled oscillator; an output of the temperature sensor being connected to an input of the signal processing means, and an output of the signal processing means being connected to an input of the voltage controlled oscillator. The first switching element is arranged for receiving the oscillator signal from the voltage controlled oscillator and for providing a heater drive signal to either a first heater element or a second heater element of the heater arrangement based on the oscillator signal. The signal processing means comprise a synchronous demodulator.
US07920029B2
A radio frequency power amplifier has first and second amplifier stages coupled in series, one of which is operated in class F and the other is operated in inverse class F; an envelope detector adapted to detect an envelope of the input signal; a power supply coupled to supply an electrical supply voltage to the first and second amplifier stages, wherein the electrical supply voltage is controlled to follow the envelope of the input signal. Such amplifier makes it possible to maintain class F and inverse class F operation, respectively, of the first and second amplifier stages independent on the input signal. Preferably, this is done by controlling the electrical supply voltage so that the saturation levels of the first and second amplifier stages follow the envelope of the input signal.
US07920012B2
A level shifter circuit of the present invention includes a level shifter for converting a low-voltage signal to a high-voltage signal, and is provided with a unit that sets a voltage condition of an input signal to a transistor for input of the level shifter, when a high-voltage power supply is inputted to the level shifter circuit of the present invention before a low-voltage power supply.
US07920010B2
A logic signal isolator comprising a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding; a transmitter circuit which drives said primary winding in response to a received logic signal, such that in response to a first type of edge in the logic signal, a signal of a first predetermined type is supplied to the primary winding and in response to a second type of edge in the logic signal, a signal of a second predetermined type is supplied to said primary winding, the primary winding and the transmitter being referenced to a first ground; and the secondary winding being referenced to a second ground which is galvanically isolated from the first ground and said secondary winding supplying to a receiver circuit signals received in correspondence to the signals provided to the primary winding, the receiver reconstructing the received logic signal from the received signals.
US07920006B1
In one embodiment of the present invention, a clock generator circuit receives a clock signal having a period. The clock signal is employed by a digital circuit that is resident on the same substrate as an analog circuit, the digital circuit generates disturbance climaxes at clock edges that propagate through the substrate to the analog circuit. A clock generator circuit generates a plurality of clock signals, with each clock signal having a unique rate, wherein during a temporal gap, defined by the time between a last disturbance climax and a next sampling time of the clock signal, clock edges of any of the plurality of clock signals are avoided.
US07920003B1
A delay circuit with a delay equal to the percentage of the input pulse width is described. In one embodiment, the ratio of the discharge current to the charge-up current of a timing capacitor is used to determine the percentage of the input pulse width used for the output delay. In a first timing phase, the input pulse width is stored as a voltage on the timing capacitor. In a second timing phase, the output is delayed by a percentage of the input pulse width. In a third timing phase, the circuit is restored to the trip point to remove sensitivity to process variation or applied conditions variation such as voltage or temperature (P-V-T variation), and be ready for the next timing cycle.
US07919998B2
A triangle waveform generator is set forth that comprises a capacitive element, a regulator, and a control circuit. The regulator is configured to charge the capacitive element in responsive to a first control signal and to discharge the capacitive element in response to a second control signal. The control circuit is responsive to a reference waveform to generate the first and second control signals. In one example, the control circuit generates the first and second control signals in response to the amplitude, frequency, phase, and symmetry of the reference waveform.
US07919995B2
A load controller includes: a first input circuit which detects that a drive instruction signal by an operation of a drive instructing unit is less or equal to a first input threshold value; a first constant current source activated in accordance with the detection; a PWM signal supply unit that is activated by the first constant current source and supplies a PWM signal having a prescribed frequency and a duty ratio; a constant control signal supply unit that supplies a constant control signal during failure of the first input circuit or the first constant current source; a drive control unit that generates a PWM drive control signal in accordance with the PWM signal and generates a constant drive control signal in accordance with the constant control signal; and a load driving element that is controlled by the PWM drive or constant drive control signal to drive a load.
US07919993B2
A correlated double sampling circuit includes a first capacitor and a comparator. The first capacitor may be configured to receive a ramp signal via a first end. The comparator may be configured to receive the ramp signal and an output signal of a unit pixel circuit via a differential amplifier included in the comparator. The comparator may be also be configured to compare the output signal with the ramp signal and may be configured to directly receive the output signal of the unit pixel circuit at a first input terminal of the differential amplifier. A second input terminal of the differential amplifier is connected to a second end of the first capacitor.
US07919990B2
A semiconductor device of the present invention comprises an SGT based, at least two-stage CMOS inverter cascade circuit configured to allow a pMOS SGT to have a gate width two times greater than that of an nMOS SGT. A first CMOS inverter includes two pMOS SGT arranged at respective ones of an intersection of the 1st row and the 1st column and an intersection of the 2nd row and the 1st column, and an nMOS SGT arranged at an intersection of the 1st row and the 2nd column. A second CMOS inverter includes two pMOS SGT arranged at respective ones of an intersection of the 1st row and the 3rd column and an intersection of the 2nd row and the 3rd column, and an nMOS SGT arranged at an intersection of the 2nd row and the 2nd column.
US07919989B2
A circuit architecture for effective compensating the time skew of circuit is disclosed. The circuit architecture comprises a required compensation circuit, two duplicated circuits, and a time skew detection and compensation circuit, wherein these duplicated circuits are the duplicates of the required compensation circuit. A differential of logic 0 and logic 1 signals are simultaneously inputted into two duplicated circuits to output a first detection signal and a second detection signal, then the time skew detection and compensation circuit detects the time skew between a first detection signal and a second detection signal so as to generate a compensation signal to the required compensation circuit. Accordingly, the time skew existed in the required compensation circuit can be reduced or eliminated.
US07919979B1
An integrated circuit includes a programmable logic unit and an on-chip non-volatile memory. A JTAG port, TAP controller circuit, and program/erase control circuitry provide user access to the non-volatile memory for storage of user data. The non-volatile memory may also be used to store device data such as a serial number, product identification number, date code, or security data. Portions of the non-volatile memory may be made unavailable to the user once programmed, while other portions of the non-volatile may remain available for user access.
US07919972B2
A system and method for supporting and transferring a substrate relative to a plurality of testing columns are provided. The system includes a testing table adapted to support and move the substrate relative to the plurality of testing columns. The testing table may include an end effector disposed therein to transfer the substrate relative to an upper surface of the testing table. The method includes transferring the substrate to the testing table and moving the substrate relative to the plurality of testing columns. Signals indicative of electronic device performance are sensed to determine operability of the devices on the substrate.
US07919968B2
A method, circuit and system for determining at least one of an amplitude and a relative phase of a signal under test. A reference signal is generated based, at least in part, upon the at least one of the amplitude and the relative phase of the signal under test. The reference signal is combined with the signal under test to generate a residual signal indicative of a distortion within the signal under test. The residual signal is measured.
US07919967B2
Test methods and components are disclosed for testing the quality of a fabrication process used to form read elements in magnetic heads. A wafer is populated with one or more test components along with magnetic heads. The test components are formed by the same or similar fabrication processes as the read elements, but do not include a conductive MR sensor between the test leads. By measuring the resistance of the test components, the formation of parasitic shunts can be identified in the test components, which may indicate the formation of parasitic shunts in the read elements. Thus, the quality of the fabrication process in forming read elements in magnetic head may be determined.
US07919966B2
The present teachings are directed toward machine implemented method for estimating the ion density of the surface of either positive or negative electrode of a battery. The machine-implemented method includes dividing each electrode into N layers of active electrode material, determining the ion density variable for each one of the N layers of the active electrode, and determining the ion density of the electrode surface. In the presently disclosed method, the ion density variable of each of the N layers of the active electrode changes as a function of the difference between the respective ion density variables of adjacent N layers, and the ion density of the electrode surface changes as a function of the battery current and the difference between the respective ion density variables of adjacent N layers. The present method is particularly applicable to Li-ion batteries.
US07919961B2
The invention relates to a method for measuring the magnetic permeability of a magnetic material by measuring the magnetic interaction of an electromagnetic field with this material by using a measuring device including a measuring cell connected through a microwave frequency cable (13) to a vector network analyser (12), said method comprising steps for gauging/calibrating said measuring device, for determining corrective coefficients to be applied to the measurements obtained by means of this device, for verifying the non-drift of this device, these steps being carried out with the help of a reference sample, wherein a reference sample is used, comprising at least one inclusion which enables creation, in a given volume, of a local artificial permeability, each inclusion being achieved by combining at least one inductive component possibly associated with a combination of at last one capacitive and/or resistive and/or active component, the frequency response of the electromagnetic properties of each volume being adjusted by the value and the assembly architecture of the components.The invention also relates to such a reference sample.
US07919960B2
An electricity meter capable of minimizing a risk of data destruction in case of lightning or surge that involves improperly high voltage is provided. The electricity meter includes a measurement part, an operation part, and an insulation part. The measurement part includes a detection unit to detect electricity consumption of an objective system and a transmission unit to wirelessly transmit data representative of the detected electricity consumption. The operation part includes a reception unit to receive the wirelessly transmitted data and an operation unit to process the received data into data representative of electric energy consumed by the objective system. The insulation part electrically insulates the measurement part and operation part from each other.
US07919951B2
In a system stabilizing control system of controlling reactive power by a reactive power compensating device according to a voltage variation of an electric power system in which a capacitor is connected to a bus through a breaker, when the bus voltage drops, the capacitor is closed through the breaker to suppress a leading compensation reactive power amount caused by the reactive power compensating device, and when the bus voltage rises, the capacitor is disconnected through the breaker to suppress a lagging compensation reactive power amount caused by the reactive power compensating device.
US07919945B2
The present invention relates to synchronized vibration devices that can provide haptic feedback to a user. A wide variety of actuator types may be employed to provide synchronized vibration, including linear actuators, rotary actuators, rotating eccentric mass actuators, and rocking mass actuators. A controller may send signals to one or more driver circuits for directing operation of the actuators. The controller may provide direction and amplitude control, vibration control, and frequency control to direct the haptic experience. Parameters such as frequency, phase, amplitude, duration, and direction can be programmed or input as different patterns suitable for use in gaming, virtual reality and real-world situations.
US07919941B2
A semiconductor power converter includes a power converter for converting direct current to three-phase alternating current or vice versa; a means for detecting a current in an alternating current side of the power converter; a means for providing a current reference in the alternating current side of the power converter; a current controller for calculating a voltage reference in the alternating current side of the power converter to match the current reference and a value of the detected current; and a pulse width modulation means for controlling the power converter through pulse width modulation based on the voltage reference, wherein the current reference is used in place of the value of the detected current for at least one phase current among three phase currents in the alternating current side.
US07919938B2
An actuator arrangement comprises a plurality of linearly extendable actuators arranged to be driven by a common electrically driven motor, each actuator, being provided with limit stops to limit extension and/or retraction thereof, wherein the limit stops of the actuators are positioned such that a first one of the actuators has a smaller range of permitted extension than at least a second one of the actuators.
US07919934B2
An apparatus and method for driving and adjusting light is provided, applicable to the LED lighting environment. Without the necessity to change the existing wiring and lighting devices, the driving and light adjusting apparatus of the present invention can cooperate with LED driver, by counting the number of switch ON/OFF times, to enable the LED driver to adjust light so that the LED lighting device is capable of light adjustment in addition to lighting.
US07919933B2
A high intensity discharge (HID) lamp is operable as a stroboscopic light source by reducing power and maintaining constant polarity at the lamp for a period of dimmed operation and exciting the lamp with aperiodic polarity reversals for a run up period before returning the lamp to steady state operation.
US07919932B2
Provided is an apparatus for controlling lighting brightness including a light control unit that generates a control signal for controlling the brightness of a plurality of lightings; a digital signal generating unit that converts a signal corresponding to the control signal at each period so as to generate non-periodic digital signals; and a driving voltage generating unit that generate driving voltages by converting the digital signals into analog signals.
US07919928B2
An LED driver is disclosed that boosts an input voltage to drive any number of LEDs in series. The driver includes a switch-mode current regulator that supplies regulated current pulses to the LEDs. No high voltage output capacitor is used to smooth the current pulses, so the LEDs are turned on any off at the switching frequency. Also, no blocking diode between the switching transistor and the LEDs is used. The cathode of the “bottom” LED in the string is connected to ground via a current sense resistor. In parallel with the sense resistor is connected an RC filter using a small, low voltage filter capacitor. The RC filter provides a substantially smooth feedback voltage for the current regulator to control the duty cycle of the switching transistor so that the feedback voltage matches a reference voltage.
US07919926B2
A high frequency ballast for a metal halide lamp comprises a controller, a switch, and an oscillator. The controller selectively enables and disables the oscillator via the switch to ignite the lamp. The ignition method includes enabling the oscillator such that the oscillator provides the lamp with a pulse train comprising a rapid series of short ignition pulses, cools for a period of time, and provides an addition pulse train to the lamp if necessary to ignite the lamp. When the lamp ignites, the ballast maintains enablement of the oscillator.
US07919910B2
An expandable medical balloon having at least one static state, at least one expanded state, and at least one deflated state, the expandable medical balloon including at least one active region, the at least one active region including electroactive polymer.
US07919904B2
A film-forming nozzle is moved so that a boundary portion of a plurality of areas on which a piezoelectric material layer is formed by a film-forming nozzle moving relative to a vibration plate is positioned outside deformable portions of the vibration plate and overlaps with restricted portions. This reduces stress concentration on a portion of the piezoelectric layer corresponding to the boundary portion of the deposition areas, and therefore, damage of the piezoelectric material layer is prevented.
US07919897B2
An axial gap type motor 10 includes: a rotor 11 having a rotor core 13, the rotor core 13 including: multiple main magnet pieces 41 respectively magnetized in a direction of the rotation axis O of the rotor, and multiple main magnet piece storing hole portions 15 respectively for holding associated main magnet pieces; and a pair of stators 12 to be mounted onto the rotor 11, wherein the rotor core 13 is structured by winding a tape-shaped magnetic plate 14, and includes a first winding layer and a second winding layer; and in portions of the first and second winding layers that are situated in the same phase from the center of rotation of the rotor core 13, the first winding layer includes an outside magnetic flux short preventive portions 62, and the second winding layer includes an outside connecting portions 61.
US07919896B2
A stator for a rotary electric machine with wedge members insertable into slots without being bent or folded is provided. A coupling portion is integrally formed at a non-inserted end portion, which is not inserted into a slot, of a wedge member, the coupling portion extending across an end of a partition wall portion and an end of a block portion. The wedge member and the coupling portion are formed of a synthetic resin material. Two or more coupling portions of two or more adjacently disposed wedge members are integrally formed as a continuous coupling portion.
US07919892B2
Disclosed herein is an electric machine. The electric machine includes, a housing defining an internal volume, a stationary shaft fixedly attached to the housing, a stationary field coil attached to the shaft, a pole assembly rotatable about the shaft, and a pulley fixedly attached to the pole assembly being positioned externally of the internal volume.
US07919888B2
The invention relates to a linear drive having a stationary active unit (1), a stationary return flow element (11), a movably mounted passive unit in the form of a thin tooth rack (10) and a bearing unit (15), which allows the relative movement between the active unit and the passive unit. A lateral guidance plate (30) is attached to the tooth rack (10), extends at an angle with respect to the plane of the tooth rack (10) into a guide gap (31) and is guided there, the guide map (31) running in the return flow element (11) or in the active unit (1).
US07919885B2
A method for controlling batteries, a power control apparatus, and a portable device using the same are provided. Based on a connection status of a main battery and an auxiliary battery and the relative magnitudes of voltage of the main battery and the auxiliary battery, supplying of electric power from the main battery or an integrated power source integrating the main battery voltage with the auxiliary battery voltage, recharging of the main battery and the auxiliary battery respectively or simultaneously, and the connection between the main battery and the auxiliary battery when the portable device is turned off are controlled so that electric power of the portable device using a plurality of batteries can be effectively supplied.
US07919883B2
A two-wire adapter circuit comprises a current shunt monitor and a circuit for sensing an abrupt change in the output of the current shunt monitor, a power supply, and a two-wire electrical conduit connecting the power supply to a load via the current shunt monitor, the circuit for sensing the abrupt change in the output of the current shunt monitor configured to output a defined digital signal on a third wire upon sensing the abrupt change.
US07919879B2
A wind turbine 36 has a back-to-back AC/DC/AC power electronic converter chain in which the grid side converter 48 is connected in series with DFIG stator windings 64. The machine side converter 56 is fed from the rotor windings 54 of the DFIG 44. Series connection of the grid side converter 48 enables voltage sag ride-through capability via control of the stator flux.In the event of a grid voltage sag, the series converter allows for a controlled response in the stator flux and electromagnetic shaft torque, protects the machine side converter and enables continued power delivery to the grid.
US07919877B2
A faucet generator includes: a cylindrical body which has a water inflow port and a water outflow port, and in which a water supply channel is formed; a rotor vane which has rotor vane blades, and which is disposed in the water supply channel; a magnet which is rotatable integrally with the rotor vane; a coil in which an electromotive force is produced by rotation of the magnet; and a plurality of nozzles which eject water toward the rotor vane blades. The axial direction of the rotor vane is substantially parallel to the water supply channel. The nozzles change a direction of a water flow which is substantially parallel to the axial direction of the rotor vane, to eject water from a radially outward direction of the rotor vane blades to the rotor vane blades.
US07919875B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device formed in a chip size package is improved to enhance a yield and reliability. A window to expose first wirings is formed only in a region of a semiconductor substrate where the first wirings exist. As a result, area of the semiconductor substrate bonded to a supporting body through an insulation film and a resin is increased to prevent cracks in the supporting body and separation of the semiconductor substrate from the supporting body. A slit is formed along a dicing line after forming the window, the slit is covered with a protection film and then the semiconductor substrate is diced into individual semiconductor dice. Thus, separation on a cut surface or at an edge of the semiconductor dice, which otherwise would be caused by contact of the blade in the dicing can be prevented.
US07919868B2
A carrier substrate comprising a through contact connecting a first contact field on a top face of the carrier substrate to a second contact field on a bottom face of the carrier substrate and a substrate material being provided around the through contact.
US07919864B2
An integrated circuit including one or several metallization levels, metal conductive strips and metal contact pads being formed on the last metallization level, the last level being covered with a passivation layer in which are formed openings above the contact pads. The thickness of the pads, at least at the level of their portions not covered by the passivation layer, is smaller than the thickness of said conductive strips.
US07919858B2
The present invention provides a technique capable of suppressing variations in the height of each solder ball where an NSMD is used as a structure for each land. Vias that extend through a wiring board are provided. Lands are formed at the back surface of the wiring board so as to be coupled directly to the vias respectively. The lands are respectively formed so as to be internally included in openings defined in a solder resist. Half balls are mounted over the lands respectively. Namely, the present invention has a feature in that the configuration of coupling between each of the lands and its corresponding via both formed at the back surface of the wiring board is taken as a land on via structure and a configuration form of each land is taken as an NSMD.
US07919857B2
A plastic housing includes plastic external faces and the underside of the plastic housing comprises external contact areas on which external contacts are arranged. The plastic external faces are covered by a closed metal layer apart from the underside, wherein the boundary layer between plastic external faces and the closed metal layer includes exposed electrically conductive inclusions of the plastic of the housing.
US07919851B2
A laminated substrate and the semiconductor package utilizing the substrate are revealed. The laminated substrate primarily comprises a core layer, a first metal layer and a first solder mask disposed on the bottom surface of the core layer, and a second metal layer and a second solder mask disposed on the top surface of the core layer. The two solder masks have different CTEs to compensate potential substrate warpage caused by thermal stresses. Therefore, the manufacturing cost of the substrate can be reduced without adding extra stiffeners nor changing thicknesses of semiconductor packages to suppress substrate warpage during packaging processes. Especially, a die-attaching layer partially covers the second solder mask by printing and is planar after pre-curing for zero-gap die-attaching.
US07919848B2
An integrated circuit package system includes: forming a die-attach paddle, an outer interconnect, and an inner interconnect toward the die-attach paddle beyond the outer interconnect; mounting an integrated circuit device over the die-attach paddle; connecting the integrated circuit device to the inner interconnect and the outer interconnect; encapsulating the integrated circuit device over the die-attach paddle; attaching an external interconnect under the outer interconnect; and attaching a circuit device under the die-attach paddle and extended laterally beyond opposite sides of the die-attach paddle.
US07919847B2
A semiconductor wafer includes a plurality of chip areas, a scribe line area, a bonding pad, a probing pad, and a pad connection wiring. The plurality of chip areas are configured to be arranged in a matrix form. The scribe line area is configured to separate the plurality of chip areas from each other. The bonding pad is configured to be connected with an external terminal. The probing pad is configured to be contacted with a probe wire. The pad connection wiring is configured to electrically connect the bonding pad to the probing pad. The bonding pad and the probing pad are located at a predetermined distance from each other in each of the plurality of chip areas. The pad connection wiring has a portion located in the scribe line area.
US07919839B2
A semiconductor structure, such as a wafer-level package or a vertically stacked structure. The wafer-level package includes a substrate wafer on which an integrated circuit is formed. A cover wafer is bonded to the substrate wafer to provide a cavity between the substrate wafer and the cover wafer in which the integrated circuit is hermetically sealed. Vias are formed through the substrate wafer and make electrical contact with signal and ground traces formed on the substrate wafer within the cavity, where the traces are electrically coupled to the integrated circuit. Probe pads are formed on the substrate wafer outside of the cavity and are in electrical contact with the vias. A support post is provided directly beneath the probe pad so that when pressure is applied to the probe pad from the probe for testing purposes, the support post prevents the substrate wafer from flexing and being damaged.
US07919833B2
There are provided a semiconductor package comprising: a semiconductor substrate including an integrated circuit unit, and a crack-propagation preventing unit at least partially formed around a peripheral of the integrated circuit unit of the semiconductor substrate and filled with a heterogeneous material different from a material of the semiconductor substrate, and a method of fabricating the semiconductor package, comprising: at least partially forming a trench around the peripheral of the integrated circuit unit of the semiconductor substrate, and filling the trench with a heterogeneous material different from that of the semiconductor substrate. In accordance with the present invention, the structural and mechanical strength and durability of the semiconductor package, specifically, the wafer level semiconductor package, are improved and the reliability of the product is significantly improved. Furthermore, a fail rate including crack/chipping during a subsequent mounting process lowers, to improve the yield and reduce the whole manufacturing cost.
US07919832B2
A resistor structure for an integrated circuit includes a first set of contacts connected between a semiconductor layer and a first conductive layer; and a second set of plugs connected between the first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, wherein the first set of contacts and the second set of plugs are coupled together as a first resistor segment to provide a predetermined resistance for the integrated circuit.
US07919831B2
The present invention is a nitride semiconductor device including an n-type gallium nitride single crystal substrate, an epitaxially grown nitride film on the substrate, and electrodes deposited on a top and a bottom of the substrate. In order to produce the substrate, oxygen is doped into a gallium nitride crystal by preparing a C-plane gallium nitride seed crystal or a three-rotationally symmetric plane foreign material seed crystal, supplying material gases including gallium, nitrogen and oxygen to the C-plane gallium nitride seed crystal or the three-rotationally symmetric foreign seed crystal, growing a faceted C-plane gallium nitride bulk crystal having facets of non-C-planes on the seed crystal, maintaining the facets on the C-plane gallium nitride bulk crystal, and eliminating the seed crystal from the bulk crystal.
US07919812B2
Source and drain extension regions and source side halo region and drain side halo region are formed in a top semiconductor layer aligned with a gate stack on an SOI substrate. A deep source region and a deep drain region are formed asymmetrically in the top semiconductor layer by an angled ion implantation. The deep source region is offset away from one of the outer edges of the at least spacer to expose the source extension region on the surface of the semiconductor substrate. A source metal semiconductor alloy is formed by reacting a metal layer with portions of the deep source region, the source extension region, and the source side halo region. The source metal semiconductor alloy abuts the remaining portion of the source side halo region, providing a body contact tied to the deep source region to the partially depleted SOI MOSFET.
US07919800B2
A capacitor-less memory cell, memory device, system and process of forming the capacitor-less memory cell includes forming the memory cell in an active area of a substantially physically isolated portion of the bulk semiconductor substrate. A pass transistor is formed on the active area for coupling with a word line. The capacitor-less memory cell further includes a read/write enable transistor vertically configured along at least one vertical side of the active area and operable during a reading of a logic state with the logic state being stored as charge in a floating body area of the active area, causing different determinable threshold voltages for the pass transistor.
US07919799B2
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor substrate having a logic formation region where a logic device is formed; a first impurity region formed in an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate in the logic formation region; a second impurity region formed in an upper surface of the semiconductor substrate in the logic formation region; a third impurity region formed in an upper surface of the first impurity region and having a conductivity type different from that of the second impurity region; a fourth region formed in an upper surface of the second impurity region and having a conductivity type different from that of the second impurity region; a first silicide film formed in an upper surface of the third impurity region; a second silicide film formed in an upper surface of the fourth impurity region and having a larger thickness than the first silicide film.
US07919797B2
A trench isolation having a sidewall and bottom implanted region located within a substrate of a first conductivity type is disclosed. The sidewall and bottom implanted region is formed by an angled implant, a 90 degree implant, or a combination of an angled implant and a 90 degree implant, of dopants of the first conductivity type. The sidewall and bottom implanted region located adjacent the trench isolation reduces surface leakage and dark current.
US07919792B2
Structures and methods for standard cell layouts having variable rules for spacing of layers to cell boundaries are disclosed. In one embodiment, a first standard cell layout is provided with a conductive layer having at least two portions spaced apart by a minimum spacing distance, the conductive layer having at least one portion spaced from a cell boundary by a first spacing distance of less than half of the minimum spacing distance; a second standard cell disposed adjacent the first standard cell with at least one second portion of the conductive layer in the second cell disposed adjacent the first portion in the first standard cell and spaced apart from a common cell boundary by a second spacing greater than half of the minimum; wherein the sum of the first and second spacings is at least as great as the minimum spacing. A method for forming standard is disclosed.
US07919788B2
A light emitting diode packaging device includes: a heat dissipating base; a light emitting dice mounted on the heat dissipating base; a lead frame coupled electrically to the light emitting dice and having a protruding wall defining a confining space for extension of a protruding part of the heat dissipating base therethrough; at least one retaining member provided on one of the protruding part of the heat dissipating base and the protruding wall of the lead frame to retain the lead frame to the heat dissipating base; and a molding material molded on the heat dissipating base and the lead frame.
US07919787B2
A semiconductor device includes a light emitting semiconductor die mounted on at least one of first and second electrically conductive bonding pads, which are located on a first major surface of a substrate of the device. The light emitting semiconductor die has an anode and a cathode, which are electrically connected to the first and second electrically conductive bonding pads. The semiconductor device further includes first and second electrically conductive connecting pads, which are located on a second major surface of the substrate. The first and second electrically conductive bonding pads are electrically connected to the first and second electrically conductive connecting pads via first and second electrically conductive interconnecting elements.
US07919782B2
The present invention provides a bonding structure of circuit substrates and an instant circuit inspection method thereof. The contact pad design of the bonding structure has an instant inspection ability of circuit connection in bonding two circuit substrates. In two bonded circuit substrates, the signal inputted at the circuit part passes the conductive particles to the first contact pad, and then passes the conductive particles again to the detecting part from the first contact pad. Therefore, measuring the output signal can inspect the reliability of the circuit connection of the bonded circuit substrates. If the output signal is the same as the input signal, the bonding structure between the first contact pad and the circuit part is validated, or, if not, the bonding structure is invalidated.
US07919780B2
In one embodiment of the invention, a bonding material is used to bond a substitute substrate to the LED, wherein the bonding material does not including gold or tin. The bonding material preferably includes gallium (Ga), such as a combination of Ga and Al or Cu. This bonding material has high thermal conductivity, high strength, high temperature stability and is low cost. In another embodiment of the invention, the substitute substrate is first thinned before it is bonded to the LED structure, so that the substitute substrate is flexible and conforms to the shape of the LED structure. In yet another embodiment of the invention, an apparatus is used for bonding a substitute substrate to a LED which includes a plurality of semiconductor epitaxial layers, said semiconductor epitaxial layers having been grown on the growth substrate so that said semiconductor epitaxial layers are curved in shape. The apparatus includes a conduit for evacuating a region near the substitute substrate on a side of the substitute substrate that is opposite to that of said semiconductor epitaxial layers. Gas pressure is applied on the semiconductor epitaxial layers, and the substitute substrate conforms to the shape of said semiconductor epitaxial layers as a result of pressure applied. A bonding material is used for bonding said substitute substrate to the semiconductor epitaxial layers.
US07919762B2
Methods (200, 300), apparatuses and systems (100) for determining minority carrier diffusion lengths in a semi-conductor structure (130), which may be a solar cell or a unprocessed or partially processed silicon sample, are disclosed. The luminescence (140) may comprise photoluminescence, electroluminescence, or both. Luminescence (140) is excited (212) in the structure (130), and the intensities of short- and long-wavelength luminescence (140) are measured (214). Luminescence intensities may be captured from either side of the sample using a single photodetector, a FPA, a CCD array (150), or a mapping tool. The luminescence (140) excited in the structure (130) may be filtered (160) at short and long cutoff wavelengths. Diffusion lengths of the structure (130) are generated (216) using a predefined theoretical relationship. The generating step (216) may comprise calculating (316) intensity ratios from luminescence intensities and converting (320) the intensity ratios into diffusion lengths using the predefined theoretical relationship.
US07919757B2
A thin radiation detector with a high sensitivity is described. The radiation detector has light receiving elements receiving lights emitted by scintillators, performs a photoelectric conversion by using an avalanche multiplication film formed by amorphous selenium, and reads signals by using electron beams constantly discharged from a plurality of electron beam emitting sources called as a field emission array. The avalanche multiplication film formed by amorphous selenium is quite thin and has a simple structure, so it can be formed compactly and realized at a low cost. In addition, a signal amplification degree is approximately 1000 times, so an expensive low noise amplifier or a dedicated temperature adjusting mechanism is not required, and a quantum efficiency is sufficient for a wavelength of 300˜400 nm.
US07919753B2
A method of non-destructively determining the amount of ultraviolet degradation of a surface and/or paint adhesion characteristics of the surface corresponding with UV damage including determining a physical property of a composite material/surfacing film by providing a series of composite materials/surfacing films which are subjected to increasing UV light exposure to create a set of UV damage standards, collecting mid-IR spectra on those standards, performing data pre-processing and then multivariate calibration on the spectra of the composite materials/surfacing films, and using that calibration to predict the UV damage for samples in question.
US07919750B2
An electron gun includes an electron source configured to emit electrons. The electron source includes an electron emission region configured to emit the electrons and an electron emission restrictive region configured to restrict emission of the electrons. The electron emission restrictive region is located on a side surface of the electron source except an electron emission surface on a tip of the electron source and is covered with a different material from the electron source. The electron gun emits thermal field-emitted electrons by applying an electric field to the tip while maintaining a sufficiently low temperature to avoid sublimation of a material of the electron source. The material of the electron source may be lanthanum hexaboride (LaB6) or cerium hexaboride (CeB6). The electron emission restrictive region may be covered with carbon.
US07919744B2
The invention relates to an optical standard (10) for the calibration or characterization of optical measuring devices and as a reference system for intensities and intensity measurements. The standard (10) according to the invention, constructed sandwich-like, comprises a combination of at least two layer-like optical standard modules (12) having defined optical properties, joinable or joined together plane-parallel, wherein the standard modules (12) in each instance differ from each other by at least one optical property, namely, by their absorption, emission, scatter and/or reflection properties, and the standard modules (12) are made so that they enter into physical interaction with electromagnetic radiation striking one of their two principal surfaces (12.1).
US07919743B2
A solid-state image sensor includes a plurality of light-receiving elements arranged in a light-receiving area, and a plurality of micro-lenses corresponding to the light-receiving elements, and has a flattening film formed on the plurality of the micro-lenses. At a center of the light-receiving area, the micro-lenses are placed in positions directly above corresponding photodiodes, and placed in positions which are progressively offset from positions directly above the corresponding photodiodes, towards a center of the light receiving area, as micro-lenses are located farther from the center of the light-receiving area.
US07919733B2
A heat trace assembly is provided that includes a heat trace section, an insulation jacket surrounding the heat trace section, and a plurality of standoffs disposed between the heat trace section and the insulation jacket. A corresponding plurality of passageways are formed between the heat trace section and the insulation jacket and between the plurality of standoffs. The standoffs can be a part of the insulation jacket and/or the heat trace section, and the standoffs can furthermore be integrally formed with or separately attached to the insulation jacket and/or the heat trace section.
US07919730B2
A heating apparatus assembly and method are provided for heating a surface. The heating apparatus contains a substrate with a multiplicity of heating elements disposed upon at least one surface of the substrate where each element is individually controllable.
US07919711B2
A utility pole grounding plate including a main section and a plurality of flaps. The main section has a general plate shape adapted to be connected around an outer curved surface of a utility pole. The flaps extend outward from an exterior side of the main section. The flaps are formed by material cut and bent from the main section such that the flaps are integral with the main section. The main section has apertures corresponding to the cut and bent material of the flaps.
US07919707B2
Systems and methods for identifying musical sounds are provided. In one implementation, a method includes receiving a collection of sound identifiers. Each sound identifier in the collection identifies a sound. Each sound identifier is associated with a corresponding audio representation. The collection of sound identifiers is used to construct a hierarchy of sound identifiers where each sound identifier appears only once in the hierarchy of sound identifiers. The hierarchy of sound identifiers is arranged according to a musical similarity between the sounds identified by the collection of sound identifiers. A selection of a first sound identifier is received. The first audio representation corresponding to the first sound identified by the first sound identifier is unavailable. The second sound identifier identifies a second sound that is musically similar to the first sound identified by the first sound identifier. An available second audio representation corresponding to a second sound identifier is provided.
US07919698B1
A novel inbred maize variety designated PHAJM and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing inbred maize variety PHAJM with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHAJM through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the inbred variety PHAJM or a trait conversion of PHAJM with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHAJM, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from inbred maize variety PHAJM and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07919697B1
A novel maize variety designated PHR0C and seed, plants and plant parts thereof. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprise crossing maize variety PHR0C with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into PHR0C through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. Hybrid maize seed, plant or plant part produced by crossing the variety PHR0C or a trait conversion of PHR0C with another maize variety. Inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHR0C, methods for producing other inbred maize varieties derived from maize variety PHR0C and the inbred maize varieties and their parts derived by the use of those methods.
US07919693B1
A novel maize variety designated X6N745 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing maize variety X6N745 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X6N745 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X6N745, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X6N745. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X6N745 and to the maize varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US07919692B1
A novel maize variety designated X6T596 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof, produced by crossing Pioneer Hi-Bred International, Inc. proprietary inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant that comprises crossing maize variety X6T596 with another maize plant. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X6T596 through backcross conversion and/or transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby. This invention relates to the maize variety X6T596, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X6T596. This invention further relates to methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X6T596 and to the maize varieties derived by the use of those methods.
US07919681B2
The invention provides polynucleotides, preferably synthetic polynucleotides, which encode processing enzymes that are optimized for expression in plants. The polynucleotides encode mesophilic, thermophilic, or hyperthermophilic processing enzymes, which are activated under suitable activating conditions to act upon the desired substrate. Also provided are “self-processing” transgenic plants, and plant parts, e.g., grain, which express one or more of these enzymes and have an altered composition that facilitates plant and grain processing. Methods for making and using these plants, e.g., to produce food products having improved taste and to produce fermentable substrates for the production of ethanol and fermented beverages are also provided.
US07919665B2
A process is disclosed for removing mercury from a liquid hydrocarbon stream by contacting the mercury-containing liquid hydrocarbon stream with ferrous halide at moderate temperatures and without preheating the liquid hydrocarbon stream, or subjecting the liquid hydrocarbon stream to a heat treating step, immediately prior to contact with the ferrous halide particles.
US07919663B2
A process for producing a low volatility gasoline blending component and a middle distillate, comprising alkylating a hydrocarbon stream comprising at least one olefin having from 2 to 6 carbon atoms and at least one paraffin having from 4 to 6 carbon atoms with an ionic liquid catalyst and an unsupported halide containing additive, and separating the alkylate into at least the low volatility gasoline blending component and the middle distillate, wherein the middle distillate is a fuel suitable for use as a jet fuel or jet fuel blending component. Also, a process for producing a gasoline blending component and a middle distillate, comprising adjusting a level of a halide containing additive provided to an ionic liquid alkylation reactor to shift selectivity towards heavier products, and recovering a low volatility gasoline blending component and the middle distillate. Also, processes comprising alkylating isobutane with butene over specific chloroaluminate ionic liquids.
US07919652B2
A process is provided for producing an enriched carboxylic acid compositions produced by contacting composition comprising a carboxylic acid with an enrichment feed in an enrichment zone to form an enriched carboxylic acid composition. This invention also relates to a process and the resulting compositions for removing catalyst from a carboxylic acid composition to produce a post catalyst removal composition.
US07919631B2
Ionic liquids and processes and apparatus for their production. The ionic liquids can be low sulfur and low halide carboxylated ionic liquids. The ionic liquids can be produced via formation of at least one intermediate carboxylated ionic liquid, and thereafter subjecting the intermediate carboxylated ionic liquid to at least one anion exchange process.
US07919630B2
The present invention provides a method of making an imidazole 2-thione which comprises the step(s) of reducing a thiohydantoin to said imidazole-2-thione.
US07919629B2
The invention relates to triazole salts, to their preparation and to applications thereof. The salts have at least one anionic triazolium group which carries at least one chlorosulphonyl, fluorosulphonyl or alkoxyfluorosulphonyl group, each of the anionic groups being combined with a proton or a cation that has a valency of less than or equal to 4. The salts are useful as synthesis reagents, as chemical-reaction or polymerization catalysts, and as ion-conducting materials for electrochemical generators, supercapacitors and electrochromic devices.
US07919627B2
The present invention relates generally to novel methods for the synthesis of O-(6-pyrazol-1-yl-pyridin-3-ylmethyl)-hydroxylamine which is an essential reagent in the synthesis of one of the bridged erythromycin derivatives and their respective pharmaceutically acceptable salts in PCT Application WO 03/097659 A1. In particular, the present invention relates to processes and intermediates for the preparation of a compound of formula (Ia):
US07919619B2
NLO chromophores of the following general formula: wherein each R represents a spacer system or substituent moiety as disclosed herein.
US07919605B1
Nucleic acids, compositions, and methods that allow for the excision of one or more loci from the genome of a host cell are provided herein. In particular, provided herein is an excisable nucleic acid construct comprising, in a 5′ to 3′ orientation: a first tandem repeat nucleic acid, a first homing endonuclease recognition site, a target nucleic acid, a second homing endonuclease recognition site, and a second tandem repeat nucleic acid. In some embodiments, the excisable nucleic acid construct is integrated into the host cell genome, and the target nucleic acid can be excised from the host cell genome by contacting the homing endonuclease recognition sites with one or more appropriate homing endonucleases.
US07919602B2
An isolated polypeptide is provided, comprising an amino acid sequence being at least 88% homologous to SEQ ID NO: 15 (human) as determined by BlastP using default parameters, the isolated polypeptide being capable of promoting cell adhesion and/or cell homing.
US07919601B2
This invention provides: 1) methods for the identification of broad-spectrum holins with a high level of nonenzymatic activity in membranes; 2) conditions required for maintaining and increasing the anti-microbial and anti-pest efficacy of holins in gene fusions; 3) a method for effective targeting of holins expressed in plants through use of a leader peptide to direct the holin protein to the plant apoplast and xylem; 4) methods for the control of bacterial and fungal diseases of plants and control of insect and nematode pests that attack plants by expression of gene fusions involving holins, C-terminal additions and leader peptides, and optionally, endolysins; 5) methods for increasing the shelf-life of cut flowers, and 6) transgenic plants useful for the production of novel antimicrobial proteins based upon holins.
US07919599B2
The present invention provides processes for the production of polysaccharides containing the L-iduronate subunit, for example, heparin-type polysaccharides. New intermediate compounds and processes developed during the production of said polysaccharides are also presented.
US07919598B2
The present invention relates to physical crystal structures of a compound of the formula I: wherein R1, R2, R2a, R3 and R4 are as defined herein, especially pharmaceutical compositions containing structures of compound I or II, processes for preparing same, intermediates used in preparing same, and methods of treating diseases such as diabetes using such structures.
US07919592B2
A method for separating off viruses from a protein solution by nanofiltration, comprising adding to the protein solution at least one ingredient chosen from chaotropic substances chosen from arginine, guanidine, citrulline, urea and derivatives thereof and salts thereof, and compounds chosen from polyethoxysorbitan esters and derivatives thereof, prior to the nanofiltration, in order to decrease or prevent aggregation of the protein molecules, and then filtering the solution through a filter having a pore size ranging from 15 nm to less than 35 nm.
US07919584B1
This invention relates to methods of reducing inflammatory effects in mammalian cells by treatment with compounds that interfere with calcium activated chloride channel function. The invention discloses methods of treating these disorders by administering inhibitors that disrupt protein-protein interactions involved in these disorders, screening methods to identify such inhibitors and specific compositions useful for treating these disorders.
US07919583B2
Some aspects of the application describe materials and methods for making a molecular tether. A molecular tether, in certain embodiments, includes a target-DNA-binding domain having a specific binding affinity for a target-DNA segment in a host chromosome, a carrier-binding domain that specifically binds to a DNA segment on a carrier, and a spacer covalently bonded to the target DNA-binding domain and the carrier-binding domain.
US07919578B2
Provided are peptides or mimetics that block corepressor binding to a BCL6 lateral groove. Also provided are methods of blocking corepressor binding to the BCL6 lateral groove. Additionally, methods of inhibiting BCL6 repression in a mammalian, cell, and methods of treating a mammal with cancer are provided.
US07919576B2
The invention provides relatively short immunogenic peptides derived from CD19 antigens, and biologically active variants thereof, which elicit an immune response. Nucleic acids encoding the immunogenic peptides and antibodies specific for the peptides are also provided. The immunogenic peptides can be included in pharmaceutical compositions, such as cancer vaccines, and used for the treatment of cancer.
US07919574B2
A polymer comprising one or more types of repeat units, wherein the polymer includes a substituted thieno[3,2-b]thiophene component A and a different component B in the same type of repeat unit or in different types of repeat units, and wherein the polymer excludes a substituted or unsubstituted thieno[2,3-b]thiophene moiety. The polymer can be used as a semiconductor in electronics such as in organic thin film transistors.
US07919571B2
This invention provides a polybutadiene capable of improving wear resistance and resistance to crack growth in a rubber composition and a tire, wherein values of e, f and g derived from the following determinant (I): ( 1.7455 0 - 0.0151 - 0.0454 0.4292 - 0.0129 - 0.007 0 0.3746 ) ( log 10 ( a / d ) log 10 ( a / b ) log 10 ( a / c ) ) = ( e f g ) ( I ) (wherein a is a mountain peak value around 1130 cm−1 in a transmittance spectrum through Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), and b is a valley peak value around 967 cm−1, and c is a valley peak value around 911 cm−1, and d is a valley peak value around 736 cm−1) satisfy relationships of equation (II): (Calculated value of cis-1,4 bond)=e/(e+f+g)×100≧99 and equation (III): (Calculated value of vinyl bond)=g/(e+f+g)×100≦0.
US07919565B2
A composition having a sulfonated block copolymer which is solid and non-dispersible in water having at least two polymer end blocks A, at least one polymer interior block B, and at least one polymer block D. Each A block is a segment of one or more polymerized para-substituted styrene monomers, each B block contains segments of one or more vinyl aromatic monomers selected from polymerized (i) unsubstituted styrene monomers, (ii) ortho-substituted styrene monomers, (iii) meta-substituted styrene monomers, (iv) alpha-methylstyrene, (v) 1,1-diphenylethylene, (vi) 1,2-diphenylethylene and (vii) mixtures thereof, and each D block having a glass transition temperature of less than 20° C. and a number average molecular weight of between 1,000 and 50,000 Adhesives, coatings and membranes are formed from the composition. Various articles are formed with the composition including films, fibers, fabrics, laminates, and absorbent cores.
US07919564B2
The present invention provides a method for manufacturing a particulate water-absorbing agent which has excellent liquid diffusibility and liquid permeability, and whose amount of residual monomers is reduced. The method for manufacturing the particulate water-absorbing agent of the present invention includes a step of surface-crosslinking, in the presence of an organic crosslinking agent, water-absorbing resin particles obtained through at least a step of polymerizing an aqueous solution of unsaturated monomers, and in or after the polymerizing step, a reaction system is mixed with peroxide. Thus, it is possible to obtain the particulate water-absorbing agent which has excellent liquid diffusibility and liquid permeability and whose amount of residual monomers is small, that is, it is possible to obtain the particulate water-absorbing agent which is highly functional and highly safe.
US07919563B2
The present invention relates to the process for preparing hydrogenated nitrile rubber polymers having lower molecular weights and narrower molecular weight distributions than those known in the art.
US07919562B2
The present invention relates to supramolecular polymers containing sequence-selective hydrogen bonding subunits in their backbone which form double helices. The invention allows for tuning of the numbers and sequences of donor/acceptor units incorporated in any one crosslinking hydrogen bonding subunit and hence tuning of the interaction strength not only through the amount of crosslinking material incorporated but also through modulation of the strength of the crosslinking interactions. It also allows for the incorporation of more than one type of crosslinking agent in the material allowing for multiple strengths of crosslinking which are each tunable with regard to disruption from solvent, temperature and stress. Hydrogen bond strength between oligomeric chains can be tailored through modification of the numbers and sequences of the donors/acceptors in the oligomers. The oligomers are sequence-specific and will generally only hydrogen-bond to oligomeric chains which are composed of a complementary set of donors/acceptors. The hydrogen bonded motif formed by the interacting oligomers is helical, imparting both chirality and intertwined topology to these interaction points. Because the polymer end units react with their complements through hydrogen bonding, the telechelic polymer(s) incorporating this technology are reversibly able to be processed as the bonds are first broken and then reformed. This has applications in a number of fields such as inkjet inks, adhesives, printing plates and microphase patterning of polymer surfaces.
US07919555B2
This invention relates to compositions useful as adhesives and more particularly to the preparation of heat-cured epoxy-based adhesive compositions with improved impact resistance and good adhesion to oily metal substrates.
US07919546B2
What is disclosed is a plurality of prepaints which are used in any combination to produce base paints and/or colored paints of varying end-use application characteristics. Additionally, a mobile-paint factory for producing a plurality of lines of architectural coatings from a plurality of prepaints en route to and/or at various locations is disclosed. The mobile paint factory may include a vehicle having a paint production system and a paint mixer located thereon. Furthermore, a method of producing a plurality of lines of user-selected architectural coatings from a plurality of prepaints en route to and/or at various locations is disclosed. The method may include: providing a mobile paint factory; prompting a user to select through the paint production system an interior or exterior application environment, a paint sheen, and a paint quality; automatically dispensing predetermined amounts of appropriate prepaints; and agitating the dispensed prepaints.
US07919542B2
The present invention provides a hydrogel composition comprising a mixture of a hydrophilic polymer and a polymer chain modifying agent, wherein the polymer chain modifying agent is selected from the group consisting of an aromatic tetracarboxylic dianhydride, a titanate, and a polyetherimide. The present invention also provides a method for producing a phase separated, branched, copolymer hydrogel comprising a mixture of a hydrophilic polymer and a polymer chain modifying agent. The present invention also provides an implantable medical device comprising a phase separated, branched, copolymer hydrogel wherein the phase separated, branched, copolymer hydrogel is formed of a hydrophilic polymer and a polymer chain modifying agent.
US07919538B2
Polymer foam containing styrene-acrylonitrile and containing one or more infrared attenuating agents achieves surprisingly high dimensional integrity at elevated temperatures.
US07919536B2
The present invention relates to a slurry bed loop reactor comprising a riser and at least one downcomer (3), wherein two ends of the riser are connected to two ends of the downcomer (3) via lines (16) and (7), respectively. The riser comprises a reaction section (1) and a settling section (2) with an increased tube diameter disposed on the reaction section (1). A gas outlet (13) exists at the top of the settling section (2). Each of the downcomers (3) is divided into a filtrate section (5) and a slurry section (6) by filter medium (4), wherein the filtrate section (5) is connected to a liquid outlet (10); two ends of the slurry section (6) are respectively connected to two ends of the riser, and the filtrate region (5) may further be connected to a back purging system. When used in a gas-liquid-solid three phases reaction system, the reactor can realize successive separation of gas, liquid and solid particles in slurry, and realize the back purging regeneration of filter tubes without influencing the reaction processes. In addition, said reactor has the advantages of high separation efficiency, simple structure, flexible and easy operation.
US07919533B2
The present invention relates to a method of administering an effective amount of a diiodothyroacetic acid in order to shift the proportion between lean body mass and adipose tissue in favor of lean body mass in human individuals.
US07919529B2
Disclosed are δ-amino-γ-hydroxy-ω-aryl-alkanoic acid amide compounds of formula (I) and the salts thereof, having renin-inhibiting properties. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and methods of administering them for the treatment of hypertension, atherosclerosis, unstable coronary syndrome, congestive heart failure, cardiac hypertrophy, cardiac fibrosis, cardiomyopathy postinfarction, unstable coronary syndrome, diastolic dysfunction, chronic kidney disease, hepatic fibrosis, complications resulting from diabetes, such as nephropathy, vasculopathy and neuropathy, diseases of the coronary vessels, restenosis following angioplasty, raised intra-ocular pressure, glaucoma, abnormal vascular growth, hyperaldosteronism, cognitive impairment, alzheimers, dementia, anxiety states and cognitive disorders.
US07919527B2
The invention relates to trans carotenoid salt compounds, methods for making them, methods for solubilizing them and uses thereof. These compounds are useful in improving diffusivity of oxygen between red blood cells and body tissues in mammals including humans.
US07919525B2
The present invention relates to methods for the prevention and treatment of a mammal from radiation-induced internal injury using γ-tocotrienol, α-tocopherol succinate or γ-tocotrienol succinate. Specifically, the present invention relates to methods for preventing and treating radiation-induced injuries in a mammal by (1) subcutaneous, intramuscular, intraperitoneal, or intravascular injection of a therapeutically effective amount of γ-tocotrienol; or (2) oral administration of a therapeutically effective amount of α-tocopherol succinate or γ-tocotrienol succinate or both.
US07919520B2
The present invention relates to compounds that inhibit TACE, compositions thereof, and methods of using those compounds and compositions for treating diseases.
US07919518B2
The present invention relates to novel 1-benzyl-3-hydroxymethylindazole derivatives according to formula (I) described in the claims, and to a pharmaceutical composition comprising them, together with a pharmaceutically acceptable vehicle. In addition, the present invention relates to the use of 1-benzyl-3-hydroxymethylindazole derivatives for the preparation of a pharmaceutical composition that is active in the treatment of diseases based on the expression of MCP-1, CX3CR1 and p40, and to their use in a method for treating or preventing diseases based on the expression of MCP-1, CX3CR1 and p40.
US07919517B2
The present invention provides a compound represented by Formula (I): [wherein R1 represents CONR1aR1b (wherein R1a and R1b may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted ararkyl or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, or R1a and R1b are combined together with the adjacent nitrogen atom thereto to form a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group) or the like, R2 represents a hydrogen atom, CONR2aR2b (wherein R2a and R2b may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted aryl, substituted or unsubstituted ararkyl or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group, or R2a and R2b are combined together with the adjacent nitrogen atom thereto to form a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group), NR2cR2d (wherein R2c and R2d may be the same or different and each represents a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkyl, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkanoyl, substituted or unsubstituted aroyl, substituted or unsubstituted heteroaroyl, substituted or unsubstituted ararkyl, substituted or unsubstituted lower alkylsulfonyl or substituted or unsubstituted lower arylsulfonyl) or the like].
US07919516B2
The present application describes deuterium-enriched ondansetron, pharmaceutically acceptable salt forms thereof, and methods of treating using the same.
US07919503B2
The present application is directed to novel P2X7R antagonists that are N-indol-3-yl-acetamide and N-azaindol-3-yl-acetamide compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same and their use for the prophylactic or therapeutic treatment of diseases mediated by P2X7R activity.
US07919498B2
Substituted bicyclic heteroaryls and compositions containing them, for the treatment of general inflammation, arthritis, rheumatic diseases, osteoarthritis, inflammatory bowel disorders, inflammatory eye disorders, inflammatory or unstable bladder disorders, psoriasis, skin complaints with inflammatory components, chronic inflammatory conditions, including but not restricted to autoimmune diseases such as systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE), myestenia gravis, rheumatoid arthritis, acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura, multiples sclerosis, Sjoegren's syndrome and autoimmune hemolytic anemia, allergic conditions including all forms of hypersensitivity, The present invention also enables methods for treating cancers that are mediated, dependent on or associated with p110δ activity, including but not restricted to leukemias, such as Acute Myeloid leukemia (AML) Myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) myelo-proliferative diseases (MPD) Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) T-cell Acute Lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic leukaemia (B-ALL) Non Hodgkins Lymphoma (NHL) B-cell lymphoma and solid tumors, such as breast cancer.
US07919493B2
This invention relates to antitumoral ecteinascidin derivatives that contain a fused ecteinascidin five ring system with a 1,4-bridge having the structure of formula (VIa) or (VIb) as described herein and compounds in which the —NH2 or —OH of the 1,4-bridge is derivatized, and related pharmaceutical compositions and methods. Such ecteinascidin derivatives include, but are not limited to, those compounds having formula (XVIIb): in which R1 and R4 together form a group of formula (VIa) or (VIb) as described herein, and R5, R7, R8, R14a, R14b, R15, and R21 are as defined herein.
US07919488B2
The present invention provides compounds of formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts or solvates thereof, methods for their preparation, methods for their use, and pharmaceutical formulations comprising them.
US07919487B2
This invention relates to compounds of formula (I): their compositions and methods of use thereof. The compounds (and compositions) are useful in modulating IL-12 production and processes mediated by IL-12.
US07919486B2
The invention relates to the use of gallium (III) complexes for the treatment of melanomas.
US07919480B2
An antimicrobial composition comprising: a complex of a polysaccharide covalently bonded with an antibiotic. A medical device having an antimicrobial composition comprising: a complex of an oxidized regenerated cellulose covalently bonded with gentamicin.
US07919478B2
A method and means have been developed to deliver a therapeutic dose or dosages of the angiogenic molecule, Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor (VEGF) that results in a statically significant decrease in the time to achieve 100% wound closure and accelerates the rate of healing in experimental diabetic ulcers. Toxicity is evaluated by measuring any local inflammatory response at the wound site, the systemic absorption of VEGF, and the effect on distant organs that may be particularly susceptible to VEGF therapy (e.g., retinopathy and hepatitis) The angiogenic response is quantified by measuring the change in collagen deposition, epithelialization, and the closure rates of diabetic ulcers after therapeutic dosing with ADV-VEGF. Sustained administration of VEGF, stimulates and accelerates the healing process as evidenced by a reduced time to complete healing (defined by 100% epithelialization and no drainage) in experimental diabetic ulcers, with minimal to no toxicity. Important features of the method and reagents for use therein are that the VEGF is released into the ulcer in a sufficient quantity over a period of time for at least two to six weeks, or to closure of the wound.
US07919475B2
The present invention relates to treating or ameliorating heart disease associated with poor myocardial performance, e.g., diabetic cardiomyopathy and associated disorders, particularly to treating, preventing or ameliorating such disorders through inhibition of O-GlcNAcylation and/or increased activity of O-GlnNAcase. The invention provides vectors for gene transfer of O-GlnNAcase. In one aspect, the invention provides cells, vectors, formulations comprising them and methods of using them, for the gene transfer of the human O-GlnNAcase gene, e.g., to treat conditions and diseases associated with impaired cardiac contractility, such as that, found associated with diabetic cardiomyopathy. In another aspect, the invention provides non-human transgenic animals and host cells comprising genetically engineered cells having increased activity of O-GlnNAcase.
US07919470B2
A glycopeptide composition with improved antibiotic activity is disclosed, along with a method of preparing such a composition and a pharmaceutical composition made therefrom.
US07919468B2
Compounds of the following general formula (I): are provided. The compounds can be used as modulators of the proteasome activity, in the preparation of a medicament useful for the prevention or treatment of diseases wherein the proteasome is involved, such as diseases of inflammatory processes, various hematological and solid tumor cancers, immunological and autoimmune diseases, cardiac pathologies, myopathies, AIDS, cystic fibrosis, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease, or in the preparation of cosmetic compositions or phytosanitary compositions.
US07919467B2
The present invention relates to compositions and methods for the prevention, treatment, and diagnosis of cancer, especially carcinomas, such as ovarian carcinoma. The invention discloses peptides, polypeptides, and polynucleotides that can be used to stimulate a CTL response against cancer.
US07919462B2
This invention features novel proteins that are homologous to the first Kunitz domain (K1) of lipoprotein-associated coagulation inhibitor (LACI), and are capable of inhibiting plasmin and nucleic acids encoding these proteins. The invention also features the use of such proteins in therapeutic, diagnostic, and clinical methods.
US07919454B2
The invention provides methods of screening agents, conjugates or conjugate moieties, linked or linkable to agents, for capacity to be transported as substrates through the PEPT2 transporter. The invention also provides methods of treatment involving delivery of agents that either alone, or as a result of linkage to a conjugate moiety, are substrates of the PEPT2 transporter. The invention also provides conjugates comprising a pharmaceutical agent which is linked to a conjugate moiety that is a substrate for a PEPT2 transporter.
US07919453B2
A dosage cap assembly is provided for use with an applicator assembly, the dosage cap assembly including a tip including an outer surface, an attachment end, a second end, and an inner surface defining a tip cavity, wherein the attachment end of the tip includes an engagement mechanism. The dosage cap assembly also includes a cap having an inner surface defining a cap cavity, the inner surface generally conforming to the outer surface of the tip; and a dosage form disposed within the tip cavity.
US07919449B2
Laundry detergent compositions that provide soil release benefits to all fabric comprising an organophosphorus soil release agents and optional non-cotton secondary soil release agents. The present invention further relates to a method for providing soil release benefits to cotton fabric by contacting cotton articles with a water soluble and/or dispersible organophosphorus material. The contacting can be during washing or by pretreating by applying the composition directly to stains or by presoaking the clothing in the composition prior to washing. The present invention further relates to providing soil release benefits to all fabric in the laundry wash load in the presence of a bleaching agent.
US07919447B1
An array of self-adhesive cleaning products, the array having a first self-adhesive cleaning product, the product being a gel, and a second self-adhesive cleaning product, the second product being a solid.
US07919445B2
The present invention relates to a novel solution for the removal of post-etch residues having improved properties and to the use thereof in the production of semiconductors. The invention relates, in particular, to an aqueous solution having a reduced etching rate on metallisations and on surfaces which have to be freed from post-etch residues and particles during the semiconductor production process.
US07919440B2
A lubricating composition with improved storage stability comprising a major amount of an oil of lubricating viscosity, at least one alkali metal borate, at least one polysulfide mixture having at least 40% dihydrocarbyl tetrasulfide or higher sulfides, and at least one non-acidic phosphorus compound comprised of a trihydrocarbyl phosphate and a dihydrocarbyl dithiophosphate derivative is disclosed. In addition to improved storage stability, the composition has improved wear performance when the ratio of polysulfides is controlled.
US07919434B2
The present invention relates to a method of preparing an oxide superconducting film, the method includes reacting a metal acetate containing metal M selected from the group consisting of lanthanum, neodymium and samarium with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less than three carbon atoms, reacting barium acetate with fluorocarboxylic acid having two carbon atoms, reacting copper acetate with fluorocarboxylic acid having not less than two carbon atoms, respectively, followed by refining reaction products, dissolving the reaction products in methanol such that a molar ratio of the metal M, barium and copper is 1:2:3 to prepare a coating solution, and coating a substrate with the coating solution to form a gel film, followed by calcining and firing the gel film to prepare an oxide superconducting film.
US07919426B2
Provided are a supported catalyst, an electrode including the same, and a fuel cell using the electrode. The supported catalyst includes a carbon-based catalyst support and metal catalyst particles having an average diameter of 3.5 to 5 nm and an amount of 80 to 90 parts by weight based on 100 parts by weight of the supported catalyst in a multi-layer structure adsorbed on a surface of the carbon-based catalyst support. In the supported catalyst of the present invention, as small metal catalyst particles with an average diameter of 3.5 to 5 nm are dispersed with high concentration, high dispersion, and the multi-layer structure, catalytic efficiency is increased. A fuel cell having improved energy density and fuel efficiency characteristics can be prepared using an electrode formed using the supported catalyst.
US07919422B2
The present invention describes a heterogeneous chiral catalyst comprising a heterogeneous chiral catalyst precursor complexed with a metal species. The precursor comprises a chiral bisoxazoline group coupled to an inorganic substrate. The heterogeneous chiral catalyst may be capable of catalysing a chemical reaction, for example cyclopropanation, and the chemical reaction may be capable of generating a chiral product.
US07919418B2
A composite material which has excellent ballistic performance and has improved flexibility. Surprisingly, it has been found that a combination of poly(alpha-olefin) fiber and matrix resin provides these desirable product features. The resin matrix is a block copolymer of a conjugated diene and a vinyl aromatic monomer, preferably a styrene-isoprene-styrene block copolymer, that is applied as an aqueous composition. The fiber has a tenacity of at least about 35 g/d and a tensile modulus of at least about 1200 g/d. The composite has a total density equal to or less than about 100 g/m2 and a stiffness of less than about 2.5 pounds (1.14 kg) for a two layer structure of the composite, and a total areal density equal to or less than about 190 g/m2 and a stiffness of less than about 3.0 pounds (1.36 kg) for a four layer structure of the composite. The Peel Strength for a two layer structure of less than about 1.0 pounds (0.45 kg) for a two layer structure of the composite, and less than about 0.7 pounds (0.32 kg) for a four layer structure of the composite. The process of this invention permits fabrication of these desirable products in a cost-effective manner. Body armor made from the composite has improved flexibility and excellent ballistic characteristics.
US07919415B2
A process of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes the steps of forming a stacked structure of a first III-V compound semiconductor layer containing In and having a composition different from InP and a second III-V compound semiconductor layer containing In. The second III-V compound semiconductor layer is formed over the first III-V compound semiconductor layer and growing an InP layer at regions adjacent the stacked structure to form a stepped structure of InP. The process further includes the step of wet-etching the stepped structure and the second III-V compound semiconductor layer using an etchant containing hydrochloric acid and acetic acid to remove at least the second III-V compound semiconductor layer.
US07919412B2
A method for forming a semiconductor chip or wafer includes following steps. A semiconductor substrate is provided, and then a polymer layer is deposited over the semiconductor substrate, wherein the polymer layer comprises polyimide. The polymer layer with a temperature profile having a peak temperature between 200 and 320 degrees Celsius. Alternatively, the temperature profile may comprises a period of time with a temperature higher than 320 degree Celsius, wherein the period of time is shorter than 45 minutes.
US07919400B2
A method for introducing one or more impurities into nano-structured materials. The method includes providing a nanostructured material having a feature size of about 100 nm and less. The method includes subjecting a surface region of the nanostructured material to one or more impurities to form a first region having a first impurity concentration within a vicinity of the surface region. In a specific embodiment, the method includes applying a driving force to one or more portions of at least the nanostructured material to cause the first region to form a second region having a second impurity concentration.
US07919399B2
Disclosed herein is a semiconductor device manufacturing method for performing an annealing process of irradiating a semiconductor film on which element forming areas including thin film transistor forming areas are arranged in a two-dimensional pattern with energy beams using a plurality of irradiating optical systems, wherein in the annealing process, an area irradiated with the energy beams is divided into a single beam irradiated area irradiated by each of the plurality of irradiating optical systems with an energy beam singly and a boundary area situated between single beam irradiated areas adjacent to each other and irradiated by both of two irradiating optical systems performing beam irradiation of the single beam irradiated areas with energy beams.
US07919397B2
The present invention provides a method for reducing the agglomeration of a Si layer in an SOI substrate, which can prevent the agglomeration of the Si layer from occurring in a heating and temperature-raising process for the Si layer, when heating and temperature-raising the Si layer that is the outermost surface of the SOI substrate and is in an exposed state, and can prevent the agglomeration further without forming a protective film on the SOI substrate. The method for reducing the agglomeration of the Si layer in the SOI substrate is a method of supplying a hydride gas in a heating and temperature-raising process for the Si layer, when heating and temperature-raising the Si layer which is in an exposed state in the SOI substrate that has an insulation layer and the Si layer sequentially stacked on a Si substrate. In this method, the hydride gas dissociates before the Si layer coheres, at a temperature at which the Si layer does not yet start agglomeration, and terminates a dangling bond of the Si layer with a predetermined atom such as H.
US07919388B2
Embodiments of a method for fabricating a semiconductor device having a reduced gate-drain capacitance are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of etching a trench in a semiconductor substrate utilizing an etch mask, widening the trench to define overhanging regions of the etch mask extending partially over the trench, and depositing a gate electrode material into the trench and onto the overhanging regions. The gate electrode material merges between the overhanging regions prior to the filling of the trench to create an empty fissure within the trench. A portion of the semiconductor substrate is removed through the empty fissure to form a void cavity proximate the trench.
US07919386B2
The invention includes methods of forming pluralities of capacitors. In one implementation, a method of forming a plurality of capacitors includes providing a plurality of capacitor electrodes within a capacitor array area over a substrate. The capacitor electrodes comprise outer lateral sidewalls. The plurality of capacitor electrodes is supported at least in part with a retaining structure which engages the outer lateral sidewalls. The retaining structure is formed at least in part by etching a layer of material which is not masked anywhere within the capacitor array area to form said retaining structure. The plurality of capacitor electrodes is incorporated into a plurality of capacitors. Other aspects and implementations are contemplated.
US07919374B2
A conventional power MOSFET structure is difficult to improve a breakdown voltage of an element even using a super-junction structure. A power MOSFET according to an embodiment of the invention is a semiconductor device of a super-junction structure, including: a gate electrode filled in a trench formed on a semiconductor substrate; a gate wiring metal forming a surface layer; and a gate electrode plug connecting between the gate electrode and the gate wiring metal. Thus, a polysilicon layer necessary for the conventional typical power MOSFET is unnecessary. That is, column regions of an element active portion and an outer peripheral portion can be formed under the same conditions. As a result, it is possible to improve an element breakdown voltage as compared with the conventional one.
US07919373B2
A method for doping polysilicon improves a doping profile during plasma doping and includes forming a silicon layer using two separate operations. After forming a first silicon layer, thermal annealing is performed to crystallize the first silicon layer, such that the uniformity of a doping concentration according to the depth of a layer inside is improved during plasma doping. Additionally, a doping concentration at the interface between a polysilicon layer and a gate oxide layer is increased. A by-product deposition layer is reduced, which is formed on the surface of a polysilicon layer due to the increase of a doping concentration in a polysilicon layer. As a result, the dopant loss, which is caused by the removing and cleansing of an ion implantation barrier used during doping, is reduced.
US07919370B2
A flash device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. An ONO pattern can be formed on a floating gate, and a control gate can be formed on the ONO pattern. The ONO pattern can be formed with a portion that projects farther out than the sides of the floating gate and the control gate.
US07919366B2
A laser crystallization method in which an amorphous silicon thin film 2 formed on a substrate 1 is irradiated with a laser beam, the method including the steps of providing the amorphous silicon thin film 2 with an absorbent to form an absorbent layer 3 on the desired specific local areas of the amorphous silicon thin film 2 and laser annealing for crystallizing the specific local areas of the amorphous silicon thin film 2 by irradiating the amorphous silicon thin film 2 including the specific local areas with a semiconductor laser beam L having a specific wavelength absorbable by the absorbent layer 3 and unabsorbable by the amorphous silicon thin film 2 for heating the absorbent layer 3.
US07919345B1
A method is disclosed of fabricating micromechanical components provided with free-standing microstructures or membranes with predetermined mechanical stress, by initially depositing a sacrificial layer on a substrate followed by depositing a polysilicon layer on the sacrificial layer by a gaseous phase deposition and, finally, at least partial removal of the sacrificial layer. During deposition of the polysilicon layer, the process pressure selected determined the type of stress in the polysilicon layer, and the value of the stress is set by the process temperature selected. The process pressure is above the pressure range used in LPCVD reactors.
US07919342B2
A method of making an inorganic light-emitting diode display having a plurality of light-emitting elements including providing a substrate, and forming a plurality of patterned electrodes over the substrate. A raised area is formed around each patterned electrode to provide a well before depositing a dispersion containing inorganic, light-emissive core/shell nano-particles into each well. The dispersion is dried to form a light-emitting layer including the inorganic, light-emissive core/shell nano-particles. An unpatterned, common electrode is formed over the light-emitting layer. The light-emitting layer emits light by the recombination of holes and electrons supplied by the electrodes.
US07919341B2
There is provided a thin film forming apparatus for precisely forming a film of an organic EL material made of a polymer without a positional deviation and at a high throughput. A pixel portion is divided into a plurality of pixel lines by banks, and a head portion of the thin film forming apparatus is moved along the pixel lines, so that a coating liquid (R), a coating liquid (G), and a coating liquid (B) can be applied respectively in a stripe shape at the same time. Then, luminescent layers emitting lights of respective colors of red, green and blue can be formed by heating these coating liquids.
US07919336B2
A semiconductor device fabrication method can improve yield of semiconductor devices and decrease (or prevent) waste of non-defective semiconductor chips. This fabrication method has a step of performing characteristic inspection after packaging a semiconductor chip every time a semiconductor chip layer is formed. The fabrication method makes another semiconductor chip layer on this semiconductor chip layer only when the inspection indicates that the semiconductor chip is a non-defective product.
US07919329B2
Screening methods of use in identifying agents that affect caloric intake, food intake, appetite, and energy expenditure are disclosed herein. These methods are used to identify agents of use in treating obesity, or that can be used to decrease the weight of a subject. These methods can also be used to identify agents of use in treating anorexia or cachexia and can be used to increase appetite and to increase the weight and lean body mass of a subject.
US07919328B2
A fluorescent ion doped glass (or other fluorescing material) and a method for using the fluorescent ion doped glass to enhance a fluorescence imaging technique are described herein. In one embodiment, the fluorescent ion doped glass (or other fluorescing material) is used as a calibration standard to check the uniformity of an intensity profile of an excitation source. In another embodiment, the fluorescent ion doped glass (or other fluorescing material) is used as an offline calibration standard to normalize a native fluorescence image of one or more test samples (e.g., a protein array). In yet another embodiment, the fluorescent ion doped glass (or other fluorescing material) is used as an online calibration standard to normalize a native fluorescence image of one or more test samples (e.g., a protein array).
US07919315B2
The present invention relates to an in vitro method for the analysis of a sample from a mammal in connection with cardiovascular diseases, wherein the method comprises the following steps: a) isolating of bone marrow-precursor cells (BMPs) and/or blood-derived circulating precursor cells (BDPs) by means of cell specific surface markers, and b) detecting the cardiovascular functionality of the isolated BMPs and/or BDPs by means of a suitable migration assay. The method according to the invention can be employed as a kit in the context of the diagnosis and/or the prognosis of cardiovascular diseases, for the monitoring of their therapies and/or for a stratification for a prospective cell therapy with stem- and/or precursor cells in order to increase the perfusion of ischemic tissue or for a regeneration of tissue losses (e.g. heart insufficiency), respectively. In a further aspect, the present invention then relates to an in vitro method for isolating specific bone marrow-precursor cells by means of a suitable migration assay. According to the invention, these BMPs and/or BDPs can be used for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases, selected from the group consisting of stable coronary heart disease, acute coronary syndrome, acute myocardial infarction, chronic ischemic cardiomyopathy (ICMP), dilatative cardiomyopathy (DCM) or other causes for a heart insufficiency.
US07919313B2
Disclosed herein are methods and compositions for inactivating a FUT8 gene, using fusion proteins comprising a zinc finger protein and a cleavage domain or cleavage half-domain. Polynucleotides encoding said fusion proteins are also provided, as are cells comprising said polynucleotides and fusion proteins.
US07919308B2
Assay chambers that include a form-in-place gasket between a substrate and a cover, and methods of forming such assay chambers, are described. The assay chambers may further be associated with an analysis site for analyzing a sample solution contained within the assay chamber.
US07919307B2
A device for supplying cell culture modules with nutrients has an arrangement of channels, pumps and valves in or on a plate. The valves may be pinch valves operated by deforming an elastic section of a conduit and the pump may be a pinch valve pump. The channels may be defined, at least in part, by the plate. The pumps, channels and valves may be located within the thickness of the plate. The device may be used to supply nutrients to cell culture modules according to a perfusion operation, a re-circulation operation and/or a combination of both.
US07919300B2
This invention describes a series of recombinant Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum glucose isomerases having improved catalytic activity and thermostability. The recombinant glucose isomerases can be used for direct production of fructose syrup containing 55 wt % or higher concentration of fructose, or used for the production of fructose syrup containing less than 55 wt % fructose.
US07919298B2
The invention provides polypeptides obtained by introducing mutations in one or more regions identified in a parent lipase. The polypeptides of the present invention have surprisingly been found to have a low specific activity towards short chain fatty acids leading to a reduced odor generation and an increased BR over the lipases known in the art.
US07919296B2
This invention provides for an improved generation of novel nucleic acid modifying enzymes. The improvement is the fusion of a sequence-non-specific nucleic-acid-binding domain to the enzyme in a manner that enhances the ability of the enzyme to bind and catalytically modify the nucleic acid.
US07919294B2
The invention relates to a method consisting of bringing into contact, in one container, (a) an aqueous solution of a reaction mixture comprising at least one enzyme, and (b) an aqueous solution of a stabilizing mixture comprising (i) at least one protective agent against drying, (ii) at least one inhibitor of the condensation reaction between carbonyl or carboxyl groups and amine or phosphate groups, and (iii) at least one inert polymer capable of generating a mesh structure preventing the mobility of the dried reagents. The invention also consists of removing all or part of the water contained in the resulting aqueous solution. Said process is suitable for carrying out enzymatic reactions, for example, amplifying, sequencing and characterizing nucleic acids, performing hybridization tests and for the restriction analysis.
US07919276B1
The present invention provides the structural determination of a bromodomain determined by NMR spectroscopy. The present invention also provides a binding partner for the bromodomain. In addition, the present invention provides methodology for related drug discovery using high throughput drug screening or structure based rational drug design using the three-dimensional data.
US07919274B2
Light-generating fusion proteins having a ligand binding site and a light-generating polypeptide moiety and their use as diagnostics, in drug screening and discovery, and as therapeutics, are disclosed. The light-generating fusion protein has a feature where the bioluminescence of the polypeptide moiety changes upon binding of a ligand at the ligand binding site. The ligand may be, for example, an enzyme present in an environment only under certain conditions, e.g., ubiquitin ligase in a hypoxic state, such that the light-generating fusion protein is “turned on” only under such conditions.
US07919272B2
Compositions and methods for conferring pesticidal activity to bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues and seeds are provided. Compositions comprising a coding sequence for a delta-endotoxin polypeptide are provided. The coding sequences can be used in DNA constructs or expression cassettes for transformation and expression in plants and bacteria. Compositions also comprise transformed bacteria, plants, plant cells, tissues, and seeds. In particular, isolated delta-endotoxin nucleic acid molecules are provided. Additionally, amino acid sequences corresponding to the polynucleotides are encompassed, and antibodies specifically binding to those amino acid sequences. In particular, the present invention provides for isolated nucleic acid molecules comprising nucleotide sequences encoding the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO:13-24, or the nucleotide sequence set forth in SEQ ID NO:1-12 and 25-44, as well as variants and fragments thereof.
US07919265B2
A negative isolation method for separately isolating preparations of Th1 and Th2 helper lymphocytes from peripheral blood mononuclear cells involving the use of novel combinations of monoclonal antibodies to separately sequester specific Th1 and Th2 lymphocytes and contaminating leukocytes and erythrocytes, adding a magnetic colloid to the cells, and using a magnetic column for fractionation of Th1 and Th2 cells. Imbalances in the relative numbers of Th1 and Th2 lymphocytes can be used in the diagnosis and prognosis of human diseases.
US07919260B2
Disclosed are compounds or their salts that promote or inhibit the activities of a protein comprising the same or substantially the same as the amino acid sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1, compounds or their salts that promote or inhibit the activities of a gene for the protein, antisense polynucleotides comprising the whole or part of a base sequence complimentary or substantially complimentary to the base sequence of a polynucleotide encoding the protein or its partial peptide, antibodies to the protein, etc. These compounds or their salts, antisense nucleotides, antibodies, etc. can be used as agents for the prevention/treatment of mental disorders, prolactin-related disorders, etc.
US07919249B2
The present invention provides methods of extending primer nucleic acids and sequencing target nucleic acids. The methods include the use of 2′-terminator nucleotides to effect chain termination. In addition to related reaction mixtures and kits, the invention also provides computers and computer readable media.
US07919235B2
Oligonucleotides for genotyping the thymidylate synthase gene are provided. The number of tandem repeats in the promoter region of the thymidylate synthase gene can be identified based on the hybridization of an oligonucleotide of the invention to the genomic DNA of a subject. Therefore, the genotype of the thymidylate synthase gene can be identified based on the number of tandem repeats. The genotype relates to the responsiveness of a subject towards an antitumor agent.
US07919223B2
A radiation-sensitive composition containing 1 to 80% by weight of a solid component and 20 to 99% by weight of a solvent. The solid component contains a compound B which has (a) a structure derived from a polyphenol compound A by introducing an acid-dissociating group to at least one phenolic hydroxyl group of the polyphenol compound A which is synthesized by a condensation between a di- to tetrafunctional aromatic ketone or aromatic aldehyde each having 5 to 36 carbon atoms with a compound having 1 to 3 phenolic hydroxyl groups and 6 to 15 carbon atoms, and (b) a molecular weight of 400 to 2000. The composition containing the compound B is useful as an acid-amplified, non-polymeric resist material, because it is highly sensitive to radiation such as KrF excimer lasers, extreme ultraviolet rays, electron beams, and X-rays, and provides resist patterns with a high resolution, high heat resistance, and high etching resistance.
US07919219B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an electrophotographic photosensitive body which is not impaired in electrophotographic characteristics such as charged potential and residual potential, and which is also excellent in repeating stability. The present invention provides an electrophotographic photosensitive body including a conductive support having thereon a layer containing a specific p-terphenyl compound and at least one additive.
US07919216B2
A mask and the design method thereof are provided. The mask includes a light-shielding area shielding off a light, wherein the light-shielding area includes a photonic crystal having a lattice constant, and a ratio of the lattice constant to a wavelength of the light is a specific value within a band gap of the photonic crystal.
US07919211B2
An on-board fuel cell system adapted to be installed on a motor vehicle includes a main passage connecting a hydrogen-gas storage device with an inlet of a fuel cell, a circulation passage that connects an outlet of the fuel cell with a first point in the main passage, a pump disposed in the circulation passage, and a bypass passage that connects a second point between the outlet of the storage device and the first point, with a third point located in the circulation passage between the outlet of the fuel cell and the pump. During a normal operation condition of the system, the hydrogen gas flows from the storage device to the fuel cell through the main passage, and hydrogen gas discharged from the fuel cell returns to the main passage through the circulation passage. When the pressure of the hydrogen gas is lower than a reference pressure, the pump operates to draw the hydrogen gas out of the storage device and feed the hydrogen gas from the main passage to the circulation passage through the bypass passage, and to the fuel cell through the main passage.
US07919204B2
A flow battery with thermal management is presented. The flow battery is housed in an enclosure where fluid is uniformly circulated about holding tanks of electrolyte to control the temperature inside the enclosure.
US07919202B2
An electrochemical battery cell with an aperture in the container or cell cover has the aperture sealed by an improved thermoplastic sealing member, which forms at least a part of the cell's pressure relief vent and is made from a material comprising a thermoplastic resin and more than 10 weight percent of a thermal-stabilizing filler, to provide an effective seal and a reliable pressure relief vent over a broad temperature range.
US07919201B2
A longitudinal magnetic recording medium comprising at least four magnetic layers including a substrate, a CoCrTa magnetic intermediate layer on the substrate, wherein the CoCrTa magnetic intermediate layer comprises Cr<16 at % and Ta<6 at %, a first CoCrPtB magnetic layer on the CoCrTa layer, wherein the first CoCrPtB magnetic layer comprises Cr: 10-14%, Pt: 4-8 at %, B: 6-10%, a second CoCrPtB magnetic layer on the first CoCrPtB magnetic layer, and a third CoCrPtB magnetic layer on the second CoCrPtB layer, wherein the third CoCrPtB magnetic layer comprises Cr: 12-16 at %, Pt: 12-16 at %, B: 10-14 at % and has <10 at % Cr than that in the second CoCrPtB magnetic layer is disclosed.
US07919199B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide an organic light emitting device having a long-life optical output. The organic light emitting device according to the present invention is provided with an emission layer including at least a host material, a light emitting material, and another material, wherein the another material has a smaller ionization potential than and almost the same hole mobility as or a greater hole mobility than an ionization potential and a hole mobility of a compound which forms an emission layer-side-interface.
US07919194B2
A high strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing the same has superior phosphatability properties and hot-dip galvannealed properties besides a tensile strength of 950 MPa or more and a high ductility, and also having a small variation in mechanical properties with the change in annealing conditions.
US07919191B2
A method of creating a pigmented image on a monument stone substrate includes positioning the stone relative to a laser engraving apparatus, masking the stone substrate in an image area in which the image is to be created with a first mask layer, operating the laser engraving apparatus in a pattern over the masked area at a sufficient power level to burn through the mask and pit the stone substrate with a first set of pits, applying a first layer of pigment over the image area to any remaining first mask layer in the image area and to the first set of pits, curing the first layer of pigment and removing any remaining first mask layer. Additional colors or pigment layers can be added by repeating the masking, burning and applying steps, and the final such step can be a dithered image, followed by an edge defining cutting step in which the border of the image is defined. All pigment layers are rooted in the stone. The final pigmented image is preserved with protective coatings.
US07919183B2
Disclosed herein is a coated particle comprising a substrate comprising an inorganic material, wherein the inorganic material comprises silica and alumina in a silica to alumina weight ratio of about 2.2 to about 5; and wherein the inorganic material has a bulk density of less than or equal to about 1 g/cm3; and a coating disposed upon the substrate. Disclosed herein too is a method of treating a subterranean formation comprising injecting a fracturing fluid into the subterranean formation; wherein the fracturing fluid comprises an inorganic particle that comprises silica and alumina in a silica to alumina weight ratio of about 2.2 to about 5; and wherein the inorganic particle has a bulk density of less than or equal to about 1 g/cm3.
US07919171B2
A blister package is provided in which the lidding component includes a tear-resistant nonwoven layer and a barrier layer wherein the controlled delamination of the nonwoven layer increases the puncture resistance, thereby improving the child-resistant properties of the package.
US07919169B2
A laminate made of fibrous layers for use in absorbent articles, such as sanitary towels, nappies or the like. The laminate includes an outer layer (5) made of non-woven fabric, which is in contact with the wearer during use of the article, and an inner layer (6), which two layers are interconnected in a first bonding pattern consisting of separate bonding points (7).
US07919168B2
A plugged honeycomb structure includes: a honeycomb structure having porous partition walls separating and forming a plurality of cells communicating between an inlet end face on an inlet side of a fluid and an outlet end face on an outlet side of the fluid, and plugging portions for plugging an opening portion of each of predetermined cells on the inlet end face and an opening portion of each of the other cells on the outlet end face. There, 1.5% or more of the plugging portions plugging the opening portions of the predetermined cells on the inlet end face have a depressed pit on the end face on the inlet end face side.
US07919167B1
A low-to-medium mass density ablative thermal protection system (TPS) comprises a phenolic-based core member comprising a honeycombed plurality of cells separated by cell walls; and an ablator material comprising a carbonaceous material and a phenolic resin material filling the cells. The ablator material may further comprise silica and phenolic resin microspheres. Embodiments include fabricating the ablative TPS by filling the cells of the core member with a liquid slurry or dry mixture of the ablator material, followed by degassing, drying, and curing of the ablator material.
US07919148B2
An improved process for manufacture of polymer coated composite substrates is described. A coated composite substrate is prepared in the press by applying a layer of a primer coating composition to the surface of a compressible mat comprising fibers and/or particles and a resin binder. The primer coating composition is formulated preferably as a fast setting polymer latex capable of forming a chemically crosslinked polymer matrix when applied to the surface of a compressible mat. A thermosetting top coat composition can be applied directly over the primer coating composition before heat-processing the mat to improve surface quality and release characteristics. Compressing and heating the coated mat produces a finished composite substrate directly out of the press.
US07919144B2
A method for producing a sheet-like or web-like, decorative, scratch- and/or abrasion-resistant coating material, in particular a coating film, comprising the steps: coating a support layer (10) made of paper and/or plastic with a liquid or pasty base layer (12) which is free of organic solvents and comprises radiation-curing resins but no heat-curing resins and also an abrasive filler, preferably an inorganic filler, drying the support layer (10) coated with the base layer (12), in particular by supplying heat, applying a covering layer (14) to the dried, non-crosslinked base layer (12), said covering layer containing a radiation-curing resin and no abrasive fillers, and jointly curing and/or crosslinking the covering layer and also the radiation-curing resins in the base layer by irradiating the covering layer with UV and/or electron beams.
US07919141B2
The present invention provides processes and equipments for safely and easily preparing an F2-containing gas, as well as processes and equipments for surface modification using the F2-containing gas prepared.According to the present invention, a gas containing a fluoro compound that is easier to handle than F2 is supplied and the fluoro compound is excited and decomposed to convert it into F2 gas before surface modification and then used for surface modification. According to the present invention, there is no necessity of providing, storing and transporting a large amount of F2 gas in advance because a necessary amount of F2 gas is obtained immediately before surface modification.A process for preparing an F2-containing gas comprises the steps of exciting at least one fluoro compound in a fluoro compound-containing gas by conferring energy on the fluoro compound-containing gas under reduced pressure; and partially or completely converting the excited fluoro compound-containing gas containing the excited fluoro compound into F2 under normal pressure or overpressure.
US07919136B2
A surface modified biomedical device is provided comprising a biomedical device having a coating on at least a portion thereof, the coating comprising a polymer or copolymer having one or more repeating units of the formula: wherein R independently is a C2-C20 hydrocarbon radical and n is an integer of 2 to 5000.
US07919133B2
The present invention relates to the use of a compound of formula (I) or a mixture of compounds of formula (I) wherein: R1, R2, and R3 are independently H or an alkyl group having 1 to 3 C-atom, wherein at least one of R1, R2, and R3 is not H; R4 is H, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 C-atom, or an alkenyl group having 2 to 6 C-atom; R5, R6, R7, and R8 are independently H or methyl; and R9 is H, an alkyl group having 5 to 12 C-atoms, or an alkenyl group having 5 to 12 C-atoms; as a flavoring substance or mixture of flavoring substances.
US07919128B2
Disclosed is a powdered composition including an emulsifier and at least one anti-caking additive selected from the group consisting of earth alkali oxides, earth alkali hydroxides or a mixture thereof. Further disclosed is a method for preventing caking of a powdered composition comprising emulsifiers.
US07919107B2
A method for imparting a teeth-desensitising effect to a food, cosmetic or pharmaceutical which comprises combining said food, cosmetic or pharmaceutical with a teeth-desensitising effective amount of a polyol.
US07919100B2
The present invention concerns a modified polypeptide containing at least an immunodominant region and the connecting loop between N- and C-helices of gp41 ectodomain of HIV-1, wherein the connecting loop includes at least a linker fragment having: —a size convenient for keeping the native conformation of the interaction between N- and C-helices, and —an hydrophily sufficient to provide a soluble and stable trimeric form to said modified polypeptide.
US07919087B2
The present invention provides humanized, chimeric and human anti-CD74 antibodies, CD74 antibody fusion proteins, immunoconjugates, vaccines and bispecific that bind to CD74, the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class-II invariant chain, Ii, which is useful for the treatment and diagnosis of B-cell disorders, such as B-cell malignancies, other malignancies in which the cells are reactive with CD74, and autoimmune diseases, and methods of treatment and diagnosis.
US07919086B2
An antibody capable of binding to a specific region of glypican 3, as well as a humanized antibody created based on that antibody are disclosed. The anti-GPC3 antibody of the invention has a higher ADCC activity and CDC activity compared with those of a conventional antibody. The antibody of the present invention is useful as a cell growth inhibitor, an anticancer agent and an agent for diagnosis of cancers.
US07919078B2
The present invention provides IFNα2 mutants and active fragments, analogs, derivatives, and variants thereof, nucleotide molecules encoding same, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods utilizing the same for treating cancer, infectious diseases, and autoimmune diseases.
US07919075B1
Polymer coatings for medical devices are disclosed. The polymers can include at least one unit derived from ethylene and at least one vinyl unit or acrylic unit. The coatings can have a biologically compatible compound conjugated to, or blended with, the polymer.
US07919073B2
This invention relates to a composition useful as an oral care composition comprising an organophosphate material, additional oral care composition ingredients, for example, a surfactant agent, and optionally an abrasive agent.
US07919072B1
The invention discloses the bioactive nanoparticles composed of chitosan, poly-glutamic acid, and at least one bioactive agent characterized with a positive surface charge and enhanced permeability in oral drug delivery.
US07919069B2
Provided herein is a hydrothermal process for the rapid synthesis of inorganic nanomaterials (e.g., nanofibers) containing sodium, bismuth, titanium, and oxygen, as well as new compositions made thereby. The process involves heating an aqueous solution or suspension of suitable salts of aforementioned elements at elevated temperature and pressure under constant stirring in a hermetically sealed vessel for a predetermined amount of time (e.g., less than two hours). The powder thus obtained contains nanofibers of rectangular cross-section, with the smallest fibers typically have a cross section of 16 nm×40 nm. Example fibers made by such processes have an aspect ratio exceeding 200.
US07919065B2
A gasification plant and methods for producing ammonia, Fischer-Tropsch fuels, electrical power, and/or sulfur from carbon-bearing feedstocks including coal and/or petroleum coke. Methods for production of desired relative amounts of ammonia and Fischer-Tropsch liquid hydrocarbons by adjusting the amount of synthesis gas bypassing the Fischer-Tropsch reactor. The multi-product and integrated plants may be used to reduce the amount of CO2 vented into the atmosphere during the production of these products.
US07919063B2
A fluidic device containing a flow through chamber comprising an inlet port, an outlet port, and a fluid permeable, compressible matrix located in the chamber between said inlet port and said outlet port, and said compressible matrix having a higher flow resistance at higher compressions and a plurality of flow paths leading from said inlet port to said outlet port through said matrix comprising shorter and longer length flow paths, wherein said matrix is compressed in at least one dimension, being more strongly compressed along the shorter length flow paths than along the longer length flow path.
US07919061B2
A pipette device system and micropipette thereof is disclosed. The micropipette is disposed on the pipette device system and includes a pipe body, a rotating shaft and a swing member. A rotating hole and an engaging hole of the pipe body are connected with each other. A receiving hole and a discharging hole are formed in the pipe body and connected with the rotating hole. The rotating shaft is disposed in the rotating hole and has a connecting hole and a switching hole. A first connecting opening and a second connecting opening of the connecting hole are respectively connected with the receiving hole and the discharging hole. The switching hole has a third connecting opening and is connected with the connecting hole. The swing member is fixed on two ends of the rotating shaft. The present invention can implement the multiple micro-dispensation based on the simple structure and movement manner.
US07919059B2
A decontamination system for decontaminating a region with a vaporized decontaminant, such as vaporized hydrogen peroxide. The concentration of the vaporized decontaminant within the region is modified in response to operating conditions. The decontamination system adjusts the concentration of the vaporized decontaminant in response to the monitored saturation concentration of the decontaminant, thereby preventing condensation of the vaporized decontaminant during a decontamination cycle. The decontamination system also adjusts the concentration of the vaporized decontaminant in order to minimize the time required to complete a successful decontamination operation.
US07919058B2
High-solvency-dispersive-power (HSDP) crude oil blending for fouling mitigation and on-line cleaning
A high solvency dispersive power (HSDP) crude oil is added to a blend of incompatible and/or near-incompatible oils to proactively address the potential for fouling heat exchange equipment. The HSDP component dissolves asphaltene precipitates and maintains suspension of inorganic particulates before coking affects heat exchange surfaces. HSDP co-blending for fouling mitigation and on-line cleaning can be affected using different concentrations of top-performing and moderate-performing HSDP crude oils.
US07919051B2
Provided is an emissions treatment system for an exhaust stream, having a NOx storage reduction (NSR) catalyst with a NOx sorbent at a concentration of at least 0.1 g/in3 and a platinum group metal component dispersed on a refractory metal oxide support; and, an SCR catalyst disposed downstream of the NSR catalyst. The emissions treatment system is advantageously used for the treatment of exhaust streams from diesel engines and lean burn gasoline engines.
US07919046B2
Method for grafting molecules of interest on inorganic surfaces, resulting surfaces and uses thereof
The invention concerns a method for grafting molecules of interest on a silicon substrate via a spacer compound, said grafting including at least one click chemistry reaction to the supports thus obtained as well as their uses in nanotechnologies and nanobiotechnologies, such as molecular electronics, the manufacture of biochips or of sensors.
US07919035B2
Disclosed is a resin molding apparatus capable of enhancing transfer accuracy, reducing the cost of a molding apparatus, and shortening a molding cycle. The resin molding apparatus includes a first mold; a second mold disposed in opposition to the first mold; a transfer plate (34) attached to one of the first and second molds and comprising a transfer surface bearing a pattern of pits and projections and oriented toward a cavity (C1, C2); and a thermal insulation layer (40) disposed between the transfer plate (34) and the one of the first and second molds and formed through growth from the transfer plate (34) side or from the one of the first and second mold sides. Being disposed between the transfer plate (34) and the one of the first and second molds, the thermal insulation layer (40) can restrain dissipation of thermal energy of a molding material toward the mold. This can restrain formation of a skin layer, which would otherwise result from a sharp drop in temperature of the molding material, whereby transfer accuracy can be enhanced.
US07919033B2
A method of manufacturing a honeycomb structure having a plugged portion, which is faster and cheaper to manufacture, and a manufacturing apparatus thereof. A film is attached to an end face of a honeycomb structure in a state where the honeycomb structure is positioned in a table portion having a through hole into which the end face portion of the honeycomb structure is to be inserted, and the film is held in a flat state where a remaining portion of the film which is not attached to the end face is attached to the table portion. Then, holes opened so as to correspond to the openings of a part of cells are formed in the film to form the film as a mask, and a plugging material having fluidity is supplied onto the mask or onto the same plane as the mask to fill the cells with the plugging material.
